Ambush

Eren's POV

We came back from our current mission and now we are training how to fight with a sword called a Katana, similar to Recon's but her's is more advanced. Apparently the Sentinels don't just learn how to shoot, they learn how to use melee weapons. Apparently all the Sentinels prefer to fight hand-to-hand combat.

Javelin was teaching how to use it since she's one of the best in the Ghost team and was personally taught under Captain Ghost.

I was training with Annie and as always she's good at everything that has to do with fighting.

I looked over and saw that just like Annie, Mikasa was also good at it. She was sparring with Jean who would always lose to her.

"Hey focus." said Annie.

"Sorry about that."

I held the sword in front of me and focused. But before I could strike Bomber came running into the training grounds.

"We got a problem." said Bomber.

"What is it?" asked Javelin.

"I don't know but come on." said Bomber running towards the entrance of the base.

I began to run towards the entrance, but I've never been near the entrance so I noticed that the base was surrounded by wall about 15 meters high. There were stairs on it so we can step on the ledge in order to shoot on it.

I looked at the entrance and there were two people there one was about Reiner's height and the other one was about my height. They both are wearing cloaks and had a hoodie on. There were some Sentinels holding swords and some with knifes standing in front of the hooded man. Captain Ghost was there, standing in front of them.

The tall man slowly lifted up his face and all I saw was a metal helmet on his head. But then I heard something in the air coming towards us. I looked up and noticed a Boeing C-17 coming towards us ready to crash the front entrance. All of us started to back away except for the two people. The Boeing crashed outside of the wall and crashed through the entrance gate, its wings destroyed both sides of the wall too, allowing anything from entering.

The man took of his cloak and revealed metal armor and an advanced katana behind his back. The other stranger took off his cloak but it was Recon.

"You..." hissed Javelin.

I heard the deck behind the Boeing open and out came a bunch of Russian soldiers armed with guns with bayonets on them. They cried their battle scream while running straight towards us.

"AMBUSH! ALL SENTINELS ENGAGE!" yelled Captain pulling out his knife and ran towards the Russian soldiers.

No one's POV

The Sentinels charged towards the Russian soldiers battle crying into chaos. Javelin made contact and went for a low swing but the soldier blocked it with his sword so she quickly swung the sword up but was blocked again. So instead she quickly did a spinning hook kick on the soldier hitting him in the face and knocking him down.

Eren was doing fine holding off the invaders because there wasn't that many who came out of the plane. But then reinforcements started coming in through the broke wall making the Sentinels fall back a bit.

Ghost was slicing each and every damn Russian that challenged him. He then saw Recon slice a Sentinel in half with both her blades.

He ran towards her slashing at the Russians who dared to stop him but then was stopped by Captain Ivanov.

"It's been long Captain Ghost." said Ivanov.

Ghost stood still and glared at him.

"I suppose the last beating didn't give you any realization that I can kill you." said Ghost.

"Oh don't worry, I'm a successful titan test subject." said Ivanov. "Just like Recon."

"Don't won't change a thing." replied Ghost.

"Are you sure about that?" asked Recon coming up with two bloody swords.

Ghost took a step back but still stood his ground. Ghost rushed to them as he kicked Ivanov and blocked Recon's swing. The trio began to dual swinging and blocking each others attacks. Of course Ghost couldn't beat both of them, but he kept fighting.

Marksman saw Ghost having a bit of difficulty taking on two people even though Ghost is the best fighter in the entire military force of the United States.

Marksman rushed towards Ghost to aid him, he swiftly kicks Ivanov, forcing him to focus on Marksman and giving Ghost a hand.

"Shit, it's gonna be harder without Ivanov, but I can still beat him." thought Recon.

Recon swiftly pushed kicked Ghost away. Before Ghost could rush at me, Kit quickly grabbed him and whispered something. Ghost slightly nodded his head.

"FALL BACK! FALL BACK!" cried Ghost.

Recon was confused and stopped as the Sentinels began to retreat carrying as many wounded as possible.

The Russians were about to chase them but Recon stopped them.

"We took over the base, set up a perimeter and wait further instructions." said Recon.

Eren's POV

We were hiding in the mountains, units were scattered the woods in the mountains, valleys and on low cliffs. Right now me and the 104th members were on a cliff with Ghost team and a few other squads, at least 5 of them.

Our orders were to counter-attack the enemy's advancement. If we fail they take over another country and all will be lost. Only the west coast of the United States is not occupied by the enemy. Most of the countries in Europe are still in good hands, Asia is completely taken over by the enemy except for Japan. Canada is mostly taken, Mexico is completely overrun and the countries in South America are struggling to fight back. The only continent that we barely touched was Africa.

"Captain, we're in trouble." said Hacker.

"What is it?" asked Ghost.

"They're attacking us from every angle." replied Hacker.

"What do you mean?" asked Marksman.

"The enemy is launching a full-scale attack on the remaining states in the United States, Canada, countries in Europe. Even the countries in Africa."

"Is it just Russia?" asked Armin. who was now fully recovered.

"No, every other communist countries, China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea and Laos." replied Hacker.

"I don't understand, Russia isn't a communist country anymore, but why are they helping the Russians?" thought Kit.

"Beats me." replied Bomber.

I heard a few footsteps so I turned around and saw Commander Erwin, Captain Levi, Mike, Hange, Nanaba and Moblit running towards us.

"What are you guys doing here?" I asked.

"We were ordered to come here." hissed Levi.

"Since when did you start following orders?" asked Juggernaut.

"That's enough." said Hacker.

I turned to look down at the cliff and saw Javelin running towards us and damn she's fast. Her movements are very graceful and quiet.

She jumped onto the cliff and boosted up in order to be caught by Ghost who pulled her up.

"They're coming." whispered Javelin.

Ghost turned to us and signaled us to load up. I loaded my gun and checked to see if I had on my gear correctly. Everyone was doing the same thing.

"Listen up." said Ghost. "We are going to do this the old fashioned way, after Bomber denotes the C-4s, he'll be the first to fire. And on my signal we all charge at the enemy, they won't expect it, so prepare for hand-to-hand combat."

We all nodded and spread out across the cliff and silently waited. We waited for about 5 minutes until we heard distant footsteps and moving wheels.

I look down and notice a whole army in a single file walking without any knowledge that we were here.

Bomber waited for the perfect moment which was to explode the technicals. Once the technicals were right in the trap Bomber pressed the detonator and there were explosions. The vehicles exploded including the soldiers that were near it.

Bomber stood up and shot his grenade launcher at the soldiers near the line of soldiers causing more explosions across the valley.

Ghost immediately signaled the platoon and we all stood up and jumped off the cliff. The other Sentinels cried out their battle cries while jumping off and ran into the lines of the enemy.

I quickly jumped into a ditch and started shooting at the enemies who were all over the place.

I saw some Sentinels tackling some Russians and just stab them continuously. I was just so focused on the slaughter that I didn't notice a Russian run up to me and aim his gun.

I turned and see the Russian but Annie came and stabbed the Russian in the side.

"Eren focus!" hissed Annie.

"This is madness, this is slaughter." I said.

Flashbacks began to pour into my mind, memories of the past, when I saved Mikasa from the kidnappers.

Suddenly there was a loud explosion out of no where and it caught my attention.

There was a yellow lighting that struck the ground and out came a titan.

It was a 7 meter titan and was walking on its fours.

The Sentinels slowly backed away from the titan as it crept closer. Some Sentinels began to shoot at it, which did nothing because it could regenerate.

"Is that a shifter?" I asked.

"Captain." said Marksman while pointing at someone.

I looked and saw a soldier holding a device that seemed to control the titan. My eyes grew big as I remembered seeing it during the mission in Manhattan.

The Russians now had the upper hand as the titan began to grab and devour some of the Sentinels.

"Sir, permission to shift." asked Annie.

"What?!" I exclaimed.

"We don't have ODM gear so there's no way we can kill that titan. Either one of us shifts or we all die." replied Annie.

Instead of responding Ghost ran at the titan with inhuman speed. He dropped down his gun and pulled out his knife from his left shoulder holster. He began to slash his way towards the titan, cutting down every Russian that dared to block him.

The titan looked at his direction and swung its right arm at him, trying to grab him. But Ghost slid to a stop and back flipped, dodging the swing. Ghost quickly jumped onto its right arm and began to run up its arm. Javelin tossed her sword to Ghost as he leaped off the titan's shoulder. He spun as he caught the sword and sliced its the nape, killing it instantly.

Once the Sentinels saw the titan get killed they began to push harder, forcing the Russians to retreat.

I saw the same soldier holding the device try to scramble away but I aimed my gun and shot his leg forcing him to fall. I ran up to him and smacked him with the butt of my gun, knocking him out cold.

The battle was over and Bomber shot up a flare, signaling the others that we won the battle. Several minutes later, we began to see other flares shoot up into the sky.

"Four...five...eight...nine. Nine flares. All nine groups won!" cried Kit.

The Sentinels roared into the sky then cheered which kind of creeped me out because usually soldiers would only cheer. I looked at my friends and they had the same impression on their face. The only ones not cheering were Ghost, Marksman and Javelin.

Ghost walked towards the Russian soldier who had the device and kneeled in front of him. The other Sentinels began to clean up the battlefield.

"Do you speak English?" asked Ghost.

The Russian nodded.

Ghost picked up the device next to him.

"Teach me how to use this." said Ghost.

I looked at him in shock.

"Does he want to use the titans as a weapon?" I thought.

The Russian looked confused too.

"Why?" asked the Russian.

"None of your business. Just teach me how to use it." replied Ghost.

"And if I don't?" asked the Russian.

Ghost looked towards my direction.

"We can make our titan shifters eat you bit by bit." replied Ghost.

I stumbled back a bit after hearing what he said. Kit saw me stumble back a bit and whispered.

"If you think that was harsh, then you saw nothing."

My eyes widened in fear and anger. The Russian looked scared to the point where his whole body was shaking.

"I-I'll help-help you." stuttered the Russian soldier.

Ghost stood up and walked away as two Sentinels came up to the prisoner and led him somewhere.

"Why does Captain want to learn how to use it?" asked Javelin.

"I think I might know why." said Marksman.

Javelin turned and looked at him, including me, my friends and Ghost team.

"He might want to control Phantom." said Marksman.

"What?" replied Javelin.

"Seriously?" asked Hacker.

"Yes." replied Hacker.

"Even if Captain learns how to use how are we going to find her?" I asked.

Marksman just sighed and left us unanswered. I looked at Javelin who had a sad look on her face.

"Does she...no way." I thought.