Eren, back out of his gear, and Mikasa were finishing clearing the plates and bowls from the tables from dinner inside the mess hall. It took what felt like forever, but they managed to get it done. As the two made their way to the kitchen to place them in the sink, Pinkie Pie appeared in the doorway.

“Pinkie Pie,” Mikasa greeted, “what are you doing here?”

“When you’re done with that,” she said, “I need you to come with me. There’s something we all need to talk about.”

Without another word she left, leaving Eren and Mikasa to wonder what she could have possibly wanted.
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Pinkie Pie led Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Sasha, Conny, Reiner, Bertolt, Krista, Ymir, and Hanji, who was in her Military attire minus her cloak, to the entrance to the storage room.

“So what’s this all about, Pinkie Pie?” asked Conny.

“I’ll tell you once we get inside,” she answered, “now come on!”

Pinkie Pie opened the doors. To the confusion of the humans, none of the torches were lit. Once all the humans scrambled in, Pinkie Pie shut the doors behind them, confusing them further. Not long after, Twilight casted a spell that shot off in many multiple directions, causing all of the torches to go alight.

With the room fully lit up, the humans could finally see what was here. On a table to the left, there was a bowl of purple-colored punch, a ladle inside of it, with glass cups set all over the table and a barrel next to the table. On a smaller table behind that table was a record player with a record already inside of it. To the right, there were plates, napkins, and a large assortment of cupcakes of variously colored batters, icings, and sprinkles. Behind this table was a large pink cake that was decorated in care.

Further in the back, there was a wide, wooden tub half-filled with a layer of apples bobbing inside of it and a poster of a blue, cartoony earth pony with a purple cloth pinned to it by a felt pony’s tail with a pin on the other end.

The rest of the room was strewn with banners, balloons, streamers, and confetti. Also, a large banner was placed between two pillars above the two tables that read, “CONGRATULATIONS ON JOINING THE SCOUTING LEGION!!” Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Spike stood in the center between the tables as Pinkie Pie jumped into the air.

“Surprise!” each pony and Spike shouted.

None of the humans could make heads or tails of the scene, but Eren looked at the bright clutter in front of him with sheer terror.

“Guys,” he asked. “What is this?”

“It’s a party!” shouted Pinkie Pie. “Haven’t you ever had a party before?”

“How did you… You need to put this away! Levi will get angry if he sees this.”

“Why?” asked Twilight, stepping forwards. “He approved of it.”

“What?”

“Last night, after we had our talk in here, Pinkie Pie and I talked to Levi and convinced him to throw a party in the storage room.”

“How did you do that?”

“Pinkie Pie and I set up a list of all the things we would need and presented them to Levi. Of course, he immediately refused.”

“And that’s when I came up and promised to clean everything up after it was over!” Rarity chirped.

“And then the next morning, we’d have everything that was non-disposable sent back to Equestria; it would be like the party never happened!”

“So, he knows about this?” asked Eren.

“Yes,” replied Rarity, “and after I had a chit-chat with him, he allowed it and gave his signature!”

“What’s this even all about?” asked Conny.

“What’s this party even for?” asked Sasha.

“It’s for all of you, silly!” exclaimed Pinkie Pie. “Now that we’re all in the Scouting Legion together, I thought that we should celebrate! Now come on! Let’s PARTY!!”

Pinkie Pie stretched her arms impossibly far out to rope in Sasha and Conny, pulling them to the tables to try her treats. The others began to walk about, wanting to see this party in full. Sasha’s eyes followed Spike, who went to the cake table to grab himself a chocolate cupcake, licking his lips as he walked away with it. Upon seeing the pastries before her, Sasha’s eyes glistened like diamonds and her mouth began to drool.

“Are these cakes?” whispered Sasha in pure excitement.

“Sure are, smarty-pants!” answered Pinkie Pie. “Had them shipped over all the way from Sugarcube Corner in Ponyville.”

Sasha, with trembling hands, reached for a vanilla cupcake with white frosting and purple sprinkles. She inserted the cake inside her mouth, and upon tasting its sweet deliciousness, she shoved the whole thing in her mouth, tears streaming down her face. Little by little, she swallowed bits of the cake until her mouth was empty again. She then grabbed Pinkie Pie by the arms and lifted her up.

“Can I please have another?” she whimpered.

“Help yourself!” Pinkie Pie giggled.

“THANK YOU!”

With the likeness of a starved lion, she grabbed another cupcake in each hand and began chomping down on one while she held the other one for later. Meanwhile, Jean and Conny stood near the punch bowl as Jean ladled some in a cup for Conny and himself. Conny didn’t wait for Jean to take a sip, instead pouring the entire contents into his mouth.

“Damn!” shouted Conny. “This drink is good!”

“It’s a special recipe from the Canterlot palace,” said Fluttershy, approaching them. “At least that’s what Pinkie Pie said.”

Jean looked down at her, seeing her shy face cringe away as if she was scared that she interrupted them.

“Fluttershy,” Jean said, “would you like some?”

“Huh?” she wondered, soon giving Jean a smile. “Thank you, Jean. That would be wonderful.”

Jean smiled back, happy to help his friend in any way. Reiner and Bertolt made their way towards the Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Pony game in the back, confused by its purpose.

“What do you think this is for?” asked Reiner to his companion.

Bertolt could only shrug. Applejack walked up to them, laughing at their naivety.

“You’ve never heard of Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Pony?” she asked. “Boy, are you missing out! I’ll have to show you a bit later! The game’s always the most fun in a crowd.”

Applejack walked from the oblivious duo, leaving Spike to join them. Applejack made her way towards Eren, Mikasa, and Armin, who were gathered by the bucket of floating apples, grabbing a fruit from it and ready to take a bite as if that was the intended purpose.

“Oh, come on!” complained Applejack playfully. “Don’t tell me all y’all haven’t heard of Bobbin’ for Apples!”

“Well,” admitted Armin, “we haven’t.”

“Why would there even be apples in a bucket?” Mikasa asked.

“Aw shoot!” Applejack responded, sitting by the tub. “It’s a lot of fun! Just dunk your head in and…”

Applejack submerged her head in the water with her mouth aimed at an apple, pulling it out with her teeth around it. She then fit the whole apple in her mouth and munched on it, swallowing it whole.

“Alright, Mikasa,” urged Applejack, “why don’t you give it a go?”

“I…” she tried to say, still unsure of the point.

Mikasa then looked into Applejack’s face, thinking about the lengths these ponies went to make this party happen. With a sigh, she knelt down to the tub.

“Alright, then,” she silently relented. “Here it goes…”

Mikasa set her face in the tub, trying to bite at an apple. However, upon biting down, her teeth only managed to push it down further. A little frustrated, she made another go, only for the same thing to happen. For what it was worth now, it was her mission to make sure she got that apple if it was the last thing she did.

Jean, still hanging with Conny and Fluttershy by the punchbowl, glanced over to see Mikasa doubled over the bucket. Fearing the worst, he ran over.

“Oy!” shouted Conny. “Jean, where are you going?”

As Conny ran to where Jean was, Fluttershy followed the both of them to the apples. While neither Jean nor Conny could figure out what was wrong, Fluttershy gave a sigh of relief. Mikasa eventually pulled her head up with the apple clamped in her teeth, taking a massive inhale. The water from her hair whipped up and splashed Jean’s shirt. Conny and Applejack couldn’t help but giggle.

“Atta’ girl, Mikasa!” Applejack cheered, patting her on the back. “Good work!”

“Hey!” shouted Jean. “What’s the big idea? You’re puking over here and now you’re getting me wet with it?”

“Huh?” questioned Applejack. “Mikasa wasn’t sick! She was just bobbin’ for apples!”

Mikasa triumphantly took a bite of the apple she retrieved, standing back up and moving beside Eren.

“Bobbing for apples? What?”

“Here, Jean,” Fluttershy said, moving to the tub. “We’ll do it together!”

“Do what together? I don’t even know what this is for!”

“It’s just a game. We put our heads in the water and try to pull out an apple. It’s fun!”

Jean sneered at the bucket, but upon looking up and seeing Mikasa’s expectant face as she ate her fruit, Jean sighed and knelt to the tub.

“Alright, fine,” he conceded.

“Great!” cheered Fluttershy in a hushed tone. “Last one to pull one out is a moldy carrot!”

“Huh?”

Fluttershy already dunked her head in, fishing for an apple. Jean wasn’t sure what a “moldy carrot” was, but he wasn’t going to back down from a challenge. He put his head in and bit for an apple, only to be as successful as Mikasa first was. He made another reach, only to bump it back down into the pool.

“Damn it!” he garbled in the water.

He made another dunk, opening his mouth as wide as he could, finally securing a hold on one. Once he pulled his body out of the water, he looked triumphantly to Fluttershy, only to be dismayed at seeing her already have one in her mouth, giving him a suggestive look. Jean grunted in defeat as he took the apple from his teeth and tossed it back in.

“Hey!” Conny concluded. “This actually looks like fun! Hey, Armin!” he called, pointing to him and himself. “You, me.”

“I…” Armin stammered, putting his hands up, “I think I’ll just watch.”

“Balderdash!” Applejack exclaimed, pushing down on Armin’s shoulders and making him kneel down. “You’re gonna’ be a part of the fun too, ya’ hear?”

“Alright, Armin!” Conny laughed. “That’s the spirit!”

Applejack smiled upon seeing Armin smile as he begun to enjoy himself. Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie was with Reiner, Bertolt, Spike, Ymir, and Krista at Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Pony. Bertolt was blindfolded while holding onto the tail-pin.

“Alright,” Pinkie said, her arms behind Bertolt, “now I spin you around…”

Pinkie Pie twirled Bertolt around, making Ymir giggle at the mess Bertolt would soon become.

“…and then, off you go!”

Pinkie Pie shoved Bertolt towards the poster. With his lack of vision and his dizziness from spinning, Bertolt wobbled to and fro as he tried to find his footing. Spike snickered slightly while Ymir laughed heartily.

“Bertolt!” shouted Ymir. “You look like the biggest ass right now!”

“Yours will be soon once I shove my foot up it,” Reiner warned, offended by the remark to his friend, forcing Spike to stifle his laughs.

“Jeez. Talk about gruesome.”

“Come on,” Krista told Ymir. “He’s trying his hardest!”

“That he is. That he is…”

Bertolt finally made it to the poster, pinning the pin where he thought it should go. Once he did so, he lifted the blindfold off, but was disheartened to find that he pinned the tail in the pony’s eye.

“Oh,” Spike exclaimed, “tough break.”

“Ha!” shouted Ymir. “You missed!”

“You should take a turn!” Reiner egged. “You seem to know what you’re doing.”

“Like hell that'll happen!”

“You should try it, Ymir!” Krista requested. “Just look at how much fun Bertolt had!”

Despite still not walking completely straight from his spin, Bertolt rejoined Reiner with an identifiable smile on his face. Looking back at Krista, Ymir sighed.

“Give me that stupid pin,” she demanded.

Sasha continued with yet another cupcake as she held a cup of punch. Hanji looked upon the record player, intrigued by the alien contraption. The only thing she was sure about was the crank. She gave it a few turns, wondering what it would accomplish. Once she stopped turning it, the record on the player began to spin.

“Hmm,” wondered Hanji. “And what about this lever?”

Hanji picked up the needle and lifted it up and down again, sure that it would do something. When it didn’t, she then looked at the sharp point in the needle and the grooves inside the record. Curious, she placed the needle on the record. Suddenly, loud, poppy music began blaring out of the horn, scaring Hanji and knocking her to her rump. Sasha nearly choked on her cupcake with the volume of the music.

“Hey!” Pinkie Pie shouted. “I forgot all about that!”

Pinkie Pie walked up to Hanji, who was still on the floor while the nearby Sasha, took long, crucial inhales after clearing the cake from her throat.

“What are you doing on the floor?” asked Pinkie Pie. “Parties aren’t very fun when you’re sitting!”

Hanji grabbed onto Pinkie Pie, pulling herself up and using her for support.

“Thanks, Pinkie Pie,” she said.

“That’s better!” encouraged Pinkie Pie. “Now come on! There’s too much fun to be had!”

Hanji looked over at the apples bucket, where Rainbow Dash was taking Eren on to the cheers of everyone else near it, including Twilight, who was standing next to Armin. Seeing it as the more lively of the two games, she happily reconvened back there. Rarity walked up to the lonely Sasha, observing the bits of cake on her face as she turned to face the white unicorn.

“You certainly seem to like the cakes,” she said.

“With things having gotten as they have,” responded Sasha, after a hard swallow, “there hasn’t been too much in the way of food. Usually, cakes are something only the king could afford to eat. But to have them here… I can’t thank you enough for doing this!”

“Well, you should be thanking Pinkie Pie, well, at least her employers. They’re the ones who made them.”

“I wish I could go to your world!” Sasha relented. “Everything must be so much nicer there!”

“I wish you could too, more than anything, but how would you feel just abandoning your friends like that, especially at a time as dire as this?”

Sasha wasn’t quite sure how to answer to that. She knew what Rarity was getting at, but it was hard to admit it. She opted for a different approach.

“Do you know why I went to join the Scouting Legion as opposed to the Police?” Sasha questioned. “That day in Trost, when you saved me from the titan in the storage room, I felt indebted to you. Not only that, but I was scared that if I joined the Scouting Legion, I would get eaten. Then I remembered your rescue, and how much safer I felt when you were beside me.”

Rarity cocked her head with slightly pursed lips, touched that Sasha thought of her that way.

“So, in other words, I guess you’re right. I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for my friends… It’s just that… sometimes, I get so scared.”

Sasha tried to fight her tears. To keep her from crying and dampening the mood of the party, Rarity walked over and rubbed her head into the side of Sasha’s waist, showing her love for her. Sasha’s tears stopped upon feeling Rarity’s touch as she looked back down to her.

“You’re a very sweet girl, Sasha,” Rarity confessed. “And you don’t need to feel scared. Joining the Scouting Legion was quite a brave decision on your part, and if you were a good enough soldier to be able to join the Military Police, you can’t be all that bad of a soldier.”

Sasha continued to frown, knowing that in the long run, it wouldn’t save her if a titan eventually caught her.

“And don’t worry,” Rarity further assured her. “I’ll be sure to let no harm come to you while you’re with me.”

Sasha finally smiled, knowing she made the right choice. She knelt down and gave Rarity a loving embrace, Rarity returning it by putting her arms over her shoulders and nuzzling her face against Sasha’s.

“Now come on,” Rarity egged, walking around and poking Sasha’s lower back with her horn, “let’s put that appetite of yours to good use at the apple bucket.”

As Ymir was being spun by Pinkie Pie at Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Pony, she looked over to see the apple bucket heavily populated with people and her friends, which only grew with the arrival of Sasha and Rarity.

“Wow!” Pinkie Pie commented, pushing Ymir off to the poster. “Bobbing for Apples is really popular!”

“Really?” Ymir exclaimed, taking the blindfold off and trying to walk to the bucket, using it as her one excuse to leave. “Then I guess I should go over there!”

“Ymir!” called Krista.

However, despite Ymir’s restored vision, her dizziness from her spin made her lose her footing, causing her to fall forwards onto her face. Spike couldn’t help himself as he fell to his back, laughing uncontrollably. As Krista ran to help her up, Ymir instantly grumbled knowing that she just gave Reiner easy ammunition.

“HAHAHAHA!” Reiner bellowed. “Now look who’s the biggest ass!”

Reiner and Bertolt, seeing the dwindling numbers from the Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Pony game, also made their way to the bucket, Spike following them as he grabbed his stomach, still howling with laughter. Krista helped Ymir up, who held her head where she fell.

“Thanks, Krista,” Ymir sighed. “Come on, let’s go with the others.”

With Ymir and Krista gone, Pinkie Pie was left by herself.

“Hey!” she cried out, going over to the rest of her friends. “Wait for me!”
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With the loud music livening up the party as everyone crowded around the apple bucket, they all cheered Reiner as he challenged Applejack at the game. Both of them dunked their heads in, sloshing their faces inside the water for their intended apples. Ymir laughed, unable to imagine the two as anything other than two pigs in a trough. However, Reiner pulled his head out of the water with an apple firmly in his teeth. The humans, ponies, and Spike cheered, just as Applejack pulled out an apple of her own. Having lost, Applejack grumpily spat the apple back in.
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As Jean and Conny made a go at the apples, Mikasa, Eren, and Armin were by the food, helping themselves to a slice of cake provided to them by Pinkie Pie. Eren and Armin were happily talking about the cake while Mikasa merely observed as she ate her slice, smiling uncontrollably with how tasty the cake was. Sasha wearily and hungrily made her way for the cake too, wanting nothing more than to have a nice, large wedge herself.
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Everyone was gathered back at Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Pony where Pinkie Pie spun a blindfolded Hanji around in circles. Hanji was having far too much fun to care, smiling widely as she was eventually set out by Pinkie Pie to pin the tail in the proper place. Hanji stumbled in her dizziness, but kept proper footing as she slowly but surely made her way towards the poster.

There was laughing and merriment going on from the audience as they looked to see Hanji coming in and out of line to her target. She then felt the poster underneath her hand, allowing her to pin the tail wherever she thought was correct. She lifted up her blindfold, only to be elated to see the tail stuck right at the top of the pony’s rump.

“Yahoo!” shouted Pinkie Pie, prompting the others to cheer.

“I did it!” cheered Hanji as she jumped up and down victoriously.
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Sasha and Rarity were going at each other at Bobbing for Apples with Eren, Mikasa, Reiner, and Bertolt watching while Jean was spun by Fluttershy at Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Pony, all to the enjoyment of Ymir and Krista. Pinkie Pie and Twilight were dancing near the record player, kicking their right front legs and left back legs and switching in repetitive motions. Conny, Hanji, Armin, and Spike danced beside them in a similar fashion for their bipedal structures. The humans’ dancing was awkward, but no one could tell the difference from their joyous, carefree faces.

By the time the song ended, they all stopped, panting for a little breath. Pinkie Pie went up to Hanji, who stood hunched over with her hands on her knees.

“Hey,” panted Pinkie Pie, “could I ask you a favor?”

Hanji acknowledged her, ready to know what she wanted to do.
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Erwin was at his desk in his office, writing out revisions to his formation and plotting where each new recruit and the ponies would go. Mike stood behind him observantly as Levi leaned up against the wall next to the office door, out of his cloak. There was suddenly a knock on the door, bringing everyone inside out of their concentration.

“Come in,” answered Erwin.

“Could you open the door for me?” asked Hanji’s voice. “My hands are a bit full.”

Levi stood up straight as he opened the door for Hanji. In her right hand, there were two plates with a wedge of cake with a forked speared into it and a napkin below it. The left hand held another cake and fork with a napkin underneath.

“Hmph,” Levi grunted, “don’t you know it’s too late for sweets?”

“Pinkie Pie knew how busy you all were, and she felt awful that you weren’t able to attend, but she wanted to at least give you each some cake.”

Erwin smiled, thankful for Pinkie Pie’s generosity and kindness.

“Thank you, Hanji,” Erwin said. “You can leave them with me.”

Hanji did as she was told, placing the three plates at the back of Erwin’s desk.

“You are dismissed now,” Erwin told her.

“Yes, sir!” Hanji said, putting arms into the salute, walking out soon afterwards.

Erwin, grabbed a plate in each hand, offering one of them back to Mike, who sniffed it with slight suspicion.

“Sir,” Levi spoke, “you do know how late it is, right?”

“I am aware,” Erwin said with a smile, “but even I know not to look a gift horse in the mouth.”

Levi grumbled at his pun, but continued to lean back into the wall. Erwin looked to his napkin to find a piece of paper folded over it. Unfolding the paper and reading it, Erwin grinned at Hanji’s job well done. Putting the note beside him, Erwin placed the cake beside him and cut himself a bite. Upon eating it, he made a contented humming noise and resumed his plans, pairing each of the ponies with the recruits that Hanji suggested on the sheet.
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Gunther, Erd, Petra, and Auruo were sitting in the dining room, enjoying a late cup of tea when a knock was heard. Petra ran up to lift the wooden bar locking the door and opened it, revealing Pinkie Pie standing on her hind legs, her front hooves spinning two plates each on short wooden poles with a slice of cake on it and a fork speared into them.

“Hey, everyone!” she greeted.

“Careful, Pinkie Pie,” Petra said, grabbing two of the spinning plates, and placing them to the nearest table, “you’re going to drop those.”

Gunther, Erd, and Auruo watched with interest at the plates as Petra took the final two and placed them on the table by the others. Upon seeing the frosted wedges, Auruo sneered.

“Hey, Pinkie,” Auruo called out, “it’s too late to be eating that kind of shit.”

“I’m sorry,” Pinkie Pie said with genuine remorse, “but I know how you said you were too busy for the party, so I wanted to at least bring you some scrumptious muntious cake!”

“That’s very kind of you,” Petra said, grabbing all four plates and bringing them to her friends.

“Hey!” Auruo shouted. “Didn’t you hear me? It’s too late for cake.”

“Come on,” Petra grumbled to the ungrateful Auruo. “Cake is a luxury now. We can indulge just a little, especially when we're getting it for free.”

Petra, Erd, and Gunther all took bites of the cake to sate Pinkie Pie. However, they were caught off guard by how good the cake actually was, their eyes widening and lips smiling.

“This is excellent,” Erd complimented. “Thank you very much, Pinkie Pie.”

“You’re welcome! Well, I’m gonna’ go join my other friends. See ya’!”

“Bye, Pinkie!” waved Petra as the pink mare trotted out.

Auruo still looked at his cake with disgust as Gunther, Petra, and Erd continued eating. Seeing that they wouldn’t stop, he relented and ate a bite for himself. Auruo’s eyes widened and his lips pursed in surprise as he found his hand already cutting another bite.
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With the party getting late, the energy of the soldiers was starting to run low. Many people were even starting to move away from the games and food and towards the exit to the storage room. However, there was one last thing Twilight wanted to do to cap the party off.

“Wait guys!” she called, getting them to stop. “We want to make a toast!”

“A toast?” asked Eren.

“What kind of a toast?” asked Armin.

“Come here,” Twilight beckoned, lifting the barrel of punch into the air.

As the humans gathered back around, Twilight tilted the barrel towards the punchbowl, refilling it with more punch. One by one, she went to grab some leftover cups on the table and dip them into the punch bowl, filling them up and giving one each to the humans, ponies, and Spike, and then finally herself.

“Gather ‘round, everyone,” Twilight declared. “I have some words I’d like to say before tonight ends.”

Everyone gathered in a tight circle with their cups in hand and hoof.

“It’s been about a week since we all met, and I can safely say that I’m glad that I met each and every one of you, and we, as I’m sure the rest of the Scouting Legion, are very glad you decided to join them. While these will probably be our last moments of peace and tranquility before we resume our training, just know that I and each of us ponies still values each and every one of you as true friends.”

The humans were very moved by Twilight’s speech as the ponies and Spike merely smiled back, knowing her words to be true.

“Come tomorrow,” concluded Twilight, “we become soldiers once again. But now, and forever more, we will always be the best of friends. To the Scouting Legion!” cheered Twilight, lifting her glass up. “To mankind!”

“To mankind!” Eren cheered, lifting his glass to Twilight’s.

“TO MANKIND!” everyone else cheered, bringing their cups together.
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After a hard month of training, exercises, and strategic studies, the soldiers were all ready for their next, for some their first, scouting expedition. Bells rung throughout the Karanese district as a long line of geared-up Scouting Legion soldiers, human, pony, and dragon alike, and supply carts, all carried by horse, were standing by at the street that led to the gate. Each of the ponies stood by a human partner. Applejack stood next to Mikasa, Twilight by Armin, Fluttershy by Jean, Pinkie Pie by Conny, and Sasha by Rarity. At the very front of the line, Erwin led his soldiers with Hanji to his left and Mike to his right.

“Sir,” Mike said, “it’s almost time.”

“We’ve driven all the titans away from the area!” called Ness near the front, anticipating the soldiers further. “Thirty seconds until we open the gate!”

Levi and his men surrounded Eren and Rainbow Dash in a star formation. Levi was right above Eren, Petra and Auruo stood beside Eren behind Levi, and behind the two of them was Erd and Gunther. Spike held was mounted right behind Levi, the former grabbing onto his cloak for something to hold onto.

Eren looked determinably ahead until he heard wondrous sighing coming from his left. Looking to his left, both Eren and Rainbow Dash saw as two small boys, no older than ten, peered through the windows of the house next to them with excited smiles. One was a tad larger and had messy brown hair and s chipped tooth. The other had blonde hair in a bowl cut.

“It’s the Scouting Legion!” sighed the blonde haired kid. “And those ponies are with them!”

“They call the emblem on their backs the Wings of Freedom!” said the other kid to his friend/brother.

“Wow…”

Eren smiled with pure nostalgia, remembering when he himself used to look upon the Scouting Legion himself with awe and respect at their age. Rainbow Dash then put her hoof out to the boys, letting them both know that she appreciated their support. The two boys gasped happily and put their fists against the window at seeing one of the soldiers, it being one of the ponies no less, acknowledge them.

“It’s time!” called a black-haired soldier with sideburns from the middle to the soldiers behind him, forcing Eren and Rainbow Dash to turn back towards the front. “Humanity will take another step forward! Show me what you can do!”

“YEAH!” shouted a mass of soldiers raising their fists or bladed devices into the air.

“Yeehaw!” Applejack in particular shouted with her front hooves kicking out.

“Open the gate!” shouted a soldier near the front.

A large, stone door with the red-and-green crest of a stoic queen began to rise up from the ground, the large spikes pulling out of the dirt with tremendous force and noise. As the gate opened further, clumps of dirt and grass fell down before the awaiting Erwin, Hanji, and Mike. Finally, the door, raised as high as it could go, stopped with a massive thud.

“ADVANCE!” Erwin shouted.

His horse bucked out its front legs, but using the downward momentum, galloped forwards. Hanji and Mike’s horses galloped out next, followed by the soldiers and ponies one by one as they went out to leave the safety of Wall Rose and enter the titan-ridden plains.

“We will now begin the 57th expedition beyond the walls!” declared Erwin, his face displaying fierce, unquenchable determination and drive. “ONWARD!!”