The Walls We've Built - ◈ ARMIN ARLERT X OC ◈

Chapter 3 - Falling of Trost (part 3)

The lift finally comes to a stop, the drum of my heart beat fills my ears, please let this plan work. I hear someone yelp on the opposite side of the lift. "Keep your cool, we can't shoot until they are all surrounding us." Someone says behind me. Jacob gulps next to me as I see one of the titans move towards us in the corner of my eye. More titans approach us, the beating in my ear gets louder and louder.

"Almost" The same voice says as the titans continue moving towards us. "NOW!" We all shoot our guns at the titans making them stumble back, behind them the chosen cadets swoop down cutting out their napes. It's actually working! I think to myself. Jacob nudges me pointing at Connie and Sasha, "Those two missed their titans!" He yells, I see the horror on Sasha's face as the titan advances towards her, not Sasha. The titan reaches out to grab her but stops and falls to the ground with a thud, behind the titan stands Mikasa with her blood covered blades. Wow, she is so skilled I stare at her in awe.

We finally make it to the floor of the supply room and make our way to the gas tanks. Nexts to me Jacob scoffs "What?" I ask looking up at him, "I just want to know who decided to put those 2 morons on killing duty, you and I wouldn't have missed" he says looking ahead to Connie and Sasha. I stop him in his tracks and stand in front of him, "I'm not sure if you remember but both Connie and Sasha were in the top 10, meaning they are the best of our cadet corps. I don't know what makes you think we could have done a better job, yeah they missed but the job got done. We are here now so there is no point in blaming them." I say before walking off towards the gas tanks.

I bend down to the fuel outlet and attach my tanks to the tube and begin filling them up with gas. "Thanks." I hear someone say from above me, I look up to see Armin looking at me. "Huh?" I reply detaching my tanks, "Thanks for standing up for Connie and Sasha, they are normally pretty good with this stuff, I think their nerves got the best of them." He says with a smile on his face. I stand up, I am just a few centimetres shorter than him so I still have to look up to meet his eyes.

"There is no need to thank me, I was just putting Jacob in his place." I say looking in Jacob's direction. Armin just half smiles as we stand in a moment of heated silence, "Well, I should get back to my group." Armin says, pointing over his shoulder to his friends, "Ah yeah, I'll see you around?" I ask as he is about to leave, he stops and looks at me "Yeah," he smiles "Sorry about the cut, again." He says pointing to the cut on my face, I feel heat rising on my cheeks, "Oh don't even worry about it" I say gently touching it as it still aches. "Well I have to go, I'll talk to you later?" He asks, "Yeah definitely" I smile at him as he walks away.

Jacob and I make our way out of headquarters with the rest of the recruits. As we open the doors, the bright afternoon light blinds us making me squint as I walk outside. Everyone is huddled looking over the balcony, "What's that all about?" Jacob questions as we make our way over to see what all the fuss is over. Armin and Mikasa are at the front of the group when I realise what they are looking at, the titan on our side is being feasted on by other titans, our only hope is being devoured in front of us.

My jaw drops as I see a being? Person? Laying half apart of the nape region of the titan. "What the fuc-" I whisper, the person flops backwards out of the titan unconsciously. "Isn't that crazy scouts kid?" Jacob exclaims. "EREN!" Mikasa yells, swooping her way down next to him, Armin follows close behind. They sit on the corpse of the titan hugging him tightly, Mikasa is crying into Eren's shoulder and Armin is weeping next to her. So that's Eren huh?

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Everyone who saw Eren come out of the titan was debriefed, they told us we weren't allowed to say anything about what we had just seen. We all return to the other recruits, well everyone apart from Eren, Mikasa and Armin. I didn't know were they had gone, but I could only hope that they were going to be ok. Once we got back to the rest of our corps. It wasn't long before we were called on by our superiors and told about the plan of Eren using his titan to seal the breach.

*SO ZARIYA AND JACOB ARE APART OF THE SQUAD THAT DISTRACT THE TITANS, THEY WERE THERE THE WHOLE TIME AND RETURN TO THE RESTING AREA; THIS IS THE PLACE WERE INJURED SOLDIERS COME AFTER THE ATTACK / END OF THE DAY*

When we returned, we were swarmed by curious trainees and even soldiers from the Garrison regiment. The soldiers who escorted us to the rest of our group told them to let us be. "They have just seen things beyond your comprehension, just let the kids breathe." One of them said as we walked towards the resting area.

I sunk into one of the temporary fold out beds trying to understand what I had just witnessed, next to me Jacob flops onto his back with his hands covering his face. We sit in silence for at least 5 minutes before Jacob finally says something, he sits up and looks down at the ground with his head resting in his palms. "Ok so let me get this straight, after 5 years the colossal titan thought he would just pop his head over the wall today leading to mass death in the Trost district. Leave us newbies to clean up the mess he created by letting more titans come into the walls. Watch a 15 metre ripped titan kill other titans, then we had to reclaim our own base by killing 7 titans without any ODM gear. Watch that same ripped titan get eaten by stupid titans no bigger that half his size AND then watch one of our own soldiers come out of said titan."

Out of breath he turns to me with a look of disbelief and confusion on his face, I flop onto my back "Yep, that about covers it." I say also in disbelief. We stay in the resting area for an hour or so, we take some time to sleep, eat and rehydrate. Jacob and I are just sitting together on the floor talking about the giant titan before a superior from the scout regiment approaches us. He has dirty brown hair and deep blue eyes and looks like he is in mid - late twenties. Jacob and I both stand, saluting as a sign of respect, "That is not necessary," he says wave for us to put our arms down, we do. "I have just come to deliver news on that blonde friend of yours" he says, removing his jacket. Jacob and I both take in a sharp breath in expecting the worst. " She is awake." The man states in a calm tone, Gen is ok.