Hey guys. Here's another chapter of HSF. I'm glad you're all still reading this. Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it and please feel free to tell me what you think. In this chapter, we're going to take a look at how the recruits are taught and trained. Anyway, time for another long crazy chapter.

P.S Constructive criticism is very welcome.

"Where am I?" Junior asked as he looked around. He was in a pitch black place with nothing visible in sight. It was a bit cold but it didn't bother him that much at all. He just wondered where he was. the last thing he could remember was that he was running. Yeah, he was running in a race. The race…

"The race!" he shouted as he opened his eyes. He looked around and he was moving but he wasn't running. He was being carried. He then felt a drop of moisture fall on his neck. He looked upwards and saw his mother's face looking forward as she panted.

"Alright, last one is Ackerman! Go for another lap." Keith shouted before Mikasa dropped him on the floor.

"Mom," Junior said before getting up. He saw her pant as she placed her hands on her knees. She seemed to have removed her shirt as all she wore was a sports' bra and he could see beads of sweat trailing down her well-built torso. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, Junior, I'm fine," she said before standing up straight. She looked exhausted, "How about you?"

"Yeah, I'm fine but…" he started as he looked around. It seemed to have gotten dark, "what happened?"

"You lost the first round and had to go for the second round," she started, her breath now stable, "when you went for it, you never came back with everyone else and I got worried. When the third round commenced, I decided to go look for you and I found you passed out on the street so I had to run back with you and came out fifth."

"Whoa mom…" he started, feeling a bit guilty, "you didn't have to do that. Now you're looking terrible and I'm feeling guilty.

"You better be," she deadpanned before resting her hand on her hip, "besides, if I didn't do that, you would have gone for another run with those guys and I'm afraid you wouldn't have woken up after that."

"Sorry mom…" he apologized before he heard a familiar voice.

"Junior," Levi said as he walked over to his son.

"Hey dad," Junior greeted before noticing the blonde boy behind him.

"Junior, this is Douglas," Levi said, motioning to the boy, "Douglas, this is my son Junior. He'll be your friend from now on," he finished before walking to his wife and looking her up and down, "You look terrible."

"You're one to talk," she said before walking closer to him, "how was your day?" she said before hugging him.

"It was shit," he confessed before Mikasa quickly pulled away, "what's wrong?"

"We need to shower," she shook her head, "you smell unbearable and I don't think my sweat will make things any better."

"I never thought I'd see the day when you'd cleaner than me," he said with a small smirk before she playfully punched his arm. He then proceeded to snake his arm around her waist, "let's go shower."

"Ew, you stink," she said while struggling out of his grasp but eventually gave in and wrapped her arm around his shoulder.

"Has Marie been picked up yet?" he asked as they walked off.

"Yeah, I told the twins to pick her up."

Junior watched his parents walk off. He then checked himself out, "man. I need a shower too."

"So, Junior," Douglas started as he started to walk beside him.

"Yes… Douglas?" he asked, side glancing up at him.

"You can call me Doug," he said casually, "so yeah, what do you like to do?"

"Uh… I play videogames," he said, giving him an answer.

"Ah, alright," he nodded, "so you've played Fortnite?"

'Great, another one of those guys' Junior thought before answering, "yeah but… not for long. I kinda got bored with it."

"What? That's a great game," he said shocked, he then tried again, "okay, you've played the Mario Bros. before?"

'Why is this guy so weird?' Junior thought to himself, "yeah I've played it… what are you doing?" he asked, catching Doug with his hand down his pants.

"I've been having a serious itch lately," he said before retracting his hand and sniffing it, "heh, smells like piss."

Junior couldn't help but gag a bit. Why the hell did his dad ditch him with this guy? "you should get it checked out."

"Junior!" he heard a familiar voice called out to him. he turned and saw Irene running towards him.

"Hey," he greeted as she stopped in front of them, "how was your run?"

"It was okay. I heard you fainted so I had to come check on you," she said before noticing the other boy's presence. She then stuttered, "h-hi…"

"Hey," Douglas responded with a nod.

"Oh yeah," Junior started, remembering her shy, "Irene, this is Doug. Doug, this is Irene."

"So how do you know, Junior?" she asked the taller boy, feeling a bit intimidated by the way he looked at her. It was visible from the way she shifted her foot on the soil.

"Oh, Junior?' he asked before throwing his arm over his shoulder, "we're buds." He said confidently.

"Oh really?" she asked, passing Junior a quick glance before looking back at Douglas, "since when?"

"Ah… since today," he continued, "his dad introduced us and we just got along like boom! Instant buds," he laughed while ruffling Junior's hair, much to his annoyance.

"O-Okay," Irene said before her phone rang. She pulled out of her pocket and took a look. She then sighed before looking at the boys, "Sorry, my dad's calling so I have to go. I'm glad you're okay Junior," she said before looking up at Douglas, "Nice meeting you, Doug," she said, extending a hand.

"Yeah, you too," he responded before also extending his hand.

Junior watched in horror as the hands made contact. He didn't know what made him hold his tongue but watching that was really disgusting. "I-Irene!"

"Yeah?" she asked after they separated, completely oblivious to what had just happened.

The words failed to leave his mouth. Something told him, telling her would scar her, "n-never mind."

"You sure?"

"Y-Yeah," he nodded before she nodded and waved them off, putting the phone to her ear as she walked off. He started to feel guilty for not telling her. Well, if she got typhoid, he'd definitely be by her bedside.

"So… Irene?" Doug started.

"Yeah?"

"Are you two...?" he started and when Junior realised, he shook his head with a blush.

"N-No, we're just friends," he said, slightly frowning after saying it.

Doug then grinned, "cool then, I can work my magic," he said while checking her out.

Junior only sighed in response, not bothering to object, "Come on, Doug. Let's go to the barracks."

"Alright" he responded before walking with him.


"Alright, let's do this," Junior said as he threw on a T-shirt over his boxers. He then climbed up to the top bunk and pulled out his laptop from under his pillow. It wasn't a safe place to keep it but hey, who would steal in a military base?

"It lives…" he said as the laptop went on. He then reached for his backpack at the foot of his bed and pulled out his headphones.

"Hey, Babydick. What you up to?" one of the other boys asked from the next bunk. He seemed to be interested in teasing him.

"Tch, none of your business Ian," Junior scoffed at him, not interested in entertaining him.

"Whatever loser," the boy said before entering his beddings and facing the other way.

Junior rolled his eyes. Ever since he started staying at the dorms, a lot of the guys liked to get on his nerves. Be it laughing at him whenever he dorked it out with Armin, him having a not so built body or the size of his genitalia, they always found a way to annoy him.

He then clicked on the Call of Duty Icon and the screen changed to the main menu. He then proceeded to type in the Wi-Fi password he got from Irene and went ahead to online multiplayer. He checked out the various servers and none of them looked familiar. What would he expect at this point?

"Let's see…" he said when he clicked the one labelled Fort Sina and when the screen changed to show who was playing, he got excited, "no fucking way," he said before immediately joining the server.

When his character spawned, he immediately sent chat requests and two small windows opened in the corner of his screen, "No fucking way, dude!" he said when his friends' faces popped up on the screen.

"Levi Fucking Ackerman!" the guys on the screen called from the other side.

"Dammit, you clowns are crazy!" he shouted excitedly, "the world is like ending and you're still playing games."

"Dude…" one of his friends responded, "it was fucking crazy man. I was just chilling with my dad when those titans just showed up outta nowhere and my old man was like… grab your stuff so I immediately grabbed my lap top and was like… let's go so we went and now I'm at this fort. Crazy man."

"Aw… man I missed you guys," he said before the lights in the dorm went out. Probably it was time for everybody to sleep but not him. His night had just begun.

"Instead of moaning like little girls, let's play!" his other friend said.

"Alright," Junior said as he began to move his character, shooting other players in the process. He suddenly felt his bed dip and he looked in the dark, only to find Doug, slightly illuminated by the Laptop's light.

"Oh, I wanted to watch you play," he said while climbing up, "move over."

Junior didn't want to let his mood be ruined so he just scooted over to allow Doug some space, keeping his eyes on the screen the whole time. "Just so you know, you can't pla…ah, Doug why are you naked?"

"It got hot so I took them off. Also, I only have one set of clothes," he said as he adjusted his position, not failing to give the camera a full view of him.

"Dude, who's dick is that?" his friend asked as he shot a few guys in the game.

"Ugh, don't worry about it," he said before adjusting the laptop so only his face was visible.

"Ay… man if you're gay now, you can tell us," the other one chuckled.

"Fuck off!" Junior responded as he continued to game, this time joined by Doug.

A full hour had passed until Junior felt a tap on his shoulder. He glanced to his side and found himself face to face with a pair of eyes, "shit!" he cursed before pausing. He then took a look and realised it was that tall man, Bertholdt was his name. yeah. "what's up?"

"Um, Levi," he started softly, "everyone else is trying to get some sleep and you're making it really difficult for us."

"Oh, I'll keep it down. Sorry," he apologised, knowing he was probably cursing too loudly.

"It's not only that," Bertholdt continued, keeping the Ackerman's attention, "that light is also quite disturbing."

"Oh, I'll turn down the lighting," he suggested before another person spoke.

"Just turn it off," another guy, Reiner, said, "you need to get some sleep too. We have training tomorrow."

"Okay, just thirty more minutes," Junior started but was cut off by another guy.

"In that thirty more minutes, some of us could have gotten a great deal of rest," the other new guy, Jean, said, "considering you fainted today, you might want to save up more energy so you don't have to have mommy carry you again." His last statement earned chuckles from the other guys.

"Papa, who are you talking to?" a small voice asked from Jean's bed.

"Oh no, Pierre, I thought I told you to sleep. Don't worry."

"You should really let him stay at the children's home like the other kids," Marco said from below him.

"Yeah, I tried but he refused because he hasn't slept without me before," he said while stroking his son's hair affectionately, helping him doze off, "I'll try tomorrow."

While the two men started to talk, Junior looked at Bertholdt one last time, "okay," he sighed before logging off and turning off the lap top, Bertholdt walking away after he did so.

"Okay, Doug, go back to your bed," he said but the boy didn't move, "Doug?"

He was already fast asleep but there was no way he would share a bed with a naked guy, "Doug…" he shook him but to no avail. He continuously shook him before he finally sat up, sleepy eyes looking around "great, time to… what are you doing?" he asked as Doug started to enter the beddings with him. "Doug…"

"Junior, just let him be," he heard Eren's voice from below him, "you're really disturbing a lot of us."

"Dammit…" Junior said before giving up and trying to relax in the bed. Soon, a chorus of snoring began to fill the room. Harmonising like a failed choir. But that wasn't what bothered Junior, it was Doug's really loud snoring right next to him. It was like he was the conductor of everyone. When he let out a snore, everyone followed after.

He clenched his teeth as he tried to sleep and it slowly came. His head started to feel light headed as his body started losing consciousness. The snoring started mute. Everything was perfect.

Boom! He sat up as he felt the hot air brush against his leg. To his horror, he just realised that Doug had just farted… on him. He then felt like pulling out his hair. "can this night fucking end already?"


"Hey," Irene greeted as she met up with him outside. They were all heading to the classes for their first theory lesson.

"Hi," he grunted in response.

Irene then got a worried look, "Are you okay, Levi?" she asked while looking at his tired features, "you look exhausted."

"Oh… uh… Doug," he started in a deeper tired voice while shaking his head. He then saw Doug talking to the blonde woman, Annie, by some trees. "Yeah… Doug."

Irene couldn't help but blush. She found that voice kind of hot. She was the one to shake her head before speaking, "Must have been a rough night," she then took his hand, "come on, let's go. I don't want you to faint on me. I don't think I can carry you."

"Tch, everyone's making fun of me for that now," he groaned before Irene smiled and dragged him with her.

The classroom was moderately sized, with a wooden floor large windows. It had a number of benches big enough to fit about four people. In the front was a lectern in front of a whiteboard and a few maps on the sides of it.

Irene led Junior to one of the benches and sat next to him. she sighed as she watched him fold his arms and lower his head onto the desk.

"Wake me up when the teacher comes," he mumbled before sleeping.

The blonde smiled before patting his back, "okay," she said before pulling out her phone and messaging people.

More people began to enter the room and the noise began to fill the air. Irene noticed Mikasa walking by and gave her a wave. Being the person she is, Mikasa noticed her son and walked over. "Morning Mrs. Ackerman."

"Morning Irene," she responded before looking at her sleeping son, her expression hidden by the scarf she always wore, "why's he…"

"Oh, he had trouble sleeping last night," she explained, "he told me to wake him up when the teacher walks in."

"Oh… okay," she nodded before looking back at her, "enjoy class," she said before walking off.

"Likewise," Irene smile back before sighing in relief. She couldn't deny that she sometimes got nervous around her but then, they were assigned training sparring partners so she had to get used to it.

"Oh yeah!" Doug's voice went when he walked into the classroom. He looked around before spotting the two teenagers at the table and grinning. He then walked over.

"Hey Irene," he greeted, high fiving her. He then looked at Junior, "Hey buddy!" he shouted, giving his back a friendly beating, much to his dismay.

"What the hell?" Junior said while sitting up, "that hurt, man."

"Chill out, bro," Doug said as the teacher walked into the classroom, carrying a stack of books with her "time for class."

Irene watched as her friend rolled his eyes in irritation, feeling bad for him as he struggled to pay attention to the board, eyes fighting to say open.

"Good morning everyone," Hange beamed as she looked at her students. She was really excited to be teaching the class. It was a great opportunity for her to be sharing her knowledge with people whether they liked it or not. She then glanced around and realised one of her students was missing.

As if on cue, the door opened, revealing Levi, looking more annoyed than ever as he clutched a book in his hand. "You can take a seat, sir," Hange smirked at him, remembering the long conversation they shared with Erwin.

"Tch!" he scoffed before walking over and taking a seat next to Doug.

"Whoa, why's your dad in class?" Irene asked, Junior who only shrugged in response.

"Hey, Levi," Doug greeted but was ignored completely.

Everyone then payed attention to Hange, who began to speak.

"Alright everyone. Welcome to your first theory class. I, and sometimes my assistant, will be taking you all in here," she started as she leaned against the lectern, "now, this is actually a three year course but I'll have to do it in a single year because of reasons I'd rather not talk about. So I'm going to try and be fast with you all so I expect your cooperation, alright?"

"Alright," the class responded.

People took out their books and got ready to take notes.

"So, our first lesson in going to be about the brief history of the forts," Hange started before doing a rough sketch of the Paradis City and the surrounding forts, "Around Paradis City, there are three forts," she started before looking back at everyone, "anyone know them?" she asked before Irene's hand shot up, "Yes, Irene?"

She stood, "Forts Maria, Rose and Sina," she said before sitting down.

"Excellent," Hange smiled before labelling the diagram on the board.

Irene couldn't help but feel a bit proud. Her chances of acing this class were higher considering she'd already been living at the fort.

"Don't get too cocky," Junior said from beside her, "it's just the first question," he said before Irene smirked at him.

"Now, each of these forts was created one at a time, starting with Sina and then Maria," Hange continued, "now… yes?" she asked when Doug raised his hand.

"Uh sorry, how many forts are there again?"

"Three, there's three of them," she answered before he put his hand up again, "yes?"

"What are they?" he asked.

Hange was about to answer when she noticed he wasn't writing anything down anywhere, "you should get a book and pen so you can write down what's said. That way you can refer to your notes."

"Okay, he said before looking at Junior, "you got a spare pen?" he asked before he was given a pen. He then asked, "how about a book?"

"Nope," Junior shook his head in response, Irene mimicking him soon after.

"Here, you can have mine," Levi said, seeming to not care about writing notes. He then pushed to him.

"Thanks, Levi," Douglas said, ignoring the scoff he received from the older man. He then looked back at Hange, "go on."

"Great," she said before continuing, "because of the time taken between the construction of the individual forts, each of them have different states of development. Fort Sina has reached a point at which it's a full blown city and acts as our capital while Fort Rose is slowly catching up," she explained, "then there's us in Fort Maria, slowly developing but we'll get there." She finished before the sound of snoring could be heard. She looked and saw Doug fast asleep on the desk.

"With walls as high as 50 metres, storage rooms filled with years' worth of food supplies and defence systems, each fort was designed to protect us from any threat to man-kind, including the titans," she started, though we consider ourselves one nation, each fort has their own insignia and motto," she said while roughly illustrating the different insignia, "each of them also has their own military forces. Does anyone have a clue about them?"

Junior quickly beat Irene in raising their hands. He then stood when Hange nodded him, "if I'm not mistaken, there's the Military Police, Garrison Regiment and The Survey Corps, which is what we're training to be members of," he said, smirking down at Irene as he had recalled one of their previous conversations.

"Ha… that's correct," Hange said in delight, impressed by the young man, "you can sit."

"That's how it's done," Junior whispered while smirking at the blonde girl who punched his shoulder.

"Great, now who can tell me the motto of the Survey Corps?" she asked while looking around until her eyes landed on her comrade's glaring ones, clearing cursing at her. She then smirked, "yes, Levi. You should know the answer.

"Tch," he scoffed in response, aware of the setup she put him in. He then shifted his gaze from the woman to his son, "Hey Levi, she asked a question," he asked, cleverly shifting the question to the teen.

"Clever bastard," Junior growled before standing, "Offer Up your Hearts," he said, remembering another conversation he had with Irene.

"Impressive," Hange nodded before erasing the board, "alright, that's enough Civics for a day. There are currently some books on the matter online. You should check them out because you will be examined on them later," she then remembered something and almost said it when she heard giggling.

All the students in the front followed her eyes until they found a woman giggling like crazy while a man tickled her.

Hange then realised, these things were expected to happen considering a lot of the recruits were adults. She then remembered what she was about to say, a huge grin appearing on her face as the thought flowed through her mind, "Alright! Time for my favourite part of this whole course. Titan Science!" she shouted, hoping everyone would be as excited as she was but she was only met with silence, noticing Levi scoff from his seat.

Boom! Doug had farted loud enough to wake himself up and startled Levi onto his feet, "Wall Maria!" he shouted while looking around, looking completely lost as everyone in the classroom had started laughing, well everyone but Levi who glared down at him, "sorry Levi."


The next day came and the class was ready for their next lesson.

"Where are we going?" Junior asked as the class was led through the barren cornfields that acted as their training grounds.

"We're going to my favourite spot in the whole world," Hange responded, looking over her shoulder back at him, "trust me. It'll be the most beautiful thing you'll ever see."

The group continued to walk for about another thirty minutes, wondering where on earth, Hange was taking them.

"Here we are!" she said as they had arrived, al her students peering over her shoulder, wondering what on earth they came to see before they all started to panic. There was a titan, right before their eyes.

"Dammit Hange. Why the hell did you bring us here?" Levi asked, grabbing her collar.

The woman escaped his grasp, "My team is currently carrying out tests on the titans so I figured I could let you guys take a look," she said while motioning to the group of scientists surrounding the titan that was bound at the limbs by several metallic chains.

"Alright class, quiet down," Hange started, the class doing as told. She then proceeded to explain, "I brought you all to witness one of the most glorious beasts known to man. A titan," she said while motioning at the bound beast, "now, you don't have to panic because he's strapped and won't cause any harm."

"Wow, this is crazy," Junior said before looking at Irene, who wore a small frown on her face. "You okay?" he asked.

"Hmm… yeah," she shook her head before offering him a smile, "I'm just feeling a bit queasy. That thing sure isn't a pretty sight," she chuckled.

"Heh, yeah, I guess," Junior chuckled in response

"There's my two best friends!" Doug cheered before running offer and throwing his arm around Irene.

"Hey Doug…" they both greeted before turning to look at Hange.

"So, this big guy goes by the name of Sonny Bean," she introduced the monster that looked down at her, hungrily drooling, much to every one's concern, "Sonny Bean has been a test subject for two days and we have managed to uncover a lot of information that I'd love to share with you all."

Some of the interested students got ready to take notes while others were still wary about the beast and chose to watch it.

"So, the first thing we started with was trying to find out where Titans came from. As you can see, they clearly possess no genitalia and no other possible sexual organs so reproduction was ruled out. Other than that, we have no leads," she explained, "we decided to carry out other experiments and tested out a feat I once observed outside the fort. It turns out, Sonny Bean happened to be less active at night, it's like he was almost asleep."

"Oh yeah, I remember that," Junior said, Irene nodding in agreement.

"Then we concluded that he was powered by sunlight and could possibly be photosynthetic."

"Wait, so they're plants?" Doug asked, some others face-palming in the background.

"Sure," Hange responded, sarcastically before continuing, "next we tried out communication but we couldn't get a thing out of Sonny Bean." She then looked back at the titan, "we also tried experimenting on their response ability and results proved that their mannerisms are very predatory, almost cat like. That leads us to believe they are more of animals than human."

"But have you tested their intelligence?" Junior asked, invested in the discussion, "perhaps it could have the ability to learn. Like from puzzles and other games," he continued, "also, does this mean you've completely ruled out the possibility of them being human?"

Hange then grinned, "I like you already," she started before explaining, "actually, that's a pretty interesting idea you have there. We'll definitely look into that," she continued, "now, to answer your question, no we haven't completely ruled that out. The titan may be completely deformed and bizarre but that doesn't change the fact that they share an uncanny resemblance to us." She finished before the boy nodded.

"Understood."

Hange then turned back to the titan, "today you'll all be joining my team and I in the process of testing pain tolerance on the titan," she explained as Moblit was seen holding a spear with other scientists, "other titans we have faced all showed very high pain tolerance to the point of them acting numb. Today, we'll give that another try."

The scientist walked up to her subordinates and took the spear away from them. She then hesitantly aimed the spear at the titan's chest. She felt her heartache as she pressed the spear into the titan's chest, erupting a shriek of pain from the beast as it struggled.

"I'm sorry Sonny Bean, I just have to!" she sobbed as it shrieked. To her, it was like watching her own child being stabbed to death. She was in as much pain as it was but it was for science. She just had to. She shoved the spear in deeper, wailing at a pitch almost competitive to that of the shrieking titan.

Her students all watched the woman in shock. Wondering what exactly was going through her brain.

"Stay back," Levi said, taking a protective stance in front of the class. He knew how reckless the woman was and wasn't willing to let any more people die because of her. "she's fucking psychotic."

"This is ridiculous, right Irene?" Junior asked, getting no response from the girl. He then shook his head. She was probably quiet in awe, "you know…" he started before looking at her, "A-Are you okay?"

Irene was hunched over, legs trembling and covering her ears as the beast shrieked. Her face showed that she was in excruciating pain. She then looked up at him, revealing her tearing eyes. "Make it stop…"

"Irene…" the young Ackerman mumbled. He had never seen her in that state. She was always so composed and strong… like her father. He still didn't like this so he grabbed onto her arm, "Irene, let's go," he said before dragging her off, away from the crowd, away from the noise, hopefully away from whatever was causing her pain.

The two stopped when they were at a position where the shrieking couldn't really be heard. He then looked at the sobbing girl, "Irene what's wrong?"

"Please stop," she shook her head, tears still pouring down as she sobbed.

"Irene, please just calm down and talk to me," he said, but to no avail. All he could do was curse the fact that his father had never taught him how to comfort a girl—or anyone actually. He then placed his hand on her shoulder, "Irene, come on…" he begged but still to no avail. His chest starting to feel heavy as the guilt weighed in on him.

"Guys!" Doug shouted as he came running over, "you guys just left me there. You should've seen it, it was crazy, the chick almost hu…" he started but quieted down when he realised it wasn't the time or place. He then noticed Irene crying, "why's she crying?" he asked, looking back at Junior who was sulking by himself.

"Tch! she's not talking, I don't know why," he growled, feeling like a failure.

Doug then looked back at her, instinctively, he pulled her into a hug, "Irene, stop crying okay. Calm down," he said, stroking her back as she sobbed into his chest, "you're safe now. No one's gonna hurt you, okay," he continued as her crying started to level down.

"Make it stop…"

"It has stopped, okay," he continued, giving her a tight squeeze. He then pulled her away from him, holding onto her shoulders as they locked eyes, "we're here for you okay," he said as she sniffled. He then took the liberty to wipe away her tears, "wanna tell us what's wrong?"

Irene slowly shook her head, "I-I'm fine," she stuttered while wiping her eyes. "Thanks for that. I really needed it." She then sighed, "guys, please don't tell anyone about this, especially my dad. Let's just act like nothing's happened.

"Sure," Junior nodded. He was relieved that she was calmer now but his heart still ached because he failed to get her to calm down. It took Doug, Doug! To fix things. If thing could be worse, he couldn't help but get a bit angry by the fact that she was in his arms. 'Dammit.'


The few days passed, training went on as usual and they had even begun their ODMG training. Things had been moving smooth for everyone except Eren, who had difficulties with his gear but it turned out he had some busted equipment. It was now one of their training days.

"Dude. Smash or Pass," Doug said as he stood next to Junior on the training field, watching the other people spar.

"Really man?" Junior asked in annoyance. He was trying to slack in peace but Doug wouldn't allow it, would he?

"Come on man, it's quick," he said before looking around, "Historia, smash or pass?"

Junior looked at the blonde woman as she sparred with the woman, Ymir. Sure she was his aunt but still, she was pretty hot, "Smash… I guess," he responded casually.

"Yeah…" Doug smirked at him, "I'd definitely smash that." He then looked around until he stopped on a brunette, "Sasha, smash or pass?"

Hmm… Sasha, commonly known as potato girl, was sparring with her husband, Connie. They were more like goofing off really. But when it came to her, she was cute, yes but she just wasn't what he was into, "Pass… man. Her eating is a turn off."

"Really?" Doug asked, disappointed, "I get but then… imagine what her mouth do, though," he bit his lip. He then shook his head, looking around. His eyes then stopped on Annie, slacking about just like them, "Annie… Smash or pass?"

"Annie?" he asked, looking at her. She was… an interesting character. Really quiet and passive yet very tough. She was shorter than him, plus she was kinda hot in a way. So she was okay in his book, "smash."

Doug then shook his head, "that's a pass for me, dawg."

Junior then realised something, "Doug, do you realise that we're talking about grown women? People's wives and moms?"

"Okay, okay," he then looked around for someone younger. He smirked when he landed on a target, "Irene, smash or pass?"

Junior felt his cheeks warm up as he looked at the blonde, sparring with his mother, obviously trying her best to land a hit but failing. He never really checked her out that much, except for that one time. He then took a look at her, taking in her eyes, hair and well curved form. The image of her all over him playing in his teenage mind, "Uh-uh…" he started.

"Ha-ha! Someone's got a boner," Doug said, forcing Junior to blush and cover himself up.

"Shut the fuck up," Junior said, punching his shoulder, "not funny."

"Okay, okay, I'd smash her too." Doug said before looking back at them sparring partners, "you know who else I'd smash…"

"Who?" Junior asked, following Doug's eyes until they found their resting place. He then pushed him, "Ew, man. that's my mom!"

"Really? Damn…" Doug said while looking back at her, "I hope you don't mind calling me daddy, then."

Junior actually imagined it, his mom walking up to him and the rest of his siblings introducing him as their new father. He shook his head at the repulsive idea, "no way dude. Never gonna happen."

"Come on man," Doug chucked, "I bet she wants a piece of the Douglas Meyer. Hmm… Mikasa Meyer. Has a good ring to it, don't you think?"

"It sounds terrible."

The boys jumped at the sound of the familiar voice, slowly turning until they came face to face with Levi, glaring at them.

"Admiring grown women are we?" he asked, expression not changing at all as he looked at the two young men.

"No, sir! We were just…" Junior started.

"Tch! disrespectful brats," Levi spat, "get your hands away from your crotches and salute!" he barked, forcing the both of them to do the gesture. He then shook his head, "Sadies said you two were notorious for slacking off so I volunteered to handle you myself today."

He then pointed at them, "I need you two to spar right there, right now."

"Sir!" they both said before looking at each other and getting into fighting stances.

'I' going to bust this guy," Junior said, lumbering up himself. He then glanced over at his father who was watching patiently. 'Maybe I can impress him today,' he thought before looking back at Doug, who was also readying himself for a fight. He may have been bigger than him but Junior knew he was stupid and probably couldn't hold himself on his own two feet. He was gonna nail this.

"Okay, I'm coming," Junior said before running at him and throwing a punch at his stomach, forcing him to hunch over, "hah, I got you," he said, glancing again at his father who still looked the same. He turned back to Doug and saw him stand up, grinning.

"Nice punch man," he said before quickly lunging at him with his own punch, jabbing junior in the stomach.

"Shit!" Junior winced but Douglas wasn't done. The blonde then dashed as him, landing a right hook, left hook and uppercut, sending Junior stumbling before he was finished off with a head-butt, sending him to the ground.

Douglas took in a breath before speaking, "you okay man?"

"Good work Meyer," Levi said, a hint of surprise in his voice. He had a feeling Douglas had some experience but this was beyond his expectance.

"Thanks, Levi," Douglas responded, scratching the back of his head.

"It's Captain, idiot!" the shorter man snapped, forcing the blonde to apologize immediately.

Junior struggled to keep consciousness. Even Douglas could beat the shit out of him. At this point he would probably graduate in last position at this rate. That was it. He knew it. This was going to be the worst year of his life.

Hey guys, there was another Long AF chapter. I hope you enjoyed it and I'd love to hear what you all think in the reviews, please. Constructive criticism welcome for this fic. Anyway, I hope you're enjoying the characters so far. I'm sure you're wondering what the hell happened with Irene. Read and find out.

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