Deceived

Eren's POV

The sun was just beginning to rise up when we got off near the Brooklyn Bridge. I took off my night vision goggle and just sat on the ground hiding behind a car waiting for Ghost team 117 to rally on us.

"What a fucking mess." said Connie

"I hope Armin's okay." said Marco.

"He's somewhere safe right now." said Reiner.

Armin was shot in the arm so he had to go with the remaining prisoners back to headquarters.

"We wouldn't have been in this mess if the scouts didn't disobey Captain's orders." said Jean.

We continued waiting for at least another 30 minutes.

"Shouldn't they be here by now?" asked Bertholdt.

"Be patient." said Erwin.

I saw Jean about to speak, probably trying to say that it was his fault they were in this mess, but Mikasa stopped him by just shaking her head.

I was looking up till I saw something run right past my eyes.

"What the" I thought but was interfered when I saw someone jump and flipped in the air.

It landed right on top of Gunther with a sword going through his chest.

"GUNTHER!" yelled Eld.

I saw the attacker was the same woman from the streets.

Eld quickly aimed his gun and shot her but the woman was too fast and dodged them. She rolled towards him and completely sliced him clean in half.

"Kill her!" yelled Levi.

We all began shooting, but she grabbed Gunther's body using it as a shield, sliced Oluo's neck and kicked him towards Petra.

Levi tried to hit her with his gun but she grabbed him and flipped him over her shoulder. Mike and Erwin attacked her on both sides, Mike used his knife and and swung towards her. She ducked under and punched him multiple times in the stomach and chest. Mike tried uppercutting her with his knife but she grabbed it and threw it towards Erwin, hitting him on the shoulder.

Levi quickly got up and aided Mike. Levi threw a punch but she caught and twisted it, breaking his arm. She kicked both of his leg making him fall.

I had to do something so I ran and tried to tackle her but she quickly spun in the air and kicked me in the jaw.

Mikasa rushed towards her and tried kneeing her, but she grabbed her leg, but Mikasa still had her other leg so she used it to kick. The woman barely dodged it and lifted Mikasa upside down and kicked her in the face.

Annie and Petra rushed to her, Annie trying to kick her legs and Petra with the right hook. The woman kicked the leg Annie was kicking it and it broke. Annie screamed in pain but since she was a titan shifter it started steaming. The woman dodged Petra's hook and grabbed her collar and the waist of her pants and lifted her up. She threw her onto a broken pole which went right through her chest. She screamed in pain and blood started flowing out of her mouth.

"PETRA!" shouted Hanji.

Levi looked at the Petra's body who was slowly dying, his eyes filled with tears and anger.

"Ca-Captain-Levi." said Petra before she closed her eyes and exhaled her final breathe.

"NOOOOO!" cried Levi.

Reiner charged at her with Bertholdt and Jean but the woman cut off Reiner's arm and stabbed Bertholdt in the stomach and did a spinning kick on Jean's face.

We were all breathing hard and trying to regain our strength, but the her kick to my jaw was too strong.

The woman turned and saw the steam coming out of the shifter's bodies.

"So you're the Eldians." said the woman. "A titan shifter."

She came up to me and starting choking me with one hand. She lifted me up from the ground applied pressure. I was suffocating and my vision blurred.

"EREN!" yelled a voice in the distance.

The woman quickly dropped me and broke off into a sprint. Ghost team arrived and stopped to help us except for Ghost and Marksman who chased after her.

"Oh shit..." said Kit looking at the bodies of Levi's squad.

"She did all this?" asked Bomber.

I just nodded my head.

"Kit and Hacker, help the others. Those who can run follow me." said Juggernaut.

I got up with Mikasa, Sasha, Jean, Connie, Krista and Ymir. We ran after Ghost as fast as we could cause damn, he's too fast.

Ghost POV

I ran after the woman, recognizing her as I wanted her dead.

"You... you were the one, weren't you." I thought as I sprinted as fast as I could to catch up with her.

"You're the one that killed my entire squad!" I thought.

She turned towards left, into an alley but there was a gigantic wall covering her way. I shot my gun up in the air and she quickly stopped realizing she came to a dead end and slowly turned around.

Me and Marksman had our guns ready to shoot.

"It's been long, Ghost." she said.

"Huh." said Marksman looking at me.

I was confused, who was she? How does she know me?

"How have you been Marksman?" asked the woman.

"How the hell do you know us?" asked Ghost.

I heard footsteps running up from behind us. I slightly turned and saw the remaining Juggernaut, Bomber,Javelin, Eren, Mikasa, Jean, Sasha, Connie, Krista and Ymir stand right next to us aiming their guns at her. But I lowered my gun.

"Take off your mask." I told her.

"I'm surprised you're just as clueless as ever." said the woman.

"Sir she has the eye scar." whispered Marksman.

She slowly took off her metal bandanna and I nearly collapsed onto my knees.

"Recon?"

Annie's POV

My leg healed and so did Reiner and Bertholdt.

"That should patch you up." said Kit.

"I'm going after them." I said.

"We're done here. Leave the bodies, we'll come back and take them later." said Hacker.

We ran after Ghost and the rest and turned into an alley where the rest were. The woman was standing there was this time she had her metal bandanna off. She also had an eye scar on her left eye just like Marksman and Ghost.

Ghost had his gun lowered, so did Marksman who were looking at her with shocked faces.

Ghost POV

"How..."

"I faked it, I was never on your side, I was just a Russian spy." said Recon.

"You..."

"Yes I was the one that killed your squad that night, oh I always wanted to kill them, their screams of pain were just so... satisfying."

Marksman quickly aimed his gun at Recon, anger in his eyes.

"Aid..." I continued.

"I know what happened to him." said Recon.

I saw Kit slowly walk up with his gun lowered. Recon looked at him and smiled.

"So, you accepted him into your squad? So you can end his life too?" said Recon.

"Shut the fuck up before I kill you bitch." said Marksman taking a step forward.

Recon smirked at Marksman making him growl at her.

"What did you do to Emily's body." I asked.

"Well... she's still alive" I widen my eyes as I got a spark of hope in my heart.

"if you consider being a titan alive." said Recon while laughing.

I completely lost it. I drew my pistol and aimed it at her.

"Oh did I wake up the demon inside of you?" said Recon.

My hand was shaking, I couldn't accept the fact that she betrayed me I just couldn't.

"Why did you betray us?" I asked.

"I didn't, I was never on your side. But if I were to give you a reason, it was because they gave me power." said Recon.

"What power?" asked Marksman.

"You don't need to know." replied Recon.

I still had my gun aimed at her.

"Ahh can you beat me in hand to hand combat now?" asked Recon.

"What part of me looks like I want to joke around with?" I said.

"You changed." said Recon glaring at him.

I didn't say anything instead continued glaring at her.

"Sir our extraction is coming in 30 seconds and Russians forces are now entering Brooklyn." said Hacker.

"I'm not leaving till I see her dead." growled Levi who was aiming his pistol with his good arm.

"Yea, she killed a lot of good people." growled Erwin.

Everyone had their gun raised ready to fire at any moment. I turned to Marksman and put my hand on his gun, slowly forcing it down. He looked at me with a confused look.

"Next time, I swear I'll kill you." I said.

"My mission was to kill you from the beginning." said Recon.

"Then why didn't you?" I asked.

She seemed to hesitate in answering my question, she had this uneasy look and a bit of sadness in her eyes.

"I didn't want to." said Recon. "But now, I'll be waiting."

She threw something and it exploded mid-air, completely blinding us. When I opened my eyes, she was gone.

Eren's POV

We were back at base and I was with Armin in the infirmary.

"So that woman that attacked us was Ghost's old friend?" asked Armin.

"Apparently." said Eren.

Armin sighed and closed his eyes. I just shook my head trying to clear things up.

"Why would an old friend do this?" I thought to myself.

2 hours later

Everyone one of us was in our formal uniform in standing in a line. There were four bodies in coffins getting ready to descend into the ground.

We each payed our respects and saluted, the Eldians saluted our salute while the Americans saluted their own way.

Levi was crying quietly as he lost his first crush and he lost his entire squad. We all were, they were good people after all.

1 hour later

We were back in headquarters sitting in a circle table with everyone from the Ghost team, the scouts and the 104th. Governor Johnson was here with the same man from before in a different uniform.

"We have lost a lot of good people. But the discovery you made led us to another mission." said Governor Johnson.

"Where to now?" asked Ghost.

"Somewhere in the Mount Yamatau in the Ural Mountains." replied Johnson.

"We're going to be in enemy territory again? With them?" asked Juggernaut.

"No not with the scouts but with the 104th." said Johnson.

"But my Air Force won't be able to support them." said the man.

"Sorry sir but who are you?" asked Armin who's arm was in a cast.

"Lieutenant Echo of the Air Force." replied Echo smiling.

"He's my personal air supporter." said Ghost.

"So what are our objectives?" asked Marksman.

"Our satellites found an abandon factory with no one near it. But we found some intense thermal reading inside the factory." said Johnson. "We believe it might be titans."

Ghost looked up and leaned forward against the desk.

"Have we found a way to make titans turn back into humans without having the titan eat the shifter?" asked Marksman.

"No, but why?" asked Johnson.

"Phantom is a titan." said Ghost.

"How do you know?" asked Johnson.

Ghost and Marksman looked at each other before responding.

"Recon." said Ghost.

Johnson's eyes went wide, as if he's seeing a ghost.

"Recon, as the number one trainee in the 56th trainee corps? The one that led victororious battles one after another? The one that was captain of Ghost team 116? The founder of Sentinel?" asked Johnson.

Ghost just nodded his head.

"But isn't she MIA?" asked Johnson.

"No, she merely faked it. She was a Russian spy and she..." trailed of Ghost.

"She was the one that killed Gunner, Tech, and Exploder during operation Raz. But she dragged Phantom to be used as test subject." continued Marksman.

Johnson sat their in awe and looked at the table with sadness.

"Are you going to kill her?" asked Kit.

"I don't really know anymore." replied Ghost.

"What do you mean you don't know? She killed my entire squad!" cried Levi.

"Let's not forget that you scouts compromised our mission. If you haven't they wouldn't have died." said Marksman.

"We couldn't leave those prisoners!" yelled Nanaba.

"Our objective was to spy on enemy activity and destroy whatever they were doing, it was not to save those prisoners." said Hacker.

"Those prisoners were also American Rangers, they aren't supposed to know that we exist." said Juggernaut.

"What! We couldn't have let those men die!" I yelled. "If you guys showed up a little bit earlier, maybe we could have everyone here!"

"You weren't the only one that lost someone. We lost 2 pilots and 4 soldiers that risked their lives to save your dumbasses when really you were the ones who should have died not them!" yelled Javelin.

"What the hell did you just call us?" growled Annie.

"You heard what I said."

"Enough." said Ghost.

We all stayed silent but glared at one another.

"Sometimes, life can go the way you don't want it to be. It really depends on the decisions you make. What was the right choice back there? Saving those prisoners or saving the lives we lost today." said Ghost. "I don't know either, so don't blame one another for who did something wrong, they might have thought it was for the best option."

We all stayed silent.

"Don't be like me, I had to learn that the hard way." said Ghost.