Chapter 9 (Scream of Hope)
Jean's gaze shifted towards the Armored titan and mumbled on the horse. "Damn that Reiner! He's tossing titans like a madman!" Reiner tossed another one like a rag doll. Ymir transformed into her titan form and run towards Saitama, she thought in her mind while running to him. 'This is all your fault! It's you who screwed up my entire plan, you pityful hero!'
Saitama noticed and dodged her shard teeth, he shifted his head to Mikasa and said. "I'm leaving that smiling one for you, I will tame that beast called Ymir."
Mikasa understood and shook her head in agreement, even though she still didn't trust him. The hero was the first one who witnessed Ymir's transformation there.
Historia and Connie were together on the same horse and spotted Ymir fighting Saitama. Historia shouted "Ymir! Connie, that way!" Connie gave a positive nod and headed to Ymir and Saitama. Erwin were deadly injured, he lost an arm and the flinching pain was horrible. A scout ran towards him and said. "Commander!"
Erwin hold his ripped off arm and replied. "I can always be replaced. More importantly, find Eren and retreat! Time is of the essence!" The scout he was talking to got his head ate by a titan front of Erwin. The Commander remained silent as he watched the scout being eaten alive!
The smiling titan extended his hand to grab Eren, but Hannes blocked it with his sword and cut one of the smiling titan's fingers. "What are the odds of this?! Check it out you two! You just watch. I'm about to avenge your mother and butcher the shit out of this!"
He flew off onto smiling titan to avenge Eren's mother Carla. Eren screamed in desperation. "Hannes!" Jean and Armin ride their horses to aid Hannes.
"Give the old man backup! Huh?!" Reiner tossed another 2 titans to Jean and Armin, blocking their path to Eren and Mikasa. Armin got even more frustrated and his attention turned towards the Armored titan.
"Reiner? What's he doing?! Does he not care if Eren is eaten?!" Jean felt determined and shouted to the titans.
"Don't get in our way, you big sack of shit!" Saitama was now watching all this massacre around him, he never had seen something so gore into his world.
But he wasn't afraid instead, the hero saw how fast Ymir was in a fail attempt to eat him. And said with his fists clenched towards her. And with a small smirk planted on his face. "You've gone and gotten my hopes up."
He start walking near her "Don't disappoint me now." Historia intervened and shout again "Ymir! He's not our enemy!" Ymir thought from inside her titan nape.
'Dammit... What am I supposed to do? If I can't count on Reiner, should I surrender to this 'hero' and try to survive?' She didn't attacked him, the opposite happened she was walking backwards to avoid him.
'But what happens after that? Even if I can somehow live throught all this... ...there's no avoiding the hell that's to come trapped inside the Walls.'
Saitama shifted his gaze at Historia and asked. "You won't let me fight her will you?" Historia said to him with an angry expression.
"Instead of fighting each other go help the others! You... ...hero... ...that's right hero! Everyone is dying on the battlefield right now and you care about fighting Ymir for no reason?!"
Saitama's expression turned into a boredom one and said. "Okay maybe some other time I guess, he waved Ymir and Historia while he jumped on a titan and turned him into nothing, with a normal punch.
The blood of the titan was vaporizing from all over Saitama's suit. "Thank god I won't have to clean that." Ymir still thinking about it.
'Now's my only chance to hand Historia over to their side! I won't be able to protect her alone, no matter how hard I try, perhaps that Saitama might be the one to keep her safe, the guy is a joke but his strength is unimaginable!'
Historia landed upon Ymir titan's head with her gear, Connie was worried about it and shouted nervously. "Christa!" Historia shifted her attention to her comrade and reply.
"Connie, that's wrong. My name is Historia" She turned her head forward to talk with Ymir. "Hey, Ymir... Why was it you were trying to take me away? You said it was to save yourself, but was that a lie? No... it has to be. Why? Why did you do it?"
Ymir's titan only grinned a little bit to her. "For me? To protect me again?" Connie warned them "It's a titan!" Historia's face was purely serious and prepared, she replied to Ymir.
"Ymir... You're the one who said it, so listen to yourself! Stop living for other people! From now on, let's live for nobody but ourselves!" Historia continued her encouraging speech.
"It's strange, really... When I'm with you, no matter how screwed up it gets... ...I'm not afraid!" Historia launched herself against the titan. She did some beautiful midair acrobatics and successfully cut his nape. Hannes was still fighting the smiling titan to avenge Eren's mother.
Eren said to Mikasa while he were crawling on the ground. "Don't, Mikasa! You're injured! Untie my hands!" She recalled baffled "Hands?"
Eren wanted to end this once and for all. For his mother sake! He screamed to her. "Hurry up! I've gotta be the one to do it!"
Hannes battle cryed to the smiling titan and cut off one of his ankles. "Who said I was done with you?!"
Mikasa untied Eren's hands, he stood up focused and said. "That one's... mine!" Mikasa replied to him with a scared tone. "Eren! Wait! We're trying to get you out of here!" Eren walk past her and said to himself and Mikasa. "It's time to settle the score! Just watch!
He bitten his hand but didn't transformed into a titan, only blood came out from the injury. "Huh?!" Erwin saw more of the scouts being killed or eaten. One of them retorted at him. "Commander! The Armored one is- It's coming!" Saitama superhero landed front of one armed Erwin.
The Commander had never felt so safe in his entire life. "Saitama! At long last we need you to face off against the Armored titan! He's ripping us apart with those tossing titans!" Saitama saw Erwin were missing a hand. "Damn they got you really bad man." Erwin gave a small smile to the hero and ordered.
"Don't worry about me... ...Defend the scouts from the Armored titan! And stop him before he reach Eren!" Saitama placed his red gloved hand to Erwin's shoulder. "Count on me Erwin." The hero said and run straight to Reiner.
Eren was biting even more furiously now. "Shit! Shit! What's wrong?!" He ripped off a piece of meat from his own flesh with his teeth. Armin was trying to protect the unconscious Jean who had been knocked down by a titan, Armin was screaming in agony.
Reiner threw away the last titan and begun running towards Eren, but a bald man stand front of him, blocking the path.
"Reiner what we do it's Saitama!" Bertholdt shouted to him and waited for a reaction. Saitama had a serious face on and said. "Since you 2 didn't tell me a thing about your boss, would you mind if I get a little bit serious?"
"Huh?!" Bertholdt wasn't able to understand what Saitama meant by that. He demanded to Reiner. "Smash him like a bug!"
Reiner's foot slammed down upon him... but before it reach Saitama, both him and Bertholdt heared. "Killer Move Serious Series:Serious Push!"
Saitama didn't want to hurt Reiner or Bertholdt but he knew they are the bad guys, he had to do something to stop them. He pushed with his right palm Armored titan's foot.
Sending Reiner with Bertholdt on his shoulder more than 300 meters away! The hero saw them disappearing into the distance and thought.
'I holded back as much as I could, now you 2 better stay put.' Saitama changed his gaze towards Eren and Mikasa to see Hannes being eaten, Eren were crying and laughing on the ground at the same time. And blaming himself for what happened.
Eren almost lost it "Nothing changed! You haven't changed one bit, dammit! You're still as useless as you ever were! Nothing changed! RRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
He remembered his mom and spoke while crying on the ground. "Mom... I... can't... I still can't do anything at all." Mikasa spoke with tears in her irises too. "Eren..." He shifted his gaze to her.
"That's not true." Saitama was punching titans at the background behind them. Mikasa continued talking with an emotional expression.
"Eren... Listen... ...I need to tell you something." She came closer to his face "You've always... been at my side. Thank you. You showed me... how to live with purpose. Thank you."
"And you... You wrapped this scarf around me. Thank you" The sun appeared behind the clouds and made it even more emotional for Mikasa and Eren, while Saitama was destroying the titans with ease. Eren stood up to face the smiling titan and said back to Mikasa.
"I'll wrap that around you... as many times as you want. Now and forever... As much as you want!" Eren released a battle cry and punched smiling titan's giant palm.
Suddenly the titans run towards the smiling one. Saitama was ready to slaughter another titan but it ignored him and it run to smiling titan. "Oh? There's one that quit"
They all jumped upon Smiling titan and ate him alive! Eren took Mikasa on his back and run away from the titans.
Saitama saw them and run right next to them. "Yio Eren, Mikasa, at least you 2 are alive." Mikasa said to the hero with a threatening expression.
"I have my eyes on you Bal-" Eren stopped her and replied "Mikasa no! He's a hero, I knew it from the beginning. Saitama never betrayed us! He wanted information about their leader, just like I did." "Eren... ...Very well..."
Ymir said inside her mind 'So that's how it is... That's why Reiner was so desperate for Eren. Which means, even inside the Walls... ...there's a future.'
Saitama,Eren and Mikasa saw Reiner and Bertholdt coming from their left, Saitama deadpanned and retorted. "Dammit I thought I send them far enough." Reiner thought in his mind about Eren.
'This is the worst... Why did the coordinate have to fall into the hands of the worst person imaginable? We've gotta get it back... I can say... without a doubt... ..the one person in the world I wouldn't want to have it... ...Eren... is...you!"
Eren stopped walking and screamed, activating the coordinate power against Reiner and Bertholdt "Get away from me! You bastards! I'll kill you all!" All the other titans left smiling titan's corpse and ran straight forward to the Armored titan.
Reiner thought nervous 'Not good! Bertholdt! I can't protect Bertholdt like this!' Eren got confused and asked himself.
"What? The titans?" Armin came to rescue him and Mikasa, he brought a horse for them. Saitama didn't need a horse, all this running were a good workout for him.
"Eren! Get on!" "Armin!" Armin teared up a little and shouted. "Hurry! And Saitama... ...Thank you! For not betraying us!"
Saitama gave a dumb smile with his neutral expression on and responded to the blond. "Don't be stupid, I would never do that to you guys." The hero patted Armin's head before running next from the horses.
Erwin stood up and ordered them to fully retreat by saying. "Don't let this chance escape! Full retreat!" Ymir shifted her head behind to see Reiner and Bertholdt struggling against all the titans. She had to make a choice, Historia said "Ymir!" Connie shouted Ymir to retreat.
"Hey, ugly! What are you doing?! We're heading back!" Ymir patted slowly Historia's head and said as her titan form to the blonde.
"I sorry..." Historia only mumbled "Huh?" Ymir run back to help Reiner and Bertholdt. Historia shouted with a frustrated expression. "Ymir! Where are you going?!" Connie came next to Historia and said with a mad tone.
"Leave her!" Historia answered to him "But Ymir is-" They ended the conversation there and escaped.
The few scouts that remained alive, escaped successfully. Armin thought in his mind.
'In that moment, I couldn't understand the motivation behind Ymir's actions... ...but the Armored titan didn't pursue us any further.'
Among side with Eren and Mikasa's horse was Saitama staring the sky with a bored and kinda disappointed expression planted on his shiny head.
'I miss my world, I even miss Genos...' Eren didn't said a word, he was only remembering Hannes playing with him when he was a child.
With reports declaring the possibility that Wall Rose has been breached, the citizens of Wall Rose were forced to take refuge in an underground city within Wall Sina.
However, with more than half the population surviving off food stockpiled for emergency, rations would last at most for a week.
Any longer than that, and people would turn on each other, stealing and killing to survive. To stop this from happening, within one week from the initial outset, authorities declared that Wall Rose was secure. As for our hero with the white Cape and shiny head, He returned to speak with Captain Levi.
At the Trost District
Levi and Pixis were talking to Erwin who was on his bed. suddenly they heared a knock from the door, Levi declared.
"It's Hanje with Saitama. Come in" Hanje came in with Saitama and Connie. "Pardon the interruption, Erwin" She saluted him and continued "I'm glad we came while you're here, Commander Pixis" Saitama found a bald old man just like him, except the hero wasn't even middle age.
"Hello I'm Saitama" Pixis stared at the hero and asked Erwin with raised eyebrows. "So this is Saitama you told me about earlier huh?"
Erwin nodded to Pixis and let Hanje continue. "Good timing. This is..." She stared Connie while he introduce himself to them.
"A Scout from the 104th. Connie Springer." Hanje declared to Erwin "Connie comes from Ragako Village." Pixis asked "The village the recent titan invasion originated from?"
"Yes. Actually, I confirmed with him the findings of our invenstigation on the village. This only brings further credibility to that hypothesis. He's come to report."
Jean,Armin,Eren and Mikasa were discussing about Eren's coordinate power and Saitama's infinite strength. Jean said to Eren serious.
"It's a tough spot to be in, Eren and that hero Saitama. Whether or not all those people died for nothing... ...it all depends on you and him. If you are worth the price they paid, you better show it. They didn't wanted Saitama... ...Reiner must want only your power. We don't have time to waste."
Eren stared at his palm and said. "Yeah, you're absolutely right." He clenched it into a fist "I've gotta do this. I'll control the titans. I'll plug up Wall Maria. I'll capture Reiner and make him pay. With Saitama on our side, it will be no problem! That's what I've gotta do to atone for all those lives lost."
Pixis asked with curiosity, while Connie was showing them the picture of his family. "Say again? The titans responsible for this incident... were the citizens of Ragako?"
Erwin who had growed a small beared around his face replied. "In other words, the true identity of titans...- Saitama said with a boredom expression on. "Is humans" Everyone stared at the hero before Hanje rescript. "We don't... have proof yet."
Levi was chilling on the chair at the corner of the room and asked. "So... you're telling me... ...I've spend all this time and energy running around and killing people? Is that right?"
Saitama nodded to him and responded to everyone. "It was kinda obvious, when I first encountered those titans, they had a similar look to humans, except for reproductive organs. They have none of those."
Hanje shifted her attention to him and answer. "I said we don't have proof yet. Saitama don't rush things" "Okay" The hero simply replied to her.
After they left it was now only Saitama,Levi and Erwin in the room. Erwin had a cold smile on his face and took both Saitama's and Levi's gazes.
"Erwin." Levi asked the Commander about his weird reaction to this possible truth while Saitama was having his sights on them. "Hey. Tell me. The hell you smiling for?" Erwin came back to reality and said to Levi and the Caped hero.
"It's nothing. It's just... ...with this, we've taken one more step towards the truth." Levi showed disbelief and declared "Just one step, huh? We'll run out of people before we learn the truth. It's not worth the cost." Saitama stood up, crossing his hands together and his faces turned serious.
"While I'm here I told you I'll help regain what is yours. Even if it takes to find the truth behind those monsters you call titans."
Levi gave a serious look back to Saitama and said. "You and I have a long way to go... ...Hero..." Erwin stared both of them with hope, awe and determination while he replied with a serious expression too. "But it is a step towards the truth. One day, we'll break it down. This Wall hiding the truth... will fall.
The scouts were staring at the horizon, deep in their minds everyone knew, they had a long way to go. First Hanje and Moblit with the scouts, after them it was Sasha,Jean and Connie on a roof, next Mikasa and Armin. At the end, the last 2 ones who stare at the horizon determined is Eren and Saitama. Both had Serious expressions planted on their faces. On top of Wall Maria is the beast titan with his nape opened and the unknown shifter moving his glasses. He replied. "Not yet, eh?"
In the world of one punch man
"You are all fixed up. And I installed some new upgrades in your body, what are you planning to do now?" "Thanks for everything Doctor Kuseno. First off all... ...I'll find my Sensei!"
And that was the finale of the Season 2, let me know if you all liked it or Not. I'll start working on Season 3 part 1 and 2 as fast as I can. Thank you all for reading the season 2 of Attack on Titan with the mighty hero Saitama in it. See you soon.