"Brothers and sister." Pastor Nick starts, as his followers prayed, "Let us pray for the continued strength, of saints Maria, rose, and Sina. May they stand firm. Their grace is a manifestationof our good faith... give thanks to the light of the divine architect. He whose wisdom is the mortar. Who is supplying the love of his creation is the steadfast stone. He, and he alone, protects us On the titan scourge, in proportion to our worship. Verily... innocence and obedience are all he asks—" Footsteps approach the church as the Female Titan, Annie, crashes into the church by Eren's punch. Citizens that were gathered get killed by the Female Titan's crush, except for Pastor Nick
The Pastor whimpers at the sight of Annie and mutters, "No! Impossible!" Annie sits herself up and looks down to see the dead people she killed on accident. Eren charges after her as she pulls herself up and runs off, "dear god!..." Whimpers Pastor Nick, "please! Not the wall!..stay away!" He turns his head to see Eren's feet stomp on the ground as they chase after Annie, causing a debris to push Pastor Nick backward. Citizens run and stay as they watch Annie, Eren runs through the city.
The two continue to chase after her while Armin, Jean, and Hanji land on a roof, watching them leave."well I dare say it looks like our boys in control of himself this time." Hanji refers to Eren as Armin nods, "Yeah. still, though... no guarantee this will turn out any differently than the last meeting" She turns her head to the boys as Jean adds, "Come on, he wouldn't have transformed unless he knew for sure he could take her this time. He's got this, okay?"
"I don't doubt that, but determination alone isn't enough to win a fight. You of all people should know that," Armin tells him before looking at the street. "It'll take more than that to beat Annie- a lot more."
The two continue going after her as a soldier shrieks, "dammit!" "She's making a break for level ground!" Another said "So much for a gear! What now?" The one next to him asked, Hanji and the two boys land to another building as the girl orders, "Split into two teams and go around!" The soldiers nod, "understood!"
And off they went. As the chase continued, Military Policemen quickly put on belts and gears, "cmon! Cmon! Cmon!"
"son of a- where'd they come from?--"They gasp as they see the two Titan Shifters come running to their way. The Military Police move out of the way on time as Annie and eren had finally reached the level ground. Annie turns around and uses her fingers against a building to slow herself down, causing soldiers to fall. She stares at the opponent in front of her as he had stopped running and got in a stance.
'Annie...' Eren starts to think, 'always so cynical.... Like every little thing around you was pointless...' he remembered all those times.' I think worth a second look.' Annie gets in her usual fighting stance, 'every now and then, though, I could see through the act... specially when you were showing off your fighting skills.' The image Of her fighting stance appeared in his head ' maybe hand-to-hand combat didn't count for squat against our final grade back at the academy. But to you? It was a different story altogether.yeah... about that much at least. It was obviously you were a liar. Fightings your whole world, but what exactly are you fighting for? What could possibly have been worth all the death and destruction?!...but most of all....why...' his memory of Latina flashed in his head, every happy moment they spent together, her smiles, her first laugh and others, flashed before fading
'why did you try and take her?!' His titan self roared, and tried swing his fist at Annie as she hardens her elbow from Eren's attack, She goes to kick Eren as he blocks the attack. He picks up her leg and tosses her over a building and into another. She looks up and notices Eren breaking through the building, which makes her move and makes him crash into another.
" oh god..." a soldier muttered" Section commander, I hate to say it, but the city'll Will be debris and corpses before long... even if we manage to catch her" morbilt said while Wayching everything go down "Well then that's how it's going to be!, We are sticking to commander Erwin and donnas plan, got it? So stop babbling and ready the nets" hanji said "Right"
Meanwhile
Drake appeared from around a corner to see her lying on the ground, he gasped and rushed over to her "Mikasa!" Helping her up "Eren...Latina" she muttered weakly which made his eyes widen "Where are they?!" He exclaimed
Meanwhile
Hitch and Marlo we're watching the battle between annie and eren from the rooftops in shock" we didn't sign up for this...they- they didn't say that the Titans fighting in the streets" hitch said "No kidding. This is crazy" marlo muttered
"We've got two of em hashing it out in the streets?"
"Yes sir. The city is collapsing like a House of Cards. It's just... It's horrifying...."
Nile grinds his teeth together as the soldier reporting continues, "We can only guess how many casualties..." Nile shoots his head to Erwin, glares, and raises his gun at him again, "Erwin! Your arrogance has brought hell right to our door!"
"i know," He says, casually, meanwhile bits of Debris few around, millions of citizens screaming, but surprised when all of a sudden plants grew from the ground, lizzy standing on the rooftops smirking from under her hood
"I acted entirely on my own authority. And I offer no excuses." Nile places his gun behind his back, approaches Erwin, and grabs the collar of his cloak
"you knew what this would do to us, you son of a bitch! You knew our lives be damned! Why? Damn you, why?" Erwin pauses before saying " for humanity. For victory" zane was helping an injured couple, the man he was helping limped while zanes arm was around his shoulder surporting him while his wife followed hold their daughter
."Don't give me that!" Nile grabs his gun again and yells, "You're nothing but a traitor! I oughta kill you right here and now! None Of the higher-ups would fault me!" Levi eyes Nile while Erwin responds, "do as your conscious dictates. My post is yours."Nile gasps, confused while Erwin resumes, " the Female Titan must not escape, deployment is through peer. And beirer is in command of provisions. Work with them closely. Do whatever is required to ensure she doesn't-" Nile lowers his gun, "hold, stop it! Shut up!... Do... do you really Believe... this is for the good of us all?" Out there buildings were building, Grayson was speeding around town, with water, trying to put out the fires, while also saving any injured citizens
" I have faith it's a step forward," Erwin declared as this makes a sweat roll down from Nile's forehead. He lower his guns down and announces to the five soldiers, "everyone, lower your rifles. place this man under arrest." They nod, "Sir!" Nile turns back to Erwin, still sweating, "support or trips immediately. As of now.... Focus on evacuation!"The soldiers run off "Yes sir!" getting ready to move the citizens out. "Erwin... I hear by wash my hands of you and leave you to the High Court," Nile starts, "i 'll Except the judgement. Thank you, Nile." Two soldiers approach Erwin and handcuff him as he delivered, Levi begins to walk away, but Erwin turns to him and stops him from moving any further, "Levi. For now, stay here. A pointless death wouldn't suit you" Levi looks down at the ground before looking back at him, "oh, I doubt it would... any more then it suits anyone else" he then turned to Donna " please do the same" he said, she just gave him a look but then sighed " fine..."
" commanders!" Just then oluo shouted from the rooftops " the female titan originally took cadet romanoff hostage!" Their eyes widened" she was rescued but has gone after the two titans!" He yelled " oh my god! She's as stubborn as her father!" Donna grit her teeth
" why didn't you stop her?!" Levi yelled " we tried, but then she chained up eld and Gunter, knocking me and Petra into them before we could catch her! Look at them! We can't break the chains" in view Gunter and eld tried walking but it was hard, especially when they were chained together, Donna groaned again" like I said! Just like her father!" She turned back to Erwin " I'm going after her, sorry"
" wait, I'm coming too!" Nile exclaimed " why the hell should I bring you? You wanted to dissect her the last time!" Donna snapped " I know and I'm sorry! But I'm keeping my promise to victor!" He snapped back making her eyes widen, she got her teeth before saying " fine! But try anything!-" she gave a death glare " and I'll put you in the grave"
Back to the action
Jean and Armin land on top of the roofs, watching Eren going up against the Female Titan. 'To rise above monsters, we have to abandon our humanity. What we fight, we become.....,'Eren charges up to Annie, about to throw a punch at her while she hardens her leg.'fire with fire 'Annie goes and kicks Eren's right leg off..'look at her. Annie can do it!'Annie goes to stand as Eren gets close and tries to throw a punch, but she catches his fist and hardens her leg again, skidding across the ground as he falls on his knees.Annie takes a few steps back as a memory flashes in her head
, 'Annie...' It was her father kneeling down to her level and saying, 'Annie!' She looks at as he begins to jump at her, but she kicks his head, causing Eren to fall against a building.
Annie looks back at Eren and hardens her hand as she starts to punch him furiously and repeatedly, 'I believe in you. I'm always on your side .'She punches him one more time before stepping away.
Steam erupts from Eren's body, she looked like she was gonna hit him again, just then " ANNIE!" She turned and saw Latina on the rooftops ahead of her " your after me! Right?! So leave him alone and come get me!" She yelled, She turns away and starts to run, Annie moved and started chasing her
Eren stays still on the rubbled building, his Titan skull nearly plumished."I...will... kill them....every last one! Every last one!" He smirks inside his Titan body as more buildings crumbled. Annie looks behind her to see eren charging roaring. After hearing the roar, turned to see Eren crawling and jumping to Annie. While he gets closer, Eren jumps over her and grab's Annie by the neck, Latina jumped out of the way before she was grabbed or caught in the tussle, they skidding on the ground
Elsewhere, Mikasa and drake fly to the sound of Eren roaring as she cries, "Eren! Latina!" They both lands next to Hanji and Jean as Armin mutters,
. "what is he-" Hange starts, when Mikasa moves forward."Help him!" she calls out, and Hange stops her."No, with the state he's in, it's probably best that we keep our distance."We look down to see Eren straddling Annie's back, when she sits up, knocking him off her. Eren grabs her face with one hand and squeezes, making Titan blood go everywhere. 'pleas...stop it...' Latina shivered with tears, as Annie cries out loudly, gripping her head before hardening the skin at her elbow and slamming it into Eren.
She kicks him back into a building before standing up, the skin around her fingers hardening as she runs over and jumps onto the wall. "She's heading up the wall!" Jean shouts."She's trying to escape," Hange states, and we run forward and jump off the rooftop.
Eren jumps up and clamps his mouth around Annie's right calf. She kicks him several times and knocks him off her before she continues climbing the wall. " no, no, no! We can't let her get away!" Armin yelled "I won't let her!" Mikasa shoots her wires at the wall, moving at fastest speed.
She swings down and slice through the fingers on her right hand
She stares her down at her as she falls, but jumps and lands on her nose and says " it's over annie.now fall" she stares up at the sky, with a look of fear in her eyes' Annie...I'm so sorry' her father cried ' I don't expect you o forgive me....but please...just please....' her body crashing to the ground below.Eren immediately starts tearing her body apart' stand your ground. Stand your ground, even if the whole world is against you' her arm gets ripped off, sending it flying, along with her head
' die...all of you...everything' eren thought
' they'll despise you..they won't understand...But I will. Your dad always will' Annie's father in her memories said" oh, no! He's gonna devour her whole!" Hanji gasped "Eren! Get back!" Jean yelled "Don't do it!" Mikasa yelled from the wall
' this...is freedom!'
'Promise me you'll return...that's all I ask' Annie's father pleaded " eren! Stop!"violet cried a rushing over "Latina get back he's in crazy mode!" Grayson yelled from where he stood with kanna and Zane, Who had the mouth hanging open in shock
Eren rips her nape off, and reveals Annie inside, just before anything could go any further " STOP!" Latina jumped in front of Annie's body ' Latina! No get away!-". His pupils widen as he notices her crying " eren stop please! Please just stop! Please!" But she then notice his head turned back to annie " what?..." Latina turned and saw the tears falling down Annie's checks
just as she tried to get a closer look, her heel slipped, her hand handing in Annie's cheek and gasped
Flashback/ or backs
' Annie...I'm so sorry' her father cried ' I don't expect you o forgive me....but please...just please....stand your ground. Stand your ground, even if the whole world is against you...they'll despise you...they won't understand...But I will. Your dad always will...Promise me you'll return...that's all I ask...' Another memory flashed, man stood in front of her in an ally next to where the scouts were departing for their mission" all you have to do is kill a few, and find the Cordinate and if possible find the surviving romanoffs...think you can do that kid?" She looked scared as hell, And another, but it was different
" and just to be sure" she gasped when someone appeared behind her, and Jabbed a needle in her neck, injecting something, her eyes became lifeless, and emotionless
But she was alive....
Another flash
" They know who she is, you saw what she did right? They know who she is and they're coming for her if you want to keep her safe, take her with far away from here, make sure they can't find you, if you want me and my partner will sneak you both back when I can..." a hood man said, Annie was shocked but nodded, this time her face wasn't showing fear
Flashess end
Latina gasped, coughing 'What was that, were those memories?...who were those people...'she fell back, not knowing what she saw
" Wha..what's he doing?.." hanji muttered, looking at eren, who wasn't moving at all " what's going on over there?" Drake muttered
"Son of a!-" Nile grit his teeth shielding his eyes from the light along with Donna " what the hell?!"
Then, there was a blue field coming out of Annie as Eren backs away from the light a bit, Latina screamed falling off the back, armin gasps "they're merging?" Eren struggles to escape when he notices Annie crystalizing herself, making Mikasa call out to him and decend, "stop it Eren!" She lands on the ground and stops when she notices Levi coming in and cutting the nape of Eren's Titan body. Eren's human form pops up, "not a good idea to eat our key evidence...you idiot" levi scolded
Everything calmed down. Levi had retrieved Eren as everyone stares up at his Titan skeleton body. They also found out that Annie had sealed herself.
Mikasa grabs Eren by his arms and looks at his face, noticing what seemed to be red markings plastered on him.
He opens his eyes as mikasa and Latina's expression, she was still looking at the crystal, "Eren." Mikasa said, He turns to her, "mikasa? Latina? Is Annie?" She sighs as she turns her head forward in the same direction as her. Eren follows her movements and notices Jean banging on the crytal with his broken blade,
Marco and Zane trying to calm him down. " Damn it! The shit we've been through and this is what we get?!" Jean growls, "Annie! Wake up! C'mon, face the music! You owe us! Don't be a coward! I know you can hear me!"He goes to raise the broken blade again until he felt Levi grab his shoulder, "that's enough." He turns to him, "Its over." Jean looks back at Annie and lowers his hand. Hanji walks over and shouts, "someone get me a wire net! This thing belongs deep underground!"
"understood."Hanji looks at Annie in the corner of her eye, thinking,
'What have we done.. we can't get any answers out of her...And what was the point of all this?...we're left with nothing but countless Casualties, ruins lives, and un answered questions all for what?' Levi walks over to the handcuffed Erwin and passes him a bit before stopping "Well, it was a valiant effort... can't win 'em all though, right?"
"Right. At The very least the scale regiments been exonerated. Sure, by the skin of its teeth, but still."Levi looks over at him a bit before looking away, "Lets hope the brass agrees." Levi glanced to where eren, Latina, armin and mikasa were, with the mps
During the Meeting
"As you might imagine, we have many questions." The District Chief says as he reviews over his notes and looks up at Erwin, who was sitting across from him, "The target identity was beyond all doubt, why would you neglect to request aid from the military police?"
"Digression. We had reason to believe she was operating in conjunction with other insiders. I felt it was necessary to involve only those well Above suspicion, Sir"
" yes. And the price of your discretion was the new obliteration of stohess. Well done" The District Cheif scoulded, " I didn't foresee the damages scale, sir. Blame my incompetence." One of the Pastors who was sitting by the table shouts at him, " claim isn't going to repair my roof,"
Erwin simply continues to answer calmly, "if the Female were left to roam free...the wall was subject to breach. and the damage to stohess Would've Been beyond Devastating."The District Chief nods, " perhaps." He clutches his hands together, "Erwin. You have me grasping at straws to exonerate you. What I need is proof that your tactics you some manner of benefit. Granted, Annie leonheart is rendered innocuous. But Also in essentially useless ." Yes, that she is" the all gasped "Are you saying... it was all for nothing?..."
Meanwhile
They look like roses, so that's what I'm going with.
Purple roses flow within the wind near by window.
Eren lays in a bed, recovering as his friends stay with him. Latina sat herself down on a chair and brought it close to the bed as she speaks, Mikasa next to her, Jean leaning against the wall while Armin just stood next to them
"hey." He turns and looks at her as she takes a moment before saying, " you feeling ok?"He sits himself up, nodding, "Yeah... in fact it's weird how "okay "I feel. So is...annie still stuck in that thing?" His friends nod, "Uh huh." He pierced his lips together as Jean sighs, ". Yeah...you'd think after all we sacrificed to get her back, fate would cut us a little snack
Armin turns to him, "Its humble, knowing how fast you go to keep her secret"
" humbling? More like infuriating."
" why's you let her go, eren?" The four turn to Armin as he looks at Eren" you did...didn't you? You gave her an out"
Eren looks away in shame and stares down at his blanket "I know... I didn't mean to, I... I just couldn't help it, when I saw her face, I just froze..."There was a pause until a soldier came in the room and announced,
"Armin Arlert, Mikasa Ackerman, and Jean Kirstein, You three are up first" Armin turns to the soldier, "yes sir." Jean, again, sighs, "debriefing time" Armin looks over at sarah and Eren and sends them a warm smile, "see you later, I guess."
" sure " eren said " bye Latina, thanks for helping him" Mikasa hugged her " no problem" And so, Mikasa and Armin leave first as Jean stopped at the doorframe, looking behind them before walking off, leaving Latina and Eren alone together.
She glanced at the door before she turns to Eren, who speaks, "honestly...it felt kinda...good." Latina's mouth parted as her eyes popped a bit,
"Just letting go...my body, my mind, everything... For a minute it was almost... Like I wanted to die" Latina shakes her head and saying, "Eren don't say that." He flinches as he slowly turns to her, "Dont worry, I'm better now." Latina studies him a bit before grabbing his hand and placing her other hand on top of his. She lowers her head as he watches her movements
."I'm glad....I'm glad you... came back." He just stares at her and blinks a few times
" eren I've already told Donna to tell commander Erwin, but I think you should know too" he listened carefully " I might have some answers about annie" his eyes widened
" what?.."
" when I slipped and touched annie, I saw flashes of what I think were her memories" she said " did you know you could do that?" Eren asked " No I never did that before..." Latina said confused
"well what did you see?" he asked
" I saw three memories...the first memorise...I think was with her father...he was crying while hugging her...apologising...the second. There was a man with her...it was in ally by the gates...telling her she only had to kill a few scout members...and to be sure she did what they wanted, They injected something into her, and find the coordinate and...the last romanoff...she looked shocked...and...scared..." he gasped when he heard this
" so it wasn't Annie's choice...did you see his face?"
" no he was wearing a hood...but the last memory...Might be the key to why she was taking me..."
" why then?! Why was she taking you?!" He asked desperately ". I think...I think annie was trying to save me..." he gasped "in the Final memory there was another man wearing a hood like the others...But it was almost as if he was warning her...tell her that they knew about me...and that they were coming for me... so she was going to take me far away from here...and hide me..."she said unsurly " what I don't get is who was the man in the last memory, and Why did he tell her this..." she said
" I don't know...but we're gonna find out...whoever's after you...I won't let them take you" he let his hand lie on hers, she looked up smiling, which he returned
Outside the building
Armin, Mikasa, and Jean walk together as Jean says," I can't get my head wrapped around it. This whole fighting fire with fire business or whatever. Is that really the only option we've got?" Armin glances at him while Mikasa looks up at the sky." not necessarily. Just the only one that presented itself. And now we know Eren can do it"
Armin asserted as Jean goes silent for a second before claiming, " yeah, well... if it's that easy for the fight to turn us all into monster... then maybe we don't deserve to win." Armin looks away until he notices a feather fly down he looks over his shoulder to see Mikasa staring up at the two birds from five years ago.
Back inside the building, food was placed on Eren's bed, " go on, Eat." Latina directed, He looked at the bread in his hand as there was silence
Jean had looked over to where Mikasa and Armin were looking at as the blonde-haired boy says, "No one ever promised us we'd come out of this unscathed."
Back to the meeting room
"for nothing?," Erwin says, as he was still at the table, "I believe this latest tragedy has moved us forward by leaps and bounds, Sir!" Meanwhile, eren was munching on his bread and eating his soup " not long ago, we hadn't imagined the possibility for humans transforming into Titans. Now, we are not only aware of the Enemy within our mits we've managed to capture one of them. Make no mistake, there are more out there. And we will hunt down every last one. The initiative is ours. starting now... we launch an attack on the Titans within our walls!
Scout regiment recalled to the capital, and eren and Latina's incarceration were Rescinded. Stead, commander Donna told commander Erwin about Latina's discovery. She would be brought there whenever to try and help find a way to set her free, and find the answers she needed about the men in her memories...the capitals were charged with guarding annie leonhart in her holding cell, Deep underground, where they kept strict vigil. Day and night. Sadly, however.... It would take a longer time. And cost a great many more lives.... For humanity to discover the true nature...of What it held captive
Latina picked up erens tray and started walking out, she spares a glance back before placing the tray back down my the door, walking back and placing a small kiss on his forehead, pulling away smiling ' thank you eren, for saving me' before looking towards the key he still wore around his neck