The elite squadron, the ponies, and a few remaining soldiers were trying their hardest to hold back as many Titans as possible. Regardless of all of their struggles, the Titans' numbers continued to increase as long as the breach remained unplugged. Twilight and Fluttershy couldn't stay in the air for long and would eventually have to land to rest their wings. Twilight's magic would soon wear her down if she did not conserve her magic for grasping onto the blades she held. Rarity and Pinkie Pie were also losing stamina along with their swords starting to become dull with every slice of Titan flesh.

Rico landed on a rooftop to recover her strength as she watched as more titans were coming for Eren and the others. A female Garrison soldier fell next to her to relay the news.

"Squad leader," she spoke in a worrisome tone. "This is all we can handle! We're the only ones left!"

They watched as a Titan with a big nose gorging on a fallen soldier. As Rico became annexed with panic, she gritted her teeth and thought of the only course of action to protect Eren and the ponies that were fighting back.

"Let's fall back to the rock!" ordered Rico.

As Rico and the female soldier zipped across the buildings towards the boulder, Twilight looked back to see them retreating and back to where the titan was feeding on the deceased soldier. Twilight wanted to help him so badly, but she already knew that it was already too late to save him now. After sighing in defeat, her mind was set.

"Fluttershy!" she called to the trembling pegasus. "Let's move!"

As Twilight flew with Rico and the other soldier, Fluttershy glanced back at the soldier being devoured with pity one last time and followed Twilight's lead.

On another rooftop near the breach of the outer gateway, Mitabi, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie watched as five more Titans ranging from about eight meters to fifteen meters enter the city. From behind, Ian and Mikasa rejoined them for any information of the situation.

"Report!" Ian demanded.

"Five titans incoming from the gate," Mitabi relayed.

"Looks like we're gonna have to improvise," Pinkie said in a lively tone while taking out the cannon from earlier inside the HQ.

Ian and Mitabi looked at each other with great perplex and disturbance as to where Pinkie Pie got that cannon. They quickly turned their attention to Rarity for an answer.

"Don't ask," Rarity replied.

Back to where Jean was hiding, the Titan that was searching for him walked back towards the direction it came from to search elsewhere. Jean saw this as his only opportunity to take the mobility gear outside and replace it with the malfunctioning one that he had on. Without hesitation, Jean ran through the door outside towards the mobility gear of the fallen soldier, fell on his knees and began unstrapping the many buckles.

"I can't just sit around waiting for the Titans to piss off!" Jean said to himself.

On top of the wall, Conny and Annie watched Jean trying to remove the mobility gear of a deceased soldier.

"Jean!" Conny cried. "It must be his Maneuver Gear!"

"What?" asked Marco while joining Conny and Annie to see what they were witnessing.

Jean was struggling to unstrap the belts as they refused to unbuckle from the clips.

"C'mon, you bastard!" Jean groaned. "I'm in a hurry here!"

The same Titan from before came back to where it previously searched to spot Jean, walking towards him to eat him. Jean started to panic trying to remove the mobility gear as he heard the massive footsteps.

"Jean, calm down!" shouted Marco.

Jean looked behind and spotted Marco using his maneuvering gear to go around the Titan from its left side to grab its full attention.

"Marco," Jean yelled. "What are you doing?!"

Marco did not respond. He landed on the sidewalk and ran the opposite direction as the Titan was now focused on Marco rather than Jean. As the Titan moved away from him, Jean calmed down and went back to replacing his mobility gear. After a few more tugs, he successfully removed the mobility gear from the corpse.

Conny and Annie swung down to the rooftops and rushed in to join Marco's rescue.

"Jeez, what a drag!" Conny bellowed.

As they pushed on, Jean was running towards a Titan and was about to be cornered. With his brand new maneuvering gear, he fired both hooks at two different structures and moved up to the right over the Titan's left shoulder. However, before he could reshoot one of his retracted hooks to escape the titan, one of the triggers did not press down, causing Jean to lose his balance and fall hard on the street.

"Crap!" Jean choked, looking at the right handle. "Why is the trigger so stiff?"

He glanced behind and saw the titan he tried to evade about to lunge at him. Jean struggled to get up as the Titan drew closer to his prey.

"Jean!" Conny screamed, coming down from the roof off a building right of where the Titan was standing.

Conny fired his hooks to moved towards the Titan's head and bumped into it, dazing the Titan. Conny landed on the nearest roof to recover from such a foolish attempt to distract the Titan.

"What are you doing?!" questioned Jean.

"That's my line!" answered Conny. "Fly away already!"

The Titan raised his right arm to snatch Conny from the roof, only for him to run away from it and grab a pile of wood and brick instead. Seeing this as another opportunity, Jean ran a few feet and fired one of his hooks at another building right before he was about to be caught by a different Titan that dived straight for him.

As Jean glanced back at the titan that nearly caught him, he gasped in horror to see a Titan pouncing directly at him upside down. Just before the Titan was about to grab him in its mouth, Annie swept in and pushed the Titan down on its throat, prompting the Titan to miss its target and slide on the street. After avoiding so many dangers, Jean swung across the city directly above one of the rooftops, dragging his sheaths on the roof as he pushed forward to the wall. He shot the other hook straight at the wall and exhausted some gas to move up on the top for safety with the other right behind him.

Jean and Marco tumbled on the wall to steady themselves on their knees and feet to prevent from falling off on the other side of the wall. Conny and Annie, nonetheless, landed on their knees smoothly.

"You guys are insane!" Jean ridiculed.

"My line again!" retorted Conny. "I think I just died like three times over!"

While they were all catching their breaths, Annie looked towards the south. The spectacle that she saw caused her to let out a small gasp along with an astonished look.

"Look at that!" she panted.

Jean and the others looked at where Annie was directing them, gasping in complete bewilderment.

Mikasa, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, the elite squadron, and a few other Garrison soldiers saw more Titans flooding into the city with Pinkie Pie aiming her party cannon at some of them. Suddenly, they heard heavy footsteps coming their way causing them to shake. They all faced at the direction of the steps and gasped in utter amazement to what they were witnessing. They all stared at Eren's Titan form carrying the massive boulder with large amounts of steam dispersing all over his body due to the boulder's overwhelming weight. With every step he took, it caused the ground to quake and left massive imprints on the ground.

"Wow!" Pinkie asserted. "If I knew Eren's titan form was that strong, I would've asked him to carry my family's sacred boulder out from that quarry after that whole incident."

As Mikasa watched Eren carry the boulder towards the gate, her eyes gleamed, and a smile broke out.

"Eren!" she whispered joyfully.

"Mikasa!" Armin's voice shouted out.

Armin, Starlight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash traveled on top of the roofs of the buildings with Rainbow Dash flying overhead to meet with the others.

"Armin!" Mikasa replied.

"Eren won!" Armin told them. "He's trying to do his job now! If he can just make it to the gate, we win!"

Twilight and the other ponies saw this as the ultimate chance of this mission becoming a success. Ian realized this as well and gritted his teeth with his new determination.

"Listen well!" he roared. "We must defend Eren until he reaches the gate, even if it costs us our lives! Don't let any Titans get near him!"

"You heard him, girls!" Twilight shouted. "Let's finish this once and for all!"

"Alright!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash. "We got this!"

The other soldiers followed Ian's command and charged straight for the Titans. The five Titans that were entering the city had their eyes set for Eren and approached him.

Jean, Marco, Conny, and Annie continued to witness the impossible befall. Meanwhile, Jean saw this as a step forward towards mankind's first victory against the Titans and began to take action.

"Keep them all out of the way!" he ordered. "We must support Eren!"

They all jumped off the wall back into the city to act as a supporting team for Eren.

Ian turned his attention to Armin, Mikasa, and the ponies.

"Everyone, go to Eren!" he ordered them.

They all looked at Ian skeptically.

"This is an order! Got it?"

"Yes, sir!" all of them answered.

Before Ian was about to go into action himself, he stops and notices Mitabi and his squad trailing the Titans heading straight for Eren. Thier reckless actions caused Ian to gasp and widen his eyes in horror.

"Mitabi's squad?" Ian shouted. "What are they-?!"

Mitabi and his squad chased after the Titans as the Titans ignored them.

"The Titans aren't paying us any attention!" Mitabi yelled. "We've gotta get close enough that they can't ignore us!"

"Look! Over here!" one of the soldiers screamed.

"Turn around," Mitabi roared. "Or I'll shove my sword right up your stinkin' ass and bleed you to death!"

Two of the Titans heard their rude slandering and turned to face them. Mitabi and the others trembled in terror after seeing them give chase after the soldiers.

"Now!" one soldier cried, running back towards the buildings. "Two of them are after us!"

"Run!" Mitabi demanded. "Run to the buildings!"

Everyone on the rooftops observed the soldiers fleeing from some of the Titans in horror.

"No way!" Armin muttered. "Staying on the ground is suicide! Without horses or buildings, we can't fight!"

"No... It's the only way we've got left," Ian declared.

Ian along with his squad fired their hooks from their maneuvering gear towards some nearby structures and flew straight to the ground to follow Mitabi's plan to lure the Titans away from Eren.

"Everyone follow their lead!" Ian commanded the others.

"Armin, we're going too," Mikasa stated, following Ian's lead.

Armin trailed Mikasa to support the others while the ponies started to diverge a plan to dispatch the remaining Titans.

"So," Twilight asked her friends. "Does anypony have any ideas in mind? I'm open to suggestions."

"Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!" Pinkie Pie repeated, raising her hoof like a student in class.

"Yes, Pinkie?" Starlight asked with a dull expression.

"I got an idea, but I'll need everypony for this idea to work," Pinkie stated.

The other ponies glanced back at each other with unsure expressions as to what Pinkie had in mind. Regardless, they trusted her and followed her proposal.

"Alright," Twilight settled. "What is your plan?"

"Just follow me, everypony!" Pinkie answered, jumping off the roof into the streets.

The ponies carried one another off the rooftops and on the ground with a pair of their blades and ran in front of Eren to put Pinkie's plan into place. Armin and Mikasa saw the ponies engaging the titans and were worried about their safety.

"What are you guys doing?!" Armin questioned in a nervous tone.

"Just saving our friends from deep peril!" Pinkie Pie answered in a reassuring voice.

Out of nowhere, Pinkie Pie took out her party cannon and told Applejack to get inside the barrel of the cannon.

"Pinkie, Ah ain't so sure about this," Applejack said.

"Just roll with it, AJ!" Pinkie Pie answered.

As the ponies were fighting according to Pinkie Pie's plan, Ian distracts a Titan about eight meters in height before it could reach Eren. The Titan strikes Ian with its left hand, only for the soldier to evade it by jumping over and running towards the buildings for cover.

"This way!" he yelled. "Come over here!"

The Titan stands back on its feet and chases after Ian, allowing Eren a clear path towards the breached gateway. As Eren continues to carry the massive boulder, he watches his comrades fend him and use themselves as bait.

My body... Eren thought. It feels like I'm being crushed...

He looks down on the street and notices Armin and Mikasa defending him.

Mikasa? Armin? he pondered. What are you doing?

He then glanced to the right of him and noticed the ponies on the ground engaging the Titans.

Rainbow Dash? Starlight? How are you going to fight those Titans?

Pinkie Pie aimed her cannon at a Titan charging at a soldier distracting a different titan who was unaware of the Titan Pinkie was aiming at.

"Ready to slice and dice, Applejack?" Pinkie asked with Applejack still loaded inside Pinkie's cannon.

"Ready as Ah'll ever be!" Applejack answered with her blades held in her hooves.

"Hey!" the soldier yelled at the Titan running the opposite direction. "What are you waiting for? Come and get me!"

Before he could recover and use his mobility gear to escape, one of the other Titans got a hold of him and was about to feast on the defenseless soldier and kill him. Pinkie Pie acted fast and aimed the barrel at the Titan's nape in hopes that Applejack would kill it before the soldier would be devoured.

"Fire!" Pinkie shouted pressing the knob.

The cannon let out a massive boom sending Applejack flying towards the Titan's weak point. Once she was sent flying towards the Titan, she readied her blades for the kill and slashed deep into the Titan's nape, ending its life and saving the soldier from certain death. Mitabi turned to where Applejack successfully killed the Titan with a smirk on his face but was unaware of another Titan ready to slam him into the ground.

Luckily, Rarity and Starlight moved in as Rarity slashed one of the Titan's ankles, forcing the Titan to fall forward flat on its stomach. Starlight galloped straight for the Titan's weak spot with her blades held with her magic and jumped ahead, slashing the Titan's neck precisely on point. Mitabi was able to recuperate and join the others that survived to exterminate the Titans that still remained.

The other soldiers were stunned by the ponies' bravery and endurance against such monsters. It was thanks to the ponies that the others were still breathing and fighting until the bitter end. With Eren only being several yards away from the broken gateway, he remembered one of Armin's encouraging words back in his dream.

"Why did you ever want to see the outside world?" Armin asked.

Knowing the clear answer as to why, Eren's drive to finish the mission grew stronger by the minute.

When we're born, all of us are free, he thought.

Memories of his childhood started to come back, remembering the moments of peril and danger.

Back in Eren's childhood, the trafficker held his axe upwards ready to chomp Eren as he was about to stab him with a knife tied on the handle of a broom.

People who deny that, no matter how strong they are, don't matter.

Back in Shiganshina near the river, Armin and Eren read a book describing the wonders of the outside world.

The burning water, the land of ice, cities of clouds, an empire made of crystals... I don't care what! Anyone who saw such things would be the freest person in the entire world!

Ian noticed a soldier in the hands of a Titan ready to be eaten alive and made his way towards it.

Fight! Who would value their life over something like that?

Ian used his mobility gear to fly towards the Titan's mouth where the soldier was going to be devoured and pushed the soldier out in his place. Rainbow Dash spotted Ian rescuing the poor soldier and knew that she had to repay for his heroic actions by saving him in return.

However terrifying the world may be... It doesn't matter!

The Titan was about to push Ian further in its mouth to bite down on him until Rainbow Dash swooped in and cut off the fingers, allowing Ian to escape. Seething the opportunity, Rainbow Dash turned around towards the Titan's nape and slashed right through to kill it.

However cruel the world may be... It doesn't matter! Fight! Fight! Fight! FIGHT!

Meanwhile, Jean, Marco, Conny, and Annie were holding off the Titans deeper in the city as a diversion to keep them away from Eren. While Marco was keeping an eye out for any other Titans wandering in the city of Trost, he noticed two soldiers standing on a rooftop rising high above the city staring at where Eren was about to plug the breach.

Eren was only a few meters away from sealing the hole and reclaiming the city. With Armin and Mikasa were guiding Eren towards the gateway, another Titan made its way through and stood in their way. Mikasa and the two ponies spotted the Titan and had to kill it before it could attack Eren and ruin their chances of winning this battle. They all knew that they cannot lose after everything the humans have sacrificed.

"Watch out!" cried Armin. "A Titan!"

"I'll handle this!" Mikasa declared.

Before she could attack it, another soldier flew from above from the right of her and went straight for the Titan's face.

"Out of the way!" the female soldier screamed.

The voice of the soldier was none other than Rico. Once she landed on the Titan's cheek, she gouged out its left eye using her swords. The Titan cried in pain and then fell to its knees and tried to grab Rico, only for her to jump off with great agility. It was also unaware of the violet blur that flew right past its body.

"Twilight?!" Armin shouted.

She did not respond to Armin since she was more focused on getting rid of the Titan that blocked Eren's path. With blades in her magical grasp, she flew right for the Titan's weak spot with a battle cry and cut deep inside to deliver the finishing blow. With the Titan's life taken away, Twilight flew off to let Eren pass through and landed on the ground to take a quick breather. Rico was about to fall hard on the ground until Fluttershy flew to her, dropped her swords, and caught her in her hooves.

With no other threats to deal with, Eren was now in the home stretch just a few feet away from victory. The soldiers, as well as the ponies, looked to Eren walking straight for the breach and could not help but shed some tears. They saw that history was about to be made.

"Go Eren!" Armin and the ponies bellowed.

FIGHT! Eren screamed in his mind, forcing his Titan body to squat down and lean its body forwards, closing the breach with the boulder.

The impact of the boulder made a massive shockwave of wind and extensive cracks around the destroyed gateway. The soldiers and the ponies were too astonished to move or speak with agape mouths and tearful eyes. They were also stunned by the fact that the Titans would not be able to enter the city anymore. For the first time in human history, humanity has triumphed over the Titans and reclaimed territory from them too.

"We..." Rainbow Dash sputtered. "We won?"

"Yay!" Fluttershy shouted, hugging Rainbow Dash in midair while twirling. "We did it! I can't believe we did it!"

"Woohoo!" Pinkie screamed while jumping high in the air. "Humanity: 1! Titans: 0!"

The ponies let go of all of their weapons and applauded for success, hugging each other for their congratulations. The soldiers did the same and hugged one another. Jean and Conny looked over to where Eren sealed the hole and became stunned after witnessing humanity reclaim the city of Trost. Rico dropped down to her knees and let tears flow out as she sobbed in baffling joy.

"Everybody..." Rico mourned. "Didn't die in vain."

She reached out for her smoke pistol and placed a canister on the gun. Aiming towards the sky and covering her left ear, she pulled the trigger to let yellow smoke extend into the air to signify Pyxis and the other soldiers the mission's success.

"Today," she declared. "For the first time, mankind triumphed over the Titans."

Commander Pyxis and the accompanying soldiers spotted the yellow smoke from the outer gate.

"Yellow signal flare confirmed!" stated the female soldier using the monocular. "The operation was a success!"

The other soldiers suddenly gasped and muttered amongst each other as they began to prosper over their first victory against the Titans.

"Send in reinforcements now!" ordered Pyxis. "Rescue the elite troops!"

Some of the Titans outside the city tried to push the boulder, but it was stuck firmly in place. The Titans had no way to enter the city of Trost and wouldn't be able to ever again.

From inside Trost where the boulder was placed to seal the breach, Eren's Titan body finally exhausted and began to evaporate. Armin, using his mobility gear to reach the nape, cut through away from Eren's actual body to retrieve Eren and bring him to safety. From the north, two massive titans approached them.

"The remaining Titans are coming!" Rico yelled. "We have to climb the wall!"

"We'll withdraw as soon as we've recovered Eren!" Mikasa declared, running off towards Eren.

"You got that right!" Rainbow Dash replied, flying to where Eren and Armin were at. "No way we're leaving him behind!"

Mikasa and the other ponies ran up a few feet towards the deteriorating Titan body, but their bodies were exhausted to carry them much further. Even the pegasi had difficulty staying in the air after such a hard-felt battle. Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Fluttershy reached Armin and tried to help him get Eren out. Ian and Mitabi looked at each other and nodded right before they used their maneuvering gear to climb the wall up to safety.

"Armin! Twilight!" Mikasa called out. "How's Eren?!"

"He's feverish from the unbelievable heat in here!" Armin answered in a loud voice trying to pull Eren out of the titan body. "We need to get him over the wall right away!"

Armin and Rainbow Dash proceeded in pulling Eren out, but the muscle wrapped around his arms and legs secured him inside, refusing to budge. Mikasa and the other ponies saw them struggling and decided to help out.

"Part of his body is still fused with the Titan," Armin said. "I can't pull him out!"

"Then we have no other choice but to cut off the flesh attached to him," Twilight stated with a penitent pinch.

"Hold on!" Mikasa halted while having concern for Eren.

Twilight levitated one of the blades using her magic and cut through the muscle tissue still attached to Eren. After doing so, Eren and Armin stumbled and fell behind them, just to be caught by Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.

"Easy there, buddy!" Rainbow Dash blurted, setting them both down on the ground where all of the ponies were standing.

A large shadow suddenly cast over the few soldiers and the ponies. Once they looked up, they saw two massive Titans craving for human and pony flesh. Armin widened his eyes in horror, and the ponies folded their ears back while also expanding their eyes in fear. They knew that they were cornered and left defenseless without their blades, forcing the ponies to hug each other one last time before their time came to an end.

"Eren! Armin! Everyone!" Mikasa shouted.

Eren peeked through his eyes to see the Titans reach out for them and try to devour them. The ponies tensed up even more and shut their eyes for the inevitable to come.

Suddenly, a soldier wearing a green cloak flew from the other side of the wall and slashed the Titan's weak point from the left. With sudden speed, the soldier whirled around towards the titan on the right and spun his body with the blades in his grasp to cut off the nape of the other Titan. The two Titans went limp and tumbled towards the ground ceasing from any more movement.

The ponies could not believe what they have witnessed, especially Rainbow Dash. They wondered how someone was able to pull off two kills simultaneously and almost instantly. They saw the soldier that killed the Titans land on one of the corpses and stare north of where the city laid. They looked at the cloak that was swaying in the wind and noticed a symbol on the back that was different from that of the Garrison Regiment and the Cadet Corps. The emblem was comprised of two large bird wings flaring opposite of each other. The one flaring to the left was blue while the one on the right was white.

"Mikasa..." Armin whispered.

"That's..." Mikasa gasped.

Eren looked up to see something that gave him astonishment and hope.

"The wings... of freedom!" murmured Eren.

The man revealed himself to be Captain Levi as he glanced back at the soldiers and the ponies.

"Hey, you kids..." he spoke to them. "What's the situation here? And just who the hell are those mules there?"

After that, the Scout Regiment and the Garrison's engineers came rushing in, and Wall Rose was freed once again of the Titan threat. It took an entire day to eliminate all the Titans trapped inside Trost. During that time, the fixed artillery was constantly spitting fire. While the high-explosive shells eliminated most of the Titans, the Scout Regiment mopped up the leftovers. They even successfully captured a four-meter Titan and a seven-meter Titan. However, 207 soldiers were dead or missing in action, and 897 were wounded in battle. Though it was mankind's first victory against the Titans, far too many lives were paid in exchange.

Mikasa, Armin, and the remaining soldiers were given orders to clean the carnage from the aftermath of the entire battle the following day to prevent any widespread disease from occurring. Nevertheless, Eren and the ponies were unable to join them as they were being put into solitary confinement, much to Armin and Mikasa's dread and disappointment...

Ash continued to spread all over the city of Trost following the aftermath. The other soldiers were given orders to salvage any corpses of fallen soldiers and befallen citizens alike. The soldiers wore a cloth tied around their mouths and rubber gloves on their hands to prevent any ash or contamination from entering their bodies.

Jean walked down the street to find any dead bodies that were still unaccounted. He glances down at his gloves where some blood spread all over his palms. He looked to his right and spotted another corpse, but after getting a better look as to who it was, he gasped in complete shock, and his heart sank.

The fallen soldier's right side of his upper body was utterly mutilated and bloodied. The rest of the soldier's face that remained bore its teeth and appeared to be frozen in an exhausted state. Jean easily recognized the soldier by his hairstyle, facial structure, and the freckles on his cheeks.

"Hey..." Jean murmured. "Is that you... Marco?"

His hands began to tremble as sorrow was overwhelming throughout his body, seeing one of his closest friends be devoid of all life.

"Cadet!" a gray-haired nurse called out to him while holding a clipboard and a pen. "Do you know his name?"

"I wasn't going to look, but..." Jean whispered, still mourning over his friend's death. "I can't believe it. Not him. Marco... What happened?"

Jean turned away from the nurse and looked back at the other soldiers gathering the other bodies.

"Someone must've seen his last moments."

"Who is he?" the nurse asked. "If you know, tell me now."

Jean stopped in his tracks and took a quick glance back at the nurse.

"Don't you understand, Cadet? Two days have passed since the gate was blocked. Yet we're still collecting the corpses. There's a risk of an epidemic breaking out. We must prevent a secondary catastrophe. We don't have time to mourn our fallen comrades just yet. Do you understand?"

Jean understood fully the situation that could occur while looking back at the deceased body of Marco.

"The 104th Cadet Corps..." Jean classified. "Leader of Squad 19, Marco Bodt."

"Marco, huh?" the nurse replied, writing down the information on her clipboard. "Glad we know his name. Let's move on."

While the nurse moved on to the next bodies to account for, Jean continued to stare at his fallen friend, unsure of how exactly he died in the first place. He wished at that moment a certain pony would comfort him in grief.

In another section of the city, Sasha along with a few other soldiers gathered around what appeared to be an orange, spherical hairball stuck on the side of a building covered in sticky saliva with some flies feeding on it. Inside the hairball were several dead corpses that were hard to recognize as they appeared to be in screaming in torment.

"What... Is that?" asked Sasha.

"A Titan puked it up," replied a Garrison soldier holding an ice pick. "They have no digestive organs, so once they get their fill of humans, they regurgitate the remains."

"No way..." Sasha whispered in reply.

The sight of it was unnerving for Sasha and the other soldiers likewise.

"Shit..." the Garrison soldier groaned. "We'll never be able to identify anyone like this."

The soldier walked towards the spherical puke to tear it apart and dig out the half-digested bodies. Sasha wondered how Rarity would respond to something as revolting as this.

"I'm sorry," Annie apologized in a quiet voice down at a deceased soldier. "I'm sorry."

Reiner and Bertholdt walked to her while searching for more corpses.

"Apologizing won't fix anything," Reiner declared. "Let's hurry and put them to rest."

Reiner and Bertholdt carried more corpses towards the part of the city where the boulder once stood while Annie looked at the fallen soldier one last time. There, there was a massive fire burning the bodies to burn off any contaminants that were lingering in them. As Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie threw more bodies inside the fire, they went back into the city to find any more that still remained.

Inside a small dungeon lit dimly by a few torches, Eren lied in a small bed inside a prison cell with shackles cuffed around his wrists. Keeping him company inside his cell were Twilight, Starlight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie who were sleeping churlishly with shackles bound to their right forelegs. Rainbow Dash lied on Eren's left side, waiting for him to wake up. The wounds Eren previously had before healed up nicely thanks to his regenerative powers.

Suddenly, Eren woke up with his eyes wide open, bringing attention to the ponies held within the cell, specifically Rainbow Dash. Eren's vision was still fuzzy, but with a minor readjustment, he saw Rainbow Dash laying next to him. The next thing he knew, the pegasus jumped on him and wrapped her forelegs around his neck.

"You're okay!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "I was so worried!"

"Hey, you!" Levi said in a cold voice. "Get off of him. It's time we have a talk with him."

Rainbow Dash did as she was told and slid off of Eren and joined her pony friend. Eren and the ponies stirred awake and looked at the two men waiting outside the cell. After getting a better look at them, Eren gasped once he recognized them.

"Do any of you have any questions?" the blond-haired man asked with a stern look.

Commander Erwin, Eren thought staring at the man. the top leader of the Scout Regiment.

Eren looked to his right at the other soldier standing next to Erwin while the soldier looked the other direction with a blank expression.

And Captain Levi...

"Um..." Eren stammered. "Where... Am I?"

"As you can see, you and your friends are in an underground dungeon," Erwin answered. "You're all currently in custody of the Military Police, but we finally got permission to see all of you a little while ago."

"Wait!" Rainbow Dash interrupted. "I thought that Pyxis guy said we have protection and what not!"

"Your confinement is being authorized by a power that goes beyond Pyxis," Erwin replied. "They are only taking necessary precautions. Do you understand?"

Rainbow Dash grunted in response and sat on her haunches.

"Relax, Rainbow," Starlight assured. "We just have to do what they say, and they'll let us off the hook for sure."

"I would listen to her if I were you," Levi spoke. "Otherwise, I'll slaughter all of you like a bunch of wild animals."

Fluttershy quivered behind Rarity after hearing Levi's intimidation while Rainbow Dash backed up slightly with a grimacing expression and Starlight remained utterly silent. Twilight placed a hoof on Rainbow Dash's shoulders for reassurance letting her know that things will work out in the end. Erwin took out the key to Eren's home basement out of his jacket pocket and let everyone see it.

"That key!" proclaimed Eren.

"Yeah, it's yours," Erwin responded. "I'll give it back later. The basement of your house, Dr. Jaeger's house in Shiganshina, holds the secret of the Titans. Am I right?"

"Yes. Probably," Eren answered. "That's what my father said."

"You have amnesia and your father is missing..." Levi deduced. "Awfully convenient, don't you think?"

"Levi," Erwin reasoned. "We've already concluded he has no reason to lie, and these ponies do not appear to be a threat to humanity either. The reports we've read about the Trost invasion says that these ponies have the abilities of flight and magic. Is that right, Jaeger?"

"Yes, sir!" Eren replied.

"Would one of you care to demonstrate this magic of yours?" Erwin asked one of the unicorns.

"Certainly," Twilight answered.

"Careful, Erwin," Levi warned.

"It's alright, Levi," Erwin replied. "If they try to attack in any way, you have permission to do whatever you please to them."

Levi responded by huffing in approval. Focusing her magic, Twilight's horn began to glow a violet aura. Erwin noticed the key he held in his hand get caught in that same aura and let it go to see what would happen. He saw it being levitated in midair, slightly widening his eyes and keeping the same expression whereas Levi was somewhat bewildered by it, having the same sinister look. Twilight placed the key back in Erwin's hand after finishing the demonstration of her magic.

"You ponies appear to have some notable abilities that could help you escape, yet you all sit here patiently and obediently," Erwin speculated. "Further proof that you do not appear to be a threat to humanity. However, there is still so much we don't know yet, but for now, I think the most important thing to inquire about is your intentions."

"My... Intentions?" pondered Eren, slightly confused.

"To return to your house," Erwin clarified. "We must retake the Shiganshina District of Wall Maria. It would take drastic measures to seal the broken gate. We need your Titan strength. Our fate rides on a Titan, it seems. The Colossal Titan. The Armored Titan. They are probably just like you. Your intentions are the key here. The key to freeing mankind from this despair," he presumed, holding the key up for them to see again.

Eren gasped after realizing exactly what he had to do to finish this war.

"I'll..." he started to answer.

His memories started to come back to him, from being with his family, losing his mother to a Titan, and being injected with a serum by his own father.

"Exterminate them!" Eren declared at a younger age. "I'm going to kill them all. Every single fucking one..."

"Answer the man, scum," demanded Levi. "What do you want to do?"

Shuddering in enthusiasm and passion, he looked at Erwin and Levi with a sinister scowl.

"I want to join the Scout Regiment, and kill as many titans as I can, sir!" he finally answered with a cold voice.

"And what about you ponies?" Levi asked them. "What are your intentions?"

"Wherever Eren goes, we go with him," Rainbow Dash replied with a smirk. "Am I right, girls?"

"Mm-hmm," the ponies responded while nodding in unison.

"Oh? Not bad," Levi commented with the exact same expression while walking towards their cellar. "Erwin. I'll take responsibility for them. Tell that to the higher-ups. Don't get me wrong. It's not like I trust any of them. These ponies possess human intelligence that just can't be overlooked. Normally, I would be cautious of letting such creatures join the Scout Regiment and would see them as nothing more than steeds for our soldiers..."

After hearing a rude comment, the ponies gave him opposed expressions which didn't affect Levi in the slightest.

"But seeing that they have the ability to fly and use magic, you ponies would be a valuable addition to our cause. If any of them betrays us or Eren goes berserk, I'll put them down without hesitation."

Eren and the ponies gulped in fear from Levi's warning.

"Upstairs shouldn't have a problem with that..." Levi continued. "Nobody except me is suited for the job. I'll accept their application to the Scout Regiment."

Eren and the ponies glanced at one another, realizing that the battle has just begun and they were in for a real experience of what was out there.