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

Still a bit in shock that he had managed to take down a titan, Emil was slow to reply to Lauren's reassurance, [color=9e0b0f]"Yeah... Yeah thanks."[/color] he spoke softly to the girl before she began to call out orders once more. Snapped back into the present by Lauren, Emil focused on the two titans coming up the street. They were taller than the first one, and closely packed, [color=9e0b0f][i]'Things must not be going well in the Vanguard if the numbers keep increasing.'[/i][/color] Emil thought to himself as Lauren leapt from the rooftop and sped away.

Taking the longer way around, Emil began moving along the rooftops so as to be behind the titan once Lauren finally had it distracted enough. Using his gas to leap across gaps in the rooftops Emil was making good time getting into position and had yet to even fire a hook when he noticed that Lauren had the titan paying full attention to her and Helen was making good on her end as well. Giving a nod to Russell who was running along the rooftop opposite of Emil, the younger boy jumped off the roof and landed his hooks in the titan they had been assigned, heading in for the kill. With Russell on the move and already on his way to his titan, Emil jumped from  the building and shot a hook for the shoulder of his titan that was clearly focused on Lauren.

The whir of his wire being reeled in and the hiss of his gas filled his ears as he closed the gap with his titan, and then Lauren just [i]left[/i], flying past him as fast as she could. Surprised by her sudden leaving Emil lost focus on his titan and watched the girl fly off before the whir of his wires reminded him of just what he was currently doing. Emil turned his head back to the titan to find that it was beginning to turn around to follow Lauren as she flew off. His original hit botched Emil hit his gas hard and released his hook sending himself forward toward the titan. As he flew through the air he shot another hook for the side of the titans face, landing it cleanly in hits jaw and reeled in. He flew on a path that sent him past the titans nape in a parallel fashion, all he had to do was extend his blades out to his right and the kill would be secured.

In the blink of an eye Emil shot past the titan, leaving a spray of blood behind him where the titans nape used to be. Confident that he had finished off the titan he planted a hook in a tall building to his left and careened around the side of it in a wide arc. With a touch of gas and a hook placed into a watch tower nearby Emil shot up over the buildings and back towards where he had come from.

Now facing the direction that Lauren had traveled, Emil was stunned to find both Helen and Russell engaged with a large titan. There was a large swathe of blood on the ground beneath the titan and Lauren was no where to be found, "No..." he said aloud as he pressed the gas and shot off toward the larger titan. As he closed the distance he watched as both Helen and Russel shot about randomly around the titan, barely managing to dodge its hands as they did. He planted a hook in a building and landed on the roof shattering a few of the sun baked tiles as he took off running to assist them. Russel planted a hook in a building to the left of the titan, his wire just above the titans arm and began to fly up when the titan raised its arm to try and intercept him, everything would have been fine were it not for the placement of his wire which became tangled on the titans forearm and was rendered useless to Russell, serving as nothing more than a death trap to the boy. 

Helen screamed as Russel waved his blades at the titan who was now holding his arm above his head as to place the immobilized Russell square in front of his face. It lifted its arm up faster than normal, sending Russell up into the air in a moment of weightlessness before it clapped both of its hands together on the boy, obscuring him from view. Emil found himself stood still on the roof as he watched inhuman amounts of blood seem to pour from the titans hands before it began to rub them together which was followed by it shoving the contents of its palms that used to be Russell into its mouth. He stared blankly as it swallowed what was once a cadet and seemed to smile contently for all to see. Helen was screaming louder now, something about where everyone had gone and how this couldn't be happening. 

She took off down the road heading toward the breach, flying close to the ground as she tried to put distance between herself and the titan that had just eaten Russell. Emil continued to watch, still stuck in place and gawking at the massive amount of blood beneath the titan ahead of him.

[color=007236]"Helen! Helen come back!" [/color]

Emil turned his head in surprise to watch Lauchlan, their designated look-out, go flying past him and toward the titan that had just killed Russell as he chased after Helen. The boy seemed to be disregarding the large titan in favor of focusing on his speed and catching up to his teammate who seemed to have lost her sense. [color=9e0b0f]"Don't... It's too late..."[/color] Emil let out in a raspy voice that he could barely hear himself.

Lauchlan was almost past the titan without it even seeming to notice him when it suddenly and quickly turned his way, the speed of its movements were obviously not that of a normal titan, [color=9e0b0f]"Abnormal!"[/color] Emil called out, finally finding his voice and his strength as Lauchlan was just moments away from disaster. He pressed his triggers down and shot his hooks out toward the building across the road and pulled himself into the air, at the halfway point of the road he released his hooks and twisted his body to be facing down the road toward the abnormal. He hooked the buildings on both sides of the road and shot off for the abnormal titan.

Lauchlan screamed in horror as the titan reached out for him and managed to snag the boys leg as he tried to go past with a loud pop as something broke in the boys body. The screaming ended abruptly after the pop as Lauchlan's body hung limp from one leg in the abnormals hand, his blades dangling below him as they were let go by his powerless hands. Emil raced toward the abnormal as fast as he could, but watched as it simply threw Lauchlan into the air and caught him on his fall with his mouth like a dog catching a scrap of food. aware of what he was about to get mixed up in, Emil swallowed the massive amount of fear that was bursting forth from him and landed a hook past the abnormal titans leg and shot himself under it as he reached his blades out to cut the titans ankle apart.

As he flew past he released his hook and smashed into the ground, rolling a few times before coming to a complete stop. Getting to his feet as quickly as he could he turned to witness the abnormal titan still standing and now limping in his direction, "GOD DAMNIT" Emil yelled as he shot a hook to the right side of the titans chest and hit the gas. He flew up toawrds the titan, which brought its hands out just as fast to meet him to which Emil responded by spinning himself and managing to take off two of the titans fingers causing it to reel back slightly.

His window open He stopped reeling in the wire and simply hit the gas, falling like a pendulum beneath the titans arm pit and then back up over its back. He planted his unused hook in the nape of the titans neck and released the other before reeling in with the help of gas to slash at the meat of the titan. A spray of the titans blood shot out into Emil's face, blinding him as the titan fell to the ground with Emil attached. The impact wasn't too bad, as there was a large amount of titan acting as a shock absorber beneath him but nonetheless it hurt. Emil feverishly wiped at his eyes as he kneelt atop the abnormal's now steaming carcass. He felt the blood on his face begin to dissipate and was finally able to open his eyes enough to see as he began to hear the foot falls of what had to have been at least a dozen more titans.

He stood up and used his gear to place himself on a building to his left. With his new vantage point he stared down the road in the direction that Helen had taken off in but was unable to find any sign of her. Reluctantly he stepped from the rooftop and took off to find her. 

[color=9e0b0f]"Helen! Helen where the fuck did you go!"[/color] he yelled as he flew along, now at least five blocks from their original position and he had yet to see any sign of the younger girl. He looked ahead as Wall Rose began to loom higher above him, he was getting into the area that had once been part of the Vanguard and had yet to see a single living person, only what was left of them. To avoid a 12 meter class titan Emil detoured around a clock tower and landed on a rooftop, sprinting across it to save gas he noticed the hand of a relatively small titan resting on the tiles at the end of the building. He slowed to a crawl and carefully made his way to the edge of the building only to reel back and vomit as his mind registered the group of three to five meter titans that were feasting on the mangled innards of the body of a girl clad in the remains of a cadet uniform with twin-tails covered in her own blood. 

Being sure to pull himself far enough away from the edge that none of the titans could reach him, Emil continued to vomit as his mind ran through everything that had just happened. He raised himself up to a kneeling position on the rooftop. Around him Trost was in chaos, fires were tearing through areas closer to the breach, there were the obvious signs of lost fights versus titans everywhere he looked as blood and pieces of people lay haphazardly strewn about the area around him, titans were everywhere and he could see larger ones making their way toward the left flank, and he was now the only survivor of his squad, [color=9e0b0f]"I'm all alone..."[/color] he said quietly to himself as he dropped his worn out blades to his sides and simply stared at the titans hand just meters ahead of him as it rested on the rooftop.