Hope

Eren's POV

"Once Bertholdt takes out the AA guns, we're going to descend to 2,000 feet but this is going to be sudden drop so hang on." says Erwin

"Check parachute." says Hange

I begin checking my gear, adjusting anything that was off. The plane all of sudden jerks, nearly making me fall off my seat.

"Colossal titan in sight, he's on the drop point all pilots on me dive!" yells the pilot

The plane suddenly shifts down causing all of us to lean over against one another.

"Enemy jet fighters in coming!" yells the pilot

"All Raptors break formation and take out the Russian jets, protect our fellow comrades." says Echo through the headset.

The noise of jets began to increase as they took on the enemy jets. Gunshots and explosions began to ring throughout the air around us.

"4,000 feet!" yells the pilot

We keep descending towards our drop point.

"Russian jet fighters on our tail! Shake them off!" yells the pilot

"Missile lock!" yells the other pilot

Our plane swerves to the left making us all move with it.

"Take them out!" yells Echo

"3,000 feet!" yells the pilot

"Flares! Flares!" yells the pilot

I plane jerks from some kind of impact behind us.

"Bank right!" yells the left

The plane moves to the right making us move with it again.

"2,000 feet! All Spartans pull up!" yells the pilot

The plane stops descending and the ramp starts to lowers. We all get up from our seats and wait for the light to turn green. After a few seconds, the light turn green and we began to jump out of the plane.

The drop point is near the river and looks like no one's there. I pull the parachute and begin to maneuver myself towards the river.

I land next to the river with the others. Other Sentinel units were also landing near us

"Status report." says Ghost

"Scout team all here." replies Ghost

"Delta company all here." replies a Sentinel

"Alpha company all here." replies another Sentinel

"Okay, everyone fall out." says Ghost

I begin to move closer to the enemy lines. We're supposed to flank them from behind since there's no one in the center of this place.

Bertholdt titan was moving towards us, but the sight of it made me want to kill him even more, not just because of Annie but also because of the breaching of Wall Maria.

"Let's recover Bertholdt." says Erwin

The Colossal titan begins to kneel down so that Bertholdt can come out. Once he does the Titan starts steaming and the body immediately disappears, Bertholdt standing where the titan was.

"Good job." says Erwin as he hands him a helmet, headset, gas mask and a gun.

We wait for him to gear up and regain his energy.

"Erwin, we need to move now." says LEvi

We move closer to the enemy frontlines, trying to attack the incoming US rangers. We moved down a hill and stopped and got into position. At least an entire battalion was stationed there, we could barely see the frontline which was around 2 miles deeper into the forest.

"Set up the mortars." says Erwin

I take the mortar out of Jean's bag and help him set him up. There were at least 20 mortars set up behind enemy lines.

"Aim for their ammunitions and trucks." says Levi

"Alpha company, take position at the bottom of the hill." says Ghost through the headset, "Wait for the mortars to finish firing."

A whole company quietly moved down the hill, and while they moved down I didn't hear a single noise while they were moving.

"Alpha company in position." says a Sentinel officer through the headset

Ghost nods to the ones manning the mortars and I put in a round inside the mortar and cover my ears. The mortars launch the rounds landing on the enemies.

Explosions all over the bottom of the hill, the Russians started to run around taking cover and yelling out orders.

We launched around 8 rounds before stopping. Alpha starts advancing into the enemies taking out any remaining Russians.

"Delta company, stay here and man the mortars. And make sure no one comes up from behind us." says Ghost

"Understood." says a Sentinel officer

"The rest of you follow me and back up Alpha Company." says Ghost

We run down the hill to catch up with Alpha Company. The Russians start to understand what was happening and began to shoot back at us.

I was busy shooting that I didn't notice that on top of us was a whole air battle with US jet fighters against the Russian jet fighters. Some of the jet planes began crashing down on both us and the Russians.

"Echo, try bringing the fight somewhere else!" yells Ghost through the headset

"Understood, all Raptors fall back, we'll get them somewhere else" says Echo through the headset

"Break off now! Spread out throughout the camp!" yells Ghost

I continue to move up, and shoot the hostiles shooting back at us.

"Eren, Reiner, Ymir! You can shift!" yells Ghost

"Sir we need covering fire in order to move." Reiner tells Erwin

"Scouts covering fire!" yells Erwin

I run out into the open and ran pass the trucks which had a bunch of Russians hiding behind it. I bite my thumb and shift into my titan form.

Jean's POV

"Keep up with the shifters!" yells Hange

I lean over the truck and shoot at the hostiles who were busy running away from the titans.

"Jean lets move!" yells Levi

I come out from behind the truck and start advancing towards Eren.

"Delta company, have your snipers give us some cover!" yells Ghost through the headset

Marco and I were shoulder to shoulder taking out the hostiles together.

"Jean grenade!" yells Marco

I see a grenade right next to my foot so I quickly kick it away just in time.

"Nice save." says Marco

I smile to him but then bullet hits Marco straight in the neck.

"Marco!"

His eyes grow wide as he collapses into my arms.

"Come on buddy don't fucking do this to me!" I yell, trying to stop the bleeding, "Medic! Medic!" I yell

Mikasa and Kit come over and Kit immediately helps him.

"The bullet went right through, take off his gas mask!" yells Kit

I rip off his gas mask, blood coming out of his mouth. Kit flips him around so that the blood can come out of his mouth.

"This will help him breathe." says Kit, "Don't die on me Marco."

I didn't know what to do, I hold onto his hand tightly as Kit helps him.

"Jean go, I'll take care of him." says Kit

"I can't leave him like this." I reply

"I got him don't worry!" yells Kit, "Go and fight, don't make Marco die for nothing!"

I start crying but Mikasa hugs me from behind and gently picks me up. I slowly let go of Marco's hand and left him.

I start advancing into enemy fire, not caring for my life anymore. I kill a lot more Russians then I normally do as time passes by.

One hostile tries hitting with the butt of his gun but I duck under him and then shove him to the ground, then I start shooting his body endlessly.

"Jean!" yells Mikasa

Mikasa tackles me to the ground, gets on top of me and shakes me.

"Snap out of it!" she yells

I felt emotionless as she shakes me so I just kept shaking my head.

"Marco's dead." I whisper

"You don't know that!" she replies

"Calm down, yes we are here to kill them but that right there was too brutal." says Mikasa

I look at the body, his body torn in the middle from my bullets.

"Jean I need you to focus for me." says Mikasa, "You can get yourself killed if you continue to act like this."

My mind starts to slowly understand the situation that was going on.

'This isn't what Marco would want.'

I nod and she picks me up, we continue to move further into the forest.

"We're pinned down, enemy has a well secured defense bunker here!" yells Hange

"Delta company, fire mortars at the enemy bunkers bearing 12 o'clock!" yells Marksman

Mortar rounds begin landing on the enemy forces and blowing up the bunker.

"Reiner, take the point!" yells Erwin

Reiner walks over us and starts to protect us as we move behind him.

Eren, swings his arm down, destroying trees, enemy's weaponry and other things. Ymir moves swiftly across the forest, slicing them with her sharp finger or grabbing one and throwing them.

That's when some Russians began to drop their weapons or raising a white flag.

"Get on the ground!" yells Mike

"On the ground or I'll force you down." growls Levi

That's when one guy starts to approach us slowly.

"Down!" I yell waving my arm, signaling him to get down.

But then he screams and presses something in his hand, exploding himself and knocking me off my feet sending me a few feet back.

My ears ring, my gas mask broken, my cheeks bleeding from the shattered plastic on my mask. I slowly get on my knees and take off my helmet and mask.

"Jean!" an echo rings quietly through my ears.

I turn to see Mikasa kneel in front of me and check my face.

"Jean are you okay?" she asks me

But all I hear was a faint noise of her yelling, my mind all over the place. My body grows weak as I lean forward and fall into her shoulder.

"Jean wake up!" yells Mikasa

I look around to see the Sentinels killing some of the remaining hostiles who didn't surrender.

"Jean focus!" yells Mikasa

She shakes my shoulders and I finally start to gain focus.

"I-I'm good." I mumble

"Oh god, I'll take care of that wound." says Mikasa

"Marco?" I ask

"I'm sure he's fine." says Mikasa

"Jean, oh god your face." says Connie as he runs towards me

"Is it that bad?" I ask

"No, it's just some small parts of it." replies Connie

Mikasa grabs some bandaids and clean cloth, she uses the cloth to wipe the blood off my face. Then she puts the bandaids on multiple parts of my face.

"There you should be fine." says Mikasa

"Marco, I need to find him." I say

"Don't worry, he'll make it."

I turn to see Kit walking up to me.

"Marco's fine, he just won't be able to eat big things for a couple of days, luckily it didn't get his windpipe and his food pipe so he'll okay." says Kit

I sigh in relief as Mikasa helps me up and gives me a new gas mask.

"Did we win?" asks Connie

"Yes, but we still have a long way to go." says Kit

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Eren's POV

2 hours later

The Sentinels were now moving deeper into the national park. I heard that Marco has a critical injury so he had to stay behind with the wounded.

Right now we were riding on a truck up a mountain to take on more enemy troops nearby.

"There's a blockade here." says the driver

The truck stops and I just wait for the Sentinels to move it out of the way.

"Don't stop, ram through it." says Ghost

"No sir, we can do it, no need to destroy the truck." replies a Sentinel

"Set up a perimeter." said Ghost

We all file out and we all set up a perimeter, protecting the vehicles. I look down the edge of the road and I just see a whole bunch of trees covering the side of the hill leading down to a valley about a 300 feet down.

"Captain I got movement-"

Marksman was cut off by an RPG missile hitting one of our trucks.

"Ambush! Take cover behind the trucks!" yells Ghost

I hid behind a humvee, a Sentinel was on the humvee shooting the mini gun mounted on it. But he gets shot in the head, killing him.

"Fall back!" yells Ghost, "Use the trucks as cover!"

The drivers begin to move the truck back down the road. I start moving with the humvee but an RPG hits the ground right next to me, sending me flying to the edge of the road. I start slipping but Charlie comes in and helps me up.

"Charlie look out!" yells Ghost

Another RPG missile hits the ground near Charlie and we fall down into the trees beneath us.