[Connie] Look at all those houses, up in the sky!
[Connie] One of them could be yours, right Eren?
How's it feel to have your own roof over your head again?
Get it?
[Jean] Sasha
Could you smack him for me?
[Mikasa] It doesn't look like Berthold knows our location
You're right.
He's just scattering burning debris to turn Shegashina into a sea of flames
That bastard, you're back and this time, you wanna burn down my city?
Hey Armin, your orders? come on!
What should we do?
[Berthold] I can tell I'm right, I mean just look at the way you're shaking.
You're scared out of your mind, aren't you?
Jean.
Can you take over for me?
What?
I don't know what to do, I'm worried I'll screw up.
I made a mistake thinking we could talk to Berthold, and look where it got us.
Please Jean, you're better suited for this.
Move. Make for the river.
Everyone aboard Eren. Conserve our gas.
Eren at some point we'll have to get Berthold attention.
But until then, you need to stay out of sight.
Hey, Armin.
I'm alright with judgement calls
But I don't have some genius plan for getting us out of this.
In the end, you're the one we're gonna be counting on.
This area's all mopped up.
The only ones left for us to eliminate, are way up at the front.
But I still don't see how we're going to take down the Beast Titan.
It doesn't seem like he's got any intention of budging from that spot
[Levi] That's true, looks like the big guy's a coward.
Not that he ever had any balls to begin with.
Save your energy.
We can finish off the rest of the runts out there.
Let's go!
Yes, Sir!
Shit!
That explosion just now.
Are Hange and the others all right?
Or did they get caught up in it
I need to get to the other side of--
That one was a little higher than I would have liked
Oh. Good work, leave it there.
No problem, we'll just consider the first pitch a warm up.
I'm going for nothing less than a perfect game today.
Frontal bombardment all troops take cover now ??
What the--?
Dammit! GET DOWN!
Guys, any idea what the hell that sound was?
So does the enemy have cannons or something?
If so there's gotta be a hundred of them
Calm down, everyone, you're scaring the horses-
The Titan's throwing boulders.
Captain Levi!
Move now, take the horses and retreat to the wall
Yes, Sir!
Move! Stay out of the line of fire.
You wanna die? Get up!
Commander!
How's it looking?
[Erwin] Terrible.
The front-line of houses is gone. He decimated them.
If he keeps throwing those. Everything will be leveled.
We won't have anything left to hide behind.
And we can't retreat to the other side of the wall?
No. The Colossal Titan is already heading this way.
Setting fire to everything in his path.
Theoretically, we could scale the wall to evade the stones
But the horses can't.
We retreat here, and there's no hope for victory.
What happened to Hange's group? is Eren alright?
I don't know.
Most of them are gone, caught up when the explosion occurred
We've sustained a great many casualties.
The Beast Titan directed the small Titans in
such a way that our soldiers would group up in one place.
Dirk squad, Marlene squad and Klaus squad were engaging the small Titans
which put them in the line of fire when he launched the bombardment.
They were all wiped out.
In other words.
Our remaining forces on this side of the gate..
Consist of you new scout recruits, captain Levi and me.
No others.
[Soldier] We're doomed!
So what now?
Do you have any kind of plan?
Yell at him Eren, we can't let Berthold get any closer to the wall.
He heard you.
The bastard's ignoring us, he's heading straight for the wall.
So what do we do now Jean? if he gets there--
We're not letting him.
Hey Eren, tackle that lanky jerk's leg
Hang on, do we actually have a plan for this?
With that steam he puts out, he can make our ODM gear useless.
it won't connect
You think I don't know that?
I'm well aware, but we have to give it a try any way.
We can figure out his weakness as we fight.
I can kill him, you just keep him distracted.
Connie, give me your thunder spear.
Sure thing.
listen Armin, odds are we're still gonna need a plant from you.
So stop moping and observe him from a far
We have to believe we can win this
Right!
Now, scatter!
How dare you look down on me?
After what you've done, you should be on your knees begging for mercy.
He pushed him!
You can do it Eren, knock him on his ass.
There must be a way, we just have to find it.
Eren!
Dammit!
That's Eren up there.
There's only one Titan that can fling him like that.
The Colossal.
Eren's not moving.
He's still alive though, focus on keeping Berthold often him.
That might have been pushing it too far.
That's what'll happen if we charge at him without a plan.
Now what? unless we can turn the tables somehow
This operation will fail.
All of us will die. and eventually, humanity will fall.
Well screw it then,
Plan or no, I'm not just gonna sit around and wait to get slaughtered.
Let's take the fight to him.
He doesn't know about the thunder spears yet.
Sasha and Connie will help me distract him
Mikasa you go for the kill.
Right!
Hey freak show, you forget your skin somewhere?
You look so gross!
No one wants to see all that, you pervert.
This destruction is way too obvious. But. We only need one good hit.
Guys!
Is there nothing we can do? that steam even knocked away the thunder spears mid-flight.
Connie
Dammit, I breathe some in and burn my throat.
Mikasa, you're hurt!
It isn't bad.
A bit of shrapnel from the Thunder spears got me.
Figured something out yet?
Tell me, is there a way that we could fight back?
I don't know.
This place is gonna look like a honeycomb before long
The beast Titan knows where we are
Erwin
If there's no chance that we can turn this around, then tell me.
And we can still cut our losses.
Go shake the shit out of air until he wakes up
Have him run away with as many people as he can carry.
Then we'll have at least some survivors.
It's our job to guard the horses.
Why'd you let yours runaway?
Shut up. Like it even matters now.
What was that?
Those other scouts were insanely strong and all of them died in instant.
What chance do we have where they failed?
There's no reason to guard the horses
Because there's not gonna be anyone left to ride them home.
There was a point when it all made sense
If everyone just cowered behind the walls and waited
Then someday Titans would come out of nowhere and wiped us out.
It was obvious that someone needed to bite the bullet and fight
It would be dangerous, yeah.
But the soldiers who did it would be risking their lives to protect their loved ones.
someone recruiter asked us
Which of you has the courage?
I actually thought I could do it..
What a piece of cut a hero.
I didn't get it, I didn't know, I thought that if I died, it would at least have some meaning.
But it won't it didn't for the others, they're just gone.
You know what, I bet almost everyone ends up having that same final thought.
I was stupid for coming here.
Why did I think I'd be different.
You could tell what's left of the recruits in Hange's group to run away on horseback.
They won't have much of a chance
But they'll be decoys
They can give Eren a shot at escaping.
Tell me. How would you fit into this plan?
I'm gonna go after the Beast Titan
I'll draw him away somehow and--
You can't. You won't even make it near him.
Probably not..
But..
If you and Eren make it home alive, then there will still be hope.
All things considered I feel like it's the best we can ask for.
We've been brutalized.
To be honest, Sir!
It seems like this battle will be where the Scout regiment gets finished off
Yes.
If we had no way to fight back, then you would be right .
Is there a way?
There is.
You could have mentioned that before
Care to explain why you kept your shitty mouth shut?
The plan could go a few ways.
Best case
You'll have a decent chance of killing the beast Titan.
But for it to succeed..
The recruits and I have to die
The survey Corps may survive.
But regardless, most of us will end up dead.
Frankly, we're almost guaranteed to be defeated, no matter what.
The recruits and I will be staking our deaths on the slimmest chance of victory.
For this to work, to convince these youths to charge toward their deaths.
It would take an expert con-man and a whole slew of blatant lies
If I don't lead the Vanguard myself
Then none of them will have the courage
Which means I must be the first to charge..
And the first to be slain as well.
So I'll never learn the truth.
Huh?
I just..wanted to reach that cellar.
Everything I've done up to this point.
I did in the hopes that this chance would come
I dreamt..
That I'd get to prove I was right.
Many times..I thought that death would have been easier
But then I..
I think of the questions I needed answered.
They're what I lived for.
And now those answers are no more than a coward's leap away.
I'm so close, but...
Can you see them, too?
Our comrades, they're all standing around us
They've been watching us all this time.
They want to know what we did with the sacrifices that they made.
What became of the hearts they gave.
But that's probably just in my head, right?
Of no more import than a child's bad dream.
You led us well.
Fought hard.
No one else could've gotten us this far.
I'll make the choice for you
Give up on your dream and charge to your death
Lead those crying children straight to hell.
I'll reach the Beast Titan.
And tear him apart.
Charge!
Huh! I didn't expect them to lay down and down but
A suicide charge?
For some reason I thought they'd do better than that.
Alright. Fire!
Is that smoke?
Oh it's from those Signal guns they use
Incoming, spread out!
I'm about to announce our final mission.
All troops, line up!
We're going to mount a cavalry charge
Rushing the Beast Titan directly.
Clearly, this will make us ideal targets for him.
So we'll wait until the moment he's ready to throw.
And then we'll fire our smoke signals together
That should somewhat reduce his accuracy
While we distract the Beast Titan
Captain Levi will get in position to dispatch it.
Does anyone have questions?
What?
You want me to go after him, with just ODM gear?
He's standing in the middle of a field
I can't fight without a house or tree to hook on.
You're wrong.
Huh?
It happens to be a line of objects, at just the right height for your approach.
Use his thralls to advance unseen..
And assassinate the son of a bitch.
I'm sorry
There's no point standing around.
We'll only be showered by more boulders.
Ready your horses on the double.
Be honest..are all of us..
..Riding to our death?
Yes, we are.
And since we're dying anyway you're saying that it's better..
..If we at least die fighting.
I am
But wait..
If we'll die anyway..
..Then who cares what we do? ..
..We could just disobey your orders.
And it wouldn't mean a thing, would it?
Yes, you're precisely right.
Everything that you thought had meaning.
Every hope, dream or moment of happiness.
None of it matters as you lie bleeding out on the battlefield
None of it changes what a speeding rock does to a body.
We all die.
But does that mean our lives are meaningless?
Does that mean that there was no point in our being born?
Would you say that of our slain comrades?
What about their lives?
Were they meaningless?
THEY WERE NOT!
Their memory serves as an example to us all!
The courageous fallen. the anguished fallen
Their lives have meaning because we the living refuse to forget them.
And as we ride to certain death..
We trust our successors to do the same for us.
Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world.
My soldiers push forward!
My soldiers scream out!
My soldiers RAGE!
For friends who gave their hearts
For friends who gave up on their dreams
Until everything burns out they'll charge through the chaos
Despite the fear they've been taught
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Hero