Assassin

Annie's POV

I had to carry Armin back to my place, luckily I still worked out so it was easy to carry him. I helped him get into the bed with me and I got changed and laid on the bed next to him. I looked at his sleeping face and I slightly blushed but then suddenly Eren's face was replaced with Armin's and I closed my eyes in fear.

'Eren, are you mad?'

I slowly opened my eyes only to see Armin just sleeping.

'I hope you understand Eren.'

I cuddled with Armin and slowly drifted off to sleep.

'I'm sorry Eren.'

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I felt a chill run through my spine causing me to wake up but I saw a shadow of a human figure loom over me. I gasped and sat up to see a man holding a knife in his hand. He tried to stab me but I grabbed his wrist and kicked his stomach. He stumbled back against the wall and looked up at me. The moonlight shined through the window revealing who the man was.

He had some kind of gas mask, but it covered his entire face but there was no filter. It was just a complete plastic lens that wasn't a see through lens so I couldn't see his face. He was wearing a windbreaker hoodie, the hood over his head, a vest with military gear. He was wearing all black and he looked dangerous.

"Who are you?" I growled

He doesn't respond, instead he lunges towards me and swings his knife. I duck back and kick his leg but he withstands it and kicks my head. I blocked it but his kick was so strong I crashed into some furniture.

"Annie!" I heard Armin yell

The man pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Armin and shot him in the chest. Armin fell onto the ground and cried out in pain.

"Armin!" I gasped

I quickly pulled a drawer and took out my handgun and started shooting him but he ran out and crashed through the window. I grabbed my hoodie, sweatpants and sneakers and put them on.

"Armin are you okay?" I asked

"I'm fine, who was he?" asked Armin

"I don't know, I'll go after him, you call Captain Levi." I said

"Be careful." he said

"I will." I replied

I jumped out of the broken window and landed on the streets where a bunch of confused civilians were looking at the man. I ran after him as fast as I could but this man was just as fast as I was. He jumped over cars and people like they were nothing.

'Who is this guy?'

He turned into an alleyway so I ran towards it, but just as I was about to enter the alleyway I jumped back as the man drove a motorcycle out of the alley and onto the street.

'Shit I can't lose him.'

I ran up to a man who had a motorcycle and kicked him off.

"Hey!" he shouted but I drove off after him

I drove on the sidewalk while he drove on the street. He began firing his handgun at me but he missed and hit some civilians. I wanted to shoot back but there were too many civilians in the way. He drove out of Shiganshina and on a deserted road towards the beach.

'He's trying to get off this island.'

I had a clear shot on him so I shot his tire and his motorcycle began to swerve around and he fell off of it. He tumbled on the ground and stayed on the ground for a while. I stopped my motorcycle and approached him while pointing my gun at him.

"Who are you?" I asked

But before he responded a bunch of humvees pulled up and Scouts began to pour out.

"Annie!" called out Armin

Armin ran up to me and checked me.

"Are you okay?" he asked

"I'm fine." I replied

"Oi brat, put your hands in the air." called out Levi

The man with the gas mask slowly stood up and looked around. He was surrounded, every single Scout here had their weapons pointed at him, ready to kill him if he does anything stupid. The man slowly raised his arms up but then he looked at me.

'Why is he looking at me?'

That's when a lightning bolt hit the man and there was an explosion throwing us all off our feet. I crashed into a humvee and fell on the ground and I groaned in pain. I looked up and I gasped when I saw a titan standing there, no not just any titan, Eren's titan. He roars into the sky really loudly, hurting my ears.

"E-Eren?" I questioned

It looked like Eren's titan but this one was different, he had no skin it was just muscles.

"What the fuck..." gasped Levi

I quickly shifted into my titan form as well and lunged towards the titan who looked like Eren. The titan hardened his hands just like Eren and punched me but I leaned back and hardened my heel before doing a spinning hook kick hitting his jaw. He stumbles back and I run up to him and try to push kick him but he grabs my leg and kicks my other leg. I fell on the ground and he got on top of me and tried to punch me but I dodged it and pulled myself out and kicked him away from me.

I ran towards him but suddenly crystallized spikes shot out of the ground, impaling me and immobilizing me. I tried to get out but the titan approached me and created a hammer. He brought the hammer above his head and swung down but Captain Levi swung in with his ODM gear and sliced off his arms. I hardened my fingers and broke the spike and pulled it out. Captain Levi shot multiple thunder spears at him but the titan was fast and he was able to dodge it.

I ran up to him and tackled him to the ground and began pounding his face but suddenly his body erupted into steam covering his body. I backed up a bit and my eyes widened and all that was left was his titan corpse on the road. I looked around for him but I couldn't find him so I grabbed the remains of his titan and pushed it away, revealing an open manhole underneath the titan.

"Go after him!" yelled Levi

A squad of Scouts went down the manhole as I came out of my titan form.

"Who was that guy? Why did he look like Eren?" I asked

"Oi calm down, we don't know either. Let's take this up with the others." said Levi

But then he looked at me then at Armin.

"Why were you two together?" asked Levi

Armin and I looked at each other then he looked away blushing.

"Don't tell me..." whispered Levi

"No it's nothing Captain, meet me back at HQ when you're done." babbled Armin

Armin nodded to me so I left with him, leaving Levi to stand there with an eyebrow raised.

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2 hours later

Annie's POV

"Is everyone here?" asked Armin

"Yea, why did you ask us to come in so early in the morning?" asked Connie, "And why everyone?"

"We have something to tell you." said Armin, "I think Eren's alive."

Connie spit out his water, Jean fell off his chair, Mikasa's eyes widened, Reiner looked horrified, Ymir looked pissed, Sasha choked on her potato, Historia covered her mouth, Pieck who looked really tired was now fully awake. Hannes, who was in the room with us, dropped his beer bottle, Mike and Nanaba just looked lost and Levi just stood there with his arms crossed.

"W-what?" whispered Mikasa

"Armin, you smell like beer. Are you sure you're not-"

"I'm not drunk." said Armin

"Hey Armin, you sure you're not-"

"Oi brats, Armin's talking." snapped Levi

Levi turned on the screen showing a CCTV camera picture of the man with the gas mask on the motorcycle.

"Armin called the Scouts 4 hours ago saying that this man tried to kill Annie." said Levi

"Wait stop right there. Armin you were with Annie?" questioned Connie

"That's not important." snapped Levi, "Annie pursued him but when we cornered him, he shifted."

He then switched the picture on the screen showing the man's titan form. Everyone in the room was silent when they saw the picture.

"We're not sure if he's really Eren because his titan form looks different but here are two things that makes me think it's Eren." said Armin, "One, just the way he looks and two he had the warhammer titan powers as well."

"But we killed Eren, Annie literally beheaded him." said Jean

"I know." replied Armin

"But if this isn't Eren, he still needs him in order to get his titan powers." said Mikasa

"Exactly, so right now we just need to figure out who this man is." said Armin

"But how did he turn into a titan? He didn't bite anything." said Sasha

"He might have bit his tongue." said Pieck

"I called Lieutenant Colonel Kit, he'll probably give us a call back any moment." said Armin

And that's when Kit's face appeared on another TV screen and behind was the rest of Ghost team 117.

"Sorry I took long to reach out back to you." said Kit

"It's okay but here are pictures the CCTV cameras took." said Armin

He begins playing the video, starting from the part where the man crashes out through the window and then me following him. But then it also caught Armin looking out the window and everyone looked at me, even Ghost team 117.

"Hold the fuck up, wait just a minute." said Reiner, "Is that Armin?"

I began to sweat a bit and Armin looked a bit disturbed.

"That's clearly Armin, why-"

"Continue the video." said Ajax, cutting off Jean

Armin continued the video to show us the footage of me chasing after the man until we went to the street where he shifted.

"His eyes are brown, Eren's eyes are green." said Mikasa

"Is there a way to change titan eye color, like contacts?" asked Kit

"I don't think so." replied Armin

"Wait, pause that." said Ajax

Armin paused the video.

"Slowly roll it back." said Ajax

Armin slowly rolled it back.

"Stop, right there, zoom into his hand." said Ajax

Armin zoomed into his hand when the man raised his arm to surrender but the picture was blurry so Armin made it clear and my eyes widened.

"Hey, isn't that..." whispered Pieck

"That's your ring Annie." said Mikasa

On the man's pointer finger, was my ring.

"I gave that ring to Eren, 7 years ago." I said

"Hey just cause he has that ring doesn't mean that's Eren." said Nanaba, "It could just be some kind of coincidence, that ring comes in handy."

"So that's how he shifted." said Levi

"Did you get him?" asked Kit

"No, we lost him in the sewer system." said Armin, "We couldn't get anything after that."

"I can't seem to find his whereabouts." said Kit, "Seems like this is his first time doing this."

"It won't take you long to find him right?" Armin

"Can't guarantee that we'll find him but we'll try to give you our support. But for now our main focus is the HCLI." said Kit

"We're finally going to take them down?" asked Jean

Kit nodded in response.

"We'll do our best to find this guy." said Armin

Kit nodded and the transmission ended and we sat there in silence.

"Okay but are we going to pretend that Armin was just at Annie's house?" asked Connie

Now everyone's attention was on me.

"Since when?" asked Mikasa

"Huh?" I questioned

"Since when were you two, you know?" asked Mikasa

"It's not like that." I sighed

"Then why was Armin at your place?" asked Jean, "Armin are you really going to leave us confused?"

"I'm telling you it's nothing." said Armin while being all flustered

"Oi forget it, that's not important. Just find out whoever's behind that." said Levi as he pointed at the screen showing the man in the gas mask.