Guest: Well, about your first comment, no, Alto will not become like Eren. While he DID agree with the rumbling in a previous timeline and even helped start and perpetuate it, it was because Eren genuinely wanted destroy the world to protect Paradis, and not some Zero-Requiem BS. Also, while I am very much enjoying the Marleyan chapters. I do kind of miss Paradis as well. So I'll be going back to them soon. I just wanted to have a few chapters to set up the Marleyan side of the story.

Super Comrade: I'm glad you're enjoying it!

A/N: Also, I plan for the next release to be two chapters, since the first one is going to wrap up this semi-arc and will be pretty short. Again, PLEASE CHECK OUT THE WIKI! I've written so much information I can't possibly document it all on my own, so please help me out! Or at least leave a comment or post on the discussion/a page on the wiki!


"What the- enemy attack?!" Evangelica whirled to the man.

"Y-yes Ms. Tybur! Enemy bombers have began runs on the city, and we've received reports from the frontline about armored units assaulting the frontal trenches."

"Warchief Zeke." Magath turned to him, "Remain in the city and deal with those bombers! Pieck, assist him. The rest of the shifters need to head to the frontline!"

"Jawohl, Warchief!" The Warriors saluted, before leaving the room.

'Marley is in poor shape…had we the Colossal we could've launched an airborne assault on Arakna and knocked the Olturka Sultanate out of the war immediately. But unfortunately, now we must slug it out in brutal warfare.'


"(Charge!)" An officer shouted from his cupola. The Mid-East 3rd Armored Division continued their advance. The Type Cs took shots at the Marleyan bunkers, cracking them open like nutshells as the shells pierced their armor.

"(For Allah and the Sultan!)" The soldiers screamed, the scene was brutal. An Olturka soldier bashed an Eldian in the jaw with the butt of his rifle before running him through with the bayonet, finishing him off with a bullet while the bayonet was still in his body.

An Eldian ran at an armored car with a suicide vest, screamed: "Heil Marley!" Before exploding.

The Olturka Officer shot an Eldian rushing at him, before grabbing his saber and beheading another. Behind him, a HSA pulled up and gunned down a group of Eldians in front of them.

The Mid-East soldiers swarmed into the trench line. A soldier jumped upon an Eldian soldier, stabbing them straight through the head and pinning them to the wooden braces of the trench. A grenade was thrown in, blowing several Eldian troops to ribbons.

Artillery rained on the battlefield, shattering bunkers and vaporizing troops. A 77mm HE shell pierced a bunker, vaporizing those inside as it exploded.

A group of Mid-Eastern soldiers hefted a machine gun and set it up inside a foxhole. Loading it, they proceeded to mow down a group of Eldians.

Suddenly, there was a whistle as the thundering of thousands of hooves could be heard. Olturka Janissary elite forces bore down on the Eldians, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. The Marleyan lines broke and the Eldian conscripts retreated, their Marleyan officers following close behind.

The Janissaries ran the retreating forces down, one picked up a poor Eldian soldier, and threw him in front of other horses, leaving him to be crushed by the thousands of hooves behind him. Another beheaded a Marleyan officer. A Janissary with a rifle sniped an Eldian who was trying to man an infantry gun, before charging him, and his horse kicked his comrade in the head, breaking his skull and killing him.

"(Attack! For the Sultan! Purify the devils!)"


"(Their frontline has broken, their midline is next.)" Jinad told Izzet.

"(Their titans will be here before long.)" Izzet lowered her binoculars, "(Call up the attackers!)"


Pivet Airfield

"(We need to move out before the Titans appear!)" Their flight leader Gemdi shouted. "(Those devil will massacre the Janissaries!)"

The Mid-East pilots launched in an assortment of AVU.51 fighters, SDG.49 attack aircraft, and a few ABB.50 heavy bombers.

Engineers turned and pushed their propellers, jump-starting the aircraft. A leading engineer raised a green flag, signaling their clearance to take off.

The aircraft moved forward, and began to pull up, the engineer held on to his tan hat to prevent it from being blown off, waving the aircraft goodbye.

"(Alright, we've practiced evasive maneuvers. If you see the Beast Titan, do not engage. Leave it to the ground forces. The 5th & 7th Groups have already launched their attack on Kavalan itself.)"

"(Copy that.)" The other pilots of the 3rd Pivet Air Group replied.


"We're approaching the battlefield!" The officer shouted, stopping the truck on an FOB set up on a hill, where several dugouts and artillery positions formed a makeshift headquarters.

Stella got out of the truck, pulled out a set of binoculars, and gasped.

"How is it looking?" Evangelica asked, and Stella sighed.

"Not good, they've deployed janissaries. They're slaughtering our troops."

Evangelica took the binoculars, and gasped in rage. "They're…killing them all. Regardless of whether they're fleeing or not…"

"That is the reality of an Eldian on the battlefield." Stella mused, "Our priorities should be taking out those armored cars." She gestured to the armored cars which were fortified in escarpments in various positions.

"What?!" Evangelica argued, "They're slaughtering the Eldians, obviously -"

"The armored cars are the spearhead of their advance." Stella told her, "Tactically, janissaries are devastating, yes. Strategically, their worth is next to zero."

Evangelica gritted her teeth, but realized Stella was right.

"Reiner. Take the left flank and head off that detachment of armored vehicles. Evangelica, move center and focus on holding the line. Annie, take right and try to help with a counterattack. If Zeke was here, I would just have him grab some rocks and rip into those janissaries and armored cars alike with one throw, but he's dealing with those planes in the city."

Evangelica, Annie, and Reiner saluted. Evangelica casting her one apprehensive look, causing Stella to avoid her eyes…


Zeke bit into his hand, and transformed. As thunder struck the area, the Beast Titan materialized.

"Hmm…they're a little bit high…" Zeke eyed the bombers, "Pieck, I'm going to need something heavy."

Pieck, now in her Cart Titan form, nodded and dashed off before returning with some mostly-stone rubble.

"Always so helpful." Zeke smiled, grabbing the rubble, he aimed at the lead bombers.


"(Beast Titan spotted!)" The cry came from over the radio, right as a hail of rocks sprayed from below.

The fabric of the ABBs stood no chance. Jagged pieces of stone ripped through the bombers, one had it's left wing burst into flames, before crashing into another one, both exploded in a spectacular display of fire.

"(Break off! Break off!)"

"(We've lost Tula!)"

"(I'm going down! HELP- AGH!)" A pilots pleas for help were cut off by his screams.

The bombers broke formation in a panic. A navigator radioed desperately,

"(40.95, 24.43!)" He shouted desperately. "(Hurry!)"


"(New fire mission!)" An adjutant ran up to the officer in charge of the artillery camp. "(Priority target. It's the Beast.)"

The officer smiled, "(So…the Monkey of Marley has finally shown itself. Let's force it back into it's cage.)"

The adjutant smiled, "(Adjust firing angle! 10° degrees! Priority fire mission!)"

"(Fire!)"


Zeke roared triumphantly as he watched the bombers catch fire.

"That's one problem dealt with-" As he looked up, he saw the faint gleam of shells in the distance, and gasped.

Barely having time to react, he hardened his nape and prepared for impact.

Shells detonated all around him, one tore through his head, causing him to slump forward, immobilized. Two others ripped into his arms and exploded.

His body was riddled with countless artillery shells, and his nape barely made it out unscathed.

Zeke coughed from the inside of his nape. Pulling himself out of the barely recognizable Beast Titan, he bit his hand, transforming once again.

'Damn it…it must be those planes. It's the only way they could've hit me from so far.'


The navigator watched as the Beast Titan was ripped apart by their artillery.

"(D-direct hit! T-the Beast Titan is-)" Suddenly, he saw another flash of lighting as it materialized again.

"(Is what?)" The response came from over the radio.

"(Direct hit…you missed the nape. The Beast regenerated.)" He said, slumping forward in defeat. "(But you bought us enough time to escape his range.)" He looked back

"(I see.)" Was all the response was.


A Mid-East Soldier smacked an Eldian with the butt of his rifle, grinning, he prepared to finish the downed man off with a bullet. When suddenly, he heard an unnatural clap of thunder and the high-pitched noise of a Titan transformation.

The soldier froze in fear as the Female Titan appeared in front of him.

He backed away from the Eldian, who scrambled into a foxhole.

The soldier turned and was about to run away, when Annie merely crushed him with her foot.

'Stella was sharp to deduce that they're weaker on this side.' Annie thought. Roaring, she charged the enemy lines, and the enemy broke. Some threw grenades that detonated harmlessly against her feet.

In response, she threw her fist into a cluster of Mid-Eastern soldiers before lifting her head to look at a trench line.

Dashing at it, she swept an entire row of soldiers into the air, sending them flying and killing most of them. Hardening her hands, she pounded a machine gun bunker, crushing it to dust and debris.

Behind her, the Marleyan forces cheered and charged at the Mid-Easterners, their offensive renewed. The Eldian conscripts ran down the fleeing Mid-Eastern soldiers with a vengeance, stabbing and gunning them down at any opportunity.

They jumped into the trench, and a bloody melee ensued. Eldian soldiers brutally punched, stabbed, and otherwise assaulted the beleaguered Mid-Easterners, now on the retreat.


Evangelica roared from her titan, and as soon as she did, spikes emerged from the ground and pierced several of the Type G HSA cars that were assaulting the trench line.

'Turns out, they aren't very much after all…' She thought to herself, as she materialized a war hammer. Wielding it deftly, she made a sweeping motion, taking out a row of armored cars and infantry.

Summoning a shield, she crouched down and hid behind it to avoid a hail of grenades and bullets, before standing up and slamming the war hammer down on a part of the trench.

Suddenly, without warning, a shell came from nowhere and blew out a chunk of her ankle and heel.


Reiner roared, charging the Mid-Eastern lines. First, he slammed his fist into an armored car in front of him crushing whoever was inside of it. Then, he proceeded to turn his attention towards the others. When suddenly, he was hit by a barrage of shells.

'What the?! What was that?!' He crossed his arms and crouched, making himself as small a target as possible.

When the rain of shells ended, he first made sure to check himself for damage, and he gasped inside the nape at what he found.

In multiple places, his armor - while not pierced like Shiganshina - was cracked.


"(We got it!)"

"(It's armor is cracking!)"

"(Keep up the pressure!)"

The HSA-49 Type Cs lined up their shots, and fired another volley. The Armored Titan rolled to aside, trying to dodge them, and most of them missed, but several still hit their mark, and made more dents and cracks.

"(Load HE shells!)" One of the car commanders shouted, and they complied. Loading High-Explosive shells, they fired another volley at Reiner's legs and face. He roared as a shell detonated on his face, the smoke briefly blinding him. The force from the other shells caused him to fall on his back

"(We got it!)"

"(Is it down?)"

"(It's probably still alive! Finish it!)"


Reiner rolled over, his armor steaming as it raced to repair itself.

'Damn it! We weren't prepared for this! If it wasn't for my armor, I'd be a goner…Evangelica might be fine thanks to her lighter armor and her ability to make a shield, but Annie has only raw speed going for her…'


Stella tch'ed. "Damn it! What's going on down there?!" She shouted at a communications officer of her assigned company.

"The Titan Warriors have encountered new Mid-Eastern Anti-Titan weapons unlike we've ever seen. From what we can see, Reiner is hard-pressed, and his armor is cracking." The man gasped, as if it was the most unbelievable thing in the world, which - in a way - it was. "Evangelica has been pinned down by enemy fire. And Annie - while initially successful - can't even advance any further, and is on the full defensive."

"Damn it! Call in an artillery strike!" She shouted, and the Marleyan officers were clearly miffed at taking orders from an Eldian, and hesitated.

"Move it! Or do you want to start speaking Turka?!" She shouted at them, this roused them out of their stupor, and they got to working.

"Adjusting angle, 15° degrees!"

"Aim! Fire!"


Evangelica watched as artillery rained on the enemy armored cars.

'Thank you, Stella.' She silently prayed, and roared, grabbing the shield she was hiding behind. She crushed a remaining car with it, only to barely block a shell from the side. Summoning a throwing knife, she threw it at the Type C, piercing it.


"(The HSAs have performed admirably.)" Büyük General Izzet noted "(Tell Kamal and Kazal to pull their troops back to Piegi.)"

"(That far sir? We're pulling back almost 13 miles.)" Jinad asked,

"(Scorch the roads. Ensure there's nothing that can be used or saved. If they want to retake the land, let them struggle with it in the dead of winter.)" Izzet finished, and Jinad nodded, realizing the brilliance of his superior's plan.

"(Understood, Büyük General.)" Jinad smiled, this was why they called Izzet Ahmed the Wolf of Ahmen.


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