Hannes looked in horror as the Armored Titan neared the approaching titan wall.

“Everyone!” he shouted. “Jump off at once!”

Everyone on the Armored Titan leapt off of it, keeping theirs hooks attached to its hardened skin as they used their gas to carefully lower themselves back onto their horses below. While Mikasa and others landed perfectly, Armin missed and headed towards the ground, only for Twilight’s aura to catch him and lift him to his horse.

“Ah,” Armin breathed. “Thanks, Twilight.”

“Don’t thank me yet,” Twilight responded, “we have other things to worry about now.”

Historia peered over Ymir’s titan’s head, looking at the approaching titans with apprehension. Erwin and his horse managed to pass by the Armored Titan, marking the perfect time to act.

“All units,” he ordered, “disperse! Pull away from the titans!”

The other soldiers increased their pace and split apart as the Armored Titan picked up speed of its own and ran at the titans as fast as it could. Just as the last of the soldiers and Luna’s guards ran past the Armored Titan, they looked back and watched in incredulity as the Armored Titan tucked its body down and rammed several titans using its back, still keeping its hold on its neck.

Eren, Rainbow Dash, and Bertolt were hurled forwards, tumbling about the Armored Titan’s hand as it tried to keep its footing. Ymir’s titan and Historia were forced upwards as Ymir’s titan held on for dear life with one of its clawed hands while Historia gripped tight to Ymir’s titan’s hair.

As the Armored Titan trudged over the titans it knocked down, a passing titan saw Historia in Ymir’s titan’s hair. Quickly turning around, it reached for Historia, who upon seeing it, screamed in terror.

“Historia!” cried both Ymir’s titan and Ymir inside her titan’s ripped neck.

Ymir’s titan grabbed hold of the other titan’s arm and pushed it back and away from Historia. The Armored Titan began to fall, forcing Ymir to pull itself up on the titans arm and swing around onto its back. As Ymir’s titan bit down onto the titan’s neck and tore its nape out, the Armored Titan was overrun by titans as they each bit on various parts of its body.

Armin and the other soldiers looked back as they retreated along with Erwin and the other soldiers from his division. Erwin pulled on the reins of his horse, slowing it to a stop. The others stopped as well while Twilight, Fluttershy, and the pegasi stallion guards all landed back onto the ground, looking at the chaotic scene before them.

“What is this?” Jean wondered. “Is this hell?”

“No!” shouted Erwin, his thunderous voice scaring the nearby Fluttershy. “This is the beginning!”

Erwin pointed his sword forwards and cantered around his soldiers.

“All units, charge!” he ordered, confusing the others. “The fate of mankind will be decided this very moment! Without it, the future of mankind will be forever lost! Once we take Eren back, we’ll return at once! Pledge your hearts!”

With that, Erwin galloped forwards towards the scrum of titans. Mikasa and the others galloped out towards the titans as well, their blades drawn and ready to strike. Hanji and Kirill shared one last look to each other as they galloped towards the Armored Titan with the whole of their army

“Well, Hanji,” goaded Kirill with a smirk, “you still think you can beat me in a hunting contest?”

“Should be easy considering I fight them on a regular basis,” retorted Hanji proudly.

Hanji and Kirill reached out for each other, clasping their hands one last time before they reached back towards the sheaths and pulled out their blades, finally ready to fight.

“OOOOHHH!” the soldier whooped as they approached the fray.

Several of the Military Police members stayed behind, unsure of their suicidal tendencies.

“Have the Scouting Legion finally lost it?” wondered the black-haired Military Police soldier.

“Look out!” cried a blonde-haired Military Police soldier as he galloped towards him.

It was too late, and the black-haired soldier didn’t see the fifteen-meter titan as it sucked him into its mouth off his horse.
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Inside the nape of the Armored Titan, Reiner grunted as he tried to shake the mounting titans trying to eat it off its body while still keeping Eren, Bertolt, and Rainbow Dash safe. Outside, Ymir’s titan clawed and bit away at many of the titans’ necks killing them while Historia watched, stunned and passive. In the Armored Titan’s hands, Eren, Bertolt, and Rainbow Dash could hear the terrifying commotion outside.

What’s going on? thought Eren.

Inside the Armored Titan, Reiner devised a plan.

I can’t move… Reiner thought. I have to get these titans off, or things are only going to get worse from here.

Bertolt saw as the fingers of the Armored Titan tensed up. Knowing what was going to happen, he grabbed on to the nearest plating he could.

Hold on, Bertolt, Reiner thought.

The Armored Titan put its hands off of its neck and pushed them out to the sides, shoving a couple of the titans near its head and punching others in front of it. Rainbow Dash used her opportunity to fly out and up in the air, observing the situation.

Just a bit longer, Reiner hoped. Just a little bit longer…

The Armored Titan managed to get onto one knee as it tried to break away from the titans bogging it down. Jean and Mikasa looked upon the front of the Armored Titan’s neck as Bertolt and Eren stayed put by the plating on its chest, now fully exposed.

“There he is!” Jean shouted. “He let his hands go!”

“Now’s our chance!” Mikasa declared.

“Mikasa? Can’t you see that they’re surrounded by titans? How would anyone even be able to get over there and pass all of those titans?”

Twilight immediately thought of an idea, her eyes brightening and her mouth opening in pleasant surprise. With swiftness, she flew out beside Rarity.

“Twilight?” Rarity questioned. “What are you–”

“Never mind. Just follow my lead, alright?”

Twilight flew out faster so that she was ahead of the army just below Erwin.

“Sorry, Sasha,” called Rarity to her friend as she picked up her speed, “but Twilight needs me.”

Sasha nodded, looking back forwards at the titans up ahead that now turned their attention from the Armored Titan and towards the approaching soldiers. Sasha gulped in apprehension. As Rarity galloped out just below Twilight, Erwin threw his sword out to his right.

“Advance!” he ordered.

Just as Erwin was about to pass a small collection of trees to his right, a seven-meter titan hopped out from them on all fours, and opened its mouth. Before Erwin could pull his arm away, the titan lunged forwards and bit down on Erwin’s arm, knocking him off his horse. The soldiers, shocked by the titan’s sudden appearance, juked to the left to avoid it.

“ERWIN!” shouted Twilight as she looked back.

“ADVANCE!” he bellowed, his pain only serving to raise his voice. “Eren is right before you! Advance!”

As the other soldiers passed him, the titan crawled in the opposite direction with Erwin’s dangling in its mouth by his bleeding arm. As several soldiers, including Auruo and Annie, stayed behind to take on the titan that took their leader, Twilight and Rarity looked back towards the fast-approaching titans ahead, angered for their injured leader.

“Oh,” hissed Rarity, “it. Is. On!”

“Spike,” called Twilight, “hold on tight!”

Rarity leapt up into the air and launched a hook at one of the center titans’ chests. As she reeled herself in, she equipped to blades to her operational device shoes, her eyes trained on its neck. Twilight veered slightly to her left towards the left side of the wall of titans coming at them, Spike hugging her neck. Using her magic, Twilight pulled all eight blades from her sheaths and held each of them in a pair.

Rarity, seeing this caught on as well. Using her own magic, she pulled out her remaining six blades and held them in a similar fashion to Twilight, focusing on four of the titans in front of her as opposed to the one. All at once, Twilight and Rarity soared towards their targets, their focus peaking as they watched for any sudden moves.

As Rarity flew over the first titan’s shoulder and detached her hook, she swung her blades at the back of the neck, cutting the nape. Twilight swooped over her four targeted titans and flew towards their backs. With their attention still focused on the humans, Twilight had perfect views of their napes. Flying back in, her blades fanned out to strike. With a grunt, Twilight’s magic swung her blades at four of the titan’s necks, killing all four of them at the same time.

As Rarity’s first kill began to fall dead towards the ground, Rarity shot another hook into the back of the falling titan’s head, having its fall pull her towards the other titans. With her three pairs of free-floating blades aimed at two titans on her left and one on her right, she found a seven-meter titan below her, raising the blades in her hands up as she descended down towards it. With the blades in her magical grasp moving in tandem with the blades in her shoes, she swung her arms out, cutting the nape of the seven-meter titan while the other three titans she found were felled by her other blades.

Luna looked as Twilight and Rarity landed on the ground, smiling at their skill. As Twilight and Rarity placed their blades back in their sheaths, they stood still, panting over the extensive use of their magic and strength.

“Hey!” Levi shouted up ahead as he and the other soldiers approached. “Get going!”

Rarity quickly turned on her heels and galloped back forwards. Twilight leapt into the air and swooped back towards the Armored Titan.

While many of the soldiers at the center were able to pass through the gap that Twilight and Rarity had created, soldiers along the outside still had titans either in front of them or to their sides. On the left of the approaching titans, Kirill and Hanji galloped out ahead of their group, hopping on the backs of their horses with bladed handles in hand.

Jumping off their horses, Hanji went out to a titan near the outer end of the swarm while Kirill launched a hook into the side of the neck of the titan closest to the gap while jumping to his left. Reeling himself in, he swung around and up over the titans neck, landing on the back of a titan further towards the center of the left third of the swarm, there being three titans in between the titan he stood on and the titan he swung from.

Slashing the neck of the titan he stood upon, Kirill reeled himself towards the inner titan, slashing the napes of the other three titans that he passed by and finishing with the inner titan he swung from, falling down with it and landing upon the titan’s back. With his blades too dull to use, he discarded them from his devices and inserted new ones. As Kirill ran back to his horse, Hanji swung down and ran beside him towards hers.

“How many you kill there?” asked Kirill.

“Three,” she answered.

“Ha! Five for me.”

Hanji and Kirill hopped on their horses and followed the remaining soldiers passing through the ever-widening gap.

“You really should have joined the Scouting Legion,” Hanji said. “You would have made a valuable addition.”

Kirill scoffed at the remark, but Hanji and Kirill decided to keep their gaze forwards. Shining Armor and his guards led the attack off on the right third of the swarm.

“Alright, unicorns,” Shining Armor ordered, “charge!”

The unicorn guards galloped forwards while pulling their sheaths out of their blades. The guards ran past the occupied titans and swung their blades at their ankles, cutting the tendon and knocking them down. The soldiers along the right, including Petra, Jean, Mikasa, and Applejack, jumped off their horses and onto the fallen titans. Jean, Mikasa, and Applejack flawlessly cut their titan necks, but as Petra swung her newly fashioned blade into the titan’s neck, she was horrified to see it get caught halfway through.

“What?” Petra gasped.

As she took her blade out of the titan’s neck for another slash, she felt a titan’s hand constrict around her. Petra screamed as she struggled to break free, the titan’s hand approaching its mouth. Suddenly, a rainbow colored blur kicked the titan in the head, the sheer disorientation forcing the titan to let go. As Petra began to fall back towards the ground, Luna swooped up from behind her and grabbed her in her arms.

“I’ve got you, Petra,” Luna declared.

As Luna fluttered to the ground and let Petra off her off, Petra’s horse returned to her side. Rainbow Dash swooped down next to Luna as she faced Petra, who placed her blade back into her sheath.

“You okay, there?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“Yes,” panted Petra as she pet Luna’s neck with her hand, “thanks to you.”

“Perhaps you shouldn’t be fighting this battle,” Luna advised, “but you are certainly brave to go against a titan with only one arm. Now, we must get Eren. Make haste!”

Luna and Rainbow Dash flew back towards the Armored Titan while Petra quickly mounted her horse and galloped behind Luna and Rainbow Dash. With most of the titans cleared, the soldiers could pass and get close to the Armored Titan, who still struggled to hold off the titans behind it. Mikasa’s horse galloped ahead of the group, its rider’s eyes focused solely on Bertolt and Eren.

Jumping off her horse, Mikasa launched a hook at the Armored Titan’s shoulder, flying up and towards it. Bertolt, seeing her as she launched another hook at the Armored Titan’s jaw, screamed out and crouched down fearfully. As Mikasa reeled and swung herself towards them, Bertolt pushed off the Armored Titan’s upper chest, just missing Mikasa’s blade as she swung at the cloth tying Eren to him.

As Mikasa set to launch another hook and swing towards Bertolt and Eren, she saw Eren’s face, his eyes widened in fear and shock. Mikasa looked to her left to see a titan reaching up for her, its fingers already passing over her body. Mikasa couldn’t react in time, the titans hand grasping her and squeezing her body. As Mikasa wriggled to break free, she suddenly felt a painful crunch in her ribs, forcing her to scream out.

“Mikasa!” Applejack shrieked.

“You bastard!” shouted an approaching Jean. “Let go of her!”

Jean launched a hook at the center of the titan’s chin, reeling himself towards its face. With a strong thrust coupled with his speed, Jean jammed the sword into the titan’s eye. The titan let go of Mikasa, leaving her falling to the ground. Before she could land, Applejack jumped galloped up and jumped right below her, allowing Mikasa to ride her back as she safely landed back down and galloped away to a safer, open area.

As the titan tried to reach for Jean, a pink, yellow, and green blur whizzed by and left behind a bloody spurt from the titan’s neck. Jean couldn’t believe who saved him as he landed back on the ground and looked up to see Fluttershy.

“Oh dear!” exclaimed Fluttershy as she saw the blood on her hooves. “I’m sorry, Mr. Titan. I couldn’t let you eat my friend!”

“Never mind that!” Jean shouted. “Let’s just get Eren back so we can go home!”

“Ah! Right! I’m sorry!”

Jean and Fluttershy looked back at the Armored Titan as Bertolt and Eren landed back on its chest. The two watched as a Scouting Legion soldier and a Garrison soldier flew up towards Bertolt, their hooks right below his feet. Before they could reach him, the Armored Titan chopped its hand down on the wires, causing the soldiers to be flung back to the ground, their legs breaking under the force of the impact as they tumbled limply on the ground.

“Oh no!” Fluttershy wailed.

“We’ve already made it this far!” Bertolt shouted at the scrambling soldiers below. “We’re taking Eren back home with us!”

The Armored Titan kept its arm down, allowing Bertolt to jump onto it. Eren looked about at the numerous bodies lain about the ground or being devoured by the titans that were lucky enough to capture them.

Shit, he thought. At this rate, everyone’s going to die, all because I got captured.

Armin swung up to the side of the Armored Titan’s head, which went noticed by Bertolt and Eren, the latter of whom was surprised by his friend’s arrival.

“Bertolt!” shouted Armin.

Just then, he saw Erwin, his right arm severed off from the upper bicep down, Auruo, and Annie riding towards the Armored Titan on their horses. Armin smiled, gaining an idea.

“Don’t make us cure you kicking and screaming like we did Annie!” Armin threatened.

Bertolt’s eyes went wide as he heard her name. Eren had no idea what Armin was talking about, but with his mouth tied up, he stayed silent.

“That’s right,” continued Armin, “she wouldn’t come over on our side willingly! We each took turns beating her senseless, and after that didn’t work, that Auruo guy said they were going to kill her dad if she didn’t comply!”

Bertolt, brought past his breaking point, turned out towards the soldiers and reached his operational device towards his sheaths, ready to draw a blade.

“You sons of bitches!” cried Bertolt. “I’ll kill you!”

In Bertolt’s blind rage, he neither heard or saw Erwin’s hook pierce into the Armored Titan’s chest as Erwin reeled himself towards Bertolt. With his left hand, Erwin slashed his sword up at Bertolt’s chest, cutting the cloth holding Eren to him as well as slicing his chest. With Eren free, he began to fall down towards the ground.

“EREN!” shouted Rainbow Dash.

Using all of the speed she could, she zoomed towards Eren and caught him under her arms, huffing once as she tried to manage is weight.

“I gotcha’ bud,” she assured him as her eyes began to water.

As Rainbow Dash flew away near the ground, Armin swung down off the Armored Titan’s head while Erwin leapt back to the ground where his horse, bucked around, frightened by the chaos all around it.

“All units,” shouted Erwin, “pull back!”

At once, the remaining soldiers, including Jean, swung to their horses, and quickly galloped back north. As the Armored Titan, still held down by the number of titans upon it, reached out desperately for any one of the fleeing soldiers, it roared out in anguish. It then looked at Bertolt, who hung from his Maneuver Gear wire weakly, groaned as he saw Eren escape them.

Beside them, Ymir’s titan struggled to hold back a titan that was pinning it down. No matter how hard it pushed against the titan or gripped its neck with its claws, it could stop the titan from trying to kill it. Historia swung just over the titan’s neck on her Maneuver Gear and slashed at the titan’s neck with a shrill battle cry. Historia landed onto the ground and swung to the side of a tree where she watched Ymir’s titan push the dead titan off of it.

“Whoa,” she breathed, “my very first titan kill. But how is Ymir–”

Before she could finish her thought, she felt something scoop her off the tree as she fell and landed on something else that seemed to carry her. Turning over, Historia could tell by the pink coat of the pony that she was riding that Pinkie Pie was one of her rescuers. Looking to her left, she saw Conny riding beside them on his own horse. Ymir’s titan, seeing Historia taken from her, roared out viciously and sprinted off towards her.

“What are you doing?” shouted Historia.

“We’re getting you out of here!” Conny answered.

“Being surrounded on all sides by titans is no place for us to be!” responded Pinkie Pie.

“No!” Historia protested. “Let me go!”

“What?” both Conny and Pinkie Pie exclaimed.

“If Ymir doesn’t bring me with her, Reiner and the others are going to kill her!”

“What?” asked Conny. “Ymir said that?”

“YES! Now let me go!”

“Of course she’s going to say that! This is the same Ymir that singlehandedly confronted an entire legion of titans to save you, so of course she’s going to want you by her side at all times. Look, I don’t know how they’re going to kill Ymir, but I do know that you’re safer with us than you are with her and all of those titans. Even I can understand that!”

*PWWSHH*

A hard, striking sound was heard behind them, and as they turned back to see what it was, Conny, Historia, and Pinkie Pie were stunned to see a fifteen-meter titan hurled into the air to the east where Conny knew the others were.

“What they shouted out!”

As the other soldiers looked behind them, the saw the titan falling right towards them. Armin and Twilight were both terrified to see where the titan was landing: directly over Rainbow Dash and Eren.

“Rainbow Dash!” shrieked Twilight. “Watch out!”

Rainbow Dash looked behind her to see the titan just a few meters above her. Unable to slow down, speed up, or ascend in time, she steered herself to the right. However, the titan’s body struck Rainbow Dash upon the legs, throwing her off balance as both she and Eren tumbled to the ground.

“EREN!” Mikasa screamed.

“We’re comin’!” Applejack called as she and Mikasa ran out to where Eren fell.

Jean looked behind him as well to see the Armored Titan with a titan slung over its shoulder on its back, its arm gripping the titan’s neck. With a forwards and downwards toss, the Armored Titan flung another titan right at the escaping soldiers.

He’s tossing titans at us? Jean thought. Reiner, you bastard!

Mikasa and Applejack had finally made it to Rainbow Dash and Eren. Rainbow Dash was unconscious while Eren weakly writhed about. As Mikasa dismounted Applejack, she felt the sharp pain in her torso where her rib broke, falling back down to the ground. As Applejack ran to Rainbow Dash, the sound of large footsteps approached, leaving Eren, Applejack, and Mikasa to look up. While Applejack was merely astonished by the appearance of the titan coming towards them, Mikasa and Eren were stunned and terrified by the appearance of the titan before them.

It was fifteen meters in height, had medium length light-blonde hair, and its smile was stretched out so wide that its gums were exposed. Eren and Mikasa couldn’t believe the titan that had come for them out of all titans. As Eren saw it approach, his mind flashed him to his childhood.
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Eren and Mikasa both came up the stairs to the outside balcony of their home in Shiganshina where Eren’s mother was hanging wet laundry to dry on the clothesline. Upon hearing their footsteps, Eren’s mother turned to see Eren’s face, which was bruised and bleeding from the nose and cheeks.

“Eren?” Eren’s mother, angrily asked as she threw her basket down. “Did you get in a fight again?”

“Those idiots started it,” excused Eren. “I couldn’t let them look down at me like that.”

“And then what? Did Mikasa have to come help you again?”

Eren looked down at the ground guiltily, his silence being enough of an answer. Eren’s mother grabbed a small cloth from her basket and began roughly wiping the blood and dirt off his face while Eren squirmed to breathe.

“Eren,” his mother spoke, “no matter how mean or nasty your opponents are, that doesn’t mean you can just go charging in on them like that. You’re a man aren’t you? Then show Mikasa that you can protect her.
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Eren was hoisted atop Hannes’s shoulder as he carried Mikasa in his other arm. As he ran from the ruins of Eren and Mikasa’s house, Eren watched helplessly as the smiling titan grabbed Eren’s mother by both hands and wrung her spine. Eren screamed and tried to fight from Hannes’s grasp as the smiling titan placed his dead mother inside of its mouth and bit down, spraying her blood over its chin.
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“Eren!” shouted Mikasa as she stood over Eren.

Applejack dragged Rainbow Dash over towards them as the smiling titan now stood over them.

“Mikasa!” shouted Applejack. “What in Sam Hill are you doin’? You can’t fight that thing in your state.”

As the smiling titan knelt down, it lowered its hand towards Mikasa and Eren while Applejack drew two fresh blades from her sheaths.

“Let me take care of this,” Applejack growled.

Before Applejack could attempt to repel the titan away, Hannes leapt over her and slashed at the smiling titan’s hand, cutting its thumb, index, and middle fingers off. As Hannes shouted out as the blades cut through, the smiling titan stood back up and retracted its hand back.

“Hannes!” shouted Applejack.

“Haha!” laughed Hannes. “Talk about a reunion, huh? Now watch as I take revenge for your mother by killing this son of a bitch!”

Before Applejack could protest, Hannes launched a hook under the titan’s left armpit and launched himself up.

I really wanted to see you again, thought Hannes as he dodged the titan’s arm and began to swing around to the back of his neck.

The titan turned around, keeping Hannes from seeing its back. Mikasa watched as Hannes fell from his disrupted swing, standing herself up weakly with her operational device in hand.

“Mikasa,” ordered Eren, “stop! You can’t go after him with those injuries. Untie my hands.”

“What?” Mikasa asked.

“Just do it! I have to finish it!”

Applejack ran to Eren’s and clamped down on the rope with her teeth. With a yank up, the rope snapped, freeing Eren’s arms. As Eren stood back up with help from Applejack, they two of them and Mikasa watched as Hannes flew straight at the smiling titan as its healed right hand reached out for him.
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Jean, Fluttershy Armin, Twilight, Spike, and Levi all headed out towards the smiling titan, knowing Eren’s location.

“Hurry!” shouted Armin. “We need to help Hannes!”

As they continued on, a titan tossed by the Armored Titan rolled out in front of them. While Armin and Levi stopped their horses in time to move out of its path, Twilight tried to rise over it, but she managed to get clipped by the thrown titan instead, knocking both Twilight and Spike to the ground to their backs on the other side of its path.

Armin looked as another titan was thrown at them. While Levi and Armin galloped their horses out of harm’s way, Twilight ran to the still hurt Spike and cast a protection spell in front of them. While the titan safely bounced off the shield, the strength of the hit against it weakened Twilight, making her swoon to her knees.

“Twilight!” Spike exclaimed.

“Just go!” ordered Twilight. “Eren needs you more than I do.”

“You heard her,” Levi said. “Now move!”

Armin looked angrily to the Armored Titan as he, Levi, Jean, and Fluttershy went back towards Eren.

Reiner, wondered Armin. Why? Do you not care anymore if Eren dies?
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Erwin galloped down the field as a five-meter titan ran after him, managing to keep up with his horse. Unbeknownst to him, Ymir’s came at him from the side. Inside the nape, Ymir looked furious with the turnout of the situation.

This is all your fault that our plans got fucked up, she thought.

“Mr. Commander!” called Ymir’s titan’s voice.

Erwin looked to see Ymir’s titan leap up with its clawed hand reeled back to strike. As Ymir’s titan swung, it completely missed Erwin and instead hit another target: the titan chasing Erwin.

Erwin looked at Ymir’s titan incredulously as Ymir’s titan pounced upon the other titan, but continued moving forwards. Ymir’s titan tore the head off the other titan as Conny, Historia, and Pinkie Pie approached. Ymir’s titan and Historia looked back at each other, both looking anxious about their situations.

Great, thought Ymir. Now what should I do? If Reiner’s plan has gone to hell, should I help the Scouting Legion and try to escape? But what will happen next? Even if I live through this, the inside of these walls are going to become hell soon. I know I won’t be able to save her with my power alone, but this is the one and only chance I’ll ever have at getting Historia to the other side.

Just then, Historia stood up on Pinkie Pie’s back and launched a hook at Ymir’s titan’s head, reeling herself forwards.|

“Krista!” shouted Conny.

“For the last time,” Historia called back as she landed atop the head, “my name is Historia!”

“Come on, Conny!” called Pinkie Pie. “Our friends really look like they can use our help!”

Conny continued to look at the two of them, unable to leave either of their sides.

“Uh, Conny?”

“Hey, Ymir,” asked Historia, “if what Conny said was true, then the reason you wanted to save me was a lie too, right? But why? Is it to save me again? Are you trying to protect me again?”

A seven-meter titan appeared out in between Historia and Ymir’s titan and Conny and Pinkie Pie. Unsheathing her blades, Historia stood confidently atop Ymir’s titan’s head.

“Ymir,” she continued, “it’s just like you told me to do before: let’s stop living for the sake of other people right now from now on. Let’s just live for the sake of ourselves.”

Ymir, inside the nape, couldn’t help but feel her own words buzzing inside her ears like a massive swarm of hornets.

“I don’t know why,” concluded Historia, “but as long as you’re with me, no matter where I am, I’m no longer afraid!”

As Historia launched a hook into the titan’s head and reeled forwards, Ymir’s titan charged forwards, sounding out a guttural shout. Conny couldn’t take it any longer, galloping back to their fight.

“Hey!” Pinkie Pie called as she followed Conny. “Wait for me!”
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Erwin rode his horse to a collection of trees, safe from the ongoing battle. Once he felt safe, he slid off his horse and fell into the dirt, blood spilling out of his arm and pooling on the ground. As he panted in his solitude, a titan walked up towards him from the clearing. All around him, he could hear the footsteps of other titans approaching as well.

At that moment, several stallion guards, as well as Shining Armor and Luna, surrounded him in a tight circle, with Luna and Shining Armor facing the south before the titans could close them off.

“Leave me,” Erwin said, his voice weakened by his blood loss. “I can be replaced. But Eren… he needs to be saved… at all costs.”

“Don’t look so down on yourself,” chided Shining Armor. “I can’t see how the Scouting Legion could function without a commander as brilliant as yourself.”

“Applejack and Hannes have gone to protect Eren,” spoke Luna. “I have full confidence that they’ll keep him safe.”

“And as long as we’re here,” said the gruff voice of a pegasus guard, “you’re being kept safe too.”

While the assurances of the ponies were uplifting, the titans encroaching them left everyone closed inside the circle with a nervous scowl.
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Nile and several of his Military Police soldiers backed away as several titans walked towards them. One by one, each soldier was grabbed and eaten by another titan until Nile was the last one left. As Nile tripped and fell to his bottom, the titans kept approaching the trembling, frightened man.

“Get…” he demanded, slashing his sword out. “Get back!”

As one titan reached for him, Nile shielded himself with his arms as best as he could to save himself. Before the titan could grab him, a slash was heard, and Nile looked forwards to see two blurs appear from behind the titan that reached for him, falling to its side with a bloody spurt from the back of its neck. Landing in front of him was Hanji and Kirill.

“Kirill Rostov, reporting for duty,” announced Kirill.

Hanji and Kirill turned towards the titans they got closer towards them.

“I’m going to take a guess that the contest is off if one of us dies?” Kirill asked in a serious tone.

“I think you can figure out that one yourself,” retorted Hanji.

As Hanji and Kirill formulated a battle strategy, the titans continued to approach them.
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Petra whipped her last blood-soaked blade out of her holster, where it settled to the ground with a mighty clang.

“Piece of shit!” she screamed.

“Petra!” shouted Auruo, who stood against her back, “why aren’t you fighting?”

“These blades Kirill made don’t work! I can’t fight even if I wanted to.”

At that moment, Annie leapt up over a fifteen-meter titan and landed behind Auruo, standing with Petra in between the two of them.

“Annie?” Auruo questioned. “What are you–”

“Seeing that you live through today,” she simply answered, her blades drawn and held out to guard Petra.

Even with Auruo and Annie standing by her, titans continued to surround them from all sides, knowing that their escape would be impossible.
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As Sasha and Rarity galloped through the chaotic battle, a titan was hurled in front of her horse, knocking her off as both she and her steed, rolled about the ground.

“Sasha!” Rarity shouted, coming to her aid. “Are you alright?”

“I’m fine,” Sasha exclaimed, standing back up.

“Run!” shouted Rarity as she saw titan chasing after them.

Sasha and Rarity ran as fast as they could, barely staying ahead of the titan behind them.
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Armin looked up, horrified to see a titan being flung in the air towards them.

“Hurry,” called Jean. “Eren and Mikasa are–”

“Jean!” shouted Armin.

Jean suddenly gasped as he saw that the titan that was tossed in their direction. Jean gasped at the sheer might that the Armored Titan bestowed, he looked out towards Fluttershy, whom he was shocked to see was too frightened to get out of the way. Jean saw as the titan’s body was flying over them, but saw as the shadow of its leg loomed over his partner while Levi and Armin steered clear.

With a hiss through his teeth, Jean hopped onto his horse and jumped at Fluttershy, his hands upon her stomach. With a hard push, Fluttershy was forced to fly off to the right to stay back in line. Looking back to her left, she saw as Jean fell headfirst towards the ground as the hurled titan’s leg fell towards him.

“Jean?” Fluttershy squeaked.

As Jean approached the ground, he brought himself to a happy, content smile.

Fluttershy, he thought, I’m so glad to have a friend like–

Jean’s head hit the ground, cutting off his thought and his consciousness. As Jean’s body rolled around, the titan’s leg struck him in the side of the waist where his sheath was as well as his horse.

The force was enough to bounce Jean back into the air and forcing the Maneuver Gear off his body. Both Jean, his horse, and the titan tumbled on the ground, Jeans head hitting it multiple times before he and the titan slid to a stop, neither of their bodies moving, as Jean bled profusely out the side of his head.

“JEAN!” Fluttershy shrieked. “NO!”

“JEAN!” Armin shouted as he turned his horse back and made his way to his fallen friend.

Fluttershy flew to Jean, sitting beside him and pushing his chest to wake him up, bawling and sobbing uncontrollably as Jean’s body refused to wake.

“Wake up!” cried Fluttershy. “Please, wake up!”

Armin stopped his horse and leapt off, running to Jean’s side.

“We have to get him out of here!” Armin tearfully shouted as he grabbed Jean under the armpits.

As Armin pulled Jean towards the nearest trees he could find, Fluttershy continued to nudge Jean in the ribs. Unbeknownst to them, Levi was still heading out towards Eren.
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Hannes’s eyes widened as the smiling titan grabbed a hold of him with its healed hand. Eren could only sit and gasp while the still-injured Mikasa was held back by Applejack, preventing a rescue of her own. The others watched tearfully as the smiling titan lowered its hand with its meal towards its mouth, Hannes flailing its legs to escape.

Eren closed his eyes, unable to witness the sight about to come. However, the sound of metal piercing flesh rung out, leaving Eren to look back up to see what happened. The sight was doubly as shocking. Pixis’s blade was stuck inside the smiling titan’s arm, his right foot against the titan’s wrist while his left foot was against the titan’s lower lip.

“Pixis!” Eren shouted.

Pixis twisted the blade inside the titan’s arm, ruining the titan’s arm muscles and making it release Hannes. As Pixis attempted to pull his blade out, his leg slipped into the smiling titan’s mouth, which clamped down immediately and crunched Pixis’s calf, pinning him. Hannes swung down from the titan and to Applejack and Mikasa, the shock bringing him to his knees as he looked up to see his commander’s sacrifice in action.

“Commander!” screamed Hannes.

With its working arm, the smiling titan grabbed hold of Pixis’s body and pulled up, ripping his leg off. As Pixis was lowered down towards the titan’s mouth, Pixis took one last look at the titan and smiled despondently.

Not the beauty I hoped for, Pixis thought, but I suppose it will do…

The smiling titan dropped Pixis into its mouth, chomping down and catching his head. Eren, Mikasa, Hannes, and Applejack shuddered as Pixis’s head exploded out of the smiling titan’s mouth and over the area in front of it.

“NO!” shouted Eren, banging his fists on the ground in anguish. “NO, NO,NO!!”

Mikasa noticed as Eren’s hand was suddenly growing back at a rapid pace, making her gasp.

“Nothing has changed!” wailed Eren. “You can’t do anything, you worthless bastard! Mom! I still couldn’t do anything!”

Eren curled up on the ground and cried while Mikasa looked longingly at him. Placing her hand on his shoulder, she gently rubbed his back.

“Eren,” she cooed, getting Eren to shoot back to his knees. “That’s not true at all!”

Eren, Applejack, and Hannes looked at Mikasa as she gave Eren a nervous, but honest and hopeful smile. Above them, the smiling titan set its sights back on Eren and Mikasa.

“Eren,” spoke Mikasa as she leaned closer, tears welling in her eyes, “listen. There’s something I want to tell you. Thank you… for being together with me. Thank you for teaching me how to live. Thank you… for this scarf you gave me.”

Mikasa leaned forwards even further, surprising Applejack and Hannes to a point where they didn’t even notice the smiling titan kneeling back down towards them. Eren, however, saw it full well. Just as Mikasa put her face close to Eren’s and parted her lips, Eren stood up and shoved Mikasa out of his way, confusing her as he stood in front of his friends and before the smiling titan.

“Eren!” shouted Levi in the distance.

“And I’ll gladly do it a thousand times more,” Eren responded. “As many times as I need to.”

The smiling titan reached out for Eren and Mikasa, and Eren reeled his arm back for a punch.

“Eren!” ordered Levi. “Stop!”

Eren produced a loud yell as he threw his arm forwards. In the ears of the Reiner in his titan’s neck, Bertolt, and Ymir, a loud, booming scream pierced through their ears. Along the entirety of the battle field, the titans that were chasing or cornering the human and pony soldiers stopped all motions and looked out to where Eren and the smiling titan were. Levi, noticing the stillness of the battle, stopped his horse beside Eren.

“What has he done this time?” Levi pondered to himself.

Bertolt the Armored Titan then watched as the titans left the humans and ponies alone and began to run towards the smiling titan. The remaining soldiers ran back into the open, unsure of what they were seeing. Armin, who laid beside Jean and Fluttershy under the shade of a tree north of Eren, watched the titans swarm towards the smiling titan, unsure of what was happening.

Rainbow Dash, feeling the massive rumbling as the titans collected towards the smiling titan, awoke to see titans running at them from all sides.

“EREN!” she shouted.

Galloping towards him, she dove on top of Eren and covered their necks. Mikasa, Hannes, and Levi stood still as they watched the titans pile on top of the smiling titan and tear its skin, limbs, and bones out of its body like starved animals. Eren and Rainbow Dash looked up to see the smiling titan being devoured, scaring and confusing them.

“What in the hay…?” gasped Rainbow Dash.

“They’re…” Eren said, “eating him.”

“Run!” ordered Levi. “While those titans are distracted!”

As Levi mounted back on his horse and galloped off to find Erwin, Hannes whistled for his horse, who came along with Mikasa’s horse from behind a collection of trees. Applejack and Rainbow Dash stood by Eren as he helped Mikasa onto her horse.
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Historia, Pinkie Pie, and Ymir’s titan were mesmerized by the sight before them. Conny, realizing the vacancy of titans in the area, turned towards his horse and ran to it.

“Conny?” questioned Historia.

“I don’t know what’s happening,” responded Conny, “but this is our chance. Let’s get out of here!”

“Yeah!”

Ymir’s titan continued to look at the titans eating the smiling titan, amazed by the meaning of it.

So that’s it, Ymir realized. That’s why Reiner and the others went through such great lengths for Eren. So if Eren has a power like that along with the help from the ponies, there might just… be a future within these walls.

Ymir’s titan turned to look to Historia as her horse galloped back to her, unsure about what she should do from that point.
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Erwin, Shining Armor, Luna, and their guards continued to look at the scene before them when Erwin realized something.

“Shining Armor, Luna,” he ordered. “You and your guards go across the area and pick up as many soldiers as you can.”

“But what about the horses?” Shining Armor asked.

“We’ll have to leave them. We need to leave before the titans are finished with that other titan.”

“Roger!”

Shining Armor and a handful of guards went out north while Luna and the remaining guards went south. Erwin walked to his nearby horse and managed to mount it with his left hand, riding off north to check for others. As he did, he saw as the Armored Titan, freed from the titans holding him down, ran out to Eren’s location.
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Hannes mounted his horse while Eren tried to climb onto Mikasa’s horse, Rainbow Dash helping him up. Levi waited imEren heard and saw as the Armored Titan, with Bertolt still upon it, charged towards them.

This is the worst, Reiner thought inside the nape of his titan’s neck. Of all the people in the world, the coordinate has fallen into the hands of the worst possible person. We must get it back, without fail, because the last person in the world who should have that power… is you, Eren.

The Armored Titan’s approach greatly angered Eren as he gnashed his teeth and furrowed his brow.

“GET AWAY FROM ME!” demanded Eren. “I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU SONS OF BITCHES!”

Reiner and Bertolt heard the loud roar once again, forcing them to stop in their tracks as they saw the titans that were eating the smiling titan now facing them. All at once, the titans ran at the Armored Titan with hunger on their faces. Bertolt’s body quivered and his mouth could only elicit fearful squeaks as he saw his death running towards him.

This is bad, Bertolt thought. Now I can’t even save Reiner.

Off slightly in the distance, Erwin, Levi, and a mass of soldiers and ponies began riding north, passing Eren and his friends. Armin rode his horse with the still unconscious Jean sitting behind him, while Fluttershy, Twilight, and Spike followed them closely. Riding upon the stallion guards were Sasha, Auruo, Annie, and several other soldiers, while Petra rode upon Shining Armor’s back. Many of the other soldiers managed to get their horses, including Hanji, Kirill, and Nile.

“Pull back!” ordered Erwin. “Don’t let this chance get away!”

“Come on,” Rainbow Dash yelled as Eren finally managed to sit upright on his horse. “You heard the man!”

Eren, Applejack, and Hannes galloped off towards the soldiers while Rainbow Dash flew close behind. As Eren, Applejack, and Hannes merged with the others, he found Armin and Jean. While Eren and Armin were happy to see each other, Eren gasped upon seeing Jean’s motionless body and Fluttershy crying right behind him.
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Ymir’s titan and Pinkie Pie looked upon the Armored Titan and Bertolt, the latter of whom screamed in fear as he slashed at the titans reaching out for him. Conny and Historia’s horses trotted about impatiently as their riders saw their friends leaving without them.

“Come on, guys!” called Conny. “Let’s get out of here!”

Ymir’s titan turned to Historia and gently caressed her face with her finger.

“Sorry…” Ymir’s titan gurgled.

Historia looked up to Ymir’s titan in shock, unsure of why she said such a thing. At that moment, Ymir’s titan broke off into a run towards the Armored Titan. Pinkie Pie gasped at Ymir’s bravery, but upon seeing Bertolt’s scared face, she furrowed her brow and galloped at the Armored Titan as well.

“Pinkie Pie?” shouted Conny watching her go.

Conny looked at the Armored Titan and then at his friends as they got further and further away. Conny winced and whipped his horse’s reins, galloping around and back towards the Armored Titan.

“Dammit!” he yelled.

“Conny?” called Historia as she too ran her horse towards Conny. “Get back here!”
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As the soldiers rode back to Wall Rose, Twilight looked about the group to look for the others. It didn’t take her long to see that neither Pinkie Pie, Conny, Historia, nor Ymir had returned, leaving her to take one last look at the battlefield behind them. Though small, her eyes could make out Pinkie Pie and Ymir’s titan heading towards the Armored Titan.

“Pinkie!” she cried.

“Twilight?” asked Spike. “What happened? Where is she.”

“Spike,” Twilight instructed as she magically lifted Spike off her back and placed him on Levi’s horse, “you stay with him. I’m going to go get them!”

Before Levi could turn and protest, Twilight had already looped back towards the direction of her left-behind friends and the Armored Titan.

“Twilight!” shouted Spike as he reached back to her.

“Leave her,” Levi spoke as he slapped Spike’s hand down. “This is something she apparently has to do.”

Armin and Eren couldn’t help but looked behind them as their friend flew off away as they and the others continued their journey back home.