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"So we have determined the Reiss titan's location it's southwest approaching Orvud it's fast, at this rate it'll reach the wall before dawn." A soldier reports, "Alright, understood," Erwin nods, "What's the plan? There has to be some way to evacuate all the people in such a short time?" Hanji looks at him, "That's not part of the plan." He says, "What?!" Everyone was shocked, "The people of Orvud district will need to stay exactly where they are." He finalised, everyone muttered, "What are you thinking Erwin! We don't get these civilians out of the city they'll die in the thousands! That hulking monstrosity will crush down the wall by morning!" A garrison officer grabs his collar, "That titan is an abnormal." I speak up, "And what the hell does that even mean!" He shouts at me, "It means it's different from other titans, thinks differently, it's head isn't in just a mindless state unlike just like you." I flick his forehead, "Ow!" He clutches his forehead, "It's only attracted to large groups of people hence the word abnormal put simply, if a few soldiers close to it or a densely packed city yards away, it'll choose the city. So if we were to pull all the people out of Orvud into Sina, it'll just crush Wall Sina which I think it's in your best interests, left with that, the city with the most people, it'll be a bloodbath. It'll plunge humanity in a place which would be hard to recover." I look at them, the Garrison regiment grit their teeth, "Previously, we experimented with Eren Yeager to use his recently discovered power to control titans Rod Reiss's titan didn't react in any way," I explain, "If we're to stop this thing, you need to be on the outside wall of Orvud for that to happen, we must use the citizens here as bait. However this still doesn't change out duty as solders to protect everyone in the event we're unable to halt the target we'll take measure to limit civilian losses. We'll issue a nationwide evacuation drill tonight the people will be gathered away from the outer wall ready to escape if the battle is lost," Erwin says, the Garrison officer's eyes narrow, "It seems there's no other choice," He grits his teeth, "The body of this titan is the largest we've seen yet, as such it acts as an easy target, our wall mounted cannon should prove highly effective. But if we can't bring it down with artillery the Scout regiment will blow everything we have on it," Erwin explains the final plan.

The next morning we were all lined up on the wall, "FIRE!" The Garrison fired all their cannons, it hit the Reiss titan but didn't seem to affect it in any way, "Well? How'd that do?" Erwin watches intently, he had stopped moving, I held my breath, suddenly it's hand thumped down and crushed forests of trees, "The cannons on the ground are less effective." Erwin watches the soldiers down the bottom, "Makes sense, the cannons on the wall have a way better angle but it didn't do shit to it earlier. What's the problem?" Levi looks at them, "Unprepared soldiers, scrapped together cannons, shallow leadership. The titans have always attacked from the South, not only is this a Northern Garrison it's in the interior. Therefore, I can tell you a fact that that's the best we'll get." Erwin says, "Yeah, that's the best we'll get and of course your strategy to get us through this battle comes down to a gamble. Just like every other plan you come up with." Levi sighs, I looked at the titan and cringed, "Holes..." I muttered, I saw his body covered in holes, "Just cover your eyes, it's no big." Jean says, "It's gross." I shivered, "ERWIN! I brought the goodies! All the gunpower, rope and net we could find! We still need to bind it together though." Hanji waves her arm as she runs over, "Ooh! We got this too! Another one just like it a little further down, the trigger is held in place and once-fired will reel itself back in just like ODM gear. So. Are we doing any damage?" Hanji looks back at the titan, "Imagine a swarm of cicadas pissing on it." Levi scoffs, "Then we'll actually use these things, exciting." She smiles, "Captain Levi, Nat, Jean, Sasha, Connie. You handle that side." Erwin instructs us, "Yes sir." The five of us start running across the wall. 

We finally reached our checkpoint, my eyes widen, "Guys..." My hand went to my mouth as I realised the scene before me, the Reiss titan was finally standing, his entire face was ground off, his organs falling over the wall, I gulped, "The Garrison has done its duty, let the Scouts take it from here." Levi puts his hand on the Garrison officer's shoulder, he was in utter shock, the five of us were dousing ourselves in water to try to protect ourselves the massive amounts of steam coming off the titan, there was a bolt of lightning and we saw Eren transform, "All set Captain!" Sasha grabs the barrel with the ODM rig attached, she lines it up, blood was oozing out of the Reiss titan, we saw Erwin's red smoke signal and Sasha fired the anchors, they let go as it starting rolling towards its hands, Armin was on the other side doing the same thing, we were trying to blow its hands off, it lost its balance and its head came crashing down onto the walls, Eren was running towards it with the large net of explosive barrels, he was going to throw it into its throat in hopes that it can destroy the nape of its neck, Eren screams and throws it into the Reiss titan's mouth, it immediately ignites and his whole body starts blowing up into chunks of flesh scattering across the city, Levi held me close to him as the impact blew almost everyone away, he fired his anchors into the ground and held onto me for dear life, I clutched onto his harness and buried my face into his chest, "GO! Deploy your ODM gear and finish it off!" Erwin yells, we all draw our blades, as big as it was, it's weak spot is still one meter high and ten centimetres across, we needed to slice every last piece of flesh falling from the sky, I anchored on and started obliterating the chunks of flesh, I gasped, "Historia?!" I saw her flying up, she anchored onto a piece of meat and sliced it in two, everyone's eyes widened when we knew we won, the sky lit up with orange and everyone was blown away.

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