Will update to fix some errors on a later date.
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Logan whirls to the front of a 10-meter class Titan with Ann, distracting the slow creature as William, Ryan, and Karl tries to take it down from behind. Though, as Ryan shot his iron cables into the nape of the Titan's neck, William had just shot his cables past Ryan's and into a roof of a building farther up to the side, hoping to get a slash across the Titan's vital point. Yet, as it turned out, both boys had crashed into one another as their cables became tangled up. Karl panicked as he tried to meet with the tangled, cursing duo stuck in air behind the distracted Titan. Even as Karl met the two, he was completely unsure how to help.
Logan, having to catch a glimpse a glimpse of this from over his shoulder, cursed under his breath. "Jennessy, get off that roof and help help the guys! Aerolynn, you too! Come here and take my spot!"
Aerolynn and Jennessy, both instructed to stay off to the sides atop the buildings to provide whatever support would be necessary, jumped off the buildings and separated off to where they were told to be. But, as Logan whirls around towards the rear of the Titan, he caught a quick glimpse that made him nearly rage. At his peripheral, he caught Aerolynn going max speed towards the kill. And what made things worse... The Titan raises its hand just as Aerolynn came into its way - mere inches away from being back-handed by the large hand.
Now, in Logan's mind, everything slowed down. From what Logan can gather, Jennessy was doing exactly what she should be doing; helping Karl with untangling Ryan and William. Ann kept in front of the Titan by herself, which would more than likely be the last thing she'd do after Logan saved Aerolynn. Too much going on. Too little time offered.
"Jennessy, Karl", Logan shouted before releasing his cables, "stay put!" He then flicked his hips towards Aerolynn in a complete 90 degree angle, shot his cables right past her, then overclocked his gas pressure as he sped toward her.
Logan snatched Aerolynn by her side and yanked her back just as the giant hand swung right where Aerolynn was less than a second ago. After tossing the dumbfounded girl onto a roof, he greatly reduced his gas even more as he sped towards Ann. After crashing into the small, young girl, he felt the jaws of the 10-meter class Titan snap just a couple inches behind him. The rush of air from the force of the bite allowed Logan and Ann to be pushed father towards the roof slightly more quicker. Logan wrapped his arms tightly around the small girl as they crashed into the hard shingles, both of which embracing for the impact.
As they met the roof, the stinging pain felt throughout Logan's body of the hard shingles were felt throughout his form as he took the major damage while skidding along the rough roof.
Luckily, in the nick of time, Karl and Jennessy had successfully untangled both Ryan and William and retreated to Logan and Ann, mainly to avoid any further punishment they may stack up. As for the Titan, it went on its own way, mindlessly walking with its stiff, crooked smile.
As Loan released Ann and turned on his back and faced the sky, he tried to stretch out before sitting up. He looked to Ann, who was helped up by Karl and Ryan. With a sigh and a curse, he stood up himself and brushed off the pieces of shingles, checked his 3D Maneuver Gear to find it still operational with some spare gas, then looked to the building adjacent of them to see Aerolynn slumped on her knees.
"Stay here and don't move, any of you", Logan commanded, his voice monotone.
"Y-Yes, sir", Logan's squad replied nervously, completely aware of the dark aura being given off.
As Logan flew to Aerolynn at minimum speed, he landed in front of her and grabbed her by her collar tightly before standing her up roughly. "You damn idiot, you nearly had yourself and Ann killed!" He spoke through his clenched teeth. "Hell, you probably would've had us all killed! You obey my orders when I say it and how I say it, exactly! Trust me, nobody - and I mean nobody - wants to kill Titans more than I do! If I can hold back, then so can you!" He shoves her back then checks his gas again. Still good. "I meant it when I said we're not having a goodbye speech anymore, not in this squad. You hear?"
As Aerolynn looked elsewhere with a look implying she, too, wanted to lash out in response, Logan raised his hand to her chin, lifted her face so she can look at him, then flashed her a smile before patting her shoulder.
"Just control yourself and follow orders. Do that then you'll be perfected for the Survey Corps. Now, let's regroup with the squad and keep pushing forward. Good on gas?" His tone had completely changed from quiet rage to his usual, casual somewhat deep and matured tone.
Aerolynn nodded in response as she brushed his hand from her shoulder. "Yeah, I'm fine."
As the two regrouped with the others, everyone but Jennessy and Karl avoided eye contact with one another, having a silent issue of mistrust with each other. Jennessy and Karl looked at everyone with a worried look, worried that the squad is already beginning to emotionally fall apart.
"Jennessy, Karl", Logan began with a sigh. "At ease. For everyone else, one lost fight doesn't determine our overall succession. We're still in this, all of us."
William crosses his arms and glanced somewhere else. As he did so,he immediately caught the gas supply building being crowded with Titans. "Uh, sir?"
Logan looked to William curiously. "What is it?"
"I think the gas suppliers are in trouble."
Logan looked to the crowd of Titans surrounding he large, distant building quietly. As he studied it, he caught what appeared to be the same Titan as before fighting off the other Titans in hand-to-hand combat style. Just then, Petra and Gunther landed beside Logan's squad with their bloodied weapons emitting steam.
"Logan, we're pushing forward to the breach now", Petra announced. "We have a few squads having trouble with an abnormal and two 10 meter class Titan, and Levi is fixing an issue with his 3D Gear, so-"
"Got it, got it", Logan replied with a yawn, stretching out his arms. "But I don't think my squad is ready for an Abnormal."
"What do you mean by that", Ryan exclaimed.
"What I mean is that you and William crashed into each other."
"Think that's my fault the idiot got in my way?"
"I'm sorry, but what did you say", William questioned with scorn, glaring at Ryan.
"N-Now, please down", Karl pleaded.
Jennessy looked as though she was about to have a heart attack from the arguing as Ryan and William went back and forth with verbal abuses and threats.
Petra lowered her head and sighs in distress at the new squad's behavior with one another, aside from Ann and Aerolynn who stayed out of the whole thing.
"Either way, Petra, I'm not letting these new guys into that situation", Logan said over the squad's babbling. "They'll get slaughtered."
"Listen, we'll just keep 'em off to the side with Hanji's squad", Gunther suggested. "However you put it, we have to help the squad."
Before Logan made a reply, a. Abnormal Titan crashed into their building on Logan's end, causing him to stumble back as he lost his footing. The others, though, all tried to regain their balance, unable to help the fallen comrade.
"Logan", Petra shouted over the sound of crushing debris.
As everyone stood back with their swords ready for the Abnormal Titan to pop back up, they all waited. Then, after some seconds, a small silhouette of an individual climbed up the crushed portion of the building with their smoking and bloodied sword in each hand, then walked towards the group.
"I don't get any help", Logan's voice asked to the quiet, nervous group.
"You..." Petra started as she trembled, her orange hair covering her eyes. "You dumbass!" She nearly leaped forward with angry eyes with one of her swords raised up as if she was going to slash down on Logan's dusty figure. Though, she was dragged back by Gunther.
"Hey, let's just get going before Petra gets even more angry with you", Gunther said with a few grunts as he tried to hold Petra back.
Logan smirked then nodded as he looked at his squad members. "Well, let's get going."
The new squad members slowly nodded, still in shock and awe to the fact that their squad leader survived from such a situation like it was nothing - by an Abnormal no less!
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Petra, Gunther, Logan and his squad finally met with the surviving squads. There were bloodied, fleshy corpses sprawled all over buildings and the roads, along with pieces of limbs and 3D Gear scattered around that once belonged to a Scout covered in blood. Petra cursed under her breath at the sight, seeing the numbers of the few squads reduced greatly from an Abnormal and two 10-meter class Titans.
Logan ooked over the gruesome scene silently, then leaned forward off the edge of the roof and shot out his cables, speeding forward towards the Abnormal first.
"Wait, Logan", Petra called out.
The others watched quietly, more entertained than worried. Seeing that this is the fact of the others made Petra cringe just slightly.
Logan slung out his blades as the Abnormal Titan faced Logan with a wide smile, having just devoured a Scout as their mouth pools out their victim's bloods and innards. As the Abnormal reaches forward quickly, Logan stuck his blade into the Abnormal's large finger, unhooked his cables, then yanked his blade out of the large finger before shooting a cable into the Abnormal's eye. As the Abnormal grabbed the cable and yanked it out, it threw Logan off into the air. Though, he used this to his advantage. After all, a Titan needed one minute to heal itself.
And with that, the Abnormal couldn't see where it had thrown Logan. Yet, at the final second the Abnormal finally spotted Logan, who was in mid air just above its head, Logan shot a cable into the Abnormal's forehead and sped towards it, slashing his blades down from the crown of the Abnormal's bald head and down towards the back of its neck where he would make an oval-ish slash straight down the nape of the neck which caused blood to gush out all over Logan's form.
"That's Logan in his natural habitat", Hanji said, who stood behind the group while watching the spectacle.
The group looked back to find Hanji and her large squad.
"About time you made it", Gunther said with a sigh. "We missed the rescue..."
Hanji looked in the streets to see the bodies of what remained of the squads that fought here. "Yeah, I figured... Well, what do we do now?"
"What do you mean", Jennessy exclaimed. "Our squad leader is out there by himself fighting the Titans! None of you are not going to help him?!"
Petra, Hanji, and Gunther exchanged glances, then looked to Jennessy.
"Logan can handle it just fine when it comes to loss, recruit", Gunther said with a thin grin. It'll take more than this to even just slow him down."
"Sorry, but I don't catch on", William replied with a confused look. "I don't have quite a grasp on what you're all implying."
"Let's just say your squad leader is well-known to the Garrison and Military Police", Hanji explained vaguely with a cheeky smile. Though, it only made everyone more confused.
Just then, Logan landed in front of his squad, covered in steaming blood, then stretched again. "More Titans coming into the area. I'm out of gas, so you guys are going to handle it. My squad, you're helping out the wounded."
Aerolynn smirked at Logan's display as Ryan chuckles softly. Karl, on the other hand, felt his stomach turn.
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Next chapter will hopefully end this part, moving everything onto a more socializing aspect than action. More characters are incoming. Also, if you want your character to be somewhere else like the Garrison or Military Police, let me know in my PMs. Or if you want your character to be something entirely different, like a civilian in the underground city or something. Whatever you want. Anyway, more to come. Read on.