- 2 days later -
- 12 hours before the reveal of the wall titans -
*3rd Pov* (With Connie)
Connie and Sasha had a blank look on their faces. They were hyper-bored, besides Reiner and Bertolt, who were playing a game of chess.
[My village isn't far south of here, you know...] said Connie without any eye contact.
[My hometown is close by, too...] replied Sasha with the same attitude.
[Damn. Why can't I go visit?] questioned Connie
[Maybe I'll sneak out at night.] said Connie
[They told me not to come back until I'm normal.] said Sasha while tilting her head leftwards, looking at Connie.
[They told me I was too puny to be a soldier. I was genius enough to be one, though. I was in our class' top ten. I'm gonna go make 'em eat their words.] said Connie
[Connie. If you're serious, I'll help.] said Reiner
[What? How come?] said Connie
[Doesnt it seem strange? We're on standby in our plain clothes, and we're not allowed to train or wear our uniforms.] said Reiner. He got up and looked out the window.
[Even more suspicious, is that everyone else outside is fully armed. We're inside the wall, not on the front line. Who are we fighting?] questioned Reiner
[Well, there are bears in the area.] said Connie
[Yeah. Bears.] said Sasha
[Guns are enough to handle bears.] said Reiner as he got back onto his seat and continue playing chess. Sasha straightened her posture before taking a dive towards the table. After being in that position for a few seconds, she opened her eyes widely. She sprung up in a slight shock before speaking.
[I hear thuds! They sound like footsteps!] said Sasha
[Huh?] remarked Connie
[Get serious, Sasha. If you're suggesting there are titans here... that'd mean Wall Rose has fallen.] said Reiner
[It's the truth! I really hear footsteps!] screamed out Sasha. Someone came from the window and opened it.
[Everyone here?] questioned Nanaba. She was on Mike's team, the person who is only second to Levi.
[Nanaba?] questioned Christa
[Multiple Titans, 500 meters to the south. They're coming right this way. There's no time for you to gear up. Take your horses and evacuate all nearby homes and settlements. Understood?] said Nanaba
[From... the south?] questioned Connie with a very pale face.
[Has the wall been breached?!] questioned Reiner to Bertolt.
- Inside the walls -
Alex, Mikasa, and Kaguya were waiting around Eren, who was fast asleep in a bed. He woke up calmly. He seemed to still be injured by Alex's attack.
[Look who's up.] said Alex. Eren ignored him and looked out the window. Just then, Mikasa woke up as well. She was sleeping on a stool next to his bed.
[That's...]
[It fell.] said Eren. It was the red scarf he had gifted Mikasa in his early days.
[Oi, did you forget I was here or something? Look, I finished the female titan off and I'm not in a bed, inside some long-ass sleep. Man-up, Eren.] said Alex. He was ignored once again.
[You gotta be tired. Go get some sleep.] said Eren
[Yeah!! I'm tired as well, having to wait for you to wake up!] said Alex. He was... ignored. Obviously.
[Sorry. I'm fine.] said Mikasa
[Well I'm not!] exclaimed Alex
[That thing's seen better days. I'll get you a new one if I see any in our supplies.] said Eren, indicating the red scarf.
Kaguya leaned next to Alex's ear after seeing Mikasa's reaction.
[How dense..] she said
'All protagonists are. But he'll get smarter with time. Shown in the manga of season 4.' Thought Alex with a sigh.
[Eren! Mikasa! Alex! Kaguya! This is really bad! The titans! They're inside Wall Rose!] said Armin
[Theres no time to explain! Get your ODM gear and your horse! We leave at night!] said Armin. Everyone nodded and quickly ran out.
- 12 hours later -
Mikasa was on the wall, until it suddenly cracked, revealing a titan inside the walls. A colossal one at that. Alex arrives at the scene and sees his work.
[Theres... a titan in the wall?] said someone. The eye of the titan moves a little towards Mikasa.
[Whatever you do... you MUST keep that titan out of the sunlight!] said Paster Nick while both grabbing Hange's shoulder and trying to catch his breath. He was a side character that died by the military police later on.
'I must say though, I once tried to find information about how long the time between Eren and Annie's fight, and the wall titans. The best I could get was 'a little later'. I guess 2 days is enough for a 'little later'.' Thought Alex with a silent sigh. After 5 minutes the titan was completely covered, with Hange interrogating Paster Nick. Alex decided to join her.
[Now then. It's time for you to talk. What is this titan? What is it doing inside the wall? And... Why did you people keep this a secret all this time?] questioned Hange. Pastor Nick got up from his viewing position and spoke.
[I have work to do! Now let me back down!] said Paster Nick
[Certainly. WIll straight down do?] said Hange. She grabbed Paster Nick and brought him to the edge of the wall.
[Section commander!] said a person of the Survey corps
[Stay back.] answered Hange
[Alright, this is getting boring. I'll talk to you later.] said Alex. He jumped off the wall and then started to manure around with his ODM gear.
And so, another 6 hours past, causing it to be night time.
- Stohess District -
[What the hell does all this mean? Damn it!] said Eren
[But... Would titans break walls with titans in them?] questioned Armin
[It's happened before. They bursted the wall into our city.] said Eren
[Use your brain a little, Eren. That was a gate. Not the actual wall. And for your information, there seems to be a little more behind this. I analysed a part of the broken wall and the hardening of Annie's titan. Their structure is near-identical. You and I personally know how strong that hardening is, so you can only beat hardening with the wall, theoretically. We don't yet know if the armoured titan and the Colossal titan can in fact harden, or if they can, they don't want to reveal the wall titans to the sunlight.
Titans need sunlight to function, meaning by exposing the abnormal colossal titans in the walls with sunlight, they could most likely break through the walls and destroy everyone. And considering the fact that every wall has many colossal titans in them, we can take the colossal titan shifter as an example of their size. There should be well over 500,000 wall titans if we count all the walls. And if we were to fight them, even if everyone inside the walls was as good as I am, or had the colossal titan, we would probably still lose. However, the hidden titan shifter objectives still remains a mystery.] explained Alex while he and Kaguya sat down on the same carriage-like thing with Eren, Mikasa, and Armin on it.
[You got all that from a simple detail? As expected of the number 1 genius in intelligence and combat...] muttered Eren under his breath.
[For now, we should call the Colossal titans inside the wall as the wall titans, and the titan shifter colossal titan just as the Colossal titan, as to not make confusion.] suggested Alex. Everyone nodded.
[The thing about the walls... There are no crevices between the rocks or any signs of cracking. We can't really tell how they are made. So Alex's theory fits the spot perfectly.] said Armin. It didn't seem to sink before, but now Eren and Mikasa had a bead of sweat rolling down their cheek in slight shock.
[It must be pretty versatile if Annie can encase herself in it, without it being able to be broken by Alex's titan form.] said Armin
[Titans... in the wall...] said Eren
[If you think about it, it is very ironic. The titans are protecting us from the titans.] said Kaguya. Probably one of the times she had said something in the attack on titan world.
[Eren, wear it right. Its cold at night.] said Mikasa
[Sorry to keep ya! Took longer to prepare than we thought.] said Hange, accompanied by Paster Nick and Levi.
- Insert fangirl noises -
[Eh? Um... Isn't this a priest from the Order of the Walls?] said Armin, as if not hearing the sound.
[Yeah. Nick and I are best buddies. Right? Don't let him bother you. The whole makeup of this squad doesn't make any sense. Does it, Levi?] said Hange while rapping her right arm on Nick's right shoulder.
[No, I think it...
(A/N: It's not a cliff hanger, as you can find the exact next word in episode 27 of Attack on Titan. So I am still in the 'minor accomplishment' of the 'Dao of Cliffhanger', "Senior".)
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{Status}
Name: Alex Uchiha
Age: 16
Bloodline(s): Zero Otsutsuki, Joestar, Pillarmen, God Animal
Existence limiter: 47%
Stands: Killer Queen, Kraft Work, Star Platinum, Heaven's door, Golden Experience, Hanged Man
Titan(s): Size Titan, Founding Titan
Technique(s) : 34 Million
SP: 11,015,000 (11 mil SP)