Armin stood outside the cabin where the young Titan slayers were staying. Keyword was were, they were out of here, they were moving out to a mansion, stationed under Captain Levi himself. Eren? Very ecstatic, since it meant he could butcher some Titans. Mikasa? Mildly enthusiastic, since it meant Eren would be safer. Armin? He was just here to see the sights and kill the Titans, status and rank were just flags so people could look at him and say, "See him? Armin Arlert's going places! Keep your eye on that hunter!"
Yes, that was all it meant to him, he didn't want to get ahead of himself, the best strategy was to not die, before anything else.
Sasha Blouse--A.K.A. the Potato Girl--was sparing yet another poor spud from the elements, giving it refuge in her stomach when Armin found her outside, like a thief in broad daylight.
Armin rolled his eyes when he thought of that excuse she made, that day so long ago. He almost told her that if she wanted to give something refuge, she shouldn't eat it, he compared her to a Titan in his mind, did she even need to eat that much? He also wanted to meet whoever thought daylight could be broad, and give them a piece of his mind.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKNY84Wesa
"Hey, Armin, I was just about to grab another potato, should I bring something back for you?" Sasha asked, chipper as ever.
"O-oh, no, you don't have-" Armin was going to tell her, in a whiny voice, that it was okay, he wasn't hungry, when she showed up with another potato, it was in a sack by her feet.
"Here you go, chomp-chomp, champ!" Sasha was referring to the other day, when he killed twenty-two Titans by himself, something even Levi couldn't do without running out of fuel.
"O-oh, but that was nothing, real-" the potato...was in his hand. He stared at it, and, in it's own spudsy way, it stared at him. He curved his fingers around the carbohydrate-rich root, and annihilated it, with his vision, all because he felt like it.
"Ah, you exploded my tater!" she covered her mouth and was about to try that again, without the accent, when Armin growled.
"Why are you so scared of what anyone has to say about your accent?!" Armin demanded, "We're out there risking our lives on a day to day basis, and your only concern is that we'll find out you have a stupid accent!"
He turned around and saw Ymir and Krista strolling around, they were headed right their way, "Oh no, my innocent-little-boy cover's been blown...I totally exploded that tater, all because my eyes wanted to." suddenly he had an idea, an excuse only Sasha would buy, "S-sorry, I don't know what came over me, I must be that hungry."
"W-well, I have more potatoes, if you want...please don't explode them this time?"
"Promise, old chum!"
"N-now you're scaring me even worse!" Sasha looked through her sack and grabbed another potato, "Here."
"Thanks." before he could take a bite, Krista's light voice chirped behind him, and he growled low, hoping no one could hear it.
"Can I have a potato?" Krista asked, and Armin turned around. Sasha was kneeling at the girl's feet like she was royalty or something.
"H-here, Your Majesty--I mean, Krista...Krista Lenz...he, he." Sasha smiled sheepishly and Armin bit down hard on his potato, he was rewarded with the ever satisfying crunch of...annihilation.
Krista just smiled and laughed and got a potato...now that Armin thought about it, Sasha probably stole them. He shrugged and walked away, dropping his potato. He was going to go kick Eren around or something. Watch Jean kick Eren.
Eren was fuming alone in the middle of the yard off to the right of the mansion they were stationed in, and snarled at Armin when he walked up to him, "Go away, Armin! Why you always following me?!"
"I'm not, Eren, I just want to hang out with one of my best friends ever." Armin pleaded, trying as hard as possible to sound weak and unsuspecting.
"Well, go sit over there, Jean will be here, I'm going to kick him around!" Eren pointed for him to run over to the trees, and as soon as he was hiding, that horse--Eren was right, in some ways he did look a lot like a horse--waltzed up to him and they started to trash talk.
"Hey, Eren Jaeger, you whiny little brat!" Jean pointed boldly.
"You whinny, little horse-brat!" Eren spat, having learned that whinnying is the sound horses make.
"I am not a horse!"
"Don't pretend like you didn't see me see you asking Mikasa on a date, horse-boy, fight me!" Eren screeched.
"I will fight you, little brat!"
The two stared at each other, then screamed as they charged towards the other, and flew fist first past each other, the hair on their--Jean's--arms barely brushing over the other--Eren Jaeger's--skin as they landed just yards apart. Leg raised to smack Jean "Horse" Kirstien upside the head, Eren flew forward, landing next to Jean. Now on their sides they started slapping each other silly, yelling tinny insults that only a dog could hear.
"Pathetic." Armin grumbled, "I wish Annie was here. I wish Mikasa would fight me."
"Armin," Levi said boredly, "your feet...are...on...the table. Stop, please."
"You stop, Levi," Armin grinned with one eye open, "little clean freak!"
"That hurts," Levi held his hand over his heart, "it hurts right here."
"Drama queen." Armin jumped up onto the table and stepped off of it nonchalantly. He approached a window and spied Sasha sitting under a tree, eating more potatoes, "How many carbs does she need in one day?"
Without waiting for Levi to answer, he ran outside and stepped around the tree Sasha was under, then lit the tree on fire and beckoned Sasha to follow him, "I found out Levi was having pizza for dinner, and he already promised me a slice!"
"Oh, wow, you're lucky, I guess it's because you're so good at fighting Titans!" Sasha turned back to her potatoes and sighed, "But why are you telling me?"
"Because I want to invite you, as thanks for letting me have a potato earlier, but if we don't hurry right now, he might eat all the pizza!"
"Oh, we better hurry, then!" Sasha sniffed the air, "Hey, where's--ah!" She ducked forward when, swiftly as the ninja she could have been, Mikasa swooped down and darted out from under the tree with incredible speed, "Oh, but my lunch is under the the limb that fell...pity, I sliced them up and everything."
Mikasa silently held up a bag that was slightly burned, and handed her the bag of potato slices, what later came to be known as chips. Her heroics for the day out of the way, Mikasa turned to Armin, then tried to walk away, but the overjoyed Sasha was holding onto her, thanking her and soaking her scarf in tears of joy, and also tears of "I almost got smashed!", so Armin walked away instead.
Armin found Jean and Eren picking on Conny and decided to intervene, just so he'd have an excuse to take them both on, "H-hey, what do you think you're doing, picking on Conny?"
Eren chuckled and shrugged, "I don't know, Jean was doing it, so it looked like fun to me."
Armin jumped over to them, punching them both at the same time, "Mercy!" they cried at once.
"Big babies, I didn't even have my fun yet!" Armin grumbled, and as soon as he turned his back, they pounced on him, slapping the top of his head vainly, "No wonder I have a higher Titan kill rating than you!" he sneered, before launching them both into the air and drop kicking them.
"Thank you so much, Armin!" Conny cried, holding onto him, thanking him and soaking his hair with tears of joy, soon to be tears of "I got punched in the gut, and drop kicked by Armin!"
And so Armin decided to drop kick everybody, he knew he had to provoke Mikasa to get her to fight--if he wanted her to fight, which he did--so he just decided to find Sasha, who was near enough to Mikasa, that he could get her attention by annihilating Sasha's potato chips, so he did.
"Hey, why'd you destroy my snack?!" Sasha cried.
"What are you going to, cry?!" Armin cackled, "Too bad your hero Mikasa isn't here to save you!" as soon as he spoke those words, a shadow loomed over him.
"Leave her alone, Armin." Mikasa said quietly, "If you wanted to spar with me, you only had to ask."
"This should be fun!" three seconds later he swung his hand into her shoulder, spinning her around wildly, then kicked her into the house, the wall collapsed on her and he sighed sadly, "I was hoping for a little more challenge from you, Mikasa." he turned to Sasha and shrugged, then grabbed her arm, jumped into the air, and sent her into the second story through a window.
He heard a thunderous roar and Levi stepped outside, escorted by his three companions and Zoe. They took twelve seconds to beat altogether, and left them largely dissatisfied, but then he heard the roar of Eren's Titan form and smiled.
"I guess this will be the fifth battle?" he chuckled and his eyes turned red. This was all in a day of the life of Armin Arlert.
Author's Notes: I hope this was violent enough for you, Robber! :-}
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