"Ahhhh!" Armin screamed at the top of his lungs as the huge titan dropped him into its mouth. The enormous red monster with a large gray beard and mustache didn't seem to care at all that it was about to kill this child, but Eren sure did.

Eren Jaeger was lying only ten feet away from his best friend, slowly sliding into the mouth of the bearded titan. He was missing a leg, and it all seemed over for them both. No. The boy thought back to when Armin told him all about the outside world. NO! Eren stood up. He didn't know where his leg came from, in fact he didn't even notice it regrew at the moment as he stared at the titan with insatiable rage in his eyes.

The black haired boy jumped up and landed right between the closing jaws of the monster, pushing down on the bottom teeth with his legs and up on the top row with his hand. "Armin!" he yelled and reached out his other hand, grabbing the blonde kid by the wrist. Armin was so shocked that he stopped screaming as he was no longer sliding down the monster's throat into its stomach.

E-Eren? Eren yanked harder and threw his best friend out of the titan's mouth, back onto the roof where the boy hit so hard that the shingles broke. "Eren!" Armin screamed and climbed back up on his feet, ignoring the sharp pain on his shoulder where he landed.

The boy crouching in the titan's mouth was trying hard to push the rows of teeth apart, to keep himself from getting eaten, but it was hard. "I refuse to die here," he whispered and Armin stopped screaming as his eyes turned huge. "Listen Armin," the bloodied black haired boy reached out his free hand towards his friend, "you told me about it. So, I have to see it," Armin looked into Eren's eyes and saw the intense fear that his best friend was feeling trapped in the jaws of a titan. "The outside world!"

Armin stopped just sitting there and he rushed forward on the roof, reaching out his arm. "Eren!" he shouted and stumbled towards the beast, "Hurry!" The eye contact the boys were making was terminated. The huge titan chomped down full force and Armin couldn't even turn as his best friend's arm went flying past his face, blood splattering on him as it did. Armin fell to his knees with his arm reached out, inches away from the gulping titan which tilted its head back and swallowed. "AAHHHHH!"

"Are you sure it's this way?" Zoro asked as he walked through the field of grass.

"No. It's not," his patient comrade stated. Zoro turned around and saw his orange haired nakama staring at him like he was an infant. She was facing the other direction and repeated for the tenth time, "It's this way. We've been walking in a straight line. You know, I'm pretty sure your bad sense of direction has only gotten worse with age. Unlike my beauty," Nami continued to walk while occasionally looking back to make sure he was still following her.

The swordsman with her scoffed under his breath, but had to admit she was right. Even after all these years of traveling together, Nami only did seem to get more beautiful. Thirty three years old, but she still looked like she was in her early twenties. "How do you know..." Zoro began but the woman in front of him spun with an evil glare that made him shut up instantly.

"Are you doubting my navigation skills? You might have been here before, but I'd have found this Wall we're looking for days ago if you would just stop walking in the wrong direction all the time." She shook her head disappointedly and made veins pop in the ridiculously muscular swordsman's forehead. Just as she only got more beautiful, he only got stronger through all their years together. His green hair was slightly longer than it was when the two of them first met, almost reaching down to his shoulders now. The woman he was with had medium cut orange hair falling straight down her back, and was wearing a pair of short red shorts, as well as a blue bikini top with yellow stripes going horizontally on it.

"Eek," Nami stopped walking and took a step back as something moved in the trees to their right. Zoro looked that direction, but he didn't feel any of the dark energy he felt from the occasional titan they bumped into on the way. He started laughing as a bird flapped out of the tree branches and Nami blushed hard at being scared of something so small. She spun and glared again at the man laughing at her, "Do you want me to help you? Or would you rather I just left now?"

"Be my guest," he snorted and took a few steps to the left, making Nami sweatdrop.

"That's the wrong way," she said again, sadly wiping a tear from her eye at how stupid he was. "Nevermind, just follow-" she looked back the way she was walking and could see something over the hill ahead. "Come on!" she shouted and started racing forward.

Zoro lightly jogged after her and he began to see what was up ahead as well. The two of them reached the top of the hill and Nami looked at the huge Wall Maria ahead of her in awe. "It's huge! I never would have thought someone in South Blue could make such a thing."

"Bet Franky could have made it in an hour," Zoro chuckled.

"Still, for humans it's impressive," she stressed the word humans because everyone on their crew was much more than that now. "That looks like a city protruding from the Wall," she pointed at a large curve out of the main wall that stretched many miles around before touching the big wall again. When their eyes were moving across the wall, both of them stopped halfway around the indented section of the protruding area.

Am I too late? Zoro grabbed Nami and tossed her over her shoulder as the orange haired woman yelped. He kicked the ground so hard that a crater a quarter mile wide blew out from the bottom of his foot. The man soared through the air from the hill all the way to the Wall in a matter of a few seconds. He hit the wall and stopped his momentum as he reached it, having judged the distance perfectly and then kicking off the floor just hard enough to launch him up on top of the wall that had a huge gaping hole on the bottom.

Nami finally stopped screaming in terror as Zoro put her down and then she smacked him on the back of the head and yelled, "Warn me next time you're..." she saw his wide eyes and followed his gaze to the other side of the wall that they were standing on. The woman gasped and she stared inside the walls at the ruined city inside. There were destroyed houses, buildings broken all over the place, a few limbs that were so far rotten that it looked like pieces of skeletons were scattered around.

"The titans got in the Walls," Zoro whispered and clenched his fists.

Nami felt the strong emotional aura radiating from her friend and she placed a hand on his shoulder. "It's not your fault," she whispered.

"I waited too long," he didn't regret the adventure he went on, not a single moment of it, but he could have asked Luffy to make a detour instead of waiting to do this on his own. "I waited, and now they're all dead," he knew he could have saved them if he was here, but he wasn't. I said I'd be back...

"You don't know that," Nami stated harshly and Zoro looked at his comrade's stern expression. "There could have been other defenses inside this wall that the people here retreated to."

The green haired man closed his eyes and Nami became quiet as she realized what he was trying to do. Although his eyes were closed, Zoro could see for miles and miles. He saw little blue outlines of deer, birds, livestock, but not a single human. He saw a lot of red blurs too, and for some reason, they were all heading in one direction. "That must be where the people are," his eyes shot open as he said. "If they're all heading there, we might still be too late." He grabbed Nami by the wrist and then remembered what she said before, "I'm warning you," her eyes went wide, "hold on." He kicked off the wall with so much more force than when he was on the hill, that this time the entire top section of the wall he was standing on shattered and broke off behind him where it flew into the ground and crushed several titans who didn't even see it coming.

Eren is dead. Mikasa stared down at Armin and instantly her mind blanked as the boy said the words. "This is no time to get sentimental Armin. Now stand up." The mission, the only thoughts she had now had to do with saving everyone and getting them out of here alive. Her whole reason for coming back here was for Eren, but now she didn't care anymore. "Marco, if we get past those titans around HQ we can refill our gas and make it over the wall correct?"

The freckled face boy looked over as Mikasa and stuttered out that she was correct. "Good, then we're going for it." Others started shouting there was no way they'd make it, so she shouted, "I will make it! I am strong!" she held up her sword in his right hand and turned to face the group of terrified soldiers who'd lost their will to fight. "Much stronger than the rest of you cowards. I will take the lead and I will kill the titans in our way. You wusses and cowards can stay here or follow me, but we can make it." She turned and shot off with her 3D maneuvering device.

"Mikasa!" the others shouted and then all of them started grumbling to themselves. They didn't want to look like pussies or anything, "Get a move on cowards. Who taught you to let a comrade fight alone?!" Jean shouted and charged forward with Connie. Both of them shot off the roof and forward. Reiner and Annie both followed, the blondes shooting off after everyone else and then Marco joined in.

"Raaaaa!" the army of cadets roared and lifted their weapons. The huge group of them lifted off and shot across the broken buildings all over the place, going to try as hard as they could to make it to Headquarters without dying.

"There!" Nami shouted as Zoro landed again and the wind stopped blowing in her face. The man kept jumping so far that the landscape below them was always a blur, but there were titans everywhere and they were all heading the same direction as the two former pirates. "Look, it's another Wall."

"This one is breached too," Zoro muttered pessimistically. He felt out with his strong Observational Haki and his eyes opened wide. Although there was a hole in the outer wall, there were still humans inside fighting desperately against the large red auras of the titans. The enormous monsters were ripping people apart in there, but one blue aura larger than the others was actually taking the enemies down. Him, I'll go to him.

Nami held on tight as Zoro rushed forward again, removing one sword as he did and flying through the air at the enemies swarming the hole. The man landed right in the center of the hole and every titan around him stopped moving and looked down at the man standing below them. "Two Sword Style," the man whispered with Nami still clinging tightly to his back, afraid of all these man-eating monsters that started reaching down for them. He removed another sword and held them out horizontally next to his body, "A Thousand Birds!" His arms moved too fast for Nami to see, but in a second, all of the ten titans swarming them were cut across the waist, and vertically, and ten different directions as their pieces dropped down to the ground steaming.

As the pieces hit the ground, Zoro heard a roar behind him and looked back to see hundreds more titans heading for the wall. Find him first, he looked back on the inside of the city where there were lots of people fighting these monsters. The strong blue aura from before was smaller now, and as he sensed it, it shrank even more. There was a large red aura close to the small blue one. In many other parts of the city, the red auras were already covering the entire place, but around here were a lot of fast moving people along with several beasts they were trying to fight.

Zoro stepped inside the city and then jumped up in the air, landing on top of the wall as he looked inside. She'll be safe here. Nami stepped off his back and looked inside the horrifying city full of titans. These monsters didn't seem so bad when they were crossing the countryside, but that was because Zoro could easily handle anything they threw at him. Here... she could see blood stains on broken rooves, she could see bodies and body parts littered around the streets near the blood stains. Fires had broken out and the city was burning. "Save as many as you can," she told the green haired man. There was no need to tell him to be careful, she doubted there was anything outside of the Grand Line that he couldn't handle.

Zoro nodded and then kicked off the wall, this time not breaking anything. He lifted up in the air and arced up above the city, looking down and seeing titans munching on dead corpses below him. The people down there were wearing brown coats, they looked like they were part of the military, but they didn't have green cloaks on.

He looked closer at one of the bodies whose arms were already ripped off, but the torso was now dangling above the titan's open mouth. It was a girl no older than fourteen, and it made him sick. Children are fighting these monsters still, after all this time. Isabel, Farlan... Zoro grinded his teeth. He pulled out, and put back in his black katana fast with a quick Iai. The titan below him had its head cut off as the slash dug straight into the nape of its neck and ripped the beast apart.

He recognized the same aura as the one that was destroying titans earlier, and he landed on a rooftop right above where this person was. His eyes opened slightly in surprise as he saw the strongest person in the city was actually a girl, as young as the others. He stared at the teenager as she sat on her knees, her short black hair waving in the light breeze as if this was a normal day. She stared up at the sky, unmoving, as if there wasn't a fifteen meter tall titan walking down the street towards her.

Zoro stared at the girl and didn't move. She's giving up. I can sense it, they're all giving up. If they don't even have the will to fight, then why should I help them? The man stood there and watched the girl with no pity in his eyes. She was a soldier, yet she was allowing herself to die in such a way, it angered him.

Mikasa closed her eyes, It was a good life. The titan bent down and reached towards her. Zoro's eyes opened wide as he saw a flicker in her small blue aura, it turning huge for a second and then dropping again. The hand got closer to the girl and her aura spiked again, her mind willing itself forward when she thought she had given up. The girl drew her broken sword as the huge red fingers were inches from her, and she sliced them off.

The green haired man watched from above as she dove out of the way. Now, he was going to help her if she needed it, he just needed to make sure first. Something piqued his interest and he turned around for a second though. The girl below was dodging the titan's attacks left and right, barely able to move away from them all, but Zoro was staring at something else, again with wide eyes. What is that?! A huge purple aura that was somewhat in the shape of a titan, but flaring wildly off of it, was moving closer to them like it had a purpose. He couldn't tell if it was good or bad, or if it was a human or a beast, and that was what really messed with him as he watched it turn around the corner.

Why am I getting up? Mikasa stood and stared at a piece of grapefruit on the ground, a light cast upon it from the break of clouds in the sky. I have nothing left. So why? What's making me? She heard a loud footstep behind her and looked to the same spot that Zoro was.

A large titan with bulging muscles, much different than the fatass attacking Mikasa, stepped around the corner. It had black hair and furious eyes, stunning considering titans always had the same calm, emotionless eyes. The two titans were both walking towards her, and Zoro decided he might finally have to step in as he felt a lot of anger radiating off of the second titan.

"Fight!" I'm sorry Eren. I'll never give up again! If I die, then I won't be able to think about you anymore. That's why... I have to win no matter what!" She rose her broken weapon and Zoro was amazed as her aura grew to larger than he saw from even outside the walls.

The man actually believed she had what it takes to take down at least the fat titan, but she never had to. Mikasa screamed a warcry and put both hands on her hilt, but then the titan walking up from behind her stomped the ground so hard that the floor rippled and she was shot up five feet off the ground. Her eyes as well as Zoro's, bugged when they watched the muscular titan punch the fat one across the face so hard that the fat one flew back down the street and bounced before stopping motionless on the ground.

Zoro was staring at the monster and he looked inside the purple aura, to a spot in the nape of its neck where he saw the form of a human. There's someone in there, he watched in awe as the person inside opened his mouth and screamed, and at the same time the titan he was inside lifted his head and roared, "Raaarrrggghh!" It sprinted forward and stomped down on the back of the fat one's neck, right in its weak point. It stomped over and over, blood flying up in the air and splattering everywhere.

Mikasa stared in complete silence, while Zoro looked back and watched as a young blonde boy flew out of the sky with his mechanical device and grabbed the black haired girl. He lifted the two of them up without slowing his momentum and they dropped on the roof, tumbling over and over towards the green haired man who looked down at them.

Another boy, this one with really short gray hair, landed in between the two fallen soldiers and asked, "Are you okay?!"

"Yeah," Armin said, sitting up and rubbing his head. He looked past Connie and his eyes opened wide at the sight of the person standing there. The green haired man had small black pupils and stared straight at the young soldiers in front of him. The blonde kid was at a loss for words while the one with gray hair couldn't stop staring at the man's insanely muscular chest.

Zoro's green shirt was unbuttoned down the middle before his haramaki. He had on long pants too, and his three katana at his waist were sticking out oddly to the teenagers who couldn't comprehend what this man was doing here. The three of them kept staring at the man until Connie saw something behind him and his eyes widened, "Shit! Two fifteen meter ones!"

Armin and Connie both looked afraid at the beasts, but Mikasa whispered, "No, that one..."

"That's not an enemy," Zoro stated plainly to the young soldiers at his side. "There's a strong human inside its neck, moving the titan forward."

"Wh-What?!" Armin snapped his head to the guy standing next to him. It was hard to even breathe in this man's presence, but Armin managed to ask, "Who are you?"

"Roronoa Zoro," he replied and then motioned with his head, "Watch." The two titans roared at each other and then the one with long black hair rose his hands up as fists with bent elbows. He got into a fighting stance and Zoro laughed as the good titan slapped the other one across the face with so much power that the other's head flew clean off and into a bell tower a mile away.

The one that slapped the other broke its hand, but it quickly started regenerating. While that was happening, it stomped on the decapitated titan's neck as it tried to stand, finishing it off. Before Armin could shout how crazy this was, he thought about what the man just told them, If there really is a person inside there, he'd know how to kill a titan! He was shocked at the possibility, but he didn't rule it out.

Connie was shouting how they needed to move, but the other teenage boy just whispered, "No, it doesn't respond to us at all." He spun to Zoro and shouted, "Is there really a person inside there?!"

Whoever it is, is in a lot of pain. "I'll go get him," Zoro replied and stepped towards the edge of the roof.

Mikasa and the others stared at him like he was an idiot, "Wait, you don't have any 3D..." the girl stopped speaking as the man hopped off the roof casually and lifted thirty feet up in the air.

"Is he, a God?" Connie muttered and fell to the ground. Zoro arced between the buildings and he flew between the kids and the sun above, casting a shadow over them. They watched as the man dropped on the shoulders of the titan walking away. It seemed to notice him there and wasn't happy, but the man shoved his hand into the monster's neck making it scream. Zoro pulled the unconscious child out of the neck, covered in blood and goop, and then he jumped back in the air towards the building he just left.

He landed as the blood and ooze were sliding off of the boy he pulled out. "See, there was a person inside-" he couldn't finish as all three of the teens in front of him screamed at the same time.

"Eren?" Connie exclaimed.

"EREN!" Armin screamed and fell to his knees, grabbing his best friend who he thought was dead, by the shoulders and shaking him.

Mikasa wasn't as loud as the other two and she yelled, "Eren," her heart skipped a beat and Zoro noticed the way the girl affectionately looked at him. She was strong yes, but at this moment she couldn't stop herself and she started crying, falling to her knees and resting her head over his wet one, "Ahhh ahh!" She sobbed an cradled his head in her hands.

"You know him?" Zoro asked, though the question was pretty stupid as he thought about it.

Connie, the one who looked the happiest but was the least attached to Eren, turned to the swordsman and nodded his head. "He was on Armin's squad and Armin thought he was dead. He's also Mikasa's brother." Zoro looked at the girl and felt a little weird considering the way he thought she was looking at him before. She's just his sister.

"Alright," Connie stated and the others all looked up at him. "We have to get back to HQ to fill up on gas. Mikasa, you carry Eren..."

"Mikasa's out of gas," Armin stated quietly and the other girl looked ashamed since she wasted it all and now couldn't help Eren.

Zoro looked off into the distance where the other humans he sensed were heading. There were a few more people inside the huge building everyone was heading towards, but the place was mainly surrounded by titans. They were everywhere, even inside the building. "That's the building we're heading towards," Zoro stated and the others looked at the man with them. They were all at least a little nervous in his presence, and he stated, "I'll carry you."

"No, you take Eren," Mikasa ordered the man.

"I meant all of you," the man replied and he reached down, grabbing the unconscious kid and his sister, easily tossing them up on his shoulder and then grabbing the other two boys as well who shouted and tried to back up, but couldn't move fast enough. "Hold on tight," he said but held his arms hooked above his shoulders to make sure he had them secured.

"You'll never make it!" Connie yelled and tried to pry the arm off of him, but the man was so strong that his struggles did literally nothing against him.

Zoro just smirked and then jumped up in the air, landing on a building ten down from the one they were on before, closing the distance to the Headquarters insanely fast. He was so fast that Connie shut his mouth and just stared as they flew over buildings and titans and all the way towards a... "Go for the window!" He shouted as Zoro was about to slam into a wall of the huge building covered in titans.

Zoro redirected himself, but not towards the window. He moved so that he was heading straight towards two titans looking into a hole in the building. There was someone on the other side of the hole and the titans felt hungry. The swordsman was about to slam straight into the back of one of the titan's head, and all of his passengers screamed, but before he did, he swung his left leg and a green line flew off of it. Everyone stared in awe as the titans heads were cut clean in half horizontally and the top halves flew so fast up in the air that the scalps were too high to see after a second. The bodies were thrown down with such force that they created a huge crater in the ground that knocked back several other titans around it.

Yeah, Connie thought calmly as his eyes closed, he's definitely a God. The boy smiled and then oofed as he was dropped from the swordman's shoulder onto the hard ground of the hallway, right in front of... "Jean!" Connie yelled, glad his comrade had also made it.

The older boy with longer gray hair stared at the group that just flew through the wall in shock. He had been staring straight into the eyes of death, two titans who really wanted to eat him. Now, he was looking at the most muscular, and oddly dressed man he'd ever seen, along with Mikasa, Armin, and Connie. Then there was also, "Eren's alive?" he asked, the first thing out of his mouth after watching these guys break through the wall.

"Yes," Armin said, his mouth breaking into a small smile.

"You wouldn't believe where we found him, he was-" Mikasa reached around Connie's head and clamped a hand down over his mouth.

She leaned in close and whispered in his ear, "People won't react well when they hear Eren was controlling a titan. Even if he was killing other titans. Do not, tell anyone," the boy turned his head and met eye contact with the completely serious girl and he nodded.

"Heh, heh," Connie nervously looked back towards Jean who had no idea what was going on or who that huge guy with them was or why he had so many scars covering his body. "So, did everyone make it?" He asked the other boy.

"A lot of us did," Jean responded and Connie winced, knowing that meant a lot also didn't. "It was no use coming though, the titans are all over the building. We're all up here, but there's no way to get to the gas downstairs."

"That may not be true," Armin stated and Jean looked at him confused. The blonde haired boy turned with a smile towards the tall man with them and Zoro looked back at him with a straight expression. "Are you here to help us?"

The swordsman didn't like being looked at like this. He grunted and drew a sword from his waist, making everyone around him take a step back, Mikasa dragging Eren a safe distance away. "They're right below us, half a dozen of them." He stated and slid his sword in a circle on the floor.

"What are you..." Connie began and then reached forward to try and stop it as the man fell down through a circle in the floor that suddenly opened up. "He cut the floor, how'd he do that?"

Armin was already on his knees and looking down through the hole at the large room below them. "You won't believe this," the boy said and started shaking as he leaned back and fell on his butt. "He's killing all the titans in there."

"What?!" The rest of them shouted and ran over to look. Mikasa pushed the rest of them away and when she looked inside, her world slowed down.

Earlier, what I saw... she remembered the titan stepping on the other's neck and killing it instead of attacking her. A titan killing a titan was unheard of. I sensed a moment of excitement, because it appeared like the titan was the manifest anger of humankind. That was you Eren. I thought you were all of our anger together, all of mankind's. This man doesn't feel any resentment towards the titans though, I can feel it. He hasn't lived through the torment of them, but... I still believe, he is the best hope humanity has. She stared down at the man sitting on top of a pile of titan corpses with an evil smirk on his face.

Wonder how many of these titans there are in total? They were all the way at the coast of this island, and this feels more like a continent than anything. How long would it take to kill them all? The man thought it might get a little boring, but then he recalled something. The one that Levi destroyed in his rage, that one was abnormal, it was different from the others. I wonder if there are more like it? And ones like that boy, he looked up and wondered just what that boy titan was.

All the cadets were now hovering above the hole on the floor above. Mikasa looked around and realized what she had to do, she had to take charge. "Everyone!" All the different cadets in the vanguard and the Quartermaster squads turned towards the girl who was taking charge. "The titans in the depot are dead. Refill on your gas and we'll all head over the wall together!"

"How did that happen?" Annie asked, walking forward and looking at Mikasa. "There were seven of them down there."

"There's no time to explain!" Armin shouted as he looked out the hole behind him and saw a titan reaching towards the building. Everyone started racing to get downstairs, and they were surprised to see the rotting corpses of several titans. A few of them stared at the strange man walking around, but Zoro didn't really have a purpose at the moment.

The swordsman jumped up with ease and sat atop a pillar in the middle of the room. While everyone was filling up their gas tanks, the ones in the top ten in the 104th cadet class stepped forward. They knew they had to take charge, and they were all about to leave. "Do you know how to use the 3D manuevering gear?" Armin asked up to the guy above them. Zoro looked down and stared at the extra device Armin had in his hands.

"No," he stated and looked across the room at the girl with black hair who was trying to wake up her brother. "When you guys leave this city, is it alright if I level it?"

The group down below him looked up at the man and sweat was pouring down the sides of their faces. "Wh-Wh-What?" Sasha asked, smiling wide and thinking that she must have misheard that question.

The man atop the pillar smirked, and when he looked down they all flinched. "I'm asking if I can let loose once you're all gone. The titans can sense humans, and by this point you guys are the only ones still alive in this city."

"Wait!" Armin yelled up to him. "If we can save this city, we should. It's outermost defenses are strong, there's just a breach in the wall. If we could somehow close that hole..."

"What are you talking about Armin?!" Jean exclaimed angrily at the smaller boy. He thought the whole idea of this guy taking down all the titans was ridiculous, but... "How could we seal a hole that big?"

"Alright guys, let's go!" A cadet shouted and the mass of them charged out of the building and flew off up the wall. It was obvious a few of the ones talking to Zoro wanted to leave as well, but the man kept staring at them and they couldn't move their legs.

On the other end of the room, Mikasa finally shook Eren awake and the boy shook his head. He was confused at where he was, but as his blurry vision got better, he stared straight into Mikasa's eyes as they watered up. "Eren," she whispered and pulled him close into a hug.

"But, I was eaten," he was confused at what was happening, but when he looked around, he got quite a shock. "We're back at HQ. Are we the only ones left?"

"No," Mikasa assured him, "everyone else just left to go scale the wall. We have to retreat for now, but," she stopped, not really knowing how to describe what their savior was. Eren followed where she looked and he stared wide-eyed at the green haired man sitting atop the pillar surrounded by his classmates.

"Who are you?" Eren called out and got to his feet, jogging towards the strong-looking man.

Huh, he's awake already. Surprising, Zoro grinned at the kid who had a fiery look in his eyes. If they don't want me destroying the city, then maybe that rock near the gate, "Alright, you ten," he pointed at the group gathered around the bottom of the pillar. "I'll block up that hole, but I'll have to use both my arms. I'll need you to keep some titans off me while I can't fight them. Are you up for killing some titans?"

Eren stared up at the man as he stood up and dropped down twenty feet and landed effortlessly. Who is he? The man started walking past them without looking at any of them, but when he hit Eren, his eyes darted over and the two of them made eye contact. It was at this moment that Eren knew the man's question wasn't rhetorical. "Hell yes," the boy responded and ran to go get his 3D manuevering gear on.

The only ones in the room were part of the top ten in their class, besides Armin, and they were only missing Christa, wherever she might be. "So, we're not going over the wall?" Sasha asked, her voice full of fear. The girl who loved to eat looked the most afraid of all of them, though Connie and Marco both looked pretty nervous as well.

Zoro looked back sternly and glared at the girl, "If you aren't prepared to die, then go over the wall. Join the others. I'll find a way on my own." He kept walking towards the door and the others turned and saw Eren snap on his gear loudly before charging after the man.

Eren Jaegar had no idea who this guy was, but he looked strong. He didn't know how the guy planned on plugging the hole, but he completely believed him. He didn't know why he trusted him so much, but he wasn't going to doubt his gut now, not after all this time. "I'm Eren," the boy said as he ran up and started walking on the man's right side.

I already knew that from when your friends screamed it in my ear after seeing you alive, Zoro grinned and gave his name to the boy before him. The two of them left the building, and saw a dozen titans surrounding the place outside. Zoro was going to tell the boy something, when Eren's head snapped to the left and he snarled ferociously.

Armin and the others were finally catching up to the two in front and Armin gasped. "That's the abnormal variant that killed Thomas," he pointed over, and as he did, Eren was off the ground and shooting through the air, roaring at the top of his lungs. "Eren wait!"

The boy dodged one titan's smack in the air, then dropped below another. The one that ate Thomas started to turn its head towards the boy, but Eren was moving insanely fast as he sped right behind its neck and sliced a huge chunk out of it before it could react. Eren slammed into the rooftop he connected to and then spat off of it at the body that crumpled to the ground and started steaming with its weak part removed.

"You should follow his lead," Zoro stated as he drew one sword from a black sheath on his waist. He jumped up in the air and everyone, including a stunned Eren, watched as he swung the sword in one clean motion, but with enough force that a huge green light flew off of the blade and cut through three fifteen meter tall titan's necks.

"Whoa," Marco muttered as he watched the tall titans drop to the ground and Zoro between them. The man with green hair saw a four meter titan sprinting towards him, and it reached out both hands at him. He almost laughed at how pathetic it was, and he reached up, grabbing one of the fingers of the right hand and ripping it off with his open palm. He ripped it because he pulled up too hard, but the monster still stumbled towards him as the man swung his sword over his head and shredded the monster into a thousand pieces that fell to the ground and started shriveling up.

"Behind us!" Reiner shouted, the only one who wasn't completely focused on their new ally.

Mikasa turned and saw a seven meter tall titan coming towards them. "Let's start heading for the breach. We don't want to waste gas killing every titan." As she said it though, she was spinning through the air and ripped across the nape of the medium-sized titan's neck.

"You're right," Zoro called out and jumped up so hard that a crater appeared on the ground and knocked back the two small titans he was about to slaughter. He landed on the roof, a foot away from Eren who didn't take a step back, but instead smiled wide at the man who had suddenly become his idol for killing so many titans. The others all landed on the roof with them and he turned and looked at his squad, "First, tell me your names."

"Eren Jaeger," the boy repeated loudly as the first one to say it. Then the list continued as the more comfortable ones spoke first followed by their nervous friends. "Reiner Braun. Mikasa Ackerman. Armin Arlert. Annie Leonhart. Bertolt Hoover. Jean Kirstein. Connie Springer. Marco Bott. Sasha Blouse."

Zoro nodded his head at each of them, stopping a little longer on Mikasa, Eren, and Annie than the rest. Her aura is tainted, there's something wrong here, he stared at the blonde girl for an extra second and could see she felt nervous the way he was watching her.

Does he know?! Who is he? Where the fuck did he come from?

"Alright," the man said and turned, moving into a slow jog, then speeding up and jumping across their roof and over to the roof across the wide street. "Follow me!"

"But the gate is that way," Reiner yelled over as the guy was running to the left when they needed to go straight.

A bead of sweat rolled down the left side of Zoro's face and he shouted, "Oh yeah. Let's go!" He turned right again and started going back the way they just came from. He hit headquarters after a few seconds and stopped. What the, isn't this the building we were just at? Or does it just look like it?

The group of ten teenagers on top of the nearby roof were at a loss for words. "Did we really all just put our lives, in his hands?" Connie asked, dumbfounded by this man's lack of any sense of direction.

Mikasa realized the others were losing faith in this miracle man and she shouted down to him, "Here, you follow me. I know the town better!"

Zoro looked up and tilted his head, "I guess that makes sense." He jumped up, again with ease to scale a three story building. "Lead the way," he said, not even looking at the others who were all staring at him like he was an idiot.

Mikasa started running forward and she shot off her gear, the rest of them following behind her with Zoro right in the middle. They'd all decided without speaking that they wouldn't let this guy get lost so they made a box around him. Whether he knew it or not, they didn't know, but he didn't mention it and neither would they in fear of the entire city being destroyed, along with their lives.

After about a minute of heading back across the city, Zoro turned his head a little to the left. "Looks like you're getting some reinforcements, and they're much stronger than most of you." He caught a glimpse of a green cloak over a building as the person it belonged to slashed a titan across the neck.

It's them, he thought and grinned wide as he felt a familiar presence. It was one that at the time he met him, he didn't have the ability to sense, but the fact that this person's aura radiated across the entire city let Zoro know exactly who it was. This time he was able to lead the way and had them change directions towards the sounds of fighting.

Sasha was about to shout that they should keep heading on the path they were on, when a hidden titan jumped up from the street below with an open mouth. It's mouth encircled the girl whose eyes widened as her face turned blue. The others all looked in and stared in terror as the girl screamed, but she was never chomped. She continued to fly with her gear and she opened her eyes after a second of not being dead.

The group of them stopped and looked back at where the green haired savior was standing inside the huge monster's mouth. It had black hair and a scruffy beard, and it was one of the tallest titans they'd seen all day. It looked to be trying to force its mouth closed with all its strength, but Zoro was just standing on its tongue with each of his hands pushing the teeth apart. He allowed his arms to bend in a little, just so that he'd have enough force for...

The man pushed out with so much strength that the beast's head ripped in half and he jumped off its tongue. The jaw wasn't all that ripped; a line formed around the entire head and then snapped off as the monster fell to the ground.

"Look!" Jean pointed over at a duo of titans marching towards them. Both were fifteen meters tall, and the fear was building. All of a sudden though, a line of someones's gear shot out and stuck in the building behind the one on the left. A man in a green cloak flew towards the titan and wrapped around its neck, coming in from behind and slicing it at the nape.

"It's the Scout Regiment!" Eren yelled excitedly.

"What are they doing here?" Bertolt asked.

"They're our reinforcements!" Connie exclaimed.

"Levi," Zoro stated and watched as the small man with black hair stepped on the face of the second titan that he threw both of his swords in its eyes. "You did get stronger."

A few of the others turned and watched as Zoro kicked off the ground and landed on a building a few away from them much faster than the pace they'd been moving at. They all realized something and the boy with longer gray hair muttered, "He's been moving slower, so that we can keep up with him," Jean was so confused, but he just followed Mikasa's lead and shot over to the other building.

Levi lifted his swords and scolded the squirming titan beneath him, "Hold still. How else am I going to lop off a clean slice of you?" He jumped up a dozen feet, then came spiraling back down and sliced straight down the weak point of his enemy. The Captain shot his harpoons back up and spun to the roof of the building next to the fallen titan.

He landed on the building and looked down at the steaming corpse, confirming his kill. He felt something hit the roof behind him and he spun around fast, but whatever he was expecting: titans, missing cadets, or his own comrades, this was the most surprising thing he could have seen, and it almost made him lose his footing and fall off the roof.

The person standing behind him was like no one he'd ever seen, being far too muscular for any normal human being, yet still having white skin so he couldn't be a titan. Levi shouldn't have recognized him after well over a decade, but there were some unmistakable features that were impossible to miss. Large scar diagonal across the chest, green hair, bellyband. "Zoro," Levi remembered the name at this exact moment, his mouth dropping back into its open position after the green haired man smirked upon hearing his own name.

"That's Captain Levi!" Eren exclaimed to his comrades as they all landed behind Zoro.

"I told you I'd be back," Zoro told the man standing in front of him.

Levi had no idea what to say to this person, this person who he himself had even begun to believe was a figment of his imagination the whole time. He was there on my first Expedition Beyond the Wall. He was on the verge of death, and wandered away into titan territory. This is impossible. "Why are you here?"

Zoro never expected a warm welcome from the only person who would probably remember him on this entire island. Looks like his friends' deaths really did take a toll on his personality. He remembered the first day their crew lost a nakama, it was a tough thing for anyone, but Levi seemed to take it especially personal. He blamed himself that night, Zoro recalled.

"We're going to go seal up the hole," Eren told his role model from when he was a child. Captain Levi looked behind Zoro at the group of cadets with him, and they looked like they had potential.

"And how do you plan to do that?" Levi asked. Every single one of them opened their mouths, but then closed them at the same time as it would sound too ridiculous to say out loud. Also, they didn't know what Zoro was planning, just that it would take both of his hands.

"There's a giant boulder near the breach," Zoro stated calmly. "It's probably around the size that we need to seal it. I'll pick it up, and put it down in the hole in the wall."

The cadets almost fell over that this was the entirety of the plan they were risking their lives on, but Captain Levi just asked, "Can you do it?"

"Easily," Zoro responded. Though that boulder did look pretty heavy, and it's not like it's right next to the hole either, I'm going to have to carry it pretty far. "They're going to keep titans off me while I move it. Care to help?"

"I'll get my squads on it," Levi turned and shot off without another word, but his mind was racing. Whoever this man is, defies all reason. Whatever he says, believe it. He said he'd be back, now that he reminded me, I definitely remember him saying that, right before he disappeared! Commander Erwin, this is the exact thing you were looking for. A hope for all mankind.

A/N Hey everyone, welcome to the second installment of this story! I hope you enjoyed it, because I just spend 4 hours working on it. it started off similarly to canon, but Zoro's involvement changed everything very quickly. This is not post-timeskip Zoro, this is 15-years-after-start-of-One-Piece Zoro, he is incredibly strong. And yes, Nami is still with him, yippee! Figured there was no way of him finding his way back without her, so he asked for her help back when the crew separated. I think I'll leave more hints as to what happened to the Straw Hat crew scattered throughout the chapters, but it's not really that important. Now we've got a good supporting cast with our main character (read the title), let's hope they all make it through Trost! Thanks for all the feedback you guys, here are some review responses:

ManwithaPlan113

It has potential

Hope you liked the time I threw Zoro into this! Thank you.

HAREOO3

Ohh, this sounds so good. I really like it. You write so nice, I love it! When you get the chance, update please. XD

Thanks a lot! Didn't have work tomorrow and no one was hanging, so I spent my Friday night writing this. Hope you loved it like the first chapter!

.73

This story was very enjoyable ride. I'm adding,to my favorite. This might be alot to ask but please don't drop this. But if you do then I understand.
3.9/5rating on this chapter

Thanks Tim! It wasn't too much to ask. I tried leaving hints that there would be another update, and I don't think I can end it in the spot I have right now either, so expect at least one more chapter, though if everyone still likes this I'll write some more. Darn, almost got that 4! ;p

AnayristheDragon25

zoro would have saved isabel and farlan in 10 seconds flat :T

No, he wouldn't have. That was immediately post Kuma/Kizaru/Pacifista fight Zoro. That was Zoro who was so injured that Perona had to drag him to a castle and give him medical care for who knows how long. He was so injured that it was more amazing he could even move than anything. To be able to fight an enemy he knew nothing about and that was strong enough to kill dozens of Scout Regiment soldiers, would have been the more ridiculous thing, no matter how much you love him.

lilnightmare17

I'm very interested in this story and can't wait to read more. Zorro is one of my favorite characters.

Mine too! Thanks!

joebob323

ohh this is great too！

Thanks Joebob! I loved how you reviewed to all my crossovers on the same day. It was pretty funny getting all those emails one after the other and I really appreciated them!

rainwolf042

Plz update soon... (っ﹏)っ

The next day... XD! Thanks again everyone. 'Till next time!