"So, that was him?" One of the hooded voices asked to his partner, who nodded their head at his question.

"Yep, that was him. Although I am surprised that he ended up here and with the power of one of the Nine Titans to boot as well" The other voice responded.

"So, what do we do with him?" The other hooded figure asked its partner.

The other figure narrows their eyes from under their hood before sighing and turning towards their partner. "Right now, we do nothing. Blondie down there isn't strong enough yet to stop what's coming. Besides, we have no where to go with him, Marcel."

The hooded figure now know as Marcel, removes his hood, showing off his brown hair & pointed nose before scowling at his other partner. "Then why don't we go take care of the problem ourselves instead of watching over this brat, Ymir?"

The other hooded figure now know as Ymir, removes her hood, showing off her brown hair as well along with some freckles. She glares directly at Marcel before smacking him in the head. "Because idiot, we can't stop what's coming, not by ourselves anyways. Also, The Owl made it very clear that we are supposed to WATCH AND OBSERVE before we get involved. Besides, last time I checked, neither of us can transform into Titans or did you somehow become a shifter again after I ate you or is your dumbass of a brother here too?"

Marcel scoffs & glares at Ymir for mentioning his brother. "Who gives a damn what the old man has to say?"

"We do because we're not only going to need his help, but Armin's as well" Ymir retorts. "C'mon we need to go report to the Owl soon and we don't want him to have his feathers all ruffled up because of you again." The two former shifters leap off of the building they were on, before disappearing into the town.

XXX

Armin took about an one hour nap before the rest of Team Natsu returned. Turns out, Grisha did vouch for him about being with the whole entire time despite the fact that he was in fact lying. The Team, however, took his words for the truth. Gray & Erza apologized to Armin, well Gray grumbled out an apology before being beaten by Erza. Natsu & Lucy apologized as well. Currently, everyone is on the train back home to Magnolia. The ride it self has been relatively quiet, nothing more than then snores of Natsu & Armin filling up the train compartment they were in.

Twenty minutes later, the Team arrived back in Magnolia & made their way into the Guild. They told Makarov of their success, to which he applauded. He also told Armin that Kruger wanted to see him as well. As soon as Armin heard those words, he made his way to Mt Hakobe once again.

"Hello there, Kruger" Armin says to the other gentleman, who shares the same first name as his best friend.

"Armin" Kruger greets back.

"Aye, Armin" Happy replied.

"Happy, what are you doing here?" Armin asked in shock that Natsu's feline friend would even be around Kruger.

Happy shrugged before pulling out a fish to munch on. "Well since Natsu took off before I could join you guys in your mission, I flew over to Kruger's home and spent the day with him. Once he heard you were coming back, I immediately followed him".

Armin then turned to Kruger, who replied with. "He's an interesting conversationalist" before guiding Armin over to another part of the mountain.

"Alright Armin, I received information that you partially transformed while fighting a Titan" Kruger says, shocking the shitfer.

Armin turns towards Kruger with raised eyebrows. "How could you know that?"

Kruger replies back. "I have eyes and ears everywhere. Now today's lesson is going to be three in stead of one."

"Wait three!?" Armin asked, bewildered at the thought.

"Yes, three. Now for one thing, your going to have another lesson in endurance, but this time stay in your form for an hour. The second will be using your Hardening ability both in your Titan and in your human form." Kruger states

"And the third one?"

"Your going to go nuclear" Kruger plainly states.

"Kruger, are you insane!. I can't go nuclear right now, especially with Magnolia so close to this mountain" Armin screamed. Armin was going to say more, but Kruger raised his hand to stop the blonde shifter from speaking anymore.

"Armin, I will put down stronger runes so that nothing will happen to the townsfolk and also your transformation mostly take care of anything bad that could happen, especially on a snowy mountain like this one." Kruger reminds him

"Are you sure?" Armin asked hesitantly

"Very much so" Kruger says

"Very well." Armin replies.

Kruger & Happy begin to write down the runes into the snow in a circle with Armin standing in the middle of it. Once Kruger & Happy are done, the former holder of the Attack Titan nods his head at Armin to commence, while Happy picks up Kruger using his wings and flies him upwards. Armin stares at his friend up in the sky before letting out a sigh.

Insert AOT Soundtrack: Apple Seed

'Alright, let's do this' Armin thought to himself. 'Remember you can't transform unless you have a clear goal in mind. Breathe in and breathe out.' As Armin says this, flashes of memories or visions passed through his mind of Eren, Mikasa, Sasha, Jean and the others fly by and memories that are not his own fly by as well and then Armin bit down on his thumb...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Armin's nuke explosion went off causing all the snow to melt off, the runes melted off as well along with debris flying throughout the air and snow to fly as well. From Happy & Kruger's position all you could see was snow, debris, electricity and a giant mushroom cloud of red and yellow as his transformation was finally complete, leaving Armin in his 60 meter Colossal Titan, except his arms were a little bit thicker than usual. Underneath Armin's feet all you could see was a sea of red as the ground was completely melted.

"Amazing" Kruger mutters with a blank expression, unlike Happy who had his eyes widen at the nuke transformation that just occurred.

"ALRIGHT ARMIN, STAY IN YOUR TITAN FOR AN HOUR & CRYSTALLIZE YOUR HANDS" Kruger shouts at his gigantic friend, who slowly nods his head. He then raises his hand, focusing intently on them before hardening his hands.

"Good. Good." Kruger says under his breath. "I hope for all of our sakes Armin that you will be prepared when it's time"

Unbeknownst to either of them, Ymir & Marcel were right outside where Armin transformed & by the looks on their faces...well let's just say they were more than surprised.