A/N: Phew! Two chapters in a single day! So! How'd you like the music addition I added last chapter? Leave your thoughts in the reviews (please review I'm a comment pig)

TheMist33: To be honest I don't think anyone likes Woermann.


The Retaking of Trost Part I: The Counterattack Begins

"Nope! Not any of you!" Pyxis spits out his drink on the titans clawing at the wall below them. "I wouldn't mind being eaten by a titan. If it was a sexy lady one!" He kept walking

Down below, Wellman was fuming, "What's the commander thinking? Going up their with them with no guards when we don't even know what they are yet!"

"I don't know sir. The commander's ideas have always been beyond our comprehension." Rico replied

"Captain. All Squads have been assembled." A soldier came up to him.

"Good. Good." Wellman muttered. He looked up at Pyxis 'What are you thinking Commander?'


Word had quickly spread throughout the ranks that the Brass had a plan to reseal Trost.

"What's the brass thinking?" "Going into Trost is suicide!" "We can't seal the hole! All we can do is defend Trost's gate!" "They just want glory!"

"I..have to return to that hell?" Daz asked of no one. "SCREW THIS! YOU GUYS EXPECT US TO LIVE AND DIE BY WHATEVER COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH! I WANT TO SEE MY FAMILY!" He yelled crying.

"You!" A Garrison Soldier named Lobov turned to him. "Did I hear you correctly? You want to abandon your mission?!"

"That's right! This is pointless! It's just a mass suicide!" Daz cried.

"Have you no respect for humanity?! I can execute you where you stand?!" Lobov began to draw his blade.

"It's better than going back there!" Daz began to draw his own.

Alto looked around 'All I can assume is that they're going to try to use Eren's Titan Power to seal the hole.'

"I hope someone rebels over here as well..." One girl muttered.

"I know. I'd at least like to chose how I die." Another agreed.

"You!" A Garrison soldier stalked over to them,

"It was a joke!" One of them squealed in fear.

"Do it!" He hissed.

"What?" She was confused.

"Be loud! Rebel and get the others to join in! Then we can leave this shithole!" The man insisted. "Listen. Lot's of us in the Garrison don't want to die either!"

"Leave and go where?" Jean turned to him,

"Listen man I just want to see my daughter!" Several paces behind them, Lobov and Daz we're still goading each other on. Barely noticing that two figures had made their way to the top of the wall in front of them. Pyxis cleared his throat.

"ATTEEENTIOON!" Pyxis roared, causing everyone to freeze in their tracks. "I shall now explain the mission to retake Trost! The objective is to seal the hole created by the Colossal Titan!"

Everyone looked at him like he'd just said they needed to draw their blades and stab themselves. "Seal the hole?" "How?"

"On that note. Let me introduce Cadet Eren Jaeger! Thanks to new cutting edge science Jaeger can fabricate and control a Titan body at will. The cannon fire you heard earlier was a test of his regeneration abilities pre-operation."

"Hey. I don't know anything about that! Am I too stupid to get it or something?" Connie asked.

"Shut up idiot they're talking!" Ymir hissed at him.

"To that effect! Cadet Jaeger will become a Titan in front of Trost's landmark boulder. Carry it to the gate, and proceed to use it to seal the hole! Our job will be to protect him as he does this!"

"Lift that rock?" "Has humanity finally learned how to control Titans?"

"It's a lie! I won't die for a plan I don't even understand! We aren't pawns for you guys to sacrifice!" Daz yelled at them.

"He's right!" "A human weapon?" "He's got to be lying!" "He thinks we're idiots!" "I won't die here!" Slowly people began to desert.

"Hold on Daz! You'll get the death penalty" Marco grabbed his shoulder but Daz threw him off.

"No! I'm spending my last hours with my family!" Daz ran.

"This is mad." Rico murmered,

"If we don't do something there'll be chaos." A soldier said. Wellman whirled around on the deserters.

"Ready to die traitors!?" He began to draw his blade and slashed at the nearest deserter, who quickly parried the slash with his own. Several other fanatics engaged the deserters, only adding to the panic.

"SILENCE!"

Everyone halted as Pyxis yelled out over them.

"Anyone who decides to leave does so with my blessing! Anyone who has faced the Titans should not be subjected to that same horror again!" The deserters continued walking, encouraged by this.

"And anyone who wishes that same fear upon their relatives may also leave!" Pyxis yelled out over them. Suddenly, the man who tried to incite the two cadet girls paused, an image of his daughter being eaten flashed through his mind.

"I...can't do that. My daughter is everything to me..." He slumped his shoulders and slunk back into formation.

"Four years ago, we launched the Wall Maria retrieval operation! However, that was no more than a thinly layered front for an exercise at population control. We only accepted this fiction because it gave us a better chance at life! All of humanity bears the weight of that sin! Let me tell you now the land within Wall Sina will not support even half of the population now living! If we must die LET US DIE HERE!"

Some time later...

"Form up! The decoy operation begins in 2 minutes!" A Garrison officer shouted along the ranks of assembled cadets and soldiers alike. Armin ran to them, huffing exhaustedly.

"Just in time, we're about to start." Alto walked over to him.

"R-right." He stuttered out.

"Cadets! Take positions!" The officer shouted.

"Yes sir!" Garrison soldiers and cadets dived off the wall, before grappling about 30 meters up the wall. Far enough away from the tallest Titans, but close enough to scare the living daylights out of them.

"Remember! We're only here to lure them! Don't try to play hero!" Armin shouted at the cadets.

Alto had a different job, "Hold it! Let it come closer!" He advised the frightened cadets as a 13 meter approached, "Steady...Steady..." The titan reached out.

"NOW! RUN!" The group of cadets scatter as it lunged for them. Running after the cadets, they led it into the corner, where it soon clumped up with the rest, behind them, a blinding light appeared near the Trost boulder.

"It's begun." Alto said as he stuck to the wall. Lightning slammed down and a bright yellow light exploded and out of it materialized the Attack Titan. Roaring it dropped from the air where it materialized in front of the boulder. Titan steam emanating from it's body. Alto couldn't see much from his vantage point on the wall but he could see the figure of the Attack.

'Is he going to do it?' Alto wondered.

Then his hope turned to despair as it threw it's arm into where he assumed was a soldier.