*SNAP!*
Yet another of Mikasa's blades snap, leaving her with a single one left, she panted but took another step forward anyway, deciding that offence would serve her better than any defence she could raise.
*CHK!*
*PSSSHHHHHH!*
The sound of three separate 3D manoeuvre gears sounds out behind her, allowing Mikasa to relax slightly as reinforcements arrive.
"Ackerman." Annie drawls as she arrives skidding to a stop, Rainer and Bertholdt stopping near or next to her.
"Need help?" Rainer questions despite the obvious answer.
Mikasa gives a reluctant nod, "Be careful, she's not human..." she states while gesturing her only blade left at Saeko, who shrugs in response.
"If this is your reinforcements, you'll need to try a lot harder." Saeko states before sniffing the air slightly, "Hm? Speaking of 'Not-quiet-human', you three have a peculiar scent." she adds, causing the three secret titan-shifters to tense.
Mikasa, obviously, notices this, glancing between her friends and the woman, "What do you mean?"
"So you don't know?" Saeko hums and casually sheathes Kakonoitami into its scabbard. Once it clicks into place-
*Slik!*
Large gashes appear on the wrists of the three new arrivals, causing them to drop their weapons in surprise, unable to retain their grip due to their tendons being cut.
All of them except Bertholdt retain their composure, the latter stepping back in shock and unintentionally calling upon his healing factor, causing his wound to steam and quickly heal. Annie and Rainer watch on with wide eyes, realising that Mikasa had witnessed this...
"W-what...?"
Rainer wets his slips and points his unhealed, crippled hand at Bertholdt, "What was that!? Bertholdt! Tell me what the hell that was!?" he exclaims, causing the nervous titan-shifter to gape at his friend.
Annie nods, trying to project a look of fear despite her usually implacable expression. "Bertholdt..."
"Good act, I might have believed you if you didn't smell almost exactly like him..." Saeko remarks, "My boyfriend told me about you all..." she gestures a hand at Mikasa, "Mikasa Ackerman, one of the last members of the Ackerman bloodline and with the potential to be one of the strongest warriors around..."
She turns to Rainer, "Rainer, Annie, and Bertholdt, three titan-shifters sent by Marley to find the Coordinate. Hear that Mikasa? These are the ones responsible for the breach of Wall Maria and the death of your foster parents."
"You're lying! She's trying to fool you!" Rainer exclaims while Bertholdt panics and Annie stares lifelessly at the floor, a hint of despair clear in her eyes.
Mikasa swallows, "And what was that with Bertholdt earlier then...? How did he heal? And why did it look so much like a titan healing...?"
"Mikasa, you can't really believe this woman? She's a stranger? She was trying to kill you earlier!" Rainer presses, losing hope for the situation.
Mikasa shakes her head, "She could have killed me before I even met her..." she turns her back towards Saeko and raises her weapon towards the trio, "Tell me, is it the truth!?"
...
Mikasa grinds her teeth at the lack of response, concluding that to be answer enough. "How could you? We trained together for years! And it was all a lie!?"
...
"Pathetic, if you've already killed so many you should at least be honest about it." Saeko says, taking her place beside Mikasa who barely twitches at her presence.
...
"I'm sorry, but we do what we have to." Annie finally speaks up, stepping back towards the edge of the roof. She looks to Bertholdt and Rainer, "Go, I'll deal with them both..."
"Wait, but-" Bertholdt reaches out just as Annie jumps off backwards and bites her hand.
*CRAASH!*
A huge towering form appears after a lightning bolt strikes the ground, the figure slowly standing to its full height while peering down on the rooftop. Its blonde hair and identical haircut made it obvious that it was Annie, but that didn't make it any easier for Mikasa to swallow.
Bertholdt and Rainer instantly bolted as they occurs, both flying away via their 3D manoeuvre gear.
"It's about time!" Saeko exclaims, grabbing Mikasa who'd been stunned still and pulling her away from Annie's descending fist.
They escape and the building completely collapses under the weight of the female titan's attack, they're forced to keep moving however as she continues her onslaught.
"Get moving!" Saeko commands as she throws Mikasa away and draws Samehada from her back. The bandages around the large weapon unfurl and reveal its shark-like skin, when fresh air hits it the thing coils in preparation to attack. "You listen to me and I might let you try eat that thing. Understand?" she tells the sword, and it mentally sends her its acknowledgement in response.
*CRAASH!*
Saeko slaps away Annie's next punch with Samehada, the blade shredding the titan's flesh as if it were caught in a blender. Surprised by this, Annie begins hardening her skin in response, preventing the swordswoman from so easily destroying her limbs.
*PPSHHU!*
Mikasa comes spinning from a nearby building towards Annie's exposed nape, forcing the female titan to guard it with a hardened hand, leaving her with only one limb to fight Saeko off with.
Saeko tries leaping up to towards Annie's face, but the titan unleashes a devastating kick towards her, she blocks it with Samehada but it sends her flying through the city. She collides with a sloped rooftop but manages to jam Samehada into another's tiles to quickly slow her momentum, allowing her to get right back into the fight.
All the while, Mikasa was trying to pry Annie's hardened hand away from her neck with her sole remaining blade... Annie uses the time free from Saeko to swat her like a bug, but Mikasa easily disengages and lands on a nearby rooftop, waiting for her unlikely partner to return.
Unfortunately for the female titan, the lack of titans coming in from outside Trost had allowed them to recover their senses... And almost every single soldier could see the single titan trying to kill their fellows...
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"R-Rainer! We have to go back! Annie, she-, she won't last like this!" Bertholdt shouts as they take refuge on the third floor of an abandoned building. In the distance, they could see Annie fighting, along with the numerous soldiers approaching to dispatch her.
"Don't you think I know that!?" Rainer shouts while angrily pulling at his hair, he was well aware how fucked their situation was. Since Mikasa and that stranger weren't dead yet, their identities had undoubtedly already been revealed, meaning they'd have nowhere to hide soon enough.
Annie was supposed to kill them and prevent them from talking, but that plan had ceased to exit at her first failed strike... Now there was little reason not to support her, everything they'd worked up to had fallen all because of that woman!
But... Could he kill everyone in Trost? All of the friends he made during training? All of them who believed and counted on him?
...
Yes. He could.
*CRAAASH!*
Two more lightning bolts illuminate Trost, revealing two more titans in the centre of the city. One armoured from head to toe in heavy bone-like plates. And the other, towering over even the walls, steaming and skinless.
Bertholdt's transformation into his colossal titan had been powerful enough to blow the windows out of every nearby window, along with upturning nearby carts, boxes, and sending mid-air soldiers tumbling through the air.
"RRRAAAAAAAAAGGGRRRRRGGHHHHHH!!!" Rainer's armoured titan screams out, announcing his intent to demolish everyone and everything nearby.
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"What the hell is happening!?" Eren shouts as two more titan appear nearby, his heart beating furious from his adrenaline-fueled mind. The Colossal Titan had disappeared from the wall and reappeared in the centre of the city!
He looks over to the nearby soldiers, his friends had all gathered once they realised no titans were coming into the city and were just as confused as he was... "A-Armin, a-any ideas...? Y-you must have an idea, r-right!?"
The blonde boy shakes his head, "No... B-but we should go help, Mikasa should be near there!"
Eren's expression firms as he gives a stiff nod, "R-right! Come on! We'll do it, we'll kill them and avenge Shiganshina! After them, the rest of the titans will follow!" he roars in mock courage and begins making his way over the rooftops with his 3D manoeuvre gear.
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Saeko jumps over another punch sent by Annie and lands on her hardened fist, she stabs down with Samehada and pierces the living sword a couple inches deep, not much but enough to keep her stable.
Annie tries to shake her off but fails, with her other hand still occupied protecting her neck, she brings her hand toward her and tries to bite down on Saeko.
"GAHEIL!"
*SHIIING!*
Annie's hardened forearm suddenly drops as it's sliced from her elbow, crashing onto the ground below with a crash. The female titan recovers from her shock and her eyes dart around to find Saeko... Only to then hear a voice high above her...
"SHEHAI!"
Saeko blurs down with a brightly shining see-through Katana in her hand, she slices down, and Annie isn't even able to tell what was happening when she lost control of her titan... She struggles from within its nape as its right half slides away, the body cut completely in half from shoulder to hip!
Saeko lands on the nearby rooftop where a gaping Mikasa was standing, a grin straining her face, "A clean cut! Not to bad!"
"W-ha-" Mikasa starts but once again gets thrown away like a wet rag, Saeko throwing herself forward as the Armoured Titan barrels towards her.
The titan's massive body shoulder-checks out right out of the air, sending her through two whole buildings before she rolls to a stop in the middle of a rubble-covered road. Rainer doesn't stop there however, quickly running over with the intent to stomp her into chunks of meat.
*CLANK!*
Mikasa's last blade shatters as it hits Rainer's nape, but this is was enough of a distraction to draw his attention away...
Saeko grunts as she peels herself off of the ground, her legs had been broken but they were quickly healing... The thing that hurt most though was her pride, she probably should have left Mikasa to her fate and dodged. Still, she'd rather the woman not die, not only because she was 'important' to this world, but because she saw a lot of similarities between them both.
She shakes her head and stands, "Let's try these new eyes then... See if it works... HEY! RAINER!" she shouts and locks eyes with the titan as it turns to meet her. With that, she forces her magic through her eyes and shouts "TSUKUYOMI!"
Thankfully, the technique works, sending her to a black realm which had Rainer tied to a cross in his human form... His eyes were wide as he struggles to try and free himself, trying to pry his nailed-down arms away from the cross with even more fervour when he sees Saeko approaching.
"WHAT IS THIS!? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?"
"Who knows? You have three days to make a guess!"
"AAAAAHHHHH-"
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Mikasa stares as the Armoured Titan pauses mid-step and stares at Saeko for three seconds. Once the seconds were up, it grabs its head and begins roaring nonsensically before falling to the side, blood pooling and dripping from its eyes and ears...
She looks back over to Saeko and saw that she too had tears of blood streaming from her eyes... "Is this even reality...?"
*THUD!THUD!THUD!THUD!*
She stiffly turns her head and spots the Colossal Titan slowly marching its way towards them, its disproportionate body making its stride awkward and unwieldy, but it continued to move regardless of that and the many soldiers now trying to cut it to pieces...
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