"This battle shall decide upon the fate of humanity!" Magath yelled at the soldiers.

Marcel looked down on the city they were attacking once again. It no longer looked like that innocent, peaceful town that he destroyed all those years ago. Now it was just another fortified area the Marleyan military had to overcome.

"Our homeland may have fallen" the general continued "but it doesn't matter anymore! The world is in danger!"

Marley was done for indeed. The pure titans on the continent were destroying whatever was left of the once great and powerful country. Even if they managed to push the titans back, Marcel doubted that the other nations would just sit and wait for them to rebuild.

This time, it was about vengeance.

They took away his little brother and they would pay.

As the parachuters were falling, a bright flash of light was seen in the very centre of Shiganshina. It was the smiling titan.

"This is the female titan!" Magath shouted out "this woman took away her power from one of ours! She was the one who transformed the innocent civilians of Liberio into man-eating monsters!"

"No mercy for the enemy!"

Marcel didn't have anything against Dina. He understood that she was doing this to save her people. But at the same time, he couldn't just forget that Porco was one of her victims.

"Galliard! Braun!" The general ordered "Go!"

The two young warriors nodded and jumped off the board.

'From now on, we're even' Marcel thought as he took out a knife and cut through his open palm.

Another flash of light erupted just above the city. From the fumes, two titans emerged.

As they landed down, they looked at their opponent. She already took a battle stance, all so familiar to the two young men.

'You're even copying her style' he thought as he charged right at her.

The smiling titan was a tough opponent, especially with Annie's moves. One of her powerful kicks had sent Reiner flying far away. She tried to throw another one right at his face, but he skilfully evaded her hardened shin. Instead, he latched onto her leg and tried to crawl upwards to bite her real body out.

However, before he managed to do just that, something unexpected happened.

A barrage of rocks flew right at him.

As he looked towards the direction they were thrown from, he noticed that the beast titan was standing just above the outer gate.

'Zeke' Marcel thought with malice 'you traitor...'

He brought himself out of his stupor just in time to dodge a powerful kick from Dina.

Suddenly, there was yet another flash of light that gathered the attention of everyone.

The attack titan was standing just in front of the inner gate.

Eren started to run towards the beast titan.

'What are they trying to do?' The jaw titan thought as he looked at Dina, who happened to be right behind him.

As he tried to overpower the female, he suddenly heard sounds of swishing. The scouts were here.

Sasha and Connie appeared, and immediately sent a few thunder spears right at him. Not wanting to experience the iron rods, Marcel tried to retaliate. He looked at how the others were doing.

Reiner was desperately trying to stop Eren. All of a sudden, the spikes made of crystal erupted from earth, immobilizing the armoured titan. As his fellow warrior tried to free himself from his prison, Eren started running yet again.

Suddenly, a powerful shell hit the attack titan right in the head.

Pieck was crouching on the other side of the wall, with the armoured gun on her back. It appeared that they managed to load it just in time.

The victory, however, was short lived, because another barrage of rocks hit Pieck's position right after.

'Pieck!'

The steam was raising from whatever was left of the girl. Marcel doubted that Zeke got her, yet he couldn't really know if she was fine, for the moment.

He looked at the female titan who once again, charged at him.

'I need to end this' the jaw titan thought as he evaded the initial kick.

However, instead of dodging her following punch, he let her launch it.

Just before the hardened fist hit his skull-like face, he bit right into it. The element of surprise was so great that the smiling titan didn't manage to avoid Marcel severing her whole arm.

'This will have to do' he thought as he left the wounded form of Dina, to try and stop Eren.

Before he got to the headless body, a familiar wave of energy erupted just to the side. From the cloud of smoke, the second attack titan emerged.

'Just how much energy does he have?'

He desperately tried to jump at him, but another crystal spike launched from the ground, right at him. However, he wasn't as slow as Reiner, and actually managed to jump on the spearhead.

Marcel proceeded to use it as leverage and thanks to that, he landed right on the surprised attack titan.

'This time, the victory's mine!' He thought as he bit down on Eren's next.

Just as he was about to rip his friend out of his titan form, yet another barrage of rocks got him.

As Marcel laid on the ground, he noticed that all of the airships were falling. They must have been Zeke's priority.

While Eren continued running, he once again looked at the position of the beast titan.

'As long as he's there, we have no chance.'

Marcel turned to look at Pieck. Instead of the cart titan, he could only see its skeleton. However, something seemed unusual. The cannon was still on the skeleton's back and the jaw titan swore he could see movement there.

Suddenly, the beast titan was shot right in the neck.

The crew was just pretending to be dead. The fumes from the dissolving titan form served as a smokescreen. And it has paid off.

A moment later, the giant body of Zeke's titan fell to the ground with a loud thud.