Scouts dont go easy

Chapter 1: Still Alive

(Characters picture above)
Name: John Roger's
Age:17
Hair: Silver
Eyes: Ocean blue
Height: 5'11
Personality: Kind, reasonable, determined but quick to anger when somebody is considered weak.
Allies: Eren, Armin, Mikasa, Levi, Hanji, Erwin, Connie, Sasha, Christa, Moblit, and Jean.
Goal: To Kill the Armored Titan he blames for the death of his parents.
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Death..... when he opened his eyes all he saw was death. The bodies of fallen scouts who'd been eaten. Only difference was he was still alive and he had been swallowed whole. The stench of rotting flesh was horrible as it filled his nostrils. John Rogers, a soldier in the scouting regiment, a very skilled soldier was now sitting knee deep in a titans stomach. He screamed out in rage, he had come so far, so close to seeing the armored titan die. His memories began flooding back into his mind. The day the wall collapsed and his parents were killed by debris, joining up with the cadet core for five brutal years of training, his friends he came to consider like his family.

He remembered the first few weeks when he met Eren, Armin and Mikisa. Afterwards he started to make more associates who later became his best friends whom he served with as scouts. Eren, Mikisa, Armin, Christa, Connie, Sasha, Jean, even the section commanders like Hanji, Erwin and Levi. Then those traitorous bastards Reiner and Bertoldt. They played everyone for fools making them think of them as allies when really they were just a means to an end. Reiner, that name made John's blood run cold. 'Reiner, you lying bastard. To think the very monster that killed my parents, the very creature that I swore vengeance on was living by my side for the past five damn years.' John thought angrily as he noticed just how hot it was in there. The titans body temperature ran quite high so if he didnt do something he would basically cook alive in that monsters wretched stomach. Instinctively he grabbed for his knife he carried with him, well the knife Sasha had given him after a successful hunting trip. Then he stabbed into the monsters stomach lining and began to cut. Furiously he cut away at the flesh and tissue until he felt the cold breeze of the air. Falling out onto the ground he noticed it was late at night.

Quickly he crawled away seeing the monsterous creature laying against a tree. He felt dizzy as he tried to stand up clumsily stumbling around. The full moon and stars lit the night making it easy to see in the dark. But what caught John's attention was the light in the distance, a torchlight. It seems the titan had made it's way to the wall. So close and yet still so far from home, from his own kind, from his commrades. Looking up at the torchlight he knew somebody was on guard meaning someone was up there. As he walked closer his body began to hurt, his side felt like somebody had taken a pipe to him. He staggered trying to stay up keeping his eyes on the torchlight.

Finally he found himself at the foot of the wall when the realization hit him. How the hell was he gonna climb the wall or get anybody's attention? He could shout but the wall was 50 meters high so it wasnt likely anybody would hear him. He couldn't climb the wall without his ODM gear and that was destroyed, his blades were broken and his flare gun... his flare gun. John smirked as he pulled out his flare gun loading an acoustic shell into it, aimed straight upward and fired.

John sat holding his side hoping the sound of an acoustic shell would get somebody's attention. 'Please, please let somebody have heard that.' He thought he looked up to see somebody looking down over the wall. "Who's there?!" Somebody yelled, John smiled as he recognized the voice "DAZ, ITS JOHN!" John yelled hoping that he was heard. "JOHN! HOW THE HELL, EVERYONE THINKS YOUR DEAD!" Daz yelled back excitedly as he looked down at his former cadete comrade. Without hesitation Daz scaled down the wall surprisingly well for being one of the laziest cadets in the 104th cadet core. As Daz got close he noticed John's limping and the pain written all over him. "Wow, looks like the titans seriously messed you up." Daz said as he let John use him for support to keep standing. Suddenly John felt dizzy again and tired as voices became muffled and darkness consumed him.

(Commander Erwin POV)
I was sitting in my study going over the maps and strategies me and cadet Arlet had come up with. It had been at least a week since the identities of the armored and colossal titans were revealed. And roughly 2 days since Scout member John Roger's had been declared KIA. It was a tough pill for his commrades to swallow but that was the reality of the scouts. As I finished filing my papers I could hear footsteps coming towards my door. Whoever it was had been running as a younger girl in the garrison regiment burst in panting heavily. "I'm sorry to interrupt you Commander Erwin but your presence is needed at the wall immediately." She said trying catch her breath. "Slow down, take a breath and explain." I said hoping to make some sense as to what was going on. "Daz, another member of the garrison regiment has found a scout wandering outside the wall in bad condition, he said it was scout member John Rogers." She said as I stood up and immediately headed out the door rushing for the wall. "Erwin!" I looked to see Levi close behind "You heard too?" I asked "Yeah, I was on my way back to the barracks when I heard the brat mention something about you, the wall and Rogers?" Levi said slightly confused "Yes, it would appear cadet Roger's is still alive." I said as we took the lift up to the top of the wall where Daz stood beside a medic treating a badly wounded John.

(Authors Pov)
As Daz got back to the top of the wall carrying John who was struggling to stay conscious he sat him down as two other Garrison members came over and started tending to him. When one accidentally touched his ribs John grunted in pain. "Looks like he might have broke his ribs. Go get a doctor, and alert commander Erwin." One soldier said as the other took off down the wall. After roughly ten minutes a medic and Commanders Erwin and Levi were standing over John in bewilderment that he was here. "How the hell is this possible, I thought he was eaten by the titans." Levi said looking back over to Daz "Oi, how did you find him?" He asked "I....I was on guard duty when somebody fire an acoustic shell. When I looked down John was standing there looking like he was about to kill over." Daz said. "Looks like he was eaten, there's pieces of stomach lining stuck to his cloak and knife." The medic said looking up to the commanders. "So he cut his way out of the titan, that's impressive." Erwin said looking down at John with a slight smile 'Kid's always got something up his sleeve.' He thought as the medics moved John to the hospital.

"So now what?" Levi asked looking to Erwin "Do we alert his friends or stay silent about this?" Erwin sighed furrowing his brow, trying to think. "Krista volunteers at the hospital time to time so odds are she'll eventually see him. But we dont need to alert his commrades until we are certain he'll pull through." Erwin said "Even so Erwin, they didnt get a chance to say goodbye last time. Even if it comes to worse case and he doesn't pull through this time they can at least say goodbye." Levi said looking out towards the barracks. He didnt really let anybody know but when his squad was wiped out by the Female Titan he never got the chance to say goodbye. Especially to Petra, her body had been tossed from the wagon to slow the titans down. He knew how much it could mess with somebody to not have a closure. "True, but let's hope this is best case scenario. John's a good soldier and a good man. If they get to know you will be the one to tell them." Erwin said as they went their separate ways.

As Levi got back to the barracks he saw Armin sitting at the table working on a training exercise he came up with. "Oi Armin." He said making the young man jump up. "Sir." Armin said looking to his commander saluting him. "Hey, I need you to collect the others. I have to tell you all something." Levi said as Armin nodded and went upstairs to the rooms leaving Levi to himself to figure how he was gonna tell them. Within a few moments the gang came down stairs curious as to what he needed to say.

With a sigh Levi began to explain. "I know you are all well acquainted with cadet John Rogers. And it's been a rough couple of days since he was killed." He said seeing everybody's faces grow dreary. During their time in service John had been like a brother to alot of them. It was heartbreaking when they had to accept he was gone forever. Especially Sasha, for her it was way worse. It was no secret to the others she had developed a crush on him. "Well, it seems we were wrong." Levi said which changed the rooms mood, every face turning from sorrow to shocked and hopeful. "Daz recovered him while on guard duty, he is injured so it will be some time before your permitted to see him." He said as Connie and Eren hopped up "How bad is he?" Christa asked. "He has some damage to his ribs." Levi explained letting the reality sink in. Each soldier looked back and forth between each other now hopeful but also worried for their friend.