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Chapter 16: A Job For Caped Baldy

A Champion's Challenge Season 2

Season 1: s/12455369/19/The-Champion-s-Challenge

Relief

The feeling that washed over Genos like a calm ocean wave when he saw Saitama in the doorway. "Sensei can take care of this. We don't have to have a fight!", he thought to himself. Genos knew that everyone's blank expressions- well, some people's blank expressions, were faces of relief. Sensei had come to save them all from the threat approaching them, just like he came to save Genos from that mosquito lady that one day.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

That one day, Saitama had simply been chasing a really annoying mosquito and happened to run into Genos and the mosquito lady. So he took care of the mosquito lady because he thought mosquitoes were annoying. And Saitama only came to that room beca-

"S-Sensei?", Genos said while running towards Saitama, blinking rapidly after recovering from the stray beam of light that reflected off of Saitama's head.

Saitama replied with a dopey look on his face. "Yeah Genos, it's me." Everybody focused their attention on Saitama.

With everybody looking at him all weird, Saitama had no choice but to look around. There was a long-haired elf looking guy that Saitama didn't recognize about 15 or so feet behind Genos, who looked like he was from one of King's favorite RPGs. He was holding a katana extremely tightly in his right hand, wearing what looked like a spandex suit and a bath towel around his neck. Saitama thought his costume looked stupid. Everybody else thought the same about Saitama's costume, but Saitama was just too nice for anyone to make fun of him. The guy to the right of him he recognized, he was Drive Knight, the other cyborg in S-Class. Genos told him about him. Apparently, he's a nice guy, but when Genos showed him a picture of him that one time, he didn't have a sword arm, meaning he didn't have an arm that was literally a sword. "That's kinda weird but kinda cool.", Saitama thought to himself.

Genos told him much more than just that about Drive Knight the last time that he went to his favorite burger shop with Genos, but after about 3 minutes of Genos doing his monologue thing, Saitama didn't want to listen anymore, so he just focused on eating his french fries instead.

Bang, Tatsumaki, King, Shoten, Pui Puri Prisoner, Darkshine, and Pig God- everybody was staring at Saitama, Tatsumaki especially. This made him uncomfortable, but not too uncomfortable. He realized that it was because he was standing there in the doorway for a minute straight just looking around the room with a dopey face, all while holding corndog samples in both hands. "Corndogs.", Saitama thought to himself. He broke the silence, dropping one of the corndog samples, and taking a bag slung over his shoulder. Yes, he only came to that room to get rid of his extra corn dogs. An annoying lady kept giving him corndog samples, and eventually whole corndogs when she ran out of samples. Saitama had no idea why this had happened, but took the corndogs anyway, because they were free.

"Hey, the corndogs are getting cold, and I've got a lot extra, so… does anybody want a corndog… or something?"

"Yeah, sure Saitama-bro.", King said quickly and with tact befitting of a true king, leaving quickly after snatching a corndog from Saitama's outstretched hand.

Bang was next to answer. "Boy, that's a lot of corndogs. Mind if I take one off your hands?" he asked with an extremely unnatural smile.

Unfazed by Bang's facial expression, Saitama answered "No, of course not", and handed Bang a corndog. Bang motioned a quick "Thanks" before hastily walking out of the patio area. Shoten was next to reply.

"Hey, can I have one?"

"Yeah man, just grab one."

Shoten took out his tablet and made a couple of quick taps. A robotic arm appeared from his backpack, and nimbly snatched one of the corndogs in Saitama's bag with great precision, and put it onto a tray, which by that time had appeared in front of Shoten through another robotic appendage.

Instead of being impressed, which was what Shoten wanted, Saitama was just confused. "You could've just grabbed it, you know."

Shoten replied rather disappointedly. "W-well, that would've been boring... A-and, it would've gotten my hands greasy."

"Oh, that's all? Why so much effort, then?", Saitama asked.

"I-I can't do fingerprint authentication with greasy fingers," Shoten replied, his voice wavering. He then ran out of the room in an apparent hurry, which made Saitama wonder what he had said to make him run away like that. Saitama was a bit sad but didn't really care as long as he was getting rid of the corn dogs, so he forgot about it.

"I couldn't impress Saitama! Well, that's not that important. I'm just glad I can get out of this patio area. Thanks, Saitama!" Shoten thought to himself with a face of relief as he ran out.

People kept asking for corndogs and then leaving until there were only Saitama, Genos, Tatsumaki, Drive Knight, and Flashy Flash left in the patio area. The patio area was huge, so with only 5 people there, it felt desolate. The area sat in awkward silence for a few seconds.

"Corndogs?" asked Saitama with a dopey face.

"No thank you Sensei. Cyborgs don't eat," replied Genos. In reality, Genos just didn't like corndogs very much but didn't want to refuse anything from his sensei with the trivial reason of not liking it.

Instead of answering, Tatsumaki floated across the room to sit on top of Saitama's head, squishing his head in between her thighs. Saitama was used to this, so he didn't care. Tatsumaki was in her favorite place, so she beamed brightly. Both Drive Knight and Flash simply stared at Saitama in bewilderment. There was even more awkward silence.

While Saitama was thinking about how that fat guy took 5 of his corndogs, Genos broke the silence. He approached Saitama again, whispered "Thank you Sensei, you got this", patted his shoulder, and left the room hurriedly, to which Saitama could only respond with a confused "Huh?". Genos was already gone.

Left in the room were Saitama, Tatsumaki (on Saitama's head which is basically the same as her not being there at all), and the dynamic duo of Drive Knight and Flashy Flash, with their swords still unsheathed.

"Huh?", Saitama said again, unable to comprehend the situation. The room sat in silence for several more seconds until Saitama broke the silence again.

"So… hi guys… uh… what's going on here?"

"Who are you?" asked Flashy Flash with a cold, hard disgust that was obviously not meant to be answered with "Name's Saitama", which is exactly what Saitama said.

"Huh, and why is that child on your head?", Flash asked curiously, a sneer starting to crawl up his face.

"I… am not… a ch-child…", answered Tatsumaki a bit sheepishly, embarrassed that Flashy Flash, the one person that Tatsumaki actually hated, was seeing this side of her.

"I mean, I couldn't help it… it's just such a nice place to be… I wish I could be here forever… with Baldy… AHHHHH why am I thinking like this?" Tatsumaki was dark red in the face and shivering at this point, to which Flash remarked, "Hmph, you are one, see?" He flashed a quick smirk towards Tatsumaki, causing her to shudder even more uncontrollably.

"Tats, could you stop moving around like that? It's uncomfortable.", Saitama complained. Realizing that he had forgotten to answer Flash's question, he then said, "Oh, Tats is sitting here 'cause she thinks it's comfortable. It's a bit weird, but she's my friend, and friends can sometimes be a bit weird, I guess."

Saitama followed up with a question. "And uh… what's your name? I forgot to ask."

Flash sighed and responded to Saitama's question. "My name is Fl-"

Saitama interrupted; "Oh yeah! I remember you! You're that ninja guy Speed-O-Sound Sonic!"

Saitama had no idea what he had just done.

A thick black aura started to form around Flash, reminiscent of King's, but slightly weaker, and it was directed at Saitama. Even though the aura was weak compared to King's, a normal person would be rolled up into a ball and crying for their mommy by then.

Even though the aura wasn't directed at him, Drive Knight was slightly scared. "Oh shit. This isn't good. I've never seen Flash make a face like that. Even if you say that Caped Baldy is Demon Cyborg's sensei, that face is wrong. It's just wrong. Even cyborgs have their instincts… where are his?" Drive Knight thought to himself, while instinctively taking five steps backward from Flash.

Saitama was looking through Flash with a dopey, dazed, almost drunk looking face. It was obvious that he wasn't taking the situation seriously, and this, more than anything, pissed Flash off. Saitama knew that he should, but he didn't really care.

Saitama took it onto himself to break the silence again. "You haven't said anything in a while, is everything alright, Sonic?"

Flash had no idea what to say. Wasn't Sonic dead?

To be continued- (probably tomorrow because I have nothing to do whatsoever)

Thanks for reading! I'm definitely not as good of a writer as the owner of this fanfic, but hope you liked it! I'll try to improve! I'd love to hear feedback! Oh, and again, If you don't understand any of what's happening, it's because you haven't read the 15 previous chapters of this fic. Read them here: s/12455369/19/The-Champion-s-Challenge

Big thanks to TheChickenMC for writing this originally! It's a really good fic!

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Ok, I rewrote this. I read it, and it seems way better.