Attack on MacGrath; Chapter 2: The Titaning

(Quick, note, titaning is a play on words for reckoning, just a bit of a jab at generic titles, no harm intended towards grammar Nazi's).

Five years… five long years since Cole MacGrath; super conduit had been teleported to this strange new land and Cole had come up with one conclusion since he got here.

"SCREW TITANS".

We find Cole stood in a forest surrounded by giant corpse's known as titans, at least seven surrounded him, all with varying levels of body parts missing. Cole took a second to look around the opening in the forest he was in and couldn't prevent the sigh that escaped his lips.

"Where in the world am I?" he asked himself s he stroked his fully grown goatee, a habit he had picked up when he started to think to himself. His mind went over what his next direction was.

"I could go that way… but then again I could go that way… but then there's always that way, hmm all of these choices that I have. However there is one problem with all of those choices, I have no idea where any of these choices lead".

Cole shrugged his shoulders and decided to head in direction that Cole assumed was west and walked that way, not before he placed his right hand on the closest dead Titan and absorbed the electrical impulses within its brain, thankfully, he had only killed it recently so some of the impulses in its body remained. Cole felt slightly rejuvenated after he absorbed the Titan's electrical impulses.

Even though the world Cole had been teleported to had raving giant monsters that threaten the very race of humankind, Cole had to admit that the world was at least nice looking… when you weren't looking at all of the corpses of titans and humans that you would randomly come across in the forest. Cole had now left the clearing he was and kept heading in the same direction hoping to find some form of civilisation. The last time Cole had actually seen a human being was the first time he arrived in this world.

Flashback

After Cole had led the metal Titan back through the wall which he would later find out was called "wall Maria" he found that the whole interior of wall Maria was filled to brim with Titans meandering about. Well they were meandering until they noticed Cole, "ice-jumping" on top of the nearest roof near the entrance, closely followed by the metal Titan.

SMASH

"Yep, defiantly not my best idea" Cole muttered to himself as he covered his face from the debris caused by the metal Titan re-breaking through the entrance, once he uncovered his face Cole sighed sadly as he turned around and continued to run to the outside wall the metal Titan right on his tail.

After Cole had escaped "wall Maria" and made it into a clearing, he had turned around to fight the metal Titan but lightening had struck where the metal Titan was and when it cleared, the titan was gone, befuddling Cole, shrugging his shoulders Cole was about to head back inside when the yellow lightening had struck HIM.

Flashback end

The rest you would say is "history" Cole had simply ended up in the middle of nowhere within a desert and Cole had spent five years surviving off absorbing Titans energy and trying to make his way back to the giant wall in an attempt to find civilisation and company. It of course didn't escape him that he had going with the two kids he had saved on the ship that he wouldn't be so lost at the moment. Now Cole really hated how heroic he was, because these things always seemed to happen to the unlucky conduit. He had been walking for at least an hour by now and he hadn't come into contact with anything.

Cole raised his right hand and sparked some electricity through it to relax himself slightly, allowing the tension to leave through his sparking fingers, this like the beard stroking had become a habit of Cole's since his isolation, thankfully Cole didn't have to worry about running out of electricity. Thankfully Cole's energy pool had increased drastically due to the large amount of energy he was draining from all of the titans and a larger energy pool meant that Cole was able to store a larger amount of electricity which in turn meant that Cole could survive for a lot longer before needing to recharge. Cole didn't know why he suddenly was able to gain more energy storage without blast shards but he wasn't about to look a gift-horse in the mouth now was he?

CRASH

A rush of harsh wind blew past Cole, it almost blew the conduit over if he hadn't have instinctively tethered himself to the closest tree to keep him stable.

"What in the world?"

The wind lasted a few more seconds before it died down, unlatching his electric tether from the tree Cole felt a shiver go down his back.

"That worries me…"

30 minutes ago: Eren Yager

Eren Yager was currently stood atop wall Rose with his newly accepted soldier's patrolling the wall, it was considered the new recruits "initiation" of sorts when graduating from the academy.

"Patrolling? More like cleaning at this rate".

Stretching his arms, sighing in ecstasy when the resounding crack went through his body he briefly wondered about his mother's well-being at the hospital, his mood souring as he recalled what her current situation was.

Flashback: 4 years and 11 months ago

"Were sorry son… but your mother will not be waking up anytime soon" a man in a doctor's coat spoke solemnly to a 10 year old Eren and Mikasa.

"Wh-What do you mean? Why can't she wake up?" Eren's little fists were clenched, barely preventing the tears from streaming down his dirty cheeks. He felt Mkasa place her hand on his shoulder, sympathising with the young Yager at his mother's predicament.

"Well, from a medical perspective, I'm sorry to say but whilst your mother was saved from the titan… she wasn't saved from the falling house" the doctor took a breath, calming his nerves, he needed to be calm and professional to not overly worry the two kids. "From what we can gather when the house collapsed, one of the wooden beams must have broken off and stab your mother in her lung. Thankfully she was brought her before it became truly life-threatening, unfortunately the damage to her lung and legs has caused her body to fall into a coma of which we can't be certain when or if she will wake from". The doctor placed his hand on Eren's unoccupied shoulder, he hated himself for what he had to say next.

"I'm sorry but the best we can do is keep her on life support for five years at the most. After that…" the man cut his sentence off fully knowing that the kids understood the unsaid meaning.

By this point Eren's mind had crumpled like wet tissue paper in despair, his mind only repeating one thing; "It's all the Titan's fault, if they hadn't had broken the wall then… then mum… mum would…" Eren's thoughts couldn't finish, he just couldn't accept any of this.

Thankfully Mikasa wasn't as distraught as Eren and asked the doctor if there was any form of way to wake her or heal her internal damage.

The doctor nodded, although his grim expression didn't leave his face as he spoke.

"Yes, but we can't take the chance whilst she is in her coma, if we attempted to heal her lung chances are she would go into cardiac arrest and sadly die. However if we were able to produce a specific amount of concentrated electricity to wake her up from her coma we would be to perform the surgery required to save her".

At this Eren's mind rebooted and the words were flying out of his mouth quicker than he thought possible.

"THEN WHY CAN'T YOU DO THAT?"

The man lowered his head slightly "we just aren't able to create the concentrated amount of electricity we need to wake her, the amount we need is incredibly specific, even a little more or little less power could end badly and we just can't risk it".

Eren wasn't able to hold the teas back now, he bawled openly in the white corridor.

However mikasa realised something important and leaned near Eren's ear.

"Eren, what about MacGrath-san?"

Eren's head picked up at that and then he realised what he needed to do to find, he ran… ran towards the exit, Mikasa following close behind.

"Eren! Eren where are you going?" Mikasa shouted, casing after her last precious person, curios as to why he suddenly was running the barracks.

Eren looked over his shoulders and Mikasa gasped at the small smile he was showing her.

"All we have to do is find Mr MacGrath, if he can control electricity then maybe he can wake mum… so I'm going to join the survey corps and find him in time". Mikasa sighed and shook her head unable to tell him how stupid that plan was, he needed this form of hope… he needed it.

Flashback end

And the rest you could say was history, Eren and Mikasa joined the army and just recently graduated after five long years of intense training and ended up being in the top ten recruits.

But sadly Eren and Mikasa only had 1 month left to find the electric man and the only news that they've found that the man might still be alive is from the survey corps men who come back stating that the came across dead Titans with burn marks, almost like they were struck by lightning, thankfully all of these dead Titans had prevented a lot of unneeded deaths in the survey corps so the "Electric mystery" as they call whatever is causing these burn marks is very well respected by them.

"Damn it I need to find him… I don't have much time left" Eren thought desperately as to how he would find MacGrath.

CRACK

The sky darkened for a few seconds before smoke appeared behind Eren from a yellow lighting strike.

Turning around Eren found himself face to face with a colossal Titans face before he could react, the titan had struck the wall with his foot and broke through it, and the resounding force blew all of the new recruits of the wall the thought going through Eren's mind was worrying.

"That's the one… That's the one who…"

Scene change, present time: Cole

"Yea… that's not good" Cole stated as he saw the colossal titan's head reaching over wall Maria but that was the problem, the titans head was on the other side of the wall, meaning that the sudden rush of wind that struck him came from the giant titan destroying wall rose which meant one thing.

"The titans have gotten further into the walls haven't they?" another resounding crash confirmed his suspicions and that Cole running in the direction of the wall, however it was going to take a while to reach his destination… he just hoped that the people fighting the titans could survive long enough for him to get to them.

Pumping electricity into his legs, Cole propelled himself from the forest onto the barren wasteland of this planet, thankfully die to the energy he was pumping into his legs Cole's speed increased exponentially, towards the first wall's broken opening, sadly it was still going to take a while before Cole would even make it through the first wall.

"Hang on, the hero's coming to save the day".

Scene change 20 minutes later: Eren

"I don't wanna' die… I don't wanna' die" muttered Eren as he continued to sink into the Titans digestive acid.

Everything had gone so badly… everyone died except Armin but because of that now Eren had to die.

"I'm so sorry Mikasa, mother… Annie… Armin… Reiner. I won't be seeing you ever again."

Eren lowered his head in resignation, he just couldn't believe that he had died before he could save his mother.

"Eren…"

Eren's head shot up at that voice, he recognised that voice, and he knew it so much… yet he couldn't picture the face connected to that voice, the blood-loss from multiple limbs missing affecting his brain functions.

"Eren… my little hero…"

Eren froze, he recognised that voice now however he didn't dare speak in-case the voice disappeared.

"Eren… my little hero… don't give up…"

How could he not give up when he had just been swallowed by a FRICKEN Titan, not to mention one of his arm and one of his legs missing…by the way, losing two limbs… hurts like a mother fu**er.

"Eren… my little hero… don't give up… I believe in you".

That simple statement struck a chord deeply within Eren's soul as something deep within him burned powerfully. His eyes blazed as he lifted his head, determination showing on his blood-stained face. Why was he giving up so easily, he didn't give up when his 3DMG training wasn't going well, he didn't give up when his mother went into her coma and he most certainly wouldn't give up NOW.

He raised his bloody stump of an arm and something… incredible happened.

His arm grew back… and it grew back BIG.

Scene change same time: Cole

"COMING THROUGH" shouted Cole as he through two cluster grenades at two Titans blocking his path, the resounding explosions left the two Titans without heads and Cole ran past them un-hindered. Cole briefly wondered why his electricity was stronger than it was back in his world, but just like the many others times he thought about it he realised that he had no way of answering his question and once again didn't look a gift-horse in the mouth. Cole had recently made his way through the hole made by the colossal Titan in wall Rose and was unsurprised to see loads of Titans stumbling their ways around.

Having no real idea where to go Cole used his radar pulse to see if he could find some survivors and thankfully he sensed loads upon a rooftop not far from the hole he entered through. Cole made a bee-line for the people he had found and didn't let any Titans stand in his way.

"ARRRGGGGHHHHH! HELP ME!"

That certainly gained Cole's attention as his head swerved to the right and saw a teenager who seemed too attached to a wall by some form of wires attached to what seemed to be some form of holsters according to Cole's eyes. But the actual worrying part for Cole was the large amount of Titans surrounding the poor lad.

"OI, OI, Titans, leave that kid alone" Shouted Cole as he shot out his tether to the nearest wall and then tried something new, using his other arm he shot out another tether onto an adjacent wall in a sort of "V" shape.

Taking a few steps back he prepared himself for this, running forward and activated his leg thrusters and activated the pull of both tethers at the same time, all of these different factors caused such a boost in Cole's speed that he was launched into the air at an incredible speed and height.

"May have underestimated how much speed I would pick up doing this" mused Cole as he was quickly above the Titans surrounding the teen. Knowing that this was going to be cool, Cole used his thrusters to stop his movement and started to prepare for a thunder drop.

Sadly due to the fact that his AMP didn't come with him into this world the thunder drops didn't have the same impact as they had with his AMP.

But who was he too complain, he was actually supposed to be dead in his world.

Shaking his head, Cole refocused back onto the situation at hand. Cole gathered as much of his electricity as possible and then Cole plummeted to the ground like a meteor.

Scene Change same time: Jean

"Damn it. Damn it, why is this happening" what was he going to do now, Mikasa was MIA after the news of Eren's demise and now he was left in charge and things weren't going so well.

He was currently looking down at the poor recruit who had ran out of gas at a really bad time, but what could they do, if they jumped down to help everyone else would die. All Jean could do now was hope the poor lad had a quick end and didn't feel pain.

"We gotta' save him!" stated one of his fellow recruits who was about to jump off the roof and attempt to save his fellow recruit. Before Jean could tell how stupid that idea was a loud amount of noise could be heard and it was increase in pitch quickly.

"What is that noise… it sounds like electricity" looking up, Jean had to take a step back.

"What in the world is that?"

Jean's outburst caused everyone around him to look up and what they saw "shocked" the hell out of them. Falling from the sky was something that resembled a falling meteorite, but there was one problem with that.

The meteorite was made of pure electricity and it was falling towards them… very quickly.

Before much else could be thought off the electrical meteorite struck the ground… hard and a resounding explosion of electricity flew outwards striking all of the Titans nearby, instantly frying their internal circuits and brains, killing them all immediately.

After the initial explosion of electricity finished smoke rose from the impact and clouded everyone's vision.

Jean couldn't see anything in the smoke but thankfully the smoke didn't last for long and when it cleared he couldn't think straight.

Standing in the middle of all of the now dead Titans was a man with a goatee and shaved head, wearing what seemed to be a shirt and jeans that had seen better days. A gasp escaped Jean's mouth as he saw the young recruit who was in danger strewn over the man's shoulder, the poor recruit clearly saved and alive.

"Everyone's seeing what I'm seeing… right?" a tall broad shouldered teen with blond hair asked disbelievingly. No one else could speak at moment as they had all seen the same thing.

"Hello! You guys okay? It's kind of not the time to be spacing out is it" the new arrivals voice broke everyone out of their stupors.

Only one thought went through Jean's head at that moment.

"What in the world is he?"

Chap finished; thanks for reading.

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