Auditions

Ghost's POV

I set three warm teas as the former Ghost team members took a seat around the table.

"Wait wait, so the war is over but why are we in this shit hole?" asked Gunner

"That's what I'm saying." said Aid, "I wake up to this as well."

"You died? So are you a clone?" asked Tech

"No they found my body while I barely had life in me and they made me a mutant." said Aid

"You know that your girlfriend killed us right?" asked Exploder

Aid looked a bit uneasy.

"She's not my girlfriend." said Aid

"Good, she's a fucking traitor." said Tech

"She's my wife." said Aid

Tech fell off his chair, Gunner spit out his tea and Exploder's head fell off when his arm slipped off the table.

I nodded to Bomber and he left the room and brought Recon in and the three of them looked at her in surprise.

"You forgave her?" asked Gunner

"It's been 8 years since then." I said

"Wait hold on, we've been dead for 8 years and we're clones. Great my life is getting more interesting." sarcastically said Tech

"I was also attacked by Recon and turned into a titan." said Phantom

"What's a titan?" asked Tech

"Huge naked humans that eat humans." said Marksman

"Since when was that a thing?" asked Gunner

"A year after you three were killed we were attacked by Russian undercover agents and they turned into titans. So we had to do some research and figured out that Madagascar was never an actual country." I said, "It was just an experiment for an organization called NHEO that failed. So their leader Mr Anderson, former president of America ordered my parents to kill them and he started an organization called TMO and we're at war with them."

"Ah shit, well we're in deep shit." said Gunner

Someone knocked on the door and Kit came in and saluted.

"Colonel the report." he said as he handed me a piece of paper

"Good." I replied

I noticed Gunner, Tech and Exploder look at me with an eyebrow raised.

"Colonel?" questioned Tech

"He's a Lieutenant Colonel." said Aid

"Oh shit." whispered Tech

"Since when?" asked Gunner

"Ever since the war ended." I replied

"Shitttt...." whispered Tech

"If there's no other questions, Recon wants to explain why she killed you three." I said

"I don't want to be in a room with her." said Gunner

"It's not an option." I replied, "Aid be in here with her."

The rest left the room and I looked through the papers.

"How's Juggernaut and Hacker doing?" I asked

"They're both waiting patiently for their suspension release." replied Kit

I nodded and sighed.

"Bomber, Kit and Javelin guard the door." I said, "If shit breaks out, you're going to need more than 4 people to hold her down."

The three of them nodded and left me, Phantom and Marksman alone.

"Marksman, muster the men. Make sure none of them are going crazy like Juggernaut and Hacker." I said, "And get that eye checked up."

"I'm fine don't worry." he said

He's been wearing a mask where it covered his missing eye so the mask only had one eye hole on it.

"Just check it up just in case." I said

He nodded and left.

"Phantom make sure my parents and kids are doing fine." I said

"Why aren't you taking care of your parents?" asked Phantom

"I will, after I take the names of the ones who died in battle today." I replied

She nodded and we walked to the underground district and I made my way towards the body bags of Sentinels.

'9 dead from the colossal. More than half of them are unrecognizable.'

I approached the body bags and a group of Sentinels were there, sitting there mourning the dead. Once they saw me they got up, wiped their tears and saluted.

"Take a break, after this bury them." I said

"Yes sir." they sadly replied

Their dogs tags were on the zippers so I quickly wrote down their names and sighed.

"You all died honorably, your deaths shall not be in vain." I said, "Peace to the fallen."

"Peace to the fallen." whispered the other Sentinels

"Go and bury them, there's newly made coffins with extra American flags." I said

"Colonel permission to speak." said a Sentinel

"Granted." I replied

"Is it okay if my friend holds onto the Sentinel flag while he's resting in the coffin?" he asked, "It's the promise I made with him."

He began crying and he tried to wipe them away but they just kept coming out.

"No." I replied

He looked up at me in confusion.

"Have him hold both the Sentinel and American flag." I said, "He did both an honor."

He started bawling and the others started crying as well.

"If the others wish to do that as well then you're free to do so." I said

They all saluted as I left and headed towards my family.

"How many?" asked Phantom

"Nine." I replied

Phantom sighed and nodded.

"Peace to the fallen." said Phantom

"Daddy!" yelled Malvik

"Hey." I replied as he hugged my leg

"Daddy when will I be able to go outside again?" he asked

"Soon, very soon." I replied

I patted his head and my mom was helping Emma take her first few steps. I looked around and I saw so many depressed, suffering, boring faces on every single civilian.

"These people are not doing so well." I said

"What do we do then?" asked Phantom

"Normally, I would say entertainment." I said

"But who's going to do that?" asked Phantom

I shrugged but then I remembered something.

"Kit and Aid can sing." I said

Phantom had the depressed kind of look on her face making me wonder if my idea was boring.

"Is there something wrong with that?" I asked

"I mean I don't know what to say to that." she replied, "Would every soldier want to hear it too and I mean there are other ground districts."

I thought about it and came up with an idea.

"Radio." I said

"You really suck when it comes to entertaining." sighed Phantom

"Ah sorry." I replied

"Daddy I want to play." pleaded Malvik

I picked him up and put him on my shoulders and walked towards my parents.

"Dad what's the best way to entertain the civilians?" I asked

My dad thought about it but my mom seemed to have an idea.

"Probably a talk show would be the best." said my mom

"Talk show?" questioned Phantom

"Those used to be a thing in the military back then." said my dad, "You should give it a try."

I thought about it and nodded.

Eren's POV

"A talk show?" questioned Jean

"That could lighten the mood for the civilians." said Armin

"Do you really think that would work?" I asked

"I've watched a couple comedic talk shows in the past and they really lighten up the mood." replied Armin

"But this is only for the civilians right?" asked Annie

"Yea." replied Armin

We began setting up tables in the underground district and people were gathering around in confusion.

"Evening, these are our orders from the commanders. Since most of the civilians here are feeling down we decided to host a talk show for all of you." I said through the megaphone

The civilians started chattering and their facial expressions brightened a bit.

"If there are any comedians who are willing to do this, please come up in a single file line to sign up for auditions." I continued

A lot of people started coming out and stood in a single file line. Me, Jean, Armin and Connie were the ones writing down the names for those who were going to sign up.

"Wait who's the judge for the auditions?" I asked

Everyone shrugged but then Bertholdt came running.

"You guys won't believe this." said Bertholdt, "I know who the judges are."

"Who is it?" asked Annie

"Commanders of Sentinel." said Bertholdt, "Whoever could make Lieutenant Colonel Ghost, Major Phantom, Captain Marksman, Commander Recon, Major Aid, Commander Erwin, Captain Levi, Section Commander Hange, and Mike laugh they win."

We all groaned in disbelief.

"Oh with the Queen." said Bertholdt, "We also have permission to watch."

I nodded and we continued writing down the names for the civilians who wanted to audition.

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2 days later

"I'm so tired from the recon missions, I'm really looking forward to the auditions." I sighed

"Let's hope it's good." said Annie

We entered a room in the castle that was brightly lit, windows were open allowing the sunlight to enter and shine the room. The judges were sitting down in 2 long tables with Historia in the middle of the second table.

"Why is Historia in the back?" I asked

"Security measures." replied Armin

There were rows of chairs for us and Ghost's parents were already sitting there so I took a seat in the middle of the second row with Annie and waited.

"There's 200 participants in this audition. Each underground district will have a talk show." said Ghost

'We're holding multiple talk shows at once?'

"Let the auditions begin." said Ghost

He nodded to Kit and he opened the door and let in two middle aged men.

"Name." said Ghost

"Jeffrey Thomson."

"Sean Lin."

"You have 10 minutes. Begin." said Ghost

Literally once they begin we all start laughing, even Mikasa and Annie. But when I looked at the judges, the only ones laughing were Historia, Aid and Hange. After about 10 minutes another participant entered and with the same results, none of Sentinel laughed. We were down to 10 participants with 190 left.

"Break." said Ghost

I got up and stretched my legs, I've been sitting there for over an hour and we still have a day to do this.

"Those were really funny." laughed Connie

"I never felt relieved." said Historia

Ghost, Recon and Erwin were gathering scores and all that while Phantom was talking to Ghost's parents.

"I wonder if one will actually get Ghost to laugh." said Armin

"Who knows, we have 190 participants left." said Sasha

"Everyone's humor is funny, but I'm surprised a lot of people can speak English fluently." said Armin

"Why is that a surprise?" asked Mikasa

"I don't know, I guess it just is." said Armin

Ghost, Recon and Erwin finished and got up.

"We'll do another 20 and that'll be it for the day." said Ghost, "We'll continue tomorrow."

"Sir, permission to make a suggestion." said Armin

"What is it?" he asked

"Can't we have three auditions to make it easier?" asked Armin

"That's what we're going to do." said Ghost, "Queen Historia, Commander Erwin, Section Commander Hange and Captain Levi will be judges for one room. Aid and Recon will be judges for another room. And me, Phantom and Marksman will be the other."

I liked that better so we nodded.

"After that, we'll have finals here and every judge will be in one room together." said Ghost

After a ten minute break we broke into separate groups and we could sit in any room so I sat with my country, Ghost team sat with Ghost team and some Bounty Hunter officers came in to be audience for Recon and Aid.

"Let's continue the auditions." said Erwin

The participants were actually pretty talented when it came to humor. Some weren't as funny as others, but one participant was boring that I nearly fell asleep in those ten minutes.

Hange had to leave early for something Armin took her spot since he has the potential of becoming a commander.

"That's it for today, good work everyone." said Historia

We all got up and left the room in a good mood.

"I love the fat guy's jokes." I said

"Yea, his was so funny." said Connie

"Armin who's the winner out of those 20?" I asked

"The fat man and the women with a missing arm." said Armin

"I see." I replied

"Let's just hope that the civilians like it." said Jean

"Erwin looked pretty impressed. Levi is just the same." said Connie

"And is there a problem with that brat?" someone snapped from behind Connie

I turned around and Captain Levi was there.

"No sir, sorry sir." quickly apologized Connie

"Clean up the barracks." snapped Levi

Without hesitation Connie blasted off towards the barracks.

"Let's hope we can lighten up the mood for the civilians down there." I said

"The civilians will, don't worry." said Annie

"We still have a long way to go." I said