Attack on Titan/Zelda crossover - To Hyrule and Back Again

Chapter Nineteen: Time Hopping

Dawn of the First Day

-96 hours remain-

Armin's Point of View

It all... Reset. Everything's back the way it was. It worked. The Song of Time worked!

I hop out of the bed and gaze out the window. No FR guards are to be seen, nobody is dead, and my hideout hasn't been discovered. A few minutes later, still in shock & awe of what just happened, I notice a certain girl in a blue uniform walk into a pizza place. I instantly remember Link shooting her in the head, and then realize the fact that she's not dead and she knows my friends are here in Utopia.

She's going to be a problem, I think.

I look over at Alex, who's lying down flat on one of the many bunk beds in this room. He's alive, but missing an arm. Poor kid.

I take a seat at the table in the middle of this dimly lit room and blow away the fire, making the room even darker. I sit in silence and think, trying to remember everything Link had said to me the first time I reset with the Song of Time.

"I'm not from inside the walls, I'm not from outside the walls, I'm not from anywhere that's here... I'm from a place called Hyrule."

What does he mean by that? I think. How is he not from inside the walls nor outside the walls? It has to be one or the other. Wherever this 'Hyrule' is has to be outside the walls, if anywhere.

And he seems casual when talking about time travelling... does he do that often? He really is a strange kid.

A few minutes later, the door bursts open, and Link comes running in with nobody else.

"ARMIN!" he shouts ecstatically. "It worked! You did it! Everybody's alive!"

"Yeah..." I reply. "We... Reset time."

"You and I are the only ones that can remember from timelines that have been erased with the Song of Time. Each time the timeline gets reset, everything starts over from when we first started to go and find your boy Eren."

"Where's Jean?" I ask.

"I told him to keep going. We found Eren and the two girls in this one field the last two times, and since I told him just to keep heading north he'll eventually run into them. But dude! We're okay!"

"So we basically have all the time in the world to figure out how to defeat Annie?"

"Pretty much. Last time I could reset time I only had three days to stay in that timeline before I was forced to reset until I knew exactly what to do."

"It's not like that this time?"

"I guess not. Or maybe it is, like whenever something really bad happens that we can't stop from happening. My ocarina works differently here, but this song seems the same. Odd."

"Before we start doing anything, let me ask one more question: so if someone dies, they'll still be alive when we reset? And we can continue in the current timeline even if someone dies to see what happens?"

"Pretty much, yeah."

. . .

-94 hours remain-

We're currently looking for Mikasa's group, along with Jean, Eren, Ymir, and Krista. We have two titan shifters and Link on our side, and once we have Mikasa we'll be ready to take on Annie. If our group finds Mikasa before the day ends we could carry our plan out in less than a day, and nobody even has to die, because if they do die we can just reset and try again.