Chapter 25

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When Commander Hange walks into the room, she sees that only Jean and Connie are present. Commander Hange asks, "Where are the others?"

Jean grits his teeth and says, "They're taken by the Military Police..."

This caused Commander Hange to be shocked, Connie said, "Sasha, Annie, Armin, Mikasa, Floch, Louise, and some of the scouts were arrested for leaking info about Eren being arrested."

"What?" Hange was shocked.

(Flashback)

"Hey, what's the meaning of this?" Sasha asked.

"Let go of me!" Mikasa said as a lot of the scouts were tied up by the Military Police.

"Shut up! You were the ones who leaked info about Eren being arrested!" One Military Police member said.

"Because Eren should be freed. He hasn't done anything wrong." Floch yelled back, only to be hit by the member. "Shut up!"

With the blood on his face, Floch continued, "He challenged an imposing enemy and grasped victory. Victory in the form of the Rumbling, which secures our right to live! Eren saved the lives of everyone in the New Eldian Empire!"

"Floch, just stop." Armin said. "We're already in trouble and we don't need to put some salt on it."

"Oh? This guy seemed to be smarter than you." Another one of the Military Police starts to punch him in the gut.

"Armin!" The girls gasped, and the police member said, "And I hate the smartest people in the Scouts."

"You... this is irrelevant." Annie said with anger.

"Shut up, you Marley bitch."  The Police member said as they all carry the scouts out of the room. Jean and Connie were the lucky ones who escaped the arrest.

(Flashback Ends)

"There is no doubt that they managed to find out that we have the power of the nine Titans, and they were going to feed them to their members..." Jean said.

Hange gritted her teeth and sighed, "Everything was just as Eren said. The Military Police and the Garrison, along with Premier Zachary have declared war on us."

"Then what are we going to do?" Connie asked.

Hange sat there staring ahead as she remembered Sannes' words. "This role of ours... There's an order to it." A Flashback appeared with Sannes sitting in the cell with his face bloody, bruised, and beaten up as Hange glared at him. "When one's role is done, another steps in to start the action again." Sannes looked tired, tears were rolling down his face as he looked at her. "Good luck, Hange."

Hange stared emotionally ahead before she raised her hands and almost lost them before she dropped them and looked down exhaustedly. "I'm tired."

"Commander Hange..." Jean said.

"No... There's something we can do." Commander Hange said.

At the cells, Eren was staring at the other scouts in disbelief. "Wh-what are you doing here? I thought that only Floch and Louise were supposed to come here..."

"The Military Police were a bunch of idiots." Annie said. "They forced us to come here."

Louise turned to Mikasa and said, "Have you ever been in this cell, Mikasa?"

"Huh? No." Mikasa answered her surprised.

"I see. That's a shame." She said and turned around to look at Mikasa with a smile. "Oh, I don't regret what I did. If victory is our ultimate goal, obeying the laws isn't the end all be all, right?"

"Stop it, Louise. We'll only be here longer." Mikasa said.

Louise stared blankly at Mikasa. "I'm still the same person as the one you saved that day. I realized something when you, a human, took down that Titan: That without power you can't protect anything. I learned that's okay to fight against senseless violence. Ever since that day, I wanted to get closer to you, so I..."

Mikasa pulled up her scarf as Louise looked at her before her gaze went down. "Why did you join the Survey Corps, Mikasa?"

"I have only one thing to say." She cut Louise off as she stated coldly. "Keep your mouth shut."

"Hey, Mikasa. That's not nice." Eren said with a harsh tone. "I was the one who forced Mikasa to come. At first, he was against me being in the Survey Corps after all."

Eren turned to Mikasa and Armin, "But now that you're here, that only meant one thing. History is going to repeat itself from four years ago. The Military Police and the Garrison, along with Premier Zachary, were going to take our powers using the Titan Serum they got from the Anti-Marleyans forcefully."

"Damn it... now we're in deep trouble... not only do we have outer problems, but we also have inner problems as well..." Sasha said.

"I'm not worried about the treason from the Military. I'm only worried about Marley's attack a few days later." Eren said, causing them to widen their eyes.

"But how? Armin destroyed the port, right?" Mikasa asked.

"They'll come from airships." Eren said. "And we would need to use all the power of the 9 Titans to fight back."

A bird was behind the metal bars of a window. "Ten months ago, there was an opening celebration for the Trost railway. The guard watching you suddenly changed... to Floch Forster." Pixis read off a paper to Yelena, who looked bored out of the window. "While the party was in full swing, Floch escorted you to your lodgings -- a man currently detained for leaking info."

Yelena didn't turn around as Pixis continued. "Furthermore, your lodgings were a few dozen kilometers from Eren's home." Yelena turned her head to Pixis as he said to her accusingly. "It just so happens that around this time, Eren began moving on his own. On the bright side, now I have an excuse to talk with a pretty lady." He said as he closed his eyes as Yelena still stared at him.

A close-up of a horse-face was shown as sweeping could be heard. Gabi was sweeping the floor in front of its stall. The horse stared at Gabi's head. Gabi threw water on the floor from her bucket as she heard the horse and turned to her left to look at it, which had its mouth wide open.

Falco was cleaning the floor when he heard Gabi screaming and turned around and saw the horse biting Gabi's head while she screamed. "Gabi?!" Gabi slipped and fell in the mud as the bucket flew in the air and landed on her head. Gabi lay down on the ground defeated as Falco screamed her name in distress. "Gabiii!"

Gabi lay there with the bucket on her head. "Why is this happening to me?" She asked herself as the horse neighed evilly. "This is the devil's doing."

Falco lifted the bucket off her head as Gabi stared off into space. "No, I think it's the horse doing."

Falco cleaned the horse as Gabi sat on the ground with a rake in her hand and closed her eyes. "There's not a horse that would let you ride it." Falco said.

"Well, I wasn't trained how to ride one." Gabi stated. She turned her head to look at Falco. " We won't learn a thing out here in the sticks."

"I think it's better to hunker down here than room around." Falco said.

"What are you talking about?" She asked him confused.

"We can stay here and wait for help. Eventually, the world will attack the island. I bet Reiner and my brother will come, too." Falco said as he looked at her.

"Aren't you pissed at Zeke?! There was a traitor right among us!" Gabi exclaimed as she stood up.

Falco looked surprised. "There was nothing we can do." He kneeled down to his bucket with water he used to clean the horse.

Gabi continued to clean the floor as she spoke again. "And what the hell is 'Mia'? Why am I your little sister?!" Gabi asked him angrily.

"Does it even matter?" He stated as Kaya walked in. "Hey, guys, let's have lunch."

A picnic basket was shown as a butterfly flew past it. "You're quick learners and hard-working, too." Kaya complimented them.

"You think? Thank you." Gabi dried her hair as Falco continued to talk to Kaya while eating a sandwich. "By the way, Kaya. I noticed all the workers here are pretty young."

The workers were petting the horses as Kaya answered Falco. "Yeah. Everyone here is an orphan."

"Oh, really?"

"The Queen's policies give support to kids without families." She explained as Gabi stared at her intensely. "All of us here lost our parents four years ago."

Gabi removed the towel off her head as she stated angrily. "You haven't accepted your guilt." Falco and Kaya were startled and looked at her in surprised. "Have you forgotten the atrocities the people of this island committed? Only when an Eldian accepts the depths of their sin can they begin to atone."

Falco looked at her in alarm as Kaya asked her. "Is that related to our parents dying?" 

"Of course." She told her. "Even if you act like a saint, your sins are too great to escape."

Falco started to speak to Gabi as Historia approached with a maid pulling a wheelchair. "Is that what they teach you in Marley?" 

"We're in their debt, you know!" Falco told Gabi.

"These are indisputable truths!" She argued, but then she realized that the one asking is Historia. Kaya asked, "Your highness, why would you come out here."

"I'm just bored when staying indoors." Historia said.

They stopped arguing when they realized what Historia just said. They turned around and looked shocked at Kaya. "What did you just say?"

Historia said, "I never got to introduce myself to you. My name is Historia Reiss. And I'm the queen of this Island of devils or so you called. Thanks to my husband Eren Yeager, I knew that both of you are from Marley."

This caused them to be surprised, Falco gasped and said, "You... you're Kruger, no, Eren Yeager's wife? The Queen? The ones who he sent letters to? I'm so embarrassed!"

Gavi walked away from them as Falco continued to speak. "Why didn't you say something? You're so sneaky!"

Gabi stared at the pitchfork before grabbing it. Falco stopped talking and turned to look at Gabi startled as heard her grab it. "Huh."

Gabi charged at her but Falco stopped her. They both struggled with the pitchfork. "What are you doing?" Falco asked her as Kaya watched them in alarm.

"The devil revealed her true colors! I knew something was up! Island devils can't be this kind! Especially the wife of Eren Yeager! Who would start the Rumbling anytime and killed a lot of our people!"

Historia sighed, she knew everything from what Eren told her, and then they heard some orphans yelling, "Hey!" "What's all the fuss about?"

Two of the other kids asked them as they watched them struggling. Falco and Gabi stopped moving in alarm.

"Mia's jealous and thinks I'm stealing her brother!" Kaya shouted at them.

"Kaya is actually getting along with people? She is cheered up a bit." One of them exclaimed surprised.

"Good grief... Don't horse around or you'll get hurt!" The other one told them.

Falco snatched the pitchfork from Gabi and she stared at him in shock. "Sorry." Falco apologized to them. They turned to Kaya and looked at her confused. "Why?" Falco asked her.

Historia said, "I won't blame you if you think of us this way. Kaya, how about taking me to your old village?"

"Of course, your highness." Kaya said, and Historia said, "Please follow us."

Gabi and Falco could only follow them, but they were still conflicted.

Here is a new chapter, and as you can see, not just Floch and the others, I decided to let Mikasa and Armin got captured as well, and for Gabi and Falco, Historia revealed her true identity to them.




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