104th Gamer Squad: Chapter One

-50 DKP

Quick Note: So, this was a really goofy and weird concept I came up with. I'm kind of curious to see how it play's out, and to see how exactly everything happens myself. I really for some reason, could picture this within my mind, so I thought, "Hey, why not?". Anyways, without any more length of time, here is the story. I will warn you, this is probably the most nerdy thing ever... Enjoy.

"You see, because of the fact that he chose to save the girl, he also accidentally sacrificed the boy and his mother in the process. Which is why, this character is could also be portrayed as an antagonist. But, he doesn't do it out of intention of melancholy, rather that he just found a personal interest within the girl... Do you understand, Eren?" A familiar soft voice trailed off, as the figure flipped through pages of the book.

"Yeah, totally." Another voice replied in boredom, as it gently tapped the pencil against his desk. He continued to stare into the absolute abyss, hoping that something more enjoyable would happen within it.

"So, I'm having a tough time judging the character correctly. Because, I realize he did indeed sacrifice two innocent lives, but it was also the trouble of his heart persuading him. So, I was curious what you thought about it?" The voice spoke, as it gazed up from the book towards a completely lifeless looking companion.

"Yeah man, I know what you mean." The figure replied instinctively, as it continued to tap its pencil against the desk. It's eyes jumped across many items that were located within the room, hoping for one of them to hold something to keep his attention.

"Eren, that was a question, not a statement." The voice spoke slightly bewildered. Bewildered, due to the fact that it's companion was currently located somewhere not within the galaxy he was on, and it became quite obvious.

"I agree with what you are saying man." The voice spoke in monotone once more, as it's eyes carelessly continued to dance around the small English classroom.

It was then, that Armin Arlert, had let out an extremely long sigh as he let his gaze focus back to the classroom... This had always been the downside to picking Eren Jaeger as an assignment partner, though he always did, he nearly had to complete atleast ninety-five percent of the assigned work each time.

Armin then, let his eyelids rest, as they were half closed. He figured they could hopefully work on this later, and he wouldn't have to do all the work like he always did previously...

Suddenly Eren's interest piqued, as he remembered something from his computer screen this morning. His eyes were instantly filled with joy, and excitement. He quickly turned his gaze to his friend that sat at his left side.

"Dude, dude, dude!" Eren yelped up in astonishment, his eyes screamed interest, much to Armin's dismay. If Armin had to guess, it was going to be about the game... again.

"Yes?..." Armin spoke through silent frustration, though, he too was excited about it... He would occasionally find himself hopeful for a study partner that was Eren, yet one who was actually dedicated to the assignment at hand... They could probably get the assignment done, that was due in a week, complete within three days.

"Aren't you freakin' pumped for the new patch today?! The new raid comes out, along with the three new heroic dungeons!" Eren chimed with awe, practically begging to get home as soon as possible to play the new content.

Armin sighed, "Yeah... Yeah, I am." Armin admitted, though he was still slightly in dismay about Eren's earlier actions, he probably shared the exact amount of excitement for the new content that was releasing today. He, had just been better at hiding at it.

The two best friends, found themselves addicted to a common video game... A video game that ripped the time from over a billion player's hands... The game known as, World Of Warcraft.

The two helped run a pretty succesful guild that usually cleared heroic content within the first week, they were known quite well on their realm, as in the game; they were practically celebrities...

However, that could be quite the opposite in the real world. For playing the game, the two were deemed as nerds, and usually were forced to ridicule and harassment. Sometimes the abuse would be physical, while the other day's it would be verbal.

Though Eren tried to stand up as well as he could for the two, and threatened whoever the culprit was that was bullying them, they would usually still get all of the punishment for playing the game that the popular culture deemed necessary.

The two were usually the laugh stock of the school, and if anybody felt particularly brash that day, they would choose to find, then abuse the two wandering souls. The two would ignore it however, as they found themselves timelessly addicted to this video game.

Suddenly, the teacher spoke up, bringing them out of their video gaming imagination bliss. They shook their heads, as they slowly looked around them and saw that students were getting up and walking away.

"Class dismissed." A familiar voice spoke, one that Eren knew all too well.

As Armin and Eren got up, and began to make their way towards the door. A voice called out for them, causing them to halt.

"Jaeger, Arlert, come here." The teacher spoke... Armin and Eren gulped, as they turned around, and hesitantly walked up to the desk of Levi Ackerman...

As they walked up to the desk, they watched as he sat back in his chair and crossed his legs upon the table. He then took a long swig of his black coffee, because you know, he doesn't need creamer, or sweetener, cause he's cool like that.

As he placed his mug gently down upon his desk, he crossed his arms and looked in no particular direction. Then, shortly after, he turned his gaze and looked towards both Eren and Armin. He then stared at them for a moment with narrowed eyes, before he slowly spoke up.

"Are you prepared?" He spoke calmly, as his eyes swiftly glanced between the two, standing at the corner of his desk. Eren gave a confident smirk, while Armin gave more of a hopeful timid smile.

"Yes, sir!" Eren spoke ecstatically, as he looked towards Mister Ackerman. Levi then, took his feet upon the table, placed them upon the floor as he stood up entirely, slamming his hand's upon the desk.

"You're sure? Your gear is reforged, your items are enchanted, and you read up on the fights?" Levi spoke sternly, as he looked at the two with narrowed suspicious eyes. His hands continued to be firmly planted on the desk in front of him.

Eren then slightly shuffled his feet, as he shifted his gaze nervously away from Levi. He then rubbed the back of his neck nervously, as he looked back towards Levi, and raised his hand. He nervously held out his index finger, as he hesitantly spoke up.

"Enchants... You mean like... All our gear...?" Eren chimed up timidly, with a small and nervous, laugh and a smile. Mister Ackerman let out a long sigh, as he fell back into his chair. His brows lowered in frustration as he closed his eyes, his mouth was pursed as he took another sip of his coffee. As he sat down the mug, he spoke up once more.

"Jaeger, make sure to fix that as soon as you get home. I do not want to wipe because our tank is missing enchants. We haven't prepared this long for you to screw it up." Levi spoke up through annoyance, as he then focused his gaze on Arlert.

"Healer." He spoke up in a grim tone, as he brought his coffee up to his face once more.

"Y-Yes?...Sir?" Armin spoke up nervously, slightly surprised at his addressing of specifically him. He stiffed his posture, as he awaited Levi's further words. Levi sat up in his chair, as he set his coffee down, resting his arms upon his desk and glared at Armin.

"Are you prepared?" Levi spoke as he narrowed his eyes upon the smaller blonde body that stood beside Eren.

Armin eye's widened, as he hastily nodded. "Y-Yes sir. Armin spoke with a small smile, as he relaxed his posture.

Levi didn't blink, as he stared at Armin, Armin slightly fidgeted under his gaze. Eren was used to it, but this guy could still intimidate Armin on any day.

Levi relaxed his gaze, "Good... Armin, I have another question to ask of you - well, two actually." Mister Ackerman spoke as he rested his sight in front of him once more, as it looked towards nothing in particular. He then, sat back in his chair.

"S-Sure. Anything." Armin spoke up hesitantly as he visibly relaxed, slightly curious as to Levi's request.

"My first, will we be able to take down the first quarter tonight? And, my second, is can I count on you to make sure he is ready?" Mister Ackerman spoke calmly, as he slowly stirred his coffee mindlessly, though nothing was in it besides the black coffee itself.

"Hey, I'm right freakin' here, ya' know!" Eren spoke up with agitation, as he gritted his hands along with his teeth.

"Yes, we will be able to as long as nothing goes wrong. And, yes sir, I will." Armin spoke up, with this time, no hesitation in his voice. As he gave a warm smile, as he inwardly, was excited about tonight's events.

"What?! What the hell, Armin?" Eren spoke up in irritation, as his gaze went from Mister Ackerman, towards his best friend.

Armin nervously shrugged as he raised his hands with a laugh, "I-I'm sorry Eren... I didn-" Armin was cut off by Mister Ackerman's sharp voice.

"Eren, don't swear when a teacher is present. That teacher, being me." Levi spoke up sternly, "Now, you two are dismissed. You may take your leave." Levi concluded, as he placed on a pair of glasses, and went to begin his grading of papers.

Eren grumbled things unintelligible, "Stupid, bull-crap, idiots..." As both him and Armin turned around with books in hand, and began to make their way towards the door.

"Oh, and Eren." Mister Ackerman spoke up with an authoritative tone, as slowly both Eren and Armin turned around.

Levi looked up, as light glared upon his small rectangular frames. "You did awful on your most recent test. You misspelled half of the test. Try harder next time." He spoke formally, now sounding much more like a teacher than he did previously.

"Yeah...Stupid, whatever." Eren grumbled, as he turned around and began to make his leave. Armin gave a small nervous wave with a smile, as he turned around as well. He then ran up towards Eren.

"I should be the leader of the Survey Corps... Not him, or Erwin." Eren spat, still slightly upset. Armin caught up beside him with a nervous smile and chuckle.

"Hehe... S-Sorry about that Eren, I didn't mean to-" Armin was cut off once more as his nervous gaze turned towards Eren, as Eren sharply interjected.

"Can it. I don't want to hear it... Let's just get to lunch..." Eren spoke sternly, as the two walked through the maze of people. Eren then, approached his locker, unlocked it, and quickly shoved his books within it.

Armin mirrored his actions, by unlocking, then putting his book's in his locker that was separated by a single locker in between Eren's and his.

The single locker that separated both Eren's, and Armin's locker, belonged none other to a sophomore girl named Annie Leonhardt.

While the two were still freshman, Armin felt himself nervously glancing in her direction on occasion. And would quickly look away if she ever caught him, his cheeks would slightly burn under her gaze. He really could never pinpoint the reason why... But Eren would usually laugh at his expense due to it, causing Armin to normally try and hide his face, or just escape the situation entirely.

Armin found himself doing this nearly always subconsciously, until about two weeks ago... When the girl seemed slightly more hostile than usual...

Armin then gave a forlorn sigh with woeful eyes, as he closed his locker, and turned to leave when suddenly...

*Crumple*

FLASHBACK DODODODODODODO...DO...

Armin had been putting his books away while focusing on his locker, when the barely taller Annie Leohardt walked up beside him...

He nervously glanced towards his right, as he felt himself normally doing, yet tried to stop himself... Though, he couldn't help but be slightly curious about the girl...

He looked in between the three long rectangular holes that were in his locker door, as he tried to hide himself to the best of his abilities.

Annie felt his timid eyes scan her like always... And today, was not the day for him to be peeking over towards her... She had just gotten a lecture from her math teacher, Erwin Smith, about her fourth straight failed test.

She couldn't stand math, and it infuriated her that she even had to take the damned class in the first place. She was the athletic type, not the academic type...

She could feel her hands gritting up, as she crumbled the test that held a large red 'F' upon the front... She threw the harshly crumpled paper into the locker.

As she looked towards her left, she saw large, clear, crystalline blue eyes, slightly glance in her direction hesitantly, repeating many times with her continued presence. They quickly would look away whenever her eyes would meet his.

She felt herself tense up in irritation under his gaze. She didn't care who he was, she didn't care what he was, she just couldn't stand when people would stare at her like that.

She however, tried her best to ignore it as she pulled out her necessary documents for her next class. She then closed her locker in irritation, as the door made a loud rattling slam.

This had been going on for the whole time had been at this school... It had been two months now... It was driving her insane... She needed to put a stop to this...

Annie slowly closed her eyes, as she hoped that the eyes would be gone from behind those three rectangular openings...

As she opened her eyes, and glanced left... they were still there.

Annie's insides went up in fire, as she made a rash decision to end this.

"Screw it." She muttered, as she suddenly then turned towards the boy staring at her, took his locker door, and slammed it upon his soft features.

The boy yelped, as he fell backwards upon his rear, he immediately grasped his hand over his nose, as blood began to rapidly come out from in between his still grasping fingers.

He looked up towards the girl, as his eyes began to water instinctively. He was in shock, disbelief, and overall, he had gotten the scare of his life.

Eren quickly looked over, and upon seeing the bleeding, whimpering, and nearly crying Armin, he ran over towards him.

Eren quickly kneeled beside his friend placing his hand on his shoulder, as he quickly examined the wounds. He then looked up towards the girl in rage.

"What the hell, you psycho bitch?!" Eren growled as his tone became threatening, he looked up towards the girl with a fury filled gaze.

"You should tell your friend, that it isn't polite to stare." She spoke back coldly, as she held a very fickle hope that the day would normally resume, though she knew it wouldn't.

Eren examined the wounds of his friend, as he then stood up while turning, and walked mere inches away from Annie. He held a threatening gaze, as he gritted his fingernails into his palms. He was visibly fuming, as he had a tough time keeping his outraged emotions in check.

"What? Are you going to hit, me? Don't you know that it's impolite to hit a lady, as well?" Annie spoke coldly, as she narrowed her eyes towards Eren.

"Hold it, hold it!" Suddenly, a feminine voice interrupted the whole situation, as a figure came running into the scene.

It was the infamous principal to this high school, Hange Zoë. She ran up to the situation, and she looked down towards Armin. Her eyes glistened in wonder as she kneeled down by the boy.

"Oh wow, that looks like it hurts! Tell me, what do you feel? Pain? Suffering? Agony? Oh wow, can I touch it? Please, let me touch it!" She chimed in awe, as she hastily moved her head around the scene, seeing it from every different possible angle. Eren eye's widened, as he looked backwards for a moment.

" Principal Zoë, what are you doing?!" Eren chimed angrily towards his principle, suddenly she jumped, as she stood upwards, and turned around to face the other two.

"O-Oh, right." She chucked nervously as she scratched the back of her head, she then narrowed her gaze towards Annie.

"What you did was wrong, Miss...Lady! You may get a suspension... If you're not careful!" Zoë tried her very best to be intimidating, and kept an extremely stern expression.

Eren slightly twitched, as his angry face turned to one that was now slightly disgruntled.

'She is really terrible at this principal thing...' Eren thought, as he moved and narrowed his gaze back to Annie...

Later...

"So, I believe it won't be necessary to had out any penalties, we've all learned our lesson here, right?" Principal Zoë spoke in a voice that spoke with ramification, as Eren turned his outraged looked towards her.

"What?! Are you kidding me?! With all due respect, did you not see the wound on Armin's face?" Eren spoke infuriated, as he motioned with his hands towards his right to where Armin was now sitting...

"Oh, I saw it..." Principal Zoë licked her lips, "Believe me, I saw it..." She said in lust, as one of Eren eye's slighty twitched as he had been officially creeped out, he dropped his hands to his sides.

"But! I believe Miss Leondhart here has learned her lesson, I mean, just look at her remorseful features!" Hange spoke, as both Eren and Armin sat up slightly and turned their gaze towards Annie.

Annie wore the exact same cold expression, as it seemed both bored, and unamused. Eren spoke in protest, as they both sat back in their chairs.

"What?! What the hell are you talking about? She look's exactly the-" Eren began, but Armin cut him off.

"No Eren, it's fine. T-Thank you for your concern, but it was my fault." Armin began woefully as he looked downwards, "I shouldn't have stared... It was impolite... a-and, it was wrong... S-So... I'm r-really sorry, Annie. I s-shouldn't have d-done that... I j-just r-really hope, you can forgive me..." Armin spoke up timidly, as he let his gaze continue downward, he felt his cheeks slightly burn, and he couldn't determine the cause. His nose was still quite sore, as he now had a bandage strapped across his nose, slightly stained with blood.

Nobody had seen it, but Annie's eyes slightly widened at the boy's response... She wasn't expecting that from the small blonde boy... Nothing close to that...

Hange let a small smile encase her lips, "See?! See, Eren?! Did you see how well, that resolved? Heh, and you think my methods don't work. Silly boy." She began with pride, as she gave a full hearted grin and looked towards Eren.

Eren inwardly fumed, as he wanted to scream an outraged interjection, but he bit his lip angrily, and held his tongue...

"Stupid bull crap..." He still muttered out, as he crossed his arms and looked no where in particular...

The Next Day...

Annie was walking to her locker from her favorite class, yes you guessed it, math... She sighed as she tried to make it past the swarm of kids who managed to always get in her way. She quickly made her final steps towards her locker, as she got around the final wave of the damned imbeciles, that she personally considered unworthy of her presence in this cursed school.

As she finally got to her locker, she saw something taped to her locker... She took her final steps, as she then found a petite iris, taped to a note, taped to her locker.

Her eyes slightly went wide at the sight, as she gently pulled off the note. She gently pulled the purple flower from the note, as she noticed there were many scribbles on the note, marking out mistakes, as she noticed the note was written in pen. She began to read the note...

Hey, Annie. :)

It's *scribble* the boy who is your locker neighbor, as I'm sure you don't know my *scribble* actual name.

But, I just wanted to say I was sorry again... *scribble* For the staring, I mean... It was an impolite thing to do, and you have my *scribble* sincerest apologies. I'll never stare again, I promise and swear.

I saw this flower when I was walking to school, and it reminded me of *scribble * you for some reason. I thought you maybe would *scribble* like it, but I wasn't completely sure... So, I'm sorry if you didn't actually *scribble* like it.

I'm really, super, sorry again! It was my fault, and a stupid thing to do.

Sorry! :(

*scribble* Oh, And my name is Armin! :)

-Armin ^_^

Annie looked up from the note, and frowned slightly. She quickly crumpled the note and flower in her hands instinctively, as she walked over to the trash bin.

As she prepared herself to drop the objects within said hand, she felt her hand clench, rather than open... She sat there for a moment, staring coldly at her hand that hung over the large trash bin. Her hand continued to clench, and it was infuriating her...

After a long inward battle, she found herself bring her hand back towards her... As she walked back over towards her locker, and let out a small sigh as her eyes fell somberly upon the ground below.

She then unlocked her lock carefully with the note and flower still in hand, opened her locker, and stare at the inside of her locker... It was empty excluding school books, her backpack, and really that was it...

She had seen other kids decorate their locker with pictures of popular trends, the celebrities who they had crushes on, video game posters, and television shows they liked.

She uncrumpled the note with her hand, straightened it, and did the very same with the crumpled dying flower...

She then looked down towards the straightened note and flower once more, as it sat within both of her hands. She then carefully took the used tape with the hand that held both flower and note, and reached her hand within her locker.

Moments later, when she removed her hand from the inside of her locker, she looked back into it, and now saw both the flower and note, straightened, and taped to the very back of her locker...

She honestly couldn't believe she did that... But, at least... now she something accompanying the inside of her locker...

She couldn't help but let her mind wander...

Maybe...

If it were now, and she knew somewhat of who he was...

She wouldn't have been so angry about the staring...

End Of Flashback...

When Armin looked downwards, he saw a small piece of paper under his foot, with tape accompanying the top of it... He quickly moved from his position, cautiously bent down, and picked up the now wrinkled piece of paper.

He brought it in hand to his face, as he slowly read it... His eyes grew wide as he did, as he once more blushed for no inconspicuous reason. His eyes glistened in hope and wonder, as he continued to look over the note.

Suddenly, Eren walked up towards Armin without him realizing, a grin plastered on his face...

"Man, I am so excited for that new raid tonig-..." He trailed off, as his grin dropped into more of a curious glare...

"Hey, what's that in your hands man?" He spoke up curiously, causing Armin to jump nervously, as the boy's cheeks were beat red. He quickly looked in Eren's direction, as he stuffed the note in his pocket.

"N-Nothing!" He yelped timidly, "J-Just... some t-test results..." He lied, as he hastily began to walk towards the lunch room.

Eren caught up and matched his fast pace with a smile and a chuckle, "Man, you must have got some really good test results, I suppose..." Eren chimed, though he realized Armin always had gotten perfect test results, so no, it definitely must have been something else... He was lying...

"Y-Yep...S-Sure did..." Armin replied timidly, as the two continued walking hastily, Eren giggling inwardly all along the way...

He couldn't help but let his mind wonder back towards the note, as he felt his cheeks slightly burn red simply thinking about it...

I'm sorry too.

And I'm Annie, by the way.

-Annie

To Be Continued...

Hey, thanks for reading! For some reason, I have this weird glitch where when I write and copy it, or upload it from Doc Manager, it removes anything that begins with Mr. Ms. or Mrs., so that is pretty weird. And for some reason it is working when I bold, and italicize, and underline it. What the flip, I don't get it. So, if you can, let me know please if there are any huge gaps in the text haha. :D Anyways, thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed! Hopefully this story isn't too cheesy, or weird. But I like it, ^_^ it's fun to write so far, :D and I hope you enjoy reading it ^_^. But, as you may have guessed, yes, I am a huge World Of Warcraft nerd in real life. I freaking love that game. So, I was deciding over which specific game and MMORPG to base it on, and decided I knew WoW the best so I went with that one. And no, I don't own rights to World Of Warcraft, Blizzard does.

Anyways, thanks again for reading! I hope you enjoyed! ^_^

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