Chapter 35: Lady Winters

The carriage rumbled when it exited Trost and headed straight to Wall Sina. The said carriage that carried Mikasa, Eren and Gohan was too fancy for a Military Police standardized carriage. It was padded in gold in a fifth of its portion. Everywhere else that was not made of gold, were made from the finest wood found within the Walls, barring the glasses from the windows. The interior was no different either, the seats were red, leather like the ones all the three kids saw the rich people had.

The MPs that had gone to them acted as their coachmen. The carriage's drivers were as quiet as its passengers, the MPs just focused on the road and refrained to engage in any conversation. So did the young soldiers, the moment they had been walked to the vehicle, the had not talked to one another ever since. Mikasa and Eren had been astounded when they heard about Gohan's 'mother', to the latest Survey Corps' finding, they found no trace of Gohan's parentage in Sina, but know they were heading there to his 'mother'? On the other hand, Gohan, was scared to the point he was speechless, he had no idea what cruel ploys that the Military Police Brigade was brewing for him; to him, this was a clear trap that Nile Dowk had laid out for him, and Gohan consented to it.

The carriage passed Stohess in a matter of an hour that they entered further into the jurisdiction of Wall Sina. They traverse for thirty more miles that Eren could see a mansion the distance, revealing its outer wall. The MPs slowed down the carriage when they got close to the mansion gate that they stopped. At this moment Eren spotted a statue in the mansion's curtilage, a frost giant.

"This is-This is Castle Jutnar! Wait, Gohan! What the hell? Your mother's Lady Winters?"

"Lady whaaa?"

Gohan replied to his brother-in-arm just in time for some men inside to open the gate and allowed the carriage to enter the courtyard.

Gohan's eyes and pupils opened wide, whoever this 'Lady Vinters' was, she could not be benevolent toward Gohan and his friends. Whatever she wanted of him, Gohan could be sure that it was not with good intention. He had to figure out a plan to get him and, no, there no way Mikasa and Eren could escape without him staying behind and keep the MPs busy.

"Mikasa, Eren. When I tell you two to run, you run. I'll stay here and buy you time."

"Wait, what?" Puzzled Mikasa. "Gohan, is she not your mother?"

"It's a woman with ill-intention. When I yell 'run', you guys find a way to escape this castle, okay?"

"Uhm, okay?" Replied both Eren and Mikasa.

The carriage stopped in the courtyard; the door was gently opened by one of the MP. The MP who with them looked at the three inside before gestured outward.

"Please, the Lady's waiting for you! Welcomes home,Mr Winters!"

Eren, Mikasa and Gohan looked at each other and reluctantly stepped out of the carriage and followed the soldier to the mansion. The scouts could see the Lady talking to three more MPs near a fountain before the entrance, Eren and Mikasa knew she was the Lady because of her distinctive blue hair, a feature which made Gohan found the woman quite…. homey. And when he got closer and closer to the Lady that he could make clear of the Lady's facial features.

"Bulma?" Asked Gohan when he was right in front of her. And the soldiers around him, Eren and Mikasa included, flinched at the naming taboo.

"Oh, you're calling your mother by name now? Five years were that long?" Bulma crossed her arms and stared at him, Gohan could see she mouthed the words. 'Play along.'

"Oh, my apologies, mother."Played along,Gohan did. "I've spent too much time out there."

"That's what I've thought." Bulma unfolded her arms and turned to the MPs. "Would you be kind enough to explain to my Gohan here why it took you five years to bring him back to me?"

It was protocol for all MPs to excreta before they conduct a mission regarding Lady Winters or the Wolfpack. Because they would do it in the mission if the Lady had any unfriendly gesture toward them. The protocol applied to the present time, as all MPs felt grateful for following it.

"Sir, Mr Winters, uh, Master Gohan, it was a difficulty for us to find … to reunite you with the Lady…." One MP stuttered, and Gohan recognized him, he was the man who had interrogated him back in Shiganshina. "because you identified yourself as Gohan Son, instead of Gohan Winters."

"Really? Goku's last name?" The Lady crossed her arms again, now stared at Gohan, and mouthed. 'Play along.'

"He's my father." Gohan came up with a clever reply, he quickly adapted to whatever game Bulma was playing.

"Hm, you're never his, you're mine! Understand that?!" Bulma stared daggers at her 'son'. She waved at the MPs without looking at them. ""Your job's done here!Take your payments at the carriages."

The sweaty MPs saluted the Lady. They departed from the fountain , mentally swearing that they almost got Lady had them killed for a mistake that was resulted by a family drama. They rushed to the carriages that waiting to bring them to HQs, staying as far away from the said family drama.

As the MPs were gaining some distance from her and her guests , the Lady shifted her attention to Mikasa and Eren, who were still unable to process what had happened before their eyes. They were both taken aback by Gohan's change of attitude, he denied the Lady being his mother,but then accepted her when he saw her.

"Ahh, you two must be Mr Eren Jaeger and Miss Mikasa Ackerman, nice to meet you both." Bulma shocked the two with her kindness when she bowed at them. "I never had the opportunity to show you my gratitude for taking care of my son in time of need, until now. I've presumed to take your mother in the castle earlier this morning, should you can forgive me."

"W-what?" Both Mikasa and Eren gasped when the Lady mentioned their mother.

"Mrs Carla Jaeger is waiting you two inside." Informed Bulma as she called up for two men in white armbands. "Mr Raeder, Mr Donitz, would you please take our guests to the dinning room. My son and I will be there shortly!"

"Yes, my lady!" The two Sub-Betas bowed and gestured Mikasa and Eren inside. "Please!"

The men with armbands led Mikasa and Eren inside to mansion, Raeder and Donitz entered the door which the latter two reluctantly followed them. When the two scouts entered the mansion, the door was shut behind them, leaving Gohan and Bulma outside.

"Gohan, do you see that stable beside the mansion?" Bulma pointed at a barn that was right next to her mansion. "That's where we're heading."

"But Bulma, why-how did you get here?" Gohan asked her the only question that went through his head.

"Let's answer that in a secluded location, shall we?"

The blue-haired woman strode steadily toward the barn, Gohan had no other option but to follow her. Gohan had a clear view on his 'mother's property' while he made his way to the barn, the place was massive. The mansion was not bigger than the popular cultural Wayne Manor but, the property outside definitely did.

Bulma shoved the barn's door open to see six stable hands inside with no horse, they were smoking. They immediately threw their cigarettes down on the grown put them off with their feet. They bowed their heads in sync at their Lady.

"My Lady." The workers greeted her in unison , and they turned to Gohan. "Und this must be Master Gohan, welcome home." They bowed again.

"Dismissed, get out. And fetch me Mr Ingham." The hands nodded at Bulma as they quietly left the stable. "And do not smoke your joints when the horses are here!"

"Yes, my lady!" The workers rushed outside and closed the door to the barn when the lady brought up their smoking habit.

"Was there a skunk in here?" Gohan covered his nose when the stable hands were gone. "And now that we're in a secluded area, can you tell me why and how you're here?"

"Not there yet." She walked to the stalls and entered the middle one. "Over here!"

Bulma crouched down to the floor and brushed off some straws away. By the time Gohan got to the stall, Bulma had opened up a trapdoor that was as big as the stall's floor itself.

"Get in!"

Gohan hopped inside what was under the trapdoor to a room which was dark, but Gohan could figure out that the said room was big enough to be somewhat of a cargo elevator. Following the Monkey Boy, Lady Winters dropped down to the room, closing the door above her and secured it with a lever.

"That lever is only unlockable with voice recognition, so no outsider can get in the bunker without our authorization." Informed Bulma. "Computer room!"

"Access Granted." A computeristic voice blurted out from nowhere as the room was luminated by a white light and said room was rumble in motion, indicated that it was moving down, it was indeed a cargo elevator.

"How was you able to build this with all the eyes surround you?" Asked Gohan, amazed by the modernity of the elevator.

"I didn't. This was from a capsule, I just buried the thing down in a hole and activated it, and voila! I built the whole thing when I was in our world." Explained Bulma. "The tricky part was building damn barn over it, and the trapdoor."
"Well, should've figured that one out. Is this place safe against Titans."
"You're kidding me? The Bunker is design to withstand an atom bomb, so the Titans won't be a problem. Well, if it's the like of your father or Vegeta, we're fucked."

"You don't have to worry about that." Gohan chuckled when his old friend mentioned the two Saiyans. "You just order the elevator to get us to a Computer Room,is it a floor? A level? Does that mean there are other levels?"

"Yup, there's the Quarter Level, which is the living quarter that can accommodate a total of 40 people. And the storage room which has food and water for 10 years , so it quite comfortable down here." Answered Bulma, smirked at wonder that she had built. "Also we take power from the sun, the roofs of the mansion are all solar panels that go straight into the bunker's generator,so we have an infinite source of electricity."

"That's actually amazing!" Gasped Gohan, he did not know how long he had gone missing from his home world, but be quite sure this bunker was built after he had been sent here. "You built all these when I was gone?"

"Yeah, me and my father took two years to build this compound, with a lot of help from our staffs."

"Is your father here?" Gohan raised his eyebrows when Bulma mentioned Doctor Brief. "And the workers of Capsule Corp?"

"No, but someone else." Bulma avoided eyes contact with Gohan.

"Someone else?"

The elevator stopped when Gohan asked his question, the elevator door opened and revealed the inside of the Computer room. The level was spacious , 300 square meters big at least. The room was lit with countless fluorescent lamps. Its left and right walls were covered by weapon racks that held multiple modern and high-end fire arms. Facing the elevator was the computer, with a gigantic monitor that cover half of the wall and equally gigantic keyboard underneath it with a microphone.

But the unanimated objects were not what Gohan paid most of his attention at. It was a man who sat at the computer that Gohan set his eyes on. He was in suit and tie, unlike what he used to wear. He wore a red armband with a black snowflake armband, unlike what he used to wear. He still had his long ,black hair and his bangs, like what he used to have. And that man still had his facial X shaped scars like he used to have.

"Yamcha!"

"I know, I know, I know!" The man got of from his chair and walked toward Bulma and Gohan. "You were expecting someone homey like Krillin or Piccolo ,or someone stronger like Vegeta and Trunks. But sorry, I have a knack for disappointing people."

"As if we ever expect something from you!" Bulma sassily replied. But Gohan sprinted at the former bandit and hugged the man. "Hey, why didn't I get one?"

"You're the 'Blue-haired bitch' , that's why." Yamcha made a sassier reply.

"I didn't see any Titan got blasted to oblivion. Does that mean you got nerfed too?" Gohan broke away from the hug and realized something.

"Yes, his power got diminished when we got here. And he's been slacking off since then." Bulma walked toward the elevator and started to press at the keyboard. "Gohan, get over here."
"Hey, f-you. I was trying my best!" Triggered Yamcha.

Once Gohan got close to the computer Bulma stepped aside and pointed at the mic.

"Say your name. Well, say anything."

Gohan leaned toward the mic and said his name.

"Son Gohan."

"Voice registration complete! Wellcome to the system, Son Gohan!" The computer replied.

"We planned to bring you here before this month's full moon. But, shit happens." Said Yamcha. "You turned."

"You said he has no reason to transform!" Mocked Bulma.

"How the hell would I know that dipshit Erwin was sending him to a Titan infested area? And you know how caring Gohan is." Protested Yamcha, until he noticed Gohan's mutilated hand, the man grabbed it and yelled. "What the fuck happened to your fingers?"

"He's turned in the Oozaru, what you'd think gonna happen?" Answered Bulma.

"I know that they had to cut off his tail, but what about his fingers?" Yamcha asked again.

"Hey, that's what I said to them!" chuckled Gohan. "Uhm, yeah, since we're in a secluded area now. Can you guys tell how you got here?"

"Let's wait for Jonathan." Bulma rested on the chair.

"Who's Jonathan?" Asked Gohan.

"He's coming down." Yamcha pointed at the elevator door, which was closed.

Then it opened again, emerged from the elevator door, a man in his twenties ,bald and bearded walked out. He dressed in the same outfit Yamcha was wearing, only his armband was blue.

"So, this is our champion?" Jonathan got a measure of Gohan then he looked at Bulma. "Is he Super Saiyan yet?"

"Not yet. If he is, the war would've been won by now!" Answered Bulma, then she started introducing the two. "Son Gohan, this is Jonathan Ingham. Jonathan, Gohan!"

"Just John, I'm not ten anymore." Ingham offered his hand, and Gohan shook it. "The Alpha and I watched you trained at the 104th ,from afar, you did well. I had my doubt, but I know you handled Cell, so, no more."

"The Alpha?" Puzzled Gohan.

"That's me!" Yamcha raised his hand and tapped at his armband. "Got the idea from the Red Ribbons!"

"What the HFIL are you guys doing here?" The mention of the Red Ribbons got Gohan nervous.

"Since we all here! It's time we brief our Champion." Bulma took a deep breath before explain her situation to Gohan. "Gohan, does the name Bojack ring any bell to you?"

"What?"

"During the Cell Game, when your father teleported Cell to King Kai, he killed King Kai and destroyed his planet."

"I know that, I was at the Cell Game, I was with my father when he…"

"What you don't know, what your father didn't know, what we didn't know, that King Kai's planet was used to lock up a inter-galactic criminal that has a power level that is equal to Cell's."

"Bojack?"

"Yeah, and he escaped. Wreak havoc to our world. Million dies."

"He killed Chiaotzu , Master Roshi, Tien and Android 18." Added Yamcha.

"He's too much for Vegeta and Trunks. Vegeta,retreated with Baby Trunks." Gohan could see that Bulma was holding back her tears. "Future Trunks and ….my dad, not so much."

"That liar Satan couldn't do anything , he was the first to flee!" Jonathan commented. "Do you know that that bastard took the credit of killing Cell?"

It was too much to take in for Gohan. He couldn't believe that the moment he left ,his world went into a catastrophe shortly afterward. That most of his friends and his world population were dead.

"What… wh..wha..what about my mom?"

"Your mother and your brother were still alive when we last saw them." Answered Bulma.

"My.. brother?" It was a lot to take in.

"Yeah, a baby boy named Goten!" Yamcha scratched his head. "Congrats!" And then the Alpha looked at Jonathan. "I wish we could say the same about Jonathan's parents. Bojack's minions, henchmen,lackeys. Bojack wasn't alone, the ones were with him, murdered his parent. I was only fast enough to save him. He was ten when that happened."

"Wait, ten?" Gohan looked at Jonathan, the Beta was way older than him.

"We rendezvoused at my place ,we used Trunks' Time Machine to escape. We attempted to travel back to the time when you'd gone missing, trying to prevent it, or even your father's death." Continued Bulma.

"But somehow, the damned thing malfunctioned. We got sent to another dimension. Here. Ten years before you." Finished Yamcha.

"Ten years? Which mean?" Gasped Gohan.

"We've been here for fifteen years!" Exclaimed Jonathan. "So long that I grew a beard."

"You need to shave that!" Said Bulma.

"Where is the Time Machine?" Asked Gohan, still brooding over the crisis in his world, that he was just learned.

"Yamcha ,get me the briefcase under the gun rack!" Yamcha heeded Bulma's words and stammered to the gunrack and started to search among the boxes underneath the guns. And then he pulled out a silver briefcase and put it on the computer table.

"It's broken, much like Yamcha's power when he got here. I don't know why. Might be because of inter-dimension travels." Bulma opened the case, revealed dozens of capsules inside. "I put it in a capsule, never once attempted to fix it. We have no required resource here. The people here are having an energy crisis and they don't even know it."

"Even if we can fix it, you in no shape to fight Bojack!" Remarked Yamcha. "Not yet!"

Gohan saw the capsule, it had 'Time Machine' labeled on it. He laid his eyes on the other capsules. Their labeled 'Fighter Jet', 'T-90 Tank', 'Controlled Combat Robot', 'Mech Soldier'. All those labels upset Gohan, all because of one reason that they were all effective against Titans.

"I can't believe this!" Remarked Gohan.

"I know,right. We can't go home yet." Agreed Bulma.

"No! The content of these capsules can help the people up there fight the Titans. You could've had use these to save them!"

"And got burned at the stake for witchcraft? Do you have the slightest idea how backward these people are?" Retorted Bulma, raising her voice. "When we first got here, the damn MPs tried to kill us, we would've been all dead if it wasn't for Yamcha. Yamcha!"

Gohan took a step back, he was answered of how his friend got to this world. But he did not ask them what they had done here. By the look on his new friends, the locals, and attitude that the MP expressed at Bulma, fear. He could only guess what Bulma, Jonathan and Yamcha had done to gain such reputation.

"What have you done here?"

"We've survived!" Answered Bulma.

"We've done things….." Answered Yamcha. "…..we do not proud of."

"Yamcha!"Scolded Bulma.

"What things?" Gohan probed for more.

"Fraud, Thief, Murder." The Monkey Boy's heart sunken as Jonathan listed them.

"Jonathan!"

"Abuse of power."

"Why?" Asked Gohan in tears, as if the information of Bojack's attack was not bad enough.

"Fighting extra-terrestrial tyrants , androids and monsters for years, we've forgotten how vile human beings are to their own kind." It was thought that Bulma should say this, but instead it was Yamcha. "We can't kill them like we did on our first encounter, so we had to make peace, we had to blend in."

"But if we stay stagnant, live a normal life. They'll get to us. So we have to build power. We can't do it with honest job, and they certainly will burn us if we show them our technologies." Bulma continued . "So we have to get our hands dirty, real dirty. The three people here in the bunker that you're talking to, we all have blood on our hands. Human blood. Innocents and guilties alike."

"We thought we'd have to continue that way until we heard about the boy who was found in Titans' country, who has a tail." Jonathan continued, then the Beta eyed Gohan's backside. "Had!"

"For full clearance, we did not it was you." Yamcha commented, thinking back of that time. "Not even sure if it was Saiyan."

"Hell, we would be happy if it was just a random Saiyan,not necessarily you, but we still weren't sure. So, we have to see for ourselves." Bulma continued. "I sent Yamcha and Jonathan to investigate. They tracked you down to the 104th. Yamcha made a full conclusion it was you from the ridge afar."

"I think some of the drill instructors spotted us." Nodded Yamcha. "Anyway, we knew it was you. Our hopes went up. Still are. You have no idea how happy we were when we knew we found you."

Gohan could see the hopes in his friends from his old world. He did not know had he forgiven them for their misdeed in this new world, but he sure he understood. He did not want to know what they had been through when they entered this new world, except for the fact that their lives were threatened when they had been fresh off the boat. He also saw something other than hopes from his old friend, they obviously had plans when they saw him from afar.

"I bet you don't want just reunion when knew about me, well you do want reunion, but I know you want more. You have plans, don't you?"

"Well,we do. We have a plans of defeating the Titans, retaking Wall Maria and the lands beyond it, get you stronger as when you beaten Cell,fix the Time Machine, get back to our world, kill Bojack and revive everyone back with the Dragon." Bulma nodded and exclaimed. "But you won't like the detail."

Castle Jutnar's Dining Room.

The upper-class were known to be extravagant ,Bulma Winters was no exception. Her extravagance was shown to the Jaegers in her dinning room. The dinning table was big enough for Carla,Mikasa and Eren to sit in three corners and unable to hold each other hands.

If the table wasn't enough ,the content should. The food laid on the table was enough for 40 people to consume. And the dishes was all the thing that the Jaegers had never taken a bite on before:klopse, maultaschen, labskaus, bratwurst, schnitzel,and saumagen. The dishes they never dreamed on eating ,but now they were offered to them from the most feared woman in all of humanity.

"So, Gohan is Lady Winters' son." Carla mentioned the elephant in the room, breaking the silent.

"I couldn't believe it!" Responded Eren, staring blankly to the food the laid before him.

"He said his origin is beyond our comprehension, I didn't expect it to be this." Exclaimed Mikasa.

"So Wolfpack brought you here, not the MPs?" Eren asked his mother.

"Yeah, three of them, led by the John Ingham." Carla recalled to the time she was escorted to the castle. "Can't believe Bulma Winters can be so. . . generous."

"Mom, don't say her name."Eren reminded his mother about the naming taboo.

It was widespread among the common folks and the uncommon folks inside the walls that if one utter the first name of Lady Winters: Bulma, he or she would be killed by the Alpha in their sleep, or something. No one knew who was the one who spread the rumor or its credibility, but everyone feared Lady Winters some they all gave in to the naming taboo.

"A person who fears nothing like you, scares of that nonsense?!" Carla teased him. "She owes us now. She's not gonna kill us over a name."

"Should we start eating?" Ask Mikasa, reminding her adoptive brother and mother that they hadn't eaten since they got in. "They aren't poisoned, right?"

"You're not saying you're in the mood,right?" Retorted Eren,to which Mikasa dumbfounded . "We're still coping!"

"We should eat and cope! Probably should pack some for Hannes, too." Carla was the first to calm down. "Look at all these foods, I don't think we can eat all of them. These will go to waste whilst humanity is having a food crisis ."

"It won't!" The dining room door burst open and entered the room were Bulma and Gohan. "Didn't I told you just start without us?"

The Jaegers gulped when the Lady and her 'son' walked to the table and sat on their seats. Gohan nodded at Carla before he grabbed a mountain of food into his plate.

"Most of the food here is for him. Our expenditure rather dropped immensely for the last 5 years." Bulma glanced at Gohan while filling her own plates and looked at the Jaegers. "After you!"

Carla and her children selected several sausages and schnitzels to their plates and proceeded to their meals. Carla shifted her eyes repeatedly to the food she was cutting and to Bulma.

"My lady, permission to speak?"

"Never prohibited you! Don't need to ask for permission!" Answered Bulma, with her mouth full.

"You said you have a significant drop on expenditure while Gohan was missing."

"On food." Bulma and Gohan chuckled.

"I say you prefer that scenario more." Gohan choked on his food when Carla said it, while Bulma kept a straight face.

"Mrs Jaeger!"Said Gohan.

"Mom!"Said Eren.

"I'm quite understand the implication, Mrs Jaeger. But I'm confused why you have such conclusion." Replied Bulma ,calmly. While the children gone pale when Carla Jaeger dared to say such thing to the Lady.

"No one ever knew that you had a son,my lady. For a decade long, no one did. And as far that I know, you've never wedded." Continued Carla, the anger in her voice could felt through out the room.

"His father and I, were not husband and wife."Bulma casually recited the lied she had been rehearsing since the day she found out about Gohan. "I decide to keep his existence as a secret, until the situation is too dire."

"No, you didn't keep it as a secret. You locked him up." Accused Carla ,slamming her fists down to the table. "He's born out of wedlock and deformed, a person like you wouldn't like if everyone knew about him."

"Mrs Jaeger ,you misunderstood…" Gohan attempted to calm Carla down,but was interfered by Bulma.

"Gohan, it's not your turn to speak. Let's Mrs Jaeger finish."

"You don't get to speak to him like that! Don't be a mother now, it's too late for you!" Carla attempted to stand up, but her paralyzed legs failed her. "He told me he was kidnapped by his uncle, Radish. But now I know who his mother is, I think it wasn't a kidnap ,it's a rescue. Afterward, you kept him imprisoned. And then you let him fight this Seru guy when he was just eleven, he was haft dead when we found him. That when he was freed. You still didn't want him back, even after the fall of Maria. You were busy profit from the chaos and misery from the refugee. And then when he became this Angel of Trost, when he gained popularity, that when you wanted him back. You're not a mother!"
There was a silence amidst the room after Carla's rant. Eren and Mikasa nervously looked at their plate, fearing for their mother's life. Gohan knew that his 'mother' would not hurt Mrs Jaeger in anyway, but he could feel the thickness in the atmosphere. In response to the Jaeger's matriarch's criticize, Lady Winters remained composed.

"I assumed that you're done. That that's all." The friendliness in the Lady voice was never dispeared. "Everything you say is true. Painful, but true. Painfully true. Except for one thing, that I didn't want him back. I hid him, locked him up the way you put it, because I know what people would do to him, what they would do to me,to us. You may have known, or may not, that the government inside this cage we call our safe haven, is not very tolerant with abnormality; which I assume you could have seen that from your son's trial."

"You haven't got to the point why you want him back!" Retorted Carla. "Why I'm wrong. It took you five years to get him back."

"The sloppy work of the Military Police and I have no reason to rush. Unlike your son,mine know his limit. Have you seen him fight? I have. I'm telling you, he can set his bar really low, and the Titans will always be beneath it."
"Well, he did kill the Armored Titan and Colossal Titan." Said Eren, recalling on the Kamehameha in Maria.

"I've heard that. Hannes didn't tell me how,but all Garrison soldiers confirmed it!" Said Carla.

"Why I need him here is I want him to do more than kills Titans. I want him raise his bar where he is beneath it." Bulma finished her 'speech', and the Jaegers and Gohan returned to eating.

The Jaegers,overall, were all hungry, they stuffed their stomachs with whatever they could find on the table. In their credits, they did not neglect their table manner, unlike Gohan, who shoved servings after serving into his mouth. When the Jaegers were half full, the Lady of Castle Jutnar spoke again.

"I bring you all here, to show you my gratitude after what you've done for my son,Gohan. Tend his wounds, took him in as one of you in time of need."

Carla, Mikasa and Eren reluctantly nodded.

"But I'm also regret that I cannot, despite the Wolfpack's effort, find Doctor Grisha Jaeger to thank you all in full. He's a pioneer in the medical field. I've only talked to him once, but his works speak all of himself. " Carla leaned toward Bulma when she heard her husband's name mention.

"You talked to my husband? When?"

"After Wall Maria fell,I brought food to the refugees. You were there."

"I remember, you demanded money from them for exemption from the reclamation operation. I'm kinda surprised that you didn't draft my husband,thought he gave no money."

"He's a doctor, a good one, he's needed inside. Also,I met him afterward, because I admire his works, that when we talked."
"What did you two talked about?" This time it was Eren who asked.

"He was talking about some boy who saved his wife,but he failed to save him."

"He was talking about me."Gasped Gohan.

"It took me sometime to figure that one out." Continued Bulma. "Then I asked him to work for me, he said he'd think about it. We said our goodbyes and then I no longer see him ever since."

"We're still with him days after that." Frowned Carla, Bulma's answer didn't give her any clue about Grisha disappearance .

The Jaegers lost their appetite and stare blankly at the walls. The family's father and husband was disappeared for unknown reason for so long that an utter of his name could light some hope to them,and then shut it down.

"I don't know if this would make you feel any better. Mr Ingham informed me about the state of the house you've been staying at and struggle with the rent. So, I have made a decision." Bulma stood up from her chair, she made an offer that may change Carla's life. "In order to extent my gratitude to all of you, and to relieve the worries of young Eren and young Mikasa while they off doing their duty to humanity. I offer you, Mrs Carla Jaeger, to call Castle Jutnar your new home."

"What? I just berated you earlier and you offer me to stay here?" Carla widened her eyes.

"Yeah, I'm a progressive person, it bothers me not."

"Okay, what the catch?" Carla tilted her head, she was not believing the Lady offered her shelter out of kindness. Simply because kindness was not the Lady's trait.

"The catch? There's no 'catch'!" Replied Bulma, which the Jaeger didn't buy it.

"You're Lady Winters, there's away the catch for you." Carla replied, squinting.

Bulma sighed, she tiredly looked at Gohan. Then the heir of Castle Jutnar also sighed and looked at Eren and Mikasa. He straightened up his back and recalled the plan that Bulma, Yamcha, John and him had discussed. He also remembered to agree with it, and making sure Mikasa and Eren were okay with it was also part of the plan.

"You're not gonna like it!"

"Who would have thought?"Gelgar exclaimed at the knowledge while his squad and Levi's were at the stable. "The blue-haired bitch is the Angel of Trost's mama!"

The 'true origin' of Gohan spread across the Survey Corps like wildfire. Everyone who heard that Gohan Son was actually Gohan Winters, gasped, hyperventilated ,laughed in disbelief and repeated, denied and accepted. The boy's parentage was published after four hours when MPs had taken Eren, Mikasa and Gohan away: Lady Winters and an unidentified male. All of humanity should have known about this by now.

"I wonder if Gohan knows about what his mom did. Does he know about the salt mines, the cannabis trade, the Reclamation Exemption Act?" Connie stared into the sky.

"I think not, he quite clueless about politics. All he cares about is saving people and killing Titans." Nanaba answered all of Connie questions. "Irony isn't it, the mother and son contrast."

"Well, look at bright side,guys. Petra here is going to be Lady Winters' daughter-in-law." Snickered Oulo, and was answered by a backhand from Petra. "Ouch! I bit my tongue, again!"

"That reminds me, we have two nobles in the Corps now. A Reiss and a Winters." Petra reminds everyone about Historia.

"The Reiss is a long-standing family, while the Winters are just upstarts." Commented Gunther, mustering all his knowledge about the two families. "But money beats tradition, the Winters have the most influence in all of the noble families now. Especially after the Saft Mines Massacres. Petra, now you have a competition, Historia is a better match for Gohan, now!"

Hearing a threat to her relationship with Gohan, Petra face was reddened with rage. She clutch her fist, pointed her finger at her comrade and roared at him.

"You shut the fuck up!" And she turned to the others. "You tell that to anyone else, I'll rip your spines off your bodies!"

"Okay, chill! My lady!"
"It kinda make sense!" Said Sasha.

"I will eat you alive!" Petra shouted at her.

"No, no, no, not that!" Sasha put her arms out in fear. "I mean Gohan being a Winters. See, only her can afford to buy him food. With that kind of appetite, he'd bankrupt anyone who feed him, Wall Sina or not, except for the Lady!"

"That was actually well thought out for ya!" Commented Connie, then he giggled when an image flashed in his mind. "Try to imagine Commander Erwin having a headache on the food expenditure, for Gohan only!"

And then everyone at the stable laughed. Then they heard footsteps outside ,and then a scouts burst opened the door. Nac entered the room, panting.

"Guys, they're back."
"Mikasa, Eren and Gohan?" Asked Petra.

"Yeah, and you won't believe who is going with them!"

Gohan could sense the eyes that were watching him from his fellow scouts. He knew that everyone knew. The Survey Corps just stared at the son of Lady Winters, not just because he was the son of Lady Winters, but because he also the Angel of Trost. The nicest and deadliest soldiers of the Survey Corps whose backstory was unclear, now cleared. The Devil had given birth to an Angel, the fact was so true it was unbelievable.

But they didn't only focus their eyes on Gohan Winters, but the man who accompanied him and Mikasa and Eren. The man was behind the three scouts , holding a white box, he wore a butler outfit, had a facial scar, and a red Wolfpack armband.

"Is that?" Asked Oulo from afar.

"That's Alpha Yamcha! The Papa Wolf! The Direwolf in the Shape of a Man! Leader of the Wolfpack! The Lady's right hand man!"Gunther answered, and then the scouts averted their eyes from him when Yamcha glanced at them.

"The Alpha?" Sasha gone pale when she heard the name. "The killed-the-entire-four-salt-mines-on-his-own-with-a-stick Alpha?"

"That's him!" Nodded Gunther. "The scar and the red armband don't lie! Unless there's an idiot who has a deathwish that he poses as a Wolf "

"Holy shit and he's here!" Gaped Connie.

"Well, I don't think we should be worried. Gohan's his boss now, he's not hurting us." Petra hushed her friends.

Yamcha noticed the people around staring at him much Gohan did, but he decided to ignore it. This happened a lot, he instilled fear to the public from all misdeeds. He was not proud of it, though for some reason it intrigued him, he never felt to be feared before in his home world. But he shrugged the feeling aside, he got better things to do here.

Gohan, Mikasa and Eren led Yamcha up the stairs. He took his time taking the steps, the people he was seeing could wait. And then he spotted the office on his left, the Alpha and the scouts strode towards it, and in no time, they were at the door.

"Squad Leader Gohan Winters, Mikasa Ackerman and Eren Jaeger, reporting for duty." Gohan knocked the door, the people inside must had already known about Yamcha's arrival.

"Get in." Erwin's voice got out.

Gohan opened the door, the three scouts and one Wolf walked in and saw Erwin sat at his desk ,with Hange and Levi stood by his sides. The three junior scouts saluted their senior officers who nodded at them. And then the senior scouts eyes became hostile when they looked at Yamcha.

"Alpha!" Greeted Erwin.

"Good afternoon, Commander Erwin!" The former bandit casually walked to Erwin's desk and eyed the officers. "Hange Zoe, I've heard of you. And you must be Captain Ginyu."

That was an old reference from Gohan and Yamcha's old world, which obviously the 'locals' would not understand, nor appreciate. Levi's reply could be heard with a large portion of anger within it.

"It's Levi, you son of a bitch!"

"He he, is that a wolf reference? I'd give you a frog reference but I know you wouldn't get it!" Amused by the Captain response, Yamcha grinned at him.

"Alpha, may I ask where is the Lady?" Erwin cut off whatever conflict was being brewed between two men.

"She's at Ragako, acessing the situation herself. She wants to see the Titan there herself, the last time she delegated the study of a speciment to you guys, it didn't end really well." Yamcha answered playfully. He was intrigued as the scouts' face when they heard that the Lady came to see a Titan for a first.

"Yamcha, quit messing around. Just tell them why we here." Ordered Gohan, facepalming at the jest.

"We have time, master Gohan." Yamcha turned around to reply to his 'employer' before he got the point. "Commander Erwin, what will you say if there is a possibility for an… alliance between the Wolfpack and the Survey Corps?"

"Escuse me?" Erwin tilted his head, he knew he didn't misheard the Alpha, but he knew also that the Lady did not just simply sign an alliance treaty with them for ceremonial purposes "Why would you want to ally with us?"

"Should I continue or would you like take over?" Yamcha looked at Gohan, gesturing his finger as if he wanted the Monkey Boy to tell the scouts their plans.

"I'm still processing, so yeah, you." Gohan crossed his arms, stared at the floor and avoided eye contact with everyone.

"Suit yourself!" Shrugged Yamcha, he started to walked back and forth, around the room. "In all three branches of the Military, the Survey Corps is the most discontented with the Royal Government! And with what you have discovered throught out the time, your distrust in the government only grows!"

"Let's me get this straight, Alpha Yamcha!" Erwin stood up from his chair, his surbodinates were as uneasy as he was. "You want to overthrow the government?"

"An uprising,yes. With the Wolfpack and the Survey Corps joinin forces…. And whatever third,forth parties wish to join us later, the more the merrier. All three of you, you two,too." Yamcha leaned at the door,pointing his fingers at the scouts in the room. "Tell me that you believe that we can retake the Wall with that technological back-step called our government."
"We have Gohan! Winters or not!" Rebutted Hange.

"He'd be killed on the spot if he's not! We're protecting him!" Yamcha barked back at the section commander.

"If someone like Gohan needs protection, humanity is fucked!" Levi snickered at the Papa Wolf.

"He protects humanity from Titans, the Lady and I protect him from humanity!" Yamcha snared at Levi and then he glared at Erwin. "The people who tried to have Eren Jaeger killed, and set Master Gohan with the Armoured and Colosal Titan, though they were who make differences!"

"I see. With the current government in power, Eren and Gohan will never be safe, thus humanity." Replied Erwin when the Alpha reminded him of the Wall Rose incident when he had had Gohan under surveliance. "What you plan on doing this?"

"The way you've been doing things. Information. We'll set a mole to their ranks, get whatever dirty secrets they have and discredit them." Smirked Yamcha, if it was not the commander's body language approved his plan,his Ki did. "And then men, women, swords and guns. We own the military industry so that will be easy. We free ourselves from their sackles. And then we will ride out and retake Wall Maria. Afterward, things will get complicated."
"A mole? A spy? Who?" In answer to Erwin's question , Yamcha patted on Gohan's back. "What?"

"He's joining the MPs."

Commander Erwin, Section Commander Hange and Captain Levi raised their eyebrows when they acknowledged that the Survey Corps' best soldier was going to leave them, to their rivals nonetheless. The latter two were visibly recoiled.

"You two are okay with this?" Levi ran toward to Eren and Mikasa ,to which they nodded.

"This is absurd! Who will train us with our Ki? How can anyone of us recreate the Kamehameha?" Protested Hange, waving her arms up to the ceiling.

"Oh, he's been training you?Well, not anymore. He's a great fighter, if not the best, but a medicore trainer." Yamcha deadpaned at Hange Zoe's objection. "I can fill the part. We'll send you a list of selected ten with the time and date. Be at the Castle on time!"

"You'll train us?"

"Yeah, I know about Ki as much as Gohan does. And I have experience training the Wolfpack!"

"That one problem resolved." Erwin tapped his table,before standing up to Yamcha's face level. "But if you can notice, when Gohan joined us , the Survey Corps' motality rate reduced twice. With him gone, we may face high casualty in our next expeditions!"

"That, is also a part of the deal. You will not conduct any operation outside the Walls without the Lady's sanction." And then the scouts gasped at the outrageous demand. What were the scouts if they were not outside the Walls, scouting? Levi got so irritated that he charged at the Alpha and grabbed his collar.

"That's enough from the bourgeois! Just because the Monkey Boy her son, doesn't mean we have to be her fucking lapdogs! She doesn't get to tell us what to do."

"Quite contrary, she does!" Smiled Yamcha, he leaned down to Levi, knocked the Captain over when he headbutted the man. "She pays 35 percent of humanity's taxes, in other words, she's paying you. With Gohan's absent, who knows how many more of you idiots will die? The Lady does not want anymore soul to be lost without a certainty of victory. I personally don't want anyone in this room to end up like Mike Zacharious."

"Why you sunuva…" Levi got on his feet and attempted to jump at Yamcha again.

"That's enough, Levi. You're not his match anyway." Ordered Erwin, the man closed his eyes in defeat before opened them again, he offer his hand to Yamcha. "Let's say we have an aggrement,Alpha!"

Then Yamcha offered his hand, the two men shook their hand with the witness of five other people. The handshake was a seal to the aliance of the most ruthless commander of the Survey Corps and the most dangerous woman of all humanity.

"I'll be expecting a letter from the Lady, the list of your new 'pupils'."

"Gohan will write you their names soon enough!"

Yamcha walked away as soon as he broke off from the handshake, trying to reach to the doornob, just as he was interupted by a cough from Gohan.

"Yamcha!" The boy pointed at the box Yamcha was holding the whole time.

"Oh!" The Alpha spinned back to Erwin and put the box down the table before the commander. The Commander, Hange and Levi eyed the box laid before them. It a white metal case,with a large C emblem incased on it with the caption 'Capsule Corp.' inscripted. "A token of trust!"

"Have you ever been astounded with Gohan Ki sensing ability?" Said Yamcha as if he was in a commercial. "You like how he was able to know locations of Titans lurking around him? You want to sense energy like he does, but do not want all the body degrading training?"

"Yamcha!"

"Behold, the Winters Industry presents: Scouters for the Scouts!" He opened the box, revealing six scouters with pink lens inside.

Each of the senior officers picked up a scouter and looked at it with visible fascination. Hange particularly studied it with extended focus compare to Erwin and Levi.

"Handle them with care, please! The six scouters you see, are the only six scouters left in this world." Gohan approached Hange and helped her put the scouter on her head. "Push the red button on the side."

As Gohan per instruction, Hange Zoe pressed the button on the scouter's left and high pitchly screamed when she saw the numbers shown up.

"What kind of sorcery is this?" She vaulted throught Erwin's desk and approached Gohan and Yamcha, her face was blushing red. "111 and 100, are those high?"

"So that our power level?" Gohan whispered in Yamcha's ear

"Eren and Mikasa, 47 and 74. That's interesting!" Hange pointed her fingers at the scouts in the back and then at Levi. "Oh mein gott, Levi. You're so low, only 98!"

"What?"Puzzled Levi, the only people who was not clueless were the Z fighters. "The fuck?"

"Woah, woah, woah. There're numbers outside too, I don't have to see the people to see 'em. None of us pass the two digits limit." She knelt down and slammed her hands repeatedly on the floor, giggling manically.

"Okay Four Eyes, the hell are you on about?" Scolded Levi , Hange gave him her scouter, the Captain put the pink device to his eye and see what she had seen. "Dafuq?"

"Be easy with that, just like Gohan said, those six are the only scouters left, Lady can't make more." Yamcha open the door and exit the room. "Get that to yourself and your most trusted five surbodinates, I'd crossed out Miss and Mr Ackermen because they already sense energy."

"That's be all, Commander, Captain. Mikasa, Eren, I'll see you when I see you." Gohan followed Yamcha and closed the door. "Careful with those high-end scouters!"

And they felt it again, the eyes that watched. The scouts locked the eyes on the Alpha and the young lord Winters until they walked out the Survey Corps HQ. Gohan's comrades went into a mental crisis when he walked to a carriage that was surrounded by Wolves. And the scouts got more despair when they saw Gohan removed his Survey Corps jacket and put on a new one, which had the Military Police Unicorn on its back.

Author's Note: Now you know who the two that standing at the nearby ridge watching the cadets on Trusty's chapter 7 were.

Author's Note 2: And yeah, the Uprising Arc will also be Yamcha's Redemption Arc.

Next Chapter: Soldier of Three Armies