Part 54
To Pick a Fight

"So what's our move?" Fury muttered to Levi. They all scouted beyond the village they took refuge in, now keeping their eyes all fixed on the stationed Military Police camp that had been taking from the village also. "To still charge in there, guns blazing?"

Levi sighed, making a quick glance over his shoulder towards his squad. And yet as he pulled his gaze back, he still wasn't fully capable of being able to look at Fury. It didn't go unnoticed either. "Just wait on it…"

Yet the noise caused didn't have them all waiting too long. As the Squad Leader sat comfortably within his tent, eating the food made to keep others alive, the rush of a horse-drawn cart charged towards the camps way, with the likes of Sasha, Connie and Jean at its helm, making their presence noticeable as the cart charged through the poorly submitted barricades of empty crates.

"Now we go in, guns blazing." Levi ordered, rushing out of the bush himself. His only order was to cause a disengage among the pitiful soldiers below. To make sure they were disarmed and left winded. All Levi truly wanted was the Squad Leader among them. Fury hung low, waiting back with both Mikasa and Armin as they acted as lookouts. It wasn't long before Levi was practically dragging the Squad Leader back up to them, throwing him down before himself whilst Levi then patted himself down.

"This one is with the Interior Police." Levi informed his squad, as the likes of Jean, Connie and Sasha had finished with their own little stunt with the cart. "And I've got plenty of questions for him. Sun is almost down; let's get back to that village."


"… Stop… stop it…" The Interior Police leader begged as Levi pulled his boot away from the man's jaw, teeth already missing and blood dripping from his mouth from the beating he had already received at the hands of Levi himself.

"Aya!" Came the call of Isaah as Fury lifted up her hand at the young boy, to stop him from coming any closer.

"Go to bed, Isaah. This isn't for you to see." She ordered him in a strict manner; lowering her hand and focusing her gaze back down at the mess at her feet. Isaah huffed and yet he obeyed her words.

Just to be sure, Levi watched to make sure the boy returned to his hut. When he became out of sight, the Captain then knelt down on one knee and grabbed the Interior's collar with a squeeze. "Where's Eren and Historia?"

"Look at you-!" The Interior coughed through his choked breaths. "So brave… That checkpoint back there were just full of recruits. Who could barely reach behind to wipe their own asses. You think you're all some saviour's for that village, beating them all down like you have?"

"Well, what a shitty thing we seem to have done…" Levi muttered in a sarcastic manner, taking to standing up once again, letting the Interior catch his breath for a moment. And yet Levi, with a twitch of his brow, then forcefully shoved the tip of his boot into the man's mouth.
The Interior grabbed a hold of Levi's leg as his teeth began to crack more within. "Yet what's more shitty is this mouth of yours." Levi continued. "So I recommend you start using it before you're unable to at all. I ask again, where is Eren and Historia?" Levi yanked his held foot away from the Interior, the man then began coughing out shards of his own teeth onto the ground.

"I-It's no use!" He stuttered. "All that's left for you now is to run… and hide! Whilst you're all covered in dirt and shit! If you don't turn yourselves in, if you don't hand over the Bloodborn to the Government, every last Scout is going to get the damn noose! Starting with the guiltiest of all, Erwin Smith!"

It was now Fury who barged passed Levi, her eyes heavily narrowed as she lifted the Interior off his feet and slammed him against the tree he was leaning against. She grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back, causing the socket of his shoulder to pop out and he yelled out in pain from the female's aggravated persist. "What are you screaming for?" She mocked him, her eyes still deeply frowned. "Like you said, all of those boys and girls down there were just recruits who can't wipe shit off their asses. So go ahead, cry out some more for me. Because no one is going to hear you."

Connie and Sasha looked at each other and then over at Levi due to Fury's outburst. And yet Levi made no move to stop her.

"Do you know what a Bloodborn can do to a human?" Fury continued her taunt, her mouth next to the man's ear as she kept a tight grip of his dislocated arm, twisting it more each time. "You all talk so low of us, in fear of us, I might show you why that is. Would you like to know what it feels like to have every muscle in your body fight against you? Would you like to know what it feels like to have your own blood be controlled? Would you like to know what it feels like to have no control over your actions, whilst experiencing so much pain that you'll probably piss your pants? I can do that, if that's what you really want? I'll show you what you seem to fear from listening to the Government's propaganda. All of this could happen because you wouldn't answer the Captain's simple question. You see, you think lives are more valuable than others are. You think killing Erwin will stow what we're trying to achieve? That man will just become a martyr! Now for the final time, tell Levi where the hell Eren and Historia is!"

Fury shoved the Interior against the tree, her teeth gritted as Levi placed his hand upon her shoulder. Her eyes began to lighten, as well as the growing blood shot that was starting to surround her hues. She closed them and took a deep breath.

"… a-aya…" Fury's eyes then shot open as she spun around, a shaken Isaah stood behind her. How much did he hear? All of that? "… that isn't you."

"I don't know anything!" The Interior called out, his arm hanging loose as he fell onto his knees. Tears fell from his eyes as his panicked gaze looked up at Levi and Fury, who herself needed Isaah to hopefully understand. "I wasn't allowed to know! Kenny Ackerman is very secretive man!"

"Ackerman?" Levi repeated as widened eyes from Mikasa came also.

"Isaah, listen to me-" Fury begged the boy as he backed away and truly went to his home this time. The female sighed, rubbing her eyes in frustration, but she had no time to be babying him right now. Perhaps it was for the best that he saw the cruel nature of how people can be.

"I know Kenny." Levi continued. "In fact, two of us do…" He had to put that in there. "So that's his last name? Though that is true, there's a lot of things that man doesn't divulge… Especially the important stuff, right Fury?"

That was low, Levi.

"But you must have some idea…" Levi spoke on, reaching down for the man's already dislocated arm. "Now's the time you better remember."

"Stop it!" The Interior begged, doing his best to pull his arm away from Levi, yet his grab remained.

"You still have plenty of bones left to break." Levi threatened as he pulled the man's arm up. "If she scared you, I haven't scared you enough myself yet."

The Interior looked up at Levi with widened eyes, his hues shaking with desperation. "You're… Y-You're insane!"

"Guess I am…" Levi muttered, staring right back down at the breaking man.

"Captain, someone's coming!" Sasha suddenly informed, causing the party to lower their visibility whilst drawing on their weapons. Levi himself slammed the Interior further onto the ground as he rested his knee upon the man's back. Fury then ushered anyone still lurking outside of their homes to get inside. "More than one…" Sasha was then able to inform, pulling the string back on her bow.

"I-I told you, Captain…" The Interior coughed. "It's no use. One way or another… the Scouts will soon be disbanded."


"Well… I've seen you in better shape." Nile Dawke muttered, towering over the chained Erwin as his body was crouched forward. "You've certainly looked better too. And to think you were giving me a lecture the other day."
The Officer sighed, then crouching next to Erwin. His face became visible. The Commander's eye black and blue, blood running out of his nose. His only arm chained to the wall as his other armless sleeve dangled next to him. "You're getting an audience with the King soon." Nile muttered. "They'll decide on the fate of the Scouts and they'll also announce your final sentence."

"Nile…" Erwin coughed. The man had enough strength to raise his head slightly. "Where was your house again? Stohess District, am I right? Is Marie… Is your family okay?"

Nile paused for a moment. "They're fine. Marie and the kids. I haven't seen them in a while, but… we live around Eastern Wall Rose."

"I see…" Erwin mumbled, lowering his head again.

"What's with these odd questions?" Nile then asked.

Erwin sighed. "I entrusted something to both Fury and Commander Pyxis. When the time comes… When it comes, I will only watch. It'll be then up to you to decide. You… and them."