Hello! So sorry for everyone who was waiting for an update! But let's just say that I'm trying to do a Fairy Tail oneshot, plus an Attack on Titan oneshot, am writing a Fairy Tail multi-chapter fic, plus life. So yeah, this might be the second to last chapter or the third, depends. Please follow, fave, and/or review when you are done reading.
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Erwin watched as the Female Titan was ripped apart by titans like kids ripping off the wrapping of a present. Nothing was left of her in the end.
"Men, retreat! While the titans are busy devouring the Female Titan's body, use this as a way to get to your horses!" Erwin yelled. "We'll be leaving the carts here! Head out west once you're out of the forest and redeploy the formation! We're going back to Karanes District!"
Levi looked at what was left of the Female Titan. "What a mess, and right after my taunting words to. Havoc all around and no benefit to us whatsoever. I wonder what the Mps will do to Eren once they hear this mission was a failure." Levi said.
"We'll think about it after we have returned. At the moment, we must concentrate on returning safely to the walls." Erwin answered.
'I can hardly see anything because of steam coming from the Female Titan's body. There might be a difficulty in doing smoke signals….' Erwin thought, he suddenly remembered the Colossal Titan with it's steam.
"I'm going to go and check on my squad, hopefully they're okay-" Levi turned to leave.
"Wait Levi, I would suggest refilling your tank and replacing your swords." Erwin told him.
"We're hard pressed on time as it is. I think I can still hold out with what I have left, why should I waste time restocking?" Levi asked.
"That is an order." Erwin commanded.
Levi looked at Erwin for a few seconds, before speaking. "Alright then. Commander. I'll trust your judgement on this one."
Marco took out the flare gun as he fired it into the sky, Annie standing right beside him. "Wait, until they come here." Marco told her, launching off with his ODM Gear.
"Hey Erwin, why did you send Levi to go refuel? We don't even have time for that." Hanji asked, riding right next to Erwin on her horse.
"Hanji, I did it because of your hypothesis." Erwin answered.
"Hm?"
"You surmised that when the Colossal Titan disappeared, that was the reason why no one saw anyone who was inside it. It was because the person equipped themselves with ODM Gear and used it as a way to escape underneath the cover of the steam." Erwin explained.
"But I also concluded that it's hardly possible based on the similar situation with Eren when he emerged from his titan. His equipment was damaged and even his uniform was gone, but the most important part was that Eren was so exhausted, that he couldn't stand up." Hanji said.
"The Female Titan had the ability to draw titans to her when she screamed, we didn't know she could do that, and the plan failed. We need to adapt our ways of thinking and concepts quickly if we want to outsmart the enemy." Erwin told her.
"If that titan power can be trained, then basing our perception and conclusions on the abilities of Eren, who is only a beginning to learn his power, is wrong. It is as you hypothesized, if the enemy used vapor as a cover and escaped. With the ODM Gear put on in advance, they could mingle with the scouts."
Marco zoomed around with his gear as he saw someone up ahead. 'Here it goes,' He thought, he turned around one tree until he was right in front of the guy. Pulling out his swords, he sliced at the guys neck, killing him.
"Gunther!" Marco heard someone yell, not even turning to look, he zoomed off to where Annie was.
"You can go now." Marco said. Annie nodded as she used her Gear to go towards where Eren and Levi's squad was.
Marco saw lightning strike down from the sky, meaning that Annie had transformed. Marco waited a few minutes until he decided to see what was taking her a while. Marco flew towards where he saw the lighting, hoping that Annie was alright.
When he got there, he saw Annie roundhouse kick a soldier as she landed on the ground, steam coming from her wounds.
"...KILL YOU!" Marco heard someone scream, turning his head, he saw Eren bite down on his hand, transforming into his titan form.
'I have to give Annie more time.' Marco thought, zooming towards Eren, who was running at Annie. Marco used his swords to cut across the palm of his hand, lighting striking him as he transformed.
Marco looked up to see Eren looking at him. 'Come on, come at me.' Marco thought.
Eren let out a roar as he went to punch Marco. Marco dodged it as he threw an uppercut, hitting Eren in the chin.
Eren took a few steps backward, he then went to punch Marco, who dodged it. He went to aim for his stomach. Eren grabbed his fist as he punched him in the face with his other hand.
Marco felt steam pour from his face, noticing that Eren didn't let go of his hand, he twisted his arm as he freed himself from Eren's grasp. He then kicked Eren in the gut, spit coming from Eren's titan mouth.
Marco knew he had to get Eren far away from Annie. He saw Eren run to punch him, he dodged it, realizing that Eren was letting his anger get the best of him, maybe he'll follow him if he gave chase.
Marco turned and ran away from Eren. Like he hoped, he heard Eren chasing him, away from Annie. Marco turned in mid run as he punched Eren in the face, sending Eren into a tree.
Eren blinked, before turning to look at Marco who got into a fighting stance, similar to Annie's. Eren roared as he went to go and punch him, Marco waited until he ducked at the last second and punched him in the teeth from the side.
Eren turned his head as he bit his teeth down on Marco's titan hand, ripping it from his titan body. Marco's titan took a few steps backwards as he started to regenerate his arm.
Eren tackled Marco to the ground as he started to punch repeatedly, tearing some of Marco's skin off his titan body. Marco pushed Eren off of him with his foot towards the side as he slowly got up, steam pouring from his body, the two not even hearing the sound of footsteps running towards them.
Eren went to punch him in the face, when he was stopped by Annie, who wrapped her arms underneath his armpits and brought him to the ground.
Eren turned to look at Annie with anger in his eyes. 'I'll kill them!' Eren thought. He punched her in the stomach, sending her flying into the air as she landed with her back against a tree.
Annie quickly got up and moved towards the side, right when Eren went to punch her and hit the tree instead, losing his fist in the process.
Eren looked up from the other side of the tree, to see Annie's foot come and swing his titan head off the body, falling to his knees.
Annie turned to look at Marco, who was emerging from his titan form. "See you….on the other side of the forest." Marco said, using his gear to disappear into the trees.
Annie turned and opened her jaw, the skin tearing as she bit down on the skin, pulling it off to reveal Eren. She then bit down on him, pulling him apart from his titan form as she put him in her mouth, making sure to not swallow him.
Annie turned and left Eren's steaming corpse, running to get out of the forest. 'I'm going to be going home, I'm going to meet my dad after five years.' Annie thought, not even hearing Mikasa come at her in rage.
Some time later.
Marco saw from the safety of the trees as Levi left someplace with an unconscious Eren in his arms, Mikasa right behind. Marco turned and jumped towards another tree as he used his gear to silently move towards, knowing that Levi would kill him if he caught him.
Marco saw Annie's titan form with tears streaming down her cheeks. She arose from her nape, her hand in front of her eyes as her body was racking uncontrollably as Marco landed on her steaming titan corpse
"Come on Annie, we have to get going before titans get us." Marco told her.
"I….just wanted to see my dad." Annie cried, tears streaming down her face as she started to choke on her sobs.
"I know, now we should get going." Marco said, jumping off of her titan as he transformed. Marco's titan form extended a hand towards her as she got on, he then put her on his shoulder as she latched a hook onto it so she wouldn't fall off.
Marco ran through the forest till he reached the clearing, he turned towards the setting sun as it cast it lasting rays of sunlight through the horizon, not even knowing that Jean was staring at the same sunset too as he rode back to Wall Rose.