After I died

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Anastasia

The others suddenly collapse into themselves. Levi almsot fell foreward off the bench if I hadn't cauhgt him in time. "What happened? Are you all okay?", I asked, looking around to the others who were slowly getting up again too. "so there really is no other way?", Jean asked, holding a hand over his face.

"It's just like I thought.", Reiner then said. "Hello? What happened?", I asked again, hoping they would answer me this time. "We can't talk to Eren, he said if we wan to stopp the rumbling we have to kill him.", Levi replied, looking down at his hands still holding one of mine. "Damn it." "What do we do now?", Pieck asked, looking between Mikasa, Armin and Hanji.

Hanji sighed but then looked over at Armin and Mikasa too. "We do it.", the blonde haired boy said. "We have to." I looked over at Onyankopon. "Will he gas be enough to get there?", I asked. "Barely!", the pilot yelled back. "You all will have to jump out above the founding titan, I will do an emergency landing then.

It didn't take long after that until we reached Eren and finding Zeke wasn't a problem either, since he was throwing rocks at us. "We concentrate fire on the beats titan. Killing him will be our main goal.", hanji said, as the back of the plane opened so we could jump out any moment. I pulled up Levi from the bench when coming to stand next to Hanji. "I'm still mad at you two for his presence here." Hanji slightly chuckled at my comment.

"I'm serious-" "NOW!", Onyankopon yelled, pulling up the plane right above Eren's huge spine and we jumped out. Hanji as commander first, then Reiner, Armin, Mikasa, Connie and Jean and lastly Levi and I. "Take care, Onyankopon.", I yelled and recieved a thumbs up before we finally left the plane.

Rocks kept flying our way as we flew towards the beast titan. Just as we were about to reach him, Reiner and Pieck transformed. The armoured titan was there first, ripping Zeke out of his stand on the spine. I looked over at Levi one last time but now that we had the 3dmg, his leg injury wasn't as bad since we were in the air anyway.

By the time we arrived next to Reiner and Zeke, the beast titan had been evaporating but the core was nowhere to be seen. "Now that they're conected, Zeke is probably also able to use the war hammer titan's powers from Eren, he could be hiding anywhere here.", Hanji said, hand scratching her nose slightly. "I can blow this whole thing up, yo guys and Pieck go as far away as possible. It probably won't kill Eren but I can at least destroy the structure.", Armin suggested, looking over at Hanji for allowance.

She sighed. "Fine, yes we'll do that. Pieck, you stay on the middle part as long as you can Connie, Jean an Mikasa look over the right side of the skeleton. Ana, Levi and I take the right side. If you see zeke or anyone else that's attacking you, kill on sight." The others nodded at Hanji's instructions, taking off. She then turned to Armin.

"I trust you to judge the situation yourself to know when you need to transform. If something feels off, you don't have to look out for us, do whatever you have to." Armin looked between all of us before nodding and we took off as well. "Ana, change of plans. How good do you know Pieck and her fighting?" "Pretty well, we caried out some strategies together, why?"

"Go with her, it's better for you two to team up than if shes alone. We gotta combine the experiences a bit more." "Alright, but if something happens to ether of you-" She gave me a weak smile. "We'll be fine." This was the least convincing thing she ever said to me but- "I trust you.", I said. Looking over at Levi to.

"Be careful, idiot. You hear me?", he told me. "Dunno what you mean, I'm the msot careful person alive." Levi gave me a doubting look but Hanji pulled him over to get going as I parted from them to get to Pieck. Not being by Levi's side was making me nervous especially in this kinda situation but what choice did I have? Hanji was right.

I had just reached Pieck when hearing Mikasa scream for Armin. Turning around, I saw something that made my stomach turn. There were dozens of titans, connected to Eren's fouding titan in the same way Zeke had been. Was he controlling all of them?

One of them had probably taken Amin and brought him away soomehow. From one second to the nex, they all lunged at us. First few jumping at Reiner for an attack. The hell was happening here? Jean and Mikasa went out to go help Reiner, using the thunder speers. "Pieck, let's try to get the others while they're still unmoving."

Pieck didn't immeditaly react. "These are the former holders of the nine titans. Eren must have recreated him and is now probably able to use them again and again to fight us. We can't go up against this. Besides, Eren was never my friend. I'll end this." Pieck suddenly threw me off as she started running. If levi hadn't gone after me immediatly, I probably wouldn't have been able to reach the spine with my odm gear in time before being too far away.

"You okay? I told you to be careful." "Yeah, everything alright.", I replied, looking over to where Pieckk had rushed off to. Probably Eren's neck. Mikasa was after her immediatly. But the explosion didn't go off. Through all the steam I couldn't see what had happened, but I heard Reiner call for her. There as no time for strategising anymore with all the titans rushing towards us.

"Everyone towards the back of the titan. We need to find Armin and get him back!", Hanji yelled. "Try to avoid fights and unnecessary gas use, the titans could come back anyway even if you kill them." She then took off as the first, rgith behind her Reiner and then the rest of us.