Finally Season 4 is here! I hope you all enjoy it, like I said the heroes will change some major events, without anything else enjoy reading.
Chapter 65 (Enemies beyond the ocean)
2 years after the adventures of our heroes/Fort Slava
A hawk was flying on the sky as it was roaring. "Hey, you... It's dangerous out here..." It was Falco half unconscious laying on the ground, there was a crater next to him with brutally annihilated soldier bodies.
Falco was talking to the bird as he lifted his hand and staring at the sky. "Go, fly... Somewhere... ... Far away. Use those wings of yours..." Suddenly a soldier with a rifle shouted to the boy.
"FALCO!" He ran and reached Falco who was now staring him with emptiness in his eyes. "You're alive?! Hey! Are you hurt?!" The man demanded to know Falco's condition.
The blond boy finally spoke back to the man. "Huh? Brother... What's going on? Why are you dressed that way...?" It seems Falco hit his head and forgot Marley was at war with other humans.
"C'mon...Grab on. I'm just glad you can talk." Falco's brother took off his helmet and placed it on Falco's head for safety. He hold his little brother on his shoulder and run away as fast as he could.
"Damn!" A bullet rain start behind them, more Marley soldiers like them were running to avoid the LMG bullets. The two brothers successfully jumped down to a small pit where their allies were.
"Falco!" Gabi shouted scared for her friend's condition. "Show me where they got you!" Another soldier next to them asked a question. "How's colt?" Falco's older brother turned to the man extremely nervous, however he didn't hid the truth and said. "The warrior unit on the front line took a direct hit from the explosives and was blown away!" The middle-aged man continue with another question.
"And the trenches?" "We can't dig any farther!" "We can't? Is that an order? Are you trying to give me orders, Eldian?" Another common soldier entered the conversation and plowed to assist his superior. "Hey, what the hell do you think you're doing, speaking to Commander Magath like that?!"
Falco now had Gabi and 2 news individuals around him. "Are you drunk, Falco?" One girl soldier asked.
"What are we... Doing here?" Gabi noticed what happened to her friend and answered the girl's question. "He must've hit his head." From the other conversation, Falco's brother kept informing their Commander for the situation. "But... Given the situation, we..."
A boy with black hair and glasses let some water fell on Falco's wounded head as she explained to him what was going on. "We've been at war for four years. Do you remember?" Falco believed her but still he had a weak sense of understanding.
"Huh? Oh... I... Guess so...?" Gabi look at him with a serious face and bright orange eyes. "Looks like we're going to have to explain the operation to you all over again. Just listen to me, Falco." Gabi told the tragic truth to hee friend, whilst he was staring at her with a desperate face.
"We've been at war for four years, don't you remember when they took us to the battlefields to fight? It doesn't matter now though. Cause we're finally reaching the end." The hawk kept flying around the fort as Gabi was explaining.
"All we have to do is to capture Fort Slava. Well, more specifically, all we have to do is to sink the mid-east allied forces' fleet in the naval station right below it. And then we'll have won this war for Marley. If we can't win against humans, how are we going to defeat the devil himself?" Gabi asked and grabbed everyone's attention.
"Don't talk about him... If you don't want a bullet right through your skull!" The soldier next of Commander Magath ordered Gabi.
"Gabi... In a situation like this, you talking about that bald ma-" Gabi cut off the girl with the glasses and decreed. "He is no man! He is the devil himself."
"Oi, shut the fuck up if you don't want to lose your head!" The soldier shut off Gabi for good as she immediately obeyed to his order. "S-Sorry! I didn't mean to talk about him... ...Where I'm was? Ah yeah. Falco, Fort Slava defends the high ground overlooking the naval station. Attacking the port will be impossible without control of the fort."
The blond girl that was taking care of Falco's wound asked Gabi. "Can't the Marley navy attack them from the sea?" "Agh..." Falco holded his pain cause of the cloth made contact with his opened wound.
The boy with the glasses panicked and tied a bandage tighter than it should on Falco's wound, making him flinch in pain. "Ow!" He even let some tears cause of the pain.
The boy asked with his panicked face presence. "Zofia?! Do you really think we can count on that navy to do a thing for us?! That cesspool of incompetence that took four whole years to take control of the seas?! Their first accomplishment worth a damn! And it cost them more than half of all those battleships!" The boy turned nuts and tighten even harder Falco's bandage.
"AND THEY HAVE THE NERVE TO TELL US IN THE ARMY THAT WE NEED TO AT LEAST TAKE DOWN A FORT FOR THEM BEFORE THEY CAN DO A THING? LIKE IT'S NOTHING?! GIVE ME A BREAK, YOU BASTAAAARDS!" "OWWWW!" Falco screamed.
Gabi shout at him to let go of Falco. "Udo! Stop trying to rip Falco's head off!" The boy with glasses understood his mistake and immediately let go. "Ah...! Sorry... Sorr-" Falco cut his sentence and asked Gabi while he was holding his head.
"And so... Why have they send us to the front lines? We're just warrior cadets..." Gabi was sitting on the wall of dirt, she gave them a smile and replied quite proud. "Can't you tell...? It's so they can figure it out. Which two of us will be... ...The next warriors to inherit the powers of Armored titan and Female titan!" Gabi felt so badass after saying those words, too bad she didn't know Saitama could defeat all the shifters at once on his own easily.
Deep inside her heart Gabi had one major goal, to take down the 'devil' that she found out he exists 4 years ago. She would be the one to take down his demon minions and him as well.
"The time is coming soon. Commander Magath has decided that this is where our final exam will to be held." Gabi continued determined and fully serious.
"He has his eye on what's coming next. The operation to suppress the island of Paradis. He's looking for two warriors to inherit the titans powers like I said. Those powers will be our greatest weapon there against the devil."
Gabi planted a guilty smile on her face. "Wonder which two of us is going to be chosen." Falco looked down sad for mere seconds, then he shifted his gaze at Gabi with a small smirk. "Oh yeah, Gabi? You're making it sound like no one here could even be compared to you." Gabi kept her cool expression and mumble to Falco.
"Well, who could?" Falco stared at her with a pathetic grimace. The two other girls joined them. "Then again, if it's us versus you..." The blonde girl mumbled kinda happy.
"...If we look at our grades, then-" Gabi cut off Udo to shut her doubts. "No, Udo. It's not about grades. Aren't I always telling you?" Gabi asked them without getting an answer, she resume her point.
"What makes me different from all of you is that I'm prepared. Prepared to carry the fate of all Eldians on my shoulders and slaughter every last one of the devils that have caused us so much pain. Specially their leader...The devil. Who is living with them on that island." Gabi was holding explosives in her hands, she continued her sentence determined.
"And by winning this war, I'll prove it to everyone. The only Eldians left in this world are good Eldians. I'll free everyone from the internment zone. I'll face the devil Saitama and kill him! I'm not going to lose by him." Gabi's bright eyes were now blazing like fire. Not literally, just because of her determination.
Her 3 friends didn't spoke at first. Falco though had enough courage to say. "So... What have you been fiddling with all this time?" Gabi lifted the explosives and show it to them. She closed her eyes and am smiled in guilt. "This? Cool, huh?"
"Why, Commander Magath...?" From the other side of the pit, Falco's brother was talking with his superior. "It's impossible for infantry like us to destroy the tracks behind that machine gun on our own." He continued moderately nervous.
"They have eyes all along that trench. There isn't a single crack in their defenses... On top of that, they have artillery supporting them from the fort. If we stay here, we're just waiting for them to start raining shells down on our heads." Commander Magath finally replied back him.
"Sounds like you have an idea, Colt." Falco's brother named Colt indeed had a genius plan. "Let's let Jaws and Cartman loose here. Galliard and Pieck should be able to do it. They'd be able to wipe out the enemies in the pillbox and the trench in the blink of an eye." "No." Magath didn't agreed to that kind of plan.
The Commander stated with a dead-serious gaze. "We lose if we play our cards in the wrong order." A scout soldier next of Colt and Magath reply to his superior. "Commander. It's appeared.
Magath took a look with the binoculars. "...What has...?" Colt asked confused.
"It." Magath knew this was coming.
"The armored train. And specifically, the four guns on its front and back cars. The allies' new weapon, the anti-titan artillery." Magath kept explaining about the armored train to Colt. "The 100MM armor-piercing shells they fire would be able to stop a titan in one shot. Even one of the nine titans. Heh, I wonder what that Saitama devil would do against those metal beasts." Colt felt tremendously unsettled and nervous when he heared the hero's name.
However he ignored it and spoke about the two titan shifters. "But... Both of our titans are quick... I don't see how either could have their nape pierced..." Magath took his eyes off from the binoculars and responded to Colt.
"But if that does happen?" Colt thought about the worst case scenario. "We will... Lose the power of a titan, as well as a warrior. And there is no guarantee that we'll be able to regain the power of that titan." Magath replied as he was glaring daggers at the fort. "That's right. Our nine years long plan to regain the founder will come to an end, and the tables will be turned on us. Just as when we lost the colossus and almost the female too."
Magath was saying the truth to Colt as he was listening. "It was seen as a drop in Marley's military capabilities, triggering the war that continues to this day... ...and delaying the Paradis plan." Gabi and the others looked at their superior as he asked Colt. "What allows our motherland of Marley to be the great empire it is today?" Colt immediately answered the question.
"The power of the titans." Magath agreed with him and resumed.
"That's right... If we lose any more, this country won't be able to sustain itself any longer. The power of the titans is an absolute. That is how it must be..." Magath shifted his head to his left and gave an order to a soldier. "Prepare the warrior unit for a charge at once." "Sir!"
Colt spoke louder to Magath this time. "Commander Magath...! You-!" Magath didn't like Colt's voice tone so he glared daggers at him. "I what, Eldian? Aren't you all warriors who have pledged your loyalty to Marley?" He asked Colt.
"This is your chance to be honored by our motherland. All eight hundred Eldians here. You warrior cadets stand by here. The warrior unit's change must destroy those tracks no matter what." Magath lifted a finger to them as he continued.
"Because so long as that armored train prowls around the perimeter of the fortress, neither Armor nor Beast can be called upon here." "...But." Magath put his hand on Colt's chest.
"Colt. You too. If you think you have what it takes to inherit the Beast, you ought to get out there and show us you're prepared to be a leader." Colt felt slightly negative about that as he growled quietly. "Gh..." Gabi and Falco was looking at them more intense that the other two girls.
"Commander! The train is coming towards our location!" A soldier next of Magath said tremendously frustrated.
"So they decided to skip the waiting and come right here to annihilate us huh?" Suddenly they saw something destroying the enemy ships at the ocean, one by one was exploding and sinking.
"What the hell?!" Magath and everyone else felt shocked and almost got paralyzed from what they saw.
"The Armor, Beast, and Female have not been deployed yet, what the hell is happening there!?" Gabi shouted extremely afraid of what they were witnessing, even some soldiers from inside the fort felt scared and afraid of seeing their dozens ships being destroyed like that and so fast.
"WHAT IN THE ACTUAL SHIT?! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!? YOU MARLEY PIECES OF SHIT!" A soldier from inside the fort screamed in anger.
"Gabi?! Where are you going?" Gabi took off her uniform as she was now only with her underwear and her nightgown. "Someone must throw those on tha train rails, they are distracted, I can do it!" Gabi left the pit and run right towards the fort.
"WHAT THE HELL?! GABI!" Magath just noticed her, although he couldn't do anything to stop her. She was too far away, she was getting closer and closer with the explosives on her hands. The soldiers from inside the fort almost lost their minds for some seconds because of the unexplainable event they and their Marley foes witnessed.
"You all see that?! It's... Coming right towards us!" The girl with the glasses uttered nervously as she pointing to a cloud of dust that was approaching them in immense speed.
"It can't be Zeke with Reiner and Annie can it?" Colt asked completely confused. Magath didn't had an answer, he kept changing glances from the weird cloud smoke to Gabi, then back and forth again.
"It's too fast to be a titan!" The blonde girl said next to Falco. "Then someone explain to me, what the FUCK is that thing heading over here!?" Magath received only a silent look from everyone around him.
"Could it be..." Magath then widen his eyes so much, that they thought he saw a ghost. "No fucking way..." Suddenly the cloud of smoke disappeared as they only felt a wind pressure hitting their faces.
"WHAT THE?!" Colt fell down because of the wind pressure, so did everyone else. "Something passed by with incredible speed!" Magath was smart, he knew something odd was going on.
"What kind of creature can be so fast that we could only feel the wind pressure it created when it passed us!?" Colt asked, but everyone were now looking to where Gabi was. They saw a man in a yellow herosuit, with a white cape and a shiny bald head.
They knew EXACTLY who it was, but they had no idea how he got there.
"Gabi was correct... He is the devil..." Falco couldn't take his eyes off from Saitama whilst he was walking near Gabi who she didn't noticed him yet.
2 years passed but Saitama was exactly the same, not a single old-age sign. The soldiers inside the fort cleared their eyes because the wind pressure levitated some dirt and flew inside of them.
"What the? A woman, and a... a... Who the fuck is this guy behind her?" The first soldier who was holding a LMG asked. "I have no idea, but they are definitely Eldians. We must kill them before they transform into titans!"
Gabi immediately detonated and threw the explosives as far as she could, still didn't noticed Saitama who was now kneeled behind of her, scratching his head and thinking what a little girl was doing in a war zone.
The explosives landed on the train rails and exploded. The armored train trailed off from the rails and fell down unbalanced.
Magath shouted as hard as he could behind him. "GALLIARD! NOW! JAWS!" "Gabi really did it! But what about the devil?!" The girl with glasses asked without getting a response.
Gabi closed her eyes and turned around to run as far as her legs could get her. After 2 seconds she got blocked and hit her head on someone's chest, she fell on the ground and shook her head to see what blocked her escape route.
"YOU?! Y-YOU DEVIL!" Saitama look at her with an innocent neutral expression. He stood up and offered her his red-gloved hand. "Here, let me get you to your friends." Gabi wanted to kill him right now, right here. She couldn't believe her biggest enemy was standing right front of her.
A wounded soldier struggled to grab the LMG inside the fort, but he managed to do it and aimed at Gabi and Saitama.
"You Marley cowards... We won't let you... have your WAY!" He begun shooting at them without regrets. "Stay behind me." Saitama gently holded Gabi's back and let her behind of his white cape.
One Punch Man clenched his hand into fist and prepared to punch the incoming shells rain. "Normal Punch." He punched the air front of him, the whole air trajectory and pressure changed, the bullets went flying back to where they came from.
"F-FUCK!" The soldiers inside the fort took cover as their own bullets got thrown back to their sender.
"RAAAAAAHHHH!" A scream from above scared even more the soldiers inside the fort. They looked up and saw countless pure titans falling down onto them.
"UWWWWWWAA!" A scream could be heard before the titans fall into the fort. "FIRE!" There were now 3 battle sides. Marley against Mid-east allied forces against One Punch Man.
"I WILL KILL YOU WITH MY OWN HANDS! YOU DEVIL! YOU HELL SPAWN! BASTARD!" Gabi climbed on top Saitama's back and she was punching his bald head.
"Stop tickling me, please." Saitama replied calmly to her, he turned around to return Gabi at her allies inside the pit.
"Hold tight up there. I'm letting you touch my head, that's more than enough child." Saitama mumble expressionless whilst Gabi was now even biting him. Without even scratching him of course.
"Oh? I punched that dude before. I think? It's been 2 years from back then inside one of the Walls." Saitama stared at Galliard who was in his Jaws titan form.
Galliard saw Saitama holding Gabi on his back, so he didn't attacked him. He went to deal with the train rails instead.
Saitama safely returned Gabi to her friends, he let her down and looked everyone around him. All were aiming at him with rifles and pistols.
"Ah? I'm not a bad guy." He stated in boredom.
"You are the devil that came from Paradis island to slaughter all Marley. Answer our questions before you die." Magath uttered serious towards One Punch Man.
"How you came here?" He asked Saitama who picked his nose.
"I'm was just bored inside the Walls, so I decided to go for a walk. I kept running and accidentally got passed the ocean. I'm was running on water without paying much attention. After 10 minutes I saw many ships and airships here. So I guessed there were innocent people that needed rescue." No one believed him, specially Gabi.
"SHOOT THIS BASTARD! THAT DEVIL! GHHAAA!" Gabi shouted and grabbed a gun, she stick it on Saitama's bald head and shoot in close range.
The bullet fell off shattered from Saitama's head whilst he stood up from the pit to run back at the fort. "Alright, now you all go. There is no need to fight, I'll stop them for you." Saitama took a glance at the fort and saw an armored cart titan who had heavy manually artillery on his back. He also saw Jaws titan killing whoever was on his path.
"I can't let them killing for no reason, they won. No need to take out more lifes." Saitama dashed forward and disappeared from everyone's eyesights.
"He is truly the devil... But we can use him to win this war..." Magath had a crazy idea popped in his mind. Everyone turned to face him with shocked expressions, Gabi had the biggest shock to hear that.
"W-We can't have the devil on our side! Marley is doomed if you allow that to happend Commander!" Magath stared at Gabi a bit angry.
"He offered his help without even knowing us! I know it's totally off and weird to suddenly being friendly with one of our biggest foes but we have no OTHER CHOICE GABI!" Gabi would never believe Commander Magath could say such words.
"No... I... Need to... Kill him..." Gabi gritted her teeth and run again with a pistol back to the fort.
"NO! GABI! COME BACK HERE! THAT'S AN ORDER!" The girl didn't listen, she only wanted Saitama dead. "I will take him down! That's my ONLY chance!" She shouted determined whilst she was looking for Saitama.