"Good morning, Annie, I would have woken you up, but you looked like you needed the sleep." Her roommate spoke, as they stood at attention. Their superior dispatched work-dropped it on them, the newest recruits, and went back to his 'important business'-namely card game with the other senior Military Police members at that station.

After the officer dumped his duties on them and left, she was called with an exclamation of 'wait'.

"Oh-I almost forgot, your boyfriend left a latter for you, something urgent. A Survey corps new recruit from the graduation class-tall guy, blackhaired,…"

Annie Leonheart only outstretched her hand, with a silent glare commanding immediate delivery of the latter in question.

Her roommate did so at once.

Once they went on their ways, she entered a side ally and took a look at the latter.

It was written in a language long forgotten inside these walls-one that was known to her, and few others.

Annie, I sent this as soon as I could, after hearing the news. Our village was attacked!

Yesterday, as we were on a mission beyond the walls, I recognized one of the Titans-it was another warrior from the village!

I snuck out and met with him as the expedition was returning.

He said that months ago, some strange flying machines approached our village, they were like nothing anyone has ever seen. One has landed, and strange-humanlike creatures exited-they wore strange armor! They then attacked-their flying machines having the strangest cannons on them.

Even when the warriors transformed into titans, they kept shooting, and when our warriors managed to bring down one of their flying machine, it exploded, soon after the Titans started exploding, as the strange flying machines shot what looked like metal arrow shaped cannon ammo. Before leaving- the exploded the entire village.

Our home may be gone….

Annie crumpled the note, before burning it-no evidence of it could be allowed to remain.

'Father!'

It was only later, s she resumed her patrol, that Arlert approached her and asked her to help them.

For some reason, she found denying him difficult.

She agreed.

When Arlert led them to an underground passage, and the two with him-Yeager and Ackerman insisting that she follow them inside, even after she voiced that she noticed the lack of people around them, Annie found her mind going back to that latter-that horrible massage of the doom of her home.

She had nothing to lose anymore.

Despite all four of them knowing it to be a trap-Annie took the first step into the passage.

She entered the tunnel she knew she won't be able to take Titan form inside.

Having recently read manga and watch anime, as well as scour the internet for fanfics, of Attack on Titan, recently, my muse left me unable to concentrate, and even deprived me of sleep, until i put this idea 'to the pages', so to speak.

IF the attack was done by a separate, isolated human survivor colony-one that retain or even improved on the technological heritage of pre wall humanity (and i find it very likely that there is such-beyond the reach of the walled settlement or titans, like across seas), or alien invasion, i will leave the readers to speculate, for now.

This is the first step to something different-namely what if Annie did not try to escape, and entered the tunnel instead, as Armin led her into the trap.

Just how would it change things?Just how would her lose of purpose effect what is to come?