POV/CONNIE

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The Colossal Titan appeared from thin air, one moment they had been talking with each other about the meat Sasha had stolen, the next they had been looking into the face of the largest Titan ever seen. At 60 meters tall the Colossal Titan, which had been appropriately named by the civilians who did not see the fall of Shiganshina. Those who did called it the King of Titans or the God of the Titans.

He never expected to see it so close, only a few meters away. Connie could feel the heat being generated from its body. Out of them all, Eren had been the fastest to react while he and the others stood still in absolute shock. Eren moved towards the Titan, and for a moment he had felt hope. Could Eren kill it and stop it breaching Trost? This hope was taken away when a torrent of Steam came from the Titan sending all of them off the edge and blinded him momentarily.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" the shout from Eren brought him to his senses.

Sending the grapples from his ODM gear into the wall he saved himself and watched as others did the same, all of them securing themselves to the wall.

"C'MON, LET'S HELP EREN!" he shouted to his comrades hoping to get them moving.

He pulled himself up the wall using his ODM gear but out the corner of his eye, he watched as the gate of Trost was destroyed, bricks flying into the city. Houses and buildings were being destroyed left and right, he heard the screams start coming in, the screams were horrifying.

He came up over the top of the wall expecting to see Eren and the Colossus Titan before him, but he came up to see neither Eren nor the Titan could be seen. Landing on top of the wall looking over the edge he saw the Titan's massive footprints, but there was only one pair, no others to be seen.

"Where are they?" the voice of Sasha caused him to look behind to see all his friends but Eren.

"They're… gone, both of them," he told them, still stunned from the recent events.

"Did the Titan…" Thomas hesitated to bring it up, yet in the end, it was what they were all thinking. "Did he kill Eren?"

While they weren't able to get back on top of the wall on time, Eren did, yet Eren was gone almost as soon as the Colossal Titan. He could have been eaten by him, he could have just flown off somewhere. 'No' Connie thought, 'No way a crazy lunatic like him would just up and run from a fight with the thing that destroyed his entire hometown.'

"I-... I don't know. He was the only one up here, right? There's no way someone like him would just-" he replied shakily, grabbing his head with both hands.

"There's nobody." Sasha quickly responded. "That's gotta mean something right?"

'Yeah… That he was either eaten up or trampled down there by Titans.' Connie thought grimly, choosing it better to not respond to Sasha's question.

He must be sleeping, otherwise, how would a Titan-, no, THE Titan, just appear then disappear like that. And Eren, there was no way he would just die that easily. He was the best of them, or maybe their instructor was right, maybe they were just worthless Titan food.

He heard several people land on top of the wall near them, though he did not pay much notice to them.

"What the hell happened here? Report!" the man asked them, he didn't reply instead Thomas did.

"The Colossus Titan appeared sir, one of our comrades attacked the Titan but..." Thomas answered, stopping himself midway again. "He disappeared, both of them did."

"What do you mean disappear, a sixty meter Titan can't just disappear!"

"It did sir," Sasha told him. "Look down at the gate, the footprints, they don't go anywhere."

Lo and behold there was a pair of footprints, massive ones that dug deep into the ground. Their superior sighed, clearly not ready to deal with this. "Alright you need to return to headquarters, you'll get your orders there, forget about the boy as well. You need to focus on stopping the Titans," he told them.

He watched as the others went, before finally leaving himself moving towards toe headquarters using the ODM gear as fast as he could, this day has been shit, and it will only get worse, he thought to himself darkly. And Eren was only the first of them to fall, who would be next.

CHANGE POV/ARMIN

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He was shaken. Trying to fill up his ODM gear with gas but his mind was not set on that task. All around him people were rushing about getting ready to possibly go to their deaths. But all he could think about was that Eren, his oldest friend, was dead.

"Armin c'mon we gotta hurry and get to the middle guard," Thomas said, kneeling next to him.

Steeling his nerves, he finished filling his gas for his ODM-gear, he looked to his other teammates who had already filled up their gas. "Let's go," He said to his squad, walking ahead of his squad they left the building and began heading towards the middle guard.

They arrived to see madness, dozens of Titans roaming the streets of Trost. The vanguard had been shattered in nearly an instant, the Garrison men fleeing from the Titans and those who stayed getting overwhelmed and eaten. Without the Scouts, they were going to lose, plain and simple. The scouts had been the ones fighting the Titans all this time, those who wished to slack off and live a comparatively easy life joined the Garrison, they did not expect to fight against the endless onslaught of Titans that were coming through the broken gate of Trost.

"We need to help the vanguard!" Thomas stated.

Armin wanted to help them as well but looking at things logically, what could they do? They were cadets, if the Garrison had failed, they couldn't do any better.

"There's no point." Armin reasoned. Why he had been put in charge of an entire squad of his fellow cadets, he had no clue, there were dozens of other more well-suited candidates, and the only thing it did for him was making his body shake to its core. "We're just cadets Thomas; we don't have any more of a chance at surviving than they had."

They had to be rational, if they went rushing in trying to be heroes then Armin could easily predict them all being slaughtered in an instant. Better to hold their position, he just hoped they understood.

His team did not move forward; instead, they stood still, seemingly deciding whether or not to listen to him, thankfully they did, all of them nodding in agreement.

They watched as the vanguard was destroyed, the Garrison running or getting eaten by Titans they watched in horror when the Titans now finished with the vanguard started moving towards them.

"We need to hold our position," he told his squad who were frozen in fear watching as the Titans moved in their direction.

Dozens of Titans were coming their way and he knew that they would be destroyed like the vanguard all of them eaten alive.

The closest Titan was a nine-meter, they could kill it.

"That one! We need to take it out, it's breached the line," he told his squad who like him had already started moving towards the Titan.

It was a mindless Titan, but it was still dangerous. Thomas attacked the Titan first firing his grapples into the Titan and going straight for its nape, but the Titan saw him, and just as he fired himself towards it the Titan's hand shot out grabbing Thomas and squeezing him cracking his ribs.

"Thomas!" Mina yelled, moving at the Titan using her ODM gear.

She cut into the Titan's wrist causing it to let go of Thomas letting him fall to the ground, Mina moved away as the Titan tried to grab her getting to a nearby rooftop while Nack Tierce grabbed Thomas taking him to another roof.

He then moved in after watching his teammates slicing at the Titan's leg in an attempt to disable the Titan, his plan worked, his blades cutting through the back of the Titan's knees sending it to the ground. then shot towards the Titans nape slicing into its neck but the slice was not deep enough the Titan already getting back up from the ground steam curling from its injuries.

More Titans, four more Titans now were coming towards them and if they didn't kill this one, they would be overwhelmed by them. Firing his grapples once again he pulled himself towards the Titan slicing at its nape, this time the cut was deep enough the Titan falling to the ground already beginning to evaporate.

His squad looked like they might start celebrating, but the four Titans moving towards them caught their eye all of them thinking the same thing

They barely took out one, how would they take out four?

The Titans closed in on them, only one of the above thirteen meters, but they couldn't kill them. It was hopeless. It would be just like Shiganshina all over again, hundreds of thousands dead, they would have to retreat. Every ounce of Armin's body told him to do so. Yet in the end, his mind was no longer calling the shots. He didn't know where Mikasa was, probably stationed somewhere with the Rear Guard. She would know exactly what to do in this situation, she could do it all herself. But she wasn't here, only Armin was.

"C'mon, we need to kill these four before they go any further!" He shouted out to his teammates, who looked as terrified as he predicted.

"Yeah, let's kill the bastards!" came the reply from Milieus, unsheathing his blades.

They charged head-on towards the Titans, letting out a battle cry and alerting them of their positions. Four versus four, even odds in any other situation, yet against Titans that was practically impossible odds for Armin and his fellow recruits.

Closing in on the Titans Armin swooped down on one trying to slice into its eye, which to his surprise, actually worked. Milieus came down upon another Titan, slicing into his nape. Armin could only hope he killed it. He tried to escape from the other Titans but was quickly grabbed by the fourteen meters with surprising speed. The Titan's grip practically was crushing his legs as he looked at the dead eyes and eerie smile on its face. Armin screamed.

The Titan would have eaten him if not for Zeremski, who crashed into the skull of the Titan shattering both his blades trying to stab it. It seemed impossible that a shard of the blade would find its way into his throat, but it did, the hardened steel cutting into his flesh with ease.

Armin could only think of his survival, however, using this as an opportunity to escape from the Titan's grasp, cutting through the Titan's thumb and pulling himself away, and landing next to him. They watched as Zeremski choked on his blood, the blade in his throat finally killing him after clawing at his throat uselessly for minutes.

"Taste this, you bastard!" Milieus screamed and in his rage pulled himself towards the fourteen-meter, his blades at the ready he sliced into its throat while Armin watched, shocked by the death of Zeremski.

"Armin get up!" came the shout from Mina who was next to the injured Thomas.

Finally regaining himself he shot his ODM gear firing himself towards the Titan's leg slicing into the leg before shooting himself once again into the air falling into the nape of a Titan cutting into sending the Titan tumbling into a building.

He finished the Titan slicing into its nape with his blades. There were still two Titans here and now another three were coming towards them from the south while a fifth Titan moved at them from the east.

"Milieus! Pull back to Thomas!" he called to his friend who nodded in reply.

Landing next to Mina who was tending to Thomas's wounds, they all knew there were too many Titans, but the fact that they had killed three still amazed him.

"We need to pull back to Sina, if a Titan has come from the east that means that the cadets sent there have failed," he explained to them.

"What about Thomas, we can't leave him!" Milieus told him, looking at their injured friend who had passed out.

"We also would need our gas to be resupplied," Minas told him.

He looked behind him to see that the Titans had now surrounded them, his eyes widening he began to move backward.

"We need to run..." he whispered shakily. The Titan from the east was also closing in meaning they would have to kill six Titans, they couldn't do that.

The Titans reached towards them, their massive hands closing in on them. This was it, they were going to die.

The sudden roar from the Titan from the East stopped the other five, the roar was painfully loud and strangely caught the attention of the other five Titans. A roar was not something you would usually hear from these creatures, they were mainly silent killers, save for the sound of their massive footsteps.

"What the… Why are they leaving us alone?" Milieus asked, completely confused just like him.

The east Titan punched the closest Titan, ripping off its head and sending it flying much to the shock of him and his team. It then proceeded to stamp on the beheaded Titans' nape, killing it.

Armin and the others were so shocked they could not form words, the sight before their eyes were practically something out of a fairy tale. A Titan killing other Titans.

They continued to watch as the Titan punched another Titan in the ribs then using a hook, crushing its opponent's skull, and sending it into a building, the third Titan it grabbed by the throat lifting it into the air with one arm before crushing its nap and dropping the steaming body. The fourth and fifth moved forward at the same time, but the rogue Titan grabbed the first one's skull holding it back, then as the second tried to attack the Titan uppercut it, the Titan's skull exploding around its fist. Pushing the other Titan back it allowed it to charge forward then kneed the Titan, punching it throwing it into the ground.

The Titan walked towards them, and none moved. Looking down at them almost passively it quickly seemed to lose interest and started walking in the direction of HQ. Armin's mind nearly broke however when the Titan turned its head around to the recruits once more and… did nothing. It was almost as if… it was trying to tell them something.

"We need to follow it to headquarters," he told his squad, overcoming his shock.

"Yeah, we do." Milieus replied unsteadily, he then looked down at Thomas. "Do we leave him?" he asked.

"We might have to," He answered, ignoring Mina's shocked face. "We can't carry him with us and unless that Titan is carrying him, we can't help him."

He looked over at the Titan who had already got far ahead of them.

Mina spoke tears in her eyes. "Do we kill him, his injuries will if we leave him or the Titans…"

He was shocked for a moment but understood what she meant, do they leave their friend to Titans or do they kill him and save him from the horror of being eaten by a Titan.

He looked to Milieus who seemed to be having an internal struggle with himself, he looked down at his friend with tears in his eyes before finally speaking.

"You two go, I'll do it," Mina stood up looking at her friend a final time before firing the grapples of her ODM.

Barely audible she spoke. "Goodbye. Thomas." Firing herself forward she went after the Titan.

Looking at Thomas for a moment before turning he followed Mina a single thought on his mind. 'We've lost too many friends today.'

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NOTES

By the way, if anyone was wondering the reason Eren left Thomas was because he could already tell his friend was dead, he had all his ribs crushed, and he didn't have forever so he left him for dead.

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