Outside, the rogue titan laid waste to any titan that was near it, pulling off those that climbed towards the top of the HQ building and wrestling them. In particular, it was locking the arm of a fifteen-meter titan and bent over, using the momentum to toss the giant over its shoulder and onto two four-meter titans, crushing and killing them.

More began to gather towards the rogue titan, but it didn’t stop its resolve. With another thunderous roar, it welcomed the three new titans, each a different height class, that wanted to kill it, just so it could kill them first.

The rogue titan, charging at them, punched the fifteen meter titan in the face, exploding its head. It then uppercutted the seven meter under the chin, breaking its jaw. With a reel in its foot, the rogue kicked the three-meter titan like a ball, seding it flying, bloodied and destroyed, over the streets of Trost with ease.
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Several soldiers were at the top level of the stairwell with with several doors and rooms, among them Mikasa, Reiner, Bertolt, Annie, Connie, and Sasha. Their 3D Maneuver Gear was taken off an left by their sides, no longer of use without their gas. The ponies had followed them, with Twilight and Rarity being the most nervous, knowing that the titans would more than likely not take kindly to them.

Spike, being frightened by the grim light coming from the downstairs torches, kept his claw on Twilight’s side. The other ponies were not in the highest of spirits either. Knowing that their friends were attacked, they faced the very probable possibility that they would be attacked as well. The groaning and lurching of the building due to the rogue titan’s fighting also did not bode well for the humans’ or the ponies’ moods. Soon, an elevator with a light hanging above rose up and stopped on their level.

“It’ll be okay,” Conny assured. “That titan’s stronger than the average titan. As long as it’s taking down the other ones, this building itself should still be safe.”

“How do you know so much about that titan?” asked Reiner in a suspicious tone.

Conny was unnerved by Reiner’s presence, but stood his ground.

“Shouldn’t we talk about that after we get this job done?”

Reiner took a second to think about it, but eventually decided to agree.

“You’ve got a point,” he said. “Let's get out of here alive first.”

Soon, Jean and Marco, along with some other soldiers came from a large room with several crates in their arms.

“Found them!” exclaimed Jean. “They're Military Police brigade supplies, but they’re covered with dust.”

“Whatever,” Rainbow Dash said while pawing the air with her hoof.

As Jean and Marco set their crates down, Rainbow Dash and Applejack began to pull the tops off revealing large rifles, gunpowder, bullets, and ramrods. Immediately, soldiers began to grab a gun and some of the supplies each to load their weapons. Jean examined his own rifle and cocked the hammer back.

“Will three bullets really even do anything?” asked Jean to Mikasa, Armin, and Marco, who were surrounding a design sheet of the HQ. “I mean, will using guns against titans even work?”

Once Twilight saw the plan being put into action, she galloped towards the three, Spike running right alongside. With Mikasa and Twilight looking expectantly and confidently at Armin, it gave the young cadet the strength to explain himself.

“I think it’s a lot better than having nothing,” Armin reasoned. “And even with this degree of firepower, it isn’t impossible to incapacitate the titans that are in the supply room, and all at the same time.”

“So,” asked Spike. “How exactly are we going to decapitate the titans with these things?”

“It’s incapacitate,” corrected Twilight. “It means to disable them.”

“Sheesh,” muttered Spike. “You and that kid would have a ball together with your big, fancy words.”

“Anyways,” Armin interrupted, “Twilight, when you went down there, how many titans were there?”

“Um,” pondered Twilight. “There were eight in total, but minus the one I killed, there should be seven now.”

“And how big were they? About three to four meters in length?”

“Approximately.”

“Alright,” spoke Applejack, walking to the group with Rainbow Dash by her side. “The soldiers are just finishing loading up their rifle thingermajiggies, and we should be ready soon.”

“So what’s the plan then?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Armin placed the tip of his curled-up thumb on his lips, trying to see the best course of action then. Having already formulated the plan beforehand, reworking the plan to suit the number of remaining titans was quite easy for him.

“Alright,” he said, bringing attention to him. “First, we'll use the lift to lower most of us from the center of the chamber. If those seven titans are ‘normals,’ a large number of people should be enough to draw them to the center of the room. Next, the people in the lift will fire into the faces of the seven titans’ at once, blinding them. And then…”

All attention from all humans, ponies, and Spike was now on Armin as he carefully relayed his plan.

“…the next moment will decide everything. Seven other people hiding near the ceiling will swoop down in time with the firing and attack the titans’ weak spots. In other words, everything rides on this one attack. All of our lives are at stake.”

The ponies and most of the soldiers were uneasy about the last statement, but seeing it as their only option, they listened on.

“The point is for seven people to kill seven titans in one stroke and all at once. The seven people with the most physical capabilities probably have the best chances, so they’ll do the job. But they’ll have to bear the burden of everyone’s lives on their shoulders. I'm sorry...”

“No problem,” answered Reiner with a smirk.

“The risk’s the same,” Annie spoke, “no matter who does it. If one fails, everyone dies.”

“Besides,” called Rainbow Dash, punching her hooves together, “if one slips up, I’ll take it down a few pegs.”

“That goes double for me!” added Applejack.

Despite the positive reception to the ponies’ assistance, Armin was beginning to get frustrated once again. With his previous plan failing, along with more ponies going to risk their lives over his new plan, his confidence was running out.

“But,” he wondered aloud, placing the side of his fist on his forehead, “I'm just a nobody. Is my plan really the best option?”

“We gotta go with it,” advised Marco. “There isn’t time to think of anything else. Besides,” he resumed, beginning to smile, “I think we’re all tapped out of ideas. So we just need to throw ourselves into this one together!”

Armin was surprised at Marco’s confidence, while Mikasa’s stoic face said that it was to be expected.

“Don't worry,” Mikasa assured Armin, who was shocked at her approval. “Be confident. You have the talent to lead people to where they need to go, Armin. That ability has saved my life before, not to mention, Eren’s life too.”

“It has?” questioned Armin. “When?”

They were interrupted by a loud wooden clatter from next to them.

“The lift is ready!” called a male soldier, having several soldiers equipped with rifles walk into it. “All the guns are loaded too!”

“Yeehaw!” shouted Applejack, bucking her front legs forwards. “Let’s go flog some titan flank!”

“Applejack,” spoke Mikasa. “Gather the rest of your friends and have them stay here. If anything, you must survive, no matter what happens.”

Applejack gave Mikasa a quick salute and ran off to get her friends.

“You have saved our lives, Armin,” she said to her friend, “you’re just not aware of it. I’ll tell you more later.”

Armin grabbed a rifle, now feeling more confident than he had ever felt in his life.

“Okay,” he spoke, heading to the lift.

As Applejack gathered her friends with Rainbow Dash at her side, she accounted for Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Spike, but couldn’t find Pinkie Pie.

“Hey,” wondered Applejack. “Where did that Pinkie Pie run off to?”

“I’m right here!” she answered.

The ponies turned to see Pinkie Pie within the crowd of armed humans. Before Applejack could protest, the operator of the lift closed the gate, sealing them inside. It was then that Pinkie Pie pulled out a decently sized blue cannon seemingly from the thin air behind her. It had magenta wheels with a yellow flower imprinted on the sides of each wheel. The sudden appearance of Pinkie’s cannon brought fear from the soldiers near her.

“Pinkie Pie?” asked Reiner. “Where on Earth did you get that cannon?”

“What. This old thang?” answered Pinkie Pie with an exaggerated twang. “This is my party cannon. Never leave home without it!”

As much as Reiner wanted to question the cannon, he was just glad that she was equipped with a weapon. Applejack took a sigh of relief, knowing that Pinkie was accounted for.

With everything settled, the seven volunteers, namely, Mikasa, Reiner, Bertolt, Annie, Jean, Conny, and Sasha, began to walk down the stairs with Applejack and Rainbow Dash close behind. The other ponies followed too, wanting to see the plan’s success. Each of the humans were equipped with a pair of sturdy looking sabres with a flexible-looking blade.

“But,” spoke Conny, “will we even be able to kill the titans without our 3D Maneuver Gear?”

“Sure we can!” confidently replied Reiner. “We're only going up against three-to-four-meter class ones. That makes their weak spot an easy target.”

“Yeah,” grumbled Jean. “Doesn’t make a difference how big they are. It’s always from the head to the nape of their neck.”

“Length:” calculated Sasha, “One meter. Width: Ten centimeters.”

“Or you can ram your blade up their assholes!” grunted Reiner as he brandished one of his swords. “That’s their only other weak spot!”

“I didn’t know that!” exclaimed Conny. “So there are two ways?”

“This is the first I’ve heard of it,” answered Sasha.

“Reiner,” Jean continued to grumble, “those might very well be your last words.”

The seven soldiers continued to walk down the stairs with the ponies following by. As Rainbow Dash and Applejack watched the humans slink into the storage room and climb the overhangs as quiet as a mouse, the two ponies crept to the edge of the room’s entrance and peered into it from the corner of their eye. Everything was in place now. All that was left was the execution.

“Good luck, girls,” mumbled Fluttershy.

Then she ceased her noises after making one last quiet statement that only Fluttershy could hear and her alone.

“Good luck, Jean.”

The sound of rumbling from above told Twilight that the lift was being lowered down. Rainbow Dash looked to see as the seven volunteers were safely perched up in the steel overhangs, waiting for the titans to gather. Sure enough, the elevator was seen descending down, the soldiers having their guns at their sides and Pinkie with her cannon. Once the walls past them, giving them enough space, the soldiers and Pinkie Pie aimed their weapons down at the titans. Armin looked to Marco, who gave the plan maker an approving nod.

It’s okay, thought Marco, who was sweating bullets. Still the same number of them.

Then, all at once, the soldiers cocked the hammers of their rifles, the collective noise alerting the titans to their presence.

We’re going through with this! Armin resolved.

The titans, seeing the horde of humans in the lift, began to approach them one by one. There wasn’t a dry brow amongst the armed soldiers or Pinkie Pie as they patiently and nervously awaited for the opportune moment to fire.

“Calm down,” ordered Marco. “Let them get closer.”

“Yikes!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, getting a good look at the titans’ terrifying faces, then, remembering sage wisdom from her grandmother, started to giggle.

“Hold.”

The soldiers placed their fingers on the sides of their triggers.

“Wait…”

The titans were within a yards of the lift, already lifting their arms to grab as many humans as they could.

“Ready…”

Each finger was now placed upon the trigger, applying just enough pressure so that they wouldn’t shoot. Pinkie Pie placed her hoof upon the purple knob at the back of the cannon. She was so excited that she could hardly stand it. A titan’s hand was now just inches from the side of the lift.

“FIRE!!” Marco bellowed.

“Surprise!” screamed Pinkie Pie with a wide smile on her face.

The room erupted in bright flashes of light from the rifles that mixed with red muscle and red blood that was being blown off the faces of the titans. Pinkie Pie, having aimed her cannon at one the entire time, slammed her hoof upon the knob, her cannon bursting out confetti, streamers, balloons, and paper party horns at the titans face.

To her luck, two of the party horns got their ends jammed into the eyes of the titan, blinding it. That, along with the force of the cannon, knocked the titan to its stomach. The faces of the other titans were smoldering and malformed, leaving them temporarily unaware of the soldiers gliding across the overhangs.

We have to avoid fighting them, thought Armin. If we don’t want to let even one person die…

Mikasa, Annie, Conny, Reiner, Bertolt, Sasha, and Jean leapt down from behind their targeted titans, their arms raised to strike.

…this one strike has to finish it!

Mikasa, expertly as ever, slashed the nape of her titan’s neck with her sabres and killed it, landing gingerly on her feet in a crouching position.

Got it! she cheered to herself, turning back around. What about everyone else?

Jean, Annie, and Bertolt also killed their targets without fail. Reiner helped himself to the titan that Pinkie Pie fell, cutting its nape off of it. However, Conny had missed, slashing his swords from the titan’s shoulder to its back. Conny, his aim and balance off, fell to the ground and rolled to the floor. Sasha also missed her mark, cutting the titan right across the lower back.

Feeling that they had been hit, the titans turned to look at Sasha and Conny with anger and hunger in their eyes.

“Sasha!” Marco screamed. “Conny!”

Applejack and Rainbow Dash took their cue and went off to assist their friends, Applejack galloping and Rainbow Dash flying. Rarity looked at her friends going off, wincing over the guilt of her previous failure. Not being able to take it anymore, Rarity galloped off into the storage room as fast as her legs could carry her.

“Rarity!” called Twilight. “Wait!”

“Hurry!” called Jean. “They need backup!”

Just as Mikasa ran out to the two still-alive titans, resolving to kill one. However, Applejack ran past Mikasa and towards the titan going for Conny. Mikasa, upon seeing Annie already going towards Conny’s titan, looked to Sasha’s titan and redirected her path towards it. Rainbow Dash had her sights set on the titan going after Sasha.

“U– Um…” stammered Sasha at the titan. “R– really sorry… for s– suddenly stabbing you… in the back…”

The titan was beyond reason as it continued towards Sasha, who stood petrified with tears in her eyes. Conny was also crippled by fear, unable to do anything against the titan that cornered him. However, Applejack quickly ran behind Conny’s titan, turned around with her back legs tucked in, and lifted up and bucked the titan behind the knees, crumpling the titan to the ground. With its lowered height, Annie leapt over Applejack and cut the titan’s nape off in a bloody splatter.

Rarity, galloping towards Sasha, found her discarded blades from before and picked them up with her magic, continuing to run as she did so. As the titan heading for Sasha began to reach out for her, a rainbow-colored blur collided into the head of the titan, forcing it to fall to the ground. Rainbow Dash jumped off the titan’s head as it fell, waiting for one of the others to cut out its neck. However, in one last effort, the titan continued to reach for Sasha, who leapt out of the way of its hand.

“I'M SO SORRY!” she cried.

Mikasa saw the titan fall and began to run to it and end its life. However, Rarity whooshed past her with her sword in her magical grasp, her eyes trained right on the titan’s neck. She then jumped high into the air and flipped forwards, moving the blades to the inner sides of her hooves. She got a perfect view of the back of the titan’s neck as she went over, soon noticing the lines in its lower back. She realized that it was the titan that she failed to kill before, only increasing her drive.

“Never again…” she muttered.

With a thrust in her arms matching the movement of the blades in her magical aura, Rarity sliced the titan’s nape off with the blades, killing it, and saving Sasha’s life. Sasha looked out the corner of her eye as Rarity leveled herself to the ground and landed on all four hooves, skidding to a halt with her blades magically held by her shoulders before she dropped them to the ground.

Sasha, now hysterical, crawled to Rarity and wrapped her arms around her neck, sobbing into Rarity’s mane, surprising the mare.

“Rarity!” Sasha continued wailing. “You saved my life!”

“You aren’t hurt, are you, darling?” asked Rarity.

“No, thanks to you!”

“Alright then, Sasha,” Rarity said, standing up with Sasha’s arms still around her neck, pulling her to her feet, “let’s stand up. It’s very unbecoming of someone like you.”

After Conny had given Applejack a thankful and congratulatory scratch behind the ears, he turned to Annie.

“Sorry about that,” Conny said to her.

“Never mind,” she responded.

"Hey, Annie!" Applejack called. "You did a real bang-up job there. Good work!"

"Thanks."

“Hey,” Reiner called to Annie. “That was too close, Annie. I’m just glad you didn’t get injured.”

Annie didn’t say anything, and her expression didn’t change. After surveying the area, Jean began to smile.

“We got them all!” he shouted in jubilation. “Now we can focus on storing up!”

“Yeah!” cheered everyone.

Marco, relieved by the success, swooned before he was caught by Armin and the others. Rarity and Pinkie Pie ran to Applejack and Rainbow Dash, where they all met with a group hug, which Twilight, Spike, and Fluttershy ran in from the entrance to join. Rainbow Dash flew up after the hug had ended so she could look down at the soldiers getting their equipment.

“Rainbow Dash,” Fluttershy exclaimed. “You were awesome! You did it!”

“We did it!” replied the cyan pegasus.

Rainbow Dash stuck her right hoof out while Fluttershy connected her left hoof to it.

“Bump,” Rainbow Dash chanted.

“Cha!” happily finished Fluttershy as they pulled their hooves away, finishing their secret hoofshake. The two flew back down to assist the humans in any way they could.

“We're safe!” called a soldier. “No more titans are coming in!”

“That abnormal berserker's keeping them all at bay!” shouted another, carrying gas canisters in both his arms and on his back.

Armin looked around him as he saw the soldiers restocking their equipment, relieved that his plan was successful. Turning around to see more, he was surprised by Twilight standing on her hind legs and hugging his torso.

“T– Twilight?” stammered Armin. “What are you…?”

“You did it!” exclaimed Twilight. “Your plan worked!”

“Yeah!” agreed Spike, walking up to the young man and nudging his shin with his elbow. “That was great! You really have a knack for that kind of thing.”

“Yeah,” Armin said, still not used to such compliments. “Thanks.”

All of the soldiers had put their 3D Maneuver Gear back on, putting fresh gas canisters above their sheaths and putting new blades in. Sasha was still heavily embarrassed from her near defeat at the hands of the titan as she put in new gas.

“Ughh,” she shuddered. “I surrendered… to a titan.”

Even with soldiers clamoring with cheers and orders to leave the building, Sasha was completely beside herself.

“How can I…” she choked up, “look at anyone in the eyes now?”

“I’ll spank you for that later,” called Conny, pulling Sasha towards the group of soldiers. “But, right now, we have to get out of here!”

Jean and Marco were busy refilling their empty gas canisters next to each other.

"I don't think I'm cut out to be a commander," Jean said, "so don't say that anymore."

There was an uncomfortable silence before Marco broke it.

"There's something I'd like to tell you," he spoke. "Don't get mad, please. You're not strong, Jean. That's why you can understand how the weak feel, just like you did for Fluttershy. And you're good at judging the situation correctly. You always clearly know what you're supposed to do, don't you?"

Jean was surprised by the compliment, but Marco continued.

"Your orders were right. That's why I could run. That's why I'm alive. That's why she's alive," he concluded, pointing to Jean's other side.

Turning around, Jean saw Fluttershy standing coyly with her long pink hair trying to hide her face. Her appearance surprised Jean even more, wondering what she wanted with him, even after the way he treated her.

"Fluttershy?" he asked. "What are you do–"

Fluttershy leapt onto Jean and wrapped her arms around his torso, causing him to drop his air canister. Marco couldn't help but chuckle at the pegasus's actions.

"Thank you for saving us, Jean," she nearly wept. "I'm so glad to have a friend like you!"

Jean, feeling the tension and stress drained from his body from the success of their mission, as well as Rarity's words coming back to him, calmly laid his own arms across Fluttershy's back and returned the comforting hug with one of his own. Marco continued to watch the scene with a warm smile.

"Are you ready?" called Conny. "Then let's go!"

Outside, soldiers used their hooks to latch onto buildings and fly off to get to the north wall and evacuate. As before with Mikasa’s kamikaze raid, the rooftops were buzzing with soldiers and wires as they went further and further away.

Mikasa had snuck out from a window one floor up, hoping to see how the rogue titan was doing. She then felt someone watching her, turning to see that it was Armin. She quickly launched a hook to the top of the building. Armin ran to the window and looked up as she began to soar up.

“Mikasa!?” shouted Armin with worry.

Armin too leapt out of the window to follow her up, just to be seen by Twilight, Spike, and Rainbow Dash.

“Spike,” ordered Twilight. “Hop on.”

Armin continued to fly up until he landed on the roof, finding Mikasa at the very top, grabbing onto the flagpole.

“Mikasa!” called Armin. “We have to hurry…”

“That titan!” shouted Mikasa pointing at something at made Armin gulp in fear.

Six titans: two fifteen-meters, one seven-meter, and three four-meters, had pushed the rogue titan into a building and held onto him in a vice. Each of the titans’ mouths were biting the rogue titan’s flesh, causing it to scream in pain.

"They're eating it," Armin said.

Mikasa and Armin looked in horror as they saw the titan’s now exposed ribcage and was missing both its arms. To the shock of Armin, the rogue titan’s body failed to regenerate its lost limbs and other injuries, even as the seven-meter titan continued to tear the flesh off of the rogue titan’s ribs.

“His body isn’t regenerating?” he questioned.

“I thought,” pondered Mikasa aloud, “if we can somehow solve the mystery of that titan, it could become an opportunity to help us find a way out of this desperate situation. But…”

“I agree,” Reiner interrupted, bringing Bertolt, Jean, Annie, and the ponies with up him.

Rarity was carried up by Fluttershy while Applejack was lifted by Rainbow Dash. Pinkie Pie, as usual, hopped up to the roof with ease.

“If it gets eaten,” Reiner continued, “then the whole thing will be over without us understanding a damned thing! Let’s get rid of the ones currently eating it, at least to try and keep it alive!”

“Reiner,” shouted Jean, “are you insane? We’re finally able to escape this death-trap!”

“But what if this titan could become an ally?” butted in Annie. “Don’t you think it would be a weapon more powerful than any cannon?”

“An ally, you say? Is that what you’re seriously suggesting?”

“Whosever side it’s on,” spoke Rainbow Dash, flying back into the air, “it’s killing titans, and that’s good enough for me!”

Rainbow Dash shot out towards the titans that continued to devour the rogue titan.

“Rainbow Dash!” called Mikasa. “Wait!”

Rainbow Dash was out of earshot, continuing to fly towards the titans at a rapid speed before she turned and bucked a fifteen-meter titan in the back of the head, disorienting it and allowing the rogue titan to try and push his way through. Rainbow Dash flew back to avoid other titans that would be angry at her.

“They’re not so tough,” stated Rainbow Dash with pride, completely unaware of the fifteen-meter titan behind her.

The titan’s hair was a light blonde and had a square jaw. The humans and ponies froze up with fear as the titan raised its left hand.

“Rainbow Dash!” screamed Twilight. “Behind you!”

Rainbow Dash turned around to see the titan swipe its hand into her and send her careening into a building, the force demolishing a large portion of it.

“RAINBOW DASH!” cried Twilight and her friends.

The titan glanced at the blue and rainbow-colored dot that had helped it just seconds ago as she crashed into the building. Then it looked at the titan that hit her as it started to walk towards it. As Twilight and Fluttershy flew out to check on their friend, Armin recognized something about the titan, noting its physical features.

He then remembered as earlier in the day, before he and Eren would go on to take the titans, their comrade and friend Thomas was eaten by a titan, and the titan that ate him looked exactly like the one approaching the rogue titan.

“Ah!” exclaimed Armin. “Isn’t that… the abnormal that ate Thomas?”

Suddenly, gears inside the titan’s head clicked as he pushed off the building with his body and roared violently at the approaching titan. The other titans tried holding it back, but its fury and hatred for this particular titan was too strong.

Breaking free of the still disoriented titan’s grasp, the rogue titan ran as fast as he could at the abnormal. Its sights set at the abnormal’s neck, the rogue titan ran up behind him and clamped down on its neck with its teeth, shocking the humans and the remaining ponies. As the rogue titan lifted his prey into the air with its head up high, another titan crawled behind it, hoping to have another grab at it.

However, the rogue titan noticed it, whipping his kill around and body-slamming it with both the abnormal titan and itself, crushing and squashing it like a pumpkin. The force even pulled the lower half of the abnormal’s body off its waist, leaving it a lifeless sack of flesh and bone. Another titan tried to approach from behind, but the rogue titan, whipped its head around with the abnormal still in its mouth. The force of the swing finally decapitated the body from the head, sending the body flying straight into the other titan and having them both crash into a building.

“Hey,” muttered Jean, still amazed out of his mind as the rogue titan finally dropped the abnormal’s head. “What was that about helping it again?”

The titan produced a victorious roar despite its lack of arms and the skin and muscle around its ribcage eaten off. Finally, the titan sunk to its knees and fell face first into the ground, its body beginning to hiss and decompose. The others were stunned at this.

“Not surprisingly,” Reiner surmised, “it looks like it burned itself out.”

"Whatever!” shouted Jean. “Let’s get out of here.”

“There’s no way!” Applejack protested. “That titan’s gotta be on our side!”

“Titans are titans!”

“But I didn’t get a chance to throw it a 'Thank You' party yet!” complained Pinkie Pie. “Do you think titans would like cake? I don’t see why not…”

As Reiner, Jean, and Annie brought their palms to their faces upon Pinkie Pie’s rant, Jean looked back up to see the nape of the rogue titan’s neck decomposing.

“Hey,” he called, getting Pinkie Pie to silence herself.

Everyone looked to see that a lump was stuck inside the neck where the decomposition was happening. Twilight and Fluttershy eventually came out of the demolished building with a woozy, but uninjured Rainbow Dash.

“And then Daring Do drank all the cheesecake,” she slurred dizzily.

Then, the lump inside the rogue titan’s nape shot out, revealing the form of a male human inside of it. Twilight and Fluttershy stopped to see what was happening. Mikasa’s eyes went wide immediately upon seeing who the human was. Fluttershy and Twilight gasped too, recognizing him.

It was the young man who had sacrificed himself to pull Armin from the bearded titan’s throat, although his jacket was gone, and his shirt’s left sleeve from the elbow down was gone, as well as the left pant leg being gone from the knee down. Putting two and two together, Twilight and Fluttershy knew exactly who it was, along with Mikasa, who knew who it was the second she laid eyes on him.

It was Eren.

Mikasa instantly rappelled down the building on her grappling hooks and ran to Eren who was still stuck inside the titan’s nape. In his position, Eren sat on his knees with his face to the sky. Twilight and Fluttershy carried Rainbow Dash towards Mikasa and the titan, hoping to get a better look. Once they felt that they were close enough, the two set Rainbow Dash on the ground, who shook her head to wake herself back up.

“No way!” Reiner commented. “She’s alive too!”

Rainbow Dash looked as Mikasa ran to Eren and pulled him out of the titan’s nape and dragged him along the ground.

“Hey,” Rainbow Dash said, still a little out of it. “It’s that one guy.”

Mikasa groped Eren in her arms and carried him back up to the HQ building where Reiner, Annie, Bertolt, Armin, and the other ponies were waiting. Wanting to help them out faster, Twilight covered Mikasa and Eren in a magic aura and lifted them up as she flew up to Reiner and the others. Rainbow Dash, now enough in her right mind to fly, soared up with Fluttershy to follow Twilight.

Mikasa and Eren were gently set down upon the stone floor of the wrap-around balcony before Twilight landed herself. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy came soon after. Putting her ear to his chest, she gasped at the beat inside. Eren was still alive and well. Now reunited with her brother, Mikasa tilted her head to the sky and wailed, tears streaming down her face.

The others were too shocked by who Mikasa was holding to be uplifted by Eren’s well-being.

“Oh my stars,” Applejack gasped, fanning her face with her Stetson.

“That’s…” began Spike.

“It’s Eren,” stated Armin.

He then looked down to see that his left arm and left leg, which were previously bitten off, were now there, visible past the torn parts of his shirt and pants.

“He's even got his limbs back,” Armin said, “Eren was eaten by that titan back then.”

Armin knelt down next to Eren and held his rejuvenated left arm, even placing his fingers in between his own, surprised at how real they were.

“Just what happened to you?” Armin wondered, his own eyes filling with tears.

The evacuation bell continued to ring out over Trost, but Jean and the others continued to look at Eren and the decomposing body of the rogue titan that Eren had previously inhabited.

“Then Eren,” he wondered incredulously, “did all this?”