A/N: Hey guys! Okay, summary: The final battle between titans and humans. Who will come out on top?

I wrote this before chapter 75 came out on the site I use, so hopefully it will be before most of you guys get to it. I really wanted to focus on this idea I had, so I didn't develop the battle or go into much aftermath detail on purpose, so just know that it might be something I come back to if you like it. But I'm not psychic. You need to tell me what you want. I was gonna make this a two parter and make you guys wait for the second half, but I decided not to pull a Rick Riordan. Hope you get as caught up in the story as I did!

I do not own Attack on Titan!

ALSO: I just fixed some slight typos, this isn't a re-witten chapter. I also noticed that in my haste to get to Levi waking up, I neglected to provide a conclusion for Reiner. I was going to add a new chapter explaining the battle, but I decided this was easier. Sorry for any confusion this caused.

"Humans and Titans. Which will live, and which will die." Erwin's voice thundered out across the wall, loud in my ears. Rolling my grey eyes at the melodramatic statement, I turned to look sideways at the Commander. Tall, blonde, a beacon. For all of humanity to look to. Or at least, everyone who cared enough to look up from their insignificant lives at the people who allow them to continue to live that way. Well, not exactly of late. But Historia was the rightful ruler, and the old king was corrupt. It had to be done.

But now here they all were, forced into a seemingly final confrontation with the Titans. I couldn't stand it. This was the angriest I had felt since my squad had… died. No. Been murdered. By Annie. Who was still safe in her little cocoon of crystal. The rest of the brats didn't know, but I had taken to using her as a cutting board. Any time I felt frustrated, I would attack her shell until my blades were broken. Erwin knew, and he understood. Now, looking at him, trying to read the sliver of his eyes I could see, I saw exactly what I expected. Defiance. Exhaustion. Rage. A slow burning flame, not hungry enough to cloud his calculations or distort his judgement. But there nonetheless, using the deaths of past cadets as fuel. It would never go out, I could tell. Erwin took all of their lives on his shoulders. Every one of them, even when he wasn't the Commander, when I first got here. When I first got here…

Farlan and Isabel. I knew he blamed himself for their deaths. But he shouldn't. It was all my fault. I was the only one to blame. Big bro. A real big bro wouldn't have let them come on the expedition. I didn't deserve their adoration. Looking out across the sea of titans, my eyes landed on one in particular, and something inside of me snapped. That was the Titan that had killed them…

My vision blood red, my body taut as the cables that allowed us to fly, and said softly, "Erwin…"

He looked over at me, surprised by the venom he heard in my voice. I was shaking. So furious, the fire in my eyes raging, threatening to consume everything I had left, leaving me a hollow shell. Not that I wasn't already. I didn't even hear him say anything, although I saw his lips move. I saw everything. The wide eyed but calculating blue gaze of Arlert, the impassive dead eyed stare of Ackerman, and the determined gleam of Hange's eyes. I saw it all. I saw Erwin's lips. I saw the nod of his head. Then my vision blurred, because I was moving.

Firing my hooks off, I swung down to a lower spot on the wall before pushing off with the intention of latching onto a nearby tree. I never got that far. In my haste I had missed a (awkard)second of sight, and in that second, the Titan that had unhinged me had begun running towards me. Fast, but not an abnormal. Halfway to the tree, I changed course, twisting my body and firing into the Titan's right arm, which was held out rigidly from its shoulder. Swinging around it, I used my momentum to fly high above it, curling backwards so I could start my spin and end its life. And then I felt the wires pulling on me.

Looking down, I saw that the Titan had moved its arm, which I was still hooked into, and had my wires in its meaty hand. A heartbeat of panic, before the Titan started to turn around. But not slow. No, it was spinning. Going around and around in circles and I was trapped, getting dizzier and dizzier. Vaguely I heard Erwin yelling something. I didn't know how I could still hear him, and then I tried to look around, fighting the centrifugal force that made me feel like my lungs were climbing up my throat. We were closer to the wall than I had thought.

I had an idea. It was crazy. I'd probably die. But I might not. Erwin was watching. I could do it. Craning my neck, I watched the tan blur of the wall, then the green and blue of the sky and grass, dotted with dark splotches that I knew were the Titans. I focused on the intervals, and the next time I saw the wall I cut my straps and allowed myself to fly towards it, faster than my gear had ever gone before.

The angle was right, I was going to make it. I reached my arm out and braced for impact. Then I hit the wall, my hand grabbing onto the edge of the stone, pain flaring up everywhere. Gasping, I quickly threw my other hand up and grabbed on with it. So now here I was, hanging on the edge of the wall by my fingers, the right side of my body on fire where I had slammed into Maria, and no gear to help me. Looking around, I knew why Erwin had been shouting. Bertolt.

He was on the wall, along with a few others who I didn't recognize. Looking down, I saw Eren still locked in battle against Reiner. I couldn't tell who was winning, but that was the least of my concerns. I was trapped. I didn't have the strength to swing myself up, Bertolt was walking towards me, and his friends were surrounding mine. Erwin's cheek was bleeding from a large cut, and Ackerman was standing defensively in front of the rest of my squad. But now Bertolt was here. I tried to think of something to say, but he just raised his foot and brought it down on my left hand.

My senses exploded, and I couldn't keep from crying out in pain. He had crushed the bones, as easily as if I were a bug he had stepped on. I tried to keep holding on, because I knew he was going to do it to the other one too, and I didn't have a plan yet. Hold on, just keep holding on. Don't give in, ignore the pain… I couldn't ignore it. It was on the forefront of my mind, and even my fury had been overtaken by it, a new kind of fire. I barely felt the other one, my nerves unable to get past the first wave of it, overloaded. I felt a tear slip down my cheek though, and hated myself for it, hated that I was crying so much that I let go. I didn't fall though. Someone grabbed my arm. I managed to drag my head up, it felt like it weighed ten times what it normally did, expecting to see Erwin, pulling me out of the darkness, the pain, bringing clarity to my torn up being, helping me focus my anger into something productive, fighting for humanity…

It wasn't Erwin though. Nor was it Ackerman, Arlert, Hange, or anybody else from my squad. It was Bertolt, and he was frowning as he held me like a doll by my left arm. In his other hand my frazzled mind recognized a syringe. A jolt of fear ran through me. That couldn't be what I thought it was. Deep down I knew it was. Still frowning, he mouthed something, and plunged the needle into my arm, through my jacket and shirt. Then he let me fall, throwing me away from the wall like a piece of garbage.

I felt a searing pain, slow but intense, spread up my arm, and then it all faded to black.

Erwin watched in astonishment as Levi fell, before he erupted into a bright flash of yellowish green light. When he could finally see again, after the ghosts of the light had faded, he saw a Titan. About 13 meters, not as tall as Eren but slightly more muscled, the Titan had shortish black hair, and even from this distance, Erwin could make out bright silver eyes, shinning so much that they almost emitted their own light. It was Levi. Levi had been turned into a Titan by the same serum that had turned Lord Reiss into a Titan.

Levi let out an earsplitting roar, and looked around, arms and legs in fighting position. Erwin almost hoped that Levi had more control over his Titan than Eren had, before he heard Reiner let out an answering roar, attracting Levi's attention. The smaller Titan hurled himself at Reiner, who dodged, causing Levi to plow straight into Eren. Heart sinking and mind racing, Erwin watch as Levi and Eren began to fight, Eren in defense and Levi in offense. Reiner ducked in and out, always directing Levi's attention back to Eren, while still attacking them both. Erwin dragged his eyes away from the fight, made eye contact with Cadet Ackerman, and nodded. She exploded into a flurry of motion, taking out two of the nearest guards before getting engaged in battle with a third. The rest of Levi's squad automatically turned to fight the enemy nearest them and Hange started directing the rest of the troops on the wall. Erwin took his time, surveying the damage to the wall from the Beast Titan's boulder, taking in the fight going on below him and then looking at the fight around him.

He decided that Eren knew what to do and would take care of his battle, and focused on the one closest to him. Drawing his sword, he slashed out at the one who had been guarding him, thinking that it would be easy to overpower the crippled Commander. He fell instantly, and Erwin turned to the next opponent who dared to try and stand in the way of humanities freedom.

Below him, Eren was panicking, dodging savage attack after savage attack, backing up, moving to the right, repeating, as Reiner closed in on the left and Levi in front. He had never been able to beat Levi in hand-to-hand combat, and Reiner had his armor. Eren was using some of his new shell ability, but he knew he wouldn't have enough energy left if he used too much. He kept it focused on the back of his neck, his fists, forearms, and stomach. Even that was draining him. Levi's attacks were wild and vicious, slashing, clawing, biting, hitting, never ending. Reiner would hit his ribs just as Levi threw a punch his way, their combined attacks pushing him back. Then he felt the wall on his back, and realized that he had been backed into a corner, right where Shiganshina jutted out from Maria. He was trapped.

Levi must have sensed it, because his attacks became wilder, fiercer, to the point that Reiner stepped back, content with letting things play out. Eren looked around as he grappled with Levi, steam pouring from his numerous wounds and clouding the air. He knew that he needed a shifter, one he could force Levi to eat. Then he should stop attacking. But where?

Above him, Erwin and the others won a quick victory, incapacitating and disposing of the remaining enemy guard, leaving only Bertolt, who was still fighting Mikasa. The only reason they had won was because of a genius idea of Hange's. After quizzing Eren, she had come to the conclusion that if a shifter's body becomes numb, even if they are wounded, they won't be able to shift, because there is no pain. She quickly came up with a powerful numbing agent and equipped each scout with a syringe, to use in case they ran into a shifter. Luckily, Mikasa had had the presence of mind to do so, stabbing Bertolt in the chest with the needle as soon as she could, causing his body to numb completely. Unfortunately, this did not hinder his movements, and he fought against her with all he had.

Much taller than her, but slightly less skilled, their fight was evenly matched. Mikasa fought with a dagger while Bertolt had only his long swords. The metal clashed and sparked against each other as Mikasa swung, Bertolt parried, and the dance continued. Until Bertolt got lucky.

He stepped into her instep just as she lunged past him, throwing herself off balance and allowing him to cut across her back. She fell to the ground with a quiet gasp, and Bertolt raised his swords to finish her off. With his back to the scouts. Big mistake. His eyes widened and his breath left him in one sputter as he was pierced by a sword. Looking down at the blade sticking out of his chest, he turned around, and was surprised by the steely gaze he met.

Ocean blue eyes, framed by long blonde hair. Armin.

Bertolt fell to his knees. Mikasa looked up when she didn't feel the cold metal ending her life. She saw Armin, eyes hard, stance firm, the culmination of all of his years of training. She couldn't help but think back to a little boy who always got picked on, who had dreams to see the outside world. She couldn't have been more proud.

Erwin watched Armin's transformation with interest, already thinking of how he could use that new tool. Then Hange was running towards Bertolt, dragging him back towards where Erwin was standing. He looked at her quizzically. She pointed to the fight below, where Eren was backed against a wall, nearly to his knees. Erwin understood, and so did Armin. Together, the three of them pulled and pushed Bertolt's body over to above Eren. Then they dropped him, down, down, down, into Eren's outstretched hands.

Eren wasted no time in pushing the shifter into Levi's growling mouth and slamming those powerful jaws shut, forcing Levi to swallow. Then silence. Levi stopped fighting, and fell slack against Eren, who maneuvered him against the wall, sitting him down with his neck exposed. Then the brunette straightened back up, locking eyes with an astonished Reiner. It was hard to tell what he was thinking due to the hard crystal covering his face, but his mouth was open, jaw hanging slack, and he had frozen. Eren took the opportunity to lunge at him, slamming him to the ground as Connie, Sasha, Jean, and Armin all flew down to help cut the Corporal out.

The spell broke and Reiner was struggling once more, rage making his attacks fierce but clumsy. Eren took advantage of this, dodging Reiner's fists and keeping the bulkier Titan pinned beneath him. Eren roared loudly, a call for help, and Connie, Sasha, Jean, and Armin, having cut out the Corporal and placed him in the grass near his steaming Titan, flew to his assistance. Eren lifted Reiner with difficulty, holding his arms to his sides so he couldn't swing at the scouts, and they hooked onto his neck.

Hange had come up with a new idea about how to bypass the armor, and the scouts used it now, driving their swords into the unprotected flesh between the plates. When in motion, it was too hard to do, but with Reiner unable to move, their thin blades were able to slip through the cracks. The blades had been reinforced, so it was only a matter of prying the pieces away, which they began to do. Slowly but surely, especially after they were joined by some of the scouts from the wall, they chipped away the armor and revealed the tough flesh beneath. By now Eren could hardly hold onto Reiner who was struggling fiercely, sensing his death. Hange had flown over, and the rest of the scouts parted for her, until she stood next to Connie, Sasha, Jean, and Armin. She nodded at them, and together, the five began cutting Reiner out.

His Titan stopped struggling, and moments later, Jean and Connie pulled out a bloody and unconscious Reiner. Eren let go, and waited for them to cut him out, and after a few more minutes of hacking, both Eren and Reiner were placed down on the grass by Levi, all three smoking from their wounds.

I woke up slowly, like my eyelids were glued shut. My lungs felt compressed, and when I tried to breathe in deep it turned into a coughing fit. I felt like crap. Like I had been run over or something. Finally I got them open, still wheezing like a flipping asthmatic. I saw sunset skies. Green grass. Wait, no. Green grass splattered, with red, huge puddles of it, all over, under me, on me… It was disgusting.

I tried to sit up but couldn't. Felt like a Titan was sitting on my chest. Titans… Hadn't we been fighting Titans? Ignoring the pain, I propped myself up with my arms, the best I could manage, like the weakling I was. Saw Eren next to me, asleep. Or dead. No, his chest was moving. Heard a deep voice being cleared. Erwin.

Turned to my left, saw him sitting there, eyes almost see through the way the light was hitting them. Tried to talk. Couldn't. Turned to look out across the field. Saw bodies. Lots of them. Big ones. Titans. Looked behind me. No bodies. Either they all survived, or they had already been moved.

"They are alive. Some closer to death, but most are fine." Erwin said, his voice rough and gravelly.

"What happened with me?" I asked, because seeing the Titans had helped me remember. Hanging from Maria. Bertolt. Syringe. My eyes widened as I looked down at the steam which I hadn't really noticed before, assuming it was from Eren. It was my steam too. I looked at Erwin, and he nodded.

"Who?" I asked. Who had I eaten. Who's power had I taken.

"Bertolt."

I thought back to hanging off the wall. Bertolt had mouthed something. What had it been… Oh. Right. The kid had mouthed, "I'm sorry."

I looked out at the setting sun, illuminating the pile of bodies. They stood out like a dark mound of fleshly rocks. The red sky made it all look bathed in blood, which it probably was. I hardly even noticed when the tears started to fall.

A/N: I hope you guys liked this, because I loved writing it. Please, please, please comment below!