Eren sat knelt handcuffed in front of the court and Dallis Zacklay, the handcuffs tight around his wrists that bound him to the pole in the ground, restricting his movement greatly.

"Eren Yeager, you do understand that this is a special hearing, and so your fate will ultimately be decided by me." Zacklay spoke across the room "However, complications at the battle of Trost has made matters far more complicated" Zacklay's gaze fell on Gohan and Trunks, who were both handcuffed, but not to a pole like Eren was.

"I understand sir"Eren looked down at the ground, his voice sounded hoarse and defeated.

"Both the Military Police and the Scouting Legion are to give their proposals for why they should get custody of you" Zacklay nodded to Nile Dawk.

"The military police has decided that after much discussion, that Eren Yeager's body is to be thoroughly examined after he is executed." A few cries of shock could be heard throughout the court, Mikasa gasped and Armin's face hardened.

"Although it is true that Eren's Titan powers sealed the wall in Trost, they now threaten to cause a civil war within the walls, of which could cause many to lose their lives, that is why we propose that Eren dies as a martyr for mankind"

Armin looked over to Mikasa, and saw her hands balled up into fists on the railing in front of her. If this trial kept going on like this Eren would end up dead.

"I object!" Everyone in the courtroom was stunned, Gohan looked Nile Dawk in the eyes as he said his statement with conviction. "If this boy here was that Titan that carried that boulder and sealed the wall, the last thing he deserves is to be killed, you should be giving him a God dam medal.".

The courtroom was silent for several seconds, nobody had expected somebody who was on trial to speak out against the leader of the Military Police.

"You should be quiet freak, your own existence is causing to be quite the problem as well." Nile started straight back at Gohan.

"Order! You will get your turn to speak later, Gohan." Zacklay's voice silenced everybody in the courtroom, reasserting his authority. Zacklay looked over to the Scouting Legion side of the room "And your proposal?"

"We will accept Eren Yeager as a formal member of the Scouting Legion, and we will use his Titan power to retake wall Maria." Irvin Smith stood straight and stared ahead as he read out his proposal in front of the court.

"Is that it?" Zacklay's eyebrow raised at the small statement

"Yes, using his Titan power we can retake Wall Maria."

"Hmm, Eren can you use your Titan power for the benefit of Mankind?" Zacklay bared down on Eren.

"Yes sir!"

"Oh, really? In the report from Trost it says that after transforming, Eren Yeager swung his fist at Mikasa Ackerman several times, is this true?"

There were sounds of shock and gasps throughout the courtroom, Eren's face quickly scrunched up into a mix of shock and horror I... I tried to kill Mikasa? Eren looked over to Mikasa with horror and disbelief etched onto his face. Mikasa quickly moved her hair to cover the scar that was forming on her cheek from the incident.

He doesn't remember attacking Mikasa

Armin looked at his best friends horrified face, and he could see that Mikasa was doing her best to hide her recent wound. Mikasa began to glare at Rico who was sitting next to her.

"lying on my report would not benefit humanity or Eren" Rico replied back to Mikasa, whose face didn't change.

"Is Mikasa Ackerman present?" Zacklay's voice boomed across the courtroom.

"Yes I am" Mikasa stood up, her face still held the angered expression from the direction the trial was going.

"Is this true?" Zacklay calmly asked.

Mikasa's face twitched her thoughts were conflicted, how could she say that Eren had attacked her, they would certainly want to kill him then, she couldn't let that happen. But if she was caught out lying, they would surely kill Eren."

"Lying won't benefit Eren or mankind" Rico offered her advice, Mikasa still held a sneer directed towards her.

I don't care about benefiting mankind, Eren might have joined the military for that reason, but I didn't. I have only one goal protect Eren.

"Yes it is true" her own words stung to her core, but she couldn't lie here it would only seal Eren's fate. Gasps and cries filled the entire room with people pointing accusing fingers at Eren.

"He is one of them!"

"He is just a Titan!"

Eren turned to look at Mikasa, his face filled with horror and self hate

I tried to kill... Mikasa... how could I... why can't I remember?

Mikasa pulled a few bangs of her to cover her newly formed scar to obstruct Eren's view of it.

"He doesn't remember any of it" Armin looked on with sad eyes as he saw Eren look at Mikasa with despair etched into his usually bright turquoise eyes.

"But Erens Titan form has saved me twice! Once when I cornered by a Titan with no gas left for my manoeuvring gear and another time he saved me and Armin from a cannon shot!" Mikasas voice was loud above the rest of the courtroom. Zacklay rubbed his chin, deep in thought.

"I object!" Nile Dawk stood staring straight at Mikasa "Her testimony is obviously clouded by her personal feelings!" "At an early age Mikasa Ackerman lost her parents and was taken in by the Yeager household, our investigation into Erens background also brought up some surprising information about these two." Nile gestured towards Mikasa and Eren. "At age nine Eren Yeager and Mikasa Ackerman killed three robbers who had killed her parents and tried to kidnap her... whilst most of us would agree that their actions were acceptable given the circumstances... one must question their inherent humanity, should somebody who could so easily kill other humans be trusted with the fate of humanity?" The military police side of the courtroom began to sitr shouts and accusations flying across the room.

"He is just a titan that infiltrated our society disguised as a child!"

"So is she!" one of the crowd members shouted as he pointed towards Mikasa.

"Yeah, we should kill her too to be sure, how do we know she herself isn't a titan?"

"We should dissect both of them, they are a danger to humanity alive!"

Eren could feel his anger overflowing, consuming, raging it's fire burning into his voice

"Wait, I MIGHT BE A MONSTER BUT SHE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!" Eren could stand being accused himself, he was a monster. But Mikasa had done nothing wrong and the thought of her being killed because of his actions tore him apart inside.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" A voice boomed throughout the court, silencing all those panicking about the revealed facts about Eren and Mikasa. Everyone turned to the source of the voice who was also on trial, the young man with long purple hair.

"Can't you all see what you are doing? He hasn't killed anybody in his Titan form, the only thing he did was save thousands of lives and stop the Titan's advance yet you want to kill him? Trunks bellowed his statement with conviction, meeting his deep blue eyes with the leader of the accusing party, Nile Dawk, challenging him.

"Why should we listen to you, freak. You are not even a member of the military, for all we know you could be a Titan!" Nile stared right back at Trunks.

"Watch your words little man, I could snap you in two if I so wished." Trunks adopted a Vegeta like smirk as he stared down the leader of the Military police. The whole court was silent, somebody who was on trial was talking down to and threatening the leader of the military police? He must of had a death wish!

Trunks walked towards Nile and began to talk again "I and my companion Gohan" Trunks gestured to the black haired young man whose face remained calm and collected "Saved many lives in the battle in Trost, as you know from the reports by the elite teams, you have no grounds or basis to assume we are an enemy to mankind, you only have evidence on the contrary."

Nile Dawk's face contorted into an unreadable expression, obviously at loss at what to say. Because Trunks was right, there was no evidence against them what so ever; the eyewitness testimonies had confirmed that both Trunks and Gohan and been vital to the survival of the elite teams.

Eren watched and listened to the stand off that was unfolding right before him

At least it is taking the attention away from Killing Mikasa and dissecting me. But who are these two? And why were they so important in helping the elite teams survive, I have never seen or heard of these two.

Mikasa felt relived, the attention was off of Eren and her and was now focused on the young man who had threatened and usurped the authority of Nile Dawk, who didn't seem to like these new events one bit.

"I can understand why you fear Eren, his power is great and is unknown, but if he dies then so does a great hope for humanity, and I can't let you kill him" Trunks stared down Nile, who looked dishevelled at the sheer conviction and confidence in the young man's voice.

"I come from a place like this, where people live in fear from monsters, and if those that have the strength do not fight for our survival, who will?" Trunks raised his voice, addressing the whole of the courtroom with his words.

"I understand how you feel, to be powerless as monsters destroy everything you have loved or ever know, but you have never even seen a Titan! Yet you want to murder those who are willing to stand up and fight what you won't?" Tears welled up in his eyes as the memories of his master Gohans death filled his head, androids 17 & 18 mocking him from within his own memories. Trunks easily snapped his handcuffs off, his wrist had already healed a week ago thanks to his Saiyan physiology, but the cast still remained around his wrists, the doctors who visited him in the cell insisting that a bad break like his could not heal so fast. The whole court was in shock at the sudden display of strength shown by Trunks, gasps filled the room as the people came to terms with something that should be impossible.

"He tore straight through his handcuffs!"

"Is he really that strong !?"

Irvin Smith smirked to himself, this hearing was getting interesting.

"Looks like you won't have to get your hands dirty after all, Levi." Irvin Smith quietly spoke to the shorter Captain next to him, who didn't respond but kept his eyes on the surprising chain of events that was unfolding down on the court floor.

"Your scared of Eren and of me and Gohan because in the end, you are powerless in trying to control us, but that doesn't mean that we are you enemy." Trunks stated as he ripped off the cast on his forearm, flexing his wrist to test its flexibility.

"You want to kill Eren, but are you sure you could pull it off you have never seen a Titan. And from what I saw of Eren's Titan abilities from the battle, he is far stronger than any normal Titan, do you really think you could kill him?" The courtroom was hushed, an almost silent agreement with Trunk's words.

"I have a proposal" Irvin Smith, leader of the Scouting Legion stood up addressing Dallis Zacklay.

"State your proposal." Zacklay calmly responded, not seeming affected by the shocking events that had taken place moments before."

"Although Eren's Titan power is a mystery and extremely dangerous, I propose that he is kept under the supervision of Captain Levi, who can surely deal with Eren and control him if the need arises. We would show that Eren's power can be controlled with an expedition outside the walls, where his power can be used,tested and controlled if needed"

"And how do you propose Captain Levi can control Eren's power?"

"Like this"

Crunch! Smack, smack.

Levi began to beat mercilessly on Eren who was held still by his handcuffs.

"Uggghhh" Eren choked as he coughed up blood from the beating, Levi placing his boot on the back of his head, forcing Eren's face into the ground.

Mikasa was in shock, everything seemed to be going Eren's way in the trial and it seemed like he would get out unhurt; but now Captain Levi was beating him to death in front of the whole court I won't sit here and let Eren get Hurt!

"Mikasa!" She felt a small hand grab her arm and pull her back, Armin's eyes also showed his discomfort at being hurt, but they also held something else.

"You know having you handcuffed here makes it easier for me to kick you" Levi calmly stated as he carried on his assault.

"Wait Levi! What if he gets angry and turns into a Titan? What then?" Nile Dawk shouted at the shorter man

"Oh? But weren't you the ones who said you wanted to dissect him?" Levi calmly looked into the eyes of the leader of the military police, dragging Eren's head by his hair to face Nile also. The military police side of the court broke out in hushed whispers

"He's right, he might be the only one who could defeat him."

"If we try to kill him, he will transform and eat us all!"

Levi put his foot on Eren's face and pushed his head up against the pole, showing no fear of Eren's titan abilities.

"I can kill him easily, the only problem is I doubt I could do any less." Levi looked up at Dallis Zacklay, and throughout the courtroom, noting that trainee Ackerman was giving him an impressive death glare, she was obviously upset about him roughing up her boyfriend a little, the glare was impressive, although he had scene better.

"Then my decision is made, Captain Levi and the Scouting Legion will be given custody of Eren Yeager and he shall become an official member of the Scouting Legion, I will expect a full report on the mission outside the walls which will decide if Eren is a benefit to Humanity."

Irvin Smith's face kept his usual blank expression, but a small smile tugged at his lips

"Yes sir"

"Now, what to do with you two, Hmmm Gohan Son and Trunks Brief, strange names and stranger still there are no records of you two ever existing until your appearance at Trost."

"We are from far away Sir, but we share a common goal, the eradication of the Titans and the survival of the human race." Gohan spoke for the first time in the trial, his voice was loud and clear as he looked directly at the Supreme commander of the entire human military.

"I see... the reports from Trost show that your actions saved many lives... but it is these actions that are also the issue, half of what has been reported is physically impossible." Zacklay looked down at Gohan, who started straight back up.

"I can give you a display if you like?" Gohan snapped the handcuffs off and stretched his arms high in the air, letting out a yawn.

"Are you taking this seriously?" A hint of anger was in Zacklay's voice, he was obviously perturbed at Gohans nonchalant behaviour.

"This is where our strength comes from" Gohan said as he extended his hand out, and a little ball of light appeared above his palm, it glowed a calm blue "This is my Ki, everybody has Ki I and my friend here Trunks have much finer control of our own KI or energy in simpler terms." Gohan stopped talking and began to let the information sink in for everyone in the room.

The whole building was so silent you could hear a pin drop, the only noise was the slight hum coming from the ball of Ki that was floating above Gohan's palm. Gohan could've sworn that he had never seen so many people become so pale in such a short amount of time, he looked over to Trunks and saw that he was also holding his palm out, his Ki glowed a sharp yellow in contrast with his own calmer blue.

"I know it seems unbelievable, but we are not your enemy, as the reports from Trost show." Gohan looked on hopefully to Zacklay, he hoped that it would go smoothly.

"These... abilities that you posses, you say they are not unique to you?" Zacklay seemed to have regained his composure quicker than most of the others in the room, who were still busy trying to pick their jaws off of the floor.

"That is correct everybody has the capability to use their Ki to improve their combat abilities, and brings me to a proposal I would like to make" A bead of sweat trickled down Gohans forehead, I hope he agrees to this... Zacklay gestured for Gohan to go on.

"I propose that me and Trunks be allowed to join the Scouting Legion, I know we lack any formal military training but I believe that we can be an asset to Humanity." "The second part of my proposal involves us strengthening your own soldiers, me and Trunks would take two pupils each and train them in the ways we ourselves were taught, teaching them to harness their Ki and use it to become strong warriors."

Zacklay scratched at his beard as he looked up into the ceiling, deep in thought, these strangers had shown no ill will to humanity, and according to multiple eyewitnesses and their injuries sustained, had risked their lives to protect the elite Stationary Guard teams.

"I also want my stuff back, every last bit that was taken from my jacket, I know you have it and I need it to serve humanity." Trunks held his gaze strongly towards Dallis Zacklay, his gaze could have broken a lesser man.

"I will grant both of your requests, you will both join the Scouting Legion and you will be able to teach a number of soldiers your fighting techniques." "Your things will be brought back to you when you rendezvous with the Scouting Legion, you will be placed under the watch of Captain Levi, just like Eren Yeager." "Your terms are also similar, if you show that you are not a blight to humanity, but in fact it's glimmering hope like you claim, you will not be in this courtroom again, you are both dismissed, Scouting Legion members will now take you to where you will go for your training."

Trunks and Gohan were ushered out of the room by a few members of the Legion, and Dallis Zacklay rubbed his eyes. He was sure that there was something off about those two, but he also had a feeling that they and maybe Eren Yeager, were a ray of hope for humanity in these dark times.

Notes: Wow that was by far the longest chapter I have ever wrote and the hardest and most tedious by far. I am sorry it took so long but I got a little bit of writers block on how the end of the trial would go, plus it is admittedly boring having to somewhat repeat the first half of the trial. Also PLEASE REVIEW, it means so much to me reading them and encourages me to write some more, even if the review is purely negative, it is still better than nothing. I know this chapter lacked action and I am sorry but it was necessary but action will be in next chapter, training time!