No one saw how he died. Marco died in Trost, with no witnesses. Jean was devastated after the loss of his friend. He thought he would never see Marco again.

Jean had been separated from his squad. He had been avoiding titans most of the time, but one of them caught a whiff of him, and stared chasing.

"Well, shit."

He decided to deal with it, so he slowed his horse down, and jumped. He hovered above the titan for a few seconds and pushed forward, only to be snatched from the air. Jean struggled for a few seconds, before he gave up. He knew he was titan food. Before he died he wanted to remember Marco's sweet face one more time. He felt the titan's hot breath and heard it's jaws open.

"Marco, Marco..."

"POLO, MOTHERFUCKER!"

As soon as he heard the shout, the titan fell, nape steaming. Jean was still in it's grasp, so he fell with it. He looked up to thank his savior, but gasped instead.

Standing on the steaming corpse was none other than Marco, giving Jean a toothy grin. He might've been Marco but he looked very different. He had a scar across his face, and an eye patch was covering his left eye. His remaining eye was red, quite different from brown. He was wearing a plain shirt and 3DMG.

"Marco!? I thought you were dead!"

"It's a long story, I'll tell you later."

He jumped of the titan and walked towards Jean's horse.

"C'mon, let's go!"

Jean's head was exploding by now.

"What d'you mean 'let's go'! I thought you were dead!"

Marco stopped walking.

"Look I know this is a lot but there are other titan shifters, so just get on the horse."

"What do you mean 'other titan shifters'?"

"Just get on the fucking horse!"

And off they went. Jean was kind of annoyed Marco was in front of his horse, but he was overjoyed by the fact that his best friend wasn't dead.

"How are you alive right now?"

"I'll tell you later."

Whenever he tried to ask anything he got the same response. They were nearing another squad, when Marco asked, "Jean, who joined the Survey Corps?"

Jean decided not to question how this was important, so he started listing names.

"What about Annie?"

"She joined the MPs but, turns out she was a titan."

"Really? What a surprise!" Marco's voice was thick with sarcasm. They joined up with the squad which was made up of Mikasa, Armin, Reiner, Bertholdt, and Connie. Marco sped up and waved with a joking smile.

"Hey guys! Missed me?"

As soon as everyone saw who it was their faces turned white.

"M-Marco, I-I thought you were dead."

"Well, guess you were wrong!"

_ Marco insisted that they stop, so they found a quiet area and did so. Armin was the one to ask what was on everyone's mind.

"Marco, what happened to you?"

"I'm not sure." He seemed to look through Armin. "Hey, Reiner! You look a little pale. You all right?"

"Y-Yeah, I just thought you were dead a-"

"You of all people should've known that."

Marco was grinning, and Reiner and Bertholdt looked absolutely terrified. Connie wasn't catching on.

"Wait, what are you talk-"

Marco grabbed his blade and attempted to slash Reiner's head off, but he was faster. He bit his hand and there was a bright flash. The soldiers were blown away, and Reiner didn't seem to want to deal with them because he was running away with Bertholdt in tow. Marco was furious.

"Get back here! You'll pay for what you did! One down, two to go!"

When he got exhausted from ranting he dropped to his knees and started laughing.

"This just got ten times better!"

Did the boy lose his mind? Nobody knew.