Chapter 22 (Cold Hearts Collide)
They saw transformation lighting behind them. Erwin stare surpriced to see dozens of titans holding positions outside of the Wall, at the middle was the Beast titan who was kneeled down.
"Erwin, Genos and Saitama are down there with Reiner." Levi said to Erwin while Saitama and Genos were facing the Armored titan inside of Wall Maria. Reiner hardened his hands and feet, he prepared to run towards the cyborg and his master.
"Sensei! Let me handle that titan, you must go help the others!" "Okay, I'm trusting you Genos." Saitama jumped back atop of the Wall next to Erwin and Levi's squad.
'Who the hell is that? I never saw him before... ...is that metal around him?! Forget it, I'll just crash him!' Reiner shouted inside his mind whilst he charged on Genos. The young cyborg took a stance and activated his incineration cannons. "I got you! Incineration Cannons!" He unleashed the shot on the Armored Titan.
Public information about Genos.
Genos' palms contain ports which allow him to fire large and powerful blasts of heat, fire or plasma across significant distances. A blast from his palms are powerful enough to obliterate a multi-story building.
The blast of heat made impact with the Armored titan's body, Reiner got nervous and shocked. 'What the fuck is that?! WHO?! HOW?! Impossible! I must retreat! My body can't handle this heat!' The Armored titan falled back scared.
"Hmm, you're not going anywhere monster! I'm about to eliminate you." Genos raised his arm menacingly at the Armored titan shifter.
Erwin shouted to the heroes and Levi's squad. "Listen! Let Genos primary deal with the Armored titan!" "Roger!"
"Hanje, why didn't he signal to assist Genos? What's he thinking?!" Eren asked nervously.
"He's watching the enemy's movements. Because Reiner and friends prepared some sort of grand welcome for us. Too bad they will fail miserably cause we have prepared 3 immortals against those fools."
Hanje replied and stare the Beast titan, Erwin saw behind the ape titan another titan who was standing on all four and had luggage on his saddle.
"Gh... That quadruped type is carrying luggage on its saddle." Erwin stated and told inside his mind. 'It wasn't one of those that just transformed. In which case, is that the enemy's scout? If it took notice of our approach and informed Reiner, that must mean...'
The Commander snapped out of it and said. "That quadruped type down there is an intelligent titan. No, there might even be others."
The Beast titan screamed and hit the ground with his hand, shattering the area around him. The titans of three and two meters began running towards the Wall.
"They're moving! Multiple two to three meters approaching!" Hanje shouted to Saitama and Everyone else.
Erwin's pov
'It's just like the raid at Utgard Castle... They'll go after the horses first. Their primary objective is to capture Eren, but... To archieve that, they'll take away our only escape option. No... They doesn't know about Terrible Tornado. We can escape even without horses, but since we possess immortals we must use them however we can!'
'Right now, the fact that all those larger titans are staying in formation is proof that their only purpose is to cage us in.'
Armin shouted scared toward Erwin "Commander! Genos successfully injured the Armored titan! He's retreating back! But we still don't know where Bertholdt is!"
"Yeah, I know." Erwin said calmly and his gaze stuck on the Beast titan.
'At this point, what I fear most... ...is that if the heroes die. We'll be as good as dead, we have no troops nor strong weapons as the heroes. I'm begging for the plan to work...' Levi got tired of waiting and reply.
"Are you finally ready to say something? I could've had breakfast during the wait." Erwin turned around and ordered everyone.
"Levi Squad, go assist Genos with the Armored titan! Employ the thunder spears at your own discretion! Archive your objective whatever it takes! This moment! This battle! The survival of humanity depends on it! Once more, for humanity... ...give your hearts!"
"Yes! Sir!" They all shouted in union. And flew off to help Genos whilst Levi and Saitama were behind Erwin.
"Wait! Saitama. Levi. I did say Levi Squad, but I need you two to stay, Saitama and Levi."
"What is it Erwin? You don't want us to protect Eren?" Levi asked with a serious expression.
"That's right... And now the real deal." Erwin pointed his blade towards the Beast titan. "Saitama, Levi I need you two to strike down every single titan and that one over there. You're the only ones I can trust to take on the Beast Titan."
"Understood." "I hope he's strong cause it's really boring." Saitama and Levi jumped down and prepared to strike against the Beast titan's army.
Reiner was lost in his thoughts 'How did that bastard Saitama find me in the first place? Armin? Was it you? No... It doesn't matter. What matter now is that I need to get rid of that unknown individual. Who the hell is he?! How is he able to manipulate fire?! Dammit!'
Eren transformed and grabbed Reiner's attention.
'Ghh?! Eren! Why did he show up unprovoked? They should be painfully aware that he's our primary objective. Now I understand... It must be Saitama near and protecting him! FUCK! his strength doesn't make any sense!' Eren start running away while Reiner had his gaze on him.
"Oi, big walking rock! Eyes on me!" Genos said and launched himself against Reiner.
'SHIT! I must deal with that fucker right now! Eren is planning to flee south and escape over the Wall with Saitama covering his back!'
Mikasa and the rest of Levi's squad equipped the thunder spears and kept some distance between Genos and Reiner.
With Saitama and Levi
Saitama and the short Captain were slaughtering the three and two meter titans from outside Wall Maria, Saitama with his fists and Levi with his blades. The Captain stood on top of a roof and shouted to Saitama.
"Saitama, clean up the small ones already! Do it before the Beast titan moves! Don't you dare die hero!"
Saitama gave to Levi a neutral expression. "You should be worried about your own self man, I got this." Saitama exclaimed toward Levi whilst he was watching the Beast titan.
Erwin remembered his past and said inside himself.
'When I was a cadet, I told the others about my father's theory which I also believed. And that once I was a Scout, I would prove it. But after I joined the Scouts, I stopped talking about it for some reason. No, that's wrong... It wasn't some reason. I had realized something. That only I... was fighting for myself. That only I... had a dream I wanted to see.'
Erwin was thinking about it whilst Saitama was destroyed titans at the far background.
'Before I knew it, I was giving people orders and inspiring my comrades. Saying they should give their hearts to humanity. Thus, I fooled my comrades... Fooled myself... And upon a mountain of their corpses... ...I now stand. And yet, the basement lingers at the back of my mind. Even if the heroes fail and die, I might be able to reach the basement before I die... The basement Grisha Yeager left behind... The truth of our world...'
"Now! Eren!" Genos got out of the way and the Attack titan appeared behind the Armored titan, he had hardening skin around his fingers and punched Reiner's face so hard he shattered it entirely.
'I got you bastard! You can't escape now!' Eren shouted in his mind with gritted teeth.
Flashback in the forest at night
"So you want to take him down?" Genos asked Eren "Yes, I need you to injure him at first then you'll give me a signal and I'll come to end him once and for all! That piece of shit Reiner." Eren stated and took confirmation by Genos' nod.
"What are those things for?" Saitama questioned Mikasa while he were scratching his head. "They called thunder spears, don't you remember what you did when Hanje introduced them to us?!" She stated seriously to Saitama.
"Not really... I don't remember a lot of things in my life." Mikasa smacked her head and kept walking in the dark forest. "Forget it baldy!"
End of Flashback
'Those experiments paid off!' Eren were punching and smashing Armored titan's armor, he had cornered him on a roof and he was punching repeatedly.
'These fists are all I need to fight!' Eren punched him again and collided his hardened fist into Armored titan's face, breaking his left eye and injuring him fatally.
'By focusing the hardening on one spot, it gets even stronger! Since his armor's spread across his whole body, I can smash it like thin ice!' Reiner charged on Eren in a fail attempt to grab him but the Attack titan grabbed his head, Eren shouted from inside the titan's nape.
"Too slow, you big oaf!" Reiner got mad and grabbed Eren's leg furiously. "Wha-" Suddenly the Armored titan was levitating on the air with dozens of abandoned houses and debris, he was covered with a green aura around his body.
'WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?! I'M FLYING?! GHAAH?!' The Armored titan shook his head to see a green hair lady floating just like him. 'WHO THE FUCK IS TH-' Tatsumaki cut his thoughts and said to everyone else nearby.
"That area's got some nice rubble. Hurry up and get out of my way." Hanje screamed to Mikasa and everyone else.
"Flee away from the area! Eren you too! She's using her psychic powers against Reiner!" The Attack titan obeyed to Hanje and falled back to them.
'She's using her... psychic powers... Is that woman and the previous man JUST LIKE SAITAMA?! NO... It cannot be! I can't... ...move a muscle...!'
"Hey! You think you're tough big guy?" Tatsumaki retorted towards the Armored titan.
Reiner's mind got crazy 'What did she just... HOW!? WHEN?! I DON'T THINK MY FORM CAN TAKE SUCH DAMAGE! DAMMIIIIIT!'
"A present!" She extend her hands left and right and the green aura around her glow brighter.
"Clear out!" All the houses charged on Reiner and made huge clouds of smoke and dust upon the impact.
Mikasa took a glance at the surroundings and saw another person. "What the?" She fly with her gear near and faced him.
"Hey! Who are yo-" The person turned around and had similar face with Eren.
"I'm was about to ask you a different question... Mikasa, Tsk!" Sonic stated to her while both of them, dodged huge boulder pieces from Tatsumaki's attack. Sonic had both of his arms crossed together.
Suddenly she felt an enormous power befalling her whole body. 'What is happening?! That's the same immense power I once felt when I saved Eren when we were kids... Captain Levi asked me about it... This guy has the same voice and very similar face to Eren, who is he!? He even has a scarf like me, except his scarf is way much bigger and purple.'
"How you know my name stranger!" Sonic smirked and inform her. "Your enemies told me about you Scouts, they even told me about a dangerous bald man which I know who he is, they told me about a girl with a red scarf, that's you and for last a short dude named Levi, I really don't care about you all. I just want to defeat Saitama and reclaim my honor!"
"Huh! Let me know your name!" Mikasa demanded to know the ninja's identity. "You can call me Speed-O-Sound Sonic! I traveled from another world to fight and bring down my nemesis, Saitama!" The modern ninja retorted back to Mikasa.
"Y-You can come with us! He- He's here! I can take you to him!" Sonic walk closer to her and gave her a serious expression. Mikasa blushed and covered her face with her scarf.
"I will find him on my own, thanks. Mikasa." Sonic disappeared from her eyesight after a couple of attoseconds.
With Tatsumaki and the Armored titan
"Now you can use your stupid toys weaklings!" Tatsumaki put down the almost dead Armored titan who had most of his armor broken from her attack.
Jean, Connie, Sasha and Hanje launched the thunder spears on Reiner's nape. "Now! We can attack with thunder spears in situations exactly like this! Right here and now, we've got to settle it!"
Everyone shot the thunder spears and all of them stuck on Reiner's nape, they detonated them by pushing away the detonation rope. Reiner had widen open eyes and mouth. The Armored titan screamed in pain from the explosions. "We did it!" Jean shouted to his comrades.
Flashback - Thunder Spears invention
"You see?" Hanje smiled and showed everyone the power of the thunder spears, including Saitama, Tatsumaki and Genos.
Everyone excluding the three heroes, were impressed and had their gazes on the destroyed tree. Even Mikasa had her glance shocked.
"It's powerful, as you can see. It's like a strike of lightning. Hence the name. 'Thunder Spear.' Hanje resumed whilst she equipped one of the thunder spears.
"However, I highly doubt that is enough to compare with the heroes powers. Saitama wanna give it a try?" The hero shifted his attention to Hanje and came closer.
"Okay, test that new 'weapon' of yours on me." Hanje smiled and aimed the thunder spear on Saitama.
"Heheh! Here goes!" She launched and detonated it, Saitama grabbed it with his gloved right hand.
"Is that a-" KABOOM! The spear exploded on Saitama, Genos wasn't worried about his Sensei.
Many of the Scouts thought Saitama was dead meat. But after the dust cleared out, the hero came out of the smoke with not a single scratch on him, except of his suit being torn to mutiple spots.
"Ahh crap! Genos can you sew it up when we get back from the operation?" The cyborg nodded towards his invincible master. Leaving everyone else with utter shock and sweat all over their heads. Excluding Tatsumaki who was staring away with a cocky expression. "Hmph!"
End of Flashback - With Saitama and Levi
"Now! Saitama! Let's head for the Beast titan!" Levi shouted determined to the Caped hero.
"Ohhhh, It's a giant monkey!" Saitama replied, as he watch the Beast titan preparing some rocks to throw towards them.
"Tch! I'll get to cover, You must take his attention and give me time to strike from the left!" Levi ordered Saitama who agreed with a small nod.
"Okay, If you say so." Saitama prepared to run towards the Beast titan.