It happened quickly. Floch's right arm was held tightly by Miss Kiyomi, her well-filed fingernails started to penetrate his Scout's uniform. Face flushed scarlet from anger and embarrassment, Floch called out to his other comrades, but it was not them who answered his plea. Crashing through the window, and barging through the door, came Mikasa and Liesl.
"Long time no see," Liesl smiled, running over and grabbing Miss Kiyomi while Mikasa dealt with the other enemies.
"Goddamit!" Floch cursed under his breath, wiggling out from where Liesl tried to keep him pinned. Standing up he turned toward the girl, rug burn on his face and eyes glowing with hatred. Before Liesl could advance to strike him he angeled his ODM gear and took off through the broken window.
"Traitors!"
"Mikasa, Armin, Connie, Jean! I'm sure they're all here!" Floch shrieked as he flew through the air, preparing the thunder spears that rested atop his armor.
Quickly Liesl grabbed Miss Kiyomi and the rest of the Azumabito's— Mikasa was more than capable of handling herself. The fact that Liesl was not able to operate ODM gear meant that her following Mikasa would only slow the girl down. She had to rely on herself to get the Azumabito's to safety.
"I'm sure you understand why we're liberating you from the Jaegerists?" Liesl shouts to them as she guides them through the building in search of Hange, Jean, and Magath.
Outside the pounding sound of Titan's feet hitting the earth caused their bodies to shake. Judging by the sound of the earth shaking, Reiner and Annie had already transformed. Only an act of god could produce such sheer force and magnitude. Whether it was part of the plan or not, this would soon turn in to a massacre.
"I've got them!" Liesl cried out, fumbling in to Jean's arms as she tripped down the stairs.
The ground continued to shake, bellowing under the pressure of the Armored and Female titan. Each step caused more panic, the Cadets wondering if the shaking was from their comrades or the approaching rumbling which they so desperately needed to stop.
Up and around the corner Mikasa and Niema swung from the rooftops with the elegance of doves, and the rage of a hawk. There was a sync, a mutual understanding, as each woman dove and struck the Jaegerists. Niema could only recall it from a feint memory, but she repeated a set of words to herself; "If you win, you live. If you lose, you die. You can't win, unless you fight."
Mikasa repeated those words in her head as well; Eren's words.
"We just need to hold out until the flying boat is ready!" Niema called out.
Mikasa only gave a grunt of approval, her focus solely on her attacker, and getting to Eren before it was too late.
The power of the Jaegerists was overwhelming. The Scouts blades were only so much of a match for their Thunder Spears. Every single second they wasted the train of reinforcements came closer—And so did the rumbling.
Down below Liesl frantically waved her arms, praying to catch the attention of someone up above. Her throat felt dry as she screamed and cried, fingertips reaching outward and spread apart.
"By sea is where we go!" She shouted, hoping her vague words would be understood.
Mikasa's brows cocked, only allowing herself a brief moment to head Liesl's words.
"By sea?" She repeated to herself, launching forward to Annie who was fighting in her titan form.
She gripped on to the enormous titan's blonde hair and exhaled: "We're taking the boat to the continent, and servicing the plane there."
Although Liesl could no longer see Mikasa, only Niema's body blowing like a breeze through clouds of smoke, her chest felt lighter. If they moved now, perhaps they could make it out of here alive. Maybe she could survive this—And so could Zeke.
"They know," she calls out to Magath, running toward the harbor where the large ship was awaiting them.
"Good, we've done our part."
"Not yet!" Hange cried, sending her ODM gear flying north as Floch began to shooting down at the running Azumabito's.
Liesl quickly grabbed the elderly members, pulling and pleading with them to continue without haste. One false step, one moment of hesitation, and a bullet would find itself lodged in your skin.
"You have to survive this," Liesl begged, mostly to herself, but the tone of her voice made it sound like she was instructing the Azumabito's instead.
What was once a simple plan and turned in to a massacre. Comrades, now enemies, laid sprawled on the floor in pools of red that splashed like puddles when provoked. Liesl had not known a single man or woman before her, but Mikasa did, and so did Armin, and Connie, and Jean, and Niema, and Hange. They knew each blood curdling scream, the sound of screeching ODM gear. An experience so foreign, felt far too familiar. Bloodshed was bloodshed, wasn't it?
"Keep moving," Magath bellowed, from behind, his voice fading as if he was disappearing from Liesl's consciousness.
The boat ahead was a salvation. Liesl pulled herself aboard, the Azumabito's—Except for Miss Kiyomi, all piling in to the power room to feed the engine coal. Far ahead on the shore the Scouts continued fighting alongside Annie and Reiner. They seemed flawless, not a moment of regret or hesitation as they cleared the trouble in their way.
Yet Liesl felt her stomach churn as she watched them. Was she useless? She couldn't help defend anyone but a few of the Azumabito's, and when Floch made an escape she couldn't even chase after him. Her entire life she had been ordinary, a girl who was born of purely maternal love, and whose future seemed to simply depend on maternity. Her purpose was Zeke, was motherhood, was support, was to create joy for others and harvest pain within her loins.
Was she useless?
Suddenly, a screech erupted through the air, tearing apart at the eardrums of those who were forced to listen. A bird, more like a beast, fumbled through ground and air like a blind animal. It's beak grasped upon Piek's Titan and its wings turned the outside of the surrounding buildings to rubble.
"Am I useless?" Liesl asked out loud.
Her knees weak, mouth dry, Liesl reached toward the spare ODM gear that Levi had discarded outside the cabin of the boat. She placed her foot firmly on the outside of the box of blades and grabbed one from its slit. The metal sliced her finger tips as it became unsheathed, the blade shining despite the overcast skies. She could imagine what a great honor it had to of been to wield one of these in your hand as a soldier.
"What are you doing?" Gabi screamed as she noticed the woman running down the steps of the boat.
"To bring you back Falco!" She replies, blade slapping against her waist as she runs toward the Titan.
Even if she was ordinary, she was ready to die, and that meant that she was useful.
Liesl, whether she had known always, or had just figured it out was always preapared to discard herself and save others. Whether it was Zeke, or her mother, or the children whom she had held close to her chest like Falco, Gabi, and Colt. Liesl had always, unknowingly, been ready to sacrifice herself when it was needed.
"Get out of there Falco," she cried out as she climbed across his wings. They were covered in the blood stains that were left across the floor and felt oily, like he had just hatched from an egg. Falco was reborn, and ready to die, plucked from the nape that Liesl had begun to slice open.
"One of us has to get a happy ending," Liesl demanded as she pulled the blade across the Titan's neck. "And your happy ending is on that boat!"
Finally there was an eruption of steam, and the brief sight of bright blonde hair. The boy, whose face was singed with a line of scars, fell on to her lap.
"Someone's got to survive this."
Liesl was no longer sure if that someone was her anymore.
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