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Chapter 4: First Battle
It's been five years since the incident at Shiganshina. Humanity has been struggling trying to evacuate Wall Maria's residents and building defenses, and their decreasing number of Titans hasn't helped. Since time has gone by, humanity seems to have felt more hopeful thanks to the help of the Survey Corps and their many missions inside the Wall, along with the Wall's defenses slowly starting to rise up again. Humanity seems to be more confident than ever. They believe they could finally stand a chance. But Deja Vu has arrived to do the same to Wall Rose, and one particular soldier was ready for it.
Alex pondered what his next move should be. But before he could do anything, the Colossal Kaiju raised it's massive arm and swung in Alex's direction. "Warning, hostile has engaged." Said AC's AI. Alex activated his mech's thrusters and jumped high, avoiding the Colossal Kaiju's attack, which wrecked the top of the wall.
Alex flew to the other side of the enormous Kaiju. He saw the Wall's upper defense turrets being destroyed, and realized that the Colossal Kaiju wasn't exactly aiming for Alex, but aiming for the Wall's defenses so that the rest of the Kaiju can enter the city without any problems. "Hostile has destroyed all defense parameters." Said AC. To his surprise, Alex said to himself, "I'll be damned. This bastard…. is intelligent!"
The Colossal Kaiju turned it's head and was looking at Alex's mech hovering not too far away. The Kaiju extends it's arm and tries to grab the mech.
Alex reacts quickly and dives to avoid the Kaiju's grab. Alex does a large barrel roll around the arm and then lands on it. As Alex tries to run up the arm, the Kaiju notices him and shakes it's arm. Alex then starts flying up to it's neck.
Alex has a clear shot at the nape, then goes in for the kill. However, right before Alex could make the killing blow, the Kaiju let's out a cloud of mist, flowing with electricity. " GGHHAAA! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS," yelled Alex in surprise.
The Kaiju's mist causes the mech's systems to go haywire, and if Alex stays in the area any longer, the mech could be destroyed. AC's AI repeatedly states, "WARNING. WARNING. WARNING. WARNING."
But Alex was too determined to give up now. He activates his mech's thrusters and puts them at maximum power, and goes in for the kill, and with a scream of ferocity, "RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!"
However, when he slices his blades, the Kaiju vanished into thin air. Alex was left hovering above the landscape, shocked at what just happened. AC's AI says, "Area is clear of hostiles, no Kaiju presence detected."
Eren landed his mech on top of the Wall, and talked through his intercom, "Alex, what happened?! Where's the Colossal Kaiju!" "I don't know," Alex replied, "It just vanished!"
Alex landed his mech on the Wall and exited, meeting with the rest of the Cadets, and said with a regrettable tone in his voice, "I'm sorry guys, I wasn't fast enough." Thomas replied, "Don't kill yourself over it, you did your best." Then Connie spoke out, "We don't have time to get all sobby right now, because there's a giant ass hole in the Wall, and more Kaiju are about to get through!"
Two mechs with the Garrison insignia on them landed on the wall, and one their cockpits opened, and the pilot yelled, "What are you four still doing up here!? The Captain has ordered all Cadets to meet at HQ, and he wants whoever made physical contact with the Colossal Kaiju to report to him after the meeting! We will hold the Walls until then!" "Yessir," all four cadets shouted.
A loud siren rang across the City of Trost, followed by a voice in the city's intercom, "Disperse of all your belonging! Please evacuate calmly!" The city's residents were far from calm trying to run to the other entrance.
With the Survey Corps out on their mission, and being the only military corps that has Titans, the Garrison sends a defense unit to guard the hole so that it can be fixed.
Meanwhile, the cadets were at the fuel depot filling their mechs. Mikasa heads to her mech, but notices something wrong with Armin.
"Armin, are you okay" Eren asked, "I'm fine! Everything should settle down," Armin replied, struggling to hook up the fuel rod to his mech, "But we're still in trouble! There's a 100 meter hole in the wall, and there will be no time to fix! And there's an 80 meter boulder that crashed into the city, and hasn't been dug out! If the Kaiju feel like it, they could devour us all if the hole isn't fixed in time! All of Wall Rose will be breached, just like Maria!"
"Armin!" Eren grabbed hold of Armin's arm, and said, "Pull yourself together, man. We will beat those bastards, even if it takes another century, I bet my life on it!"
After a few seconds of silence, Armin eventually snapped out, then said, "Sorry. I'm okay now. Thanks Eren."
Looking around, Armin realized something, "Where's Alex?"
In the Captain's quarters
Alex was at attention stance, while holding his damaged mech's main optic unit, in front of the desk of Captain Kitz Woerman, who was a tall, middle aged man who had a similar appearance of Drill Sergeant Shadis, except he had hair and didn't look as intimidating.
"So, you're Alistair Blaskowicz, son of Robert," said the captain, and Alex replied, "Yessir!" "At ease, soldier. By the time this is over, you won't be a cadet anymore." Alex relaxed his body and casually replied, "Yessir."
Then the captain continued while reading a report sheet, "So from what I'm seeing, it says you graduated fifth in the Training Corps. Your theoretical and strategic intelligence is just a smudge above average, but your hand to hand combat skills are undeniably superb, and your scores even passed the top graduate." "I always consider myself lucky, sir," Alex said, to which Woerman replied, "At least your not a bragger, I like that. I knew your father very well, he's a good man." Alex was a bit hesitant to answer, but then said, "He was. I haven't seen him since Maria got breached." "I'm sorry to hear that. Anyway, back to the topic at hand."
Woerman turned the page, and said, "It says here that you engaged in a fight with two Kaiju with the help of another soldier, I believe his name is Jaeger, when the outer defenses failed to stop them, very impressive. But what I found very interesting is that you engaged the Colossal Kaiju." Alex replied, "I thought I could put a stop to it once and for all. At first I was doing well, dodging all of it's attacks and eventually went for the nape. But as I went in, the Kaiju let out a cloud of electric steam. It messed with my systems. I thought I wasn't going to make it, but I overcame and went for the kill. But all of a sudden, it just vanished into thin air, like it did 5 years ago."
Woerman was quite curious about how Alex told the story, then said, "Blaskowicz, what you did was irresponsible and reckless. However, I admire your determination and bravery, so no, you won't be executed, not that we do that unless it's very serious." Woerman then stood up with Alex following, then said, "I want you to head outside and wait for my instructions, and there's a new mech waiting for you in the hangar, install it's optic unit and get ready. Get on it soldier!" "Yessir," replied Alex.
At the Wall
Multiple Garrison soldiers and tanks were deployed to the hole, and a giant net was covering it in an attempt to slow the Kaiju down. The outer defense turrets were searching for any more Kaiju in the area.
A soldier manning one of the turrets noticed a few Kaiju were coming this way, but one was much closer to the wall. "Kaiju incoming," yelled the soldier.
This Kaiju, classified as Anguirus, was a 60 meter quadruped that looked like an ankylosaur, and had spikes almost all over it's body, with most of them being on top of it's shell on it's back, and a clubbed tail.
The turrets were firing at the Kaiju, but didn't do any damage at all. The Kaiju let out a loud, sonic like roar, and charged at the wall, destroying the turrets in the process.
The tanks and soldiers were at a fighting stance, preparing to fight the Anguirus. The squad commander, who was in his mech, yelled through the intercom, "Don't fire until I give the signal!"
The tanks raised there barrels at a reasonable position, and the soldiers prepared their mechs, unsheathing there blades and activating their support weapons.
The Anguirus eventually made it to the hole. It notices the net covering hole and examines it. "Wait," said the commander quietly. The Kaiju made a low growl, then chomped on the net, and easily pulled it out of the hole. "Wait," the commander repeated. The Kaiju slowly walked, noticing the Garrison squad, and kneeled down for a closer look.
"FIRE!" The tanks fired directly into the Kaiju's face, seering it's flesh. The Kaiju roared in pain is it staggers back away from the squad. "That's what payback feels like you son of a bitch!", yelled the commander.
After a minute of silence, an ominous growl was heard. The Kaiju slowly lifted it's face, and the flesh was healing. The soldiers were alarmed by this. The Kaiju let out a roar that was so painfully loud that the soldiers' mechs' systems went haywire, and they weren't responding. The Kaiju lifted it's clubbed tail, and did a 360 turn, obliterating the squad in one swoop, then advanced towards the city.
Back at HQ
Alex was almost done fueling his new mech, which has his original mech's main optic unit, so it's still AC. He wasn't acting as determined as he was before.
"Pilot Blaskowicz, you seemed concern," said AC, noticing Alex, to which he replied, "You think we can survive this AC?" "Chances of success aren't as good as one would hope, given the situation that we are about to endure. However, all I can present you is a known human saying: never lose hope." "Thanks AC, I appreciate it," said Alex, feeling a tiny bit better.
When he was about to unhook the fuel rod, he hears someone behind him, and saw Armin walking towards him. "Armin, I heard things got a little tense back there. How you holdin' up?" He replied, "I'll be fine."
Both Alex and Armin had their backs against AC, talking about their childhood and how much trouble they would always get into. "Remember how Eren would always get pissed about every little thing that doesn't go his way, and would always take it out on the local bullies?" asked Armin, to which they both chuckled to, and Alex replied, "That crazy bastard sure knows how to handle himself, I'll give him that, even if it's not exactly an even fight. Mikasa has the scent even better than a bloodhound, cuz whenever Eren's in trouble, she'll know."
The mood in their conversation died down, as Armin says, "I just can't believe it's happening again. I know I'm saying a lot, but I don't know if we'll-", before he could finish, Alex interrupted, "No. If anything is going to happen to anyone, it's them. We'll wipe those bastards off the face of the earth, and we'll go see the outside world." "You think so?" Armin asked, and Alex replied, "I know so, don't ever think differently." Armin smiled, feeling more hopeful than before. "I gotta finish up here, see you on the front lines, alright?", asked Alex, to which Armin replied, "Ok, see you later, Alex!"
Meanwhile, in the courtyard, the Captain gives out orders to the cadets, telling them to split into three squads, one for communication, one for supplying, and one for fighting the Kaiju, the latter being the one that Alex was assigned to along with Eren and Armin.
A paranoid Jean wasn't happy about the situation, and says to himself, "Why today?! I was to be deployed into the interior tomorrow. Dammit!" "Just calm down," said a cadet, Bertolt, a tall, slender young man. Jean ignores him and starts to head to the hangar for his mech. On the way there, he bumps into Alex.
"Move it," said Jean, with Alex replying, "What the hell is wrong with you?" Jean sarcastically says, "Oh I'm sorry, I guess I'm not used to being in shitty situations unlike a certain suicidal asshole like you!"
Yennefer notices to the two arguing, and heads there to try and calm them down. Jean continued his lecture,"I was this close to joining the MP, and if it wasn't for you and you're little play date with the Colossal Kaiju, none of this would have happened! I would have been in the interior by now!" "Dammit, shut the fuck up!", yelled Alex while pinning Jean to a wall. "Think about the people who died during training." Jean eventually stopped struggling after Alex said those words, then continued, "All of these years of training have brought us to this moment, and do you seriously want to throw all that away?! We are not giving up now!" The cadets around the two started paying attention, including Eren and Mikasa. Alex continued, "We'll win this fight. Your precious interior can wait until tomorrow." Alex then lets go of Jean, with the latter saying under his breath before walking away, "Shit."
"Sheesh," said Eren, "When will that guy learn no matter how hard he tries, he can't mess with Alex?" Then Mikasa said, "Eren, if this situation takes a left turn, come find me." Then Eren replied, "But we're in totally different squads." "Ackerman," said Squad Leader Ian Deitrich, "You are assigned to a special squad, please follow me." Mikasa replied, "Forgive me, but I'll just slow you down." The squad leader replied, "That wasn't a request. Besides, with your skills, we're going to need all the help we can get." Mikasa attempted to stop him, but Eren gave her a slight headbutt, much to Mikasa's surprise, the Eren says, "Pull yourself together would you? We're in the middle of a war. No one gives a shit about what you think." Mikasa was hurt by his words, but somewhat understood him, and said, "I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking. But please, Eren. Don't die." Eren didn't say anything and walked away.
Eren sees Alex, and walks towards him. "Hey," Eren said, and Alex replied, "Did you seriously headbutt her?" "Shut up, we gotta form the squad." "You go on ahead, I gotta make some more adjustments to my mech." Eren nodded and walked away.
Alex went back to the hangar, and on his way to his mech, he sees Yennefer, who arrived before him after his argument with Jean, and walks towards her. "Hey Yen." "Hey Alex," she replies, "What are you doing?" He replies, "Just need to do a few more things on my mech. How are you holding up?" She replies, "I don't know. It's just that all of this happened so fast, I don't even know what to think. I don't know how you do it, be all calm in a situation like this." Alex replied, "Let's just say I've been in a situation worse than this." Yennefer replies, "I know, you told me." She realizes something about Alex, then points it out, "By the way, I don't think you ever told me about how you got that scar above your eye." Alex was a little hesitant about the question, but eventually said, "That's a story for another time, Yen. I should go to my mech." Yen then said, "Ok, you be careful, Alex." "You too Yen." Alex then walked to his mech.
Flashback, Three years ago
In a classroom, the cadets were given a lecture about the origins and biology of the Kaiju. Alex, Eren and Armin were sitting together, with the first two desperately wanting to leave.
The professor spoke out using a large projection screen for a slideshow, "For more than a century, the Kaiju have been terrorizing this planet, which caused us to live behind these walls. But if it wasn't for the various resources this planet has, we wouldn't have the technology used to build our cities, vehicles, communication devices, mechs, and Titans."
"Last time I checked, we were training to fight, not listen to some old geezer in a classroom," said an annoying Alex, to which Eren nodded in agreement. Armin shushed them both, and both responded by giving Armin a certain hand gesture, much to Armin's dismay.
The professor continued, "The first real Kaiju attack didn't happen until 1954 in Tokyo, Japan." He changed slides and it showed an image of a dinosaur-like Kaiju with bony plates on it's back. The professor continued, "The Japanese referred to this Kaiju as Godzilla, a force of nature." Some of the cadets, especially Armin, were curious about this particular Kaiju. The professor continued, "It destroyed more than half of Tokyo in almost one night. A brilliant scientist, by the name of Dr. Serizawa, came up with a device that kills any living creature in it's area. He did use it on the Godzilla Kaiju, ending it's life along with the doctor himself."
Armin raised his hand and asked, "Professor, can the device still be made today?" The professor answered, "Unfortunately, no. Dr. Serizawa burned his work before destroying the Godzilla, because he didn't want anyone else using it for an unreasonable cause. Anyway, after the Kaiju was killed, the attacks didn't stop."
The professor changed slides showing each monster that showed up after the Godzilla, including a giant pteranodon looking one, and one that looked like a giant moth.
"So," said one of the the students, "The Kaiju have been around much longer than we thought?" "Precisely," answered the professor, "However, the real Kaiju invasion didn't happen until the year 2014, where a Kaiju destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge in what was once San Francisco. Then after 6 months, then 3 months, then earlier, more and more Kaiju showed up, and nearly drove us to extinction, which forced us to build the walls we all see today. As of this day, we still don't know where exactly they came from. Despite the fact that we built the giant robots we call Titans around the time the invasion started, it still wasn't enough."
The professor changed slides to a picture of a Knifehead to show a demonstration of the Kaiju's biology, and continued, "Despite our long history with the Kaiju, we still don't know much about them. All we know of them as of now are thanks to the Survey Corps. The Kaiju have only been seen to have the intelligence of aggressive predators. They're body structures vary, as in they all come in many different forms and sizes. This Kaiju behind me, as the Survey Corps would call Knifehead, is just one of many different types of Kaiju. Most Kaiju are shown to have four arms, two large and two small, with a large torso, and thick legs. They have no sexual organs, and their method of reproduction is unknown. They also seem to have two brains. One primary brain that everyone and everything has, and a secondary brain that primarily functions the legs and tail."
The professor shows a sketch of a crocodile like Kaiju swimming next to a whale, and continues, "For unknown reasons, they show no interests in other animals except for humans. They seem to have the desire to devour humans, yet they seemed to survive a century in an environment without humans. Scientists concluded that they don't need the taste of humans for survival, but merely for pleasure."
The professor changed slides to a Kaiju fighting a Titan and a military brigade, and continued, "Thanks to the Titan Program founded in the early 21st century, there was a bit of a push against the Kaiju. However, as the years went by, it still wasn't enough. The Kaiju's regenerative abilities are quite impressive, because even with the head removed, it would heal back in a matter of minutes."
Some of the students were quite alarmed knowing that the Kaiju are indeed immortal, but the professor switched slides to an image of a Kaiju with it's nape highlighted, then continued, "Despite this feat, the Kaiju does in fact have a weakness. The nape of it's neck is said to be able to kill a Kaiju for good, and it's possible by using the large blades used by the soldiers' combat mechs."
"I'll be damned," said Alex under his breath. He also notices Armin shaking a little.
Present day, one hour after wall breach
Eren and Armin, along with Thomas, Mina, and two other cadets, were looking across the city of Trost, with their mechs standing behind them. Eren said, "Hey, Armin. Can you believe it? We've been training for three years for this. I never thought this day would come." Armin replied, "I never believed it myself. To be able to be part of this is… interesting." Eren chuckled, and said, "That's one way to put it."
The squad heard a mech flying towards them, and landed behind them. Alex exited the cockpit, and started walking towards Eren and Armin. All three started looking at the horizon. "What do you guys think," Alex asked, with the other two looking at him, "This could be our chance. If we can pull off this first battle, even before we make it to the Survey Corps, surely they will promote us right on the spot!" "Hell yeah," Eren responded. Both looked at Armin, who was hesitant to answer, but soon said, "Yeah, no doubt about it."
"Not to burst your bubble," jumped in Mina, "but it looks like a lot of us are aiming for the Survey Corps." "I may have doubted you earlier, Alex," said Thomas, more determined than ever, "but not anymore. I've got your back." "That's the spirit, Thomas!" said Alex.
Alex's Titan received a message, and it played, "Squad 34, multiple Kaiju foot soldiers are headed your way, engage them in the streets!" "Foot soldiers? Whatever. Let's do this!" shouted Alex, with his squad replying, "Yeah!"
Alex's mech picks him up and places him in the cockpit, then jumps off the building, with the others following. After a few seconds of falling, the squad activates their thrusters so they can safely land. "Keep your guard up," said Alex through the intercom. The squad slowly walks across the streets, waiting for the inevitable to happen.
"Why is it so quiet," asked a nervous Armin, then Thomas followed, "I don't like this." Then all of a sudden, multiple, high pitched noises were heard around the block. "What the hell is that?" asked Eren. Eren's mech, DT, said, "I am picking up multiple contacts 30 meters from our position." The sounds were starting to get closer, and closer, and…
Multiple, small Kaiju ran across the street, not noticing the squad. "Nobody move, they haven't seen us yet," said Alex quietly.
These things looked like large lizards with crests on both sides of the head. They were about as big, if not bigger, than the mechs.
"What the hell are they?" Eren asked, "We never learned about these guys. Are they new?" "Let's just call them Roaches," replied Alex, "But for now, don't move."
Alex sees one of the Roaches stopping, and looks to it's left, seeing the squad. "Ah, shit," said Alex. The Roach let's out a loud cry, signaling the others, then charges toward the squad.
"Get ready!" shouted Alex, and everyone unsheathes their mech's blades, then starts running towards the pack. Alex arms his mech's left arm cannon. The frontmost Roach nearly reaches the squad, then pounces at Alex. He quickly fires his cannon at the Roach, causing it to explode. Knowing they can't take the entire pack head on, Alex yells, "Jump!"
All seven mechs jumped in the air, with the pack just below them. Alex activates his mech's shockwave ability, then dives towards the pack. The mech smashes it's feet to the ground and let's out a large shockwave, killing several Roaches, and causing a large circle in the middle of the pack. The rest of the squad lands, then gathers around, ready to fight.
The Roaches attacked, and the mechs give them everything they got. Alex swipes his blades swiftly at a group of Roaches, slicing most of them in half and decapitating a few others, and one pounces on his mech's back. "Activating thrusters." AC's thrusters fire a stream of flames that scorches the Roach and knocks it off. Eren fires his mech's wrist mounted machine guns, killing multiple Roaches, then swings his blades at a few others. Armin managed to kill a couple Roaches, but two of them tackles him to the ground. Armin struggles to keep the Roaches from chomping his mech's helm by holding them in place as best he could. He quickly arms his arm cannons and fires at their heads, killing them. Mina, Thomas and the other two were holding their own. Alex arms his mech shoulder cannons, and fires multiple missiles, killing many Roaches, and the others do the same. Seeing three more charging, Alex charges at them, and slices his blade through all three of them.
Seeing that those were the last of the Roaches, Alex asked, "Is everyone okay?" "I'm good," replied Eren. "Me too," said Armin. The other four were fine as well. "Hostiles in the area have all been eliminated." said AC.
Two mechs flew to the Squads position, and one of them said through the intercom, "Nice work down there! But you are now assigned to the front entrance and help with the front guard, get on it!"
"Right!" yelled Alex, "Let's go!" The squad activates their mechs' thrusters and lift off away from the streets, then starts flying across the city while showing off impressive maneuvers. "If you wanna kill the first Kaiju, you better keep up," Alex mockingly said to Eren, to which he replied, "Don't jinx yourself!"
Their race was cut short when Alex noticed multiple Kaiju already advancing toward the city out of the hole. "The Kaiju already made it through," asked Mina, to which Thomas replied, "The front guard must have been decimated immediately!" Alex talked to himself, "Damn, I knew this would be bad, but this?!" He then noticed a large Kaiju crawling on top of a building. "It's a Raiju! Look out!"
The Kaiju, known as Raiju, was a 90 meter, crocodile like creature with a hard shell casing on it's head that would fold into 4 pieces and reveal it's fleshy head.
The Kaiju jumped out toward the squad and hit a building face first. The squad managed to get out of the way and landed on a further building. "Shit that was close," Alex said, then realized something, "Wait, where's…." The squad turned toward the Raiju, and it was still clinging on to the building. It manages to pull it's face out of the windows. The squad was in shock to see that the Kaiju was holding Thomas's mech in it's mouth. "No," Alex said quietly.
"W-Wha…", Thomas said in a fearful and confused tone. Then the Raiju raised it's head and swallows the mech, along with Thomas, whole.
The squad could do nothing but watch as the Raiju jumps off the building and walks away with their friend in the Kaiju's stomach.
Seeing the Raiju still had it's case open, and was also furious with the death of his friend, Alex yelled, "You son of a bitch!" He then activated his thrusters and flew towards the Raiju. "Alex!" Eren yelled trying to stop him, then he and Armin, along with the rest of the squad, followed.
"You're gonna pay for what you've done," yelled Alex, and as he got closer, he gets his blades in position, yells in a vengeful way, and prepares to strike. Then out of nowhere, a 60 meter lizard like Kaiju with flexible membranes in between both it's arms and legs, ambushes Alex, and jumps up and chomps on his mech's left leg. Alex loses control over his mech, and crashes on top of a building, rolling multiple times, and there was enough force for Alex to fly out of the cockpit and hit a wall, paralyzing him.
"Alex!" yelled Armin. The rest of the squad tries to aid Alex. Out of nowhere, a Knifehead smacks one of the mechs out of the air, causing it to explode. Then, a 100 meter, red Kaiju that looked like a mix between a fish and a dinosaur, classified as Titanosaurus, walks in Mina's way, causing her to fly into the Kaiju, and she falls into the city streets. Mina could barely move after the impact of the fall, and the Titanosaurus turned around and looked down on it's helpless prey.
"Shit!" Eren yelled to himself. He sees the Titanosaurus lifting Mina's mech, and flies to their direction. However, the Knifehead manages to grab hold of Eren's mech from the waist down, and starts bringing him to it's mouth. "Oh, no you're not," yelled Eren before slicing his blade on the Kaiju's hand, slicing two of it's fingers off, freeing him. However, one of the mech's thrusters was damaged by the Kaiju's claws, causing Eren to lose control of the mech. "Warning. Left thruster damage, flight patterns are unstable." "You gotta be fucking kidding me," Eren yelled before crashing inside a building.
The same Kaiju that incapacitated Alex, classified as Varan, managed to grab one of the other squad mates as he pleas for his life.
Armin was frozen in fear seeing Varan eat the one screaming, and the Titanosaurus chomps down on Mina's mech, along with her. He then dropped to his knees, and sees Alex's unconscious body, with blood all over his face, and his immobile mech on the building across from him.
"Pilot.. Blask-k-k-k.. owicz. I-I-I-I've sustai-i-ined... heavy damage," said AC's AI, severely damaged
"Alex? Eren? Anyone?" Armin fearfully asks through the intercom. "Pilot Arlert," said Armin's mech, Echo Bravo 1337, "Kaiju approaching our area, I recommend we take action." Armin couldn't move a muscle. He then feels multiple footsteps getting closer. He turns his eyes to the left, and sees a Leatherback. The Kaiju picks up Armin's mech and lifts him in the air above it's mouth. "Help," Armin said to himself. The Leatherback opens it's mouth, then drops the mech. Armin could do nothing but scream and try to avoid falling down the Kaiju's throat.
"A-Armin," Alex weakly says after hearing Armin screaming.
Flashback, 6 years ago
"Alex! Alex!" yelled an excited young Armin, trying to grabbed the attention of a bored Alex looking up to the sky while sitting down.
"What, Armin," said Alex, to which Armin replied, pulling out a book, "Look! I found this book in my grandfather's closet! It has everything we need to know about the outside world!"
Alex sat up in surprise and said, "What?! Armin, what are you doing with that? That kind of stuff is illegal around here! What if the guards see you?" "Who cares about that," replied Armin, then continued to open the book, "Look, it talks about a large body of water called the ocean. It's said to be salt water." Alex said, "Salt!? If anyone found out about this, the salt would've been cleaned out faster than we'd know." Armin reassured Alex, "It's said that there's so much salt in the ocean, that it will never be depleted!" "Yeah right," said Alex not believing Armin.
"But that's not all!" Admin turned the page, and said "There's also rivers of fire, fields of snow, seas of sand. Judging by this book, there's so much about the outside world we don't know!" Alex was eventually intrigued by the book, and said to himself, "Wow, the outside world." "Alex, wouldn't be great if we saw the outside world one day?"
Present Day
Alex slowly woke up, pressing his wristwatch. AC crawled towards him, grabbed him, and placed him in the cockpit.
Armin was inches away from death. Then all of a sudden, Alex entered the Leatherback's mouth, rammed his mech's hand into Armin's cockpit, and pulls him out. Armin looked to see his best friend wounded and barely alive, saving him. "You're not dying today!" yelled Alex before throwing Armin out of the Kaiju's mouth.
Armin landed on the building on his back. "Alex!" Armin got up to see Alex struggling to hold the Leatherback's mouth open. "You think… I'm going… to die… like this?!" said Alex, who didn't have enough strength to hold up much longer, so he managed to grab AC's main optic unit and placed it in it's left hand. "Hey, Armin," said Alex while extending his mech's left arm out, along with his own outside the Kaiju's mouth, "It was you…. who told me about it. So I'm going… to the outside world."
Armin shed tears after hearing those words. He desperately ran up to the Kaiju. "Alex! Hurry!" He extended his hand out to try and reach Alex.
Too late.
The Kaiju chomped down, and the bite force was enough to throw Armin back a few feet. He slowly got up, shocked to see what happened. He looked to his right and saw Alex's mech's left arm, which held it's main optic unit. He then looked right in front of him to see Alex's own arm.
The Leatherback then swallowed it's prey. Armin could do nothing but scream in horror as his best friend has entered the belly of the beast, and due to this shock, he then fell unconscious.
Author's notes: And that does it for this chapter. This was very fun to write, because I've been waiting to write this chapter for the awesome action, and even creating an original action scene of my own, which I'm sure y'all noticed. I've been waiting to write the flashback scene with the professor for quite a while, because the Kaiju invasion basically started with Godzilla. So far, this is my longest chapter, but I feel like I'll be writing longer ones in the future. I also wanted to thank you all for over 50 views. I honestly didn't think I'd get there in a month, and it ended up being less than a week. Don't forget to leave a favorite, and also leave a review, I'd like to know what you guys think! Thanks for reading this, and I should have the next chapter up soon!
