Attack on Titan x Male Reader : Marley's Spy

Battle of Orvud District

Y/N shot up from his sleeping position, those memories, he only remembered the three of them, who knows how many he saw and couldn't remember, but why those memories? What was so special about them?

His hand went to his throat without realising it, rubbing it tenderly, he could feel what Frieda had done through her memories, the way she snapped that poor bastards neck, it was such a recognisable sound, it was so memorable for all the wrong reasons.

All the things she'd done in the name of getting stronger, but none of that had worked for her. In the end, it was him who was stronger than her, he'd taken her power, just like he'd planned to, and now all that was left to do was go home, but there was still some things that needed to be taken care of first.

"Finally decided to get off your ass and stop sleeping?" Captain Levi had rode up to the cart he was being carried on as soon as he spotted him getting up. "Took you long enough. Rod Reiss is heading straight towards the interior. Erwin has a plan to deal with it, and we'll need your help."

Looking around a bit, there were a number of carts, all surrounded by members of the Scouts. Looks like they all made it from Mitras fast enough. It was still dark out, but off in the distance was a massive lump of flesh, it was Rod Reiss' Pure Titan form. The amount of steam coming off it was ridiculous, and it was setting fire to every piece of vegetation that it came close enough to, the heat and steam it was producing was also enough to keep any Scouts from getting close enough for an attempted kill.

"What happened while I was out?" Y/N asked the captain, looking around to see that what was left of the Reiss children were sat on one of the carts off to his left.

"Well, you made yourself less valuable to us for one, but now Eren can harden his skin as a Titan." Levi told him. "One of the Reiss brats tried to stab you after you collapsed, you're lucky Mikasa stopped her from doing any damage."

"What about the others who weren't at the the alter?" Y/N asked the Captain. "Who didn't make it?"

"Only Oluo and Petra died." Levi informed him. "For what it's worth, she died fighting for a cause she believed in. She may not have been thrilled with who you turned out to be, but she still felt the same for you. Told me as much herself."

"I see..." Something felt like it broke inside of him, being told Petra was dead, there was no anger, no resentment for anyone or anything, at that moment, he just felt... empty. "Thank you for telling me."

Levi had just lied straight to his face about Petra, she'd never said anything to him, it was obvious the way the two felt about each other, even if they weren't having the best spell. He had seen what relationships in the field did to people, he had experienced it first hand himself, a broken and angry Titan was not what they needed right now, so he did what he needed to and lied about it.

He would've done it a thousand times over if it meant Y/N wouldn't go off the deep end in a fit of rage, he'd learned that a soldier needed to be in a sound state of mind to be able to function properly, and if lying to his subordinates meant they'd stay sane, then he'd make sure he lied to them on a constant basis.

Y/N didn't speak for the rest of the ride to Orvud District, the Scouts racing to get there well before Rod's Titan did so they could set up defences. Luckily for them, his Titan wasn't very fast, dragging itself along on its stomach, so hopefully they'd have plenty of time to get the District's defences set up.

When the Scouts arrived at Orvud District, they went straight to the Garrison Headquarters, a meeting with the Garrison Captain in the region had been hastily set up.

As they were finishing up tying the horses up, a Garrison officer came up to Captain Levi. "Please have your squad stand by in the hall now." He requested. "They're almost ready to begin the meeting."