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Edit A/N: Okay, I fixed the repeating chapter, sorry if it confused you!
TheMist33: Probably during the Traitors Arc I have planned!
Music:
1. OxT - UNION
The Retaking of Trost Part III (Arc Finale): Guren No Yumiya
Eren's titan roared before spasming wildly in response to the sudden attack on its main body. Armin bucked up and down as Eren thrashed around, but despite all that, he managed to maintain a white-knuckled grip on his sword.
"Armin stop! You'll get yourself hurt!" Mikasa yelled
"I'll be fine! Leave Eren to me and you go do what you do best! There are loads of other people out there that you could save!"
Mikasa hesitated before ripping her gaze and running towards the four approaching Titans. Armin turned back to the nape of Eren's titan.
"Eren! Can you hear me?! You need to pull it together! At this rate, everyone is going to die! What's a lump of flesh like this got on you! You're Eren Jaeger damn it!"
'Fight it?' Eren wondered dreamily, 'Fight what? What is Armin talking about? I'm tired…'
"Come on damn it! Wake up! We need you Eren! You need to seal the breach!" He panted, his voice hoarse from all the shouting. "Your mom! Remember what the Titans did to her?! You were hellbent on avenging her!..."
"...you swore to massacre the Titans!" Armin pounded on the window of Eren's house.
"You're not making any sense Armin." Eren yawned listlessly, "Open your eyes, mom's not dead. She's right here in front of us."
"Eren, please! You have to push through! I know you're in there! If you don't get up the Titans are going to end us right here!" Armin yelled, continuing to pound on the window.
"Armin...seriously what the hell has gotten into you? What's this 'get up' crap? I don't want to get up to go anywhere. Right here is good enough for me." But slowly, the words coming out of his mouth began to sound wrong, foreign even to himself.
"It's not like...I want to be a Scout."
The Garrison Officer leading their squad screamed as a 10-meter titan closed its hands around him crushing him between its jaws in a spray of blood and organs.
"Well shit! Looks like we're on our own!" Annie said quickly
"Well, fan-fucking-tastic!" Alto groaned.
Connie yelped as he lept over a Titan's hand before trying to grapple up. But his gear skidded off the side of the wall instead of sticking in it. And as the Titan reached down for him, Jean shot his cables, nicking the titan on the middle finger and drawing its attention.
"Jean!"
"Get up the wall!" Jean yelled at Connie 'I'm sick and tired of people dying because of me!' Jean ducked into an alley as the Titan walked behind in pursuit. He smiled and prepared to fire his cables
Click. Click.
Nothing happened.
He tried again, and still, nothing happened, 'No no no! Don't malfunction now!' His face turned pale as he heard footsteps from behind him. He slowly turned around and faced a 5-meter titan. It raised his hand and slammed it down on Jean, who only barely managed to roll out of the way before he was hit.
Meanwhile, Alto was cut off from the rest by a crawler diving in front of him. He managed to slide under its maw as it snapped at him. Rolling out from under it he fired his cables, getting him to safety right as it bit at him again.
'Too close…' He thought to himself.
Meanwhile, Connie, Annie managed to get up the wall.
"Hey, who's seen, Jean?" Annie asked.
"He was distracting a titan so I could get away, that was the last I saw of him!" Connie said.
"Hey!" Mina ran to them, "Have..any of you seen Christopher?" She panted
"Wait, Annie, I thought you were with him!" Connie said.
"Tch! Me? Why me?" She said,
"I'm serious!" Mina snapped, "Where is he!"
Connie panicked, "I-I don't know!"
"Beats me," Annie said.
While swearing, an action contrary to her personality, Mina went down the wall.
"Wait! I see Jean!" Connie pointed him out. "Wait. Why is he just running?! Wait...don't tell me his gear isn't working!"
"Eren...please. For me. Wake up! Remember when we were kids? All we could talk about was the outside world. You know, past the walls! Fields of ice that stretch to the skies, vast tracts of mere sand, the sea! Rocks so big they'd take days to climb! The world my parents wanted to see! I'd always thought...we'd outgrown that dream." Armin's eyes shone with tears. "And that it was sort of sad it never came up anymore, but then I realized: You let it go because you didn't want me to join the Scouts."
"No...I just…" Eren's eyes widened. He slowly got up, the blanket wrapped around him fell off.
"Tell me. Honestly. Even though the first steps beyond the wall could be the difference between a warm hearth and absolute hell on earth. Answer me this: Why? Why risk your life gambling against the possibility of meeting the same gruesome end of countless Scouts or being executed like my parents. Why throw caution to the wind and venture outside."
The light returned to Eren's formerly listless eyes as the illusions of Mikasa, Grisha, and Carla all turned to face him. "What kind of question is that? Don't you dare play dumb? You know damn well why!" He began to raise his voice.
1. "Because the world beyond the wall is my birthright!" he yelled. As he said this, the illusion around him was consumed in the flames of his determination. The ashes of the illusions fading into a conjured wind.
Eren's titan flesh steamed as his wounds healed next to instantaneously.
Armin smiled with a mix of relief and joy. "Eren!"
"Way to drag everyone down. Good job!" He looked out the window and his eyes fell on the body of a fallen Cadet. Or, more accurately, the Cadets bloody but outwardly intact ODM gear.
"Maybe I won't die today…"
Alto sliced the hand of a 13-meter titan as it swept it across the rooftop in an attempt to grab him.
"Find another snack big guy! This one bites!" Alto taunted.
"Captain! That was Yavin! We're all that's left now!" The last member of Rico Squad told Riko. "What do we do?!"
"The one thing we can do! Fall back to the boulder!" Rico yelled.
Meanwhile, Ian and Mitabi were gathered with what was left of their squads. "Report!" Ian ordered.
"5 more titans coming from the gate!" A Mitabi Squad member yelled back
Jean peered out the window and saw the Titan deciding to fall back in search of easier prey. Deciding to make a beeline for it then and there he ran for the Cadets body. Having already dumped his ODM in the house, he began to work on the dead Cadets gear.
"His gear is busted!" Connie and Annie watched as Jean worked on the bloodied mobility gear.
"Hey what's going on?!" Marco walked over to them.
Jean yanked on the ODM straps but they refused to budge. "Argh! Come on work with me here!" Meanwhile, the titan that had apparently fallen back doubled back, having realized Jean had come out of hiding.
1- "Jean look out!" Marco appeared on the side of the titan darting in front of the titan's face and drawing its attention.
"Marco?! What the hell are you doing?!" But Marco didn't respond but instead drew the 5-meter titan away. He gave the bloodied gear a final tug, and it finally came loose. He wasted no time equipping himself
Connie dropped on a rooftop, "Crap! Why'd you have to go play hero!" He said to himself. Annie joined him shortly after.
Alto painted, winded from all the running. Tired, he sat down and closed his eyes, and when he opened them, he found a 13-meter titan glaring down on him.
He barely had time to think or react before he heard a shrill scream and the nape was sliced out in a bloody spray. Standing over the titan was none other than Mina.
"T-thanks. I owe you one." Alto said to her.
She shook her head gently, "No. We're even now, Franz and Hanna told me what you did. Thank you." She replied. "But for now, let's focus on getting out of here."
Jean managed to boost around the titan before he flailed mid-air and fell to the ground.
"You've got to be joking!" Jean tried clicking the trigger, but it barely moved "Why is this trigger so stiff?!" looking behind him, a 4-meter titan began to reach down for him.
"Jean!" Connie springboarded off a roof to the titan's left side, kicking it on the side of the face as he darted to the adjacent rooftop.
"Are you crazy!?" Jean yelled
"You're the insane one! Get the hell out of here!" He dived out of the way as a massive hand slammed into the position he was in. Jean ran and finally pushed down on the trigger, forcing it to boost the gear, but as he looked up for a terrifying moment he looked like a crawler that had leaped up to get him straight in the maw but as it came close to him Annie dropkicked it on the chin, using her gear to add more power behind the kick. Allowing Jean to sail over it as it slammed into the ground.
Dragging against the rooftops, Jean beelined for the wall with Annie, Connie, and Marco close behind in the retreat. Rolling on the top of the wall, Jean managed to land first.
"You dumbasses got a death wish?!" Jean yelled at the three of them.
"Don't even go there, man!" Marco breathed
"You're the idiot who got stuck down there! Don't talk to us about death wishes!"
Annie turned to the city, "Well I'll be damned,"
Giant titan footsteps echoed throughout Trost as heads swiveled to watch what was happening.
Mikasa gasped and whispered, "Eren!"
1- Eren's body steamed as muscles strained and sometimes tore before being instantly healed, creating a perpetual field of titan steam. His green eyes glowed under the shadow of his face, the rock pressing down on his head.
"Mikasa!" Armin landed beside her, "He came out of it somehow! We're set! He'll see the mission through to the end as long as we have his back!"
A shadow crossed Ian's face. "Defend Jaeger at all costs! To the last man if that's what it requires! Eren must and will reach the gate! No titan can be allowed anywhere near him!" He shouted.
"Looks like the mission's back on. Defend Eren!" Jean shouted at the rest of them.
"Seems like Jaeger came through after all. Like father like son." Astell said.
"You know Eren's father?" Alto raised an eyebrow.
"Used to." He'd say nothing more and Alto had more concerning matters.
"Mina! We need to defend Eren!" He said to her,
"Right!" She replied
"I want you two with Eren now!" Ian ordered, when he saw their hesitation he barked, "Hop to soldiers! That's an order!"
Any lingering fear or doubt vanished, replaced by clarity, understanding, and the determination to see the mission through.
However, as all this happened Team Mitabi approached a group of Titans from behind, on foot.
"What the hell is Team Mitabi doing?!" Ian panicked.
"Ugly sons of bitches lost all interest in us! We need to get closer to grab their attention!" They ran towards the titans and began hurling insults.
"Hey! Big guy over here!"
"Walking away?! What you want us to shove these blades right up your smelly asses!?"
Apparently, titans had some kind of ego, because they stopped and turned to face Team Mitabi.
"Well, that did it! Alright, beeline for those buildings!" Mitabi yelled.
"They're insane! Setting foot down there is nothing short of suicide! They get cornered that's it game over!"
Ian's face was etched in a grim mask, "I know. Move out." He said nothing more before jumping off the buildings and activating his gear. "Follow Team Mitabi!"
Armin nearly protested, but Mikasa interrupted him, "Come on! We need to go!"
Ian drew a titan out of Eren's path to the breach.
'Damn...I feel like I'm going to buckle under the weight!' Eren's eyes looked below at Mikasa and Armin, who were running along the ground instead of using their gear, 'Mikasa? Armin?! Get to the rooftops! You'll be killed!" Eren thought desperately as they ran,
"What's the matter? Can't catch me?!" However, a garrison soldier taunted in his brief moment of carelessness, a titan snatched him up and threw him into its mouth with the man still screaming.
"No!" Mitabi looked back, and it proved to be fatal as a titan slammed its hand down on him, flattening him.
"Mitabi!" A soldier called.
Armin's voice echoed in Eren's head, "Why? Why throw caution to the wind and dare to venture outside?"
1- 'Because Armin..we're all born free! Some don't believe it, others try to take it away. I say 'To hell with them!' water like fire, mountains of ice, the whole nine yards! Lay your eyes on that..and you'll know what freedom is!' Ian ran for one of his troops that was about to be eaten, grappling up he ripped the man out of the mouth of a titan before the titan clamped down on Ian, consuming him.
'It doesn't matter how cruel or dangerous the world is!'
Connie rolled out of the way of a titan's feet.
'Fight!'
A titan moved into Eren's path. Another titan stood in front of Eren, only to be attacked by Riko from above,
'Fight!'
"Out of the way!" Rico sliced it's eye out, causing it to fall. Mikasa slid behind the falling titan and cut its nape out as Eren came.
Armin's eyes were filled with tears, "GO EREN!" He screamed, his shout blending with a loud roar given by Eren
'FIGHT!' He slammed the boulder down on the breach sealing Trost once again.
"Hey, Marco!" Alto caught up to Marco.
"Oh hey, Alto!" He turned to him.
"Come on! Eren did it! We need to get to the wall." Alto tugged on him.
"Right..." He gave one last glance toward something. Alto followed his gaze to where Reiner, Annie, and Bertholdt were gathered, talking.
Jean arrived and looked toward the trio, "What are they doing?!" He wondered and yelled, "Hey! You three this isn't the time to manicure your nails! We got to get to the wall!"
Reiner looked startled, and yelled back, "We'll be right there!" And turned around and whispered something to Bertholdt and Annie before heading for them.
"Come on!" Mina beckoned the group over and headed off toward the wall,
Rico's eyes were filled with tears, "Comrades...your sacrifices...weren't in vain." With a shaking hand, she fired a yellow smoke signal, signifying a victory at last. "For the first time...humanity has triumphed against the titans!"
On the wall, a soldier's eyes widened, "They did it! The operation succeeded!"
"Send in reinforcements!" Pyxis replied instantly. "Get the elite team out of there!"
"We need to go!" Rico yelled at them.
"We leave once we have Eren! Armin how is he?"
"Hot! So hot I can't believe he isn't dead or seriously injured after so long! But part of his body has fused with the titan!" Suddenly, a blade sliced his bindings. A girl stood over them.
"Hey! You guys alright?" The girl had slightly tanned skin with golden eyes, and was freckled. She looked up, and slashed a titans hand that was attempting to reach for them.
Suddenly a blur of grey steel and the green of a military cloak finished the titan, and another that had joined it. A man walked on top of it's head
"Mikasa?" Eren whispered then his eyes focused on the man's cloak, 'Wings of freedom...'
1x "Alright. Who's going to explain what's going on here?"
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