Sacrifice

Eren's POV

We walked into our room and turned on the lights, revealing a room filled with gear and weapons.

"Suit up." said Levi

We gathered around the long table and began gearing up. I grabbed an ACR with a holo sight and grabbed 8 mags and set it on the table. I unlocked my locker and pulled out my vest and other body armor. I put my vest on and began to wrap the metal arm gears and leg gears onto me. I put on my forearm hologram watch and went back to the table. I grabbed some bullets and began to fill up my mags with them, I put one mag inside my gun and put the rest into my vest.

The table was covered with guns and other weapons as my team was gearing up. I grabbed my pistol and cocked it and put it into my holster, I also grabbed my knife and put it into my scabbard on the side of my thigh.

"Everyone ready?" asked Levi

We all nodded so I put on my helmet with the others and left the room. We gathered with the other Scouts and Marines. Sentinel already left an hour ago so we all began walking towards the aircraft carriers.

Once we got to the aircraft carriers we waited in formation just right behind it and waited for the other units to come. But then I noticed civilians outside of the underground districts, watching us.

"Oi Scouts take back our world!" yelled a civilian

"Good luck!" yelled another civilian

Other civilians began cheering and waving to us. My eyes widened a bit from surprise but I felt a bit of comfort in my heart.

"The future of humanity is in your hands!" yelled more civilians

"Damn they're so rowdy." said Levi

"When was the last time Scouts got a send off?" asked a Scout

"I don't think we ever got one." replied another Scout

Erwin looked at the civilians and sighed.

"As far as I'm aware, this is the first." said Erwin

He smiled a bit and shot his arm into the air and screamed. The civilians cheered after and Erwin screamed once more and the civilians cheered. Captain Levi looked at him like it was his first time seeing Erwin do that but the Scouts also cheered and shouted into the air.

"The final operation to take back earth, shall commence!" yelled Erwin

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6 hours later

The Boeing jerked a bit and I woke up from my sleep.

"Fuck..." I groaned

"Stop trying to sleep, you're scared." said Annie

"I know." I replied

It's the eighth time I woke up since I couldn't sleep. My hands were trembling and my legs were shaking from being anxious.

I checked my hologram watch and we had 15 minutes left before arriving. Colonel brought the entire remains of Sentinel which was about 290 Sentinels and Erwin brought 200 marines and 150 scouts, 75 of them volunteered to be part of Erwin's charge.

"Why aren't we bringing the entire army?" asked Jean

"We may never know what might happen." said Armin, "We have the remaining army ready on standby."

I looked up in front of me and Armin smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up, I smiled and gave him a thumbs up as well.

There were 100 soldiers in one boeing so we decided to land a mile away from the fortress so that we don't get bombarded with their cannons.

"We're setting camp there." said Connie

I nodded and sighed but I looked over to Captain Levi. He had that same look on his face when we lost Moblit, the sad but calm face.

"10 minutes until we land." said Erwin

We were the last batch of soldiers to leave, so the camp should be all ready and set. I checked my gear and I pat Annie on the shoulder to comfort her. Jean sighs and cocks his gun and gently hits himself on the chest to relax himself and gives Connie a fit bump.

"I pray we make it out alive." said Bertholdt

I pulled out my necklace of the key and sighed.

'I'll protect the people.'

The plane jerked and I felt the plane descend, as it touched the ground the plane jerked and slowed down.

We all took off our seat belt and got out, my legs a bit weak from the ride. I looked around and were in the middle of a fucking dried out desert, but the camp was already set and ready. I quickly stretched my legs and jogged towards my position with my team.

Kit and Javelin were setting up something but I had to move to my position before leaving it. Floch was there and he waved towards us so we approached him.

"Where's Lieutenant Colonel Ghost?" I asked

"He's taking a look at the fortress with Sergeant Major Phantom and Captain Marksman.

"Oh you guys are here."

Tech, Gunner and Exploder were both here and they were smiling at us.

"Are you guys ready?" asked Tech

"Honestly, I'm worried." I said, "Not just of dying, but the outcome."

"I hate it as much as you guys but it's the reality." said Gunner

"I know, I know." I replied

Ghost's POV

"They're an alert." said Marksman

"Get ready, we're launching this operation in 10 minutes." I said, "We have artillery guns stationed as well, that'll help us."

"Erwin isn't going to make it." said Phantom

"I know, but it's something he chose to do." I said

I looked at my watch and Recon had already started attacking Australia and took half of it.

"Recon's doing well." said Marksman

"Since when did you compliment her? She made you lose your left eye." said Phantom

"She knows I'm a righty, she purposely took out my left eye." said Marksman

"But you also know how to shoot with you left." said Phantom

"I can still shoot." said Marksman, "And plus it's not like I fully forgave her."

I sighed and my parents also joined us.

"How's it going?" asked my dad

He looked into the binoculars and he sighed.

"Security is definitely tighter than usual. Ares and Timothy is probably there." he said

"Timothy..." growled my mom

"Ares..." growled Phantom

"Ares is probably going to have every hallway rigged up." I said, "We're going to have to be careful."

"Are the ATV's ready?" I asked

"Yes sir, the Boeings and the drones are also ready and on standby." replied Marksman

"Then let's go." I said

Eren's POV

I clipped the rocket missile launcher onto my shoulder and Connie cocked his shotgun and put it onto his back.

"Erwin's getting ready." said Connie

I looked over and saw Erwin saying his farewell to Levi, Nanaba, Mike and Hange.

"Shouldn't we say our parting words as well?" asked Jean

I nodded and we approached them.

"Commander." I called out

Erwin turned to look at us and smiled.

"It was an honor fighting besides all of you." I said

"The honor was mine." he said

I didn't have anything else to say, after all it was hard for me to say something to someone I knew was going to be gone.

"I'll see all of you on the other side." he said

And with that we all saluted not just to Commander Erwin but also towards the brave 75 scouts who volunteered to take down the wall with Erwin. They all saluted back and Sentinel stopped what they were doing and they also saluted to the Scouts, Lieutenant Colonel Ghost sighed and approached Erwin.

"I wish it didn't have to end this way." said Ghost

Erwin understood but stuck at his arm and Ghost shook his hand.

"Take care Colonel." he said

And with that the Scouts got on the ATVs and drove off with the drones flying above us.

"Let's get ready!" yelled Hange

I got on a Starfield X4 and we drove off towards the fortress. We all stopped and got off 0.1 mile away from the fortress but Erwin and the scouts were driving straight towards the fortress. The drones started firing their missiles towards the fortress but most of them were shot out of the sky.

The cannons and the walls began firing but our artillery guns began firing and those made impact with some of the cannons, destroying them or immobilizing them. Some of our ATVs were blown up as they were approaching them but then I saw something that made the plan fuck up. A lightning bolt hit the ground in front of the wall and a Colossal titan appeared.

"What the fuck..." I gasped

But Jean didn't seem concerned.

"One Colossal won't do anything if they can't guard their sides." said Jean

But then there were two more lightning bolts and two more Colossal titans appeared, guarding the wide open areas of the wall.

"Oh fuck me..." groaned Annie

"Marksman, Sasha take out their eyes." said Ghost, "Hacker, notify the artillery squad to take out their legs."

Sasha and Marksman took up positions and Marksman began firing with Sasha. I looked at the titans and they began stumbling back and were blindly waving their arms. Drones began firing their missiles at the titans' legs making them stumble back into the wall but it didn't break it, artillery rounds also began firing off and it took out the titans.

"Erwin's closing in." said Marksman

Hange slowly began to tear up but she shook her head.

"Hange, thank you." said Erwin through my headset

Hange sharply inhaled and just as a tear rolled down her cheek, the wall exploded, big enough that the entire wall crumpled down.

"Boeings moving in now." said a voice through my headset

Multiple boeings flew above me, close to the ground and began dropping tanks and Commandos onto the field. One boeing shot down and it crashed onto the field but the tanks inside safely made it out.

"Let's move!" yelled Hange

I got back in my car and drove off behind the tanks as they drove as fast as they could go. The tanks began firing at the remaining canons that were firing at us. Once we got close to the wall, I noticed that the three Colossal titans were still alive so the tanks began firing their napes, killing them.

Once we got inside the walls, Jean started shooting the generator with the mounted machine gun and it exploded. I got out of the car and moved to cover as the remains of the TMOs began firing upon us. Titans were all destroyed in the explosions which made our jobs easier.

The Eldian Marines began to push forward into the garage and we began to move into the facility. Ghost kicked open the doors and there were a bunch of scientists inside but they began picking up weapons so we all opened fire upon them.

"Shit!" cursed Javelin

"What the fuck? What the hell were they thinking?" asked Exploder

"Colonel! I got something!" yelled Armin, "The Pillar, we don't have to destroy it."

"We weren't planning on destroying it." said Ghost

"But if we had no choice, destroying it was the only option." replied Armin, "Anyways, all we have to do is to destroy the top part of the pillar, we can find a replacement and from there we launch the cure."

"Find the replacement. All Sentinel Units, I'm sending a diagram of a replacement to your watches, if found bring it!" said Ghost

We continued moving through the hallways but most of the corners were rigged so we tried finding a different route.

"Scout team, break off it'll be faster if we split into two." said Ghost

"Good luck sir." said Mike

"Stay alive." he replied

Scout team parted into squads and Zeke patted my shoulder once he left me, Annie, Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Connie and Sasha.

The grenade dropped under my feet so I quickly kicked it away just in time and it exploded away from us. I turned the corner and shot a few TMOs who were running and kicked open a door.

Inside was a bunch of weapons, it looked like an armory so we left and headed down the hallway. But then we ran into a bunch of TMOs so I kicked one and we started firing at them killing them all. But one of them tackled Jean to the floor but Jean flipped him over and pulled out his pistol and shot him.

We continued down the hallway but I got to this room where it was empty, a huge empty room with nothing but grey metal walls.

"Nothing, let's go." I said

But once I was about to leave, some wall came down on me so I quickly jumped back just in time before getting crushed. Annie was also with me in the room but the wall blocked our entrance, I tried pushing it but it didn't budge.

"Eren Annie!" yelled Mikasa

I was about to respond but I heard clapping behind me and when I turned around I saw Ares who was standing there smiling, seeing him made my blood boil hot but Annie was shaking.

"Well well well, if it isn't my favorite couple." laughed Ares

I shot my gun at him, hitting his head but he stumbled back and his wound healed.

"Annie calm down." I said

Annie nodded and took a deep breath and sighed.

"Mikasa, go on without us." she said through her earpiece

"What what do you-"

I took off my helmet and dropped it onto the floor, unclipped the rocket missile launcher from my shoulder as Annie also took off her earpiece and her hat and we began to surround him.

"Let's see how good you are at fighting." said Ares