Attack on Titan x Male Reader : Marley's Spy

57th Expedition

The bells started to ring across Karanes District, the legion of Scouts on standby on the main road.

"The Titans have been lured away from the gate!" A Garrison officer yelled out to the soldiers lined up. "The gate opens in thirty seconds!"

"This is it!" One of the Section Commanders announced. "This is the day humanity takes a giant step forward! Now let's show those Titans exactly what we're made of!"

"Open the gate." Erwin ordered.

As soon as he spoke, the huge stone gates began to rise, giving many of them a first look outside into what was now Titan country.

"Once the gate was fully open, Erwin gave his first command of the day. "Forward!"

With a crack of the reigns, the Scouts took off, the horses racing forwards with a widespread neigh.

"It's officially begun!" Erwin continued on. "The 57th Recon Mission! Scouts move out!"

Y/N's horse raced through the gate, following the rest of the Scouts in the straight line through the town outside the wall. As they rode through the town, several Titans could be seen scattered throughout, but it wasn't their job to deal with them, there was the rearguard that would deal with them and follow after.

As soon as the Scouts broke clear of the town into the open fields, Erwin then gave his next command. "Long range formation, go!"

When Erwin gave the order, the Scouts all fanned out, all going in separate directions according to their placement within the formation for the mission.

As for the Long Range Scouting Formation, a lot of time in the past month had been dedicated to learning it, what they were supposed to do and what each individual flare colour meant and what to do when a flare was fired.

There had been a lot more work going on in a classroom than in the field, probably because their budget wasn't exactly the biggest, and they needed to save money every way possible for things like gas, weapons and food.

As for where Y/N was in the formation, he was in the right side, nearer the back than the front of the formation, and on the formation map he had been given, he knew Reiner, Armin and Jean were in front of him somewhere.

Directly to the right of him in formation was Krista, he remembered her because she was the one that had been kidnapped a couple years back, but having seen her around the headquarters a couple times, he could've sworn that she was familiar, but for the life of him, he couldn't place her.

Then there was his role in the formation, he wasn't supposed to kill any Titans, no, that would be too exciting anyway, instead, he was one of the unlucky souls who were riding with a spare horse, having two sets of reigns in his hand.

This was going to be incredibly boring, unless something happened, which he expected either Reiner or Annie to try and kidnap Eren, who was on the middle left of the formation, though Reiner was in front of him, so he'd have to run through columns of Scouts to get to him, so that left Annie attacking from the left flank.

He thought about ditching his post to move closer to where Eren was, but he'd be seen immediately in the vast open plains they were riding in, and he'd either be sent back to his position, or he'd be reported as soon as possible for insubordination, which wasn't a great way to hide in plain sight.

His thoughts were interrupted by a plume of red smoke coming from his right, some ways off mind you, but it was his job to continue relaying Titan sightings to the centre rank. So with a bit of a struggle, spare reigns in hand, he loaded a red flare cartridge into the gun and fired it into the air. His first contribution as a Scout... how incredibly boring that was.