Lando was eating dinner with Eren Armin and Mikasa and surprisingly they were all quiet, Lando didn't mind he liked peace. But then Armin started talking about ODM gear and how the scouts use it, Lando wasn't really paying attention trying to grasp the remaining seconds of peace before it gets loud. Lando then noticed Eren staring at Jean and Marco talking and he followed suit.
"Yeah, maybe not everyone can pull it off…" Jean then took a long stare at Mikasa before saying " …But there is no harm in knowing it, if you wanna join the Military Police"
"Yeah, I'd love to get in!" Marco said."Working near the king…. There is no greater honor than that!"
Lando liked Marco but they never talked, if Jean or Marco talked to him before Armin and Eren did then he'd be sitting with them. But Marco was nice if not uninformed about the Military Police.
"Hold on, Marco!" Jean said hitting Marco which caused his drink to get all over his face, Lando thought it was funny.
"Quit talkin' like a goody two shoes and say what you really think!" Jean said "You wanna join the Military Police 'cause it means a safe, comfy life in the interior!"
"No I really do want to–" Marco said.
"It's comfy in the interior?" Eren asked.
Lando sighed "Always sticking your nose where it doesn't belong, their conversation didn't even involve you." Lando thought.
"Until five years ago, this used to be the interior too," Eren says.
'What's your point, Eren?" Jean demanded.
"Jean. You don't need to go to the interior." Eren says. "I'd say your head is nice and spacious as it is."
"You little…" Jean says.
"Honoring your Titan killing skills to get away from the Titans…." Eren says. "Doesn't that seem like a weird system to you?"
"You only say that now?" Jean demanded, "I want that stupid system to stay in place, for my sake."
"You piece of scum!" Eren yells chagrin at Jean.
"Shut up, this is the real world!" Jean yells.
"Stop it," Mikasa said while walking over.
Mikasa walked over and grabbed Eren's hand, taking it away from Jean's shirt.
"You did it now," Lando thought "Do you have no social IQ Jean is going to snap seeing that."
And just as Lando thought Jean grabbed Eren's shirt again yelling "Screw you!"
"Let go! you're going to rip it!" Eren demanded
"I don't give a damn about your clothes! I'm jealous!" Jean yelled
'Huh?! What are you talking about?!" Eren yells.
Lando was sick of this; he wanted peace before getting sent to Trost for the Corps decision, so he decided to do something about it.
Lando walked over causing both Erens and Jean's head to snap at him.
Lando picked up Jean before he knew what was going on.
"What are you doing?!" Jean demanded to know.
Lando ignored him and body slammed him on the ground.
"You got thrown like a ragdoll!" Eren said while laughing.
Lando walked over to him and punched him in the face causing Eren to fall to the ground.
"Eren!" Mikasa said, getting up.
"Mikasa come over here and I will stomp on his head, every step you take I will stomp him again. How many stomps do you think I can get off before you get to me." Lando said.
Mikasa froze, not knowing what to do.
"Now, Eren, you caused all of this, you decided that you had something to say to Jean," Lando said as Jean sat up.
"And Jean you decided to say that loud enough for Eren to hear because you knew he was going to react." Lando said " Why do you always try to take your feelings out on others, why are you like this?"
Jean didn't respond, Lando seeing this decided to speak to Eren.
"And Eren you said something that pissed off Jean because you knew you would get a reaction, you love to think that people who don't think like you are wrong and they should just do what you want," Lando said to Eren. "I know this may be a shock to you but there are more people here than just you, not everything revolves around you, not everyone will think like you." Lando noticed that Mikasa started to walk over so he stomped on Eren's face.
"Stop." Mikasa demanded.
"I said that every step I'm going to stomp on his face and you took a step. Did you think I was kidding?" Lando said.
Mikasa didn't move after that.
"Do you think that people see you as a badass hero that is going to slaughter the Titans? No, they see you as a manic going about his ramblings. They all think that you are going to get eaten on your first mission." Lando said.
"Now apologize to each other." Lando demanded, " Or I will make you."
"Sorry.." Jean murmured.
"Sorry.." Eren said, looking away from Jean.
Lando didn't wanna be there anymore so he left, as he was leaving Sadies was right there about to walk into the mess hall.
"Sasha passed gas and I needed to get out of there," Lando said.
"Learn some decency, will you?!" Saides said.
Mikasa ran over to Eren and started tending to him and Marco checked on Jean.
Eren and Jean didn't want to admit it but Lando was right not that they would ever admit it.
That night Lando went to sleep like usual.
Lando found himself in a river of blood surrounded by mountains.
"Where am I?' Lando questioned, " What kind of place is it?"
He heard a scream then what sounded like crushing as blood rained and dripped from the rocks of mountains. Lando then saw his mother's death, then himself of every kill he did and every MP he slaughtered.
"I get it now, I think I'm in hell," Lando said out loud
Lando looked up and the moon was also red a blood moon.
Then everyone in the 104 charged at him and Lando killed them all with his father's dagger. He looked around and realized he had just killed everyone he was with for 3 years. He was alone again.
Lando woke up gasping for air for what felt like the 100th time.
" I just wanna sleep for more than 4 hours…" Lando complained.
It was morning now and Lando apologized to Eren and Jean, they forgave him but he thought it was because they didn't wanna get beat again so they were all good again.
Time skip.
Lando was on the wagon to Trost to go to graduation. It was a happy time for Lando. He would get to see his father soon but Lando learned he felt angry at his father. He never visited him or Mom even though they were friends, he had to have time to visit them in 8 years right?
Anyways the wagon had arrived in Trost and Lando got out and walked over to Conny.
"What are you going to join?" Conny asked.
"Survey Corps," Lando said.
"I see that Eren got to you," Conny said
"No, this has been my goal from the beginning. I needed to meet someone," Lando said.
Conny sighed " You're always a mystery I swear." "But it wouldn't be fun to be around you if you didn't have that mystery thing about you, you would just be boring then."
"So everyone just thinks I'm some mystery great," Lando said.
Sadies yelled at everyone to get into their formation
"Give your heart!" Sadies yelled. Lando did but he didn't believe in this whole heart thing, it was Kenny's teachings to always live for yourself not for others.
" Now will the top 10 cadets step forward."
"Number 10. Sasha Braus."
"Number 9. Conny Springer."
"Number 8. Marco Bodt."
"Number 7. Jean Kirschtein."
"Number 6. Eren Jaeger."
"Number 5. Annie Leonhart"
"Number 4. Berthold Hoover"
"Number 3. Reiner Braun."
"Number 2. Mikasa Ackerman"
"Number 1. Lando"
Lando walked up; he didn't really care about the top ten, you could join the Scouts no matter where you rank.
"Yes sir!" Everyone yelled and did the salute.
"You have three options after you graduate from the cadets today!" A blonde man yelled
"The Garrison Regiment, which reinforces the walls and protects each city!"
"The Scout Regiment, which risks life and limb, to venture into Titan territory outside the walls!"
"And the Military Police Regiment, which serves under the king, by policing the people and preserving order!"
"Of course, the only ones allowed to join the Military Police are the top ten cadets who were previously named." The blonde man yelled
Lando was sitting alone away from everyone outside. He hated parties, he liked the quietness out here and he had never really been in a city above ground for more than a hour so he wanted to take it all in.
Lando was sitting there drinking some water. He wasn't one for alcohol, didn't help that alcohol didn't like him either. All of a sudden Eren ran out of the party and sat down on the steps. He didn't say anything to Lando.
"Someone must have said he couldn't kill the Titans or that he couldn't achieve his dream." Lando thought.
Then Lando realized that Eren was crying a little but he didn't say anything. Eren didn't seem like in the talking mood so he just sat there.
"Eren. That stuff about your dream just now…." Armin said.
"Thought right." Lando thought.
"Yeah, I borrowed those ideas of yours," Eren said. "About going outside instead of staying inside."
"I'm going to join the Scout Regiment!" Armin declares.
"Are you serious Armin?!" Eren says "You were top in classroom studies! You should put that to use."
"I told you that they were just going to follow you," Lando says.
"I just thought you were trying to make me mad," Eren says to Lando.
"No, I am honest most of the time talking to you," Lando said.
"I won't be a burden. Even if it costs me my life." Armin says.
"Is that you saying that or is that Eren saying it for you?" Lando questioned Armin.
" I want my dream of seeing the sea," Armin said.
"Good on you, I hope you find what you are looking for," Lando said.
"I'll join the scouts too," Mikasa said.
"Hey! You graduated top of the class! You should join the Military Police!" Eren says to her.
"If you join the Military Police, then I will too," Mikasa said. "If you join the Garrison Regiment, then I will too. Because you'll die an early death unless I'm around."
"I never asked for your help," Eren said to her.
" I don't want to lose any more of my family," Mikasa says.
Lando let them have their moment; he wasn't going to say anything but Eren breaks the silence asking.
"Where are you going to join?" Eren asked.
" The Scouts," Lando said.
"What?! Why not the Military Police?! You were number 1! You'd be great at it." Eren says.
"I didn't care about the rankings, I would have joined the Scouts no matter what, me and a certain someone need to have a very long talk," Lando said.
"Wait, you know someone in the Scouts?" Eren asked.
"Yes," Lando responds
"Who do you want to talk to? You sound angry about it too," Armin asked.
"It's a family matter," Lando said.
"But you said that your mother was killed," Eren said.
"It takes two to tango Eren," Lando says.
"Your father is in the Scouts?!" Eren almost yells.
Even Mikasa was acting like she cared.
"I have never met him, so this will be the first time," Lando says.
"Who is it?" Eren asked.
"That is between me and him, nobody needs to know about it," Lando says.
They all went quiet and stared at the sky.
Time Skip.
There was a parade or something Lando didn't know what was going on but he tagged along with Eren, Armin, and Mikasa.
"Commander Erwin! Give those Titans a real thrashing." Someone yelled.
"They say he is as mighty as an entire brigade." Someone else yelled.
Lando then noticed someone on horseback and it was like time slowed as he strolled by. It was Levi, Lando's father. He stared at him wanting to yell something but Kenny had told him that he couldn't tell Levi, for some reason. Lando started shaking and gasping for air, Mikasa of all people noticed and asked.
"Lando, are you ok?" Mikasa asked, causing Eren and Armin to turn around to look at him.
"I'm fine I need to leave here though I need to get my assignment," Lando said walking away.
"There he was, I finally got to see him and he doesn't even know I exist. Maybe if he took the time to see me and Mom he would know about me, Mom and him were friends or that's what she said." Lando said walking back to the barracks.
Time Skip.
Lando had found himself on the wall with a lot of other members of the 104th; he was a cannon when Conny said.
"I'm going to join the scouts."
"Huh?!" Eren said. "You're joining the scouts?"
"Conny! You were so set on the Military Police." Eren says.
"Yeah, I was! But…" Conny says.
"Sounds like your speech yesterday won him over," Mina says walking over to them.
"That must've been when he came running out the other day." Lando thought.
"Huh?" Eren asks.
"M-Mind your own business!" Conny says to Mina." I decided on my own!"
"Don't be so embarrassed," Thomas said or that's what Lando thought his name was, Lando has never talked to Thomas before.
"You're not the only one," Thomas speaks.
"Thomas… You don't mean…?" Eren says.
Then Sasha came over whispering. "Umm? Everyone.."
"I brought some meat from the officer's storehouses!" Sasha said.
"Sasha! Do you want to end up in solitary confinement?!" Eren says.
"You really are crazy!" Marco says.
"So much it's crazy.." Conny said.
"Did you get caught?" Lando asked.
"No…" Sasha said while salivating.
"Don't encourage her!" Marco says.
" I am a man who respects talents and sneaking into an officer's storehouse and getting meat is a talent in my eyes," Lando says.
"Lando, did you just make a joke?" Marco says.
Lando sighs " Yes I tried."
"It's just that I have never heard you make a joke before," Marco says.
Lando just looked at them all but didn't say anything.
"We can all share it later…" Sasha says. "All sliced up, and between some bread…"
"Go put it back!" Conny yells.
"Yeah!" Mina says. "After we lost all that land, meat's become really valuable."
"It'll be fine!" Sasha says.
"We can just raise more cattle and sheep once we retake our land!" Sasha declares.
"I'll have some of the meat too!" Marco barely manages to yell.
"It isn't against the rules if you don't get caught, I'll take some too," Lando says.
"M-Me too! Save me some!" Conny says.
"I'll have some too, of course!" Mina says.
"Guys…" Eren said.
"Why are you standing there, Eren?" Marco asked. "We'll get found out if we don't get back to work!"
Lando had already gotten back to cleaning, this cannon was filthy as well. Who took care of these? They needed to step up their game.
"Lunch isn't for a while," Mina says.
Lando was cleaning when he saw a yellow flash and then… There was a Titan there.
"Must be the colossal, how did it appear from nowhere?" Lando thought.
Then steam started coming out of the Titan and caused Lando to fly off the wall, he reacted quickly and shot his ODM hook into the wall.
Lando looked around to see a man falling and someone yelled "Samuel!"
Sasha started running down the wall and caught Samuel, and caught him with her hook through his leg
"We'll no use standing around, time to go kill a Titan."Lando thought, surprisingly he wasn't that scared Lando didn't know why but he thought to take advantage of this courage.
Lando started to scale the wall with his ODM gear. Eren was not far behind him yelling.
"Mounted Cannon Maintenance Squad 4!" Eren yelled.
When Lando heard that he was confused why he didn't get his own squad, he was told to join Eren and that he would get his own Squad later, Lando thought it was Sadies who had a soft spot for the boy and wanted the number 1 cadet to join Eren but it was only a theory.
"Prepare for battle! The target is the Colossal Titan dead ahead! This is our chance! Don't let it get away! Lando has already almost scaled the wall to get to the Titan. What are we waiting for?!" Eren yelled.
Lando got up on the wall and Eren was across from him.
The Titan used his hand to scrape along the top of the wall causing Lando and Eren to run away from the hand, Lando shot a hook into the Titan's forearm using gas flying past it. And was now in the air behind it and he saw Eren on the other side.
"This wasn't a random attack this was planned, he destroyed the gate." Lando thought " This Titan is using his brain."
The steam coated the Titans lower body and he shot an arm toward Lando who shot a hook in one of his fingers and dodged the hand flying up to where his nape was, Lando noticed Eren on the other side they looked at each other before nodding, Lando started spinning towards the Titan building speed but before he could steam shot out. Lando went flying and shot a hook in his neck to keep him from falling to his death.
Lando used the hook's pull to propel him towards the Titans he started spinning and he swung his sword but there was no more Titan.
Lando and Eren hooked onto the wall.
"The Titan disappeared! What happened?" Lando yelled at Eren.
"It's just like five years ago! He suddenly appeared, then suddenly disappeared!" Eren yelled.
"Eren! We gotta go back up! The gate has been opened. Titans are about to flood in here. We need to defend Trost!" Lando yelled.
Eren didn't say anything as they both went back up.
"We are sorry we let them get away." They both said.
"What are you guys apologizing for? We were scared stiff-" Thomas was saying before getting cut off by Conny.
"Hey! This is no time for that!" He said "We have to hurry and seal it before Titans get in again!"
"What are you doing?!" Some man came up to them "The Colossal Titan Response Operation is already underway! Return to HQ at once! Anyone who's come into contact with it, remember to give a report!
"Yes, Sir!" Eren yelled.
"We pray for the advance team's success!" Conny yells.
" A Small Series Of Mistakes Before A Great Fall." Lando thought " We were not prepared at all."
It took 28,174 words but we finally got to Trost! This was going to be a shorter chapter but it turned into my longest.
End Of Chapter 17.
