Hello everyone. Please enjoy and review this chapter~ Reviews make me happy~ As usual, beta'd by KappasRule. One more thing: Since the commander called Allen "Bean Sprout" During Military Line-up, everyone in 104th started calling him bean-sprout too. So... yeah. Poor Allen.
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It was hand-to-hand combat training, and Allen found himself walking away from it. He didn't need this training, he had unfortunately gone through it with Cross. Allen felt a little hungry, so he might as well go to the kitchen or something. Suddenly, he felt a dark presence behind him. "Bean sprout."
Allen sighed, and turned on his heel to find Mikasa. "Where are you going? Ditching training again?"
"What's it matter to you, Mikasa?" Allen asked. "I don't need to be in the top ten or anything, so do I need to participate?"
"It's called responsibility." Mikasa said. Several eyes rolled over to them, and they were gaining attention.
"I've got news for you, Mikasa." Allen said darkly. "I'm much stronger than you. You and everyone here."
"Don't make me laugh." Mikasa said dryly. "If you're going anywhere, you have to fight me first."
Allen narrowed his eyes at her. "Suit yourself." He lowered into his fighting stance, and the crowd muttered disbelievingly. Mikasa followed suit, and they both stared menacingly at each other for a moment.
Year 850, Battle of Trost
Lenalee had arrived in HQ very quick. She saw a bunch of soldiers bustling about, and quickly searched for an authority of sorts to speak to.
"Is there someone in charge?" Lenalee asked a random soldier.
He nodded. "Just go ask Armin. He's the blonde one with the bob cut."
Lenalee nodded. She remembered who Armin was, from the military line-up that Allen was in.
She thanked him, and searched for Armin. Almost immediately she found him. "Armin!" She cried, and Armin and the guy next to him turned to face her. "Oh," She paused as she reached him. They didn't know who she was. "I'm Lenalee, by the way. So what's going on here?"
"Um, there are titans in the supply-room." He explained. "We don't have gear to fight them with. So, there will be soldiers in the beams… which we have already decided who, and the rest of us will be lowered in a lift." He paused, letting that sink in. Lenalee nodded, and he continued. "Then the titans will be drawn to us. But we'll have guns, so we'll blind them, temporarily handicapping them and making it easier for the soldiers in the beams."
"That's…." Lenalee let that sink in. "Wow! What a great plan!" Armin blushed at the praise. "You are really smart, you know that?"
"Thanks…" Armin muttered.
Lenalee beamed. "So, you've already chosen soldiers for the beams?"
"Yeah. You could grab a gun from over there if you wanted to help." Armin shrugged.
"Jean?"
The boy he addressed to had a slight tint of pink across his cheeks. "Yeah?" He showed no sign of embarrassment whatsoever.
"Could you find a gun for Lenalee?"
Jean just nodded and gestured for Lenalee to follow, in which she did.
Survey Corps Expedition 48
They had decided to retreat an hour or so before. However, they had reached a couple of difficulties.
First thing, they noticed large foot-prints dug deep into the ground. Whatever titan they came from, they were running. Fast. Nobody could ignore these foot-prints.
Second thing, the formation had encountered many hordes of titans. This forced them to break up many times to fight them off. It was going to take forever to get to the walls. The thing was… they didn't have forever.
Lavi grew his hammer, and smashed a titan to the ground. He lifted his hammer out of the way and Kanda finished the job. After the titan had dissipated, he retracted his hammer, meeting with Kanda. "Where on earth is the short-stack? I don't see him anywhere." Lavi asked, growing worried. He had just convinced himself that Allen hadn't been eaten.
"What makes you think I know? Baka Usagi." He shot back, sheathing his Mugen after taking note that no titans were approaching.
Lavi pinched the bridge of his nose. "This just makes no sense. I need to know where he has gone. And…. Those foot-prints!"
"Che."
They hopped onto their horses. "Where on earth did they come from? An abnormal, obviously." Lavi nearly hit himself for answering his own question. "Ah, never mind."
With that, he decided to leave Kanda and bother Levi. "Hey Levi!"
"No."
Lavi frowned, but nevertheless rode his horse up next to him. "Do you know anything about where those foot-prints came from?"
"A titan." Levi answered bluntly, and Lavi huffed.
An elbow nudged into Lavi's arm. He swiftly turned and saw that Hange had galloped to his side. "I've been trying to leak information from him too." She leaned over to whisper in Lavi's ear. "I mean, I can't shake the feeling that he's hiding something."
Levi had galloped off, leaving Lavi and Hange on their own. "You see, on expedition 42, there was a strange sound in the distance. It resembled thunder, and a strange roar. Allen and Levi came from that direction, but acted like nothing happened! It nearly drove us insane!"
This made Lavi intrigued. Allen was in on it too?
By then, yet another signal flare fired. Another titan has been spotted, interrupting their conversation and veering the formation off course. Were they ever going to make it to Wall Rose?
Lenalee sat on a very high beam, watching the cadets supply their maneuver gear with gas. They looked much more grateful than before. After they had killed the titans in the room, Lenalee had decided to stay out of everyone's way.
Her thoughts trailed back to the way Allen was acting. He had arrived too fast for a normal human. Lenalee had the dark boots, so she had an excuse. She furrowed her eyebrows.
"Lenalee!"
Armin had seen her up in the beams. Next to him was a girl with a red scarf…. Mikasa, she recalled. "We are heading out!"
"All right." Lenalee activated her boots and jumped down from the beams. Soon she recovered from her fall.
Armin stared wide-eyed. Mikasa stayed stoic as ever, and Lenalee nearly smacked herself in the head. "Um…" She started, not really knowing how to begin.
"You were with the Scouting Legion earlier, weren't you?" Mikasa asked. "Where are they?"
"They're still out there. But, they're coming back." Lenalee answered. "Hey, how about we start walking?" Lenalee breathed in.
"So, do you care to explain how you were to jump from that high, and get here faster than the rest of the scouting Legion?" question Armin. Lenalee sighed before beginning to speak.
"I'm part of a group called the Black Order. Only a select few know of this group. We use this special substance called innocence to fight titans. Mine allow me to ride the wind." She explained.
Mikasa wondered why this corps had to be so secretive. Then she thought it was probably that they didn't want to gather unwanted attention. "Well…" Armin finally spoke. "We'll talk more about this later, Lenalee. For now there seems to be some sort of commotion."
Mikasa had been staring at Lenalee with an unreadable expression.
Then Lenalee remembered that Mikasa was the girl they had rescued from the titans so many years ago. Her eyes nearly widened in realization, but after jumping onto a nearby roof, she saw the Rogue titan from earlier. That wasn't what interrupted her thoughts though…
The titan's body was torn apart, and collapsed onto the ground. After the steam had evaporated, she saw a figure emerge from the titan. Lenalee nearly doubled back.
'What?' She thought. Armin had followed Mikasa then.
Immediately Mikasa had maneuvered off the building. "Hey!" Lenalee protested. Wait… that's…
"It's Eren." An all too familiar voice sounded beside her.
"Allen!" She cried. "Where have you been?"
"I've been killing titans, of course." He grinned.
"And… what… how…" Lenalee stuttered, gesturing hopelessly to the steaming form. "That's Eren?"
"You know him, don't you?" Allen cocked his head.
"Yeah." Lenalee nodded. "Kanda and I saved him and Mikasa at Shiganshina."
The Garrison had arrived, and ordered everyone to retreat. Once everyone had, Lenalee and Allen jumped down from the roof to speak with the leader. "What are you two doing?" The older man questioned. "This boy is a threat to humanity! We must-"
"You must what? Hmm?" Allen interrupted. "Before you even consider killing him, think on this." He observed the man. The commander looked like he hadn't slept in a few days. "I was watching the whole thing, I'm a valid witness. So is my comrade here. In fact…. Everyone is a witness. Eren full on rampaged against the titans. Without him, the cadets you ordered to retreat wouldn't even have been there." The commander stayed silent. Allen narrowed his eyes at him for a moment, but then he turned around. "Come on, Lenalee."
Lenalee glanced back at where Mikasa, Armin, and Eren were. She gave a reassuring smile to them, and followed Allen. "Ok."