Erwin raised his eyebrows at Levi's behaviour but ignored it.

"Okay, I think you need to settle down, this'll take time to explain" Erwin said grimly.

He told them how the machine worked at what they had done, what date and year it was. Why they were here.

Sasha said narrowing her eyes at the Commander "So we're here to help you fight against the Titans…again"

Jean's hands had curled into fists, his dreams of some silence and piece disappearing , his hands turned white due to the pressure it was putting on them and he said, anger lacing his words "You expect us to go to hell and back again? We're all here out of our own timelines and you want us to fight? And we're supposed to just sit back and take it, is that it?"

Connie felt like he was going to explode.

He was meant to go through everything he'd been through again? Watch as his village was destroyed and his comrades killed…

But wait…

Connie looked up sharply "But, we know what will happen, we can change things right?"

Erwin said "Well to a certain extent, we don't-"

"Extent? What do you mean by that?" Connie demanded, not caring he was actually talking to the Commander.

"We can't change the future to much of there is no way for you all to predict and tell us what will come next" Erwin said calmly.

Connie wrung his hands together, clearly frustrated.

Everyone in Levi's squad could guess very easily what he was thinking about.

Could he save his village?

That wouldn't change the future to much…Would it?

All of Levi's squad were now thinking about what they could or what they wanted to change.

Erwin said carefully "As you all can guess messing up time is a dangerous thing. Certain people still have to die, for the future to make sense and certain people have to live. For example there is two of you right now. Your future self which is you here and your current self that lives in this time line. Say you saved someone that wasn't meant to be saved and they ended up by accident killing your younger self? You're future selves cease to exist. Your future would cease to exist. I can tell you all played a big part in the future of destroying the Titans, maybe by not existing you could change everything, for worse"

Armin said grimly "So your practically saying that our current self, in this time line is more worth and if one of us has to die it'll be us from the future. If we die nothing will happen to our past selves. If our past selves die then we would cease to exist maybe changing the future for the worst as we know it"

Erwin didn't respond, looking even more grim.

"So we are tools" Levi said, though his voice was emotionless and bored.

Eren stood up suddenly, looking incredibly angry, staring down at Erwin, before Erwin could respond to Levi "I can't believe this! We've just came out of a war! We've all watched so many people die! And your saying we might not be able to save them after all! We've all seen so much, to much!"

Suddenly he slumped, his head in his hands, his voice suddenly full of pure sadness and grief, his shoulders sagging in defeat "D-don't we deserve some a peaceful life? A normal life for once! We all were almost there! A-and you've just…Just…UGH!"

He pulled at his hair a little bit, just trying to get the anger out of his system.

Armin spoke what they were all thinking "After everything that happened…D-don't we deserve a rest?"

"A rest…that sounds nice" Connie murmured, he sounded very tired all of a sudden and worn.

They hadn't gotten a rest after the war.

All it had been was desperately trying to fit into civilian life. To be normal.

But pretending to be normal was so hard…

That hadn't been rest.

Maybe once they'd all got used to the normal life and it didn't seem to hard any more to pretend to be an ordinary civilian, then they could have actually had a rest.

But now even that had been taken away from them to.

Levi looked at Erwin with a what did I tell you look.

Erwin said more firmly "The fact is humanity needs you"

"I'm starting to think humanity can shove its needs up its-" Connie winced as Sasha elbowed him to shut up.

He promptly did though looking pretty irritated at the whole situation.

Erwin said coldly to the squad "Did you all not promise to give your heart, to give everything to humanity?"

"Yeah? Not in this time line" Jean growled.

"You'd really not help us? You'd leave us to ruin?" Erwin demanded.

"Sometimes thats the way the world works" Armin murmured, he sighed sounding resigned as he added "Of course we'll help. I bet you'd of gotten us to help either if we did it willingly or not, right?"

Erwin clenched his jaw together, not answering.

Armin said grimly, more serious and Erwin started to realise why this seemingly thin young man was on Levi's squad, their was a certain type fire and determination in his eyes no one could copy "We'll help but don't expect us to jump with joy about it"

The rest of the squad agreed but it was half hearted and resentful agreement.

Erwin realised as he looked at each member that if they all knew a way to get back to their own times they'd most probably take it and leave this time line and humanity to rot.

Erwin wondered darkly what the members of the Squad and been through to even think of doing that.

It was a ruthless and cold thought