Chapter 12 (Pain)
"Kenny!" Levi screamed, throwing one of his blades on Kenny, the old man dodge it and attempted to shot Levi's brains out.
"Kaboom" Levi spotted Kenny's group coming towards him. The Captain hissed in frustration and jumped down from the roof, just in time to dodge the rain of bullets behind him.
Levi saw the wagon with Eren and Historia got hijacked. He propelled himself, towards the wagon but 3 of Kenny's men prevented him from doing so.
He launched backwards to avoid their bullets. Levi thought in his mind while they chasing and shooting at him.
'Shit! They predicted every last one of our movements! Dammit! It was a mistake, If Saitama was here right now he could defeat those jackasses with ease!'
He dodge another shot from Kenny's pistols.
'Kenny... What the hell is he doing in the Military Police?!' Kenny's men attempted to shot Levi, but he dodge the bullets with his ODM gear skills and flew in a bar. They only got the top of his left eye bloody.
"It's Levi... of the Scouts!" A customer said, the barman with a moustache reply to Levi.
"W-Welcome to our establishment!" Levi hidden under the bar counter, while Kenny had a cocky behavior. "Oof" Kenny mumbled.
'Shit... If Saitama won't show up, I'll lose most of my team, Eren, and Historia too.' Levi wiped the blood from his eye. Kenny's expression was confident and rude.
"Ain't that the damnedest thing! I smell a filthy rat coming from this bar..." Meaning Levi, Kenny continued.
"Come out, you little rodent..." Kenny acted ridiculous, he took a cowboy stance and jumped inside the bar, devaluing with his pistols.
"Found ya! The law has come to exterminate the vermin! Bang! Bang!" No response "The hell?! Ain't you here?!"
Levi answered, grabbing Kenny's attention "Right here, Kenny. It's been a while. Never thought you'd still be alive."
The Captain asked him "What happened to slaughtering the Military Police? Now you're one of them?"
"Adults do plenty of things a kid like you can't understand. Oops, my bad. You're just so tiny, it's hard to believe you're older now." Kenny insulted Levi cause of his short height and continued.
"I been looking forward to seeing you and recently a friend of yours in action too." Kenny exclaimed with interest.
"What frie- How you knew about him?" Levi know he's talking about Saitama.
"The news spreaded everywhere Levi, even in te darkest corners of Wall Sina. So that bald friend of yours can punch titans to death huh?"
"None of your business, Kenny. Furthermore if he was here, you wouldn't be able to keep up with his inhuman speed. Even I going slower than him."
Kenny gave a cocky smile. "Is that so? I wanna see if that thick skull of his, can handle a bullet straight in it!"
"If you can't kill me, then you doesn't stance a chance against him, Kenny." Levi stated, making Kenny to change into a serious expression.
"You're right, Levi. Plus I never thought all those tricks I taught you would be helping you out like this. Didn't I ever tell you what happens to a cornered rat?" Kenny continued, while Levi were listening under the counter.
"No matter which way you try to run, you'll get blasted from above. Hey, Levi..." Kenny throw a chair to the bar counter, making several bottles to break. Levi didn't react, he was lost in his thoughts.
"There's gotta be a reason you became a Scout, and I think I know what it is. We had no choice but to survive in that garbage dump. It took all we had each day to keep livin'. And when we found out how big the world really was, you can bet it hurt like hell. But something saved us..." Kenny grab another chair and continued, while he's aiming at Levi's direction.
"We'd found something we wanted to do. It's that simple. It's simple, but the truth is... The only thing that made our lives fulfilling was finding hobbies." Kenny exclaimed.
Levi's mind thought about the hero. Saitama told them with Erwin, he's doing the hero work as a hobby. 'At least Saitama isn't a cold blooded murderer.'
"Hobbies? So is blowing the heads off my team another hobby of yours?" Levi asked calmly, he moved a bottle to see Kenny's position.
"Yup... To archieve my grand goals, I'll kill as much as I have to. Including that bald friend of yours." Kenny kept aiming to Levi and continued.
"You're no different. You kill when it benefits you, too." Kenny finished his words.
"Yeah..." Levi mumbled, and shot Kenny with a rifle, but the chair protected him from taking damage. Kenny fell down, outside of the bar.
"Thanks, Old man." Levi hand over the rifle to the barman and moved swiftly. Levi throw outside a chair for misleading one of Kenny's men, he shot the chair thinking it's Levi.
"A chair?!" Levi flew outside, launching the hook of his gear upon the man's chest. Two more men with their pistols shot towards Levi. "What?! Fire!"
Levi used the man's body as a shield in order to reach them. He sliced their chests with no hesitation and serious expression.
"Gunshots!" Sasha replied with a nervous tone, making Saitama and Connie to shift their gazes to her. "Huh?" Connie asked "From there!" She responded and continued frustrated.
"I heard a bunch of shots!" Sasha finished, while Saitama walked close to Jean and Mikasa. The hero jointed their conversation.
"You think something happened?" Jean asked Mikasa "Most likely." She exclaimed "Hey, you better show us the power you did against the titans 'hero'." Jean declared to Saitama.
"If I can't avoid fighting humans... So be it, I cannot allow more deaths of innocent people." The Caped hero clenched his fist tightly.
That is the first time Mikasa agreed with Saitama by saying. "Indeed..." Saitama shifted his shiny head towards her. "Oh?" She continued with a blank stare.
"The Captain had this message for us including you... From now on, we'll be fighting humans, too, and not just titans." Jean turned towards her.
"Huh? You mean...?" He didn't finished his question, but Mikasa with Saitama were gone. She flew away with her manuever gear and Saitama followed her with his inhuman speed, leading him towards the direction of the gunshots.
Kenny was faking he died on the floor, a female assassin of his squad appeared front of him.
"Captain. Finally bit the dust?" She asked.
"You moron... How would I answer that if I'm dead? Ow, ow, ow... He got me good. Forgot that bar owners are allowed to keep guns for their own self-defense... For a runt, he's sure grown up." Kenny stated, and wear his hat again.
"That's wonderful." The girl said with a blank expression.
"Huh?! Like hell it is! My dream is getting further and further away..." Kenny exclaimed.
"What if the bald one attempt to stop us?" She raised an eyebrow and questioned him, Kenny gave a moderately smile.
"I would love to plant a bullet in his thick bald skull. Plus I have prepared my men for him. If he's truly invincible he will be able to resist against bullets right?!"
"I don't believe that Captain, I'm sure today is the day he will die, no matter who he is." The female assassin was sure about Saitama's death.
"We'll see about that" Kenny said, while he stood up smiling.
Levi's squad including the Caped baldy who is running, flew closer to see the wagon with unconscious Eren and Historia on it. "Hey! There goes Eren!" Connie shouted.
"Captain!" Armin said right after Connie. They saw Levi chasing the wagon but a guy flew behind and aimed towards him.
Before either of the two could react, the hero jumped out of nowhere and crippled the guy's neck with a single karate chop, causing him to hit hard on the ground.
Jean and Mikasa saw the hero's amazing vertical jumping, Jean's mouth were considerably opened from Saitama's display. Mikasa sweat a little bit but she's more focused on rescuing Eren and Historia.
"Nice act Saitama! Now Chase the wagon!" "Yes Sir!" Mikasa answered to Levi. Saitama did the same but with a neutral expression. "Okay"
"Listen up! They're used to fighting other people! They already got three of ours. If we're gonna get those two back, you can't hesitate! Specially you Saitama!" Levi stated, turning his gaze towards the running hero.
"If you get the chance, you kill! Got it?!" Saitama's eyes turned serious, just like Mikasa's. "I can cripple them pretty hard..." The hero said "Roger" Mikasa said with a cold hearted face.
More assassins from Kenny's squad appeared from the right.
"It's him! Get him!" 10 more flying assassins shot towards Saitama but the hero dodge the bullets with ease.
"I'll go fight them, You can handle the wagon with Captain?" The Caped hero asked Mikasa, She nodded to him.
After that he jumped front of one of the guys, slapping him and sending him fifty meters away on a roof. While his nose and some teeth broke from the impact with Saitama's red gloved slap.
Immediately all the other Assassins followed Saitama, he leaded them away from Mikasa and the rest of his comrades.
The hero stopped and waited for them to land. All 9 of them landed all around, surrounding the hero and aiming him with their handguns.
"Our boss told us to deal with you first, bald fucker!" Saitama's eyes were covered by shadows, he didn't respond. One of the men replied.
"Too scared to talk?! You should be cause you're a dead man now! You should stayed where you belonged freak! Whereever you came from!"
Saitama remembered what his Captain said. 'If you get the chance, you kill! Got it?!' A third guy spoke with a cocky attitude.
"Yeah! We heared enough of your stupid 'hero' deeds, this is where you die pityful baldy!" They're all ready to pull the trigger.
"Any lasts words?!" Saitama shift his shiny head forward with a goofy face. "Tell me who's your boss before I break any of your bones accidentally."
They shot in union, a huge cloud of smoke surrounded Saitama from the bullets making impact with his suit.
"Over in 2 seconds, that baldy will have multiple holes all over his body and in his head. He's done for, let's head back to assi-"
The third guy's phrase stopped and everyone got utter shocked. Saitama didn't moved an inch from his spot and the bullets didn't even torn his yellow suit.
"You're loud, you should check that." Saitama stated, appearing front of the third guy and send him 20 meters away into a house. By pushing the guy with only 1 finger!
"GHH TSK! FIREEEE!" The second guy said to the rest of his team to shot the bald bastard down, Saitama this time dodged every single bullet and took them out one by one.
"You're too slow man..." He kicked one of them, sending him all the way against the Wall.
"NO! IT CAN'T BE!" Another shouted, little did the man know, he's next.
"Look, I'm holding back as much as I can to not kill you on accident, so quit being bad guys will you?"
Saitama headbutted the guy. Making his head bleed pretty bad, the rest of them used their gears to reach high ground. They all landed on top of some roofs, Saitama was nowhere to be found.
"You all saw what he just did?!" Everyone nodded frightened "The bullets didn't even scratched him..." One of them replied.
"No! There's no way! He's just super fast, I know even that's unnatural but we got our orders from Kenny!"
"CAREFUL! NEXT TO Y-" Saitama reply to the guy, while he's sitting next to him on the roof. "That Kenny is your boss?"
Saitama instead of an answer, got another bullet rain right behind him. But he could see the bullets flying behind him in slow motion. "I'll take that as a yes" The hero declared.
"Enough you bald bastard! Stop running and fight us to the death!" Another one said after him.
"I got tired of this!" He launched himself into the air with his guns equipped, searching for Saitama. "If you're not coming, I'll go to you!"
Saitama appeared on mid air right behind him. "I'm right here." The hero karate slammed the guy into the ground. The rest of them battle cried in union and shot again.
Saitama landed right front another one. "Huh! I got you bald bastard! You can't dodge from that distance!"
He shot exactly on Saitama's face. He and everyone else dropped their guns with fear and desperation befalling them. The bullet he shot Saitama with, was shattered to the ground.
"HE'S THE DEVIL HIMSELF! RUN!" They fled away frightened.
"We must tell Kenny! Immediately!" Saitama shifted his head towards where his allies were.
"I must hurry or I'll be late." The hero jumped and launched himself forward with a punch into the air.
He saw the wagon with Eren and Historia still unconscious escaping through the gate. And Levi blocking Mikasa from going after them. "Eren!" She screamed in desperation.
Levi saw Saitama flying towards the wagon. "Saitama! Chase them! Don't let them take Eren and Historia!" Levi and the rest of his squad heared gunshots coming from the wagon. They knew Saitama begun fighting the guys on it.
Few hours later
Levi had a conversation about the incident with the wagon, while Saitama were handling Kenny's men, Armin shot and killed a human on the wagon.
"I'll tell you why you pulled the trigger... Because your comrade was about to die. Armin... Thanks to you getting blood on your hands, nobody on our squad ended up dead. Thank you." Levi stated, shifting his gaze towards Armin.
Jean speak after that. "Captain Levi, I... I thought it was wrong to be fighting other humans... And wrong for you to order us to do it. I was afraid to be hurting other people. But... I'm the one who was wrong, Next time, I'll shoot." Jean rescripted to his Captain.
"I never said anything about who was right or wrong. I don't even know myself. Are you really the one in the wrong?" Jean didn't answered, He only listened their Captain's words.
"As for Eren and Historia both will be alright. Saitama will handle those bastards that kidnapped them. Have faith in him, you too Mikasa." Levi rebuttered, making her to speak.
"I'm supposed to protect Eren..." She said with a cold expression. "Oi what I told you? Saitama is an official member of our squad. Probably stronger than anyone in here, Including Eren's titan form, the Armored titan and probably the Colossal titan too."
"How can you be so sure, Captain?" Connie asked with curiosity planted around his face.
"I know cause... He's strong." Levi stood up and changed subject, shifting towards their middle age hostage.
"Now then... It's about time we hear what he has to say." He pull out the carvat from the man's mouth and he spoke instantly.
"Wait! I'm just an old man used for moving wagons around the-" Mikasa cut him off "I've met this man once before. In the city, people were calling him Boss."
"Yeah, I know. Dimo Reeves, right?" Levi stated.
"Tsk! We were just following orders the Military Police forced on us. And failed big time... They'll plunder the Reeves Company for all that it's worth. They won't stop with me and my dumb son. They'll make sure all my employees die in so-called accidents."
"So you'll die without a fight?" Levi stated, and continued "Trost should have collapsed by now, but it's persevered. That's because the Reeves Company brings people and work together. But if the company was gone for good, just how few would survive the winter?" Levi replied to him.
"Are you suggesting I team up with you?" Dimo asked Levi "We just need to know where Eren, Historia and Saitama are. If you're supplying the Military Police, we can figure something out." Levi replied to Dimo.
"But can you... can stop my city and employees from dying of starvation?" He asked the Captain, while he kneeled front of him Levi responded. "I can't guarantee it. However, you can trust that we'll move towards that end." Dimo thought about it, he was in.
Dimo was carrying 2 members of the Military Police with his carriage. "Hey! Are Levi and them actually there?" One of them asked Dimo.
"They are. I promised him I'd cooperate, so they let us go for some reason." Dimo replied, and the carriage stopped.
"Are we there?" One of the 2 Military Police member said, and pulled aside the curtain to only see Levi and his squad. Before he could react Jean smacked him with the rifle's back.
"Reeves, you damn-" Mikasa shut the second one, he didn't even finished his phrase.
"Sorry about that, pals." Dimo said. while Levi nodded to him and took the Military Police members to gain information from them.
After a bloody torture
"Ready, Sannes? Let's try again. This is tough for me, too, but I'll do my best to-" Hanje opened the door with Levi, ready to torture him again.
"Reiss is the true royal family." He cut her off.
Erwin was staring at the window and thought. 'Saitama... ...hero... We counting on you.'
Dimo was doing a cigarette confident. "So much for trying not to stand out... Flegel is taking forever, dammit."
Kenny appeared behind Dimo and shut his mouth with his hand. "Merchants shouldn't be sellouts when it come to trust." He cutted Dimo's throat. Letting his body fall dead.
"Was it wise not to ask him where Levi or that Saitama is?" The female assassin asked. "Levi will show up even if we do nothing. As for that Saitama, he's no good. a tough opponent" Kenny said while he cleaning his khife.
"How do you know?" She asked Kenny.
"First, because I raised Levi. And second, my men informed me about that Saitama. He's Immune to bullets, possesses super speed, super strength and he's able to kill anyone he wants to."
The girl raised her eyebrows in confusion. "Then How you'll stop that invincible enemy?" Kenny stare her with a serious expression planted on his face.
"I don't know yet, but my men told me something about him, he's a goofy person. Easy to manipulate his mind. I'll leave that to Rod." Kenny replied, and start walking away with her. Flegel who was hidden in a dark ditch heared the entire conversation. He was crying and fear befall him.
"The true royal successor... ...is Historia?" Armin asked Hanje.
"In other words, Eren, Historia and Saitama are likely wherever Rod Reiss is." Hanje rebuttered to them.
"That's him." Moblit answered to them.
With Eren, Historia and Saitama
Historia is kneeled front of a middle age man with a moustache. "Historia..." He hugged her tightly and continued "I'm sorry for everything..."
Historia inhaled in his hug, while Eren was tied up and staring them.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHH! I GIVE UP! LET ME GO PLEASE!" Historia and Rod heared a man from Kenny's squad screaming and crying outside of the door.