I'm back! With a classic Truth or Dare chapter...
"I'm boreeeed," Sasha grumbles.
"Then do something," Connie responds, unhelpfully. He's laying on the floor reading a magazine, trying to ignore his best friend.
Sasha narrows her eyes. "Who are you and what have you done with Connie?" she demands, leaping up. Normally, Connie's the first one to suggest they spray whip cream in Levi's mouth or something when they're bored.
"The Immortal Laptop got me," he drawls sarcastically. "Can't a guy lay around and be lazy for once?"
Sasha flops on the couch. "Ugh, I'm so boreeeddd. Heichou and Mikasa haven't had a competition in months, Eren hasn't done anything stupid, and even Jean's doing everything normally."
Her friend simply raises an eyebrow.
"Alright, as normal as Jean can get. Seriously though! We gotta...mix it up a bit."
"Like what? Make Heichou and Mikasa fight again? It's not even fun to bet on anymore...Heichou always wins."
"Shh! Don't say that she might hear!" Sasha hisses. Then she sighs. "Any new crack ships we can invent? Tumblr is crazy about that stuff."
"Lame," Connie deadpans. "What would we come up with, Eren and Jean?" He pauses. "Actually that'd be really interesting."
"Ha-ha," Sasha groans. "I'm so bored I would actually be willing to play truth or dare."
An eerie silence fills the room, and it's as if the world itself has stood still. You can't even hear the titans stomping in the background. Like everything has paused to witness the ridiculousness - or possibly brilliance - of this suggestion.
"Alright fine," Connie throws his magazine in the air. He's starting to get tired of seeing Nile Dawk's stupid face anyways. "Let's do it."
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"Oh hell no," Jean growls when Sasha waltzes into the kitchen with a sinister smile on her face.
"She won't take no for an answer," Connie sighs.
"I think it might be fun," Krista shrugs.
"Me too," Armin agrees.
Jean and Eren stare at them in shock. Those two are at the top of their 'Least Likely to Play Truth or Dare' list.
"What?" Armin questions.
Eren coughs. "Nothing."
"Well let's go then!" Sasha grabs Armin's arm and drags him to the mess hall, where the others they have managed to coerce are waiting.
"This is stupid," Annie sighs.
"Agreed," Jean nods. The only time he ever agrees with Annie, to be honest.
Beside her, Reiner smirks. "I think it'll be interesting." He turns and whispers something in Jean's ear, which makes him turn red as a tomato.
"Let's do this," Jean mutters, sitting down on the floor.
"Alright!" Sasha squeals. "I'll go first. Ymir, truth or dare?"
Ymir, who is laying on the couch, looks over with mild interest. "Dare."
Sasha considers her options for a moment before saying, "I dare you...to kiss Krista."
Everyone stares, wondering if Ymir will actually do it, and she sits up with a bored expression and immediately does just that.
"I knew you were going to ask that," she said, laying back down. "Be more creative, will ya?"
As for Krista, her mouth lays slightly open, blush dusting her cheeks, but the shock soon disappears and she sits against the couch with a happy smile.
"Annie," Ymir drawls. "Truth or dare."
The blonde makes a small noise of distaste but responds. "Truth."
"What are you really hiding behind that ice cold gaze?" Ymir questions.
Bertholdt looks at his friend sharply, but Annie remains unfazed. "Who knows." She shrugs. "I could be plotting to kill all of you and you'd never know."
Her friends just about have a heart attack, but Ymir winks at her. "I like this one."
Annie's lips curl into her version of a smirk, before turning to scrutinize the other cadets. They all shudder at her gaze and pray to Sina they don't get picked. "Kirschstein. Truth or dare?"
Jean inwardly cringes but he's a manly man so he refuses to pick truth.
"Kiss Jaeger."
"WHAT?" Jean and Eren scream.
"I would never kiss him," Eren hisses, staring daggers at Jean's heart.
"Of course not, I'm too good for you," Jean shoots back.
"You wanna go, Kirschstein?"
"I'd beat you any day of the week, Jaeger!"
Their faces are inches apart as they scream insults at each other and everyone else sits by and watches.
Then Mikasa reaches over and pushes Eren's head forward just enough so that his lips touch Jean's for a millisecond. Steam shoots out of their ears as they leap away from each other coughing and spluttering.
The rest of the cadets stare at Mikasa in shock.
"What," she deadpans. "It shut them up."
"I wasn't actually going to make them kiss," Annie smirks. "Just wanted to see their reactions. This is perfect though."
If Annie and Mikasa had been sitting next to each other they probably would fist-bump.
When Jean and Eren return from washing out their mouths with Levi-Approved mouthwash ("I can't believe you, Mikasa," Eren grumbles), the game continues.
"Sasha," Jean spits. He wants his revenge for her making them play this stupid game. "Truth or dare?"
"Dare!" Sasha grins.
"I want you to see how many biscuits you can fit into your mouth. Without chewing."
"Challenge accepted."
Sasha runs up to grab her secret stash that everyone and their mother knows about and runs back.
"Start counting, Kirschstein." With the crinkle of cellophane, Sasha takes the first biscuit and puts it into her mouth. And another. And another. The others watch with mixed fascination as Sasha ate almost every single cracker in the roll.
"Twenty," Jean mutters. "You're insane."
"Told you I could do it." Sasha smirks. Somehow she manages to eat all of them without choking.
"Pay up Jean," Eren holds out his hand.
"Ugh, fine," Jean growls, slapping some money into Eren's hand.
"Alright, next!" Sasha grins. "Reiner! Truth or dare?"
Reiner smirks confidently. "Dare."
"I dare you to wear a lacy pink bra."
Annie almost spits out her water. "And where are we going to get that?"
Sasha reaches behind her. "Right here!" She hands a white box to Reiner, who opens it and breaks out laughing.
"Alright, Sasha. As you wish."
It's ridiculous because Reiner actually makes it look like the bra isn't out of place in the least. He even lets them snap a few pictures, with Annie rolling her eyes in the background and Bertholdt in pure shock.
Poor Bertholdt.
Once Reiner's back in his regular green shirt, the game continues. After all, the show must go on!
"Krista," he starts. "Truth or dare?"
Everyone expects her to pick truth, but none of them expected it when she fixes Reiner with a peculiar gleam in her eye and says, "Dare."
"I dare you...to go around talking like Ymir for the rest of the game."
Ymir snorts, and Krista's high-pitched laughter chimes through the hallway. When the laughter subsides, Krista clears her throat and brings her voice as low as it can go.
"I'll try my best, Reiner," she says. Turning to Connie, she asks, "Truth or dare?"
He almost loses it with her Ymir imitation. "Dare, believe it!" Connie exclaims. He's obviously been watching too much anime.
"I dare you to run around HQ naked."
"Oh my god, Krista!" Sasha shrieks. "You're brilliant but I'm also scared because I've never seen this side of you?"
Krista just shrugs innocently. "Dares are fun."
Ymir slings her arm around the blonde's shoulder. "That's the Krista I know and love!"
So Connie runs around the compound screaming at the top of his lungs like a titan, naked as the day he was born. Sasha almost passes out from laughing too hard.
For some reason, Levi hasn't shown up this whole time. Not that they're complaining…
"Okay," Connie plops down on the ground (with clothes on, thankfully). "That was surprisingly fun. Bertholdt, truth or dare?"
Bertholdt sweats. What should he choose? He doesn't want to run around HQ naked, nor does he want to reveal life secrets.
"Um, truth," he chooses.
Connie leans forward with mock seriousness, eyes dark. "What are you really hiding?"
Bertholdt looks to Reiner and Annie for support, but they've suddenly become really good at whistling and staring at the floor.
"Um...well I'm definitely not the Colossal Titan," he squeaks.
Blank stares. Annie facepalms. "Really Bert?" she mutters. "That's all you could think of?"
"Well," Connie laughs. "We know he's not lying!"
"He's an idiot," Annie sighs.
"A Colossal idiot," Reiner winks, feeling particularly devious.
And it's over. Bertholdt barely makes it out the door before he bursts out laughing - this is too much emotional strain for one day.
"Well, um," Sasha picks up the awkward silence. "Since Bertholdt's gone I'm gonna issue the next question. Any objections? No? Okay." She scans the room to see who hasn't gone yet.
"Mikasa! Truth or dare?"
It's not even a question. "Dare."
"Please prank, Heichou. Something good. Something he won't notice right away…"
Mikasa takes the pocket knife she carries around and runs her finger across the smooth edge. "I know exactly what to do."
"This is a terrible idea," Eren sighs.
For stealth purposes, they opt not to go with Mikasa on her adventure. When she returns, she smirks.
"What'd you do?" Sasha asks, leaning forward to get the scoop.
"I put a mouse in his desk."
"What?!" Eren screams. "Oh god he's gonna kill us."
"He'll never know it's us," Mikasa smiles. "And it might be a while before he notices."
"Brilliant," Sasha breathes. "High five!"
Mikasa does indeed raise her hand for a hearty high five, and her smile grows wider.
And last but not least… "Armin. Truth or dare?"
"Uh," Armin considers the odds. "Dare, I guess."
"Darn," Sasha mumbles to herself. She wanted Armin to reveal whatever secrets he knew about the Immortal Laptop. She hopes Mikasa picks a worthwhile dare."I dare you...to go prank Commander Erwin."
"Oh my god..." Armin sighs and stands up. "Guess I can't refuse."
Sasha rubs her palms together gleefully. This'll be good. And Connie's got the phone.
As the rest of the gang looks on, Armin knocks on the door of the Commander's office (Erwin happens to be in town for official Sina business).
"Come in," Erwin says.
"Um, sir," Armin nervously fidgets with his uniform. "I have something to say."
"What is it Armin?"
"Well…" Suddenly Armin's demeanor totally changes. He looks over at Eren with a wicked smile and the two of them burst into their theme song.
"Don't drop that durka durk," Eren begins.
"Eyyyyy!" Armin chimes in.
Then they chorus together, "Don't drop that durka durk!"
And Armin slams the door to Erwin's office and he and Eren run down the hallway laughing.
"I...can't believe that just happened," Reiner mutters.
"Didn't know Armin had it in him," Ymir agrees.
"I'm...scarred," Jean whispers.
Guess you should never trust the blondes. Ever.
*cough* I know I reuse jokes a lot...sorry...not really...