Chapter 12

-With Vaccine Girl-

It had been a few hours since Vaccine Girl had left the apartment. She, with the help of a Subterranean getting her over the high fence, was enjoying the outside air around City-Z. Even the bits of air polluted by every passing car or smoking human that she passed by. After all, what better fuel for a monster made of pollution than more pollution?

With a deep breath, she sucked up what she could before breathing out nothing in a relaxing sigh.

"I know it's bad for the earth, but I need all I can get if I want to get enough strength to leave that apartment." she whispered before looking at her reflection in the window. "And thanks to this disguise, the humans don't recognize me as a monster. Now I can suck up as much of the smog as I want." She stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, her smile slowly falling as she sighed again. "But it's not enough. If it's just the little bits of smoke here and there, it'll take me forever to get anywhere. I need something more concentrated. But where? Maybe a land fill, or a polluted lake, or-"

"RUN! MONSTER!"

"NO I'M NOT!" she shrieked in a panic before clamping both hands over her mouth. She was about ready to bolt until she realized that everyone was running from something else. "Oh!" she muttered.

"PREPARE YOURSELVES, HUMANS!" shouted a voice from nearby. She watched, from inside an alleyway, as a blobby, humanoid monster appeared walking down the street. Each step it took left behind a mess of black, sticky gunk. Dark smoke wafted from it's body like a fog. Blood shot eyes stared dead ahead, a wheezy sound escaping it's open lips. "I AM TAR!"

"Pfft. How original." Vaccine Girl scoffed to herself. Said scoffing changed to shrieking when she felt the lid be ripped off, allowing the monster to glare down at her.

"What's this? A little street urchin?" Tar asked as he lifted her up, letting her flail in the air.

"Let me go, you stinkin' ball of-mmph!" Her protests were silenced when she suddenly found her head enveloped in a bubble of tar.

"I'm sorry. Did you say something?" he asked, a grin on his face as he listened to her muffled screams. Her legs kept on kicking and flailing, her hands getting smothered in the tar the more she tried to pull it off her head. His grin widened as her struggling slackened until...it stopped.

"Hehehehe! HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!" cackled tar as he dropped her still form on the ground. "Why does it feel so fun to watch humans die?" He held his hand up to where his ear should be towards her body. "What's that you say? 'Because killing pathetic creatures is just plain funny?' Great answer! Welp, nice meeting you shrimp!" he said with a pleasant smile as he walked off. "I wonder how long it'll take a full-sized human to asphyxiate."

-Sub Queen-

The sword wielder was currently on the roof practicing her sword swings. Stabs, swings, blocks, hilt strikes, and other attacks performed with ease from her four swords. She also mixed in some kicks and headbutts at the empty air, hoping to prepare for anything that could be thrown her way next time she fought.

"It's a shame the Beast Queen decided to go for a run." she grunted as she took a moment to rest and lay on the roof, the sunlight glistening off her sweat covered skin. Her rock-free skin. "Then again, she'd probably yell about my lack of clothing and shout about me being a hypocrite. At least I'm not the doing a 10 kilometer run topless through the streets, abandoned though they may be."

-Beast Queen-

The Beast Queen was running at top speed, her breasts bouncing back and forth as she did so, through the abandoned streets of City-Z's abandoned district. She could feel the sweat building up in her fur and on her shorts, causing her to huff in annoyance.

"One drawback of fur and tight clothes?" she huffed to herself. "The itching that comes from all the sweat. Hopefully I can wash it out later today."

-Meanwhile-

"Shit! I'm stuck! Help me!"

"Help you?! Help me!"

"I don't wanna die!"

Tar was having fun tormenting any humans that crossed his path. Tripping them up with globs of hot tar he'd ripped from his body and fling at their legs. Sticking them to walls to let them scream for help. Watching them flee and scream and push against each other to try and get a little more distance than the other.

"This is fun~" he sang as he came up to one of his victims. "So, where should I start? Bottom to top so I can hear you scream for mercy? Or top to bottom so I can watch your legs slowly stop kicking?"

The trapped man below Tar screamed as he scrambled against the pavement, his nails bleeding with how hard he was trying escape.

"Yeesh. I don't wanna hear that." Tar said, his sneer turning to a grin as he made his decision. "Top to bottom it is!" he declared as a wad of tar collected on his arm. The man struggled even harder as he was about to be smothered to death.

SKKRRCH!

The man expected a slow and painful death from asphyxiation to begin any moment now...aaaaany moment now.

"Who threw that?" Tar rumbled in a low and dangerous tone.

The man covered in tar looked to see Tar himself turned away, a glass bottle sticking out of his head.

"Me!"

The man, and all the other captives in the area, turned their attention (or as much as they could) towards the source of the voice, seeing it to be...

"Didn't I already kill you, kid?" Tar asked in shock, his eyes blinking a few times to see if he was hallucinating. After the third blink, he noticed a few features that were absent last time. Her cap and glasses were gone, revealing her sharp teeth...and pointy ears...and purple skin?

"Oh crap! Another monster!" a random captive shrieked.

"Wait? You're a monster?!" Tar asked before scratching the back of his head, a sheepish smile on his lips. "Whoops! Sorry about that. If I'd have known, I wouldn't have attacked you." His smile fell into a confused frown. "But, how are you alive?"

"Pollution." she simply said, confusing everyone around her.

"Pollution?" Tar asked, now more confused than before.

"That's right. It's what I am. I was created from this planet's pollution, which comes from a variety of pollutants. And one of those many pollutants..." she trailed off as she dug behind her right ear, pulled out a little black blob of something, and grinned as she popped it in her mouth. "Ish tar." she got out through her chew.

"You ate my tar?!" Tar asked in shock while a few of the captives grimaced in disgust.

"That's right." she responded, a grin showing all her sharp teeth in full view for everyone to see. "And guess what? I'm still hungry."

"...You're either insane, or just stupid." Tar deadpanned before scowling. "But either way, it doesn't matter. I'm sorry that I attacked you, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna stand by and let you do what crazy thing you wanna do. Plus, you should know that you're too weak to stand up to me."

"You're right. I'm not." she said, her smile fading into a frown. The frown shifted to a smirk as she released a chuckle and looked back at him. "But that was before I had that little snack you left me." She held up her hand as something began forming in her palm before shifting into a tiny sphere. "Shall we?"

"You want to devour me?" Tar scoffed before flinging both arms forward, a twin fountain of tar shooting out towards Vaccine Girl. "THEN EAT THIS, YOU LITTLE SHIT!"

-Later that night-

Saitama was eating inside his room with Beast Queen and Sub Queen, much to his chagrin. He didn't live in a really big apartment, so there wasn't a lot of room to begin with. As he ate, he couldn't help but look up at the time.

"I wonder where she is?" the bald hero asked aloud.

"Maybe Vaccine Woman, or Girl, or whatever found some new digs." Beast Queen suggested.

"If so, then she's a rude little creature for not even informing us." the Subterranean Queen sniffed.

"I wonder if I should go look for her." said Saitama as he finished his bowl.

KNOCK KNOCK!

"MASTER!"

"Genos?" Saitama asked in confusion.

"I thought he left for today." Beast Queen grunted as Sub Queen answered the door.

"Genos. Why are you-HOLY SHIT! WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOURSELF?!" Sub Queen shouted at the top of her lungs. The baldy and lionness rushed to the door to see Genos standing there, perfectly fine, next to...

"I found her along my way home, Master." Genos explained, his eyes looking down at a groaning Vaccine Girl.

"Uhhh...I guess...you found dinner?" Saitama asked, his voice matching his...disturbed expression.

"Fuck dinner! She looks like she had a feast!" Beast Queen laughed as she pointed at Vaccine Girl. A very, very, very stuffed Vaccine Girl.

"Worst...*HIC*...idea...*URP*...ever." she groaned under her huge girth. Said groaning increased as her gut seemed to shift and kick a little.

"Ooooohhhhh..."

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