Mikasa spotted a squad on some rooftops. She could easily make out a few faces, however none of them were the ones she wanted to see. When she landed she went straight to Annie to find some answers.

"Annie, do you know where Eren?" That's who she was the most worried about. Despite what they said to each other in the courtyard, Mikasa still wondered if Eren had his head on straight.

"I haven't seen him, but some squads managed to make it up the wall. Try asking Armin." Annie pointed to a huddled up blonde in the corner.

Armin was here!? Why didn't he call out to her? Why does he look like that?

"Armin?" The blonde tensed at Mikasa's voice. "Armin where's Eren? And Yoni for that matter, weren't you guys in the same squad?"

Armin lifted his head up with a force to show the tears coming from his eyes, as if to say 'please stop asking'.

Mikasa bent down so that they were face to face and gripped his shoulders. "Armin, where are they?" Her voice wobbled at the end as if she already knew his answer.

"Cadets…of Squad 34. Thomas Wagner, Nack Tius, Millius Zerumski, Mina Carolina, Josh Crellin, Yoni Brevi and Eren Yeager. These six carried out their mission and put up a heroic fight."

Mikasa's worst fear came true. She had lost more family. The others were shocked at the bombshell that was just dropped on them. Annie, Bertolt, Reiner, Sasha, Connie and Jean mourned the loss of their friends. Squad 34 had been decimated.

Armin grabbed Mikasa's wrists. "Eren…Yoni. They both died saving me. We had a pact and I made them break it. I'm worthless and I should have died with them." With his head lowered he began sobbing.

"Iie Armin." Her tone was cool, yet still filled with emotion. "If anything they followed our deal to the T. They protected you down to their last breath. You saying you should have died is wrong, we need to live at all costs. That's what they would have wanted. They died for us, so now we live for them." This did nothing to ease Armin's pain, but now he was able to stop crying.

Mikasa stood up tall, her eyes were glazed over, however tears didn't waste any time coming down. She wiped them away before she turned back to face the group. "Mina, we need to get HQ to fill up our tanks. If we don't live to fight another day, then the sacrifices made today will mean nothing." Mikasa walked to the edge of the roof and looked towards HQ. A piece of cloth flew through the air. It made a series of twists and enough to give you motion sickness. With its movements slowed, the cloth landed at Mikasa's feet. The glaze in her eyes dissolved. While bending down to pick it up, she promptly recognized it as the headband she made for Yoni. She clenched it her palm. 'They're really gone huh.' She thought. Anger invaded her thoughts. Now she understood what Eren was talking about. Revenge wasn't even a viable option, she needed to get everyone out of Trost and quickly before more titans show up.

"Mina san let's go, it's now or never." Mikasa said.

"It's hopeless Mikasa. We won't make through all those titans, not with the amount of gas we have."

"If we can't do it then we die." The cadets mulled this over. Either way they were dead, it was better to die fighting they thought. "Plus those people in HQ need our help. They're trapped."

Connie quickly rejected that thought. "Oi, Mikasa, there's no way we save the people in there. It's probably crawling with titans!'

"You would want someone to come for you, ne Connie?" Connie had no comeback. "MOVE OUT! Our objective is to reach the bell tower in HQ. Avoid contact with titans!" Mikasa gassed off the roof with the rest of the cadets following her. Connie never missed an opportunity to start a war cry and he wouldn't stop now. They flew through the air yelling at the top of their lungs.

Mikasa managed to kill two titans before running out of gas. She landed on the closet roof to her and somehow managed not to break any bones. She turned around and realized how far ahead she was. She wasn't aware of fast she was moving. The rest of the cadets won't catch up with her for another five minutes.

THUMP! THUMP!

A seven meter appeared behind Mikasa. It didn't seem like a variant, but it was a titan nonetheless. The titan took a swipe at her, which Mikasa dodged easily. There was no way for her to get around to its nape without gas. Mikasa would just have to hold out until the other got there.

Three minutes later

Mikasa realized that holding out for the next two minutes was going to be difficult. There was only so much roof to run to, and her blades were only so strong. It didn't help that titans had regenerative properties. One more swipe at the titan and her last blades would be finished.

What she was dreading came true. The titan cornered her until her back was against a chimney and went to grab her. Without having any other option Mikasa cut its fingers off, causing her blades to shatter. The titan stumbled back and looked at its steaming hand. He kept it up to its face, as if waiting for it reform before it attacked again.

He would never have the chance.

The sound of ODM gas breached the area. Steam suddenly escaped from the back of the titan's neck. It fell straight forward and landed on the building, causing its body to remain propped up.

Mikasa breathed a sigh of relief. 'Her squad had finally caug...' Her thoughts trailed off as she looked at the silhouette that walked through the steam.

A limping Yoni revealed herself from the steam. She was bloody from waist down and her jacket was gone. She had on a large rucksack filled with god knows what. The bottom of her twists were becoming undone from the steam. Yoni limped forward and jumped off the titan. After landing horribly on the roof, she used her blades to help her stand up.

As the pain cleared, Yoni opened her eyes in relief. She looked at a frozen Mikasa, whose eyes teary and wide with shock. 'What was her deal?' She thought.

Mikasa dropped her sword handles and ran into Yoni with wide arms. Yoni returned her tight embrace, still a little confused. Before she could ask a question Mikasa put her lips on hers.

Mikasa pulled away and placed her hands on Yoni's cheeks. "Armin told us You died, I thought you were gone."

Yoni was confused though. Happy, but confused. She knew Mikasa wouldn't want to unpack that kiss right now, so she saved it for another time. "No I managed to get away. Agh!" A searing pain shot down from her spine to her legs, causing her to drop to her knees.

"Yoni! What's wrong?" Mikasa leaned her up against the remnants of the chimney the titan smashed.

"A titan had my legs in its mouth for a little bit. Wasn't the most comfortable thing in the world but I managed."

The rest of the cadets landed next to them. Mikasa didn't give them any time to be shocked before she barked some orders.

"Sasha bandage up Yoni's leg wounds. Does anyone have any water to spare?" People sprang into action.

"Yoni? I saw you in the titan's mouth. I saw it take you away. How are you still alive?" Armin ran up and slid on his knees next to Yoni while knocking off a few shingles.

Yoni tried to speak through the pain. "I… managed to get away and came looking for you as quick as I could. When I got back the area I saw you last I saw something disturbing"

"What did you see?" Armin asked.

"I went back thinking if I survived maybe Eren did. But when I arrived the titan that ate Eren was in pieces."

"What do you mean in pieces Yoni?" Mikasa demanded.

"I mean the titan looked like it imploded on itself?"

Everyone stayed silent at this news. What could have caused a titan to internally combust?

"Wait which way did you come from? Armin asked. Yoni point to the east and was accosted by gasps from the rest of her comrades. "Yoni...there's nothing but titans in that direction. That's where the advanced guard was decimated. How many titans did you kill on the way here?"

"I avoided the ones I could by leaving blood trails to get them off me, but some were too smart to fall for that, so… I think about maybe five titans. Well seven including my first kill and this big boy right here." Yoni said this with a smile on her face.

Everyone present produced a sweat drop at the sound of this information. Connie was especially unnerved.

"Oi, Yoni. You killed six titans by yourself...while injured? How?"

The smile on her face disappeared immediately. "You can do scary things when death is looking you right in the eyes."

Armin's head dropped as he gripped his head in self-annoyance. "I should have went after you Yoni. Instead I just sat there crying until another squad turned up. I'm a waste of space."

Yoni flicked Armin in the forehead. "Baka! What good would it have done if you followed me into titan territory. You would have gotten yourself killed, and we had a deal Armin." A smile grace Yoni's face once again, which eased Armin's unrest.

Jean felt it was time to speak up. "I don't mean to break up the reunion, demo this many humans in one place is going to attract titans. We don't have the gas to evade them.

"Ah that reminds me." Yoni leaned forward off the destroyed chimney and pulled off her rucksack. "On my way back I collected the gas tanks of our fallen comrades. At first I felt uneasy, but we need them more than they do." Yoni had about 20 small gas tanks in there.

"Nice Yoni! This is more than enough to get us to HQ so we can fill up our larger ones."

"You guys go ahead, I'll only slow you down." Yoni wiggled her now bandaged legs. "Mikasa take my blades, leave me one though, just in case I'm not able to escape, I want to go out fighting."

Armin took the blade out of Yoni's hand and threw it off the roof. "I'm not leaving you. Not again. I have a plan. Reiner can carry Yoni?"

"Of Course, she doesn't look too heavy."

"Yosh. Alright, everyone change your tanks. We're going to make it to HQ, All of us.