Answering some questions about last chapter. Please read the footnote to see what's coming next. Do not request anymore as the request box is now full.

yshanz- Well since when has Connie ever tactfully used his brain? Reiner will always being some comedic relief.

guest reviewer called questions- Who knows who was talking to 'Future' Eren; Fate, Ymir Fritz or something else entirely? And the 76th version is exactly what I said. I'm surprised nobody has figured it out yet.

guest reviewer called old fan- WOW. That's a lot of characters. Wait until this chapter. and my sanity left me long ago.

ikanisfish- they'll be experiencing some modern inventions quite soon. Possibly before they go bed.

MDM11- ...um. That's awkward.

Eren pushed against the Armoured Titan's hand, smushing Bertholdt's face up against the Armoured's neck.

"Quit it, Eren! Don't struggle!" ODM zip-lines could be heard faintly.

"Good luck with that, Bertholdt." Bert's gasped as Jean spoke. "It's impossible to get him to calm down. He's the most irritating guy there is!" Jean shouted, standing by the hand protecting Bert and Eren. Connie, Sasha, Mikasa and Armin surrounded Reiner's arms.

'Here we go.' Erwin turned to his left slightly. He wanted to gauge Connie and Sasha's reaction to Bertholdt's confrontation. He noticed Mike turning right slightly so he could see Eren, Mikasa, Armin and Jean. When they finished with the next few scenes, Erwin would call a meeting with all the superiors and Eren and discuss the next few steps. Finding out all this new information would take some time to talk about.

"I know better than anyone! I hate him as much as you do. So let's beat him up together," Jean suggested. "Why don't you come out of there?"

Eren deadpanned at Jean. "You're trying to coax him out with a plan of beating me up? You really think he would go for that?"

"Eren I think I can safely say, most of this room would take the offer." Ymir stated. A lot of the Scouts absent-mindedly nodded at Ymir's statement. "I've certainly thought about it," Connie whispered to Sasha.

Mikasa brought up one hand to her head, anger on her face. "Bertholdt, give him back!"

'Mikasa seems to clutch at her head around Eren a lot. Is she having a headache?' Hange wondered. 'Is it something to do with Eren being in danger?'

"Hey… You're kidding, right? Bertholdt? Reiner?" Connie's said weakly. "This whole time…you kept quiet and deceived us? That's so cruel!" Sweat ran down thee side of Connie's head.

"You guys! Tell us it's all a lie!" Sasha said, voice breaking.

'This is hard to watch. We shouldn't have let ourselves get so attached. Annie made the right move, she kept to herself.' Reiner thought. 'At least I can more or less ignore it while I'm running. But they've surrounded Bertholdt.' Reiner glanced at his friend. 'He might not be able to handle their words.'

The Armoured titan continued to run, Scouts on horseback following behind.

"Hey, hey, hey… You think you can just keep running away?" Jean asked. "That's not gonna happen! For three years, didn't we sleep under the same roof as comrades through thick and thin? Bertholdt... Your odd sleeping positions were truly an art form," he reminisced.

"Remember the time when you overslept and Shadis walked in. Your legs were up in the air and folded over you." Connie smiled at the past memory. His smile dropped when he looked over to see Bert shaking, Annie and Reiner gripping his arms tightly. 'This is hard for all of us. I want to convince myself that he's a traitor but in reality, he was never truly on our side.'

Eren continued to push Bertolt against the Armoured Titan's hand.

"You sure know how to annoy your captors." Ness smirked. Moblit leaned over to him. "Are you ok?" Ness turned to the man and sighed heavily, "I don't know. Watching yourself die isn't exactly something that you can get over easily. Knowing the fact that I die on this expedition doesn't help. I guess I just gotta get over it eventually." Moblit nodded.

"After a while, we all looked forward each morning to seeing your pose…and tried using it to predict the weather."

Hange turned their head to Jean so quickly, everyone thought they heard a snap. "Were you ever right?" Jean's clenched fist and jaw made him unable to answer, so Armin replied, "Quite a few times actually. I think Connie made the most money out of the bets we made."

"But you…" Jean's voice slowed. "To think you, the invader…could sleep like a log…right next to your victims!" Jean's head lowered.

Bertholdt lowered his head. The pain of betraying his friends and the pain of Reiner 'Armoured' Braun and 'Annie' Leonhardt gripping his noodle arms was too much to bear with. Betraying his friends hurt more.

"Was everything just a lie? Remember we talked about surviving this together?" Connie reminded him. "And that we'd grow old, and someday we'd all go out for drinks together?" Bertholdt heard Connie's words. He closed his eyes as everything hit him hard. "Was everything all…a lie? Was it?! You guys… What were you guys thinking this whole time?"

"What's it even matter anymore?" Connie gasped at Mikasa. "Just focus on cutting open his neck. If you hesitate for a moment, we won't be able to get Eren back. They are enemies of humanity. That's all there is to know."

'But they're not are they? Not really. In Marley's eyes they are Eldians and therefore they are evil. In the eyes of the people of the walls, they are murderers.' Moblit thought. 'In my eyes, I see kids who were forced into a war that never should've happened.'

Bertholdt sobbed. "T-Tell me who! Who the hell would want to kill people by their own choice?!" Bert's voice echoed, silence following.

The same silence was held in the room. Breaths were held to keep the silence. It was so tense, nobody wanted to make a sound.

"Who the hell would like doing this sort of thing?! Do you think I wanted to do this?!" Bertholdt shouted. "People hate and despise us… We've done such terrible things, we deserve to die. Things we'll never be able to take back…"

Mike dropped his head, 'Damn those Marleyans. None of this was their fault. How can anyone blame what happened with the ancestors in the past and blame it on their descendants. Blame it on kids.' Try as he might, Mike couldn't bring himself to hate any of the warriors. They were in a strange place away from their people, trying to bring honour to their families and only ended up betraying friends and hurting themselves mentally. 'Damn those bastards.'

Bertholdt began to cry, tears pooling in his eyes and slid down his face. "But…we just…couldn't come to terms with our sins. The only time we had some respite…was when we pretended to be soldiers."

He turned his head towards Connie and Jean. "That's not a lie! Connie! Jean! It's true we may have deceived everyone, but it's not all a lie!" Bertholdt shouted. Jean's head dropped while Connie stared wide-eyed. "We really considered you comrades!" The Jaw titan hung to the Armoured titan's back, Krista clutching at its hair.

Bertholdt, Annie and Reiner tensed. The rest of the Scouts cried out.

"What the fuck?"

"That's one ugly fuc-"

"Wait, is that Ymir?"

"I didn't say ugly."

Ymir rolled her eyes at the comments. "Yeah. That's me. I don't know why I'm working with Reiner and Bertholdt though."

"Neither of us has any right to even apologize."

Jean didn't want to hear apologies. Or so he thought. he didn't know what to think.

Ymir listened to Bertholdt's pleas, eyes wide.

"But... someone…" Bertholdt pleaded, voice quavering. "Please… Someone, please… Someone find us!" Reiner's footsteps stomping rhythmically in the background, almost like a heartbeat.

Ymir's face appeared again, upset at Bertholdt's words.

Porco leaned back in his chair. "What the hell is going on? I thought Bertholdt was stronger than that." Pieck shook her head, "I guess killing people messed with their heads too much Porky." Porco glared at the nickname but said nothing.

Beside him, Zeke was formulating a plan. Their strangely evasive host had dumped them there and told Zeke, they were to show themselves before they left for bed. If Zeke was being honest, he liked to make an entrance. Zeke glanced at Pieck, remembering how often she crawled around and smirked. Perfect.

Unlike the others, 'Future' Eren could see through the walls and see Zeke's planning face. Zeke and his damn entrances.

Looking at the room above them, he shook his head in exasperation. Kenny was holding Nile in a headlock while Pyxis and Shadis were engaged in a fist fight with Magath, it's good that they can't die here. Honestly, four of them were Commanders, behaving like children. And Kenny was... Kenny. 'Future' Eren would let them carry on for a while.

Looking at the room to the left saw Gabi, Falco, Colt, Udo and Zofia watching the screen tentatively. While the kids were at least 8 or 9 years old, he knew how easily Gabi believed the lies about Paradis. Colt was doing well, handling the four of them. He would let the warriors see them before going bed.

Finally he looked at the room below them, his heart jumped up to his throat at the sight of Carla Jaeger. He had to remind himself that it wasn't 'his' mother. It was Eren's. Sitting next to her was his father Grisha, Dina Fritz and Hannes. This was not going to be fun to watch with Hannes and Dina here.

"Bertholdt…" Mikasa spoke up. "Give Eren back," she stated.

"It's no use… I can't."

Mikasa looked determined while Armin thoughtfully stared.

"The five stages of grief." The superiors turned to Levi, "what?" Mike asked.

"The five of them are showing the stages of grief. Sasha showed denial, Mikasa showed anger, Jean showed bargaining, Connie showed depression and Armin just showed acceptance." Erwin raised his eyebrows in surprise, "and Bertholdt is quite literally showing grief. That is interesting."

"Someone has to be the one to do it. Someone has to be the one to stain their hands with blood."

"You guys!" Armin gasped as Hannes rode up to the Armoured Titan's left side.

"Hannes?" Eren asked, surprised. "What's he doing there?"

"Oi brat, who's the old man?" Levi asked. "He was a drunk garrison member who worked in Shinganshina when the wall fell. He saved me and Mikasa. Since then he's gotten his act together and became Captain."

"Get away from there! I can't believe him… What the hell is that Erwin thinking?"

"Who wants to bet Erwin is doing something crazy stupid and brave?"

"That's a suckers bet."

"Oluo, they're talking about you."

"Screw you Gunther, you son of a "

The rookies turned to see Titans chasing after the Scouts, led by an immensely fierce Erwin. "He's leading a horde of Titans this way!"

"Commander has got some brass balls."

"That's got to be at least 30 titans."

The young warrior candidates gulped, they weren't sure what was worse. The horde of titans or the emotionless commander.

The Commander's squadron was approaching the Armoured Titan from the front, while Hannes squadron followed the Armoured titan from behind.

Connie rubbed his hands together. "This is going to be epic!"

Planned chapters

Chapter 8- Erwin loses his arm and the smiling titan.

Chapter 9 - Hannes death and the founder reveal

Chapter 10 - Reaching the sea

Chapter 11 - Grisha on the wall and Dina turning into a titan

Chapter 12 - Levi Squad death, Hange squad death, Mike squad death, Beast titan reveal and Mike death

Chapter 13 - Levi avenges Isabel and Farlan, Levi vs female titan

Chapter 14 - Erwin suicide charge, Marlowe death and Levi vs beast titan

Chapter 15 - Armin burns, Bertholdt dies and Erwin dies

Chapter 16 - Declaration of War and Attack on Liberio

Chapter 17 - Eren tells Mikasa and beats Armin

Chapter 18 - Sasha dies, Zachary dies and Chad Eren

This plan isn't definite and may change but please do not request anymore as I Have 43 characters now who all have some part in the story. The rumbling will not be shown yet as there is too much to show at the moment.

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