A/N: Yo yo, how was that cliff hanger? That was fun. But anyway, here is the next chapter.
Your author,
TinyPencilOverLord
The Travel
He shoved Annie out of the way as he walked forward slowly, his two associates: Annie and Reiner stood rooted to their position, bewildered.
He was turning red all around his body.
Blood was visibly rushing through his veins, rippling.
His spine looked like it snapped as he bent down on all fours.
The titan let out a blood curdling scream, disorienting the Scouts as he rushed toward them with lightning fast speed.
Levi did the same by bolting towards the savage beast without hesitation as Eren was taking out massive amounts of Scouts. Levi wasn't going to lose anymore friends - especially to a titan, but then he saw a sight that would confuse anyone.
Eren's titan wasn't killing anyone, Levi saw no trace of blood on the battlefield, the titan looked like he was just swatting the people in the air like flies, sure there might be some broken bones but at least there wouldn't be any funerals. It had seemed as if Eren didn't care about the little beings trying to damage him whatsoever.
He just wanted his friend and his sister who were among the group of Scouts reeling towards him.
At least, that was Levi's conclusion on the matter.
Not long after residing in his thoughts mid-battle, titan blood splattered all over him thanks to the overwhelming force of the Scouts.
Levi identified two of the figures near Eren's left leg being Armin and Mikasa. They had tightly wrapped their cables around Eren's leg, thus, lacerating the flesh and exposed his tender bones and tissue.
Eren looked at his targets and reached for them with a clean grab, firm enough to allow them no way of escape, but still loose enough as to not crush them in his right fist.
Similar to how Annie treated him during the end of their fight in The Forest of Giant Trees, Eren stretched his mouth wide open, tearing through his cheeks and breaking his jaw in the process, and lifted Mikasa and Armin up to it.
Mikasa and Armin were utterly terrified by his actions because they knew what being in a titan stomach can cause.
But to their astonishment they saw the skin of his throat ripping apart to reveal Eren, who seemed to be waiting for them.
They didn't know what to do, whether to just stay captive in his fists or to cut through and get Eren fully out of his nape.
Mikasa, being the overprotective and jealous sister she was, tried to get out of his grip to "save" him from Annie.
She squirmed and struggled to get the dagger secretly hidden inside her boot. When she finally procured the small weapon conveniently made out of the same ultrahard steel as the 3D maneuver gear blades, she persistently slashed and slashed away at the fingers of Eren's Titan.
Muscles, tissues, veins, and bones, none of them stopped her from quickly reducing Eren's pseudo hand to a bloody and fingerless palm.
The moment his hold on both Armin and Mikasa was gone, they both utilized their 3DMG to retrieve Eren's human body.
But by the time she had severed his hand, he had already closed his mouth shut aided by the use of his regenerative abilities and sealed himself away from the world outside of his fleshy prison.
Meanwhile with Annie and Reiner, they were absolutely uncaring and had outright massacred more than half of the fifty scouts present. Kill after kill they fell, crushed like bugs when all of a sudden, Levi geared toward them at breakneck speed slicing through the Female titan's eyes and skewered the Armored Titan's.
They were both left crippled as he left his blades inside of the Armored titan's eyes.
Eren saw this as a threat, thus immediately dashed at the group, to aid his friends.
He launched himself at them, forcing Levi to retreat a bit and tore their necks apart for the vulnerable bodies of Annie Leonhardt and Reiner Braun. Once in possession of them, he ran as fast as he could towards Bertholdt before Levi could catch up.
Bertholdt was aware of their current circumstance. He picked up a stone on the ground and stabbed himself with it, shifting into the enormous sixty meter figure that was the Colossal Titan.
And at that moment Eren made a tremendous jump straight onto the Colossal Titan's right forearm. Although the explosion from Bertholdt's transformation was strong, Eren managed to get on and stabilize himself on the arm, unlike Levi who was blown back from the explosion. Once Eren climbed further up Bertholdt's arm to his shoulder, he proceeded to carefully lay Annie and Reiner down before releasing his control of his own titan.
It was a hard task to get out of the limp body of his titan though, seeing as how it began to slowly edge off the shoulder that it was left draped across. Eren was just about to fall when he jumped out of his nape and was caught by Annie's hand.
He blushed a little at the touch of Annie's sweaty palm. Annie pulled him up and they proceeded to quickly discuss their next move.
"Are we safe up here?" Eren asked, looking down at the Scouting Legion.
"Yeah, we're safe. They can't come up here as long as Bertholdt keeps the steam in between us and them, plus he's already walking away so hopefully, they won't try to follow us again. By the number of scouts Annie and I took out and you injured, they certainly need to collect the bodies and retreat anyways," Reiner exclaimed confidently.
"Well, from here we need to go south, then we will reach the the wall, where I'll transform and run us all to Valhalla," Annie said pointing to the south.
Already aware that she was the fastest of the bunch, they went along with her plan, "When we get to Valhalla we will be debriefed- but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's just focus on now and how we're going to get out of here without the Scouts following us. Bertholdt can't keep emitting this steam if he doesn't want to end up losing all of his muscle mass. If we don't hurry in the next few minutes, he's going to end up with just a skeletal structure and nothing to keep the Scouts from reaching us again. He's already starting to steam less now."
"Then I'll shift and carry us all to the wall. Annie, you need to save your energy up for when we get out of the walls and Eren, you don't have armour like I do. If we encounter any Titans on our way, I can just run them over, but you can't. Now, seeing as how you two aren't objecting, let's get to it," Reiner said.
About a minute before Bertholdt stopped steaming and dropped to the ground due to his complete loss of muscle, Reiner had jumped off as far as he could to not blow away the other three shifters and transformed again. During the last few moments of Bertholdt's control on his titan, Eren and Annie made their way across the Colossal's clavicle and first true rib to get to Bertholdt's exhausted body at the cervical vertebrae before he fell out. (Editor's note: there's some anatomy for ya :D my ap bio teacher would be so proud)
Unfortunately, trouble was still present as it seemed a single Scout had caught up to them.
Eren looked up from helping Bertholdt just in time to see Armin land near them.
The look on Armin's face made Eren feel uneasy, he knew Armin wasn't here to negotiate with his persuasive words anymore.
It seemed Armin had finally decided to take matters into his own hands.
Armin was careful not to get too close to Annie and Bertholdt but still close enough to reach Eren.
He quickly reeled in on Eren and slashed his leg before Eren could do anything. He was lucky that Eren couldn't shift where he was at now without detrimental damage to the two other shifters near him. As he scanned his surroundings again, Armin noticed that Annie had yelled out to Eren that they needed to hurry and leave on Reiner who was just a little ways up ahead of them. But he wouldn't let Eren go. He couldn't.
Armin reeled in again with the intent of stabbing Eren in the chest with a dagger similar to Mikasa's and knocking him out. He needed for this to work, he needed Eren to come back with them.
Unfortunately, the skeleton of the former Colossal Titan was now completely bare. And because the one capable of controlling the titan was gone and there was no muscle left to use standing up, the bones started to collapse.
All of the commotion had caused Armin to go off course in his maneuvering. But he wouldn't let such a small thing deter him from his goal, especially when it was so near and he could almost grasp it.
By now, Reiner had started to pick up both Annie and Bertholdt. Eren was just about to climb on into Reiner's hand when Armin came soaring through the air at fast as he could and dug his dagger in Eren's chest. All he needed to do left was knock Eren out and then he would finally have his best friend back again.
Sadly, there was just one simple mistake that he had not realized before doing so.
Armin's momentum and physical impact on Eren had helped him get onto Reiner's hand.
As soon as he realized his mistake, he knew it was all over.
Reiner took the opportunity and closed his armor covered hands to guard Eren and began sprinting away.
If Armin had followed the Armored Titan, he it would have been for nothing, for his gas was almost gone. So he just left it at that and retreated back to the Scouts.
He had lost two things today. He had lost his dagger that was now protruding from the chest of his best friend, who he has also lost once again.
Eren...
A/N: Boom that's that chapter done for ya, I hope you enjoyed it.
Your friend,
TinyPencilOverLord