AoT: The red thread of fate: A new world

Chapter 22: The Ackerman clan

The streets were busy as loads of people gathered in the road to cross, with bikers slamming on their brakes and beeping at dippy bystanders. Chaz Annie and Armin went to this old place that once kept gallons of fuel, but was stopped dead in their tracks as a big tall brute moved his hand out to the side as if going inside would upset him.

"Sorry kids, no ones allowed in here." The man said, to which Chaz elevated his right brow, not understanding his language as he spoke Japanese. "Excuse me? I don't... speak...  your... language." Chaz said slowly as the man froze for a second and then made a confused hum, as Chaz grunted and walked away. "Sorry about that." Armin apologised even though the man couldn't understand him. But as they walked away, he pulled out a radio and spoke into it, the static loud when he pushed his finger onto the rough button.

"Hey those kids our master spoke of, they're here. Send the American government the news, and be sure to take at least some of the ones we need." He advised his fellow leaders as he placed the radio beside his leg and watched the kids walk away. The three sat on a bench overseeing the site which had what they needed, but they couldn't form some sort of plan on how they could steal it. "Got any ideas, Armin?" Chaz asked abruptly as Armin gawked at him confusingly.

"What makes you think I've got an idea?" "Well your good at coming up with solutions, and you know your best when it comes to problem-solving." Chaz stated as Armin hummed thinking to himself, as a lightbulb went off in his darkened mind. "Okay... how about that fence? It's pretty unsecured, so Chaz, can you make a sword and cut through that? And Annie you know how to fight, try to keep your Titan powers hidden, only use as a last resort." Armin explained as both nodded their heads and spreader out, leaving Chaz to do his thing.

"Krios a little help." 'Sure.' Krios mutated Chaz's hand into a sharp needle as he started cutting away at it quietly as he could. Armin and Annie both were waiting by a wall with Annie leaning against it as Armin admired the sea, seeing how it splashed into the rocks trying desperately to climb and reach the surface, like little puppies in a box wanting someone to notice them. Armin always thought about his parents and realise that he barely spent much one on one time with them both as he devoted all of his time to history.

He let out a sigh of sadness as Annie caught wind of this and lightly kicked his foot grabbing his attention. "You okay?" "Yeah... I'm just thinking about my parents y'know, I barely spent any time with them before I had to run away and become a wanted threat to a single nation." Armin said with Annie agreeing with him, as her parents didn't even have that opportunity to even do simple things such as hold her hand, and play with her.

"Yeah I get what you mean, but I guess..." Annie trailed off the conversion as she noticed some authorities that had American flags on their shoulders showing civilians portraits of her, Armin, and the rest. "Annie? What is it?" Armin inquired not seeming to understand why she froze like a paused video on a tablet. One of the authorities moved their head to the direction they were standing as Annie pulled Armin to her and starting kissing him passionately with her hood up. Armin was so frazzled on what was going on seeing as one minute he and Annie were having a deep conversation, and the next she pulls him and starts pecking at his lips.

She stopped briefly and put her hand over Armin's mouth, and waited for the authority to gaze away from them. She eyed him like a leopard stalking its prey from the bushes as she looked through her long vine strands of blonde hair. The officer then smirked leaving her and Armin to mingle with each other and joined back over with his unit. She then let go of Armin's mouth as he went up for air exhaling like he had been underwater for more than two minutes.

"What, what the hell was that for?" "That guard over there was looking for us. He's got posters of our faces and is looking for all of us, and he would've seen us if I didn't kiss you in time to hide our faces from him." Annie explained as Armin looked flustered and blushed embarrassed at the idea of him kissing her like that, it reminded him of the way he found Mikasa and Eren when they first got together and they were smooching against a wall.