Shit... Eren thought as he reached desperately for Armin on the roof. Shit…

Before his thought could be finished, the door that was the titan’s jaw and teeth closed down on Eren’s arm, cutting it off from the elbow down. Eren looked at his bloody, mangled stub with horror and disbelief as the titan that he was inside tilted its head and swallowed, forcing Eren down its throat to its stomach. He could faintly hear Armin screaming in anguish as he was squeezed further down. He was eventually let out inside a pool of fleshy walls and stinging, bloody liquid.

Once Eren emerged his head above the liquid, he was horrified to see as he tried to stand the corpses of several dead soldiers floating around him, more or less with lost body parts like him. The sight made Eren scream in horror. Eren saw another dead body pass him, its face lifeless and immoble.

No, Eren thought nervously on the verge of tears. This can't be. We've changed over these past five years. We've trained with one will, we've used every bit of our mental strength, and we've done it to beat those bastards... to stop them from taking away what is ours…

“Hot...” weakly whimpered the voice of a barely alive soldier, causing Eren to turn to her, “I’m so hot… Mom, save me…”

Eren was suddenly reminded of his own mom, remembering in particular how he played peek-a-boo underneath a pair of sheets she was folding out to dry. Eren remembered her laughing. Eren remembered how happy and safe her laugh made him feel. Looking upon this dying soldier now only served to remind him that everything that he loved and everything that he loves was being taken from him.

"Mom, save..."

Eren watched with dread as the soldier's head sank into the acid, her air bubbles slowly rising until the bile around her was calmer.

Why does this happen? Eren continued to ask himself. Why must we lose... our lives and our dreams? Why?

Suddenly remembering as his mother was eaten by a titan and reading a book with Armin five years prior began to tear at him, bringing him to tears. He too began to resist the struggle and allow himself to sink in the titan’s stomach. However, he couldn’t let it end this way… not like this.

“Shit!” he grunted, slamming his arms into the pool of acid. “SHIT!”

With his left arm outstretched towards the opening to the titan’s stomach, he floated his head up as long as his strength and endurance could allow.

"I’m not," he internally declared, "…giving up here! I’ll exterminate you all! Every single fucking one of you! I'll do it… with my own hands!"

From outside, a giant arm shout out of the bearded titan’s throat and out his mouth, the arm’s size tearing the throat and dislocating the jaw. The titan’s stomach began to swell too, nearly to the point at which its entire body would burst. With the titan’s insides crushed by the pressure, it fell to the ground onto its stomach.

Suddenly the entire back of the titan tore open, spraying blood and bone all over the street. From the titan’s decaying body emerged the rogue titan, which produced a loud roar upon being freed from the titan’s stomach.

From its right, it suddenly saw a seven-meter titan with an overly large head approach, seating itself like a frog. With its resolve intact, the rogue titan stared at the other titan with malicious intent. It began to walk towards the titan, squashing the head of the bearded titan in the process.

I'll exterminate you, Eren thought in his new form.

The titan then lunged at the rogue titan, but it was ready, already reeling its arm back.

Every single fucking one of you! I'll do it… with my own hands!

The rogue titan thrust its fist forwards with tremendous force as it drove into the titan’s mouth and impaled it out the back of its head, spraying even more blood and chips of spine and skull over the streets.

Shaking the titan off its fist, the rogue titan began to stomp the titan’s head into pulp, still unsatisfied with its kill as it continued to break more and more of the head with its foot.

…More. More! Kill more... I want to kill more! More… lot's more…
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“I’m gonna' kill you all,” Eren mumbled, clearly in a trance and smiling dreamily.

“Eren!” Armin shouted.

Upon hearing his friend’s voice, Eren snapped out of it. As he slowly came to, he was shocked at the sight before him.

“Huh?” he gasped,

With Armin holding him up for support and Mikasa guarding him like a watchdog with both of her swords drawn, he saw as a ring of soldiers in rose-crested jackets put into rows on two sets of stone steps boxed him and his friends in from the sides of a corner outside of the large, fifty-meter wall north of Trost: Wall Rose. Their location was just west of the river that flowed through Trost, which was located near the northeast corner of the district.

“Eren!” Mikasa yelled, turning aroud upon realizing that her brother had awoken.

Eren looked around even more until he saw Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity standing before the soldiers, forming another wall. Eren’s eyes went even wider upon seeing the horns and wings of several of the ponies, as well as their odd pastel colored coats, manes, and tails.

What the hell? he thought. This can’t be real. What are those things that are guarding me? That orange one, she’s standing next to Mikasa. Why isn’t she scared of it? She looks more scared of the soldiers. The soldiers also look scared, but they aren’t looking at those things. They’re looking at me? Why are they looking at me like that?

“Eren!” shouted Armin again, getting Eren’s attention. “You can move alright, can you? Can you answer me? Tell them everything! I'm sure they'll understand!”

“Armin?” questioned Eren.

“Hey,” spoke a soldier, alerting Eren, “you heard that?”

“He was like, ‘I’m gonna' kill them all!’” said another one.

“Yeah, we heard him, alright. He was talking about us!”

“No he wasn’t,” Twilight tried to reason. “What reason does he have to kill any of you?”

“Shut up, you dumb animal!” yelled another soldier. “How could you side with that thing?”

“He wants to eat and kill us!” shouted another soldier.

As Twilight tried her very best to restrain injuring any of the soldiers due to their ignorance, Eren was shocked over the fact that Twilight had spoken.

And she can talk? he asked himself. Just what are they? What have I missed? Just what is happening here? The soldiers are surrounding all of us, and pointing their swords at us? Those swords were meant to kill titans. Then why do they continue to look at me like that? What's going on?
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In the streets of a collection of buildings inside of Wall Rose, many of the survivors of the 104th Trainees Squad were sitting and awaiting orders from their superiors. Conny was talking with a small, young looking female soldier with blonde-hair that reached the middle of her upper back and a taller woman with black hair with a length and style similar to Annie’s and had tan skin, narrow eyes, and freckles.

“Cadets!” called a man with a rose-crested jacket. “Equip yourselves, get in team formations and remain at the ready!”

The soldiers did as they were told, reapplying their 3D Maneuver Gear to themselves.

“And that’s how we were able to refuel and escape Trost,” Conny concluded.

“That’s horseshit,” the tan woman responded. “You’re telling me a bunch of rainbow-colored ponies came in and helped your asses?”

“Well, only one of them was rainbow colored…”

“Shut up. Jean, tell him to shut his stupid mouth up.”

Jean, who was sitting on some steps while drinking a canteen of water, turned to the group, sporting a straight face.

“As much as I’d love to, Ymir,” he said, “everything Conny said was the 100% truth, so get off your high horse and just accept the facts.”

Ymir sneered at Jean, but knowing him to be an honest individual, his testimony made the truth a bit easier to swallow.

“Some facts…” she merely said.

“But still,” said the other woman soldier to Conny, “I'm so sorry. I requested supply delivery for you multiple times…”

“We'd even gotten our hands on gas and all,” Ymir interrupted, her voice a bit calmer.

“S– So that means... the people that aren’t here…”

The silence told her everything she needed to know.

“Yeah, Krista,” confirmed Conny to the young, blonde woman. "Them too..."

“Really?” asked Ymir. “Even Mikasa? As in the Mikasa?”

“No! I thought Mikasa'd come here later with Jean and the others.

“Jean!” Ymir called. “Don't tell me that Mikasa got hurt?”

Jean sat still, completely unfazed by Ymir's questioning.

"Hey," Conny spoke, "what's wrong?"

Jean continued to assess what happened after Eren came out of the titan outside of HQ.
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"Jean," said Fluttershy, "we need to get out of here and get with the others."

"I know," Jean responded, "but we can't just leave Eren here."

"Of course we can't!" shouted Mikasa, supporting Eren by slinging his arm over her shoulder with Armin's help. "Now help me get him over the wall."

"I'll carry him," suggested Twilight, already lifting Eren out of Armin and Mikasa's grasp. "Now let's go!

Twilight flew off with Spike on her back as well as carrying Eren. Without a word, Mikasa and Armin leapt across the rooftops towards Wall Rose. Jean, Annie, Bertolt, and Reiner, who had Pinkie Pie fastening her arms to his back, followed closeby. Rainbow Dash carried Applejack and Fluttershy carried Rarity. Mikasa kept her eyes on two sights at all times, in front of her and up towards Eren, making sure Twilight still had him with her.

By the time they made it to the top of the wall, Twilight was feeling exhausted, quickly, but gently setting him down on the top upon perched upon the wall. Mikasa and Armin were the first to arrive, picking Eren back up almost immediately.

"I'm sorry," panted Twilight, "but this world's lack of magic makes it hard for me to carry him for long places.

"It's okay," Mikasa said. "You've done fine."

"Alright," Jean spoke, landing with Annie, Bertolt, Reiner, and Pinkie Pie, "there's a lift that can bring us all down to the bottom. The winged ponies can just flutter down."

"Excellent idea," Twilight said as her other pony friends came soon after. "Girls, follow Jean."

Jean and Annie lead Mikasa and Armin with Eren down the wall, Bertolt, Reiner, and the ponies following them. They eventually came to a wooden shed which housed the gears for the lift. To the right of it was the lift itself.

"That should be big enough to fit us all," guessed Applejack, "but anyone with wings should just fly alongside"

"That's the plan," confirmed Twilight.

Jean opened the lift doors, allowing Mikasa, Eren, and Armin in first, followed by himself and Annie. Bertolt and Reiner were next, followed by Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rarity. Once the lift was activated, it began to lower down towards the ground. Twilight, Spike, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy remained level with the lift, making sure everything went off without a hitch.

"Ooh!" Pinkie Pie squeaked, pointing out over the edge. "Look! There's a bunch of soldiers coming to greet us! Maybe they do have parties in this world after all!"

Twilight looked upon the faces of the soldiers. She couldn't help but be offput by their frightened stares. It was if the soldiers believed that they were carrying death itself onboard the lift.

"Pinkie," Twilight stated uncomfortably. "I don't think they're here for a party."

The lift finally landed, but the soldiers standing on the multiple steps with their swords drawn kept them from leaving. Soon, the captain stepped forwards. His jacket, like his men, bore the crest of the roses, and his face had a medium-sized reddish-brown beard that ran from ear to ear as well as a thick moustache that ran from his upper lip to the bottom of the nose.

"Cadets!" he called out to them, forcing them into saluting. "That young man is dangerous! Step away from him, leave here, and don't speak of this!"

Mikasa, knowing exactly what this was about, stepped forwards with a determined look on her face.

"Wait," she called.

"Mikasa," Jean reasoned, but was met with a cold glare from Jean. "You–"

"All of you, get out of here. I'll take care of this."

"Me too," Armin said, solely holding Eren. "I'm sure if we can just talk this over, we'll be just fine."

"That goes for us too," stepped in Twilight with her friends.

The situation appeared more sinister as the ponies stood before the captain and his men, who looked at all who stepped forwards with a hard scowl. Twilight taking note of this, felt Spike slide off her back to step with them.

"No, Spike," she said, putting her hoof up to block him. "You go with Jean and the others. We'll be fine."

"What?" queried Spike. "But Twilight, what about–"

"Just go," she said, looking at him and stroking his face with her hoof. "You'll be safe. We'll be safe. I promise."

"Let's get back with the others," Jean quietly ordered.

As the four other humans walked up the steps, Twilight pushed Spike towards them, forcing him to run alongside and join them. As the five of them ascended the steps, the soldiers made a path for them to pass, each one of them looking incredulously at the scared and nervous Spike.

Jean took one glance back at Eren and Mikasa, and then one last look to Fluttershy. Spike refused to look anywhere but backwards as long as the buildings didn't block his vision. As they got closer to the rendezvous point where Jean and the others could already see more soldiers, looked back, feeling guilt for leaving his friends behind.
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Jean took a drag of his canteen before he explained himself.

“It's all confidential,” he answered. “We’re forbidden to tell you.”

“Confidential?” asked Conny.

“What the heck?” Ymir pressed. "And these ponies of yours aren't?"

"As far as we're concerned,” Jean continued, “many more people know about these ponies than they know about what we know. That said, this other thing is not something they can hide forever. I expect before long, all of humanity will know… assuming that the human race survives that long.”

Jean took another swig of his water while glancing about the area.

I wonder where that dragon thing ran off to? he thought.
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At the north gate of Trost at Wall Rose, the titans gathered closer to the interior wall. However, the gate was blocked off by a massive net with large spikes on each of the places where the ropes intersected. As the titans tried to climb the net, their hands got caught on the spikes, sticking them to the net like flypaper.

More and more titans came to the gate and attempted to climb the wall, finding themselves in the same predicament as the others. With the titans blocking their way, the others coming in were blocked, but it still didn’t keep them from coming.

From the very top of the wall, about a dozen cannons were surrounding the gates perimeters and pointing downwards, ready to let loose with all of them if push came to shove. Around the interiors of Wall Rose, several other nets were spread out, trapping titans in the same ways as the ones at the gate.

“They’re holding fast to these harpoons,” spoke an middle-aged captain with a rose crest on his jacket. “Creating a defensive flesh wall out of the titans themselves was the technological squad’s opinion. Still, we can’t let our guard down. The edge of this wall is no more or less than the front line of the battle between them and the human race”

The man speaking had short, fuzzy blonde hair with a light handlebar moustache and goatee. Other soldiers stood around him observing the titans down below. The captain’s comment unnerved another nearby soldier who was about half of his age, causing him to squirm in anxiety.

“What’s wrong?” asked the older soldier, taking notice.

“Well,” the younger soldier tried to muster up, “our mission is proceeding without a hitch. But… I’m still worried about our friends assigned to the vanguard, sir.”

The captain took a heavy sigh, already thinking of the casualties that have inevitably happened.

“Yeah,” he responded. “As of right now, the less we know, the better. We must concentrate solely on intercepting them and nothing else, just like we did in training.”

“I understand the three kids that escaped with you five years ago have joined the Military as cadets, Captain Hannes. They are on front line duty too.”

“Yeah…”

The younger soldier looked at Hannes, whose nervous face was now showing even more concern, knowing that the kids he felt responsible for were putting their lives on the line. The younger soldier took a sigh of regret.

“My apologies, sir,” he admitted. “I talk too much.”

A small, but agonizing pause later allowed Hannes to answer.

“It’s alright.”

“Pardon?” the young solider queried.

“They’re tough kids. Each one of them has a little something to help them survive. The first has excellent combat skills, another has superhuman strength of will, and the third one has a very sharp mind. They’re doing fine. They’re alive. I’m sure of it.”

Hannes’s gaze, which was set below him with the titans stuck to the gate, was now looking out over the horizon.
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“Cadet Jaeger!” shouted the tenor voice of the captain from the center of the human wall surrounding Eren and his friends. "Cadets Ackerman and Arlert. Your current actions amount to treason! Therefore, your answer to my next question will determine whether you live or die!”

Twilight and the ponies winced with anger (with exception of Fluttershy, who whimpered in fear) at the prospect of being executed for protecting their friends. Eren still couldn't fight the confusion he felt in his situation.

“Pull any trick or try to leave that spot,” the captain continued, “and we'll fire our cannon at you! There will be no hesitation!”

Eren looked up at the top of an end jutting from the wall to see a cannon on a track aimed directly at him.

“Huh?” he exclaimed in fear.

“Let me ask you straight,” the captain spoke. “What are you really: human, or titan?”

“He’s human!” Rainbow Dash shouted, pointing her hoof back at Eren. “Can’t you see–”

“That’s enough out of you!” the captain spoke drawing his sword. “If you speak again without being spoken to, I’ll execute you immediately for insubordination!”

Twilight sputtered at the captain’s inability to be reasonable and instead threaten his opponents with death upon the slightest hint of dissent. Rainbow Dash growled slightly in response, feeling deep hatred for the humans’ fearful captain.

Eren looked at Rainbow with odd interest.

What is this? he thought. I’ve never seen that thing before, but it looks so… familiar.

Twilight’s brow was sweating profusely.

This is bad, Twilight thought. If they come at me with their swords, I can easily block those with a protection spell, but knowing this man, if we resist in any way shape or form, he’ll blast us all to kingdom come with that cannon. With the lack of natural magic from this world, I don’t think I can protect us from something like that!

“Well?” the captain pressed onto Eren.

Eren mulled over the captain's question as the soldiers stared at him with angry and frightened eyes, expecting an answer.

What kind of question is that? he asked. What's with that look of his? It’s as if they were looking at some kind of monster. Are they saying I'm the monster?

“I…” Eren began to answer, “I don't understand the question, sir!”

The ambiguous response clearly irked the captain, a noticeable frown coming upon his face.

“Are you playing dumb with me, you goddamn freak?” he roared lividly. “Come on, try it again! I'll smash you to bits! ON THE SPOT! You won’t even have time to assume your true form!"

"My true form?" questioned Eren.

"Dozens of people saw what happened. They were right there, watching you come out of that titan.

"We humans are facing an invasion of your monstrous kind into Wall Rose. It doesn’t matter if you number among the trainees sanctioned by the king himself! It is our duty to eliminate any threat! In this, I know I’m right!”

With the increase in the captain’s volume, the ponies scooted back closer to Eren, Mikasa, and Armin.

“That wall-destroying titan who destroyed Wall Maria five years ago might show up any time now! The very existence of the human race is at stake, and we must act. Understand? We have no more time or soldiers to waste on you! I’ll have you blown to kingdom come!”

“Well-reasoned, sir,” said a female cadet with grey-hair and glasses. “Their hostile intent is obvious. I doubt we’ll get any useful information out of them either. Sir, as you said… it’s a waste of our time and forces.”

“If we attack now,” shouted a soldier, “we can take him down easily!”

“Let’s chop him up while he’s still in human form!” shouted another.

The humans began to encroach on the Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and the ponies with their swords drawn. Each of the ponies, even Fluttershy, were scowling at the soldiers as they were backed closer and closer towards Eren. He was both shocked by both his once allied soldiers now coming at him like an enemy as well as the ponies coming even closer, unsure what they were and why they were protecting him.

However, before the ponies could back up any further, Mikasa leapt above them and drew her swords out. Her standing in front of the soldiers caused them to cease all movements and gasp in shock. Even the ponies were stunned by Mikasa’s actions. Mikasa was far beyond angry at her fellow soldiers, looking like she was out for blood.

“Chopping meat is my speciality,” Mikasa stated, “Come any closer, and I’ll be happy to demonstrate. Should anyone wish to experience my technique firsthand, then please, walk this way.”

Such threats sent chills down the spines of the ponies and soldiers, who full well knew Mikasa’s strength and skill with the sword. The ponies, their morale heightened by Mikasa’s stand, walked from behind her and in front of them, shocking the humans, even Mikasa and Eren further.

“I’m still not sure how much magic I can use on this world,” Twilight spoke, “but I’ll use as much of it as I need to keep you from hurting him.”

Magic? Eren wondered. What is she talking about?

“If you take so much as another step towards him,” Applejack threatened, “I’ll be makin’ you see stars.”

“Come get some,” Rainbow Dash goaded, “I guarantee that you won’t see it coming!”

The other soldiers were visibly haunted by the ponies’ foreboding words, Eren was shocked, but somewhat uplifted that these alien creatures were coming to his aid. Armin was scared about the prospect of his new friends dying for them, but continued to stand still, unsure of what was to happen.

“TWILIGHT!” called a voice from behind the wall of soldiers.

Twilight could see as Spike was trying to break his way through the soldiers’ legs and join Twilight. However, several of the soldiers were grabbing on to him, preventing him from reaching his friends.

“Spike!” cried Twilight. “What are you doing! It’s not safe!”

“Stop resisting!” the captain ordered to Spike. “Do you not want to live in the safety we’re providing you? Do you want to die as a traitor too?”

“If it means being beside my friends,” Spike grunted, using all of his strength to squeeze out of the soldiers’ grasps, “then I’d rather die with them than live with you!”

One soldier, knowing that Spike was slipping free, grabbed him by the face. Spike, angered by this, remembered the protection spell that Princess Celestia had given him and his friends. Concentrating hard, he felt a tingling sensation on his body that shot off of him, covering the soldiers grabbing him with volts of electricity.

The guards yelped in pain, forcing them to let Spike go and have him run to his friends. Again, Eren was in total shock of the dragon coming to the ponies as he hugged Twilight, tears streaming down his scaled face.

"I'm sorry!" Spike cried. "I didn't want to leave you! Please, don't be mad at me!"

“That piece of shit shocked me!” the soldier screamed.

“I’ll take note,” said the captain, “that resisting the arrest of and assault of a soldier is an offense punishable by death.”

“He's only a child, you monster," Twilight hissed.

"And he shall die for his adult decision."

“What about the others, sir?” spoke a soldier next to the captain. “Several of us watched as those ponies carried cadets into HQ. Not to mention Mikasa Ackerman herself, assigned to the rear guard in our escort mission. She’s as good by herself as a hundred ordinary soldiers, and who knows what other benefits could come from allowing these ponies to fight with us. If we lose them, it will hurt the forces greatly.”

“Get lost!” shouted Rainbow Dash, angrier than ever. “Either we all get out of this alive, including Eren, or neither of us do.”

Eren found Rainbow Dash’s words heartening, his feelings only heightened by his deja-vu feelings of her.

“Rainbow!” hissed Applejack through her teeth. “You’re not helping.”

“No,” Mikasa interrupted, walking in front of her pony friends once again. “She’s right.”

“Hey,” Eren spoke, still scared, “What the hell's going on here?”

“Mikasa,” Armin called desperately, “what's the point in fighting humans? Where do you mean to run within the confines of these walls?”

“I don’t care whom I have to fight,” said Mikasa, “I will not allow Eren to get killed. I need no further reason.”

“We can talk this over!” Armin cried, tears flowing. “No one here understands anything. That's why they're afraid!”

“They clearly showed understanding towards the ponies. They can show the same understanding for Eren. Like Rainbow Dash said, ‘Either we all get out of this alive, or none of us do.’”

Eren looked to see Mikasa’s ever-determined face, Armin’s frustrated tears, and the ponies’ defensive stances with shock. He was currently being protected and wept over an impending execution for an act he didn’t remember committing. Eren, still on his knees, sunk down with his fists supporting him on all fours.

Am I the only one who doesn’t believe I’m a titan, is that it? thought Eren. Dammit. I can't rememer how I got here… I feel so heavy that I can’t even stand. And if they don’t like what I have to say, I’m going to get us all killed…

Me? Killed by humans? That’s ridiculous. I mean, what did he even say again? That I came out from inside a titan's body? What’s he talking about? What the hell does that even mean? That was all just a dream!

Eren looked at his whole left arm once again, mystified by its presence.

But… if all that stuff was more than just a dream, that means… that this unclothed arm has actually grown back? Just like…

It finally dawned on him.

…Just like it would for a titan. It's absurd. Why would I? Why–

“I’ll ask once more!” the captain shouted, bringing Eren out of his train of thought. “What are you really?”

Okay, Eren mused. Just don't get this answer wrong. I’m not the only one who's life is at stake here. Eren realized, looking at Mikasa, Armin, the ponies, and Spike, all looking at him expectantly for his answer. That’s right. I am just like you, and I’ve always been.

“I’m human!” declared Eren.

There was a long bout of silence following Eren’s answer, but it was cut off soon after the captain sullenly bowed his head.

“I see,” he said, beginning to raise his hand up. “Please don’t resent me for this."

Armin and Eren were crestfallen with their attempts at saving their lives reduced to rubble. Twilight and her friends expressions quickly went to that of fury and determination to that of fear and mortality. Mikasa’s mouth hung open slightly, shocked by the resolve of the captain. Fluttershy then ran to Rainbow Dash, and clung on to her tight, tears streaming down her face.

"It's only natural. You see, no one can prove they're not evil.”

With the captain's arm and hand fully raised, the soldiers manning the cannon aimed at Eren, seeing the whole ordeal through telescopes, prepared to pull the rope trigger to the cannon upon the captain’s signal. Mikasa ran back to Eren, pushing the button on her maneuver gear handles that detached both blades from the base. She then knelt down and prepared to pick him up.

“Eren! Armin! Ponies!” she ordered. “We have to escape up the wall!”

“Stop it!” Eren yelled back. “Forget about me!”

Ignoring him, Mikasa hoisted Eren onto his back and ran to the wall.

“You guys get away from me!” demanded Eren, but to no avail.

“This is bad,” Armin said. “At this rate…”

Mikasa looked up to see several soldiers at the top of the corner of the wall with their swords drawn, ready to intercept them.

“Up there too?” gasped Mikasa.

“Twilight!” shouted Rainbow Dash. “Help me and Fluttershy fly everyone out of here!”

“I can’t,” Twilight answered, her own tears streaming. “We can’t carry everyone out with our wingpower alone, and my magic isn’t strong enough to carry or teleport us all away from here, yet alone stop the cannon.”

Rainbow Dash knew that it was pointless. If she tried helping one friend by herself, she’d leave everyone else to the mercy of the cannon, and she couldn’t leave anyone behind.

“You,” she stammered. “You mean…”

Rainbow Dash winced, knowing that she and her friends would most likely die.

Celestia, Twilight thought. Forgive me…

As Mikasa jiggled him to keep him on her shoulder, a necklace slipped out from under Eren’s shirt for him to see, instantly recognizing it.
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“Eren,” spoke a man’s voice that flashed in Eren’s mind suddenly remembering the last confrontation he had with his father, a middle aged man with combed medium-long black hair, glasses, a moustache and a goatee. “When I get back,” he continued, showing the key to Eren, “There’s that room in the basement, which I’ve always kept secret. I’ll show it to you.”
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Eren, looking back at the key, recounted another vital memory of his father where he was in the woods.
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“Eren,” his father asked of him, “see this key?”

Eren’s hand produced a golden key attached to a string.

“Be sure to keep it on you at all times. And whenever you see it, remember. You must go into that basement.”
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The memories were colliding with Eren’s mind like two cannonballs colliding with each other mid-flight. Eren grabbed his head, feeling an agonizing headache.
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Eren’s father then pulled out a large syringe and a vial of beige colored liquid, soon spearing the vial’s top with the tip of the needle and sucking its contents into itself.

“With this injection,” Eren’s father explained as tears were forming in his eyes, “you will experience memory loss. That’s why I cannot explain anything to you right now. But someday, you must reconquer Wall Maria and reach that basement no matter what. At that time, this power will aid you. I'm sure their memories will teach you how to use it."

Eren's father turned to Eren lowered the needle closer to his body.

"EREN!"
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Eren, now out of his painful trance, came to see the captain with his arm still up. The ponies were now all huddled close to Armin.
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"You'll learn the truth when you reach the basement!"
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With cat-like reflexes, Eren quickly freed himself from Mikasa’s grasp and landed to his feet. With his left arm locked with Mikasa’s, Eren ran to Armin as he pulled Mikasa with him. Upon getting close, he tilted down and grabbed Armin and as many of the ponies as he could grope with his right arm.
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"It will be a long hard road, but you must reach its end!"
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The captain’s hand quickly lowered down, giving the order to fire. With a pull from the rope from above, the cannon’s blast sounded off and launched the hard, metal ball at them with tremendous speed.
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“If you wish to protect Mikasa, Armin, and everyone else, you have got to master this power!”
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Eren, as if by instinct, placed his left hand in his mouth and began to clamp down. Twilight tried producing a protection spell to deflect the cannonball, knowing that doing so was futile anyways. With the cannonball coming even closer, Eren bit down as hard as he humanly could, breaking the skin and crunching the bones.

Immediately, a large burst of light and steam erupted from where Eren and his friends stood, forcing the onlooking soldiers to shield their faces from the light and heat. A giant ribcage formed around Mikasa, Armin, Spike, and the ponies, keeping them safe inside. Eren’s arm shot out in the direction of the cannonball, suddenly growing massive layers of bone and muscle that formed into a giant, open hand, its palm ready to catch the cannonball, which was just feet from the hand. The projectile struck the hand with tremendous force, causing another blast of steam, fire, and dust to explode inside the barrier that the soldiers had formed.
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Hannes and his men heard the blast come from the east, looking back to see the smoke rising from outside Wall Rose.
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The stationed cadets looked immediately toward the direction of the blast and kept their eyes on the smoke billowing up from where Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and the ponies were. Jean, knowing that Mikasa and Fluttershy were in the blast, shuddered in fear, concerned for their safety.
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The soldiers and their captain waited patiently for the dust to clear.

"Did we get him?" wondered the captain.

The cloud began to fade, showing a silhouette of a large, humanlike body from the torso up. Once the cloud fully cleared, the sight was all but undeniable.

"No way..." the captain muttered.

Mikasa, Armin, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Spike were all safe and huddled close to each other inside the ribcage of the half-skeleton of Eren’s titan form.

However, it looked like that it was more constructed on the left side of the body, with muscles formed on the chest, neck, an eye, as well as the arm, which was completely blown from the elbow down because of the cannonball’s blast. The soldiers outside gasped and screamed in shock and terror.

The humans and ponies inside the ribcage looked around and observed with heavy awe.

“Whoa,” Rainbow Dash sighed.

“How is this even possible?” asked Twilight.

Pinkie Pie, however, had a large smile growing on her face now that she and all of her friends were saved.

“Woohoo!” she shouted in jubilation. “Now that’s what I call a Jaeger bomb!”

From inside and out, every living thing was too stunned to react to Pinkie Pie’s quip, instead focusing on Eren, whose titan form had appeared before them once again.