"There it is," Connie whispered as he peered off the edge of their building. There was a boulder on the ground, a huge boulder. There was no way to describe the rock's enormity; the rest of the cadets just stared at it with disappointed looks on their faces.
"It's impossible," Jean stated after getting one look at the huge thing. "It must weigh a thousand tons! There's no way even..." Jean stopped as a titan's head poked up above the side of the building causing him to jump back in shock. Before either him or the titan could react, a green slash flew past his face and crashed into the titan's face, cutting it in half while throwing it back across the street where the writhing beast hit a building and wrecked it.
"Shut up Jean," Eren scowled at the taller teen with gray hair. "Of course he can lift it."
"Well," Zoro was getting a better look at the rock now than when he originally just glanced at it earlier. "It's actually pretty big," he mumbled and scratched the green stubble on his chin while smirking. "A thousand tons?" Try three thousand, at least. It's a good challenge. I won't be able to hold them off myself though. Seems it was good that I brought these guys.
The man with green hair looked around at all the titans around and grimaced. A lot of them will probably die if I don't help though. They'll get eaten alive, he looked back at all the surprised teens.
Mikasa understood the look in the man's eyes and her lower lip dropped an inch. He's concerned about us, she thought and closed her mouth. At first she thought lifting the rock would be impossible as well, but the man in front of her mentioned how it was larger than he thought but still wasn't phased. He needs both hands... Her mind told her it but she still couldn't believe this man, with all his strength, would be able to lift a mountain. "It's alright, we're prepared to fight to the last breath," she told the man and he saw that most of them meant it too by the looks in their eyes.
"I'm going for it," Zoro told them and the cadets stared at the man in wonder. Eren was smiling, beaming at this guy who had become his hero in the few minutes he'd known him. "After I lift the rock..."
"We'll protect you," Eren shouted confidently and clenched his fist in front of his face. His sleeve was ripped off and his skin looked shiny as he held up his hand.
Armin stared at the fist his friend clenched with and the blonde boy started sweating. His arm was bitten off completely. Does he not remember? Does he not know that his arm REGREW?! How could he forget turning into a titan?!
Zoro grinned at the young kid's reaction and the others around Eren nodded as well.
Once Zoro jumped off the building, Jean felt comfortable and safe to say what was on his mind. "Lifting that boulder is impossible!" He turned and faced all of his comrades together. "We can't trust this guy. We're going to get ourselves killed pointlessly here. We have no idea where he came from, or why he's really here..."
Someone landed a few feet behind Jean while the teen was mid-speech and he stopped after feeling the sudden vibration. The others were all staring and Jean slowly turned to see Captain Levi standing on the roof behind him. "He's here, to help you." The short Captain walked forward and right past the sweating teenager who was a few seconds before trying to get his comrades to turn on Zoro.
Levi continued as his own squads landed on the same roof and everyone looked over the ledge where Zoro was walking down the street towards the boulder. The swordsman lifted two swords like horns on his head and the spectators could swear they saw a huge shadow form of a bull surround him as large as the approaching titan. Then the bull burst into flames and raced forward, ripping into the titan's flesh and tearing it apart. "I don't know him any better than the rest of you..."
"It can't be," one of the older Scout Regiment members muttered in shock and took a few steps backwards. The others didn't know why he was so stunned after looking off the building, unless it was for the same reason as the rest of them: the magnitude of Zoro's power. "It's him."
Levi nodded and watched as Zoro got closer to the huge boulder. "Back then," he started in a quiet tone and a few others noticed his eyes get darker as he spoke. "I didn't see what he could do." But now I know exactly how he escaped. Those swords of his are deadly. "We'll give him as much backup as he needs."
"Yes sir!" Eren shouted and the Captain turned for the first time to the short teen with black hair standing a few feet away from him. Looks promising, he glanced at the others, most of them do. They're the cadets who stayed behind huh? The Scout Regiment Captain nodded and then walked off the building.
The man dropped off the roof a dozen feet before he flew forward with a snap from his gear. He didn't waste gas, but at the same time he could go really fast while still conserving. Levi looked ahead at the boulder that was larger than even the houses around it. The hole in the wall was huge, large enough for the tallest titans to walk in without ducking, but this rock was even bigger. Can he really do it? The doubt flashed in Levi's mind but he deserted it fast, there was no room to question his decision. He didn't know if he was making the right one here, but he never did.
"You heard the Captain," a woman with sunglasses shouted at the rest of the Scouts and cadets on the roof. There were only about four dozen of them in total, while the titans numbered over few hundred. "Let's kill these titans!" Her crazed smile was not the encouragement the soldiers needed faced with these odds.
"This is crazy," Sasha whispered with a crazy smile of her own on her face, a minute from going insane. "There are more titans than there are us, what can we do?"
Bertolt glared off at a titan walking towards them. A lot of the beasts were headed their way actually and were walking right over the steaming corpses of the ones Zoro killed earlier.
Reiner stepped forward and was about to say something inspiring to his fellow comrades. Before he could, Eren sprinted forward and dove off the roof with his chest pushed forward and his legs and arms thrown back. His 3D maneuvering device shot out and latched onto a building down the street that Zoro headed down earlier.
Mikasa and Armin sprinted off behind him and shot off the roof and Reiner looked both ways with a flustered expression. "Guess they didn't need it," he chuckled at their enthusiasm and was about to jump off, as were many others, when a titan smashed through a building right into their path.
Armin had just passed by the building that the titan broke through and he snapped his head back with a terrified look. He felt the wind rush past him as the titan broke through a second too late and missed its prey. The large titan had a red hair and a red mustache and looked at him with a wide smile.
"Spread out!" One of the squad leaders for the Scout Regiment shouted. The soldiers scattered in different directions and a few of the cadets moved together towards the gate.
Connie's eyes opened wide as he saw the gate, "There are dozens more titans coming in right now. How are we going to stop all of them?!"
As the boy was yelling, he was also drawing attention to himself. A titan that was small enough to hide between buildings reached up fast and grabbed the boy by his legs. "Ahhhh!" He screamed as he got yanked down and held in both hands by the monster.
Connie looked into its cold, emotionless eyes and he found his breath wasn't coming out. "Help, me," he rasped out as the monster pulled him closer to its opening mouth.
"Connie!" Jean shouted and tried turning around. For some reason his equipment wasn't responding though and he started to fall out of the air with a jammed device.
"He's gonna get eaten!" Marco exclaimed and his friends all tried turning to him, but they were too far forward already and wouldn't make it back in time. Connie was held right over its mouth and lowered right between the upper and lower jaw. All he could see was the red of the inside of the titan's mouth and the row of teeth closing in on his head.
Connie's head was about to get chomped by the massive titan, when the fingers holding him in its hand ripped apart. The boy fell out of the monster's grip but he couldn't move a muscle, in too much shock thinking he was about to die. He fell out of the bleeding hand, spinning on his way into the monster's mouth.
Before the kid could hit the wet tongue waiting for him, an arm wrapped around his body and caught him under the armpit. The person kept flying and sliced the other side of the titan's closing mouth making the opening wider so they were able to escape. Connie slowly tilted his head up and saw long blonde hair falling behind his savior's head. "A-Annie," he whispered with tears in his eyes.
"Pull yourself together," she ordered coldly. "We don't need any dead weight out here." Her words struck a cord in the boy she was carrying and she felt his body start moving again. Annie landed on a roof close to the gate and she dropped the boy so he could move on his own.
"She made it," Marco said in relief. He turned back and looked off the roof. His eyes went wide, "What's Jean doing down there?!" The others looked down to see Jean running down the street with a titan chasing after him.
"His equipment must be broken," Bertolt exclaimed as they watched the older boy. Jean shouted up to them that he'd be fine and for them to continue the mission without him.
Annie and Connie were flying forward together towards an area with a lot of titans. The boy's mind was racing and he kept glancing at the girl with him. She was getting annoyed that he kept looking at her funnily so she snapped her head with a glare at him. Instead of looking away though, the boy's uneasy look went away.
"Thanks Annie," he said and looked back forward since it was hard to fly and not watch where you were going. "You're a great friend."
"I'm not your friend," she stated but the boy cut her off.
"Yeah you are," he replied and shot his gear off again to snap to the next building. The teenage girl's eyes went wide at Connie's words and her mouth lowered a little. "You risked your life to save me back there. I don't know many people who would fly straight at a titan's opened mouth for a friend. So that means you're a great friend."
He said it so matter-of-factly that the girl with him didn't know what to say. I'm not a good person, her heart pained her and she clenched her teeth, grinding them. I don't deserve your friendship Connie.
Zoro stepped up in front of the massive boulder on the street. The man with strange green hair could hear voices starting to go out around him. Some of the reinforcements were getting annihilated by the sheer number of titans. "I need to get going," he whispered and put his hands on the huge rock.
The boulder was almost perfectly round. It was as tall as most of the surrounding buildings, and was lodged into a tall one that it crashed into. Zoro could easily lift one of the houses, but they were mostly empty space, this rock was solid, and easily weighed over a few thousand tons. I can do this, he clenched his hands on the rock and tried lifting up.
Eren, Mikasa, and Armin landed on a roof next to the boulder and stared down at the man down below. "You can do it!" Eren yelled with a huge grin on his face. The man had his hands on the rock and he had no grip since he couldn't get his arms around it. Zoro let go and shook off his green shirt that was already unbuttoned down the middle.
All three of the teenagers dropped their jaws as they watched the powerful, super-muscular man. "Ichi Gorilla," Zoro shouted and his already huge right arm buffed up to three times its normal size around the bicep. "Ni Gorilla!" His left upper arm did the same thing and veins started to show all over his muscles as he reached back around the side of the rock he was on and tried lifting it.
"How is he, so, so strong?" Mikasa's mind was blown at the size of this guy, and she only got more amazed in the next minute.
"Ahhhgghh," Zoro growled as he ground his teeth together. The rock shifted a little and it was noticeable to the three kids on the building next to it.
"Hey," a soldier with brown hair shouted and landed next to them. "Watch out for those titans!" The cadets looked down the path and saw two titans heading straight for the man grabbing the boulder. His amazing strength had them distracted, but now they watched as a group of three from the Scout regiment charged in and sliced one's neck.
"Look out!" Armin yelled, but he was too late as the second one swatted one of the team out of the air and into the ground behind Zoro.
The swordsman spun his head and looked down into the hole behind him where the mangled black haired woman was lying. He growled and let go of the rock, reaching down and grabbing one of his swords with one hand.
"What are you doing?!" The squad leader next to the teens shouted down. Zoro looked up at him in annoyance, but the man on the roof looked furious. "They're all buying you time! You can't waste a second fighting titans!"
Zoro looked over and saw the other two members of that team take down the remaining titan without his help. He moved his hand away from his swords and nodded at the man who yelled at him. "Understood," he knew he was going to have to watch people die as he carried the boulder, but this was their best chance to seal the gate.
His arms were still buffed out and the man who was yelling at him was sweating badly because of the fear of the titans and of this monster. They watched as Zoro punched one fist into the rock, making a small hole in it, then he punched with the other hand and there were two holes.
"Let's move," Mikasa suggested and her and the boys shot off to another house down the street. They were going to stay within eye-shot of their savior, but just sitting around didn't feel right when their friends were all risking their lives.
Eren looked back and he couldn't hold in his excitement as the boulder started to shift again. Zoro's right eye was fully open and veins were popping on his forehead as he roared. "RRAAAAAHHHH!" His scream made the scouts and cadets watching feel strange pits in their stomachs.
An eight meter titan was about to grab Bertholt out of the air when the roar was heard all the way at the gate. Every single titan stopped moving towards whoever they were attacking and they began walking towards the street Zoro was on.
At the same time, everyone stared in dumbstruck awe as the top of the boulder, (which was more like a mountain) lifted above the rooftops. The ground shook and the rock moved forward with Zoro taking a step underneath it.
Over on the wall of the city, an orange haired woman was watching the scene with a dropped jaw. Even after all her time on the same crew as him, she'd never seen him lift something as big as this before. "You can do it Zoro," she whispered. She slid her left hand through her hair and was biting on her right hand's fingernails. "Don't you dare die and leave me in this crazy place by myself." She tried to make it sound selfish, but she wouldn't be able to take it if he really died. I have to help somehow!
The woman heard a loud roar on the other side of the wall and she ran over and stared with huge eyes. There was an army of titans approaching, much more than before. Why are they all coming, why now?! She started running across the wall and watched as a dozen more were entering the gate.
"Milky Ocean!" She yelled as she connected all three pieces of her Clima-Tact. She pointed the blue weapon off the side of the wall and clouds started pouring out of it. The clouds slammed into the ground on the other side of the gate and washed out over the surrounding landscape, encasing the titans in white. They were still moving and pushing away the clouds, but they were definitely slowed down. The rest is up to you, she spun her head back to the inside where hundreds of titans were already amassed.
Zoro was walking down the street slowly. Every single step was more than he thought he could take, but he'd just take another. The rock was up above his head and his arms were buried in it up to the mid-forearms. He was still so far from the gate, yet it felt like he'd been walking for an hour already.
The pirate lifted his foot up and then stepped a few more feet forward with his next step. This time when he touched the floor, the amount of weight pushing down crushed the pavement and sent pieces flying in different directions.
"Raaagghh," a four meter titan dodged a member of the Scout regiment's attack and sprinted straight at Zoro.
"Someone stop that one!" Levi shouted out as he was already in the middle of fighting three fifteen meter ones heading in from a side street. Damn, when he shouted, he drew all their attention. Or are they trying to stop him because they have the intelligence to know what he's attempting?
Zoro could see the sprinting red legs of a small titan coming straight at him and he braced himself. The titan slammed straight into the boulder and the man with green hair winced, but then smirked. The red muscly being started punching the rock, but it wasn't near big enough to push it. "It's too, heavy, is it?" Zoro scoffed as his grin spread wider and he took a fast, big step forward, slamming the boulder into the titan's head and knocking its block off.
Eren flew down and cut the writhing thing on the neck before it could regrow its head. He looked under the mountain of a boulder and saw Zoro's insane smile as his muscles strained to their very limits.
The man' green hair started to flow and a dark aura was surrounding him. He kept walking forward and his smile faded back into the strained expression where he was grinding his teeth in pain. He realized that taking that last big step forward just to kill the titan probably wasn't the best idea asit moved his arms into a weird position. His muscles roared at him to drop the rock, but he wasn't even close to the gate yet.
"He's moving too slow! We'll all be eaten before he gets there!" A man shouted, just as he was grabbed from a rooftop and promptly eaten.
"There are too many in his path!" A squad leader named Mizabi shouted. He dropped down to the ground and his squad went down with him.
"What are you doing?!" Armin shouted down at them. A few others were screaming at how running around on the ground was suicide.
"Maybe," Mizabi shouted as he ran right in front of a titan and then past it as it tried to grab him. "BUT WE HAVE TO DRAW THEIR ATTENTION AWAY!"
His scream got everyone on the rooftops to start jumping down and luring the titans away from Zoro themselves. The green haired man stopped feeling the pain as much as he watched the two dozen or so soldiers drop down in front of him, seemingly to their deaths. "What-" he began but the strain was too much to make out a full sentence.
Eren looked back and made eye contact with the man holding the boulder. "We'll protect you, no matter what!" The boy shot forward with his comrades and they raced through the streets.
Sasha fell back on her butt up on the roof. Her mind was racing and she was too afraid to move. They're all going to die. Everyone is dead already.
Jean looked out of the building he was hiding in and titans were charging past him in the direction of the rock. "They're coming in from behind," he whispered going wide-eyed. "I can't let them," he took a step towards the door, but his 3D gear was broken.
He stopped and wanted to scream in frustration, but then he saw it. On a dead soldier out in the middle of the road, a functional 3D maneuvering device was waiting for him.
Out in the street, Zoro watched helplessly as people were getting grabbed by titans and chomped in their jaws. They were clearing the way for him, but he couldn't move any faster. The physical strain was too much, he could feel himself slipping. "RRAAAAAAAA!" His arms became even larger through sheer willpower and he clenched his fists inside the giant boulder he was holding.
His fists were deep in the boulder, and he had a good grip of the rock above his head. As he continued walking, he watched the teen whose face was covered in freckles. The boy was watching him in awe, losing focus for a second on the titan closest to him. That titan wasn't focused on Zoro and slammed its hand right down on Marco's head, flattening him like a pancake.
Zoro's mouth turned into a deadly snarl and his feet pushed down hard on the ground, breaking the floor into two huge craters where he was standing. He started taking faster steps forward and he ran right past the spot where the dead kid was lying.
"MARCO!" Zoro heard a shout and kept moving. He turned his head a little and saw the kid with brown hair flying past him though with fury in his eyes. It was hard to see from under the boulder, but Eren lifted up out of the swordsman's sight, and then the titan fell. Zoro stared into the cold eyes of the dying monster for a few seconds before it started steaming and disintegrated.
Eren was standing over his friend's dead body and he heard a scream. He looked around and his jaw dropped. He watched as the tall squad leader who was leading them before, jumped into the mouth of a titan and threw out one of his squad members who was about to slide down its throat. Then the man got chomped, right as the other squad leader Mizabi got smashed along with the rest of his squad.
"Hey kid," Zoro growled over at the kid who was standing there and not moving anymore. "Do you want the rest of your friends to die?!" Zoro was still moving, trying to keep up his pace although every step was tearing up the ground and it was hard to run on the path he was leaving for himself. His voice carried all the way back to Eren who lifted his head, "Don't let your friends die! You have strength!"
The cadet's head snapped up and he remembered something for a split second. He remembered punching a titan in the face, he recalled doing it so hard that the titan flew backwards. His head hurt and he grabbed it with a hand, but then he remembered something else. It was as if he was looking down on buildings, then his eyes moved to his own hand that he put in front of his face. A titan's hand! Eren realized.
"Eren!" the boy heard a scream from the other side of the plaza and he saw Armin cornered by two titans. Mikasa was there before Eren even had time to act, but as she sliced the first one's neck, the second one grabbed her.
"NO! MIKASA!" Eren shot his maneuvering gear forward and flew around the giant boulder that was moving past the last of the buildings on the street and into the clearing before the gate.
I'm almost there! Zoro took another step, but the ground he stepped on was already loose from his previous step. This time the ground broke, and it tilted back in such a way that the pirate no longer had his footing.
Levi looked back across the plaza from the pile of dead titans that kept building around him. "He couldn't have..." the sight before Levi's eyes made him lose focus and he watched as the giant, enormous boulder, dropped down on top of the man below it.
Eren was flying towards his sister, but he still heard the huge crash of the boulder. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the ground debris and dust flying up in the air as the boulder hit the floor. His attention was focused almost solely on Mikasa however.
She had decided not to give up, to never give up. It became her goal to never die so that she could keep remembering Eren forever. Her heart was racing and she couldn't reach her swords to rip apart the titan's hand.
Mikasa was facing towards Eren and he was flying towards her. She reached out an arm towards him and he kept soaring through the sky at her. "Mikasa!" Armin shouted up from the floor, connecting his gear to the wall behind the monster so he could spin around it. He wished he was better at using the gear though, he wasn't even in the top ten and Eren would get there before him, even if he still wouldn't make it in time.
"Eren!" the girl shouted, getting pulled towards the monster's mouth. None of the three of them were listening to everyone else, but if they were they would hear the orders to retreat, to get back to the wall. They would have heard Levi shout that the mission was a failure and they needed to fall back.
"MIKASA!" Eren roared as he watched his adopted sister about to be eaten. Suddenly, a piece of sharp cement debris from when Zoro dropped the boulder slammed through Eren's right arm...
Jean was flying up from the side street and he saw less than half the group that went towards the gate returning towards the opposite wall. The rest are dead? The question lingered in his mind and he wished his gear hadn't jammed earlier. Where's Armin? Or Marco? What about Mikasa? Eren? The idea that all of them could be dead just like that seemed impossible.
"But Eren and the others are still back there!" Connie tried pulling against Reiner, but the tall blonde haired man grabbed him by the collar and pulled him close.
"The titan already has Mikasa, they're surrounded!" The two of them looked back and the whole scene looked surreal, but their eyes opened wide. The two of them were the farthest back towards the gate out of the group, but everyone else turned too at the sound and the sight of what happened behind them.
The sky ripped open; a lightning bolt flew down out of the air so large that it looked impossible. It was the same thing that happened when the Colossal Titan appeared. "What the..." Reiner thought he saw it, but he couldn't be sure and he thought his mind was playing tricks on him.
Connie's eyes went wide and a smile spread across his face, "It's Eren!" he yelled and pulled himself from the older teen's arms. He shot back towards the plaza and looked across as the huge, muscular, red titan dropped out of the air and skid across the ground towards the enemy that had Mikasa in its grasp. The other titan saw Eren charging at it and seemed to know that this titan wasn't on its side, pulling back its other fist and forgetting for a second about the person in its right hand.
Jean was flying back and he met up with Connie in midair. The two of them saw the titans coming from every street, all heading back towards the gate to stop them from closing it. "What is that?!" Jean exclaimed as the muscular titan took one step and then punched forward with all its might at the other titan who punched at the same time. Eren's titan's fist plowed straight through the other fist, blasting it to pieces with the force behind his own before ripping up the rest of the arm and slamming into the red haired titan's face, knocking its mustache clean off.
The fist knocked the titan back so hard it flew into the wall behind where it was standing. Connie's smile went away and shock set in, "He doesn't know who he is. He's lost himself, or else he wouldn't have risked hurting Mikasa!" Right as he said it, a wave of relief washed over him as he saw Armin flying towards them with Mikasa by his side.
The boy with blonde hair only had a second to think after Eren transformed into a titan, but he was a strategist not a fighter. He knew that was his only moment, and he flew at the fist the monster wasn't using to punch, slicing one of its fingers off and giving Mikasa enough room to grab her own weapon and slice the rest of the hand to bits. She barely made it a few feet away when the monster flew back and into the wall so hard that she would have died had she still been in its grip.
"Eren's not in control!" Mikasa yelled and the two of them stopped moving. Armin and her made a decision and Jean and Connie gasped as the two of them turned and flew back towards the steaming titan with long black hair and glowing green eyes. They were going back to the same spot that every titan in the city was now headed for.
Levi landed on a rooftop not too far from the gate and the other members of the Scout Regiment along with a few of the cadets landed with him. What was that?
"What's happening?!" a panicking woman shouted.
"He was so close!" another soldier shouted and slammed his fist on the shingles of the rooftop, so pissed that the insane person who could pick up the boulder fail.
"We shouldn't have trusted him in the first place," someone said and Levi frowned. It was his fault so many of his squads were dead. He had faith in the green haired man, and he failed.
Suddenly, the entire city began to shake. Everyone tried to keep their balance on the rooftops and one of the cadets, Bertholt, yelled, "What is it now?! It feels like the Colossal Titan!"
Nami was watching from the wall that surrounded the city. Tears were flowing freely from her eyes and she didn't know what to do. She was all alone on the most dangerous island she could imagine and Zoro was... he was... The sight of the boulder dropping down to the ground flashed in her mind again and she fell to her knees.
The woman leaned off the ledge and her tears spilled down below where the boy with blonde hair was sitting on the muscular titan's shoulder. She didn't care about the speech Armin was shouting in his friend's ear about the outside world, about how he needed to gain control and help them before the titans moving closer really did kill them all.
All Nami cared about, was the man down below, the one crushed under millions of pounds of rock. Her silent tears spilling off the inside of the wall turned into muffled sobs, then straight out wails as she tilted back her head and screamed. "Zoro you baka! Baka! Why did you leave me?! ZOR-" the ground shook and she almost lost her balance on the roof, slipping a little. She pushed back quickly as to not fall, causing her to fall back on her butt.
The ground shook once and then stopped, but then again, much more than the first time. She got back up on her knees and slid forward while still holding herself down. Unlike everyone else, she didn't think it was another titan. Nami didn't stare at the partly broken buildings around the city that began to crumble, she didn't look down as the muscular titan turned its head to Armin with a look of recognition on its eyes for the first time. Her eyes were pointed straight back at the huge boulder from before.
"This is not...the voice rang out in the ears of Armin, Nami, Mikasa, Titan Eren, Connie, Jean, Reiner, and was even slightly heard across part of the city where the retreating group had stopped. Levi spun around and his eyes opened wide at the sound of the voice that wasn't in his head, but was so low-pitched and quiet that he almost thought it was. It got louder and now everyone knew they weren't just imagining it. "...where it ends. I will not..."
Levi saw the top of the boulder lift back above the tops of the buildings around it and he shouted, "Back to the gate! That man is not dead!" He shot off without listening to any of the objections from his men who didn't, couldn't believe it.
Nami stared down and trembled, tears still pouring out of her eyes. She put a hand up and covered her mouth as she watched the boulder lift even higher. "Z-Zoro," she whispered and the tears wouldn't stop pouring. All she could see was the top of the rock, not the bloody man underneath who was struggling as hard as he could to lift back up the boulder.
"Eren!" Mikasa shouted and the titan looked down at her. Most of the titans in the square had turned and were heading back towards Zoro, and they couldn't let that happen. "We're the only ones still here! You have to protect him!" She yelled it straight at the monster who she knew was her brother inside.
"I will not...!" Zoro roared again.
Eren's head lifted and he looked under the boulder to where the swordsman took a step forward and crushed the ground into a huge crater. He took another step and the crater became even bigger. The teenage giant sprinted towards the man and spun, kicking the closest titan to him in the head, and knocking it backwards at the perfect angle to knock down the other fifteen meter one behind it.
"A titan," Jean whispered from the rooftop, "killing other titans?"
"It's Eren, Jean," Connie said without looking away from the impossible-looking scene before them. "Somehow, he can turn into a titan." Mikasa told him it was supposed to be a secret, but this was Jean! "We have to help them!" The kid with short gray hair shot off and sliced the back of a titan's neck as it was going for Eren from behind.
Jean reached after him but his mind was focused on what he just said, Eren? That titan, is Eren?!
"I got it!" the boy cheered, and then sweat started pouring down his face as the titan he slashed started turning around. "I didn't get it," he whispered in a terrified voice. He had missed the spot he needed to hit to kill it, and now he was dead.
"Connie!" Jean shouted, but it was unnecessary. A tall muscular blonde man flew in and finished the cut that his short friend started. Connie shot away following Reiner who sliced the titan Connie had started.
"Reiner!" Connie yelled in relief. All of a sudden, everyone left in the city turned at the same time to the loudest voice they'd ever heard.
"I WILL NOT DIE!" Zoro was pushing himself too far down with every step, and he knew he needed to go all out now. His legs bent and his thighs became huge and covered in muscly veins. He sank his arms deeper into the rock than ever and pushed off the floor, actually lifting up in the air.
A pair of titans were standing right in front of him at the edge of the large crater he made with his last huge step, and he kicked each of his legs in front of him. Green slashes cut the two monsters in half vertically, and then he landed on the ground and started running immediately before the ground had time to buckle under all the weight.
Armin was watching from a nearby rooftop and Jean landed next to him. The taller teen with messy gray hair stared in disbelief at the trail of destruction flying up in the air behind the sprinting savior. The titans were everywhere, and the one that Eren was inside of wasn't doing enough to take them all down.
Reiner flew across the nape of one's neck and the huge chunk of meat flew up in the air. Mikasa charged at the one right in front of Zoro and dodged right between its legs, coming up around its back and slicing its neck before zipping straight to the next one.
"There are too many!" Connie yelled as he tried shooting his gear again to help out Reiner. His gas shot out a little, but then it sputtered, and less and less came out as he fell.
Jean jumped off the roof and shot towards his friend, catching the kid right before he hit the ground and then landing so both of them could stand. They stopped moving on the floor and looked up at the huge titan right next to them that was still alive. "Shit!" Jean cursed and started running right away.
"Wait!" Connie called to his friend who looked back and went wide-eyed. Connie looked at the titan that was a few feet away from him, but he had stopped being a threat, unlike the huge good titan and the swordsman carrying the boulder that was going to block off the entrance of more titans into the city. Because of this, the titan completely ignored him, despite its hunger for human flesh. "They know what we're trying to do!" Connie yelled and started chasing after the titan that walked past him. He sliced at the back of its ankles to get its attention and finally the beast turned.
"You idiot!" Jean yelled and this time he didn't think he could save his friend as the titan lifted up its steaming foot to stomp down on Connie.
"I stalled it," the boy muttered as the foot was coming down at him. After being a coward for so long, he was glad he did something useful in his final moment here.
The titan's foot never came down at him. Instead, the monster just fell backwards dead, a spot missing in the back of its neck where there should have been flesh.
Jean and Connie tried to follow the blur through the sky, but it was too fast.
Reiner was almost out of gas too, and he knew it. He also saw there were still at least a dozen fifteen meter titans between the swordsman and the gate. No matter how motivated the guy was, no matter how strong he was, he wasn't going to make it with all those monsters in the way.
"Good job..."
The blonde man spun his head as he was lowering and he caught a glimpse of the short man flying past his vision. "Levi sensho," he gasped as the man shot by like a bullet and ripped through the eight meter titan in front of them.
Eren charged forward and kicked a small titan, sending the creature flying so far into the distance that it crashed back into one of the buildings in town and the building collapsed. He tilted his head up and roared, steam coming out of his foot that was regenerating slowly after the powerful kick.
Levi flew all the way to the huge boulder and landed right on top of it, not that another hundred pounds made any difference to the four thousand ton plus boulder. He looked off the front of it and saw ten titans remaining, and a girl who was using way too much gas. At the rate she's going... he didn't have time to finish his thought as she started to drop. This operation has been going on for too long, we're all on our last legs, he shot out of the air and caught the falling girl, lowering her more gently and then looking back at the boulder which had suddenly stopped moving at all.
The short black haired man walked away from Mikasa without saying a word. There were ten titans blocking their path to the final stretch to the hole in the gate, though oddly no more were walking in. Levi walked right under the giant rock that was shaking and looked like it could fall again at any second. He walked straight up to the man underneath it whose right leg was completely bent on its knee and his left was trembling as it tried to remain standing.
The tip of Levi's hair brushed against the bottom of the rock as he walked right up to Zoro. Zoro's eyes were closed and he was straining his body as far as he could go, but he already did that by lifting the boulder in the first place. The second time with the extra increase in speed afterwards, it was supposed to last him all the way to the gate.
"Are you done?" Levi asked coldly. His mouth was a straight line, his eyes were dark, and he stared straight at the pirate who already knew he was there, but had to struggle to open his eyes. Anything other than focusing on the boulder above his head was a distraction he couldn't afford.
Blood was drenching Zoro's face from a nasty head wound above his right eye. His whole body felt bruised, and all of his bones felt like they were going to break. His bloody right eyelid opened. "Not, even, close," Zoro uttered and his right eye glowed red as it looked straight into Levi's.
"Good," Levi turned back around and his gear shot out form his sides, latching onto the foot of a titan that was about to hit the huge boulder. He spun around its legs moving his swords while spiraling and he ripped it apart all the way up its back until he hit its head and disconnected that with one clean swipe.
"ZORO! That's enough!" Levi looked up after decapitating the monster and saw a woman with long orange hair leaning off the wall. She had huge breasts that were shown off pretty clearly with the skimpy bikini she was wearing. Apparently she knew Zoro and Levi wondered if he brought her along.
"RAARRR!" Levi turned and saw the strange muscular titan from before plant one foot firmly on the ground in front of the gate and punch hard with its other hand, hitting a titan in the head and throwing it back out of Zoro's way. Eren turned and stared at Levi for a second and was proud he could do this with both of his idols watching him.
Eren saw Mikasa staring up at him and he wished she would just get away from the action already since her gas was all out.
The boulder started moving forward again, as slow as it originally was, but it was still progress. The rest of the Scout regiment was back and staring at the boulder and the man walking across the plaza with it over his head. Zoro was now using his shoulder to help him, but his bones couldn't take it much longer. The gate is right there! His determination set as hard as it could and he kept marching forward at a steady pace.
Nami didn't know if her friend was going to live or die, but she saw a few more titans breaking through the gate and getting in his way. He was only a hundred feet away now, but the enemies were piling in. "Oh no you don't!" she grabbed a piece of her Clima-Tact and her eyes were full of rage as she swung the weapon down off the side of the wall. "Thunder Sword!"
A blade of lightning flew out of the air and cut across the back of one of the titan's necks, killing it and making it drop. The woman swung again and again, her bolts slamming into the beasts down below. Most of them just cut pieces of the beasts apart and they'd keep moving, but two more got hit in the nape of the neck and killed. "Thunder Sword! Thunder Sword!"
Nice Nami, Zoro managed to think as he saw another titan drop down with a flash of lightning occurring at the same time. His steps stayed at the same pace and he saw titan after titan drop in front of him as Nami, Eren, and Levi took them down.
Most of the Scouts and cadets were staring from the rooftops. Reiner watched with an amazed look next to Connie and Jean in the middle of the square. Mikasa was watching from much closer, staring at the amazing feat humanity had never accomplished before.
Zoro was still struggling with the rock, but he was not dropping it this time. "I am Roronoa Zoro. I have sailed the sea with Monkey D. Luffy, King of the Pirates!" He yelled it loud and his voice was full of pride. There were titans visible on the other side of the gate; he saw them about to break in, but Levi cleared away the last one that was about to attack him. He moved the rock back with his arms while twisting his body to the right. "I am the strongest..." he roared at the top of his lungs as he smashed the rock forward and into the hole in the gate. "IN THE WORLD!"
A/N Hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! It's been a fun week and a half after moving into my freshman dorm at Ole Miss, and now my classes are going to be keeping me very occupied over the next bunch of months. Hopefully I can still post some chapters to other stories I'm working on as well as continue this one. Alright! So, just in case anyone is going to argue about how much the boulder weighed, do some research first, 'cause I looked it up a bunch and even tried my own math and came up with a similar answer as a lot of posts already online. Then to anyone who wants to complain that Zoro could have carried that boulder piece of cake, I call shenanigans. I've already shown he's got godlike speed and strength, but that boulder was a hundred times as heavy as a titan, and I doubt Zoro is 1/100th of a titan's weight, so it was at least 10,000 times heavier than him. Now we had Annie save Connie here, which was strange, but he thinks she's a good person now and I really like Connie, so I'll probably keep him in the next arc while a lot of other characters drop out. Left out the canon dialogue between Armin and Eren and the strange dream he had solely because you can look it up if you really want to see how Eren gained control of his titan form again. MARCO, NOOO! Sorry, he died, again, but all our other supporting cast members are ! (Even Jean ;( ) Can anyone else tell the Nami x Zoro action, or am I being subtle enough with it? Eh, ehhh? XD! Anyway, thanks for reading and leave me a review!
.73
You kinda made Levi to trustworthy at the end there. He isn't that easy to get along. Anyways thank for update. Weird why none of the 104th squad don't bomb zoro with much questions.
Levi does seem to trust Zoro a lot, but it's not really trust as much as he's going with what he thinks is the best plan. He says he never knows what the best plan of action is, but he has to make the decisions anyway which is why he goes with the one that seems the most likely to succeed- that this godlike man can save them. I think if you just met the most powerful person probably in the world, who could destroy you with a flick of his wrist, you wouldn't be bothering him with pointless questions, XD! Thanks for the review.
lilnightmare17
Can't wait to read more so hurry up and update.
Glad that you're liking it, but as I've said, I'm a busy guy. You might have to wait a while again, sorry.
Nuricchi
Love this story. Look forward for the next chapter. My One Piece OTP is hereeee~~~ Hahaha
From the the Kadets and Scouts, they saw a very intimidating muscular and powerfull (albeit absolutely hopeless in direction) man. Wait until they see his interactions(?) with Nami (and all her Beri eyes and lovely punch) lol
Love how you twist the SnK plots btw. :)
Haha, I feel like Nami's personality is going to counter so many characters in this universe! Thank you!
beta-reader
Those titans are gonna go extinct soon
That's what everyone's hoping for!
ManwithaPlan113
Definetely has potential. It's good writing and I can see it becoming a great story!
Thank you very much!
GR
Like the guy above said, this has potential, well don't threw this off after 2 more chapters like another fic which is pretty much like this is a good fic that is finished.
Not sure how many more chapters this story will need with the power he has! Jk, I'm really liking writing this fic which is why each chapter goes for so long. I think I'm probably having some Zoro X Nami in here, as well as some canon AoT romance, but that will probably be more obvious in the next chapter which won't have nearly as much nonstop action.
Polyamory
really interesting story, but I would liked it better of the "young" Zoro would be there to help...
I like it nevertheless
I think his personality would still be pretty similar after the crew as back then, only his strength will be super increased. Also, if at the end it seemed like he was bragging, he wasn't. No one but Nami knows what the Hell the King of the Pirates is, and she was on the crew too. He was mainly shouting it to keep himself determined and fill himself with the strength he needed to succeed... XD XD hahaha!
Analanat
Please update soon!
Few weeks ain't so bad right? Haha, hope you enjoyed!
iluvbleach6x15 chapter 2 . Aug 8
Thanks for the update! The story's great so far, and I can't wait to see the rest of it. :)
The premise is interesting in that while there has been several crossover fics where Zoro gets transported to other "worlds" instead of to that Kuraigana(or whatever it was called) Island, I have yet to see one where he actually LEAVE first and COME BACK to it later. I found it refreshing and all in all pretty damn true to his character. Thanks. :D
I'm also quite interested in what kind of training or challenges and obstacles(besides his lack of direction lol) he went through to become powerful as (or more so than maybe?) canon post-time skip Zoro if he were not to be trained by Mihawk. Would he have developed his skills in a differing way? Perhaps with focus to a certain skill? Did he expand or did he specialise dealing with Titans within the two years(?) he was there...
And not to mention the fate of the Titan shifters...Annie, Bertholt, Reiner, Ymir, Eren... Man, so many questions. •~•
I'm sure you'll mention it some where along in the story and I'll eventually find out but, I'll love it if you could expand and go in depth within the story. :)
But I'm sure you already have your own ideas for the story so I understand if you would rather wrap this story up with just a few more chapters, I'll probably like it anyways haha.
Sorry for all the rambling. A much quicker summery is that I loved it lol. Thanks again for the update! :D
Thanks for the long review! I'm glad you liked the premise on how Zoro came to be on this island. He does have both of his eyes still because he wasn't trained by Mihawk. Thank you though (sarcastically) for spoiling the thing about the Titan shifters that I didn't know about since I've only watched the anime. There will be more backstory for the two pirates than for the other characters in AoT since I haven't read the next manga season yet, but well, maybe I'll just have to start reading it. Haha, thanks again! (for reals this time)
joebob323
this chapter was very suspenseful, and I like how you dipicted zoro as god-like.
keep up the good work, and I will be waiting for your next chapter.
Glad you enjoyed the last chapter! Zoro was still god-like in this chapter, but he did have to struggle with the giant rock, showing that he is not actually a God against what Connie had been thinking. His injuries in the next chapter will definitely exemplify that and cast doubt on any future plans they make which will keep up suspense. Don't think I weakened him though for plot purposes, because I seriously thought it would have been a struggle for Zoro.
Rainwolf042
Yay~! Great update! Oh! But there's just one thing that's been nagging at me. This is just my opinion but I dont believe that zero would just let someone die because they gave up on their life I do believe he'd be annoyed by thus but I dont think he would let them give up on life and he definatley wouldn't just watch an innocent die or just walk away he would save them even if they gave up on life and then beat them up until they believed life was worth living. Of course this is just my impression.
Thank you! I've got to disagree where I don't think Zoro cares much about saving innocent people. Sure, he does it pretty often, and because she's a girl he might do it too, but the fact that she was a soldier and giving up was the main thing that annoyed him. Also, perhaps in the last decade, seeing some of his comrades die and then seeing this girl who was so accepting of it, allowing herself to get killed without a fight... I'm just saying it could have made him more resolute. Glad you're liking the story though and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Guest
Fuck, I came to love every inch of this stor hope you'll update soon, I'll stop there since I don't wanna add more pressure ;) Anyways, I reread this story twice now and I cant get over it :D
Hope you're still enjoying it, and Trost is finally over! Yeah it's only been two chapters, but it's been twenty thousand words so I think it's pretty good. Next we get some time inside the walls, and then they'll be heading out again. It will be Zoro and Nami, along with Eren and Levi for sure, but there will be a few others who come along for the journey too. Stay tuned to find out! Thanks everyone who reviewed. 'Till next time!