The Fight for Mankind

Epilogue- Rise of the Warrior

(I'd definitely recommend listening to the song attached while reading the end of this chapter :D)

AURORA

The room was deathly silent despite being filled with both Hange's soldiers and the newly formed Levi squad as I read the missive that Commander Erwin had received this morning and my blood boiled as my eyes passed over the sheer brazen cowardice etched in the ink.

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" I snarled as I reread the missive with shaking hands, "Can they do this?! Is this really happening?!"

"Sadly, yes." Hange sighed as she took the missive from my hands, her face drawn with worry, "We've been summoned to the interior or more specifically, you, Eren and Historia have been summoned."

Why?!

"This is absolute bullshit!" Jean stormed by my side as he channelled my anger into his own, "They can't do that! They haven't done anything wrong!"

That's where you wrong Jean, I did do something wrong. I dared to be born.

Levi had told me about Jannick Becker's story regarding my family this very morning, having decided I was now ready to hear it which wasn't exactly his choice to make, but disregarding the misguided attempt to spare my fragile state of mind, the information had come as a surprise because not only was I contending with the order of the walls, I was now contending with the Military Police, or more specifically, the interior Police and as such the moment my eyes moved over the scrawl on the fucking missive, I knew exactly what was happening.

Whoever is behind my family's persecution, the secrets of the walls and my attempted assassination is finally coming out of the shadows to play.

"This isn't an official summons by the Military Police per se," Hange explained as she neatly folded up the missive and placed it inside her jacket pocket, "It's a summons disguised as an invitation from the interior to make it look like it isn't what it really is." 

Cowards! Fucking yellow bellied, rat bastard cowards!

"A trap", I stated as my eyes met Eren's, Armin' and Mikasa's and saw the anger burning brightly in them as they realised what was happening.

"Erwin believes so." Levi drawled, his eyes fixed on me as he watched my fists clench at my sides because as Jean had said, this was such fucking bullshit.

"Why do they want them?" Moblit inquired, his face drawn in confusion as his eyes darted between Eren, Historia and me, "I thought we were all on the same side here."

No, because we wouldn't be human would we if we weren't turning on each other at the first given opportunity, right?! Why couldn't I just be left in peace to kill Titans?! It's not like they have many signing up for the fucking job!

"It appears that isn't the case." Hange speculated, her finger coming up to tap her chin, "If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say our digging had caused a bit of an uproar in the interior, and they don't want us learning more."

What could we possibly learn that would warrant all of this?! We have the literal harbingers of death hiding out beyond the walls waiting to drive us all to extinction, and this is what the interior decides to do instead?

"So, what do we do?" Eren asked hesitantly, the idea of handing himself over probably sitting as well with him as it was with me, "Do we go?"

Do we fuck! If they want us, then they are going to have to take us by force!

"No." Levi ordered as he pushed to his feet with a hard look in his eyes before gesturing to his new Elite squad or rather our new elite squad, "All of you go back to your rooms and pack, don't tell anyone what you're doing, or what we have discussed, the rest of you are to follow Hange to Trost. We leave at sundown. Is that clear?"