Lando and Eren got into position when the green smoke boomed throughout the city. Eren jumped off and Lando followed. They were flying through the city when Lando saw a Titan ahead.
"Looks like they didn't lead all of them away, Eren slow down so I can kill it!" Lando yelled at Eren.
"Got it!" Eren responded slowing down.
Lando raced forward and the Titan started racing at Lando, he shot a hook into a chimney of a house and used gas to get past it. Lando turned his body and spun towards the Titans' nape, slicing it and killing it.
Eren then flew by and Lando chased after him. The two of them went underneath an overpass both of their ODM gear leaving sparks as they flew underneath, Eren changed into his Titan form and Lando landed on his shoulder.
Eren or Titan Eren started screaming and Lando had to cover his ears, loud noises everywhere today. After Eren's screech, he turned his head and tried to eat Lando. Lando had shot a hook into the building behind him if he had been a second slower he would've died. Lando used his gas to shoot up to the building's roof top and Mikasa was right there beside him.
"Of course, you'd be the closest to him," Lando said.
"What's wrong with Eren?!" Mikasa demanded.
"I don't know I thought you wo–" Lando was saying before Eren's Titan charged at them throwing a punch where they both were.
Lando was sent flying behind him, the building's shrapnel cutting his torso. Lando looked up and saw Eren throwing two punches, one at him and one at Mikasa.
"Ackerman! Lando!" Lando heard Ian yell behind him.
Before Erens punch could land he shot a hook into Eren's arm pulling him up but now he was close to Eren again. Lando ran down his arm jumping off onto the building before regrouping with Ian's squad.
Lando looked over to see Mikasa right on Eren's nose with one foot while a hook was shot into his neck, she started yelling at him.
"Hey! Stop, Ackerman!" Ian demanded. "Get away from him!"
"Eren! Don't you recognize me?! I'm Mikasa! Part of your family! You have to seal that hole with that rock!" Mikasa yelled.
Lando heard something get loaded and he turned around to see Rico loading a flare gun with a red one.
" I knew there was no secret weapon." She said as she shot the flare into the air.
Mikasa is still standing on Erens nose " Eren! You're human! You're–" Mikasa was yelling but Eren was reading his fist to punch her.
"Dodge, Ackerman!" Mikasa did just that and Eren absolutely clocks himself in the nose. Eren then falls down with a loud thud.
"Did he just knock himself out?" Lando said out loud."How do you even do that as a Titan?"
"Quit joking!" Ian scolded.
"I'll just make my jokes in my head." Lando thought.
"What the hell?!" Mitabi said. "He's just a regular, dumb Titan!"
"Eren!" Mikasa yelled.
"If I had a penny every time she yelled that I could buy a house." Lando thought.
"Captain Ian!" A soldier yelled. "Two Titans are approaching from ahead! A 10-meter one and a 6-meter one!"
"One 12-meter Titan is closing in from the rear!" Another yelled.
"Ian! We have to withdraw!" Mitabi said. " There is no way that kid's sealing the hole!"
"Agreed. We have no choice but to leave him here." Rico says.
"His incompetence is why this happened, he failed the mission all on his own," Lando said he was tired of this. Always having to save Eren if not him then Mikasa if not him it was the entire 104th.
After they all said that Mikasa was giving them the death stare but nobody paid it any mind except Ian.
"You are the captain of this mission and you're letting a cadet push you around, Rico should've been put in charge." Lando thought.
On top of the wall, Pixis and the reserves were looking out at the red smoke.
"Red smoke shell from the Elite Squad! It seems the mission to seal the hole has hit a serious snag." An officer pointed out.
"For nothing…!" A garrison soldier said while on one knee with a hand covering his face "Our friends…. Have died for nothing!" he cried.
Armin was walking over to everyone and heard a couple of troops talking.
"Hey, look over there!" One yelled.
"What is it?! What's wrong?!" Another yelled.
"They've failed…" Marco said.
"How?" Armin whispered.
Armin seeing this decided he was going to do something and started to run away from the group.
"Commander Pixis," The officer said. "We should go back to defending the gate immediately. Just give the word sir!"
"No," Pixis said.
"Shall I order the Elite Squad to withdraw?" A female captain said.
"No," Pixis said. "Continue to lure the Titans into the corner of the town. As for the Elite Squad, I've left all on site decision making in their hands. They're more than just skilled. They're the best of the best, with the fate of humankind on their shoulders. Admitting defeat so easily is not an option. If we don't want our fallen soldiers' deaths to be in vain…. Then we must struggle for as long as we live."
Back with Lando Ian was not making a call and was there frozen.
"Hey! This is no time to hesitate! Make the call!" Mitabi said. "Ian! It isn't your fault! This whole mission was a long shot, to begin with! We all understand! It was worth a shot and we did the best we could! So our teams are going back up the wall now!" Mitabi said and started to walk away.
Mikasa, who had her swords drawn, started to chase after Mitabi.
"Wait!" Ian ordered, putting his arm in front of her. "Wait. Calm down, Ackermann."
"Rico team, take out the 12-meter one to the rear!" Ian ordered. "Mitabi team and my team will deal with the two ahead!"
"What?!" Rico said shocked Mitabi was as well.
"I was the one put in charge! Do as you're ordered! We can't leave Jaeger defenseless!" Ian said.
Rico gasped at this. Lando was not happy with it either, Eren made a mistake and Mikasa freaked out when there are consequences for such a mistake. They should've left and if Mikasa wanted to stay behind she could.
"New plans," Ian said. "We're to defend Jaeger from the other Titans until we can recover him! He holds a precious chance for humanity. We can't just abandon him like that! Because unlike us, he can't be replaced."
"Hundreds of people have died in this mission alone for that failure of a human weapon! Yet you want to recover him and go through this same thing all over again?!" Rico yelled.
"That's right," Ian said. "We have to keep trying no matter how many people die!"
Rico and Mitabi were staring with their mouths open.
"As long as I don't die I'll follow whatever you order," Lando said. "Even if I think you're an incompetent Captain."
"Are you serious Ian?!" Rico yelled.
"How is humanity ever going to beat the Titans then?! Tell me, Rico." Ian demanded. "What other way do we have of putting an end to all of this?! How can we defeat the overwhelming might of the Titans while maintaining our humanity and not letting anyone die?!"
"I have no idea how to defeat the Titans obviously," Rico said.
" Yes," Ian said. Lando noticed that he was sweating pretty hard.
"That's why we must do this now. It's our only option. We have to lay down our lives and go down bravely, including you, Lando." Ian said,
Lando sighed "It is a decent day to die at least."
" We might have to for this so-called human weapon we barely know anything about! It's pathetic, isn't it? That this is all we humans can do…. So, what do you say? This is our battle to wage. Our chance to struggle!"
Rico and Mitabi were looking skeptical and Mikasa and Ian were looking determined, Lando was ever so stoic.
"I refuse," Rico says
"Rico!" Ian says with authority.
"I'll follow your plan. I think your assessment is right. I'm going to struggle with all my might and make them taste the ferocity of humanity. Because I refuse to die for nothing. My team will handle the 12-meter one to the rear." Rico says.
Mitabi started to walk the other way "Let's go! We have two in the front." he said.
"Thank you, Captain Ian," Mikasa said.
"There's no need to thank me, Ackermann," Ian said. " I was scared stiff there since there was no telling what you might do next. Now you can act freely as originally planned. That should make better use of your ability."
"You should've not been scared I would have killed her if she tried anything," Lando said.
"I thought you might but she would have probably got to Rico or Matabi first," Ian said.
"It was to protect her lover after all," Ian said as he ran off the roof top.
Mikasa blushed and looked down "He's family…"
"I question that…" Lando said. "And if he is, that is kinda disturbing.."
Mikasa was looking at Eren before turning to Lando. "You better protect him."
"Do your job and I'll do mine," Lando said.
Lando looked over at Eren " He isn't regenerating…" He thought. "Is it because he was already damaged before today?"
Back on the wall, Armin was running around it. " Eren ... .Mikasa…Lando…." He thought. "What happened?!"
Lando was standing on the boulder that Eren was supposed to pick up; he wasn't risking standing on Eren's shoulder. When he heard someone yell something he turned to see a Titan running towards him and Eren.
Lando got into action hooking onto the building Eren tried to kill him before, he was going to do an experiment here. Would the Titan come after him or Eren? When the Titan got close he ignored Lando and went straight for Eren.
"Guess that answers that." Lando thought as he jumped off the building hooked onto the Titans back using gas to get close and slicing its nape with his spin.
Lando got back to the boulder as Armin of all people swung in standing on Erens shoulder.
"Lando what happened to Eren?!" Armin asked.
"He went crazy and tried to kill me and Mikasa, he isn't in control," Lando said.
"Mikasa got right up in his face and called out to him, but he didn't respond," Lando stated. "He is out cold right now."
"What about the plan?!" Armin asked.
"Failure," Lando replied.
"Ian ordered us to keep Eren alive and my job is to stay here in case any Titan gets through them one has already," Lando stated.
"At this rate, we will all be wiped out," Armin replied.
"Lando get down here I have a plan to fix this," Armin ordered.
"You better," Lando replied, getting down to where Armin was.
"From the back of the head to the nape of the neck…" Armin stated. "...1 meter high and 10 centimeters across. You'll get Eren out of there"
"Huh?" Lando said.
"Eren came out of the Titans' vital spot! My guess is that has something to do with whatever makes Titans tick." Amrin says. " You just have to miss the center… and he won't die… can you do that?"
"I can try at least." Lando replied. " Shoot your hooks into Eren if he freaks out we will fly off him."
Mikasa had just killed a Titan overlooking Eren. She landed on his head and saw Armin and Lando.
"Armin!" she yelled but Armin didn't hear her.
Mikasa watched as Armin shot his ODM hooks into Eren and Lando did the same standing on his neck, Lando then pulled out his swords and stuck one of them into Eren's nape.
"Lando!" Mikasa yelled out.
Eren woke up after that yelling and Armin and Lando were struggling to stay on. Eren stood up and fell down screaming and moving his body like he was having a seizure.
"Stop, Lando! Armin! That's too reckless!" Mikasa yelled.
Armin and Lando heard her and turned to look at her.
"Mikasa! Just go do what you can! There are lives you can help save! Leave Eren to me and Lando! Go!" Armin yelled.
Mikasa looked pissed but ran to kill more Titans.
"Eren! Can you hear me?!" Armin yelled. "Pull yourself together! We're all going to die if you don't come out of there! Don't give in to the Titan's body! Now just hurry and jump out of this lump of flesh!"
"Let me try Armin!" Lando yelled.
"Eren you are a Worthless! Friendless! Little piece of shit, who's daddy left mommy the day the Titans came because he figured out you weren't the next Erwin Smith! And now you are screaming and sitting down in the middle of a battle crying like a 7 year old girl! So for the final time, Eren wake up!" Lando yelled. "AVENGE YOUR MOTHER EREN!"
Eren shot up while the Titan's body steamed, he then grabbed the boulder and started to carry it.
"Erens back in the game! Go tell Captain Ian!" Lando ordered.
"Right!" Armin said using his ODM gear to go towards Ian.
Ian's squad and Mikasa were standing on a roof top after killing another Titan. They looked out to see steam shooting up into the sky and a Titan carrying a boulder while a figure was on top of the boulder with his swords drawn.
Mikasa looked happy as ever as tears went into her eyes "Eren…" she said.
Armin was making his way toward Ian's squad and saw Mikasa and the others standing there.
"Mikasa!" Armin yelled, landing next to her.
"Armin!" Mikasa yelled.
"Lando got Eren to prevail against the Titan's body! Him and Lando are fulfilling their responsibility!"
Mikasa looked at Eren and saw 8 Titans racing towards Eren, she was going to race out there but before she did the figure on top of the boulder shot out toward the Titans. She watched as the figure made short work of the Titans at speeds she had never seen doing a spin for every kill before going towards the next, the figure then shot a hook into the boulder Eren was holding and standing on top of it.
Ian's squad was awed at what they just saw.
"I saw the kid during Trost evacuation but I didn't think he was this good, I have only seen Levi be able to do that spinning attack," Ian said.
Mikasa had to admit that she was happy that Lando was with Eren even if he said some hurtful things about Eren before, he could do better than her at protecting Eren.
" Now if we help Lando cover Eren until he reaches the gate…." Armin said. "Victory will be ours!"
Everyone was shocked that they could actually achieve victory against the Titans.
"Defend him!" Ian yelled out. " Even if it cost us our lives! We must let Eren reach the gate! Do not let the Titans get near him! A cadet is doing more than us!"
Jean was with his squad on top of a building, his squad insists of Marco, Annie, and Conny.
"We gotta give Eren backup and help whoever is on top of the boulder! Keep them off of them!" Jean yelled.
"You two!" Ian said to Armin and Mikasa. " You guys head to Eren! That's an order! Is that clear?!"
"Yes, Sir!" They both said.
Mitabi and his squad had also seen Lando slaughter the Titans going towards Eren and they had to keep as many away from them as possible.
Mitabi was running toward the Titans heading toward Eren.
"The Titans are ignoring us now! Our only choice is to get close enough to grab their attention!" Mitabi yelled to his squad.
"Look this way, damn it!" A soldier yelled.
"Or else we'll shove our blades up your smelly asses and kill you!" Mitabi yelled.
Some of the Titans turned around and started to chase after Mitabi who was now staring in fear.
"Run!" Mitabi yelled to his squad "Run for the buildings!"
On top of the roof, Armin and Mikasa as well as Ian and his squad were up there.
"Setting foot down there is suicide!" Amrin yelled. " And they have no way to fight without horses or buildings!"
"No… that's the only option now," Ian mumbled.
"That's the only option left!" Ian yelled to his squad. " Look at Lando, are we going to make him do everything himself?!"
Everyone turned to look at Lando who was still fighting the horde of Titans going after Eren, leaving a path of steam where Eren walked off dead Titans. They watched him as he killed another Titan before throwing his blades into a Titan's eyes then grabbing new ones before shooting a hook into the Titan's neck going behind him before spinning down to the nape at great speed slicing it, before shooting a hook into the next Titan.
Ian jumped off the building to the ground running while yelling "Follow Team Mitabi!"
Armin was scared, he stood frozen.
"Armin, we need to go, too." Mikasa said.
While the troops distracted the Titans Mikasa and Armin landed in front of Eren as he dragged the boulder leading him to the hole in the wall. Then there was still a single Titan blocking the way.
"I'll handle this!" Mikasa yelled.
Then a female voice yelled. "Out of the way!"
Mikasa and Armin looked up to see Rico going toward the Titan.
She got to the Titan but couldn't get its nape so she sliced its eye out.
Before Mikasa could get close enough to kill the Titan a flash appeared to shoot across the sky. Mikasa, Armin, and Rico watched as the flash shot a hook into the wall and got pulled to the wall above the Titan. They watched as the figure spun toward the Titan at a speed they had never seen someone go while killing a Titan. The figure then shot a hook back into the wall above.
"Go, Eren!" Armin yelled.
A huge boom was heard across Trost, Eren had done it.
Rico collapsed and started crying " You're deaths weren't in vain." she said as she shot the green flare into the sky. "Today, for the first time in history… humanity has beaten the Titans!"
Eren had collapsed after he put the boulder down.
Rico looked behind her and saw Titans coming towards them.
"The remaining Titans are coming! Head up the wall!" Rico ordered.
"I'll withdraw after I've recovered Eren!" Mikasa yelled.
She started running toward Eren yelling " Armin! How's Eren?!"
"He's unbelievably hot to the touch! We need to hurry… and get him up to the wall…!" Armin yelled back.
Mikasa and Rico landed next to Armin as he tried to get Eren out of there.
"Part of his body is fused to it! I can't pull him free!" Armin said.
"Then we'll have to cut him out!" Rico responded.
"W-Wait! Please!" Mikasa begged.
Rico ignored her and cut Eren out and Armin and Eren fell down from the Titan.
Armin looked up to see two Titans looking down at him ready to eat him.
"Eren! Armin!" Mikasa yelled.
As the Titan reached down to grab Eren and Armin. Every squad in the Garrison was watching from the safety of the nearby roof tops.
Then two figures came out of nowhere both spinning and both of them sliced a Titan's nape before he could get to Eren and Aramin.
Eren opened his eyes as the two figures killed the Titans, then one of them landed on the Titan's head.
"Those are…" Mikasa said.
"The wings… of freedom…." Eren said.
The other figure landed in front of them. He was covered head to toe in blood and was steaming all over, you couldn't even see the iris of his eyes, you only saw white.
"Lando!" The three of them said.
Lando didn't say anything, he stood there staring at the ground.
The figure with the wings of freedom was Levi.
"Hey. You kids. What exactly is going on here?" Levi asked.
"And you," Levi said, looking at Lando. " Not bad."
Lando didn't respond, still continuing to stare at the ground.
On the roof tops, Jean was with Conny, he got separated from Annie and Marco. They both watched what happened.
"Is that Lando?" Conny said.
"Yes," Jean said. "That guy is a monster."
Afterward, thanks to the actions of the Scout Regiment and the Garrison Regiment's Corps of Engineers, Wall Rose once again held the Titans at bay. Taking out the Titans trapped inside Trost took a full day, during which the wall-mounted cannons fired nonstop. Most of the Titans that had gathered by the wall were wiped out by explosive shells. The few remaining were mostly mopped up by the Scouts. And during this time the Scouts had managed to capture a 4-meter Titan and a 7-meter Titan. However 207 people were missing or dead, and 897 were injured. Although this was the first time humanity had stopped a Titan invasion, far too many people had been lost to celebrate this historic achievement.
End of Chapter 22.
Hey, do you guys think I could pull off a Naruto Fanfic after I finish this one? I have a couple of ideas already.
1. A missionary that is an Uchiha, that comes from a place called Heaven's Gate but is kidnapped by Iwa and forced to train at the age of 5 and becomes a General at the age of 9. He fails a battle and the Iwakage is so angry with his failure that he sets him ablaze and throws him down a cannon, but he survives and is now known as the Burned Man.
2. Kakashi has a child with an Uchiha and he raises his kid alone.
Thoughts?