Breaking the Barrier (Saitama x Tatsumaki)

Baldy Backstory

=Howdy folks, it's the seventh chapter! I'm here now and happy to write some more.

First off about me so I can talk about me (super duper humble) but like you can skip this paragraph so yeah. Anyways I've got school in balance so far, the projects I've got are certainly a bit tough to balance, but I've got a reasonable balance of working on school stuff and this story, cause I love writing this story to bits!

Anyways, I'm really enjoying this story, and I hope you guys do too. I'm planning to flesh out the characters a tad bit more, especially Saitama and Tornado between the next two chapters. I hope you guys enjoy all that, and I'm also planning to add a bit more between Genos and Fubuki later on.

Disclaimer: I don't own One Punch Man. I mean, I'm certainly not creative enough to make it.

Initial release date: September 3, 2019

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"I wish to take him on, Sensei," Genos claimed, arming himself for battle. "I wish to test out these new upgrades." The cyborg walked up to the battlefield, taking a combat stance.

"Ehhh?" Carnage Kabuto sneered. "You against me?! Fine!" He had a clearly arrogant smirk on his face, his eyes shot with bloodlust and pent up rage. There was no sense of urgency or care about the battle, as if he just oozed confidence.

Genos threw his hands in front of him, his flames recharged and yelled, "INCINERATE CANNONS!" Just as they did before, flames erupted from the various cannons that came out of his arms. As they approached the beetle, there was yet no sense of urgency to dodge.

Instead, Carnage Kabuto only retaliated by blowing back the flames. Without much effort, he repelled the flames to the point where they were directed back at Genos, who was too shocked to realize what had happened.

In an instant, Genos was captured by his own raging flames, before the heat slowly faded away to reveal a heavily damaged Genos. Multiple parts of his body were short-circuiting visibly, clearly not resistant enough to the scorching heat. He fell to his knees, though determination was clear due to his futile attempts to stay upright.

"Hm," Doctor Genus sighed. "How foolish of him to think he could take on my strongest creation." At this, Tornado raised an eyebrow.

"Strongest creation? What do ya mean?" Tornado asked impatiently, annoyed at how Doctor Genus only spoke cryptically. "Spit it out already."

"It appears you must be as impatient as the bald man," he noted as Saitama walked towards Genos without a word. "If you must know...Carnage Kabuto was one of my attempts at artificial human evolution. Of course, I vastly improved his capabilities. However, it was at the cost of his humanity, his sanity and control. That is why I consider him my greatest failure, and thus why he is contained underground. I have no doubt he would wreak havoc amongst innocent civilians if unleashed."

"BALDY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Tornado lectured angrily, considering how reckless Saitama seemed to be acting. Sure, it was justified due to his strength, but to Tatsumaki, there was no reason he should let his guard down so often.

"I got this, Tats," Saitama explained, turning his attention to Genos. "Don't sweat it, Genos. I got it from 'ere."

"S-Sensei...I'm fine," Genos tried to reassure as he attempted to rise up, though to no avail. The true nail in the coffin, though, was Genos' hair puffing up into an afro at his attempt to seem fine.

"Dude, you're not fine!" Saitama noted, a sweat-drop on his forehead. "Look at your hair!" He heard snickering and turned to see Tornado taking a picture of Genos' afro, no doubt saving it for later humiliation of the cyborg.