Chapter 11

A/N: Whoooo! So here's another chapter of Indisposable~! It was originally known as Love, Truth, and Tragedy, for you guys that seem confused. No, you're not crazy!

Things are getting crazy as Trost is breached and it's about to go DOWN DOWN DOOOOWN~!

Keep reading to see what happens!

It was like progress took a harsh brake. Although titans were still being defeated, the sheer numbers of the enormous humanoids that walked the interior of the town was beginning to overpower the fighting humans at terrifying rates. Members of the trainee corp and Garrison alike were being picked off and left for dead, littering the streets and rooftops - humanity was far from prepared for this possibility. With the first collapse in Wall Maria, the people were expected to believe that all was okay. That the military had learned from such a tragedy, and would take the necessary measures and precautions to ensure that everyone would be safe as those years progressed.

Looking down at this massacre, however, it was clear to see the only thing they could do now was raise their blades and fight a feeble war they couldn't hope to win.

Crash!

Ada's body took a harsh drop to the rooftop, knees skidding roughly across the layering and damaging portions of the material under her sloppily descending body.

If numbers and morale hadn't tanked enough, after those five titans were cut down by Ada, her body had begun to give already. Adrenaline was a great gift in a pinch, blessing her with the speed and strength she needed to get the job done, and even providing her with a sheer raise of her senses and reaction time. Where such a benefit lied, however, so existed just as extreme a drawback.

'I feel so weak,' She began then in her mind, hands gripping around her thighs that tingled and wavered from exhaustion. Every brush of her fingertips against her skin was a feeling of dulling sensitivity, like an indication that her tiring was beginning to dull her senses.

She part her lips to try inhaling steadily, but it was more like a panicked vacuum of air. She attempted to keep her dark eyes from wandering - the more they did, the more she would just feel herself panic again. She had managed to offer some assists in the time she stuck with her given squad, and she followed orders well, but the act of making a lethal cut was beginning to feel too taxing.

Her job had been downgraded to little more than providing distraction slices to the heel, back of the knee, and other joints to try limiting mobility and averting the goliaths' attention. Even that, now, was growing difficult.

Ada's leg straightened and she boosted herself up to her feet. She thought she was fine in the beginning. She thought she could hold out for much longer - but this fight for survival was pushing back harder, and dragging on for longer than she could have ever anticipated.

"Are you hurt!?" The blonde squad member, -that Ada had learned from cooperating together was called Nicole-, dropped down affront her, keeping an eye out for danger whilst awaiting a reply.

"No no, I'm fine." There was no time to waste on being tired. Ada pushed her palm onto the roof and forced herself up to her feet, legs shaking under the weight of her body being reapplied so soon, but she simply adjusted the way her feet angled to try taking off some of the pressure.

"Things are getting bad - really bad. I think they're going to schedule a retreat."

As Nicole spoke, Ada took a quick survey of her surroundings - titans flooding in as before, looking to be at multiple points in the district. Several members of their temporary squad had left with an untimely demise. Even the much more experienced Garrison members that she called her seniors had suffered greatly from the play on endurance. Not just that, but even if their body could sustain much longer or more taxing battle for the time being, their gear could only function with as much fuel as it could hold, and right now, she wasn't sure just how much was still accessible to her.

Ada's eyes caught sight of multiple groupings of trainees and some spotty Garrison members taking refuge at the tops of roofs, huddled at their peaks to keep at higher ground. "What are they doing..?"

"Trying to keep away and lay low..." The blonde shifted her head, looking around at all of them once more. She placed her hand against her own gear, brows twisting deeply together out of distress, "The supply team never arrived... S-so..." The thought of what came next was proving too much for the girl, seeing as she appeared to be just as delicate before this development. Ada waved her off, efficiently silencing her.

It didn't take much to put together the rest. If the supply team never arrived, then they would soon run out of fuel. 'What happened to them!? Did they just abandon the job..?' She felt like she should have been seething at the very idea, but Ada couldn't help but feel more concern than anything. For a supply team to just never arrive, there had to have been something else that caused it, and beyond that, without the supply team, they would surely all...

After fiercely shaking her head, she began focusing sharply before coming across what she had just been informed that day was the HQ.

"Oh no..."

It was swarming with titans from top to bottom, all of them trying to reach through or peer in, or something of the like. Ada's heart skipped a beat - what were they supposed to do about it..? If they couldn't get there, they couldn't fuel up, and with the little fuel they had now, they wouldn't be able to clear out the titans surrounding it. What... were they supposed to do..? Just die before or after watching everyone else be killed? Her hand clasped over her stomach and gripped desperately at the exposed white uniform shirt beneath the various straps from her harness, the gut-wrenching feeling causing her stomach to knot up tightly.

"Hold on, what's-" At that abrupt moment, the two turned their heads towards seated groups, the rooftop full of people propelling off and away.

"What the-" Nicole piped up, staring wide-eyed with her large amber eyes. She had no idea what to say, or how to respond, and it likewise caused her words to just fall out of her mouth, "What are.. they doing.!? What do we do?" Her breath hiked, and slowly, her gaze exchanged with Ada's likewise large dark eyes.

Wasn't this blonde a Garrison member for a while? Probably at least three years her senior, and she was asking a rookie what to do? The uncertainty caused a chain reaction, as Ada began to stammer incoherently.

The two's feeble attempts at speaking both severed immediately as one amongst the charging group could be seen dropping into a downward spiral, straight towards the ground, as if all of her fuel had suddenly drained. Judging by the wild movements she made with the maneuvering gear, it could be assumed that that was exactly what happened. What were they trying to do?

"I'm sorry!" The blonde abruptly spoke up. It seemed like as things had begun to get more confusing, but ultimately calm down in terms of the influx of titans, she had found her words, "I shouldn't have been putting pressure on you." Her hand clutched over her chest, gripping a bunch of her shirt in a shaking fist, "I'm your superior! I can't behave like that..!" She sputtered out quickly, lowering deeply as if to show her full remorse for her actions. It was clear that the adrenaline was beginning to run out for Nicole as well. As her feelings quelled, and the lot of titans seemed to grow more interested in the HQ, things were seeming safer for them, causing rationality to return to her.

The abrupt nature of the apology caused Ada to jolt out of surprise. She took a step back, then steadied her breathing a tad, hand on her still- weak-legs as she nodded, "It's fine..." She placed a hand in her curly locks, exhaling softly whilst watching her feet, "Everyone gets scared... So don'-"

A large shockwave seemed to occur, the feeling of the roof rocking viciously, and sending Ada's body wavering and shifting from the apparent impact. The feeling of warmth spattered across her clothing and skin caused her head to snap up, and eyes to immediately seek out Nicole. She was fearing the worst... and it was exactly what she found. The large, partially gripping palm of the titan had smashed into the roof, just overtop of where the blonde senior had been standing. The impact seemed to crush her immediately, leaving only a blonde tuft poking out in an otherwise unrecognizable heap of red and rubble. Every other titan, even larger ones that passed by all seemed to view them at the top of the roof, then continue their march forward or towards the HQ, if not lingered nearby as if understanding the peak where they stood was too high to reach.

Regardless, the darker complected girl took a step back, seeing the titan drag its hand back down over the edge, leaving harsh trails of crimson in its place as Nicole's corpse was dragged back over the lower edge of the roofing.

'An... abnormal...' It had to have been. From the looks of it, it had returned to flat footing on the ground, and the top of its head could barely be seen breaching past the height of the lower roof fascias. It jumped to reach then... So this titan had the physical stability to do at least that much... So Ada would have to fight again. The rookie gripped her blade, raising up on her exhausted legs and readying herself to strike, though her form shook seemingly from the inability to even carry her own bodyweight. The titan eyed her from its place beneath the roof, its large optics taking in her trembling form and worry-stricken face.

"I-I have no choice.. but to..." Despite the nausea creeping in, she was aware that if she would survive, she had no choice but to continue fighting.

The titan looked ready to leap again, but right as its body dipped down beneath the outer edge of the roof's line of sight to ready itself, a loud sound echoed through the district. It was booming and distorted, sounding nothing like any human would be capable of. Her eyes stayed focused on where the titan had disappeared to, only once darting up to survey the source, but when she caught sight of the phenomena, it became impossible to look away.

Her body was freezing all over again, perhaps not from becoming petrified, but more so in complete shock and awe.

The cause of her immobility looked like a titan, but darker and more distinct, with features she had never seen before. Its body looked far more coordinated, and the motions it took almost seemed to be exacted with purpose. Instead of darting around aimlessly with little to no purpose outside of typical destructive properties, it seemed to momentarily gather its bearings before beginning a rampage.

Titan bodies could be seen punched, kicked, blasted away by sheer strength, and an unnaturally human-esque style of combat. Now titans could... learn?! Was that what had taken place? They could barely handle the apparent mindless titans with the occasionally appearing abnormal, and now they were expected to battle something with the control and physical movement of a trained human being? It was just too much - but then... It was also true that its current actions weren't that of an enemy. It was actually behaving quite contrarily - quite erratically in theory...

"A titan..?!" Ada thought aloud, "Fighting... other titans..?!"

"Hey!"

The outward exclamation caught the rookie's attention, causing her dark eyes to widen, then dart back to the edge of the roof. The titan she had been watching under the roof...it was gone? Frantically, she twisted and shifted, looking around to try catching sight of it, but it wasn't until a few moments had passed that she noticed it was occupied, dining on Nicole whilst making slow strides in the direction of the strange abnormal.

"Over here!"

Ada turned her head back at the second beckoning, seeing an older man flagging her down to catch her attention, "Return to the wall!" He shouted through a cupped hand, "It's a retreat!" Ada's head to tore away to him, then momentarily back to the stain of red that spattered over the gable of the roof, "But..." She shook her head, sympathy bridging her features - everyone else... was...

"I-I'm..." Ada turned her head back to the older man, hand raising high to acknowledge his presence, "I'm almost out of fuel!"

The man dove down, lifting her before making his return. She surveyed cautiously once more whilst in his grasp, seeing that other members were beginning to return to the walls as well. "We don't know what the Hell that thing is - but it's not what we signed up for..." The man muttered under his breath.

"It was fighting other titans," Ada spoke again, turning to peer over his shoulder as they retreated. She could feel her body relaxing, and heaviness, as well as soreness began brimming in her muscles, "And... they weren't on his side either, it looked like.. They... They tried to eat it..!"

"What the Hell? Are you serious?!" The man touched down against the edge of the wall, placing Ada, who gripped onto the wall borders.

"Mm... I saw it myself... It could have gone after the others, but... it...didn't."

The superior kept quiet, turning to cast his line of sight over towards the titan in question that continued to behave as the darker complected rookie had reported. It was taking out titans left and right, sending them out with various strongly packed punches, kicks, bites and other such strikes that sent small and large titans alike crumpling to the ground. It was unbelievable - beyond that, it was impossible..! Despite those apparent issues, it appeared to be the only thing keeping them safe. It was suddenly pushed into a rough spot, several titans joining to restrain and begin attempting a feast, but it was much harder to see all the details from her current location on the wall.

With the border of the wall to help support her weight, Ada began to trace the perimeter of the district, her curiosity posing serious demands that she didn't think twice to heed. If there was to be any information to be gained in seeing this creature, she wanted to know. Though the trek completely around would be both too hefty a task and too dangerous in her current state, she found a nice place to see better than before.

'The HQ is completely cleared out...' All of the titans that were there before had been gone for little while, and the abnormal didn't stop there: any wanderers were being put down back to back. 'This is...' Ada's breath caught in her throat, the sting of her eyes. Everything could have been lost to them, and suddenly this strange occurrence granted mercy, it was certainly nothing short of, '...a miracle...'

"LINE UP!" In the distance, Ada could hear this command being loudly given, a grouping of soldiers falling into line -albeit almost hesitantly- to heed it.

Ada squinted, but she couldn't quite make out exactly who this was. At the way everyone behaved so rapidly, she could only assume that this was a superior - an officer than most-likely ranked high and/or worked beneath the Garrison's commander. The question was, what was he calling them to order for? Everything was beginning to work out. 'Possibly... getting rid of the straggler titans.' At the thought, Ada's head reeled back to take a wide gaze at the full of the walls' tops, marking her previous location where she would assume Alarich and the others still were armed with their cannons, then to the various groupings of dots of soldiers in the distance. They eventually traced back around to the featured abnormal, but quickly resorting to a double-take, she squinted to see that it was now nowhere to be found.

"What...w-where..?" Her head reeled around, and eventually when leaning forward and shifting her line of sight, her eyes came back to the group of soldiers and the higher up that assembled them. They were descending from the wall - 'Are they going to that titan..? What's...'

"Down that way!" It was the old man that had helped her out of harm's way. Ada turned toward him after snapping away from her internal thoughts, then looked to where he directed her, "Over the wall. The others are escaping there. You need to rejoin and wait there." She was about to protest - but she immediately resisted the urge. It would have just been adrenaline talking anyway. She was too tired to move efficiently, and her mind and heart were both still racing; couple that with the fact that she was still just a rookie, and she had the makings of fodder at best.

"R-right..." Though she took the given directions, she couldn't help but peer over her shoulder as she went. It was something to be curious about after all... but it could wait. If it were that important to the whole of humanity, word would spread.

A/N: Ouu... It's going down it's going down. Dun Dun Dunnn~! Actually. It's went down. Thankfully our little Ada made it to safety and Lynette is marching headfirst into a warzone. What will happen?!

Also. RIP Nicole.

FUN FACT: I made Nicole with the express purpose of killing her off among others. I just gave her a name off of whim.