Just the Beginning

Eren's POV

I'm on the second floor as I see distance explosions where the Lincoln Memorial should be.

"Do you think they brought more titans?" I ask

"Hell yea." replies Reiner

"Are you ready then?" I continue asking

"Nearly, just give me 5 more minutes." says Reiner

"Me too." says Annie

"Imma need 7 minutes." implies Ymir who was taking care of Bertholdt

"We definitely know Bertholdt is out of the equation." I imply

"Yea, but at least we are getting reinforcements from the Rangers." says Reiner

"Hell, they might not do any help." says a soldier who was on duty on this floor

"How come?" I ask

"I was in the Rangers before I got secretly recruited into the Sentinels. The Rangers are great but they aren't as skilled as us and I'm saying this from personal experience." says the soldier

"Then what about the Marines? The Navy Seals?" asks Reiner

"The Marines are a bit better than the Ranger, Navy Seals are way better than the Rangers, but after all, we are still a lot more skilled than any military force, even Delta Force." says another soldier

"What were you before you got recruited to the Sentinels?" I ask him

"Me? I was in the Marines until I tried out for the Navy Seals and got in. Stayed for like 4 months until I got recruited here." continues the soldier

I nod my head from the information and look back out the window to see a missile heading right towards us.

"INCOMING!" yells Reiner

I ran back into the room and jump onto the floor just as the missile hits the House. The impact blows me off a bit and shakes the entire House. My ears are ringing from the sudden loud noise and I didn't have my headsets on at the moment.

I slowly get up while clinging onto my ear, I walk outside to see the whole floor was destroyed like a big hole straight up in the middle of the House. The bodies of the soldiers are gone, completely, all that was left was blood on the walls on some parts of it. I put back on my headset and helmet just in case another missile hits.

"Eren are you okay?!" I hear someone call out to me on the first floor

I look down the hole on the floor and see Captain Ghost on the first floor, looking up at me.

"Yes sir." I reply

"Good, get ready, we got more incoming." replies Ghost

I go back into the room to see Annie picking herself up. Reiner is already up and checking the computers.

"Shit they're attacking the Washington monument!" yells Reiner

"Marksman, give them some covering fire!" yells Ghost

I hear loud gunshots from the roof, sounds like a 50 cal sniper rifle.

I look outside to see flashes of gunshots near the Washington monument.

"We got incoming from the West!" yells Reiner

I look outside to the Sentinels stationed outside began to turn west and fire back at the incoming forces.

I see enemy transport choppers in the air on top of the field. They began to drop ropes down so they can grapple down onto the field. But before they began to send down soldiers, missiles came from the top of the White House and took out the enemy choppers.

"Jean was that you?" I ask

"Yea. Connie too." replies Jean

But there are some soldiers that made it onto the field so I took aim and began to shoot at the incoming soldiers. I changed my gun from a Scar to a G36 with a holo sight and angled fore grip which I like a lot more than the Scar.

After I take out a couple of incoming soldiers, I hear more incoming shots from the east as I see ballistics pass by the House and into the enemies in the west.

"Hey Eren! We got our reinforcements!" yells Reiner

"Friendlies coming in from the east watch your fire." yells a voice through the headset

I see a couple of tanks roll up from the other side of the street with extra soldiers, who are wearing desert camo uniforms, they seem to have different types of weaponry and headgears.

"Friendlies coming inside the White House." says a voice through my headset.

I turn to my right where the staircase is and see a whole bunch of Rangers come up.

"Kids? What are kids doing here?" asks a soldier

"Don't tell me that the so called secret Sentinels uses children to fight for them." laughs a soldier

"Who the fuck are you to talk shit?" I talk back

"Oh look who has the balls to talk to us." says another soldier, "Move kid, we'll show you how things are down."

He moves up to where I am and slightly bumps into my shoulder which ticked me off a bit. The Rangers began setting up their equipments across the what remains of the floor.

"Eren, Reiner, Bertholdt, Annie, Ymir, come down here for a moment." says Ghost

Instead of taking the stairs, I jump through down the floor and land right in front of the entrance. I'm followed by Annie, Reiner, Ymir and Bertholdt who's now fine after resting.

"How much longer?" asks Ghost

"We're all ready sir." I reply

"Okay, Hacker is going to brief you on our next mission." says Hacker

We walk towards Hacker, who's on looking at his forearm screen device.

"Sergeant."

"Oh, hey, so here's what we are going to do next. We are going to make our way towards the west but there's not going to be another set camp or any type of military activity until we get to West Virginia. But the thing is, our military forces that are on the east of the Mississippi River already made it all the to Kentucky. By the time we get to West Virginia, it's going to be occupied by our forces."

"Wait, how was it so easy for you guys to recapture the country so easily?" asks Ymir

"Lucky for us, the Mississippi River wasn't guarded properly so the military was able to catch the enemy by surprise. Apparently the US sent huge numbers to reclaim the US, and the number of casualties are far greater than anything. We also got word that the European countries started attacking Russia, making them want to protect their home country more."

"So what are we going to do after we get to West Virginia?" asks Reiner

"We're going to Canada or Mexico, hasn't been determined." says Hacker

"What about after that?" asks Bertholdt

Hacker looks up from the device on his forearm to us. He even moves the square thing connected to his helmet that's in front of his eye away from him to look at us.

"You guys are going back home." says Hacker

"What?" I ask

"You guys are going home, back to Eldia."

I look at him as if he was joking, but from the look of his eyes, it doesn't look like he's joking in anyway.

"Is that an order?" asks Annie

"No." replies Hacker

"Then I'm going to stay." I say, while frowning at him just a bit

Hacker looks at me then at the others.

"Me too, I'm staying." says Reiner

The others nod in unison. Hacker looks at me, frowning just a bit, then relaxes his face and says, "Well, glad you guys are still in the fight. Get ready to leave in 20."

He pats my shoulder before leaving to join his squad.

"Hey Eren, let's go back up." says Annie

"We'll be with Marlowe and Hitch on the third floor." says Reiner

"Okay." I say

Me and Annie made our way towards the room we were in before. I begin to clean up the computers and putting them into my bag.

"Hey Annie?"

"Yea?"

"After all this, where are you going to live?"

Annie looks at me with her beautiful blue eyes with a small hint of surprise look on her face.

"What do you mean?" asks Annie

"Well, after everything. I'm pretty sure we can all live in peace, but where are going to go? Back home or Eldia?"

Annie continues to look at me with the same expression, she finally looks away and continues packing.

"I don't know about that just yet." says Annie

"Oh okay." I reply

Ghost POV

I'm walking through the ruins of the White House, passing by rooms filled with the wounded, floors covered with bodies in body bags. All of these casualties for our home, none of these sacrifices will be in vain.

I make my way towards Phantom who's just standing outside the White House.

"Doesn't this seem a bit too easy?" asks Phantom

"This is just the beginning."

Phantom nods her head as she continues looking towards the field.

"Captain Ghost." says an old voice.

I turn around to see General Dick Villan make his way towards us.

"We have this district secured, so I advise you to leave as soon as possible towards West Virginia. Some of your Sentinels will be here and leaving two days after you leave." says General Villan

"Understood sir." I reply

Before he turns to leave I stop him.

"Sir, what made you become a general again, last time I remember you were the head camp instructor."

He looks at me with an eyebrow raised.

"This war has been raging for too long, I wanted to help. Do I know from somewhere?"

Phantom slowly pulls down her bandana up to her chin level. General Villan looks at her frowning, then he starts to realize who is standing in front of him.

"Emily Chen." gasps General

"It's been long sir." replies Phantom as she pulls up her bandana to cover her face again

"Wait, then you are..."

"I'm Ajax sir." I reply

General Villan looks at me as if he seen a monster or something.

"My top ten cadets 3 years ago, then, where's Malvik and Tessa?" asks Villan

"Tessa was actually a Russian spy sir." I reply

"What? How?" he asks

"She was Russian born assassin sir." implies Phantom

"Then what Malvik?"

I look down at the floor so Phantom replies instead,

"He didn't make it sir."

General Villan nodded his head in grief and sighed.

"Captain we're ready. 8 BTRs are on standby." says Kit who comes up to me

"Understood. Kit, this is General Villan, he was our head camp instructor." I tell Kit

"Who's he?" asks General Villan

"Sir, this is Sergeant Kit, Malvik's younger brother." I tell him

"Oh really? Nice to meet you young man, your brother was a great man." says General Villan, shaking hands with Kit

"Thank you sir." says Kit

"Sir, it was good seeing you, I hope we see each other once again." I say

"Me too, good luck Captain." replies General

I shook hands with him before leaving and getting into a BTR.

"This is Captain Ghost, we move out to West Virginia, no stops, sit back and enjoy the ride."

Eren's POV

I sat in the BTR with Annie, Mikasa, Jean, Armin, Marco, Connie and Sasha.

The seats are pretty close to each other so there is no room for us to stretch our legs.

"How long is the ride?" asks Connie

"I heard that it was going to be 6 hours long." replies Marco'

"Why can't we just take humvees?" I ask

"That's for the next batch of Sentinels who are staying behind." replies Armin, "And plus we have more protection."

"Yea but there's a fucking horse sitting here." I reply chuckling

"Hahaha, really funny Eren." says Jean

"I'm way too fucking tired for any of this shit." says Connie, "I'm going to take a nap, wake me up before if anything interesting happens.

"Wait before you go to sleep, I forgot to tell you guys something." I say, "When Hacker was briefing me and the other shifters about our next plan, I ask him where we are going to go next after Canada or Mexico, he says we can go home."

"What, like back on the island?" asks Armin

"No Armin, where else is our home." says Jean sarcastically

"Is it a choice?" asks Sasha

"It's a choice." I reply

"Then I'm staying." says Jean

"Hell yea, I'm not letting the Russians get away with this." says Connie

"Well, I guess everyone made a decision." I say

Annie pulls out her mre to eat but Sasha starts to drool her way towards Annie.

"Sasha, calm down, you have one." says Mikasa

"Oh yea, you're right." laughs Sasha.

"We're moving out!" yells the driver, "Enjoy the ride!"