Further south of the city of Trost, other soldiers named the Scout Regiment were sent out on an expedition outside of the walls into Titan territory. The soldiers assigned to these missions were humanity's best and brightest soldiers. Despite this, about thirty percent of them do not make it back alive once they set out into Titan territory. The gap in strength between Titans and humans was just too great.

During the expedition, a titan about fifteen meters Tall was nibbling on a soldier with light brown hair that was bleeding around his waist where the titan was gnawing and out of his mouth.

"Just...watch...you bastards...", the soldier stammered weakly. "Mankind will eradicate you. In the end, we'll be the ones who survive!"

The soldier jabbed the Titan's left cheek using his blade. The Titan looked down at the soldier and shut its mouth entirely, severing off the man's lower body. The soldier screamed in great agony and pain.

"You bastards... will be destroyed... by Captain Levi!", he cried.

Suddenly, a steel hook flew right behind the Titan's nape into the side of a nearby tower. A soldier slices swiftly into the Titan's vital and lands safely onto the rooftops. The wounded soldier gasped after witnessing the man perform a clean kill, realizing that it was Levi. The Titan fell directly on its face while dropping the soldier in its mouth at the same time. The soldier that ended its life had short, straight black hair with an undercut, as well as narrow, frightening blue eyes and well-developed physique. He wore a light gray, buttoned shirt underneath his uniform and cloak along with a trademark ascot.

He surveyed the abandoned town and spotted a fifteen-meter Titan in his right.

"One to the right," Levi said to himself.

He turned to his left and spotted two more Titans about the same height as the other one.

"Another two to the left," he continued.

A soldier with light-ginger hair and amber eyes landed next to him on his left along with three other soldiers. One with long, blond hair that was folded and tied by a bun along with a small beard. The other with short, brown hair kept to a point at the back of his head and slightly darker skin tone.

"Captain," the female soldier informed. "I've gathered reinforcements!"

"Petra," Levi responded turning his head to her. "you go free the injured soldier below. Everyone else, attack the one on the right. I'll take care of the ones on the left."

Levi jumped off the roof and fired a look at a tower, flying towards the two titans.

"Captain!" Petra shouted.

Levi completely ignored Petra's cry and continued onwards. Two soldiers fighting the Titan on the right saw it lunge towards them. One shot his hooks at a nearby structure away from the titan, while the other dashed away on the other side. The Titan smashed its face right into the building where the two soldiers were previously.

A female soldier with medium-length, brown hair kept in a ponytail, broad, light brown eyes, and square, thick-rimmed glasses strapped around her head with bands flew between the buildings adjacent to each other approaching the titan with glee.

"Yahoo!" she exclaimed with joy.

The Titan looked behind and saw the female soldier land on the roof in front of it.

"Don't worry!" she yelled at the Titan raising her arms confronting it. "I'm not trying to hurt you."

The Titan raised its left arm and readied itself to grab the soldier. However, the soldier instantly flew away by shooting her grappling hooks at a nearby structure.

"Too slow!" she replied swinging around the Titan to get a clear shot for the nape. "Now's my turn!"

She performed a clean slash at the nape, causing blood to splatter out of the Titan's neck as it fell to the ground.

"See? Didn't feel a thing, did you?"

Little further ways where the other two titans were, Levi swooped above the town and landed expertly on the roof of another building, walking slowly towards the two Titans.

"Ripe for the picking," Levi said quietly to himself. "You all look ridiculous."

One of the Titans opened its mouth agape at Levi to take a bite of him. Levi reacted by firing a hook at a tower behind the Titan moving towards him. He swings around the Titan to the right, wrapping the wire around the Titan's neck. Levi reeled the wire into his device, charging for the Titan's nape and killing it with a blade spin. He quickly lands on the balcony of a building and springs into the air right in front of the other Titan.

Levi detaches the blades while swaying his handles down, launching the swords deep into the Titan's eyes. The Titan cried in pain and covered his eyes as it was robbed of its sight. Meanwhile, Levi lands on top of its head, preparing to replenish new blades.

"Quit moving," Levi groaned. "You're making it difficult for me to get a clean cut."

Once he had a fresh new pair of blades, he jumped off of the Titan's head and fell towards its nape while spinning rapidly, resulting in a successful kill. While the Titan tumbled to the ground, Levi quickly fired a hook at another tower to land gently onto a nearby rooftop. He looked at his left hand where he held his handle and saw Titan blood evaporating from it.

"Tch!" he sounded in disgust. "Disgusting."

He took out a small cleaning cloth out of his pockets and wiped off the blood from his hand. Afterwards, he went to the wounded soldier from earlier with Petra trying to stop the excessive bleeding from his waist.

"Captian," Petra whimpered. "I can't stop the bleeding."

Levi looked down at the dying soldier with pity, even though he did not seem to express it. The soldier started to say something to him with his last dying breath.

"Captain...Levi," the soldier muttered.

Levi bent down to his knees to hear him more clearly.

"What?" he asked.

"W-was I... useful to... mankind?" the dying soldier questioned, raising his bloody right hand. "Or am I... going to die... having achieved nothing?"

Levi gave his answer by grabbing his hand, encouraging him.

"You've contributed more than enough," Levi answered. "And you'll continue to do so. I'll carry you on your will, and it will grant me strength! I swear to you, I shall exterminate the Titans no matter the cost!"

"Captain," Petra interrupted. "he's no longer..."

Levi looked at the soldier's face and realized that he wasn't breathing anymore and was devoid of all life.

"Did he hear everything I said?" Levi asked, hoping that the soldier died in peace.

"Yes," Petra responded. "I'm sure he did. He's resting so peacefully, after all."

"That's good," Levi replied while standing up.

"Levi!" called a male voice.

Levi turned around to see a tall man with blond hair kept neatly panted on his left side. He had a calm expression with icy blue eyes and thick, bushy eyebrows. The clothing he wore was a small, emerald bolo tie around his neck under his uniform and cloak to signify him as the commander of the Scout Regiment. He was riding a white-coated horse along with a few other soldiers on horseback.

"We're withdrawing," he declared.

"Huh?" Petra responded in question.

"Withdrawing?" Levi questioned. "There's still more we can accomplish here. Did my men die for nothing?"

"The Titans are all heading north toward the city," he answered.

Petra gasped while Levi made a small grimacing look. The commander peered to the north where Trost laid.

"It's the same as five years ago. Something's happening in the city. The wall may no longer be intact."

Damn it... Eren hissed in his mind as he perilously tried to reach for Armin while he was halfway inside the bearded Titan's mouth. Damn it!

Before he could reach Armin, the Titan's mouth closed shut, cutting his upper left arm clean off. Eren lost consciousness as he was swallowed by the Titan. He could faintly hear Armin's screaming in agony before he was out cold. A few minutes later, Eren wakes up inside the stomach of the Titan surrounded by dead bodies and limbs floating above the hot, bloody stomach acid, screaming in horror. As he backed away from the gruesome scene, he bumped into a soldier behind him and saw a soldier's body spin upward, with its face devoid of all life.

This... this wasn't supposed to... Eren thought on the threshold of tears. We're no longer the weaklings that we were five years ago. We trained to become soldiers. We believed we were soldiers. All so we could beat them. All so we can survive and protect.

"It's hot," faintly murmured a female voice who barely had any life left in her, causing Eren to turn towards her. "It's so hot. Help me. Mom... Mom!"

The word 'mom' caused Eren to be reminded of his own mother, remembering back in his childhood how he used to play peek-a-boo underneath a pair of sheet his mother hung up to dry in the sun, making her laugh almost every time. Eren also remembered how joyful and safe her humor made him feel. The dying soldier was a grim reminder of how everything he held dear was being taken away from him.

Mom... Eren remembered in his mind. Mom...

"Help," the soldier whimpered before sinking into the acidic liquid.

Why did this happen?Eren continued remaining in his own thoughts. Why are we robbed of everything? Our lives and our dreams...

Eren suddenly remembered his mother being devoured by that Smiling Titan and also the book Armin showed him about the wonders of the outside world, causing him to hold his tears no longer.

"Why?" Eren spoke shedding tears.

He tried to resist the struggle of sinking deeper inside the bloody pool of acid to no avail.

"Damn it," Eren groaned reaching his bitten arm up towards the entrance to the titan's stomach. "Damn it. Damn it all!"

"Hell if I'm gonna give up!" he screamed keeping his head above the acidic liquid. "I'll exterminate them! I won't spare a single one! I'll kill them with my bare hands!"

Suddenly, a large hand shot out of the bearded Titan's mouth, tearing its throat and dislocating its jaw. The Bearded Titan's insides began to swell up to the point where his torso would explode. Its back exploded spraying blood and organ all over the streets and buildings. Out of its stomach appeared the Rogue Titan, breathing hot steam from its mouth followed by a massive roar.

Across the street was a seven-meter Titan crawling towards the Rogue Titan very slowly. The Rogue Titan noticed it and seething with vengeance walked towards it, stomping on the Bearded Titan's nape in the process.

I'll exterminate them... Eren thought while he was inside the Titan body. from this world...

The smaller Titan hopped in the air like a frog lunging at the Rogue Titan. The Rogue Titan readied itself by wounding its right arm and thrusting his fist straight into the other Titan's mouth. The back of its head exploded with blood and bone spraying above the streets.

I won't spare a single one!

The smaller Titan fell onto the streets, leaving the Rogue Titan to squash its vital point with its foot several times until it was satisfied with his bloodlust for Titans was quenched.

More! More! I'll kill more! I want to kill more! More! Way more!

"I'll kill you all," Eren murmured in a dreamy coma and sinister grin.

Armin, who crouched right next to him with Eren's right arm wrapped around him, widened his eyes after hearing his closest friend mutter to himself waking back to reality.

"Eren?" Armin said in a concerned tone.

Eren widened his eyes to see in front of him more clearly, snapping out of his daydreaming. He gasped abruptly when he saw all of the soldiers surrounding him in two rows on stone stairs with their blades drawn cornering them in the sides of a corner of the outside wall of Trost. He also noticed Mikasa standing in front of him protecting him with her swords ready.

"Eren!" Mikasa exclaimed, turning to him with a worried expression.

Eren looked in front of Mikasa and saw seven ponies with various colors of fur, manes, and tails as well standing in front of her, creating a small barrier in front of him. He widened his eyes further and gasped again when he noticed that some of them had horns, while a few others had wings.

What the... Eren thought to himself. What the hell are those things?! Are those horses? Who are they and why are they protecting me? Mikasa and Armin don't look like they're scared of them at all. They look more scared of the soldiers. Are those soldiers scared of these weird-looking horses?

He noticed that the soldiers were more fixated on him rather than the ponies guarding him.

No. They're looking at me. Why are they looking at me like that? Why aren't they more frightened of me rather than these horses?

"Eren, can you move?" Armin shouted. "Are you back to yourself now? Tell us everything that happened! I'm sure they'll understand!"

"Armin?" Eren wondered.

"Hear that?" said a soldier in the formation, alarming Eren. "He said, 'I'll kill you all.'"

"Yeah, no doubt about it," replied another male soldier. "He wants to devour us all."

"No, he doesn't!" Starlight argued with reason. "He has no purpose to-"

"Shut up, you mule!" shouted another soldier. "How could you side with that monster?!"

"He wants to eat us! How can you not see that?!" yelled another.

Eren was totally stunned after hearing clear and concise words come out of one of the ponies.

They can talk? Eren continued to wonder. Where did they even come from? And why are these soldiers calling me a monster? They even have their swords pointed towards us. Aren't those swords used for killing titans?! What happened? What have I missed? What's... going on?

Within Wall Rose outside the inner gate of Trost, there were many recruits and survivors waiting around for further orders from their superiors. During that time, Conny was explaining to a young, shorter girl with long, golden hair and large, blue eyes and a taller woman with freckles, long brown hair styled in a ponytail, tan skin, and intimidating eyes how he and the others managed to escape in one peace.

"Recruits are to maintain their equipment and wait for orders!" stated a man with a jacket that was imprinted with a rose-crested symbol.

The soldiers followed orders and re-equipped themselves with their maneuvering gear.

"So that's how we refilled our gas tanks and got out of Trost District."

"Really?" wondered the little, golden-haired girl.

"That is complete bullshit!" the tan girl responded in an implausible tone. "There is no way a bunch of talking, colorful horses came to save your asses! Not in your wildest dreams!"

"Actually, Ymir, they're ponies," Conny corrected.

"Whatever!" Ymir sneered.

"I'm really sorry," apologized the smaller girl. "We requested supply support for you guys multiple times, but..."

"We finally got our hands on some too," Ymir interfered in a calmer voice placing her hand behind her head.

"S-so the people that aren't here are all..."

Conny's brief moment of silence was enough to tell her the answer.

"Yeah," Conny answered in grief. "I'm sorry, Christa."

"Even Mikasa?" wondered Ymir.

"N-no," Conny replied. "I thought she came back later with Jean and the others."

"Jean!" Ymir called to him. "Don't tell me Mikasa is injured."

Jean didn't even respond as he sat on a picnic table, completely bewildered after his recent experience.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Conny asked.

Jean took a quick chug of water from a water canteen he had in his hand. He assessed that after he, his friends, and the ponies helped Eren onto the wall, they brought him safely on the other side of the wall of Trost, only to be greeted by many fearful soldiers towards the ponies, but mostly Eren.

"We were ordered to keep that confidential," answered Jean. 'I can't say."

"Confidential?" Conny questioned.

"Seriously?" Ymir pressured. "And those so-called ponies aren't?"

"Although it's not something they can keep under wraps for long," Jean argued. "Especially those ponies. It's only a matter of time before everyone finds out. That is, assuming people live to hear it."

Jean took another chug of water while peering to where Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and the ponies were right now.

I just hope they make it out alive, he pondered in his mind.

At the interior gate of Trost, there was a massive horde of titans gathered close to the bottom of the enormous wall. The gate, however, was guarded by a tremendous net with large spikes placed on every single plate where the ropes crossed each other. The Titans were unsuccessful reaching the soldiers on top of the wall and resulted in them getting trapped on the net like flies on flypaper. More Titans continued to gather around the wall only to join them in the same dilemma.

On top of the wall were about a dozen cannons pointed down directly at the horde in the event that anything may happen. More nets were spread around the interior just for good measure. The soldiers responsible for protecting people from the titans surrounding the walls and maintain order within them called themselves the Garrison Regiment. They continued to keep a good eye on the crowd of titans below the wall. Among them was the unit captain, who was a man in his mid-thirties with well-built physique, short, blond hair, a thin mustache, and hazel eyes.

"A defensive wall of flesh using the Titans themselves," uttered the captain. "The engineering squad has outdone itself. But we still can't let our guard down. This is the front line between us and the Titans, as well as the edge of a cliff."

He looked at one of the soldiers standing next to him and noticed a grim expression.

"What's wrong?" the man asked with concern.

"Nothing," answered the male soldier. "Our mission is proceeding smoothly, but I'm worried about the safety of my comrades in the vanguard. A messenger headed to HQ earlier with a deathly pale expression."

"Right," replied the blond man. "but we need to devote ourselves to interception, just like we've been trained to."

The soldier nodded slightly after hearing the captain's statement.

"I heard the three kids you rescued five years ago have all become recruits. They're also in the vanguard."

"Yes," the captain acknowledged.

The younger soldier looked back at the captain with more anxiousness in his face. He looked down with regret knowing that those kids were putting their lives at stake, even though he felt that they were the captain's responsibility.

"My apologies, Hannes," the soldier confessed. "I shouldn't have brought that up."

"They're safe," Hannes claimed, setting his sight towards the horizon. "They're strong kids, and each one has their own means of survival. One has advanced combat skills, another has a tenacious strength of will, and the last has a sharp mind. They're safe. Alive and well for sure."

"Recruit Jaeger," shouted the alto voice of the captain at the center of the human formation surrounding Eren, his friends, and the ponies. "as well as Recruits Ackerman and Arlelt! Your present actions are treason! What do you have to say in your defense?"

All of the ponies, except Fluttershy, cringed in anger at the likelihood of being put to death just for the sake of protecting their new friends. Regardless of this idea, they all stood their ground. Eren still looked at the captain of the vanguard in confusion.

"Any attempts to mislead or escape will be met with a bombardment of high-explosive shells!", he continued. "This is no bluff!"

Eren and the ponies glanced at the cannon on top of the wall extended at the end aimed right at the group, realizing that the captain was not lying.

"Let me be frank!" spoke the captain. "What are you? A human or a titan?"

"He's human!" yelled Rainbow Dash, flying a few feet up in the air. "Don't you see-"

"Silence!" retorted the captain, pointing at the blue pegasus. "I was not speaking to you, you dumb animal! If you or any of your accomplices outburst again without a lick of permission, I will shoot you right where you stand! No exceptions!"

Twilight and the others stuttered at this man's lack of reasoning due to him being overwhelmed with fear. Rainbow Dash landed back on the ground and grunted in return, starting to share hate towards this man. Eren looked at Rainbow Dash and noticed something very familiar about this pony.

Wait! Why does that horse look so familiar? Eren thought. I feel like I've seen her in a dream.

Twilight tried to think of the best scenario to make it out of this dilemma.

What are we gonna do? she pondered deeply. I could easily protect ourselves with a protection spell, but if we do resist in any manner, he'll shoot us down to oblivion with that cannon. Because of this world's scarcity of magic, I'm low on options here! Even combining magic with other unicorns like Starlight or Rarity won't really do us any good.

Meanwhile, Eren was dumbfounded by the captain's questioning of his species.

What kind of question is that? he wondered. Why are they glaring? It's as if they're looking at a monster. Is that what they see me as?

"I don't understand that question!" Eren responded to them.

His response peeved the captain as a frown came upon his face.

"Feigning ignorance?" the captain grumbled to himself. "Damn monster, I dare you to try that again! We'll blast you to pieces in an instant! We won't even give you time to show your true colors!"

"True colors?" Eren questioned.

"There are plenty of witnesses!" the captain declared. "We all saw the moment you emerged from within a Titan! Mankind has allowed strange creatures like you to get past Wall Rose! Even if you're part of the Training Corps, which is under the King's authority, the risk you present is too serious to ignore! I can say the same for these ponies! We have the faintest idea as to where they came from or what their goal is, but their affiliation with you proves that they are possibly a threat to humanity as well!"

The ponies backed a little closer protecting Eren even further. They began to wince in terror seeing that the captain was accusing them of being a threat towards humanity.

"No doubt about it! There's a chance the Armored Titan that broke through Wall Maria could appear once again! Humanity once again stands on the brink of extinction! Understand? We cannot afford to waste further troops or time on you! We'll just bombard you lot with high-explosive shells!" he finished while pointing at the group.

"True," a female soldier with shaggy, platinum blond hair and a small pair of glasses. "their defiance is all but subtle. Furthermore, I doubt they'll give us any useful information. As you said, this is a waste of troops and time."

"Captain," called a male soldier in the formation. "now's our best chance!"

"We can kill him now while he's still in his human form," another one yelled.

The ponies readied themselves as the human soldiers drew slightly closer to them. Eren was astounded by these ponies as they didn't cower away in fear like any ordinary animal would as he still did not understand why they were protecting him to the bitter end. However, Mikasa passed the ponies to confront all of the soldiers that stood against them with her blades drawn out of her sheaths. The soldiers suddenly paused in their advancement and the ponies were shocked by Mikasa's conduct.

"My strength lies in slicing off flesh," Mikasa established with a sinister expression. "If I'm forced to demonstrate, I'll show no hesitation. If any of you wish to experience this personally, please feel free to approach me."

Her threatenings gave all of the soldiers and ponies goosebumps, especially Fluttershy and the captain of the vanguard. The ponies knew very well Mikasa's skill and strength after the recent events in Trost.

"My magic may not be as powerful back in our world," Twilight added. "but I'll make sure we'll use everything at our disposal to keep you from harming Eren in any way."

Huh? Did she say 'magic'? Eren thought in puzzlement.

"The same goes for me too!" spoke Starlight.

"Me three!" Rarity joined in.

"Ah'll knock all of ya upside the head if any of y'all take another step," Applejack warned.

"We dare any of you to try and take us on!" Rainbow Dash provoked.

Although Eren was surprised by their intimidating quarrels, he was for some strange reason elevated by their support. Armin feared for his newest friends' safety as he was uncertain what the outcome may be.

"Captain," said a male soldier with golden eyes and straight, dark blond hair. "These ponies helped many of our soldiers escape from the city, not to mention carry them to the headquarters. They may have abilities that could turn the tide in this war against the Titans. Not only that, that girl is Mikasa Ackerman, one of our elites in the rear guard. Her skills alone make her as valuable as a hundred soldiers. Losing her would be a devastating loss for mankind."

"Let's just talk about this without doing anything rash!" Starlight pleaded. "Nopony has to get hurt!"

"Hey, Mikasa, Armin!" Eren called out to them. "What's going on?"

"Mikasa," Armin interrupted standing on his feet. "what's the point in fighting with them? Where can we escape within the confines of these walls?!"

"Regardless of who it might be, I won't let anyone kill Eren," replied Mikasa. "That's reason enough."

"We need to convince them!" Armin exclaimed. "None of them understand the situation, so they're being controlled by fear!"

"If some of our fellow soldiers can accept these ponies, then I'm sure they can show some reasoning for Eren. Either way, we won't let them kill Eren."

Eren glanced at Mikasa’s stern and steadfast expression, Armin’s apprehensive face, and the ponies’ protective stances with dismay. He was completely lost as to what the soldiers were accusing him of committing. Eren slumped down on his fist on all fours.

Am I the only one who sees me as a human? he thought deeply. Damn, I can't remember what happened before I was here! I feel so sluggish that I can't stand. Is this it for me? Killed by humans? What's this about anyway? I emerged from within a Titan? What are they talking about? Why is no one making any sense? Wasn't that all a dream?

Eren looked at his left arm where part of his sleeve was torn off.

But if it wasn't, that means the arm I lost before grew back! Just like a Titan's! That's impossible. Why did this happen? Why?

"I'll ask you once again!" shouted the captain, catching Eren's full attention. "Just what are you?!"

Eren hissed through his teeth in fright, hoping that he can give them a straight and feasible answer. Armin, Mikasa, and all of the ponies looked back to him, expecting the right answer from him.

In any case, I can't afford to answer wrong. Eren pondered. It's not only my life that's on the line. That's right. I've always been... one of you.

"I'm human!" Eren affirmed in a high and loud voice.

Once Eren gave everyone his answer, there was a long period of silence among everyone, including the ponies. Eren, Armin, Mikasa, and the ponies looked at the captain with nervous expressions on all of their faces to see the captain's response.

"I see," the captain responded bowing his head. "Don't think ill of me."

The captain started to slowly raise his right hand to give the signal to the soldiers on the wall to fire the cannon. Armin, Eren, and the ponies dispirited to see their hopes of survival shatter into bits. Mikasa's mouth was slightly ajar after perceiving the captain's final decision. The ponies had lost all of their self-confidence and courage and switched to terror and panic. Fluttershy quickly flew to Rarity and hugged her tight as tears welled in her eyes.

"There's no other way," he continued. "No man can prove... that he's not a monster, after all."

With the captain's arm raised entirely upward, one of the soldiers holding a telescope signaled back to signify the order to fire when ready. The other soldier prepared the rope trigger to fire at the humans and ponies down below. Mikasa sprang into action by dropping the blades from her handles and running towards Eren to grab and carry him in his weak state.

"Eren, Armin, Ponies, we're going up!" Mikasa declared.

"Stop!" Eren retorted.

Eren's command fell on deaf ears as Mikasa grabbed Eren and put him on her shoulder. The ponies followed Mikasa and looked up at the top of the wall, only to see several other soldiers cornering them as well.

"You gotta be kidding!" Rainbow Dash grunted. "Twilight! You and Fluttershy have to help save everyone!"

"Rainbow, we don't have enough wingpower to carry everyone over the wall. Not only that, but we can't cast a spell great enough to carry or teleport all of us at the same time, let alone protect us from cannon fire."

Rainbow Dash knew that Twilight was right. She could not possibly abandon her friends to die like this.

"So then..." Rainbow Dash stuttered. "That mean's we're..."

Twilight grimaced in sorrow and her eyes started to produce tears knowing that she and all of her friends were doomed. There was nothing left for them to do now but hold each other one last time.

I'm so sorry, Celestia, Twilight thought to herself. Please forgive me.

As Eren tried to escape Mikasa's grasp, he witnesses a key tied around his neck slip out from his shirt. Looking at it, he instantly recalls his past.

"Eren," said a well-groomed man that flashed inside Eren's mind. This man had brown hair, brown eyes, a mustache with a goatee, circular glasses and was dressed in a brown suit with a white cravat and a white shirt with ruffled sleeves. Eren was remembering his farewell with his own father back at his original home before the fall of Wall Maria. "When I return, I'll show you the basement that I've always kept a secret," the man established, showing Eren the key around his neck.

Another flashback instantly crossed Eren's mind of him being in the woods with his last encounter with his father.

"Keep this key with you and never let it out of your sight," Eren's father ordered.

Eren looked at the bronze key on the palm of his hand that was attached to a string.

"And when you look at it, remember. Remember that you must go to that basement!"

Eren felt a sudden headache as memories of his past as a child began to spark with one another.

Eren's father saw him extracting a strange liquid from a tiny bottle into a needle to give Eren an injection of some sort.

"Your memories will be affected by these injections," explained Eren's father with tears pouring out of his eyes. "So it's pointless for me to explain now. Listen. Recapture Wall Maria and go to that basement! This power should prove useful then! Their memories should teach you how to use it!"

Eren backed away slightly when his father drew closer to give him the strange serum.

"Eren!"

With full vigilance and adrenaline, Eren knocked Mikasa off her shoulder and grabbed her arm. He darted towards Armin and the ponies that were huddled up against each other.

"Upon reaching that basement, you'll discover the truth! It'll be a hard and unforgiving journey, but you must succeed!"

Eren grabbed Armin's jacket and pulled him closer to his body and moved into the center of the ponies that were still holding each other. The ponies looked at Eren with disturbance as to what Eren was planning to do. The captain hastily lowered his arm to give the command to fire the cannon. The soldiers manning the cannon on the wall responded and fired away, shooting a large metal ball at the group with immense speed. The ponies heard the cannonshot and closed their eyes in dread to prepare themselves so that they don't see it coming.

"If you want to save Mikasa, Armin, and everyone else, you must learn to master this power!"

With his dad's final words recalled to him, Eren instinctively bites down hard on his left hand, spraying some blood and crushing bone. Instantaneously, a ball of light flashed from within the group where Eren was standing and steam expelled out of them at the soldiers. The soldiers and captain cover their eyes and protected their faces from the steam as a giant ribcage and arm formed out of thin air covering Mikasa, Armin, and the ponies from the cannonball. With a muscular arm instantly formed, it pointed at where the cannonball was coming from ready to brace for impact. The cannonball made contact with the giant hand and exploded it into pieces, creating more steam and dust to erupt at the soldiers.

Hannes and his fellow soldiers heard an explosion east of them and turned to see a cloud of smoke rise over the wall outside of the city.

The soldiers that were assigned to wait for further orders heard the sound of the blast as well and looked to see a pillar of smoke tower over them where Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and the ponies were cornered. Jean quivered in fear knowing that his friends and Fluttershy were caught in that blast and assumed the worst.

The captain and soldiers in the blockade coughed out the smoke and dust and glanced back to where the three soldiers and ponies were standing, waiting for the smoke to clear up.

"Did that do it?" the captain queried.

As the smoke partially cleared up, the soldiers gasped at an irrefutable sight.

"Dear Lord..." the captain whispered in horror.

Mikasa, Armin, and all of the ponies were also terrified to see themselves crowded in a massive ribcage of a partially formed Titan above the torso. However, the skeleton had some muscles formed around the left side of the body where the arm was extended before, the shoulders, neck, and left eye. The appearance of the skeletal Titan body terrified everyone to the extent of screaming. The two humans and ponies scanned around themselves and inspected the skeleton with overwhelming wonder and dread.

"What in Celestia?" Starlight murmured.

"W-where did this skeleton even come from?" Rainbow Dash questioned in total confusion and shock.

"Talk about a bombezzie!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed with a goofy smile on her face.

The humans and ponies couldn't even respond to Pinkie's whacky comment. They were too fixated about what just occurred around them.

Author's Notes:

Hey everyone,

If you haven't noticed, I added some background music for some of you to enjoy while reading. I'm going to try and implement background music in this story the best way possible for all of you readers to better enjoy this story.

See ya!
LoneWolf66