Part 49
Betrayal

"Kaboom!" Kenny roared, firing his shots at both Fury and Levi who were still lodged behind the still standing chimney.
His reaction quick and off instinct, Levi shoved Fury out of the way as he too dodged the blast radius from the shot destroying the chimney behind him.

"KENNNNNNNY!" Levi bellowed aggressively, pulling out his cutters as he then flung one of them at the tall cowboy himself, causing him to lose balance in his mid-aerial attack. Levi himself then looked over at the still shocked Fury, his face full of grimace and confusion as he had also just lost Nifa. "Go!" He ordered Fury. "Get out of here!"

A hearty laugh came from Kenny as he shot more of his canons down onto Levi, as the Captain made his way skilfully down the roof, jumping from it and deploying his ODM anchors, dodging all blasts made to him. For Kenny, he made his landing on the roof he just partially blew up, reloading his weaponry as he looked down at Fury, who stared at him with widened eyes.
"We playin' Catch right now, little fury!" He spoke loudly, tilting his hat towards her and then flicking it back up slightly. "Better run now before I getcha!"

Fury gritted her teeth, more from fear than anger, as she too in a scurried action, using her ODM to follow on behind Levi, leaving Kenny to enjoy his current game.


"Gunshots?!" A Scout asked as he was hurrying the horses along for the wagon they pulled contained Eren and Historia. The male looked up to either side of him, people using the same ODM as Kenny was, now attempting to chase after them.

"What's going on?!" Eren asked in a panic, peeping his head from behind the cloth material that covered the back of the wagon.

"Stay in there!" The Scout ordered, ordering the horses once again to hurry along. An ODM anchor, deployed by the pursuers that was connected to the very guns they used, tore its way through the wagon cloth, pulling it off the cart so that Eren and Historia were now visibly seen by those chasing them. Eren narrowed his eyes, reaching down for a musket-like gun that was given to them for protection; his goal was to shoot down those closing in around them.
As he aimed, a dart containing sleeping substance pierced Historia's neck, rendering her unconscious. Eren threw his gun aside, about to call out to his friend as he too had the same dart shot into his neck, causing him to fall on top of Historia, both now completely vulnerable.

"Ah, shit!" The Scout called out, looking back on himself to see the unconscious pair, only to have a bullet go right through his head, the force of it pushing him off the wagon, the wheels of it running over him as his lifeless body rolled down the street. One pursuer climbing onto the now free wagon and taking control of it. Her eyes soon widened as she heard the deployment of ODM anchors belonging to Levi, as he now pursued them with Fury behind him. The female still silent.
However, despite the gut dropping revelation in which Levi had just discovered, his own personal matters had to wait. Eren and Historia needed to be kept away from these seemingly more advanced users of new ODM architecture.

The Captain lunged himself into the open area, three pursuers blocking his way as they aimed their guns at him.
Levi, feeling out played for once, showed it through his slightly widened eyes, as he had to alter his course by diving beneath them. The pursuers aggressively firing away at him, hoping that one explosion would kill Levi.

"They really have predicted all of our movements!" Levi worried to himself, as he skilfully darted through the streets below, parkouring over crates and dodging all explosions he could from those above him.
His eyes still widened as Kenny himself joined the chase, his grin wide as he aimed his shot at Levi with accurate precision.

"Levi!" Fury called out, as she bravely bumped into Kenny, disrupting his shot as it fired down, missing Levi as he skidded along the cobbled ground, throwing himself down an alleyway to get out of the open area. Fury herself also hurriedly leaving the area before Kenny set his sights upon her.

"What the hell is Kenny doing with the Military Police?!" Levi surmised, looking back on himself to still see he was being pursued by those he now knew were with Kenny himself. More shots were fired, Levi having to dodge them all. Shrapnel still managed to scrape his right cheek due to the close proximity of the explosions around him.
With speed and instinct, the Captain deployed his ODM anchors to bring him closer to a nearby tavern. Crashing through the door and managing to land atop the bar counter. The customers left in awe, including the owner, as it wasn't long until Fury too slid her way in, just managing to avoid the shots aimed at herself too.

Levi frowned. With his eyes now fully opened, it was all too obvious to him that Kenny had taught Fury a few tricks just from seeing her own manoeuvring. As she hopped over the bar, sitting behind it with lost breath, Levi then narrowed his eyes deeply. He now gazed back towards the open entrance as he wiped the blood away from his face.
"If this keeps up, I'll lose them all…" Levi realised, his stare fierce. "And that includes Eren and Historia too."

"Ain't this just the damnedest thing!" Came the taunting of Kenny's voice outside of the tavern. "I smell a rat and a filthy whore coming from this bar…" The man's voice etched closer. "Why don't you come out, you two…"

As if it was all just a game to him, Kenny jumped into the tavern itself, raising both guns above his head as he flailed them about in the air. "The law be here to exterminate the vermin you got, sir!" He spoke to the bar owner, who shrieked slightly from all the commotion brought to his establishment. And as Fury and Levi both hid behind the counter now.
"Bang, bang!" Kenny laughed. "The hell? Ain't you here?!"

"Right here, Kenny." Levi spoke out. "Been awhile."

"…I thought he was dead by now…" Fury whispered to herself, her eyes still ablaze with fear as Levi looked over to her.
Frowning, he moved glance away from her and back up to the gun the bar owner had been keeping behind his counter, giving Levi every reason to reach out for it.

"What happened to taking out the Military Police?" Levi then asked Kenny. "Seems you're one them now."

"Adults change their minds all the time, kid." Came Kenny's response. His tone more serious as he lowered his artillery. "Oops, my bad… You're both just so tiny, it's hard to believe you're adults yourself now.
I gotta admit, I've been looking forward to seeing you both in action. Never thought all those tricks I gave you both would be helping out like this." Kenny then huffed as he grabbed a chair, despite the chair already being used by a customer as he had it pulled from under him. "Hey, little fury, wanna tell Levi here what happens to a cornered target?"

However, no response came from Fury. She couldn't even bring herself to look at Levi right now.

"No matter which way you try to run, you'll always be cornered!" Kenny taunted. He then flung the chair over the bar, it slammed into the shelves of bottled beverages, breaking them and causing the glass to fall over both Levi and Fury, but still, neither of them reacted. "There's gotta be a reason you stayed with Levi here, little fury. And I'm thinking I know what it is. Neither of you had a choice but to grow up in garbage. It took everything you both had to survive every day. But when I found out how important you really was, little fury, you can bet it hurt like hell.
Ha. But something saved me! I found something I wanted to do. Simple, really. The only thing that made our lives fulfilling was finding a hobby!"

"Hobbies?" Levi replied, looking up slightly above Fury to see the unbroken wine bottles were reflecting Kenny's image as he picked up another chair. "So is blowing the heads off my team a hobby of yours?"

"Aye!" Kenny laughed. "To achieve my goal, I'll kill as much as I have to. I taught you two to be no different! You'd both kill should it come to benefit you."

"That it will…" Levi muttered as he raised the tavern owner's gun above him, pulling the trigger as it was aimed at Kenny. Though the impact was direct and the force knocked Kenny off his feet, the metallic chest plate he wore protected him from the shot entering his body. Levi himself, still with narrowed eyes, looked at Fury once again. "Don't follow." He ordered, as he then leapt over the bar, picking up the chair that Kenny was holding moments ago.

"…I'm sorry…" Fury whispered. It was unheard but it was all she could muster right now. For her, though the guilt of keeping things from Levi was finally gone, it was simply replaced with more guilt for not telling him in the first place, leaving her in a stunned mess.