[center][h2][color=9e0b0f]Emil Burton[/color][/h2][/center]
[center]Left Flank, Trost District[/center][center][@Jinxer][/center][center]-----[/center]

[color=7ea7d8]"You're unusually chatty, Emil."[/color]

Her words seemed to ring in his ears as he stood, the oddity of his chattiness wasn't lost on him and he already knew why. Just as the other two cadets showed their fear through frightened faces and hopeless words, he showed it by talking. [color=9e0b0f]"Nerves."[/color] he said in response as he stared off down their block. The thuds were becoming ever more evident as time went by, and he could now see a small amount of fighting over the rooftops although he was admittedly a bit too short to see the majority of it, but even what he could see didn't seem good. Larger titans were constantly showing up, and the Garrison forces ahead seemed to be dwindling by the second.

[color=9e0b0f]"Fuck."[/color] Emil cursed aloud as the titan rounded the corner of the buildings ahead. It seemed to be smiling at them, its jaw seemingly open more than was usual for a titan and showing a twisted horror of a smile as the titan lumbered down the road. [color=9e0b0f][i]'Eight meters, with a distraction it should be easy enough...'[/i][/color] Emil though to himself as he drew two blades from his gear. To his right Lauren shot off moving directly for the titan. It turned its head ever so slightly and settled its gaze on her reaching out like a toddler reaching for a toy. Emil watched for a brief moment, as Lauren headed directly for it and the titan responded in kind by reaching out to where Lauren would no doubt be if she continued on her path.

[color=9e0b0f]"Decoys are not supposed to die to do their jobs..."[/color] Emil said to himself as he leapt from the roof top and sent his hooks ahead. They landed in buildings on either side of the road and with a press of his triggers he reeled himself forward before releasing the hooks and hitting on the gas. As he shot ahead he watched as Lauren suddenly changed directions surprising both the titan and himself, with a clever move inbetween the lumbering giants legs and then back out. Emil watched as the Titan fell, it's ankles cut away and no longer able to support it's own weight. Out in front of it was Lauren, caked in the titans blood and now yelling orders to the other two cadets. In the heat of the moment Emil hadn't even noticed the sound of the other titans approaching, somewhere he was sure he was glad to not be alone in this.

As he began to fall he shot another two hooks out in front of himself, lodging solidly in the buildings to his left and right and just slightly before the titans head. He shot by over the top of Lauren and reeled himself in while using his gas to gain even more speed. In front of him was the odd face of the titan, the monster that they had been taught for the last three years how to kill, the enemy. And then it looked at him. Flying right for its face Emil found himself suddenly terrified as the titans twisted smile turned into a wide open mouth, ready to catch him as he flew right for the opening. He turned his head back and found Lauren beneath him, she was counting on him to be able to do this, and the three farther back were too.

He turned back to the titan ahead, now just a few meters away and reeled in his hooks sending himself flying upwards into the sky and out of the way of the titans gaping mouth. He released his hooks as he flew past and shot into the air, he twisted around as he went up and flipped himself over so he was facing down and back in the direction that he had come from. The titan seemed to have immediately lost interest in Emil after he had left its line of sight and had went back to crawling toward Lauren in the brief moments since he had shot up. He gritted his teeth and gripped the handles of his blades so hard you could have seen the bone beneath his skin before firing both of his hooks directly into the titans upper-back just below the nape.

With a burst of gas Emil rapidly closed the distance with the titans weak point. He shot his legs out in front of himself and braced for the impact of hitting the titan. With a solid thud Emil landed on the titan and brought his blades across the titans nape using the energy from his fall to bring the blades cleanly through the skin of the monster beneath his feet.

The titan slammed into the ground as it suddenly found itself hit from behind by an object with a fair bit of force behind it. The impact of the titan with the ground sent up smoke and a small amount of debris around the body of the titan, which was quickly followed by the steam of the corpse dissipating into nothing.

Emil stood atop the titans neck. He stared at the cut across the back of the titan, unsure if he had truly just done it or it had been some other cadet named Emil that he just happened to be living through. He jumped off the titan and shot a hook back towards Lauren and flew over to the building that they had started on landing with a bit of a stumble. His legs ached from the impact, and his hands wouldn't stop shaking. Emil turned back to the corpse of the titan in the road, the heavy steam billowing off of it obstructing the view of the rest of the block rather well. [color=9e0b0f]"I did it...."[/color] he said to himself as if to reassure himself that he had succeeded. 

He raised a blade into the sky and yelled to Lauren, [color=9e0b0f]"I think I pissed myself!"[/color]