Chapter Three: Armins's New Weapon Idea.
Three weeks before the attack on Shiganshina.
Armin was slowly getting better, Hange had him eating three solid meals a day in order to keep his strength up, cleaned his wounds every day, most were healed already except for his neck, ear and fingers. He was getting used to spending most of his time in the dungon reading his book, Levi or Hange were both helping with with the bigger words, he's still only a young child after all. Levi himself needed to leave for a mission and told Armin that he'd be back when it was over. In a moment of self-weakness, he had let Armin give him a hug, in private of course, he could not let his men see him like that. After that he left his new friend in the hands of Hange, though he felt better if he could take him along but that would have been just as bad if not worst. Right now he was drawing as Hange worked. "Hange."
"Yes Armin?" She asked as she looked over to him.
"I have a new weapon idea, wanna see it?"
"Sure. What is it?" She asks as she looks at the paper.
"You know how the guns are a last defense type of weapon?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I've come up with an idea for a smaller gun that you can use in the battlefield. It's a much smaller and more useful gun. You can use it in one hand, it can pack a punch and hold up to eight shots at once. I call it: The Magnum Pistol." To any fellow fans of a well known and loved video game series who get this reference I have one thing to say: You like it? "What I have right here is a prototype drawing." He says as she takes the paper for a better look. "As you can see, it's made of the same steel that the blades are made of. The shell's are also made of the same steel and are much stronger then the normal bullet. The shape is more of a cone shape insteade of a round pellet shape but still use's gunpower for the same plain reason. I estimate that if it's made now that over five thousand could be made within two years."
"Armin... this idea is Genuis! Pure GENUIS!"
"Really?!"
"Yeah. I think it could be a great weapon to add to the S.O.S.'s weapon list."
"I want Levi to see the drawing before I try to go any futher." He says as he's handed the drawing. "Think he'll like it?"
"Maybe. The Captain's not the best person to try and show new ideas to."
"What makes you say that?"
"No reason, hehe." She says, rubbing the back of her neck as he gave her a puzzled look before going back to drawing.
Here's a few exampies of Hange trying to get Levi to listen to her ideas.
Where Levi's trying to read.
"Captain, here's my latest idea for fighting the Titans. It's a type of acid that if-"
"No." He tells her, not even looking up.
One where he's cleaning his baldes after a mission.
"Hey Captain Levi, here's a new idea for Titan killing, it's a form of poison-"
"No." He tells her as he wipes the dried blood from his handle.
This time, he was eating when she came up to him.
"Okay Captian, this time, you can't possibly say no to my newest-"
"No." He says before he takes a bite.
"But you didn't even hear me say what it-"
"NO, Hange. Now leave."
"Okay Captain." She says as she slumps her sholder's together and walks away sad.
Back to right now.
"Let's see here, if the handle is slightly hollowed out then the clip can go into it and be a more discrete type of tool." She hears him say as he draws on another piece of paper.
As the day kept going Armin moved on from drawing his new weapon to just normal kid stuff. As night time rolled around he fell asleep next to his drawing of his weapon while the rest of his drawings were cast off to the side. As Levi entered the room he found the drawing on the floor. Hange spoke to him from her table. "It's a new type of firearm that he wants to make in order to help the S.O.S. fight the Titans. It's not a bad idea to think about Captain." She told him as he kept looking at the sketch.
"It's well thought out, seem's to be a useful idea, looks like it could help , I'll think about it."
"Great! I know Armin will love the news." She tells him as he begins to walk out of the room. "Captain." She shouts as he looks behind himself, facing her with only his left eye. "What?"
"How is it that when you hear my ideas you tell me no but when you see one of Armin's you think about getting his developed?"
"It's simple, his is interesting enough to get my attation... Where yours always just bore me." He tells her as he exits the room.
I'll do a few more chapters before the AU main plot starts. Let me know what you think, what I'm getting wrong and other things like that. Later.
