Author's Note

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I was asked to come up with a Levi story and this is what I came up with. It will also be based on the idea and other ideas of the original idea inventor TheScottishbroneyforlife. First and foremost I am a displaced and this is my attempt at writing a fairly decent story. Will Levi be summonable or not depends on if I think he should be. I am gearing up for more of a stand alone story though similar to my Smiling Monster of the Everfree. Levi has no ties to my other works in regards to family ties whatsoever.

Enjoy,

Alvasa

Prologue-Levi's Early Years

A man woke up in an extremely dark and thick unknown jungle. He pushed himself up and squinted as he looked around allowing his eye s to adjust to the varying lights o he could better see. Groaning he left himself of the soggy ground on which he was laying. He sat himself up against a nearby tree from what he could make out. Looking around he started to get his baring's for what was around him.

"Where the hell am I?" He muttered as he grabbed the upper half of his face. "How the hell did I get in the middle of a damn jungle? The last thing I remember is..." suddenly he felt a surge of pain run through his head. Grabbing his head with both hands he hissed and reeled from the pain as he fell over on the ground and curdle up in a bit of a ball. "Rrgha... my head..."

After a bit the pain died do to a slight throb. "Okay... no thinking... on the...past a lot..." he clutched the tree pulling himself up holding his throbbing head. "Let's list the problems an try and make some since of this crap..." he walked along in a circle for a bit. "I'm in a jungle, I don't remember how I got here, I can't recall almost everything about myself other than I was at some sort of costume convention dressed as someone and I bought something that I was missing for my costume, and most importantly I don't even know my name or who I am or was..." He sighed. "This is more than just a simple case of amnesia.."

"Wait, who was I even dressed as?" The man thought. "I'm remembering," he rubbed his temples with his forefingers, "it hurts like hell but it's coming back to me... Levi Ackerman..." He says shot open as he hunched over breathing heavily. "God Damn it, that was harder than running a marathon... Well.." he straightened up. "It's the only name I have right now so I guess I'll just use it. Now I need to see if I have any supplies and take count of any resources." he looked up and noticed the sun shining through the canopy. "It looks like it's still pretty early, but this is still a pretty thick jungle," Levi surveyed his surrounding and came to see a pack and a few other things nearby under a tree.

"Well at least I have some stuff to work with." Levi walked over and started to go through the pack. "He found a mirror amongst everything. "Guess I should look at my face to know what I look like," He snickered. Opening the mirror her saw he had short, straight black hair styled in an undercut curtain, as well as narrow, intimidating dull gray eyes with dark circles under them and a deceptively youthful face. "I mean, I'm grateful for the youthful look but... I still have constant 'someone pissed in my cheerios' face," He stood up taking note of his body, "I feel like I should be taller and that if anyone makes fun of my height I'll just kill them. " He took not that he is indeed quite short, but his physique is well-developed. "And I feel like I could do it too. Alright enough narcissism."

Levi put away the mirror and went to the other supplies. "Hmmm...."

Levi spent a large chuck of his time taking stock of his supplies. Most of it was every day items that he'd need. I few changes of clothes that mainly consisted of the same outfit her had on along with a set of dress clothes. There was also a tan mid-cut long sleeve jacket and a hooded green poncho and both had a symbol of a white wing with a blue wing underneath it. He recognized them as parts of his, well the original Levi's, military uniform. He also had a few weeks with of dried goods that if stretched reasonably would last at least two months. Most notably he found a two sets of his vertical maneuvering gear.

Along with the one with a set of swords was also a set the other type of gear called Anti-personnel vertical maneuvering equipment. This one consisted of a smaller set making it easier to move in and used duel firearms.

"I wonder if I have any manuals on the up keep of this crap," Levi huffed as he dug through the pack. "It would make getting around in the jungle a whole hell of a lot easier than waking that's for sure. book..." he said starry eyed as he pulled out the book and opened to to read the cover page.

Dear Levi,

Thank you for your purchase of the poncho and I do hope you enjoy you adventures in this new land. It sis chalked full of all types of different creatures, especially those of myth back in your old world. There aren't going to be any titans though, as much as I do like the series I didn't think it would be fore to the inhabitants of this world would fair very well against giant humanoids, even if they would leave them a lone for the most part. I included this book and a few others to help maintain your gear but I only recommended using these in areas that they will help. Most of the world doesn't have a lot of places that you would find them useful in this regard but still, what good is a survey corps member with out their full setup. I plopped you down on a continent on the other side of the main continent where you should head. It will take you some time to get over there, years actually. In that time I recommend you spend you time doing whatever you want to get by. The nearest town is due east of where you landed. Have a fun new life and a greater adventure.

Your seller of items,
The merchant

Levi gently closed the book and placed it back in the pack. He stood up and walked away then looked up at the sky. He took in a deep breath then,

"FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!"

After calming down Levi picked his supplies up off the ground and head to the nearest town.

Fifteen Years later...

Levi was now in his mid to upper forties by his count in life. Years after arriving on Fulgrund he'd made quite the name for himself. Having steady no source of income he turned to his as a mercenary and sell sword as normal work other than cleaning or library work wasn't really his thing. Sure he could get by on some field work but it never lasted long. In his early yes he garnered the name 'Grasshopper' from wearing his poncho and using his gear. He was well-known on the battlefields he'd visited as the Butcher. He was always fair with his work and preferred taking work where no creature had to die for no reason but was still not against fighting outright either. He was known for getting results and always taking a contract no matter how small the pay and he'd always delivered. Many that tried to buy him off of his contracts soon found themselves either with bruised or missing fingers. It was safe to say he never went back on his clients, at least not until the job he was paid to do was done.

Levi had taken on an escort mission to one of the deeper jungles of Abyssinia. Word of his exploits had long since reached this current land. He was often mistaken for a deformed minotaur. He would correct any creature that called him that at first but eventually gave up on that. His current employer had him and a group of archeologists headed into the jungles to look for an ancient city that could possibly be the birth place of the entire Abyssinian race. He was here to kill any jungle animals that wanted a snack. Seeing as it was a jungle he decided he would use his maneuvering gear. In his early yes he garnered the name 'Grasshopper' from wearing his poncho and using his gear.

"How much further till we reach the site Guso," Myte asked the head archeologist. "My paws are killing me and the dame sun has already set for today. I'm also very hungry as is everyone else!"

"Hush Myte," Guso scolded his fellow scientist. "We would've been to there already had some cat not napped in the middle of the day as well," he looked back over his shoulder from his map.

"I'm just glad that the Butcher is watching our skins," Came a female voice. "We're lucky we caught him before he left for another town."

"Your right about that Marble," Came another female voice. "I didn't think he'd be such a scrawny looking thing either. We're scrawny ourselves but at least we have fur. Poor thing must be freezing with just the tuft on his head."

"He may only have a bit of fur on his head but he's far from weak Fla," Guso added. "He wouldn't have a name like the Butcher with out good reason. If you look close underneath his clothing you make out quite the well honed body."

"I know," Fla purred. "I saw the other morning and I MUST add that he must be an beast in the bedroom."

"Didn't need to hear that Fla," Marble rolled her yes with a groan.

"Stop," Guso said as he stopped the group. "We're here," he motioned to an open valley just beyond the tree line. "Let's set up camp and then get started on looking around first light tomorrow," he rolled up his map.

Some days later...

Levi was sitting up in a nearby tree reading one of his maneuvering gear manuals for the umpteenth times since he'd come to this world years ago. He was wearing a pair of black rectangular framed reading glasses. He didn't necessarily need to read the manuals anymore to maintain his gear anymore as he'd memorized them by this point in time. He did to pass the time but for the most part because he liked reading books so much.

He was looking to make a new weapon for himself based off the designs of the sword and guns, one that combined the gun feature with the exchangeable blade feature of his sword hilt controls. It was to help conserve his ammo and blade usage. Steel wasn't cheap to make and neither was gun powder or any of the other materials that he would need if the need to repair or replace a piece of his equipment ever arose.

His current days usually consisted of sitting up in the higher trees to keep a lookout for any incoming hostilities. Usually it nothing more than a stray jungle predator drawn in by the smell of camps dinner. Some of his other primary duties were being the primary source of hunting for meats and gathering other edibles. and water fetcher from a nearby stream the group had come across about an hours hike outside the valley. Thanks to his military skills and training he was more or less always on the lookout and ready while making time to read.

Today was a bit off, however. Unlike the usual days where he'd get up to bugs and moister all around in the morning, today was strangely quiet. Not only was it quiet the air was very dried, much drier than you'd expect any type of extremely green tropical first to be. It put Levi on edge and he was super vigilant because of it. So far the day was going on like it would normally except for a predator attack, then her heard itform above and looked up.

Levi looked up and saw it.

"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"

A massive red fire drake and he called out, "DRAGON! GET TO THE CAVES!" He called out and his colleagues ran as he jumps to his feet.

The dragon slammed into the ground and Levi aimed his grappler at the beast and shot it. Digging into the large red dragon's body with his grappler shot Levi whizzed over to the beast with a burst of speed as he drew two of his blades. Levi clicked a switch on her handle and with a burst of speed rapidly spun around one of the dragon' legs like a top cutting in the the beast scaly-armored hide until her was launched into the air above the drake. He click another button and another of his grappling hooks shot out and Levi was off again.

This time his goal was the dragons neck. His overall goal was to injure the beast enough to make it leave, not actually kill it. He'd fought a few drakes before and quickly found that their scales wore down his swords rather quickly. Being in the jungle like this meant he couldn't just go out and make more. He was only trying to maim, not kill, but even then it was taking quite a lot of effort just to make the cuts he'd already made.

The dragon would claw, roar and breath fire at Levi. Levi was to fast to be hit by any of the dragon's attacks and due to his high heat tolerance he'd gained from the original Levi's experience's with Titans he was able to reason closer to the drake without hesitation. The fight went on for a good ten minutes until the drake managed to grab hold of one of Levi's grapplers and throw the human off. he managed the use his other grapplers to swing into the cave where the Abyssinians were hold up. They quickly grabbed him and brought him further back into the cave while they waited on the dragon to finish his rampage.

"Its a good thing we've been camping in here and camouflaged the entrance or all or gear would've been destroy," Levi said as he felt a stingy sensation from his forehead to just below his lip on the right side of his face as well as under his left eye.

"Levi your face," Marble noticed his wound. "Let us patch you up."

"Thanks," Levi sighed.

About thirty minutes passed. "There, all done." Marble said as she wrapped linens around Levi's face. "I was scared that you'd lose you eye but the cut only looks worse than it is. You'll still have scars I'm afraid."

"That dragon is still out there Levi what are we going to do,?" Guso bit his claws. "Think of all the artifacts he's destroyed, or is going to steal. We have to save them!"

"What my sisters sees in you I won't," Gla slapped her face. "Our lives are more important than rock you asshole."

"Gla is right Gu," Myte shook his head. "What do we do now mister Levi?"

"Hold up here till he leaves," Levi sat down. "With my vision hindered and two of swords used up we're at a serious disadvantage when fighting the drake. We have enough food we can stretch for nearly two weeks. As for water, the cave is pretty damp further in. We can explore further back and find an under ground spring or the stream we get the usually water from, maybe even a way through the mountain if need be."

"So we wait," Myte sighs as Levi nodded.

So they waited, and in that time Levi found a mysterious shrine with a spring in. He was intrigued to find a shrine this deep in the mountain and couldn't help be get a closer look. Upon doing so he slipped and fill into the water. He quickly pulled himself out of the water and found that he' felt better than ever in a long time. He went to tell his party members about it but as he looked back he found the spring shrine gone.

"This place must be special if I was let in. I don't think I'll tell them but I still need water," he stepped and heard a thunk. He looked down to see a stream running to the south of the mountain. "This must but where the stream where the stream starts. At least we have water now." He then went back to the others, that mysterious shrine weighing on his mind.

Months later...

"Nothing," Gla threw a rock into the jungle. "We've been out here for months and we have nothing!"

"I don't understand," Guso read over his notes and his map. "All I've work and translated from the old texts say this is the valley where our ancestors came from."

""Gu, it's time we head back," Marble looked at her colleagues.

"You can go back I will stay here and keep looking," Guso retorted.

"I'm going back home Guso," Myte crossed his arms. "I have a kitten counting on me to be there before her birthday in another month. It took us a whole month to get here. We have jack squat!"

"The only one who found anything Levi and that was when he fill in the cave area," Gla stated. "Which had no signs of civilizations. Only a spring that feed a stream on the other side of the moutain."

Levi had lied about this though. He had in fact found signs that some race had created some sort of shrine around the spring he'd found during the dragon months earlier but he also knew the sight was sacred, or at least it felt that way to him. He felt like taking the Abyssinians to the shrine would desecrate it. At the same time he wasn't totally lying either as after he'd walked out and looked behind him, the shrine and fountain had vanished. He gone back several times since but it was always the same, a damp cave.

"And I would prefer not to be ogled by Gla for not having a shirt for hours again," Levi noted the female cat eyeing him with a hungry gaze. "Your colleagues are right Mr. Guso," He said as he was propped up against a tree. "You've been out here for month and haven't found a single thing. It's time to head back."

"Like I said, I'm staying," Guso went back to his notes.

"No you're not," Levi walked out of the shade. "I was paid by your university to bring you four out here and back and that is what I am going to make sure happens. You can comeback on your own accord," he said as he leaned in his bangs slight overshadowing his eyes. "Or I can I can use necessary force if you like," Guso took a hard gulp and then agreed to go.

Thirty years after Abyssinia...

He was in his upper seventies maybe pushing eighty by now but the man known as Levi Ackerman was at peace. Levi was laying on his back with a piece of grass in his mouth. He was currently resting under a tree and staring up to the sky. It was his day off after all and he'd decide that it was perfect to sit back and read. His past few years had been peaceful sense coming to Equestria.

He'd come here because he'd heard that there was plenty of work that didn't involve creatures to wield a sword or any form of a weapon unless you worked for the guard, the local police force from what he understood. It juts so happened that on a track to get to a city he came across a pony who was being hunted by a pack of wooden wolves. After he saved the pony from the pack of wolves she wouldn't stop thanking him.

He came to find out from this mare that the dominate species of this country were the ponies and that there were in fact several different breeds of pony but the most common are the unicorns, Pegasi, and like her earth ponies. There were several other types of ponies that were often regarded as myths by many, especially those that lived fairly close to the inlands. The mare had asked him who and what he was and Levi being ever the gentleman told her and he told her his reason for bein here in her homeland.

The mare introduced her self as Strawberry Surprise and that she was the owner of a local strawberry plantation and would be more than willing to hire him as a thank for saving her life. She explained that the job would be hard, that it came with three meals a day, and a place to sleep as well as days off every week and good pay. Levi thinking he wouldn't get a much better deal as he recalled the looks that many of the ponies had given him on his way here from the port took her up on the offer. Thus he'd happily lived a very quiet life for the last three years.

Things were on his mind though. The main thought was the fact he had barely aged since her arrive here. He was in his mid to early thirties upon arrival in this world and a great deal had passed since then and yet he still looked like he did when he first arrive if not a just a bit older. He was know in his mid to upper seventies by his estimated count and yet he he barley looked over forty, heck he actually looked younger than that if you ask any creature. He chalked it up to to being sent here and aging very slowly initially but after some hard think he recalled his dip in a certain underground cavern in Abyssinia, the time he was soaked to the core.

Levi held his hand up to the sun, "Hmmm...." he thought. "Could it have been so sort of Fountain of Eternal Youth?" he mumbled as he clenched his first tight. "Or it be a sort of Fountain of Immortality? I 've certainly taken enough death hits that would kill most creatures. I have more deadman scars than any creature that could possibly be alive to. Whatever? I guess I'm an immortal. Soon it'll be time to move on I guess," he though as he dropped his hand.

"Levi Ackerman what are you doing laying sprawled out under this tree?" Came the sweet melodic voice of his boss.

"Hey Strawberry," Levi looked up. His eyes came to rest on a mare with a bright red coat with a greenish white mane and tailed that had dark green stripes in it. On her vise were a few light creamy yellow freckles that resembles the seeds of actual strawberries. "Just enjoying my day off." He sat up. "Until a certain mare showed up of coarse."

"Oh..." Strawberry Surprise trotted up and then sat down. "Was she pretty?" she fluttered her eyebrow.

"Maybe," Levi looked off to the side.

"You were thinking about leaving again weren't you," Strawberry looked down. "I know it's not in your nature to stay long periods of time in any place Levi. You told me that when we first met remember. Why hide it from me? I thought we were..." Her eyes started to water. "Closer," she placed a hoof on his shoulder.

"Strawberry," Levi sighed as he rubbed the back of his head. "You're very dear to me and I DO... care about you more than just as a friend but... I have just need to figured out a few things and... I don't think I could handle it if we... " he couldn't finish his sentence as he felt a pair of sweet red lips on his own as he was forced to the ground by a sudden spring of the mare on top of his chest .

"I don't care what you realized Levi," Strawberry said softly as she gazed into his his for a moment then laid her head down under his chin. "I just care about you and what makes you happy. If you think you shouldn't be here then I won't try and keep you here. Just know that I love you and you will always have a home here," She pushed up and then started to trot away. "Even if I'm gone."

Levi laid there for a minute, and reached up and touched his lips, "Hmmm.... maybe I've been thinking to much..."

Levi and Strawberry Surprise were married later that summer and he stuck around for the next forty years on the plantation. He and Strawberry were never able to have foals f there own but they did adopt three little fillies and he raised his daughters with all the love they could ever ask for. When it came time for Strawberry to be buried he was still there by her and their children, grandchildren and even grandchildren's sides. He stayed another few years after that but the memories and pain of losing his wife grew too much finally and Levi Ackerman decided that he need to move on once more. Taking his gear, enchanted armor he'd gotten on a trip to an ancient temple and a few enchanted weapons he'd had commissioned in his early years. Levi departed after he said his goodbyes to his family, they often got a letter from him until they came less and less. The letters eventually stopped as he stopped writing, no longer cable to bare to do so...