Being surrounded...

As Laura was about to move ahead and begin the battle, she heard Saitama speak.

"Wait." Saitama's expression became slightly more serious than normal, he pointed towards the large man leading the heroes. "He's mine." And the second he finished speaking, his half-serious expression totally vanished before a solemn one appeared instead.

Clark felt like death was coming his way, his whole body went into a fighting modus, he swiftly raised both of his hands up to block. And just like he assumed, a punch attacked him with such a large force that sent him backwards over fifty meters.

After having received that one punch, Clark gazed up glared at the bald man who had a solemn expression on his face. Clark felt both of his arms hurting by just blocking that attack alone, he had slightly underestimated the bald man, but Clark wasn't all too surprised.

But whilst Superman might not be surprised, the other heroes were surprised. They saw Superman getting punched back fifty meters even after blocking the attack.

"Focus!" Batman – Bruce, roared out in a deep voice as his eyes went towards Laura whilst still having the bald man in the corner of his eyes.

Yet before the heroes could do anything, Laura had already begun acting… She suddenly appeared in front of a couple of heroes before swiping her hand as her claws appeared from her knuckles. The claws seemed to rip through air and the bodies of the heroes.

A few heroes got thrown back with serious injuries, but none of them were dead.

Laura was doing as Averill told them to, not to kill the heroes that will arrive, just beat them senseless. And that was exactly what Laura was planning to do, she would beat them so hard that they would fear causing trouble against them any longer.

But what Laura didn't expect was one thing, that the show of strength that she showed didn't make the heroes want to retreat. No, rather than that, the heroes had gathered their willpower to defeat Laura and the bald man before their leader appears.

After Laura had attacked three heroes, she sensed something nearing the back of her head. Without even turning around, Laura moved her left hand and grabbed onto the 'weapon' that was nearing her in swift motion, she then gazed at it, it was a black bat shuriken. Laura didn't care too much about it as it wasn't a good piece of weapon, she crushed the metal shuriken with her palm before throwing it onto the ground before turning around.

Laura gazed at the dozens or so heroes with the bat loving hero in the front.

Whilst Laura was preparing to beat the heroes on her side, Saitama was standing in front of the large man with a huge S mark on his chest. "What's your name?" Saitama asked in a low tone as he stood still.

"Superman, you?" Clark felt like answering, he usually wouldn't speak with villains, yet the bald man in front of him didn't seem like a villain, but not a hero either…

"I am Saitama." Saitama only told Superman his own name, he had managed to sense a charismatic aura hoovering around of Superman, yet it wasn't to the point as charismatic as Averill's aura. "It seems like what Averill promised me can actually be obtained…"

Clark didn't know what he was feeling when he heard Saitama say that, but he came to a conclusion rather quickly. "Are you working under Averill because of fear? If you are, then you don't have to worry any longer, I will stand up against him, you don't have to worry about it." It was actually now that Clark was able to sense what guy of Saitama was, a person who would help others if he could, but he wouldn't aim to destroy anything.

"No, it isn't that. I do not fear anything, my own death included. But what I am afraid of is actually; boredom." Saitama shook his head before continuing to speak. "Averill promised me battles where I could use everything I have and improve my strength unless I want to die. It is only now that I believe in that, if I follow Averill, I will find more people that are strong to fight." Saitama was able to clearly sense that Superman was very strong, stronger than every enemy he had faced previously.

"… If that is how you feel, I will stop you before stopping your leader; Averill." Clark also shook his head as he gazed at Saitama, he was just about to prepare for a fight before he heard Saitama chuckle before speaking.

"Do you think you can handle fighting against Averill?" Saitama had a mocking tone, he had personally fought Averill once, and since that time, Saitama knew that Averill had grown stronger and that he hadn't used all of his powers and abilities in their fight. "I will tell you this right now, there is no way for you or anyone in this Universe that will be able to stop Averill. No matter how hard all of you try, none of you would be able to hold him back for a mere millisecond before perishing." Saitama was one of the few people that knew how strong Averill was.

And Saitama had known from the first second their arrived in this Universe, that he could destroy almost half of this Universe if he used all of his strength into fighting. And for someone stronger than him; Averill, it should be much easier to completely wipe out the Universe without any worries. And it wasn't like that Saitama was stupid enough to not know what Averill's goals were from this Universe…

Clark turned his head slightly to the side and his eyes went wide open, he saw a group of people laying on the ground. And in that group of people, stood Laura whilst holding Batman by his neck and had him raised up in the air.