"You know, I'd forgotten how much fun this was," I punched a hole through a sixteen-metre and watched it fall.

Eren didn't reply, mostly due to the fact that he was wrestling with a chubby fourteen-metre.

The sixteen metre grabbed my wrist and bit my arm. I screamed, and swung a fist, but before it hit, a figure seemed to fly past the Titan's neck, and a split second later a slice of his neck fell, and he followed.

I turned, it was Mikasa?

Eren crushed the Titan into a building and punched it continuously. Finally he stood high and looked around.

"Where are they? WHERE?"

"They're at Headquarters."

Oh. This must me their plan. Show the dumb Titans where to attack. OK. I could do that.

"Let's go!" I began running.

By the time we got there, the main concern was the pair of titans who'd smashed their faces into the wall. The smell of human was there. Uh oh.

"Oh no you don't." I said, swinging a fist. The Titans were right next to each other, and I sent their heads careening like bowling balls, their bodies still attached, of course.

I looked into the hole they had been previously smiling through. Eren roared behind me as he took down one of his own.

Jean stood there. He looked... Shocked. It was a strange expression that I'd never seen on his face. I couldn't help it. I blushed. I felt like someone from that one story about a masquerade ball, and the girl who loved a man, and the man loved someone else, and they danced together, and fell in love. Except... There was no ball, and I was a titan that he'd kill without a second thought.

It's a weird world.

I winked at the few remaining people behind Jean. It was good to know that Sasha, Krista, Ymir and Rina were OK. But what about the others?

Mikasa broke through the window, followed by Connie and Armin. I watched them talk. Then stare at me. Armin said something else. Eren had finally stopped his roars and I caught a word he was saying, "intelligent."

I smiled at Armin and nodded. Half the stragglers reared back.

Well, he wasn't wrong there.

I threw a kick at a titan who came too close to the broken wall, and with a punch I thrust my arm through his neck. He hung there until I pulled my arm out again and he dropped dead.

And so on. I killed any titan in distance, but Eren was much better. He charged himself at every titan and took them out in a single blow every time. It had gone quiet in HQ. I'd heard the call for retreat ages ago. Why hadn't they left?

A few minutes later, gunshots echoed in its base. Dammit. There must be titans in there. But where the hell did they get guns?

I found the way the Titans were coming in, and stopped a four meter from entering, kicking it like a soccer ball against Wall Rose. If I hadn't attracted the Garrison's attention yet, I had now.

It slowly began to Dawn on me that I was having too much fun with this. After years of being cautious, of worrying of what would happen if I was found out, I'd thrown it all away. It was death by human or death by titan now.

At this sobering thought. I stopped. Horrified with myself, and that was when the ten meter swallowed my left arm.

It was one bite with it's freakishly large mouth, and suddenly it was gone. The pain reached me a second later,
And I screamed. Eren turned to me, at least five titans gnawing on him. Why wasn't... Why wasn't he regenerating?

I watched my left arm begin to grow back slowly. And another titan began chewing on my leg. I kicked it into a house, but it soon stood up again. Another ambushed me from behind and tore a piece out of my side. I screamed again and fell. Leaning against HQ. Three six-meters began eating my right arm just as the elbow on my left regenerated.

I managed, with difficulty, to squash one's head, but Eren wasn't faring so well, he had both arms hanging, useless, and his side was rapidly being eaten.

"Get them... Off me..." He thought weakly.

He was running out of steam. If I didn't save him soon they'd devour the real Eren as well.

I swung the regenerating stump that was my left arm, and caught the second titan, throwing it down. I stood up shakily, and the last titan lunged for my chest. I lifted a leg and it chomped on my foot. I swung around like a ballet dancer and threw it away, my foot with it.

I was now hopping. I leant against the wall, my head inches from the top. My ear against the wall. I heard footsteps. Lots of them.

And one pair. One pair that landed on the roof above me.

Soon after, a second pair joined them.

"Mikasa? What're you doing? We need to go -" it was Armin.

"Look, there." The first pair of footsteps, Mikasa, said.

They were looking at Eren.

"C-cannibalism?" Armin asked, "can they not Regenerate... like the others?"

"I know this sounds stupid, but I was hoping they'd be the key for us, that they'd help mankind break the cycle, give us just a little time to see a ray of hope." Mikasa said.

"She's right." I hadn't heard Rina arrive, "they're too valuable to just let die. There's too much we can learn from them. I think it's perfectly clear that our next priority is too ward the scavengers off them. They're no use to us picked apart."

"Are you crazy?" It was Jean, my heart made a stupid little skip, "we have a path out of this nightmare and you wanna stay?"

"Think about it." Said Annie, "having two abnormals on our side would be an incredible advantage, right? Cannon's got nothing on titans who like to rip apart their own kind."

"D-Do you hear yourself? They're not like new friends!" Jean stormed.

I gave a weak chuckle, and I heard their ODM clank as they turned towards me.

"She heard you..." Armin gasped.

"See what I mean?" Rina asked.

There was the thuds announcing another titan. I checked myself over, my foot was back, and my left arm, excluding the fingers, was regenerated. But from the elbow down my right was gone.

I looked up to see the newcomer, but Armin beat me to it, "oh God, it's the one who ate Thomas!"

Eren turned and spotted the titan. It looked exactly like from my vision.

He roared and I dropped to my knees, rage that wasn't mine spasming through me, I couldn't move. Eren was running. I was seeing through Eren's eyes again. Titans tore off both his arms but he didn't care. He wanted to kill the titan. KILL IT!

I roared in unison with Eren, and he bit hard into the Titans neck. He gripped it, and the titan didn't react. One came up behind him and he swung, letting go of the titan and it smashed into the second one, throwing them into a building. They didn't get up.

"Kill them all!" Eren snarled in triumph. He stood there, roaring his victory.

"I killed them..." This sounded more like Eren... He was waking up!

As soon as I realised this, I stood up quickly, my right arm was back, just a minute too late.

I moved forward and looked back, the others were staring. I turned too.

There was Eren, emerging from the neck of the titan.

"Shit."

I quickly moved forward. I didn't know exactly what I was doing. But this was bad. Eren had shown them... We'd be killed... Maybe if I grabbed him we could escape through the hole in the wall... God...

There was a flash of pain, and one by one my fingers fell.

I grit my teeth and tried not to scream. Mikasa seemed to disappear and reappear next to the titan. She had her blades drawn and was Glaring at me. I backed off. There was no doubt that, useful to mankind or not, she wouldn't hesitate to kill me.

She sheathed the swords and ran to Eren. She hugged him around his middle and I saw tears. She... Was crying? Mikasa?

I looked up. They were staring, but not baying for his blood.

If they imprison him, I'll go too. If they try to kill him, I'll protect him. I thought, looking back at Eren, "like it or not, I'm with you all the way."

He didn't respond.

I kneeled down in a position so that I wouldn't collapse when I broke out. I felt the steam erupt from the back of my neck, and a split second later I was me again. I tried to remember not to struggle as I realized where I was, and slowly pulled away.

I was right next to Eren and Mikasa, who was still crying, "you cut me!" I yelled in irritation. Mikasa froze and turned. She paled.

There was an elastic twang as I pulled the last of the titan bits off my hand, the spot where I'd cut my wrist to change. That was always the hardest to get out.

"K-Kira?" Armin shot down from the building on his ODM and stared at me.

"Uh... Hi?" I asked.

"What... What're... You and ... Eren... What?" Armin stuttered.

"Oh, yea... I can explain..." I said, "uh... You see... Eren and I can... Turn into titans...?"