(A/N: I'm about to seriously blow some minds in this chapter. Some stuff you guys may have predicted, some stuff you probably didn't. I tried explaining things the best as I could, but you guys will probably have a lot of questions. Feel free to ask them. Also, it appears I was wrong, the story is going to be longer than about 30,000 words, so that's pretty sweet. By the way, I love this chapter title. Sometimes puns work out wonderfully)
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Chapter 6: Titanic Truths
There was a disturbance in the hall, and Dr. Pacu hurried to get there. He had been informed by his security team that there were intruders in the facility, and it didn't bode well for him and his team. They could ruin everything.
Bursting into the next room, he saw that his suspicions were correct. Erwin, Levi, and the members of the Scout Regiment were here, having just finished subduing his security team. And judging by the angry looks on their faces, things once again had not gone well with Titan X.
Clearing his throat, the doctor marched over to the commander and captain. "Commander Erwin, just what is the meaning of this? How dare you attack my security team! They're members of the Military Police!"
Erwin glared at him. "That a mere research team would need Military Police personal for anything is suspicious enough. But that's not why we're here. We've come for answers."
Dr. Pacu crossed his arms. "A simple request to see me would have been sufficient."
Levi raised an eyebrow. "And give you time to think about how to dodge our questions again? Not likely."
"We encountered Titan X again," Erwin told him coldly. "And before you ask, no, we did not manage to kill it. Once again we were caught off guard by its unique abilities. It's time you told us what exactly it is we're dealing with."
Dr. Pacu's eyes narrowed, and he looked away. "I don't have to tell you anything. You just need to do your job."
There was movement from Levi. The next things anyone knew, he had grabbed the doctor by his shirt and slammed him up against the wall. "Enough with your games. No more lies, no more half-truths, no more secrets. It's time you told us what's really going on here."
The doctor was clearly uneasy, but he put up a brave front, and he smacked the captain's hands away. "Unhand me! And I told you what we know. What else do you want me to say?"
"For starters," Erwin began, "you could tell us why you neglected to let us know that this thing can transform into a Colossal Titan."
The doctor's eyes widened, and he seemed genuinely surprised by this. "You actually witnessed this event?"
"Hell yeah," said Connie. "It was huge too; 80 meters tall."
"And it had some of the exoskeleton the Armored Titan has on certain parts of its body." Armin added.
"We've been calling it the Super Colossal Titan."
The doctor rested his chin in his hand thoughtfully. "Incredible. So it had that ability after all."
Erwin studied him carefully. "Are you telling us that you were unaware of this ability?"
A slightly guilty look crossed the doctor's face. "Well, we never actually witnessed it ourselves, but examining its DNA suggested that it was capable of it. It must have inherited this ability."
"Inherited?"
"It's classified."
Erwin's eyes narrowed. "So you at least knew it was a possibility."
"We suspected it."
"Then you lied to us when you told us it wasn't a Titan Shifter," Eren accused.
The doctor glared at him. "You're out of line, boy. And no, I did not lie. I specifically said that Titan X was not human. That was what you meant when you asked if it was a Titan Shifter, isn't it? A human that turns into a Titan. Just like I said, that is not the case."
He had a point, even if it was a lame excuse; the doctor was clearly good at choosing his words carefully. What secrets could he possibly be guarding that would cause him to hide such important things?
"Very well then," said Erwin, "tell us this. Why does Titan X want Eren so badly?"
Dr. Pacu's whole body became tense. "What do you mean?"
"Enough with your secrecy! While on the mission, the target tried very hard to get to Eren. When it did, it tore the fetus out of its stomach and tried to insert Eren inside. Why?"
"You let them meet?" the doctor cried in horror. "No! You gave me your word that you would leave him behind!"
"Erwin nodded. "And so we did, on the previous excavation, which was the only one I agreed to leave him behind on. And with the new intel regarding our target, Eren was our best chance at defeating it, so we brought him along on the most recent mission, which I did not promise to leave him behind on. You see, doctor, you're not the only one that's good at using words to your benefit."
"You damn fool!" Dr. Pacu shouted, splitting his knuckles as he punched the wall. "You've doomed us all! There was a reason why they were never supposed to meet! Titan X has his scent now! It'll track him down no matter where he goes! It'll come right over the Wall and seek him out!"
A silent dread fell upon the Scouts. They exchanged uneasy looks, some of them glancing at Eren nervously.
Erwin did his best to maintain his composure. "How come? What is it about Eren that makes this Titan want him so much? Is it because he's a Titan Shifter?"
The doctor's fists clenched. "I… can't tell you. It's classified."
Levi whipped out a blade and pointed it at the doctor. "Enough of this. If Titan X is really on its way here, then we have no time to spare. From what you've told us, we have more than enough evidence to accuse you of treason. Your behavior and the secrets you're keeping all lead us to believe that you're actually working with the enemy. I'm well within my rights to kill you for treason right now. So start talking, or you won't live long enough to see your precious Titan X come over the Wall."
Dr. Pacu stared at the blade, seemingly having an internal debate. The fact that he was still considering keeping his silence, even under the threat of death, revealed that whatever secrets he was keeping must be of the utmost importance.
Finally, he sighed in resignation, his shoulders drooping. "Well, at this point there doesn't seem to be any further need to remain silent any longer. Very well, I'll tell you everything. Come, follow me to the back."
He motioned for them to follow him. When he got to the door, he paused for a moment and looked back at them. "Just remember that it was you who insisted on this. Knowledge may be a powerful thing, but once you learn something, you can't unlearn it. I was being serious when I said that there are some things that you're better off not knowing."
But Erwin looked determined. "That may be, but this is something we need to know, whether we want to or not. So if you'll kindly stop stalling…"
The doctor sighed again. "As you wish. Just be prepared for the worst."
He walked through the doors, and the others followed him. Right off the bat, they were astounded by what they saw. Men and women in white lab coats were at different stations, all of them working furiously on different types of ancient technology, but most either ignored them or didn't even realize that they were there at all.
"What is all this?" Eren asked.
The doctor glanced at him. "I mentioned that our research includes repairing, reconstructing, and duplicating ancient technology. These are some of the things our ancestors used. This, for example," he picked up a device, "is called a telephone. Our ancestors used these to communicate with anyone anywhere in the world. And this," he patted what looked like a larger and much more complex version of a radar, "is called a computer. Our ancestors used these for various purposes."
"What about this?" Armin asked, pointing to a very large mechanical object.
"Ah," Dr. Pacu replied, clearly proud of his team's work. "That is what's known as a car. Our ancestors used them to travel around in. The outer cover is still missing, but we're making tremendous progress on it."
"Amazing," Armin muttered. "I read about these things. Supposedly, they can go faster than any horse."
Jean scoffed. "That hunk of junk? I doubt it."
Levi cleared his throat. "This is all very fascinating, but it's not what we came here for."
A slight frown crossed the doctor's face. Had he been hoping to distract them with his team's projects? "Of course, my apologies. I take great pride in my work, and when an admirer comes along…" He shook his head. "I'm doing it again. Come, you'll soon have the answers you seek."
He walked them through the laboratory, and over to a door in the back. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a key and unlocked the door. Taking a deep breath, he walked through it.
"Gentlemen, ladies," he said to the people inside the room, "we have a condition D alert. The Scout Regiment is here, and I've agreed to tell them the truth."
A few words of complaint rose up, but the doctor silenced them before turning towards his guests. "Brace yourselves."
He motioned for them to enter. When they did, those in front stopped so suddenly that the people behind them ran into them.
"God in Heaven…" Erwin muttered. "What the hell is going on here?"
Dr. Pacu came up beside him. "You want to know how we know so much about Titan X? Well, the truth is that we created it."
The shocking statement didn't have nearly the kind of reaction as it would have had a few seconds ago, not with the sights before them as evidence. While the last room was filled with technology, this one was all about biology, Titan biology from the looks of it. Numerous tanks and tests tubes filled the room, many of them containing certain organs and body parts. The closest tank held the hand of a Titan that must have been in the 10-meter range, the fingers twitching. And it wasn't the only one; many organs and body parts in other tanks seemed to be moving, or even fully functioning. And, perhaps the most shocking of all, were two large cages in the back, the first containing what appeared to be a two foot mutant cockroach, the other a four foot mutant rat.
The look on Hange's face made her look like a kid a Christmas. "Oooooh! Look at this!" She ran over to a tank, which contained what appeared to be a giant heart, still beating. "What is all this? It's incredible!"
Erwin didn't quite share her opinion, and he turned to Dr. Pacu in outrage. "What the hell is all this? What are you people doing here?
The doctor closed his eyes. "We're trying to save humanity, sir."
"Save humanity?" Jean exclaimed. "It looks like you're trying to create more Titans!"
"And did I hear you correctly when you said you created Titan X?" Levi asked.
Sasha screamed. "Look, they even have one!"
She pointed to the other side of the room here a third cage held a chained up three-meter Titan, its mouth forcibly held open by a type of brace so it couldn't bite down.
Hange was busy rubbing her cheek against the glass of the tank containing the beating heart. "This is amazing! How are you keeping these body parts from evaporating?"
Dr. Pacu adjusted his glasses. "Because they're technically still alive. Our ancestors had mastered the art of preserving organs and other body parts after they've been removed. Sadly, the parts you see before you never seem to last long before dying. Our own technology is just far too limited. The longest lasting one lasted for about three weeks."
Erwin turned to him. "Doctor, you had best start explaining yourself right now, and there better be a damn fine reason for all this."
The doctor crossed his arms. "I understand your concern, sir, but to truly explain, I'll have to start from the beginning." He walked over to a tank and stared at what seemed to be the lungs of a Titan, watching as they worked to breath in the tank's fluid. "Our primary goal has always been the survival of the human race, and we're willing to do whatever it takes to see that it endures. The technology you saw in the other room is meant to aid us in our survival and help defeat the Titans. But in order to fight Titans, we need soldiers. Unfortunately, most people are too afraid to take up the cause, and those that do tend not to live very long." He glanced at Erwin and Levi. "I'm sure you know first hand exactly what I mean."
That much was certain. Every time they went out for an excavation, they always came back with less soldiers than they went out with.
Sighing, Dr. Pacu turned his back to the tank. "Without soldiers to fight, we're nothing more than cattle waiting for the day we're to be devoured. But we refuse to allow that to happen. And one day, our research came up with a possible solution."
He reached up and ran a finger over the tank. "Our ancestors developed a way to create new life forms. And by creating new life forms, I don't mean by breeding. What I speak of is a method that our ancestors called cloning."
The last word was lost to the Scouts.
"Cloning?" Armin repeated. "What's that?"
Sighing impatiently, the doctor adjusted his glasses. "Cloning is the process of creating an exact duplicate of another organism using DNA; be it a drop of blood, a bit of hair, a piece of skin, a bone fragment, whatever. From this bit of DNA, our ancestors were able to, shall we say, grow a copy of whoever or whatever the DNA came from. This process became known as cloning. The duplicate was called a clone."
Several moments of silence passed as the Scouts took in this information. Before the Titans first appeared and society fell, the term 'cloning' was a well-known term that even children were aware of, though it was normally associated with science fiction. But in this day and age, with so much knowledge lost since society's fall, the process of cloning was just one of the many things forgotten as time passed. With such limited knowledge of the past, it wasn't any wonder that they found such a thing hard to believe.
"Bullshit," Jean muttered. "Growing a copy of something? That's ridiculous."
The doctor glared at him. "But of course, you would know better than I would since I've dedicated my whole life to learning about our ancestors' way of life while you've dedicated yours to killing Titans."
Jean cut his eyes at him, still looking doubtful. "You're telling me that with a drop of my blood, or a bit of my hair, you could create an exact duplicate of me?"
"That is exactly what I'm saying. Our research has revealed that the first true successful cloning attempt took place in the year 1997 before society fell to the Titans. A sheep named Dolly was the subject, and she was perfectly replicated."
Armin's eyes were as wide as saucers. "They actually pulled it off? They really did this cloning thing?"
Dr. Pacu nodded. "That is what the records we dug up indicated. And with this discovery came an idea, a way to defeat the Titans, no matter how long it took. So we kept digging, kept searching, and after a long time and a lot of research, we uncovered the secret method of cloning that our ancestors used."
Something changed within the doctor as he spoke. A madness seemed to creep up in his eyes as he continued speaking of his work. "Imagine if we could master the act of cloning. We could replicate our soldiers. Anyone that lost their life to a Titan while on a mission could simply be cloned. Forget about simply replenishing our numbers, we could create an entire army!"
He looked to Levi. "Captain Levi, you're the best there is at killing Titans. Just imagine a hundred copies of you! There would also be no loss even if you did meet your end in battle, or if you became crippled, or simply got too old to continue fighting if you were fortunate enough to live long enough! We'd just create a copy of you! And not just you! We'd have an unlimited supply of soldiers! No matter how many Titans there are in the world, no matter how long it takes, we would eventually kill them all off! Just think about it!"
A wave of revulsion went through Eren. On some level, he could see where the doctor was coming from, and how it would benefit society, but there was something about it that seemed so wrong. Just the thought alone that a person could be copied, like they were nothing more than a mere object, did not sit well with him. And from what the doctor was saying, it also made it sound like people would become disposable since 'another one' could simply be grown, like it was a simply matter of going to the store to purchase a replacement item that had broken. People were not replaceable, and they should not be 'copied', as if who they were didn't matter.
Looking at the others, he saw that they greatly disapproved as well. There were looks of disgust and loathing at what the doctor was suggesting. Each and every one of them was irreplaceable, and no duplicate, no matter how much it looked and acted like the original, could ever be them or replace them. Anyone who thought otherwise was a fool, and had no regard for another person's life or who they were.
Though Erwin and Levi remained stoic, the look in their eyes showed that they did not approve of what the doctor was saying.
"So," Levi replied, "how has this whole cloning thing been working out for you?"
The excitement left the doctor's face, and his smile was replaced by a frown. "Unfortunately, discovering the method of how cloning was done and actually pulling it off are two very different things. The process is very difficult and extremely complicated. To this day, we've only managed to grow specific organs before the sample died. As of now, every attempt has been met with utter failure. We can't create enough of a body to even consider the sample of being alive. At most, we'll have a few frozen organs on hand if anyone should need a transplant. Attempting to grow it any further results in the sample dying. This seems to be because we can't grow the sample fast enough before it dies from the lack of other body parts it needs in order to function. I suppose that's to be expected though since our technology is nowhere near as advanced as our ancestors' was."
Sighing, he closed his eyes and rested his head back against the glass tank, lamenting his failures.
Erwin seemed to be becoming impatient. "This is all very fascinating, but what does it have to do with Titan X?"
A humorless chuckle escaped the doctor. "Of course. Forgive me; I was lost in thought. I brought up our attempts at cloning because it's related. You see, we changed our goal a few months ago when the most interesting phenomenon occurred right here in our very city. I'm talking, of course, about when our young friend here, Eren Yeager, turned into the Rogue Titan for the first time."
Eren blinked. "What the hell does that have to do with anything?"
"Everything!" the doctor cried. "It opened a door to a whole new realm of possibilities for us. Just think of what we could do if we had an army of Titans on our side."
Erwin's eyes narrowed. "What a foolish thought. Such a risk is far too great."
"But still worth trying," the doctor insisted. "At least we believed it was. So we attempted to duplicate whatever had been done to Eren. We did this by examining his blood."
Eren scowled. "And just where the hell did you get my blood from? Did you steal it from me while I was asleep, or something?"
Dr. Pacu scoffed. "Hardly. Even if we wanted to, your guards wouldn't have allowed it. No, we obtained it from another source. We simply gained access to the medical wards and got it there."
That should have been obvious. As soldiers, they had all been required to give blood samples for examination in order to make sure they were healthy, disease free, didn't have any major medical issues, etc. It was also good to have blood handy in case anyone needed a blood transfusion if they were injured in battle.
"At first we simply started out trying to create Titans of our own," Dr. Pacu continued. "We experimented on animals first. Most didn't survive, and the closest we came to achieving our goal with are those two over there." He nodded towards the mutant rat and cockroach. "We had a toad that was like them too, but it died after a few days."
Connie spat on the floor. "That's sick, and I don't just mean what you're doing to such poor defenseless animals. Here we are trying to kill Titans, and yet you're here trying to make more of them."
"To aid us," Dr. Pacu pointed out. "To help us defeat the Titans the same way young Eren does. If he alone has helped our cause, we would benefit even more if we had more like him." Sighing again, he adjusted his glasses. "Unfortunately, the results weren't good enough in our animal subjects to move on to human trials. There was just too high of a probability of death."
Levi crossed his arms. "It seems you still managed to pull it off though. You would have had to if you really created Titan X."
The doctor nodded. "Yes, that's true, but not through the methods we were using. So we decided to take a step back and see if we could create an ordinary Titan rather than a Titan Shifter. So we went back to cloning, only this time we attempted to clone a Titan."
"Ah, I think I see now," Erwin replied. "How did that work out for you?"
Dr. Pacu casually stroked his chin. "Human and animal trials were difficult enough, but cloning a Titan proved to be even harder. Getting Titan DNA alone was complicated in itself. Unlike other living organisms, a Titan's body, or even a piece of its body that has been separated from the whole, will evaporate into nothing. In order to get DNA, we needed a fresh source."
"So that's why you have that Titan imprisoned back there," Mikasa noted.
"And that's why you have members of the Military Police working for you," Levi added, "to capture Titans for your research."
"Yes," the doctor confessed. "But even with a fresh DNA source, we still ran into the same problems we had while attempting to clone humans. Most of the parts we managed to grow only lasted a few hours. These parts that you see in the tanks are the ones we've managed to prevent from dying, and the closest we've come to cloning an entire Titan is in the tank over there."
He pointed to the other side of the room. Built into the wall was a large fluid filled tank. Inside was most of the head of a Titan with a neck, one arm, and only part of its shoulder on the opposing arm. From the portion of its face that had grown, it appeared to be a clone of the Titan they had in captivity.
"So far, attempting to grow a specimen any further has resulted in the death of the subject," the doctor explained. "We needed a new strategy to pull this off. Eventually we realized that we had to replicate what Mother Nature had already perfected in order to create new life. I'm talking, of course, about breeding."
Levi raised an eyebrow. "And how were you planning on pulling that off? Titans are all male, and they lack reproductive organs."
Dr. Pacu nodded impatiently. "Yes, that's true, but several weeks ago, that problem was solved."
Armin's eyes widened. "Annie's Titan form. It's a girl. You used the Female Titan."
The doctor looked impressed. "Very good, young man; very good indeed. Yes, we did use the Female Titan, the only female of its kind. The same way we gained access to Eren's blood, once the Female Titan's identity was revealed, we took a sample of hers from the medical lab as well."
"But that was human blood," Krista pointed out. "How could that help you?"
Adjusting his glasses, he explained, "It may have been human blood, but her DNA still contained the genetic code for her Titan form in it. We simply separated the genetic material for her Titan form from her human DNA and extracted it. Once we had what we needed, it was back to the cloning process."
Jean was making a disgusted look. "This is seriously messed up. And it still shouldn't have made a difference. Even if you did have the Female Titan's DNA, I don't see how it would have helped you. She may have been the only girl Titan, but she also lacked sexual organs."
Dr. Pacu shook his finger at him. "You are correct, my good sir. And this indeed proved to be a problem for us. But, you see, while digging up our ancestors' process of cloning, we discovered something else that was related to the field. Our ancestors called it genetic alteration. It deals with manipulating, controlling, and changing the genetic structure of DNA."
"What the hell does that mean?" Eren demanded, feeling like he wasn't going to like what he was about to hear.
The doctor looked impatient again, but also appeared thoughtful. "How to explain this…? Hmm… Ok, here's an example of what our ancestors did with this. Back before society fell, our ancestors would sometimes experiment on animals to find cures for diseases. We uncovered a case where a chimpanzee had jellyfish cells put inside it. From what our research had gathered, this supposedly allowed the jellyfish cells inside the chimpanzee's body to light up and become easier to see so they could monitor them better to experiment on it."
It seemed he had lost them with this explanation.
"What does a chimp and a jellyfish have to do with creating Titans?" Sasha asked.
The doctor groaned. "Noting, it was just an example of genetic alteration so you could have a better understanding about what it is. There were other cases we uncovered. Our ancestors also created a cat whose fur glowed in the dark. Another case revealed salmon that grew twice as fast as normal salmon. And I'm sure there are many others that our ancestors altered too."
He casually adjusted his glasses. "Now pay attention if you want to hear this. While it's true that the Female Titan had no reproductive organs, her human form certainly did. Therefore, using genetic alteration, we took the genetic code from her human form that made up the reproductive organs and introduced it to her Titan form. Now had we been able to successfully clone a full body, this would have allowed us to grow a clone of the Female Titan with reproductive organs."
He sighed once more, seeming to be doing that a lot, and pinched the bridge of his nose, feeling a headache coming on. "Alas, that was still beyond our skills, otherwise we never would have had to go through all this hassle to begin with. As I stated before, the only thing we've managed to clone from a Titan, or anything for that matter, have been a few body parts. But a few body parts were all we required, and we were able to get what we needed. We managed to grow the ovaries and womb of the Female Titan, and prevent them from dying. We now had the fully functioning reproductive organs of a female Titan."
He looked at the others expectantly, but was only met with looks of revulsion. He supposed he should have expected as much. Their research indicated that many of the things their ancestors did in the name of science and medicine disgusted many people. Yet it had been for the greater good, and he had always been a firm believer that the ends justified the means. It was the same principle here. Sometimes they had to do horrible things for the benefit of the people.
Even Levi looked disgusted, judging by the frown on his face. "You sicken me. All this just to create more Titans to fight on our side."
The doctor slammed his hand against the wall. "This is war, Captain Levi, and we're losing! If we need to resort to some unorthodox and questionable methods to achieve victory, then so be it!"
Erwin didn't care about morality right now. What's been done was done, now they just needed answers for what had been done so they could undo it. "So you had developed a working Titan womb, but you said you intended to breed, which means you would still need a male. I guess there's no shortage of those though. Would I be correct in assuming that you did the same thing you did for the female?"
For some reason, Dr. Pacu looked rather relieved as he nodded. "Yes, using the same process to create the female's reproductive organs, we did the same thing for he male. And after we successfully cloned testiculars for the male Titan, it was a simple matter of taking a semen sample from them and artificially inseminating the female reproductive organs. The result developed very quickly. Upon conception, the fertilized egg grew into infancy, and was ready to be 'born' in just two days time. After it's, for lack of a better word, birth, it grew to adulthood in a matter of minutes. The final result was Titan X."
He fell silent here, his explanation complete. There it was, at last, the mystery of Titan X's origins. There were still many questions that needed to be answered, but at least they knew where their target had come from, and why the doctor was so sure there was only one of its kind.
It was still hard to believe that they had actually managed to create Titan X. No wonder he had been so secretive. There would undoubtedly be repercussions for this. It was safe to assume that not even the higher ups were aware of Dr. Pacu's little science project.
Being the brilliant person he was, Armin suddenly realized something as bits of the information they had been told began adding up. A look of horror crossed his face, and he wished desperately that he could put it out of his mind forever. But they needed answers; they deserved answers, even if those answers were not what they wanted to hear. It was tempting to just pretend the thought had never occurred to him, but he had to know if his suspicions were right or not.
"Hold on," he muttered, unable to keep the horrifying expectation for what he suspected out of his voice, "you said that to create the male Titan reproductive organs that you had to do the same thing you did to create female Titan reproductive organs." He noted the uneasy look appear on the doctor's face, fueling his suspicions further. "But you told us that in order to do that, you took the genetic code that made up Annie's reproductive organs and introduced them to the Female Titan's DNA in order to grow them."
Dr. Pacu shifted uncomfortably. "Yes, that's true. What of it?"
Everyone's attention was now on Armin, but he didn't even notice them. "But… you wouldn't have had that for a male Titan. There may be plenty of them, but none of them have reproductive organs, and they don't have any human DNA in them, so you wouldn't have been able to obtain that genetic code from them in order to introduce it to their Titan DNA. You wouldn't have been able to grow any male reproductive organs in that case since there was no source, but you did. So how'd you do it?"
He prayed he was wrong, but the look on the doctor's face said that he wasn't.
Dr. Pacu closed his eyes. "Yes, it's true. We couldn't create male reproductive organs without a genetic source to take the genes from. As with the female Titan reproductive organs, we needed a human source to get it from in order to introduce it to the male Titan DNA. We couldn't use ordinary human male DNA though; we tried it, and the genetic code was rejected, it just wasn't compatible. We needed to get it from a male Titan Shifter so we could get the genetic code from their human DNA." He opened his eyes, looking at Eren. "And we found one."
Eren suddenly looked horrified as the pieces began clicking into place. He suddenly felt like he was going to be sick as he struggled to find his voice. "You… you mean…?"
"Yes," the doctor replied. "We got it from you. This makes Titan X the biological offspring of the Female Titan and the Rogue Titan."
(A/N: The shit's hit the fan now. I assume that some of you managed to guess that Dr. Pacu and his team had somehow created Titan X, but I'll bet none of you ever guessed how. I got this idea back when I was first watching the series. I had already begun brainstorming ideas for this story back then. During the Female Titan arc, I originally thought that that the reason the Female Titan wanted Eren was for some kind of mate, which got me thinking of what they're offspring would be like. Speaking of which, does it make sense that I'm a shipper for Rogue Titan/Female Titan, but not Eren/Annie? Anyway, at this point, I had already thought up Titan X, which at the time I had simply called the Reproducing Titan. So I simply applied my theory for what the Female and Rogue Titan's offspring would be like to Titan X and, presto, I had an origin for my character. Obviously I had to expand on that idea a bit, hence the purpose for the cloning and genetic alternating since neither the Female Titan or the Rogue Titan had reproductive organs. If anyone is confused by all this, feel free to ask your questions, and I'll do my best to explain in a responding message or in the next Author's Note. But now that the truth is out, we'll see how Eren and Mikasa react to this news. They are going to be so pissed off. They may actually kill the doctor where he stands. Hmm, I wonder who will be angrier. Well, leave me a few reviews until then, and I'll see you in a week.)