The female soldier continued to stand perfectly still with an astonished expression on her face as she scanned the six pastel ponies and dragon, still unsure if she was hallucinating or going crazy, or both. In size, the tops of the ponies’ heads looked to be at about Mikasa’s neck.

“What’s the matter with you?” asked Rainbow Dash, eliciting another slight gasp from the woman. “Don’t tell me you haven’t seen a pony before?”

The woman’s face didn’t change, even with the alien pony chastising her.

“Ponies don’t talk, or fly, or have horns, or have blue coats,” she said firmly, taking Rainbow Dash aback. “Either way, as strange as you all are, I need to go and climb the wall, so farewell.”

The woman began to run off, and just as she was about to launch a grappling hook at a tall building, the voice of Twilight called to her.

“Wait!” she cried, the woman stopping in her tracks and turning back to face them. “Please, let us come with you. We’re here to help you.”

“What help could you possibly be for us?” asked the woman in a completely straight tone. “People are losing their lives as we speak, and the more time I spend talking with you, the more people I fail to save.”

“Then let us tag along,” spoke Applejack. “We promise not to be a burden!”

“Pinkie promise!” added Pinkie Pie, placing her hoof on her right eye.

As badly as the woman wanted to just go off without another word, she knew that abandoning them, no matter how strange they looked or acted, would be a spit in the face of all of the training she received to join the Military. Turning her body while keeping her eyes trained on them, she addressed them.

“Fine. You may come with. Just don’t expect my other allies to be as accepting of you as I am.”

“We can manage,” Rainbow Dash smugly replied.

“Thank you, Ms…” spoke Twilight, failing to produce the woman’s name.

“Ackerman,” she answered. “Mikasa Ackerman. Now hurry. We haven’t a moment to lose.”

Mikasa launched her grappling hook at the building, quickly reeling herself in once the hook latched in, heading towards the northern border of the city.

“Come on girls,” rallied Twilight. “The fight to save this world begins now!”

Twilight grabbed Rarity’s suitcase with her magic and allowed Spike to mount her back. Once she was settled, she began to fly in the same direction as Mikasa. Rainbow Dash scooped up Applejack underneath her armpits and followed Twilight. Rarity was picked up by Fluttershy, who seemed to be having a harder time carrying her pony than Rainbow Dash was with hers. Pinkie Pie, however, bounced along the streets, and while not moving nearly as fast as the others, her little smile signaled her confidence that she would eventually arrive.
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Mikasa landed upon the slanted roof of a taller building near the north end of the city, providing her a good view of the entire district south of her. Within a few seconds, Twilight, Spike, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack perched themselves onto the roof next to Mikasa, the latter giving the four present creatures a nod in thanks for keeping up as promised.

Fluttershy came in soon as well, albeit heavily panting with Rarity in her grasp as she dropped her friend off next to the others. Mikasa looked to everyone present, but realized that one was missing.

“Where’s the pink one?” she asked.

“Right here, silly-billy!” chirped a voice right behind Mikasa.

Mikasa quickly turned around to see Pinkie Pie standing right behind her. While surprised by her sudden appearance, it didn’t seem to faze Mikasa very much, being much more concerned with the scene around her.

Despite the evacuation bell being sounded off to signal the Military to scale the north wall of Trost, she saw several of her Military members on the roofs, terrifyingly conversing with each other.

“I don’t understand,” she muttered to herself.

“You don’t understand what?” asked Applejack.

“They must have heard the bell that signaled a temporary evacuation, so why isn’t everybody scaling the wall?”

“Mikasa!” shouted Spike, pointing at a taller and much more regal building. “Look!”

Mikasa turned to see where the dragon was pointing, and the sight made her shiver slightly in fear. The building was surrounded on all sides by titans that were climbing the building’s walls and reaching into the top floor of the building, clearly knowing that humans were inside.

“That’s…” she muttered.
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On top of another roof of a long building, several soldiers with crossed-sword crests were assessing the situation of the titans that were scaling the walls of the other building.

“Shit!” yelled a smaller male soldier with a shaved head. “What do we do?”

“There isn’t anything to do,” responded a sitting soldier with short, sandy hair, sporting a nervous expression. “The order to evacuate finally came, but we're unable to climb the wall because we’re out of gas. I guess we’re all dead, thanks to those cowards."

"You mean the support squads? What happened to them? Are they dead?"

“I can understand their feelings that they lost the will to fight, but they shouldn’t have abandoned their supply mission and holed up in HQ. The titans are gathering, so we can’t get over there to replenish our gas.”

The sandy-haired man bowed his head in despair, which got a rise out of the smaller soldier with the shaved head.

“Okay then!” he shouted. “The only thing we can do is to go all out on those titans over there! The result is going to be the same if we just sit around here! The titans will be all over us here too, and if we keep trying to run away, it’ll just waste the last bit of gas that we have left! Once our mobility is gone, then it really will be all over!”

“I'm glad to see you using your head for once, Conny,” responded the sandy-haired man with drained enthusiasm, “but do you think we could take them on with the forces we have left? Most of the vanguard has been wiped out. Which one of us cadets can take command of a desperate operation like that?

“Well, I guess that doesn’t matter, since even with a leader, we wouldn’t be able to do anything against the titans. I bet there are three-to-four-meter tall titans in the supply room alone. Of course, we can't fight them inside there."

This news came as a shock to Conny, who was now beginning to realize the direness of their situation.

“No way,” he spoke, the despair sinking into him as well, “you think...?”

The sandy-haired man took a long, desperate sigh, knowing that his and his comrades’ ends were near.

“I had such a boring life,” he said, placing his hand upon his forehead. “I guess if it’s gonna’ end like this… I might as well say–”

“Let’s do it!” shouted a female soldier with dark maroon hair in a short pony tail to her other comrades. “Everyone, come on! On your feet! If everybody works together, I’m sure we’ll make it!”

It was useless. The other Military soldiers were too demoralized and depressed to continue onwards. With the titan threat closing in and their supplies running dangerously low, it seemed that all hope of survival blew away into the wind.

“E- Everyone…” the woman tried to cheer again, but her previous enthusiasm was suppressed by a lack of response from her comrades.

She then turned her attention to the golden-haired soldier whose friend was eaten by the bearded titan, who sat up against the wall of another level of building, his eyes red and devoid of any positive emotion.

“Armin,” she said, bending her knees slightly and leaning forwards to look at his already downtrodden face. “Let's get together and...”

Armin was powerless to do anything. Having to watch his friend get eaten by a titan, he couldn’t even muster the strength to look the woman in the eye. Four soldiers in particular watched the scene with similar dread, but with a stronger sense of a positive outcome.

The first was a short, but mature-faced woman with piercing ice-blue eyes. Her hair was short being tied into a knot that clung to the back of her head, albeit a couple of bangs that hung down the sides of her forehead. Under her Military jacket, she wore a white garment with a thick, comfy hood that hung on her back.

The second man was a tall, well-built man with a square jaw and short, blonde hair. He wore a forest-green shirt underneath his jacket. The man next to him was taller by about six inches. He was slender with black hair and a greyish-green shirt underneath his jacket. Of the four people standing by his side, he looked the most passive and emotionless.

Lastly, there was a man whose height was in between the woman’s and the blonde-haired man. His hair was black and medium-length, and he wore a white, collared shirt underneath his jacket. Another notable feature about him were the freckles below his eyes. Together, the four of them discussed a plan.

“Reiner,” spoke the woman, “what do we do now?”

“We wait,” answered Reiner with a slightly-confident air. “We must group up first.”

“It's over,” spoke the average-heighted man, “no matter what we do, we'll all be dead before we can make it out of here. It’s not like we weren't prepared to die…”

He paused, deep in thought.

“… but what the hell are we dying for?”

The high pitched whir of retracting metal wires began to sound in the air, having the soldiers turn and see who it was. Many were relieved to see Mikasa approach while others were surprised. However, any of these feelings turned to confusion and fear upon seeing the seven creatures flying behind her.

“What the hell?” shouted the sandy-haired man.

“Mikasa!” yelled Conny as he pointed. “Behind you!”

“Prepare your swords!” Reiner ordered.

Mikasa landed before the soldiers, who were all ready to attack the approaching ponies. She quickly stood up, drawing out both of her swords in defense. As each of the ponies landed one by one, they got close behind her one-person shield.

“Put your weapons away!” she called out. “These ponies do not mean us any harm. Do not fear them.”

There was excited and nervous chattering amongst the soldiers who couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Armin, however, looked upon them with a heightened sense of awe.

“Ponies?” questioned a soldier.

“They don’t look like any ponies I’ve ever seen!” called another.

“That one has wings!”

“And look at the color of their fur.”

“Are they real?”

“What are they?”

“One of them is a unicorn!”

“That’s impossible!”

Standing up, the sandy-haired man looked dead into Mikasa’s eyes, his actions temporarily silencing the other soldiers.

“Mikasa!” he asked. “Where did these freaks come from?”

Rainbow Dash, taking heavy offense to the word “freak,” began to flutter closer to him.

“Who are you calling a–”

“Get back!” the man shouted, raising his his sword and pointing the end at Rainbow Dash’s snout.

The other soldiers murmured even louder on hearing the pegasus speak.

“Jean!” shouted Mikasa at her comrade.

Rainbow Dash was not threatened easily, giving a sly smile before she swiftly swung her left foreleg to the right, knocking Jean’s sword out of his hand. Using the momentum from her swing, she spun her body in a circle to the right and delivered a kick to the right side of his neck with the back side of her right hoof.

As Rainbow Dash expected, the sight of their comrade falling down in pain caused them to raise their swords once again. She used the opportunity to try and swoop back behind Mikasa, but Conny quickly aimed the front of the handle of his sword at the cyan pegasus. Clicking the one of the buttons on it, he launched his grappling hook at it with a puff of gas escaping the back of his device.

Rainbow Dash was surprised at the impulse of the young man, and knew she wouldn’t be able to dodge the hook, forcing her to shield her face with her hooves as a last means of defense.

“Rainbow Dash!” shouted all of her friends.

However, the chink of metal hitting metal followed by a slight ring sounded out. Rainbow Dash looked to see that another grappling hook on a wire had shot up from below and deflected Conny’s own hook. Looking down, Rainbow Dash was relieved to see that the rescuing hook belonged to Mikasa. Taking no more chances, Rainbow Dash quickly zipped down to the roof next to her friends and behind Mikasa.

The other soldiers gasped at Mikasa’s willingness to save the alien pony, even as Mikasa retracted her wire back into her waist as if nothing happened. Conny reeled back his wire with slight disdain on his face.

“Mikasa!” shouted Conny. “Why are you protecting that… thing, even after it attacked Jean?”

“Jean insulted her and then threatened her life,” Mikasa explained simply. “She had every right to act the way she did.”

“You…” grunted Jean to Conny, still weak from Rainbow Dash’s blow, “you idiot!”

“What?” Conny responded. “I was just trying to protect you!”

Jean found the strength to quickly sit on his knees and reach for Conny’s jacket.

“And for what cost?” Jean hissed, pulling Conny closer to him by his jacket. “You already have little to no gas as it is. How much do you think you burned with that stunt?”

Conny, now realizing what he did, grimaced and grunted in shame.

“Shit…” he muttered.

“What…” began Reiner, suddenly reminding himself how intelligent that they must have been if one of them could speak fluent English. “Who even are all of you?”

“Can I trust you to disarm yourselves for the time being?” asked Mikasa, her arms and swords still spread out.

The soldiers looked to each other reluctantly at first, but knowing how smart and notable Mikasa was to them, they slowly slid their swords back into their sheaths. Seeing that they were no longer in a position to attack, Mikasa lowered her arms and stepped aside, allowing the soldiers to get a good look at the ponies, now looking upon them with the same awe that Armin had been doing.

“Ponies,” Reiner called, “I am Reiner Braun. I shall be conversing with you. Please, state your names!”

Twilight stepped forward, allowing her to be the ponies’ spokesperson.

“Hello,” she greeted as warmly as she could to the hardened bunch. “My name is Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Spike.”

A few of the soldiers couldn’t help but snicker, including the maroon-haired woman, whose laugh came out more as a giggle. Twilight on the other hand, was not happy, looking directly at the soldiers who made the sounds.

“I’m sorry,” spoke Twilight with a malicious edge to her eyes, “does something amuse you about our names?”

Remembering how fast and strong the rainbow pegasus was, the snickering soldiers, reminded of their harsh training, instinctively put their feet and legs together, put their left arms behind their backs and level with their waist while placing the right side of their right fists to their hearts in salute.

“No ma’am,” one of the soldiers blurted.

“Nothing at all!” said another.

Just as it seemed that the ordeal was behind them, a voice broke out from behind the soldiers, causing them to part a path to single out whoever spoke. It was the maroon-haired woman

“I’m sorry!” she shouted, bowing down. “I didn’t mean anything!”

“Sasha!” whispered one of the soldiers. “Pipe down!”

“Do you want to get us in trouble?” asked another.

As Sasha further explained herself, she walked down the path her comrades made and approached Twilight, who was intrigued with her sincerity.

“I wasn’t laughing at you; honest. You see, unicorns and pegasi are creatures of myth, and to see them standing before me, it’s just… it’s just very exciting is all! It’s just when I heard your names, I was anticipating getting to meet you all, and it must have come out as laughter, and for that I apologize.”

“What does she think she’s doing?” asked the short blonde-haired woman to herself.

Sasha was close enough now to the ponies that she could offer them a handshake, which she attempted as she held her hand out to Twilight, who recoiled slightly at her exuberance.

“In fact, let us start over. My name is Sasha Braus. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Twilight Sparkle.”

Sasha resisted the urge to giggle again, but she knew that the formal greeting with a real life unicorn was too extraordinary to resist. However, she managed to hold it in, allowing Twilight to place her hoof in Sasha’s palm and allow her to shake it. Sasha couldn’t help but beam, as she moved on to the next pony, Rainbow Dash.

The other soldiers were amazed at how well the ponies were taking to her, especially the rainbow-maned pegasus that incapacitated their comrade just minutes ago. Mikasa even gave a small smile as Sasha carefully examined Rainbow Dash’s wing by gently pinching both ends with the fingers on both hands and pulling.

“I don’t believe it!” Sasha exclaimed. “A real pegasus wing.”

“Heh,” chuckled Rainbow Dash proudly. “Just wait until you see them in action!”

“Sasha!” Reiner called. “You can make friends later. We need to finish discussions!”

“Right!” she called out, stepping back in line with her other soldiers as fast as she could.

“Now,” Reiner addressed. “Why are you here?”

“Might I ask you something first?” called Twilight.

“Of course!”

“What is your kind, I mean, species called?”

“We are humans! And the larger creatures that you might have seen are called titans.”

“I see. And to answer your question, you might not believe us…”

“Try me.”

“Anyways, we have been sent from our home world to assist you and the humans against the titans."

More excited murmuring ensued.

"Yes, it's true. My friends and I do not come from this planet that you call..."

"Earth," answered Reiner.

"Thank you, Reiner. My leader found this world and wishes to converse with you also, sending us seven as ambassadors of sorts. However, we can better discuss this during a less trying moment.”

“Agreed. Now, if you want to assist us, help Annie, Bertolt, and I construct a plan to get to HQ.”

“Is that the building swarmed by the titans?”

“Yes. We’re running low on gas to power the devices on our person and that’s the only building that’s storing refills.”

“I see, let’s discuss.”

As Twilight reached Reiner, the short blonde-haired woman named Annie, and the tall black-haired man named Bertolt, Applejack took a look at all the soldiers, but one caught her eye. Through the path that the soldiers made, she could see Armin sitting with his back against the wall, his eyes still red from his crying.

“Huh?” questioned Applejack. “That’s the youngster we saw before we came here.”

Applejack trotted over to Armin, followed by Fluttershy and Rarity. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash were talking to Sasha while Twilight discussed a strategy with Reine and Bertolt while Annie just listened in. Upon seeing the three ponies come closer, Armin began seizing up with fear again. Seeing them go towards her friend, Mikasa ran to him as well.

“Mikasa…” whimpered Armin.

“Calm yourself, sugar,” cooed Applejack, lying down on her stomach with her two friends to both look at Armin and to make themselves appear more friendly, “we ain’t gonna’ hurt you.”

“Armin,” spoke Mikasa, kneeling down to his eye level. “Are you hurt? Are you alright?”

Armin couldn’t speak to her without choking up once again, yet alone look her in the eye.

“I’m sorry, Mikasa,” answered Applejack, “but before me and my friends came here, we watched as one of his friends got eaten before his very eyes.”

Mikasa gasped.

“Is that true?” she asked Armin. “Who was it? Is Eren okay?”

“Eren?” asked Fluttershy. “Who’s Eren?”

“He’s my…” began Mikasa, trying to properly pick her wording, “brother. Now, Armin. What happened to Eren?”

Armin’s eyes began to water again, hardly able to relay the terrible news.

“Our unit, the 34th cadet unit…” he sobbed, tears freely running from his face. “Thomas Wagner, Nic Tius, Mylius Zeramuski, Mina Carolina, Eren Jaeger… those five carried out their mission… and died bravely in battle…”

Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy’s mouths fell open. The rest of the soldiers and ponies heard the news as well, ceasing all actions and words as all attention went towards the two humans and the three ponies there.

“No way…” whispered Sasha, haunted by the news.

“So almost everyone in Squad 34 was wiped out,” surmised Jean aloud, “and the same thing will happen to us if we fight the titans.”

Armin’s tears began to pour down his face again, resulting in Fluttershy’s own tears to bleed from her eyes.

“I’m sorry, Mikasa…” he wept. “Eren… sacrificed his life for me, and I couldn’t do anything. I’m sorry…”

Mikasa’s expression remained blank as Armin mourned his friend. Applejack scooted closer to Armin, allowing her to rest the side of her head on his chest as a form of consolation.

“Oh, Mikasa, Armin…” whispered Applejack, her own eyes beginning to water, “I’m so sorry for your losses.”

Seeing the pony comforting him, Mikasa walked to Armin, knelt down and grabbed his hand.

“Armin,” she spoke, allowing Armin to look her in the eye. “Calm down. This is no time to be getting emotional. Now, stand up!”

Although Armin’s crying stopped slightly as she helped her friend up, the ponies, along with Spike, were shocked by the lack of a reaction from Mikasa.

“Marco,” she called to the freckled man with black hair, “if we take out the titans that are surrounding the HQ, we’ll all be able to restore our gas and scale the wall. Am I correct?”

“Y– Yes,” stammered Marco. “you’re right. B– but even with you with us, there's just too many of them…”

“I can do it,” Mikasa interrupted.

“Mikasa,” spoke Twilight, trotting to her friend, “you can’t do this alone. Even if you’re as strong as you say you are, you against those many titans…”

“I said I can do it!”

She rose her sword into the air getting everyone’s attention.

“I’m strong, stronger than all of you; extremely strong!” she bellowed. “I can kill all those titans there, even if I'm alone.”

Mikasa slashed her sword down, making her arm and her sword parallel to the ground. Each and every word that she had said was like a painful pinprick in each of the ponies’ ears, which was only made worse by her cold voice and cold personality.

“You're either incompetent or you're all just spineless cowards,” she continued. “How pathetic. You can sit here and suck on your thumbs for all I care."

“Mikasa?” shouted a female soldier. “What are you saying?”

“You mean to engage all of those titans by yourself?” asked a male soldier.

“It’s impossible!” called another male soldier.

Mikasa was silent for a second, the ponies on edge as to how she would respond.

“If I can’t do it,” she finally spoke, “I’ll just die.”

Upon hearing her say that, the ponies and Spike made a collective gasp.

“But if I win,” Mikasa concluded, “I live. If I don’t fight, I can’t win.”

Without another word or second for her comrades to rebut, she shot a grappling hook from her waist at a faraway building, quickly being reeled away in a puff of gas that was emitted through her gear.

“Wait!” cried Marco, reaching outward.

“Mikasa!” yelled Twilight.

Upon seeing her get farther and farther Twilight began to feel pangs of guilt and depression.

“She just…” Applejack muttered. “She just brushed off the death of her own brother like it was nopony.”

“And then she just goes off to die,” said Twilight.

“She may have always been a smart fighter,” said an enraged Jean, stepping next to Twilight, “but she really has a rotten way with words. I’m sure that she meant to light a fire under our asses like that… Eren,” he whispered, “this is your fault…”

A spark then lit up in Jean’s eyes as he pulled out his sword and aimed it at the building that Mikasa had latched to. With a squeeze of his fingers, the hook at the side of his waist went flying out.

“Jean?” questioned Twilight.

As the hook was placed into the wall, he turned back around and faced his fellow soldiers.

“HEY!” he shouted at the top of his lungs. “Were we taught to let one of our own fight alone? All of you really will make spineless cowards of yourselves!”

With a final click of his button, Jean was pulled off by his wire, flying up to assist Mikasa.

“Well,” sighed Reiner, smiling slightly, “who would have thought he of all people would say that?”

Reiner, Annie, Bertolt, and an exasperated Marco looked upon Jean with expectation, leading them to bring out their swords and swing towards Mikasa and Jean. Others, becoming more and more inspired by their bravery, ran out to join them.

“Hey, cowards!” loudly egged Sasha. “Wimps! Dummies!”

“Yellow bellies!” continued Pinkie Pie, standing on her hind legs and punching her hooves in the air. “Lilly-livered liver lilies!”

Sasha looked at Pinkie Pie with a slight hint of surprise, only to receive a bright confident smile in return, sure that her words helped. Sasha also gave Pinkie Pie a warm smile as more soldiers ran off.

“Come on, girls!” rallied Twilight. “We’ve got a building to siege!”

“Aw yeah!” Rainbow Dash cheered. “Let’s do this!”

Spike mounted Twilight once again as she grabbed Rarity’s bag and flew off. Rainbow Dash picked up Applejack and flew fast enough to soar alongside the fellow soldiers. Pinkie Pie galloped off as fast as she could while effortlessly bounding from rooftop to rooftop, impressing the remaining soldiers.

“Fluttershy,” said Rarity, “do go on without me. I don't want to be a burden again.”

“Huh?” questioned the now flustered Fluttershy. “How will you–”

“I’ll carry her!” shouted Sasha. “Now go!”

Comfortable with knowing that her friend would not be abandoned, Fluttershy flew out as fast as her wings could carry her.

“Hop on my back!” Sasha called to Rarity, squatting down for her to climb on.

Rarity did so promptly, wrapping her arms over her shoulder and breast while wrapping her legs around her torso. Sasha stood back up and fired her hooks out to the buildings far in front of her.

“Now, tell me, darling,” spoke Rarity, “how fast does this thing go–”

Sasha rocketed off the roof and followed to where Mikasa was heading, followed by Rarity screaming, "WwwAAHAHAAAAAA!!”

They're nuts, thought a male soldier, soon realizing that taking action was the only option left. "Dammit," he muttered. "Let's do it!"

“YEAH!” shouted the rest of the soldiers, all careening forwards to take back their headquarters.

Soon the rooftops were buzzing with the Military and the ponies as they raced on, hoping that there was still time to save the day yet.