The humans and ponies appeared outside the ruins of Eren’s home just as the sky turned from a nightly blue to the faint, pinkish-orange of morning. As Eren rushed to the basement door, Rainbow Dash and Mikasa forcefully held him back, even as he flailed about to get through.

“NO!” shouted Eren. “We have to go back and help him!”

“Eren!” Rainbow Dash grunted as she fought Eren back. “Stop it! He’s giving us time!”

“Rainbow Dash is right!” Luna declared. “We can’t waste any more seconds! We must begin the final battle now!”

Luna charged her horn and pointed it straight into the sky. With a firework-like scream, a purple, shimmering beacon launched into the air, rising over the wall where the soldiers that patiently waited on the north side of the hill looked up at the pillar of light in awe.

“That’s the signal!” Erwin shouted. “Shining Armor! The Maneuver Gears!”

“Roger!” relayed Shining Armor.

Shining Armor galloped to a pile of 3D Maneuver Gear cases and three Scouting Legion jackets and cloaks sitting next to a tree and picked them all up with his magic. With a grunt, the aura around his horn and the cases grew brighter. With a tired shout, the magic-clumped cases shot out across the field, over the wall and fell down straight upon reaching the beacon.

Behind Shining Armor, the other soldiers, as well as both he and Luna’s guards, all stood up while the humans mounted their horses.

“The break of dawn has arrived,” Erwin announced. “Today, the sun shall shine over humanity once and for all!”

The humans and stallion guards cried out in anticipation, ready to end the wall.

“Pledge your hearts for a final time,” Erwin called out as he drew his sword, “for today will see a victor! Charge!”

Erwin’s horse bucked up before it galloped towards Wall Maria. Following him were Levi, Hanji, Kirill, Shining Armor, Auruo, Petra, Conny, Sasha, Hannes, Nile, and the remaining soldiers and guards, all of whom galloped getting closer and closer to the wall. Meanwhile, Jean was left on a stretcher upon the ground, still immobile from his injury.

“I’ll take charge for the Garrison!” announced Hannes. “Men, from this point forward, follow my lead!”

“Yes, sir!” the Garrison soldiers chanted behind him.

Erwin kept his gaze at the wall, ready to climb over it into the deepest circle of hell.
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All at once, Luna affixed Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Applejack, and Fluttershy with their Maneuver Gears while Twilight put on Rarity’s, Rainbow Dash’s, and Spike’s. Within a few seconds, the Maneuver Gears were in their rightful place. As Annie put her jacket and cloak on with Reiner and Bertolt, her father approached her from behind, grabbing her arm.

“Annie,” he groaned. “What are you doing?”

“I’m no longer a warrior, father,” she answered. “You’re free to join me. If not, stay out of my way so I won’t be forced to kill you.”

“Annie,” he responded, squeezing her arm tighter and making her turn to her father with icy eyes. “I’ve already told you, I’ll always be on your side.”

Annie gasped as she looked into her father’s sympathetic smile.

“You’re not properly equipped for battle,” Annie said. “Get out of that robe and chains and leave the city immediately.”

“Yes, my daughter.”

Without warning, Annie’s father grabbed her and pulled her into a hug.

“Just know, that however things my turn out,” he said, “I love you very much.”

Annie managed to muster the strength to put her own arms over her father’s back.

“I know, father,” she responded.

Letting back go, Annie’s father threw his wall chains off of his neck and tore his robe off his body, revealing a simple white-collared shirt and black pants. He ran north to the end of the town, leaving no passing words for his daughter as she watched him leave.

“Annie,” called Twilight. “Behind you!”

A fifteen-meter titan appeared, walking out from behind a building about thirty meters south of them. North from them, a seven meter titan and a ten meter titan walked towards them down the street. Luna, seeing their distance, turned to Eren one final time.

“Eren,” Luna spoke, “I want you to listen to me carefully. You have that shouting ability of yours, but we don’t know how much of your power it uses. What I need you to do is to fight only using your Maneuver Gear. If you get stuck, use your shout ability. If you can use neither your Gear or your shout, then transform, but remember, only if absolutely necessary. The whole of humanity depends on you, Eren.”

“Right!” Eren affirmed.

“Don’t let us down!” she called as she stepped away from them and flew up high, her wings blowing dust over the humans and ponies.

“You heard her, Eren,” Twilight ordered. “Now, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Spike, you head north and await your partners. Eren, Rainbow Dash, Mikasa, Applejack, Armin, and I will take the south area. Reiner, Bertolt, Annie, you come with us.”

“Yes ma’am,” Reiner, Bertolt, and Annie responded.

“Good. Now, let’s go! The fight to save this world ends now!”

The ponies and humans went on their separate ways. While Rarity and Spike both launched hooks into the nearby buildings and reeled themselves close to the two titans before them, Mikasa swung herself towards the fifteen-meter in front of her.
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Ymir’s titan was flung into a pillar, causing it to crack. As Ymir’s titan rolled down and to the floor, the Beast Titan charged at the bloodied Hunter. As Hunter whipped its tail just above the ground at it, the Beast Titan leapt over and punched Hunter square in the jaw, hearing several bones crack inside. Before Hunter could recalibrate himself, the Beast Titan locked its arms around Hunter’s neck and fell down, pulling him with it.

As Hunter reached at the Beast Titan’s neck with his clawed hands, Ymir’s titan jumped down onto Hunter and bit him under the arm, twisting her head to rip the muscle. Hunter’s grip weakened, but he reached at Ymir’s titan, managing to grab her in the back of the neck and pierce his claws in, holding her in place. Raising his arm over his head, Hunter smashed Ymir’s titan down on the Beast Titan’s head.

Hunter could feel the grip around his neck loosen, allowing him to breathe. He continued smashing Ymir’s titan into the Beast Titan until finally, the Beast Titan let go, allowing Hunter to shoot back up to his back legs, his torn right arm dangling beside him. Standing straight up with his claws still dug into Ymir’s titan’s neck, he whipped his left hand out, applying enough force to detach the skin and muscle from Ymir’s titan’s neck and throw the rest of Ymir’s titan’s body out through the chamber.

Hunter looked at the bloodied lump of flesh in his hand. Within it was Ymir’s body, although her left leg, her right arm including her shoulder, and her right hand were viciously torn off the body of her titan. Ymir coughed blood from her mouth as she weakly looked into Hunter’s eyes. Hunter gazed at her, wondering what final words she’d have left.

“Go fuck yourself,” Ymir wheezed.

Hunter held back his emotion with ease. Lifting his hand up to his mouth, he laid Ymir down on his lower set of fangs and held her down with the upper set. Ymir smiled warmly as she looked at Historia’s bled-out corpse. With a small bite, Hunter’s teeth dug deep into Ymir’s back and head, feeling her blood trickle down his teeth and into his mouth. Hunter ground his teeth along the sides, allowing Ymir’s shredded body to fall from his teeth, and with a jerk back of his head, he swallowed her remains.

Hunter looked at his arm, seeing as Ymir’s titan’s wound had finally healed. He turned to see the Beast Titan struggling to get up with his bashed-in face and ruined vision. Taking his time, Hunter strolled to the Beast Titan and rolled him onto his back. Raising his arm, he swung his clawed hand at the back of the titan’s neck, scooping its flesh and fur out and flung it at one of the pillars, where it collided and rolled down to the floor.

Hunter walked to the chunk of flesh, seeing Grisha, his left arm completely gone and his body from the waist down torn off and bleeding profusely. Grisha grit his teeth as steam poured out from both wounds.

“And we were such good friends,” Hunter sighed.

“Yes,” Grisha agreed. “We were.”

Hunter inhaled, his mouth glowing red. Grisha gasped and his eyes narrowed as much as his weakened, tired body could allow. Hunter blew out, blasting Grisha with his fiery breath. Grisha screamed in agony as his clothes singed away and his skin bubbled and blackened. Grisha’s screams became labored gurgles as his throat was charred away. Once Hunter could clearly not hear Grisha any longer, he stopped his breath, looking at the smoldering, almost-skeletal remains of his former friend.

Hunter looked up to the ceiling, realizing that fighting was going on above, if not, the arrival of the Military into Shiganshina. With another massive inhale, Hunter let out a deafening, shrieking roar, forcing whatever Wallists that were inside to cover their ears.
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As Eren landed upon the ground after felling a titan, he could clearly hear Hunter’s roar beneath the earth as the ground rumbled tremendously. The others who were grounded could also feel the earth shake, nearly knocking them off balance.

“What’s goin’ on?” Applejack wondered, her voice shaking under the unnatural earthquake.

“I don’t know!” Armin called out.
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As Erwin and Hannes led their soldiers forwards, they too could hear the roar as the ground beneath them shook as well.

“Halt!” Erwin ordered, pulling back on the reins of his horse.

The soldiers and guards likewise came to a halt, wondering what the roar was about. The rumbling and echo of the roar soon stopped as well.

“What kind of titan made that noise?” Hanji wondered. “Did it call titans over here?”

“No,” Levi said. “That didn’t sound like any titan.”

“Then what was that?” wondered Petra.

As if in response, the ground began to shake again, and near the wall, loud, cracking sounds could be heard. The other soldiers turned to the wall and looked up, noticing the entirety of the wall breaking apart, bits of rock falling from it and revealing a long line of colossal titans within it.

Erwin and the soldiers looked in fright and awe as the colossal titans, now freed from the inside of the wall, pushed away any pieces of rock still stuck to them.
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Annie’s father stood before the hole in the gate to Wall Maria, looking up in awe as the colossal titans broke away from their long slumber. Annie’s father couldn’t even move a muscle as a large piece of the wall fell down right above him.
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Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash backed into each other as they observed the event from all around them. Luna, The colossal titans, which now encircled the entirety of Shiganshina. Luna, from high above, observed as more titans along Wall Maria broke free from the wall and turned to face towards the center of Shiganshina.

Twilight watched in amazement as the Colossal Titans began to walk towards them, their steps slow, but powerful and destructive.

Was this what Grisha was worried about? thought Twilight.

“Guys!” shouted Armin. “Let’s split up! We can’t let them box us in!”

“Good idea, Armin!” Twilight complimented. “You heard him! Rainbow Dash, Applejack, go with your partners! Reiner, Bertolt, Annie, you’re on your own!”

“Got it!” Reiner yelled out!”

“Now move! We have to kill them before they decide to attack the inner districts!”

Armin, Twilight, and Annie ran to the west, Mikasa, Applejack, and Bertolt ran east, and Eren and Reiner launched their Maneuver Gears into the higher buildings and flew up, Rainbow Dash flying right beside them.
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The soldiers north of Wall Maria watched in amazement as the titans advanced within Shiganshina. Erwin, on the other hand, could not help but sport a furious scowl.

“Advance!” ordered Erwin, raising his sword up. “Take down as many as you can!”

“Yah!” the soldiers shouted.

Erwin galloped forwards while the remaining soldiers followed him out. Upon reaching the district limits, Levi and Hanji latched into the buttocks of two colossal titans, reeling themselves up and towards the back of the titan’s neck. Launching their hooks further up their respective bodies, Levi and Hanji finally reached the napes, giving them a hearty slash with their blades.

The napes were successfully torn out, as Hanji and Levi could feel the titan’s legs buckle underneath it, it’s lifeless body unable to support itself any longer. Hanji and Levi looked out to opposite sides, watching as the soldiers also climbed up the colossal titans on their Maneuver Gears. As Levi and Hanji leapt away to another colossal titan while the ones they killed fell, Hanji looked to her blades, noticing with horror that they had dulled and whittled into uselessness.

Damn! Hanji thought. Their skin is too thick. One slash and my blade is done. Screw it…

As she launched a hook into one of the titans and reeled herself up, Hanji slid her blade into her sheath and detached the blade using the switch on the back of her operational device. Twisting her arm, she inserted the base of the blade back into her operational device, but upside-down.

Pulling out her blade, the slanted end of the blade pointed out and down much like Mikasa’s, but that side of the blade was still sharp and fresh. Hanji landed upon the shoulder of a colossal titan, and repeated the same process with the other blade, observing its new usefulness afterwards.

“Squad Leader!” called a Scouting Legion soldier.

“Listen up!” Hanji shouted. “Turn your blades to the other side after you cut into one of these colossal titans. Their skin is very thick!”

“Roger!” they all shouted back.

As the colossal titan that Hanji and the soldiers stood on began to reach back to its shoulders, one of the soldiers quickly cut the nape off from its neck, killing it. Hanji and the rest of the soldiers flew out to the next one.
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“Look out!” Fluttershy cried out as a colossal titan fell towards them.

Fluttershy flew out of the way while Pinkie Pie darted for safety. Spike looked up at the falling titan and fell backwards, quickly launching two hooks from his Maneuver Gear at the top of the falling titan’s head. Rarity, seeing Spike’s objective, followed suit and fell back while standing on her hind legs.

Reeling in, Rarity and Spike reeled out and away from the falling titan’s body as they pulled themselves closer to the head. Right before the head could hit the ground and crush them, Spike and Rarity swung out and over the back of the titan’s head, arcing up into the air and landing on the titan’s upper back.

While Rarity and Spike caught their breath, both Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie flew up to the titans back and landed beside them as the titan began to steam up and decompose.

“Wow,” Pinkie Pie complimented, “smooth moves, Spike!”

“Thanks Pinkie,” replied Spike, “but we need to hurry and get the rest of them.”

“Pinkie Pie!” called Conny’s voice. “Rarity!”

Both Pinkie Pie and Rarity turned to see Conny and Sasha running towards them on the street.

“Rarity!” called Sasha. “Where is everyone?”

“Eren, Mikasa, and Armin went south. Grisha and Ymir are fighting a dragon underground!”

“What?” Conny shouted. “Did you say a dragon?!”

“Yes, I’ll explain later! But Historia…”

Sasha and Conny grimaced slightly, not liking Rarity’s pause and what it meant.

“They killed her!” she finally exclaimed.

Conny stepped back, blown away by the news. His face contorted into anger as he gripped the handles of his operational device.

“Pinkie Pie!” shouted Conny. “Come on! Let’s take these bastards down!”

“Woohoo!” Pinkie Pie cheered, sliding off the titan’s body. “I thought you’d never say so!”

Conny and Pinkie Pie both ran west towards the titans that were not occupied by the other soldiers of the Military.

“Rarity!” called Sasha. “Come! Let’s help them!”

“Wait!” called Fluttershy. “What about Jean! Where is he?”

Sasha looked away sadly, unable to tell the frail pegasus the truth.

“Please!” Fluttershy begged. “Please tell me!”

“He won’t wake up!” Sasha declared with misty eyes. “We left him at the hill, but we don’t know if he’s going to wake up, or if he’ll even wake up. I’m so sorry, Fluttershy.”

Fluttershy sunk to her stomach, her eyes wide and vacant. As she pictured Jean lying dead at the hill, her body began to tremble, her eyes began to water, and she started whimpering with oncoming cries.

“Rarity, I’m sorry, but please, we need to leave and help the others!”

Rarity looked back to Sasha, and then to Fluttershy. Before she could make her decision, Rarity threw her arms around Fluttershy in a consoling hug.

“I have to go now, Fluttershy,” wept Rarity. “Please, be strong… for Jean.”

Fluttershy stopped crying and her eyes opened up in wonder. Rarity let go of Fluttershy and slid down the fallen titan’s body with Spike. Rarity and Spike to Sasha, leaving her to run towards the remaining titan wall with them.

Fluttershy sat up upon the fallen titan’s stomach as the wind picked up, blowing the decomposing steam through her mane and around her body. As she watched the soldiers try and bring the colossal titans down, some of them being swatted down by their massive hands and to the ground where smaller normal titans awaited to eat them, Fluttershy could feel the heat of the steam rushing over her body. Her trembling began to cease, and her frightened frown slowly turned into one of furious vengeance.
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Rainbow Dash swooped behind a colossal titan’s neck and slashed its nape out. She continued flying towards another titan’s neck and slashed at its neck, only for her to find her blades dragging harmlessly along the skin. Rainbow Dash, confused, looked at her blades, seeing their dull useless edges.

“You’ve gotta’ be kidding me!” Rainbow Dash shouted. “I can’t make an attack at these guys unless I use my blades up!”

“Then switch them to the other side!” Reiner called as he equipped himself with a blade from his sheath, the back of the blade equally dulled and worn. “Don’t waste your blades here! Once you’re out, you’re done!”

“Right!”

As Rainbow Dash went through the procedure to switch her blades, down below, Eren swung up to a particularly tall building, standing about halfway in height from one of the colossal titans. The titan Rainbow Dash killed fell right in front of the building Eren had landed on, blowing a small cloud of dust onto him.

Once the cloud faded, Eren looked down to see that he was halfway through his blades. Eren then looked up at the colossal titan closest to him. With seemingly no other alternative, Eren took in a deep breath.

“You fuckers!” he screamed. “I’m gonna’ kill all of you!”

Eren looked around to wait for the other colossal titans to go and attack the one in front of him. To Eren’s dismay and shock, the shout ability was not working, as the colossal titans continued to advance into the city.

What the hell? thought Eren. Why isn’t my shout working? Was Hunter’s shout stronger than mine?

Eren’s eyes narrowed as he saw a colossal titan reach for Reiner and Rainbow Dash on the titan next to it. Eren grunted as he equipped his operational devices with fresh blades.

Fuck it, Eren resolved.

Eren launched a hook up at the attacking titans knee and climbed up.
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Twilight slashed at the nape of a colossal titan, felling it. Twilight then looked at her blades, looking dismayed upon them both being worn on both sides. Twilight tossed her blades up and over a colossal titan and outside of Shiganshina. Annie swung to the back of another female titan as Twilight flew beside her.

“Twilight,” advised Annie, “don’t waste your blades! Use the other sides!”

“I know!” Twilight called back. “I already used one side of my blades when we were rescuing Eren.”

“Then you should focus on keeping Armin and I safe.”

Twilight looked to Armin as he cut a nape off of a colossal titan. As it fell Armin flung his arms out, detaching his blades from his device and jumping towards the titan Annie was on. Swinging off her titan and flying up to the one next to it, Annie slashed at her titan’s nape, killing it.

“Alright,” Twilight agreed. “Just stay close.”

As Annie swung to the titan Armin landed upon, Twilight flew out to follow them.
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Mikasa and Bertolt both killed a pair of colossal titans at once while Applejack swung towards them, following them out to the next set of titans.

“Great work guys!” Applejack exclaimed just a few more and we’ll be be finished with these guys.

As Applejack turned to face Mikasa and Bertolt, she saw a large shape flying towards Shiganshina from the south.

“What in tarnation?” mumbled Applejack.
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Luna continued to be on the lookout until she turned to see Hunter flying out from the south and gaining speed with each rapid wingbeat. As Hunter began to fly over the remaining colossal titans, he took a swipe at a nearby Rainbow Dash, missing her by mere inches. Luna, seeing this, glared at Hunter and charged her horn. The other humans were stunned to see a dragon before their eyes, unsure of its origin, even resorting to stopping to see if their mind was playing tricks.

With Hunter fast approaching, Luna shot a quick succession of bright, small spells at Hunter, who quickly banked to the side and dodged each one, staying ahead of her shots. With her fired blocking her sight, Hunter flew fast by Luna and swung his tail forwards, striking her and throwing her back.

“Luna!” cried Twilight as she watched.

Luna quickly regained balance as a blue, shimmering shield faded away from her body. Twilight gave a sigh of relief to see that her protection spell had worked. Hunter flew straight at Luna now, his mouth glowing a fiery red. Luna charged her horn once more as Hunter breathed fire at Luna’s direction. As the blaze came to Luna, the flames spread away from her as the bounced off her magic shield.

Twilight was surprised to see Hunter continue his dragon’s breath even as failed to inflict any damage to Luna. Hunter then quickly tucked his body in and flipped towards Luna, his tail swinging out beneath him. Before Twilight could warn her, Luna could not see Hunter’s tail above her through his flames as the back of it slammed down on Luna’s head. Twilight watched shocked as Luna fell unconsciously down towards the ground.

“Princess Luna!” shouted Twilight as she swooped down towards her.

As Luna plummeted toward the ground, Twilight flew just alongside her, charging her horn and encasing her in her magenta aura. Twilight tried to pull Luna up with her magic, but she was too heavy and falling too fast for her to stop her. Both Luna and Twilight crashed into a building and tumbled into the street.

“Twilight!” called Armin, preparing to leap down from the colossal titan he stood on.

“Stay put,” Annie warned. “We need to stay up here away from the titans and cramped space down there. Plus, these titans will destroy this town and any tall buildings to swing from if we don’t.”

“I think that’s what Hunter wants us to think!” Armin shouted.

“What?”

“If we spend our time trying to kill these colossal titans, we’re going to run out of blades, especially gas eventually. Plus, Hunter controls the air. If we stick on these titans, we’re going to be easy targets for him. We’ll have more of an advantage fighting down there than up here. At least our blades can kill more of the titans down there.”

“I see. What should we do then?”

“I’ll go warn Eren and Mikasa, you go and spread the word to the other branches of the Military.”

“Got it!”

Armin and Annie went their separate ways, Annie traveling north on the west side of colossal titan wall while Armin traveled south and then east.
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As Twilight slapped the unconscious Luna’s face with her hoof, Hunter began to descend towards them to the street. Luna’s eyes fluttered open to see Hunter landing before them. Luna shot to her feet and began to charge her horn, only to stop as she let out a blood-curdling shriek, swooning to the ground.

“Luna,” gasped Twilight as she caught Luna in her arms and looked at her horn.

Twilight was scared to see that Luna’s horn had a noticeable crack running from the center of the horn to near the tip. Twilight’s attention to Luna was stopped by Hunter’s chuckles.

“So it looks like Luna can no longer hope to stop me,” he stated, slowly prowling towards them, leaving Twilight to back away while dragging the weakened Luna with her. “And what chance do you hope to have? Luna’s far more experienced in magic than you are, and I took her out within a minute.”

Twilight heard more footsteps behind her, seeing as a ten-meter titan turned onto the street she was on a walked towards her.

“And just like that,” Hunter said, “you will join the humans in their ultimate demise.”

Twilight stopped crawling, looking back and forth at the titan and Hunter. Twilight closed her eyes, awaiting the end for her and Luna.

*WHUH* *WHUH* *WHUH*

*SHLG* *SHLG*

Hunter let out a painful roar, leaving Twilight to look up at Hunter, who was now screaming up to the sky with two blades stuck in the side of his neck and down on this face right below the eye. Soaring down on Hunter was Levi, who flipped forwards and drove the heel of his right boot into Hunter’s eye right above the blade, inserting both of his blades back into his devices.

Levi jumped off of Hunter while slashing in, leaving two large gashes on Hunter’s body. As Hunter rubbed his sore eye, Levi landed on the ground and ran towards the titan behind Twilight.

“Hurry up,” he ordered, “before he comes to his senses!”

Twilight picked Luna up with her magic and placed her upon her back, galloping to follow Levi.

“Twilight,” called Levi. “We’re fighting down on the streets now. It’s too risky up there with that winged lizard around.”

As Twilight and Levi ran forwards, two unicorn royal guards ran from the side with their blades held in their grasp, one of them slashing the nape of the titan off and killing it. Levi halted to a stop while Twilight ran ahead.

“You two!” called Levi. “She’s been injured. Keep her within the city, but protect her at all costs!”

As Twilight lifted Luna off her back and onto the backs of one of the royal guards, the three of them carrying her out towards the exterior of the city, Hunter grunted as he charged at them and Levi. Faster than Hunter could comprehend, Levi turned around and latched hooks into the building to Hunter’s left, reeling himself in the second they embedded into the walls.

Levi wound his arms to the left as he flew towards the space in between the buildings and Hunter’s body. As Hunter tried to move his head to intercept him, Levi instead squeezed right through, the blade in his left hand entering inside Hunter’s mouth while the blade in his right hand grazed over Hunter’s snout. As Levi passed by, Levi’s left sword sliced through Hunter’s cheek while his right sword cut both of his eyes.

Levi swing out, leaving a deeper cut in Hunter’s face with his right sword while his left world sliced further in and cut through to the top of Hunter’s neck. Hunter grabbed his face and neck and roared again in anguish. With Hunter blinded and distracted by his pain, Levi soared up and over Hunter, launching a hook into his back. As Levi prepared to reel himself in, Hunter reached behind him for the wire.

Levi gasped in shock, quickly pressing the button on his operational device to reel his wire back to his side, it just barely missing Hunter’s grasp. Levi fell to the ground, stumbling to the left as he limped on his right foot to keep his balance. Hunter turned his head to face Levi, his gouged eyes reforming to new. Levi scoffed and shot his wires towards the west flying behind the buildings and escaping Levi’s sight.

With his vision restored and the slash on his cheek and neck healed, Hunter flew up into the air, scanning the streets for Luna and Twilight. As he looked to the west, he spotted as soldiers were running into the town and not dealing with the colossal titans. Hunter growled as he flew up to the level of the colossal titans’ heads.

Hunter dipped down, gaining speed as he flew to the outside of the line of colossal titans, observing the numerous soldiers still hanging from their backs. Hunter flapped his wings hard, flying close towards the titans backs. Annie, still relaying the messages to head into the town, looked at this with sudden fear.

“Jump!” she shouted.

She and a few soldiers heeded the warning and quickly rappelled down to the ground while many were still too frightened or awed to move. Hunter blew a large burst of flame from his mouth as he flew by the titans’ backs, incinerating the soldiers that were stuck. The remaining soldiers seeing Hunter get closer, suddenly began to jump and swing down to the ground. As the dragon approached Petra and Auruo, Petra looked upon the approaching dragon, completely petrified.

“Petra!” Auruo shouted. “Get out of here!”

Petra would not budge, leaving Auruo in a fluster. With a determined scowl, he swung himself towards Petra and grabbed hold of her wire. With a hard yank the hook came free from the titan’s back, Petra’s weight pulling the wire from Auruo’s hand. Petra gasped at the sudden sensation of freefall, looking at Auruo as she fell away from him.

“Petra!” shouted Auruo. “Get to the town! It’s not safe here!”

Petra watched as Hunter came closer, spraying his flame over the titans’ backs to ensure that the other soldiers could not fall or rise up to escape.

“Auruo!” screamed Petra as she hooking into the back of the colossal titan’s knee.

“Do Levi proud!” yelled Auruo. “Now go!”

Hunter’s fire breath finally reached Auruo and several other unlucky soldiers, incinerating them as Petra could only see them as bright yellow specks inside the plume of flames.

“AURUO!” Petra screamed.

Petra finally swung to the ground, continuing to look up at Auruo’s blackened corpse as it hung from the colossal titan’s body. Petra, her scared and saddened face transforming into anger as she sprinted towards Shiganshina.
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Hunter turned south and traveled along the east side of the wall of colossal titans. Hanji and Kirill saw as Hunter came closer towards them, seeing the fire’s being breathed from its mouth.

“Kirill!” shouted Hanji. “Let’s get down, now!”

“Right!” Kirill agreed.

As Hanji and Kirill rappelled down, Hunter dipped down to follow them and the other soldiers before they could reach the ground. As Hunter breathed into shower Hanji and other soldiers in fire, a green-and-yellow blur drove straight into the side of Hunter’s head, throwing off his aim and sending him towards the ground. Hunter landed and looked up at his attacker.

Fluttershy fluttered in the air with both of her blades equipped to her operational device shoes. Hanji and Kirill both looked shocked to see the normally timid Fluttershy in such a fury. Despite Fluttershy’s seething face, Hunter merely looked up at her with amused pity as if he were staring upon an ant.

“I’ve told this to one dragon before,” warned Fluttershy, “and now I’m going to tell you. You may have huge teeth, and sharp scales, and snore smoke, and breathe fire, but you do not hurt my friends. You got it?”

Hunter scoffed before he pushed off the ground and flapped his wings and soared towards Fluttershy. With a strong blow, Hunter breathed fire at Fluttershy, but she quickly dipped under it and watched Hunter’s neck, waiting for him to make the next move. Hunter quickly shifted his head down, aiming the flames at Fluttershy below. Before they could touch her, Fluttershy corkscrewed over the pillar and flew over Hunter’s head.

As Hunter turned his body to face Fluttershy once again, she banked her body right at Hunter’s right wing. With a yell, Fluttershy swung her sword at the base, slicing the muscle deep. Hunter screamed and began to plummet, futilely using his one wing to keep him airborne before he fell to the ground.

From the south end of the district, both Eren and Rainbow looked incredulously at Fluttershy’s sudden fighting prowess. Just then, Eren launched his hooks northeast at the higher buildings, reeling himself towards Hunter’s landing spot.

“Eren!” called Rainbow Dash, flying out to follow him. “Wait for me!”

Reiner watched as Eren and Rainbow Dash flew off, leaving him alone on the colossal titan wall.

“Dammit,” Reiner grunted, jumping off and rappelling down from the titan’s body.
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Mikasa, Applejack, and Bertolt watched as Hunter struggled to get up, his wing limply hanging to the side. Mikasa then heard the sound of wires shooting out from a 3D Maneuver Gear behind her. Looking to her side, she saw Eren and Rainbow Dash approach Hunter and Fluttershy.

“Eren,” she gasped, jumping off the colossal titan and down towards Eren and Rainbow Dash.

“Hold on, there!” shouted Applejack as she jumped off for Mikasa.

“Wait!” Bertolt cried as she reached out for them.

They were too far from earshot, continuing on their way and flying alongside Eren. Bertolt, seeing as he wasn’t going to bring them back, made a tired sigh as he jumped off the titan and went to follow them.
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Fluttershy hovered above Hunter, watching as he just managed to get on all fours, steam pouring from his wound on his wing. Fluttershy squinted upon the back of Hunter’s neck, marking her target. Stopping her wings, Fluttershy fell down with her arms held high above her, the tips of her blades aimed down at the neck.

Hunter turned his head at the speed of lightning, frightening Fluttershy. However, her fall was too fast for her to recover and fly away, allowing Hunter to turn around and grab Fluttershy. At the same instant, Fluttershy drove both blades down into the side of Hunter’ palm.

“Fluttershy!” shouted both Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

Hunter groaned painfully as Fluttershy twisted her wrists and the blades into Hunter’s hand, making them bleed heavily. Hunter winced as he tried to squeeze Fluttershy in his hand, only to discover that Fluttershy’s blades had ripped much of the useful muscle in his hand, making his constriction almost useless.

With an angry shout, Hunter reeled his arm back and chucked Fluttershy out towards the eastern side of the town. The force tore the operational devices from her hooves and snapped the wires off of her 3D Maneuver Gear. The others watched in horror as Fluttershy screamed off into the distance, her volume slowly muted as she got further away from them.

“No!” shouted Hanji desperately.

Hunter turned back towards Hanji with a vengeful smile, ready to resume what he set out to do before. About a hundred meters away from them, Eren looked at Hunter with a sense of disbelief and sadness at his sheer cruelty.

“I said I’d kill all the titans,” Eren declared, getting Rainbow Dash and Hanji’s attention, “but now, I’m going to kill you first!”

Eren squeezed down on his gas release lever, soaring far ahead of Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Mikasa, Reiner, and Bertolt. As Rainbow Dash flew up to stay with Eren, she saw as Eren let his left operational device go and place his hand into his mouth and bite down. Rainbow Dash flared her wings up, pushing her back and away from Eren as he glowed yellow and exploded into light.

Hunter saw the sudden light cast shadows behind Kirill, Hanji, and Hunter, making Hunter turn to see what was happening. Emerging from the light, was Eren’s titan, already in full form as it landed to its feet and charged at Hunter. Rainbow Dash and Mikasa flew right beside him, ready to assist with Eren’s titan in any way they could.

Hunter turned away from Hanji and Kirill, his smile growing wild and excited. Hanji and Kirill ran to the side, wanting to avoid the battle that would soon take place. As Eren’s titan came closer, Hunter stood on his hind legs, towering over Eren’s titan and putting his arms out, ready to intercept.

“Come, my trophy,” Hunter whispered. “I am ready now.”

Eren’s titan came very close up to Hunter, leaping up with his right arm reeled back for a punch. Hunter breathed fire on Eren’s titan, but it blocked its eyes with its left forearm, protecting his sight as Eren’s titan’s chest and left arm took the heat. Eren drove his fist down on Hunter’s head with his fist.
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Armin looked from the colossal titan that he stood on as Hunter head was slammed to the ground from the force of Eren’s titan’s hit. Undaunted, Hunter pushed off and tackled Eren’s titan, with Eren’s titan rolling himself back on top of Hunter in response. As Armin continued to observe the fight, a glint of light caught Armin’s eye near the center of the town. Armin glanced at the spot to see Twilight running beside two guards, each of the guards carrying a hurt and labored Luna on their back.

“Twilight!” shouted Armin. “Luna!”

Armin jumped down from his titan, launching hooks into the buildings below him and swinging out towards Twilight and Luna’s location.
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Fluttershy weakly stood up as she shook the rubble of the building she was hurled too off her back. As she stepped onto her right hoof, she felt a piercing pain enter her hoof, forcing her to put pressure off of it. Looking at her wrist, she saw that it was swollen and red, causing her to gasp in shock. Fluttershy looked about her for assistance, only to see as humans charged into the town all around her. It was then that she saw her 3D Maneuver Gear laid spread out inside the rubble of the building, crushed and destroyed.

Fluttershy whimpered as she tried flapping her wings, only to feel her right one working properly while only another sharp pain seared into her wing and into her back, grounding her. Twilight turned to look at her wing, and gasped in fright to see it unnaturally bent backwards.

Before she could whimper and sob into submission, footsteps approached her. Fluttershy turned and saw as a fifteen-meter titan walked towards her with a fixed open-mouth smile. Fluttershy turned on her back hooves and galloped away from the titan, bawling as she made her way through the labyrinthine streets of Shiganshina.
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Hunter and Eren’s titan continued to wrestle outside of the district as Mikasa, Applejack, Reiner, and Bertolt landed beside Hanji and Kirill. Rainbow Dash flew up, watching the fight from a safe, observable distance above.

“Don’t go at him yet,” Hanji advised. “If you try to go in right now, you’re going to end up crushed under one of them as they roll around.”

“Yeah,” growled Mikasa, looking at Hunter with lethal intent.

“Go get him!” Rainbow Dash cheered as she punched the air. “Give him the old one-two!”

Eren’s titan pinned Hunter’s wings down with its feet, sitting on his stomach and grabbing hold of his neck, choking him. Hunter huffed desperately at Eren’s titan, only for small puffs of fire to escape his nostrils, dissipating before they could reach Eren’s face. Eren’s titan grinned triumphantly as Hunter was caught in a tight spot.

“You should have seen your father,” wheezed Hunter, “after I burned him alive.”

The humans and ponies, who could clearly hear him, gasped in shock. Eren’s titan even showed a look of shock as his hands went loose, trying to understand what Hunter had said. Hunter, keeping his desperate face up, lifted his tail up and wrapped the end of it around Eren’s titan’s neck. With a hard jerk, Hunter’s tail whipped Eren’s titan off of himself and out about fifteen meters away.

“Hey!” shouted Rainbow Dash. “No fair!”

Hunter whipped his head towards Rainbow Dash and breathed a stronger gale of fire at the pegasus, forcing her to swoop away from him. Reiner, angered by Hunter’s trickery, launched a hook into the bar of Hunter’s wing. As Reiner reeled himself forwards, Hunter lifted his wings up to fly. Reiner grinned as he reached for his wire, which was now raised above as it laid across Hunter’s raised wing.

Reiner pulled down on the wire, the thin metal slicing through Hunter’s wing as it ripped through to the bar. Hunter hissed in pain as Reiner resumed his reel, sliding under Hunter’s wing. Hunter’s head appeared from behind his wing, shocking him. Hunter opened his head to bite and catch Reiner, but Reiner quickly shot another hook at the side of Hunter’s chest and pulled himself towards it, escaping Hunter’s mouth.

Reiner then saw as Hunter’s body shifted down towards him, making Reiner freeze in fear, realizing his fatal situation. As Reiner tried to reel back away from Hunter’s body, he looked up to see himself in-between Hunter’s jaws with his throat right above him. Hunter bit down at the perfect time, closing his mouth down on Reiner, tearing his feet off his legs. Hunter lifted his blood-dribbled head up and swallowed Reiner whole. Eren’s titan stood up from the small crater that its body created and looked up to see Hunter complete his act, making Eren’s titan’s mouth go agape.

Bertolt and Applejack both looked horrified to see their friend go in such a gruesome matter. Bertolt drew two fresh blades from his sheaths on his operational devices and ran out at Hunter with a desperate battle cry.

“Wait!” shouted Hanji, reaching out. “Bertolt!”

Bertolt wouldn’t listen as he launched two hooks for Hunter’s head. Hearing the burst of gas from the Maneuver Gear, Hunter ducked his head down, letting the wires and hooks fly over his head. Bertolt gasped, seeing as he was disabled. As he pulled his wires back in, Bertolt felt something large slam into him from behind.

Hanji, Kirill, and Bertolt looked frightened as Hunter’s tail whipped into Bertolt’s back, sending him flying towards Shiganshina at a breakneck speed. Bertolt’s body crashed through two buildings before he crashed into the wall of the third building. Applejack and Hanji knew full well that Bertolt would not walk out of it.

“NO!” wailed Applejack.

Eren’s titan’s frown returned, and with a massive roar, Eren’s titan charged forwards at Hunter. Hunter turned to Eren’s titan as it sprinted at him, regaining his smile.
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Fluttershy turned a corner down the street as a seven-meter titan chased after her. Fluttershy was terrified to see that before her was a brick wall. Turning back, she saw as the seven-meter titan made a swipe at her, making her jump backwards. As Fluttershy backed away timidly, the titan walked up towards her, hunger in its eyes. Fluttershy, knowing she wouldn’t make it, slunk to her stomach and covered her arms over her eyes, awaiting the end.

*SHLNG*

The metallic swish of metal slicing flesh allowed Fluttershy to looked back up at the titan hunting her. It wavered around before it stumbled forwards, right before Fluttershy’s hooves. Fluttershy squeaked in fright as she scuttled back away from the corpse. Looking back up, she saw a silhouette of a man standing hunched upon the steaming titan’s corpse. The figure limply hopped down before Fluttershy, and with the light better cast upon it, Fluttershy gasped to see Jean standing before her.

“Jean!” Fluttershy sobbed as she hurled herself onto Jean.

Jean stumbled back as Fluttershy dug her face into Jean’s chest, covering his shirt in her snot and tears.

“Fluttershy,” groaned Jean, weakly pushing Fluttershy back, “I don’t know how much more time I have.”

Fluttershy watched as Jean clicked the switch on the back of his operational devices to detach the two blades inside of them.

“Jean?” Fluttershy questioned. “What about–”

“They were dull anyway,” he explained. “Now hop on.”

Fluttershy ran behind Jean and hopped onto his back. With her grabbing tightly on, Jean launched two hooks at the walls that he stood between, and pulled himself over the buildings.
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Rainbow Dash soared high into the air as she dove down towards Hunter, her blades at the ready. Hunter saw her coming a mile away, and leaning back, he flung his left wrist out, catching Rainbow Dash on it and bouncing her off his hand and into the back of the leg of a colossal titan. Rainbow Dash caught herself and safely landed on her hooves on the titan’s calf, but looked as Eren’s titan came too close for her to interfere once again.

Eren’s titan’s fist came thrusting towards Hunter’s face, but Hunter jerked forwards, catching Eren’s titan’s wrist with its mouth and clamping down. Eren’s titan reached for Hunter’s head as Hunter grabbed Eren’s titan’s other wrist with his right hand. Hunter pulled his head to the left, ripping Eren’s titan’s arm off from the shoulder.

“Eren!” called Rainbow Dash.

Hunter yanked Eren’s titan’s other arm down, bringing it to its back. Hunter caught Eren’s titan’s head down with his other free hand, pinning him. Hunter then leaned his head down and bit into Eren’s titan’s nape, ceasing its movement.

“EREN!” screamed Mikasa as she ran forward.

Mikasa launched her hook at Hunter’s upper back. Without even looking, Hunter grabbed the wire with his hand, making Mikasa’s eyes narrow in fear. Hunter threw his hand up into the air, bringing Mikasa with it. Mikasa saw as Hunter’s arm arced up and down, knowing she’d be force into the ground as well. With a shout, Mikasa swung down on the wire to her Maneuver Gear, cutting it off before she could be flung to the ground.

The initial force was still enough to throw Mikasa past the colossal titans and towards Shiganshina, making her flip uncontrollably. Mikasa tried to use her gas release to set her in the right course, only to make the spinning and flipping worse. As she continued to recalibrate herself, her body collided with the roof of a building, throwing her Maneuver Gear off her body as she bounced off the roof, landed upon another, and fell to the street.

“Mikasa!” yelled Applejack.

As Applejack galloped out and away from Hunter, Hunter merely watched her pass and run into Shiganshina. Putting his head back below the ground, he slid Eren’s bloody, tired body out of his mouth in a saliva-coated heap. Hunter could hear the sound of Rainbow Dash approaching from behind. Hunter let out a fiery huff from his nostrils just as a rainbow colored blur passed beneath him and out in front of him.

The huff hit his mark dead on, striking both Rainbow Dash and Eren as they both tumbled to the ground. Hanji, frightened for Eren’s unwinnable predicament, rushed to help him, only for Kirill’s grasp to hold her back. As Hanji looked to Kirill with betrayed eyes, Hunter’s footsteps brought their attention to him as he came towards Eren and Rainbow Dash.
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Applejack ran up to Mikasa, who couldn’t get up as her arms couldn’t support herself as she bled from her brow and her waist. Applejack slipped her head under Mikasa’s arm and stood up, helping bring her to her feet.

“Come on,” encouraged Applejack. “We gotta’ get back to Eren!”

As Applejack and Mikasa walked towards Eren and Rainbow Dash, the colossal titans before them shifted their legs, blocking their path. Applejack and Mikasa looked up as three colossal titans stared down below them. Applejack grunted in defeat, knowing that this was their end.
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Jean flew above the rooftops, looking for a place devoid of titans. Jean then grunted as he felt his vision getting hazy as well as a throbbing pain in his head. Fluttershy gasped as she could feel Jean faltering beneath her. With a tired sigh, Jean lost consciousness and crashed into the ground, throwing Fluttershy off of him. Fluttershy crawled towards Jean with misty eyes and rolled him to his back.

“Jean!” she cried. “Wake up! Please!”

A fifteen-meter titan began walking towards the two of them after it spotted them. Fluttershy, with nowhere to run, and unable to leave her friend, laid atop Jean and cried on top of him.
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Spike slashed his swords at two titans that reached for them. Rarity and Sasha were behind him, cowering in the corner they left themselves in. Rarity continued to press the gas-release button in her shoes, but no gas-escaped. There was also not a blade in her sheath, while Sasha had one left in each sheath.
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Conny and Pinkie Pie stood back to back. Both of their blades were dulled beyond further use, and both of their sheaths were empty. Around them, four titans surrounded them from all sides.

“Got any more blades?” Conny asked.

“No,” Pinkie whined, “I’m fresh out! You?”

“Me too.”

Both Conny and Pinkie Pie clicked the switches on their devices, releasing their blades and letting them fall to the floor with a clang.

“I guess that’s it,” Conny moaned.

Pinkie Pie looked behind her at Conny, and gave a content smile at her partner.
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Petra slashed through the nape of a three-meter titan with Kirill’s specialized blade. Before she could land, a seven-meter titan slapped her to the ground, making her roll painfully around. As the titan walked up to her, both Shining Armor and Erwin stood in front of her, both prepared to fight for her safety.
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Twilight and the two royal guards made their way into a town square, looking for the next best path to take. Each path contained a titan, making them circle around to find a clear path. However, each path was blocked by at least one titan. Twilight and the two royal guards backed themselves towards the center, finding themselves boxed in.

Twilight tried charging her horn as bright as she could, only for the horn to fizzle out a couple of seconds after charging it.

“You two wouldn’t know how to use a teleportation spell by chance, right?” asked Twilight.

“I’m afraid not, Princess Twilight,” one of them spoke.

Twilight looked back at the closest path to her, keeping her eye on the titan there.

“Twilight!” called Armin.

Twilight looked up to see Armin hop down from one of the rooftops and land right in front of her, quickly turning to face the titans entering into the square. Twilight looked at Armin’s sheaths seeing they were all empty, but then looked up to see two blades in his devices.

“Armin!” shouted Twilight. “Are those blades any good?”

“Getting dull,” Armin shouted.

“What do we do?” Twilight asked.

Armin turned to look at the northwest exit, seeing that two of the streets one had only one titan inside of it.

“Guards,” asked Armin, “how are your blades?”

“This is our last good pair!” one of them responded.

“Good. Here’s what we’ll do…”
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Hunter stopped as he stood over Eren and Rainbow Dash. Eren limped to his feet while Rainbow Dash shot up, only to feel her body ache with a searing sensation. Eren looked to her body, to see that her cloak and jacket were charred, and her wings were blackened with spots of exposed red muscle on her wings.

“There’s nowhere for you to escape now,” Hunter said. “You’re too weak to transform again, and your friends are all going to die, if not, already dead.”

“Don’t mess with me,” Eren growled. “You’re a rotten piece of shit, and I’m going to kill you.”

“Yeah,” Rainbow Dash said, “what he said.”

“You still think, you have a chance?” Hunter chuckled.

“Oh, yeah,” Rainbow Dash said, her smile showing full confidence, even if her body wouldn’t allow it.

“I’m going to crush you,” Eren said, grinding his fist to his hand.
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Mikasa and Applejack looked up as a colossal titan lifted its foot up, hovering it over Applejack and Mikasa. Mikasa’s eyes grew wet as two tears ran down her cheeks.

“Eren,” she silently wept.

The colossal titan lowered its foot down.
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As Spike swung his blades at the titans, one of them made a quick grab, managing to get him and hold him squirming in its hand.

“Spikey-Wikey!” Rarity screamed.

“Here!” shouted Sasha. Grabbing her blades from her sheaths. “Take my–”

Sasha’s hand caught on the base of the blade, slicing her hand open and spilling blood onto the street. Rarity regretfully ignored Sasha’s pain-ridden screams as she pulled her blades out with her magic.

“You let my precious little dragon go!” Rarity ordered as she raised her swords up.

The titan pulled Spike towards it’s gaping mouth.
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Fluttershy could hear the footsteps getting closer, making her sobs louder and grip around Jean even tighter. She then felt Jean’s arms gently wrap over her back, ceasing her crying.

“It’s okay,” he weakly sighed. “I’m here. You don’t need to be afraid.”

Fluttershy comfortably rest her body and head along Jean, savoring her last moments with him. The approaching titan stood before them, bending over to grab at them.
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Conny grunted as the titans continued to encroach. With a grunt, he slipped his devices back into his jacket, confusing Pinkie Pie.

“Come on,” he said. “It’s not like we’ve never faced titans without weapons before!”

Pinkie Pie smiled, glad to see Conny’s spirit emerge even at this time.

“Aw, yeah!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, standing on her back hooves and making a few jabs at the air. “Time for some rock-‘em sock-‘em titans!”

As the titans reached for them, Conny and Pinkie Pie each leapt at one, ready for their last blaze of glory.
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“…You two,” Armin planned, pointing to the guards, “set Luna down and kill those two titans in front of me. “We’ll run out through there and make it back to the hill and refill on blades!”

“What if we run into more titans?” asked Twilight. “What if we run into Hunter?”

“Then I suppose that’s it. But until then, this is our only shot. Are you ready?”

“Yes, sir!” the ponies agreed, saluting Armin with full respect.

Armin smiled and gave a nod. The two guards let Luna down on the street and ran in front of Armin, their blades readied in their magic grasp. Armin turned around to see a five-meter titan looming over them. Armin grit his teeth and shouted, aiming his handles at the titan’s neck.
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“Grisha always told me what a reckless boy you were,” Hunter said. “I suppose it’s time you learned how stupid you were as well.”

Eren put his fists up, ready for a fight, while Rainbow Dash crouched down, ready to charge. Hunter brought his head forwards, its mouth open to devour. Eren and Rainbow Dash, as pumped as ever, ran right towards Hunter and his gaping mouth.