Mizu: *trips into another hole* OH COME ON!

*CRASH!*

Ameko: *casually snacking on jam* Oh hey, you're back.

Mizu: WAIT! *runs over to the reviews*

Mizu: MY PREECIIIOUSSS! REVIIIEEEWWWWSSSS!

lizy2000: Yay! I'm happy she's alive too!

yoitsyourstruly: :( I fell back into a hole before I could flirt... damn it... Ah yes! The MUSHY stuff!

Seaweed4brains: FOR BLOOOODD! YEEAAARRRHHHH! *charges*

Nat-Marie: We're almost there! She's about to meet Levi I promise!

MickeyLOLgirl: Ummm I won't ask you for your age and I'm not sure how it in the UK but in America you're allowed to use a gun if you're older than 12 years old xD

badwolffor3ver: UGG I CAN'T WAIT EITHER! WOOO!

MissAckerman: SWEET COOKIES!

Mizu: *eating cookie* Om nom nom...

Ameko: HOLY SHIT IS THAT A GRENADE!?

Mizu: *dives behind bunker* *grenade explodes*

Mizu: Geez I know I'm not the best author and I've been absent for a while but COME ON!

Isabel pulled away from our embrace with confusion in her joyful emerald orbs.

"Wait... what are you doing here!? I thought you were in Rico's squad!?" She exclaimed.

I scratched my head awkwardly. "I kinda... broke from my squad to make sure you were okay..."

Isabel gave me a deadpanned expression before snapping out of her stupor and smacking me upside the head. "You're an idiot!" I rubbed the stinging area with my bloodstained palm. "Come on! Let's get back to your squad!" She declared, taking my hand and proceeding to sprint all the way across the wall.

While we were running I looked towards her, my stamina wearing thin. "Hey... Isabel?"

"Yeah?" She slowed her pace to give me time to relax my screaming muscles.

"Why did you come here? I thought that you, Farlan and Levi were all on some kind of mission?"

Her green eyes shone with mischievous intent. "I may or may not have given them the slip to come here and help you"

I growled, smacking her upside the head like she did with me. "Hypocrite!"

Our gazes drifted down from the wall onto the ground and suddenly I wasn't able to breathe. I know that from here I couldn't hear it but I felt like I was able to hear the cries of the dead, wailing in agony. Fear pricked my violet orbs as I gripped Isabel's shoulder and tugged her towards the edge of the wall.

"Isabel come on! We need to help them!" I cried, firing my right piston to the wall to slow my fall but fired the left one to a nearby rooftop, trying to get to the group of soldiers as quickly as possible.

Isabel followed my lead, following me down the path from the wall's flat surface to the jagged brick of the rooftops. My landing was difficult, practically falling on top of a titan's nape, The gravity that was pulling my fall down faster and faster made me dig my blades down from the nape to the ends of the shoulder blades.

Pulling my gaze off of the titan corpse below me I looked around to see what damage has been done.

It was worse than I could have ever imagined.

Soldiers all around me were fighting titans, bodies lined the streets and blood that didn't evaporate stained the cobbled stone. What was even more terrifying was the sight of more than five soldiers stuck in the jaws of titans, still alive but screaming in agony. A fixed feeling of rage, fear, and sorrow filled my gut as I flew towards the dying fighters.

But I was too late. For every single one of them. While I flew at the beasts their jaws clamped down and swallowed deeply before I could even burry the hilts of my swords into their napes.

I wasn't able to save even a single soldier.

Guilt was ripping at my chest like a wild animal. It was my fault. If I could only be a bit faster! Just a little be faster!

But still, I couldn't let this guilt weigh me down. I needed to keep going. Keep laying the titans off and pray that Armin was somehow getting through to Eren. I lost count of how many bodies I lined up and left to evaporate in the setting sun. Once I was even caught in the grip of a beast but was saved by Luu of all people. By the lack of crushing sadness in his eyes I could only assume that that meant Jensen was still alive too.

As I maneuvered through the titans, killing where I could, I caught sight of a familiar group of people standing on a rooftop with a clear view of the gate.

"Captain Rico!" I called, landing on the same rooftop and sprinting back to my temporary squad leader

"Jaegar! Where the hell were you?!" Rico demanded, her calm façade melted away.

Not even trying to come up with an excuse I relayed my story. "I heard my best friend Isabel Magnolia had transferred here from the Scouts and I went to find her. I ended up finding her squad leader, Captain Ussak, who lost an arm. I took her to the medics and found Isabel there. We then proceed back here together.

The squad captain's rage was contained by the situation at hand. This certainly wasn't the time to be angry at a disobedient soldier when there were more and more titans pouring through the hole in the walls.

"What are we going to do captain!?" A girl with dirty blonde hair held in a ponytail asked desperately, ignoring my presence entirely. "We're all that's left!"

The garrison regiment elite snapped to the girl with a wild look of primal fear in her eyes. "We fall back to the boulder!"

We nodded at her words, fleeing towards the others near the gate. Isabel caught up with me once we reached the halfway point. My eyes rested on the blood staining her shirt but was rest assured when I saw it burn away in the air. "Mizuki! You okay!?" I nodded at her concerned words as we jumped from rooftop to rooftop.

Eventually we landed on the rooftop that just happened to also support the other half of my squad.

"Mikasa!" I cried in relief at seeing her alive. Her grey eyes widened in joy at the sight of me, alive and breathing.

"Soldier! Status report!" Mitabe commanded, not paying any mind to Rico's arrival.

The stuttering man swallowed his obvious terror and looked towards the gate. "S-Sir! Five titans coming from the gate!"

Mitabe growled at the sight of more monsters to deal with.

"Alright! So lets-" Mitabe was cut short by a distant sound of footsteps. Strangely enough they sounded heavier than any ordinary titan, making me look back in confusion.

But then I saw it. I saw him.

Mikasa's eyes widened in shock, Isabel let out a quiet "Woah...", and I merely looked on in astonishment.

There, resting the boulder on his shoulders and hands, was Eren himself. Green eyes blazing with a bonfire of determination, his muscles strained to the point of madness, and taking slow steps, barely lifting his feet at all, as if he was scared that if he held on too long his feet would give way underneath the pressure of the boulder.

I looked down, smiling under the shadow of my gaze.

'That's my brother...'

-End of Chapter 28-

Mizu: WOW THAT WAS ACTUALLY HARD TO WRITE :(

Ameko: Welp, now that you're not skipping around dimensions we can actually start publishing on a daily basis...

Mizu: Yeah... REVIEW! DO IT! OR ELSE I MIGHT FALL INTO ANOTHER HOLE OF HIATUS! D: