Trap

Eren's POV

"I have a visual on Michael Langston." said Connie

"Move out." said Levi

I get out of the car with my team and approach the entrance of this big ass skyscraper somewhere in Seattle, Oregon. Security guards notice us but I shoved one out of my way and approached Michael Langston with the others.

"Michael Langston?" asked Levi

"Yes, what's going on you need to make a reservation if you want to-"

Recon cuts him off by kicking his stomach so hard he starts throwing up on the floor and gagging. The security guards try to rush at us but we all take out our sidearm and our ID badge and they all stop and just back up.

"I don't care about a meeting or reserving one, cause you're going to have a meeting with us either way." hissed Recon

She nods towards so Mikasa and Annie grab Langston and we take the elevator to his office. Mikasa and Annie push him into the office and we make ourselves comfortable inside.

"We're going to be here for a while if you don't cooperate with us." said Levi as he punches him in the face.

"This is private property you ca-"

Levi punches him again shutting him up.

"You're Stephen Hart right?" asked Recon

Langston's eyes grows wide, proving that we caught him red handed.

"You hired men to be Sentinel and attack Eldia." asked Recon

"Look I'm just a business man who-"

Levi grabs Langston's head and smashes it on his deck.

"Answer the question." growled Levi

"First of all there was no quest-"

Levi starts smashing his head against his table until his nose breaks. Langston cries in pain and grabs his broken and bloody nose.

"Did you?" asked Recon

"Yes I did! But it wasn't my call!" yelled Langston

"Wasn't your call?" asked Armin

"It wasn't okay I was hired to hire people to do it that's how my private and secure bank account has so much money! Fuck!" yelled Langston

"Someone else is behind this?" asked Recon, "Who?"

"I don't know but his fucking name is Demon! He stays anonymous every time he contacts me!" yelled Langston

"Every time? How many fucking people have you killed?" I snapped and lunged him but Bertholdt and Jean holds me back.

"I was only hired twice! Once like 14 years ago on a man name Kairos Kan!" yelled Langston

Sasha spits out her food and Mike snorts a bit in shock.

"You're saying you hired a man to kill Kairos Kan?" asked Recon

Langston looks at each and every one of us in fear but nods.

"Holy shit..." mumbles Jean

"That means he's going to come after him." said Mikasa

"Who? More people are after me?" cried out Langston

"You killed the father of a man who is hunting you down right now, he's not going to stop until he figures our who did this to him. He might have even found out that you were part of this and is coming for you." said Recon

"W-Who?" asked Langston

That's when a knock comes from the door and we all get ready just in case a firefight happens. Someone barges into the room but when he notices us he tries to run away but Moblit grabs him and pulls him back into the room.

"Who are you?" asked the man

"You first." said Moblit

He looks around and I notice a black eye around his right eye.

"Richard Santos?" questioned Langston

"Mr Langston I need to tell you something and it's urgent!" he scrambles to get up, "What happened to you sir?"

"Nothing just tell me why you came here." said Langston

"Sir the man I killed 14 years ago, his son found me!" yelled the man named Richard

Recons kicks his face and he falls down to the floor.

"You're the one who killed Kairos Kan?" asked Recon

"I was hired by him I didn't know he was innocent!" yelled Richard

"Richard did you tell him my name?" asked Langston

"No but I told him Stephen Hart did it, I did as you said!" cried out Richard

"If you're the one who killed Kairos Kan, how are you still alive?" I asked, "The son should have killed you on spot."

"He nearly did, I just come home one day and he barges into my room and starts going crazy. I've never seen anyone go that crazy." replied Richard

"Doesn't matter, Langston you're under arrest for the ordered assault on Eldia." said Levi

"Wait." Recon stops Levi, "I have a better idea."

"What idea?" asked Levi

"Richard tell me, do you know who the son of the man you killed is?" asked Recon

He shook his head.

"Was he wearing a mask with a ghost drawing on it?" asked Recon

"No he was wearing a bandana." replied Richard

"Left eye scar?" asked Recon

"We know who he is and it's certain that it's him why are you asking him these questions?" asked Levi

"Yes he had a left eye scar." replied Richard

"The son who attacked you, he's Captain Ghost of Sentinel." said Recon

Richard gasps and looks at Langston who closes his eye in frustration and regret.

"Well Lieutenant Colonel Ghost but it's still him." said Recon

"Hero of the war? He's the son?" Richard just couldn't believe it

"Yes, but I hate to admit it I want to thank you." said Recon

"What's your fucking idea?" asked Levi

"Let's use him." said Recon

"Langston? For what?" asked Levi

"Let's lure Ghost team. If they found Richard then they must have found Langston too." said Recon, "Langston has a meeting today at the OKO Tower in Russia tomorrow at night."

"You're going to let him kill me?! I rather be in jail!" yelled Langston

"If we we use Langston to lure Ghost team, we'll have two prizes." said Hange

"9 prizes." said Recon, "We'll have Russian patrols in your tower with you so don't worry you'll be secured."

Langston looks at all of us and nods in agreement.

"However," Recon slams her hands on his deck, "If you do anything to escape, I'll have your head hanging in my room."

Langston immediately nods in agreement.

"And you Richard." said Recon, "I don't think you'll have a future."

She pulls out her gun and cocks it as Richard scrambles backwards.

"Wait ma'am if Ghost left him alive there has to be a reason." said Armin

"And that reason is because he's too kind hearted."

Recons shoots Richard in the head killing him instantly. Langston opens his mouth but nothing comes out of his mouth.

"Plus he knows Ghost's identity now." said Recon

I desperately wanted to spare him but I know that maybe, just maybe he's going to kill someone again.

"Mr Langston." said Recon, "Let's cooperate with this and maybe, we'll shorten your sentence."

"That's not your decision to make." snapped Levi

"It's not, but let's just say I'll fight for that." said Recon, "Cause honestly, I'm glad you hired him to kill Kairos Kan."

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7 hours later

Ghost's POV

"Helicopter approaching the tower." said Marksman

"People here are sure having a party." said Juggernaut

I look into my binoculars and see a man get off the helicopter.

"Verification identified, that's our target." said Marksman

"Why is his nose busted?" asked Javelin

I move to the edge of the tower and aim the grappling hook machine with the others. I fire it towards the OKO Tower and we clip our zip line equipments on the string and start to zip line towards the OKO Tower.

"Disengage." I said

I press the button and the grappling hook machines let go of the wire and we began to fall and landed on the window.

"The hostiles inside will not be able to see us that well so don't worry." I said

We descend to 58th floor where the power is located in the building.

"5 hostiles inside." said Kit

"Take them out." I said

We take them out and they drop not knowing their life was going to end. We begin to cut open the window using our window cutters. I kick the glass and it cracks open.

"Colonel check this out." said Marksman

He flips over the body of a dead body and it was a Russian.

"Russian undercover unit." said Marksman

"Did he hire them?" asked Bomber

"Possible, but for now it won't matter." I said

We moved into the power room with a bunch of capable boxes.

"Hacker hack the power onto your phone, we'll take the power out later." I said

Hacker pulls out a cable part and plugs in his phone and starts hacking. About 30 seconds in we hear voices up ahead and shadows approaching us.

"Hacker finish up and hide." I whispered, "The rest of you move into the shadows and hide."

Hacker finishes hacking, unplugs his phone and puts the cable back in. We all hide in the shadow and a group of Russians walk right pass us, laughing and talking about their vacation. Once they pass by we head back to the window and clip back on the rope and started climbing down the tower head first.

"Hacker cut the power." I said

The tower goes from bright to complete darkness.

"Beautiful." said Marksman

"His office is on the 50th floor, check every window before crossing it the hostiles can see us now." I said

I check every window just to make sure I wasn't going to get caught. We came across some hostiles so we too them out before we crossed their window. We got to the 50th floor and started cutting up the window and entered the tower. That's when the light in the towers came back on and the tower became bright again.

"What happened?" I asked

"Must have had a back up generator." said Hacker

"Damn it, move it double time." I said

We begin to sweep the halls and we got to his office. I signal Marksman and he, Bomber, Hacker and Juggernaut rotate to the other side of the office. I kick open the door but his office is empty.

"Marksman?" I asked through my earpiece

"I got him." replied Marksman

The door on the other side bursts open with Marksman dragging a man in a suit, glasses and he had a bandage on his nose. Marksman pushes him into his chair and he looked confused and scared.

"Stephen Hart aka Michael Langston." I said

I punched him in the nose and he screams in pain and his nose starts bleeding again.

"Yes that's me fuck!" yelled Langston

"Why did you hire Richard Santos to kill Kairos Kan?" I asked

"Fuck you!" yelled Langston

"No fuck you!" I yelled back

I grab his collar and threw him across the room. I punched him, kicked him, elbowed him everywhere, blood stained the carpet floor.

"Stop I'll tell you!" yelled Langston

"Why?!" I yelled

"I was hired to hire someone to kill him, someone from the higher ups, someone named Demon!" yelled Langston, "He hired me to hire others too to be part of the US military and they'll get chosen to be part of Sentinel!"

"You're also behind that too?" growled Marksman

That's when the TV behind the desk turned and on the screen was Recon.

"Didn't I say surrender was the only option?" she asked

"Recon, where the fuck are my kids?!" I yelled

"Don't worry they're sleeping well, but not your parents nor Emily dad's." said Recon

"Fuck you, you took it too far now." said Phantom

"Well, that's too bad, you won't get out alive." she leaves the screen and does a cut off signal to someone.

The TV screen turns off but there were multiple explosions and the tower began to shake.

"Recon! You bitch!" yelled Phantom

"Everyone get to the windows!" I yelled

"Wait don't leave me! I don't want to die, I rather rot in jail please!" pleaded Langston

I grabbed him and picked him up.

"I'm not doing this cause I want you to live!" I yelled

We ran out of his office but the floor fell and we fell down to the bottom level where a bunch of Russian soldiers were. We fell and began to slide as the tower began to collapse down.

"Colonel look out!" yelled Javelin

I see a desk sliding straight towards me so I push Langston out of the way and quickly rolled away just in time.

"Sir I see a window!" yelled Kit

"Move it! Juggernaut take Langston!" I yelled

We entered a huge place where there were trees but also a bunch of Russians trying to gain their balance. That's when a huge explosions blows us off our feet. I crash into a Russian soldier and he grabs my neck. But I snap his arm and he lets go but he rips off my dog tag. I kick him towards a room which exploded and a ball of fire swallows him and he was burning. Another explosion and I was sent crashing into a bunch of tables. I see Langston falling so I jump towards him grab him but we kept sliding so I grab my chute and put in on him.

"Pull this ring when you start falling!" I yelled

"What about you?!" he asked

Before I responded another explosion send us falling faster. Langston and I fall out of the window but I grab the window frame just in time. I look down to see the streets with a bunch of civilians running away, in the distance I saw Eren and Annie in titan form protecting civilians from the falling debris. Langston safely used his parachute and began to glide away from the falling debris.

"Ajax!" yelled Phantom

I look up to see Phantom on the opposite window stretching out her arm.

"Reach!" she yelled

I tried reaching but then a body hits me and I lose my grip and began falling towards the streets. That's when I used my grappling hook on my wrist and shot it at the falling tower but the part where there it wasn't falling. However there was fire erupting from inside when I crashed into the building. The ceiling begins to cave in on me so I run towards the staircase and start climbing down the stairs. But on the 3rd floor the stair case was caved in so I got out of the staircase and ran towards a window. The ceiling was caving in so I ran as fast as I could towards the window. I shot the window three times before charging into it and falling onto the streets. Luckily the building wasn't collapsing this way and no one was on the streets.

'I have to find my team.'

I got up and groaned in pain as I approached a car and broke the window and began to hot wire it. I drove to a nearby building where the tower collapsed and I looked for my team until I saw them all on their knees with their hands on their heads.

'Fuck, I need to save them.'

I was about to do something until I saw Russian reinforcements coming.

'Fuck, I swear I'll come back to save you all.'