Survivors of Another Race

Chapter 1

The Day Everyone Remembers

Aomine awoke to the sound of a metal coil retracting and boots landing on grass. He lazily opened his eye and saw that Momoi was standing in front of him with her hands on her hips, and with an annoyed expression. He let out a sigh and sat up against the tree he was resting on. With an annoyed grunt he turned towards his childhood friend.

"Any particular reason you decided to wake me up?" Aomine asked, while scratching the back of his head.

Momoi crossed her arms, the movement caused the two metal boxes around her waist to sound. "We're supposed to be assisting the Garrison Regiment with wall maintenance. It's our last assignment before choosing our own regiment.

Aomine let out a sigh. He hated the world he was born into. Hiding behind walls was not something he would consider happy. Granted he was happy the walls existed, it kept the monsters on the other side from entering. The only way of venturing outside of the walls was basically suicide and no one was willing to do that. He glanced at the emblem on his shoulder, the emblem of a cadet joining the military. He had wanted to become a soldier, as it was the only way to see beyond the walls, but knowing what it cost he was having second thoughts.

"I know that, but what's the point. Nothing's going to happen. Besides I already know what regiment I'm going to join."

He knew the choice was simple. He and others in their cadet corps, like Momoi, had taken the top spots in their long years of training. As long as you made it into the top ten, you had shot at becoming one of the Military Police and stay behind the furthest wall. It was the only way to stay safe; not that it mattered too much, but it was better safe than sorry.

"You did get number two," Momoi said with a shrug.

"You got the seventh spot. You joining the MP's too?"

"Don't know yet. But Tetsu gave a pretty convincing talk about joining the Scouts."

Aomine's eyes shot open in surprise. He looked towards Momoi, who silently played with the pink strands of her hair, with concern and worry. "You can't be serious. That's suicide!"

"That may be true, but he seems determined to join them. Regardless that he made it into the top ten."

"Where is that idiot? I'll make sure he doesn't join that suicide squad," Aomine said, prepping his maneuver gear.

"On duty, like the rest of us. I don't know which station though. We were sent out before he was," Momoi answered.

Aomine scowled. "Then I'll just have to check all of them."

Aomine walked past Momoi, but before he could get any farther he felt a tug on his jacket. Aomine turned around to see Momoi staring wide-eyed towards the wall. She then pointed in the direction she was looking and Aomine followed. His jaw dropped open as his eyes widened. He saw massive amounts of steam and two large, red hands grabbing onto the wall. Aomine composed himself and launched himself towards the nearest rooftop. Momoi followed him and perched herself next to him. Then, from the smoke, a large, skinless head loomed over the wall. It's eyes were cast by shadows, but Aomine knew what he was looking at: a titan. However, this titan was different from the ones he was used to seeing, rather the descriptions of them. This one was skinless and seemed to only a head taller than the wall, he did not know of any kind of titan that could be that big. Behind him, he heard the roof tiles shift. He looked back to see that Momoi had fallen to her knees, her hands covered her mouth, and tearful tears were forming. All of a sudden, there was a giant gust of wind and rocky debris was shot in all directions. The gust caused both Aomine and Momot to be thrown from the roof top and onto the stone path under them. Aomine felt the wind got knocked out of him as his vision slowly became black.

—

Aomine sucked in a breath as he regained consciousness. He slowly sat himself up and got reacquainted with his surroundings. He looked behind him, but could not see Momoi. His blood ran cold at the thought of what might have happened to her, but he shook the thoughts out of his head and focused on the problem at hand. Aomine stood up and took a second to regain his focus. He rubbed his forehead and propelled himself with his maneuver gear towards the nearest roof top.

From his vantage point, he saw citizens of Shinganshina running in all directions. Then he saw just what they were running from. As large creature towered over everything, slowly moving forwards. Aomine's eyes widened, this was the first time he was seeing a real titan. A real titan, the thought played over and over in his head, he was seeing a real titan. He watched helplessly as it grabbed a women. He watched the woman plead for her life, but the creature would not listen. It simply opened its mouth and dropped the woman into it. With the closing of it's jaws the woman's screams were silenced. Aomine watched all this happen and could not move a muscle. He tried to steel himself by drawing his blades, but it was no use; he was scared. For the first time in his whole life, Aomine was scared.

A shadow then loomed over him. Aomine looked to his side and saw a titan towering over him, simply staring with it's soulless eyes. He tried to move, he had to move, but his body would not let him. He was too scared to move. It's giant hand grabbed him and it slowly brought him towards it's open mouth. There was nothing Aomine could do, he was paralyzed with fear. Then, in a matter of moments, the titan began to bleed from behind it's neck as a chunk of it's flesh fell to the ground. The titans grip on him loosened and he fell back onto the roof. He heard the sound of roof tiles shifting and next to him stood Momoi, drenched in titan blood.

"Dai-chan, we need help civilians escape before we can go over the wall! It's the orders we've been given!"

Aomine took a moment to register her words before nodding. He stood up, reloaded his blades and followed Momoi into the fray. He could not help but notice the tears in Momoi's eyes.

—-

Kise let out a breath. He watched, perched from a tall building, the monsters that poured through the hole. He knew what his job was and he had to get started. The initial shock of seeing the head of a titan loom over the wall had caused him to become paralyzed with fear. He would only watch at the gate was broken and the debris flew every where. It was only when he finally saw a titan lumbering through the streets that he composed himself. He knew what his real mission was and he had to it fast. He weaved from rooftop to rooftop, slicing at any titan that were in his way. He kept his eyes looking towards the streets making sure he could save as many people as possible. He wanted to find his friends, but he knew they were likely making sure the civilians were kept safe too.

However, he kept his eyes on the streets for a split second too long and a large hand caught him. It's grip was tight and the collision had caused for his blades to break and he had no way of reloading them. He looked towards the face of the titan that caught him, it had short, black hair and it had an emotionless expression. He watched as it opened it's mouth and slowly bring the blonde towards it. Kise let out a humorless laugh, at least he was dying in order to let others escape. Normally he would screaming, pleading for his life, but this was not the case. He simply accepted his fate and waited for a moment that would not come.

The titans grip on him loosened as it began to fall towards the ground. He landed on a rooftop and watched as the titan slowly began to decompose. He looked towards the adjacent roof top and saw a tall boy with a single strand of bright, purple hair. Kise smiled and launched himself towards him.

"Thanks for the save, Murasakibara-cchi."

"Oh, you were about to be eaten," Murasaibara said, lazily.

Kise let out a sigh and rolled his eyes. "Anyways, we have to make sure we save as many people as possible."

"I know. At least I won't be bored," Murasakibara said, before he launched himself towards the nearest rooftop.

"Oi, wait for me!"

The two continued their surveillance of the streets, taking down any titans that were near civilians. However, for as many as they would kill, ten more would take their place. The two landed on a rooftop and took a moment to catch their breaths. Kise wiped the sweat from his forehead and surveyed the surrounding areas. He could see members of the Garrison Regiment doing their best to kill titans and herding civilians towards the gate in order to escape. He pitied them to an extent as they were all caught unaware by the horde of titans, but they still scrambled to figure out what to. He face palmed and let out a humorless laugh, he criticizing the regiment he wanted to join.

"If you're rested up, we need to keep going. A lot of civilians have been evacuated, but there's still a lot of titans," Murasakibara said as he launched himself towards another rooftop.

"Hey! Could you stop with leaving me behind?"

—

Akashi looked on from the top of the wall, his cadet jacket was on his shoulders, fluttering with the wind like a cape and arms crossed. He had watched the events unfold from the opposite wall. He watched with an unflinching, cold gaze. He had been ordered to go out and save people, but he knew doing that was suicide. Akashi was not one to follow orders from a scared superior. Unless that superior was giving him order that he knew were not crazy, he would follow them without question. He had told this to the solider giving him the order and he wanted to argue that he was disobeying a direct order, but with a single cold glare form Akashi's heterochromatic eyes silenced him.

He watched as countless soldiers shot from rooftop to rooftop either killing titans, attempting to kill a titan, or being killed by a titan. He watched on with cold indifference, the only ones who he knew were still going to be alive were his fellow top ten cadets. The thought almost made him smile.

He focus on the destruction in front of him was broken when he heard the sound of metal coils retracting. He turned his head to the side and saw a young man with a strand of green hair and glasses. He brushed of the blood from his clothes with his hands before turning towards the redhead.

"I see you're still up here," the young man said, pushing up his glasses.

Akashi nodded. "I wasn't about to jump into the fray with the frantic orders we were given, Shintaro."

Midorima sighed. "Only you can get away with doing this."

Akashi turned back towards the city taking his final sight of it. He knew they would soon give the order to evacuate then shut the wall for good. "Are the others still alive?" Akashi asked, not turning away from the city.

"I think so. I saw Kise and Murasakibara not too long ago. The others, I'm not so sure."

Akashi gave a satisfied nod. "This city is lost. We should begin the evacuation of the soliders. Well, what's left of them."

Akashi then turned away from the city, with his jacket blowing in the wind. Midorima rose an eyebrow. "You don't care for those who laid down their lives?"

"I do, but what can we do about it now."

Akashi launched himself with his gear off the wall and towards where all the soldiers were gathering in preparation for their retreat. Soon after, Midorima landed next to him. The two saluted their superior officer who officially gave out the order to retreat and to close the gate.

—

Kuroko had finally made it to the rendezvous point with the other soldiers. He panted as he stood up straight. He was lucky enough to never have been spotted by a titan, but also could not help but stop and try to save as many people as he could. Seeing so much death around him was not going to stop him from saving people, instead of himself.

He looked through the group of soldiers all desperately trying to move the evacuation with as much haste as they could. Civilians were being loaded onto boats as fast as they could, some boats went over the amount of people they could hold.

Kuroko's mind drifted towards his fellow cadets that were stationed in Shiganshina just before all hell broke loose. He knew, in the back of his mind, they were all going to be fine, but a part of him still worried. He looked through the crowd of soldiers for his friends, but could not see them. He could not even see Murasakibara, who always towered over others.

As the gate was slowly closing, Kuroko could hear high pitched screams and cannon fire. Kuroko could faintly see a titan barreling down the street towards the gate. He was caught by surprise when a cannon ball seemed to just bounce off it. As the gate slammed shut, Kuroko moved on instinct. He shot two cables towards the wall and perched himself on it. Then as if out of a nightmare, the titan burst through the gate. Debris and smoke flew in all sorts of directions, but Kuroko could see the titan clearly. It had short, grayish, blonde hair and pupil-less yellow eyes. However, its most distinct feature was it seemed to be covered in boney armor. The titan let out a gust of steam, causing Kuroko to shield his eyes. When he opened them again, the titan seemed to have disappeared and all that was left was a gaping hole in Wall Maria.

Kuroko's jaw hung open. He knew it was only a matter of time before titans began to pour in and they had no way to plug the hole. Kuroko looked down towards soldiers below, they were all scrambling to find a way to escape. He turned back towards the top of the wall and shot himself towards it. When he landed, he saw a decimated city. Fires raged, buildings destroyed, bodies littered the streets. Kuroko gritted his teeth and reloaded his blades, he was ready to jump back into Shiganshina and kill more titans.

As he was about to jump, when he felt a tug on his jackets collar. He looked back to see Momoi, clutching her hands against her chest. She looked at him with sadness.

"Momoi-san."

"Don't, Tetsu. There's no point now," Momoi said with sadness in her voice.

Kuroko ignored the sadness, he was too frustrated that someone was stopping him from going out. "No point? You saw what happened! I have to do something. A titan just doesn't disappear into thin air!"

"But going back is suicide!"

Momoi's words stopped him. He looked back towards the battered city and could see lingering, lumbering titans, looking for stragglers. He tightened the grip on his blades and sheathed them.

"I've made my decision, I'm joining the Scouts. I have to make sure something like this doesn't happen again," Kuroko said, determination etched on his face.

Momoi walked up to him and stood next to him. She looked towards her friend, his light blue strand of hair shined in the sunlight. She grabbed her own strand of pink hair and gave her own determined look.

"I'll join them too. I don't want to be scared again."

Kuroko looked towards Momoi with concern. "You don't have to."

"I want to. Plus, I got to watch your back," Momoi said, turning to him with a smile.

Kuroko nodded in response and the two began their long trek towards Wall Rose.

AN: So, I did what I said I was not going to do, I started another story. I mainly wrote this because during my creative slump, Attack on Titan really helped in getting back into the groove. So much so that I decided to cross it over with Kuroko no Basket. I took a lot of cues from this first chapter from another story called The Evolution of a Miracle by aomomoendgame (wow, just now I realized what that username said). The reason for this is because while reading that one I thought that was the best place to insert the main KnB characters. As of right now, I don't have this story all the planned out so updates will be sporadic, similar to my other stories. But do expect at least three chapter before the year is over. I really want to finish another story I'm working on before I fully dedicate myself to this one. With that out of the way, I do hope you enjoyed this first chapter and if you did follow, favorite, and review. If you have any input on this story feel free to PM me.