Chapter 3- The Beast of the House

The entire group was heading towards the location of the House of Evolution. After the explanation behind it and the news of the head Genus wanting to experiment on Saitama only lead the girls to confusion, but they still new it was bad. Reimu had a very familiar feeling when she had to deal with yokai. Aya had already zipped ahead of the group surprising both Saitama and Genos because of her speed. Reimu had been flying in the sky along with the other girls while the other two ran fast on the ground.

"I didn't expect to be running all the way there." Genos said.

"How else are we supposed to get there?" Saitama asked.

"I was thinking you could fly like them." Genos said and pointed to the girls in the sky.

"Humans can't fly, and they're not human." Saitama said.

"Actually," Reimu spoke up flying next to him, "I'm human, so is Marisa, and Sanae sort of. It's just that we're special humans." She explained.

"What does special mean?" Genos asked.

"It's Gensokyo, compared to the human world nothing is normal there." Reimu said. Genos still had this suspicious feeling about all of these girls, but he knew that he would only get confused if they try to explain about "Gensokyo." After they all cleared through to the top of a cliff they saw a grinning Aya.

"I got a ton of pictures of this place." She said, mostly to herself.

"How is it you're so fast?" Genos asked.

"Tengus use speed to their advantage. Plus I'm the fastest being on Gensokyo." Aya said a little smugly.

"Here it is, the House of Evolution." Genos said.

"Quite a large building." Alice commented.

"It's at least..." Saitama trailed off and counted.

"8 floors." Patchouli said while staring at her book.

"That's right." Saitama said staring at her in disbelief. Genos body flowed a dim light and he crouched. Sanae noticed his strange behavior but was unable to prepare herself for the enormous blast he fired at the building.

"Whoa!" Marisa exclaimed. All the girls stared in shock at the damage created.

"What the hell was that?!" Saitama exclaimed stoically.

"I thought it would be more efficient to take them out in one swoop." Genos said.

"Don't you think that was overdoing it?" Sanae asked a little overwhelmed.

"Yeah we could've seen what was in store, that was kind of mean." Saitama said.

"Mean or not it's better than dealing with any unnecessary enemies and spares us time." Reimu said.

"That was like my Master Spark!" Marisa exclaimed to herself. The group walked over the rubble until Youmu spotted a door.

"Could this be a secret passage?" Youmu asked inspecting it.

"Sure is." Saitama said and lifted the door like it was paper.

'Just how much strength does this guy have?!' Reimu thought. They all walked into the dark basement, Remilia was thankful she no longer had to stand in the sunlight since her body could take no more. All while they headed down, all the girls had a very ominous feeling in this basement. Something dangerous and powerful was down here.
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Back in a control room a middle aged man with glasses and black hair dressed in a suit observed all of them walking down the halls.

'I know I wanted to observe that bald man for my research, but what I see from these girls...their weird presence interests me.' The man thought, he vaguely saw the girl with blue hair and big bat wings glance at the camera surprising him slightly.

'Does she know I'm observing them?' He thought.

"Did you want to see it? So we can deal with the intruders and capture your specimen?" A clone of the man asked. He sat silently for a minute but then stood up. He walked down a dark hall to a pair of double doors, he opened the doors to reveal a giant creature and a very bloody room; a cross between a burly man and beetle with a lot of muscle in appearance.

"How's it going...Asura rhino?" He asked.
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The group walked through the halls with only their footsteps as the only source of noise.

"You know, the more we walk down this hall, the more I think we probably shouldn't have brought a group this big." Alice commented.

"I'm actually kind of getting excited now." Saitama said in an excited dull tone.

'That's shocking.' Remilia thought.

"Come on Alice, more numbers equals an easier time against these monster thingies da ze." Marisa said.

Aya flew around excitingly, capturing everything she saw with her camera. Sanae walked through the corridor enticed with this dangerous feeling she had until she bumped into metal.

"Oof...Genos-san?" She saw the cyborg boy in front of her.

"I sense several life forms down this hall." Genos said.

"I do as well, a man, and something else...I don't know what." Remilia said.

"They're heading this way!" Genos exclaimed. They looked and saw the big creature and a man covered in blood in his fist. Before anyone could do anything the creature swung it's fist in the left direction. Sanae, Youmu, and Alice dodged while Genos was a little too slow. The force of the fist landed him head first into the wall. Everyone was caught off guard but turned their attention to the ugly creature.

"Ugh, that thing looks disgusting." Reimu said and grimaced.

"Yes, truly unruly." Remilia said simply.

"But, it feels...powerful." Sanae said and the others silently agreed.

"Yo, name's Asura Rhino. I've been sent here to fight ya. Unless anyone else doesn't want anymore casualties let's step into that room there." It said in a burly voice.

"You turned Genos into modern art fight's on!" Saitama said with his blank glare.

"Maybe we should split up, half of us follow baldy and half of us stay here and help metal man." Marisa whispered to the girls. They agreed with her and decided that Reimu, Marisa, Remilia, and Aya would follow Saitama; and Sanae, Patchouli, Alice, and Youmu would help Genos. They went their separate ways and the four girls stared at Genos stuck to the wall.

"Should we pull him out?" Sanae asked.

"It would be better to cut the wall in my opinion." Youmu said grabbed the hilt of her katana.

"Pulling him out would be more efficient and less damaging to the area as well as his body." Patchouli said.

"Ok then pulling it is. Ready?" Sanae said, she grabbed Genos' body and the rest of the girls grabbed each other forming a chain. With three pulls and all of their strength they successfully got him out of the wall, and he slumped against the wall. His entire form was in smoke and half of his face was cracked, along with his right eye missing. After a few seconds he tried getting up with his entire body creaking.

"Uh um Genos-san, maybe you should stay here." Sanae suggested and catiously prepared herself in case he fell again.

"No...I must...defeat...that monster." He said weakly, his cracking voice showed evidence to how much he was damaged.

"That's idiotic, you'll only end damaged more in that condition. Plus that creature is no joke, I sensed a lot more power...more power than us yokai." Patchouli said. Genos glared at her through his only eye but continued his way to the room.

"Idiot." Patchouli said and both Youmu and Alice agreed with her.

"That's kind of mean Patchouli-san." Sanae said.

"It's true and you know it." Patchouli said simply. Sanae ignored and followed Genos.

"Genos-san, you might be pushing it." She said.

"You don't...understand. I've been dedicating...my life...to getting rid...of these monsters." Genos said his voice distorting. Sanae went into thought, she guessed as to probably why. She did listen to his life story after all.

"Well then, we'll go to the room and check on Saitama-san and the rest of them." Sanae concluded and she showed a smile. The others followed behind silently listening to the whole conversation.

"She's also kind of stupid." Patchouli said, while the other two nodded.
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The so called Asura Rhino led the 5 of them into a big white room.

"See now we'll have plenty of room to fight in here." It said.

"This room is huge da ze!" Marisa exclaimed.

"You know I sensed a good amount of power within you ladies. Maybe once I'm done crushing this bug here you can have fun with me (in a fighting sort of way)." It said and stopped its ugly face in front of Reimu's. Although disgusted she kept a calm and irritated demeanor and glared. The others glared as well to its remark.

"Oh please, your just mere garbage to the yokai we have seen." Remilia responded, which made the beast quite angry.

"What'd ya say?!" It exclaimed.

"You heard me." Remilia said and glared shining her red eyes.

'Remilia's so bold.' Marisa commented in her head.
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Aya was once again taking pictures of everything and then spotted a man in the corner of the room. She zipped towards him and the others were too distracted to notice.
"Heya there, who're you?" Aya asked.

"I-I'm Genus, scientist of the House of Evolution." He said and held his bloody arm.

Aya thought for a minute and then snapped her fingers, "Genus....oh you're that Genus the gorilla told us about." She said.

"I need evidence of this." She said and started taking pictures. Genus took no heed of her annoying photo taking but instead stared at her appearance.

"What...are you?" He asked.

"Me? I'm Gensokyo's number 1 fastest reporter Shameimaru Aya. I'm a tengu." She said and saluted with her camera like she always does.

"What is Gensokyo?" Genus asked.

"It's a different world far away from here." Aya said.
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While that conversation happened Remilia and Asura Rhino were having a glare off with each other.

"Watch your mouth missy or I'll start wailing on you instead of the weirdly dressed bald guy." It said in a deadly voice. Saitama popped a vein at the mention of the word.

"Try me, I can take you down in a fight easily. A vampire like me stands above all of you." She said and her red eyes glowed showing off a serious and dangerous aura.

"A vampire? Ha! This is getting more exciting by the minute. I'd rather take you on, I can feel the power you give off from here and it's giving me goosebumps." The creature stated and grinned an ugly grin.

'Can that thing even get goosebumps?' Reimu, Marisa, and Saitama thought simultaneously. Saitama was about to intervene, since he didn't want any of the girls to get involved, until a blast of fire shot at the Asura Rhino. All heads turned to the doorway with Genos and a nervous looking Sanae.

"On second thought Genos-san this probably wasn't the best IDEA?!" She squeaked out the last part when Genos started rushing in and started punching the creature with his metal fists.

"Machine Gun blow!"

Sanae watched in awe and Patchouli spoke next to her.
"It won't have any effect." She said and Sanae diverted her attention.

"I sense a strong power in that beast. I don't know much about these cyborgs but if he's that damaged after taking one hit there's no way he can beat it." Youmu said analyzing the scene. She was right and Genos was hit by a large fist by that last sentence. His body flew back and landed harshly on the ground.

"I know his body is made of metal, but that looked like it hurt da ze." Marisa said and grimaced.

"That didn't work." Genos said.

"Obviously!" Reimu exclaimed.

Genos tried to get up again, and his body creaked while doing so.
"Oi, don't push yourself." Saitama said, but Genos ignored him.

"He's right you know, it was crazy enough for you to charge up after you were smashed into a wall. One more hit and you're done for." Reimu commented and she started walking.

"Maybe it's best if we finish it." Reimu said to the other girls who didn't refuse to the idea.

"No, let me finish this!" Genos exclaimed and with one final push he fired a large beam of fire to the beast. The beast remained still but blew on the beam making it react back.

"He blew it back with his breath?! No way!" Genos got cut off when the wave of fire hit him, Saitama, and Reimu who was in range.

"Crap Reimu!" Marisa cried and the others looked in worry. Well Remilia and Parchouli expressions looked calm, but they were more internally worried.

"Ayayaya!" Aya exclaimed nervously.

"Humph, an attack like that won't harm Asura Rhino." Genus mumbled.

"Spell card: Treasure sign Yin-Yang Orb!" Reimu's voice resonated and both the fire and Asura Rhino were pushed back by a shining blue orb. Although she looked charred Reimu looked fine along with Saitama and Genos. Although Genos still suffered from the damage he took, and he had an Afro that popped up from the intense heat.

"Jeez this is such a hassle, I had to take all that effort to set up a barrier for myself before that beam hit. That takes a lot of effort you know." Reimu complained she ignored the awed stares from the males, and creature in the room.

"Leave up to Reimu to think ahead." Marisa commented.

"Are you guys ok?!" Sanae asked from afar.

"Yeah we're fine." Saitama answered while Genos nodded weakly. He tried to get up again but fell down without effort.

"Now you've got me riled up." Saitama mumbled. He stood up and put a hand on Reimu's shoulder.

"Let me take this one." He said and his face turned sharp.

Reimu blinked and narrowed her eyes in a non serious way, "I'm cutting in if you get your ass kicked." She said.

"Oh I see it you're supposed to be so strong." Asura Rhino commented.

"No need for that...you better not disappoint me now." Saitama called to Asura Rhino.

"You're this place's is ultimate weapon after all. You look so different from this morning, look at you oozing with confidence." Saitama said and the creature showed a fat, smug grin that made almost everyone shudder. It disappeared and in the blink of an eye reappeared behind Saitama. But before it did anything, it backed away.

"It just backed off?!" Genus exclaimed confused.

"Apparently." Aya said recording the whole fight down.

"Hey what gives?" Saitama asked also puzzled.

"YOU BASTARD! How'd you get so strong?!" Asura Rhino cried.

'So even this beast has noticed that his strength isn't that of an ordinary human.' Remilia thought and narrowed her eyes.

"You really want to know?" Saitama asked with his face sharpening.

"He's got that serious face again da ze." Marisa commented.

"Everyone in this room better pay attention. I've started the intense training when I was 22, 3 years worth of training. What's important is that you stick to this regimen every single day," he paused and closed his eyes, "One-hundred push-ups, one hundred sit ups, one hundred squats, and 10 km of running!" He declared with a loud voice. Everyone stared silently some all in disbelief.

"At first it was hell, but I kept pushing myself to the brink of death. Even if you think of taking a break once in a while, I never stopped even if I was coughing blood to become a strong hero. Even if my bones made weird sounds, I still did push-ups. After all that hellish training I noticed two things, I lost all my hair and I became strong. You talk of 'artificial' evolution and all that crap, but that great thing about the human race is that we have the ability to change ourselves." He explained. The entire room was in silence after that speech everyone had hard time believing that he actually accomplished all that.

"Are you being truthful?" Reimu asked.

"Completely." He said and faced her. She saw no signs of lying no matter how she observed him, all the other girls observed and found the same result.

"Woooww! This is surely to be a great news story!" Aya exclaimed.

"I have a newfound respect for you Saitama-san." Sanae said.

"I've never read this in any of my books." Patchouli mumbled.

All the girls seemed very impressed and that he put himself through that. Although they question the reason he put himself through that suffering. Saitama felt weird with the reactions, it was like he had....fans.

"That's such crap!" Genos screamed surprising them.

"That's just strength training. And it's not even advanced strength training! I joined you so I could learn and become strong I didn't come here to hear such nonsense! Please tell the truth, how did you obtain such strength?!" Genos cried, his tone seemed almost desperate.

"He doesn't seem to be lying though. From what I sensed and deciphered." Reimu said.

"Even I believe that nonsense story a little." Remilia admitted making Marisa look at her in shock.

"He's right about how humans can change themselves. Take it from me, I used to be a regular old human, and now I'm a powerful being that resides in Gensokyo." Sanae said.

"No worries," Reimu said to Saitama, "Since you believed we came from another world. We'll believe your story, Gensokyo has a lot more unbelievable things that can compare." She said reassuringly.

Saitama blinked then showed a ghostly smile, "Thanks." He said and then turned to Genos.
"That's all I really did honest." He said.

"Oh I see how it is..." Asura Rhino mumbled. His muscles bulged and his form became a lot more intimidating. All eyes in the room widened at this.

"No, don't do it Asura Rhino!" Genus cried.

"Do what?" Aya asked.

"He's going into Carnage form, if he does this then he'll be on a nonstop rampage." Genus explained and Aya gasped at this.

"Ayayaya, not good." She mumbled and narrowed her eyes at the scene.

'What is this...it's aura is intense.' Reimu thought and stared at its bulging form.

"You don't want to tell me your secret, I bet your puny ass isn't stronger than me." It's size grew twice as big and its muscles twice as bulky.

"I should kill your ass just for pissing me off. Maybe I'll stay in Carnage mode for an entire week and once I kill you I'll kill all the humans. In fact I'll move from town to town and slaughter all of them, so if you're as strong as you say you are JUST TRY AND STOP ME!!" The Asura Rhino screamed a battle cry and punched a confused Saitama threw the steel structure into the sky.

All the girls, and Genos looked in shock at how the beast was attacking Saitama with such fierce power. It went on for some time with Saitama getting repeatedly punched. Remilia narrowed her eyes, and she somehow knew...that this beast doesn't stand a chance. Not even three seconds and Saitama punched the beast making it explode.

"BARGAIN DAY AT THE SUPERMARKET! I GOT THE WRONG DAY!" He screamed in distress. Everyone was just standing there confused.

"Maybe it's best that we accept it." Marisa said, and the others nodded in agreement. They all surrounded the bald man freaking out about some sale.

Meanwhile Genus stood completely shocked, "Asura Rhino, it was beaten that easily?!" He exclaimed puzzled.

"Well, this just turned into a great scoop. Also he may look ordinary and dull, but that man holds great power, you just underestimated it." Aya said and flew to the others.

'Screw artificial evolution, I need to change myself.' He thought.
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