"He's not moving." Mikasa muttered behind me.
"He's not dead! Concentrate on the titan in front of us!" I yelled at the troops. "We were too focused on getting this done that we went up against this giant without a solid plan, so if we don't come up with a plan to turn this around…then…our lives…and the fate of humanity are all doomed." I said more to myself than to anyone else, but they all heard me. "Even so…" I jumped off the roof and let my gas propel me forward and the others followed after me. "We're not going to just let him kill us! Fuck that! Get ready to attack!" When the others were beside me I instructed them of our next actions, "He doesn't know about the lightning spears, so Connie, Sasha, and Jean will distract him. Mikasa and I will use this as an opening to attack!"
"Roger that!" The troops yelled as we went towards the Colossal titan. Mikasa and I went opposite ways, so we would both end up behind the Colossal titan. The others were in front of him yelling insults in order to grab his attention. When Mikasa and I rounded his neck we looked at each other and exchanged a nod before we brought out the spears and pointed them at the nape of his neck. With a single click the spears flew forward and headed towards the nape of his neck, but that's when he erupted steam from him and deflected the spears. The spears flew behind me and blew-up. My arms instinctively went up to try and cover myself from the steam, but I knew I needed to quickly reach a roof in order to protect myself. I didn't care about where I was going to be able to latch onto with my 3D Maneuver Gear, so I just swung myself to my left and propelled downwards to a nearby roof. I lost my footing and rolled down the roof, but quickly grabbed onto the ledge before falling. I pulled myself back up and turned to face to Colossal titan. As I breathed in I felt my throat burn as if a match was just placed in my oesophagus. I quickly began to cough in order to get the feeling to leave my throat. I hacked up blood and noticed it on the palm of my hand. As I turned my shaking palm around – I saw that the back of my hand was bleeding because some of the steam had burned off some of my skin. Parts of my jacket was burnt off as well, so I quickly inspected my other arm and noticed the same injuries. I quickly began to scan my surroundings to see if I could find the other members of the squad and I noticed Armin, Mikasa and Jean on a roof a few meters away from me. I quickly composed myself and used my Maneuver Gear in order to reach them. I knew that I was numb to my current injuries because of the adrenalin, so I was going to use this opportunity in order to kill off this titan.
"Armin!" I yelled as I landed on the roof. "Did you come-up with a counter attack?" I asked the blonde in front of me, but with sad eyes his answered with,
"No." Then we heard a loud lightening sound and turned around just to see that the Armour titan was now standing and was looking right at us.
"Are you fucking kidding me?" I yelled as I met eyes with him.
"Ryder!" I looked over and Connie and Sasha joined us.
"Are you okay? You're bleeding a lot!" Connie was concerned as he looked at my hands and arms.
"Don't worry about me. We have that bastard to kill now too." I pointed my blade towards the Armour titan. "God damn it! What do we have to do to kill him?" I yelled out in frustration. I was coming up with blank ideas in my head. There was nothing that I could think of that would work out in our favour. "We need to get Eren to safety. He's our only hope." I muttered. "Hey, Armin." I looked over at the blonde to notice him staring up at the Colossal titan. "Armin?"
"He's skinnier." Armin said.
"What?"
"The Colossal titan. He's gotten a little skinnier." Armin waited a second before turning to look at me. "It's just like Hanji said! The Colossal titan really is susceptible to a drawn-out battle!"
"So…that means…"
"Think back to the experiments with Eren. He could only transform up to three times in a row and he could only harden his entire body twice. Once he reached those limits, his power would begin to taper off. He wasn't able to use any of his abilities effectively. So if that's the case for a fifteen-meter titan, a sixty-meter titan should be even less efficient at using its energy. The Colossal titan used a sustained heat attack when Reiner and Bertolt revealed themselves, but…he had to consume all the flesh on his body to create that head. All that was left was his bones. He won't be able to move once he loses his muscle fibres. He'll be nothing more than a giant skeleton."
"So…you have a plan?" I inquired.
"Yes. You guys work to draw Reiner away. Eren and I will defeat the Colossal titan!"
"Alright. You leave Reiner to us." I said.
WOOT WOOT! New update! How are you liking Season 2 of the show so far? I'm loving it! How are you liking the new chapters of the Manga? I'm loving those as well!