Hey Guys! Sorry for my absence, but I got some great news. Inspiration hit me like a running river, and so far, I've created four stories! All of them will be oneshots, well except for one and this one, they'll be multichapter depending on how much reviews or ideas I get. Anyway, please follow, fave, or review when you are done reading this!
Disclaimer: I don't own Attack on Titan, it belongs to Hajime Isayama.
Reedited 6/19/2018
"Way to go Ness!" Armin complimented as said guy stood up, Armin turned his head as he saw something up again.
"Not so bad," Ness said to himself, he turned his head to see his horse as he put his swords away. "Hey girl, nothing seems to scare you, that's my Cherete!" He got on his horse as he rode away from the titan's corpse.
Somewhere far off in the distance, a titan could be seen jogging towards them. Their footsteps reached the ears of Ness and Luke, who turned to look at the titan.
"Not again. What are the right wing spotters doing back there?" Ness asked.
"Looks like we got an abnormals on our hands, but it's not their fault." Luke answered, the titan getting closer.
"I hate these things. Fine, one more for the road then." Ness told Luke.
"Can someone tell me what we did to deserve two in a row?" Ness ranted, turning to look at Luke. "Bad enough they're an abnormal, but this one's got to be about nineteen to twenty meters. This is going to hurt."
Ness's eyes widened in shock as he saw that the titan was right behind him and Luke and it was running at full speed.
Luke moved his horse out of the way of the titan's foot as it was running right next to them,. Armin fired his gun as Ness turned to look at him.
"It's moving fast, to fast." Armin said, his hand dropping to his side.
"We have to keep it clear of Artlet!" Ness shouted. "Siss!"
"On it!" Luke answered, jumping off of his horse and firing the hook of his ODM gear onto the titan's shoulder, zooming up on his gear.
Luke's luck was short lived when the titan grabbed him as the sound of something breaking was heard.
Ness watched as the titan grabbed his wire as it slung him to the ground hard, his back breaking and killing him instantly.
The titan put it's foot into the ground as it stopped. Armin watched as the titan just stood there for a few seconds until it chased after him.
Armin pulled on the reins as he turned his horse the other way, the horse running away from the titan along with the second one tied to the saddle.
"Did that really just happen? We're not dealing with an abnormal this one definitely shows intelligence," Armin stated, the pieces slowly coming together. "The Colossal, like Eren. It's a human wrapped up in a titan!"
The titan could be seen slowly gaining up to Armin. "I'm dead! So dead!" Armin said, he then untied the second horse's reins as he let it go. (No pun intended)
"Go! Make a break for it!" Armin yelled, watching as the horse almost got squashed by the titan's foot.
Armin looked as the titan's foot was set to step on him. 'Why, why does it have to end like this?' Armin thought as the titan's foot came down.
"Someone…...anyone…...tell the others…..that the right wing spotters…..are all wiped out." A wounded soldier managed to say, his leg in the hands of a titan. "Tell Commander Erwin…..that the….Male Titan brought a horde with them...it's going towards the center. Is anyone left? There has to be someone." The soldier pleaded, the titan opening its mouth to eat him.
Meanwhile. The Male Titan brought it's foot down in front of the horse, sending Armin off it's back and onto the grass, his hood covering his head in the process.
Armin slowly got up as the Male Titan crouched right next to him, his clawed hand reaching towards him. Armin was expecting the worst when he felt his hood being pulled up, Armin looked up and got a good look at the titan.
The titan had a tannish olive skin complexion, some of the skin was torn up in places to reveal muscles that were a brilliant red color. The titan had short black hair and gold eyes, his teeth could be seen a little cause the skin was a little ripped there. Armin noticed something on the titan's cheeks that made his eyes open in shock.
"It...can't be." Armin gasped, looking at the titan who was smiling. Though in his eyes, Armin could see sorrow and regret along with sadness.
The titan let go of Armin's hood as he slowly stood up and walked away.
"The titan….it pulled back my hood….it looked at my face." Armin said, his hand touching his cheek.
"Armin!" A voice yelled, breaking Armin from his train of thoughts as he turned to see Reiner riding towards him with a second horse following close.
"Think you can ride?" Reiner asked. Armin didn't answer him since he was still processing what was happening.
"What are you doing? This is titan territory. You can't be without a horse, climb on!" Reiner pointed out, Armin nodded as he got up from the ground and onto the other horse.
"I came as quickly as I could when I saw the black smoke. Very tall abnormal though." Reiner proclaimed.
"It's not an abnormal. It's a person controlling a titan body." Armin answered.
"Wait, what?" Reiner said.
"We have to warn the others." Armin said, getting a flare and trying to connect it to the gun. "Come on, work you piece of junk!" Armin muttered. "It's an emergency."
The sound of flare being shot was heard as Armin and Reiner turned their heads to see Jean as he made his horse ride next to them.
More flares were fired off. "Looks like the right wing spotters have suffered too many casualties to carry on." Reiner spoke.
"Yeah, apparently most of them were wiped out by a titan ambush. I don't know how it happened, but it was bad. Those titans were really fast, the spotters didn't have time to react. Whoever's left is trying to hold them off, but know there's no one on lookout duty," Jean said.
"The left wing spotters were ambushed as well, though most of them got out alive," Jean told Armin and Reiner. "Talk about a setback. If we don't watch ourselves, we'll a get wiped out."
"What, he came from that direction, does that mean, he lead the titans hear like he was the leader?" Armin questioned.
"Who, him? Why is he running from us by the way?" Jean asked. "Is he an abnormal?"
"No, I still don't know how it's possible, but he's another human in titan form. Someone who has the same power as Eren." Armin answered.
"Please tell me you're not serious?" Jean said.
"Really, why do you think that?" Reiner asked.
Armin looked at Reiner before turning to look at the titan. "Titan's eat people but are not murders. Sure they kill us in the process, but that's not their intent, they just feed on instinct like any creature," Armin answered.
"This one was different, when the others went for his nape, he struck them down in cold blood. Swatting them like flies. He didn't eat them, he killed them and moved on. That's out of character, even for an abnormal. The titans that took out the right wing, I think he brought them here, just like the Colossal and the Armored when they struck. I just know it. He's not simply satisfied on blood lust, he has it in for us! Or perhaps more specifically, I think he's after someone in particular. At which point the question becomes who, why?" Armin paused to think. "Could it be Eren?"
"Eren?" Reiner repeated. "He's with Levi's squad. They're supposed to be in the right wing, or they were." The last part getting Armin and Jean's attention.
"Wait, Levi's team? I'm pretty sure you got it wrong there big guy. My copy of the plan said he was in the left wing." Jean stated.
"That's odd, my copy said that they were in front of the right wing." Armin said. "Now that I think about it, it doesn't make any sense, putting them at the vanguard like that is more strategically."
"Then….where exactly are they supposed to be?" Reiner asked.
"Come on, where else, the safest position in the formation. Which I assume at least, would be rear of the center rank." Armin answered.
"Armin! Now's not the time to be chasing our own tails about this. We got to get word out of how dangerous this is, smoke signals aren't going to cut it." Jean exclaimed.
"At this rate he'll cut out the command squad. We let that happen, the formation goes downhill and we all die."
"You have a plan?" Reiner asked Jean.
"More of a wing and a prayer. Look we got to try and distract him so that the platoon has a chance to retreat. If we're careful from this distance, we should be able to manage it, and make it out alive. Well, maybe anyway." Jean said.
"He's smarter than the ones we usually deal with, you can take my word for it from his perspective we're nothing more than insects. One swipe from that arm and were all flattened." Armin informed.
"Is that a fact? What a terrifying thought." Jean said with a creepy expression on his face.
"Seriously, what have you done with the real Jean?" Reiner asked. "No offense man, but the one I knew would only look out for himself."
"Your people skills need work, believe me friends. I'm still all about number one, I just don't want to end up a pile of bones and no one knows they're mine." Jean's grip on the reins tightened. "Thing is, I get it now. I did what needs to be done in order to survive this fight, and last I checked no one forced us to take on this position. Now are you with me or not?!"
Armin and Reiner looked at Jean for a few seconds until Armin pulled his hood over his head. "Pull your hood to where it covers all of you, he won't try to kill you unless he sees your face. If he's looking for someone specific, he won't mow us down until he knows we're not them." Armin told Jean.
"Good idea," Reiner said, smirking. "As far as he knows, anyone of us can be Eren under these hoods. That's actually kinda of an encouraging thought. Hey, you never know, maybe he'll be nearsighted and we'll have the chance to scare him."
"Not gonna lie, the way you clung to Eren like a security blanket is really starting to creep me out. But I always knew you were brilliant." Jean said, smirking as he pulled his hood over his head.
"Okay, thank you." Armin said. "Not exactly sure how to take that, but thanks."
'I wonder how the others are doing?' Armin thought as he, Reiner and Jean started to get close to the Male Titan.
Meanwhile, with some members of the Survey Corps, they were trying to take down what they called the Female Titan.
The Female Titan, was running through an abandoned town, a Survey Corps member whizzing through the air in front of her, getting her attention.
The Female Titan put her right hand over her nape as she saw from the corner of her eye that a member was right behind her on ODM Gear.
"Shot," A member muttered, looking behind him from his horse as he pulled out his flare gun. "Look over here! You monster." The man yelled.
The Female Titan turned to look at him as he pulled the trigger, the flare flying towards her. The Female Titan dodged the flare as she moved towards the right.
"Now!" At those words, three Survey members launched at the Female Titan on their ODM Gear.
'Three separate attacks at once. You're pretty smart, but you can't protect all three targets!' The leader of the group thought.
"Spine, achilles tendon. It doesn't matter! Hit one, and we'll slow it down." The leader yelled to his comrades. "Go!"
"You should die for causing so many deaths!" One shouted, using his gear to go towards her foot.
"We'll make you die a slow, painful one!" Another screamed.
The Female Titan turned her head as she grabbed one of the wires on her back, jumping a second later.
"It….jumped?" The leader said, shocked.
The Female Titan stepped on one of them with her foot as she smashed another into a building with the same foot, still holding the wire of one guys's ODM Gear.
"L-let me go!" The guy pleaded, the Female Titan just looked at him.
The leader looked with shock as the Female Titan was spinning the guy on his wire around and around, the man already dead.
The leader turned his horse as he rode away from the village. "The most important is to ensure they hear of this! I must tell them what we're up against!" The man exclaimed, he turned his head to look behind and a gasp left his lips.
The Female Titan ran towards him and kicked the horse, sending it and him flying through the sky.
Some time later (I'm sorry people, but if I write it like the episodes, it would be too long)
"Hey Armin! Let's move from this tree!" Jean yelled to Armin, noticing that Titan, who was climbing up the tree, was getting close to them.
"Okay." Armin answered, he and Jean then fired their gear and moved towards a different tree.
"Looks like the titan's gotten the hang of it. It's getting better and better at climbing." Jean stated.
"It means they have a capacity to learn frighteningly so. But likely more so than the others." Armin pointed out.
"Armin, it sounds like something is going on inside the forest, and I have a good idea of what that might be. We lead the Female Titan here to capture it didn't we?" Jean questioned.
"I believe so." Armin answered, he then remembered something. "Hey Jean, I believe I know who the Male Titan is."
"Really, who is it?" Jean asked, turning to look at him. The two not even knowing that somewhere deep in the woods, the Male Titan was emerging from their titan form.
"I didn't think of it at first, but when I saw the face, I knew who it was." Armin continued. "Jean, the titan had freckles." At those words Jean's eyes widened.
"Jean, I believe that the titan….." Around the same time, the person fully emerged from the titan, revealing themself.
"...is Marco."