Attack On Titan 2: New Era

"..."

Aldo is helpless as he couldn't move his arms and do nothing while he watch one of the group member pointing the laser gun at him.

"Now, what will you do? Save the boy by telling us everything you know what's happening around here or say goodbye to that kid and yourself." said Kale, waiting patiently for the answer.

'What should I do? They will just shoot this kid if I try to do something suspicious or even move an inch' thought Kaiser.

"Fine... I will.... I will tell you." replied Kaiser.

"Very good decision. If I were you, I would have done the same thing." said Kale, with amusement in his words.

Aldo watched his dog hiding at a good spot, waiting for to be transformed into the ferocious Cerberus like creature again to rescue both the boy and Kaiser.

"..."

"Where are you looking at, kid?" asked one of the group member, who is holding the arm of the kid.

Aldo, however, pondered for while whether he should reveal his power or not. But he has no choice since Kaiser may end up telling everything after all.

Aldo thought it would be better to give them a know little information about his power rather than letting Kaiser tell every single information.

Revealing all information or little information, sacrificing little information would be better after all.

Aldo, instead of looking directly into the eyes of his pet dog, gestured with his head movement to give indirect instructions to Archie.

Archie understood what does the boy want it to perform. The dog immediately rushed towards the two guys who are holding arms of the kid and bite them.

"Argh!"

"Ouch!"

"Huh? What the hell? What is that dog doing here!"

"Hey look! The kid is doing something strange!"

The group seemed transfer their attention to the dog and the kid, realising slowly what they are planning to do now.

"Shit! Stay away everyone!" exclaimed one of the group member.

Aldo threw two-four grenades in every direction to explode it.

"Shit! It's too late-"

All the members thought that the grenades would explode but instead huge amount of smoke emerged from it. Aldo had tricked them into thinking that these smoke grenades are explosive grenades and broke their formation.

"No way! That kid fooled us all!"

"Where is the kid? I can't see anything!"

"They may be trying to escape using the advantages of this smoke!"

Everyone in the group slowly hold their weapons and tried to find the kid but they are already gone. Smoke has been vanished but the boy and Kaiser is nowhere to be found.

"No! They escaped!"

"They even took their all the weapons they had made!"

"Then we should search-"

"Wait. It's fine." said Kale.

"But sir!"

"Calm down, we would catch them. But look at that first." said Kale, pointing his finger on the ground.

"This is-"

"That's right... That boy...must be the one...after all."

Everyone in the group witnessed the huge footprints which looked as if it belongs to a huge beast or a monster.

The claw marks, footprints, were a little different than any other normal animal regardless of the size of it.

Furthermore, flames were seen on the exact location of footprints part and the temperature suddenly increased as well. The surrounding objects and ground seemed to be messed up as well.

"Surely this destruction isn't produced by smoke grenades, look at you all who survived since the grenades aren't dangerous." said Kale.

"Does that mean that dog..."

"Yes, that boy may have done something to the dog and that dog must have been transformed after the smoke emerged. They escaped using that method." reasoned Kale.

"We have three old ODM gears which seems to be working well despite being unused for so many years. Three Elite squad member should equip and chase them down. Now go." continued Kale.

"Yes sir!"

Everyone, including three elite member who equipped with old ODM gears, began to move forward to chase down Aldo and Kaiser.

"Either that boy or that man, one of them surely has the strange powers to transform animals into monsters. Or even both of them, but I suspect that boy very much." muttered Kale.

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—Meanwhile—

Aldo and Kaiser are riding the Cerberus to escape from the strange group who seems to be obsessed with them.

"Thank god my previous team made weapons, grenades, and other useful stuff. Smoke grenade seemed to be the perfect choice kid." said Kaiser.

"!!!" Aldo seemed to be somewhat disturbed by looking behind somewhere.

"Huh? What happened kid? Why are you looking shocked? What is behind- shit!"

Kaiser realised why Also seemed surprised when he looked behind him as well.

"They are literally chasing us!? How the hell they came so close!? And those gears.... Don't tell me... They are ODM gears!" exclaimed Kaiser as he realised that three members are using ODM gears.

"How? When? Why? Oh wait... Those gears doesn't seem like new well made but old ones. Did they get their hands on it somewhere from this island? Fuck!" said Kaiser as he seemed frustrated.

"What's more? Those ODM gears seems to be working fine somehow!"

Aldo had also noticed the same thing as Kaiser. Furthermore, those three members seems to be elite ones who could use any weapon to a certain extent, including ODM gears.

"Tch! This time we have to deal with some shits here who have atleast some intelligence, huh?" said Kaiser, unable to hide his frustration.

"..."

"Hey kid, order the Archie to attack then. They will be burned to ashes just like those transformed bats we had defeated before."

Aldo shook his head, refusing to listen what Kaiser requested.

"I know you don't want to hurt them but this way we will be caught easily. This is forest area with big trees and their ODM gears is effective here." said Kaiser.

"..." Aldo didn't listen to him and instead used remaining smoke grenades on them.

One of the elite members, got distracted as he fell on the ground. The old ODM gears seemed to get broken when he landed on the ground.

"Oh that's good but there are still two of them. Their movements are really something..." said Kaiser.

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To be continued...