Back in Paradis Island, Eren is now alone in the room as he takes out a letter, it is a letter given to him by Historia when they get back to Paradis Island.

(Flashback)

In the dark night, the ocean was gently flowing as a Marleyan ship was making its way to Paradis Island. The Marleyan Soldier's Captain was looking through binoculars, standing near the ledge of the ship as a soldier rushed over to him. 

"Captain!" He stood tall when he reached the Captain. "The team that went ashore hasn't  made contact for two hours!"

"Hmm." The Captain hummed, lowering the binoculars, and looked over at the soldier behind him. "Prepare to send teams two and three."

Yes, sir!" The soldier saluted, turned around, and ran off as three soldiers, who were by the Captain, looked at him when he turned back around and spoke. "This island of devils defeated the Warrior's Unit. Whatever the cost, Marley must learn what happened."

But suddenly, the ship beneath them started to tip over and got lifted in the air as the Marleyan soldiers stumbled and rolled around while letting out shrieks. The Captain was quick to hold onto the railings, shouting to everyone. "Hang on!" 

The captain then looked down and gasped at the sight beneath the ship. Emerging from the salty water was the Attack Titan. Eren was holding the ship with both hands and having it rest on his back.

"I-It's a devil!" The captain gawked at the Titan until it began its way to the land. Once there, he dropped the ship on the ground with no hesitation as the ship shook from the impact and knocked the Marleyan soldiers on the ground.

Eren just remained standing behind the ship, while Hange, who was wearing the original Scout uniform, was rushing her way over and waving her left arm in the air. "Hello, friends from Marley!" She shouted, propping a foot on the cliff and holding her arms out. "Welcome to Paradis Island!"

The Marleyan soldiers all groaned, holding their heads or sides before sitting straight up and looking at Hange with wide eyes and jaws dropped. She only grinned and bowed, introducing herself. "I'm Hange, here to greet our guests who've come so far across the sea!" She then held her arms out again and smirked. She turned to her right and formed a close-eye, nervous, smile, and held her hands to her side. "Now, step this way and join us for some tea!"

She let out a nervous chuckle while behind her was Levi and a Marleyan soldier with blond hair, his face was filled with fear. "By the way, we're already friends with this guest that arrived before you!" Hange continued, approaching the soldier and placing a hand on his shoulder while putting her free hand on his chest, chuckling nervously. The soldier tensed at her touch until Hange brought him close and laughed. "Isn't that right, Nicolo?!"

Nicolo's eyes widened from fear once more as he felt a blade dig into his back, while Levi glared at him. He shut his eyes, sweat trailing down his face as he let out whimpers before he opened his eyes and began screaming. "Captain! Forget about me and shoot these devils!"

"What are you saying, Nicolo?!" Hange shrieked, eyes shooting open, and formed a timid grin, chuckled and got close to his face, making him shriek again. "Captain!"

Levi just eyed the back of Nicolo's head and mumbled. "He's tired of your shitty skit."

The captain glared at Levi and Hange, grinding his teeth together as he growled. "Nicolo! Understand this you devils!" He stood up and aimed his gun at them. "Marley doesn't mingle with filthy blood! Go drink your pig piss with your filthy friends!"

"Aww! Hey! Are you sure you wanna be rude to us?! Can't you see the Titan behind you?!" She reminded them, making the soldiers quickly look behind them and saw the Titan Shifter standing tall and looking down at them.

The soldiers gasped but this didn't phase the Captain as he turned around and rushed to the edge of the ship, pointing his gun yet again at them. "We'll never yield to you devils! Say hello to this!"

Hange let out a screech, it zoomed to the sky behind her as a bullet was shot. It was silent for a moment until Hange peeked over a rock, where she was hiding. She let out a small noise while Mikasa, Connie, Jean, Armin, and Sasha, who was holding a rifle and weren't too far from Levi and Hange, stared in shock when they saw the captain was shot straight through the side of the head.

His body lay dead on the ground as one of the Marleyan soldiers had shot him with their left arm behind their back and gun pointed down at the body. The soldiers stared at their action as a soldier glared and pointed his gun at them. "Hands up, Yelena!"

The soldier, Yelena, simply turned her body to the soldier by her right and pointed her gun at him. "Drop your weapons." 

At her words, half of the Marleyan soldiers on the ship pulled their guns out and pointed them at the soldiers. The soldier, who pointed his gun at Yelena, looked around before he looked over his shoulder and saw Onyankopon, who narrowed his gaze at him and held his gun at his face. "What are you...?"

"Do as she says." Onyankopon replied to him, as Yelena removed her helmet from her head and smiled up at Hange. "Hange, I'd be happy to accept your invitation." She slightly held her arms out. "Let's have tea."

Both Levi and Hange looked shocked at what just happened. Yelena turned her body and looked up at the Attack Titan, who was still staring down at them. She smiled at him. "I've longed to meet you, Eren."

After a while, the Squad was outside guarding the tents against a far distance. "That huge lady of theirs shot and killed her comrade." Connie mumbled as he looked down at the tents. "Wonder what her goal is."

Sasha just let out a little groan, resting her chin against the rock, as she started to fall asleep. Jean just shrugged at Connie's thought. "Who knows? Whether friend or foe, she's not to be trusted."

Sasha let out a small yawn, which made Mikasa come over and pulled on Sasha's ponytail. "No napping, Sasha." She scolded her lightly as Sasha just groaned in response.

Armin smiled down at the tents. "But their willingness to share information is unbelievably lucky for us."

"Yeah, we've been really lucky." Eren said.

Armin turned to Eren, who was sitting on a rock, arm propped up on his right leg, and looked down as he continued to speak and made everyone, except Sasha, look at him. "We stopped their landing by pure chance. If Marley comes in force, we'll be screwed. We've gotta do something."

Close-up shot to Hange's eye, she was currently looking through of one of Marley's guns gazing in awe before pulling the gun away from her face and reload the magazine.

"Ah! I see! That's how it shoots a bunch!" she smiled, examining the gun once more while Levi eyed her and crossed his arms.

"That's standard issue on Marley." Yelena explained, she held a cup of tea and took a sip. Hange continued gawking at the gun with a big smile while Levi looked at the woman. "The Marley army had 20.000 soldiers per division. With 50 devisions, that's 1.000.000 soldiers."

At her words, Hange looked at her with her jaw dropped. Yelena said, "There's also the navy with three fleets, each compromised of 21 battleships. They've made tremendous progress in new weapons and aerial warfare as well."

Hange furrowed her brows. "Aerial...?"

Levi gave her a light nudge against her lap when she said this. He narrowed his gaze and scolded her in his head. "Don't freak out or they'll think we're weak."

She looked back at him and answered in her head back as if she heard him. "I know."

Onyankopon then spoke up. "In other words, vehicles allowing one to attack the enemy from the sky."

"Huh?! From the sky?!" Hange yelled, jumping to her feet with her jaw dropped again.

Levi sent another look at her. "Hey!"

Hange shut her mouth and formed a nervous smile, sweat was trailing down her face. "If Marley had such capabilities this whole time, why haven't they attacked in over a year?"

Yelena put her cup down, eyes on it while she answered. "There are two main reasons. One is the Pure Titans released here. Even with the latest weapons, they would hinder a land assault. They were used as a tool to confine Eldians within the walls, but in turn, they've protected Eldia from invasion." Hange sat back down while listening to Yelena.

"Yeah. Well, ain't that funny?" Levi commented while Yelena looked over her right shoulder and saw a bright light slowly rising.

"Though dawn is coming soon, and that's when Titans are active. But if we're way out here, sipping on tea outside the walls, you must have killed all the Titans roaming around." She turned back to them. "Is that true?"

"And what if it is? You're gonna report it to Marley?" Levi asked in a sharp tone.

Yelena's eyes widened at his words. "No, it blows away expectations."

Hange formed a firm line across her lips. "And the second reason?"

At her question, Yelena returned to her neutral expression. "Currently, Marley is at war with multiple nations. They can't be bothered with Paradis." 

She took a sip of tea and continued, "You defeated the Warrior unit, the pride of Marley, and captured two of their main weapons, the Colossal and Female Titan." She formed a smirk. " Marley's many enemies took notice and were quick to unite and declare war." She took another sip of tea, which made Hange furrow her brows.

"If you guys are secret agents who infiltrated Marley, I'm guessing you came from conquered nations?" she asked them. Yelena's and Onyankopon's eyes widened at her words, which made Hange smirk and point at them. "Oh, I'm right?! If you're going up against Marley, I bet you've got big backers!" She closed her hand into a fist and placed thumb and index finger under her chin.

Yelena put the cup down and looked to the side. "We're not secret agents or anything of the sort. We were powerless. Marley took our homes and forced us to be soldiers." 

Onyakopon looked at her but said nothing, then he looked away from her. "We were close to losing hope at ever striking back. Until we met him."

The scene changed when Yelena was on a boat in the ocean, wearing Marley military uniform, staring up at Zeke's Titan. "A Titan that people in the world feared, calling it a devil. But I saw something completely different..." She stared at him with admiration. "A god. One that gave hope to the powerless."

Back in the tent, she was grinning before she returned her gaze back to the Scouts in front of her. "Under Zeke Yeager's command, we shot our superiors. We're the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers. Our goal: To free the Eldian people."

Here is a new chapter, and in this chapter, we're getting to the flashbacks. The story will go with the anime, and there might be some changes, I hope you like this chapter.