Back at Orvud


With that being said Eren took Ymir's blessing and she pressed a hand on the coordinate, which glowed briefly but brightly, and although the light was still shining as always, a opening had opened at the base of it, in which, Eren walked into.


Orvud District: half an hour before Rod's Arrival

Afterwards, when he opened his eyes, Eren realised he was in an alley, actually the same one where the 3 kids had stood, watching him, Mikasa, Armin and the other soldiers on the Wall from the ground.

"So... it worked! I'm back!" Eren thought to himself, as he jogged towards the wall.

Eren came across the Garrison office and went inside. He quickly but quietly went to the locker room and found a spare uniform for himself. He quickly put it on, albeit with some difficulty as it was overall a bit too tight for him. He chucked his old clothes into a bundle and stuck the bundle in the belt on his backside.

He looked towards the wall and saw the scouts at the top of it, working out the last minute things for their plan, as well the garrison soldiers fixing up their cannons and the earliest firing at what he assumed to be Rod's Titan, approaching them.

He continued his run towards the walls. At reaching the base, he was about to get inside the lift, when he looked at a familiar face, talking to another familiar face, one which was deceased in his timeline. In front of him were Historia and Sasha, speaking about something.

Not believing his eyes that Sasha was still alive and standing there in front of him, Eren was dazed for a moment, momentarily forgetting that it was obvious that she would be here, as he was currently in the past.

Before he could come to his senses, he was walking towards them in a slow trance-like walk. When Eren realized what he was doing and was about to turn back, Historia's eyes fell on him and she called out.

"Hey!" She called out to Eren, who made a 'Who-me?' kind of face. "Yeah, you! Can you please come here for a moment." Historia said.

Eren didn't know what to do now so he just complied. Upon walking to them, he could feel Historia's eyes boring into him,

"Don't I know you from somewhere? You look familiar." Historia inquired.

"Yes, Milady, I was, well, a garrison soldier, one standing guard outside of the control room yesterday. I couldn't help but overhear the plan, as well as, of you becoming the new queen." Eren answered, "Also, I would be very much in your debt, if you were to not tell of this to Captain Levi. Despite his height, the man's towering aura is enough to make any soldier scared for their life. People say that aside from the three commanders and supreme commander Zachly, he's the only significant person who stands out in the whole of military. So, I would be eternally grateful if I didn't get on his bad side." He hastily added, and in a uneasy, nervous way, as to make his story more believable.

Historia looked at him with a serious expression, then broke out into a chuckle, and replied. "As ease soldier, as for the time being, I am just another one of the scouts, and don't worry, I won't say anything to Captain Levi, as I now know that you were just at the right place, doing your duty, but just at the wrong time."

Eren visibly let out a small sigh of relief and said. "Thank you Milady, I can see why commander Erwin wants you to take over and begin your reign."

Historia then asked him a question which caught Eren off guard. "What's your name?". Eren hadn't thought about it so he hastily replied "Rene, Rene Kruger Milady. If I may" He then took Historia's hand in both of his and kissed it, and suddenly got transported to the Paths.

Facing him was a smiling Ymir. "So Eren, what is your need to return here?"

Eren replied. "Firstly, thank you for your cooperation, as I know that you know everything that your future, err, other self and I had discussed as otherwise I would not be here. Also as now that I'm here, my other self need not know of the future memories, that his future self would have had stored for them, as there's no need for him to know all that anymore, and it would only result in him being mentally tortured, so if you could prevent him from accessing them then that would be really great. Also, though I know that any time someone calls upon the power of the Titans, you sense it and create the Titan bodies, still for what it's worth, I wanted to let you know that I would need my Founding Titan form soon."

Ymir smiled again and said "I know, but I still appreciate the gesture and okay, I would prevent him from accessing those memories."

With that darkness covered Eren's eyes for a moment and when he opened them again, he was back on top of the wall with Sasha and Historia.

Historia smiled at him and let out a little chuckle. "Heh, it seems like it would take me some time to have to get accustomed to this kind of treatment you know." Though then the look on her face changed to a hurried expression as she remembered something. "Very well, I must go now, as I gotta convince Commander Erwin to let me fight." She announced and took off.

Eren then turned to Sasha, "Thank you, for everything you've done." He then gave her a quick hug, surprising her, and leaving her stunned there, jogged away while whispering to himself. "I'll save you this time, Sasha. Don't you worry."

Eren reached the part of the wall, which he knew would be quite away from where Rod was supposed to be dealt with. He found out the jutting out part of the Wall he needed to find, and then, ducking out of view, he created a pole, which went straight to the ground on the other side of the wall, with the use of his Warhammer Titan power.

Eren slid down the pole, hardening his hands a little bit, to prevent friction from taking it's toll on his palms, despite knowing that his regenerative ability could fix up the damage in little to no time.

Once he landed on the ground, he sprinted off into one of the few thickets dotting the otherwise plain landscape on the other side of the wall and took out his bundle.

After he had changed out of the uncomfortably tight garrison uniform and into his civilian clothes, Eren climbed up the tallest tree in the thicket. When he reached the top, he cupped his hands around his eyes and looked at Rod's approaching Titan form.

Eren knew that in order to put his plan in action, he would need for Rod to be close enough to the wall, as that was the only way he could approach the Titan from behind, so as to carry out his plan, but without being burned to a crisp during it's execution, what with all the steam coming from the Titan's body.

Eren quickly started sprinting from thicket to thicket in a zigzag manner, as due to the placement of them, in a path parallel to the approaching Rod's, but in the opposite direction, i.e., moving away from the wall, as the Titan crawled towards it.

As Eren jogged from another thicket towards the next one, he didn't notice that, behind a set of binoculars, a pair of eyes peered at him from the top of the Wall.

Sasha looked from the binoculars, then took a double take, not believing what she was seeing. She quickly looked around and saw Connie some distance away and cried out to him."Connie!" The bald-headed boy's ears perked up upon hearing her voice calling his name, and turning around he saw Sasha. Running upto her, he asked her what was the matter, and was astonished by her reply. "Connie, I know you might not believe this, but, on the other side of the Wall, about some hundred feet away from the approaching Titan, I saw a man in civilian clothing via these binoculars." Connie, who had already been tensed up with his role in the plan as well as everything else going on, distastefully replied. "Come on Sasha, you must have been seeing things, let's get back to work."

Just then the Titan reached the Wall and placed its humongous hands to hoist itself up, the steam emanating from it spreading inwards towards the district due to a change in the course of the wind. The populace seeing the Titan begin to evacuate with a frenzy. The Garrison captain was visibly sweating as his soldiers ran in the background, seeing the top of the Wall crumbling a bit where the Titan's fingers clenched it. "Shit... It's breaking through" he muttered. Seeing the people of Orvud running the captain voiced his thought, "The city I grew up in... is done for." Suddenly he felt someone's hand on his shoulder and jumped in fright. Turning to the side, he saw that it was none other than Captain Levi.

When Eren was sure that he was far behind the Titan to be hidden from the view of anyone on the Wall, as well as be safe from it's steam, Eren took a deep breath and bit down on his hand.

TO BE CONTINUED