Notes
Sorry, this Chapter was a little late, but here it is enjoy.
POV/MIKASA
She moved forward, buildings passing by faster than she could count, she had left the rear guard along with several others to slow down the Titans. It had happened so fast, the vanguard had been broken, then the middle guard, and with only several cadets making it back their fears had been confirmed, the cadets were stranded with little to no gas left, and the headquarters overrun with Titans the cadets were going to be left to die.
But she and several others had asked to go help the cadets secure headquarters and refill their gas supply, they had been allowed to as the loss of that many cadets would harm the military with no replacements for all the casualties that they had in the past few years.
She was heading towards where the cadets were presumed to be. She had avoided Titans as much as she could making her way to the cadets as fast as her ODM gear could take her. She had failed Eren, she would not fail Armin too.
She dropped on the roof next to a squad of cadets who looked up at her in surprise.
"Mikasa? Why are you here?" One of them asked she did not recognize him
"I'm here to help," she replied, stating the obvious.
Looking around she saw cadet squads on top of buildings with looks of fear on their faces, all of them had now seen the horror of the Titans. Spotting Reiner, she walked over to him ignoring the looks from the other cadets.
"Reiner, where's Armin and his squad?" she asked him.
Reiner replied, a grave expression on his face. "They haven't returned, I heard from another squad that they held their position longer than the rest of them. Supposedly taking down three Titans. The other squads left, and Armin's didn't follow."
It took her a minute to realize that Armin might be dead, just like Eren. She had not been able to save him. But she had to make sure.
"What street were they assigned to?" She asked him, determined to find them.
"Mikasa, are you mad. It will be overrun with Titans like everywhere else, when we pulled back there were dozens of them," Reiner exclaimed.
"I have to try, so, where were they?" She asked him again.
I can't tell you that, you'll just go get yourself killed... I'm sorry." he replied.
She knew he was right, there were too many Titans for her, even if they were alive, they would be surrounded by Titans, far too many for her to fight.
"Hey, we got some Titans coming our way", the shout caught her attention, she as well as many others looked towards the six Titans which were coming towards them.
Was this it? With little gas left the cadets would be slaughtered, she couldn't kill them all either she would run out of gas or get caught by the Titans. Either way, she would die.
"Mikasa!" the voice of Armin shocked her, how did he get away from the Titans?
Turning around she saw Armin walking towards her along with Mina and Milieus.
"Armin, where are Thomas and Zeremski?" she asked him. She already knew what happened to Eren, she had heard it from Connie.
"Both are… gone..." Armin replied, sadness filling in his voice.
"But we brought help of some sort," he told her pointing towards a seventh Titan which was running towards them. The Titan seemed different, unlike most Titans who had deformities this Titan only had a jaw that stretched back further than most, the Titan was also far more muscular than the usual Titan along with that it had glowing green eyes which differed from the typical red.
"Armin… that's a Titan," Reiner replied, shocked.
Armin shook his head then replied. "No, this one is different, it ignored us and fought the Titans attacking us. It killed them," he pointed towards the Titan. "Look."
She looked at the Titan watching it run past the cadets, its eyes glowing green, the fifteen meters ran straight at the other Titans.
The fifteen meters came into contact with an eight-meter Titan, unlike all other Titans, this one attacked to eight meter its fist swinging into the Titan's face knocking it down in an instant. It then finished the Titan by stamping on its nape steaming blood splattering onto the ground.
The cadets were all shocked, most of them also confused at what was happening before them, a Titan fighting Titans was unheard of and a
The Titan continued to fight, it kicked the closest Titan its foot connected with the smaller Titan with such force that the Titan was sent meters up into the air leaving a trail of steam behind as it went.
It came up against its next opponent, wasting no time the rogue Titan punched its opponent down the hit crushing its adversary's head. The Titan fell to the ground steaming but within seconds it was getting back up. The rogue Titan finished its foe with a punch to the nape.
She ran to the edge of the building and jumped off using her ODM gear to pull herself closer to the Titan battle.
"Mikasa where are you going?" Armin shouted to her. She ignored him, using her ODM to land next to the rogue Titan which did not seem to be aggressive towards her or anyone else.
The Titan glanced down at her before its eyes once again set upon the four Titans before them. She watched the Titan move forward and attack the closest Titan, the rogue Titan's fist colliding with the body of a Titan shattering the ribs of the Titan.
She shot her ODM gear forward flying towards another Titan dodging its hand as it tried to grab her, she shot past the head of the Titan and into the air then pulled herself down and cut the Titan's nape. The Titan followed her as she charged against her next opponent slashing its trapezius then spinning and slashing its nape with the skill that most cadets would never reach.
The rogue Titan moved in punching the closest Titan, the Titan fell into a building, its arms flailing as it tried to grab hold of something. The rogue Titan left it and moved in on its final foe.
Seeing the Titan starting to get up, she fired herself into the broken building and at the steaming mess that was a Titan. Her blades cut cleanly through the Titan's nape, she quickly used her ODM to pull herself out of the building and land on top of a non-broken structure.
The rogue Titan finished off the last Titan grabbing both its bottom and top jaw and pulling them apart with ease the blood of the Titan splattering on the buildings nearby. The rogue Titan finished off its opponent by biting into the nape, ripping the back of its neck apart.
The Titan stood still for a moment looking distantly at the sky, but the Titan then left walking in the direction of the headquarters ignoring all the cadets who looked just as surprised as she was.
Using her ODM gear she returned to Armin and the rest of his squad who were looking at the Titan.
"It's going towards headquarters and… ignoring us," Reiner stated, looking shocked from the recent events.
"We need to follow it." Armin told them, "It's going to kill the Titans at headquarters, if it does, we can refill our ODM and retreat to wall Sina."
"Are you mad?" Jean said "If we follow it, it could kill all of us. You saw how easily it killed those Titans."
She quickly grew bored of the conversation and looked at the Titan who was still moving towards headquarters.
Well, she thought, may as well follow it.
"You can do whatever you want, but if we're going to survive, we need to fight," she told them before running towards the edge and shooting her grapples pulling herself forward and into the air.
She heard Jean shout several seconds after she had left, but it was distant, the cries of all the cadets went up after him but she did not turn to see if they were following her, she just kept moving forward.
The headquarters was in full view now, Titans were crawling all over it and the rogue Titan was also there standing before the building unmoving.
Seeing a Titan moving in on the rogue Titan she decided to help it, firing her grapples at the nearby Titan she swung down on it, her blades cutting easily through the Titan flesh which released steam as it was cut open.
Firing her grapples once again she pulled herself towards the headquarters window avoiding the rest of the Titans as she turned, she saw the rest of the cadets who were not too far behind her.
She smashed through the window landing in the empty room with glass shards all around her. The other cadets smashed through the other windows, relief on their faces.
The last of the cadets came through the window several minutes later, but they had lost more than a quarter of their number on the way here. Most of them probably ran out of gas or were grabbed by Titans and killed, either way, it was a painful way to go.
The ground shook violently as what sounded like a Titan was slammed into the ground.
Sounds like the rogue Titan is here, she thought to herself.
She watched as cadets left the room most likely not wanting to get stuck in the Titan fight, she glanced out the window seeing a dozen Titan moving towards the rogue Titan, who was fending them off with… Crystallized hands? She blinked shocked from the revelation, but this was real, the Titan's fists were hardened, a crystal-like material now covered the Titans' knuckles.
Why was this Titan so different? She left the room finally following the rest of the cadets who were all circled Armin who seemed to be explaining a plan.
"First, we use the lift to lower a squad of people down into the room, they should attract the Titans in the room towards them. We can use the firearms to blind the Titans once they get close enough," he explained to them.
"Seven people who will be hiding on the ceiling can then drop down and finish the Titans by slashing their weak spots. Everything rides on this attack including all our lives. They have to kill the Titans in one stroke and all at once. We have to have the best of us do this… I'm sorry to put all this on their shoulders," Armin finished.
"No problem," Reiner replied to Armin, the shock from earlier is now gone.
"The risks are the same no matter who fails. If one person fails. We all die," Annie told them emotionlessly.
The cadets quickly started loading up the rifles while others prepared the lift, most of them were terrified it was possible that one of them could fail, and if they did everyone would die.
She walked over to Armin who was loading his rifle with gun powder.
"It'll be ok," she told him optimistically. "Have confidence, you can lead people where they need to go. That ability has saved my life and not to mention Eren's."
"It has? When?" Armin asked her.
She was about to speak but was interrupted by the call of Milieus who was at the lift with a rifle in hand.
"The lift is ready as well as the rifles, let's go." He called them.
Armin stood up along with many other cadets who all had the same expression on their faces, she expected them all to be terrified, but they seemed optimistic even hopeful.
"You're just not aware of it yet… I'll tell you more later," she told him.
She walked silently down the stairs ignoring the conversation which was happening between the others.
They quickly made their way to the rafters, the ground shaking beneath them as they walked.
The lift creaked as it was lowered, along with the cogs the Titans heard them as it descended. Every sound made in the room echoed, the tension built as the Titans all turned to see the lift, now only several meters off the ground.
They moved almost silently. The only sound now was the breathing of her comrades and the scuffing of the Titan's feet as they moved towards them.
If one of them failed, then they would all die painful deaths at the hands of the Titans.
She and the others waited for the signal, every second the tension in the room built and it quickly became unbearable.
"NOW!" The shout from Armin was followed instantly by the blasts of the rifles that blinded the Titans and sent blood all over the room. The Titan's eyes poured out steam as several fell backward but all of them kept their balance.
Upon hearing the gunshot, she and the other five jumped from the rafters and all of them descended on the Titans below them, their blades at the ready only one thought on their mind.
Die.
CHANGE POV/EREN
The Titan's skull caved in around his fist, steam released from the wound of the once Eldian. The Titan fell to the ground, smashing the stone beneath it.
Dammit, why are there so many?
He swung his hardened fist at another Titan, upon contact the Titan's neck ripped like paper, decapitating the Titan within an instance. He stomped on the nape of the Titan killing it.
Standing up to his full height, he saw just how many Titans there were. And they all were coming here due to him and the cadets, he couldn't fend off all of them the would overpower him, and unless he could find Dina in her Titan form then he couldn't control them. And as far as he knew she was not in Trost, she was most likely wandering in Maria far from here.
He felt something grab his leg and bite into the flesh. Looking down he saw a four-meter Titan eating at his Titan's leg. He stamped down on it squashing the Titan beneath his foot as the thousands of Colossus Titans had done to millions of innocents.
A Titan charged towards him from behind while two more came from the front, turning around his fist collided with the Titan sending it sprawling to the cobble.
One of the Titans jumped onto him biting into the top of his shoulder, too close, he thought to himself.
He quickly elbowed the Titan, throwing it off of him. As the Titan fell, he turned and punched through the Titan's neck as it charged him for a second time. Removing his fist, he body shotted the second Titan then punched it down with a second punch, he then defeated it with a stamp to the nape.
Several more Titans approached him, all of them below thirteen-meters. He quickly punched the closest Titan down, throwing it to a building while the second one opened its jaws trying to bite him. He grabbed the Titan's face with a single hand and crushed It, spraying Titan blood everywhere.
The third and fourth rammed into him at the same time but both too weak to push him to the ground, he was able to list one up and choke slam it into a building while crushing the other's neck.
He looked around seeing Titans still moving towards him, they were coming from all over most of them being drawn by the cadets and him.
A twelve-meter Titan rushed him alongside a six-meter, both had their jaws wide open and were bloodthirsty. Punching the twelve-meter Titan his fist shattered the teeth and jaws of the Titan, while the six-meter tore into his leg.
His hand swept down grabbing the six-meter and pulling it off his leg which had steam coming off of it. He held the struggling titan in his hand for a moment looking into its rage-filled eyes. Through the Titan, the Titan found its mark which happened to be another Titan. They collided with such force that the larger titan fell back, toppling into a building behind it.
Another Titan neared, this time it was faster but not fast enough. It was caught in an uppercut which broke its bottom jaw in two. The Titan collapsed, but not for long springing back up a murderous rage in its eyes.
He punched the Titan again throwing it to the ground, the Titan tried to get up again but was killed having its nape crushed beneath his foot.
He finally saw the cadets leaving the building many of them looking at him and the steaming bodies of the Titans around him. He heard Jean shouting to the rest of the recruits though it was not what he wanted to hear.
"We need to retreat to Sina, we can't take this Titan with us. C'mon!" Jean shouted to them, it seemed many agreed with Jean most looking relieved that they would no longer have to face the Titans.
He needed their help if he was going to seal Trost, this is when having a speaking Titan would help, he thought to himself.
He roared, catching the attention of the recruits who all looked at him. He pointed towards the hole in Trost, the cadets were all looking shocked that a Titan seemed to be trying to communicate with them.
"Is he trying to lead us to the hole in Trost?" Armin asked.
"It seems so," Mikasa replied, staring at his Titan.
"Are you mad! If we go, there we'll die! We have to retreat to Sina." Jean yelled to them.
"But if there's a chance we can seal Trost then we have to take it." Armin fired back.
"We can decide for ourselves, those who want to retreat to Sina can… And those who want to try and seal Trost can. I'm going to Trost the rest of you can make up your own mind." Reiner told them.
He turned and started moving towards Trost's gate knowing that at least some of them would follow him into battle. He avoided the Titans instead moving forward ignoring the cries of the cadets from behind him.
He saw Mikasa fly past him soon joined by other cadets who were now seemingly all following him towards the hole in Trost.
The cadets eyed him warily, most of them still not trusting him. They had their ODM gear filled but even with that many would die trying to help him, they didn't have the experience or the skill to match a horde of Titans.
They quickly arrived at the gate which had Titans all around it, all of the Titans were walking aimlessly but as soon as one looked at him, the rest soon did and with that he and the cadets now had a dozen Titans staring at them. And unfortunately, with all the cadets here along with him, they would attract most of the Titans in the area.
He couldn't save them all, but he could keep moving forward, but he could avenge them.
Notes
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