All Buffet ever wanted to do was to make his Mother proud. His Father left him and his Mother when he was very young. His Mother always worked her ass off to feed him and give him a roof to live under. He promised his dying mother that he would join the military police and make her proud.

Now here he was, mounted on his horse with the wings of freedom on his back, ready to go out on the 57th expedition outside of the walls. He looked up to the sky and said to himself "Mother, I'm so sorry." He could of joined the Military Police, he was ranked tenth in the 104th. He knew why he made this choice. He could not go hide inside the walls with the MPs anymore. Not after he saw it. The titans, and the way… the way they eat people. He does not even know how he stood there when everyone else left, but he did. Now he was here, with his friends and comrades ready to charge into their possible deaths.

He heard the rumors of how many people died. These rumors were made true however when his now Commander stood on that stage and told every cadet the truth. This however made him respect and trust Commander Erwin. This is why the legion was trusting of one another, they knew what they were up against and how to deal with it. Those who couldn't deal with it would die and the group would move on. So only little members of the 104th stayed. Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Sasha, Connie, Reiner, Bertholdt, Ymir, Christa, Buffet, a few others, and Eren was already a member of the special operations squad.

Little people knew the point of this mission, not even the special operations squad. The ones who knew the objective of this mission were Erwin, Levi, Hanji and Mike. Others were left clueless and just followed orders.

"Onward!" was heard from the front of the formation, and Buffet assumed it was Erwin who screamed out the command.

The group then moved forwards through the ruins of old towns that were inhabited as little as five years ago. Five years ago was when he made the promise to his dying mother that he would join the MPs. He remembered how Sasha was always there for him in times of need. He lived in the same village as Sasha when he was growing up. Sasha was the reason he decided to join the military. He then later told his mother on her deathbed that he would a MP, setting his choice in stone. Once they joined the military, they made quick friends with Connie and then they became a trio that could not be broken. Buffet was also good friends with Jean and Marco. He remember how he always ended domestic level disputes between Jean and Ere-.

"One ten meter class on the left side!" Buffet was then taken out of his little world where he was reliving his life and watched as two men took on the ten meter titan as the convoy continued on. The two men thankfully killed the titan without getting injured and then rejoined the group. After a couple more minutes of riding through ruins, they reached open plains and moved into their very spread out formation. He then grouped up with Sasha and they moved into their formation location. They were placed in the same area so they moved together. They also had a group of two veterans moving close by so they were not too scared.

The first couple of minutes was boring. Sasha and Buffet just rode together, without saying a word. Then Buffet and Sasha came across a small village that only contained a couple of buildings. They looked in between the buildings and what they saw was something they would never forget. A titan on all fours was looking straight at them. Both of them told their horses to move faster and then it became a foot race between their horses and the abnormal.

"I'll send out the flare." said Sasha. Flares were their form of long distance communication. Green flares meant a direction change and the direction the flare was shot indicated the direction. Red flares meant there was a titan nearby, and black flares meant there was an abnormal nearby. There were other different colored flares for squads to communicate with each other but others were told to ignore them.

Sasha fumbled with the black flare until dropping it on the ground, the abnormal then stepped on the flare, destroying it. Buffet was about to fire his own black flare until he saw the vets behind them fire one.

"Go! We will take care of it!" yelled one of the vets.

"Ok Sasha we turn right now!" yelled Buffet. Sasha and Buffet did a 90 degree turn left to avoid the titan's bite. Then vets rode in front of the titan, grabbing it's attention. Sasha and Buffet then rode away for a bit. Once they saw the vets had killed the titan, they started to returned to their spot in the formation. Before they did though, Buffet saw a female titan, standing over a body. The female then lifted the hood of the person. Buffet had great vision, so he could tell it was Armin. The titan then put his hood down, and fled. Buffet then fired a black flare, no regular titan would do such a thing.

"Go back to formation, I'll meet up with you soon." Buffet told Sasha. Buffet was about to make a beeline towards Armin, but then Sasha responded.

"Wait!"

"What is it?" Sasha then gripped the back of Buffet's head and kissed him on the cheek.

"Stay safe." Buffet had a bright shade of red covering his face, but he nodded and then rode towards Armin.

Before he got to Armin, Reiner already got Armin back on his feet and gave him a new horse.

He then caught up with Reiner and Armin.

"Armin...what the hell was that." was all Buffet could get out.

"That thing is not a normal titan." was his response.

"No shit." Reiner chimed in.

"That titan is just like Eren, there is a person controlling it. That titan was not killing to eat, it was killing to kill." said Armin.

"So why didn't it kill you?" was Buffet's response.

"I..I don't know...that titan must be looking for Eren, we have to slow it down so the convoy can advance." Jean then joined the group, he didn't ask any questions so he must have been listening.

Armin the came up with a plan. It was solid so everyone got into position.

Once everyone got into position, Armin noded at Jean, who was the first part of the plan. Jean then kissed his blade handle, for some unknown reason, and then jumped off his horse, firing his 3DMG line at the female. Just before line hit however, the titan dodged it, and swung in Jean's direction, causing wind like air to fly into his body. The titan then turned towards Armin and swatted his horse out from under him, causing him to go flying. Once Armin hit the ground he started rolling, this caused his 3DMG to fall off. The horse landed close to Reiner. Buffet and Jean both then shot a hook towards the female. Instead of dodging the hook, the female grabbed Buffet's hook and pulled him towards her. Buffet knew he was about to be crushed so he did the best he could. He cut the wire which the female was holding and was sent flying. Without anything to latch onto with his one good hook, his body hit the ground, hard. Buffet landed on his left wrist, which snapped beneath his weight. Then he tumbled a bit until finally stopping ten feet later. He had a few bruises and a broken left wrist, but besides that he was fine. He watched as Jean flew around the female, Jean knew he was going to die. The titan would just grab his hook and smash him on the ground. The titan moved her hand towards Jean's hook, but just before the titan grabbed it Armin started screaming.

"Jean! Avenge that suicidal bastard!" Everyone was dumbfounded at what he was saying. Blood was flowing down his face. He must have a concussion was Buffet's first thought.

"I saw him! Crushed until this bitch's foot! Kill her so he doesn't die in vain!" As Armin was screaming these crazy things, Reiner took this as a distraction and attached to the nape and started swinging towards it. Just before he could get to the nape, the titan looked into Reiner's eyes and grabbed him out of the air. No one was in a state to go and save him so all they could do is sit and watch in horror. After a couple of seconds the titan crushed Reiner in her hand, killing him. The group watched in shock until Reiner cut out of the beast's hand. Reiner then grabbed Armin and told everyone to retreat and claiming that she won't follow them. The female looked at it's hand for a couple of seconds. Then it turned around and ran farther towards the forest.

After a couple of minutes of running, they finally stopped and started to patch up. They stopped the bleeding coming from Armin's head and then wrapped Buffet's broken wrist in medical tape, attempting to keep it from moving. Then they saw something bad, they only had three horses. This was not a terrible thing, but it is always uncomfortable to have two people on a horse. Just as they were deciding who was gonna ride together, they saw a small blonde women riding towards them with an extra horse. Buffet knew it was Christa almost instantly. Once she arrived she made sure everyone was okay, she handed over the extra horse and they continued to ride towards the forest. It was a quick five minutes until they reached the forest and they saw everyone on trees at with titans below them. They quickly flew on top of the trees before any titan could notice or grab them. Buffet was lucky his broken wrist was on the same side of his broken cable, so he could still fly around, but at a much slower rate. All of the new recruits were on the trees along with Nanaba, so everyone had a nice reunion.

"Buffet!" Buffet was then bear hugged by someone he could only assume to be Sasha.

"I'm so glad you are alive." was the next thing to come out of the redhead's mouth.

"Likewise."

"What happened to your wrist?"

"It's a long story."

The cadets continued to have small talk on the trees, their job right now was to keep the titans away from the middle of the forest, where the mission was happening. After five minutes of waiting, the group heard a loud scream coming from inside the forest. The scream then stopped after a good ten seconds. Then the titans started to run towards the middle of the forest. None of them were abnormal before, but now they were full on sprinting towards the middle of the forest.

Mikasa then started to fly to the center of the forest to make sure Eren was okay, but before she could go, Sasha stopped her.

"Wait, I know that that sound. That's the sound of a dying animal that has nothing left to lose! They are very dangerous and should be feared!"

"Have you ever seen me scared?" was Mikasa's emotionless response.

"No, I haven't! But now is a good time to try it out!" yelled Sasha back.

Mikasa looked like she was thinking of something, after a few seconds she spoke up.

"I'll be careful."

"You better be!" yelled Sasha as Mikasa flew into the forest.

Buffet knew to trust Sasha's gut feelings, and so did Mikasa. Mikasa still went through with her plan though.

Just after Mikasa left, a flare was fired that signaled retreat. The group was surprised that it was already over, but did not argue. The group flew off the trees and mounted their horses, ready to retreat. They had to wait until everyone returned to the convoy. A big group returned about five minutes later, but they still could not leave since there were still some people left in the forest. Savage sounds and screams were heard as they were waiting, this made the group uneasy. After another five minutes Mikasa and Captain Levi, humanity's strongest soldier, returned both holding a wounded comrade. Mikasa was hold Eren and Captain Levi was hold an amber haired girl that Buffet had never seen before, both Eren and the girl were unconscious. Buffet assumed that the girl was a member of the special operations squad. After they returned they got the go ahead to move back towards the walls. The ride back was tame besides when two titans appeared when two men went back to get their fallen friend's body against the Commander's orders. One of the men was killed and the body was lost in the conflict. Also the Corps had to drop some dead bodies to get away from the titans. It was a waste of time, a life, and a lot of dead bodies, but they continued forwards. Then Buffet remembered, those who couldn't deal with it would die.

Rumors had it that the special operations squad was wiped out. Three men were killed, and the other three were wounded, one fatally. Buffet was glad that Captain Levi and Eren were among the non-fatally wounded. The fatally wounded soldier's name was Petra, Buffet assumed that was the girl that Captain Levi was carrying. Soon they reached the wall and the citizens were on the streets, yelling at the Corps and demanding answers from Commander Erwin, but that was the least of their concerns.

The Survey Corps were called to the capital to trail Eren...again.