Chapter 8 (Charge)
Erwin was a litte bit baffled from the situation and shifted his gaze behind to see the Armored titan running away with Eren and Saitama on his back. The Commander administered this and rescripted to the soldiers. "All squads! Let titans chase after you! Follow my lead!" The Commander raised his sword up and gave the order.
A member of the Military Police who had several sweat tears falling from his head shouted to Erwin. "Erwin... You demon! Are you trying to use us as bait again?!" Erwin turned his stare to him and continued. "That's not my intention! The Military Police have fought well! Now serve your duty as soldiers! The Armored titan plans is to escape with Eren! We have to stop him no matter what!"
A bunch of titans were chasing the scouts, Jean said with a nervously look planted on his face. "He's not fast enough to escape! We'll catch up!" Mikasa rejoindered with a serious expression to Jean. "This time, I won't hesitate. I'll kill them! All the 3 of them, I swear! And if Ymir gets in my way, she's asking for it, too."
Her eyes widen in anger "No matter what it takes... I will!" Saitama put Historia down next to Ymir and Bertholdt. "Christa!" Bertholdt called her name and turned towards her. Her gaze was on the Hero who were staring behind them, the scouts and scratching his nose. "Saitama! I- I had no idea, our first meeting will be in such dire situation. My name is Chri- Historia Reiss."
"Nice to meet you Historia" Saitama shaked her hand cautiously, "Why did you betray us Saitama?! They trying to manipulate you!" The hero's expression turn into a blank one and responded back to Historia while she asked with particular interest. "I didn't betrayed you. They are really boring, I thought that Reiner guy could tell me for who they work for but he's a chicken."
Historia exhaled in half relieve and shifted her head towards Ymir. "Ymir!" Ymir had a frustrated expression planted on her face. "Chri- No... Historia. I bet you're mad at me."
Historia was shooking her gaze towards her and Saitama. "Ymir... What is this? What are you doing? We came here to rescue you,Eren and Saitama." The hero raised his finger and answered to Historia. "I don't need rescue child I told you why I'm here, for information about their boss." Ymir shouted right after the Caped hero. "I don't need rescue either!"
Ymir continued with an intensifying tone on her voice. "Just stay right there. I'm following Reiner and Bertholdt now. You, too. Come with me." Historia staring her with neutral eyes like Saitama. "There's no future within the Walls! Listen to me, Historia... Outside of the Walls isn't as bad as you think. Especially... because there won't be anyone saying that you're better off not being born."
Historia spoke back to her with a serious expression too. "I'm pretty sure titans won't be saying that to me... ...because they'll be too busy trying to eat me!" Saitama shifted his head to Historia and responded. "Pssft! Come on don't be so dramatic."
The blonde was ready to reply back but Ymir shouted. "Everyone has at least one or two faults! If you can just overlook that, they're not so bad after all!" The hero nodded to Ymir in agreement and answered. "That's true. I have made tons of mistakes, like how many times I have lost the bargain sale back to my world."
He was blinking in disappointment about that, Historia didn't took the hero seriously and continued arguing with Ymir. "Ymir! Everything you're saying and doing isn't making any sense! Could it be... that Reiner and Bertholdt threatened you?" Bertholdt came in the conversation and said. "It's... the reverse."
Historia shouted to Ymir, with a determined expression on her cute face. "Am I right, Ymir? I'll fight them with you! I don't care if there's something you can't tell me. No matter what happens... ...I will always be your ally! Just like Saitama!" Saitama shook his shiny bald head up and down, to let Historia know she's right about him.
Bertholdt grabbed Ymir's attention and said. "Ymir! Look... The scouts have already gotten this close. If only we had run right away, we probably would've been able to escape. But because you forced us to bring Christa... at this rate, they'll catch us! Hey! Ymir... are you telling us we did all of that for nothing? Is that really what you want? Letting Christa rot within the Walls? Don't be stupid! Ymir!"
Historia shouted to her "Ymir! Stop this madness!" Ymir responded with the same loud tone. "I can't! Historia... To be honest... ...the reason I told Saitama to snatch you... ...was only... to save myself." Historia gave the same look as Saitama. Confused and blank one, she mumbled. "Huh?" Ymir explained to Historia and Saitama, even though he didn't care about her boring backstory.
"A long time ago, I stole the power of the titans from one of their comrades. There's nothing I can do against them. Sooner or later, they will kill me. But... if I hand you over and cooperate with them... ...they said they would see what they can do... and try to make it so my crime goes away. Because you know the secrets of the Wall, you're someone important to the Church."
That picked Saitama's curiosity and asked, cause he wanted to do something to escape his boredom. This world proved to be even more boring than his own! "You say she's important to the Church, what is she?" The Caped hero gave the question with a humbled expression, Ymir responded to Saitama with a tremendously cocky smile. "Like hell I'll tell a nobody outsider like you baldy!"
Saitama didn't want to argue with this stubborn bitch. He knew he could knock her out in one punch anytime he wanted. But he's humble about the infinite power within him. Historia's eyes widen even more and had a flashback, Ymir continued to talk "Once this world started going to hell... ...I thought being with you would give me insurance in the future. I almost died during the battle at the castle... ...and that feeling scarred me for life. I'm afraid to die... I'll do whatever it takes to live... I'm pathetic..."
Saitama now wanted to one slap her ass for talking that much. But he didn't want the scouts to see him as the bad guy, the hero knew he had already the black hair shitty brat who hates him for life.
He didn't want more enemies for no fucking reason. Saitama remained silent and suppressed his frustration. Ymir continued talking to Historia without worrying about the scouts and the titans who were lurking around.
"I told myself I send him to take you for your sake... But really, I let him did it for myself. Please Historia. Please... Please save me!" Historia gave her and Saitama a cute considerably smile and responded positively. "No matter what happens... I will always be your ally!"
Eren finally woke up. And start wiggling from Bertholdt's back while Hannes and the scouts launched themselfs on the Armored titan. Mikasa propelled herself on the Armored titan's body with a great display of acrobatics.
Ready to strike and bring down Bertholdt, he desperately run under Armored titan's head and screamed. "Reiner! Protect us!" 2 seconds earlier Mikasa was about to slice Bertholdt into half but a red glove grab one handed both of her swords.
Her eyes had begone wild, they didn't seem like humanly irises anymore. The black colour of her tremendously widen eyeballs stared into Saitama's serious expression while shadows covered the hero's eyes. The Caped baldy said with a heavy voice against her.
"There's no reason for you to take away those guys lifes. You're persistent, so I'll fight you seriously once right now." His expression turned into a stupid menancing one and finished by saying.
"Come, try your worst" Mikasa had been waiting for the moment she will decapitate the annoying baldy. This is the time! "You die here Bastard!" Both of the blades shattered onto Saitama's hand.
Bertholdt couldn't do anything, only watch the fight between a mortal and a god. "You're boring, way much more than the sonic dude from my world!" Mikasa punched Saitama's face so hard her own hand begun to bleed, She grunted in pain but didn't stop punching him.
"WHY WON'T YOU DIE!" Saitama got a little bit angry from her irritating voice and shouted. "Shut the fuck up!" He pushed her off the Armored titan with a slightly palm push. "Oi I'll check if she's okay, Ymir stay with Historia."
Ymir nodded before the hero jump off from Reiner too. He and Mikasa were now on the ground in the open fields, they grabbed both scouts and titans attentions.
"Mi-Mikasa!? And that Saitama?!" Armin responded to Jean while he dropped a sweat. "They will fight 1 versus 1 dammit! We must go for Eren!"
Mikasa was unconscious for a minute, some titans tried to eat her. Saitama vanquished them and sended them to oblivion with only one punch like usual.
"Come on brat I'll give you the seriously fight you want so bad from me." Mikasa stood up slowly and dizzy from the mighty push Saitama did on her.
"I'll destroy them... ...and YOU..." She equipped another 2 blades and hissed at him with full hatred. While Jean stand upon Armored titan's head with a mad expression towards Ymir. Historia begged him "Don't kill Ymir!"
Jean said nervous and angry "That all depends on Ymir! What will it be? Mikasa will kill everyone that gets in her way after she kill that Saitama, so choose!"
Historia shouted "No, wait! Ymir will be killed unless she does what Reiner and Bertholdt say! She doesn't have a choice!" Jean responded with his blades equipped in hands. "Christa... do you pick Eren or Ymir? Which is it?"
Ymir almost bite herself but Historia prevented her from completing it. "Stop, Ymir! Don't fight back! You'll die! Don't do it!"
Ymir stayed silent while Jean went to the front with Armin,Connie and Sasha. Bertholdt and Eren were covered by Armored titan's hands in order to not allow anyone from reaching them.
"Quit it, Eren! Don't struggle!" Jean replied with an underestimating expression on his face to Bertholdt.
"Good luck with that, Bertholdt. It's impossible to get him to calm down. He's the most irritating guy there is! I know better than anyone! I hate him as much as you do. So let's beat him up together."
"Why don't you come out of there?" Connie and Sasha still couldn't believe it. "Hey... You're kidding, right? Bertholdt? Reiner? This whole time... you kept quiet and deceived us? That's so cruel!"
Sasha said something similar to Connie's words. "You guys! Tell us it's all a lie!" No response from Bertholdt but they didn't give up either. Jean spoke again
"Hey, hey, hey... You think you can just keep running away? That's not gonna happen! For three years, didn't we sleep under the same roof as comrades through thick and thin? Bertholdt... Your odd sleeping positions were truly an art form. After a while, we all looked forward each morning to seeing your pose... ...and tried to predict the weather. But you... To think you, the invader... could sleep like a log... ...right next to your victims!"
Connie tried to communicate with Bertholdt too. "Was everything a lie? Remember we talked about surviving this together?"
With Saitama and Mikasa
Mikasa launched herself forward towards Saitama with a killing intense stare, she shouted while her blades were going for his head.
"DIE!" Saitama broke the blades with his teeth. And made Mikasa stumble back with utter shock. 'What the-? I didn't see what happened. His face should have been sliced open, but the blades..'
Saitama replied with a disappointed expression. "You are so weak I can't even fight you seriously. Now can you forgi-"
Mikasa raised her arm and launched a punch to Saitama. Her eyes widened in even more shock as she felt her fist being blocked by Saitama's red gloved hand.
She suddenly felt the exact pressure she felt back on the Wall on her head, an enormous one coming from her hand. She felt to the ground, her fist still in Saitama's grip. She could feel her fingers were about to snap!
Through gritted her teeth she looked up at Saitama, who looked down at her with his neutral expression. His grasp making her flinch in pain but he let her ago after five seconds and replied to her.
"Hey I don't wanna fight you, I wanna let you know, we are in the same team. Even if you hate me, I don't okay?" Mikasa was struggled to move her fingers but she said to him furiously.
"I don't know what the FUCK YOU ARE! But you're clearly not a human..." Saitama scratched his head and responded to her.
"I actually am a human but I trained har-" She shut him off by shouting "BULLSHIT! HOW YOU BECAME SO STRONG BALDY?!" The hero exhaled and told her "If I tell you, will you believe me? Cause everyone else to my world didn't."
She angrily nodded and listened his hero training regimen. "First, what's important is, to make sure you stick to this intense training regimen."
Mikasa said in a loud tone "What training?!" Saitama continued "Listen, Mikasa. You just have to keep doing it. No matter how hard it gets. It took me 3 years to get this strong."
Saitama's expression turned serious for the next 10 seconds and answered.
"One hundred push-ups! One hundred sit-ups! One hundred squads! Then a ten kilometer run. Every. Single. Day! After a year and half later, I started to notice a difference. I was bald... And that was because I had become stronger!"
Mikasa's jaw almost hit the ground when she heared him saying that. This guy had to be messing with her. She didn't believe a word about his training regimen.
She was ready to respond furiously to him, but both her and Saitama saw the Armored titan knocking down several titans that Commander Erwin baited against them. Plus
Erwin's right arm were being chopped off by a titan but he scream to the scouts with no fear. "Advance! Eren is just ahead! Advance!" He pointed his swords towards Eren's direction.
"EREN! I'M COMI-" Before she end her phrase, Saitama was long gone and took Eren away from Bertholdt by just ripping the clothes around him. "You are alright? I got you Eren."
The hero said with a blank expression. Mikasa rushed to them but didn't noticed a titan behind and grabbed her, he was squeezing her in his hand but Jean came to her rescue.
"Mikasa! You piece of shit! Let her go!" He pushed the blades deep within the titan's eyes forcing him to let her go. But Saitama catch her with an inhuman speed and placed her next to Eren.
"All soldiers retreat!" Erwin had escaped from the titan but lost an arm. The Scouts were retreating but a big amount of them were ated by the titans. Armin spotted Eren, Mikasa and Saitama back in the deep fog. "Eren! Mikasa! Saitama!"
"Eren..." Mikasa was badly injured from the titan that tried to squeeze her like a bug. Saitama pointed with his finger an incoming titan and said. "Wow that one must like jokes."
Eren and Mikasa shifted their gazes and saw the titan Saitama was talking about, Eren paralyze from what he witnessed. His mother killer, the one and only Smiling titan.