'Remember what I told you, squeeze don't pull..." two people a man and his son layed prone in the forest trees. It was mid winter and a deep freeze had took hold of the land.

The boy was fiddling with the rifles sling in order to get a better shot. 'Take the shot when you're ready Chase...' nodding Chase slowly exhaled a breath looked down the sights, seconds passsed the animal just stood there grazing on what the winter hadn't taken yet, oblivious of its pending demise. His finger depressed the trigger and then fired...

The shot rang out and missed the animal completely causing it to Scurry off into the thick dead underbrush evading it's Hunters successfully.

The man sighed as he stood watching the deer run off. 'Well, there goes dinner...and breakfeat...and lunch...' He continued as he stood to his feet.

Chase slumped against a tree, 'sorry dad I thought I had it that time...'

Chase's father started packing their belongings, 'There always next time, but I might bring along another rifle just in case you miss again.'

'Dad are you...disappointed in me?' Chase asked horrified at what the answer may be.

Chase's father chuckled, 'no, I'm not disappointed in ya, you just need more practice, mastering a rifle takes time.' He chuckled again, 'oh and don't get me started on reloading the son of a bitch.'

Chase smiled and they started their way home. When they arrived to their house Chase's father kneeled to him, 'Listen to me son no matter how well or how bad you do at something I won't be disappointed, I love you, you're my boy.'

'Chase, Honey, home already?!'

-X-X-X-

"...I love you to dad..." Chase opened his eyes smiling, his blissful memory abruptly ended when he realized he was laying in something...warm water, was he taking a bath? He flet around No, he still had his uniform and parts of his ODM on. Then it hit him, he had been swallowed... he sat up from the liquid, his breath hitched when he saw them. His comrades other soldiers, they were all floating around him, body parts, organs, gear that had been swallowed, all floating around like a sick twisted stew. He couldn't take it...

"Ahhhh! ahhhh! Nooo no..." he weighed through the liquid to a flashy wall, he clawed into it with his fingernails and beat at it. "Let me out! I want out! You son of a bitch, out, ahhhh!"

It was hot, deathly hot, he felt as if he was boiling. 'T-This is what hell is like isn't it?'

He slumped against the warm flashy wall, his breath was uneven and frantic. "Oh my god, I'm going to die...no this can't be I never even got to give her..." He reached into his collar and pulled out two gold rings hanging from a silver chain.

'These were mine and your mother's wedding rings...they're yours now. Heh find a pretty girl and give her one for me ok?' He wiped the tears from his eyes..."I-I..."

"Heeelp..." a weak voice sounded away from him. He couldn't see far because of the fog like steam and darkness that enveloped them.

Chase's eyes shot up at the voice, his eyes beating around nervously. "H-Hello?" He finally called out uneasy.

"Please..." it said again.

'Damn it... I'm not going to like this...' Chase stood and trudged through to the voice. "Hold on I'm coming to ya!"

He stepped over countless bodies and pushed some out of the way. There must of been dozens from what he could see, not counting the ones who were left in parts. He reached the person that called out, that's when he found...her.

"E-Emily!?..." He kneeled, to her side. "Oh my god..." Chase gagged at the sight The left section of her torso had been bitten off leaving her her right leg that was barely attached.

"H-Holt?...please, I don't wanna die..."

Chase sat down next to her taking her in his arms, she was sinking into the liquid but he kept her above the surface. "God, I-I can't believe you're still alive, we saw the abnormal..."

Her shaky voice spoke, "the last thing I-I remember were those teeth..." She started whimpering.

He shook his head in sorrow, "I'm so sorry Emily, m-maybe there is something I could have done I... I don't know. Here just lean on me, I'll make sure you dont sink in this shit." He pulled her out of the liquid and held her up.

She let out a few painful gasps, "h-how bad is it?"

He couldn't lie to her, "bad, but it's ok, I-I'll uhh, get us out of here."

"How?"

"I'll cut our way out."

"Y-You have your ODM? Heh, I...don't even know where mine went..."

"No but I have this..." he pulled out his boot knife. "Blade is made out of the same shit our ODM blades are made of."

He carried her and placed her in a shallow spot near the wall of the Titan's stomach.

"Here goes," he stabbed the knife through the flesh and began cutting, "come on!" Through it penetrated he was having a hard time cutting through, the Titan's flesh healed as fast as he could cut. "Damn it! This isn't going to work I need an ODM blade..."

Emily let out a few coughs before pointing, "I-I think I saw an arm clutching a blade when you..." cough, cough! "uhh carried me over here..."

He patted her on the shoulder, "Good looking out, I'll look for it, just rest..." She gave a weak nod before he weighed back into the stomach liquid.

He searched through the mess that was the Titan's stomach. He was on the verge of puking from what he saw. Bodies, parts of bodies, arms, legs, heads, parts of torsos and everything inside and out. That's when he realized something, the shit they were in wasn't acid, at least he didn't think so...

'Titans lack in the means of a digestive system, so to clear their stomachs they regurgitate what's inside in the form of a sack like a mess of body parts and gore...' the instructor pushed his glasses to his face, 'I pray none of you would have to experience it...'

"So this isn't acid?...heh I really don't want to know what it is, to be honest..." Something floated a few feet away from him, a hand with a death grip on an ODM blade handle.

'must be it.'

He reached down and picked it up, literally having to pry the hand off, "Hey Emily, I got it..." he waited for a response, "E-Emily?"

A few moments of silence had passed before she spoke, "s-still here" cough!...."barely."

He kneeled down to her, "Were getting out of this hell hole..."

She shook her head, "you maybe, but not me, I'm not gonna make it...I feel it." tears started welling up, "H-Holt I don't want to die..." cough...!

That time he felt something spray his cheek, he wiped it with his fingers finding it to be blood, her blood. 'She had coughed up blood, not a good sign, her insides must be shot...' He thought as he moved down to cradle her.

"Is this, w-what hell is like?" She asked sobbing.

Chase gave a sad sigh and cradled her, "I-I'm so sorry..."

"A-At least I'm not dying alone...Tell me, w-what was in the house?"

"There was a mother and her two children, Ymir and Christa got them out."

She smiled sadly, "at least, I-I died for a reason..." Cough!

"D-Do you have any family, so I can pass on your last regards?"

She shook her head, "lost them all when Maria fell, brother, dad..." cough, "m-mom." She started shaking as she sobbed, "Mommy, mom... ma, I-I wanna go home...please let me go home."

He couldn't hold back a sob at the scene before him, he held her tighter, "come on soldier, stay with me!..."

"Mama...mama...mama...ma...mom, why did this happen... Mommy? Uhhh." She let out a final raspy breath then her body went limp her head falling on Chase's shoulder.

Tears ran down his eyes like a waterfall, "Ah...ahhh, ahhhh!" Chase yelled, "Y-You sons of bitches, she didn't deserve that! They didn't deserve that, none of us do! I'm gonna kill you!"

He looked back down at Emily, her lifeless eyes boring into him, standing he laid her body gently in the liquid, she slowly sunk beneath the surface. Those same emerald eyes staring into him as she disappeared beneath.

Chase gripped the handle tightly, determination in his eyes. "I'm getting out of here...huh?"

All the while when they were in the Titan, they felt it jump, walk and move around, the sounds echoing throughout the cavernous stomach this time a screech like sound and imitated from above. Then it seemed to jump once more knocking Chase off balance sending him into the liquid.

He rose to the surface coughing and gagging, "ah fuck!, I-I need to get out" He stood and unclasped the remanence of is ODM gear, letting it fall into the putrid liquid below. He steped up and stabbed the blade all the way through the stomach, then began cutting, he sawed back and forth past the fat and flesh. That's when he saw the light. He crawed through the slit and pushed himself further, squeezing his way through till he saw the outside again.

Still not big enough to fit through, Chase started making the cut wider, sawing relentlessly as he did so. The flesh was regenerating behind him, if he didnt hurry he would be inclosed in the Titans flesh...

'come on you son of a bitch! ugh!' The Titan steam was scolding hot as it closed behind him. Soon something seemed to give and he squeezed out.

"Ahh!" he fell out, down to the street below landing on his back while the Titan's stomach liquid spiled on and around him. "Uh," Chase stood to his feet and looked up, the Titan gave him a toothy grin while holding its torn stomach as it healed, drips of its stomach liquid seeping out.

"You motherfucker! Ugh!" He stabbed the now dull ODM blade into it's foot and backed away.

It started reaching for him the hand coming ever closer for a second go around, but he felt this time the Titan would be more inclined to chew him up rather that sowallowing him whole again.

"Come on, do it you son of bitch, ahhhhh!" Chase yelled, insanity in his eyes. But before it could reach him a fash of brown flew by and cut the Titan's nape, It fell landing just feet in front of him.

"Ha, haha..." Chase gave a manic cackle before he collapsed to his knees.

"Chase!" Annie swooped in and grabbed him by the torso sending them both flying till they landed on a nearby rooftop. She let go of him causing him to lay back. Annie asked worriedly, "C-Chase are you ok?"

'Heh, that's the first time she sounded anything other than board.' He thought...

He stayed silent for a couple seconds before cackling again, "ha, haha, ha, no, no I don't think I am..." he looked across from them and found Mikasa and...Eren?

"H-Hey I thought he was dead?"

"We thought you were dead too! What the hell is going on, how many more people are going to come back from the dead today?" Asked Jean frightened and confused.

"haha-" Chase went wide eyed, he turned, "Annie!"

She recoiled in surprise, "C-Chase?"

He grabbed her by the shoulders."Tell me this isn't a dream!? Tell me I'm not still in there! Oh god!"

"I-Its ok Chass you're fine, It will be ok..."

Chase smiled, "Oh great, cause it was hell in there you know...I mean hell, haha, haha..."

The others were silent with shock, this wasn't the Holt they knew.

"I-I uh, I think Holt has lost it..." Bertholdt said rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

Annie threw him a cold glare then was interrupted when Chase started crawling over to Eren and Mikasa.

"Ha haha, Eren my comrade! we thought you were dead!"

Mikasa's eyebrow rose and she clutched Eren tighter at Chase's odd behavior.

"C-Chase please, you need to calm down.." Armin said holding his arms out in a claming gesture.

"Man what a day huh guys? Hahaha, hahaha..."

Chase was cut off from his cackleing by slap to the face, administered by none other than Annie. "Chase snap out of it!" She said with pleading eyes.

"Ow what the fuck?..." He stared at her for a couple of seconds, holding the reddening print of her hand... "Oh, I-I'm sorry I..."

He was inturpted by her crashing into him. "There you are..."

"Uhh Annie?..." Chase asked looking around nervously.

She didn't care who saw them, Reiner, Bertholdt, the whole damn 104th. They all could kiss her ass.

He slowly relaxed and gave in, It was a kind of relief he could show it out in the open now.

"Uh guys am I missing something here?" Jean asked confused.

Chase shook his head from the moment and pulled away from her. "Wait Eren is a Titan, l-like how is that even posible?"

A silence fell between them before Reiner spoke up, "I don't know but I think we should get over the wall this area isn't safe."

Jean nodded, "I agree, the faster we get out of here the faster we an put all this shit behind us." He and Annie hoisted him on their shoulders while Mikasa and Armin did the same with Eren.

Chase looked back at the slowly evaporating carnage, "Eren did all this?...Damn."

-X-X-X-

The worn and battered cadets gathered up around a makshift camp constructed by the Garrison medical Corps to treat what wounded made it back from Trost. The pained moans of the wounded could be heard aswell as shouts of officers giving commands to other squads. "I want all cadets on standby, be prepared for a Counterattack!..."

"Annie cut it out, I told you I-l am fine... really."

She shook her head, "idiot, a fall like that might have caused some real damage." They sat at a bench while Annie fussed over his wounds.

"We got lucky thats it...If we hadn't found that gas in time we'd still be stuck in Trost... Connie said solemnly.

"Thats terrible, we volunteered to run gas out to you guys, but by then the situation just got so bad, I'm just glad most of our squad made it out in one piece..."

"We even found some extra guess we could push out to you guys guys but then everything went to hell, say speakng of hell..." Ymir looked over to Chase. "Holt what was it like? Being inside a Titan's stomach..."

Chase shuttered at the thought, still remembering Emily's eyes as they disappeared beneath the putrid stomach liquid... He shook his head, "tch, I really don't want to talk about it..."

"I still can't believe you survived being eaten, I mean when they told me you were dead I thought that was it..." Connie said as most of the group stared into nothingness, contemplating what they just survived through.

"There's one thing I don't get though, seems the whole Corps knows about you're a little stunt but doesn't know what happened to the others like Mikasa or Eren... they survived the assault on HQ or so I've heard, so... where are they?" Ymir asked looking over to the table Chase, Annie, Jean and the others were sitting at.

"Its perfect really, they spread my story out to distract what...uh n-never mind..." Chase stammered catching himself.

The others looked confused, "what?" Ymir asked when Chase didn't budge she looked to Jean, "hey Jean what in the world is he talking about?"

"Yeah tell us..." Connie insisted

He took a swig from his canteen. "Would if I could but they slapped us with a gag order..."

"You're joking right?"

"Thats crazy..."

"Heh they're crazy if they think people aren't going to talk. Word will get out and when it does...well that is if we survive."

Chase stared down in thought, 'Heh Eren a Titan huh... maybe I'm dreaming maybe I'm still in that Titan's stomach...maybe I'm dead, oh god...' He smiled and started quietly chuckling again to witch he was only stopped when Annie cupped her hand over his.

He looked away embarrassed as a wagon of wounded passed by them, their moaning and pained sounds being heard all the while. 'D-Did it make me crazy... am I slowly descending into madness, I-I mean they did say I was the only man in recorded history to survive being swallowed...'

She leaned closer to his ear. "Its ok, if you need anything...Im here."

Chase nodded in thanks as his gaze drifted over to where Daz and Marco's loud conversation. "We're supposed to fight those Titans until they eat every last one of us, I-I don't want to be eaten, screw that!" Daz pulled out a ODM blade and made to harm himself untill Marco stopped him.

"Hey keep it together okay, you're not the only one who's scared." He motioned over to a stoned faced Sasha, "Look at Sasha even after everything shes seen still remains a proper Soldier!..."

After a few seconds she let out a obviously fake pained cry, "ah, my stomach hurts please cart me away with the wounded..."

Daz pulled out his blades and made to run himself through but was held back again by Marco. "Let me die, I just wanna die!"

"Stop damn it!" He shouted out in frustration.

Chase looked away and sighed, "Idiots... heh, now I know why they issued the gag order." Chase made to open a ration bar but was interrupted by a loud explosion and a flash of light.

Chase stood to his feet, "what the...

Reiner stood to his feet. "Cannon fire!"

There were various gasps of surprise as other soldiers turned to the explosion.

"W-Why just one shot?" Jean asked to no one in particular.

"Look smoke!" One Soldier shouted.

"Maybe its a misfire?" Chase said unsure.

"Oh no, I-Is that Titan smoke?" Asked Jean shock and worry etched all over his face.

Reiner suddenly engaged his ODM and went flying.

"Hey!" Jean called out as Annie and Berthold and Holt followed soon after.

"Come on!" Holt waved him on and Jean soon followed suit.

They ziped and flew over the bulidings till they bolted over the wall and onto the other side.

Chase joined the others on a rooftop and what they saw shocked them.

"T-Thats Eren huh..." Chase stated slacked jawed.

The soliders down below had similar looks on their faces.

The grounds below were enveloped in steam, making it imposible to see through.

Chase turned to see Annie, Reiner and bertholdt, but raised an eyebrow at their expressions. 'Strange It looks as if they found something.' They had a steely resolve behind their shocked expressions, like they were not surprised as to what was down there but as to 'what' was down there.

Reiner gripped is ODM blades with a death grip, "What the hell is that?..."