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Somewhere in an ancient library, a young girl in appearance broke the receiver she's holding in half.

"GOD DAMN IT YOU USELESS PIECE OF TRASH FOR A GOVERNOR! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY WORLD THIS TIME?!"

"What should we order first?" Petra smiled lightly as nothing has happened in the past five minutes.

None of the cadets dared to open their mouth, a little ashamed of the display their fellow graduates just put on for their superiors to see. Connie and Sasha, in their excitement, fought over the menu like two animals and nearly tear said booklet in half. No, it was just torn into a third.

"We aw saw sowwy…" The beaten up duo chorused weakly, voice muffled up because of the tape Jean conveniently had on hand when Sasha tried to snatch the menu back with her teeth.

Connie and Sasha were on the floor, rubbing their light injuries as the veterans looked on in amusement, albeit a little annoyed at the new recruits' brashness. In Levi and Oluo's case, though, they didn't even bother to hide their annoyance.

"Petra. Is that thing salvageable?" Levi asked briskly, wiping his hands with a handkerchief. After seeing his ward along with friends failed to stop Baldy and Hange clone, he's taken to deal with the problem himself by kicking everyone who is making a mess. Armin was the only one who got off unscathed since he was smart enough to immediately get the hell out of dodge when he spots Levi's enraged expression in the corner of his eyes.

"Don't worry, Captain." The auburn haired woman taped the destroyed pages together, "It's still readable. Here."

Levi picked up the booklet, ignoring Baldy and Hange clone's obviously excited eyes following his every movement. Levi scanned the booklet and his eyebrow rose up. "There are twelve dishes listed in here, presumably one for each episode. We've missed two, but unless any of you shitheads have a bottomless stomach, you'll be full by the third one."

Erwin motioned with his hand and Levi passed the booklet to the Commander. The man also scanned the thin notebook before announcing, "We will taste one of these per episode to allow time for digestion. There is only one bathroom in here and fifteen of us, and I doubt anyone would like to wait in line for diarrhea. Any untested dishes will be available if we have time in the end. Is that clear?"

A chorus of 'Yes, sir!' echoed around the room.

"First up is something called 'sushi'...and in the description it said 'A Japanese dish of prepared vinegar rice, usually with some sugar and salt accompanying a variety of ingredients such as raw or cooked seafood, vegetables, and occasionally fruits. Description belongs to Wikipedia.'"

Silence.

"What's a 'Japanese'?"

"Vinegar? Is that a new breed of rice?"

"Armin! It said 'seafood'! Would it be from the sea?!"

"Vegetables...ew…."

"Who the hell ate fruits with rice?"

"And what is Wikipedia?"

Patience wearing thin, Erwin barked out, "Silence!"

The effect was instantaneous; everybody shut up faster than you can say chee-burg.

"Fridge, please get us an order of this sushi." Erwin turned to the grey box and asked.

"It will be done."

Unlike before, the food appeared on one of the counters instead of inside the fridge, and the group turned to the foreign object—an intricate wooden ship, to be exact.

"What's that supposed to be?" Oluo voiced the question everyone has.

"No idea." Levi blandly said, but one can clearly see the intrigued look in his eyes, "But there's food in here; rice topped with some orange thing and a bunch of other stuff."

Everyone moved closer. Inside the wooden ship were a number of sashimi slices ranging from salmon, squid, shrimp, tuna, and mackerel. There were also a number of rolls including inarizushi, makizushi, hand rolls, salmon roe nigiri, and California rolls made from the ingredients listed above along with a few extra. There are also wasabi and pickled ginger on the side along with wooden chopstick.

"It's so beautiful!" Christa complimented. "I feel a little bad for eating it, though."

'Huh...sushi.' Ymir thought. 'Hopefully, nobody is allergic to any of the ingredients; last I check the Walldians doesn't even know the concept of blood transfer, much less allergies.'

The new recruits really wanted to dive in; especially Eren, who wanted to get a taste of seafood, but they sneak looks at their superior, waiting for them to eat first before picking up their chopstick. Levi didn't bother to wait for Erwin before making his way to the piece of salmon sashimi.

"Hn." Levi chewed the orange piece thoughtfully before saying. "Not bad. There are fat in this, but not overly greasy...though I really don't know what this is."

Levi eating something seems to break an invisible wall amongst them as everyone started to pick up their chopsticks and tried various dishes, though their reactions weren't the same.

"...Um…"

"Woah! This is so good!"

"It's melting in my mouth...is this heaven?!"

"GAH—Blegh! What the hell is this thing?! It's so bitter!"

The most impressive person is Erwin, who took a bite of raw fish and elegantly push it out of his mouth after covering it with a tissue, not a hair out of place during the entire process while Jean quickly made his way to the sink.

"The red balls popped in my mouth! So cool!" Connie exclaimed, wiping the excess liquid from his hand and mouth after consuming salmon roe.

"Adding the ginger and green substance in only makes it better," Eld commented after swallowing, "Ginger allows a refreshing taste for your mouth—"

"Really?! Let me try!" Sasha quickly swiped a large blob of wasabi and a chopstick-full of ginger before popping it into her mouth.

"—while the green substance leaves a light spicy feeling behind your throat." Eld sighed as the girl let out an inhuman scream before scrambling to find some water. "At least listen to what people said before getting ahead of yourself, Blouse."

A few minutes later, most of the sushi on the ship was cleaned off. They all agreed that some of them were absolutely delicious and heavenly while others left something to be desired, especially raw fish. Ymir knew which one to avoid, so she pushed Christa away from the more 'flavorful' pieces.

"But it has the taste of the sea!" Armin excitedly exclaimed, "I can just taste the salt and the seawater and the slight bitterness of the seafood! It's so amazing!"

Eren groaned, "If the sea really tastes like cow intestine then I might need to rethink my post-annihilation plan. Ugh, the smell!"

"The red piece of meat tastes like blood." Gunther sighed, "It's a wonder how Titans can eat us every day like that."

"Oh, Titans don't have taste buds!" Hange chirped.

"It was a rhetorical question."

Erwin looked over the group, "Are we ready to start the next episode?"

A round of nods answered his questions as the blond man hit play.

The scene started out with a happy Annie opening her lunch.

"There's Annie." Eren blurt out.

It was a delicious-looking cheese Hamburg bento. Ymir and Krista came up to her desk as the latter smiled, "Hey, Annie! What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Ah. I like chee—"

"She also likes cheese hamburg steak?" Jean asked incredulously.

"That chee-burg bastard from the other day was hilarious!"

Annie froze up as an electric current hit her like a bolt. Thomas kept talking to Nack, "No kidding; I mean when's the last time you've seen someone our age into cheese hamburg steak that much?"

"Right!" Nack laughed.

"Um...hello, Annie?" Christa hesitantly spoke up. "Are you okay?"

Annie suddenly looked out and she was surrounded by Mylius, Reiner, and Bertolt in addition to Christa and Ymir. "You were about to say chee-something."

"Their classroom looks so nice," Christa remarked, "They even have their own tables, chairs, and class to sit with. We have to stand on the field days and nights."

Connie nodded, "And look at those school supplies; I'd kill to get my hands on my own pen."

Seeing that a large crowd has gathered around the table, Thomas and Nack wandered over, "Hey guys, whatcha talking about?"

"Uh...actually I think you heard me wrong," Annie clenched her fists with a defeated look, "I said seaweed."

Hange looked over to the Titan Shifter, "So she like cheese hamburg steak, but because of TV Eren caused a scene in the first episode, she couldn't admit it due. Did something like this happened too, Eren?"

"Uh...I have no idea. When Reiner and I first talked to her, she already looks like she wanted nothing to do with us." Eren quickly turned to Armin, "Any idea what is a seaweed?"

"Um...it's seaweed, so a type of weed that grows in the sea?" Armin hesitantly offered, "I don't know, Eren. It was never said in...you know…"

"Ah." Eren wisely nodded instead of questioning further. Possessing materials related to the outside world is illegal, and Eren wasn't about to blurt it out in front of their superiors even if Armin doesn't have it anymore.

"Wow! As in mozuku? So grown-up!" Christa complimented.

Eren, Mikasa and Armin walked in, "Tomorrow's gonna be the big dodgeball tournament."

"Dodgeball?"

Hearing her nemesis' voice, Annie glared at the source, "We are going to kick some major butt!"

"Is that a fact?" She growled dangerously, stopping Eren in his track. "I make you this promise right here and now; tomorrow I will personally obliterate you!"

Mikasa clicked her tongue in annoyance, 'What an unlikable person even in another world.'

"It's not even that big of a deal." Eren hotly argued, "Can't she just say that she also likes cheese hamburg steak? Who cares what other people think?"

Not willing to get into an argument with Eren and incurring the veterans' wrath, Connie whispered to Sasha, "Everyone else except Eren."

Eren stared in confusion.

"Consider yourselves warned. Humph!" Annie scoffed and walked away from the very confused trio.

The scene changed to an athletic field where Jean, who was wearing a red bandana across his head, shouted, "Listen up, people! There are fewer things in life more important than dodgeball! We win this and Class 4 First Year will be the coolest kids in school!"

'And my association with the winning team will earn yours truly substantial props with the ladies!' Jean imagined Mikasa, Christa and a few other girls from their class swooning over him. "Oh, Jean! You are so amazing!"

The ladies in the room glared at the teenage boy, who cowered before the might of the beasts, "I-I wasn't the one who said it?"

"TV you can also be you." Ymir growled, "I will never be lovestruck like in your fantasies, so this is a warning. If you even dare to think about myself, or Christa like that, then I'll make sure to kill you slowly before feeding your remains to the Titans. Is that clear?"

Jean whimpered, but the others weren't done. Sasha exclaimed, "Yeah, that's right! I don't like you that way, Jean!"

Mikasa didn't say anything, but the look in her eyes killed him ten times over.

"And according to the rules, everybody has to participate. Are we all in? Right! So now begin the saga of my rise to the top—wait, where's Eren?" As he looked over his team, there were Mikasa, Armin, Sasha, Connie, Marco, Samuel, Franz, and Hannah. Eren was nowhere to be found.

"Um...it seems he overslept…" Armin shyly told their proclaimed leader. Jean stood shocked still for a moment before he hollered to the high sky.

"Damn you eternally Yeager! This was supposed to be my time to shine!"

The cadets chuckled at Jean's words before it abruptly stopped as Armin voiced out his opinion, "Does it implies that Eren will be late to something important?"

"Well maybe," Hange hummed, "But this 'dodgeball' seems to be important to you guys, but I'll keep that in mind."

As Jean continued to hyperventilate in the background, Sasha commented while chewing on a baked potato, "Ish a pretty emotional day for him, huh?"

"Whatever, he totally loves it." Connie said.

Jean mumbled while trying to keep himself calm, "Right, keep it together Jean, just cover up the fact that Eren's not here—GAH!"

Keith Shadis slowly stepped out from the wall he's hiding behind and half of his face stared at the students, "Does anyone care to explain to me what's all this rackets' about?" The Flames of Hell appeared behind him as the man's face darkened, "If I didn't know better I'd say that it has something to do with the fact that Yeager appears to be absent!"

"I remember this!" Connie pointed at the screen excitedly, "It was when Eren and Jean were having another dumb fight and the Instructor came in and Mikasa said Sasha farted—"

"CONNIE DAMMIT!" Sasha yelped, blushing, "I was starting to forget that!"

The veterans chuckled, but it was drowned out by the new recruits' loud chortlings.

Seeing as everyone was scared shitless, Mikasa raised her hand, "Eren's in the restroom and the racket was because Sasha farted."

Jean nodded sagely, "And that's exactly how it went down."

"Ugh. Why doesn't that surprise me?" Keith wrinkled his nose and walked away. "For crying out loud, girl. Learn some restraint!"

"Mikasa! Why would you do—?" Sasha shook the raven-haired girl back and forth before Mikasa stuffed a loaf of bread in her mouth.

"Did this happened, too?" Gunther asked in amusement.

Connie, who by now has lost some of his initial nervousness by meeting a superior officer, nodded.

Jean said in relief, "Good save!"

"In the meantime," Keith said in an authoritative tone as he turned around, "If I catch any of you slackers goofing off, even a little bit, I will personally hand feed you to the Titans myself!"

"That's strange." Armin interrupted, but then quickly blush when he realized he'd spoken aloud and now everyone's attention was on him.

Erwin paused the episode, "What is it, Arlert?"

"Uh...sir...I…" Armin stammered, before taking a deep breath and spoke clearly, "This world's Titans only eats human food, not human. Why is Instructor Keith saying that he will throw Jean and the rest to feed to the Titans?"

Realizing how much sense he made, whispers start to pick up again at a hurried pace. Hange hummed thoughtfully, "You do have a point, but I also have a possible hypothesis: what if that is just a saying since the Titans over also hunt for food to eat? It is a legitimate possibility. Great insight, though."

"Ah...thank you." Armin murmured softly.

"Did this just got real?" Jean nervously smiled, "Okay team, are we all in agreement that we cover for Eren until the jerk decides to show?"

The group hastily nodded out of fear.

"Damn right! And remember; we are playing this to win!"

"YEAH!"

Annie looked at the cheering team in interest.

"Alright! Let's get this dodgeball tournament underway!" Hannes announced, "The first match will be between Class 4 Team A and Class 1 Team B. Ready? Let's see some sportsmanship! Best of luck!" Hannes threw the ball into the air as the player from the opposite team caught it and threw it to Kaneshi who immediately aimed at Connie. The latter caught it in his grip.

"Dodgeball: you start by throwing the ball up into the air and one of the two players from opposite teams will smack it to their own side…" Petra mumbled as she quickly writes things down.

"All right!" Jean smirked. 'Connie's a moron but he's a born athlete! If he keeps this up he'll be our first string offense!'

"Hey! I'm not an idiot!"

Jean look offended, "I was also complimenting you."

"Yeah, but you make it sounds like I'm just some all brawn and no brain nincompoop."

"'Kay heads up!" Connie threw the ball to Toyohashi, an outfielder from the opposite team.

Jean gripped his head and screamed, "What the hell are you doing?!"

Marco panicked, "That's the other team's outfielder! Do you even know how this game's supposed to work?!"

"Uh sorry… Tell me what are we playing again?" Connie tilted his head.

The clueless ball holder immediately seized that chance since both Marco and Connie are distracted and threw the ball at them. It bounces off their heads. "Connie and Marco are out!"

"Wow." Eren deadpanned, "I didn't hear what you just said, Connie. Mind repeating that again?"

"That's TV-me!" Connie stubbornly argued, "I'm obviously wayyyy smarter! I graduate in the top ten along with you assholes, remember?!"

Marco sat down and drew a rough map of the game to Connie, "Dodgeball, you are supposed to hit the other team's infielders—"

"What are infielders?"

Jean deadpanned, "Huh. Well, I guess that will teach me to not underestimate Connie's stupidity. Hey, on the bright side now we know who's the weakest player is."

Connie glared to his side, "You are more of an idiot than me, Jean. I mean, you kept picking fights with Eren even though you knew that Mikasa will always come to whisk him away like a princess—"

The taunt for Jean was intentional. However, the taunt for Eren was not.

"None of your damn business you—"

Eren exploded, "You Baldy—Wanna repeat that again?!"

"I said—"

Armin's hushed whisper quickly cut in, "Danger. 4'o clock."

The three boys turned around and gulped at Levi's pissed off expression. "Enough of this crap. Sit down and watch the goddamn episode, recruits."

They didn't need to be told twice.

Armin looked to the side and immediately went into a panic, "Sasha no! What are you doing?!"

Sasha was slurping some ramen. "Oat u u in um ooing? Um eein aamen!"

Christa giggled but was surprised to see that only herself was giggling and looked to her three fellow trainee slash newly minted soldiers. They sat ramrod straight and stared at the screen; not even Connie is laughing.

"I can see that!" Armin squeaked, "Just why here of all places!"

"You expected me to let it get cold?! That's a bloody waste of good ramen!"

"You are kinda missing the main point!"

Jean fell on the floor in defeat.

Kaneshi caught the ball again and aimed it at Sasha, "Look out!"

Sasha immediately backtracked and avoided being hit by the ball.

"Nice reflexes." Eld commented, 'There just seems to be some trend with women that even if it kills them, they won't waste even a drop of food. God knows how many times my fiancée nearly landed herself in the hospital, trying to not spill her food.'

Sasha beamed, "Thanks, sir!"

"You're kidding me!" Nomura caught it and quickly retaliate by aiming for Sasha again. But she dodged it again. And again. And again. And while expertly eating ramen while taking care to not even spill one strand of noodle.

"Of course!" Armin brighten up, "Nobody can separate Sasha from whatever she happens to be eating!"

"Which would be awesome if she didn't have to use her hands!" Jean shouted. "This is just embarrassing! Don't we have one decent player—Wait, there's Mikasa! She's got skills—"

'Damn right she does.' Jean smirked.

Satou, a small girl who happens to catch the ball, threw an off shot at Mikasa. Jean sneered, "Ha! No way a throw that lame can tag out someone like Mika—"

The ball hit her and she fell down. "Come on! Seriously, you're that weak?!"

Armin piped in, "Yeah, the thing about Mikasa you've gotta understand is that when she's separated from Eren for too long her stats go down by 30%."

"Wha—Is this true, Mikasa?!" Eren turned to his adoptive sister and demanded.

"That's—no, of course not." Mikasa said in bewilderment, "I'm fine even without you there by my side constantly."

'That is if you are sure he is completely in safe territory,' Armin mused, but dared not to voice his opinion. 'Otherwise we get a repeat of your reckless performance in Trost—though it shouldn't be as bad.'

"We should write it down just in case it is related to the future," Levi voiced his opinion, "It might just happen on this expedition."

"It won't." Mikasa insisted.

Hange, seeing that the girl won't go down without a fight, settled for appeasement, "We will keep it in mind, don't worry. I know you are a capable soldier."

"What?! How is that even possible?!"

"The world is a cruel place," Mikasa whispered to herself while emitting dark auras worthy of a Shinigami.

"Kinda hard to believe a girl just out of elementary school can go that dark."

'What is with this team?' Jean thought, slightly winded. 'An idiot who can't get his head around the rules, a girl who stuffs her face in the middle of a game, and our star player whose depression is so intense that it's got its own aura!'

Jean threw his head back and screamed to the sky, "JUST WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS TEAM?!"

"Just a side note, if any of you dare to do that during the expedition, I will take you out first." Levi flatly announced. His opinions of the recruits were smashed to pieces after seeing their very immature displays in dire situations like these. Eren had seemed like a capable cleaner and a somewhat satisfactory newbie, but even he can resort to childish squabble with his friends every now and then.

"Yes, sir." The recruits glumly stated.

The scene changed to where the team is sitting under a bleacher. Jean sighed tiredly, "Okay, the first match's in the bag but I wasn't counting on it being such a struggle to win."

"Right?" Armin added with a worried frown, "Imagine if Mikasa was in top form—ACHOO!"

Jean looked up, "Hey, what happened to your futon?"

"She took it." Armin sheepishly answered. Mikasa wrapped herself with a futon in the corner while Sasha munched on a potato.

"Hey, the potato's back." Ymir smirked, "Seems like the potato trend is still steady."

Sasha whined, "When will you guys forget about the potato jokes? It literally happened years ago!"

"Oh, we will never forget it that easily, Potato Girl."

"Fantastic. Girl's gotten worse." Jean deadpanned.

"Sorry, we have no idea what else to do. And oh, looks like Annie's team is up."

Jean commented, "Whoever wins this match will be our next opponent."

Hannes shouted, "Okay! Let's begin!"

Christa was immediately hit by a ball as it bounced off. "Christa! No!"

Historia frowned. It is true that in order to keep up with her Christa personality, she has to appear a little weak, meek and a nice person, but Historia has never liked the 'damsel in distress' situations that come along with it. Seeing herself so...delicate like that in contrast to acting it was so different.

Reiner tried to jump up and catch the ball to save his crush but he was intercepted by Ymir. She tripped him and effortlessly caught the ball, smirking smugly, "She's perfectly safe, thanks!"

'Good job, TV-me.' Ymir smiled in satisfaction.

"How can I ever repay you?!"

"How about when this craps' over and done with you marry me?!" Ymir hugged Christa as Reiner glared at her with a bruised face.

Annie stared at the trio, wondering how are they doing before looking over to Jean's team thus becoming distracted enough that Ihoka aimed the ball at her, "Enough of this!"

"Annie! Look out!" Christa warned.

Right as the ball was heading straight for the stoic girl, Bertolt jumped out and got smacked directly in the face instead.

"What's his deal?" Levi questioned.

At this, the recruits sported a pure Cheshire grin on their face. Sasha grinned, "'Cause Bertolt like Annie, like, a lot!"

"Totally!" Jean cackled, "That guy stared at Annie so much that I'm surprised she didn't smack him for it already! I mean—it's so obvious!"

Armin pointed out, "You stare at Mikasa, too."

Jean wisely ignored that remark and turned away with a blush, but by doing that he caught his superiors' subtle nods to each other.

'Huh. What was that about?' Jean wondered.

Finally catching her surroundings, she jumped up and grab the ball before taking out three people from the opposite team much to Jean and Armin's amazement.

Thomas caught the ball and threw it to Reiner. The bulky boy took hold of the pink ball and eliminate the rest of the opposite team. The whistle blew out. "Game over! Class 4 team B wins!"

"That's Reiner for you! Such a reliable guy!" Eren nodded happily.

Marco, Armin, and Jean stood, stunned before they screamed. Armin whispered, "We...we don't stand a chance."

"It's as if they are a hive mind," Marco observed grimly.

"Well duh, it's what team plays' all about. Every members are in tune with each other…" Jean shouted the last part, "And most importantly they don't eat ramen in the middle of a match!"

"And they don't eat a baked potato during the very first day of training." Mikasa deadpanned, causing some to giggles and Sasha to splutter.

Annie confronted the team, "Where's the chee-burg bastard? He'd better crawl out from whatever rock he's under before our match starts….or else I'm telling Instructor Keith on you."

She glared menacingly before leaving. Jean fell onto his knee, "That's it...no way around it anymore. We're going to be five-star Titan chow…"

"Come on Eren...help us out here…" Armin pleaded, "JUST WAKE UP ALREADY!"

"I just have a random thought," Jean started, "Will Eren be late to something in the future?"

Eren bit back, "Are you just trying to pin everything on me now, Jean? Because I—"

"I'm dead serious, Eren." Jean glared. "You are 'Humanity's Hope' now. What if you show up late when the Titans break down the Wall again? We have to consider every possibility that can happen based on the information on this screen here."

"He's right," Erwin nodded. "Hange, please write that down."

Petra frowned a little. She did offer to help with taking notes since she thought that Hange wouldn't be able to handle it all, but the woman seems to be taking it all in strides, adding her own scientific conclusions and hypothesis and experiments on the side while Petra's notebook is filled with basic observations. Furthermore, the Commander never asked for her to write it down instead of Hange, even though the Squad Leader was busy.

She wondered if he didn't trust her for a brief moment, then dismiss it as foolish thinking and continue writing.

Elsewhere, Eren held the alarm clock which pointed to 11:55 A.M. The corner of his mouth twitched violently, "GOD DAMN IT!"

Back at school, Hannes announced, "Lunch time! Eats up, boys and girls!"

"Um...hey Annie?" Christa went up to Annie's desk and hesitantly asked the other blonde, "I was wondering if you would mind me asking...but are you really into mozuku?"

"Uh, yeah. I love it." Annie twitched, 'Why does she want to know? Is she baiting me into admitting the truth?'

"I was hoping you'd say that!" Christa held out her lunch box, "I happen to have some for lunch today, but I think it's gross. I was sort of thinking maybe you'd take it so it wouldn't go to waste, you know?"

"Is it that gross?" Eld wondered.

Gunther said thoughtfully before standing up, "We can test it out if you want."

Walking to the fridge, Gunther said aloud, "A bowl of 'seaweed', please."

Erwin once again paused the episode as some recruits wander to the two men, clearly interested. Gunther took out a small bowl of saltwater with green, slimy strips that almost look alive.

"Ew…" Eren made a face. "Is that even edible?"

"Who knows. Maybe it doesn't taste as bad as it looks…." Eld popped one strand into his mouth, "...or not. This thing's slimy and disgusting!"

He immediately took off to the bathroom and everyone else stared at the bowl as if it was made up of poison.

Erwin raise an eyebrow, "If we can get back to the episode?"

"For a second there I thought…" Annie trailed off, "You know what? Sure."

"Annie!" Reiner, Ymir, Thomas, Bertolt and Mina all came up with their lunchboxes and smiled sheepishly, "While you are at it would you mind eating mine too?"

"And mine."

"Mine too."

"I hate this stuff so—"

Bertolt never got to the end as Annie snapped, "What's wrong with you people?! Seaweed tastes good!"

"She's crazy," Eld said weakly, wiping his mouth furiously as he exits the bathroom.

Levi reminded, "Remember to wash your hands three time with boiled soap."

Jean was seen slumping on the side of the wall, "We're in big trouble...it's only a matter of time before we are eaten, trust me. Argh, why couldn't I've done more with my life if I'd known it was just gonna end up like this—"

"I've got a plan!" Jean looked up to Armin's confident face.

An Eren wig was slapped onto Jean's head.

"PPPFFFHTTTTT—"

The recruits choked on their spits and roared with rolling laughter. All except Jean and Eren, of course. Mikasa was also exempted, but she showed amusement her own way.

"I look nothing like the Suicidal Bastard/Horse-face!"

Sasha giggled, "It's so obvious, how could we not have seen it before!"

"Armin, you genius!" Connie guffawed.

"On a more serious note," Hange smiled, "If things go south, we can try this method to sneak Eren out—heck; I'm pretty sure that this is one of the future we are supposed to find!"

"Really?!" Christa gasped. "That's amazing!"

Jean looked put-out, grimaced and finally relented, "...if worse comes to worst, then I suppose I have no choice..."

"I don't like this any more than you do." Eren sulked, but he does feel a little worry for Jean. If Jean will be his substitute in the future, then wouldn't it mean his life will be in danger?

Marco breathed out, "Amazing!"

"You looked perfect!"

"You all are out of your damn mind! I don't look anything like Eren!" Jean voiced out his thoughts angrily.

"Actually, your physiques are very similar. You both have the shifty eyes of the classic bad guys!" Armin analyzed.

The both of them glowered menacingly, but none dared to blow up at Armin.

"Say that again, blondie!"

Sasha complimented, "I think the two of you look so much alike it might even manage to pull Mikasa out of her weird mood swings—"

"It won't." Mikasa whispered with conviction, "I can't feel his spirits."

'I really, really hope she can't do that.' Eren sneak a glance at Mikasa warily.

Sensing his line of thought, Mikasa assured him, "I can tell the difference between you and anyone who attempts to pretend to be you by smell, but I can't sense your spirit."

'That's even creepier!'

Everyone sweatdropped, "Okay...that doesn't sound like a crazy person at all."

"Pardon the intrusion." Annie interrupted again, this time with Reiner and Bertolt behind her. "It's almost time for us to get this match underway. Chee-burg bastard better be here."

"Don't you worry about it!" Sasha pushed the disguised Jean forward despite his protests, "Eren's right here!"

"Huh. Should their name be EreJean or JeanEre—oh shit wait those are ship names. Forget I said anything, people!" Kuro hastily amended.

"'Ship name'?" Petra echoed. "A new definition, it seems."

Annie squinted, "Wait a second, something isn't right; when did you get horse-faced?"

"It's also an obvious difference we have to account for." Armin nodded, trying his best to ignore Jean's upset aura.

Jean leaned back in fear before Annie asked him, "What's your favorite thing to eat for lunch?"

"Uh...omurice?" He hesitantly answered.

Armin screeched as Jean realized his mistake, "Dammit!"

"CHEE-BURG!" Mikasa's eyes shot wide open as everyone looked up to see Eren there, panting, "Sorry guys; I overslept."

Jean glared up at his rival, "Cutting it kinda close there—"

"Get out of the way!" Mikasa pushed him aside to run up to Eren and threw Armin's futon away as the boy chased after it.

Jean's face soured, 'Lucky bastard.'

Mikasa doesn't have her own opinion of Jean's very obvious crush, but even she felt that it was really mean of her TV-self to act like that, but she couldn't bring herself to say sorry. It wasn't her doing, after all, and frankly, she can understand her TV-self's relief after seeing Eren.

"Mikasa, now that I'm here everything's gonna be okay—huh?"

The raven-haired girl stretched his face and pushed her face close to him with a threatening look, "Tardiness is a very bad habit."

Kuro interrupted, "This one's not very obvious, so I'll tell you it straight. This happens—not the cheek-pulling, mind you—during the Colossal and Armor Titan's chase."

Everyone immediately straightens up.

"Okay, that is valuable information." Levi addressed, "Now we know that at least Ackerman will be involved."

Armin continued, "From the image on the screen, I think we can deduce that she will get up close and personal with them, possibly using 3DMG gear, and stare at them in the face."

'The 57th Expedition is going to be a success.' Erwin confidently thought, 'We successfully lured both the Colossal and the Armored Titan out. Eren and Squad Levi can take care of them, and the rumor I've heard about Ackerman isn't bad, either. We can do this.'

"I'll definitely kick its ass for all of the trouble it'd caused us." A murderous Oluo stated. "We will take back Wall Maria at all cost."

The Special Operation Squad silently agreed.

Sasha fidgeted, "Mikasa was there, so it should happen during our lifetime because I can't really imagine Mikasa dying before us. Do you think we will live to see it through the end?"

"Don't speak bullshit like that." Connie insisted, "We'll be fine. We will kill it dead before it can kill us."

'So Bertolt and Reiner's capture will be soon.' Ymir analyzed, 'But there's still Annie, and these people don't know about her yet. She'd joined the Military Police, and I am 90% sure that she will act during this upcoming expedition. Bertolt and Reiner will not transform unless necessary, so this will probably happen at a later date. How annoying. At least I can protect Christa if it comes to worse.'

"Yes, ma'am…"

Annie spoke up, "Glad you decided to show up, Chee-burg, prepare yourself to be squash flat!"

"Bring it on, Annie! This team's not afraid of you!"

Hannes announced, "Time for the championship match! Right, Class 4 Team A will go head to head with Class 4 Team B! Is everybody ready?"

The two teams glared at each other with determined expressions. Hannes take a look at the teens before throwing the pink ball into the air, "And begin!"

Naturally with a height advantage, Bertolt reached the ball and smacked it over to his team as Annie stole from Reiner and charge ahead, aiming directly at Jean. Eren yelled as he ran up, "This one's mine!"

The ball bounced off his face and Mikasa has to jump up and grab it, "Eren's safe!"

"Loser." Jean taunted but was surprised when Eren did not respond with something nasty.

'When I find it, I will tear off its flesh with my own teeth!' Eren envisioned, 'Gouge its eyes out, snap every bone of its body, slice its arms off, cut its leg open, torture it in the worst ways possible before going for the nape! I will make it regret ever walking the ground for kicking down the Walls!"

"Wow! She's so agile!" Jean exclaimed.

Armin nodded, "Yeah, quite the difference, huh? Glad Eren showed up."

"I'm just getting started!" Eren charged to the ball that was aimed for Armin, but the boy crouched down to duck it at the last minute so the ball slammed into Eren's face before bouncing off. Mikasa also caught the ball, "Eren's safe!"

From that point on, Eren would keep trying to get the ball, fail miserably and Mikasa would have to catch the ball every single time. She declared, "Whoever comes at Eren deals with me. I don't care what they try to throw at us!"

Not wanting Eren to overhear, Eld whispered to Petra, "Maybe write down 'Mikasa bailing Eren out from failed missions'. It might come in handy."

"Will do."

Both teams stared in a mix of horror, deadpanned, and what-the-fuck-is-going-on expressions at the massacre unfolding before them.

"Even Sasha's stopped eating." Eld noted.

'Not the superiors, too!'

Marco noted with a scared expression, "Eren keeps getting blasted but he can't get out; Mikasa's catching all the rebounds!"

Jean spoke slowly, "This is painful."

The ball bounces off of Jean's head, "Oh, Jean's out."

Jean looks annoyed, 'That's just pitiful.'

Hannes yawned as the ball whizzed past him a few more time before knocking him off his feet. By now, only Mikasa, Eren and Annie are still standing. An injured Eren slowly pick up the ball before shaking his bumps and black-eyes away and yelled with determination, "I will end this in one throw!"

"How does he shakes his injuries off so fast? Furthermore, how did he gained such injuries from being hit by a ball?" The scientist in Hange wondered, then she looked over to Eren, "Maybe I should test—"

"Absolutely not." Mikasa said with finality.

Annie slipped into her signature fighting pose, "Do it. Let's see what you've got."

Eren threw the ball as hard as he could and Annie kicked it away. The ball sent Eren flying, "Well, that was some serious skills."

Now out of his murderous spree, Eren commented, "This is just like the first time she defeated me."

"It's a special technique," Annie stared down at her opponent, "If you want, I'd be happy to teach you."

"No thanks. Dodgeball hurts."

Annie narrowed her eyes, "Are you kidding me? Stop trying to be so damn modest."

The pink ball bounced menacingly in the air as Mikasa approached the duo with a threatening look in her eyes, "Hey Annie."

Said blonde immediately narrowed her eyes, assessing the threat, "I want to learn your technique." Mikasa's eyes flashed, "Teach me."

"Uh oh." Sasha whispered, "I think I know what this is."

Annie stared back with steely looks of her own. "Not so sure about that. The whole thing only works with human beings."

"Uh oh. Epic match alert." Sasha commented

Jean leaned up in anticipation, "Hell yeah! Double or nothing Mikasa kicks Annie's butt."

Christa reminded them, "Mikasa and Annie never fought in the end so we shouldn't expect much."

"Aw!"

Christa said excitedly, "I bet my strawberries!"

"Cool. I bet my herrings." Ymir smirked.

Reiner crosses his arms with an interested look, "I'll bet my meatballs."

'Why herrings?' Ymir frowned thoughtfully, 'Christa like strawberries, and Reiner like meatballs. I don't even like herrings that much. Is there some deeper meaning behind it? Or maybe I'm just overthinking things.'

Ymir filed that information to the back of her mind and focus on the TV.

"I'm in!"

Annie stared at Mikasa challengingly, "Let's do it. Come at me with all you've got."

Mikasa did exactly that just before she could slam the ball at Annie's feet, Eren jumped up and got squashed between the ball and Annie's feet. He spun upwards before landing with a crash on the floor. Mikasa cried, "Eren!"

Eren looked up, "Annie...why do you hate me so much?"

Annie looked the other way, clearly conflicted. "It's not like I've ever done anything to you."

"Huh. You really want to know?" Eren's determined green eyes told her the expected answer. "Pay attention because I'm only going to say this once."

Eren sat up and listened carefully, "At the entrance ceremony, you told everyone you love cheese hamburg steak, and without even realizing it you basically stole my thunder." The crowd stared at the girl and her explanations with dumbfounded looks on their faces, "It was my favorite first, I should have been the one to blurt it out! So naturally, I hate your chee-burg guts!"

"It's so weird hearing Annie's voice speaking." Armin commented, "She's so mature and thoughtful that such childish notions are completely out of place."

Christa continued, "I know, right? I can't even imagine Annie of all people getting worked up over not being able to share her favorite dish if she even have one."

"I don't get it. Couldn't you just say 'me too'?"

Annie made a surprised sound as Eren offered a hand up, "Look. I'm really sorry but when you get right down to it though, we have something in common."

Annie smiled softly and took his hand. "I suppose we do."

"That was way too fast." Most of the people in the room deadpanned.

"That's sweet! Yay friends!" Christa began clapping, prompting the others to do the same thing as Ymir gave her fellow classmates weirded out looks before deadpanning. "This is absolute bullshit."

Hannes groggily sat up, "Wait. What's going on?"

The ball knocked Annie on the head as all movements immediately ceased. Connie cheered, "I get it now! Dodgeball! I totally just tapped her out, right? Right?"

"Work on your timing skills, Connie." Sasha teased.

Connie spluttered, "That's not me!"

"I know. I was joking around."

"Technically, you did. Game over. Congratulation!" Hannes blew the whistle.

The scene changes to Eren, Mikasa, and Armin having lunch in the school yard. "Let's dig in!"

"Alright, my favorite!" Eren held up a chee-burg excitedly and prepare to bite down before it fell flatly on to the grass. "This isn't happening! That was my chee-burg FOR THE DAY!"

Eren frowned. Is this screen implying that his goals are as feeble and stupid as his TV self? No, that can't be right. He wants to avenge his mother's death by eliminating all the Titans for the good of humanity, not for a chee-burg. TV-Eren is the unbelievable one here, not him.

He tried to sneakily grab it but Mikasa blandly stated, "No three-second rule."

"Vetoed." Kuro firmly addressed with humor.

"Mind if I join you guys?" Annie walked up to the ground and asked.

"Sure! No problem!"

Annie looked at the meat patty on the grass, "Is that…?"

"Yeah." Eren looked down sullenly, "That was supposed to be the best part of the day but now…"

Annie held out her half of the chee-burg from her lunchbox, "We'll share."

"Bet the brat wouldn't even thought of it should he be in her place." Oluo grumbled.

"No way really?! Thank you!" Eren grin excitedly and quickly accepts the offer. He took a large bite and shook his head in absolute bliss, "Best chee-burg evah! That was really nice of you!"

"Whatever," Annie looked to the side, "In return though, let's agree to..uh...forget what I tried to—"

Mikasa stuffed a whole fish into Eren's mouth, "Eat this. You are not getting enough fish in your diet!"

"Woah, Mikasa stop it! I'm not your little brother or some snot-nosed toddler!"

This, Eren wholeheartedly agreed.

Mikasa, on the other hand, frowned. She doesn't get why Eren would always be so difficult; all she wanted to do was to take care of him, and he would always push her away while going to the likes of Annie, who mistreat him all the time.

"Eat it! I'm not about to let you get malnourished!"

Annie held out another piece, "Here, have another one."

"Really?" Eren held out his lunch box to grab the chee-burg before Mikasa pulled him back, "Hey, you should also eat your vegetables!"

"Here, you can have it."

Armin sweatdropped at the scene before him, "Quite the 180...I see a love triangle."

"ARMIN!" The two adopted siblings screeched in embarrassment.

The blond squeaked in surprise. "I'm sorry!"

\V/

"I think we should tell everyone about the true purpose of the 57th Expedition and the fact that the Colossal Titan and Armored Titan can be a titan shifter." Hange proposed to Erwin and Levi while everyone else was distracted with discussing the episode.

Erwin frowned, "Why do you think so, Hange? The fewer people who know, the better."

"Kuro didn't transport Bertolt Hoover, Reiner Braun, or Annie Leonhart to this room with us. And they are under heavy suspicion right now. Leonhart can get a pass for not being from the Survey Corp since Kuro did state such, but the other two are clearly suspicious. Eren is obviously not a traitor along with his two friends. The rest of the recruits are debatable, though."

Levi asked thoughtfully, "What about my squad?"

"Same old status. Though if you want to apply the logic that since Kuro transported them here, they are not traitors then yes, technically they are safe."

The three veteran processed that for a while, before Erwin put his foot down, "It's still too early for us to discuss the nature of the 57th expedition, but you are right; we should at least tell everyone that the two Titans are human in disguises so they will know what they are dealing with."

Levi tapped his biceps, "What will you do if there really is a spy amongst them."

"It shouldn't matter if there really is a spy amongst them; it shouldn't matter. Everyone knows that Eren can turn into a Titan, so it wouldn't be too great of a leap for us to deduce that humans can transform into Titans." Hange nodded thoughtfully.

Standing up, Erwin faced everyone, "Attention, soldiers!"

Everyone immediately ceased chatting and snapped into salutes.

"We have something to tell you...and it has something to do with the Colossal and Armored Titan."

Thanks for the four people who reviewed the last chapter and I'm glad that you are liking it so far. This is a few days late from when I planned to update, but real life gets in the way so yeah (Originally, I planned to update tomorrow but I decided that I might as well finish it tonight). And no, I don't mind long reviews at all, just like how I don't mind long A/N since it gives me some insights into the author's life and possible update schedule so I don't have to wait as long. Since you took your precious time to type out a detailed review, I shall return the same courtesy!

Eren is an absolute pain in the ass to write since he and I are completely polar opposite. Whereas he has a fiery attitude and strong sense of justice, I am pretty laid back and uncaring in general, so I have absolutely zero clues what to write for his various disdainful reactions to TV-Eren. And even if he has a violent reaction, I think he knows better than to start punching tables in a small room with his superiors, in an unknown situation no matter how much he really wants to, but most of Eren's OOC is because of me not knowing what to do with him.

Erwin's easier. He seems less intelligent than in the main series since I'm less intelligent than Isayama-sensei lol. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, after all.

The Cheese Hamburg scene does feel forceful, but by the logic of parodies, suddenly it all makes sense XD. Sorry if I feel that it's really OOC, but I feel like something funny should happen to blow away the heavy atmosphere, ya know.

For Eren saying that Levi's cool, this one I really thought about and was really hesitant to add in because of the reasons you stated, but my reasonings were something like this. The traffickers were strangers and he was a child. At this point in time, Levi had saved Eren twice (at Trost and the spoon experiment), helped him from getting dissected by the Military Police and Eren admired him as 'Humanity's Strongest Soldier', so I think that Eren came to trust Levi, so subconsciously he knew that AoT Levi wouldn't do anything bad though that is an extremely baseless assumption. That's my reasoning for why I portrayed Eren not too worried over Levi stealing Armin's futon.

I never thought about Levi commenting that using fans are ineffective lol.

I'm not too sure, but let's just assume that Erwin spoke aloud for the benefit of the group, Petra, and Hange to follow along his line of reasoning to either write down or if they want to catch something important in each episode.

Petra was only joking about wanting Oluo to bite his tongue. We all have that one friend who is a total tsundere about their feeling XD.

About the extra reacting episode, I'm thinking of doing at least one if I still have the patience, and the extra reacting chapter is something that I think nobody's ever done before, so no clue on how people are going to react to that. Who knows? Maybe I'll wake up one day and people will demand to burn my house down XD.

In the anime, I'm pretty sure that everyone doesn't catch on to Bertolt crushing on Annie (and even that's debatable) but for the sake of this story, just assume that everyone caught on except Bertolt himself.

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