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 is 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.

Erwin sent word of Scout activity being restricted to the newly reformed Squad Levi. Levi escaped along with his and Hange's squad members from their remote cabin before Military Police could capture them. He asked Hange to leave some of her squad with him, so Keiji, Nifa, and Abel remained with Levi and Moblit Berner with Hange. 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 Yeager and Historia Reiss, but a disguised Jean Kirstein and Armin Arlert. Levi and his squad tracked the kidnappers to their hideout and successfully captured their 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.

Meanwhile, Levi caught up with Nifa and Abel, who were watching the real Eren and Historia being transported to Dot Pyxis in a separate carriage with Keiji at the reins. However, they were ambushed by the Anti-Personnel Control Squad (Anime) led by Kenny Ackermann and only Levi was able to escape alive.