Hello everyone, and welcome to the second chapter of The Last Avenger. Now, as for the time placement, this is going to start in 2018 near the summer, but the final chapters will be after Endgame. Now, let's start the second chapter of The Last Avenger.

"...95!... 96!... 97!" I was doing sit-ups, trying to ignore the stinging pain from doing so many of them.

'The physical pain would probably go away, but I needed to become strong. Stronger than my sister. Stronger than any human on the planet. Otherwise, I won't be able to kill the Mad Titan.'

"...99!" I shakily spat out as I reached close to my limit.

"...100!" I finished, collapsing on the metal floor that my prison cell was made of. I reached the limit for my abdominal muscles, even if I personally wanted to do more.

'Come on Rahul.' I smack my forehead. 'I have to become stronger. You're too weak.' I turned over as I decided to do push-ups. My chest ached, both with the physical and emotional pain that I had gone through in just a couple of hours.

I bent my arms, shakily making my way through my pushup. My nose touched the floor, where I shakily made it back upwards.

"1 down. Killing a titan to go."

"Which Titan?"

I jumped out of my push up and saw two people. One woman, with brown eyes and brown hair. She had a patch over one of her eyes and wore pretty dirty looking glasses. She had a weird contraption attached to her, which she covered with her forearms. In her arms, she carried a man, bruised and injured. He had a deep scar down his face and was covered in blood. Both of them were soaked with water as if they had just taken a bath.

"What titan were you talking about?" She swiftly left the man she was carrying on my bed, while approaching me creepily, with a certain gleam of excitement in her eyes. It had worried me that I hadn't seen this girl even 20 seconds ago, and the fact that they smelled of blood didn't help.

"Um…," I focused myself, again, ignoring the pain in my chest. I found myself in the fighting position that I remembered from my Martial Arts training. One arm near the chin, another along the side, with a skinny stance facing towards her. "The Mad titan. The being who killed my family, along with half of the universe."

The woman, who previously approached me, looked like she didn't expect my answer.

"Wait, there's another Titan shifter? And it's called the Mad Titan?"

My eyes narrowed, but I kept my stance. "Titan Shifter? What is that? What do you mean "another"?" My mind stuck with her first statement. "Wait, you mean to say that there are more of them out there?"

She shared my confused look. "Yeah. You don't know this?"

I ignored her previous statement. "Which titan are you talking about?"

"Well, we were talking about a few titans: The Beast Titan, The Cart Titan, The Attack Titan, The Founding Titan, The Armored Titan, The Colossal Titan, The Female Titan, The Jaw Titan, and The War Hammer Titan. And now, with this new revelation, the Mad Titan." Her eyes gleamed with excitement as she finished her statement, which I was slightly disturbed by.

'These guys aren't from here. Not only does this woman not seem to know what happened days ago, but she also wasn't here 10 seconds ago.'

"How did you get in this prison cell? What happened?"

Her excitement had silenced, enhancing the scars, both mental and physical, that she had on her face.

"Ugh. Brats, stop yelling. Can't you let me die in peace?" I heard the voice behind her murmur.

"Oh." The woman looked behind her towards the man. The blood evaporated from his face, like hot water evaporating on a sunny, hot day. It creeped me out, along with the steam emitting from his fingers.

"Wait, your limbs are regrowing?! Are you a titan or something?!"

"Hanji. STOP YELLING." His voice was unusually sharp, considering that she was previously carrying him.

'Who the hell are these people? Are these guys the crazy people stuck in here?' I considered my situation. 'No, it can't be. I'm in prison for underaged driving and reckless endangerment. I'm not mentally unstable. Plus, the other prisoners here aren't mentally insane.'

I was about to ask them to be quiet, but then someone beat me to it. "Hey, who's making noise down there?!"

'Oh shit.'

"Hey, whoever you guys are, stop talking!" I whisper-shouted to them. "Hide under the bed!"

They looked at me strangely, but they listened. At least, the woman, who I thought was named Hanji, listened, shoving the guy under the small cot that I had. She hid under the blanket of the bed and I went back into my pushup position. I did another pushup then a few others.

The guard came to my cell. "Hey, brat. What are you doing?"

As I fell from my pushup position, I groaned in pain, as the crunches and other exercises that I had done started to come back to me. I looked towards the guard, crossing my legs. "I was exercising."

"Why don't you go the fuck to sleep?"

I looked downwards. "I… can't sleep. All I see...is my family. Dead, because I couldn't save them." I say, probably being the most truthful thing I had said in a while. I sniffled, remembering the nightmare I had on the first day here.

His expression softened for a second, before showing a heavy frown. "Go the fuck to sleep! No one cares about your problems here!"

I sighed, covering the tears that were filling my eyes. "Okay. I'll sleep."

"Ugh. I don't get paid enough for this shit. I'm not a fucking social worker." He left after grumbling.

I dried the tears from my eyes, just as the people behind me to come out of their hiding spot.

I sighed. "Who are you? Why are you in my prison cell?" My voice sounded cold, making me sound a lot tougher than I was.

The woman in front of me had a different look on her face. One of… respect, maybe compassion. I couldn't tell.

"My name is Hanji Zoe. I am a scientist from Paradise Island. The person next to me is Levi Ackerman, Humanity's strongest soldier."

'Paradise Island? Humanity's strongest soldier? What are these people?''

"Hanji, why the hell are you telling the enemy our names?" The person behind her said.

She turned towards the voice. "Because… he isn't our enemy. He's just a kid."

Her statement ticked me off.

'A kid way over his head. That's what everyone has said and called me.' I thought she would say that, but she surprised me by saying,

"A kid who has lost his family to the titans."

I could almost hear her say, "As we have." My rage that was building up evaporated as I saw her expression: her eyes glistening with water as tears were about to fall from her face. She wiped it off as she saw me looking at her.

"We aren't in Paradise anymore, are we?"

I sighed. "No, we are currently in prison. This is a prison for all the young people in this region."

"No, where are we specifically?" She pulled out a map, and even if it was soaked, I saw that it looked like a normal map. Then she flipped it.

She pointed to an island off the coast of Africa. "This is Paradise Island."

My eyebrow rose, showing the confusion on my face. "No, that is called Madagascar. It's an Island off the coast of Africa."

"Madagascar? What kind of name is that?" Mr. Ackerman murmured as he sat up.

"I don't know. I didn't discover it."

"Discover?"

I sighed. 'These guys are so weird.'

"It was discovered in the 1500s or something by colonizers who wanted gold. However…"

"1500s?! That's over 700 years in the future!"

Her statement made me ask, "What year are you from?"

"Huh? 854, what other time would it be?"

"Right now... it's 2018."

I knew that she was going to yell in confusion, so I covered her mouth with my hand, saying, "Don't. Don't yell right now. I can see that you guys aren't from this planet, so let me explain."

I removed my hand from her mouth, which revealed her blushing slightly. I was confused, but I moved away.

I steeled myself. "So, you guys are from a place called Paradise Island, which is the equivalent of our planet's Madagascar, and from 854 something. Correct?"

Hanji's eyes widened, and The strongest soldier's eyebrow rose. "Well, yes."

"So that means you are either from the future, the past, or a different universe."

"What do you mean, different universe?" He stood up, his missing fingers regrown now, and sat down right next to Hanji. "Explain."

"Well, in simple terms, you know how you make choices, right?"

They nodded, then looked at me like I was insulting them.

"Well, in my world, we came up with a theory that every decision we make or every action that happens creates an alternate universe. With the theory, it doesn't matter what happens, because there will be a universe or timeline that it did or didn't happen."

Her eyes lit up as if she wanted to talk about this.

"Brat. That makes no sense."

I was starting to wonder if he called every person he didn't respect a brat.

"Well, it kind of explains what happens to the other decisions you don't make, because, for every action, or inaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Here, let me put it this way: do you have any decision you've made or action that has happened to you or someone else that could make a huge change to how you would have turned out?"

Mr. Ackerman lowly chuckled. "How about whether I was born or not?"

I was confused by what he meant, but I explained it through that lens.

"Well, if you weren't born, there would either be another Humanity's strongest, or, based on how Ms. Zoe acts, she would probably not have the respect for you in that other universe. Or she might not even exist. Who knows?"

"What point are you trying to make?" He said, chilling the metal floor with his voice.

"Well, I think you and Ms. Hanji are from this other universe, where a series of events led to your world. However, I am not so sure which universe you guys are from. You are clearly from a universe where modern society as this world knows it flat out doesn't exist. What specific changes, though, had to happen?" I thought out loud.

"Can you describe the world you were in? What was it like?"

I didn't even need to wait for their answer.

"Hell." Both of them said at the same time.

Several hours later

After finding out what they were actually talking about, and how their world of the titans was far different compared to my world, and how the government actually worked, I came to this conclusion.

"So, I… got nothing. I have no idea how your universe could have been made."

"It doesn't matter right now. We have to figure out where the hell we are going to go."

"Go? Go where?" My head tilted to the side.

"Away from this shithole. That's where."

I backed up, and my eyes widened from what he had said.

"Wait, we can't break out of prison."

"Watch me."

Hanji whispered in my ear, "You'll see why he is known as Humanity's strongest."

He took out some metal blades that he had been carrying, and moved it in a circular motion, spinning into the wall. Somehow, the blades managed to carve out a perfect circle out towards the gate, and the edges of the wall looked like the colors of fire, spread throughout the cut. The barbed wire gate was just ahead.

"Wait, I can't go with you guys!" I hit the edges of the prison bars. "I need to stay in prison for a month longer!"

"Well," He put the sword against my throat, less than an inch from severing the connection between me and this planet. "If they find you here with a hole in your cell, then you won't be able to get out of here at that time anyway, will you?"

I hated feeling powerless, but I knew he was right. I grabbed the sword by the edges, and, though my hands released blood, I pushed the sword away from my neck, and said,

"Fine, I'll come with you guys. I know where we can stay."

However, as we approached the gate, I saw the same guard who had approached me earlier.

"Hey, kid, stop!" He exclaimed as he used the keys to open the door.

"OH SHIT!"

"What's that guard doing, kid?"

"We have to go. NOW." My voice reflected the deathly fear I felt at that moment.

Humanity's strongest, this time, kicked through the gate, which led to the outdoors.

"I tried so hard to escape the walls of Paradise only to be trapped within another wall." He sadly chuckled.

"No time to reflect, Captain! We have to get out of here!"

Hanji's hand grabbed mine, which I noticed was still cold, and she tightened her hands around the weapons she was carrying.

"What are you-"

Two grappling devices shot out from the mechanical device she carried, which she had told me was called an omnidirectional mobility gear, or 3d maneuvering equipment. It shot out at the speed of bullets and latched onto the side of a mountain. Mr. Ackerman repeated her actions, as he clutched his weapons, and the same process happened.

"Brat, how long can you keep your breath?"

"Uh, a minute or two. Why?"

"Tsk." He clicked his tongue in disappointment. "Hanji, we are going to have to use the gear. How much gas do you have left?"

"It's full, Captain. What about you?"

"Half. Brat, you are going to have to grab onto Hanji so you can get where you need to go."

"Wait, what about you?"

"I'll be saving you ass. Hanji, meet me near the beach." He pointed to the beach within viewing distance of the prison.

"Yes, sir! Kid, grab onto me!"

I wrapped my arms around her shoulders.

"Kid, you want to rip my arms off?!"

"What?! No!"

She moved my arms from wrapping around her shoulders to around her chest.

"Hold on! Don't be stupid because you care more about making me uncomfortable than destroying my limbs!"

Before I could reply, she, with me en toe, rocketed to where she hooked to. Instantly, she and I soared into the atmosphere, blowing a large stream of air into my face.

I looked around me. Trees flew by, and what I considered to be a long-distance traveled in milliseconds. It felt like flying.

'Going through the air this quickly… it's exhilarating.' Then, my grip loosened, and I fell into the waters. I flew too close to the sun.

'Damn it.' Time slowed for the seconds that had passed before I hit the sea. 'I have to live, so I can avenge my sister. My Dad. My Mom. I am not going to die until they are avenged. The mad titan will pay its retribution.' I crashed into the salty waters of the Chesapeake.

I froze as I hit the water, feeling the sea's waters enter my mouth and soak my prison uniform.

'No, hold your breath, live.' I swam deeper into the sea, knowing where they wanted to meet up at.

Pushing. Pulling. Swimming. That is what I did, going against the currents of the Bay, trying to get to the beach. My arms screamed, but I couldn't die there in the middle of the sea. As I approached the shoreline, my arms and legs started to tear, screaming with a scalding passion for me to stop.

'No, I can't lose. Not yet.'

However, within striking's distance of the shoreline, my arms turned to lead. I couldn't fight any longer.

"Why? Why can't I be stronger? My sister, my dad, my mom, they all are depending on me, and I can't even swim across a bay."

Then, I felt someone pick me up by the clothing on my back. I looked upwards and saw the black-haired Ackerman carrying me.

"Good grief. Hanji, he reminds me of the trouble Eren gave us during the raid on Shiganshina." He slung me over his shoulder. I coughed up a lot of seawater that managed to get into my mouth. After I threw up all the saltwater, he dropped me on my face. My face dug up into the sand, while my feet, without any shoes, felt the wet sand try to heal my physical wounds. "Do I need to carry you or something?" He asked of me, slightly annoyed, but also concerned. I shook my head, which prompted a sigh from Levi. He slung me over his shoulder, and asked, "Where are we going, kid?"

I was confused about why he suddenly changed his tone, from annoyed to slightly concerned, and why he suddenly seemed to care about me and what I have gone through. However, I quietly answered against his back, making it to the ears of the short Asian and the brunette.

"Home."

An Avenger in the making meets people from the worlds of titans, the people who would influence his life going forward. Now, if you like the chapter, like it, either with a Kudo or a favorite. If you want to add more franchises to the story, then comment on them. Lastly, if you want to see where this story will go forward, then subscribe or follow this story, since there is going to be a lot of different elements within this story, all leading up to Endgame and beyond.