Alternate (a AOT and FMA crossover)

Chapter 16

(Mikasa's POV)

When I regained consciousness, I could see nothing but blackness, I was in a void, tainted with blood and the putrid smell of decaying corpses haunting me. Voices I recognised, and voices I didn't, were whispering things that only the dead can know or would dare say, things that I can't understand no matter how hard I try.

I took a few steps forward trying to find a way out before I lose my sanity, but that's when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned around, and that's when I saw Eren. He was missing an arm, blood was pouring down the stump and it just dripped down further then I can see, deep in the darkness. His hair was drenched in blood, his open eye was dim and lifeless. His other eye was closed and a strange fluid was leaking out of the closed eyelid, the rest of his face was scratched and bruised. His clothes were in tatters, jacket torn to shreds, a red mark was spreading on his shirt from his chest and his white trousers were torn and stained with dirt and coughed up blood.

"Eren?" I mumbled scared and shocked.

He smiled painfully then lowered his hand from my shoulder. I blinked once and he was gone and once again, I was alone with the blackness, with the ghosts and the sickening smell of death.

"Eren!" I shouted in the void.

Then I opened my eyes, I was on the wall, my 3DM gear was off and my head was on the folded scarf that Eren gave me when we were kids.

"Mikasa! You're up." said a voice next to me.

I looked up and saw Armin sitting next to me. He looked relieved as I sat up, grabbing my knees to my chest.

"Where's Eren?" I asked.

"Bertholdt and Reiner took him." he answered sadly.

"So what are we doing here!? We have to go!" I shouted shaking him by the shoulders.

"Mikasa stop! You're still hurt!" he said holding on to me. "They've been gone for 5 hours, we didn't go after them because we are too heavily injured and we have no way of getting to the other side of the wall, and what do you hope to accomplish by doing something stupid?"

"We can't just let them take them." I hissed.

"Ed's the only one who can go without a horse so Hange already sent him on recon. And the commander should be here soon." he said taking my hands off him.

I sat on the stone wall and looked at the horizon longingly. Eren was over there, and I'm stuck here, pathetic, not able to do anything. All I could do is hope that Edward can do some damage.

"Last time he got kidnapped, Levi and I teamed up and managed to save him. He did say something when he handed him to me, it was something weird and I don't remember what, but when he got back to base he had Edward. But this time I'm a sitting duck and I hate it." I told him, hugging my knees.

"Let's just pray that Ed can stop them from running too far away."

"Yeah, lets."