In an Alternate Reality III

P:3 Ch:13

"I'm about to announce our final mission. All troops line up!"

"We're going to mount a cavalry charge rushing the Beast Titan directly. Clearly, this will make us ideal targets for him. So, we'll wait for the moment he's ready to throw and then we'll fire our smoke signals together that should somewhat reduce his accuracy. While we distract the Beast Titan, Captain Levi will get in position to dispatch it. Those anyone have questions?"

The soldiers stood still. Their faces alone said it all.

"There's no point in standing around. We'll only be showered by more boulders. Ready your horses on the double!"

"Be honest.... Are all of us.... Riding to our deaths?" Floch asked.

"Yes, we are."

"And since we're dying anyways, you're saying that it's better...That at least die fighting?"

"I am."

"But wait...If we'll die anyways...Then, who cares what we do. We could just disobey our orders and it wouldn't mean a thing, would it?"

"Yes, you're precisely right. Everything that you thought had meaning. Every dream, hope, or moment of happiness...None of it matters as you lie bleeding out on the battlefield. None of it changes what a speeding rock does to the body; we all die...But does that mean our lives are meaningless? Does that meaning that there was no point in our being born? Would you say that about our slain comrades? What about their lives? Were they meaningless?"

"They were not! Their memories serve as an example to us all! The courageous fallen! The anguished fallen! Their lives have meaning because we the living refuse to forget them! And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us! Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world!"

"My soldiers push forward!"

"My soldiers scream out!"

"My soldiers RAGE!!!!"

And that was the Commander's last ever speech before the lights went out.

The Beast Titan threw one last hailstorm of stones that completely finished off the Scouts. Screams of agony echoed through the landscape as the stones tore at the bodies of crying children. The Commander sacrificed himself for those who live be able to savor the taste of victory.

"Game over." The Beast Titan chanted.

But it wasn't over just yet.

As the Scouts charged, they shot green smoke signals to obstruct its vision. Their deaths laid down a path for the Beast Titan's defeat.

The Beast Titan's thralls were dead on the ground.

Out of the green smoke, a hook was shot at the Beast Titan. The smoke dispersed and revealed a Levi who was completely drenched in blood.

The Beast Titan noticed and sent his sharp claws his way but to no avail. Levi was far too quick. He let out a ferocious growl as he began to cut tear the Beast Titan's arm into pieces.

"Is this Levi?"

It indeed was.

Levi disappeared from his sights. The Beast Titan covered his nape in the hopes of stopping him from going for the kill, but that wasn't what he was going for.

He wanted to make him suffer.

There was a streak of blue light and blood spewed out from the Beast Titan's eyes.

"I can't see!"

Levi dropped to his feet and slashed away at his legs which made him drop to the floor.