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Escape
Eren slashed the blade out of the air and moved to charge, only for Hitch to sweep his legs out from under him. At the same time, Ymir and Mikasa both slashed one of the cables connecting Levi's swords to his ODM gear, rendering it useless. Levi slashed the sword he was holding at Ymir, but Historia blocked it. As she did, Jean and Marlo reached Annie and Adam, who were both prepared to fight, both in Annie's basic combat stance. Marlo punched at Adam, only for Adam to catch the arm under his own right, pushing up on the inside of his elbow with his right hand, his left pressing down on Marlo's shoulder. At the same time, Annie stepped past Jean, yanking his arm back between Jean's legs and then up, making him stand on the tips of his toes to keep from falling or crushing his testicles. Then, she lifted the arm, flipping Jean before kicking Marlo in the head, dropping him.
Adam glanced at the others, where Mikasa, now with the Syringe in her left hand, was fighting off Levi with her other sword, Levi's attention split between her and Ymir. Historia was fighting of Hange, barley, and Eren was trying to decide whether to try and stop Annie or help the others. Off to one side, Hitch was lying on the floor, wrestling with Connie.
"Where'd Sasha-" Adam was cut off as Sasha burst in through the window beside them, pinning him to the ground, choking him, tears running down her face.
"I'm so sorry!" Sasha sobbed. "I don't want to."
Before Adam could break free himself, Annie punted Sasha in the side of the head, dropping her.
"Time to go," Annie said.
"Right," Adam nodded, drawing his swords. "That's enough!"
Everyone paused, looking over at them.
"Mikasa, Historia, Ymir, Hitch, thank you, all of you," Adam said. "But that's enough. If Levi wants to kill Annie so bad, let him try. If he can catch us, that is."
And with that, he and Annie took off out the window, streaking away from the building rapidly. A moment later, Levi appeared beside Adam, slashing. Adam managed to block both of the blades, but his hands were unable to hold on tight enough and his swords fell away. Then, Annie crashed into Levi, both crashing down on a building, Adam grabbing his swords and flipping, returning to the building in time to tackle Levi off of Annie before he could stab her. Adam didn't know or care how he had fixed or replaced his ODM gear so fast. He just wanted to get Annie away safely. As soon as they hit the ground, Levi rolled on top of Adam, stabbing downward at him, hitting nothing but the roof below them. Adam yanked his feet up between them and shoved, throwing Levi backward before leaping forward, slashing and cutting both gas tubes above the first gas tank.
Levi punched him, kicking his ODM gear as Adam recoiled, breaking one of Adam's own gas tubes. Adam landed hard, rolling in time to knock one of Levi's swords aside. Levi punched at him and Adam trapped the arm under his, locking Levi's elbow before shoving his hips upward, breaking Levi's elbow. Levi shouted in pain just before Annie slammed a foot into his head. Almost instantly, Eren crashed into Annie, tackling her to the ground. Adam rolled, gritting his teeth and ignoring the pain, grabbing Eren by the back of the neck and his coat, spinning and hurling him into Levi, knocking both off the roof. Then, he turned, taking off using the gas on one side and his cables, Annie swinging along beside him.
"Can we make it?" Annie asked.
"It'll be close," Adam said. "We'll have to be lucky."
Annie nodded and Adam glanced back, seeing Jean, Marlo, Eren, Hange, and Sasha all chasing after them.
"Shit!" Adam swore. "Company!"
"We wouldn't be having this problem if I could just transform," Annie growled.
"No point worrying about that now!" Adam said, swinging low and kicking his way through a pile of barrels, forcing their pursuers to scatter. "How long until Eren transforms?"
"Minutes at best!" Annie said.
Just then, Mikasa swung at them from the front, both scattering and allowing Mikasa to plant her feet in Jean's chest, throwing him backward. She flipped, swinging back up beside Adam and Adam glanced at her.
"You hate Annie," Adam said. "Why are you helping me?"
"Because I owe my being able to be with Eren to you," Mikasa said. "And because I don't like that shrimp refusing to listen to reason about Annie, no matter what I think of her."
Adam nodded. "Will Eren forgive you for this?"
"Yes," Mikasa nodded, glancing back. "Levi's coming. I'll delay him."
"Don't die, Mikasa," Adam said. "Please."
Mikasa nodded and flipped, heading back the other way just as Eren swung out of an alleyway in front of Adam, slashing at him, tearing into his side. Adam shouted in pain, his ODM gear falling off as he crashed to the ground. Annie screamed in rage as Eren dropped onto Adam, driving his swords down at him. He missed, however, when Adam drilled a punch into his chin and threw his own upper body to the side. Eren growled in annoyance, only for Adam to punch him again and roll them both over, drilling three more punches into Eren's face before scrambling off and hobbling away, his ankle twisted in the landing. Before he could get far, Hange landed in front of him, Jean to the left, Sasha to the right, Connie behind him, and a dozen Garrison Regiment troops around them.
"It's over, Adam!" Hange said. "Stand down!"
"Well, you caught me," Adam said, seeing Annie watching from an alleyway outside the Garrison Regiment's circle. "But Annie's getting away."
"Don't you worry about her," Hange said. "We'll get her as soon as she reaches the wall."
Adam stared at her before he realized who was missing. "Armin."
"That's right," Hange nodded. "Now, come quietly."
Jean pulled out a pair of cuffs, stepping forward and Adam lunged, drilling a punch into his jaw and taking the cuffs, slapping one onto Jean's wrist as Hange lunged for him. He cuffed the other end to her and ducked out of the way of her grab, Sasha latching onto his back. He reached back, grabbing the back of her coat then bent forward, throwing her into Jean and Hange. Connie leapt at Adam next, but Historia crashed into him, feet first, throwing him away. Then, as all of the assembled Garrison Regiment troops leapt at Adam, Ymir's titan form streaked under them, snatching up Adam, then pausing beside Annie, allowing her to climb on before taking off again.
"Thanks Ymir," Adam said. "You're all taking a huge risk in doing this for us. Why?"
"Friends," Ymir said, reaching the wall and setting Adam on her back where he grabbed some of her hair, as Annie was doing.
Then, she started up the wall, moving quickly.
"Armin is up ahead!" Adam warned her. "Be ready! He's got some kind of plan!"
"They probably knew we'd only get to the wall with your help!" Annie said.
Ymir nodded just as a cable embedded itself in her shoulder, Ymir roaring in pain and Levi speeding up at her, swords poised to kill her.
"No way!" Adam snarled, wrenching the cable out of her and tossing it away.
Another shot out tearing a gash into Adam's side, just above the last and he shouted in pain, Levi continuing to climb. Then, just as he reached her, Annie blocked his swords and shoved them away, cutting one of the straps to his ODM gear, carving a gash into his side at the same time, and he fell.
"Land safely or keep attacking!" Adam shouted. "You can't do both when your gear's about to fall off!"
Levi watched him for a moment before flipping and sending out a cable, swinging to the ground and landing in a roll, his gear bouncing away. Adam looked up just as they reached the top of the wall, Ymir landing on it and stopping. Below them, Armin was sitting on a horse, over a hundred Military Police and Scout Regiment recruits present.
"Now what?" Annie asked.
Less than a second later, a pair of cables hit the wall behind them and hands grabbed both of them, dragging them off of Ymir before Hange flipped over her, dropping a heavy cable net on her, weights dragging her to the ground instantly. Adam threw his elbow backward, feeling it break a nose and rolling away, standing to find Flotch scrambling to his feet, holding his nose. He glanced toward Annie, seeing her wrestling with Sasha. He looked back at Flotch, who grinned.
"With your hands like that, I bet even I can whoop your ass," Flotch grinned.
Adam smirked, dropping into Annie's combat stance. "I'm going to enjoy this."
Flotch swung a haymaker at Adam and Adam laughed, catching his hand and slamming a palm strike into his chin then turned, kicking his legs out from under him, yanking his arm and smashing him down on his shoulders. Flotch shouted in pain, flopping to the ground as tears ran out of his eyes. Adam turned, sprinting to Ymir and lifting the net. He could get it to rise a little, but the weights were too heavy for him to lift with his injured hands. He dropped it, jumping onto Ymir's back then off of her at Sasha, slamming both feet into her just as she somehow managed to pin Annie, throwing her off. Annie sprinted to Ymir and lifted the net, grunting in effort and throwing it off, allowing Ymir to stand. Just as she did, Levi landed beside Flotch, and Hange landed on the other with Jean.
"It's over," Levi said. "You can't get away."
Adam looked around as Eren landed beside Levi.
"Whose ODM gear is that Levi?" Adam asked.
"Mikasa's," Levi said. "The set you broke previously belonged to Hitch."
Adam nodded. So they were alone then.
"What do we do?" Annie asked.
"They're not leaving us very much choice," Adam said. "We'll have to fight."
"With what?" Levi asked. "Annie can't transform, and you have no ODM gear. Plus, you're bleeding out rapidly. If you keep trying to fight, you'll die."
"I'll fight you with my bare hands if I have to," Adam said. "Did you kill Mikasa?"
"No," Levi said. "I left her with Marlo."
Just then, Mikasa landed on the wall between Levi and Eren and Ymir.
"So you took his ODM gear," Levi said. "I should have known. If you continue to resist, we'll be forced to execute you."
"Excuse me?" Eren said.
"She's aiding in the enemy's escape," Levi said. "She's a traitor."
"Historia's helping too!" Eren said.
"Doesn't that mean you should all stand down?" Adam asked. "She is the queen, after all."
"Eren, get your girlfriend under control, or I'll have no choice," Levi said.
"Mikasa..." Eren trailed off as Adam sprinted past her, grabbing one of her blades and hurling it at Levi, who deflected it, stabbing at him with the other blade.
Adam made no move to avoid it, allowing it to impale his abdomen through a non-fatal spot, drilling his fist into Levi's jaw with one hand while he detached the blade with his other. Levi staggered away before reaching to grab a new blade, only for Mikasa to reach him, kicking him in the chest and throwing him backward as she sashed his ODM gear's cables. Then, she landed and spun, making no move to block Eren's blades, Eren stopping his attack just shy of her, gritting his teeth.
"Fine then," Eren sighed. "I'm ending this."
Adam's eyes widened as Eren raised a hand, biting it as he jumped off the wall. The explosion kicked up a cloud of dust and smoke before Eren's crystalized fingers caught the wall and he swung around, flipping back up the the top, landing hard over Annie, who was struggling to fight of both Jean and Hange. He reached down to grab her but Ymir grabbed her first, leaping away. Eren punched at Ymir, missing and shattering a section of the wall instead. As Ymir landed, she set Annie down then tackled Eren, knocking him off of the wall.
"Ymir!" Sasha shouted.
"Eren!" Hange shouted.
"They'll be fine!" Levi said, he and Mikasa fighting with their swords, their blades creating a nearly constant shower of sparks. "Catch Annie and Adam!"
Adam turned to fight just as Jean ripped the blade out of his abdomen, allowing it to start bleeding. Adam coughed, blood splattering out of his mouth before he fell to his knees, holding a hand to his side.
"Adam!" Annie screamed, running toward him only for Hange to tackle her, putting her in an arm bar.
"Enough already!" Hange said. "Just stop!"
Annie tried to fight her off but Hange shoved her arm, slamming her body into the ground. Annie reached out toward Adam, who fell onto his back, holding a hand to the hole in his side and looking over at Annie.
"I'm...sorry," Adam said.
Annie grit her teeth and screamed, biting into her hand. Nothing. She bit again. Nothing.
"You can't transform!" Hange said. "You're just hurting yourself for no reason!"
"Adam!" Annie said. "Please! Save Adam!"
Just then, Mikasa bounced along the ground, stopping beside Hange, both legs broken.
"Adam knew the risks," Levi said. "He was fully prepared to die if it meant saving you. Instead, not only did he fail to save you, but now several of his friends will have to die."
"No, they won't," Historia said landing behind Levi. "Let her go, now!"
"We can't do that, Historia," Levi said. "She's too great a threat. She has to be removed."
"How dare you!?" Historia spat. "I am the queen, and I order you to release her!"
"And I will treat you like a queen again once Annie Leonhart is dead," Levi said.
"Anyone who continues to try to impede Annie, starting right now, will be executed!" Historia shouted.
Hange glanced at her before finally letting Annie up. Annie scrambled to Adam instantly, ripping his cloak off and ripping it up, quickly yet carefully bandaging his wound.
"You're not dying on me!" Annie said. "You're not allowed to die on me! I won't let you!"
Adam smiled, reaching up and brushing her tears away, only for her to swat his hand away.
"Stop moving!" Annie said. "I'm not letting you go!"
"He's finished," Levi said. "He's going to bleed out soon. We don't have the ability to save him."
Annie glared at him before stopping. "No, you don't. But Marley does!"
She tied his bandages off instantly and turned, leaping off of the wall and biting her hand again. This time, she was enveloped in an explosion instantly, reaching back and crystalizing her fingers, catching the wall and scrambling back up before scooping up Adam and leaping back off, landing on her feet and sprinting away.
"Well?" Levi asked, looking down at the soldiers at the base of the wall. "Go after them."
"Move and I'll have you all arrested!" Historia said. "And you, Levi Ackerman, are hereby stripped of all authority and rank within the Scout Regiment. You'll serve a term of three years in prison. And you should be thankful that I'm not having you executed."
Just then, Eren leapt over the wall, landing on top of it and dropping Ymir in front of Historia, both arms and legs missing, but alive.
"Ymir!" Historia shouted, dropping and ripping pieces of her sleeves off to try and slow the bleeding. "Eren, if you go after her, you'll be locked away for life!"
Eren glanced at her before turning back to the edge of the wall, crouching.
"Eren," Mikasa said. "Don't."
He stopped, looking at her, then at her legs. Rage boiled in his eyes and he turned on Levi.
"Stop," Mikasa said, holding up her hand. "It's over. Please, just stop."
After a moment, Eren left the titan's body through the back and dropped beside her, kneeling.
"Why, Mikasa?" Eren asked. "Why would you help him?"
"Because I owed him," Mikasa said. "He helped me finally be able to be with you."
Eren sighed, kissing her forehead before looking up at Historia. "So what now?"
"Now I'm going to decide how to punish you all," Historia said, holding Ymir's head in her lap the same way Eren was holding Mikasa. "You'd better hope Ymir wakes up and calms me down."
Eren nodded and sighed, looking south after Annie and Adam. For their sake, he hoped Annie could get to Marley fast enough.
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