Chapter 16 : Resist and Bite
The 10 meter class severed fingers flew in different direction when it tried to arch his arm out for Gohan. The monkey boy minced its face to pieces ,and slided across its neck where the head used to be and cut off the ill fated giant nape.
A 6 meter class made the same attemp when he landed on a roof. A sound of cracking bone could be heard when Gohan kick its hand away,leaving it to grab its hand in pain. The boy sprinted to his target's ear,and grabbed it and used it to swing to the nape ,slicing it apart. Blood splattered at him but vaporised before it could touch him due to the hot blue aura around him.
The son of Goku spinned midair as he landed onto the ground. His ki-sensing arched out to detect a 12 meter was approaching. He shot up two cable under the Titan groined and slided beneath it as he retracted it ,with the help of the ki of his body and his ODM Gear gas,he was faster than a lightning bolt. The young man leaped, ran on the titan back and swung his blades when he met the thing's neck.
"Gonna have to break my promise to you,Eren." Gohan said when he flung himself in to a window.
He jumped out of a window of the same building,breaking glasses.
Pixis and his men were not blind ,they had clearly seen the red signal,which meant that the operation had failed. To their asumption ,a serious mishap was obstructing the plan. The Garrisons who were on top of the Wall collasped in disbelief that their comrades had died for nothing.
Busrts of gas snapped them out of their distraught . Ian ,Rico and Mitabi had returned,along with their squads. This caused Commander Pixis to frown when he saw them. But then he widen his eyes when he realized the lack in number of the returning party.
"Where is Ackerman ,Jaeger and Son?" Asked the Garrison commander.
The elite trio hesitantly look at each other ,as if they were telepathically coercing one another to break the news. Finally,and as it should be,Ian stepped up and reported.
"Sir ,Eren Jaeger for some reason has lost control and attacked Ackerman. Gohan somehow managed to knock him out before he could do any further damage." Ian took a glance at his CO, who raised an eyebrow,notifying him that he had not answered his question. "Mikasa stayed in case Jaeger comes to his sense,and Son told us to retreat and asked us to tell you to call off the decoying operation."
"And you listened ? I thought you was the team leader!"
"Sir,you might not believe this,but there was some...complication. I-I don't ...I-I don't think I can explain what it is to you,Commander Pixis. You have to see it for yourself."
"So he has finally decided to do it,hasn't he?! I should have seen it coming, his lack of faith." The comander mentally cursed while he was saying to his surbodinates. "He switches on going with his original plan when he's seen the dimmest sign of failure."
"Reckless! Indiscipline! Selfish! And mean!" The Garrison soldiers locked their eyes into Anka who was cursing Gohan "This is not like him when we first met,it was like someone entirely different invaded his body!"'
'Of all the people who would dissappoint me,it had be you.' The commander took out his flask before taking a sip,raised his brows thinking about his candidate who has now gone rouge.
"Fine! Do as he said!" Commander found these word pouring out of his lips "Call off the decoys!"
"Look,over there"
"What the hell is that?"
"No,it can't be!"
The cadets corps and the garrisons were tasked to act as a lure ,in hence to carve a safest path for the elite team. So far, they had lost a fifth of their number trying to gather as many Titans as possible to the opposite side of the Wall.
Seeing the red smoke that had been shot up in the possition where they knew the Elite Team should be, caused the troop nothing more than disbelief and confusion. Armin immediately dropped the spare gas canisters he was holding and ran away across the Wall.
"Armin,where're you going?"
To focus on comprehensing what was going on ,Armin was unable to hear his friend cries ,he continued to run his way to Mikasa and Eren with out turning back. He would miss something else as well.
"Wait,is that... Gohan?"
"Wasn't he with the elite?"
"What is he doin' ?"
"Is he-Is he on fire?"
Marco was about to call out for Armin again when he was interupted by his comrades,the freckled boy then in turn look down beneath the Wall to see what they were talking about.
Gohan ,who was enflamed with hot blue aura around his body,was walking on the ground toward the Titans that was holding up at the wall. He stepped on a puddle of water when he stopped,evaporising it . The boy took a stance then let out a war cry than deafened his fellow comrades,enlarging the aura,and caught the Titans attention. Footstep thundered the ground when they decided to head to him.
"All lined up ,perfect. You know ,I've faced monsters that were far worse that you carnivores,Saiyans,one of whom was my uncle, Frieza and his men ,the androids 18 and 17,and I am the one who'd killed Cell ." he continued to stride to his enemy "10 meters,20 meters,7 meter,or 3 or how hight you are. You're all the same to me." He ejected a cable that went throught the Titans " YOU'RE NOTHING BUT CORPSES!" And he himself,ejected as well.
Metal flashed as he soared through the horde of Titans, even from on top of the Wall,the sound of flesh being sliced could still be heard. When the boy landed on the ground, it took three seconds for the Titans to fell,one by one and in pieces. Their remains started to decompose,confirming his kills. The boy shot up a hook to a nearby building where he hovered off, not bothering to stay and massure how deep has his spectators jaws had dropped.
"I think I did not get much sleep lastnight" Commented Marco,it was amazing for him to say it iut while his jaw could have dropped to the ground.
As stated before,Armin mind was too overwhelmed with other matters to be bothered about the commotion caused by his comrades. The young genius sprinted across the posts on the Wall.
'Eren ,Mikasa,Gohan,what is going on?'
"Don't worry,Eren. I got you covered. Your room is nothing but tidied." Gohan whispered to his ear. "Don't tell mom!"
Eren rubbed his eyes,everything became clearer to him, His farther was reading in the dining table while his mother and Mikasa were washing dishes and he and Gohan were both laying on a bench near the windows. He remebered it now,it had changed a lot the day Gohan arrives, their live. Gohan alway asked Eren if he had finished his meal or not,and Eren always said yes,and offered him his portion. His familly new member never suffers bad grades in school,although he always got stink-eyed by their schoolmates due to deformity he has ,but no one dared to bully him since his skill in combat was well-known in the town. Mikasa drew him picture,which was a nice one. His father was not very shocked when Gohan demonstrated his medical knowlegde,well he did shocked,but not that shocked. Despite being from Wall Sina,the monkey boy never shown to be typical lazybone rich-kid,he was very helpful,doing chores volluntarily, he even sneaks to Eren room everytime his mom tells him to clean it,Eren. Sometimes Eren thought his parent likes Gohan more than him,sometime he believed that he had been left out.
"You're wrong." he gawk at Gohan when the boy spoke to him "You are their child,and they just met me. If they have to choose,they'll choose you over everyone else. They got frustrated at you because you are you,and they know it,but love you,they still. They expected you to behave the way they wanted the day you were born,but they're not disapointed that you not." And then he started fidgeting a bit "Besides,I won't stay here long,when they find my mom,I'll go."
"For some reasons I don't want you to leave. My gut telling me something bad would happen without you!"
"Oh, I can't help but understand." Chuckled Gohan " It'll be fine, I would not be leaving imediately! It's gonna take time for the police to arrive ,ask me questions and go back to find my mom." he scatched his ear. "On the bright side,until then,I'm your matial art teacher."
"Really?" Agaped Eren,he had been asking Gohan for this for too many times. "You're gonna teach me?
"Yeah,why not? You're gonna be the most hopeless student I ever had,well you are my first pupil. But when we're done,Mr Piccolo will be proud."
"Mr Piccolo? Isn't that your mentor? Are you gonna teach me the way he teaches you?"
"No,that would be too much. I'd have to leave you in the woods when you were four to survive on your own."
"He DID THAT when you were four?" Once again,Eren agaped "What is wrong with him?"
"It's a rather long story."
"Tell me 'bout it."
"It started when my father was just a little boy.."
"Maybe later?"
"Hmm,yeah,maybe later. Let's just take a little nap ,shall we?"
Both boys yawned in mutual agreement and tucked themselves in their blanket.
If Gohan knew about Pixis decision of approving his sugestion,he would smirk,for couple of few first seconds,because the Commander of the Garrison had gave it a little...twist. To be fair,he did call off the decoy operation,but he ordered the troops to do something eles.
"Okay,soldiers. The decoys have been called off for obvious reason." An officer informed Connie,Annie,Jean and his squad members "A new order have been given, join Gohan Son in combat and provide him with any needed support!"
"He needs that?!" Asked Connie,rhetorically.
"Well,obviously not!"Answered the officer "But we've been ordered so. So,uh,get on the roof …...and give him verbal support?"
This had been disagreed by Jean.
"Hell no! I am going to slam my kills into Gohan smirk face!"
"Gohan...smirks?" Connie tilted his head "That sounds like...not Gohan?!"
"Well,he's not himself lately,that's your explanation."Annie angrily replied,her face reddened. "I mean,what the fuck?Is it because he's hungry?He hasn't eaten any since lunchtime,is that why?" She slammed her fist on the wall "He's gone 180 on us and acted like a fucking wild beast!"
"To the look of it,we'll only end up taking Gohan's scraps." Said Jean.
"Sir,permittion to act freely in case of a life-threatening situation?" Annied asked the officer.
"If you think it'll save you,sure." He answered "Though I don't beleve it'd be necessary."
The squad the interupted by Gohan's war cry,followed by the sound of cables , gas and flesh being sliced.
"MINE!MINE!MINE!MINE!"He screamed like everyone else had hearing impairment .
"O...kay. Kirstein squad,advance!" The squad leader commanded
Gohan butchered his way back to the hole on the Wall,where he and the vanguards had tried to stop the Titans from breaking throught and failed,he was not going to let that happen again.
His aura reduced in size and changed its color to white,it had weakened,his power up was not going to last long and he had to take advantage of it while it was. He jumped from roof to roof where he face six Titan ermerging from the breach,two ten meters,one fifthteen meters and three eight meters, they would not go further.
The first ten meters missed Gohan when it tried to slam him to the roof,the Saiyan Warrior retaliated by firing two hook to the nearby building and circle around the creature neck,its nape melted when his blade barely touch it .
The boy flung himselt up in mid air from his kills shoulder. The second 10 meter reached out it arm,which was scattered in pieces like bloody confetti after Gohan windmilled his blades as he descended. Fortunately,the Titan was put out of it misery before it could feel any think.
He enfluenced the dead titan body to fall on the 15 meters which slightly crumbled due to the impact. Gohan hopped on top of the 10 meter head and then to his new target's. He performed a front flip down the titan weakpoint,and painted it red.
He shot a cable which hooked on a window flame and retracted to his next kill. Then suddenly, a 8 meter jumped on to bite off his leg in the same manner of Eren's,if he was Eren,he pull up his leg to avoid it enclosing jaws and brutally kicked its incisors right in.
"Nice try! I knew where you were!"
He flew pass another 8 meter and pivoted when he used his ki to glide forward and chopped of its nucha. He scattered rooftop shingles when he landed on it ,then he leaped
and cracked the ground where he landed.
A 8 meter titan charged at him ,its mistake,for meeting Gohan that day,he dodged it and shot line to the opposite house ,tripping his attacker. The 8 meters that Gohan kicked its teeth in finally healed and also made a jump him,it missed when Gohan turn into a white blur and darted aside . It face slamed onto the ground next to its fellow carnivore face was,lining up their napes. The heir of Fire Moutain slowly walked to the two and waved his blades,making himself a sauna when steam poured out.
He meant to head back when he turned around,but stopped when he felt large amount of sinisters ki signigture behind,forcing him to turn his head to find 14 titans moved to him from the hole .
"Glory to the brave soldier!" He was about to kiss his blade but then cancel his attemp when he saw both his blades were glowing red due to the heat when he tranferred too much ki into them.
Gohan frowned,cracked his neck ,shot up his cables and charged at the Titans that were closing in.
"It failed!" Mikasa answered Armin when he asked her about the current situation and the plan "And Gohan changed it,he's wreaking havoc at the Titans at the mean time while I stay here with Eren. But if Eren won't regain control of his Titan...Gohan can't fight them forever."
The blond boy flinched,but held back his fear when he assemble all his courage and drew his sword. He recalled the moment when Eren exitted his Titan form.
'From the back of the head to the nape.' He estimated it with his blade 'One-meter-long and ten-centimeter-wide.'
He impaled Eren nape,avoiding the center,but this caused him to twitch and seizure.
"Armin,just stop being reckless."
"Mikasa,go and do what you can. You said Gohan was wreaking havoc on the Titans,which makes your job a lot easier ,you may save lives,GO!"
She gave him a quick nod and hovered off.
Armin swap his attention to Eren and decided to yell at him.
"Get a hold of yourself!If we stay here,we'll all die!" He leaned closer to the nape "Don't give in to a titan body!Hurry up and get the hell of this meatsack!"
'G-Get out?W-why?I-I'm to tired right now!' Answered Eren,mentally,inside the titan.
"Eren,get out,now."He slam his fist into the nape "What happen with avenging your mom,for what they did to her?" The young slamed it repeatedly "Are you going to abandon Gohan?"
"The what're you talking about,Armin?" He asked the boy who was slamming on his window. "They're right here." He indicated to his mother by the sink and Gohan laying beside him. "Why should I go out there?"
"Hey Eren,hmm...I couldn't help it eavedropping your little conversation with Armin." Said Gohan, still closing his eyes. "I guess you guy are right,we should get out of these Walls one day and see the outside world. Let's not talk to your mom about joining the Survey Corps,though." he covered the sheet over his head "Just go ! I'll stay here a bit longer."
'The outside world?' Eren stood up. His family all stared at him except for Gohan who had covered himself under a blanket.
He turn around to the window where Armin was.
" 'Why?' Isn't that obvious?It's because I was born in this world!" The room set itselft aflame when Eren went enraged "Glory favors the ones who resist and bite!"
The Titan head wound slowly regenerate,when its bright green eyes widely opened.
There were garrisons who had been witnessing Gohan performance at gate,they were disrupted by Ian who asked them for status report.
"Status?"
"Sir, Gohan's been massacring Titans as they approached,but they just keep coming."
"He stopped?"The team leader and Mikasa walked forward for a closer look.
"Sir,he held his ground,but no one can fight for all when his all blades are gone."
Mikasa watched the retreating cadet as he ran from roofs to roofs, he was still burning under the 'white-fire' arround him. The boy shot a hook to a chimney and flung himself to it ,where he stopped and...vomited.
"GOHAAAN!" Mikasa ejected herself to him when the tailed boycollasped.
She landed on the rooftop tried to grab Gohan and carry,but quickly retracted her armed when she was burned by the hot aura. The girl hold her arms in agony.
"Don't touch me ,please. Everything outside the aura is vulnerable to its heat." Said Gohan as he trying to stand up.
"What's that?"
"My power-up ,it increases my strength,agility and speed." Gohan then look a his empty harneses "Ow,dang it! I'm out of blade and you got burned,just perfect! Guess I have to go hand-to-hand with those things" He trailed to the hole. "This power-up won't last forever,I give it ten minutes top. I better make good use of it before it dies out."
"No,you are in no condition to continue,you look pale!" Protested Mikasa as she tried to pulled him,but decided not to "Atleast head up to Wall and restock everything,your canisters are about to empty too by the look of it."
"Can't argue with the sensible things! I'll listen to you, and looks like you need some cold water for those burns as well."
Mikasa was rubbing the burn ointment on the wound on her arms when a crack disrupted her as Gohan inserted the spare blades in the boxes on his thighs. Both of them were standing on the walls.
"It's all done." He looked at his newly bladed sword "My gas has been refueled , and I've refill my blades."
"And I have my burns fixed with coldwater and ointment." Replied Mikasa "Let's get back to what we were doing,shan't we?"
The girl leaped and shot a cable forward and headed to her post. Just as Gohan about to do the same ,he looked around to see Connie,Jean,Marco and Annie were resting only a few paces away. He decided to go to their direction,and thanked to his aura which was still burning ,they turned their attention to his.
"Hi guys."
"Oh,it's white now,huh?" Marco indicated to his aura.
"You don't like fighting,huh?" Jean sacarsticlly stated.
"Okay, you have to tell me now. What the actual fuck is this thing?" Annie touched his aura, and instantly regreted it as she pulled her hand back and held it,not before shrieking.
"Oh ,that's weird,Mikasa did that too,for different reason though." Answered Gohan "It is my power up,it make me stronger,faster and more agile."
"What's happened,Gohan? We saw the red signal and you went full Eren after that!" Asked Connie,resisting his temptation to grab and shake Gohan, he and his friends had too many question.
"Eren lost his control when he supposed to carry the boulder,turned out that I have to carry the team after all. Hopefully it will not happen again when I join the Survey Corps. What you've just seen and will continue to see is me doing all the heavy lifting."
Then the earth rumbled which got Annie attention who stopped rubbing her hand just to see it.
"Oh,I be damn."
What she was beholding,followed by her comrade and every combattant in Trost was Eren,in his Titan form,carrying the large boulder and walked his way to the hole. Steam poured out of his body,covered both his body and the rock.
"Okay,I take it back,Eren is the one who does all the Heavy-lifting!" Before his friend could make any negative reaction on his bad joke,which they would have, he flung himself to Eren "Have to go now! This power up won't stay !"
"STOP IT!" The cadets ended up yelling to nobody.
"Okay,ladies and gentlemen,listen well! We'll defend Jaeger until he reaches the gate,even if it cost us out lives. Keep the titans away from him!"Ordered Ian, before he commanded Mikasa and Armin directly "You two,go to Eren!"
"Yes,sir." They responsed.
Ian started running on shingles but then suddenly he stopped.
Down below ,on the ground,Mitabi squad were chasing after 5 titans that had been heading to Eren.
"If they keep ignoring us,then we'll have get closer these bastards attention" Said Mitabi before he and his surbodinates petrified in terror when the five titans did exactly as they wanted .
Once again,a cadet blades flashed as a white blur went pass those Titan ,they crumble down for the Titans flesh were nothing to Saiyan brute force,they bodies evaporised as they all flatted on their back.
Gohan pivoted back to Ian diraction. Now,it was clear to everyone eyes that he was indeed an angel. His white headband was his halo, the white gas bursting out from his ODM gear spreaded out like wings,not to mention his white aura that had been heating him. Ian darted back when he landed before him.
"Fight or flight,those are your only options, no middle-ground,Captain." He pled to his C.O "Either you order us to retreat,or you order us to fight like soldiers ,not as bait. The only beast that sits around and waits for its slaughter is sheep,and we fall evolved from it!"
"Resist and bite,that's what you mean?" Puzzled Ian ,who later regained his determination "Well said,alright team! You heard what he'd said,let give these fuckers a fight to remember!"
"Wouldn't that be risky?On the ground like that? We'll be throwing ourselves to death without horses or buildings!" This was Armin.
"And it the way we got left" Said a Garrison when he charged with his comrades "WE DONE RUNNING!"
Gohan soon joined them.
"Ehre sei den tapfersten Soldaten,die bleiben zu widerstehen und beißen!"
Following him was Armin and Mikasa.
Ian leaped forwards to a titan before dodging it,where he pivoted nimbly in mid air and rushedto the thing nape,slashed it .
Three Garrison decided to use themselves as a distraction while his comrade ascended and slashed his blades to its nape and missed,his wrong was quickly righted when Mitabi thottle his turbine and retracted his wire ,and slice the Titan nape.
Mikasa ran on the surface of the wall use the wires to support her, she quickly ducked when a titan wiped its hand at her. She lunged at it and cut of its lower jaw before slided to the nape to hack it.
Gohan sneaked behind a titan that about to devour a soldier,he kicked it achilles tendon ,crippling it and climbed on the thing and butchered its weakpoint. The soldier crawled out from the titan half-open mouth and thanked Gohan as a smell of urine reached his nose.
"Oh,shit! No,no,no,I don't want to die!"
Ian sprinted to the Titan that has grabbed one of his men,he jumped on the Titan arm and freed the soldier from its grasp,but ended up being pulled in the creature maw himself. He was going to be decapticated when the giant clutch it jaws togethe,but the captain felt pain,on his back when he was sent to the ground along with the Titan's lower jaw. He looked up ,Gohan was hanging himself upside down by wrapping his legs around the Titan neck. The monkey grabbed hold to the creature tonge,and swung to the back of its head. The Titan's nucha pulverised by Gohan red-heated swords.
'Where-where did he come from?' Ian spied his savior charging at his new targets.
Rico descended from the Wall and use her swords to rip off an eye of the 15 meter that was blocking the gate,Mikasa shot up her wires and slide on the ground before ascending to finish it off.
Eren now only a few steps to the hole,there was nothing that could stop his march. The suicidal bastard roared and slammed the rock into breach,sending a cloud of dust flying in all direction.
His friends's eyes now soakened with tears,not because of dust caught into them ,but because the could not believe that for the first time,mankind had triump against the Titans.
Rico colasped on her knees ,she couldn't hold back her tears either. She took out her flare gun and fired a yelow flare to the sky,signalling the mission to be a success.
Gohan smiled in relieve as his aura finally died off. Suddenly,he fell on his four as he felt a massive pain in his head ,then he vomitted again,blood this time.
'No...No...What?...What's happening to me?...Why is my body rejecting me?'
Then the boy squirmed on his own blood as he felt the pain had spreaded through out his entire body. The boy screamed in agony ,blood dripping out from his nose and eyes. The last thing he saw was Mikasa rushing to him before everything went dark .