The scouts who were protecting the left side of the formation, Viktor Baar and Moses Grebel, come across the body of Stefan. "He was eaten by a titan... They're near." Viktor says. "Give the signal to the others! We might need backup, since that other guy probably got eaten too." Moses says. Viktor gives the signal. Moses looks at Stefan. He and Stefan became friends when Stefan joined the trainees. Moses gets on his knees, and he closes Stefan's eyes. "Rest in peace, buddy..." Moses says to Stefan.
Captain Levi sees the signal. "We need to hurry, Shadis! They can't capture that abnormal without our help!" Levi says to Shadis. Shadis nods. "And Levi..." Shadis begins. Levi looks at his commander. "If we can't capture the titan, don't hesitate to kill it. We know for certain that it killed at least one of our men today, I don't want it to kill more." Shadis says. Levi nods. "The new scouts are most likely nearing the titans right now. We have to hurry up if we don't want them to get eaten." Levi says. Shadis is shocked. If a single one of the new scouts died, then the others would want to resign from the Survey Corps as fast as they could. He had to stop them from getting such thoughts.
Petra sees the signal. Someone died. This scared Petra. "It...It's coming from Stefan's position in the formation..." She says. Sebastian looks at Petra. "Stefan knows how this works. He is capable of this!" Sebastian says, but secretly he also fears that Stefan is dead. Their horses are nearing the location of the signal. Only a couple hundred meters left. The group was very scared of what was going to happen. Their horses ride through the forest. "Look around you, a titan could be anywhere!" Oluo says. This frightens Philip and Adrian. They arrive at the location. They see the scouts Viktor and Moses standing by the upper part of Stefan's body.
"No! Please, tell me this is all just a nightmare!" Petra says. She is crying. From that moment she realized that they were here to die. There was no way that they would survive the titans. After all, none of the new scouts ever saw a titan. When they signed up they had no idea of how dangerous the titans really were. Sebastian looks traumatized. Tears stream down his eyes. "My god..." Adrian says. He didn't know Stefan, but the sight of his dead body still frightened him. Then Viktor hears something coming at them quickly. "Get in the trees... now!" Viktor says.
Suddenly, the abnormal appears again. He kicks Philip, and he falls to the ground. He is still alive, but he can barely breathe. The others use their 3DMG to get into the trees. The abnormal tries to grab them, but he can't reach them. Petra was too frightened to use her gear. "You... you monster! You killed my friend!" She yells at the titan. The titan looks at her. "Get in the trees, Petra!" Sebastian yells. The titan bends forwards, to grab Petra, but Oluo takes his chance. He goes to the back of the neck of the titan, and he kills the titan. The titan falls down. Petra dives away from the titan, but it falls on the head of Philip. He is dead.
"Philip... No!" Adrian screams. His friend died in front of him. Oluo takes a look to see if Philip could've survived it, but he sees the blood lying underneath the arm of the titan. His head was squashed. Oluo looks afraid. Suddenly, he bursts out in tears. "I did this to him! I killed Philip!" He says, while crying. Eld grabs Oluo by his shoulders. "You took his pain away. He would be thankful for that!" Eld says. This comforts Oluo. Petra was still in shock. Stefan and Philip were gone, and she knew she would be next. "We should get out of here. There could be more titans." Moses says. Petra uses her 3DMG to get in the trees, and they start moving through the trees.
"The strategy we used was terrible. Shadis should've thought this through better." Oluo says, while they are moving through the trees. "That's the point: Shadis didn't come up with this strategy. The Survey Corps is in need of money for supplies, and the king offered us a lot of supplies in exchange for his men making a strategy. That royal bastard thought that his men would come up with better strategies." Viktor says. Oluo looks surprised. He didn't expect the Survey Corps to agree to that, but apparently they did. "By the way, you might need to look down." Viktor says, while laughing softly. Oluo looks down, and he sees he wet his pants. He looks shocked and embarrassed. "Please don't tell anyone!" Oluo says.
They are still travelling through the trees, looking for an abnormal to capture. Petra looks traumatized, while Sebastian tries to calm her. "Please don't die too, Sebastian..." Petra says to Sebastian. She is crying. Sebastian looks at her. "I won't." Sebastian promises her. Then they see a signal. "They spotted another abnormal. Let's avenge Stefan by capturing it!" Sebastian says. Petra nods, and they go towards the signal.
Viktor gave the signal. He and Oluo came across three titans who were walking on the ground. Two of them were regulars and one of them was an abnormal. "We can't capture him with those other two titans around." Viktor says. Oluo would love to kill them, but he knew that if he acted too soon he would be killed. "So what's the plan?" Oluo asks. "The commander must've seen our signal too. They are coming. We should attack them with the entire squad. If we do that, we could succeed without any casualties." Viktor says. Oluo understands.
Then Petra and Sebastian arrive. Viktor explains his plan. "There is no time! We need to hurry up, before more people die!" Sebastian says. "If we hurry up, then more people will die. If we wait for backup, then we're safe." Viktor says. Sebastian disagrees. "We disobeyed orders. They won't just let us off the hook. If we want to get away with this without getting punished then we need to capture it before they do." Sebastian says. Viktor understands how he thinks, but he disagrees with Sebastian. "The Survey Corps won't punish you for doing the right thing." Viktor says.
"The right thing is to kill them. They took Stefan..." Sebastian says. He looks down at the titans. They killed one of his best friends. He wanted them dead. He grabs his blades, and he jumps down, at the neck of one of the regulars. "Die, you bastard!" Sebastian yells. Petra, Viktor and Oluo are shocked. "Get back here!" Petra yells. "It's too dangerous!" Oluo yells. But it's too late. He used his 3DMG to get to the back of the neck of the titan. He is about to kill it, but then the abnormal smashes Sebastian off the regular. In only a matter of seconds the abnormal had Sebastian in his hands. Petra has never been so afraid. She lost one of her best friends today, and she was about to lose the other one. She couldn't move.
"We have to get down there and safe him!" Oluo says to Viktor. Viktor shakes his head, while looking shocked. "We would die too... Sebastian is already gone." Viktor says. The three saw how the abnormal put Sebastian in his mouth. Sebastian looked at Petra. He was so afraid. He didn't want to die yet. He was crying. Petra wanted to help him, but she couldn't move her legs. "Why am I just standing here? Why can't I save him?" She thought to herself. Her cheeks were covered with tears. "Don't go..." She whispers, while the titan closes its mouth, and breaks Sebastian's skull in two pieces.
Suddenly Petra snapped. "No! You monster! Go to hell!" She screamed. She used her 3DMG to get to the neck of a regular, but the abnormal is too quick. He grabs her, and he is about to eat her. She accepts her fate. She lost her best friends today, and now she would die too. She was never able to prove her family that she wasn't useless. But now they had to accept the sorrow. She would die today. She didn't struggle. The titan was about to put her in his mouth when his arm was suddenly cut off. The arm dropped on the ground, and Petra was free from it. The arm started dissolving.
Now she was on the ground, surrounded by three titans. One of the titans fell to the ground, and she finally saw her saviour. It was captain Levi. He offers her a hand, and he takes her back to the tree. She survived. In the trees she saw that they were joined by commander Shadis, squad leader Mike Zacharius, Eld and Adrian. "Never try such a thing ever again." Captain Levi said. Petra saw that captain Levi was very strict. "You saved me..." She says. "Yes, and make sure I don't have to save you again." Levi says. "Now, let's capture that abnormal."