//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Your Saitama and You // by Element of Power //------------------------------// Discord, in his pocket dimension of weirdness, was spinning around and around like a top faster than Mach 2 while sipping on tea. He came here very often, since it was the only place where he could cause as much Chaos as he wanted with no consequences. At the moment, he just wanted to spin. He also had a small portal to Equestria, where he could see what was going on. He would rotate past the seeing portal thousands of times. Looking through the portal, he could spy on various ponies going about their everyday lives, while looking for ways to spice it up a bit. "Now, what do we have here?" He grins while spotting a certain rainbow maned pegasus. Rainbow Dash was laying on a cloud, taking her usual 15th nap. Discord laughed, then made the cloud super sticky. When she woke up, she tried to get up but was not able to lift a single part of herself without gooey strands of cloud sticking to her fur and feathers. "What the hay?" She tries to fly, but the cloud kept her from moving more than a foot away. Then she looked up and noticed Discords usual looking portal. "Discord! This isn't funny! Get this cloud off of me, I can't fly!" Discord continued to laugh, rolling around in mid-air on his side of the portal. He then snapped his fingers and the cloud disappeared, sending Rainbow Dash into a downward spiral, right into Applejack and her Human, who was carrying a crate of apples. Apples flew everywhere while Rainbow was sprawled on the ground, dazed. Just like Rainbow Dash, Applejack looked around, then saw Discord's little window. "Gosh darn it Discord, can ya try not ta ruin ma apples?" She angrily shouts. Discord laughs again. "But dear Applejosh, I would never do something like that! It was Rainbow Crashes fault." He said while fluttering his eyelashes. Applejack puffs angrily. "First, ma name's Applejack, and second, could ya please keep yer weirdness to yourself?" Discord rolled his eyes. "Fine then, I'll just go find someone else." She almost speaks again, but wisely just shuts her mouth. While she's gathering her apples again, Discord sees her human also helping, but with a blank expression, never showing emotion. This gives Discord a grand idea. He closed the seeing portal and opened a different one. This one looked directly into the space between dimensions. Here, he could see different dimensions, all represented by spheres, with lines of energy connecting them all. "Now, let's see..." he says to himself. Discord had already seen and even visited a multitude of dimensions, but this time, he was looking for certain dimensions. Dimensions with humans. Finally, he had a good selection of dimensions. "Now, which one? Hmm... the one that's in fallout right now? How about the one with wizards? Or maybe a Space Marine? There's the one with my one-eyed yellow triangle friend. Ooh, I know what to do!" His eyes jumped out of their sockets, while he sang, "Eeny meeny miny moe, Catch a human by the toe, If he hollers, don't let him go, Celestia said to pick the very best one, so I choose Y- O - 'YOU'!" His eyes popped back into place and focused on his hand. It was hovering over one dimension, the one that made being a hero an everyday thing. Looking even closer, he zoomed in on a city called Z City. There was one man who stood out from all of the other people that stood out. He was dressed in a yellow jumpsuit with a red cape. Discord smiled to himself. "Well, he's positively perfect. He's bound to create some chaotic situations. I mean, who could ignore a head as bald as that! But first, I need to make sure those pesky unicorns can't do anything to mess this up." He snapped his lion paw, infusing anti-magic into the human. He then snapped his bird claw and created a larger version of the seeing portal. It appeared next to the human, sucking him in. Discord then closed it. "Now this, is going to be fun!" Saitama laid on the floor of his apartment in his hero suit, bored, while Genos was studying the rules and guidelines of the Hero's Association, again. There hasn't been many major villains or monsters to fight, so he was usually laying around waiting. Across the room, Genos snaps the guidebook shut and stands up. "There is a report of enemies a few blocks from here. I will go check it out." He heads out and shuts the door. Saitama lets out a sigh. This doesn't last long before he feels like someone is watching him. He gets up and looks around, but sees none there. Then he faintly hears someone say "head... bald..." "Hey! Who said that! Say it to my face, you coward!" Saitama shouts through gritted teeth. Before he could investigate more, his whole body tingled, like he hit his funny bone all over. "Ok, there is something weird going on." After he says this, a large rift appeared before him. He could feel the tons and tons of gravity from the rift trying to pull him in, but he was unaffected by such a weak force. "Eh, whatever." He shrugged before walking right in. As soon as he passes through, he is propelled forward at insane speeds, all around him streaks of light and color pass by as he moves. Even though it had been instantaneous, he felt like it had been hours. In the middle of all that, Saitama heard faint laughter in the void. When he looked closely, he could barely make out a snake-like object twisting and curling in the darkness behind the streaks of light. When the instant passed, Saitama was ejected from the rift face-first into the ground. He laid there for a bit, counting the bugs crawling in front of his face. Then, he heard some voices in the distance. Pushing himself off the ground and to his feet, he looked around and saw shin-high grass everywhere, like a large grassy field. It was completely different from what Saitama was used to. It had always been city and urban scenery or rubble from monsters, so it was a good change of pace. "Well, this is... pleasant." Saitama breathed in, noticing the crisp air. Before he could enjoy his surroundings any more, those voices he heard got closer. He investigated and found the source. Across the field in the distance, there was a wooden caravan surrounded by small horses. Even though they were all colors of the rainbow, it didn't disturb Saitama as much as it could have. He had fought a ton of monsters who were weirder. "Hmm... if those things exist here, maybe there are some monsters for me to fight?" He told nobody in particular. He was brought back to reality when there was a shout. Saitama could see the group of horse pony things rushing toward him. He just stood there looking at them. As they got closer, the lead pony, who had a set of wings on its sides, started talking to its friends in a deep, gruff voice. "Here's another wild human! This one could get us a nice stack of bits." One of the other ponies in the group, a smaller one, had a spiraling horn on its forehead. It was like a unicorn. It spoke up in a higher female voice. "This one's got clothes though. Maybe it's already owned." The leader looked back sharply replied, "Well, I don't see anypony around, do I? That means they don't want it. So, finders keepers." The rest all wisely stopped talking. Saitama had just been looking back and forth, following along with the entire dialogue. Finally, the leader spoke again. "Now, knock it out and tie it up. We've got to take this one to town, see how much it'll sell for." They all nodded. The unicorn female stepped up to Saitama. Her horn started lighting up with a light blue color. After a couple of seconds, the horn shot the same light, right at Saitama's head. He could have very easily dodged it, but he wanted to see if these ponies were strong in some way. The light hit his head and did... nothing. The ponies looked confused, and the leader shouted at her. "Why isn't it down? Stop playing around and do it!" Before she could defend herself, Saitama stepped forward and asked, "What were you trying to do? I don't think it worked." They all jumped and backed up, including the leader. Each one had different levels of shock written on their faces. The unicorn started whispering to the leader. "I-It just SPOKE!" The leader's face went from shock to stone, and he coldly replied, "I didn't hear anything. And neither did you. Now, try it again." The unicorn started shakily moving forward, but before she could try anything, a large animal was heard moving around in the grasses. It was then followed by hungry growls and throaty hisses. Saitama looked behind him, and from the grasses, leaped a large crocodile. "Well, that's new." It looked like it had rocks for skin, even growing outward from the skin. Still, it wasn't as bizarre as the other things he fought and didn't look nearly as strong. The ponies, however, shrieked and panicked. "CRAGADILE!" The leader shouted out. One of the other winged ponies took flight, also shouting. "What is it doing this far from the swamp!" They all started running to the caravan. Saitama however, was right in line with the cragadile's next attack. It leaped up headed straight for his head. At this, he simply sighed, and lightly punched it right in the face. To the ponies surprise, and Saitama's obvious expectations, the cragadile exploded into millions of pieces. Rocks were flying everywhere, littering the ground to look like gravel. Saitama brushed the pebbles off his glove. "Huh. That wasn't a monster, it was more like an animal. Aw man, I got rocks in my special place." He began to flip and wiggle his belt around, getting all the rocks inside it to fall to the ground. While he was doing this, he didn't notice the ponies all quietly rushing to run away, pulling thee caravan with them. When Saitama finally finished, he looked around to find nobody there. "They're gone." He observed. He looked back to the way they originally came from and saw a town in the distance. " There might be more of them over there. I guess I'll go check it out." He looked around one more time, before leisurely making his way to the buildings in the distance. As he walked, he never came across any other ponies. The only ponies he saw were the Pegasus ones. They were up in the clouds in the distance, moving them around and walking on them. "Huh. Neat." He got closer and closer to the town, now noticing the variety of buildings. Most of them were straw topped houses, but there were a few out of place buildings, like a gingerbread house, a house in a tree, and a cloud house in the sky. Everything got bigger as he got closer. It was time to look around this weird place. Genos walked through the door, finished dealing with the minor problem on the other side of the city. He looked around for Master Saitama but found nothing. His eyes narrowed, before doing a scan of the room. He could see Master Saitama's boot prints go in a line, before disappearing. Since there was no hole in the ceiling, he couldn't have jumped. "This can only mean one thing. He was somehow transported somewhere. No matter what, I will find you Master, and defeat those that mean to harm you!" Genos says, staying in a hero position for a good five minutes with his fist in front of him. He then goes back out and begins his search.