Mikasa's POV
The sight of one Titan killing another was strangely exhilarating. Inspiring. I still felt empty inside. I knew that Eren would never be coming back. But, I pressed on. I didn't give up. I stood there, watching in awe as the Rogue Titan finished off the other one. Before I knew it, Armin had me in his arms, and we were both on a nearby rooftop. "Mikasa! Are you alright?" he asked in a frantically worried tone. I weakly nodded. Connie Springer, one of my former classmates quickly joined us on the rooftop.
"Are you guys alright? We have to get going!" he said before he caught sight of trouble. A fifteen meter class Titan was making its way towards the Rogue Titan. "Shit! Two fifteen meter classes are coming this way!" I shook my head.
"No. That Titan's..." I was too exhausted to finish my sentence. The Rogue Titan screeched at his opponent who quickly followed suit. The Rogue Titan, to our surprise, got into a fighting stance. The other Titan charged towards the Rogue and was greeted with a left chop to the cheek. The force of the blow was so great; the normal Titan's head dislocated from its neck and flew into a nearby tower. The Rogue Titan's left hand regenerated from dealing such an attack and when it was done, the Rogue Titan stomped on the decapitated Titan's neck, killing it. We were left in complete shock.
"I-It finished the other Titan off!? It knew of its weak spot?" Connie asked rhetorically. That Titan displayed knowledge of hand to hand combat. I had just dismissed it as an abnormal.
"That Titan's techniques seem almost human. Where do you think it-," Armin was cut off by Connie.
"Who cares? We need to get going, before it sees-," Armin cut off Connie.
"No. That Titan appears uninterested in humans. Else it would have surely attacked us by now. If we manipulate that Titan in the correct way, we might get out of here alive," Armin suggested. Connie looked flabbergasted.
"You want to rely on a Titan? Did you hit your head somewhere?" Connie asked, placing his palm on Armin's forehead.
"Do you have any other plan to get us out of here? If we don't try, we'll die. If the plan fails, we'll die. However if the plan succeeds, we'll live. We have nothing to lose," I finally spoke up. Connie accepted.
"That Titan seems to function on instinct. If we kill all the Titans in the area, it will most likely leave to find more. It could clear the way to HQ for us," Armin explained. We immediately set Armin's plan in motion. Connie and Armin helped the Rogue Titan kill all the other Titan's in the area. When it realized that there were none left, it went in the direction of the HQ just like Armin predicted.
"Alright guys, let's follow that abnormal!" Connie declared. He was about to leave when Armin called out to him.
"Wait! Remember, Mikasa's out of gas!" he said. Connie cursed.
"Ah! Why'd you have to run out for!? What can we do without you!?" he shouted. Armin knelt beside me. He took out the gas canisters from his 3-D Maneuver Gear.
"Here, take mine," he said solemnly as he replaced my empty canisters with his. "I won't be any use to you guys anyway. You can take my blades as well," he said, giving me one of his swords. He didn't give me the second. "Well, at least let me keep this one. I've accepted my fate but, I don't want to be eaten alive, at least without a fi-," I grabbed Armin's sword and through it off the roof. He stuttered, unable to completely comprehend what had just happened and why I had done that. The answer was clear to me. Armin has always been my closest friend. He was always the one to patch up things between me and Eren when we were younger.
Within Wall Maria, Year 845
"Damn it Mikasa, why'd you have to save me from those guys, I could have taken them," Eren muttered bitterly. I rolled my eyes.
"Your entire face is bruised," I said bluntly. Eren blushed then scowled at me.
"Shut up!" he shouted. We started arguing with each other, Eren shouting and me retaliating with my usual calm attitude. Armin decided he had enough and came between us.
"You guys argue over the littlest things. I mean Eren, she was only trying to help you. Odds are, you would have turned out a lot worse had she not arrived when she did. And Mikasa, Eren just feels a little humiliated about how you're always riding to his rescues. Why don't you guys just realize how lucky you two are to have each other and stop fighting?" Armin asked. Eren and I looked at each other before sighing.
"Sorry Mikasa," Eren said, almost under his breath. I apologized too, even though I knew I wasn't at fault. I didn't like making Eren angry. It was nice to have Armin to clear things up every once in a while.
Present Day
I placed my hand on Armin's. "Armin, I will not leave you no matter what? Understand me? With Eren gone, we're all we have left. We will survive," I said. Armin tearfully nodded. "And we wouldn't be better off without you. Your brilliant intellect and assessment of difficult situations has helped both Eren and I before," I finished. "Connie, you're responsible for Armin. We have to follow that abnormal, quickly." That strange Titan. That had saved my life. There was a certain familiarity about to that Titan that I couldn't shake. What was it?
Eren's POV
Mikasa and Armin? Connie too? Was I having some sort of dream? I felt as if I towered above them, even when they stood on a rooftop. My body moved without my consent, towards a few three meter and ten meter class Titans. I killed them all with only one arm. Strangely enough, I had only just noticed that I stood at the same height as most of the Titans, the rest being smaller than me. What the hell was going on? It must have been a dream. Memories flooded into my head with no mercy. Memories of being eaten alive by a bearded Titan, ripping out of its body and killing any Titan I could find. I remembered my vow once more. To kill all the Titans, to explore the outside world- to see Mikasa again. More Titans came my way each dying as quickly as the previous. Maybe this was a dream. I sure as hell couldn't feel anything. I decided to relax and enjoy the dream as more and more Titans died by my hand. Then something caught my eye. Two Titans, a male and a female by the look of it. I ran towards them and pushed them into a building. I quickly charged and punched the male in the face. The force of the punch sent the male flying into the female and they crashed into a wall. I screeched something terrible and ran towards a clump of Titans so they could meet their demise from me. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Mikasa and Connie, Armin in hand, break into the window of the building I smashed the male and female Titans into. So they were back? Whatever.
Mikasa's POV
We broke into HQ to find our teammates there, some scarred mentally and physically. Jean was the first to approach us. "Mikasa!? You're still alive?" he asked in disbelief. Connie stood up.
"Everyone! That Titan outside is an abnormal that slaughters other Titans! It doesn't even care about humans. If we play our cards right, we can all get out of here alive!" he declared. Everyone looked confused, especially Jean.
"You want to rely on a Titan!?" Jean asked, unknowingly expressing the same concerns that Connie himself did about an hour ago. "That's more crazy than any dream!"
"It's not a dream. I don't care if it's an abnormal or whatever. All I care about is us all making it out of here alive," I said. Jean conceded. Maybe if we all survived, I could discover the origins of that mysterious Titan.
Half an hour later
After we had restocked on gas, we exited the HQ to check on the Rogue Titan. I grappled on to a nearby building and was shocked by what I saw. Armin joined me shortly and asked why I was standing still. "That Titan..." I said, not needing to explain any further. The other Titans were eating it. As if it was human. "I was hoping that after all this was done, we could find out more about that Titan. Maybe it's the key to freeing ourselves from Titan control."
"I agree," a deep voice said behind me. It was Reiner Braun, accompanied by Bertholdt Fubar and Annie Leonhardt, all former classmates of mine. "If that Titan dies, we'd have gained nothing but our lives in this struggle. I say we help it," he finished. Jean approached him, flabbergasted.
"Are you kidding me Reiner!? It's a fucking Titan! Am I the only one with any sense left?" he asked. Something caught Armin's eye.
"Hey! It's the abnormal that ate Thomas!" he said as he pointed to a skinny, Aryan looking fifteen meter Titan. As if reacting specifically to the arrival of the murderer of one of Eren and Armin's teammates, the Rogue Titan ran towards the Aryan abnormal in a blind rage. The three meter class Titans sinking their teeth into the rogue's arms ripped them off as it ran towards the abnormal. It bit the abnormal on the neck, killing it instantly and killed the other Titans with the corpse. The Rogue Titan screeched before finally succumbing to exhaustion and falling down. Its limbs and wounds slowly began to regenerate but it was clear it would take some time before they do so fully. Reiner, Annie and Bertholdt watched the Rogue's body carefully as if expecting something to happen. They were visibly disappointed when they were met with inaction on the Titan's part.
"We should bring it to the Commander," proposed Reiner. Jean looked even more confused but kept quiet.
"Well if we're gonna keep it, what should we call it?" Connie asked. I continued to look on, part of me feeling something was missing. Something should have been happening. But nothing.
So that's the end of Chapter 2. I hope you enjoyed it and please review. If you have any suggestions on what to name Eren's Titan form until he resurfaces please inform me. Please check out my other fanfics as well, namely my other Shingeki no Kyojin story: Shattered Existence. It's a futuristic AU fic. Until next time.