Chapter 38: The Interior Police.
The bunker. Days Earlier.
"But you won't like the detail." Yamcha, Jonathan and Bulma stood before Gohan and explained to him their detailed plan. They would infiltrate him to the military police and have him collect any secret that would taint the MP reputation as bad as it could, the worse the better. And with the population dissent with the MP and the government rose and the mass supports to the Survey Corps and Lady Winters climaxed ,they will launch a coup de tart to overthrow the royal government. With the new leader, who happen to have more progressive view toward technological development, they would retake Wall Maria ,grab whatever needed resource to rebuild a new time machine, train Gohan to become stronger and go back to their world and kill Bojack.
"Okay, I kinda get it, so you want me to infiltrate the MP so it would make you plan to overthrow the government easier. Is that correct?" Gohan sat on the keyboards and asked for clearance.
"Yes! Exactly!" The old world trio confirmed in unison.
"I think that you anticipated that I wouldn't like the part that I join the MPs ,but you happened to be wrong. It's a surprise no less, but it a sound plan." Said Gohan.
"You guys owe me a hundred talents!" Yelled Yamcha in excitement.
"Talents?" Asked Gohan.
"Well, it's the equivalent of zeni in this world." Answered Bulma to Gohan, before shifting to Yamcha. " And no, Yamcha. We're not there yet, it's not a guaranteed win." And then she returned to Gohan. "Well, we, the three of us make a bet of which part of our plan that you wouldn't like, I bet on the joining the MP bit, Jonathan the overthrowing the government."
"And Yamcha?"
"Well ,it's something we left out on our detail we just explain to you." Explained Bulma,she went around the bush because she knew the revelation would disturb Gohan the most. "Probably for dramatic effects."
" Or probably the monkey boy would not let us finish explaining our plans." Added Yamcha.
"The latter is most likely!" Added Ingham.
"The fact that Yamcha anticipated that part is really getting to my nerve!" Frowned Bulma.
"What it is?" Gohan got impatience of his friends going around the bushes. "Just spill it or my least favorite part of the plan is you going around the bushes like this."
"Well ,we all agreed on. What to do after overthrowing the government is that..." Bulma hesitated to say her next words.
"Which is?" Gohan pressed on.
"Gohan, what would you feel if you happened to become... uh... king?" Asked Bulma, revealed her crucial part of the plan.
"WHAT? WHY?" Gohan's displeasure could not be more visible.
"Looks like I win!" smirked Yamcha.
"Gohan calm down. Backtrack your memory." Bulma put her hands on both Gohan's shoulders, the monkey boy was hyperventilating, he was probably think his friends were all crazy to come up with such a plan, to make him king. "Back in Trost, what was your orders?"
" I was with the Garrison Vanguard, defending the breach that Bertholdt made." he told her.
"Someone ordered you to withdraw didn't they?" Asked Bulma.
" Yes."
" Do you think less casualty humanity would have suffered if you didn't listen?" Bulma came up with a hypothesis.
"Yes." Gohan reluctantly answered.
"You didn't follow Pyxis' plans of assisting Mr Jaeger to pluck the breach,did you? How many soldiers died because of your insurbodination?"
"Surprisingly none!" Gohan widened his eyes.
"In contrary ,you saved lives because of your disobedience! Tragedies often occur when soldiers get out of line,but to you it's the opposite. Because you see things, that the higher ups, the ordinary people that in positions failed to see." Bulma seemed to started making some point of her own. "Now , let move toward to the later events. Uh? The 57th Expedition, did anyone in your squad listen to you when you stay back to cover their retreats?'
"When I fought Annie? No? How do you know this?" Gohan got confused of how Bulma knew all the details on his every mission.
"Well, I got access to the Survey Corps' record. I'm Lady Winters. Eld Jinn died because he didn't heed your words,because none of your squad heeded your advice ; why would they, you're not their captain nor their commander."
"Oh , I see it now." Frowned Gohan.
"Not to mention, Erwin didn't plan to retake Shiganshina on that one despite of what he'd briefed you . And he has even failed to capture the Female Titan,his original intention. If you were the Commander of the Survey Corps on that expedition , Wall Maria would have been retaken by now." She stood up and took a step back. "In hindsight, a lot of tragic events happened after Trost could have been averted if you were in the highest position of power."
"That just hindsights, who would have know to think better in those situations?" Gohan protested, though Bulma's agguement did have a point , it was because she saw the result to judge the process leading to it. "Besides, I have no claim to claim to the thrones whatsoever , absolute bar-none , I have no legitimacy, no one would support me, except for you."
"We needn't one,Gohan. We'll claim it by right of conquest. For the last decade ,I have gained influence to the upper class of this world. Once we have you on the thrones, the ones who won't support you will have to conceede eventually." She fixed her blue hair as it was entangled while she had her speech.
"That insane! At least try to find another one who would agree with our renovation,and with more legitimacy." Gohan jumped from his seat , the more Bulma spoke, the more he disagreed with her.
"The mass need a strong shepherd, Gohan. When you are king, you will lead the troops to Maria. For the first time in centuries ,the people will see a king who fights his battles and wins. You will be a Warrior-King, your legitimacy will be proven by your power, your strength and your victory. You'll be a Xiang Yu." Bulma continued her speech ,before kneeling down to Gohan. " No man, no women, no human being of this world would be fitter to lead than you."
"We all know what happened to Xiang Yu." Gohan was a student of history after all.
"And we all know you're smarter than him,Gohan ; and much stronger. You'll listen to your Fan Zeng." This was the turn for Yamcha to enter the conversation. "Beside there is no Liu Bang here to challenge you. Listen kid, we've thought this through. No matter how supportive the new ruler to our innovations , no matter how enlightened and progressive they could be; they can never grasp the understanding of our technology ,of our course as much as you already have."
"You couldn't prevent tragedies that had occured when you first arrived in this world, but maybe you can prevent the future tragedies that might occur only when you are in total control , Son Gohan." Jonathan Ingham joined the conversation. "Please,consider this."
Present Time.
Another traing from Yamcha,the extra-terrestial threats he had faced were able to shoot out ki blasts that could incinerate the most durrable materiel , not to mention their physical attacks in hand to hand combat were as equal threatening.
The scouts, in their turtle school orrange gi were confused when Yamcha had his wolves put a bundle of carts into a pile, 30 total, Mikasa had counted, in front of them. Yamcha was going to them on how to make evasive maneuvers, without their ODM Gears.
They were no longer training in the castle's vicinity , unlike their past training. Yamcha had been training them for the past few weeks with what Master Roshi had trained Krillin and Goku with, trying his best to recreate them throught what Krillin and Goku had told him. But today, he went for another approach.
"Greeting Children!" He bowed at his pupils.
"That the best thing you can call us?" said Levi, though he hide it perfectly, anyone who has any common at all would sense a bit anger in in.
"Well, I can find a friendlier form of asdressing you lot, Captain Ginyu. Perharps you can enlighten me!" Yamcha smiled at his students.
"Maybe just by our names?" Suggested Sasha, unnerved by the fact that her ki teacher started to become friendlier to them. "Or call signs sir?"
"A key contributor to our class as always, Friendly Sniper. I see a tat of potiential in you." Sasha was unable to tell if Yamcha was being sarcastic or not, wolves are hard to read. "Now, Masked Rider, would you care to tell the other what are these?" He tapped on the pile of carts.
"Are you refering to me? Sir, it's, those are carts." Answered Eren , still not used with the call-sign Yamcha gave him despite his weeks of training. "And why Masked Rider, sir?"
" It's a old cultural reference from my hometown. Do me a favor a say 'henshin' everytime you transform into Titan." Jested Yamcha.
"Why?"
" I'll find it nostalgic! And you are very correct!" Yamcha crossed his arms and stare at his pupils. "These are carts, horse drawn carts without horses, and they are today educational instruments."
"Educational instruments?" As her fellow students gasped, Ymir didn't hesitate to ask question. "What you want us to ride them? Wait ,there's no horse, so you want us act as horses. And I thought you making us deliver postals and digging dirts with our hands are weird enough."
With her word the scouts recalled to the lesson Yamcha made them endure: Delivering goods to far away districts of the Walls, swimming arround an entire large lake, plowing all the fields of a Winters Industry plantation with their bare hands, working at a Winters Industry factory. And they all growled at the memories.
"A very tempting idea,nonetheless, She-Gollem. I'll note that for later!" The pupils, with the exception of Levi and Mikasa, flinched and paled at Yamcha's notion. "But no, I bring them here for another form of training."
Just before Yamcha continued, Jean and Petra leaned to Ymir and scolded her: "Don't give him anymore idea." To which she shrugged.
"You've been relying on your 3D Maneuver Gears to fend of Titans for too many occasions. Now I want you to imagine that you are fighting them without your gear. Or to dodge their attacks atleast. Let's consider these carts are their fists and feet, shall we." Yamcha held onto one of the carts. The scouts loosed the formation and prepare themselves what incoming, they were expecting Yamcha to push the carts at them at any momment. "Not to mention ,Ki user like myself and Gohan, and our old friends, Krillin, Tien, Piccolo, Vegeta, able to emit ki blasts much like the Kamehameha, some of the blasts were simpler that the kamehameha, some more complex, some are weaker,some are stronger. But all of them can turn you into ashes in a blink of an eye. So it is crucial that you are able to dodge them." To the scouts horror, Yamcha lift up a cart with his hands and turned to them. "And if you can't dodge, it'll give me no more amount of joy to deliver you physical pain and emotional damage. So, uh... DODGE!"
He threw the cart to section of the ten scouts that were Jean, Connie, Ymir, and Gunther. The four scouts ducked and darted aside before the cart made the impact and broke into several pieces.
"Are you fucking crazy, that could've kill us?!" Connie yelled at the Alpha.
"With your life on the line ,you would perform best." Yamcha threw another cart at them , this time at the other six.
"Eren watch out!" Mikasa tackled Eren to the side as Levi, Oulo, Petra and Sasha narrowly dodge the cart.
"You can't hold his hands forever, Not-a-Driver!" Yamcha kicked another cart to the center of the ten,this time the force more powerful than his throws.
Seeing the cart was flying toward him and Mikasa, Eren kicked Mikasa away from him and the trajectory of the cart, before dodging the cart himself. Such feat amazed Yamcha that he gave them a pause.
"This is getting out hand , Yamcha! I though your training was riddiculus but it's counterproductive to kill or maim you trainees." Levi stood to his feet and protest.
"See, we're getting closer, aren't we? You're calling me by my name now. Yes ,it is counterproductive. But to remind you, I receive a similar training once. And they used Ki blasts on me." Yamcha finished his sentence by kicking three carts at them consecutively. Althought all of the scouts were able to dodge the carts ,actually perform better than they have before, they were scattering like ants being sprayed water on. "Well to fair,those ki blast had narrower diameter than these carts, but screw it, I'm not shooting you lot with bullets." He kicked another one at them.
Oulo, Eren, Jean were the target of said cart, while the former two were able to ducked under the cart, Jean took the full impact of the cart. He fell onto the ground, motionless.
"Jean! NO!" Connie and Sasha rushed to Jean.
"You fucking murderer!" Eren bit onto his arm and a collumn of lightning emerge.
"Wait, Eren don't!" Petra screamed out
The Attack Titan charged at Yamcha, but before Eren could reach the carts pile, a cart flew straight into his face and knocked him down.
"Oh look at that idiot, makes himself a bigger target." Yamcha sniggered, but he couldn't relish that for long. The attack titan revived and roared at the Alpha. Eren clutched his fist and slammed it toward Yamcha, and Yamcha nimbly jolted back,distancing himself five meters from the attack. "Well,folks,looks like you're gonna have a good demonstration on how your training would result."
Eren slammed his foot onto where Yamcha was standing, but the Alpha quickly vaulted on the foot before it hit the ground. Yamcha,from the Attack Titan's right foot, swiftly wall-run to the Titan's chin and did a upperkick to the said chin before he landed on the ground, and ran away.
"You seeing this?" Mikasa approached Levi as the scout observed a Titan fighting a human, an unarmed human of the Wolfpack ,who happened to fair quite well agaisnt Eren.
"Well his Ki quite exceed Eren actually, even in that form." Levi deadpaned . "Looks like Yamcha was not joking about fighting Titans unarmed. How Jean?"
"What kind of question is that? He..." Mikasa blustered at Levi's question but when she turned to look at Jean, she gasped. The others were tending on Jean, who was... awake, he sat on where he had fell, seemingly in pain, but except from some bruises he seemed unscathed. "What?" She activated her ki sensing, his Ki was unchanged, albeit from the Ki they gained from the past days of training.
"Jean, are you okay?" Asked Connie, he was as shock as the other the moment Jean revived.
"Okay? It's fucking hurt! I was hit by a fucking carriage, what do you think gonna happen?" Spat Jean rubbing his entire body out of pain. "*Cough,Cough,cough*. Wait , why am I not dead or rendered unconcious?"
"It appears that Yamcha training has shown signs of paying off." Levi slowly approached his comrades.
"What? Really?" Puzzled Gunther. "How?"
"I don't know how, but appearantly the torturous training that son of a bitch gave us for the past weeks has made our bodies more durable. Or at least, Jean's body!" Remarked Levi, what disturbing to him was that he had to give Yamcha credit for his training.
" I don't feel any different!" Said Connie.
"Neither am I ,but I took a carriage and still kicking,didn't I?"Retorted Jean, which had nods of approvals from his comrade. "Speaking of which ,where Yamcha? I don't know if I should thank him or kick his ass, but either way works."
"Oh shit!" Exclaimed Oulo as the scouts disperse and ran toward where Eren and Yamcha were skirmishing.
And Yamcha still had the situation under control . Eren was still charging at him while Yamcha just kept backfliping away from Eren. For every punch Eren threw, Yamcha dodged, for every kick Eren did, Yamcha vaulted over his leg and counter-attacked by kicking the Attack Titan by the chin. And he landed on the ground, cracked his neck and stared dagger at Eren.
"Sure feel great to be a big deal again. Being the one eyed king in the valley of the blinds does not feel like a downer at all." Yamcha raise his hand up in the air. "But play time over, I had my fun, sure you had yours. We have class to attend."
"What's he doing ? He stops dodging." Petra gasped at the scene as Yamcha stopped in his track a raised his left arm in the air . The Attack Titan was still charging him.
And then a golden ki circle appeared above Yamcha hand and swirled manically.
"Is he going for a ki blast?" Jean remarked at the beautiful disk.
"Look like play time's over!" Levi crossed his arms.
"Wait Mr Yamcha!" Bellowed Mikasa.
"Which is your nape from here. Never mind I'll do your ribs." Yamcha aimed the Ki attack at the chest of the Attack Titan and threw the disc at Eren. "Destructo Disc!"
The Attack Titan was cleaved in halves as the Destructo Disc sliced through it forth rib from top down. And the titan slammed its severed body to the ground , the final slam it made for the day.
"Erennn!" Yamcha could hear Mikasa scream from his left, but he didn't bother to look at her and the rest of his pupil.
"Hold ya horses, Not-a-Driver. I got this." Yamcha held out his hand to halt Mikasa from aproaching. Yamcha inserted himself into the Attack Titan gaping wound that had severed Eren in half. He withstand the heat and surged himself into where the Titan's nape was surposed to be. In a minute, the nine scouts could see Yamcha dragged himself out of the Titan's decomposing torso ,carrying Eren on his shoulder.
"What was that technique?" Asked Levi as Yamcha went near them.
"It's some of the Ki blasts that easier than the Kamehameha,you might be able to perform that one of these days." Answered Yamcha, just before he took a glance at Jean. "Well, Two-eyed Tien, you look rather fine and dandy. Come on ,guys, let's start some campfire, get us some hot chow!"
Annie was a prisoner of the Bunker for a month or so. Inside her cell, everyday sometime the Lady, the Alpha and that Beta Ingham brought her her meals. She could speculate that those three people were the ones that had access to the Bunker ,obviously. The meals they had given her were actually quite good, but they were repititive, sausages, bread, soup and more bread, the only part she had no complaint about was the dessert,those chocolate bars they gave her were beyond perfection.
She had never attempt her escape since the first time she met Lady Winters, because she knew it would be futile. She did not know how, but the people down the Bunker had figured out a way to electrecute her if she ever step out of line, so she never did.
However, today her dinner arrived late, well to herself she was not in the position of complaining. But she had got really hungry . She laid in her bed with her growling belly and counted the second passing away.
"Open!"Annie heard the voice command from the other side of the door. The voice was very new yet very familiar.
"I was starting to think that you guys have forgotten about me..." Jested Annie as the door slid open,and the person who came in to deliver her food surprised her. "Gohan?"
"Porridge, cooked with mussels." Gohan was holding a silver mess tin on his right hand, and on his left where a pair of white pants, and a white shirt. "I brought you fresh clothes." Annie stared at him, observing his appearances. Lady Winters didn't lie, Gohan was alive and a military police. The costume he was wearing bore similarities with the Survey Corps,but the emblem was the Unicorn of the Military Police Brigade.
"You're alive." Annie could only though of that at the time.
"I'ma ,I'ma put the clothes here." Gohan put the clothes at a corner of the bed, he open the mess tin to reveal the hot,white porride that was steaming inside, and handed it to Annie, along with a plastic spoon. "You must be dying for bath since - how long? Unfortunately ,we only have showers down here, I don't know if your people has invented that yet, wherever you hail from."
"Gohan, I know what a shower is. In where I came from, we, we have that!" Gohan took a look at Annie and she already have finished half of the porridge.
"Good, good, I don't want to even imagine teaching a person of different sex how to use a shower!" Gohan giggled as he thought of the awkwardness, then he noticed a detail that Annie had opened up, which she refused to do with Bulma, Yamcha and Jonathan. "Bulma said you didn't want to say anything about your civilisation out side the Walls."
"Oh you call your mother by name?" Annie shock at what a mother and son Gohan had with the Lady, but she decided it was best not to focus on it. "No, I didn't. She could have tortured me just to have that information,but she didn't. She just left me be in this...room, and let boredom consumes me."
"Well, we don't see the info of your hometown as our top priority right now." Gohan stood up and look at the door for a moment ,and when he look back at Annie and saw the mess tin was empty. "You finish?"
"I never thought porridge could be this good!" Annie gave him the empty box.
Gohan chuckled and retrieve the empty tin. "It's eastern style congee. I bet you've gone tired of having sausages all month."
"Well, I guess it rather useless to know about my hometown." Annie got less excited, thought still compliance, and sadder in her expression and tone. She went back to the subject they was talking about. "When you have a man who litterally blasted the Armored Titan and the Colossal Titan into oblivion."
Gohan glared at her, his body tensed , ready for combat. But as he saw how compliance, or rather idled, Annie was sitting on her bed. She seemed traumatised, but her composure was enough to mask it. He relaxed himself and let out a sight
"Bulma told you?"
"It was the Alpha."
"Yamcha,you loudspeaker. I'm sorry, Annie. I know Berthold and Reiner were very close to you." Gohan closed his eyes, caculated how much chance of getting to his prisoner good side dimmered. "But I would still do it again, they were so much a threat!"
"I understand, it's war." Annie also closed her eyes, if her comrades' death pained her, she masked it very well. "Where's the shower?"
"Well, it's only a few a rooms away. I'll take you there." Gohan handed Annie her new clothes, with his left hand, which Annie notice his missing fingers.
"The fuck happened to your fingers?" Annie didn't even bother to hide her concern, she stood up on the bed and grabbed Gohan's hand. Which in response, Gohan recoiled.
"I don't know either! I just woke up and saw two of my fingers and one tail lose." Answered Gohan, to which Annie leaned forward and glanced down at his back. "Follow me!"
Annie and Gohan walked of the room, where the Female Titan had a good look of what was outside her containment. There were other room or at least as she could see, doors, similar as hers, numbered from 1 to 10. She glance back to her room and saw it was number 14. The hall was lit by a serries of flourescent lamps, whitening the already white painted wall.
The former friends, now enemies, or rather prisoner and guard passed living quarter number 15, 16, and 17 to come to a frosted glass door.
"Not much for privacy, but I can't see through it if that make you feel better." He opened the door ,with his hand. "Welp, no voice command lock here. Not a good sigh for someone to walk in while someone else is taking a shower!"
Annie walk inside the room, she saw the room was quite big, that there were 5 different showers inside. She hung the clothes at the nearby hangers.
"I'll be outside. Keep on talking if you like, it's not soundproof in here. Having a soundproofed bathroom sounds unsafe." Gohan closed the door, separated the two of them. "There's towels inside."
Annie sighed, she pulled the bolt-lock and started to undress. She glanced at the door, thought blurry but one could still see what outside, faintly;Gohan was not there, nor inside the shower room, he must have stand beside the door, outside. She approached the middle shower, to her horror , instead of knobs, there were buttons. Red and blue, up and down.
"Uhhh, Gohan?" Annie called out.
" Oh yeah, the buttons, up and down for water pressure, red is hot, blue is cold. I suggest you press the pressure to the top , press both blue and red." She could hear Gohan's voice from the outside.
"Got it." She followed his instruction, and the warm, strong water splashed on her body. For the first time since she conducted her mission,she never felt so refreshed. With the water pouring on her ,she felt cleansed. In the shower, enjoying the warm, hot water, it was almost like all the blood on her hands were washed away, all of her sins were cleansed, and not felt like a prisoner afterall. Almost.
"Gohan, no bullshit, what the fuck are you people?" In her most calm state, Annie lost her cool. The technological advance in the bunker was beyond everything in her known world, and that was just the floor she was kept in. And nothing of it made sense, all the knowlegde in her world could not even scratch the surface of what she had witness down here, she need answer, sinner or not, she knew she deserved it .
"What'd you mean?"
"What the fuck do I mean? Voice commanded doors, highly advanced lights, and buttons for showers? Where I came from they didn't even have hot water for showers. There is a international community out off the Walls, and they techs never reach this level. Not to mention, YOU. There is no man nor Titan can blast a tower of heavenly-what light to incenerate what laid before him to absolute NOTHINGNESS. So I ask you again, who and what the FUCK are you people?"
There was only silence in other side of the door. As a grave, silent. And Annie stood,naked, petrified under the running water to wait for an answer. A minute passed, the silent was broken.
"I guess... I would have to disclose the truth of my past ...well...our past to someone sooner or later." Gohan tiredly replied, frustated about having to tell her his story, at last. "Here my offer, I tell you my story, and tomorrow well, you return the favor by telling whoever came to bring you breakfast your side story."
Annie lean her back agaisnt the wall and slid down to sit on the floor, with water still pouring on her.
"Bulma, well, she's not my mother. She's a friend to my family ,close one. When she met my dad for first time, well she shot him in the face." Gohan began to tell her his story, everything of his world.
After every training ,Yamcha, as brutal as he was, he was also generous;he always treated his pupil with a big,gigantic meal of exotic,or atleast unheard-of to his students. So,after his, Cart Dodging Lesson of him, he treated them with an campfire barbecue . Mostly meat rolls, minced meat rolls, sausages and a delicacy from Yamcha's home world: Hamburgers.
"You guys work to little, eat too much." Commented Yamcha as he saw the scouts had devoured three quarter of the meat he brought. He even became more frustated when he saw Mikasa put extra meat on Eren's hamburger. "Oh, for the love of Kami!"
"You didn't specified those training have to be life-threatening." Glared Levi, as he bit on his last burger. "Rather feel bad eating this much when people are starving around us."
"Well,to be fair the people didn't receive the same training as us, Capt'." Said Petra with her mouth full.
"I would not consider it to be life-threatening...much, Human Ginyu. Not after our young friend here still walking after taking a cart for the team." Yamcha slowly turned his head to Jean who was resting his head on a log.
"Barely, I'm still hurt ,everywhere." Jean rolled his eyes, and he did not lie, his entire body sore.
"Can you... describe how much do you hurt?" Asked Eren, not forgeting to glare at Yamcha.
"You 'member that time Shadis ordered us to work out so hard, that the most of us couldn't walk properly for the next 2 days? That hurt."Barked Jean.
"That actually amazing result for such kind impact!" Commented Ymir. "And for a guy like you!"
"What is that suposed to mean?" Jean gawked at her.
"Don't get me wrong, Horse face. But that kind of impact, getting by a cart at that speed. I don't think Eren and I can handle better than you." Retorted Ymir.
"I'll take that as a compliment!" Said Jean.
"Alpha, did you know of this when ya threw those carts at us?" Asked Gunther, because the Alpha must have known those cart couldn't kill them.
"No, I do not." Yamcha's answer got every member of the ten, except for Levi, creamfaced. "I expect Two Eyed Tien over here to be bedridden for atleast a fortnight. But well, you lot exceed all expectations."
"I don't know if he is being modest or serious, and it's concerning." Yelp Oulo ,his eyes were as widen as the majority of his comrades.
"Of course he's being modest." Levi saw through the Papa Wolf's cruelty facade. "Mikasa and I can sense energy with a few amount of time exposing with Gohan. He must have known we might progress further and faster than the people from where he came from. Haven't you?"
The scouts stared at the Alpha, who remained silent after what Levi said. He stood up , walked to one of the carriages that brought them all to this forest. From that`carriage, he took out a scarbard, inside it was not a sword ,but a red staff.
"Do any of yous know what this is?"
"Is that the staff you use to kill-" Words bluttered out of Sasha mouth before Connie covered her mouth to silent her.
"This precious thing is Goku's Power Pole,the Staff That Obeys One's Will." Demonstrated Yamcha as he caressed the staff.
"Goku?" Puzzled Ymir.
"Gohan's father." Told Eren. "That staff belongs to Gohan's dad?"
"Yes, handed to him by his grandfather,whose name was also Gohan. Goku had been using it for good since then, defeating many villains with it. Until I used it for the things I never will be proud of." His voice became depressed as he continued.
"The Salt Mines." Sasha whispered.
"Yes, the Salt Mines. By tomorrow, this staff will return to its rightful owner,Gohan." Yamcha unsheaved the power poll. "But he wouldn't be needing it for long. When that time comes, one of you will have the honour to wield it."
"Why the sudden change of heart, wolf? Hours earlier you were throwing carriages at us." Spited Oulo, like the rest, Yamcha's showing them their would-be trophy had taken him off guard.
"Because from what Two-eyed Tien has shown, you lot have potential, body at least. You've proved to be reaching the level that I am now. Soon! Hearts, well, your years of combat in the Survey Corps have proved your devotion and courage. Now, it comes down to your techniques and abilities that take more learning." Yamcha smiled at the ten, it was visible to them his look of approval. Then his face shifted, he have sensed someone coming, four of them. And Levi was the one to recognise them.
Hange and her squadmates,Moblit, Keiji and Nifa rode up to them. Yamcha widened his eyes as his training ground was classified. Hange Squad had to cover their ears when the Papa Wolf huffed and puffed at them.
"How the hell do you know we here?!" Tried their best to ignore Yamcha's banter, Hange and her scouts dismounted from their horses.
"We came to the Castle, Lady Winters were there, she told us where you are when we told her the news." Nifa did her best to calm the Wolf down, to no avail.
"What are you guys wearing?" Puzzled Moblit at the Ten's Gi.
"What kind of news of what importance, that makes she compromise her long time friend?" Yamcha continued to rant at the Scouts.
"Alpha, Captain Levi,everyone. It's Nick,he's dead. Murdered." If any of the Fourth Squad's word could sway Yamcha, it would be Hange's. "Tortured, his fingernails were peeled off, he's beaten,cut.."
"Woah,woah, woah, slow down Dodoria. Nick? Nick the cock-chanter from the Walls Church?" Yamcha waved his finger across Hange's eyes. "No. That's impossible. Bulma sent Jonathan to look after him this morning. When Jonathan does something ,it'd never out of his league. Unless,you're implying..."
"That's it, sir. The reason why the information was able to convince the Lady to tell us about you is..." Hange continued, patted her hand on Yamcha shoulder. "He's...I'm sorry, Alpha.. Mr Ingham, he's dead." Her reply got the Alpha dumbfounded.
"Ha ha ha,no, if you want to scare me. You have to think of a better story. Jonathan maybe below my level, he's definitely beyond yours. None of you primitive dumbasses can get him." Yamcha shook his head in disbelief, in response he revoked Hange's story.
"I'm sorry, we saw his body. There's a knife in his chest." Said Moblit, he bowed down avoiding eye contact. "We were able to bring Mr Ingham's body back to the castle. The MP didn't let us take Nick."
Yamcha went limb as he heard Moblit, and finally he collapsed on his knee. The scouts around had become the first people to witness Yamcha sobbed. Tears came out of his eyes for the first time he had been marooned to this dimension. He had promised to bring Jonathan home, and now he failed.
"Did anyone else come with you?" Feeling something crawling on his neck, Levi asked Hange a clarifying question.
"No , why you asked?" Puzzle Hange, Lady Winters had only sent them.
"Because there are 30 energy signals a mile behind you, and I can't recognise any of them." Levi pointed at the direction behind Hange. "You're followed!"
"What?" Asked Mikasa.
"Wait, don't tell me you can switch it on and off?" Levi eyed Mikasa. "Well, turn it on."
Following her Captain's order, Mikasa stretched out her Ki sensing ability. And Levi was right, there were thirty unidentified Ki signatures in front of her, and she knew none of them was scout.
"I sense them too. Are they wolves?" She looked at Yamcha ,who rose up slowly from his sobbing.
"Nooooo, none of them are wolf. But I do recognise one of them." Human emotion develops strangely, from a moment of sadness and grief they can come right to anger. The same applied to Yamcha. "Djel Sannes! His Ki haven't changed since the first time I met him."
"Sannes? From the Interior Police? He's the guy who's at Nick and Mr Ingham crime scene." Hange had her questions and they needed to be answered, by Yamcha. "You know him?"
"He and his piss-pool Interior Police had their run-ins with Bulma and I when we start-upped our bussiness. Didn't end well for them." Yamcha stared at the direction of the energies, not leaving his eyes off them one second. "Those retards even attempted a second hit, didn't end pretty for them either."
"Now ,they are trying a third." Commented Levi, trying to imagine the run-ins the Interior Police had with the Wolfpack.
"Should we leave?" Asked Connie.
"No, let them come. We'll wait here. We can take them." Yamcha walked to the carriages. "Or for the least, I can take them."
Gohan told her everything. He told Annie about the dragon balls, how his father meet Bulma, Oolong ,then Yamcha. He told her about Pilaf, Master Roshi, the World Martial Art Tournament, then the Red Ribbon Army, King Piccolo. And then he told her about his uncle Raditz.
When she finished her shower and put on her clothes, and he took her back to her quartet, he told her about the part when he came into play, the Saiyans. He left out no details of how Nappa and Vegeta killed most his team. How his father defeated Nappa, and had his close fight with Vegeta, how Vegeta turned into a Oozaru and was defeated. He told Annie about Namek, the Namekians, Frieza and his army. He didn't leave out Dende and his village. So there were Dodoria, Zarbon; and Vegeta came into play again. So Vegeta turned on Frieza, killed Dodoria and Zarbon. Then came the Ginyus, he did not hide how Vegeta, himself and Krillin got devastated by the Ginyus and then his father Goku came to the rescue. He left out no detail of the bodyswapping between Goku and Ginyu. And then Frieza, oh Frieza, he destroyed Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan and Piccolo with no mercy in all of his five forms. How Frieza killed Dende in cold blood, and also Vegeta. Then Goku came in and fought him,almost killed him with the Spirit Bomb,then he came back and killed Krillin. His father turned Super Dragon brought everyone who got killed by Frieza and his men back to life and brought them to Earth. Namek explode. He told him about future Trunks, King Cold and Frieza's death. His father return. The Androids. About Cell. Then Cell absorbing the android. Everything about the Cell Game. Gohan defeated Cell. He was brought to this world. What Bulma had told him about Bojack and how they got here.
"Wow!" If Annie was never widened before ,this could be her first time.
"Do you...Do you believe me?" Unknown of Annie response meant,Gohan asked for clarification.
"Either that... Or I'll have no better explanation of your power, your technology and your everything." She seemed to have no option but to believe him. "Bulma." She was somehow more relax to refer the Lady by name now. "told me that these technologies were out of this world. I never thought it would be so literally."
"Well, remember our deal. Tomorrow, whoever show up to bring you food, you tell them everything of your homeland." Gohan gave her genuine smile, and she knew it was genuine. "Everything!"
"I do have some questions, thought." She regained her calmness and inform him.
"Ask away!"
"Only two, so. The first one: For Vegeta, really?" Asked Annie ,refering to when Gohan protected Vegeta from Cell's Ki blast, which in turn injured his arm. "Vegeta, from what you told me about him. He's like me, Reiner,Bertholdt and all Titans combined and timed million."
"He was... is one of us , the Z fighters. It's instinctive , I see someone of mine in dangers,I come and protect them." Gohan scratched the back of his head, he did indeed had no better explanation. "Like what I'm doing here and now."
"But you have Dragon Balls, you can wish him back!" Retorted Annie, she was so invested in this whole Dragon balls, Z fighters odeal that she became so pissed that Gohan risked his life for Vegeta. "Why did you think is a good idea to risk your life, your whole planet for a person who is a million times worse than me?"
"I'VE TOLD YOU!I didn't... think whether or not it's a good idea or not. It's my instinct,I just do!" He raised his voice at her. "And beside,after all, did he not reform?Maybe he didn't fight for what's right, but he fought against the ones who stood against what's right. The Ginyu Force, Frieza,Cell. If such a narcissistic ,sadistic,malevolent creature such as Vegeta could reform, why can't you?" He backed away from her as he calmed himself. "Now, your last question?"
"Why me?" This question was actually a best question the Female Titan had ever made. "Why tell me? Why not your friends? Your fellow... former scouts?"
"Because Annie, they're my friends, my family, if I tell them the truth. It'll come with two major issues: I've fed them lies all these times. And they could either not believe me, or scared of the nature of my backstory. It might change their opinions on me, either for the better or the worse. I won't roll that dice." His next words cut daggers into her heart. "You're my enemy. If your opinion on me changes, it only benefits me." He walk out of the door completely. "And furthermore, you'll be staying here for quite sometime, during that time, whom will you spill it to? Close door."
And then the door shut.
Djel Sannes did not know who killed John Ingham, it must have been Kenny or one of his anti personnel squad. But what he knew however, was when he saw the Top Beta near that traitor Nick,he knew what was going to happen: the non-aggression pact between the Royal Government and the Wolf Pack had been canceled. No matter how he devoted to his cause, his loyalty to the king, the thought of waging war with the Winters sent shiver through his spent, as he wished it would be the same to his superiors if they had any wisdom. It was not crossing Bulma Winters that scared him, nor did challenging the Wolfpack or Winter Industry, but it was one man his unit should fear, the Alpha.
Fifteen years ago, when the Lady, John Ingham and Alpha emerged from that... he did not know what to call it. Whatever the thing was, it came down from the sky, his superior sent his team to the scene to investigate, a platoon of 30 men armed with muskets. When they saw the Lady and her two companion, Ingham was just a mere child at the time, his Captain ordered him and his squad to open fire at the three. All the shots missed them completely, most of them,when Bulma and the young Ingham took cover behind the object; the rest of the shots,were horror, that beast Yamcha dodged all of them. That was when they bore witness to Yamcha's skill and strength, he charged at them ,killed ten of them with his barehands, then he picked up the tenth's musket and slaughtered the other ten, remaining ten survivors, Sannes amongst them, fled. Then his superior sent a squad ten men, armed with anti personnel ODM Gears after them. And then the next day, Yamcha and the Lady arrived at Interior Police HQ with the bodies of the men that were sent after them. It was then his commanders, the Reiss , the ruling council signed a treaty with the Lady. There would be no more bloodshed between Royal Government and the Winters. Due to the initial transgression committed by the Military Police, Lady Winters stated in the pact that she would be allowed to raised a personal paramilitary force to protect her and her 'family'. As long as she did not interfere with the Royal Government political activities, her business would never be obstructed. And add salt to the Royal Government wound, she would be allowed renovate the technology of the military as long as the Military Police was always the priority. Sour as it was the last part , it did come with benefit, the Lady helped the Interior Police upgrade their ODM Gears. But then Wall Maria fell, myriads of refugees moved into the inner wall; due to the food crisis, the Royal Government wished to send most of the refugees to the Titans,but the Lady considered it to be 'counter-productive' , "We can benefit more from them.";so there came the Exemption Act ,only the individual of significant skills ,the underaged, the disabled, and one who could pay they way out of conscription would saved from the Titans' stomachs. So Bulma gained the ruling class' trust, by filling their pocket ,along with her own from the crisis. But then, the Salt Mines Massacre, Bulma sent Yamcha,only Yamcha off to kill all the workers, the guards and the owners of Four Salt Mines in Wall Shina and Rose; and she became the owner of those four Salt Mines,and filled the vacant jobs with the unemployed citizens of humanity, half of which were refugees. With this wealth ,she bought 79% of the military industry through bribery,and there birthed Winter Industry. With these resources she become the most powerful women in all of humanity, and only one step away from total control.
That was the past, now the Interior Police had to be the bulwark against her hegemony. Lady Winters' supposed bastard son had made quite a name for himself in all the uniforms of the military. Many of the populace had considered him to be a hero, fewer a saint, and even fewer a living god sent from haven to safe humanity. Sannes' unit had their suspicion , the Royal Government had their suspicion, growing by the days. Then an anonymous source tip them off, the Lady had frequently associated herself with the Survey Corps. And then her harbouring of Eren Jaeger. And the caught-in-act of Jonathan Ingham monitoring Pastor Nick. All the clues had brought the Royal Government to one conclusion of the She-Wolf true intention: Rebellion.
Lady Winters' treason was the last straw that broke the camel's back. The Interior Police had have enough, orders were given: Acquire Eren Jaeger and Historia Reiss at all cost, arrest Erwin Smith and Bulma Winters, eliminate all members of the Survey Corps and the Wolfpack.
"Up ahead!" His oldest and closest companion, Ralph spotted the scouts' campfire and motioned the troops. "In positions!"
The MPs dismounted,spread out and surround the campfire ,taking cover behind the trees. 20 riflemen armed with action rifles and carbines ,Sannes and Ralph included, and 10 Anti Personel ODM Geared soldiers hung themselves on the tree and covered the high grounds. Sannes and Ralph led the riflemen slowly approach the camp.
"Fire is still on, they couldn't be far." Ralph crouched down and examined the campfire.
"Don't underestimate the Alpha, he must have kept that on so we can't know how long since they left." Retorted Sannes, he signaled the three carbine riflemen to check on the carriages. They opened the doors, examined it for a while ,then came out shaking their heads.
"The Direwolf-in-the-Shape-of-a-Man ran away? That doesn't sound like the the blood-lusted Yamcha you've told me about!" Ralph yawned in response to the scene, he slung his rifle to his back a walked closer to Sannes.
"Would you rather to face him? Our last encounters with him weren't pretty you know?" Insecured of what his troops had found, Sannes went and check the carriage him. Attempted to search it more thoroughly that his riflemen,in result he only found empty boxes inside. "How many scouts he did he bring with him? Why did he bring them with him?"
"Isn't killing Yamcha is why we're here in the first place. Why we followed Hange Zoe to Castle Jutnar and then here?" Replied Ralph, not amused that his comrade's courage was so diminished.
" Jaeger is our main mark, Lord Reiss has already told us he is most likely with the Papa Wolf." Spat Sannes to his best friend. "I intend to watch them from afar and snatch Jaeger when opportunity arrives. I have no intention for confrontation with the Alpha and Levi, Kenny can have them." Suddenly his face was like all the blood had been drain from him, just as then he realised his follies. "Oh, shit, we've fell for it! Everyone on guard, turn to your sixs."
Following his order, the MPs turn around and aimed their weapons from multiple direction, their back facing the camp.
"What is it?" Ralph panicked as Sannes aimed his weapon at the forest surrounding him.
"We've fell for it again. We've repeated the same mistakes we made 15 years ago. This time we've fused those two mistakes together!" He grunted at his mistake. "We brought the exact number of men we had brought years ago when we first sent to kill him. And mixed it with ODM Troops from the second. And those we brings are old models, we've let our hubris become our downfall. He has more people with him now."
"You mean...you mean this is an ambush?" Ralph screamed out of his lung, cursing in his mind for Sannes not just said so in the beginning.
"OF COURSE THIS IS AN AMBUSH!" A voice answered the question for Sannes. An anti personel troop who was hanging himself on a tree looked beside him, from a bushy branches of the same tree, Yamcha had been hiding there right next to him the whole time, he pointed his sidearm at the soldier head and. *BANG*
Before the said soldier fell from his tree, six more gunshots were fired from the same tree. *Bang,Bang,Bang,Bang,Bang,Bang* And six more ODM equiped soldier fell from their trees, all with holes in their heads.
Yamcha descended from a tree and threw his empty pistol at the nearest soldier,stuning him. Yamcha whipped out the Power Pole and swung it at that soldier neck, completely beheaded him.
The remaining ODM Gears MPs reacquired their composure and aimed their guns at Yamcha, but two orrange figures bolted out from the two closeby treetops and lurched at the ODM Gunners. Levi burst his gas to launch himself at a ODMed MP, sliced clean through his throat, he swung his sword and ejected the blade at another, impaling her through the abdomen. The only remaining ODM Gunner spotted Levi and switched her target at him, but before she could pull the trigger, an immense pain was felt on her back, heartbeat later, a long,blood-soaken blade revealed to her ,piercing her sternum. Mikasa kicked on the back of the woman, removing her from her blade.
Sannes had Yamcha on his iron sight, but he couldn't pull the trigger. Something interfered his shot, or rather his mentallity. Seeing Yamcha wearing the orange gi, the same outfit Yamcha had wore when the Wolf butchered his comrades 15 years ago, he suffered a case of PTSD. Flashes of image flashed before his eyes, in the end, he was frozen when Yamcha impale the Power Pole through one of his subordinates' chest and broke the next's neck when he swung the same staff at him. Yamcha was either dodging the bullets that were shot at him or they simply missed, Yamcha ended another MP while he dodge those bullets. Finally, the carbiners of the MPs came up with a smart tactic, the three gunman holed up in one of the carriages, tucked their guns out the windows and fired at Yamcha. The Papa Wolf swiftly took one of the bodies as a meat shield and blocked himself from the projectiles. Whilst the carbiner fail to hit their target, they succeeded to suppress Yamcha movement completely.
"I thought you learned your lessons. But it appears that Bulma's right, you people lack intellect." The Alpha howled at the MPs. "Krillin With a Nose, Friendly Sniper!"
Unexpectedly, two flares was shot as two more orange figures appeared from the treelines. They flew straight at the lanterns that were placed on the carriage, setting the carriage aflame as well as the gunmen resided inside.
"We had a fucking truce!" Ignoring the cream of the burning men, he charged. Beating three soldier on his path ,some dead, some unconcious, he did not care because they all flat on their backs. He was going to Sannes. Noticing Yamcha's intention ,Ralph aimed his weapon at him, but he out of ammo; having no time to reload, he charged at Yamcha and swung his rifle at him. Yamcha was quicker thought ,he kicked Ralph in the genital, crushing his testicles into smithereens , Ralph knelt and wheezed in pain before Yamcha bashed his staff onto his face,removing the senior Interior Policemen's jaw and left him to bleed to his death.
Yamcha had reached Sannes at last, he disarmed him,knock out the frozen officer's rifle with his staff. Yamcha grabbed him by the collar, kneed the MP in the stomach.
"Fool me once,shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice?" For every 'fool me' sentence, Yamcha headbutted the senior MP in the face, knocking him unconscious in his second strike. Then he glance at the six surviving solders who were struggling to reload,every time they tried to insert new clips in the rifle, the clips fell onto the dirt. "Willing to join your friends so wholeheartedly?" He released Hannes and recalled back to his first fight with the MP. The ten survivors back then were as scare like them before they fled. Yamcha was not gonna let them flee this time. "Take a look." He pointed the Power Pole at the bodies lying around them. "There's better way to go."
The struggling soldiers struggled even more when they look at the mutilated corpses of their comrades ,all caused by a blunt weapon. From the trees, Eren, Ymir, Oulo, Petra, Jean and Gunther rushed out and subdued the survivor, pinning to the ground.
"Shameful displays! No one in the Survey Corps cowers like this!" Eren taunted the prisoners, disregard whether they bothered to hear him.
They heard neighing and hooves from nearby, Hange and her squad trotted their horses to them. Connie and Sasha was walking with them. Levi and Mikasa, slowly descended to the ground with their ODM Gears.
"Restrain them!" Ordered Hange. Keiji, Moblit and Nifa said a quick 'yes, ma'am' before dismounting to tied up the prisoners. She averted her at the massacre before her and gasped. "Goodness!"
"So this what happened at the Salt Mines looks like?" As the forth squad restraining the prisoners, Petra releashed hers to take a good look at the scene.
"No, this is what would happen if Gohan didn't hold back!" Commented Levi as he eyed the bloodied Yamcha searching through the corpses to retrieve his handgun. Thinking back to his words, he knew Gohan could do more than this. "No, this is not even a half of it."
Finally found a empty pistol, Yamcha retook it from the ground, a M1911 from his world. He didn't brought extra ammo when he went out teaching, he would found more ammunition back at the Bunker,either that or the Wolf's Den. He knew in the incoming battles, he and his were going to need a lot of firearms and bullets. He walked his way to Sannes.
"Someone please tie up this buffoon ,and put him on a horse. Theirs will prove useful." He ordered the scouts. "Section Commander Hange, go back to the Castle, tell the Lady we'll take the prisoners to the Wolf's Den, we'll meet her there. Tell her to bring the 'Interviewing Equipment', she'll know what I meant."
"The Wolf's Den?" Asked Hange. She never heard of the place.
"Are you having hearing impairment now?" Yamcha grabbed the reins of Hange's horse. "The Pupils and I will bring the prisoners to the Wolf's Den. You and your squad will go and tell Bulma and Gohan about what's happened here, tell Bulma to bring the serum. This is the matter of life and death to my Pack and your Corps, so go!"
"Okay." Hange waited for her squadmates to mount ,and then they rode off.
"You, listen to me! Our class is canceled until further notice! Now split up in two team, one stay here and guard the captives. The other come with me and look for the horses." Yamcha talked to his Ten Pupils. "We'll put them on the horses and ride to Wolf's Den, I will lead the way."
"C'mon! Mikasa you stay here!" Eren clapped his hands together to get everyone's attention. He joined up with, Oulo, Sasha, Connie and Gunther to follow Yamcha to look for the horses, while Levi,Mikasa,Jean,Ymir and Petra stay on guard.
Next Chapter: The End Justifies the Means.
Request: I know this would be too much to ask,which it is, but well, I kinda need some of my readers who happened to be individuals of significant skills, the skill happens to be arts, to draw some fan arts for me. Nothing much drawing the Angel of Trost , and the Ten Scouts (Mikasa, Levi,Eren, Oulo,Petra,Gunther,Jean,Sasha,Conny and Ymir) in turtle school uniforms. Regardless of there is anyone willing to fulfil my request, much appreciated.
