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Extras: Omake: Fanfiction Cubed 2: From me, to you.
It was a desolate wasteland.
Towering dunes of sand as far as the eye could see, with only the bright blue of the stars to serve as a light in this cold, lonely world.
No great tree of light towered in the distance, its innumerable branches reaching out in billions of Paths, linking past...
"Welcome!
It was a shock to all of them.
To the Danger Room!
The room was cavernous, and none recognized its equivalent or how they got there.
You have been gathered here to receive the most dangerous gift in existence.
Divided into four parts, the middle of the room was divided in half...
After a long absence, and to celebrate the year anniversary of On The Bench, here are those fan-made omakes I promised... ages ago.
Stick around to the AN at the end for a little surprise I have cooked up.
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Omake: But at what cost? by Sagely Hijinks over on Spacebattles.
Eren Yeager...
So... this was supposed to be out weeks ago, but I've been laid up with Pneumonia, so... that sucked. Badly.
I still consider myself lucky that I only caught it after I finished On The Bench, preventing a delay in the conclusion.
It can even be considered a good thing since this won't spoil...
It was a serene sight.
Picturesque in a way that was as beautiful as it was haunting.
The warm light, the lost cane, the small, content smile.
Eren looked happy.
""EREN!!""
Dozens of feet rushed toward the boy on the bench.
Rias Gremory was not one of them.
She stood there, rooted in...
It had not been a special seed.
"'Why?'"
The tree it grew into was not unique or special in any way.
"I should probably start at the beginning if you want to know 'why.'"
The house it became a part of was not remarkable when cut down.
"I was not a strong God, originally. I was a god of a...
Gasper dove for the fallen Grail as it fell to the ground, no longer supported by Rizevim's spell.
"Got it!" The cross-dressing dhampir cheered as he held onto one of the missing pieces of Valerie's Gear.
He was holding the holy relic with a toy grippy claw he'd brought, knowing he'd be...
136 days until the End.
Great Red did not need to eat. It had simply created a stomach within itself for the sole purpose of celebrating its victory over him.
Eren had less than a minute before the Dream simply vaporized everything within itself and returned to the void, content with its first...
Thirteen years.
As Mikasa listened to Sona recount what she had learned in the last few hours, she kept returning to that idea. It wasn't that she wasn't paying attention. Rather, Mikasa hung on to every word, imprinting them deeply to not forget a single fact of the tale.
But still...
Numb.
That's what she was. Numb.
Tired too.
Satans, but Sona didn't think she'd ever been this tired.
Had it really been less than half a day ago that Issei had been taken?
It seemed like a lifetime ago. One in which a different Sona Sitri lived.
And the current Sona Sitri was not a better...
Life was pointless.
Pointless and dull.
There was just... nothing of interest, nothing of worth.
Like a discarded doll, Rizevim Levim Lucifer lounged in a world of grey monotony.
How long had it been since he left his seat? Months? Years? Decades? Maybe even a century.
It didn't matter...
Cao Cao stared into his drink, paying no attention to the noise behind him.
His comrades were never quiet, except for Georg, of course, and their new... boss had stirred them up.
Deliberately, Cao Cao could see that now.
He'd provoked them by showing up with a descendent of Lucifer, a holy...
She wasn't strong enough.
That thought tore its way through Mikasa Ackerman's mind as she carved through the spine of a Colossal Titan before it reached the Crimson Wall.
She hadn't been fast enough to escape the trap.
Mikasa wove in front of another Titan as Eren's fist impacted Great Red in...
If it weren't for Kuroka's presence, they would have died.
In the few short moments between the disappearance of the Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing and Eren's lunge, Kuroka's knowledge of Eren's tactics, her own inclinations for survival, and her desire to see almost everyone fighting in this...
ZOOM ZOOM IYAAN!
Those were the first words Issei Hyoudou heard.
Well...Not 'heard' so much as 'experienced.'
[...They have that song in the afterlife?]
He wasn't speaking, not really.
To speak, you need a mouth. Air and lungs. You required the concept of sound.
Issei felt nothing. Saw...
The first sign that something had gone wrong was when Arthur suddenly hesitated mid-swing.
Things hadn't been going right, per se, but they had been holding their own. Keeping Eren from getting any closer to Lillith.
They weren't winning by any stretch of the imagination, and this part of the...
Akeno hadn't understood the fear of the Titans.
She heard about it and the reasons for it. Even understood it, on an intellectual level.
She saw the shadow of that fear in Mikasa Akerman's gaze when she talked about them, even decades later.
She had even seen the illusionary image of the...
"This way," Yuuto called, leading a group of temporary refuges toward a Ministry of Internal Affairs member. "I know it was a surprise, but the Satans know what they are doing. It shouldn't be long. You'll be home before you know it."
The Gremory Knight tried to give the group a reassuring...
The inhabitants of Agreas did not notice the ground beginning to rumble. They, high in the sky of the Underworld, could not feel the vibration of the dirt.
But they saw the lightning.
Those near the edge of the flying city, with the enhanced eyes of devils, saw the yellow flash of lightning...
It had mutated.
For some reason, that was all Rias could think about as she lay in bed in her room in the Underworld.
She was finally alone, the bustle as everyone prepared for Eren's imminent attack, giving way to silence.
Eren had the Boosted Gear. Azazel had confirmed it after examining...