A/N: Well, this was unexpected.

Alright, as much as I would love to enter the backstory in the Author's note, it is poor form to do so, so allow me to set it up in the first snippet.

1.1

Yggdrasil. The bastion of reality, a great, multidimensional computer that baffled the minds of the whole of reality. Within its code lay the foundation for not merely worlds, but an entire multiverse. Worlds of magic, ninjas, ghosts, ponies, realms that few could comprehend, and fewer could manipulate. By its very nature, its protection and operation fell into the hands of gods and goddesses, from across a million pantheons: Greek, Celtic, Norse, Hindu, Shinto, and thousands more that mere mortals could not comprehend. Within the great trees metaphorical arms was cradled the whole of reality, a twelfth dimensional beauty that contained all that was, is, and ever shall be.

And then something fucked it up.

In a yoctosecond, all of reality was thrown into chaos. The pantheons rallied together in a desperate attempt, interacting with the great tree the only way they knew how: with desperate coding, patches and, finally, a single, crude and even cruel compromise.

The Loops.

The loops were conceived in the final days of the stabilization, an attempt to hold the few remaining, unstable worlds together. With trepidation, seven worlds were selected, and within those worlds, seven beings were selected to stabilize the loops.

Harry Potter. Ranma Saotome. Naruto Uzumaki. Lina Inverse. Usagi Tsukino. Ichigo Kurosaki. And Shinji Ikari.

These seven humans were so blessed and so cursed to witness an eternity, unending, immortal, and forever within their home worlds, trapped within a single time period, though with some differences every now and again. In time, these worlds stabilized and the so christened Anchors were allowed to meet both each other, and the gods that ran their worlds. Thus, they were given three rules:

Don't go insane.

Try not to crash your loops.

And whatever you do, DO NOT ASCEND TO GODHOOD!

And so, this knowledge granted, the original seven Anchors were returned to their respective worlds, each to contemplate their own immortality. A gift and a curse.

And within the world of one Keiichi Morisato, the gods toiled. They brought new worlds into the loops, oversaw the creation of new Anchors and new loopers, beings that would regularly, but not always, travel through time with the Anchors. The gods became witness to their lives and how they changed the worlds around them, turning from prisoners of a time and space into masters of their time and space. And as they brought more and more worlds into creation, they met a single, fateful realm, with a strange, unassuming name.

Mega Man.

The gods turned their gaze upon this world, tried to bring it into the looping multiverse. But with each failed attempt, the world grew more unstable, until, one fateful day, a final attempt to loop it ended in disaster: the attempt failed, the world that had been fused to Mega Man obliterated in truly spectacular fashion. The shockwave enveloped all of Yggdrasil, crashing every loop in existence, and destroying what remained of the failed world that, suddenly, never was.

As the loopers came together in eulogy, the Gods returned to their work, humbled. Together, they continued their work, silently and desperately bringing new worlds online in an attempt to minimize the damage of The Crash. But alas, some worlds had also felt the blow, and in one case, had its long, amazing and tragic history obliterated.

One world, named Attack on Titan.

Ganesha nodded to the humming, death blue computer screen. "You see my problem, yes?"

Hephaestus nodded in worried affirmation. "I do admit, I've seen similar scenarios, at least in part, but this one world has to be the worst yet, all the worst issues. High mortality rate, low sanity across the board, and the gaps in even our knowledge... damn."

Ganesha ran a hand across his trunk and groaned in frustration. With the failed attempt at looping the Mega Man worlds, several new loops had to be activated pronto, and this world had been ordained by Zeus to his care. However, as each attempt failed, and each failure destabilized the loop further, Ganesha was realizing that Zeus hadn't given him a loop: he'd dumped it on him. "We can't rely on a stable anchor, can't use a proxy anchor like the Triforce, can't kick start it with a fused loop..."

The god of the forge clasped his hands together and opened up a simulation program with his mind. As he watched, the current anchor candidate, Eren Yeager, flew around on what could best be described as steampunk web shooters, trying to kill giant zombie kaiju with duel swords, before transforming into one, only to be shot at by the soldiers of Wall Maria. "This loop... it has so much potential. So many brilliant people, so much consideration of the human condition. Of what great and terrible things they can do." With a cracking of his joints, Hephaestus began typing. "We must get this world looping."

Ganesha nodded in thoughtful agreement, staring at the appearing code as his partner began formulating a new looping scenario, thoughtful. 'We have to find a system to keep the anchor alive until the end. So way of ensuring that at least that one person...' The thought cracked into her head like lightning, illuminating the possibilities in a single, glorious flash. "EUREKA!"

Hephaestus turned to the elephant god, who spoke in fervent, rapid words. "We've been going about this all wrong. We've been trying to get a single anchor established, but if we select several, and require that each be awake for a loop, then we triple the power of the anchor. They can rely upon each other: become a team. If we can select the correct team, establish the best possible loopers, then maybe, just maybe, we can begin. Not one solid anchor: three nebulous anchors"

Hephaestus nodded, seemingly agreeing. What he said then did not fill Ganesha with confidence.

"I'm sorry, but you've deafened me. Could you explain that again?"

Armin ambled up to Annie Leonheart, smiling in the most disarming manner he could manage. The mood, set helpfully by a slight breeze, a cool summer wind, and the wide expanse of grass around them, helped. "Hey, Annie, I've been meaning to ask you something."

The blonde saboteur, Titan shifter, and possibly Marco's murderer was totally unaffected by Armin's charms. "What do you need Armin?"

Armin's left eye flashed into the strange, archaic symbol of his hypnotic Geass. "I was wondering if you could kill yourself. Would you kindly?"

Annie didn't even fight herself as she reached down for her sword and drew it. Armin naturally turned away, and began searching for a discrete place to throw up.

Most soldiers considered Captain Levi Ackerman to be Humanity's greatest weapon, a tool of unmatched power and ferocity that was unleashed unto the Titans with extreme prejudice. Many had seen his work, his power. Many more had heard of it, in the quiet, awed tones that only the truly inspired could conjure. Not a small number owed their lives to this great, powerful man.

As for the few soldiers that weren't "most soldiers", they were currently in awe of one Mikasa Ackerman as she worked her deadly trade in Trost.

The half Asian teenager landed a few feet away from the gathered soldiers, casually drinking and taking bets from the safety of the rooftop. "Reload." With one word, Mikasa managed to conjure a dozen blades from her fellows, before, with a blade in each hand and one in her teeth, launching herself back into the fray. None of the assembled rushed to help her, since she had currently racked up a total Titan kill count not merely unheard of, but so unbelievable that they few officers that did arrive to try and order their men to assist her were stunned into silence as they took in the gigantic pile of Titan corpses, near literally a mountain of them.

On the front lines, Mikasa shattered another set of blades killing the Colossal Titan, all the while casually deciding that, when the time came;

'I'll need to get some better swords.'

Eren Yeager watched as the Armored Titan, alias one Reiner Braun, charged at the gate of Wall Maria, feverish thoughts running through his head.

'I have power.'

The Armored Titan was closing in.

'I can change things.'

The cobblestone roadway shattered underneath the Titan's feet.

'I can choose to help, or to destroy.'

The Soldiers were turning, running for the closing gate.

'I will destroy him.'

Eren cocked back an arm.

'They said I was crazy.'

A massive, green forearm shot forward and halted the Armored Titan in its tracks.

'Well who's crazy now!?'

Aloud, he roared.

"EREN SMASH!"

1.2 zeusdemigod131 (Ben Ten)

Attack on To'kustar

Year 845

Mikasa Ackerman, Eren Jaeger, and Armin Arlet watched in horror as the skinless head of an enormous titan appeared over Wall Maria. Citizens ran in panic around them, and as the wall shook from what they assumed was a kick they knew that the walls were nothing more than a cage, and humanity was-

"I still don't see what all the fuss is about." The three friends watched as a red fin rose above the titans head, followed by a red and white head, and a portion of the creature's chest.

"What is that thing!?" Mikasa shouted.

"Did it just, talk?" Armin wondered.

"I fought squids bigger than this guy." The titan slowly turned to see the creature standing behind it, when it saw it, its eyes went wide.

The creature smiled and grabbed the titan by its head, lifting the entire thing off the ground, much to the Titans dismay. "Mind if I ask you something?" Positioning its hands on the center of the titans back and the nap of its neck, the creature turned around. "I know you're an abnormal or something, and feel free not to answer this, but can you fly?"

The titan continued to squirm, trying to escape.

"Guess there's only one way to find out then," The creature took a few giant steps away from the wall and stopping a good distance from the city, began to spin, a feat quite impressive for a being of its size, and tossed the titan into the distance, the great beast hissing as it flew.

The creature whistled as it watched the titan fly, then mimicked a crashing sound as it disappeared over the horizon.

Then it did the last thing anyone expected, it turned back around, smiled, and waved at the city, before hitting a strange symbol on its chest and disappearing in a flash of green.

Inside the walls, everyone had stopped panicking and were in a state of shock and disbelief.

"What... what just happened?" Armin asked aloud.

No one had an answer.

"Really Ben? You're not gonna tell them anything?" Gwen asked her cousin, now that they were safely within Wall Maria, she was wondering just what his plan was for this Loop.

"Nah," Ben answered, leaning back in his chair. "If that thing shows up again, I'll just go Way Big and drop kick him into orbit."

"But what about the rest of those things?" Kevin asked. "They're still outside the wall."

Ben shrugged and his cousin glared at him. "Ben." She said.

The bearer of the Omnitrix sighed and twiddled his watch. "Fine, this weekend I'll head out and do some population control as Diamondhead, I doubt these things can bite through crystal."

A few days later, Gwen and Kevin watched as Ben encased titan after titan in a crystal cocoon, his assumption that they wouldn't be able to eat him had actually turned out right, slightly to Kevin's disappointment, as he had bet Gwen that something akin to a kid chewing on rock candy was going to happen.

Meanwhile, atop Wall Maria, Dot Pixis watched as some crystal... thing, attacked titan after titan.

"Cadet," He turned to one of the guards. "When he's done down there see if you can recruit him." The eccentric officer grinned. "That's exactly the kind of man I want on my personal detail."

1.3

Eren stood at the edge of Wall Rose, carefully and deliberately plugging in his guitar. Behind him, Mikasa plugged in her own base, while Armin finished setting up the drums. Surrounding them were most of the 104th, some abjectly terrified of the massive hole Bertolt had kicked in the wall, most drawing swords and concluding that Eren, Mikasa and Armin had gone mad.

Through the sun glared hole stepped a Titan, great maw smiling, rank hair shaking with each step, stone cracking beneath it. With a roar of ferocity the 104th...

Was promptly silenced by Eren, letting loose a guitar rift that travelled down the wire and through the speakers, slamming the Titan with a rarified wall of hard rock.

Eren shifted gears and opened up a Nirvana track, The Man who Sold the World. The softer tones washed over the approaching Titans, vibrating them with pulses of sound. Armin modulated the sounds, down shifting to shake the Titans on an atomic level. Several Titans literally melted.

And then Mikasa began her solo, and very neatly and decisively destroyed the Titans.

As the mini band wound down, several of the less terrified or amazed members of the 104th began calling for an encore. Amongst them, Dot Pixis had somehow located a cigarette lighter and was waving it in an appreciative motion.

Mikasa cocked an eyebrow at Eren, who exchanged a glance with Armin. The point decided, the three started up again, this time going for a more...

Metal approach.

Several hours later, the Survey corp finished rounding up the last of the Titans that the Shiganshina Trio's metal had brainwashed. Most were able to keep straight faces, but between the face paint, the hairdos, and the tee-shirts, several had to retire every few minutes to get the chuckles out of their system.

1.4 XeroM52 (Skull Girls)

Skullgirls

"My, my, what a dreadful world I find myself in." Eliza, celebrity diva and Parasite Host for Sekhmet, said as she looked around the surrounding area. "I wonder if I'll find something worthy of eating." Ever since she began Looping, she had taken this as an opportunity to 'expand her horizons', discover exciting new things, view beautiful places, and met exotic creatures to eat them. Sure people took an exception of her feeding, but what they ignored is that she couldn't control herself. She needed to consume blood for her to keep on living, to keep looking this young and healthy.

"Hm. They treat me like a monster." Heck, everyone kept telling her she was just Dio Brando in female form. "Mh…Dio-Darling, I miss you so." She didn't mind the comparison since Dio was such a beautiful man, with a body sculpted by the gods themselves and a charm that surpassed the devil itself. "I can't wait to meet you again…" Despite her 'inclination' towards him, Eliza knew that Dio was a man of insatiable ambitions while she just practiced Hedonism religiously; meaning that both of their natures prevented them from having 'something' more than what they had; 'Friends' with 'benefits' without necessarily being 'Friends'.

"But enough thinking about my 'stress reliever', I need to know where I am." Or see if they were other Loopers that would spoil her fun. It seemed that her name was doing been passed around and Loopers had been expecting her, ready to put her down. Luckily for her the Multiverse was big enough that there were people who still weren't privy of her identity.

"Mm…grassy plains and lots of trees as far as I can see…" Meaning she had to 'walk' by herself. "Mou…Why can't Albus and Horace be here with me? They could carry my around." Eliza complained while pouting. Only plebeians walked towards they wanted to go; she was a Queen, she should be carried by those beneath her. "Once again I'm forced to endure such woes."

Suddenly Eliza felt how the ground beneath her started to rumble. "A tremor?" she wondered for just a second. "No. The rhythm is different, this feels like…" like footsteps. Turning around she found a massive bipedal creature ten times her stature that resembled humans, except for the lack of sex organs, and the strange deformities that plagued its body.

"What an ugly creature you are." Eliza turned her head disgusted by the sight of the approaching creature. "And by the looks of it you are but a mindless beast." Her suspicions were proven by the creature lack of intelligent response. "Well, beggars can't be choosers I suppose…you are going to be my means of transport this Loop."

The creature, known by others as a Titan, kept on walking towards Eliza, not really understanding anything besides his desire to consume humans.

"I guess I'll have to train you before you can even be useful." Eliza said with disappointment but also slight intrigue. It had seen a LONG time since she had trained a pet before. "Now, kneel!" she ordered as she lifted and then brought her hand down. The Titan who had been mindlessly walking came to a sudden stop before dropping on his knees and into the floor.

"That's lying down, but good first try." She commented before giving another order. "Now kneel!" After her command was given, the Titan moved unnaturally until it managed to kneel correctly. "Good! Now how about you give me your hand?" she asked as if talking with a dog.

The Titan, if it could be capable of intelligent thought, would've wondered why was it that his body was moving all on its own and against his own will. But since he really couldn't question anything, he let himself follow what his body dictated him to do and he offered his hand to the woman.

"Good boy." Eliza felicitated him as she hopped onto his open palm. "Now, carry me while you walk…over there!" she commanded while pointing to a random direction. "Let's hope we find civilization or something to eat, you…" Eliza trailed off for a second. "I might have to think of a name for you." Well, if he managed to last more than two weeks, she might give him one. "Now go!" And with that Eliza was carried by the massive Titan in look for some people to eat.

'This Bloodbending sure comes in handy.'

1.5 (Legend of Zelda)

Sometimes, you just knew that you were in for a really, really bad loop. Sure sometimes that realization came too little too late, but every so often, Link's impressively well-developed sense of danger informed him of such facts. Other times though, it was the world around him that managed to inform him of its general level of suck.

This loop had the distinction of filling both categories within a matter of seconds. Yes, Link was in for a hard loop.

Link Awoke in an alley, smaller than usual and clothed in a few raggedy coats and moth eaten pants. Neither really did much to disguise the fact he felt as though he had been sleeping in dank alleys for most of his life, but they certainly helped keep him warm. Above him, the sun had already sunk low in the west, forcing the city walls to cast long shadows, while a cool breeze swept through the street, indicating twilight was almost upon them.

Link got to his feet and took stock of his body. Small, with short arms and legs, and an oversized head in comparison. All were indicators of youth, and thus he guessed his age to be about twelve. Link then turned his scrutiny outwards, scanning the cobbled street, checking the area against his own encyclopedic knowledge of technological eras.

Large houses, crammed close together, with only a handful of unlit torches that would provide illumination at night...

...Wait, walls?

It was then that Link's loop memories kicked in, as he stared in gob-smacked awe of what his mind told him where 50 meter tall stone walls, constructs so enormous that until his Awakening in the loop, he had revered them as gifts from god, if not gods themselves.

'Those things are huge... And they surround an entire NATION!'

Link continued to stare at the impressive feat of human engineering, utterly amazed at the constructs before him, so completely engorged by the shocked and entrancing wonder that the enormous wall, absolutely lost in awe of what his memories deemed Wall Rose...

...that he completely missed the twelve year old blonde being beaten up by three guys not twenty paces to the left him.

Of course, when said blonde cried out in pain from a particularly vicious right hook to the jaw, Link had enough sense to turn and see that someone was being beaten up in a rather one-sided three on one fight. Thus, Link took the necessary actions.

Namely, he got a running start and kneed the guy who was holding the blonde in the face, leaving a sickening crack as he broke the bullies' nose and knocking the bully off the blonde and onto the cobblestone street.

Link didn't really do what he did next in any particular way, certainly not in any manner that would require or suggest an adjective to be present to describe the action; he just stepped between the bullies and the blonde, intent to stop them from hurting the kid.

"Hey, wants the big deal bozo?" The lead bully growled from on the street. "Get out of our way so we can teach that little heretic a lesson."

Link rolled his eyes and slipped into a fighting stance. Three kids versus the Hero of Hyrule with hundreds of years of experience? Get real, they were going down.

"STOP THAT!"

Link, the blonde, and the bullies all turned in the direction of the horse, youthful shout. Running down the road were two more kids. "WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU'RE DOING?!"

The bullies lined up all grins and muscle, looking like a ludicrous impression of a phalanx. "It's Eren. This time around, he's out for our blood, the little prick," one of the bullies said. Another was more observant however.

"He's got Mikasa with him! WE'RE SCREWED!"

And just like that, the bullies ran like cowards, leaving Link and the blonde to wonder what was happening. The boy, Eren, stopped and smirked, red faced and huffing. "Ohh...look at them...the mere sight of me and they scurry like rats." Eren sucked in another breath to satiate his burning lungs.

"N-not quite," the blonde said, actually quite surprising Link with his voice. He had thought... But the blond continued. "They ran away when they saw Mikasa, more like... ow."

Link stepped back as Eren and the Asian girl, Mikasa crowded in on their friend. "Hey, you okay Armin?" Eren stuck out his hand, but Armin, instead of taking it... tear up. Armin struggled up, leaning heavily on buildings wall.

"I don't need help to stand..." Armin got up and looked at Link. "Thanks...?"

Link just shrugged. "You're welcome."

Eren glanced from Armin to Link and coughed into his hand. "Maybe we should get out of here..."

"...and then I told them that humanity would need to go outside one day. That's when they started hitting me." Armin, Eren, Mikasa and Link sat forlornly by the long river that ran through the town of Shiganshina, brooding. Link checked the story against his loop memories, and growled angrily and with shame at himself. His memories told him he had been an orphan, a street urchin, for his entire memorable life, quietly raising himself and living off of scraps he could find and, when that was too hard for him, from charity at the local Wallist church.

His feelings stemmed not solely from Armin's little speech about how he'd been beaten, but also from his memories telling him that, had he not woken up literally a minute before Eren and Mikasa arrived, he probably would've joined in the bullies beating. Suffice to say, his pre-awake self-had been a bit of a jerk.

"Thank you, for helping me."

Link jolted out of his introspection. The three kids were all looking at him, various degrees of gratitude and confusion etched in their faces. "We never did ask you name..." Armin prompted.

Link shrugged. "Link."

Eren raised an eyebrow. "Why'd you help Armin, Link?"

Link mirrored the look. The three kids were all looking at him as if anyone showing genuine kindness or empathy to a complete stranger was well out of the norm. Of course, his loop memories quickly collaborated to remind him that it* was*. More evidently though, his memories told him that Armin was being heretical, suggesting that humanity leave the safety of the walls and venture out into 'their' territory.

It was then that Link remembered another fact about the walls. They were basically living through a zombie apocalypse, albeit, one where the zombies were three to fifteen meter tall monstrosities that weren't rotting and didn't come from a virus affecting humans.

"Hey, Link?"

Link jolted out of his thoughts again at Eren's voice. "Eh?"

Eren minutely glared at him. "Why. Did you. Help Armin?" Now Mikasa and Armin were fidgeting in apprehension.

Link shrugged. "I'm a nice guy. That's about it. Do I need a reason?"

The three ten year olds collectively blinked. Link rolled his eyes, laid back on the grassy riverbank, and decided to let his companions figure things out. Eren took Link's prompt and got into an argument with his sister, which lasted up until Armin said this:

"The wall may not have broken in one hundred years, but that's no guarantee that it won't happen today, and still..."

Link opened an eye and sat up, both actions done to more effectively glare at Armin. "Armin?"

The blond flinched at the strength of the glare, resulting in Eren and Mikasa glaring at Link. "Yes?"

Link leaned in. "You do know you've just doomed us all, right?"

BOOM

The ground shook and bucked for a moment, almost as if some great force had appeared to rend the very fabric of the peaceful life the walls tenuously held. The four children stood up.

"What was...?"

There, rising from a cloud of steam just beyond wall Rose, was a Titan. A monstrosity so huge that it just surpassed the wall's height of fifty meters. It dwarfed the humans cowering in its sight. With and almighty shift of its leg, the skinless, colossal monster readied, and then loosed a kick that effortlessly destroyed one hundred years of peace.

And a big chunk of the wall as well.

'Yup, this loop is gonna suck,' Link thought.

1.6 Crossoverpairinglover

It's great and massive head stood above the great wall Maria, an entity so terrifying that all who spotted it stopped in their tracks.

For one hundred years the wall had kept them at bay, giving them peace of mind, if always a semi state on unease. But now, that was over.

They were coming...

And with a massive kick, the wall fell.

"THE KANGAROOS HAVE BROKEN THROUGH!"

"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

"IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!"

The trio of loopers, however, weren't freaking out, and instead just stared in shock as titan sized Kangaroos hopped into Shiganshina.

"Kangaroos...we were brought to the edge of extinction by Kangaroos...MARSUPIALS!" Eren demanded in fury as they continued to hop inside "We are the superior mammals, we drive their kind to extinction, not the other way around! Who the hell is responsible for this!?"

"...Maybe the admin for those dragons is subbing, I heard they get strange shit like this all the time" Armin suggested "And Eren...why the hate on Marsupials all the sudden?"

"I have no desire to turn into a giant Kangaroo..." Eren began, before a piece of debris from a Kangaroo's actions slammed into him and caused him to bleed, followed by a massive burst of light from the now falling Eren.

As the 'Rogue Kangaroo', aka the Kangaroo counterpart to Eren's normal titan form, continued to brutalize any Kangaroo he came across with extreme prejudice, Armin looked to Mikasa, who had decided to sit this one out because she could tell Eren needed to vent his frustration out on the marsupial monstrosities "I take it this loop goes under the category of 'We don't talk about it again'"

"Correct"

"Just like that loop where someone was stealth anchoring, only you and I were awake and everyone's genders were..."

"Correct"

"Or that loop where Sasha was a Titan sh..."

"..."

"Okay okay, I'll stop talking about loops we agreed not to talk about again"

1.7 Crossoverpairinglover

The Mikasa Army

"...I don't know how I should react to this"

Even before he had begun looping, Eren had seen some pretty nasty stuff. Your mother being eaten by a gigantic freak of nature would do that to you.

Since he began looping, he had been a humanoid reindeer and a giant green rage monster, not to mention that rather strange loop called Eiken, though he would bet that it had been caused by Armin Geassing Annie

But this may be the strangest thing yet.

"Why are there three Mikasa's Eren?" Armin asked the golden question as the three (Who were around the age they were during the battle of Trost, yet the wall had yet to be breached and Eren's mother was still alive) Mikasas just blinked at them.

"I'm just as lost as you are" Eren admitted as the Mikasa to the right glared at the other two.

"Alright, what the hell are you two!"

"I could ask you the same question!" demanded the middle Mikasa

"What a fake scarf. To think you would go so far as to fake such a thing, you horrible people. Have you no sympathy?"

The left one's comment caused the other two Mikasas to pause, briefly hold their scarves in their hands as if the left Mikasa had just stabbed their child in front of their eyes repeatedly, before they flew at left Mikasa in a rage that was normally reserved for Eren when dealing with large human consuming monsters, though only with fists.

As the three way brawl of the Mikasas waged, the two loopers just nervously starred.

"Eren, you know her better than anyone, why don't you just get them to stand still long enough for you to figure out which is the real one?"

"That's the problem, I'm not sure I can figure it out. They act far too much alike..."

"Well, than you give those fakes too much credit Eren"

Armin and Eren jumped in the air a few good feet, and the Mikasas ceased their fight (Which had one Mikasa in a headlock while kicking the non-restraining Mikasa who was going to punch the head locking Mikasa) to stare at the fourth Mikasa who had just appeared beside Eren as if she had always been there.

"Okay, what the hell Admins!?" Armin demanded

A few hours later, and there were now 20 Mikasas, all lined up like the Training Corps would as Eren walked in front of them, with a contemplative look on his face. For some level of simplicity, he had had Armin give them each a number, (Though not 1), as to be able to make things more simple.

"You all look the same, talk the same and react to people who accidentally drop their chamber pot waste on me the same way" Eren did his best imitation of a drill sergeant, trying not to recall that incident, or what happened to the poor guy who didn't watch where he threw his waste "However, there is one sure fire way to figure out which of you is the real Mikasa...you!" he pointed to Mikasa number 6 "What were we doing on the original go around when the Titans attacked!?"

"We were gathering firewood, after which we saw the Survey Corps return from a failed mission, saved Armin from some bullies, you got yelled out when I blurted out you were planning on joining the Survey Corps and you fell asleep under a tree"

Eren nodded, before he turned and pointed at Mikasa 18 "What did Sasha do during the first meeting of the 104th training corps!?"

"She was eating a potato she had taken from the mess hall. She offered part of it to the sergeant, who promptly banned her from meals for several days and made her run several laps"

Eren looked a little uneasy now "Mikasa 13, during the loop I was Bruce Banner..."

"I recruited you to help track down Loki in India, shortly after which you befriended Tony Stark, whose life you saved during the battle of New York. During said battle, you punched 5 leviathans to a pulp, got shot at approximately 5804 times by ground Chitauri troops and beat up Loki before calling him a puny excuse for a titan"

Armin looked terrified at this "...They all have the same memories..."

"And because Mikasa had been out of the house when the loop began, we can't even use that as a way to find the original Mikasa" Eren just looked depressed now at being unable to find his sister in all but blood, in a literal sea of her.

Of course, at the look of her brother looking that depressed, the Mikasa horde did stop plotting to kill each other in a duel to the death.

The only reason they didn't go over to physically comfort him is the fact that they sensed that would probably do more harm than good right now.

"So...how do you plan on explaining to your folks about their suddenly expanded family" Armin attempted to lighten the rather uneasy mood.

Kalura Yeager just glared at her husband at the sight of how she had suddenly gained at least two dozen daughters.

"...The rate is decreasing, I'm sure there will only be 50 of them at the most" Grisha admitted. Apparently there was something odd about the particularly anti-smallpox medicine he had put in the water supply.

Eren and the Mikasa horde resisted the urge to glare at him. Even after so many loops, they weren't exactly sure what he was up to. The problem with a loop filled with giant man eating monsters and a lot of instability means that even the most minute things could end the loop.

Killing Annie and the other shifters, not joining the Survey Corps, Eren titan shifting during the battle for Wall Maria, Armin inventing electricity...to say they rarely got far was an understatement.

Particularly when Eren had a bad habit of being executed after the Trost Battle.

"Eren, as your appointed Minister of the Interior, I have to tell you this was a bad call and it can't end well at all. Coups never end well"

"Oh come on Armin, the loop hasn't crashed yet"

King Eren the First, new Monarch of the Walls and his royal protection force of 49 Mikasas, strolled through his new castle (still being cleaned of the Military Police who had objected to the coup to remove the corruption in the walls by formerly greedy nobles) with Minster Armin, looking rather proud with himself.

It really was amazing what you could accomplish with 49 Looping Mikasas, a Titan Shifter and the Survey Corps deciding that they didn't care who was in charge.

The Colossal Titan stood tall over Wall Maria, looking rather terrifying and ready to cause untold destruction to all before him.

At least until a squad of Mikasa's stabbed him in the eye and caused him to fall off the wall, at which point non shifter Titans began to attack him.

The 'poor thing' promptly ran for his life

1.8 Detective Ethan Redfield

So Hannes is insane this loop," Eren asked to Mikasa as they passed beyond the guard station, just out of earshot.

The Asian shrugged, "I overheard the guards talking about it, suggesting that he had some bad malt beer a couple nights ago. After downing another drink, he started freaking out, going on about how the 'Titans would kill them all and such nonsense.' He then started getting violent when the others tried to restrain him."

Eren shook his head, "We should see him, maybe talk to his commander and see if he can be moved to the interior. I'd hate to leave him languishing in prison when Maria falls."

Sadly, Maria almost always fell. If Eren managed to stop the colossus Titan, the Armored Titan would smash his way around the district instead. Furthermore, it was difficult to pin down Bertolt and Reiner's positions since they always changed. Most often, however, he would awake just as the Titan appeared above the wall in time to smash the entrance to the district.

Mikasa nodded, "We should also see him."

The two met up with Armin later that day and headed to the garrison headquarters. With a quick application of Naruto's transformation jutsu into Dot Pixis and two underlings, they were allowed entrance. After passing through into the holding cell, Armin, who took Pixis' appearance since he was more skilled at copying Pixis' character, dismissed the other Garrison soldiers. They looked on Hannes, who looked like a broken man. His eyes were vacant as he spoke in a hollow tone, "Come to mock me, the guy who lost his mind? Well get it over with. You'll get yours soon, when the Titans breach the wall, you'll see I was right."

The three exchanged glances, nodded as one and released their transformations. Hannes blinked as he looked up, life returning to his eyes along with surprise, "You guys, it can't be...how did you get in here?"

Armin bent over the soldier, "Hannes, do you remember a colossal titan breaching Wall Maria? Eren's mom's death? Being promoted to captain of wall Rose?"

Each one, Hannes eyes lit up as he nodded. The blonde haired boy gave a smile, "Well then, welcome to the loops. Time is repeating itself for us too."

Hannes sighed in relief, "So I'm neither crazy, nor have I been poisoned by bad beer. And I was eaten by a Titan too," wincing slightly at the memory, "Damn, that hurt."

Armin returned to the other two anchors, "We were probably replaced during your first loop then, since we don't let that titan eat you much anymore.

His eyes turned to the anchors, "Much?"

Eren shrugged, "We've had a few times you were evil, a titan infiltrator, or...well we don't mention the others. Don't ask, we don't like talking about it."

Hannes took it in as best as he could, but then the current situation caught up to him, "We can't let Maria fall! Hundreds will die here, and thousands in the coming weeks."

The three looked uncomfortable, "We're trying, even now, to find Reiner and Bertolt, but they're...elusive. Narrative causality is a powerful thing in some loops."

And then the screaming began. Eren cursed while Armin took on the disguise of Dot Pixis. A second later, the other two joined him. Mikasa looked at Hannes, "Follow our lead, and we'll explain everything after we've evacuated the district."

After ordering the release of Hannes into their care, the three anchors told Hannes to help evacuate the civilians. With another application of their Jutsu, the three sported survey cloaks and rushed to the breach to buy time for the district's evacuation

1.9 (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

A mare and two stallions by the names of Titanic Hunter, Long Strategy, and one who was the proud owner of the absolutely badass name; Dreadnought Reaper. These were the casual names were Eren, Armin, and Mikasa. And right now, they were getting on stage quite reluctantly. "How did we get roped into this again Armin?"

The blond maned stallion shrugged as he pulled out a drum set. "I think it had something to do with your bet against Harry over who could annoy Umbridge more."

Eren tossed a spare guitar at the aforementioned wizard, who simply opened his subspace pocket and dropped the instrument in. "This is all his fault. Stupid wizards."

Mikasa plugged her own base into the stereos provided by Vinyl Scratch. "Should we lead with our theme?"

Eren chuckled smoothly. "Sure, why not. Armin?"

Armin smirked with a touch of confidence. "Let's do this. Mares and stallions, ladies and gentlemen, Guren no Yumiya!"

"Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind der Jäger!"

1.10 Crossoverpairinglover (Harry Potter)

Harry Potter idly was tapping his foot as these new loopers took far too long to get through the sorting...or should it be said...one particular looper.

There were three loopers who had their first Hogwarts loop this loop; Armin, Eren and Mikasa. They apparently came from a reality where giant human monsters were roaming around, eating every human in sight.

Sounded like a Zombie Apocalypse loop, only worse.

Anyway, Mikasa was first up under the hat, and had been under there for about 20 minutes.

The sounds of growling stomachs suggested that everyone else was growing hungry, and thus impatient.

Harry had no idea what was taking so long, perhaps Mikasa was a rather complicated person who the hat was deeply engaged in discussing the deep details of her psyche...

"Yeager, Eren" the Hat called out all of a sudden, as the crowds murmured for a moment as one of the other loopers ran out of the line and up to the hat, which was removed from Mikasa's head and placed on his own.

"Gryffindor" the hat quickly shouted out for Eren, which was placed back on Mikasa's hat, which shouted out "Gryffindor" quicker than it did with Malfoy for Slytherin.

With the murmurings continuing as the sorting attempted to get back on track (Despite the lengthy delay), Harry made a mental note to put effort on getting the Hat to start looping to speed this ceremony up (For baseline and non-baseline students alike)

If this ended up happening again, he was going to have to eat Goyle. Or was he just hungrier than normal after having looped as a solar powered robot, thus having not eaten in over 10 years.

The bonus of the hat mixing the students up every so often being both a potential boon, and problem of that choice.

1.11 Crossoverpairinglover and Wildrook (Harry Potter)

"You will write, 'I shall not suggest the murder of purebloods absolved of any criminal wrongdoings by a proper court of wizard law' 100 times Mr. Yeager. I must say, you are a rather disturbed little muggleborn wizard for even suggesting that"

The brown haired Gryffindor shrugged, before he did in fact reach for the quill.

"Well, at least you listen to proper authority once in a while..."

Dolores stopped talking, however, once he did take the first cut from the quill, which resulted in a big flash of red lightning that turned the boy into some sort of giant monster with huge eyes that was staring her down.

The creature that was once the mudblood smirked as Dolores felt a great amount of panic at the face of the 'Compact Rogue Titan' form.

"In my defense," Eren replied, "she practically gave me a metaphorical gun in my hand with that thing and was just ASKING for me to pull the trigger. So I just decided to oblige her request."

"I don't recall her acting like a crazy duck and yelling 'Shoot me! Frogs' Legs is on the menu!'" Harry said.

1.12 Crossoverpairinglover

Equation?

594 divided by 2040 times 32.6434 minus Rogue Titan's weight squared by Colossal Titan height minus Potato to the 104th power times trans temporal geometric rule number eleven to the power of three dimensional Omni movement divided among 34 cadets plus 40495X to the power of royalty divided by 60 T multiplied by 3 plus Captain Levi's age to the power of Zoe's gender minus (Pixis divided by Armored Titan diameter)...

Eren had a dazed look in his eye from trying to read even part of the seemingly random list of things that Armin had filled an entire cave in that he had somehow managed to locate during their training period this loop (Which was really, really boring, even with shadow clones) while Mikasa just stared at Armin and his giant cave...something in confusion and not a minute amount of concern "What is...whatever that is?"

"It, is an equation" Armin simply stated

"You've been enjoying those High School fused loops too much" Eren muttered

"Oh come on Eren, this equation came to me in a dream. It's the answer"

Eren and Mikasa exchanged a concerned look "To if we need to visit that loop with those magical horses for that 'therapy' thing?"

"No, it's an equation for looping" Armin grinned.

'Or a loopy equation,' the concerned thought went through both their minds simultaneously.

"With this, I can figure out who's going to start looping next" Armin continued, sounding a bit out of character...he probably did need a break in a peaceful loop. Ponies, talking trains, maybe a nuclear loving Ghandi...something like that "Under every variable. Did you know...?"

As Armin began babbling about the best way to get Levi, Sasha, Ymir, Historia or a female Dot Pixis looping, his companions briefly considered mercy ending the loop and hoping for a fused loop with therapists around.

Eventually deciding against it, Mikasa had simply knocked Armin out and dragged him back to the cadet quarters to hopefully have him sleep off the crazy mad thinker routine, they arrived back to...a frankly strange sight.

Connie was out cold on the ground, with Sasha nibbling on his thin head of hair. Annie was spinning around like a caffeine crazed ballerina. Reiner was banging his head against a post repeatedly. Bertolt was on the roof for some reason, singing about moose. The sergeant was giving Krista/Historia an affectionate noogie, with the girl looking dizzy like someone who could not hold her liquor.

And Ymir...

"HIII!"

Was in their faces with a huge grin that was more appropriate on Luffy, rubber stretching effect included.

"HOW'S IT GOING!? DID YOU HAVE A GOOD WALK IN THE WOODS!? YOU MISSED DINNER, DINNER WAS GOOD! GOOD! OH, THE WORLD IS SUCH A HAPPY AND WONDERFUL PLACE, IT MAKES ME JUST WANT TO HUG EVERYONE!"

And she promptly did in fact hug the two of them, and the Armin that Mikasa was carrying under her arm like a small bag of flour.

The two 'sane' cadets exchanged concerned looks.

Something weird was going on. There had been something in that food they missed while they went out and got rid of the future Trost 'Commander' Gorman (AKA, the guy who abandoned trainees to the Titans), that Armin had stayed behind to eat to work on his research.

Hopefully it was temporary...Ymir's bear hugs hurt.

1.13 Crossoverpairinglover and Wildrook (Naruto)

"The match between Mikasa Uzumaki and Neji Hyuga will now begin!" the announcer in the Chunin Exams declared loudly as Naruto, who had woken up a few hours ago to find himself older (and Hokage, very awesome...though the fact he had Orochimaru sitting next to him disguised as the Kazekage while planning to kill him and raze Konoha to the ground did lessen that awesomeness)

It took him a moment to realize exactly what was about to happen.

Making a gesturing motion, his head ANBU (Harry as it was), appeared beside him in a teleportation jutsu/apparition, similarly aged up and wearing a stag mask.

"Correct me if I am wrong ANBU" Naruto continued to play the part (it was funnier that way) as he checked with his fellow looper "But didn't Miss Uzumaki promise on the heavily injured body of Eren Hyuga to avenge his brutal defeat by Neji?"

"Yes she did sir, though sadly Eren has yet to wake up from his coma" Harry replied in a trained tone of voice that masked the specifics of their conversation. The last thing they needed was a Looping Orochimaru because he got interested and then Murphy's Law acted against them.

"This is going to be a horribly bloody...oh my god!" Harry swore as he saw how ticked off Mikasa was this loop.

And he thought he was brutal in that variant loop where he clawed Neji's face off with Kyuubi Chakra (and without the hidden intent of removing the Caged Bird Seal permanently). Mikasa took the cake when it came to avenging Hinata or Hinata replacements.

He really hoped Neji didn't wake up this loop...this was probably a loop he'd want to sit out.

"For lack of a better term..." Neji muttered.

"Ow."

1.7 Crossoverpairinglover (Star Wars)

"...You know, this has happened before young man" Obi-Wan commented to the short blond apprentice he had gained for this loop (and unlike Anakin, he could in fact have other apprentices that were not Ahsoka or another Skywalker without causing such horrors as Kiss Gunji, Kamina-Barriss and Russian Petro), who frowned as he took out several books from his subspace pocket.

"Perhaps, but has anyone taken such extensive notes on its effects in and after the loop it occurred in? Plus, no one had named it before."

Obi-Wan force grabbed some of the notes and began scrolling through the details of what was titled 'The Mikasa Glitch'. "Hmmm...you definitely took a lot of detailed notes, I'll give you that. Though, do you have anything to get the two of them to shut up?"

Those two in question were Anakin Skywalker, and a female Anakin Skywalker who currently had the male Skywalker in a headlock.

"Who the hell are you, imposter!"

"Imposter! How dare you! It is kind of obvious I am the real one, I don't have breasts!"

"Stop hitting yourself!" Obi-Wan shouted at them on impulse.

"Make me old man!" they both yelled, before they resumed glaring at each other in more fury.

The visiting looper, one Armin Arlert, (or was it Arlet) who had first written down the specifics of the Mikasa glitch turned a few pages in his notes and quoted; "Those affected by this glitch will be incredibly confused about why there are more of them than there are supposed to be. Violence is likely, particularly when they get into arguments about who is the real one or the looper in question is naturally prone to violence. The fact they all have the same memories and emotions makes this hard to determine outside of gender alteration."

Obi-Wan watched with a frown as Anakin and 'Annie' Skywalker continued trying to kill each other, their argument continuing to devolve; "There is no way you're me! Your breasts are too large!"

"What!? How dare you!"

At his new apprentice's odd look, Obi-Wan shrugged "Armin, in all the loops, Anakin has only shown attraction to his wife Padme, and she's rather petite"

The now named Armin nodded, but frowned "Shouldn't they have drawn their light sabers out by now?"

Obi-Wan frowned as he revealed the two identical blades in hand. "I am not stupid, the minute they remember they have these, or giant robots, its goodbye Mid Rim. Say...how did you keep 50 Mikasa's from killing each other...I may need that advice now that I think about it" he had gotten more and more horrified as he had talked, perhaps realizing how likely it was they could in fact blow up the Mid Rim.

"Well, as they are all fundamentally the same person, they were able to stop killing each other when they realized how much the situation horrified Eren"

"And Eren is..." Obi-Wan asked.

"Pretty much Mikasa's entire world."

Obi-Wan thought about for a moment. "Then in theory, Padme should be able to get those two to stop trying to..."

"Oh, it's on little girl! Deploy Unit 3!"

"So am I, little boy! Bring it on!"

"Oh crap!" Obi-Wan shouted just before the explosions began.

"Well congratulations Anakin...you broke the Mid AND Outer Rims in your intrapersonal conflict with Giant Robots that only ended when you two triggered a Spiral Nemesis! What do you have to say about yourself?!" Obi-Wan demanded of Anakin at Eden Hall bar, with Armin behind him writing notes on the trans-gender Mikasa Glitch.

"She annoyed the hell out of me" Anakin defended himself.

"She was you Anakin"

"I don't like me all that much, I thought you knew that?"

"Those affected by the Mikasa Glitch are able to recall the memories of all their duplicates in the loop when it's over. So, Mr. Skywalker, what do you remember from your counterpart?" Armin posed the question.

"Well I feel as though I punched myself through Nal Hutta despite being the guy who threw the punch" Anakin admitted oddly.

1.13 Crossoverpairinglover (Twilight)

Leah Clearwater, one of the only native loopers to one of the unofficial punishment loops, frowned as she noticed the three teenagers who were taking a beach break.

A muscular, Asiatic female who was reclining on a beach chair in only her scarf, a pair of shades and a bikini, a short, blond haired and very feminine boy who was currently studying the ocean as if it was a magical thing that he had never seen before, and a brown haired, taller boy who was currently swimming.

"You know, the Volturi are currently after you three because of that Titan Shifter stunt," Leah deadpanned as Eren yelled from afar 'I REGRET NOTHING'. "Sure, Edward Cullen deserved to be stomped on, but do you really want a bunch of nearly indestructible human monsters trying to kill you obtain your powers?"

The three all stopped to stare at her. "We are on a vacation from nearly indestructible human monsters trying to kill us," Mikasa informed Leah. "You can't be serious."

"The bitch is," suddenly from all around the four appeared a squad of sparkling freaks of nature. "Kill the Werewolf, the others are coming with us to be turned into..."

The resulting battle didn't even take 3 minutes, as Mikasa and Eren literally took down the Volturi in their swimsuits with a pair of swords and a Titan shift (Alice ended up being thrown all the way into a mountain in Rural British Columbia)

They then resumed their vacationing activities as if nothing had ever happened.

Leah frowned, the thought, 'what the hell was she supposed to do now!? This was supposed to be 'brutally destroy the Volturi' loop...this was going to throw her entire loop plans off.' running through her head.

1.14 Crossoverpairinglover (Dragon Ball Z)

When dealing with characters, one has to remember that characters may seem strong or weak only when compared to their category.

For example, a weak Jedi would still seem supernaturally terrifying if he or she was to find themselves in Danville causing Doctor Doofenshmertz trouble. On the other hand, should a powerful Magical girl from Madoka's all but erased timeline, such as Mami, was to find herself in the Marvel Universe against the Abomination... Abomination wins faster than you can say 'Charlotte Second Form'

Raditz is a similar case; for Raditz was a comparatively weak Saiyan. Saiyans are, on a baseline, more powerful than most species. That means that a Raditz, looping or not, would actually be quite dangerous to most non loopers and even some rookie loopers.

Even the really scary non-loopers.

They knew not who the strange tailed warrior from the stars was who came down from sky to protect them, but he was a revered and all loved figure to the people of Wall Maria.

He was their protector, their benevolent guardian who, without memory bar the ability to fight and his name, took care of any Titan who got within the border of their fair cities.

He was Raditz, the God of Protection, slayer of Titans, currently doing what he does best.

"Be gone foul monsters!" the long haired fighter shouted as he flew straight into the belly of an average sized titan, which is to say big, lifted it into the air, sent it flying with a spin, then blasting it in the core on its neck, obliterating it as he fired more energy blasts at hundreds of Titans, all ripe for the slaughter like some sort of plague of the undead.

Raditz may remember nothing but his name and his battle skills, but he had a great love for these battles. He would be content to do this for the rest of time, and for the food the humans would give him for his success in battle.

"I feel happy for him" Goku noted from a version of Kami's lookout in the DBZ/Attack fused loop while eating a obscenely sized sub sandwich as the three anchors of this reality glared at him. "You have no idea how rare it is in any loop for my brother to get respect. Sure, he's usually a psychopath, but I'm the exception to my race's rule about morality."

"You said you'd teach us how to fight Titans like that Radish guy, not watch you eat that sandwich!" Eren complained as Goku finished the sandwich that was more food than what was fed to the entire Training Cadet core in a month (Even with Potato Girl)

"Do you really expect me to teach you techniques capable of destroying mountains on an empty stomach?"

1.15 Crossoverpairinglover (Pokemon)

Attack on Gardevoir

Ash and Pikachu hadn't even gotten that far into the loop before some new looper had them at sword point, a brown haired boy in some sort of European military get up with a Ralts on his shoulder who was wearing a miniature reddish scarf.

"Alright, what the hell sort of loops is this!" He demanded harshly. "Why is my sister some sort of...whatever this is!" he gestured to the Ralts on his shoulder, who was glaring at them in equal measure.

"A Ralts," Ash informed him.

"I repeat myself then, what sort of loop is this, and why is my sister whatever a Ralts is!"

"This is the Pokemon loops, a loop where we train and battle the creatures known as Pokemon to make them as strong as possible." Ash studied the boy for a moment "Hold on, you're one of the anchors of the Attack of Titan loop, right? Erik, Elk, Ethan..."

"Eren," the boy coolly informed Ash. "My sister here is Mikasa, and if you think I'm going to use my sister in some glorified dog fight..."

Ash and Pikachu sighed. Yes, there was occasionally a lot of unfortunate implications with Pokemon, but there was a lot of differences between Pokemon battles and Dog/Cock/Darker and Edgier Poke loop fights. But sometimes this could be annoying to deal with.

But then again, most loopers figured out the difference after one loop.

"I've encountered Titans before, and I am sure you agree that they are horrifying monsters. You probably spent a lot of time gaining new powers to fight them." Ash noted the slight nod from them both. "Many loopers who have turned into Pokemon for a loop find themselves retaining abilities from their time as Pokemon. Mikasa there turned into a Ralts, a Pokemon that, when fully evolved, is capable of teleporting, defying gravity, using telekinesis and many other techniques. You see where this is going?"

Ash and Pikachu noted what seemed to be an animated, though telepathic, discussion between the two, which ended with the swords removed from their necks.

It would seem that Eren and Mikasa were going to be joining them on their 'Master Quest' this loop. Good thing too, considering that Brock and Misty had phoned in earlier about wanting to go out on their own this loop (Brock decided to go to medical school early and Misty was going to try and tame Kyogre)

Viridian City

"Prepare for Trouble..."

"Make it..."

Team Rocket's motto was interrupted when Eren, having bitten his hand, turned into a gigantic humanoid monster and glared down at them with glowing eyes, breaking the roof of the Pokemon Center in doing so (Which already had a hole in it from said trio).

"RUN AWAY!" Team Rocket promptly ran for it, and would not come back to bother them for the rest of the loop.

New Island

The green lit island, the base of Mewtwo (who was not awake this time around), was the destination for a select series of trainers chosen by Mewtwo to be the witnesses to the end of the world.

Most tried to fly over in the storm, or perhaps surf through it.

Ash, Pikachu, Eren and Mikasa, who was now a Gardevoir, simply teleported over with a subway sandwich apiece.

"So, this is the home of the strongest Pokemon," Mikasa, who had regained the ability to speak with the aide of Pikachu, noted as Pikachu frowned.

"Debatable, he and Arceus have been duking it out over who is strongest." with Arceus being Loop Aware, it wasn't all that lopsided. "Mewtwo generally agrees to use only his natural powers, and so far they are about 50/50. Though, yes, he is still the strongest Pokemon on the current plane of reality we are on when looping is not taken into account."

"I look forward to fighting him," Mikasa simply said.

"Please only do so if he is unawake," Ash asked. "The last time an awake Mewtwo battled Pikachu or Charizard, the Orange Islands looked like they had just met a Mikasa Glitching Lina Inverse army."

Which thankfully, had yet to happen.

Mikasa rolled her eyes at the comment about the glitch Armin named after her, as the mind controlled Nurse Joy approached them to let them in.

The next loop, after several hundred more battles

Sasha, Ymir, Krista and the rest of the graduates of Training Squad 104 (bar Eren, Armin and the trio of Annie, Bertolt and Reiner), just stared in amazement from on top of one of the town's buildings as Mikasa fought as a one woman army, maybe two, in Trost.

She seemed to almost teleport from Titan to Titan, and there weren't that many of them left after she had someone moved a boulder in front of the hole in the wall the Colossal Titan had set up with glowing blue eyes, almost telekinetic like.

"That, ladies and gentlemen, is why she is top of the class." Sasha stated the obvious.

Meanwhile her fellow part anchors were observing this from another roof top, with Eren holding a Silver League Conference Trophy and complete set of Battle Frontier symbols while his blond pal Armin was meditating, working on force powers he had obtained his last loop, which he had been unable to finish due to a pair of Skywalkers breaking the universe or something like that.

"Amazing, isn't she?" Eren mused.

"Mmmhh...it really is amazing what you must get up to when I'm not around" Armin thought he'd be pretty good at the strategy part of that 'Pokemon' loop Eren had been describing while Mikasa won the battle of Trost on her own, for fun.

"Well, you got to explore space with aliens, I think you have your own fun when we're not around." Eren joked

"It was quite fun actually, until the Spiral Nemesis" Armin admitted.

1.16 Detective Ethan Redfield (Log Horizon)

Training the Loopers, Hannes

Before every training session, Shiroe holds a meeting in their guild's dining room. Minori was allowed to sit in on this one, since it involved the person who replaced Touya, a blonde older man from a particularly nasty universe called Attack on Titan in the Hub.

Hannes

Human

Lv 15 Swashbuckler

Lv 20 carpenter

The strategist held a quill in hand and asked, "So what kind of training do you want?"

Hannes sighed, "Please train me in fighting with two blades."

Shiroe quirked his eyebrows, causing Hannes to elaborate, "I once replaced Levi as captain of Levi Squad, the best Titan slaying unit in the Survey Corps. Even though I tried doing what Eren told me and letting my loop memories and instincts guide me, I didn't survive my third encounter with the Titans. Loop memories seem to only go so far. Mikasa told me she took over for my position for the rest of the loop and things turned out alright. But I don't want to be a burden on them anymore. I want to be able to stand on their level and protect humanity."

Nyanta nodded, "Oya, oya, I can respect that, meow. I've been to your universe once, perhaps you could give me pointers on your 3D maneuver gear."

At this point, Minori shouted, "Shiroe, this is insane! I brought Hannes here when I saw your poster on the tree, and I thought you would help counsel him, not play along with them!"

Shiroe gave her a sad look, "Minori, if Hannes were actually insane, we would give him counseling. But he really is repeating time over and over again. Your brother in the universe I first started in was named Tohya."

Minori blinked in surprise as she whispered to herself, "Mom told me once that Hannes almost got named Tohya, but after a young German gentleman pushed her out of the way of a car during his first month of pregnancy. He was hit instead. She named him after that German man."

Shiroe acted like he didn't hear what she said, though his smile did drop a bit. When she turned her attention to him again, the strategist raised his hand to her, "Perhaps this will convince you."

He placed his hand above the table, mentally reaching into his subspace pocket and calling forth an item. A computer phased into existence. The girl's eyes bugged out, "This is-!"

The device whirled to life as Shiroe chuckled, "Loopers like us can carry items between loops in what we call a subspace pocket. Over time, it grows bigger and allows you to carry bigger and bigger items."

He held out his hand against a nearby wall, allowing an oaken door to materialize, "With enough practice, you can even enter your subspace pocket. Would you like to see?"

The door swung open, revealing a study packed with countless books, a portable electric generator, a desk where a laptop used to sit, and countless other items arranged neatly. Minori blinked several times, reaching through the door, but pulling her hand out, "I...this is too much, Shiroe. I need some time to take this all in."

She walked for the stairs to her bunk, turned for a second to Hannes. She opened her mouth to speak, but closed it and walked up the stairs. The tears in her eyes, however, left nothing that needed saying. After she left, Hannes lowered his head, to which Nyanta put his hand on his shoulder, "Sometimes, the loops are not kind, Nya. I myself had a daughter named Konyan. She was a Cheshire cat in the human world, but she was sentient in this world. At the end of the loop, when I awake outside the game, I search for the same cat, and bring her into the game world. I hope one day to have her looping with us."

Hannes spoke in a mournful tone, "Loop memories are powerful. I remember when she looked after me at the hospital, the joy we had in playing this game where I could actually walk, her always standing up for me. I was there, but I wasn't. But that Hannes, loved her deeply. In many ways, I feel the same. But when the loop resets, I know I won't be there for her. Shiroe, when I return to my world, take care of Minori for me."

Shiroe nodded, "You don't even need to ask. Minori is like a sister to me too, and I would never let anyone hurt her."

The evening passed with Shiroe and Hannes discussing the finer points of their training, then Shiroe asked for some training in 3D gear since he had never visited the Titan Universe. Both Hannes and Nyanta were fine with it. After everyone else went to bed, Shiroe walked up the stairs, looking to the door where Minori rested. He paused at the door, uncertain as what to do, only for a female voice to echo from beyond, "Shiroe, would you come in, please?"

The strategist replied in the affirmative. Minori was still in her Kannagi outfit, sitting on her bed. Shiroe took a seat at the table, "Are you alright?"

Minori's eyes were red from tears, and silence reigned for several seconds. When she finally spoke, she asked, "What am I supposed to do? Hannes was my brother. I loved him like the world, and he's not even from this world."

Shiroe leaned back, "Not quite. The looper Hannes is indeed not from this world, but Hannes is still Hannes, no matter which world he's in. He was born here, raised in this universe, and he only gained memories and abilities from another world. I feel he'll never stop being your brother, even when he's in his own world. He remembers those moments you spent with him, and he'll treasure them. Hannes comes from a brutal world, where humanity is trapped within three walls like a cage. He has seen friend after friend die every loop. Those times he spent with you will keep him sane, will get him through some of those more difficult moments, and knowing you're safe from a world like his will give him strength to go on."

The anchor spoke with such conviction it staggered her, "How...how can you say that with such conviction?!"

Shiroe's sad grin returned, "Because I've been to worlds like his. A world where chaos reigns and gods consider humans nothing more than pawns and playthings in their struggles to conquer the universe. A world where humanity is hanging on by just a thread in the face of a zombie virus. A world where atomic weaponry are but a fire crackers and entire mountains can be obliterated with but an application of force."

He ruffled her hair, "Those times spent in Theldesia, with the people of Akhiba, and especially my guild mates here in Log Horizon keep me sane, knowing I have a home I will be returning to one day, no matter if I have to wait a thousand years."

Minori gasped, "You've spent a thousand years in a loop before?"

The boy chuckled, "Remind me to tell you the time I was Prince of Equestria, a universe devoid of humans inhabited by sentient ponies, griffons and other mythical and real beings."

Minori thought for a second, then turned hesitant, "Could you...well, would you be willing...to tell me about Tohya?"

Shiroe's sad grin turned happier, "Anytime."

A year of training passed with Hannes skill evolving in leaps and bounds. Shiroe took him and the rest of Log Horizon guild to the cliffs beyond the Depths of Palm, just as the sun began rising. It probably wouldn't be long before the loop ended, and Shiroe enjoyed showing this place to visiting loopers as a final present to them. Hannes rested against the cool stone surface and let the ocean breeze wash over him, "I wonder if there's an ocean beyond the wall back home."

Shiroe shrugged, "Who knows? As the expansions continue, more of your baseline will be revealed. Until then, you should explore. Yggdrasil fills in those kinds of details. One loop, you may discover an ocean a thousand miles from the wall, maybe mountain ranges the next loop after and finally a desert larger than the Sahara."

Hannes gave a pleased grin, "Maybe I'll take Eren, Mikasa and Armin with me, steal a couple survey horses and ride as far as they'll take us."

"Um-"

Minori walked up, standing over Hannes, "Hannes, I...thank you for being my brother. I've thought a lot about it, and Shiroe was right. You're my brother, and I love you. Please, be careful when you go home, and someday...when you return here, you'll be my brother again...even if Tohya is my brother."

Hannes nodded, "Yeah, you can have more than one brother after all. You'll have to take care of me then too, since I'm a hopeless drunk back in my universe...baseline anyway."

This caused Minori to start lecturing her older brother, making Shiroe and the others of Log Horizon laugh.

1.17 Blazingen1 (Minecraft)

Attack on Titan/Minecraft

"What the hell is this house made of?" said an incredulous Eren.

-Stone, cobblestone and some wood- responded Steve, Anchor of the Minecraft loops.

They were currently in a fused loop between Eren's world and the world of Minecraft. It was obvious given the blocky nature of everyone present in his world. If they were in a Hub-world loop, then this would be classified as a Minecraft "Mod".

They were currently taking shelter in the Yeager home. There were Titans lurking outside the house, but they are unable to break the wood and stone blocks despite their large size and superior strength…. Huh.

From the inside, they saw the Armored Titan running towards the Wall Maria, blockyness and all, and crashed into the wall. Unlike usual, however, once it did, it got stuck between the walls, with the audible sound of "tck tck tck" repeatedly glowing red as it did, before it finally keeled over and vanished.

Due to the particular rules of Minecraft loops, the Titans, who are "mobs", can spawn randomly throughout the city. The upside to the laws of Minecraft, is that when one dies, they simply 'respawn' within their homes. Such, neither of Eren's nor Mikasa's family died.

Of course, the benefits of respawning were good, there was one small issue about it.

"No no no no NO NO NO!" was what Jean could say before he was killed by the blocky, blond 15m Titan mob.

"F***********K!" he yelled in frustration as he respawned back in his home. "My stuff! It took me forever to gather that those diamonds! AAARRRGGG! Why didn't I store them in an Ender Chest?!"

-I've been to this fused loop before. It is quite annoying to lose your items upon death, but at least no one dies.-

"So, the Titans here are merely 'pests'?" asked Armin.

-If you want to put it that way, yes. The economy is mainly driven by mining and the Survey corps are deployed for 'population control'. Going outside has become a hazard, but not a fatal one-

"Huh. So, why can't the Titans break through the blocks?"

Steve did a pretty good rendition of a shrug, which was impressive since he hardly ever moves his shoulders.

-Now, we can hunt the Titans the normal way, or…- he made his way to the chest, and pulled out various items he gathered from other Minecraft fused loops. Among them were RPGs, Machine Guns, the Royal Guardian Sword, and other cool items. -We can do it Minecraft Style.-

Eren, Armin and Mikasa glanced at each other, before grinning widely. This was going to be fun.

1.18

Eren Jeager pulled out five coins. "Five says that she's a guy this loop."

Armin chuckled and pulled out matching coins. "He's a girl, there's not doubt about it."

Mikasa cocked an eyebrow at her companions as they argued. "What are you two morons talking about?"

"Hanji's/Hange's gender." They answered in stereo.

Mikasa cocked an eyebrow and pulled out a single coin. "This coin says that Hanji is neither."

Eren laughed out loud. "You're on."

Three days later...

Eren sorted and put his winnings into his pocket. "And you said he was a girl. Just goes to show you guys, I'm the best gambler there is."

Armin scowled playfully. "Well, if you're so rich, then you're paying for drinks tonight." Mikasa made no comment, simply looking ever so slightly happy.

"You're darn right I am!"

And drinks were had.

1.1: I just want everyone to know, they're all doomed.

1.2: Aliens, Titans, what's the difference. They're all trolls.

1.3: Power of Rock!

1.4: So dark, so brilliant. I love it!

1.5: Link would probably be a total badass in this setting.

1.6: Attack on Down Under.

1.7: Jean, of course, only sees a potential harem.

1.8: He is insane, he just doesn't know about it. Welcome to Wonderland Hans!

1.9: Admit it, when you read 1.3, you knew this was coming.

1.10: Harry has seen this sort of thing before. It's always annoying.

1.11: This and 1.10 are actually the same loop.

1.12: It was probably weed. Yeah, that's it...

1.13: Eren, Armin and Mikasa would liven up Twilight a fair bit.

1.14: Evil can be redeemed... but sometimes it's just better to wipe their memory and give them what they want.

1.15: What can I say: Mikasa makes anything more awesome.

1.16: Hannes will be consistent and awesome. His name, will not.

1.17: Minecraft. What can I say.

1.18: It's as unknowable as Han's/Hannes name.