Hello, and welcome to the fifth chapter of The Last Avenger, back at Rahul's perspective. This is going to be the longest chapter released for this story so far, so let's just jump into the fifth chapter of The Last Avenger.

When I fell asleep, my brain was bombarded with new memories. Me being turned into a titan. Me being crushed by the same titan. Swearing to kill every last titan. Being killed by a female looking titan that emerged from nowhere. Finding out she was a friend that betrayed me. Me being a titan-shifter. Seeing the ocean. Seeing boulders get flung towards many people, ones that I would have known in another life.

All these memories and more bombarded my brain during the deepest part of my dreams. But one memory played for a little bit longer.

"He is special because he was born into this world."

I shot up, and I thought I heard my Dad say that, but as I looked into the darkness of the couch downstairs, I realized that it was just my imagination. The surroundings were pitch black. They were dead, along with half the world. I didn't know if they would ever come back.

Silently, I cried to the darkness, hoping to gain some sympathy emerge from it. However, there was none.

'I've.. lost my family…. again.'

Then, I heard someone groan.

"Geez. Stop crying. You're stopping us from getting a good night's sleep for once."

I looked at a figure emerging from the darkness. Levi was rubbing his head like he had a migraine.

"Well, never mind. We probably wouldn't get a good night's sleep anyway, would we?"

Without thinking, I walked to my dad's beer cabinet, and I cracked open a bottle, forcibly swallowing the liquid down my throat. It tasted horrible, but it gave me some peace within my mind as I felt the effects of the alcohol take effect. Then I drank another.

"Hey, brat. If you're going to drink all that, get me one, will you?" The Asian man asked.

I was confused, but I handed him one anyway.

He chugged it down even faster than I did, then groaned again.

"Seriously? This is the alcohol your country makes? It tastes even shittier than the one we have." He looked at the bottle with disgust, then threw it into the trash can.

"Well, you have pretty high standards." I started laughing, but it led to tears as the depressant started to take hold, and I collapsed on the ground.

"Brat, why are you crying now?" He sounded disinterested, which pissed me off.

I lifted my red eyes and looked at Levi with absolute fury. "Why wouldn't I be? I lost my family three times, one abandoned me, the other two were killed. I'm a wanted criminal, I don't have any person who will stick up for me, and worst of all, I have no idea how to kill Thanos, the Mad Titan. What happened to you... Levi?"

His teeth gritted, but he swallowed his anger and said. "I've lost my Mom, my dad met her through prostitution, I ended up living in a shitty underground city for most of my life, raised by an uncle who didn't care for me. I've lost my family, comrades, someone I loved, many of the new recruits, alongside Commander Erwin, the person who changed me from a criminal to a scout, I've killed a few of my comrades when they turned against me, and the only person who I have left here is four-eyes, who would let me get eaten alive if it meant seeing a titan getting my strength."

I shut up, both in anger and guilt.

He used a more harsh tone. "So, yes. I do know what it's like to lose everyone around you. You're not special in that regard, brat. So don't complain that you have it hard, because no one is going to comfort you. " He bluntly said.

He muttered under his breath as he walked away, "I've learned that the hard way."

A memory seized my mind, so I muttered, "Is that through losing Isabel and Furlan?"

He froze in place. "How do you know those names?"

Then, I heard creaking from the basement, which made the adrenaline rush through my veins.

He turned towards me. "Were you expecting someone, brat?"

I didn't respond. In a fighting stance, I walked down towards the basement, prepared to fight the person who was down there. I made sure the lights were off to try to catch whatever was down here red-handed.

When I turned around, I was face to face with a girl with two knives at two people's throats.

Her hair was blond, and it was uncut and dirty. She wore a uniform, similar to the uniform that Levi and Hanji wore, and her ice-blue eyes felt like they would kill an ordinary person just by looking at them.

The other girl, who I recognized, had short red hair and was crying with a knife at her throat, along with the dirty blond-haired man who was captured by the shorter blonde.

"Annie?"

The blonde's emotionless face suddenly looked back at me in fear, as if she knew who I was.

"How did you know my name?"

"You're the Female Titan. The one Levi and Hanji spoke of, and the one I saw kill Levi's original squad, along with the many people of Wall Sina."

I said the last part with anger in my voice, as I realized that she was like the Mad Titan.

'She's… a murderer.'

Levi followed me and looked at both the blond and her prisoners.

"Isabel…? Furlan…? You're… alive?"

"If you step any closer, they won't be."

I scoffed. The girl was shaking in her boots, and she struggled to even look up. However, Levi backed away and even seemed to resign in his position of terror. However, I wasn't about to take her bullshit.

I threw a glass cup at her. Or rather, near her. It was directed next to her face, in her line of vision

She turned to face the glass for a split second, to where I kicked her ribs, making her collapsed along the floor like a ragdoll.

Isabel and Furlan ran to Levi, as the Asian man had a shell-shocked look upon his face. I looked down at Annie's face. She looked pale as if she hadn't seen the sun for years. Her arms were as thin a toothpicks, and her hair was thrown across the floor. Her eyes were closed as if she lost her will to fight, but I didn't let my guard down.

"You damn traitor. Why…" I started to tear up. "Why did you choose to murder thousands? What did you get for it? Accomplishment? Satisfaction?"

"... no." She murmured. "I had no choice." She stood up and got back into her fighting stance.

"Don't give me that shit." I returned to my fighting stance and dried my eyes. "You had a choice not to kill innocent people. You had a choice not to kill Levi's squad. What would you have gained if you killed those people?"

I said the words that I remembered from my dream. From Levi.

She lowered her stance. "My Dad."

I didn't. "You know that you wouldn't have. Didn't you? And yet you still did it. So I don't care what you say, because all that is coming from is a murderer."

"As if you aren't going to be one."

I froze in anger. "I'm not a murderer."

"Yet. You wanted to become strong, so you could kill the Mad Titan, didn't you?"

I stood my ground, even if I was surprised how she knew of the Mad Titan. "Yes. Because he is a murderer. He took away my family, along with the families of trillions."

"So what?" She looked towards me, with tears in her eyes. Her voice shaky made out, "Could you bring back your family if he died? Or the others that have died?"

I saw the pain in her eyes. She had seen more pain in her life than I could conceive. Losing friends, losing family, being abandoned, forced to do things she didn't want to do. I shuddered at the last thing I saw in her, but I locked my gaze at her face

"No." I reluctantly admitted. "But… it would give closure to those who have died. I will avenge them, one way or another."

She cleared her eyes, but she couldn't shift her face back to the way it was.

"Now, fight me, again." She backed into the empty space of the basement, where only a few items were located.

"Why? I have already beaten you-"

Seconds later, I was on the floor. My already bleeding back was spilling blood through my clothes and onto the carpet floor.

"You should never let your guard down."

She kicked my legs. Again, and again, and again. My legs were bleeding out onto her feet.

"Get up and fight." Her voice was disguised, and her face looked emotionless like it had before.

I bit my lip to prevent me from crying, but a few tears of pain came through. She didn't stop.

Then, I started laughing. She looked visibly confused until I grabbed her kicking leg and snapped it in half with my own.

She wailed, so I took the opportunity to stand up.

I remembered from the memories that titan shifters should regenerate, as guilt seeped into me. 'She'll regenerate, right?'

However, her leg, even after a few minutes, stayed broken.

'Oh shit.'

I leaned down to help her. "Are you-"

With her non-broken leg, she used her heel to kick me into the wall.

"Don't be… kind." She stuttered as she maintained her balance. "To people like me."

My eyesight started to fade, to which she said, "Don't be like Eren."

Then, my brain swelled with new information about the two people, which forced me up.

"Well, he was a hypocrite, like you and me." I grabbed the wall as I shakily got up. "He wanted to kill the titans, but ended up becoming one. You wanted to save your father, at the cost of his and hundreds of others. I hate people like you because you remind me of who I am. A future mass murderer."

I got back into my fighting stance. "I'm okay with being a murderer. Because, once I kill Thanos, I'll kill myself. But I won't die until then. Like you, I will survive until the very end. Because we are all the same. We both want to live until we have achieved our goals..."

Her expression softened, and she let her guard down. Her left leg was healed, but she fell down on the floor, covering her face with the floor.

My rage against her had fallen as she started sobbing, so I lowered myself onto her face, letting her cry on my chest.

'She's… a murderer.' I recalled. 'But… I will be one soon. She… really was forced to, wasn't she?'

I stroked her hair, which seemed to calm her down slightly, so I continued.

'Though, I guess I am a lot like Eren, aren't I?'

I shrugged. "Well, it doesn't matter."

Then, the blood loss started to affect me, so I simply laid across the floor. Annie finally stood up and looked at me with a clouded look on her face. "Annie?" I closed my eyes, as the pain and blood loss started to affect me. I passed out with her words,

"You aren't who you think you are, Rahul."

"... hey. Man with no name? Are you okay?"

I woke up exactly where I remembered, at sunrise, where above me was an orange antenna girl.

"Oh." I sat up. "Sorry." I looked at my arm and legs. No major injuries, and little bleeding. There was a group of stitches keeping my slit of skin together. I had a minor headache, which made me clutch my head, where Emma looked suspiciously at me.

'Note to self: never drink alcohol again.'

"I… ended up drinking too much," I said, feeling a slight hangover from the few beers I impulsively chugged down. "So, when I came down here, along with the blood loss, I passed out."

Her look sombered. "Okay. Come up, though. Everyone was worried about you."

I nodded and walked up the stairs to the top of the deck.

When I walked up the house, I saw… Annie. She sat on the opposite end of Levi, and she didn't even look at him.

As I opened the door, Annie discretely looked towards me, but not so most people would notice.

"So, how did you," Levi pointed to me. "Know about these two?"

He didn't even seem concerned about Annie, having that stoic, almost blank face that I knew him for.

The people he was referring to were standing up, along with the Ray and Norman. Hanji sat at the table between the two enemies, and Emma was looking up at me.

"Um, when I had… passed out, I saw memories of someone. I remembered… your squad dying at her hands… the death of your friends. I saw… no, I remembered everything. " My voice muttered that last part, but he clearly heard me, along with Hanji.

"Wait, how can you see the memories of us? Unless…" A crazy look appeared on her face.

"You're an Eldian?!" Hanji screamed.

"Wait, what?" My eyebrow raised

"That means that, theoretically, he can turn into a titan shifter like Jaeger!"

Levi pulled out a serum, one I didn't know he had, out of his uniform.

"Let's test it." Hanji looked at me gleefully.

I realized where this was going, as my dream, or was it a memory, came back to me.

"No."

"What do you mean no?" Hanji scratched her head.

"You know what I mean, Hanji. Levi, I am not going to eat Annie alive."

The entire atmosphere turned dark, as the devil kids looked in horror, obviously remembering something pivotal to their lives.

"Why not?" He looked even more irritated than normal, cracking his stoic facade.

"Because," I came up with a reason. "She is a shifter who has complete control over her own power. If I were to consume her, I wouldn't have any experience with her titan form, and I would start out from scratch. Plus, if I were to get the memories of her, then I think she has my memories as well, correct?" I asked Annie.

She nodded. "I remember in the dream I had, seeing you lose your family. Seeing you get arrested, and you escaping imprisonment."

"Yeah. So what?"

"So, she has no reason to want to kill me, because she knows me, and I know her. If she were to turn rogue, I know exactly how to kill her, and vise-versa. Plus, we don't even know if it will work."

"Ugh. Shit." The serum he had disappeared from sight, as I, along with the kids, sighed in relief. "Fine, you won't have to eat Annie now."

'I won't kill anyone besides Thanos.'

"Though, if this bitch," he pointed to Annie "even shows a single sign of her being unloyal, then you will consume her."

"Yeah, I know." I looked at Annie, pleading for her not to mess up. She lightly nodded, so I sighed in relief.

"So, what weapons do you have?" Hanji asked.

"Huh? Um… a bow and arrow set, why?"

"Well, if you want to take down a titan, then you should train, right?"

The pain from the last night disappeared as my goal came back to mind.

"Yes. I will train to kill him."

Just then, a knock on the door happened, which made all of us jump.

"Were you expecting anyone to come?" The demon children asked.

I shook my head.

I walked to the front door.

Creak. Creak. That was the sound of me walking across the wooden floor.

I pulled down the tab that opens the door and pulled the handle towards me.

All I saw was one person. A tall white man with blonde hair and a muscular body. He had a clean-shaven face, and he wore a blue suit.

"Are you… Captain America?"

The man first looked at me in confusion, but then he had a look of realization. He sighed but nodded.

"We had detected multiple signs of inter-universal life here in the building. Are you aware of this?" He said in his iconic pose, with him standing proud and an arm at his side.

"Is that a question or a command?"

He seemed further confused by that and relaxed his stance, but he answered, "It's… a question."

"Let me guess. You want to recruit people to kill the Mad Titan, Thanos. Am I right?"

His eyebrow was raised, but he answered, "Well, yes. We want to bring everyone back."

That caught my attention. "Wait, what?"

"If we can capture him since he has the infinity stones, we can bring back all the people whose lives have been lost. We just need someone who is strong enough to beat him."

I consider this. 'Mohini. Mom. Dad. You'll live.'

"Okay. There are inter-universal people here, however, I am not so sure if they would care about Thanos."

Then, Levi pulled the door and slammed it towards the wall, creating a hole in it.

"What class of titan is he?" When the American captain looked confused, the Asian captain sighed. "How tall is he?"

"He's over two meters." Captain America was surprised by Levi's question, but he answered regardless.

"And you lost to him?" He clicked his tongue in disappointment, but said, "Hanji, Furlan, Isabel, you other 4 brats. There's this guy wiped out half the universe. Let's give him a little retribution."

'Why does Levi care so much? This isn't his universe, nor his people.'

"Well, okay then, never mind." We all came out, where a spaceship appeared in the sky.

"What the hell is that?" I asked.

"A spaceship." The American soldier answered

"What's a spaceship? " Hanji asked with a red face that emitted a kind of horrific fascination.

"Shut up, Four-eyes." The spaceship teleported us, and for a few seconds, I didn't exist.

After those seconds, we appeared on a ship, along with many other people.

A raccoon, a blue-skinned alien, a man with an ax, and a man in a red metal suit were among the people we met. They gave us comns to communicate with them, and I told Levi how to use it.

But, as I was helping him, we also met other people.

Bertholdt being one of them.

As soon as Levi saw Bertholdt, he had a sword at his neck.

"Tell me one reason I shouldn't slit your throat and slice you to pieces."

Bertholdt stiffened, but as Annie came to view, he relaxed. "Annie? What… are you doing here?"

Levi pushed the sword closer to his throat. "I'll ask you again. Why should you be here and alive versus the thousands that you have killed?"

He quickly realized that Annie wasn't on his side anymore, to which he said, "I don't have the ability to transform into a Titan since I was... killed."

There was a slight amount of unease in his words, which Levi paid no mind to.

"Damn right you were..."

"Levi, let him go."

He flipped his head over, responding to me with an emotionless, "What?"

Levi's grip didn't loosen, so I said, "If he wanted to kill anyone else, he could have just stayed on earth. Instead, he came here, to pay for his mistakes."

He looked at me, annoyed, before turning around towards Bertholdt, but I continued in a softer voice, "We have another enemy to deal with. He isn't one of them. Let him go."

He grunted out in frustration, then punched Bertholdt's stomach. The brunette fell to the ground, to which Levi said, "If you…" The Asian pointed his blade against the former titan. "Ever think of killing anyone here, then remember that pain now. That will be the final thing you will ever feel while you are alive."

Erwin walked in, with a surprised look on his face. "So, you are Bertholdt Hoover, correct?"

He was reeling from the fear of Levi, leaning against the wall he was pinned against for support, but he gasped and nodded.

"I see. Well, looks like many of us are alive, despite remembering our deaths. So you are one of them, Mr. Hoover?"

He swallowed his spit and nodded again.

"Well, although the circumstances are different, I understand you were following orders, so I do not blame you for the deaths of my scouts, especially considering you could be a worthy asset."

Erwin saluted to us. "I hope you will give you hearts for the sake of one last mission."

He stood tall, saluting. Levi, Norman, Emma, Ray, and even Annie and Bertholdt saluted towards the tall blonde man, one who seemed to be on top of the world.

I saluted, which caused new memories to arise inside me, but I held the salute. My right hand at my heart, my left arm against my back.

'I'll give my heart to humanity.'

I looked at Emma, Norman, and Ray, and their faces read, 'I'll give my heart to my family.' Emma's hands held both Norman's and Ray's, instead of being flush against their back, and Norman had the wrong hand saluting, but they couldn't look stronger together.

Annie and Bertholdt saluted, switching places with Bertholdt, saluting with her right hand, but she discreetly held Bertholdt's hand. He looked surprised, but Annie looked forward, so Bertholdt calmed down and continued to salute

"Oh look, we're already here." The man who previously wore a giant red suit told us. The man who was in it looked more human, wearing glasses and casual clothing. He came down from the ship's control center.

When the ship stopped, the planet came to view. It had rivers, lakes, oceans. It looked… beautiful.

Then, I heard on the comns, "I'll head down for recon."

'How can such a beautiful planet harbor such a cruel person?'

Then, as I was thinking, I heard from another response, "No satellites. No ships. No armies. No ground defenses of any kind." The speaker paused, which was unnerving. "It's just him."

I was elated. 'Yes. We can defeat him with no one dying.'

"Not so fast brat." Levi interrupted my celebration. "You think that a titan like him could survive long enough without a plan? It's a trap."

"Agreed." Erwin said, "However, Levi, this is the only chance we have to defeat him. We can't give that up because of paranoia. We have to move forward. So, you six," He pointed towards me, as well as Emma, Ray, Norman, Bertholdt, and Annie. "You'll need to stay behind."

The rest of the kids nodded, but I said, "No."

His eyebrow raised, but his voice didn't.

My voice was barely above a whisper. "Thanos killed my family. I have lost everything else. Just let me have this one. Please." I pleaded with him.

I was close to breaking down, but the blond man put his hand on my shoulder and crouched down.

"I can't exactly stop you." He smirked at my face, as a half-smile returned to my face.

Levi sighed as if he remembered something, but he said, "Okay. Let's go."

As we landed on the planet, all I could see was the scenery. Waterfalls, green grass, warm atmosphere, trees all around, a blue sky. Everything looked beautiful.

Which made me even angrier.

'Let's get rid of the plague that is this titan on this beautiful world.'

I walked inside, alongside Captain America, Black Widow, and Erwin. Bertholdt was trapped back at the ship, along with Annie, so we went on without them. Black Widow went behind Captain America, and I walked behind Erwin. He was a few inches taller, and his posture made him look taller than he really was.

'Erwin's sort of like Levi, I guess.'

But all of that noise erased from my mind as the titan came to view.

Thanos was groaning, his face half-burnt, and in simple clothing. Both his arms were chopped off, one by Thor and one by Levi, based on the blood on their weapons, and his eyes looked forward with pain. I felt a slight amount of regret, but then I remember the feeling I had when Mohini died. When my Mom and Dad died.

'You deserve this, Titan.'

Then, the raccoon turned over the golden-colored gauntlet, only to softly say, "Oh no."

Erwin stayed where he was, but Black Widow, Captain America, and I went to the gauntlet, only to find it… empty.

My fists tightened at the implications of the stones being missing, but Captain America solidified my terror and my anger.

"Where are they?"

Levi looked to want the same answer, which confused me.

The woman restraining the titan said while compressing his throat, "Answer the question."

The titan groaned but managed to say, "The universe required correction. After that, the stones served no purpose… beyond temptation."

My teeth were gritting at what I knew, but somehow, I managed some self-control.

However, the man in the red suit didn't have so much control in him.

"You murdered trillions!"

He slammed the titan against the other side of the room.

The titan barely flinched, saying instead, "You should be grateful."

His face was pummeled to the ground, but I maintained self-control in case maybe, maybe I was wrong.

Black Widow asked the same question. "Where are the stones?" She was on the verge of tears, as I saw while she asked it.

A few sentences broke any hope within me. "Gone. Reduced to Atoms."

"You used them two days ago!"

The titan calmly responded, "I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me. But the work is done. It always will be."

He turned towards me, along with the other heroes. "I am… inevitable."

Then, the man in a silver suit stuttered out. "W… We have to tear this place apart." He paused to look at us in disbelief. "H… He has to be lying!"

Then, the blue alien spoke up. "My father is many things. A liar is not one of them."

'Father?' My anger then split up into two ways, one towards the alien, and another towards the titan.

"Ah." The titan looked calmly towards his daughter. "Thank you, Daughter." She looked down, which made my anger focus on her.

"Perhaps I treated you too harshly."

That was the last thing he said before Thor lost control.

The Titans' head rolled off his neck, and my anger was focused on one person again.

Thor.

"What did you do?" The raccoon said.

The god of thunder said, "I went for the head."

He walked out, but I called out to him, not having any restraint to hold me back.

Wow. And that was my Fifth chapter. Now, this was a long chapter, so I hope you guys liked it, and if you didn't, review it and I'll see you in the next chapter.