Chapter 5

CLAP!

"There! I got you!" Saitama growled, his clapped hands smoking. There was silence for a moment, then...

Then a single mosquito flew out from between his palms before flying away.

"Mosquito!" he bit out through his grinding teeth, tic marks all over his bald head. Something seemed to snap in the hero as he rushed to his kitchen, whipped out a can of bug spray, and practically leapt out the window, screaming at the top of his lungs, "GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!"

"I'm scared!" Vaccine Girl whimpered from where she and the Subterranean Queen were plastering against the back wall. They had come up to see who or what Saitama was fighting, but found themselves too afraid when they saw the not-so-calm look in his eyes.

"Join the club." Sub-Queen squeeked out.

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The cyborg and Mosquito Girl were locked in an intense air battle, both sides trying to eradicate the other. Strike after strike, block after block, neither were making any headway for the first half of the battle.

"Incinerate!" the cyborg called out, his arm raised and firing multiple fireballs at the monster, who used her superior speed to weave around each shot. She also used that same speed to close the distance between the two before rushing past him, taking his arm clean off with the horn on her forehead.

"Maybe I'll take a leg next time?" she cooed before grunting in shock and pain as she noticed something wrong with her legs. Mainly the fact that they weren't there anymore. "What happened to my legs?!" Her answer came when she noticed the cyborg use his remaining arm to toss her legs aside. Sensing that continuing the fight would end in his favor, she opted to retreat.

"Futile." the cyborg stated as he shot another blast at her, which was blocked by another swarm of mosquitoes. "You cannot escape from me." he said as he began following her on foot.

"What is that guy?!" she growled in frustration. "He'll get me if I'm not careful." She then licked her lips as she began summoning every mosquito under her control to her. "The town may be empty, but there are plenty of animals in the surrounding area." She could hear the army of little bloodsuckers approaching, her body quivering in anticipation. "That's right! Come little ones! Empty all of the delicious juices you carry into ME!" she cried out as the swarm engulfed her being. The cyborg arrived in time to see an increasing ball of mosquitoes form in the skies above.

'So many mosquitoes. If she has been collecting this much blood, then it may not be a simple food source.' he thought as he readied an attack. 'I should destroy them all before it's too late.'

"GET BACK HERE!"

He stopped his attack and looked up to see Saitama running towards him, a can of bug spray being used to try and kill a single mosquito.

"YOU AND I AREN'T DONE YET YOU LITTLE BASTARD!"

'Who's this idiot?' the cyborg thought as Saitama began spitting in disgust.

"IT'S IN MY MOUTH!" he said with a grimace before wiping his mouth. "Nasty little-huh?" he stopped his rant when he noticed the swarm in the sky. "What's that? Are those...mosquitoes?!" he yelped. One mosquito was bad enough, but that many was too much.

"You there!" Saitama turned to see the cyborg address him. "Evacuate. That swarm is conscious! If it senses you, it will attack!"

"...Seriously?" Saitama asked, his face turning a little blue at the thought. "That's pretty bad. We should get...oh." he began before seeing the swarm descend upon them with enough force to shake and topple the surrounding buildings. The whole city would've been covered in mosquitoes, had the cyborg not incinerated every single mosquito present with a massive blast.

"Because she could speak, I thought she had human level intelligence. But it would seem that she was just a bug." he said as he looked around at the area. "Bringing the mosquitoes together made for one easy-to-burn swarm. Before our fight, I scanned the area and made sure that no living beings were within 500 meters, allowing me to fire at will." he explained aloud before his eyes widened in horror. "Wait a second! That guy was-"

"Man. You saved me. Thanks for that." said Saitama, gaining the cyborg's attention. He was okay, but his clothes had been completely incinerated. Saitama smiled as he continued. "You could say you totally made the bugs 'bug outta here'. Budum toosh." he added at the end, leaving the cyborg to gape at him. His smile dropped as he continued. "Oh, see. That was a joke I was making about the bugs."

"AHAHAHAHA!" came a laugh from above. Both of them turned to see Mosquito Girl hovering above them, her looks completely different. Her skin had gone from black and white to red and pink. Her legs had regenerated. And her body had grown. Mostly, or rather all, in the chest and buttocks.

"You idiots!" she called down to them, a smirk on her lips. "I no longer need my tiny little helpers. I mean..." she stopped before grinning like a mad woman and slashed at a nearby building, the air current created having enough force to reduce the building to rubble. "JUST LOOK HOW STRONG I'VE BECOME!" She then turned her mad look down at the cyborg before blurring out of sight. Next thing he knew, he was nearly shredding in hafl from the waist down. He turned to throw a punch, but only found himself thrown into the air, where he soon became the victim of a merciless onslaught. "CAN'T YOUR MACHO PUNCHES DEFEAT A LITTLE MOSQUITO?!" she laughed as she ripped more and more of his metalic body to pieces. "What a weakling."

'I understand now.' the cyborg thought as he stared at where she was reclining in the air, as if relaxing and not in a battle. 'The more blood she consumes, the stronger she gets.'

"I think I'll have YOUR HEAD NEXT!" she screamed as she rushed at him, her clawed fingers ready to finish him off.

'I let my guard down. I have no chance of winning. All I can do...is self-destruct.' he thought as a bright blue light began to build up in his exposed torso. 'Forgive me...Doctor.'

Mosquito Girl was mere inches from ended the cyborg...

SLAP!

Before waking up much later in a crater. She felt dizzy, disoriented, and very weak.

'What...hit me?' she thought as she struggled to get her body to listen to her.

'I remember fighting that cyborg...I was about to turn him into scrap metal...but then-'

Her eyes shot open as images of a hand coming out of nowhere slapping her in the face came to her mind