It was a quiet night in the Survey corps base, no clouds and nicely warm. Armin and Jean were going back to the sleeping rooms, After a day of particularly harsh training. The chat they had was nice, casual and comfortable. When they arrived, Jean offered the blonde a warm smile and waved. "See you in the morning."
Little did he know that this was the last time in quite a while that he saw Armin Arlert.

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Armin felt a harsh surface under his still half-asleep body, instead if his warm bed. He opened his bright blue eyes, rubbing them. Looking around, he realized he was in a park. It was strange. The sun made it's way trough the trees, and people were everywhere. But the blonde knew something was...so terribly wrong. The people wore weird clothes, their carriages were extremely ugly, fast, and drove without horses. Armin glanced down and found himself in his uniform, straps, jacket, boots and all instead of his regular pajama pants and an old T-shirt. His maneuver gear and swords were neatly lying by the bench. He confusedly attached his gear to himself, just in case. Across the path, he saw another boy waking up, just as confused as he was. Armin saw a helping hand in him and walked over carefully. "Hello, I'm Armin." He greeted warmly. "I seem to be lost. Can you direct me to the survey corps HQ?"
The man looked at him weirdly. "What the fuck is that?"
Armin didn't like his accent. It was weird.
"I'm Sure that commander Erwin-"
"Listen, kid. You got some chocolate? "
The shorter boy tilted his head. "What's chocolate? "
The stranger rolled his eyes. "Okay, you seem just as lost as me. Which way to Japan?"
"What's your name? "
"Why would I tell you that?"
Armin didn't like him one bit, he was...unpleasant. "I'll go look for some actual help."
He walked away, wanting to rip this man's guts out with his swords, but restrained himself.
Instead he saw a much more pleasant looking girl. Plus she was pretty. Like very pretty. She had wavy, long brown hair and was cutely built. He approached her, smiling kindly. "Hello. I seem to be lost. Can you help me?"
The girl grinned happily, tucking a bit of her hair behind her ear. "My name's Reya. I'm also lost. I have this strange feeling...that this isn't my world. Call me strange, but my half blood senses are tingling. I'm a daughter of Poseidon, you?"
Armin tilted his head. Both of his parents were dead. Half blood? Other world? This was a weird place, but Come on...a different world? Impossible.
"Why are your clothes so strange? What's your name? I like your hair. What are those boxes?" The girl wouldn't shut up. But he liked her way better than the wacko from before. Her clothes were also weird. She was in ripped shorts and a dirty looking orange T-shirt, which even had a leaf in it.
"My name is Armin. I'm uh...not from here, I guess. This is my military uniform, and this is maneuver gear." He tapped the boxes. "Maybe this is another world.." he mumbled. "Why are YOUR clothes so strange? "
"I'm a lost girl. From Neverland. There I can be free."
His heart skipped a beat. Free? No walls? He wanted to keep asking, when a girl from the distance shouted something that made widen his eyes.
"YOU'RE A /TITAN/?"
Suddenly Armin's swords were in his hands, and Reya was gripping a dagger.
There stood three girls, next to a red metal thing that said telephone. What was telephone, Armin didn't know, but there was another girl, leaning onto the strange box...almost with love. Like she has been trough quite some things with that box.
"SO WHAT? I DON'T BELONG HERE! I WANT TO GO HOME!" Another girl shouted. She looked...oddly powerful. And nor at all like a Titan. Even more, she was beautiful. Armin knew better than to fall for that. Next to the arguing duo stood another girl, leaning against a tree quietly and cleaning her nails with a sharp knife.
He exchanged glances with Reya and curiously approached the weird trio. Reya spoke first.
"Hi, we're from other worlds! I'm Reya and this is Armin and it would be nice if we all got popcorn and got to know each other! " her face was such an adorable sight.
The girl leaning on the red box seemed alerted. "Oh thank God! I accidentally opened a vortex and pulled people from different worlds here. 6 altogether. I gathered five of you, but one is missing. My name's Eliza, and this is Ariana and Annie. It's the Angels' fault, I couldn't stop them...And now we're stuck for a while. Here. Though we need to find that person. Seen anyone suspicious? "
Armin's mind automatically flashed to the blonde man from earlier. He looked like he didn't belong, his clothes were out of place. He put his swords back in, deciding Annie the Titan (hah, ironic, he thought) was friendly. "I did see a blonde man earlier..he looked lost. But rude." His little nose wrinkled.
"Let's just get this dude and find a place to stay. I'm hungry. " the Titan girl spoke. Armin was very surprised, he expected Titans to be merciless, hungry and ugly, but Annie was none of this things.
"A place to stay? " Ariana raised an eyebrow. "We're not going home?"
Eliza pouted. "You can't. Not yet. It's too dangerous. We have to find that man and stick together."
The group jumped when they heard a gun shot. It was, without doubt, the man from earlier. He looked back at them, allowing the man he was shooting at earlier to escape. Then he made a run for it. Armin couldn't have that. But how to catch him, he was way ahead? The blondie pressed a button and the string of his gear attached to one of the numerous trees, his body shooting into the air in a very big jump. People were looking curiously, some even clapped, thinking it was some kind of a show. Armin caught up with him quickly, landing on top of him and pinning him down. The man struggled, but he unsheathed his sword and pressed it onto the stranger's throat. "Why did you shoot at that man?"
"He was asking too many questions. Then attacked me." His voice was harsh.
Armin decided to let it go, self defense wasn't that bad...Plus his own history with guns wasn't very clean. "You're from an another world. You have to stay with us." Armin made his voice gentle and comforting, trying not to scare him. "We have to stay in this world for a while. Then you can go home." He promised. The man didn't look convinced, and he bitterly glanced at the blade that was still on his throat. Armin saw it, and slowly stepped up, putting his sword back. The girls just arrived, they had to run. He noticed Ariana was faster than the rest, as if she's used to it. Eliza then huffed at the stranger and crossed her arms. "I pulled a few strings." She was holding a metal square object in her hand, which has a glowing surface on it, displaying numbers. Of course Armin didn't know what a phone was. "We have a house waiting for us. You're lucky the major owes me for saving his town." A smirk was playing on her face.
Armin was confused, but went along with it.
Eliza walked first, leading the way, and Armin and Reya followed, discussing maneuver gear and how you could 'fly' with it. She mentioned pixie dust and Zeus kids, but his mind was distracted when he heard a quiet voice speak from behind.
"I'm Ariana." She said. It was the first time Armin heard her voice.
"Mello." The man answered, not paying her much attention. Annie was behind them, looking at the trees with a lost look on her face, as if she was in her own little world.
Soon they came on a big sandy surface. Armin's heart started beating wildly when he saw the big blue bunch of water. His blue eyes widened as he ran towards it, yelling "The ocean! " with a happy jump and loosing his clothes along the way, when he was in nothing but his underwear, and jumped it. The water on his face, on his /everything /, it felt...magical. He heard Mello mumble a "Weirdo." and they all entered the house, picking rooms. They had shopping to do later, if they wanted to blend in. But at this moment, Armin Street couldn't care less. This was the accomplishment of all of his dreams. He could only sit in the shallow water, laughing and wishing Eren was here to see this. Because it was truly more than they ever imagined.