Failing Again

"R-Rainer! We have to go back! Annie, she-, she won't last like this!" Bertholdt shouts as they take refuge on the third floor of an abandoned building. In the distance, they could see Annie fighting, along with the numerous soldiers approaching to dispatch her.

"Don't you think I know that!?" Rainer shouts while angrily pulling at his hair, he was well aware how fucked their situation was. Since Mikasa and that stranger weren't dead yet, their identities had undoubtedly already been revealed, meaning they'd have nowhere to hide soon enough.

Annie was supposed to kill them and prevent them from talking, but that plan had ceased to exit at her first failed strike... Now there was little reason not to support her, everything they'd worked up to had fallen all because of that woman!

But... Could he kill everyone in Trost? All of the friends he made during training? All of them who believed and counted on him?

...

Yes. He could.

*CRAAASH!*

Two more lightning bolts illuminate Trost, revealing two more titans in the centre of the city. One armoured from head to toe in heavy bone-like plates. And the other, towering over even the walls, steaming and skinless.

Bertholdt's transformation into his colossal titan had been powerful enough to blow the windows out of every nearby window, along with upturning nearby carts, boxes, and sending mid-air soldiers tumbling through the air.

"RRRAAAAAAAAAGGGRRRRRGGHHHHHH!!!" Rainer's armoured titan screams out, announcing his intent to demolish everyone and everything nearby.

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"What the hell is happening!?" Eren shouts as two more titan appear nearby, his heart beating furious from his adrenaline-fueled mind. The Colossal Titan had disappeared from the wall and reappeared in the centre of the city!

He looks over to the nearby soldiers, his friends had all gathered once they realised no titans were coming into the city and were just as confused as he was... "A-Armin, a-any ideas...? Y-you must have an idea, r-right!?"

The blonde boy shakes his head, "No... B-but we should go help, Mikasa should be near there!"

Eren's expression firms as he gives a stiff nod, "R-right! Come on! We'll do it, we'll kill them and avenge Shiganshina! After them, the rest of the titans will follow!" he roars in mock courage and begins making his way over the rooftops with his 3D manoeuvre gear.

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Saeko jumps over another punch sent by Annie and lands on her hardened fist, she stabs down with Samehada and pierces the living sword a couple inches deep, not much but enough to keep her stable.

Annie tries to shake her off but fails, with her other hand still occupied protecting her neck, she brings her hand toward her and tries to bite down on Saeko.

"GAHEIL!"

*SHIIING!*

Annie's hardened forearm suddenly drops as it's sliced from her elbow, crashing onto the ground below with a crash. The female titan recovers from her shock and her eyes dart around to find Saeko... Only to then hear a voice high above her...

"SHEHAI!"

Saeko blurs down with a brightly shining see-through Katana in her hand, she slices down, and Annie isn't even able to tell what was happening when she lost control of her titan... She struggles from within its nape as its right half slides away, the body cut completely in half from shoulder to hip!

Saeko lands on the nearby rooftop where a gaping Mikasa was standing, a grin straining her face, "A clean cut! Not to bad!"

"W-ha-" Mikasa starts but once again gets thrown away like a wet rag, Saeko throwing herself forward as the Armoured Titan barrels towards her.

The titan's massive body shoulder-checks out right out of the air, sending her through two whole buildings before she rolls to a stop in the middle of a rubble-covered road. Rainer doesn't stop there however, quickly running over with the intent to stomp her into chunks of meat.

*CLANK!*

Mikasa's last blade shatters as it hits Rainer's nape, but this is was enough of a distraction to draw his attention away...

Saeko grunts as she peels herself off of the ground, her legs had been broken but they were quickly healing... The thing that hurt most though was her pride, she probably should have left Mikasa to her fate and dodged. Still, she'd rather the woman not die, not only because she was 'important' to this world, but because she saw a lot of similarities between them both.

She shakes her head and stands, "Let's try these new eyes then... See if it works... HEY! RAINER!" she shouts and locks eyes with the titan as it turns to meet her. With that, she forces her magic through her eyes and shouts "TSUKUYOMI!"

Thankfully, the technique works, sending her to a black realm which had Rainer tied to a cross in his human form... His eyes were wide as he struggles to try and free himself, trying to pry his nailed-down arms away from the cross with even more fervour when he sees Saeko approaching.

"WHAT IS THIS!? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?"

"Who knows? You have three days to make a guess!"

"AAAAAHHHHH-"

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Mikasa stares as the Armoured Titan pauses mid-step and stares at Saeko for three seconds. Once the seconds were up, it grabs its head and begins roaring nonsensically before falling to the side, blood pooling and dripping from its eyes and ears...

She looks back over to Saeko and saw that she too had tears of blood streaming from her eyes... "Is this even reality...?"

*THUD!THUD!THUD!THUD!*

She stiffly turns her head and spots the Colossal Titan slowly marching its way towards them, its disproportionate body making its stride awkward and unwieldy, but it continued to move regardless of that and the many soldiers now trying to cut it to pieces...