God of Hate
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Godzilla or Attack on Titan
Eins was content, Zwei was weary and Drei was...bored, for lack of a better word.
True, all three of them took great satisfaction in snapping their jaws down on a Titan the instant it came through the hole in the wall, tearing the giant apart or shredding one already within the walls with their tails. But for Drei at least, it was rather dull and repetitive compared to hunting them down. Zwei was taking more note of the futility of it. They would have to tire eventually, well before they ran out of Titans to kill, and Titans came inside in groups sometimes. Eins would never admit that, but Zwei knew it was a reality. But the only way to stop the humanoids from venturing forth was to close the hole.
[[[And how are we suppose to do that, exactly?]]]
[We don't exactly have arms.]
[[Not anymore.]]
They all scowled at that before going back to their task.
The blur of rage and hate from before, with their memories swimming through their heads, had proven to them one thing if nothing else: they had definitely been human at some point before this. After all, Mother had been human, Father had been human. They vaguely recalled instances of being human themselves now, or they assumed that was what the memories of having arms meant. They even recalled Armin and Mikasa more clearly.
But the one thing that still alluded them was annoyingly important:
[[[[What is our name?]]]]
Zwei had briefly entertained Drei's idea that they had all been three different humans, but found that unlikely. All the memories were exactly the same, and there was never a fourth or fifth person with Armin and Mikasa. And they had definitely seen Mikasa and Armin earlier, so they weren't any two of their three heads.
How were they this creature now than? Why did they have three minds?
Unimportant in the immediate sense, but those were thoughts that were hard to drive away. More so because Zwei couldn't find a solution to their problem. If Titan bodies didn't disappear after being killed, they might be able to just clog the hole with corpses, but that wasn't an option for said reason. Filling the gap with the rubble from the gate would be hard without arms and tedious with even the desired limbs. The Titans would likely ruin any work before they finished regardless.
[[[The buildings?]]]
Eins bit onto the ankle of a large titan, bringing it down so that Zwei could eat the throat out, down to the back of the neck. Eins glanced back to the human constructs that made up the city.
[Maybe?]
[[Worth a try.]]
Elsewhere, Armin was giving his report to the captain, Kitz Woermann. "I've heard from your comrades that it was your idea to lead this...lizard-titan towards the armory, despite knowing your fellow soldiers would be there," the large, clearly stressed man stated firmly.
"Um, yes, sir," Armin answered uncertainly, knowing how crazy and careless that plan sounded out of context.
"Please explain to me how you came to the conclusion that this was a good idea, Cadet?" Kitz instructed promptly.
"Yes, Sir! After witnessing it attack and kill two titans with rapid efficiency, I realized that it could be used to our advantage. While I had some concerns about it attacking my comrades, I quickly found out that this was a very unlikely event," Armin explained, trying to keep the nervousness out of his voice.
"In what way?" Kitz asked skeptically.
"It looked directly at myself and two fellow cadets, Mikasa Ackerman and Connie Sanders. After a moment, it turned away and left to find more Titans to kill," Armin explained, pausing to see if the captain had anything to say. He didn't. "I thought if we led it to the armory, it would be able to keep the Titans outside busy until we had been able to refill our gas supplies. However, it seemed my plan wasn't really needed," Armin answered uncertainly.
"Hmm? I don't follow?" Kitz questioned with a frown.
"The plan was to lead it to the armory with drawing its attention to the Titans along the way, but it just...followed us without prompting, for some reason. I almost thought I had been wrong, that it might want to kill us after all, but it passed right by us. The heads were right next to and below us at one point, but it just rushed forward to kill more Titans in our way, Sir. It was...almost like it was trying to protect us," Armin explained carefully.
"You believe that thing wants to protect human lives, not just kill Titans?" Kitz asked doubtfully.
"I know it sounds crazy, but nothing else makes sense. It followed us to the armory, and didn't leave until after it saw that we were leaving, even after the Titans were all dead. Then last we saw, it headed to the gate and started killing every Titan that came in," Armin stated before scowling. "Sir, may I make an observation?"
"You may, Cadet," Kitz allowed with a frown of his own.
"I'm not sure that thing is a Titan at all," Armin stated, getting silence in response. "While it is similar in size to most, all knowns titans look human in terms of shape and design. This one is like a reptile with no arms, two tails, and three heads. Nothing even remotely similar to humans. As mentioned, it has no desire to harm humans, even seems to avoid it. I've also failed to see it injured, so I can't be certain it can even regenerate like a titan."
"What are you suggesting, Cadet Armin?" Kitz questioned with a scowl. "That we attempt to use this beast, trust it not to turn on us at a moment's notice?"
"I'm saying it's not a Titan, Sir. And..." Armin hesitated for a moment. This might be a bridge to far in terms of trying to convince this man. "I believe I and the others have witnessed it being capable of understanding human speech, Sir."
"..." Kitz didn't react to that claim, staring at the boy as if he was some form of foreign entity. "Cadet, do you understand how insane you sound?"
"Extremely, Sir. But my fellow cadets can verify most if not all the facts I've stated," Armin answered with a firm nod.
Kitz gritted his teeth, unwilling to budge on the idea. "Even if I was to consider that beast as anything but a new threat, I'd need some more proof than just the wishful thinking one as green as-!"
"Captain!" Rico exclaimed, rushing towards them. "Captain, you have to come see this!"
"What is it, Brzenska?!" Kitz demanded, looking both angry and worried by the interruption.
"It's that creature sir," Rico answered with a troubled scowl, making both men stiffen in concern. "I have no other words for it, but...it looks like it's trying to seal the breach."
"What!?" Armin and Kitz said in shock.
"It's been using its heads to try and tear the roofs and floors off buildings before trying to pile them into the hole," Rico explained, frowning with a bead of sweat running down his face. "It's not going well. It manages to get enough wreckage to block the Titans for a moment, but they'll push through the moment it stops holding it, or when the wood gives out."
"...I need to see this for myself," Kitz stated with wide eyes, looking to Armin. "Cadet Artlert, do not speak a word of this to anyone yet."
"Yes sir," Armin acknowledged, distracted by the imagery of a dragon fruitlessly trying to hold back the Titans with a thin barricade of wood.
[[[[Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!]]]]
All three of them cursed as they pressed their body against the makeshift, ever more fractured pile of wood getting slammed by four, no, now six titans! And said defense made it near impossible to actually get close and kill the titans without ruining their work, leaving them only able to bite off arms trying to get through the gaps.
[[Still too dull for you!?]]
[[[I didn't mean it like that, dammit!]]]
[Shut up and bite them!]
A fifteen meter Titan shot its arm completely through the debris, to their shared displeasure. Drei bit the hand of the Titan and pushed it back through, to the confusion of Eins. But confusion turned to approval as Drei went through the hole and began to bite and tear at every Titan he could reach.
Unfortunately, due to the angle, he couldn't get to the two small ones just below the hole in the makeshift seal. Both leaped up to grab on and bite Drei's neck. The left most head screeched in pain, reeling back and pulling the titans with him, which Eins quickly ripped away. The small, shallow wounds only bled for a few seconds with black, oily blood before rapidly healing over.
[[[[This isn't working.]]]]
That was the shared thought even as Eins stubborn grabbed the piece of a wall they had thrown nearby, pressing it against the hole. If he had time, it might be possible. Twenty, even just ten minutes, he could probably force enough wood in there to maybe, just maybe make it too packed for the Titans to just force their way through. Maybe give the humans enough time to seal the breach more permanently. But as it was, the Titans would just keep ruining their work without realizing it.
[[We killed a lot in the city.]]
[[[Should we leave?]]]
[We'll kill more out there, keep them from getting into the city.]
[[[Could we kill enough?]]]
[Yes!]
[[No.]]
[We could!]
[[We'll tire out, we've been over this.]]
[We can't stop them from getting in like this!]
[[[We can't kill them all if we're dead from being stupid!]]]
[We don't have any other choice!]
[[[Of course we do! You just don't care if it doesn't involve killing titans!]]]
[You're the one who said it! They killed Mother!]
[[[And what about Mikasa?! What about Armin!?]]]
[[Enough!]]
Zwei screeched at both of them, headbutting Drei and biting of one of Ein's horns to slap him against the wall. Both heads looked to the center one, their feet and body weight keeping the barricade in place for now.
[[[[Is this what I'm like all the time?]]]]
That sobering thought quieted them all as they returned to holding the makeshift barricade in place. They were out of options. They could keep fighting, they would keep fighting. Because they wouldn't lose until they died.
[[If we died, we die free.]]
Eins and Drei watched in surprise as the supposed brains of their trio slammed himself head first through the wood, biting the face off a Titan and sending it reeling back. Still, they quickly joined in, tearing apart the top of the barricade, ready to use the bottom to keep the titans at bay while they took down as many as they could. As many as they had to, before they could get out of-
"Hey."
That stopped their plan rather prompt, the three heads glancing up to see a small group of soldiers hanging down from the wall on the maneuver gear, just half way down and only barely out of range of them. The three heads eyed them. Eins suspiciously, Zwei cautiously, and Drei curiously.
[[[[Are they going to attack us?]]]]
A rather troubling idea, if the very side they were fighting for thought they were an enemy. Still, all the same, Eins and Drei returned to keep hold of the compromised wall of wood, while Zwei watched the soldiers with a studying look.
The man that had called down to them was large in build and had brown hair with a mustache and beard. His eyes were sunken in, covered with worry and despair as his blades trembled in his hands.
"I don't know what you are. Or where you came from," Kitz stated warily. "The idea of trusting something like you seems insane."
Zwei tilted his head with narrowed eyes, making the captain flinch.
"But I can deny this no longer. You're clearly not just trying to kill the titans. You're trying to stop them. You're trying to save this city," Kitz admitted begrudgingly before taking a deep breath, and letting loose a wild and inquiring yell. "So for the love of the Walls, give me a sign here! Are you intelligent?! Can you understand me?!"
Zwei's eyes widened, however minutely, and the soldiers all tensed to see what would happened.
But Zwei only had one possible way of answering: He nodded. Slowly, deliberately, and repeatedly.
"By Sina, it can," Kitz whispered, feeling almost lightheaded from how unreal this situation was. "Then...then tell me! Do you really believe this plan of yours is going to work?"
Eins growled from his position, the wood buckling against him. Zwei looked down at the failed attempt to seal the breach with a snarl, but it left while looking up to the captain with a shake of the head.
"No way that's a coincidence now," Kitz said in resignation. "As much as I hate the idea of letting more of those monsters in, it can't be helped," he admitted bitterly, "I need you to fall back to the wall. We're trying to come up with a plan for you to help us close this damn hole. But we can't do that if you're taken out by these damn Titans! Understand?!'
It was surreal to Kitz, staring down at the great golden creature that was holding back the horde of Titans, their arms reaching through to try and grab the beast.
Drei was the first to howl his agreement, Eins grunting in acceptance afterward. Zwei glanced back at the wall. More accurately, the top of the walls, where the cannons were. Was this a trap? Still, Zwei looked back to the human overhead and nodded. If humans wanted to attack them, let it never be said the three of them struck first. With that in mind, he jabbed his head to the side, motioning for the soldiers to get out of here.
"That I understood," Kitz accepted as he and the other humans retreated back up the wall.
"Sir, are you sure about this?" Rico asked as they headed back to Wall Rose.
"Not even slightly," Kitz remarked with gritted teeth. "But there is only so much evidence I can ignore before even my paranoia doesn't make sense."
Rico nodded in understanding, glancing back at the three-headed beast. She went wide eyed as she saw it jump back, spinning around to slam its tail against the barricade just before it gave way, sending wood and Titans flying out of the breach. With that, it started to retreat. Taking the most Titan-rich path, true, but a retreat nonetheless.
"He's finally here," Kitz said, drawing his second's attention back to Wall Rose. Above the wall was a man waiting for them.
"Isn't that...Commander Pixis?" Rico asked with squinted eyes as the bald man's appearance became clearer and clearer.
It was indeed Commander Pixis, the Captain and his group saluting the man even as he took a drink from his flask. "Welcome to Trost, Commander," Kitz greeted, almost automatically.
"Well, I must say I'm surprised, Captain Woermann. I always thought you were too skittish to attempt something like that," Pixis returned with a curious stare. "I've been apprised of the basics, and can see the validity of them as plain as day from here; A beast, the size of a Titan yet it bares no similarity to them in any part of its appearance. It kills Titans, rather well at that, and even seems to want to protect humans."
"I thought the idea ludicrous myself sir, but...seeing it trying to erect a barrier, attempting to close the breach was too much to ignore, even for me," Kitz admitted reluctantly. "Admittedly, I'm not sure how to make use of that thing just yet."
"Any creature can destroy, some can create modestly, but attempting to fix something? If I had to make a standard for intelligence, that would be one," Pixis remarked in a chuckle before turning serious in an instant. "Tell me, Captain. That this creature might be an ally, who exactly gave you that idea?"
Even with all their hunting and holding the Titans back, there were still many in Trost. Too many for the humans. Mostly smaller ones at this points, the ones that had been fortunate enough to not be noticed on his mass killing-spree on the Titans.
Unfortunately, the small ones had a habit of jumping.
Drei shook his head wildly as a Titan landed just behind his horns, nibbling on his neck, before Zwei took the liberty of biting the pest off. Meanwhile, Eins growled as he flung a titan off one of their tails. Despite the spiked ends turning the humanoid into meat swiss cheese, it had somehow not done enough damage to the nape to kill the Titan.
[[[[We are definitely human.]]]]
That shared thought stemmed from the fact that Titans indeed were coming at them without being provoked. Normally the mindless creatures just tried to gobble up the nearest human they were aware of, but now there were coming after him if they got close enough. And Titans only attacked humans, Zwei remembered that distinctly among the reasons they hated Titans.
[[[Can we change back?]]]
[[Possible.]]
[Do we want to?]
[[[Of course we do!]]]
[[Why wouldn't we?]]
[What if we can't do this again?]
[[True. But communicating with humans like this is hard.]]
Eins grunted at the validity of that issue, glancing up to the top of the wall. They were at Rose proper now instead of the curving walls of the city. How long would it take them to come up with a plan? How long before they tired out?
Zwei didn't speculate. Which was just as well, Eins likely wouldn't accept any answer as the reality of their limitations.
[[[How do we get out?]]]
[[Hm?]]
[[[If we seal the gate. How do we get out?]]]
[We don't.]
Zwei nodded at Eins's seething admittance. The only thing they hated more than not being able to kill Titans was the thought of them taking even one more small chunk of mankind's land, pushing them even a little further into a corner.
They'd deal with the consequences afterwards.
The zip of cable lines and hissing of pressurized air drew the their attention.
"Well, you're not lady, but you're a beauty in your own way."
All three heads stared. They weren't surprised to see another human talking to them after last time, but they were a bit taken back by the old man casually drinking on the rooftop next to them.
"I suppose I should thank you for clearing out so many of the ugly bastards before I got here," Pixis acknowledged, his smile vanishing rather quickly. "I'll make this quick. I am the Commander of the humans here. You understand? Good. I can see you want to help. Much as I hate to have you running all over town, I need you to head back towards the gate."
Eins was annoyed, but Zwei and Drei were just curious.
"There is a boulder along the east side, close to the wall. I know you don't have arms, but you're a big bastard with more heads than you probably need. I don't want you to move it to the gate just yet. But we need to see if you're capable of moving it at all. If you can, we'll protect you while you move it. Will you do that?" Pixis asked , as if he were addressing an ordinary soldier.
Pixis didn't know it, but Zwei suspected that was in fact true.
All three of them nodded in unison, but didn't move, Drei nodding upwards. Pixis blinked before smiling. "What a polite fellow, seeing an old man like me off before leaving," Pixis complimented before he took off, knowing he had already risked enough coming down here.
"Commander Pixis, may I say that was incredibly unwise and unnecessary of a risk?" Anka, one of his aides, said stoically as the Commander rejoined them.
"Perhaps, but I can hardly call myself a Commander if I don't have the courage to look a possible ally in the eye and ask him in person to aid us," Pixis stated in amusement, looking back down into the city as he watched the golden beast run down the streets, only stopping occasionally to search for the boulder. "Quite a curious one, to entrust our hopes to."
End of Chapter
And there's the second chapter. Thanks to Eren as Minidorah being tougher than a Titan, Shifter or not, nobody knows he's human yet! However, being in control of himself allowed him to get creative in trying to save Trost. Which was enough to convince even the captain that wanted to blow Eren up in canon. While humans tend to fear what they don't understand, its hard to not notice when that unknown is activelly helping you against an dangerous enemy.
Oh, and if anyone is wondering why a titan was able to bite though his scales even a little? Everything is shrunk, even Ghidorah's durability. He's still a LOT tankier than a titan though.
Now, will Eren get full Ghidorah powers, including wings, height, and gravity-beams?...Yes, I'm surprised this was even a question. But Eren will have to wait for those.
Will other Kaiju appear? Yes. Monsterverse creatures are a definite, might slip in some others as well.
That's it for now. Hope you all enjoyed this! Happy Thanksgiving!