Heartless

2 days later

Eren's POV

The past two days we've been on missions and we would watch the auditions afterwards. The former Ghost team was now back on the team but the old team has been icky about Recon.

"Well we're down to the finals." said Armin

"Apparently Ghost hasn't smiled once in the entire audition." I said

"Yea even his parents were worried about his emotions." said Armin

"Well I never saw him laugh, it'll be a view to watch that." I replied

"Well, we'll see if the 10 finalists are able to do that." said Armin

We entered the room where everyone in the Ghost team and Scout team was sitting so I took a seat next to Annie.

"The finals will begin." said Ghost

The first guy was the fat guy from before, my favorite. He started to crack some jokes which were ten times funnier than the ones from before. We were all laughing, even Captain Levi was smirking a bit. Phantom and Recon were shaking there because it was funny, Erwin was smiling and Marksman, I couldn't tell because his entire face was covered by a mask except for his right eye. Ghost has a straight face but I couldn't tell if he was smiling because of his mask but I would normally tell if his mask was moving but it wasn't.

"We're supposed to eliminate 2 people since there's 8 underground districts." said Ghost

"Did I make it?" asked the fat man

"We'll see after everyone else goes." said Ghost

The fat man nodded and left the room and another participant came in. He began cracking jokes and all that but it wasn't as funny as the fat guy's joke. There were a lot of good participants so it was hard for me to decide who can perform in the talk show.

For about an hour we've been laughing non stop and I never laughed this hard, I thought I was going to die from laughter. After all the finalists finished up I got up and I was feeling good.

The judges gathered around and began analyzing the scores and the others sat patiently, eager to know who was going to get eliminated.

The judges all nodded and they all sat down and nodded towards Kit who opened and all the ten finalists entered the room.

"Ghost didn't laugh at all." Connie whispered to Jean

Jean sighed and pulled out a 10 dollar bill and handed it to Connie who took it while smirking. Mikasa glared at both of them and they looked away in fear.

"Congratulations, you 10 made it this far." said Ghost, "Unfortunately, 2 of you must be eliminated."

I shifted in my seat, my heart beating really fast, hoping to have at least the fat guy make it in.

"The judges and I have decided that..."

Ghost looked up from his sheet and scanned every single one of the finalists.

"All of you will be part of the talk show." replied Ghost

Every single one of the finalists cheered and did a group hug. I was left dumbfounded until I started clapping and the others joined.

"Now for the places each of you will be performing." said Ghost

The finalists stopped cheering and got back to where they were originally standing.

"Mr Gabriel Iglesias, you'll be performing in this district's underground district." said Ghost

He started laughing in joy and everyone one of us laughed as well. Ghost then tells the other finalists where they were going to talk. Afterwards they shook hands with all the judges and we applauded for them again.

"I'm actually surprised that Lieutenant Ghost did that." said Armin

"Yea caught me off guard." said Eren

Ghost's POV

"Son are you okay?" asked my dad

"Yea, why?" I asked

"You haven't laughed at a single joke any participant made." replied my dad

"They were good." I replied

"Well, I don't know if you were always like this in the past but is there something that happened to you in past that made you like this?" he asked

I stopped what I was doing and looked up at him. My mom also looked worried while Phantom looked a bit uneasy.

"A lot of things happened that made me like this." I said

My dad was about to say something but Phantom stopped him and led him and my mom away.

Phantom's POV

"A lot of things happened to him." I said, "But the biggest thing that changed him was his very first mission."

"First mission? Everyone gets traumatized by their first mission, but I never seen anyone react like Ajax." said my mother in law

"What happened?" asked my father in law

"It wasn't even supposed to be a mission, it was supposed to be a tour." I said, "Ajax, me, Aid and Tessa were the top five cadets in bootcamp. So we were sent on a tour to observe the wall."

We took a seat on a bench.

"When we were suddenly ambushed by 5,000 Chinese men. We only had 50 men with us and more than half of the 20 of them were just recruits who graduated as top 5 in their bootcamp. We were cut off, surrounded on a hill with no reinforcements, no comms, not enough food and ammunition. It was suicide, but we held for about a week. We were hungry, thirsty and hopeless and we couldn't even hold our guns properly. Ajax watched every single one of the 50 die, killed in many different ways. He wasn't scared of death, but his biggest fear was losing people. No matter what he tries to do, he puts his comrades first. He slowly began changing into what he is now and by the last day, he was stabbed, right side of his ribs at least 5 times but they crushed his bones. That's why his right side is his biggest weakest." I continued

"How many men survived?" asked my father in law

"8 people survived and that's how Sentinel Ghost team 116 was created." I replied

I pointed to Gunner, Exploder and Tech as they were training with Juggernaut, Hacker and Bomber in some hand to hand combat.

"Those three survived, Marksman too." I said

"But something makes me feel like there was more to that." said my mother in law

I sighed and fiddled with my thumbs.

"As you may know, Recon was never on our side. She killed Gunner, Exploder and Tech and she took me away to be turned into a titan." I said

"So you're also the reason why he's like that. Because he loved you and didn't want to lose you." said his father in law, "His biggest fear just became his worst nightmare."

I nodded.

"But there was more." I said

"More?" asked my father in law

"Marksman, Aid and Ajax were in an underwater facility. Their main objective was to destroy it but Aid was badly injured and Marksman was ordered to leave early." I said, "The self destruct system broke and one of them had to manually do it. Ajax wanted Aid to leave since he had a family to go back to and Ajax didn't."

"Aid was killed? Then is he a clone?" asked my mother in law

"No, the TMO found his body." I replied

"He's a mutant." said my father in law

"Anyways Ajax tried putting Aid in the escape pod but Aid pushes him into the pod instead and sends him off. According to Marksman, ever since that day he's been more cautious in certain missions." I continued, "If anyone dared to hurt any of us, it sets him off. He doesn't give a shit if we try to stop him, he'll continue to beat that person up."

Both my parents in law looked worried.

"He has two different personalities, one is his normal self like right now. But his other self is like something darker, like a demon." I said, "Even to see him in that phase, he's like a titan shifter who lost control of himself."

"At least he doesn't run his past." said my mother in law

"What do you mean?" I asked

"Stand up." she said

I stood up and out of nowhere she slapped me.

"Owwww wait what was that for?" I asked

"It doesn't matter if it's in the past." replied my mother in law

"Huh?"

"You can either hide from your past, or learn from it." she said

She swung her arm but I caught it unintentionally.

"See." she said

"Oh, that's the first." I said

"I'm sorry for hitting you, it's just a demonstration." apologized my mother in law as she rubbed my cheeks

"It's fine ma'am." I replied while smiling

But then I heard someone call out to me and I saw my dad waving at me.

"Dad? What are you doing out here?" I asked

"Nothing just needed some fresh air and I got lucky since you're one of the commanding officers." replied my dad

"Oh dad, meet Ajax's parents." I quickly introduced

"We met before we talked a lot." smiled my dad

"You raised a great daughter." replied my father in law

"I didn't really do much to raise her." replied my dad

"Ma'am."

I turned around and Javelin was standing there.

"Lieutenant Ghost needs us." said Javelin

"I'll be back." I quickly told my family

I went towards his office with Javelin and inside was just me, Ghost, Javelin, Kit, Aid and Recon.

"We have infiltrators." said Ghost

"How do you know?" I asked

"The auditions were just something to lure them out. There's two infiltrators in the underground district here. They started doing suspicious things and we were able to identify some weapons they were bringing with them." said Ghost

"Who's going to take them down?" asked Recon

"Jean and Mikasa will take on the first one, Eren and Annie will take on the other one." said Ghost, "Bring them in."

Kit radioed them and the four of them entered. Ghost then started briefing them on the two infiltrators.

"We'll be on standby if you need any help." said Ghost

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1 hour later

Jean's POV

We were running after the infiltrator but Mikasa outran him and punched him to the ground. He got and swung his arm towards Mikasa but Mikasa did a back kick and I flipped him over my shoulder and slammed his back onto the ground.

But the infiltrator rolled back and me and Mikasa began to attack, I kicked his head towards Mikasa and she punched his face twice. He fell to the ground but he grabbed a bunch of boxes and threw them at me. But Mikasa blocked his punches and jumped off his knee and got on top of the infiltrator's shoulders and began elbowing his head multiple times. I kicked his legs off and Mikasa then smashed his head to the ground knocking him unconscious.

Mikasa gave me a high five and I smiled as she smiled at me. I quickly handcuffed him and gagged his mouth. Aid and Recon rushed over to us and Aid smiled.

"Good job." said Aid

Eren's POV

I saw the infiltrator and me and Annie began to approach him. He noticed us and he looked worried so he turned around to leave but on the other was Lieutenant Ghost and Phantom.

He frantically looked around at the four of us and then he started looking mad. He ran towards me and Annie and he swung his arm at me but I dodged and punched his face and his face went towards Annie and she kneed it. I pushed kicked him and he stumbled back and Annie punched his face towards me so I uppercut his chin and Annie did a turning round house kick knocking him out.

"Get the MPs to arrest him." said Ghost

We both nodded and I radioed them but then I heard screaming near the main center of the underground district. The four of us rushed over to the main center and I gasped as there was another infiltrator holding Ghost's son with a knife at his throat.

"Anyone moves I'll kill him!" yelled the infiltrator

"Get your dirty hands off of him." growled Phantom

"Mommy help me!" yelled Malvik

"Shut up! I'll kill right now!" yelled the infiltrator

He raised his knife up and brought it down on him but Ghost came out of nowhere and he put his hand up and the knife went through his hand. Ghost kicked the infiltrator away but he pulled Malvik out of his arms and hugged him tightly.

A bunch of MPs came towards us but Ghost pulled the knife out of his hand and began approaching him and the infiltrator got up and tried to punch him but Ghost sliced his wrist in a blink of an eye. He then began to cut parts of his body that were vital like the part where his kidney was located, the back of his knee and parts of his bicep. The infiltrator tried to punch him with his left but he grabbed his arm and stabbed him right below the armpit. The infiltrator fell to the ground but Ghost wasn't finished.

"We have to stop him." said Phantom

I rushed over to Ghost who was punching the infiltrator's face multiple times, blood splattering out. I tried to grab his arm but he pushed me to the ground and continued punching him. Phantom tried to hug him but he grabbed her and flipped her over his back and went back to punching the infiltrator's face.

I saw Ghost's parents run to the scene and his mom gasped at the scene. Aid and Recon came rushing in, grabbed his arms and tried to pull him away but Ghost elbowed Aid's face and flipped Recon onto her back. Ghost punched the infiltrator's face to the ground creating a pool of blood and his face was already punched inwards. He was already dead but Ghost stopped punching his head and stomped on his face and his head exploded, blood splattering all over the floor and surrounding walls.

Ghost slowly relaxed his fingers, his gloves were bloody and dripping blood. Aid rubbed his jaw but he was scared when he saw the infiltrator's body. The rest of Scout team and Ghost team came to the scene but all of them looked scared, Marksman's one eye widened, the former Ghost team members looked scared and Kit was looking away.

I laid there looking at Ghost with wide eyes as he just stared at the dead body. Phantom was taking care of the crying Malvik and Recon was kneeling there and she looked scared as well.