At a certain mountainous area, a scientist was watching some footage. "Hoh? Mosquito girl got killed? Quite easily too." He was watching how Ramiel twisted her neck really well and started eating her.
"H-he's eating her? Why? I must know, it must be related to how he is so strong." The scientist frowned.
"Send out an elite team to bring him here. Alive or dead, he might just be the answer for our ambition." He ordered his clones and they sent out their team.
Ramiel and Samus opened up a restaurant because the people in the cities always had to live in fear. A lot of the inhabitants are feeling hopeless and nihilistic.
So they opened up a two partitioned restaurant. Cooking their own specialties for almost the wholesale price of the ingredients and labor.
And they started their PR with meals for the people that suddenly found themselves homeless because of monster attacks. Immediately boosting their popularity.
"Hey Ramiel, we received a message from the association. It's about a promotion they said." Samus dropped into his kitchen and informed him.
"Well, we did take care of that mosquito girl. She's a demon level threat if I remember correctly?" He wasn't surprised. They always send reports and proof of their kills to bolster their rank.
There were different levels of monsters. The strongest being the god level threat. A monster or disaster that will destroy all of humanity.
Next was dragon, endangering multiple cities at once. Demon, a threat to a city. Tiger, capable of killing a lot of people. And wolf, a threat to humans, but can be taken care of by a couple of weak heroes.
They immediately were put on the 1st rank of the B class. Their ranks were shared because they always act in tandem.
And they were having a lot of traction in the association. Not only were they killing any threat they could find, they also took care of mosquito girl that was a demon level threat.
A monster that needs 10 A class or 1 S class. "Let's go then, I want to rank up immediately. Stupid rank up system. Are they seriously putting us in B rank because they can't just put us in S class immediately?" Samus pouted.
"Well, don't be too impatient. We'll meet some interesting people pretty soon." He smirked and remembered Fubuki, an esper that has an older sister who is much much stronger.
If they come in contact with her, then they'll soon get to meet the S rank esper who is ranked number 2 for a good reason.
They travelled to A city and went inside the association. They were greeted by the receptionist and guided them to a panel.
And in the middle, was a handsome guy with blue hair. He froze when he saw them. He is a genuinely good hero, but he's weird as hell. "S-so beautiful." He uttered subconsciously.
His philosophy was that heroes need to be beautiful as well to be successful. Because heroes are the hope of the people.
"Thanks, but I'm not into men." Ramiel replied and he sobered up. "Ahh, no. I was just admiring your aesthetics, I've never seen such beautiful people before. I am Amai mask, the rank 1 of the A class heroes." He smiled.
"Isn't this guy obsessed with appearances? He has that kinda vibe." Samus raised a brow at his earlier comment.
"Well, he's narcissistic for sure. But the higher ranks we go, the weirder they become. If I remember correctly, there's only one person at the S class that is normal." Ramiel remembered the martial artist old man.
Amai mask's eyebrows twitched when they talked about him like he wasn't even there. "S-so, what was it that made you go into the hero association?"
"Well, to kill monsters obviously." Ramiel shrugged and they already have their record. They were an extermination group.
"Yeah, you already know that in our data right? We also send you reports on the damage if there's any." Samus sighed.
"R-right." Amai mask was speechless, but that was true. They already know their pattern of doing their work and their trademark is efficiency.
"Then, let's cut to the chase already. Would you like to rank up to A ranks?" Amai mask already wanted to upgrade their rank.
They were killing monsters which in his twisted mind are evil. They are beautiful, satisfying his elitist view on higher ranked heroes being aesthetic. They're basically perfect in his criteria.
"Yeah, sur-" Before Ramiel could accept, a person busted in the room and was panting. (pic)
A woman with shoulder length hair, she was glaring at Ramiel and Samus. "Hey, isn't she hostile to us? Why though?" Samus asked him and he shrugged.
Samus then gasped. "Did you hit on her and push yourself on her?" Samus raised a brow and Ramiel pinched her cheek.
"As if, you know me baby. I always ask for consent and record it. You never know these days." He nodded sagely and the woman turned red in anger.
"Don't ignore me! You... You can't rank up. Amai mask, why wasn't I consulted for this promotion?" She objected and Amai mask squinted his eyes at her.
"Really? Why would the association do that? They are capable heroes that rose through the ranks with their own strength. Just the two of them, they even took care of a demon level threat recently. You? Have you taken one down, Fubuki?" Amai mask glared at her and she winced.
She is an excellent esper that can tear down buildings with her psychokinesis. But that's her limit. She isn't like her sister that can tear down an entire city quickly.
"S-still! I challenge you for your position! If you lose, then you'll join my group." Fubuki pointed at them and Ramiel snorted. Giving her a ridiculous smile.
"Why would we? And what will we get if you lose?" He taunted her and tore her challenge apart. She went quiet and gritted her teeth, thinking of something.
"T-then we'll work under you if you do manage to beat me." She was determined, her ego getting the better of her.
"You don't have to accept it, she has no power here." Amai mask reminded them and Fubuki was getting on his nerves.
"Hmm, fine. How about I give you a nice little advantage too. I can't possibly bully people that are weaker than me after all." Ramiel smirked at her and provoked her even further.
Fubuki was whistling with rage. Making Samus sigh, it was such an obvious bait. But her useless pride is too big.
"I won't move from my starting location. And I'll beat you with just one finger. If you make me move, then I lose." Ramiel gave her the advantages and she was insulted to the maximum.
"Don't look down on me! I'll make you eat your own words..." She went red and was fuming. "Are you trying to kill her with a stroke? Look at her, she looks like a goddamned tomato." Samus chuckled.
"Fine, then we'll proceed with this duel in a training room." Amai mask sighed and just let them do what they want. It was their wish to fight after all.
Everyone was guided to a spacious room and Ramiel took out a chair, sitting on it while drinking some tea.
"Fubuki, come on~" He gestured for her to come and Samus smiled at his antics, he was disrespecting her like no tomorrow.
Her hair started floating and she raised her hand. She tried blowing him away with her telekinesis, but nothing happened.
Ramiel's energy levels constantly coat his body like superman's bioelectric aura. Any psionic ability that can't break through it will disperse and be absorbed by him.
"Did you do something? Come on lady, I don't have all day." He sighed and sipped some tea. "Damn, he's really giving it to her." Samus felt a bit bad for Fubuki.
'Such willpower and strength. Even I cannot ignore her powers like that. What are your limits?' Amai mask watched in interest.
"D-don't be too arrogant!" Fubuki used her psychic whirlwind, a storm of psychic energy that jams other psionic energy and abilities. Which normally goes on a straight line, from point A to B. Hampering abilities and psychic energy.
She then went red as she strained, trying to move him from his seat. "Ramiel, finish her off. Stop wasting time, this isn't fun anymore. It's just sad." Samus shouted from the side.
Fubuki created a whirlwind from her telekinesis. Her most destructive technique. Taking in rocks and other debris as they imprison the person inside and tear them apart.
But when she exhausted herself, using the majority of her energy. The dust settled and saw Ramiel eating some tea cakes.
He then raised a finger and used his own telekinesis. Making her fall on the ground face first.
"Give up, Fubuki. You're not on my level." He sighed. But she was stubborn like a mule. His words reminded her of her sister whose talent is far greater than hers.
"I... I can't give up here! Y-you will lose to me!" She tried standing up and fight the pressure above her. So he just pressed a bit harder, until her bones started creaking.
"Amai mask, you should stop this now. She'll kill herself." Ramiel looked over to the blue haired man and he was about to announce the match. But something crashed from above and tore a hole through the training room.
"T-Tatsumaki?" Amai mask was shocked and a little woman that had green hair appeared. (pic)
"Fubuki... Who did this to you?" Tatsumaki helped her heal with her psychic powers. "Nee-san... This doesn't concern you." Fubuki couldn't meet her eyes.
She gritted her teeth because her sister saved her from herself. Her inferiority complex kicked in big time.
"This is a duel that has been approved of the two sides Tatsumaki, don't be illogical." Amai mask prepared for a battle.
"Then who was her opponent?" Tatsumaki hung her head low. "That would be me." Ramiel raised his hand and he suddenly flew from city A. Breaking through multiple city blocks.
"Yare, yare. What a smol but violent woman." Ramiel shook his head and dusted himself off.
"Hoh? So this is one of the interesting individuals you talked about huh?" Samus cracked her neck. "Who are you?" Tatsumaki glared at her and Samus grinned.
"I'm his girlfriend, and this is for you." She disappeared and Tatsumaki had to shield herself to the maximum.
She suddenly felt a fist hit her square on the face and a shockwave exploded. Destroying most of the association. Tatsumaki plowed through the ground and went deep into the Earth's crust.
Samus blew on her smoking fist, glowing orange hot due to the immense heat it released when she hit Tatsumaki. "W-who are you really?" Fubuki was gaping, not even seeing her sister fly away because of her speed.
"I already told you, I'm his girlfriend. And what kind of woman would I be if I didn't hit back? Throw hands, and you will receive one in return." Samus smirked.
She then activated her suit and burned energy for assault mode. "Energy levels reaching critical levels. Increasing further, 2000%, 3000%, 4000,%." The AI announced her powering up.
Her body glowed blue with a golden hue. Absorbing tons of energy in their hunts.
Tatsumaki arrived back at the association, her lip was busted and some blood was dripping from her head. She tore the entire roof of the association, peeling it like a tin can.
Her eyes glowed and she was surrounded by a green aura. "N-nee-san! Stop! You'll destroy the city!" Fubuki pleaded.
Amai mask quickly picked her up and evacuated the area. "This is your fault Fubuki! God damnit." Amai mask frowned and contacted the HQ that was deeper inside the building.
"Citizens of city A, this is not a drill. Please evacuate immediately. A dragon level threat has appeared, this is not a drill."
Sirens immediately blared and the citizens panicked. "Wanna take this elsewhere?" Samus smiled under her helmet.
"You're on." Tatsumaki glared at her and she couldn't let that hit slide. Samus teleported to the middle of the ocean where point Nemo was. An isolated place in the Pacific where there are no islands nor human lives for hundreds of miles.
Tatsumaki followed her in the portal and they went on a stand off. She immediately raised her hand and tried crushing Samus with her telekinetic powers.
But she raised a brow when it didn't quite work. Samus was leaking so much energy that it dispersed. "Just like your sister, weak." She vanished from her place and appeared in front of Tatsumaki, her arms raised.
Tatsumaki went wide eyed and tried pushing her off, but she was like lead. So heavy, like using a leaf blower on a block of metal.
She then got hit by a hammer fist right on her crown. Sending her to the bottom of the ocean nearly instantly. Samus then transformed her hands into cannons and fired a single burst of a beam at her location.
The beam hit the ocean floor and imploded. The overwhelming heat and shockwave created a cavity bubble a couple of miles wide.
Tectonic plates shifted and massive earthquakes rumbled. Trenches went deeper and volcanoes in the Pacific started erupting.
Ramiel arrived and steadied the destruction. Teleporting in different places quickly and collecting the massive clouds of ash and lava. Putting it into his inventory.
He went to Samus' side who was still slowly increasing her energy consumption and reached 10000%.
"Fuck me, do you know who has to clean your mess up?" He huffed at her and she forgot. "S-sorry. I got really excited, she's strong. So I got a bit too careless."
Tatsumaki exited the massive hole in the bottom of the ocean and was panting, heavily injured. Ramiel and Samus are her worst enemies.
They are energy based fighters with immaculate control. Coupled with their physiques that resist telekinesis and just shrug it off.
"W-who are you? You aren't normal." Tatsumaki could brush off Samus' laser. But the brutal hammerfist on her opened a large wound on her head and cracked her skull.
"Your sister picked a fight with us, and then you came in and attacked me. Of course we'll retaliate." Ramiel snorted and Tatsumaki squinted her eyes.
Ramiel casted a curaga on her and she healed up, surprised by his actions. "Just give up, we're here to deal with monsters, not to infight. And if we battle for real, then we'll destroy the planet." He sighed.
"Then why were you hurting Fubuki!?" She glared at him and he rolled his eyes. "I wasn't, she's hurting herself by trying to stand up to my telekinesis. I was making her give up, you already know right? You have great senses after all, you're just a massive sis-con to accept it."
Tatsumaki went quiet. She knew she was in the wrong, but her ego was in the way. "You even almost killed tons of people because of your arrogance. What a disgrace of a human being you are." He glared at her and she winced at that.
"You call yourself a hero? Your sister must be ashamed to be related to someone like you." He was a bit angry, because he had to clean up for her and protect a lot of people because of her outburst.
"And you, you should've known better. I'm disappointed in you." He gave Samus the stink eye. She flinched and hung her head in shame.
"Shut up... Shut up! What do you know!? Huh?" Tatsumaki released all of her power and tried moving him. But Ramiel is super loaded with the lifestream from Gaia and Spira.
He shrugged off her telekinesis and countered with his own. He crushed her psychic energy, brute forcing it with his own and made her float right in of him.
"Oh I know a lot, like how your sister feels. She has a massive inferiority complex, straining your relationship. You dote on her like she's made of glass, amplifying it even further. She both loves and hates you because of it, deciding everything for her like she is stupid." He psychoanalyzed them and Fubuki that he brought with him listened in shock.
"F-Fubuki..." Tatsumaki stared at Fubuki who was tearing up, she couldn't believe that she would cause enough collateral damage that almost killed thousands.
"You are too blinded by your strength, your sister suffers because of it. So let's take it." He activated his Metroid powers and started absorbing her psychic energy.
"Nee-san!" Fubuki started hitting him, but he was already done. "Let's change the power dynamic. You are powerless and your sister has to help you. Give you a nice change of perspectives." He gave Tatsumaki to Fubuki.
"M-my powers... It's gone." Tatsumaki tried using her psychic powers, but she didn't have a drop of energy to perform anything.
"W-why? Nee-san is the back bone of the association! Monsters will overrun the cities without her help!" Fubuki was horrified.
"Then we'll just pick up the pace, more monsters for us too." Samus shrugged. "Now, you lost Fubuki. You're my little attendant now yeah?" He got a great idea.
"W-what are you going to do?" She frowned and he plunged his arm right onto her chest, filling her up with the energy he sucked up from Tatsumaki. Though she couldn't contain it all. But she had a massive boost in power.
"You'll be filling up your sister's role. Gather all the monsters your group takes care of and give them to me. Pretty easy, right?" He smiled.
Tatsumaki couldn't believe it, her powers have been taken from her and Fubuki will be taking care of her from now on.
She felt so powerless, her past slowly creeping up in her mind. Remembering the times when she hid her power from the researchers that locked her up with the hope of being discarded to be free.
They then returned to the association and Amai mask was waiting for them. "Yo, it's fine now." He shrugged at him and Amai mask squinted his eyes at Tatsumaki.
He noticed that she wasn't like her self. She was so lifeless and limp. Fubuki carried her like she was a cripple.
"Talk things out with her Fubuki, Tatsumaki is a great force for humanity. But she needs to mellow down. She needs that, and you need it too." Ramiel instructed her and they left the scene. A-rank heroes now.
"Nee-san..." Fubuki looked at Tatsumaki who was still unresponsive. They returned home and she put her in bed.
"H-he's right you know? I've always hated that I would never have the same strength as you. You always took care of me when we were young, and I will forever be grateful for it. But when you criticize my group, my way of living, treating me like a kid. It put a strain on our relationship." Fubuki frowned, gathering her courage to open up to her.
"Fubuki, I never thought... That you'd feel that way. I just did it all for you, for what's best." Tatsumaki winced at her words and tried explaining.
Before closing the door, Fubuki stopped. "But it wasn't the best. For you maybe, but for me. It was like a stab through my heart. You didn't believe in me, did you?" She closed the door and Tatsumaki couldn't hold her tears.
"Why'd you give her sister's power to her? I've checked her profile. She's lazy in her duties, stays in B class, bullies aspiring newbies, doesn't kill many monsters." Samus hacked into the system and checked their data.
Tatsumaki might be an arrogant and rude individual, but she doesn't refuse any requests to kill dangerous monsters that pops up.
She takes care of the majority of threats on her own and her sister was right. She is the backbone of the association.
"Fubuki works for me now, she knows that and I've given her a task. She will also see the perspective of her sister. Everyday, fighting monsters, high pressure from the public and association, hundreds of thousands of lives on your shoulders." He squinted his eyes. Tatsumaki is definitely the better choice.
"But she'll see that her sister isn't just a powerful esper that flies around the world, taking care of monsters here and there. She has an important job to do. And Tatsumaki isn't so free to work on her relationship with her. That things aren't so simple." He wanted them to have an understanding.
Tatsumaki mellows out and becomes more humble. Fubuki gets a reality check and will take her duties more seriously. Preventing her from limiting the potentials of B-class heroes that might reach A class.
The world needs every single one of them, and she's one of the reasons why many quit before hitting their peak.
Her ambition is to surpass her sister, she didn't need to become a hero for that. Her training stagnated, and she gave up just like that.
"Come on, we have to pick up their slack." Ramiel flew to the skies and just pinpointed monsters left and right. Squishing them and integrating them into his body like Majin Buu. He needed all the stats he could get to battle a certain invader that will come soon.
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