User:RuneLai/Sandbox

"This is just temporary until we get a good quote"

- User:RuneLai while thinking about how this event write-up is going to be a mess

The coup d'état (クーデター) was a military uprising against the Central Government in response to the growing efforts to dissolve the Scout Regiment. This resulted in the old monarchy being overthrown and the Reiss family, the true royal bloodline, returning to prominence in the public eye with Historia Reiss being crowned Queen of the Walls.

Prelude
The Scout Regiment discovered the presence of a Titan inside of Wall Rose following the capture of the Female Titan. Due to the intervention of Pastor Nick to prevent it from awakening, Commander Erwin Smith learned that there were people within the Walls aware of secrets hidden from the general populace.

Nick was taken with the Scout Regiment when they left Stohess District and Hange Zoë placed him in the Trost District barracks under a fake background out of concern that he might be targeted for cooperating with the Scouts.

In the aftermath of the Wall Rose invasion, Dot Pyxis met with a recuperating Erwin and discussed the evacuation situation. The emergency food supplies for Wall Rose's refugees were exhausted within a week. There were clashes with the Military Police and the people of the Walls got a glimpse of the tensions that could have boiled over had the breach been for real.

Squad Levi was rebuilt to consist of the remaining top ten members of the 104th Cadet Corps and Armin Arlert with the specific task of guarding Eren Jaeger, who they now knew had the power to control Titans, and Historia Reiss who was the illegitimate daughter of a rural noble.

The First Interior Squad
Pastor Nick was murdered in his barracks and Hange Zoë discovered an investigation being carried by the Military Police Regiment. Though she was not able to examine the crime scene, Hange saw that all of Nick's fingernails had been pulled out. Moreover, the soldiers guarding the door, Djel Sannes and Ralph, were part of the Military Police's First Interior Squad and did not normally operate outside of the capital.

They attempted to cover up the murder as a robbery because Nick was a member of the Order of the Walls and their holy objects were made of valuable iron, but in doing so they revealed they knew too much about him to be an unrelated party. Hange had not mentioned anything about his religion when she filled out the application for him to stay.

Later that day, Commander Erwin Smith sent Nifa with word of a freeze on Scout activity outside the Walls to Levi and Hange's squads. The government also asked them to hand over Eren and Historia. Nifa escaped from the Scout's headquarters as the Military Police under Nile Dawk arrived to detain Erwin.

Thank to Erwin's warning, the newly reformed Squad Levi and Hange's squad escaped from their remote cabin before the Military Police could capture them. Levi asked Hange to leave some of her squad with him, so Keiji, Nifa, and Abel remained with Levi and Moblit Berner accompanied Hange in her pursuit of Erwin.

Levi and those with him headed for Trost District to put distance between them and the capital. There, the citizens were receiving handouts on behalf of the king. While the squad walked down the street, a carriage barged through and kidnapped two members of Squad Levi.

Having anticipated this, the kidnapped victims were not Eren Jaeger and Historia Reiss, but a disguised Jean Kirschtein and Armin Arlelt. Levi and his squad tracked the kidnappers to their hideout. Noting that the kidnappers were amateurs, he left the rest of the body double operation up to his squad and left to meet up with the rest of the team. Squad Levi and successfully captured the kidnappers' ringleader, who turned out to be Dimo Reeves, the head of the Reeves Company. Reeves confessed that he did not want to help the Interior Squad so much as he was forced to. He considered Trost his town and gave people work. If he had not cooperated, the company would have been seized by the government, his employees thrown into the street, and the lives of him and his subordinates would have been forfeit.

Nifa and Abel were watching Keiji, who was transporting the real Eren and Historia to Dot Pyxis in a separate carriage. Levi joined Nifa on watch and noted that something felt off about how the Military Police were reacting. As he concludes who could possibly be behind this, they were ambushed by the Anti-Personnel Control Squad (Anime) led by Kenny Ackermann. Nifa and Abel were killed and only Levi escaped alive.