Hiiiii. So I've been wanting to do a superhero/x-men au for SNK for a while now and I thought, why the hell not? So I ended up making this.
Pairings: Jean/Marco, Connie/Sasha, Levi/Erwin, Eren/Armin, Bertholdt/Reiner, Annie/Mikasa, Petra/Auruo, and probably more idk.
Warnings(this chapter): Inaccurate Science(?), Mild Violence, Mild Cursing, Drinking, Drunk Driving (sort of), Stupid Teenagers, Unsafe Lab Situations
Beer cans clinked together with the laughing and celebration of the small gathering of newly turned adults. It was their first year free from the mess that was high school and they were ready for the world. Halfway to a buzz, they felt like they could take on anything.
"Man, I didn't think it'd feel this good to be out of school." Eren mused, swishing some of the beer in his nearly empty can. Between him and Jean was Marco who was awkwardly staring behind them every once in a while to check for cops. They were in Connie Springer's backyard gathered around a small campfire.
Sasha was lying on her back staring up at the stars, obviously more tipsy than the rest of them. Connie was leaning back on his hands and looking up as well. "We've still got college." Connie mumbled in response, eyes trained on the stars. He seemed to have a lot on his blurry mind.
"Do you think we'll get caught out here?" Marco asked, having barely touched his beer at all aside from a few sips. Meanwhile, Jean had already downed two cans and was reaching for a third when his boyfriend stopped him by reflex. In response, Jean just reached for Marco's can, ready to finish his boyfriend's beer for him.
Eren shook his head, focusing on the fire. "Nah. Besides we can just blame Connie." The young adult grinned, looking towards the shortest of the males in the group. Connie kicked at him but stopped when he saw the look from Mikasa. She had otherwise been silent through the most of that night.
Confusion struck over the least coherent of the newly graduated group of still teens, not quite full adults. Sasha perked slightly and turned to face Eren. "Where's Armin?" She asked, now realizing they were down one person.
Eren hummed, struggling to come up with an answer. His blond boyfriend was finishing some work that night at the DNA lab he was interning at. "At work." He finally replied as he pulled together his response from his muddled brain.
Connie furrowed his eyebrows and stopped hanging his head back to look at the sky. "What a party pooper." He stated as though it were fact.
Sasha nodded her head. "We should see how he's doing." She spoke, he voice slurring slightly. Marco visibly bristled at the idea. They had all been drinking and while it had been a long while since Marco had taken a sip from his beer that was now halfway consumed by Jean, he didn't like the idea of driving anywhere. He especially didn't like that they were all underage.
After a moment of silence, there seemed to be a mutual agreement that going and seeing Armin was the best idea. Eren was absolutely fine with it and Sasha and Connie had nothing better to do except maybe continue staring into the cosmos. Jean had gone nearly unresponsive. Only Mikasa and Marco were really able to think in the group.
"I'll drive!" Connie offered the second he had stood up and dusted off his knees. Marco pushed himself to a stand quickly to protest.
"How about I drive?" He suggested, knowing that none of them would be willing to walk or take a taxi. He didn't feel good about pushing laws but Marco would have to roll with it. Hopefully his body could rid itself of the effects of alcohol quickly.
Connie groaned but demanded he have shotgun. Marco denied that as well considering he was one to get really hands-y with the dashboard when he was drunk and in the passenger's seat. "How about Mikasa and I in front." He clarified even though at that point none of the tipsy kids really cared too much.
In moments they were ushered into the large SUV that Mikasa drove. Mikasa gave Marco a warning look when he stepped into the driver's seat which he awkwardly nodded to and tried to ignore for the rest of the venture.
Following sloppy directions given to him by a mixture of Eren and Sasha, who really had no clue what she was talking about, Marco made it to the DNA lab on the edge of town in twenty-one minutes. It was grueling and the headache was already developing.
The DNA lab wasn't much of a giant lab facility to begin with. It was only two stories and it looked more like a school building than anything. There were two patient rooms on the first floor for blood donations but really the only thing the place was used for was doing rare blood tests for the nearby hospital aside from furthering research on blood cells. There were rumors about some experimental tests used for checking if a medicine or chemical might do well for cancer cells or stuff like HIV and AIDS. Really, no one had any frickin clue what they did there and Armin wouldn't talk.
Regardless, the place was pretty high security for their tiny little town. At least, that meant that there was an intercom system and whoever didn't have an ID card that when swiped would let them in would have to gain access from whoever was inside.
Eren, seemingly used to approaching the building, walked up to the intercom system and pressed a button for a specific lab and leaned down towards the microphone. "Yo, Armin, let us in." Eren said, making no effort to dull his drunken tone.
It took a moment before the speaker displayed Armin on the other side. He was probably the only one left in the empty looking building. "I swear if you guys break anything…" Armin's voice echoed as a loud beeping noise signaled the unlocking of the door.
"I swear if I catch some rare disease coming in here…" Jean muttered as he sauntered in after Eren and Mikasa who were the first to enter the building. Marco held the door and waited for Connie and Sasha as they walked in as well, or in Sasha's case, tripped and stumbled.
The door swung shut behind them the second Marco let it go. He tried not to cringe when he heard it mechanically lock.
Armin met them at the top of the main stairwell. He was wearing a white lab coat and blue latex gloves. "I swear you guys are so annoying." He complained, shaking his head. "Come on, I'll show you my lab." He said, waving a gloved hand towards a hallway at the top of the stairs.
He probably should have paid more attention to the drunken state of his friends as they began tumbling up the staircase after him. In a matter of three minutes, all of them were then standing in Armin's lab. It wasn't his alone. It was obviously shared by other interns.
It looked akin to any other lab you'd find in a chemistry classroom. There were some unclean work stations and many cabinets and a few refrigerators lining the walls. Armin made his way to his station where he was mixing something or other to blend with the blood cells he'd gotten hold of.
"What are you working on anyway?" Jean asked as he walked up, a beer can in his hand still that his boyfriend quickly rid him of. Armin glanced back to the two-tone haired male and smiled at his interest.
He then pointed towards the slide on his microscope. "Cancer cells. I'm doing a little bit of research." He stated simply in response just as Connie walked over to one of the refrigerators and pulled it open to peer inside at the contents.
"Man what are these?" Connie muttered as he picked up one of the many sealed glass beakers and stared at the name labeled on the side. It was some mix that he had no idea what was and likely couldn't pronounce it if he tried.
He put the beaker back and picked up another one. The mix was an odd pink color and didn't have a very high viscosity. "Sash, come here, look at this stuff." He called to his friend who had settled down in a chair and was unlikely to move.
Her response was something akin to the sounds of a dying whale. "I dun wanna…" She muttered as she lifted her head only slightly to look at her friend. Connie didn't seem to hear her, that or he didn't pay her procrastination any mind as he picked up another strange looking liquid.
Armin was too busy staring into a microscope to stop him and Marco was trying to find somewhere to safely dispose of the beer can Jean had brought with him. Mikasa didn't particularly care what Connie did so long as it didn't hurt Eren or Armin and Eren was sitting on the chair across from Armin's seat, watching his boyfriend work. Jean picked up the glass tube of whatever liquid it was that Armin was making.
At the same time, Sasha finally got up to meander over to Connie just as Connie picked up an especially strange looking beaker and turned around to yell at Sasha to come over even though she was right behind him. He whipped around too fast, colliding the hand that was holding the beaker into Sasha and sending the experimental mix flying towards Armin's table.
"Watch out!" Sasha shouted but by then there wasn't much they could do. Marco rushed forward to pull Jean away seeing as the air born beaker was heading straight for him. Jostled, Jean's grip on Armin's test tube slipped and it dropped onto the table with a thump, spilling the clear liquid over the surface of the lab table.
The beaker dropped right onto the already spilled liquid and cracked, mixing both substances just long enough to create a small explosion. Armin, Eren, and Sasha screamed and each of them hit the floor painfully.
The smoke cleared slightly within five minutes but it was still hard to see. Almost each of the teens were moaning in pain or knocked out from the initial blast. Marco and Connie were the ones who felt the least of the damage and were awake quicker than the rest of them. Sasha would have been awake sooner had she not been so tipsy going into the disaster.
"Oh my head…" Someone mumbled through the smoke and dust. It was likely Connie who was at that point rubbing the back of his skull where he'd made contact with the side of the fridge when the blast blew him backwards. Beside him, Sasha was lying halfway in fetal position on the floor.
Marco tried to squirm out from under his boyfriend who was elaborately splayed over him only to see through the debris that Armin was curled into a tight ball, hands digging into his temples and his face scrunched up in focus.
"Armin?" Marco muttered, focusing his eyes and silently wishing his boyfriend would just roll over and get off him. As if by some will of god, Jean did but otherwise didn't wake.
On the other side of the room, Connie was sitting up and turned to look at Sasha. At first he thought it was just the dust in his eyes but he soon began to realize, no Sasha was literally sinking through the floor slowly as though it were quicksand. "Sash?" He muttered, wondering vaguely if this was actually happening.
In a few moments, said girl in question snapped her eyes open to notice she was literally sinking through the floor. The second she could, she yelped in surprise and as if she had turned into a ghost, she dropped through the floor and disappeared completely.
Connie practically freaked out in reaction, reaching over to touch the tile floor where she'd literally sunk through but it was completely tangible. "Sasha!" He called out, waking both Mikasa and Jean simultaneously.
"What happened…?" Jean mumbled just as Armin let out a painful yelp. He somehow managed to curl in tighter on himself and no one could quite tell what was happening.
Mikasa crawled towards her childhood friend on her hands and knees, aiming to get closer and help Armin. She reached out a hand to squeeze his shoulder and see if he was alright but the moment she did so, he let out a painful shriek.
Jean scrambled to his feet just as Marco managed to make it halfway over to Armin on his knees. "What's wrong?" Marco asked, waving some of the smoke out of the air as he leaned down closer to Armin who looked to be in horrid pain.
Mikasa had shrunk back the moment Armin screamed at her touch, a look of horror on her own face. She had barely even squeezed him.
Armin waved a hand at the two kneeling beside him, trying to will them to step away. "Too close!" He managed to strangle out as he curled in tighter. Mikasa and Marco didn't respond at first but it seemed they didn't need to as an unknown force pushed them away quickly, almost forcefully sliding them across the floor and into the opposing wall.
Mikasa and Marco were in an utter panic at that point, never having felt what had just happened to them. There had been nothing to do so other than Armin's on mental will.
Across the room, Jean stumbled over to Connie who was pounding on the floor where Sasha had fallen through. "What the hell. Connie!" Jean said, ignoring what was happening behind him as he crouched down to grab his friend.
Connie only spared a moment to look at him, before standing up at his full height of five foot two. "Sasha just fell through the floor! She's gone! One minute she was slowly sinking and the next she wakes up and falls straight down like there's nothing there!" Connie rambles but Jean can barely keep up. Connie's speech was far too sped up to comprehend.
Frustrated, Jean turned around to face where Eren was still passed out cold on the floor. He didn't understand what was going on or why the hell the fire brigade wasn't there yet like damn. "God I must still be drunk…" He muttered to himself as he glanced once over to his boyfriend who looked completely and utterly in shock staring back at him.
"Jean." Marco's voice spoke as he lifted a hand to point at his boyfriend's face.
Come to think of it, why did it suddenly smell like fire? Jean had almost no time to contemplate the idea as Eren's knocked out body rolled over from beside him. The atmosphere seemed to change suddenly and each of them all froze the moment they heard the most inhuman growling sounds coming from where Eren was knocked out on the floor.
Jean backed away instantly, completely ignorant to the fact that his hair was on fire which was still very concerning considering he didn't feel a thing.
Lying on his stomach with his face down in the broken tile floor, Eren slowly started shifting upwards. Mikasa and Marco stood up slowly as they heard it and Connie, rather quickly, darted behind Jean who was still in the process of backing away.
At first, Eren stared directly at the floor, but then Jean's shoe scuffed on the floor. The noise seemed to catch Eren's attention as the still growling teen whipped his head around to look at the opposing source. Except, it wasn't exactly Eren that was staring back at them.
"What the hell!" Connie yelled as the mutated Eren Jaeger stood up from the floor slowly. Steam seemed to be coming off his features where he'd changed and slowly it began to radiate off of his entire body. The air seemed to be crackling with energy.
Eren's face had changed nearly completely. The only part of him that was recognizable was the hair and that seemed to grow longer as he straightened up. His eyes were the same piercing green. His muscles seemed to grow and he seemed to be expanding as he stood. He was becoming bigger with each passing second.
His face, which was the most disturbing, had changed the most. His features grew more angular and his eyes became more piercing. There was a black ring of dark skin surrounding the edges of his eyes and his ears had turned pointed, jutting out from the lengthening brown hair. His mouth was no longer human. His teeth were completely exposed and somehow the back row of teeth was raised higher, almost into his cheek bones.
Just as he seemed to be at his most calm, his jaw cracked open wide and he let out a loud roar, his body now expanding and the floor giving way under where he stood.
On the other side of the counter, Marco and Mikasa rushed forward to retrieve Armin before he fell in with the cave in of the floor. In moments, Eren's body had expanded to almost the same height as the building itself and his clothes had mostly stretched and torn away, hanging off his steaming new form in rags.
The five could all hear Sasha's familiar shouting as she spotted what was happening as well. Connie and Jean both rushed to the edge of the floor and tried looking down to find Sasha. Connie called her name once, receiving no response and in seconds he was gone.
Marco, Mikasa, and Jean barely had enough time to register the fact that Connie had literally dashed out of the room at a speed way faster than humanly possible. "What the hell is going on?" Jean yelled over the sound of Eren, or whatever that was, roaring and breaking more of the building.
"Jean! Your hair is on fire!" Marco finally was able to tell his boyfriend and said male responded by looking up and freaking out. Mikasa was awkwardly trying to hold Armin as lightly as possible. Armin was still suffering from a large headache.
They were all panicking, Jean in particular considering his hair was on fire and he didn't feel it at all. The more frustrated and angry he got, the worse the fire got and eventually it started spreading down his shoulders and arms.
They could hear sirens approaching in the distance, both fire brigade and cops. Each of them worried about what would happen to them. Things were happening that were definitely not possible.
Of course the weird just kept coming. Jean, Mikasa, and Marco watched as a group ranging from young adults to some in their mid to late twenties came running towards the opening in the building that Eren had now created and was standing in.
"I told you we should have gotten here sooner!" They could faintly hear a girl with shoulder length strawberry blond hair say. What seemed to be duplicates of the same guy all turned and looked at her, simultaneously making the same quip back in response.
A few others in the group ran forward and there were two males standing back observing the scene. Of course a giant humanoid monster, a teenager on fire, and several others who looked really disoriented wouldn't be that average.
After a few seconds, the group that arrived sprang into action. A large, bulky blond ran forward towards Eren's huge form and a tall, lanky brunette followed along behind. After a few seconds of getting up close, the blond picked up his companion and threw him at Eren's giant head.
The thrown male instantly seemed to stretch as though he was made of rubber or elastic and began winding around Eren's torso, successfully tying Eren's arms close to his body and not allowing him to move.
One of the men from behind the group, a blond, began moving forward toward Eren's colossal body.
At the same time, several clones of the same curly haired blond began to run into the building along with the help of two blond females, one being the girl who'd made the statement that they should have come earlier.
Two clones and the strawberry blond rushed into the room with Jean, Mikasa, Marco, and Armin. The girl instantly walked up to Armin who was still in Mikasa and Marco's shared grip. "Is it just a headache?" She asked immediately, looking to the two black haired teens as one of the clones made their way over to Jean who was still trying to deal with being on fire.
Mikasa looked confused and Marco gave the woman a look that said he honestly had no clue. The strawberry blond then nodded and turned back towards where the two males that had been standing back approached Eren.
"We've got a telepath!" She shouted, only to be interrupted as a loud pop echoed through the air and a reddish-brown haired woman landed on the floor between Jean and Marco.
She instantly turned towards Armin and her fellow friend. "Really?" The woman said ecstatically, moving forward to examine the blond in the arms of the two black haired teens. Armin only continued to ignore everyone, too focused on his own mind.
"Take him to Erwin once he takes care of the shifter." The woman commanded and the strawberry blond nodded her head and gestured towards Jean.
The girl didn't even have to say anything before the reddish-brunette knew what was happening. "Oh! A pyro!" She practically celebrated as she rushed over to where Jean was standing, still on fire, with one of the clones standing next to him.
"What's wrong with him?" Marco asked as he and Mikasa reluctantly handed Armin off to one of the clones.
At the same time, Eren could be seen slowly transforming back to his normal self. Connie and Sasha were retrieved and standing in the middle of the grass where the group had originally arrived. The bulky blond and the tall lanky brunette collected Eren by slinging him over the blonde's shoulder.
The woman, now recognizable as a teleporter because of her quick entrance, turned towards Marco. "He's a pyrokinetic." She responded as if it made all the sense in the world. The clone from beside her butted in at Marco's confused expression.
"He can control and create fire. Usually it's linked to emotions so get him to calm down and it'll probably stop." The male stated blatantly. Jean looked between the two strangers and Marco, unsure what to do. Marco only smiled awkwardly, somehow trying to appear reassuring. "Look you're probably fine." Marco said, reaching a hand out and placing it on his boyfriend's back. "You can make it stop." He stated and as if by magic, suddenly the flames went out.
Jean looked down at his hands as the flames suddenly went out. "Wow…uh. Ok." Jean muttered, unsure how he'd just done it but he was thankful. He lifted his hands, going to run them through his hair and check that the fire was gone. It was.
After another moment of awkward silence, the reddish-brunette straightened and then gestured towards their exit. "We've got to get moving if we're going to avoid the authorities." She grinned before snapping her fingers and disappearing with a loud pop noise.
Two minutes later, all of them had managed to run off towards a large van and were piling inside as quickly as possible. Unknowing of where they were going, the teens were forced to leave the scene with strangers they didn't know.
Both Eren and Armin were passed out, forcibly knocked out to stop their powers from hindering them, Eren in particular. Mikasa was sitting next to them, her legs pulled up in her seat and her arms folding her in close. She was still trying to figure out how she'd hurt Armin.
Sasha and Connie were sitting together, Sasha still rather spooked from falling through the floor. Connie had his arms wrapped around her and every once in a while she'd go slightly intangible and he'd have to let go and pull back before she turned back to normal with his arm going straight through her.
Then lastly Jean and Marco were sitting next to Sasha and Connie, totally confused about their predicament. There was no knowing where they were going, or what would happen. But they could tell that their future wouldn't be the same as they thought it would be when they sat down around their small campfire.
So! I'll give you a list of powers that were introduced and which characters,
Eren Jaeger: TITAN SHIFTER, can eventually control what size titan. Has healing capabilities. Usually triggered by emotions or pain.
Armin Arlert: TELEPATH/TELEKINETIC, (think jean grey). Can control things with his mind and read minds. Has minor control over free will.
Mikasa Ackerman: SUPER STRENGTH. Top strength not known.
Connie Springer: SUPER SPEED, feels no fatigue. Sometimes suffers from sped up speech and has heightened reaction times. Top speed not known.
Sasha Braus: PHASING, can phase through any substance and can phase things with her to an extent. Extent not known.
Jean Kirschstein: PYROKINESIS, can control and create fire. Typically tied to emotions. Immune to fire and heat.
Bertholdt Fubar: BODY MOLDING AND INVISIBILITY, can stretch body at will and reform natural shape. Can also turn invisible. Has stretch limit.
Auruo Bossard: CLONING, can make temporary or long term clones. Clones transmit knowledge to him but he doesn't transmit to them.
Hanji Zoe: TELEPORTATION, can teleport within 5 miles. Must know what location looks like. Teleports mid air to avoid teleporting into objects.