We were all breezing through towards our position, which is in the middle of the city with utmost carefulness
On the way there we all saw titans... A bunch of big ass naked monsters that had a huge smiles on their faces, though not as big as the Colossal Titan, they were all ranging from 5-15 meters in height, some of them were munching on some corpses which looked pretty disgusting in my opinion
On our way to our position, I suddenly felt a sense of danger as I quickly looked at a certain direction and saw a titan preparing to jump on us
"Stop!" I said as I shot a hook behind me to stop my acceleration, the other did as well as the titan jumped and tried to bite one of us but missed
'this is a perfect opportunity for me to get used battling these titans...' I thought as I looked at my squad members
"You 5 do your job and distract it" I said as they all started shaking like leaf again, I just glared at them and they all shot their hooks towards the titan and distracted them
I waited till its back was completely shown to me before I shot myself forward on its nape
It seemed to have heard my ODM Gear as it turned to its back facing me
It tried to react but it was very slow compared to what I did for training as I dodged its attempt to grab me
I soon got behind on it as I shot my hook on its nape and then boosted myself towards it
When I was near it I unhooked myself and let the boost do the work as I started spinning with my blades in hand
Soon a sound of flesh being cut was heard as my blade cut its nape, I probably cutted 40%% of its neck but I felt like I could do much better
As I cut the nape, blood gushed out of it as it sprayed on me and covered me with blood
I just clicked my tongue as I went on the roof of a house, the blood of the titan on me soon started evaporating after a few seconds
'So... I have finally killed another human huh...' I thought but shrugged it off since it wasn't the time to get conscious about it
All the Titans in here were once humans, they were injected by some kind of serum that turns eldians to Titans
If by some chance they somehow ate another shifter like Eren then they would be able to turn back into a human with the power to shift into Titans, their powers will be depended on which shifter they ate
Anyway, I put my monologue aside as I saw my squad approach me, still shaking a bit
My squad got back and as I ordered for them to follow me again
Soon we were on our position as we faced off some titans, well me since they were just used as baits
We continued this on for 1 hour before it finally happened
When they were distracting a titan and I was killing it, they all used the moment they think that I was 'distracted' and deserted me
Those little shits... The moment I see them I will definitely make them regret it...
After I killed the titan I hooked myself to the top of the house
I saw 2 titans approaching me but I just hooked away and tried to look for the others. There's no use holding them back anymore, the civilians must've already evacuated in the inner walls since I heard the bell ring indicating for us to retreat a few minutes after my squad deserted me
I hit my gas lightly and saw that I was getting low on gas, probably 30% left of its capacity and I only have 2 blades left before I'm left undefenseless
On my way to looking others I saw an body that was bitten in half as my face turned to disgust
Anyway I decided to stop flying through and went to the body
I took the persons ODM's gas canisters and blades as I swapped them with mine
The gas I took was still pretty full so I didn't need to worry about gas for now, anyway after taking the gas I jumped away as a titan's hand tried to grab me horizontally as its hand hit a house causing it to get destroyed and shoot out rubbles everywhere
"Attacking someone from behind is a bad habit you know?" I said playfully as I unsheated my blades
Of course the titan just ran at me abnormally as I shot my hook and boosted myself towards it
Before it could grab my hook I unhooked it as it returned to my ODM, The speed of me using my ODM was enough to reach it as I stabbed its eyes with my sword as I let my blade unconnect with my ODM as it was left in the Titans eye
I jumped away as the Titans clenched its hand on its eyes as it screamed out
I then circled it and then boosted myself up to get momentum and then slashed its nape
I was once again covered by the blood of the titan as it evaporated slowly making me look like I'm steaming
Anyway I once again went on to look for the others
After a few minutes of looking around I saw them finally as I landed on the roof they were in catching their attention
They all looked battered up with a depressed look on their faces
"Yo, why the long faces?" I said as I walked up to them
"August, I'm glad... You're safe!" I heard a voice approaching me and when I looked I saw Christa there
Why is she here? She's supposed to be with the supply team if I remember?
Anyway I decided to respond to her
"Well, ofcourse I will or you'll be sad" I said with a smile
Christa just turned her face down as her face turned a bit shy with her cheeks slightly red
Suddenly someone dropkicked me as I rolled a bit on the roof
When I looked back I saw Ymir looking at me
"Stop wooing Christa you loner!" She said with her face showing irritation
"Huh?! The hell you mean by that, no, why did you even dropkick me huh?!" I said as I shouted at her looking irritated
"Because you were wooing my Christa" Ymir said as I looked at Christa who had a slightly red face
Ah, crap
I realized Ymir was right but that doesn't mean I will let her win in this argument so I started to fight back as we both insulted each other
Our antics seemed to lighten the mood as some of the cadets laughed
"This is why you're not so cute at all!", I shouted in irritation
"Huh?! Y-You little..." She showed an agitated expression as she grabbed my collar
And so starts the round 2 of our bickering
"Why are you two here anyway? Aren't you supposed to be with the supply team?
"We were supposed to go back to the wall but Christa insisted on coming to look for her friends so here we are" Ymir explained still looking at me pissed for earlier
"I couldn't let her go alone so I came with her" Ymir continued
"I see..." I then smiled lightly at her which caused her to turn her head awkwardly
Anyway Connie walked at me and talked to me
"Hey August... Glad your fine... Where's your squad at?" Connie asked noticing me being alone
"They got scared and deserted the field, those bastard... I'll make them pay soon..." I muttered the last part
"I see... Those guys also betrayed us huh... Anyway let me fill you in on the current situation" Connie then explained that even though the bell rang, they couldn't retreat because they don't have enough gas to scale the wall. Apparently the supply soldiers got scared and locked themselves into the HQ, they couldn't come to the HQ to refill their gas since they weren't sure that they could reach it before their gas runs out, and...
Looking at the HQ which was still pretty far I noticed tons of titans surrounding it, making, making it there impossible
"We also have lost the veteran soldiers... Making everyone's confidence getting out of here reach rock bottom..." Connie explained
"I see... I understand the situation I will-" before I could finish my words a wild Mikasa appeared
She landed on the roof as she started asking Annie for questions
"Annie have you seen Eren or his squad?" Mikasa asked as she looked around
"No... Though we did see Armin and Mina over there" Annie said as she pointed in a corner where Armin was slumped down looking dazed
My eyes widened since Mina... Was supposed to be dead... That means the world is changing... The future is changing due to my presence huh...
Mikasa approached Armin as he asked where Eren was
Armin looked really scared when she heard Mikasa's voice but after a moment he spoke up
"The cadets of squad 34... Thomas Wagner, Nack Tierce, Milleus Zeremski and E-Eren Jaeger has fulfilled their roles splendidly and fought till the bitter end on the field!" Armin said whilst crying
Mikasa's expression darkened as everyone looked at Armin surprised
"No way... We have no chance of making out of here alive!" Someone said as one by one they all started to panic
Mikasa just ignored the yellings and asked
"If we can retake the HQ then we will be able to scale the wall am I right?" Mikasa asked
"Yeah... But it's impossible" Marco said
"It's not impossible. Because I'm strong, very strong unlike all of you who are here twiddling your thumbs like a baby, I'm strong. I will clear out the way even if I have to do it alone" Mikasa said with her hand raised with her blade
"You can't be serious! You'll die!" Someone said
"If I die then I lose but if I win I'll live it's up to you whether you want to die here without even trying" Mikasa said as she shot her hook and went away
I know that Eren is alive but... I don't know I just hate it. Thinking that I will lose another family
So I started walking to the edge of the roof
"August what are you doing...?" Connie asked
"I will fight. All of you that wants to live follow me, if you wanna die stay here. Get too far away from me then your on your own, I won't wait for you all to come to a decision" I said as I also shot a hook and followed after Mikasa
"You gotta be shitting me...? We have to fight again?!" I heard before I left
Soon I was breezing through the city smoothly since Mikasa was killing titans left and right
Behind me was Armin as we talked and even further back was Connie and Jean and even more further back was the other cadets, I kept an eye on my friends as they were the ones I have to protect no matter what
"Mikasa sure is amazing, she's killing titans left and right... But at how much she is using her gas..." I spoke as I shot another hook
"Yeah, she'll run out of gas soon" Armin continued
I felt my instinct turn haywire as I yelled out
"Armin slow down!" I shouted as he got surprised but did so anyway
Soon a titan came and jumped through a house aiming to eat one of us
He missed as I shot my hook through his nape and slashed it
I then joined Armin back
"That was amazing... If only I have the same strength as you then... Eren wouldn't have..." Armin muttered as but I couldn't hear due to the air lessening his voice
Connie and Jean had similar reactions as they watched me slay the titan as we continued on
Soon we saw Mikasa suddenly started falling indicating that her gas has been used up
"Mikasa!" Armin yelled as he sped up
"Wai- and he's gone" I tried to stop him from using more gas but before I could finish he already left me behind
"I better catch up with them" I said as but before I sped up I gave orders
I then looked behind me as I yelled out
"Connie come with me, Jean take the lead to the HQ and before you go doubting yourself, I know you can do it. I know your strength" I said as Connie nodded at me
Jean tried to say something but closed his mouth after hearing what I said as he nodded
Both me and Connie then took off to the location where Mikasa fell
Soon we saw the two of them on a roof as we both landed infront of them
"Mikasa, Armin are you two okay?" I asked worriedly
The two nodded at me but then Connie spoke up
"Come on you guys we don't have to talk yet, we need to get away fast! Two 15 meter titans are approaching near us!" Connie said as he tried to get our attention
Soon 2 titans came into our view as the two looked at each other
"No... That one is different..." Mikasa said as she looked at a titan who was muscular and had no lips, its eyes were green and his hair is messy long hair, reaching its shoulders
Suddenly the said titan roared at the other as he put up a stance and it punched the other's face making it get separated from its body as it hit a building
The mysterious titan stomped the nape of the fallen body of the titan as it roared in victory
"What the- Why is that titan attacking its own kind?!" Connie said as he looked at the mysterious titan in disbelief
"It also knows a martial arts stance... And it seems to know the weak spot of titans..." Armin said as he analyzed it
"It's better if it keeps on attacking the titans and keeping it off our tail, now lets go, lets not waste this chance to get to the HQ" Connie said
"Wait" Armin halted us as he gave up his blades and gas to Mikasa
He asked for us to leave him but we didn't agree as we said we'll never leave him behind
Soon Connie held his hand as we ran to the direction of the HQ, but then Armin stopped us and said he had a plan
"We might be able to use that mysterious titan to our advantage... It seems to be only relying on its instinct and is attracted to other titans... If we can clear out the other titans then we might be able to lead it to the HQ and make it clear the titans surrounding it" Armin discussed his plan
"A titan as an ally...? Are you serious?!" Connie said in disbelief
"I am, and we have no time to be picky, Armin's plan seems to be the only way for us to reach the HQ" I said as I unsheated my swords and readied myself for takeoff
"Oh, and Mikasa just stay behind me for now since you are pretty hurt from falling to a house, no need for you to push yourself, the same goes for the two of you" I said as I looked at them seriously
"I alone am enough to deal with the titans, as long as they are not in groups at least..." I muttered
Mikasa tried to protest but I just said
"This is no time for you to protest, don't worry I'll protect the three of you after all I am also strong" I said as I smiled at Mikasa
Mikasa just looked at me for a while before nodding
Connie carried Armins as we took off to the direction of the HQ
On our way there I took care of titans that was on the way, leading the mysterious titan to the HQ
Soon it rushed at the HQ and jumped to smash two titans who were peeking inside the HQ
We soon crashed into the window as glass shattered and we all landed
"You four, you're safe!" Jean said as he was sitting in the floor with a shocked expression
"What is that titan... It suddenly punched the two other titans that were about to... Eat us" Jean said hoping for us to explain
Connie then ran to the front as he happily explained the titan like he was bragging about a cool toy to his friends
"Hey, so you were still alive" Annie appeared next to me and spoke in a tone of indifference, though if you look closely then you would see her face showing relief
"Is that how you should greet someone...?" I smiled wryly
"It's how I greet everyone" She immediately said as I deadpanned on her
"I see... Anyway I'm glad you're alive Annie, I might've raged the same way as Mikasa if something happened to you after all" I smiled at her
Annie just looked at me for a moment before responding
"Why are you saying such stupid things, idiot..." She said at me as she turned and walked away
I didn't notice that the tip of her ears is red
"Use a titan you say?! That's absurd! Those monsters can't possibly become our ally" I heard a voice as I turned my head and looked at Jean
"But if we let it rampage around here then we will have time to retake the basement and refill our ODM Gears" Armins said as he looked at Jean
Jean was still showing hesitation so I spoke up
"Jean, I get what you feel but we have no other choice, Relying on that titan is the best chance of us surviving" I said as I looked at Jean
Jean then hesitatingly nodded which made Armin look at him with a smile
Armin then gathered all the cadets together as he explained his plan on how to retake the basement
Basically the plan was all the cadets who have no gas and were unskilled will go down to the basement using an elevator with a rifle and lure the titans to them and then shoot their eyes blinding them, after that 7 of the skilled cadets who will be hiding in the ceiling will go ahead and attack the napes of the titans and ending them all in one fell swoop
Everyone had doubts about this plan but they agreed to it anyway
Armin then shouted at everyone
"Lets make it out of here alive!" Armin said as all the cadets yelled out to agree with him and so the plan was put into action
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A/N: Starting tomorrow the updates will get much slower since school is going to start for me tomorrow and I won't have much time to write as much as before, at most I will only be able to upload 3-4 chapters per week. Sorry for the inconvenience