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Genos sat on the kitchen table with a screwdriver in his hands. He was prone to overthinking things, and for the past week, Genos had done nothing but overthinking. What if we don't turn back to our original forms? What if Saitama sensei gets sick of taking care of me and finally suspends me from the position of his disciple? What if he was never able to find the monster that destroyed his town just because he was hit by some stupid ray that caused his size to decrease?
This was finally the end of the week. He was able to get a good amount of rest yesterday night thanks to Sonic and Lily's encouraging words. (Although, Genos would never admit that to them.)
Saitama had also noticed the increased energy in the room, but he opted to not say anything or maybe he just didn't care enough to say anything. Whatever it may be, yesterday's dinner had been quite peaceful.
Genos snapped himself out of his thoughts and continued to modify his blasters. This was finally it.
Sonic fixed his belt. He grabbed all of his ninja stars and laid them out and checked each and every one of them to see if any of them were blunt. He picked one of them up and threw them behind him.
He checked his sword and realized that it had been a long time since he used it to slice anyone. He grinned, and all the excitement that was bubbling inside him was finally going to get an outlet in a few hours.
He turned around, and the ninja star he threw had struck a flower and petals fell to the ground, gracefully.
Lily was a young girl of fourteen. A fourteen-year-old becoming a B-class hero was quite an accomplishment. She had dedicated her entire life to the Blizzard group and Fubuki. For her the Blizzard group and Fubuki meant everything. She wasn't as tough as Fubuki was and she couldn't even hold a candle to Genos and Sonic's strength, but she would try her best today and she would show everyone that she was more than capable of becoming an S-class hero along with Fubuki.
Lily silently polished her three-section staff as she remembered the cute and extremely original nickname she had. Lily of the three-section staff.
(Everyone thinks that it is the laziest hero name ever, but Lily likes it so no one says anything.)
"What the hell?! Why are these idiots and Lily acting so dramatic early in the morning?!" Fubuki asked, sleepily.
Saitama shook his head and buried himself under his cover.
Fubuki continued her rant. "Do you know what Sonic told me?"
"What?" Saitama asked, uninterested.
"He told me that the time was right, and he was going to gain his past strength and that the flowers were in full bloom and some nonsense. I am so done. I am going back to sleep." Fubuki closed her eyes while thinking about how her house was far better than Saitama's couch and also about how beneficial it would be if Saitama joins the Fubuki group.
Genos visited Dr.Kuseno last evening the moment he got the message from the association. The doctor had made some modifications to Genos and also packed some food for him.
Now, Genos, Sonic, and Lily were quite happy eating some yummy breakfast.
"This is so good!" Lily beamed. "Thank your doctor for us, Genos!"
"I will!" Genos answered. He knew that the doctor would be quite happy to hear this compliment. Although, Sonic wasn't saying anything his happy munching noises was a good enough statement.
The clock struck again. It was 6:00 AM. Genos and Lily jumped off the chair. It was time.
"Time to drink some milk!" Lily gave them each a glass of milk. Sonic stared in disgust. Genos gulped it down while Lily took a few sips at a time and finished it.
"Why in the world are we drinking milk?! I thought we were adults?!" Sonic made some barfing noises while Genos shook his head in disappointment.
"What are you, Ten? Drink it."
"No." Sonic jumped up the table and jumped to the sink and tried to empty it. He was too slow. Lily grabbed him with her staff and Genos opened his mouth while Lily poured the milk down his throat. This was something that happened usually at 9:00 AM in the morning, but today was quite a special day.
Lily giggled as Sonic gulped the milk down and began rolling on the floor. "Why?! Why do you hate me so?!"
Genos sighed again as checked his phone.
6:19 AM
They should leave before Saitama wakes up.
Genos followed Sonic outside and waited for Lily. The area outside of Saitama's apartment was usually empty.
"You know something, don't you?" Genos asked while Sonic stared off into nowhere. Sonic didn't react for a while and Genos decided to repeat his question when Sonic responded.
"When we were brawling the other day, I reached the chibi monster before you."
"And?"
"He was quite talkative. He kept talking about potions and stuff and about how he had reached the ultimate potion." Sonic turned to Genos who was listening with rapt attention.
"Do you remember what he said afterward?"
"I remember." Genos stopped to think and then he answered. "He said something about holding it for ransom after his potion works. I don't know what 'it' refers to."
Sonic closed his eyes. "What could he hold for ransom? The chibified heroes? I doubt it since he was so weak he died when one of my shurikens hit his arm."
"I would say he was a wolf disaster level, but that's still ridiculously weak." Genos mumbled.
"At that strength level, he wouldn't be able to even touch anyone. Heck, even a civilian is stronger than him. To hold someone for ransom, you need to catch them first, and the chibified people retain their original strength."
"There's only one thing he can hold for ransom then." Sonic turned to Genos who seemed to be deep in thought.
"The Antidote." Both of them said at the same time as they looked at each other. Genos finally realized everything. Sonic seeing that he outsmarted Genos was quite pleased with himself and began rubbing his hands acting all evil. (Lily came down the stairs, saw Sonic then started having second thoughts about following a plan formulated in this strange man's head.)
"The first chibi monster infected many with his chibi potions, and now the second one has the Antidote. Beat the second one up, get the antidote." Sonic explained. Lily joined them right as Sonic finished his statement.
"Let's find that stupid thing."
"Why is the chibi monster two so much bigger than the first one?" Lily asked while she stretched her neck to get a good look at the entire thing.
"Well the first reason is upgrades."
The chibi monster turned to them and smiled. Lily didn't know whether to be creeped out or smash his head.
"The second reason is that we have become smaller." Genos fired up his incinerators and Sonic placed his hand on his sword ready to strike at any moment.
Lily waved her hand and placed her dominant hand on the three-section staff.
"Mr. Chibi Monster! Hellooooo"
"Hello, little girl. Are you here for the antidote? I was surprised to see that none of the heroes were coming to me for the antidote." The monster wiped his tears.
"My stupid brother must not have conveyed the message properly! Shameful! That's all right. Why don't you three buy the antidotes and advertise them as well? Don't worry I will give you a discount if you agree to advertise."The chibi monster sat down and began writing something on his notepad.
"Tell me your names kiddos."
"What in the world do you need money for?" Sonic was quite agitated.
The monster sobbed twice and turned to Sonic. "I had a dream once."
Sonic picked up his sword and was about to slice him when Genos pulled Sonic back.
"Genos, please. I do not want to hear the back story of this monster. If you won't let me slice his neck then at least let me slice my own neck. I hate backstories."
"I wanted to become a ballet dancer!"
Lily snorted.
"To dance like the beautiful twinkling stars. To do the Assemble-"
"Assemblé."
"Genos, stop giving our enemy ballet lessons." Sonic sighed. "Why was that a sentence I ever had to say?"
"To dance along with the beautiful maidens. That's all I ever wanted." The monster stood up and began to wriggle.
Sonic's desire to live, suddenly died.
Genos had enough. Genos aimed his incineration canons, not before letting go of Sonic and let the blast do the talking.
Sonic, relieved to be free from Genos' grasp aimed his Sword and began his onslaught of attacks.
Lily grabbed her three-section staff and before she could attack with it, she decided to check something out first.
Lily raised her hand and targeted the chibi monster's head.
"Psychic binding!"
She carefully used the move which Fubuki had taught the entire Blizzard group. Everything that Fubuki had taught was precious for Lily. Although she didn't expect it to work since it only works on espers she was shocked to see it working on the chibi monster.
"Genos-san! Sonic-san! Be careful! It seems the chibi monster has psychic powers."
The monster was bound due to which both Genos and Sonic were able to get a hit, but thanks to their height they could only hit the monster's foot.
"How dare you attack my foot! This is a dancer's most prized possession! Horrible!"
Sonic felt something crack in his head.
"You can't dance, you moron! My piglet can dance better than you! You....you... BARBARIAN!"
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Somewhere, little Ino sneezed.
Fubuki began screaming and screeching while Saitama tried to hide between his covers. Fubuki then used her psychic to pull Saitama's covers out.
"Saitama! They are gone!"Fubuki yelled.
"Who's gone?!"
"Genos, Sonic and Lily!"
Saitama jumped up and rapidly looked around his room then turned to Fubuki who was about to faint.
"Where's my suit?"
"Genos-san, are we going to die?" Lily repeated over and over again like a broken record and for the first time Genos' had nothing to say. Sonic and Genos just stared at the monster as it screamed loudly and slammed its fist everywhere. The monster turned to them and raised his large fists about to throw it down upon their heads.
Sonic snapped out of his trance as he saw the fist coming towards them at what seemed like light speed. The ninja grabbed the other two awestruck heroes and jumped to the side.
The monster kept going crazy, and Genos suddenly let out an exclamation.
"Look! There!" Genos pointed, and both Lily and Sonic saw what Genos was pointing towards.
"Is that the antidote?" Lily asked, and Sonic gave her the most disappointed look he could muster.
"It has 'antidote' written on it in big bold letters. What the hell do you think it is?!"He screamed. (Both Genos and Lily moved away from him assuming he was having a mental breakdown.)
Genos had to get his hands on that somehow, but with his current height, it seemed almost impossible to reach it. He knew what he had to do. Even if he didn't want to do it.
"Sonic?"
"Yeah?"
"We will have to work together."
"ew."
"Fubuki, why did you switch on the gosh darn TV? Do we really have the time to be doing this?!"
"Where do you think we are going?! Just barge out and scrounge the entire continent?"
The news reporter came out and began reporting in her monotone voice.
"A monster who calls it himself as the chibi monster has been causing large damage near the outskirts of Y-city....
Fubuki and Saitama had heard enough. They both ran out the door and slammed it shut.
"Shit! I broke the handle!" Saitama grieved over the death of his door handle on the way to the monster.
Sonic stepped on Genos blasters, and he aimed at the monster. Sonic steadied himself and aimed his sword. Lily ran in front of the monster and waved.
"Hello, Mr. Chibi monster! I want to say that your ballet dancing was stunning. I believe you have the talent to become something great!"
"Little girl, it seems like you are the only one who can recognize my talents! Someday I will become like Anna Pavlola. I will show everyone that even monsters can dance!"
"IT'S ANNA PAVLOVA, YOU IMBECILE." Genos screamed. Sonic started to think that maybe Genos has a secret desire to become a ballet dancer.
Genos shot the incineration canons at low power, and Sonic shot off into the sky. He came hurtling towards the ground, and he readied his sword which he aimed and the bag with the antidote was sliced. The antidote fell to the ground, and Sonic grabbed it. He rolled to the side, opened it, and took a sip. He threw it to Genos who did the same and it was passed to Lily next.
.....
"Nothing's happening!" Sonic screamed. Lily ran back to them while the monster did some more of his ballet moves.
"Maybe it takes some time. Be patient." Genos told him, but he himself was quite lost.
"Where's my antidote?" The monster asked, and Lily knew it was time to run.
The monster began his rampage again and smashed everything that was in his line of sight. The trio ran in different directions to confuse the monster along with occasional attacks from both Genos and Sonic, but nothing seemed to affect the monster who seemed to have completely lost his mind.
Then the worst happened. Sonic tripped right in front of the monster. The monster grabbed Sonic while Genos and Lily stared, horrified. Sonic struggled and struggled with all his might, but the monster seemed to be in a sick mood. He held Sonic's little hand and began doing the worst thing imaginable.
He began ballroom dancing.
"Hey! Hey! Stop! I am going to throw up! Disgusting!"
"I want to show you my talent and skill! You told me I couldn't dance, but now I will show you my gorgeous dancing skills." He twirled Sonic around and held his hand tenderly as they spun around the road.
"This is a problem...." Genos mumbled.
"We have to do something!" Lily waved her staff to get some attacks in, and free Sonic, but she was too short to hit any vital points.
"Sonic, your posture is all wrong! Keep your back straight."
"Genos-San! This isn't the time to be learning ballroom dance." Lily waved her hands widely, although the message didn't seem to be going to Genos.
The monster suddenly grabbed the other two chibis as well. Genos, Lily, and Sonic were all caught and it seemed that the monster was tired of dancing. He seemed to be in a killer mood.
"You three have no respect for art. Maybe in the afterlife, you might learn to respect my dance."
Sonic accusingly pointed at Genos.
"In the afterlife, you should open a dancing class, Genos. Even at the time of a battle, all you care about is my damn posture." Sonic sneered.
"Your posture was preposterous. I couldn't help myself."
"I am so scared....." Lily whispered holding herself tightly.
"Listen here, brat. Remember that this is all Genos' fault. If we die here we haunt his precious sensei. Got it?"
"Don't you dare do anything to sensei!"
"Do you even have a brain, you dense motherfu-
A large truck flew from the sky and hit the monster at top speed. The monster's grip loosened and the trio jumped out, glad to be free once again. They turned to see their mysterious saviors even though they already knew who they were.
"You need to watch your language, Sonic. The kids are reading." Fubuki smiled as she threw more and more vehicles on the monster.
For the first time in their entire lives both Genos and Sonic were glad to see Fubuki. Lily jumped for joy seeing her precious Fubuki-sama at full power was always a sight to behold.
Then they felt something inside them. It was a strange feeling. It felt as if they were growing at a rapid speed. A shiny light surrounded the three and they evolved to their original forms.
"Evolved? What are we, Pokémon?"
"Who are you even talking to, Sonic?"
The monster seemed to be in a mixed state of happiness and frustration. He roared and stomped his feet all around and then he grabbed his bag from the floor and gulped down one of the many potions from his bag. The potion seemed to work as he grew twice his original size.
"The potion worked! I am stronger than I ever was before. You three better pay up for the antidote or I will complain to the police." The monster stomped his feet all around and tried to catch them again, but this time he was too slow.
Sonic picked up his sword, Genos aimed his cannons, Lily picked up her staff and Fubuki was ready with her psychic to give the monster a good bashing.
"Let's do this!" Fubuki gave out the war cry. All five jumped to give the monster a beating that would send him to the afterlife. Wait, five?
Ah, wait.
Saitama reached the monster first, as expected, and gave the monster a light punch. The monster's entire being disappeared, and all that remained was his bag. Saitama landed on the ground and turned to see three angry people glaring at him.
"What the hell, Saitama?! This was supposed to be the grand ending. You stole it from us!" Sonic yelled, waving his sword at the confused hero.
"What are you eve-
"How dare you take the Blizzard gang's prey?! Do you have no respect?"
"You disrespected Fubuki-sama! How could you?!" Lily imitated Fubuki.
"Sensei, that was amazing! As expected of you." Genos gushed, and began writing in his notebook.
"Shut the hell up, you tin-can! Oh sensei! You're amazing! So annoying. That baldy just ruined our moment and you're praising him?!"
"How dare you question sensei's greatness?! You prickly porcupine, crawl back to your piglet!"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT INO?!"
"I SAID NOTHING TO YOUR PIGLET, YOU DEAF FOOL. IS THAT PIG'S PRIDE MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR OWN?!"
And so Genos used his already pumped up incinerators to blast Sonic, and the ninja used his exploding shurikens on the cyborg all the while Fubuki and Lily nagged Saitama to join the Blizzard group as compensation for ruining her moment. It seems like everything is back to normal.
When a story ends, life continues. The characters in the story never stop living. It's just that they go back to their mundane lives until the next adventure happens.
Genos picked up all the antidotes from the bag and gave them to the HA headquarters. Everyone at the headquarters was glad to get the antidote and most of the chibified heroes were brought back to normal.
Bang was finally exempted from taking care of the kids, and he was finally free. He called his brother Bomb and both of them decided to celebrate with some good food.
Fubuki continued with her Blizzard gang activities while Lily continued serving as Fubuki's assistant. The Blizzard gang was quite happy to see their leader back and they continued to do their job of rookie crushing and catching monsters as a team.
Sonic went back to the forest to continue training. He acted like the whole incident never happened since he was ashamed to admit that he had become slightly attached to Saitama and the Tin-can.
The first thing that Sonic did when he reached home was to start swearing. Now, that he wasn't under Fubuki's control he could curse and swear all that he wanted. ("Sonic is a terrible role model for kids," Fubuki told Lily one day while walking home, and Lily nodded vigorously.)
Saitama continued beating up monsters and playing video games with King whenever he was free. He also ate baby food for three continuous days since Bang had given him a truckload of baby food, and he didn't want to waste it. Sometimes, King would eat baby food along with Saitama. (Both were ashamed to admit that they liked the taste. When King went home he ordered another box of baby food.)
At the end of the day everything was back to normal.
There was a large deafening noise, and the monster screamed out loudly. He stared at the civilians around him and smiled in the most twisted way possible. All the people ran helter-skelter, fearful for their lives.
"I am Chibi monster three and I am here to make money for my literature club where we will write the DEADLIEST poems. Of course, anyone is welcome to joi-
"Shut the hell up." A single punch obliterated the monster while the disciple watched him with respect.
"Let's go, Genos. I think there's a sale at the supermarket today."
"Yes, sensei!"
Genos and Saitama slowly jogged to the supermarket while Genos wondered what he should cook for dinner.