It wasn't long before one of higher officers came scaling up onto the top of the wall. Elliot along with the few of her remaining friends quickly saluted him as he barked out a few orders. 'Please, let the advance team succeed' Elliot thought to herself, eyes watching as the officer flew passed them. Just like that a normal day for Elliot quickly became a terrible day indeed. The group quickly reported back and from there they went their separate ways. Elliot stuck with Marco, his hands gently rubbing her back as she lightly trembled against his chest. "If we get separated you better live," she muttered under her breath, face pressed against his chest and trying desperately to calm herself down. "It's okay, don't worry about me. I need you to focus on yourself out there," he said, his voice was soft and somehow had a soothing effect on the young white haired girl. Her trembling came to a stop, but she was still barely aware of her senior barking out orders about how 'this was there time'. She was scared out of her mind and it wasn't like she was scared for herself, no she was scared for the lives of others, all her friends, her family, and Marco...what would she do if something happened to them? She didn't want to go through the experience of losing her loved ones yet again. Elliot gently clutched Marco's shirt and he continue to rub her back and give her calming words. It was not long after that the group of them were lined up, she stood tall, far from Marco and his supportive arms, her hands gently trembled against her backside...could she do this? She closed her eyes as the man giving orders continued to yell, explaining the vanguard, middle guard, and rear guard. He also made it quite clear that if anyone tried to desert it would be punishable by death...she shuddered at the thought. She slowly rubbed her thumb around the word 'live' from behind her back, she thought of her brother and how he gave his life 'his shoulders didn't tremble' she thought to herself.
When the man finished his speech Elliot went to meet up with the others, Christa was rubbing the back of another man, someone Elliot had never spoken to and Jean stood a little ways from Marco and he looked...worse than her. Elliot slowly approached him leaving Marco's side, gently she raised a hand and pressed it against his upper arm, rubbing gently as if trying to soothe him. He looked at her, but gave her a look that told her to back off. "Jean, it will be alright," she said softly but, was met with a harsh tug when the man as he pulled his arm away and stalked off, she watched him for a moment just in time to see him run into Eren. She couldn't hear what they were saying, so she instead slowly turned back to Marco and forced on a small smile. "You'll be okay, right Marco?" she asked probably for the tenth time since the Titans broke down the wall. He gave her a halfhearted smile before nodding his head, watching as she once more threw herself against him. "Thank you Marco," she said in something above a whisper, but the taller male still managed to hear her quiet voice, the faintest smile creeping to his lips.
It was shortly after that, the young couple were assigned to their squad, luckily they were together and then it was time to press into battle. "Guys! Titan three o' clock, I'll distract it!" Elliot called out, maneuvering around before anyone had a chance to argue with her. "Hey fat stuff over here!" she shouted, flinging herself passed the Titan who quickly set its eyes on her. It turned around to face her making a grab at her, but she easily flipped herself around and out of its reach her 3D gear pulling herself even further back onto a nearby roof. The Titan made a threatening step forward but, in the next moment the thing fell to its death, back of its neck sliced through. A blond male quickly landing beside her and slinging an arm around her shoulders, pressing a bit of weight onto her. "You sure were fast and gutsy there, you know, for such a tiny little thing," the man spoke grinning down at her. She gave him a toothy grin before raising a hand to give him a thumbs up. "And you Reiner have quite a bit of muscle for, you know, someone who got his ass handed to him by a girl," she said speaking of the time she witnessed him eat his ass against Annie. "Well with your speed and my strength I'm sure we'll have these titans dealt with in no time at all," he spoke sporting a bit of a grin himself ignoring her comment on his ass beating, she only laughed a bit at him before lightly shoving him, a scoff soon came from behind them. She turned around facing Marco and the others, a smile forming on her lips. "Did you see that Marco!? Reiner and I took that Titan down like it was baby food!" she exclaimed happily before blinking a few times in surprise as Marco pulled her from Reiner's grasp. "Huh? Marco, what's up?" she asked raising a brow at Marco in a bit of confusion. Reiner only chuckled at Marco's attitude. "Jealous or something lover boy?" he spat out sarcastically watching the dark haired male light up about to say something in return, but was interrupted by Elliot. "Why are you jealous? Reiner's just a friend after all," she said before gasping a bit in surprise once more when she was pulled from Marco, large arm slung around her shoulder once more. "Yeah, we just complete each other when it comes to you know teamwork and killing titans," he said, but his words did nothing to quell the atmosphere that Elliot felt. 'W-What is this atmosphere?!' Elliot thought to herself standing stiff as a board while she starred at Marco whom was glaring daggers at Reiner. "Alright guys, seriously, we should get a move on before other-," Bertolt started saying from somewhere near them, but cut himself off as a Titan literally poked its head up from behind Reiner and easily picked up Elliot by her arm. Elliot could only allow the most unintelligible thing to escape from her lips as she was lifted up and positioned above a titans mouth, that phrase was 'huh'.
"Elliot!" came the voice of her squad and then followed the sound of their 3d gear being put into action. As the Titan released her ready to eat her she was pushed against a chest, arms wrapped securely around her. She immediately clung to whomever caught her burying her freight filled face into their chest as they landed on a roof opposite from where she just stood. She peaked out from the person's chest just in time to watch Marco land a killing blow against the Titan and then land safely before her. She clung for a moment longer to whomever she was pressed again, brain trying to catch up with everything that happened. 'Marco killed a titan...Marco...killed...a Titan...wait a second...then who the hell am I clutching onto?!' she thought to herself before her eyes shot up to meet the eyes of Reiner. "You okay girly?" he asked looking down at her before grinning a bit at the blush that spread across her face, in the next moment she was pushing away from him. " Ah, um...thank you for saving me Reiner!" she said quickly bowing her head slightly before turning around and rushing into Marco's arms, clinging to him and asking if everything was alright. She barely noticed the glare that was sent Reiner's way and she defiantly didn't notice the smirk Reiner sent right back. "Come on, we need to move. We still have more Titans to kill," Annie spoke up glaring toward the clinging couple before she took off from the roof. For a moment, everyone looked to each other and then took off following Annie. They slaughtered a few more Titans together as a group, Reiner and Elliot actually making a pretty good team considering her speed to distract a Titan with ease and his strength to finish it off before it caught up to her. Elliot was hardly aware of how her boyfriend glared at the back of Reiner the whole time, to her she was just having fun killing titans with a new found friend.
They soon enough landed on yet another roof after killing off god knows what number Titan. Of course, this roof had quite a little surprise in store for the group. "Shit, I'm running low," Reiner said from beside her, Marco landed on her opposite side checking his tanks as well. "Yeah, I'm out too," Elliot said with a slight sigh, eyes looking over at Marco whom only nodded in agreement with her. "Where the fuck is the supply squad?" Reiner muttered looking over toward Annie and Bertolt whom were also in the same predicament. Elliot gently bit her lower lip, running a finger over her bracelet feeling desperately for the word 'live'. Until a warm hand gently clasped over her own, kind eyes looking down at her. She took a breath looking Marco over before returning his smile. "We'll get out of this, no worries girly," Reiner said from beside her placing a hand on top of her head and receiving a kind smile in return. "Of course! No titans stand a chance against us!" she cried out happily a proud look spread across her face as she used her free hand to playfully punch the blond male against his arm. After a bit of time with still no sign of the supply squad morale was dropping and fast. Elliot did her best to chat with everyone keep them distracted from what was going on, but slowly she felt her own morale begin to drop. A warm hand gently settled itself on her shoulder and she cautiously glanced up to see a concerned Marco. "Why don't you sit down for a bit?" he asked leading her toward a chimney to sit against and she did just that not realizing how tired she was until she sat down.
She sat there a while, but stood up when she saw another squad approaching them, she had hoped it was the supply squad, but it wasn't them. It was another squad sporting Connie, Jean, Sasha, and two others, but they also seemed to have picked up Armin. Elliot blinked a few times, eyes falling on the small boy…'where is his squad? Wasn't he with Eren?' she thought to herself, panic crossing her face for a moment. She could only imagine what happened to him that look he was sporting and her imagination was not a pretty thing. "How are you guys doing on gas?" they asked as Armin took a seat away from the group right where she had once been sitting. "Not good, we're nearly out…can't be enough to even get us over to the supply depot," Bertolt spoke before asking the same question back to them. They had the same grim response. 'What are we going to do?' Elliot thought looking over the faces of her friends.