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Nexus HWR 17 Being a Hero Sucks:
FD + 186
In a town in southeast Aebrith, only two thousand miles from the southern coast, a young man with straight blond hair falling evenly around most of his head stood on a side road. His hands were at his sides and he had no weapons on him, which seemed to be a problem as most people on the road were running towards and past him. They were running away from the giant demon creatures at the edge of the town. There was a red one, a black one, and the tallest dark purple one in the center of the three. They all had different scary appearances with bumpy or scaly skin, horns or dozens of eyes, and long claws and sharp teeth.
Shalnark whistled in an impressed way as the purple one in the center flicked his right index finger down and slashed a ravine through the main road of the town. The young man wore a black gi with a yellow belt tied in the middle of it, and he had a pair of sunglasses pushed up over his long blond bangs that were only a little shorter than the rest of his bowl-cut of hair. Just a flick with that sharp claw of his can cut through the ground a few hundred feet down. Better steer clear of-
The red demon farthest to Shalnark's right turned its head and glared towards the street he was on. "Uh oh," he said, and he bent his knees while the demon lifted its right hand towards his road. Wish some more of the Spiders were here, the member of the Phantom Troupe thought. Haven't seen a single one since I got here though, he did a flip and started laughing as the flaming pillar shot over the road behind him. "Just made it," he said, landing on the roof of a house on one side of the road. The side of the building closer to the road that was just filled with fire burst into flames, and Shalnark turned to look through the rising flames at the demons at the southern edge of the town again. His eyes opened wide as he looked their ways though, as all three of the monsters were looking back at him. Seventy eyes between the three of them all focused on the assassin who did not like his chances.
He reached down to his side and grabbed a cell phone from his pocket that had wings sticking out of it and a plastic bat head popping out of the top. Shalnark pulled out a couple of Antennae with the cellphone, and he flicked them towards the demons without hesitation and still smiling as he did. If I get them under my control, I won't have to walk to the next town. I could just ride on their shoulders- the purple demon in the center swiped its arm in front of its body right before the three antennae were about to hit. Shalnark's eyes grew huge, then he yelled out in pain and crossed his arms in front of his body as the force from the demon's swing hit him. The flames on the road in front of him fanned his direction and ignited the entire line of houses into raging infernos, at least the houses that did not get ripped out of their foundations like the one Shalnark had been standing on.
The young assassin was lifted off the breaking roof and thrown through the air with debris of that house flying with him and cutting across his body. Cuts slashed on his arms, his legs, through the sides of his gi. Shalnark clenched his eyes shut and lifted his crossed arms to protect his face, then he gasped in pain as his back slammed into a wall of a house on the outskirts of town.
Shalnark smashed straight through the wall and hit the floor on the other side. He bounced off the floor and flew into a couch whilst upside-down. "Owww," he moaned while opening his eyes. "This stinks," he said, a pouting look forming on his face. "I didn't want to use Autopilot today," he said in some disappointment.
Shalnark blinked a few times, then he turned his head right and lifted his eyes towards where his legs were draped over the top of the couch. Next to his knees there was someone sitting up and looking down at his face, a blank expression on his normal-looking face. "Yo," the bald man said, as he made eye contact with the strange visitor in his house for the first time. "What's up?"
The guy who just flew through the wall of the house gained a confused look on his face at the nonchalant attitude of the man in front of him. "Um, not much," Shalnark said, and he flipped himself around to sit on the other man's couch. The guy next to him had a muscular but lean figure as was visible thanks to him wearing a blue t-shirt and black shorts. "Sorry about your wall," Shalnark said while looking the other man up and down.
"Sorry's not gonna cut it," Saitama said. The bald man put down a newspaper and pointed forward at the wall Shalnark just smashed through that had completely ripped apart. There was other debris scattered across the floor, and Shalnark noticed for the first time that the two of them were not alone as he glanced around the house. "You almost hurt our dog," Saitama said. "How are you going to repay us?"
The pink blob man curling over something sat upright and glared towards Shalnark, but when Saitama mentioned repayment, Majin Buu's face lit up with excitement. "You have candy?!"
"I could get some," Shalnark offered.
Right as he offered, a giant black face slammed down outside of the open wall of the house. The entire building shook while the three inside all turned their heads to the demon. "I CALLED IT!" It roared, showing off its huge sharp teeth that were dripping blood, and making Saitama and Shalnark pinch their noses at the stank of his breath.
"Who are you?" Buu snapped towards the open wall. "Do you have candy?" He was sounding agitated as Shalnark's offer to get some let him know that there was currently no candy for him to eat. Buu stood up to his feet and revealed the small puppy he had curled over that backed away from the demon outside the wall then turned and ran to the couch where it jumped up on Saitama's lap.
Shalnark looked from the blob guy to the bald man on the couch next to him. "You two don't seem too concerned about this, huh?"
The demon who shouted into the house sounded like he was yelling to someone else. The fact that out of everyone though, he seemed to only be scaring the puppy, annoyed him to a point that he started snarling at the men before him. "YOU DARE IGNORE ME?!"
"Were you talking to us?" Saitama questioned. "What did you 'call' then?" Saitama asked in reference to what the demon had yelled about. He put his dog down on the cushion to his right since there was another guy sitting on the cushion to his left, then he got up to his feet and stared straight forward into the demon's glowing red eyes.
Another menacing voice shouted from behind the black demon, "PROVE IT! I KNOW I KILLED HIM!"
"Get over here," the black one growled towards Shalnark, and the roof of the house ripped off. A giant black hand tossed the top of the house away, then it reached back down for the man on the couch who grabbed another antennae out of his pocket.
Guess it couldn't be helped, Shalnark thought.
"My bad," Saitama said, his voice intended for the man behind him who froze when he heard that. "I see you weren't the one who broke my house in the first place." Saitama pulled his right fist back and stomped his left foot forward. Buu started clapping and laughing in an excited way, as Saitama shouted at the demon's face, "Stop breaking my house!" He jumped at the demon's face and punched forward, and he blew the demon's head apart as well as its entire crouched over body behind it. The demon's reaching arm flailed up in the air, but its shoulder was shredded by the punch too and it fell back down, smashing apart half of Saitama's house.
The man who just killed the demon turned and gawked with a dropped jaw as the side of his house with his bathroom and bedroom was flattened. "Gah! My house!"
Shalnark's eyes were wide and his jaw dropped almost as far as Saitama's. He closed it quicker than the bald man though, and he leaned back on the couch and started laughing like Buu already was. The puppy next to him started barking happily and it ran back and forth across the couch before stopping on Shalnark's lap. Buu looked over and tilted his head to the side as the blond man started petting his brown and white puppy's back.
"There are two more of them," Shalnark called out while relaxing on the couch. He put one arm out to the side over the top of it while still petting the dog with his other hand. The young man turned to Buu after he said that, and he asked, "What's your dog's name?"
"Bee!" Buu shouted. The dog barked in agreement then jumped onto the floor and ran around some debris to get back over to Buu.
Saitama turned after Shalnark mentioned the other two demons, and he glared towards the monsters who were staring his way in shock at their dead comrade's body. Both gained furious looks on their faces, and the red and purple ones prepared to attack. A gust of wind flew into the mostly destroyed house that Shalnark was sitting in, and he whistled again in an impressed tone at how fast the bald man shot away from the open wall. He figured he already knew what the outcome would be, but he jumped up in the air anyway and put a hand perpendicular to his forehead to look out closer. "He's so strong," Shalnark said in amazement. Both of the other demons were blown apart in mid-strikes. Both of them only took a single punch from the powerful bald man to kill.
Shalnark dropped back into the roofless house and scratched the back of his head as he looked around it. "Guess I should try to tidy this place up a little. You did just help me out after all." He walked towards a chunk of the wall lying near him and picked it up.
Saitama had just landed back in front of the opening to his house, and he sighed as the other man started cleaning up. "There's no point," he said in a bummed-out tone. The others all looked to him, including Bee, and Saitama continued, "My favorite stores were all burnt up, and the town looks deserted."
"Probably should have killed those demons sooner, if you ask me," Shalnark said. He leaned the chunk of wall against one of the walls still standing and added, "You could have avoided this situation pretty easily."
"The music was up!" Saitama snapped. He frowned and looked to his left where the broken speaker that had been on the wall that Shalnark smashed through lay in pieces. He shook his head around and sighed again, "Doesn't matter now. I'm gonna have to find a new place to live."
"But Buu likes it here!" Majin Buu shouted, steam starting to spill out the pores on his head. "Buu doesn't want to leave!"
"Well no one's going to be stocking the stores here with anymore candy," Saitama said. Then he sighed as Buu changed his mind just as easily as he thought the blob man would. "Or dog food," he added with a glance towards the barking puppy.
"Don't you know how to make your own food?" Shalnark questioned as he walked over to the older man.
"I can make cup ramen," the bald man replied.
Shalnark lifted his eyebrows and specified, "I mean, like hunting or gathering? Farming?" Saitama shook his head back and forth with a blank look on his face. "How'd you get by around here?" Shalnark asked.
The assassin was not on a job, and he had nothing to do for the rest of the day. He was interested in these guys too, so he decided on the spot to hang out with them for a while.
"How'd I get by?" Saitama asked. "I don't know. I take some odd jobs from shopkeepers, and they give me discounts on food and stuff. Sometimes I'll go kill something and bring it back for the butcher, and he'll give me some meat for free. He does the gutting and cleaning and skinning though."
"And Buu gets candy because Buu can turn people into candy if they don't give Buu any!" Buu called out while putting his hand up.
"No," Saitama snapped, spinning and shaking his head at the blob monster who Shalnark was staring at wide-eyed again. "No turning people into candy, remember?"
"Oh, yeah yeah," Buu said while nodding fast. Buu looked back at Shalnark and corrected, "Buu turn monsters into candy! People like giving Buu candy, when Buu kill monsters!"
"So you kill monsters, in return for food?" Shalnark wondered. He thought about picking up some more debris and pushing it to the sides of the room to clear an open space, but it sounded to him like these people would be moving anyway.
"Yeah," Saitama said while looking away. He turned and walked towards his kitchen that was only half smashed by a giant black arm laying inside it. He grabbed some grocery bags from under his sink and then walked to a wooden panty to start filling them up. As he did, he spoke to the man who followed him into the kitchen and was leaning against his counter. "I used to fight monsters a lot more often. Heck I used to be a hero."
"What stopped you?" Shalnark asked.
Saitama leaned back with a biscuit in his mouth and two of his grocery bags filled with whatever other food he had left. He walked to a different cabinet where he kept his pots and pans, and he frowned as there were too many for his bags to hold. He rushed off and returned a few seconds later with a long white cape which he lay out on his counter and started piling supplies on top of. "You're sure the nosy one," Saitama said while he put his stuff on the cape.
"Well I figure," Shalnark began, while hopping up to sit on the counter. He swung his legs out in front of him and continued, "If I know what kind of guys you are, I could probably repay you for helping me out back there. I didn't really want to fight those demons, would have tired me out too much."
Saitama paused what he was doing and looked back at the blond man. He looked into Shalnark's eyes and a serious expression suddenly appeared on his face. "Are you, strong?" Saitama asked.
"In comparison to you? No way!" Shalnark crossed his arms in front of him and laughed as Saitama sighed in disappointment. "I get it. You're too strong huh?"
Saitama nodded and just kept piling supplies on his old cape. "That stinks," Shalnark said. "I never thought I'd meet the strongest guy around when I woke up today."
"I'm not the strongest," Saitama said. "I don't think." He looked back at the man sitting on his counter and added, "Buu might actually be stronger than me. Haven't fought him seriously for months though," Saitama added in a more disappointed way, though he just sighed as he heard Buu's childish laughter coming from the other room.
"The truth is," Saitama said and paused what he was doing for a moment. "I tried to keep being a hero on this world, but being a hero is boring. Even heroes want to take breaks sometimes, but there are so many monsters that heroes don't get to take vacations. If I wanted to, I could run around and take out a few hundred monsters every day, but what's the point? I did that for weeks and weeks and months and months to the point of total boredom. So rarely do I come across anything that takes more than one punch. After two months of only easy fights, I decided to just, quit."
Shalnark hummed to himself as he thought about that. I have a lot of fun on this new world, but then again I do whatever I want. Heroes seem so restrained. "And now?" Shalnark asked. "What're you doing to fix that boredom?"
"Not much," Saitama replied. "But doing nothing is much easier than going out of my way to hunt monsters. I prefer this kind of boredom to that though. Without monster hunting and hero-ing, I have a lot more free hours in the day. I read the paper now, and I can usually sleep-in unless I have to find food for the day. I can spend more time training too, since there are a few guys I still want to fight." Saitama lifted a small smile thinking of a guy with unusually spiky blond hair.
"You know what you should do?" Shalnark began in an excited voice, as he came up with a great idea. "You should offer people your protection!"
Saitama sighed and shook his head while getting back to his packing. "No listen," Shalnark said and held out a palm, feeling like Saitama was brushing him off too quickly. "Everyone on this world is afraid, most people are at least. So you should tell some people that you'll protect them!"
"I told you," Saitama said, while lifting up the corners of his cape and swinging it over his back like a sack. "I gave up on being a hero."
"You don't need to be," Shalnark countered, and he hopped off the counter and stepped towards a confused Saitama. "Heroes go out of their ways to kill all the monsters, fight all the bad guys, but all you would have to do is kill the monsters who come near you." Shalnark motioned towards the living room they had come out of before, "As you already do," he finished.
"I don't get it," Saitama began. "How will this help me? If I'm already doing-"
"You weren't protecting the people of this town," Shalnark said. "If you had been though, I wonder what things they would have done for you?" Saitama frowned at the man, and Shalnark continued quickly, "People will pay just to live near you. They'll do more than that! They'll cook for you, and clean for you, you could be living the life!"
"I don't know if I'd really like that kind of life," Saitama said and started walking for his living room. "I don't want people to treat me like a God or something. That would just be weird."
"Then tell them not to," Shalnark said. Saitama paused and looked over his shoulder back at the young man in his kitchen. "You don't need to act any different than you do now. You can have pretty much the same life, only whatever stuff you don't really like doing, you don't have to do. Going shopping and doing jobs to barter for food? Instead these people could just bring you whatever food you want for free. And you wouldn't be taking advantage of them or anything, because they'd be the ones grateful to you for protecting them."
Saitama furrowed his brow and twisted his lip. He looked on the fence like what Shalnark was saying sounded enticing, yet also sounded odd for some reason. "This sounds a little like, I don't know, it sounds like I get the better deal out of it."
"A lot of people died today," Shalnark said and nodded his head past Saitama towards the destroyed town. "I think they would have been happy for an arrangement like this. You barely have to do anything, but you do have to do a little more than you did today, like killing those monsters five minutes earlier."
"I didn't know they were here," Saitama muttered in an annoyed tone.
"Hmm," Shalnark hummed, not giving up that easily. "Then maybe you should find a smaller place to protect. A big town like this one might be a little tough, so how about just a village- or better yet, go to an island!"
"An island?" Saitama asked.
"It's perfect," Shalnark realized aloud. "You can ask around to see if people want to live on your island where they'll be safe. On a small island you'd be able to tell whatever was going on on it, and if it's small enough then the people you're protecting can call for you if you don't notice it. That's not actually that small though," Shalnark added and hummed again thinking about the amount of work that might have to go into this.
"I think it's worth a shot at least," he mentioned to Saitama who seemed to be thinking on it, though still unconvinced. "For your lifestyle, I think it could be perfect. Let's say you go to a nice restaurant where the food is super delicious. If you show off your strength and then ask if the chef wants to come work for you on your island, I bet 9 out of 10 chefs would happily go with you. If you're tired of hunting and finding your own food for that chef to cook, find some other hunters who do that for a living too, and offer to let them stay at your island as long as they keep that up. You could offer to protect them too, and I bet some of them are ready to settle down after half a year on this world. Most guys like that move around a lot after all and are probably tired of risking their lives every day."
"This seems like..." Saitama began. "A whole lot of work," he finished. Shalnark sighed, and Saitama continued, "I feel like my current lifestyle isn't too hard. But, considering I have to start over anyway-"
Shalnark's face lit up and a big smile spread across it. "You'll give it a shot?"
"Maybe," Saitama admitted. He turned back and walked out to the living room where Buu was still playing with their dog. "I would have more time to train…" And play video games, as soon as someone starts inventing those. Oh! Could I find someone who makes video games and offer to protect them too while they build a game console? Saitama's growing smile made Shalnark clap his hands together.
"I'm glad!" Shalnark said. He started walking forward and went right past Saitama. He headed for the open wall and turned to Buu who was watching him walk that way. "See ya, Buu. Next time I see you I'll be sure to bring lots of sweets."
Buu started smiling and he waved a gloved hand at the man who was being nice to him. "Hey," Saitama called out. The other man stopped and looked back over his shoulder. "What's your name, by the way?" Saitama asked, as he realized he never asked the young man when he came flying through the wall.
Shalnark's cuts had stopped bleeding during his time inside and he felt refreshed and ready to go. He had waited until he felt like he repaid the bald man though, and with the advice he offered it felt like he had done enough. "I'm Shalnark," he said. "You?"
"Saitama," the bald man replied.
"Well then, former hero," Shalnark said with a grin. "Guess this is 'see you later,'" he finished, and he lifted a hand that he waved while turning left. He walked down the cracked street covered in demon gook without glancing back.
"See you later," huh? Saitama thought. "Yeah, see ya." Saitama said, right as the other man walked too far that the corner of the wall that was still standing on his left blocked Shalnark from sight. "Now then, Buu, Bee," Saitama turned to the other two who had been watching Shalnark leave as well. They looked towards the bald man who looked oddly, excited. He was grinning which did not match his usual bored expression, but there was good reason for that. I've always wanted a beach house. I think I was taking this world for granted. I tried to live the easiest way possible without really working to get that life. Can't live the easy life without first putting in effort, so maybe moving out to an island and setting up a little group of people to help me... he trailed off in his head at how much work that sounded to him. Meh, one step at a time. I'll find an island first, then, like, a week from then, I'll start up on that other stuff.
"Hey Buu," Saitama said after hesitating for so long. "You ever been to a beach?"
"Beach?" Buu asked, and he turned to Bee as if looking for a second opinion. The puppy looked back at him in confusion though like it too did not know what a beach was. "Buu doesn't think so," Majin Buu said, shaking his head at the man in front of him, Bee mimicking the movement.
"Alright then, follow me," Saitama said. He jumped up five hundred feet into the air with his sack of belongings still over his back. His cape was all he retrieved from his room since everything else was stained with demon goop, and wrapped inside the cape was just what he grabbed from the kitchen. Buu shot into the air after him with only Bee in one arm, tucked carefully into his chest for protection with one of Buu's hands in front of its face even to protect the dog from the wind.
Shalnark looked into the sky with a hand against his forehead again. He could not help but laugh as the two odd men he met casually flew off like rockets through the sky. What a world this is. That guy could easily become a King if he wanted to. Heh, maybe I just set him on that path… Shalnark laughed aloud and said to himself as he started walking away again, "I doubt it."
Present
"It is time for training."
Saitama and Buu continued button-mashing on their controllers and leaning back and forth, bumping shoulders occasionally and grumbling louder now to drown out that voice behind them. "Take, ah- that! Ha ha, no wait, I've got you now!"
"Buu will win!"
"Arf arf!" Bee barked as if in agreement with the pink blob man it ran over to and nudged its head up against.
Saitama gawked towards his dog for a second at the lack of faith Bee had in his ability. Kingu glanced anxiously over his own shoulder at the tall muscular bald-headed man who glared down at Saitama and Majin Buu's backs that they just ignored him. Kingu had been giving advice to Saitama to help him against the pink blob man who had defeated him the past three games in a row of their martial arts fighting game. Kingu slowly inched away from Saitama then scampered out of the room as Lex Luthor marched towards Buu and Saitama.
"Wait- wait! I've got him this time!" Saitama dropped his jaw as his punch combo missed and he got knocked back across the screen by Buu's character who then stuck their butt towards the screen and started twerking as Buu mashed the 'taunt' button over and over again. Saitama's face scrunched up in rage and he spun to Buu, "You must be cheating! How'd you dodge-"
"Enough!" Luthor yelled at the pair who grimaced and looked back towards the tallest of the three of them who had folded his arms and was glaring down disapprovingly at them. "This is the time we set aside for training. It is time to test that our new training area I had constructed can withstand our powers in a half-strength spar."
"You really think we won't just break it?" Saitama wondered in a deadpan voice while looking back at Luthor over his shoulder. He looked back to the screen and returned to the main menu so they could re-pick their characters. "I don't want to make more work for those guys so soon after they finished-"
"If we make more work for them, that just means they did not do their jobs correctly," Luthor countered. "I oversaw the project myself though, and the battlefield will be fine. Especially once you master flying, which you should have learned by now if you put any effort into it at all."
"Normal people can't fly," Saitama retorted back.
"I am a normal human who learned to fly. It's simple, but you are unfocused." Luthor frowned towards Buu too, "And you. Do you want the candy shipments from the mainland to stop flowing?"
"WHAT?!" Buu exclaimed while jumping to his feet.
Luthor humphed at the enraged look on Buu's face at the threat that made steam pour of the holes on his head. "Just as easily as I established trade with the outside world and organized the unruly insane system you had in place on this island, I can stop managing your affairs just as easily. Would you like to return to the way things were, or are you ready to train now?"
"Fine fine," Saitama put down his controller and stretched his arms up over his head. "You don't have to pull that card every time."
"It feels like I do," Luthor retorted though he did uncross his arms as the men in front of him looked ready to fight now. Buu was still angry about Luthor's threat to stop the candy shipments Luthor had established daily. Their intelligent comrade who stayed here because they were good sparring partners had quickly turned into the one managing the island and its assets. He was surprised by how easily they allowed him to take over, but neither seemed to care about the power he had now. They were just glad he made their lives easier.
"Up to the roof then." Luthor smiled at the men who he had to be stern with to get them to join him for training but did not want to actually make angry at him. "Come see the new training ground for yourselves. I believe you will be most pleased with how it turned out."
Saitama lifted his eyebrows and nodded his head as he was a bit interested if Luthor was saying they would be. "Come on, Buu. Let's go check it out."
"Buu wants to punch Lex in the face!" Majin Buu shouted while glaring towards the largest of the three of them who looked back and smirked while making eye contact with the pink blob man.
"Go ahead and try it," Luthor taunted back. He pressed a button on the green armor sleeve he had on his right arm, and the walls behind him opened outwards so he would not smash through them as he lifted off the ground and flew backwards. Buu shot after him then they each rose up in the sky up the tower that covered most of the surface area of their island and rose high above the clouds. It had grown considerably in size in the past few months, but it was still no harder for Saitama to jump all the way up to the roof of, which was why he felt no rush to learn how to fly anytime soon, as much as Luthor was pushing him to learn already.
The second Saitama landed on the roof of gray squares that made up a huge grid platform above their tower, the sides of the square roof all extended out to every side then cut upwards to create walls much farther away from them that glowed with a thin purple veil that Saitama stared closely at when he spotted it shimmer. Saitama's eyes widened a bit and he jumped over towards the wall and tapped on it with his knuckles, then pulled his fist back and dared a normal punch into the wall that shone much brighter purple around where he punched but did not dent the steel beyond the energy forcefield. "I have long studied the barrier that contains us on this world," Luthor boasted to his comrades who spun their heads around in surprise at what he was saying.
Saitama spun back towards the glowing wall and sweatdropped at what their new comrade had managed to build. I knew he was smart, but that thing blocked one of my punches. "Is it really the same kind of forcefield?" Saitama wondered in amazement.
"It is not as powerful as the cage that traps us here," Luthor confessed to the man who refaced him. "But it does contain similar properties. When the shielding I was creating shaded that color, I knew I was finally close to reaching the perfect protective barrier. The energy they use to contain us may have magical properties imbued into the world barrier as well, but I have gotten as close as I can through science alone. Next I will bring in assistance from the Magic Kingdom to see if I can perfectly emulate Nexus' barrier, before I can finally get to work on breaking through it."
"Huh," Saitama mumbled. "Well, that's cool." "Magic Kingdom?" Sounds like a weird place. He just shrugged his shoulders and forgot about it a second later.
Luthor's so smart. Way easier to let him handle everything rather than take care of it myself. That was way more work than Shalnark made it out to be, that asshole. Life's finally easy around here. With a guy as smart as Luthor around, I've finally got the easy life. And a better sparring partner to boot! "So, we doing this?" Saitama wondered while stretching down to his left then bending a few times to his opposite leg that he shook out.
"Lex fight Buu now!"
"Yes. I fight you now," Luthor responded to his two sparring partners. Then the floor below his feet flashed bright purple as Luthor surrounded in a huge aura that shook the walls of the training cube that had emerged around them only missing a ceiling. His aura flared up out the top of the cube as he focused most of it that direction, but the powerful forcefield of his training ground still glowed below his feet from the sheer amount of pressure coming off of him as he powered up. I'll start at fifty-four percent today. Move up in control a little bit each day. Sooner or later, Tetsuo's uncontrollable power will be fully under my control.
A/N Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed the flashback and short scene at the end of the chapter too. Just want to mention that the reason I wrote King as Kingu, using the Japanese pronunciation of his name... is solely because we already have King from the Seven Deadly Sins, and Meruem who everyone calls King too. It's the same thing I did with Tohsaka Rin who in this story has been going by Lin, simply so if she and Okurmura Rin run into each other I don't get confused. Not to get too meta with you in this Author's Note XD but that's my actual reasoning behind doing it. Anyway, thank you again for reading, faving, following, and reviewing this story! 'Til next time!
DC Comics: Lex Luthor
Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Troupe, Shalnark
DBZ: Buu, Bee
One Punch Man: Saitama, King(u) ;)
Smlluffy67 chapter 117 . 18h ago
wow.. well I see that most of class 1-A is here including the best teacher ever and nezu surprised and was kinda wonderingi if you were gonna put Zach in this and you did but well we saw how that ended but he went out like a hero
( kirshima noookinda figured all might was probably dead but hey looks like deku has gotten much stronger maybe picked up some haki training to also like how there are other teens in the school from other universes like star also thanks for uploading this chapter right as I was about to play my game
IM SORRY DID I JUST SEE CHOWDER CHARACTERS WORKING IN THE RESISTANCE BUT WHERE'S CHOWDER
Thanks for reviewing! Hope you enjoyed the new chapter too. A lot of My Hero characters all at once, including yes: Best Teacher Ectoplasm sensei... ;) that was who you were talking about right? Lol, other than that, I did struggle a bit trying to think of other characters to introduce in the Hero School as potential coming graduates besides the My Hero cast. Star was a good one, but I've used so many other characters already it's tough. I think it would likely be a bunch of espers from the To Aru series filling up some other classes, at least the ones I don't have planned for elsewhere. Zach appears but does get written out a bit (after all this story is about every character that I've ever seen in anything I've watched, played, read... and I don't want to take the focus off the main premise to make my favorite OC into the focus here). He might show up in more flashbacks in the future though, and maybe we'll see how the Battle of Marzipan ended after the rest of the My Hero characters (and Gray) had to flee. Like, did Zach revive some of the people who fell on the battlefield while he was facing Zeref? Did he bring back All Might for an epic last stand together against massive armies to give the Resistance more time to flee?! Who knows? XD I imagine that's how it happened! At least for now... and oh yeah, speaking of Marzipan City- Chowder! I had the idea for the city first actually, then I realized when the students were in the cafeteria that I could totally work in some of the people they evacuated from there. Who knows about Chowder though? Maybe because he's a kid, he was just elsewhere at the school at the time. Or maybe he's on the front lines of the Resistance! Lol, probably not. But no spoilers to whatever I might be planning for him or for anyone else! Thanks again for the reviews, and glad you're enjoying the story!
Espada-001 chapter 116 . 18h ago
I'm glad to see you updating for this series again! It was worth the 3 1/2 year wait.
To bad Starkiller from Force Unleashed wasn't able to be used for the infiltration. While reading this chapter I felt he would have been perfect for this infiltration. With his experience in espionage and power to deal with dangerous situations.
Anyway I look forward to reading more chapters!
I am back! XD Sorry for the long wait, but glad that you're excited for the story to start back up again. As for Starkiller... I had never played that game, but I looked him up and got interested so did some more research, and you can bet he's going to appear now! Seems like an epic character so look forward to their introduction... coming soon! Thanks for reviewing and for coming back after all this time. Hope you enjoyed the new chapter!