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"It was true! Ymir is a titan and she saved us all. She endangered her own life to save us! It clearly shows where her loyalties rest in humanity!" Historia was insisting to Hanji with Alex next to her who was listening to her "Yes I know that her actions up until now are inexcusable by withholding vital information... she cared only for herself but she's changed! And now she's mankind's ally! I've known her for so long time and she's a lot simpler then she's seems!"
"I see..." Hanji said slowly. Don't get me wrong... Hanji continued. I would rather be friends with her if I could. Regardless of what you said she may be able to provide us with a treasure trove of information to human kind. Of course I want to be friends with her... only... she might be simple, but by the state of affairs in our world is very complicated..." You said your name was... Hisroria Reiss... right?" Hanji asked as the three of them walked over to where Ymir was. As in those famous nobles?"
"Yes..." she said softly.
"I see... then I'm glad to know you!" Hanji said placing a hand on her shoulder at the same time Alex tried to stifle a yawn behind her hand.
"How do you have the time to be tired when too many things are going on..." Hanji said to her frowning slightly.
"Hanji sweetie... humans need sleep. Eight hours at most..." Alex said rubbing one of her eyes but then stopped her eyes looking at something behind Hanji who turned eyes wide unlike Alex.
"W-what's Mikasa doing?"
Bertholdt and Reiner were both dripped in blood handless neck half decapitated a sword was sticking right through Reiner's arm. Mikasa was standing over then next to Eren in a fighting stance. Bertholdt dropped to the ground and distinctly they heard Reiner shout his name as Mikasa swung her blade forward.
Seconds passed by and an odd sort of silence of dread filled that air and then it all went straight to hell as the colossal and armored titans appeared from where the mangled bodies of where their teammates had been.
"Get back!" Hanji shouted when the colossal titans emitted what looked like a fiery blaze from its body.
"Rei! can you withstand the flames?!" Hanji asked the black haired boy.
"No." Rei said giving Hanji a apologetic look.
Damn... if only Ami were here...
"Too hot..." someone moaned next to Alex who's eyes widen and then flubbed on her small shoulder bag and smiled when her searching fingers landed on something hard and cold.
"W-what is that?" Hanji asked eyeing the thing in her hands with slight suspicion.
"Its called a fire extinguisher." Alex said taking the nozzle in her hands and holding it out in the direction of the heat. "Where I'm from you can use it to kill fires if you can't find any help in time..." she finished slowly approaching the heat.
"I'll just... clear a path if I can..." she called to them as she pulled the lever at the top carefully pointing the nozzle towards the direction of the fire where it found its target and an odd sizzling nose mixed with the titans screams could be heard through the cloud of white. But it seemed to do the trick.
I can't believe this is actually working... she thought as the air slowly became bearable again as she edged nearer and nearer to the half skinless skeleton.
"She's... going to make it...!" Armin breathed as he watched the flames die down. Hanji smiled looking relieved and was just about to charge when the titan gave a sudden ear slitting roar and the fire and the heat returned with such force that Alex was knocked off her feet and over the wall plunging head first to the ground below the remains of the extinguisher smoking and disintegrating falling out of her hands.
Hanji quickly leaped off the edge using as much gas as was possible and caught the young girl just in time and pulled them both upwards before anything else could happen.
"Bastard..." Alex hissed in Hanji's arms when they were safely back on the wall looking at the titan with venom in her eyes spitting acid holding out her charred black and burning hands.
"You damned bastard!"
"Just be happy it was just your hands!" Armin told her as Hanji carefully put her on the ground.
Alex growled looking very discontent.
"Do you have any more of that?" Hanji asked taking her shoulder bag off of her.
"You can try pulling something out but... I'm the only one who can take anything out of that bag... and right now... well you can see..." Alex said softly. "Just to test that out I made Jonouchi stick his hand in there and he ended up with four of his finger in a rat trap..."
On the ground Eren wasn't doing so well either... half of his face was literally punched off by the armored titans punches. But he got up he fought him managing to break one of his arms from its body off. For a while it looked like he could win however when his victory seemed assured the colossal titan fell on top of them. The moment its body touched the ground its body emitted the same heat as before searing the ground and some of the wall scoring the ones on the lower part of the wall and managed to wound those on top. Berthodlt's body appeared out of the flames holding Ymir's body and wearing the 3d maneuver gear of the person he had swallowed earlier which he used to climb onto the armored titans back Eren in toe and managed to get away.
...Hours later...
"Ymir!" cried a joyful voice and out of the trees Historia appeared nearly crying in happiness. "I knew you'd be okay!"
Ymir sprang forward mouth open ready to swallow the small girl up.
It all seemed to happen in slow motion Historia was there in the shadow of the teeth when suddenly a dark figure moving so fast it was a blur appeared and grabbed her leaving Ymir's jaws to come down on nothing.
Historia found herself on a branch of the nearest tree looking up at the sharp dark red eyes of a blonde haired boy who smirked showing pointed teeth before quickly leaping backwards and landing on top of Ymir's head.
"Now listen here." he said into her ear. "You're going to lead me back to the others or else..."
There was another movement in the trees and a second figure leaped forward from the trees. The figure of a boy around Eren's age with black hair and red eyes. Mikasa looked up at the figure and their eyes seemed to lock together for what felt like hours before he landed next to Historia grabbed her and put a gun to her head.
"Do you get it?" the second figure asked in a strange accent. "Lead Asher to the others." he said plainly clicking the gun.
"Oy!" Connie shouted angrily making a move as if to leap from the tree.
"Do you want to see your friend again?" The dark haired boy asked him his dark red eyes looking at each of them before landing on Mikasa's angry black ones.
Ymir seemed to stiffen and then growled.
"Come now... get going." the black haired boy said firing a bullet into the air where it tore into the bark of a tree making it fall to the ground.
Ymir's black eyes hardened but turned around and sped off back into the forest Asher hiding in her hair.
"Hey... Ymir is coming." Berthholdt said from the top of the brach.
"Right." Reiner said who had Eren strapped to his back holding a knife out but before it could bite into his skin something sprang out of Ymir's hair.
Berthodlt stiffened as the figure of a blonde haired boy landed behind him and an instant later he felt something sharp sink into the side of his neck.
Blue eyes met dark cold red eyes for an instant as all Reiner could do was stare as the person latched onto his friends neck blood dripping from the long white fangs and from where they had punctured the skin of Bertholdt neck there was what looked to be a substance much akin to black sand sinking inside through the teeth.
And then he was on him as well.
Asher sighed stepping away fro the two wiping the crimson blood away from his mouth with just a few specks of the black sand mixed inside in with the blood.
And then he met wide green eyes attached to a boy who had his mouth gagged by a piece of ribbon.
"Dear dear!" he muttered looking at Eren. "I must say... I've seen worse but-" He looked at Eren's smoking stumps of what looked to be his arms.
"-But this really dose take the cake!"
Eren's eyes widened as if recognizing what he was seen mumbled something kicking his legs up and moving around on Reiner's slumped back.
"Yeah yeah... here just a minute!" Asher said quickly slicing the bonds holding him together and helping him to the ground.
"What did you do to them!?" were the first words to come out of his mouth.
"Well you're welcome for saving your life!" Asher said putting a hand on his hip and then smirked showing his pointed teeth dripping with a black substance.
"I put black sand in each of their bodies... I can control them that way" he said simply.
"What..."
"Ever heard of a vampire? Probably not... But instead of drinking blood from their necks and controlling them that way... I just have another way of doing it..." he smirked at Eren before touching something on his pointed ear.
"Rotto... I'm all done on my end..." he said to thin air.
"Good..." Rotto said standing on the grass next to Historia who was sitting down on a rock hands on her lap with a gun still pointed at her but was a few feet away from her head which was enough space for her to breath slightly but still remain uneasy.
They were standing in a clearing of tree. Most of them were the who had come here to find and rescue Eren were gathered around in a half circle a good few feet from them as instructed by the boy called Rotto all with their hands on their swords and suspicion in their eyes.
But Mikasa was glaring at Rotto with something other then suspicion.
It was the same look she had given Levi in the court room when he had finished with his camp way of betting Eren up. Rotto passed her a fleeting apologetic look in his eyes before turning to the others.
"Don't look at me like that. Despite what you may think. I am actually on your side..." he said pleasantly.
"Really?" Hannes demanded stepping forward a bit. "Prove it!"
"Move a few paces to the right then." Rotto sighed and then the gun was pointed at Connie who behind he could hear the sound a titan footsteps approaching.
The gun fired and Connie's eyes widened quickly moving out of the way as a five meter tall titan came out of the trees the bullet passing right through the nape of his neck and it fell to the ground smoking.
"Did... did you just seriously... kill a titan... with a gun?!" Armin shouted in disbelief blue eyes wide in shock as he turned back to him.
"Believe me kid that gun isn't like anything you've ever seen before..." Asher said as he emerged at from the woods at the head of the group supporting Eren behind him Reiner and Bertholdt were dragging their feet and a now human Ymir following along behind them.
"Eren!" Mikasa shouted when she saw him. Asher sighed carefully let go of Eren and walked over to Rotto.
"After all the gun was made by his... talented hands..." he smirked looking at Rotto.
"Don't tell them that..." Rotto said under his breath though smiling as Historia got up and walked quickly to her comrades.
"I'm fine Mikasa!" Eren said angrily moving away from her.
Rotto's eyes narrowed.
"Berthodlt! Reiner! ...Hey! Answer me!" Connie shouted into the faces of the two men before him but they remained immobile eyes glowing yellow slightly.
"You!" Connie shouted turning back to Asher. "What did you do to them?"
"To put it simply... they won't be able to move anymore without me willing it." he said simply. "Don't worry though they'll still be able to be themselves... sometimes..."
"You bastard..." Connie hissed attempting to step forward but was blocked by Irvin.
"Do you want the same thing to happen to you?" Asher asked eyes flashing showing off pointed teeth.
"Who are you?" Irvin asked. "Why are you here?"
Rotto looked at him a pleasant look on his face.
"To help in the continuation of humanity... Is that a good enough answer for you?"
If you're wondering who Rotto and Asher are and how Mikasa and Rotto know each-other please read Black and White, Descending in madness and Allure of Midnight.