Author's Note: Alright folks! Hope everyone had a good and scary Halloween and ready your stomachs for Thanksgiving when it comes!
Also, happy Belated 65th B-day for the king of the monsters! I'm kicking myself for not getting this ready by Nov 3rd.
Now, here is the next chapter, focusing on one of our favorite Titan Shifters and how much has changed in three years. (A lot better than the Manga I hope)
Chapter 1: Another Day.
Fire everywhere. The world is burning. The screams of victims have become silence.
Everyone's gone; Armin, Mikasa, Miki, Sasha, and Anguirus. The bodies of both Man and Kaiju scattered in ruins. In the middle of the cranage stands the cause of this tragedy.
This Kaiju-no, this Demon faces me. Its body shrouded in darkness, it opens its mouth and-
Eren jolted out of bed and took deep breaths as he felt sweat.
He placed his left hand on his forehead as he got out of bed.
"That same Nightmare again."
It's been over a month since he had that dream, Eren tried to figure this out without bothering Miki, she has enough on her plate already. Speaking of which, it's time to get back to his duties.
After putting on his uniform Eren exits his house, and as alway he surveyed his surroundings. It's hard to believe how much has changed in the walls for the past three years, or as it is now being called, New Eldia.
Eren smiled at his home, long ago he never thought to see his old family house again. Nice to be home again, Wished it wasn't just me here. He sighed at that thought.
Then as he's about to take a step, three Kamacurai flew over his ago Eren would've been shocked and ready to fight, but now he rolled his eyes at the three giant insects as he continued onward.
Since the pact with Rodan and his herd a few of those Kaiju stayed in parts of Tanakibo and New Eldia. Many stayed far from public areas, like Titanosaurus, who slept in the large lake near town. Others cause complications, like the Kameobas. Yesterday it slept in the middle of the road blocking people and nearly crushing recently repaired buildings
BY-YA-YA!
But thankfully Jet Jaguar is always ready to lend a helping hand.
"Right on time." Eren smiled as he turned his head to watch the giant robot flying slowly as he guided the train across the high tracks to its destination.
With the Nebulans gone no one knew how to work the technology left behind. Some wanted to destroy it, but there where others who wished to keep it. Perhaps try to make something out of it?
It was decided that since the Gotengo crew had fought against them and knew about their machines, they could help out with reverse engineering them.
Hange was the most insistent on that idea, thus making her the head of the newly made Tech Regiment of the scouts. Their mission; study, remake, or create new technology for the benefit of New Eldia.
And because of that, Levi had to take command over the survey corps. It reminded Eren of his new duties as his second-in-command.
Eren sighed again.
"A lot can change in three years."
While Eren followed Jet Jaguar trying to get its attention he passed the Gotengo as it laid between the borders of the town and the wild.
Due to it losing its flight capabilities it remains grounded and serves as a secondary base and temporary home for her dimensionaly displaced crew.
Within the grounded ship Captain Gordon continued is daily workout training with Captain Levi. Naturally, if anyone could observe this they would think those two are trying to beat each other to a pulp.
Levi fell hard with a nasty black eye as Gordon chuckled. "Now that's 12 wins for me! Not bad for an old MMA fighter."
"I still have no idea what that is." Levi spat out a wad of blood as he got up. "And for the final time, this is training. We're not keeping score."
"Keep telling yourself that." Gordon picked up his towel and cleaned up the blood and sweat from his face, then tossed an extra towel for Levi.
"You know, this whole thing would be a lot more interesting if you were using that gear-thing."
Levi smirked a little. "If start using my 3D gear you'd be dead before throwing a punch."
Gordon raised an eyebrow. "Oh really? you think so? Seems to me you asking for another round."
Levi put the towel away. "Maybe later. Right now how are things going with your team?"
Gordon tossed his towel away. "To start off, that crazy scientist of yours; Hange right? Well she's been pestering Rokuro non-stop about how Jet Jaguar works."
Levi rolled his eyes. "Still at it huh? Remember how she got a nose bleed about learning more about robots?"
Gordon laughed a little. "Yeah. Anyway, Kazama is still keeping the rest of our soldiers in shape. I think he's interested in trying his hand at those gear things of yours."
Levi nodded. "Well they're welcome to it."
"Good. Miyuki, Shiragami, and Tatopoulos have a list of potential things to build but I barely pay attention half the time they explain their nerd talk."
Levi recalled having to hear those three explain some of the functional tech they found. They may not be as crazy as Hange (Thank god) but they sure do talk a lot.
Gordon went to the mini fridge and groaned at some of the food containers, nearly all of them with words on the lids written in black pen. RANDY'S PROTOTYPE FOOD.
"Oh, Hernandez is still trying to recreate food from our world."
Levi kept his stoic expression but he managed to shiver a little. "That…BLT still has a bad taste in my mouth."
"Yeah. Kid's good with computers but bad at cooking." Then Gordon asked, "Anyway that's it from me, how about your people?"
Levi took a sip of water. "Just doing what yours are doing so far, but I did give Yeager and Arlert the task of training the latest recruits of the new Kaiju Corps.I think they are going to teach how to deal with some of the smaller monsters."
"Alright cadets, listen up!"
The four new recruits all stood in attention, but many where nervous around the three Baby Zillas sniffing around and playing on a cart. Armin stood between the cadets and the infant kaiju.
"Now," Armin continued, "The first thing you're going to learn is how to deal with the smaller ones." Armin stood in front of the cadets as one of the infants started sniffing him and tried to poke its nose in his shirt.
"These are babies, but they can still be dangerous." Armin gently nudged the infant away as he spoke.
"If you all read Hange's Kaiju guide, you should remember the main type of food the Zillas eat?"
"Uh, fish?" responded one of the cadets as she watched one of the babies nervously, thinking that one of them might take a bite of them.
"That's right." Armin pulled out a small capsule and faced the three kaiju. He raised it and pressed down on the top releasing a spray that stopped them in place. They started sniffing the air around them.
"This device holds a liquid containing the scent of fish. When pressed it lets out a pheromone,"
Armin moves to the left and sprays the air again, making the babies turn in that direction.
"Now that I got their attention, I'll move them away from the area to a more appropriate location." Armin moved slowly and the babies followed. Armin opened the door, tossed the capsule, and the babies followed.
"Now, the important part is to make sure that you don't spray it on anyone, they might think that human is a fish and will try to eat them."
The cadets nodded. "Good." Armin smiled as he opened the door and pulled out three fishes from his jacket, tossing it in the cart, causing the Baby Zillas to run back inside to feast on the fishes as he pulled out three more capsules.
"Now, which of you wants to try this?" Instantly all four of their faces turned pale.
"Thanks Jet!" Eren waved to the giant robot as it answered with a salute and flew off to continue its remaining tasks.
When the robot was out of sight, Eren turned around looking up at Capital Mitras. He frowned as he remembered a year ago during an attack by a wild Gorosaururs. Ymir collapsed after the fight, and ever since she's been feeling fatigued and hasn't left her and Historia's room since.
Eren figured this was due to the Curse of Ymir, and if his guess was right…
Ymir's life will end soon.
"Eren!"
Eren noticed Armin running towards him, "You're almost late again," Armin panted, "You really need to start getting up early."
"I know, I know." Eren rubbed the bridge of his nose. Armin frowned, knowing what ails his friend.
"That dream again?" Eren glanced at his friend as the two headed to the building. "Eren, I know I keep saying this but we really should go tell Miki about this."
"Armin, there is nothing to tell her about," Eren argued, "It was just a dumb dream."
"A dream that you've been having for a month?" Eren really regrets telling him that.
"Look, if it's about Mikasa-"
Eren stopped and placed his hand on Armin's shoulders stopping him and bringing Armin to his eye, "Armin. I'm. Fine."
ROOOOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
The two friends turned away from each other to the source of the sound coming from the top of the palace.
Itcame from one of the successful Nebulan devices that was reversed engineered. A warning sirean with a small energy source contained in a metal box with simple instructions to press button on it only for an emergency. From its echos spreading across the whole area, it meant only one thing…
A Kaiju attack.
Soaring across the air on a single path, a flock of Giant Condors headed towards New Eldia in the location of where Wall Rosa once stood, ready for a new meal.
"Is it too much to hope that they're a late addition to Rodan's pack?" Armin asked already knowing the answer.
Eren glared at the approaching flock, ready to transform. But as he moved his hand near his mouth he spotted some rough green skin on his arm, with small golden flakes on his hand. His nails were slowly becoming longer.
"Eren?" Armin glanced at his comrade and saw him tremble a little. Before Armin could snap Eren back to reality a large shadow flew over the capital.
Armin knew it was not the oncoming birds, but one of their Kaiju allies…
Rodan.
Rodan flapped in midair as the Condors approached. He let out a roar commanding the flock to leave the humans territory. They either did not listen or care as they readied to swoop down on the small running treats below.
Those stupid birds. If only they knew.
Rodan doesn't give a second warning.
Rodan's spiked horns glowed as he let out his heat beam straight at the flock.
The beam caught them by surprise as half the flock was burnt to death and fell to the ground, some of the survivors either flew away or went to attack Rodan, those brave/suicidal birds charged at their attacker.
Rodan glared at the small flock and he fired another beam at them but this time they saw it coming and quickly dodged it and the beam instead destroyed a couple of the buildings bellow. Thankfully no humans where killed, the same could not be said for the attacking condors, despite some managing to peck and scratch Rodan for once they got close to him, they too met the same as their fallen brethren
Soon enough the smarter ones escaped. Rodan satisfied, swooped down and picked a couple of the burned bird corpses for food for his pack. While on the ground Eren and Armin observed the dead bodies of large birds on top of houses and buildings.
Many people panicked not just about the large dead bodies, but the approach of hungry kaiju ready to pick up some new cooked food, using the crushed houses as plates.
Eren and Armin sighed at this.
"Another day Armin," Eren sighed. "Just another day.
Author's Note: Well this one was short, that is probably what you are all thinking right? Well I'm trying not to make them all to long and trying to make the more interesting chapters longer.
Now the next chapter we will be taking our eyes off of New Eldia and on to Marley and the goings on their…as well as the fate of two certain insect aliens.
