Bearsk was riding high on streak of victories, mightily defeating Suma then Kantos and strategically capturing Pantos.But unrest still surrounded General Erwin. As it's said 'greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.'He wanted to continue and expand his territory towards the enormous town of Malta.
Erwin was very confident of his army, especially Tyler.But the brave General had not even thought of the consequences that this war could result into.
Malta was a very mysterious province. They had never opened the doors of their town for the outsiders hence no one knew what happened there. They have kept all their policies, trade concealed. Malta was quite advanced technologically complex province as compared to the others. They had a massive weapon arsenal which included heat seeking missiles,low altitude fighter planes and a quite advanced guns. Which were never seen by any other province.Their soldiers were also heavily equipped with grenades which could pose a great deal of damage.
The General was completely unaware of the exploits of his opponents and grown an tad too overconfident perhaps the soldiers were not any better.Training was not taken that seriously. Soldiers were often getting vacations to see their families.There were talks among themselves about how strong their province was and no other province had capacity to beat them.
It was inevitable. The downfall of Bearsk was knocking at its door.
Two days before the attack ,Tyler and General Erwin were planning strategies for war.
Tyler said , " we don't know anything about them so we should prepare ourselves for worse." He demanded to divide the soldiers into into 4 teams according to their strengths.
•Firstly the horseback offenders.
•Second the good marksman.
•Third the trappers and bombers.
•And lastly the defenders who can kill the soldiers which got past the first three levels.
Tyler also asked for a backup plan in case they failed. Erwin interrupted him by saying, " mate, we can never fail till we have you in our army. We don't need a backup plan. We will defeat them too easily."Tyler was astonished to see this reaction from the General and didn't seemed to agree with him but decided to not to speak about it.
The next day when the soldiers were training, Tyler was restless. John noticed him and approached him. He said, "hey Tyler why are you looking so tensed. Penny for your thoughts."Tyler replied, "I think the General had gotten a bit of overconfident. His approach to our next attack seems casual. He thinks we could defeat them easily but the truth is that we don't know anything about them. I tried to spy on them but that was impossible. The entrance gate was heavily armed and there was no way I could enter. If the entrance is that much guarded then think about what could be inside waiting for us. I also think that he is too much dependent on me and believes I can do anything." John replied " yeah you are right. In the recent days I also could feel how light our training had become. It seems like we are coming here to play games not the drills.I am perplexed to know that General Erwin is behaving like this. Now listening to this I have became more worried what will happen next."
At the day of war when Tyler was getting ready he spotted the glove of honour and then realised why was Erwin not suitable of it. He wore it and then headed out.
At the base everyone were ready and before going ,Erwin addressed to his army
Dear my fellow comrades,
We are heading out for yet another war and now it's the the turn of Malta's men to experience defeat.We just can't stop now. Our main motive is to conquer every province and become the supreme. Now I would like to make an important announcement. As you know that our previous captain got martyred in the war against Kantos and we feel deeply sorry for it' but we need to move on so I would like to announce our new captain of the army. Tyler Ross.
Now that Tyler was 'captain Tyler' which was quite inevitable, he had some control of the army with him. He became the second most powerful in terms of decision making in the army now after Erwin.
The hour of the war arrived. The judgement day of Malta dawned bright and hot.The sun shone burningly in the war field. Bearsk army were ready to attack Malta's base and were standing right outside it's gate. While General Erwin was commanding his soldiers to attack just then the gates opened. Erwin as well as Tyler saw each other and were shocked. They didn't expected this and didn't knew what Malta were hiding, a completely unexpected and a dumbfounding surprise for their opponents who arrived there blindly.
Before entering Tyler had a bad feeling this. He thought what could be inside Malta's base that they are spoon feeding us to win against them. He stopped the army and addresses them by saying, "Soldiers! This can be a do or die situation for us but we can't back out from here by coming this far.Our bravery could become doomsday for our opposition whereas something less than the extraordinary could turn the tables on.
The soldiers took there positions and were ready to attack.During the first half an hour everything was going normal, but a surprise awaited for them.Malta unleashed 28 brutal heat seeking missiles which wiped out a certainty large amount of Bearsk soldiers.Tyler and Erwin were shocked. Next came low altitude fighter planes and the soldiers wearing uranium protection armours. It seemed that Malta's army were playing with Bearsk army. Tyler and Erwin hadn't seen any of these weapons in their lifetime. All the soldiers were bewildered.Dead bodies were piling at a very fast rate and and Tyler was horrified seeing at this sight. It was time for Tyler to step up and do something our of box. He saw one of those low flying aircrafts heading towards him.He leaped towards it with the support of a large rock, breaks the cockpit window and killed the pilot.He then jumped off the plane. It wasn't enough as there were many of it. He commanded the shooting unit to aim for the cockpit. The soldiers started shooting at planes. While it seemed that the plan was getting successful but to ruin the moment another 10 missiles were targeted towards the Bearsk army. This time Tyler was also in a close range of the missiles. He got struck by the flames of the missiles and got heavily injured. He was unconsciously laying like a distorted corpse. When Erwin saw him he clenched his fist helplessly. He wanted to rescue him but couldn't as he was too busy fighting for his life.
Many soldiers died. The corpses of soldiers were spread everywhere in the field. Pools of blood formed at certain places.Only a handful of the Bearsk soldiers remained.Erwin was startled to see this. He commanded his remaining troops to retreat.Yes, it was officially a defeat for Bearsk and General Erwin sulked at his mistake and though to have listened to Tyler. While retreating back Erwin was as silent as a grave. Someone said it right, "overconfidence can drown in the sea of reality."
He reached his province defeated, all his ego shattered. He felt guilty of losing Tyler and all of his brave soldiers.He thought himself as a completely naive person. People of Bearsk started to oppose him and demanded resignation from him.There was an outburst of anger and rage among families who lost their loved ones. They slammed the poor decision making of the General.Even the king didn't helped Erwin.
A month passed no one had forgotten the horrors of the last war ,especially General Erwin who was in a guilt trip for losing Tyler. To his shock a letter was sent to him from Malta . It stated:
Defeating you last month was really a pleasure felling.I thought that your army was much more capable than what they showed us.I hope that the memory is still fresh in your mind.If we wanted to then we could destroy your whole army but we pitied you.So, let's get straight to the point. We have many of your soldiers in captivity. If you want them safe and sound, then surrender yourself and your province. We will leave you and all of your soldiers. We are giving you a time of 3 days to decide. The ball's is in your court now or we will slay them and send their bodies to you.
This letter left General Erwin flabbergasted. He was furious after reading the letter. But that anger was a waste. He realised that this would not help him.He didn't knew what to do. He can't let his soldiers die but also didn't wanted to surrender. He thought that all this was his mistake and has to face it's repercussions. "That's the all kind of person I am" he murmured to himself and accepted the proposal ,ready to surrender himself.