"Eren, ambush!"

BANG!

Eren yells as he falls down the escalators, hitting his head on the bottom while the civilians around them suddenly panic.

"EREN!" Mikasa hears the clicking sound of a gun and ducks. BANG! A bullet flies over her head as she turns on her heels. She leaps over the railings and somersaults across the ground as more bullets fly at her. Dodging each one with rapid succession, she spots the man with the pistol firing at her, laughing, looking like a security guard. Using a kiosk as a cover with a vase beside it, she kicks it like a football player at Thug 1, hitting him in the face, and disorienting him. She charges for him and slides forward, kicking his feet out from under him and causing him to hit the ground. She gets on his back after taking his pistol and pistol-whips him. SMASH! SMASH! SMASH!

More gunshots go off as more thugs dressed in civilian clothing rather than security uniforms fire at her. She leaps out of the way and makes a run for it. "Eren!" When she's beside the railing, she tosses the gun over to where Eren is lying.

Without looking, Eren catches the gun in his hand before picking himself up, his stomach wound already steaming. He sprints up the escalators and fires off two rounds when he reaches the top.

BANG! BANG!

Thug 2 collapses as he rounds the corner and Eren notices he's out of ammo. Seeing Thug 3 stand over Thug 2's body aiming at him, Eren chucks the gun at him before sprinting. Eren shoulders him into the wall and wrestles the gun out of his grip. He kicks him back and aims. BANG!

On the other side of the mall, security guards and civilians fire pistols in Eren's direction. Eren returns fire before taking cover. He fires blindly from behind cover until his gun clicks. "Shit, need ammo."

The three thugs on the other side continue to fire on Eren's location before they come up with a plan. "Flank him!" Thug 4 orders. Thug 5 and 6 comply and head in opposite directions to get to Eren, crossing two bridges connecting the west second floor to the east second floor.

Thug 5 crosses the bridge to Eren's left and just as he is halfway across, Mikasa bodyslams him. She kicks his gun far out of reach before revealing her weapon: a baseball bat with the handle still covered in plastic with the price tag. Instead of swinging it like the baseball bat it was, she decided to thrust it down like a jackhammer and smash it into the thug's face. SMASH! SMASH! SMASH!

Thug 4 notices her and fires in her direction, no longer providing covering fire as Thug 6 crosses the bridge to Eren's right. Eren leaps to his feet and chucks the gun at Thug 6 just as he is crossing the bridge. He sprints for it and shoves the thug against the wooden railing, stopping himself from going over at the last second. They wrestle for the gun while Mikasa keeps Thug 4 distracted. Eren bites into Thug 6's hand to make him lose his grip on the gun. Kicking him in the gut, Eren wrestles the gun out of his hand before shoving the barrel under his chin. BANG! He throws the body over the railing, not bothering to watch it plunge two stories down. He turns to Thug 4 who continues to fire at Mikasa. As he runs dry of ammo, he retreats into an old-fashioned phone booth in front of a store that is more of an aesthetic rather than an actual phone booth.

Mikasa charges for the phone booth, dropping the bloody bat, before grabbing the phone booth with both hands. She shakes it several times to throw the reloading gunman off his balance before a surge of adrenaline spikes in her. She rips the phone booth out of the ground it was nailed into with her bare hands, and lifts it over her head like she was doing a bench press, before yeeting it headfirst over the railing. Two seconds later.

CRASH!

Sighing, Mikasa turns to Eren. "Who are these guys?"

Eren looks at her. "Dogs that need to be put down."

There was a crowd of cowering civilians behind Eren. One of them pulls a gun and aims it.

Mikasa's eyes widen. "EREN!"

Eren jolts when he gets shot in the back and takes a tumble to the ground. Mikasa chucks the baseball bat at Thug 7 and knocks him back. Eren picks up his fallen gun and aims at him, careful not to hit any civilians. At the last second, he charges Thug 7 and shoves him into the wall. He puts the gun between his mouth and nose. BANG! Eren pushes his body away as the civilians make a break for it.

"Come on," Eren tells her, "let's get out of here." He kicks Mikasa's stolen bat back to her as he begins making a jog for it.

Elsewhere, Thug 8 hides behind a pillar and pulls out a walkie-talkie. "I have eyes on the target. The Attack Titan and Red Scarf are near the south part of the mall. Lock the doors and set up a perimeter. Everyone, get to the south side of the mall, now!"

"We have machine guns," a voice comes through, "we'll turn them to shredded meat."

"No, establish a perimeter." If you think you're stealing my bounty, think again. "Stay outside. Everyone else, on me."

As Eren and Mikasa head for the escalators heading down, more bullets fly in their direction. Eren turns and spots Thugs 8 and 9 on the second floor, firing at them and using benches as cover. Eren aims.

BANG! BANG!

Thug 8 falls over the railing and plunges to the bottom while Thug 9 falls to the side.

Just as the unstoppable duo were halfway down the escalators, three thugs in civilian garb charged at them from the first floor. Eren and Mikasa tried to run up the stairs but they were on the wrong set of escalators as the steps kept going down. Eren shoots at them as he backpedals up the stairs. Mikasa vaults onto the other set of escalators going up while Eren trips and lands on the moving steps. He takes a painfully slow trip down the escalators as the three thugs fire at him. Getting shot once in the arm and twice in the gut, Eren fires at them again.

BANG! BANG! BANG! Click!

With Thug 10 and 11 dead, that left only Thug 12, who received a shot to the shoulder and collapsed to his knee. Eren sprints down the escalators and rushes to Thug 8's body. He pulls out a magazine from his pocket and slaps a new one in. He turns and is about to fire when he freezes.

Thug 12 grabs a young man and holds him at gunpoint. "Drop the fucking gun, Attack Titan," the thug orders. "Or I'll fucking drop him."

Eren pauses, anger written on his face. "Let him go! It's me you want!"

"Why did you have to be so fucking impossible to fucking kill!" Thug 12 aims at Eren.

The hostage grabs the thug's outstretched arm and forces his elbow over his shoulder. SNAP! The thug screams and drops the gun as the hostage yanks harder, breaking the thug's arm even more. "Bastard," the hostage curses.

Eren rushes. "Let him go!"

The hostage lets go of the thug's arm and sprints to the side. Eren shoulders into the thug, pushing him against the wall before planting the barrel between his mouth and nose. BANG! He shoves his body to the side before looting two magazines off the corpse. He tucks them away before moving forward.

Upstairs, Mikasa saw the exchange between Eren and the hostage taker take place and was about to help when bullets flew in her direction. She makes a run for it and dives for cover. She spots Thug 9's body on the second floor and quickly rushes for it. She picks the corpse up and uses it as a meatshield as three security guards charge for her. She uses the meatsheild to close the distance between her and Thug 13 who is approaching from the front. She takes the spare gun out of the guard's holster and before throwing the meatshield like a rag doll at Thug 13. With lightning-fast reflexes, she removes the slide from the pistol and uses the slide to stab Thug 13 in the throat as he climbs to his feet. STAB! She pushes the slide deeper into his throat. SQUELCH! She proceeds to use his now limp body as a shield against Thug 14 and 15. As she moves forward, the meatshield absorbing bullets like a sponge, her ears perk up at the sound of something.

A civilian in the corner pulls out his gun and aims for her. Had it not been for her sense of smell and hearing, she wouldn't have noticed him. She removes the taser from the meatshield's holster and uses it on Thug 16. Thug 16 convulsed, firing off a round that hit the drywall beside him before falling to the ground. Mikasa turns back to Thugs 14 and 15 and proceeds to close the distance. She uses the taser on the 14th thug before chucking the meatshield at Thug 15. She turns back to Thug 16 and pulls him to his feet after delivering her slide weapon into his neck. STAB! SLASH! After stabbing him in the neck and then dragging it across, she uses him as her new meatshield.

Thug 15 fires at the corpse. Mikasa closes the distance, chucks the body like a ragdoll once more, and knocks Thug 15 down. With her taser in hand, she fired at Thug 14 and incapacitated him again. She sprints for Thug 15 and uses the slide weapon against his chest. She shoves him back before Sambo throws him to the ground. She fires the taser at Thug 14 again. Mikasa wraps her legs around Thug 15 and twists until-

SNAP!

Mikasa lunges for Thug 14. She fires the taser at him again before shoving him against the railing. She pushes her back against him to keep him at bay as he readies her slide weapon. She grabs him by the throat as he turns. STAB! STAB! STAB! She shoves him over the railing.

Seeing civilians running for their lives across the bridge, she knows that there are more thugs inside the mall, each one armed, and it would only be a matter of time before they find her. She looks around to see if any store has something that can offer her a chance at a better weapon.

Hearing the aggressive sound of someone barking orders, she heads to a wooden bench. Seeing that it is nailed to the ground, she quickly rips it from the ground and breaks it in half. She grabs the sharpest makeshift spear she could before looking up. She runs to the wall where a fire extinguisher lies. She rips it from the wall and hides behind a pillar.

Three more thugs pass her without seeing her behind the pillar. Now was her chance. She sprays all three of them with the extinguisher and creates a smokescreen. The three men quickly fire randomly in all directions before the smokescreen clears out. Mikasa yells as she charges, dropping the extinguisher. She delivers a flying knee kick to Thug 17 while simultaneously landing a Superman punch to Thug 18. That left Thug 19. She spears him in the side. He screams in pain before she shoulders into him and pushes him over the railing. He falls headfirst to the ground - SNAP! - his neck is now at an awkward angle. Turning back, she rams into Thug 18 and shoves him into Thug 17, pinning both of them against the wall. She jams the spear into Thug 18's throat -STAB!- which goes through her throat and pierces the outside of Thug 17's throat. Mikasa rips the spear in half, turning it into a makeshift knife. Shoving the dead thug's body to the side, she stabs Thug 17 in the throat. STAB! STAB! STAB!

Mikasa backs away, sighing softly before looking to her left, and hearing the sound of gunshots coming from Eren's direction. Taking her wooden knife with her, she makes a break for it.

Eren tried getting the civilians out of the mall, which involved shooting the locks on the door one of the thugs set up as soon as the gunfire went off. Once he kicked the doors open, he sprinted outside to make sure it was safe when he froze.

Four men stand outside, two in security uniforms while the other two are in civilian clothing. All four men had machine guns. Eren grunts in annoyance before ushering everyone back inside. The four fire, hitting several civilians and grazing Eren in the shoulder. Eren falls to the ground among several civilian corpses and plays dead, his pistol clutched tightly in his hands.

After the gunfire stops, the four thugs move in, aiming at the civilians, almost as if they were daring them to do something. The civilians panicked with some standing to the side, hiding, while others ran.

"Check them," Thug 20 orders. "Make sure the Attack Titan is dead."

Thug 21 moves forward. "That bounty is mine."

As Thug 21 gets closer, Eren's eyes shoot open. He roars as he springs to a sitting position. BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

Thugs 20 and 21 collapse as Eren sprints for the two remaining thugs who decide to hide behind a car. They wait for the sounds of Eren's gunshots to go down as Eren picks up an assault rifle from one of the thugs and holds it up.

FN FAL. He pulls two magazines off the dead thug before blasting rounds at the thugs.

Eren sprints for it after running dry of ammunition and quickly slaps a new magazine in. With the thugs hiding behind the trunk of the car, Eren leaps over the hood and lands on his side. He aims his rifle at them.

RATATATATATATATATATA!

The two thugs go down. Eren picks himself up as a jeep pulls up with four more thugs heading straight for him. Eren aims at the driver and switches the gun to semi-automatic.

TA! TA! TA! TA! TA!

The driver takes a bullet to the head and falls against the wheel, his foot pressing on the gas. Eren gasps before jumping out of the way as the jeep crashes with the previous thugs' car.

CR/AS/H!

The third and fourth passenger leap out of the vehicle as it turns over on its side with the bodies of the other two thugs dangling out. They're unable to react in time when Eren aims his gun at them.

TA! TA!

After seeing their enemies flop to the ground like they were made of helium, Eren sighs heavily and rests his head against the ground. He picks himself up and looks around; the feeling of unease never leaving him. Not taking any chances, he reloads before seeing Mikasa running for him, civilians following behind her before breaking off and running for their lives.

"Ereh, are you okay?"

He nods. "I'm good."

Mikasa looks over him. "We got more of them!"

Eren follows her line of sight and sees two more vehicles pulling up, each one filled to the brim with thugs. Eren and Mikasa leap over the overturned jeep to use as cover as they wait.

The thugs park their car and are ready to get out when-

WEE-WOO-WEE-WOO!

"Oh shit," one of the drivers exclaim. "Cops! Let's go!" He shifts gears before driving out of there, the only car following after it.

Eren and Mikasa keep their eyes on the retreating vehicles, not taking their eyes off until they're out of sight. When this happens, they press their heads to the vehicle and sigh heavily, the rising volume of sirens getting closer with each passing second. In less than thirty seconds, an entire brigade of police cars and SEK troops pulled up.

They can finally rest.