Asesino321: I'm going to correct you, (And anyone who doesn't understand this) no one knows Christopher is Alto or that Krista is Historia aside from Ymir, Histoira, and Alto. I only refer to them by their true names when I'm describing them (I.E 'Historia did this' 'Alto did that').

blueassassin96: Yeah, by S4 Mina's gonna be a Mikasa level bad-ass.


Stuggle for Trost Part II: The Growing Darkness

Alto watched in morbid horror as Eren was eaten by the Titan. Alto stood, his face darkened. 'Eren...' He drew his blades, his body flowed with rage and a cool idea of what he had to do 'I'll make them pay!' He roared, just then, an Abnormal Crawler jumped on the building, snapping at Alto. Alto grabbed Mina and began to run, crawler hot on their heels along the rooftops. 'Shit! I got to draw it away from Armin!' He thought rapidly, he cleared the area by about 120 meters and then turned to face the abnormal. Dropping Mina as he flipped over it's neck he drew a perfect 10 cm cut across it's nape. The crawler drew to a stop, dead. Then he heard a scream, 'Franz!' He turned around, a 10 meter had Franz in it's grasp. Immediately Alto hooked onto it's neck and slashed it out, Franz quickly crawled out of it's hand

"Thanks Chris! Honestly I thought I was a goner!" Franz thanked him.

"No problem." He looked towards Mina, "Hey Franz. Hanna, can... you do me a favor?" Alto asked, "Please..." He sheathed his blades and ODMed to the top of the roof and grabbed Mina before dropping in front of Franz and Hanna.

"Can you get her to safety? Please I just want her out of here at this point." Alto begged.

"Don't worry. We'll get her behind Wall Rose." Hanna nodded, "Thank you, Christopher."

"Don't mention it." He turned to smile at them, but his voice already sounded like he was a thousand miles away, and his eyes were blank. He drew his blades, and grappled off.

He landed on the roof where Armin was, and found it crowded with Ymir's Squad.

"Oh look, it's Christopher." Ymir said offhandedly. Connie ran up to him,

"Hey, there's other people right? It wasn't a total wipe out!" Connie asked him, Alto looked down, and said quietly,

"Aside from Me, Mina, and Armin everyone else is dead. Including Eren." Connie took a step back, Armin stood,

"Sorry for all the trouble. I'll rendezvous with the rearguard." He said, stepping off the building before Maneuvering away.

Alto turned to Connie, "I'll stick with you guys." He said.

"Right, we need all the help we can get." Connie said.

"Cut the chat. We got orders to advance!" Springer Squad moved out.

"Three titans on the left!" Alto banked with the ODM, hooking straight into a 9 meter's eye he slashed it's nape out, dropping it like a stone.

"Holy crap. Just how many kills?!" Connie asked as he dispatched the second 7 meter. Ymir dropped the third and final Titan, a 10 meter.

"The last one was my fourth." He said coolly. Internally, he was both shitting his pants and dancing with glee.

"Cadets! Fall back!" A garrison member called, "The evacuation is complet- AUGH!" Dropping out of seemingly nowhere a crawler snatched the Garrison up in it's jaws.

They all lept out of the way as the crawler tried snapping Connie. Alto latched onto it's forehead, swinging around he boosted and used the momentum from the ODM to cut a slash across it's nape, however, he came in too fast, and didn't get it deep enough.

'OH SHIT!' Alto rolled out of the way just in time to avoid the crunch of jaws. Connie latched on to the side of it's neck and slashed it's nape out.

"Two kills!" He said delightedly.

"Yeah yeah." He looked at the steaming Titan blood.

"We need to get back." Ymir looked toward the wall.

"Right." Springer Squad traversed through buildings, and after a few minutes, a problem became apparent. Alto noticed it first, his ODM would quit for a second, and then start in time for him to move on. He noticed that Krista's pace had slackened as well.

'Shit...don't tell me were all nearly out of gas!' He thought worriedly, and then he saw something that truly worried him. Connie and the rest of Springer Squad landed on a roof. Armin was sitting in a corner, a traumatized expression on his face.

"Hey. Wh...what's going on?" Alto asked.

"Gas." He said simply, and Alto's fears were confirmed, everyone here was out of gas, or if not, they were close to it.

"Jean! What the hell are we gonna do?!" Connie asked "We can't sit here!"

"There ain't anything we can do. They give the order to withdraw and of course we're all flush out of gas. All because of those cowards in the Supply Squad." Jean said bitterly.

"Where the hell are they anyway!?"

"Well, that one's obvious, they're holed up in HQ, probably lost their will to fight." Alto interjected.

"I understand the feeling, but leaving us out to die like this is just wrong... and now Titans have swarmed the damn place, meaning we can't get the gas ourselves." Jean gritted his teeth, "It's a hopeless situation no two ways about it."

"Then we just have to sink or swim! Take out as many as we can! Hanging here is no different they'll just clump up here too! If we just run we'll end up losing what gas we have left!"

"Connie using his head." Jean scoffed, "That's a first. But do you really think we have the manpower to pull that off? Most of the veterans in the Vanguard have been wiped out, and the elites in the rear have already scaled the wall. And who within the Cadets could possibly take a suicide mission like this? And even if someone did, do you think we really stand a chance in hell against the Titans? And say we do somehow make it to the supply room? It's probably crawling with 3 - 4 meter titans. We'd surely be out of gas by then and be absolutely useless."

Connie's shoulder's slumped, "It really is hopeless..."

Alto looked at his hand, 'Should I transform and try to break through to HQ?' He looked around, Sasha was desperately trying to rally the cadets. He gritted his teeth, walking to the front of the battalion, he yelled.

"HEY! LISTEN UP!" Several Cadets turned their faces toward him, each look of despair cut his heart a little more. "I REFUSE TO STAY LIKE THIS! ARE WE NOT SOLDIERS?! DID WE NOT ENDURE THREE YEARS OF KOMMANDANT SHADIS'S ABUSE!? FOR WHAT?! TO DIE LIKE SHEEP!? I SAY TO HELL WITH THAT! IF WE DIE! WE DIE LIKE TRAPPED AND STARVING WOLVES! WE DIE LIKE CORNERED ANIMALS! BITING AND CLAWING UNTIL EVERY LAST DROP OF BLOOD HAS BEEN DRAINED FROM OUR BODIES! STAND COMRADES! IF WE DIE WE DIE LIKE HEROES!" Alto yelled at all of them. "PREPARE TO MOVE OUT!"

The cadets slowly but surely began to stand. Just then, Mikasa landed on the roof. "Reiner!" She landed next to him. "I get the gist of the situation. And I'm sorry for letting personal feelings intefere but have you seen Eren's squad?"

"Christopher's rallying us for a charge. And Armin's over there." He pointed behind him

"Armin!" She ran to him, "Are you alright? You're not hurt are you?" She asked. "Where's Eren?" A tear traced his way down Armin's face.

Alto turned began to pale, 'Who the hell is gonna tell her?' He nervously checked his ODM. Finally, Armin looked up at her, his eyes brimming with tears, and despite the fact Alto couldn't see Mikasa's face, he knew the grim reality was setting in.

"We." He began, "We're the Cadets of Squad 34, Jaeger Squad. Thomas Wagner... Nack Tierce... Milieus Zeremski..." He finally got to the name that sealed it,

"Eren Jaeger!"

The name rang out across the rooftops, "These four upheld their duties until the very end and perished on the field of battle!" Alto looked down as Armin spoke, 'I'm sorry Mikasa.' He thought to himself.

"Oh god..." Sasha muttered, "Squad 34 was effectively wiped out..." A cadet said to himself. "That's gonna be us if we try to take on Titans." The cadets slowly backed up,

"I'm sorry Mikasa...It should've been me not Eren. I... can't do anything! I'm useless!"

Mikasa placed her hand on Armins, "Armin. Calm down. Now isn't the time to be emotional. Get up." She turned around, and Alto saw something that terrified him. The look on her face wasn't terrifying, or one of rage.

It was the face of someone who was dead.

"Everyone. You heard Christopher. Move out. If we clear the Titans at HQ we can replenish our gas and get over the wall."

"Mikasa, even with your help there's just too many-"

"I can handle it." Mikasa drew her sword. "I'm strong. Stronger than everyone here. As such, I can take on the Titans, even if I have to do it alone! As for the rest of you, you're not only unskilled, but also cowards and wimps! The only somewhat worthwhile person I see here is Christopher for actually being willing to fight to survive! You insult the name of the military, so you can stay here and twiddle your thumbs and watch the real soldiers to work."

"Woah! You guys can't take on the titans all by yourself!" "You'll be slaughtered!"

"If we can't we die. Simple." Mikasa looked at them as if they were insects. Nothing more than bugs to be squashed. "But, if we win, we live. And the only way to win is to fight!" Mikasa turned around, shooting her cables she shot off the roof and headed for the HQ, not far behind her was Alto.

"God damn it. You really have a way with words." Jean gritted his teeth, "I blame you for this Eren!" he turned to the rest of the Cadets. "Hey! We weren't taught to let our comrades fight alone! That is, unless you guys are really cowards then stay out of my way!" Jean shot after Alto.

"Hearing that from him...talk about straight out of the horse's mouth." Reiner and Marco turned and followed Jean

"Move it you cowards, weaklings, and morons!" Sasha yelled as she followed after Reiner.

Mikasa was first, she sliced the nape of a 12 meter, letting it fall limp into a building. Alto swung around another 10 meter, slashing it's nape.

"Quick! Follow Mikasa and Christopher!" He shouted.

"Damn! Mikasa's amazing! How's she going so fast?!" Connie marveled. Mikasa was several meters ahead of the group, surpassing even Alto.

'No...She's using to much gas!' Armin began to panic, 'She's not her usual composed self at all! She's letting adrenaline distract her from grief but at any time she'll-'

The steady flow of gas from Mikasa's ODM finally stopped,

Time seemed to slow down as she began to fall.


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