(Mikasa's POV)

The group and I started a group chat where we would text each other to plan whatever our next move is and then regroup at someone's house before executing the plan.

I was in my bed late at night, 1:30 AM to be exact and was looking at some old photos on my phone, mainly of Eren and I. My mind was still confused about what my life has come to. Especially now.

Whenever I feel closer to Eren I always get the feeling that at the same time I'm getting further away. Armin has ceased contact with all of us and I think that's probably the main reason. He doesn't read any of our messages.

Then as I was scrolling through the photos I get a text message from a private number.

Message:"Go to the school. Eren has left something there for you. Yesterday."

My heart froze. My eyes were glued to the screen of my phone, reading the message over and over again. Yesterday?!

'How?! Why?! Why didn't he come to me in person?!' My mind raced through all those questions.

I immediately contacted everybody and sent them a screenshot through the phone and told them to come to my place ASAP.

Jean: I'll be there!

Ymir: I'm headed there right now.

Krista: Meeee toooo!

Connie: Hey Guys! Don't forget to get any weapons you have. You never know.

Mikasa: Connie's right. We're headed inside a school in the middle of the night.

A few minutes and the gang arrived. We sat in the living room talking about he potential dangers of going there.

"How do you know that Eren did leave something there? Maybe it's a trap!" Jean said.

"I don't know, I... I don't wanna risk it. From what Connie and I experienced first hand, it's not something unusual for Eren to do things like this. But the question is... how did he come to town yesterday?!" I asked.

"Maybe he didn't personally leave it there, but someone else did it for him." Krista stayed.

"He is known for doing that, I guess, as well. Since when the two boys moved in with him, he, I guess decided that he could use their help and started spreading messages to girls he wanted to go out with but didn't have their numbers. All with little paper letters." Ymir continued.

"But why not text them?" Connie asked.

"He probably didn't get his hands on their phone number yet. So that's a better alternative, I'd say." Ymir responded.

"So, uh. Are we gonna go there or what?" Jean asked.

"Wait... as much as I'd hate to say it, it might be a trap. I'm already being hunted for by whoever wants me, maybe for a ransom or whatever but I'm not taking any chances." I replied.

Then another text message popped up.

Message: "Here is the item you're looking for. It's somewhere dear to Your Heart"

The message was sent with a photo attached. It was a USB drive.

My mind instantly clicked at the sight of it.

"That usb! Eren used to have it! I remember it! He used to give it to me so I can copy homework on it and give it back to him!" I exclaimed.

"Are you sure?" Jean asked.

"Yes! It happened so many times I lost count! But It's hard not to forget it. Especially after all the hassle of having to copy homework and change it so that the teachers don't realize." I replied.

"Alright. So where's that place you oh so dearly love?" Ymir asked.

"The... the roof of the school." I replied.

"Why's that?" Jean asked.

"We used to sneak out there at lunchtime, Eren and I." I replied.

"Alright then. We have our clue, let's head there right now." Connie said before we all left the house.

As for the weapons Connie mentioned before, all of us brought somethings of use with us. I brought a baseball bat and brass knuckles.
Jean brought with him a thick chain that he wrapped around his wrist for punching and whipping anyone with it.
Ymir brought a survival knife and gave Krista a small dagger.
As for Connie himself, he brought two black sharp tomahawks and a Swiss Army Knife. He also brought his laptop with him just in case he needed to do any camera hacking.

Why the wide variety of weapons? I don't know. I wanted to go for a simple street fight weapons while Connie and Ymir opted for weapons of murder. I argued with them about it but it was already too late.

We arrived at the school and entered same as last time with Connie and I. Then Connie proceeded to disable the security cam for the duration of the night and proceeded to regroup with us at the roof entrance.

We opened the door and headed straight for the spot Eren and I used to stay at.
There we found a plain white paper bag. On the side was written in marker.

For Mikasa From Eren

My heart was overwhelmed with joy. I immediately reached for the bag and took it. Inside was a small box that I guess housed the usb.

We decided to return to my place and we exited the roof.

"I didn't see why we brought weapons anymore. I guess it was a waste of time. Sorry guys." Connie said.

"Ah don't swear it. At least we got to take a cool group picture while holding them." Jean replied.

"Yea. Well I'm gonna go to the bathroom. Can you guys wait for me here?" I asked.

"We'll wait near the entrance if you don't mind." Ymir replied.

"Alright." I said as I made my way to the bathroom entrance.

There I left my bat on the stool door and did my number one. Then I opened the stool door and headed for the entrance. But before I could even exit the bathroom, I got grabbed from behind me and shoved to the wall with my bat being used horizontally against my neck to choke me.

"Damn you hot, bitch!"

I stared at the perpetrator only to see a dark skinned individual who looked like a street thug. He had muscles and was properly built but he was nothing I couldn't handle. I was able to lift my foot up and kick him in the stomach, enough to shove him away and let my bat fall out of his grip. I then grabbed the bat and smacked him sideways over the head with it. It hit the right right side of his face with a sound so satisfying I hit him again in the stomach.

I then got close to him and grabbed him by the collar of his T-shirt.

"Who are you?!" I asked.

"Oh me? I'm nobody. Not until me and mah boys take you to the guy that hired us. Then we'll be rich as fuck." He said.

"Are you the group that's trying to kidnap me?" I asked.

"Yes." Another guy said from behind me. I turned around only to be met with the gaze of another dark skinned man who was, unlike his comrade here, was very big and was very fat. But he did demonstrate his strength once he grabbed me by the neck and pinned me to the wall once again.

"She hot tho! Look at those tits! They real!" The guy on the ground said as he got up. "Wanna have fun with her before handin her over?"

"Nah. We don't wanna spoil the package. The boss said his friend wants her "intact"." The big one replied.

I reached into my left pocket of my leather jacket and wore the brass knuckles.

"The hell he means by "intact"?!" The small one asked.

"He means gettin her without having her too badly damaged or raped, dumbass!" The big one replied.

"Who... who's your boss?" I asked while being choked.

"Oh, you'll meet him soon enough. Yo where are the others?" The big guy asked.

"Comin!"

"Good. Now let's get this bitch outta here."

The second he said that, a tomahawk landed between the small one's feet and then he got hit with a chain-wrapped fist.

I took that opportunity to hit the fat one with the brass knuckles. He let go as soon as my first collided with him.

I landed on my feet and immediately grabbed the bar and smacked him over the face with it.

Jean was busy with the short one while connie walked over and grabbed his tomahawk.

"Don't! You! Dare! Get! Your! Dirty! Hands! On! My! Friend! Again!" Jean said each and every word as his fist collided with the small thug's face.

When Jean finished he got up and signaled us to follow him. We began running straight to the exit.

"Krista and Ymir are there. They're waiting for us." Jean said.

"More are coming! We need to get out of here!" I said.

"Shall we call the cops?" Connie asked.

"No! We'll land into trouble for getting infiltrating the school!" I replied.

"Right!" He said.

As we reached for the exit, we saw Krista and Ymir motioning us to follow them as the opened the door and then ran in front of us.

Right before we could exit the school entirely, a car stopped and three other guys walked out of it. They belonged to the same group as the other two from the way they looked. They weren't really any taller than Jean or Ymir. Then said two arrived after us.

We were stuck. From both the front and back.
We had no way to run.

"If we can't run, all we can do is fight." I said.

"They have weapons!" Connie said.

"And so do we!" I replied.

"Ready?" Jean asked.

"Yes!" Connie replied.

"I'm not!" Krista said.

"It's not like we have a choice!" Ymir stated.

The five of them approached us wielding knives, bats and brass knuckles.

Jean and I went for the two on the back and the rest went on the three in the front.

I swung my bat to the big one's face but he grabbed it and pushed me away then he threw it at me but I ducked and then ran at him before hitting him with a kick to the stomach then an uppercut. Jean was spinning his chain around, making sure the other dude cannot approach him. I then punched the guy in the face but he as well punched me in the stomach.

I took a step back to get myself together but the big one grabbed me by the neck and hoisted me off the ground.

"Bitch you think you can get away with that punch? I'ma make you scream your agony out!"

"You... can only dream!" I said before kicking him in the stomach and punching him with the brass knuckles once again. Then I stomped on his head.
Jean was still busy with the other guy so I decided to help him out. I grabbed my bat ant smacked him over the head, knocking him out cold. Then we both went to help the others.

Krista was being hoisted up by someone so I ran straight towards him and punched him in the stomach then his face. Then Krista kicked him down to the ground.

"Thanks." She said.

Ymir crawled behind her enemy and Jean pushed him down then Ymir stepped on his chest and then stomped it.

Connie on the other hand threw one tomahawk that landed on one guy's right foot before punching him down on the ground and picking out the tomahawk.

The man was screaming in agony so Connie took out a bunch of tissues and wrapped them on his mouth.

"Don't you think that's too overkill?" Jean asked.

"I know this motherfucker! He deserves this." He said.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yes. One day I'll tell you. Let's just leave right now." Connie then grabbed the backpack he carried his laptop in and we all went to my mansion.

On the way there we were checking for injuries. Only small bruises and scratches. But nothing serious.

We arrived at my place where I spent the rest of the night helping everyone take care of their injuries. Luckily I wasn't hurt. I just needed to relax.

Connie popped the drive inside his laptop. He opened the files and was checking for data. Everything we found were just all the files I copied Eren and then some pics for projects and stuff like that. But then we stumbled upon a video.

It was titled M.mp4

We opened the video only to be greeted with the sight of Eren looking at the camera. He looked like he's seen better days.

"Mika, I know you're watching this, and... alright, I don't know what to say... you've... been looking for me all this time, and all I was doing was trying to disappear. You wanted to tell me things, but I didn't let you. I silenced you. I took you out of my life, I... when you needed me the most... I wish I could come back, but I have things here I have to take care of. Very important, life changing things. Maybe we aren't destined to be together. Because whenever I try to come visit, something always gets in my way. And I'm afraid I cannot even contact you at all, not you, not anyone, but I'll promise you one day I will. But... enough about me for a second. The box. You need to take care of it. You have a group that can help you with this, and here's the key."

He shows us a key he held in his hand. It's supposed to be the key to the box he kept hidden in his house.

"I'm now in the process of sending the key to you, not directly, but somewhere safe and close. The box is to be opened one day and what it contains inside is extremely dangerous. That's where you come in. You have to get the key. The number that has probably contacted you by now, well let's face it, he probably did. This guy, he's been helping me a lot. He'll text you the coordinates some time soon. Maybe not the day you watch this. But soon.
And please. Take care of yourself. Goodbye, Mikasa."