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Eren's POV

We've been in the air for 3 hours by now. Kit gave each of us something called headset or headphone for us to communicate easier with one another instead of yelling at one another. We each placed it on top of our head which both ends covered our ears.

"Is this your team?" asked Marco.

"Yea, Ghost team 117 of the United States Sentinels." said Bomber.

"How long have you been doing this?" asked Reiner looking at Ghost.

"1 year." said Ghost.

"So you guys knew each other for since then?" I asked.

Everyone in the Ghost team shifted with uneasiness and looked at Ghost.

".....No." replied Ghost.

I raised an eyebrow.

"I lost my first team a year ago because of me." said Ghost taking out a necklace with a couple of dog tags. "Marksman and I were the only survivors of Ghost team 116." continued Ghost.

"How did you lose them?" asked Connie.

"What the heck, shut up Connie." yelled Jean.

"Yea Connie are you stupid or something?" said Sasha.

"Sorry sorry, it just came out of my head." said Connie.

Ghost was frowned at Connie but sighed and relaxed.

"How come they never speak?" asked Bertholdt pointing at Marksman and Javelin.

"I do speak." replied Javelin.

"I have my reasons." said Marksman.

"Why do you have fake names?" asked Krista.

"Same goes to you Historia Reiss." said Hacker.

"Reiss? As in the royal family?" asked Sasha.

Everyone was shocked by their new discovery but later didn't care.

"We use these names to describe our roles. Mine Kit is short for med kit, so I'm a medic in battle." replied Medic.

"Juggernaut is for those who use heavy guns." said Juggernaut.

"Hacker are those who go through enemy information by unlocking codes in devices you saw in the room back there." continued Hacker.

"Bomber are for those who like explosions." said Bomber.

"That was the worst explanation I have ever heard you idiot." laughed Juggernaut.

Bomber glared at Juggernaut but he didn't say anything.

"Javelin is a type of weapon but I just got it because I like to use sharp objects to kill my prey." said Javelin in a menacing tone which sent chills to my spine.

"Marksman because I never miss my shots." said Marksman.

Now everyone was looking at Ghost except for Ghost team.

"My friend gave me this name." replied Ghost.

Everyone nodded as we all got to learn a bit about them.

"Approaching headquarters in 10 minutes." said the pilot.

We all stayed quiet for the next ten minutes as the vehicle began to descend. When we were touched the ground the vehicle jerked scaring me a bit.

We all got off the vehicle and looked around.

I was surprised.

Around us were a bunch of soldiers minding their business, doing their jobs. Vehicles passed by without anything dragging it.

We began to follow Ghost team to what looked like a shooting ground. But we skipped that and somewhere further.

We ended up in a training ground that kind of looked like ours back in training. There were at least 60 soldiers without gear but with a t-shirt and the same pants regular soldiers wear here, listening to what looked like an instructor.

"Captain Ghost." said the instructor quickly doing the salute while the others did the same.

Ghost quickly did it and dropped and so did the rest.

"These here are the Eldians we rescued. And the ones that will be joining us." said Ghost.

I heard Jean gasp a bit and saw a confused face on some of them.

"Ahh I see, will they be under your command?" asked the instructor.

"Yes, they will be one team but their squad leader will arrive soon." said Ghost. "But right now I want you to show them our training routine and what it's like to be out in the battlefield. Fight hand to hand combat."

"Yes sir." said the instructor. He tuned towards the group. "Proceed the Last Man exercise!" he yelled.

"Yes Sergeant!" yelled the group.

They scattered to opposite sides about 2 yards away from each other and got ready to fight.

"How did they know which side they were going to?" asked Armin.

"Platoons." was all Ghost said as he nodded towards the instructor who nodded back.

"Proceed!" he yelled.

Everyone began charge at each other kicking, punching, elbowing, etc. We all just stood there with our mouths open. They worked precisely as a team and they were fast. There skills were just so good.

"Stop!" yelled Ghost.

The group of soldiers stood up and helped each other and fell back into formation.

"Thank you for demonstrating. Proceed." said Ghost as he turned back and walked back to the shooting range.

"Uhh captain, with all due respect, why are we doing this, I mean we can all just live normal lives now right?" asked Jean.

Ghost turned around and looked at Jean in the eye.

"You can leave if you want but remember, we are at war. The whole world is and there is no where that is consider safe. You go out into this world you'll probably have no idea what the hell your doing because you don't know this world. Not only that you are an Eldian who was put into a fucking island with no purpose in life except to be titan food and be an experiment. Are you really gonna let those people who did this to you escape? Huh? I lost everyone I cared for and I'm not stopping till they are able to rest in peace. So if you think that running off is a great idea then you have no place with me." said Ghost in a very demonic voice that started all of us, even Mikasa, I could see it in her face.

Jean was frozen in fear and stood his ground as Ghost was looking down at him.

"I-I'll stay." stuttered Jean.

Ghost turned to Marksman.

"Get them their uniforms, both combat and dress. Then teach them how to shoot a gun so they don't fuck up in battle. Kit, I want you to take them to their dorms after and if you like to give them a story to tell them I'll let this one slide." said Ghost. "The rest of you are dismissed for the day."

Everyone in the Ghost team scattered except marksman and Kit.

"Follow me." said Marksman.

We followed him to a warehouse and went to back where there were sections of combat uniform, boots, vests, helmets, fingerless gloves, and headsets/earpieces.

"Whoa." said Connie.

"Take what fits you, I won't be be helping you. Come out when you're done." said Marksman closing the door.

"Wait what?" said Jean but Marksman closed the door.

"Why are you asking just do it." said Connie getting ready to take off his old uniform.

"What the hell are you doing there are girls here!" yelled Jean while smacking Connie's head.

I turned and looked at the girls who were all on one side of the room all glaring at us while we had worried expressions on our faces.

"Hehehehe I completely forgot, you ladies can go first." said Connie.

Connie turned to leave the room but then stopped.

"What's wrong?" asked Marco.

"It's locked!" yelled Connie.

"Are you done?" asked Marksman from the other side.

"No." replied Connie.

"Hurry the fuck up." replied Marksman.

"But there are girls here too." I said.

"Figure it out and get changed." replied Marksman.

We were all silent. We didn't know what to do.

"Uhhh so you ladies want to change first?" asked Jean.

Before anyone could respond Ymir kicked Jean making him crash into a shelf.

"What the hell! You want to fight then you got one!" yelled Ymir.

Jean charged at Ymir and tackled her. I immediately jumped and tried to break them up, including Reiner and Marco. We were able to get Jean off Ymir but jean punched me hard and that go me so mad.

I punched Jean back and the whole room turned into chaos, some fighting, some trying to break people up.

That's when Marksman opened the door with Kit behind. We all froze and looked at him. He raised an eyebrow.

"Seriously? I'm not even going to ask what happened but I hope you know there's a curtain in the middle for the room that divides up the room." said Marksman.

We all looked and saw a curtain just hanging there, waiting to be used.

"Oh shit." said Jean.

"If you guys can't figure things out then you won't last a minute out there." said Marksman while closing the door.

We just stood there dumbfounded. I slowly walked up to the curtain and just pulled it so it covers one side.

We all finished and Marksman let us out and we went to the shooting range. We each grabbed the basic weapon called the m4 with something called a holographic sight so that we could aim.

"You guys should know how to hold a gun right?" asked Marksman.

"Yes sir." we all replied.

"Lets see what you got." said Marksman.

We all got into a line and aimed at the targets a few meters away from us. I shot but I didn't know the gun can shoot multiple bullets without having to reload so the gun jolted back and went up and out control.

"Hold the gun tight use the arm that your holding the gun with to pull." said Marksman.

"Pull?" I asked.

"Pull the the gun onto your shoulder and put energy onto the shoulder so your shoulder doesn't hurt." said Marksman.

I turned back to the target and aimed at the target. But my arm that I was aiming it with was swaying a bit.

"Breather slowly, inhale then exhale." said Marksman.

I did as I was told to. I pulled the trigger and this time some of my bullets hit the target.

"Not bad." said Marksman as he turned to help others.

2 hours later

"Well that's it for today, Kit muster the squad." said Marksman as he turned and left.

We all followed Kit towards the dorm.

"So what made you want to join the Sentinels?" asked Armin.

"My older brother." replied Kit.

"Is Marksman or Ghost your brother." asked Krista or Historia.

"No." replied Kit.

"Then where is he?" I asked.

"11,000 meters under the ocean."

"Huh the ocean, have you been there!" asked Armin.

I elbowed Armin and he realized what he said and looked worried.

"Sorry." apologized Armin.

"It's fine." said Kit. "My brother was with Ghost, they were best friends during training with this other member of the Ghost team 116."

"So your brother fought side by side with Ghost and Marksman?" asked Bertholdt.

"Yea. My brother sacrificed his life to save Ghost and finish the mission. Ghost blames himself for it and even apologized to my parents by kneeling in front of them and giving them his badge which I have on now." said Kit. "According to Ghost, he was badly injured and they need to blow up a facility that was under water. But their self destruct sequence was badly injured and one of them had to do it manually. Ghost was the one who was supposed to do, and he was willing to do it, but my brother pushed him in an escape pod and sent Ghost off. He manually blew up the facility and the mission was a success."

"I'm sorry." I said.

"It's ok, he's somewhere peaceful with his girlfriend." chuckled Kit, but deep down inside I knew he was crying.

"What was Ghost like back then?" asked Annie.

I looked at her confused but let it slide.

"He was a happy person, cheerful, friendly even though he lost both his parents. His father and mother were apparently spies of a secret organization and they were hunted down. His mother was killed right in front of his eyes. But he was still a good person. But that all changed on his first mission which was suicide. There were 50 men against 5000 and they were all slaughtered except for Ghost and a few others who became Ghost team 116. They were Aid, my brother, Marksman, Gunner, Tech, Exploder which was kind of a stupid name, and Recon who was friends with Ghost and Aid but she was like a demon. She was very cold hearted and would even beat up her own friends. However she would apologize to them after. Hell she was even my brother's girlfriend and she became a nicer person than before."

"What happened to Ghost Team 116?" asked Mikasa.

"Before a mission, Recon was sent an a mission but never returned. apparently she was captured and my brother was devastated. He went on a rampage for a few days but calmed down but not entirely. Later they were sent on a mission to eliminate a highly wanted war criminal who was located in a forest. My brother was the leader of the group and he split up the team, each goes their own way so they could cover more distance. But that was the mistake, they thought they were the hunters, but no they were the ones being hunted. The assassin eliminated everyone single one except for Ghost, Aid, and Marksman. They tried to track her down but she was nowhere to be found. It was she never existed. Ghost team 116 also had another member name Phantom. She became Ghost's girlfriend and he was never happier. But on that day she was killed but her body wasn't found. All that was left was her knife, her blood, and her dog tags."

"Oh shit." said Reiner.

"Did your parents allow you to join." asked Ymir.

"Hell nah. Even Ghost rejected my offer, but later accepted but he swore to my parents that he'll get me home no matter what." said Kit. "Even if he has to trade his life for it."

"He'll doing anything to protect Ghost team 117, and he even said that it felt like we were copies of Ghost team 116." said Kit.

"So what's up with your team members now." asked Marco.

"Well Ghost personally hand picked them for his squad while looking at their skills in the past. But Javelin's story is different. She was Japanese, which is a country, and she watched her parents die. Burnt alive by the Russian forces, she tried to save them but it was too late. We arrived right after and saved Javelin before was going to get shot. Ghost blames himself for not being fast enough to save her parents." said Kit.

"Damn his life must be tough." said Reiner.

"Hell he even tired to kill himself. He isn't afraid of death, and he sometimes says that he wished his life ended early so he can be with his squad and his family on the other side." said Kit.

We continued to walk in silence till Armin spoke up.

"How did the war start?"

"Russia bombed the United States with atomic bombs or some call them nukes. It can destroy an entire city, probably two to three districts in the walls, with just a bomb size of a desk." said Kit. "it killed over 41 million innocent people and after that they sent their entire army to attack the United States killing everyone in its path."

"Oh shit, and we thought the plan to retake Wall Maria was a devastating thing." said Marco.

"Well here are your dorms, each one of you gets a separate dorm so your names will be in front of the door." said Kit.

"Really! Finally, I don't have to deal with Bertholdt's sleeping position." laughed Reiner.

"What are you talking about?" asked Bertholdt sweating as usual.

"Well, hope you guys have a good night." said Kit turning back and walking away but stopped and looked back at them but this time he had his bandanna off.

"And welcome to your new home." said Kit, smiling.