Chapters Chapter 1
As Saitama was looking at the news on his television, laying down with a lazed posture idly picking his nose. A urgent report came on, canceling whatever program he was watching.
We interrupt your regulated program, there has been a report of a God classed monster in the area of Y-City. Reported casualties is up to-
Saitama couldn't be bothered with the rest of the report for how excited he was. 'Finally,' He thought 'a God class, one that might not actually die with one punch. ' He put on his clothes and slung the cape on each of his shoulders where buttons would secure them, and walked out of his small apartment on his travel from Z-City to Y-City.
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Y-City
There in the center of the destroyed city was a humanoid figure, with lines of neon red riddling its body. As it looked over the landscape to admire its work, until it noticed a line appear in the distance of the now flattened city. It was a human, though he couldn't make out the details because of the glare given off of his head. Though as soon as the man was within hearing distance, a shout could be heard challenging him.
"Hear me creature who destroyed this city, for I am going to be your destroyer. I am the great and mighty S-class...... Titanium Head!
The hero soon sprinted towards the creature with almost unseeable speed, planning to headbutt him with his unbreakable head. His plan soon failed when he noticed the creature he was aimed towards wasn't there anymore. He stopped, land under his feet digging up for the momentum at which he was going. As he looked around, he turned to see the creature close enough to where their face where almost touching.
He would have backed away, that's he would have if he could still feel his legs. As he looked down he saw they were no longer there, blood coming from the stumps. Pain came with realization, he screamed out as the creature cocked his head almost looking confused while holding him in the air. After a while the creature must have gotten bored with his victim because the hero was gone in a blink. Bored, the creature began to head towards X-City, that is until he saw something else glare in the distance, almost as much as Titanium's head.
Coming closer, the creature could make out what he was wearing. In the distance was a bald man clothed in what almost looked like to be a yellow costume with a flowing cape and red gloves and boots. The creature thought Titanium head was ridiculous, but he had nothing on this guy. As the new challenger came towards him, he could see his face and body. Bald and young, oddly enough, and an average build. The creature would let out a sigh if he had a mouth, 'This is what I'm dealing with. Destroy four-teen cities and this is all they could throw at me. '
As the other hero came within' hearing distance he began to speak like the last, though confusingly a lot more casual. " Hello, I'm here to fight you. " The creature was greatly confused. Did he not know who he was and what he did, or was he just this stupid. The creature decided it was best to finish this up quickly, then, with a flick of his hand, the creature sent out a shockwave that was able to cut through about everything he's ever used it on.
He turned to leave when he heard a familiar voice. " I said I was here to fight. " He turned around, and to his surprise, the hero was still in one piece instead of two. He wondered if he actually did anything, so he flicked his wrist again. The hair line shimmer of his attack hit the hero square in the chest, The hero, still in one piece. The creature realized the hero didn't dodge or deflect it, he hit it head on and was still alive.
The creature looked at the hero and began to laugh. The hero put on a confused face as the creature laughed with no mouth and out of pure joy. Moments later the laughter died down, and the creature began to speak telepathically. "I see, so you're stronger than everything the hero organization has thrown at me. Let's not fight here, for I fear if we do, there might not be anything left."
As soon as he was done the red linings started to pulsate throughout his body. The next thing to happen was the creature appearing close to the hero and touch his chest. The hero still looking with a confused face, slightly bored as well, started to distort until him and the creature were gone from Y-City without a trace.
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Forest
As Saitama was touched by the creature, he felt a tingly sensation go across his body. Then he blinked and opened his eyes to view a dark forest surrounding him on all sides. He was greeted with the creature standing a couple of meters away from him as it began talking to him again telepathically. " So, no need to hold back here, fight me with all your strengt- " He was interrupted by a fist firmly planting itself on the side of his jawline.
Saitama got close to the creature faster than it could comprehend and delivered a punch. As Saitama's fist connected with the creatures head, a normal person would only see red mist erupt from the creature where its head should have been. Though Saitama could see as his fist connected, the godlike force breaking his jaw, then going through its head, completely obliterating the creatures skull.
A few seconds of blood splatter later and the creature fell down, unmoving. Saitama on the other hand could only glare at his bloodied fist with untold anger. " God Dammit! " He yelled throughout the forest, ' Even a God class, ended with one punch! ' He yell in his head. He sighed internally and decided to find a city and ask for directions to Z-City. Though unknowingly to Saitama, the whole scene was viewed by someone, or rather, somepony.
Chapter 2
10 Minutes Before Saitama's Arrival
Fluttershy had been ecstatic that day. She had discovered that she was one of the elements of harmony, kindness to be exact. So to celebrate the day that she had made six friends, which had been a great accomplishment for the shy pegasus, by doing what she enjoyed most, helping animals. She roamed in the everfree forest looking for any hurt animal nearby, with protection of course. She had brought along her friend Berry, he was a full grown bear with great knowledge of the Everfree.
Berry wasn't just there for protection though. His nose was highly sensitive, on par with wolves, and was able to smell any blood that may be on hurt animal and direct Fluttershy towards the injured. As they were going down the path for a couple of minutes, Berry started to pick up a familiar smell ahead of them.
It was blood, he then tapped on Fluttershy's shoulder with his paw and and held out a claw in the direction of the smell. Fluttershy understood immediately and began a gallop towards that direction. Berry, being of bigger mass, was understandably a little slower than Fluttershy. As they began to approach the area which he smelt the blood, his instincts went haywire.
He knew almost immediately that whatever was over their could kill him and Fluttershy with ease. The feeling was different from a manticore's, which Fluttershy was on good terms with their species, it was completely different, almost foreign. He knew he had to stop Fluttershy from reaching her destination, but as fast as he was, he couldn't catch up to Fluttershy. She was determined to get to whatever injured was over there as fast as possible and was even flapping her wings while running to gain speed.
As he tried to catch up to her, they had gotten considerably closer. He was about to roar to get her attention until he felt another presence. The last could be said to be powerful, more than Celestia herself, but this, this was unlike anything he had ever felt. Though he knew one thing, he was afraid. The mighty roar that he was about to attempt came out as nothing but a whimper as he stood stock still and sat in unbridled terror.
He could only watch as Fluttershy ran ahead of him almost out of sight until he saw her stop and stare at whatever was over there.
Fluttershy on the other hand had been deeply worried for the animal that had been hurt as she was running with all her strength, even flapping her wings in hope to gain some momentum. She had left Berry behind thinking he would catch up when she had reached the injured. But as she reached er destination, she saw something she wasn't expecting. Two creatures were face to face with each other.
One naked, along with red lines randomly on his skin, and the other in some sort of yellow and red clothing, with a flowing cape along with it. Even though this was very confusing to Fluttershy, she still had to look for an injured animal. Taking cover behind a bush she looked around the two creature on the ground for any injured animal. Odd thing was though, there was none.
Berry had led her here from the smell of blood, so she looked around to see if any of the creatures were bleeding, until she noticed the one with red lines had blood all along its feet. She could tell it wasn't his or the other one's, so where did it come from? She decided to watch the two creatures to see if they did anything.
She looked at the faces of the two creatures. The red lined one had almost no expression on his face, while the clothed one looked to be increasingly bored. She was going to get a closer look, that was until she blinked. When her eyes closed and reopened all she saw was the clothed creature standing next to the red lined creature.
Though one small detail seemed to be missing. The red lined one's head was missing, replaced by a red mist. She couldn't believe what she had just saw. The clothed creature just murdered the red lined one with no hesitation or remorse, and he did it within a blink of an eye. She stood there looking at the clothe creature until it looked at its bloodied glove and gave a glare that could kill a lesser stallion. It was a face that screamed out the creature's one emotion, pure frustration.
Fluttershy's eyes shrank to pinpricks. She can one-hundred percent say that this was the one moment in her life she felt the fear of death. Even the encounter with Nightmare Moon, or the fall from Cloudsdale, she still had hope. Hope that her friends would help her in each of those situations, whether her pony or animal friends, she knew they would be able to help her. Here though, she knew even if she had her friends with her, it could easily annihilate her, just like the red lined creature.
Then she almost jumped out of her skin when the creature let out a echoing "God Dammit!" throughout the forest. Then the creature started to vaguely walk in her direction. At this point Fluttershy had no hope, so she did the only thing she could, sit there, sit there until the creature either left or came to claim her life. When the creature got close to the bush Fluttershy couldn't take it anymore, as darkness consumed her vision.
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Saitama was having a really bad day. On top of having his expectations crushed by the god classed monster, he also had no idea where he was. He could only sigh to himself as he started to walk in the direction of a semi clear strip of land in hope that it lead to civilization. As he began to enter the woods he heard something fall, something near one of the bushes he was next to.
As he began to look, he saw a yellow horse behind the bush, probably dead or just unconscious. ' Huh, a horse, don't see many of those where I live. ' He looked over to see that it also had pink hair and butterflies on its rear. On a whim he thought he could take it back with him maybe as a souvenir. Then he thought about the expenses of keeping it, then his own expenses, then his food expenses.
He came to the realization that he didn't have enough money to take care of himself, let alone a horse. The thought came to mind just how poor he was. Yes, saving the world from monstrosities doesn't exactly pay very well, at least in his case. In fact he had heard somewhere that horses were actually a delicacy.
Though the more he looked at it, the more it didn't seem to be a horse, for one the legs were off. Usually horses would have visible joints on the legs, he couldn't see any. Next were the eyes, way too big, and he was also wondering if here fur was actually dyed or not. Then probably the most obvious, it had wings.
So he could either do one of two things. One, exploit the fact that a new species has been found and probably get pain a sum, though, then again, new species have been popping up everywhere. In fact most of what he had fought have been new species. And two, sell to somewhere overseas so he can pay his rent.
So with that in mind he picked up the horse and began to walk away.
Chapter 3
1-2 Hours Later
As Saitama was walking through the forest with the winged horse on his back, he had become increasingly confused. First was the wooden wolves, who only stalked him for a while then left probably thinking it wasn't worth it. And then a lion with bat wings and a scorpion tail came out of one of the bushes, probably trying to ambush him. Then surprisingly, it backed away without giving him any trouble after it caught sight of his luggage.
After a while of walking the horse over his shoulders started to tense up. He was glad it wasn't dead at least, but the thought of carrying a wild horse that would probably be thrashing around over his shoulder didn't really sound appealing to him. But, if it was to pay his soon to be due rent, then it would probably be worth it... Probably.
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As Fluttershy was starting to wake up, she felt that she was propped up on something that was bobbing up and down. At first she was thankful she was still alive, but she was still confused at what was happening. Opening her eyes, she saw that she was being carried by something, something wearing yellow clothing.
It didn't take long for her to realise she was being carried by the creature that killed the other. Her body started to tense up from fear, she didn't know what it was going to do to her. She could try to communicate, though if it thinks she's dead it might try to actually kill her once it realizes she isn't. So to say it bluntly, she was stuck. She couldn't risk trying to communicating with it, though she did think about her air supremacy for a second.
Though sadly, the idea was shot down by how unskilled she was at flying. Plus, she didn't know how high her captor could jump, so it was likely it would be able to take her down before she even got 4 meters in the air. So she thought of things, her life on the edge of the Everfree, her new found friends, and the honor of being an element of harmony.
Her eyes started to water at the thought of all the things she didn't get to do, or the people she wouldn't be able to see anymore is she would die today. Moments later, a steady stream of tears were coming from her eyes and falling to the ground.
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'Were forests usually this big in Japan? ' Saitama had been walking for around 2 hours since he picked up the small horse and still no city in sight. 'I thought there was only a couple of small forests since Japan went through the whole formation of Cities A - Z, guess I stand corrected. ' So with a long sigh and a little less spring to his step Saitama did the only thing he could do and pushed forward to see where he would end up.
*Sniffle*
"I-I j-just want to go h-home..."
'Did that horse just talk ' This could almost mean the worst for Saitama because as a hero he only needed to do two things; protect the innocent and destroy the evil, simple. And since it could talk he had to categorize it as a sentient life, which also meant he had inadvertently kidnapped a sentient life who had done nothing wrong or more commonly known, an innocent.
This was only a small problem for him though. A couple of apologies and maybe a couple of favors later everything would be fine, but no amount of apologies could help with his rent. Admittedly, yeah, he was worrying too much about his rent, but when it's the only thing you have aside from being a class-C hero it starts to become very important.
Anyway, onto more current problems, he still had the talking horse on his back. 'Well, time to fix that problem. ' And that he did, but as he laid the horse back onto the ground it's wings quickly extended from each side as it quickly took flight into the air and quickly vanished above the trees.
'Well, one less problem for me I guess. ' Although, if it could talk, it probably lived somewhere or with it's owner if it had one, then hopefully get directions back to a city. The only problem was the canopy though, it was way too thick to see through and tell which direction with horse had taken, so with that in mind...
*Pomf*
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'I-I escaped... I escaped! ' As Fluttershy was soaring through the air with new vigor from escaping from that... Thing. All she wanted to do was to go towards her cottage as fast as she could and be done with this. She would also have to ask Twilight if there was anything on that creature, but now all she could think of was going back to her home and having a nice, long res-
*Pomf*
...
*Thud*
She immediately looked behind her for the sounds. She saw nothing but trees and maybe some vines. She continued on her flight a little more cautious and faster paced, taking a look behind her every once in awhile. After a little while everything seemed fine, still, she kept the little amount of speed she had gained.
*Pomf*
...
*Thud*
It was closer than last. At this point Fluttershy had no restraint on speeding up and was going pretty fast, not as fast as Rainbow Dash, but still impressive for any other pegasus. Her head was also constantly checking back for anything, a little cold sweat running down her forehead
*Pomf*
As if in slow motion, Fluttershy could see what was coming out of the canopy... It was.
*Whimper*