"Clarissa, before we begin I would like to ask you a question." Commander Hange said walking up to Clarissa. Clarissa nodded. "Would you like to join my squad?" She asked.
"That came out of nowhere." Clarissa said without thinking. Commander Hange raised her eyebrow. "Sorry, yes of course. It would be an honor." Clarissa said with a smile. Commander Hange nodded and smiled.
"Perfect! I will let Erwin know when we get back. Until then, titans!" Commander Hange said turning around and walked up to the two titans tied up and nailed down so they couldn't move. Clarissa was given the job of recording it all. So she sat down at the temporary desk and opened the notebook she just bought. She had to write down everything Commander Hange did and how the titans reacted.
Moblit is standing right by Commander Hange watching her very closely. Nifa is standing off on the side with the Garrison just observing. Commander Hange started talking to the titans. Clarissa wrote down everything she said and every little move the titan did. Who knows what might be important later on.
Commander Hange got a little too close to one of the titans and she almost got eaten. Clarissa jumped out of her seat. Moblit grabbed onto her and pulled her out of the way. "This is a feisty one!" Commander Hange said laughing.
Clarissa sighed and sat down. All titans are fiesty, they eat people for Sina sake! Clarissa thought. She would of said it, but she didn't want to get on the bad side of Commander Hange when she was just welcomed into her squad. Clarissa got a thought and stood up from the desk.
"Commander?" She asked. Commander Hange turned around to look at Clarissa. "Did you do research on how fast titans metabolize the sun. Or how long it takes for them to run out of what energy they have metabolized. Or how about does size matter, or hair color?" Commander Hange paused for a moment to thing then she smiled.
"I have figured out the first two, but the last thing? I didn't think about that! Appearance! It has to do with something!" Commander Hange said with a wide smile. She walked up to the table where Clarissa was at.
"Yeah! Does the size change speed? Do certain abnormals only reach a certain height?" Clarissa asked with a smile. Commander Hange smiled and nodded.
"We will have to remember that for the next expedition! Write it down, remind me!" Commander Hange almost screamed. Clarissa nodded and ripped out an empty paper from the crisp new notebook and wrote a reminder down on it. "I knew I chose you for a reason!" Commander Hange said before she went back up to the titans and Clarissa was left to record the rest of the experiments which were better worded as "torture".
The experiments had gone on for three or four hours, it is hard to keep track of time, when Moblit made her sit down and have a water break. Clarissa took this time to go for a small walk. She took the notebook with her to look over it. To make sure she didn't miss anything. Out of nowhere the ground began to shake.
Clarissa looked up from her book to see large boulders flying towards her. Out of reflex Clarissa grabbed a young girl that was walking beside her. The second she did was use her ODM gear to fly to the safety of the wall. Clarissa landed on the wall with the other members of her new squad, including Commander Hange.
The girl that Clarissa was holding happened to of been the girl she was talking with before. The girl was sobbing into Clarissa's chest. Clarissa looked down at the ground. The place where the girl was now had a collapsed clock tower in its place. If Clarissa hadn't got her she would be...
"Clarissa, are you okay? Is the girl okay?" Commander Hange asked. Clarissa looked over at her. Then she looked down at the girl in her arms. She had no injury, she was just screaming and crying.
"We are both okay. What are your orders Commander?" Clarissa asked. Commander Hange looked down at the ground. Titans were beginning to walk into Trost.
"Moblit, make sure that the stationary guards get information to the base as quick as they can. Nifa start evacuating. Clarissa help that girl, find a stationary guard to watch over her. We need you." Commander Hange said. Moblit and Nifa nodded immediately flying into the streets to carry out their orders. Clarissa looked down at the girl.
"I can't leave her!" Clarissa almost yelled. Commander Hange looked around herself.
"Get her to a stationary guard that can bring her to behind wall rose. Then start killing as much titans as you can. That is an order!" Commander Hange said before she flied away. Clarissa kneeled down to be face to face with the young girl. Tears were streaming down her cheek. Her hands are over her eyes.
"Hey, what is your name? Sorry I didn't ask before." Clarissa asked in a calm voice even though the sound of blood curdling screams is all she could here.
"T-T-Tal..ia…" The girl said in between sobs. "I want my mommy!" Clarissa nodded.
"I know, can you do something for me?" Clarissa asked. The girl dropped her hands from her eyes and nodded. "Be brave, that is all you have to do. Be brave, I will help you." Clarissa said. The girl nodded.
"O-Okay," Talia said nodding. Clarissa stood up and picked up the girl. Talia's head rested right by her ear. All Clarissa could hear were her muffled cries.
"Tell me about yourself, when is your birthday?" Clarissa asked starting to walk towards the small group of stationary guards.
"My birthday is in one month. I turn six, my mommy started teaching me to read." Talia said. A stationary guard saw Clarissa and Talia and began running up to them.
"Really? What words can you read?" Clarissa asked as the other soldier got up to them.
"To and and!" The girl said proudly. Clarissa kneeled down and set the girl down.
"That is impressive. I have to go kill those titans. This guy will take care of you." Clarissa said looking back at the stationary guard behind the girl. Talia turned and looked at him. Clarissa stood up. "Tell your higherup that Commander Hange ordered for her to be brought behind Rose safely." Clarissa said pulling out her blades. The stationary guard nodded and grabbed onto Talia's hand.
"Good luck miss!" Talia said between her cries. Clarissa smiled and nodded.
"Thank you," Clarissa said before she flew off the building. On her way to kill the first titan she was thinking about how she shouldn't of spent so much time talking to the girl. Clarissa could of killed two or three titans in the time it took to speak with her. The girl doesn't even know yet, she doesn't know her mother is dead. Maybe talking with her was what she needed.
Clarissa killed the titans that had gotten further into Trost. Those ones are more of a threat. There was an amount of seven to eight titans already in Trost. Out of what Clarissa could count. Commander Hange also killed one or two on her way to do whatever her plan was. Clarissa had already killed a titan that was on her way to one that was further into Trost. So from the information that Clarissa had, ten or eleven titans have already made their way into Trost. It has only been four or five minutes. It will take an hour for the rest of the Survey Corps to arrive, at least. If not double that. How much titans will be able to get in in that time?
The quick math Clarissa used, is that she is able to kill about four or five titans a minute. That is normal titans, not abnormals, and it is likely for their to be lots of them. So five titans a minute, sixty minutes an hour, three-hundred titans an hour, times two, six-hundred. She could kill six-hundred normal titans in two hours. Take away a hundred for time she would use to refill her blades and gas. Then you would have to take away time for injuries... It is too much to calculate. Long story short, Trost is screwed.
Only three Survey Corps veterans, and one rookie. How the hell can they keep the whole of Trost safe? There are the stray stationary guards brave enough to take to the air, only to be eaten a couple of seconds after. At least Trost has it slightly better than Shiganshina did, at least Trost has three Survey Corps veterans.
After the first forty-five minutes of the fall of Trost, Clarissa had killed the upwards up thirty titans. Clarissa is going down a road finding the next titan to kill. A titan walks out of the street behind her and pulls the wire of her ODM gear. Clarissa fell back into a building. The world around her spins as she tried to find her breath.
Once Clarissa's head stopped spinning and she was able to see clearly a titan was standing in front of her. Clarissa tried to stand up but her ankle gave out beneath her and she fell and she began to slide down the roof. Before she slid off the roof completely she grabbed onto the ledge.
She used her free hand to fire off her ODM gear and she flew down the road to another roof away from the titan. She landed and sat down. Why was this happening today? Clarissa thought. Why is it happening at all?
So many have already died today. So many will die in the day coming. Titans are everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. Clarissa tried so hard to kill as much titans as she could. Was one ankle injury going to stop her? It was just a sprained ankle! People are dying! Can't she just put aside her pain for the next, what seven, eight hours? Clarissa pulled herself up to stand. She was hesitant with the pain in her ankle but she got more motivated when she saw large groups of people flying across the streets killing titans.
My friends are finally here. Clarissa thought. She took a step forwards and winced with the pain in her ankle.
"Clarissa, how are you doing?" Nifa asked landing on the roof in front of Clarissa. Clarissa sighed and looked off at all the titans. The sound of screams were gone. Everyone is either behind the safely of the wall, or dead.
"Good, I guess. How are you?" Clarissa asked granting herself a small break from titan killing. She could have a minute without anyone dying, or anyone she knew dying. The rest of the Survey Corps are here, she has kept up for forty-five minutes. A break is allowed.
"Well, good. Good for watching people die." Nifa said. Clarissa nodded and looked down at her ankle.
"Yeah, the rest of the Survey Corps is here?" Clarissa asked. Nifa nodded.
"They got here five minutes ago. We should go get more blades and gas." Nifa suggested. Clarissa nodded. After that they flew down the street together and they got atop wall Rose. They landed on the wall and there were two stationary guards going through many different crates that probably have supplies in them.
Not a second after they land Commander Hange lands beside them. "Hey, you two." Commander Hange said changing out her gas tanks. "Take a five minute break. You guys deserve it." Clarissa nodded and walked up beside Commander Hange to change her gas.
"Did you get any injuries?" Commander Hange asked before Moblit landed on the wall as well.
"I just twisted my ankle, but other than that I am fine." Clarissa said as she finished changing out her gas tanks. Commander Hange looked over at Moblit then she looked back at Clarissa.
"Get that bandaged up. Then find me. I will let you know on what to do after that." Commander Hange said looking between Clarissa and Nifa. They both nod and Commander Hange turned to talk with Moblit as she refilled their blades.
Clarissa grabbed onto a thick white bandage and took it out of a crate. Then she sat down on an empty upside down crate. Nifa was on one beside Clarissa drinking water out of a canteen.
"I thought you would have died. Or at least have been severely injured." Nifa said as Clarissa took off her boot. Clarissa raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" Clarissa asked wrapping the bandage around her ankle.
"No offense, but you are just a first year rookie. I am just beginning to understand why Commander Hange chose you to join our squad." Nifa said. Clarissa shrugged and finished bandaging her foot up. It made sense, she was a first year soldier. If it was anyone else Clarissa would expect them to die as well.
"I understand," Clarissa said putting her foot into her boot. "It may be due to a bit of information Commander Hange has. Remember when I had to spend those two weeks with her?" Clarissa asked looking up at Nifa. She nodded.
"Yeah, I was wondering why." Nifa said. She took in a deep breath.
I have to tell someone sooner or later. Clarissa thought.
"It was because there were issues with my identity." Clarissa said. Nifa raised an eyebrow in confusion. "I don't want to go into details, but because of memory problems I enlisted under a fake last name."
"So Everdeen isn't your last name?" Nifa asked. Clarissa sighed and shook her head. Is she really doing this? She hadn't even told Armin. Her closest friend.
"Well, not my birth last name. My birth last name is Ackerman." Clarissa said. Nifa's mouth parted slightly then she smiled.
"That makes sense! Commander Hange could see the possibilities in you with you being Ackerman! With Captain Levi and Mikasa being Ackerman, that makes sense!" Nifa said almost jumping off of the crate. Clarissa put her hand on her head. Is that what people would really think about me if they knew she was an Ackerman?
"I have to get back to Commander Hange," Clarissa said standing up. She walked up to the blades, limping slightly.
"How many people know about your name?" Nifa asked behind Clarissa causing her to turn around.
"You, Commander Hange, and whatever other higher up that needed the information," Clarissa said with a shrug.
Nifa's eyes widened."Your friends don't even know?"
"No, I haven't found it important. Especially if it would change their opinions on me. But first, we should get through this." Clarissa said. Nifa nodded and walked behind her to grab blades. Clarissa looked forward at all the titans and her comrades flying through the streets. With a deep breath, Clarissa fired off her ODM gear.