A family's legacy

Sasha getting up. She points a rifle at Yelena: What? Who are you?!

Yelena: My name is Yelena… a faithful servant of both of your families Your Holiness.

Sasha is shocked: My… families? Why do you keep calling me that?!

Yelena: It's how you will be addressed from now on… as the sacred truth as finally been revealed to you… so many years… waiting… rotting at a cell… for this moment

Yelena arches her neck and stares directly at the sun, blinding her for a moment.

Yelena: Such a luminous presence… my goddess… oh… my eyes are not worthy…

Sasha is starting to get scared; she tries to get back to where Marco and Munir are.

Yelena suddenly: STOP. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Sasha: I don't what is the deal with you but I don't care. I'm going to kill you, but first I have to take ca…

Yelena: DON'T SOIL YOUR SACRED HANDS! COMRADES! PICK THOSE TWO!

Yelena looks at Sasha with tears in her eyes: Our goddess is so pious she thinks of others and not of her own greatness… this is too much…

A group of 10 camouflaged soldiers appear out of the woods and start to remove the rubble from Marco and Munir. Sasha is confused by the scene.

Yelena: I see your are confused my lady… why are the people who bombed these people… are helping them?! CONFUSING RIGHT? That is your power! All your wishes are commands! A word of yours is sacred text!

Sasha: What?! This… WHAT IS THIS?!

Yelena: Kaspar Ackerman…

Sasha starts to understand a bit by hearing that name.

Yelena: He was my cellmate… 18 years ago. He revealed the truth of this world to me… a worthless woman… again placed in the center of history… again to fullfil the role my prince had left me before… create a better world… a world of true peace… but now I knew the whole story… and it's key players…

He told me… a god would appear… one that could fully harness the power that dominated this world for so long… I only had to wait and be ready… for the day the impossible would happen… my freedom… and he… APPEARED IN FRONT ME, WITH A RESTORED BODY! I knew then… I had not wasted my life… it was only starting!

I submitted myself to him… but he told me his prophecy had already come true! A goddess walked among us! The daughter of the devil and the angel of death! Zee Yeager's niece! Yelena's eyes swell with tears. I could not…. Sniff… believe it… my whole journey… was not in vain…

SO I GIVE MY LIFE TO YOU OH HOLY ANGEL! Yelena takes out a gun scaring Sasha to death but she kneeled and pressed it to her head.

Yelena: If you so desire, I WILL KILL MYSELF NOW AND I WILL GO TO HEAVEN GLADLY!

Yelena sternly looks at her: BUT! If you wish to fulfill the path Lord Ackerman told you… if you wish to know the truth… to truly know yourself… then… Yelena presents her the gun.

Yelena: You need to trust me now.

Sasha head hurts, so many things had happened in such little time… but deep inside her… the curiosity… the desire… the resentment… had begun to cloud her already unstable judgment.

Sasha takes the gun: I won't transform.

Yelena: THERE IS NO NEED! I'll do everything to please you from now own your holiness… starting with these two.

Sasha: Don't hurt them!

Yelena drops the ground: FORGIVE ME YOUR HOLINESS! I only needed to kill those grunts I DIDN'T KNEW YOU HAD FRIENDS WITH YOU! COMRADES! HEAL THOSE TWO BOYS! THEY ARE OUR GODDESS' DEAR ONES!

The soldiers form and salute: YES MY LADY!

A car approaches the scene. The soldiers put Marco and Munir on stretches and carry them to a military truck.

Yelena: Here your holiness. We'll take you and your friends to safety. Much is about to happen.

Sasha: What? What are you going to do.

Yelena: The future my lady… things need to get in motion.

Sasha: But…

Yelena: DON'T WORRY. Just say the name and nothing will happen to them. Well… maybe they'll have to detained… but no harm will come to any of your dear ones. I swear on my life…

Sasha: A… alright… She gets on the car. Meanwhile the others soldiers behind execute the remaining royal guards that were still alive.


Meanwhile

Panic ensues on the city, as numerous detonations are heard on the business district. Pamphlets fill the streets with anti eldian messages, psychological warfare had struck Paradis, as news arrived on all cities of the nation that terrorist attacks are happening all over the kingdom, the military and government officials are overrun.


A few hours later - Trost

Pieck watches the chaos from afar. Jean was distraught with the news that Marco and Munir were taken by the enemy.

Connie: Hey… are you ok?

Pieck: We were too late… there was nothing we could do… deep down… I always knew that.

Connie: You think… Mikasa and Historia… are…

Pieck: No, I don't think they are hurt at all. That was never the objective. The power transfer seems to be a collateral… for something else.

Connie: What should we do then? We need to go to them.

Pieck: No… we need to hide.

Jean was hearing and exploded in anger: WHAT?! LEAVE THEM BEHIND?! HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?! LEAVE OUR SON… OUR FRIENDS!?

Pieck: I understand how you feel… don't think I'm ok with all of this… but this is no ordinary battle… no ordinary enemy… with not an ordinary goal. Why are Marco and Munir still alive then… but not the other soldiers that were with them? Where is Sasha?

Jean and Connie are confused yet intrigued.

Pieck: You see? I don't think… anyone dear to Sasha… is in any danger… aside from being in jail. It would do more harm to try to rescue them… we need to lay low. The entire structure of the intelligence corps is still functioning due to their orders to not get involved… we have to think and prepare… for later.


The Royal Palace

Ymir, fully geared, was coordinating the defense of the Palace. Historia and Mikasa were in the communications room, trying to contact Sasha and Pieck.

Mikasa, out of frustration, had trashed the room, while Historia was looking the looming threat from a window.

Historia: I guess I was never truly cut to be a queen…

Mikasa smashing the floor: I can't take this anymore…

Historia approaches and caresses Mikasa: I know… it's so unfair… that our daughters could not live the lives… we hoped they would have.

At that moment, General Rico, member of Military Command, entered the room.

Rico: Your majesty… Lady Mikasa… we ask you to come to the throne room. We have reports that the terrorists have long range weapons… and this room is too exposed.

Historia: Thanks Rico… come Mikasa, we'll ask the staff to setup a radio station on the Throne Room…

Mikasa: I need to go…

Rico: My lady Yeager… the military has cut off all exits from the city… I urge you to come with us… we'll help you later on to find Lady Sasha.

Historia: Come Mikasa…

As Historia and Mikasa entered the Throne Room, the door was locked from the outside; a platoon of soldiers surrounded them.

Voice from the Throne: Welcome my ladies… to the end of the world.

Kaspar Ackerman was sitting in the throne. Radio equipment was placed by his side.

Mikasa looked at him filled with rage.

Historia: So… was this your plan all along? Nothing else?

Kaspar: If only my dear former queen … taking power from you was all too easy, could have done it all those years ago… if that truly were my plan. I don't intend to become king… I have assumed the role of Regent… I have… other interests…

Mikasa: You… ARE NOT TAKING SASHA FROM ME!

Kaspar: HA! You have a clearer picture! But I'm not planning on taking her or forcing her to do anything… the fate of this world… will be entirely in her hands… but the stage needs to be right.

Suddenly a group of soldiers surround Historia and grab her.

Kaspar: Take her to her chambers… she is not to be harmed at all… you understand? She is now a guest to this palace.

Mikasa was ready to kill the soldiers.

Kaspar: If you move Mikasa, they'll shot her in the head ok? So behave for now.

Historia: MIKASA! YMIR! PROTECT HER!

Mikasa was trembling of rage.

Kaspar: Sorry about that… this only concerns us Ackermans… we who will shape the world.

Mikasa: I'm tired of all of this… I'm tired of you

Kaspar: Is that so? He then throws a sword to her. Then let fate decide… which path the world takes…

Kaspar and Mikasa battle in a sword duel. They are evenly matched.

Kaspar: You think your baby girl can't decide anything on her own? Your fear has caused all of this!

Mikasa: I might fear loneliness… but I prefer my daughter to hate me… than to let you corrupt her

Kaspar: Me?! HA! That's Good… I have done absolutely NOTHING to her my dear! I only spewed knowledge onto her… nothing more. All that she is… the frailty… is thanks to you! Her divine power… always constricted by you! But no more… she holds the keys of destiny now… but she only needs… a little push… for her to take the final step.

At that moment a door opens, Yelena and Sasha enter and see the fight.

Kaspar smiles at Sasha and Mikasa: My role in this tale… is over.

Kaspar rapidly grabs Mikasa's hand during a clash of their swords… and let himself be stabbed on the heart.

Sasha looks in shock and terror… her mother had killed another of the few family members she had left… the hope of knowing about herself… about her family… her heritage… her powers… is gone.

Her feelings start to change… to rage. Yelena kneels besides her.

Yelena: From this moment on… the fate of the world is in your hands… Supreme Pontiff of the Eldians… whatever you choose… we'll follow. She gives Sasha Kaspar's heraldic ring of the Ackermans.

Mikasa looks at Kaspar in shock and confused, her hand is drenched in his blood…

Kaspar dies with a smile in his face… finally… he had fulfilled... a family's legacy.