Grice ii

Book Two

Volume 5

Ch. 65 Gamble

Pov.

-Falco-

"A gamble huh? Is that really what it has come to…" Magath thinks

"Fine, but I'll be going," Colt tells Magath

"No!"

"You're not even sure if there are any explosives in there, I am not letting you go out there!" Colt shouts

"I'm young, they'll likely hesitate to shoot," I argue with Colt "look sir all I have to do is get to that crater out there and the battle will be won" I tell Magath

Magath tries thinking it over

"There are seven targets inside, either you go with Colt or Colt goes on his own" Magath says

"Seven?!" Shit there's no way I can take them on my own

"Wait! Please let me go sir," Gabi steps up "I'm more agile. I'm very confident I can get this done more swiftly"

"What?!" I growl "no way! C'mon, Colt!"

"Stop! Are you an idiot they'll shoot your brother on sight!" Gabi shouts "Look, trust me. I can get us to that crater, okay?" She sets her hands on my shoulders

…

"Fine" I agree

Gabi smiles widely "Sir with your permission we'd like to take off our armbands!" Gabi shouts over the gunfire

"Permission granted, make it quick!"

Gabi began undressing and I follow her lead taking everything except my boxers off

"Ready?" Gabi asks before Colt grabs my wrist

"Don't you die now"

"I won't" I smile

He gives me a little smirk before finding the courage to let me go

Gabi throws an arm over my shoulder and let's the other hang down her side

I wrap one arm around her waist and hold the other out trying to signal the gunner to hold his fire

After a few seconds they finally stop firing

"Stop, please!" I shout as we began limping over

It looked like they were arguing as if debating whether or not to shoot us

Perfect

Just a bit further

"Get ready to fall in" I remind her

"Right"

We were right beside the crater when I watch them finally taking aim

"Now" I whisper at Gabi

She trips as if she twisted her ankle before rolling inside the crater

I reach behind her, taking a stick grenade she was hiding in her waist band

I chuck it over our heads and it lands exactly where I was hoping it would

We take cover and block our ears before hearing the explosion

After the coast was clear we hurry over to the bunker

"Watch for fragments!" I shout at Gabi as she took cover beside the bunker

"I know!" She growls

I close my eyes as I throw the flash grenade into the bunker before covering my ears

Even though I managed to cover my ears properly the pop send a faint ringing in my ears

Even so we jumped right in

I take aim managing to easily put down two targets with only two of my bullets but I hesitate after seeing the third beside some boxes

If those are explosives were dead

So I quickly tuck my C9 away before I lunge at the soldier that had regained his senses

I slam my shin onto his knee so hard I snapped it back

He drops on his knees painfully before I elbow his chin, knocking him out

The second guy lunged at me

I slam my fists into all of his vitals just like dad had taught me and I get him to slow down before I smash his liver, knocking the wind out of him

I suddenly feel someone wrap their arms around my waist before they body slam me into the ground

"Ghk" I cough

"Agh!" I hear Gabi

"Gabi!" I gasp

She was getting choked out

"Gahd damn it" I grunt

I wrap my legs around his arm and push him on his back, getting him into a beautiful armlock that he had no chance of escaping

I quickly draw my C9

I extend my arm, aiming right at the guy that was choking Gabi and I pull the trigger, blasting his brains all over the wall

"Now you," I grunt finally managing to snap his elbow along with dislocating his shoulder

"Gah!" I let go of his arm and he rolls aside

But before he could do a thing I snap his neck

"Agh-gh-kgh" I hear the guy I knocked the wind out of still trying to catch his breath

"Ugh, shit." I pull the string off a stick grenade before I shove it down his throat

I grab his shirt, throwing him over the large opening where we had came in from before he explodes letting Colt know we had done it

"Hehe, that's right" I pat myself down

"Mgh." Gabi groans as she rubs her throat

"You alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine!" She crosses her arms

"Hehe, c'mon" I giggle as she helped herself up

"Haha, whoa jackpot!" She laughs

There were two carts both with four boxes of explosives each

"Alright perfect" I grab one

I push it outside before going uphill and dumping them onto the tracks

"This should be more than enough" I back up

"Right, this'll blow those bastards into Skypiea" Gabi giggles before she dumps the other cart onto the railway

Only she had stacked it up with four more boxes of ammunition and explosives

"Are you an idiot?!" I growl

"No, are you?!" she shouts "don't be mad because I carried four more boxes than you did" she proudly pats the box of explosives that she had stacked on top

"You really are an idiot." I grumble

"What? C'mon this'll put on a great show" she giggles

"Yeah sure, now let's try getting back without getting blown to hell"

Her eyes widen "oh shit, you're right" she says before we began bolting back to our comrades

The train was coming fast there was no way it would be able to break in time

I look over at Colt who was being held back by General Magath and some other eldians

I turn back, there's no way we'll make it to the trenches in time

The crater

I turn to Gabi

She was heading straight to the trenches

I quickly run to her as fast as I could before I wrap my arms around her and tackle her into the crater

"Agh!" she gasps after her back lands right in between my legs "what's your problem idio-"

I wrap my arm around her throat yanking her back down before the explosion finally hit

It was so strong it sent a wave of fire right over our heads that would've surely burnt us to crisps

"Wh-what?" Gabi groans as we watch shards of the train along with bullets from all the ammunition she dumped shoot over our heads

"Th-that was too close" I huff, letting go of her as the worst finally past

It takes her a second to really take in the fact she almost got obliterated by the blast

"C'mon" she finally says

She helps me up and together we manage to get back to the trenches

"Haha, that's right Falco" Colt roughs up my hair

"Haha yeah-yeah," I laugh

"Piek! Galliard!" Magath shouts

It wasn't long till we heard a loud roar over our heads and Gilliard charges into battle in his jaw Titan along with Pieck, right behind him

"Alright!" Gabi shouts

"Sir, I have given Reiner and Zeke the green light to commence the airborne assault" the Marleyan that scolded me earlier says

"Beautifully done Falco, you've won us this war" Magath says

"Thank you, Sir" I smile widely

"Oh whatever" Gabi grumbles

From here on, we watched as the airborne unit rained Titans down onto the enemy's base

We watch as Titans devoured our enemy, we could only imagine what horrors it must be being completely hopeless against those monsters

The rest went smoothly, only Reiner took a heavy hit but he managed to survive the ordeal

Hours later we're now on our way home where Colt had far too much to drink and was praising the hell out of Gabi and I for earlier

Soon morning came and we finally arrived back home

"Ahhh home sweet home!" Gabi hops out of the cart

"Try not to be so loud will ya?" Colt grumbles

"It's your own fault for drinking so much last night" I help him out

"Yeah, well it didn't help that the train was swaying so much either" he groans

"C'mon" I help him towards the gates to Liberio

I look up

Mom..

She so beautiful

I'll never get used to seeing her…

Like that..

She had a band aid right under her eye

Dad..

I could see him wearing this black cloak along with Colts straw hat he always wore when he went out

He was standing right behind her

I could tell they were arguing again by the look on moms face and of course that band aid

But then it was as if all her troubles disappear once she finally saw us

"Hey mom!" I wave as the gate began opening

"Falco!" She waves

"Hey." I giggle as I help Colt over

"Oh wow look at you, you look so handsome in your uniform" she pats my clothes

"I know right" I giggle

"And oh my what's wrong with you Colt?" She tilts her head

"Hehe" Colt giggles

"He had a little too much to drink last night"

"Heh yeah, but I should be fine now, hey mom" he gives her a little hug

"Here I'll help you on" mom throws his arm over her shoulder

"S-so whats up dad, I didn't expect to see you here" I finally say something to dad after he refused to say a word

"Tch*" he smacks his lips "I'm only here because your mother made me come" he pulls his cigar up for a puff

"Oh c'mon, you didn't even open the shop today, you were watching tv."

"Yeah-yeah I only agreed because your mother promised to get sloppy"

"Ahhh c'mon dad" Colt and I groan in disgust

"What?" Dad asks "ya moms not afraid to get dirty" he says as he grabs a handful of her ass

"Stop touching me, we're in public" mom slaps his hand aside

"Ugh yeah c'mon not here dad" I cover my face in embarrassment

"Hehe" dad giggles before he stops

He sniffs the air before I hear someone step up beside me

"Hello Lisa, how have you been?" I hear Reiner ask mom using her alias

"Wonderful, how about yourself?" Mom smiles

"Is this your husband?" He asks "I've never had the chance to meet you sir, how have you been?" He offers to shake dads hand

No

This can't be good…

If Reiner recognizes him now, everything will go to hell

"Hmh" dad smiles "yeah" he finally says as he pulls his arm out from his cloak

It was so scarred and ridiculously veiny for someone of his athletic body type

He had zero body fat, you could see the outline of his muscle fibers twitching under his skin with every little movement

"Yes, I believe it's the first we've met" their hands finally meet

I never thought a simple handshake would be so terrifying

The tension was unreal

We all felt it Colt and Mom looked just as unsteady

If dad says or does one thing that alerts Reiner…

"Yes, I've heard you're a very hard working man," Reiner says

"Sure I guess you can say that, I did just open my very own shop" dad says

"Ah yes I believe your son here told me all about it" Reiner pats my back "hey, would you like to have dinner at my place? I'd be nice to get to know you better"

"I very much appreciate the offer, Reiner, but we're alright" dad says "it's a bit late, even so I'd like to open the shop for a couple of hours"

"Well I assume you'll be helping your husband as well?" He asks mom

"Y-yeah, we're just starting out so I should stick by his side" she hugs fathers arm

"I completely understand, Falco, Colt, if you two aren't busy it'd be nice to have the two of you over" Reiner says

"Oh and speaking of Falco, I've heard wonders on the way here" he says

"Did you now?" Dad smiles

"Sure did. Word has it, he won us this war"

"Really now? Beautifully done Falco, of course I'd expect no less from My son"

"And I'm sure you've heard Colt will soon inherit the Beast Titan from Zeke" Reiner says "and Falco here is on that very same path to inherit my Armored Titan" he adds

"Really? that's wonderful to hear" dad smiles

"Indeed your children are fine warriors"

"Of course don't expect any less from the Grice family" dad tightens his grip

Reiners smile fades and it was as if he had just noticed how badly dads arm was scarred

"Alright then, you have a nice day… mister Grice" Reiner says

"Yes, you as well… mister Braun" dad says before finally letting go of his hand

"Good day to you as well" Reiner nods at mom before going off

We wait for dad to say something but he just stood there. Glaring at Riener back as if he were ready to pounce on him

…

-to be continued