Everyone looks over and sees Porco Gilliard, alive and healed. He holds a recently fired Anti-Titan rifle in one hand and an empty vial of healing serum in the other.
Behind him, a few of the Good Eldians (and one of the Marleyans) get up and aim their weapons at the group. Including: gatling guns, thunderspears, and Anti-Titan rifles. Some of them even have ODM gear. Niccolo clutches Sasha's body and gently sets her on the ground. She is tended to by Falco and Gabi as Niccolo picks up a stone.
"You…." Niccolo, in blind fury and sadness, charges at Porco with the rock in his hand. "You killed Sasha!" But Pieck grabs his arm and restrains him. Niccolo struggles to break free but Pieck uses her training to completely bind him. "Let me go!"
"Don't be a fool, Fischer. They have guns!"
"She's not dead." Porco points at Sasha's head. "See the steam? She's regenerating. A shifter can regenerate their head in less than an hour with all their memories intact. Now, hand her over."
"No!" Niccolo shouts.
"I wasn't talking to you, traitor. Good job restraining him, Pieck."
Karina stands up. "Gabi, Falco, grab that she-devil and bring her here immediately." Gabi and Falco hesitate.
Ben approaches them. "Sis? Come on."
"I…I don't know if this is right," Gabi says.
The last Marleyan scoffs. "Fine by me. We'll blow you up too."
The Good Eldians turn to him shocked.
"You can't be serious!" "She's just a kid!"
"Sir, please," Karina says. "My niece is just confused. The she-devil has bewitched her somehow."
"One less devil to worry about."
The Marleyan aims his gun at Gabi. Falco moves in front of her. But before the Marleyan can fire, one of the Liberian-Eldians points his gatling gun at his head.
"No."
"You were going to kill the traitorous Eldian kids before, how is this different?"
"We weren't actually going to kill the kids, were we?" another Liberian-Eldian asks.
"At least not the Liberian ones."
"Dude, a kid is a kid."
"Do you hear what he just said!" Niccolo shouts, pointing at the Marleyan after Pieck releases him. "That is what most of the people in Marley are like! I've sympathized with your kind my whole life but I was always too scared to say anything because of people like this! And now you are trying to take down the people who set you free to please THESE ONES!?"
The Liberian-Eldians look at each other unsure. Even Karina is having her doubts, not liking how quickly the Marleyan was willing to shoot her niece.
"Enough!" Porco shouts. "Pieck, just knock out this dumbass chef and drag the shifter over here before the devils arrive. We don't have a lot of time. Check his pocket. maybe there's another vial of that flying-titan serum so we can get out of here."
Pieck looks Porco straight in the eye. "No!"
"What?"
"Pock, you've gone too far. Threatening children."
"Pieck! You helped the warriors and the Marleyan destroy entire cities! Including children!"
"For my father, not my country," Pieck admits. "And you are not the same boy who was my friend. Everything you're doing now is out of misplaced vengeance. But since I've been here, I have come to trust some on this island."
"Kirsten?" Porco becomes saddened. "No, I don't believe this."
"Oh, believe it."
Porco and the other members of the Good Eldian Society turn around and see half a dozen MP's emerging from the bushes. They are armed with sword-guns and revolvers. Floch Forster steps forward and smiles smugly at Porco.
"FYI. Connie and Jean couldn't be here today because they were at the former house. Arresting the people who tried to kidnap his parents."
"WHAT!?" "We got a call about two hours ago on what the plan was." Floch looks at Niccolo. "So we didn't need your confession but it was a nice sentiment."
"B-but how did…." Porco turns back to Pieck and snarls at her. "YOU BITCH! YOU TRAITOR! YOU RATTED US OUT!"
"Pieck?" Gabi stares at her. "You're a traitor?"
"I had to," Pieck says. "I made a mistake being part of this. I thought I couldn't trust Eldians fate in the hands of the island at first. But I trust them more than you people."
Porco stammers. He cries. But then his sadness turns to fury. He raises his gun and tries to shoot at Pieck, but Niccolo quickly pushes her out of the way and they both fall on the ground. Floch tries to attack him in response by flying forward and aiming his gun at him, but he is forced to take cover by the fire of several rounds of the gatling gun.
All hell breaks loose. The MP's and the Good Eldian Society converge on each other. While the MP's have the advantage of being super-soldiers and greater experience with ODM gear, the Good Eldian Society have the advantage of weaponry. They fire at the MP's with several rounds of gunfire and explosions.
Karina runs and hides behind a bush to escape the commotion. While Niccolo runs forward and tackles Niccolo. He reaches into the Marleyans jacket pocket and Niccolo punches Porco off him.
"It's over," Pieck says. "Just give up and we can get you the help you need." She turns sympathetic. "Please, Porco. Marcel wouldn't want this."
Porco lays on the ground and wipes his mouth. "His kindness got him killed. But I won't make that mistake."
Porco shows the pen-sized canister he grabbed from Niccolo's jacket. The Marleyan checks his pockets in worry.
"Oh no, he got the spare I brought."
Porco opens the canister and places the end of it into his mouth. His eyes glow and Niccolo grabs Sasha and runs while Pieck grabs Gabi and Falco before Porco can transform. Niccolo and the kids watch in horror as Porco screams, growing larger into a fifteen-meter Titan with wing-like arms. However, his neck also becomes longer and his mouth grows wider and his neck becomes longer like a swan's. Niccolo tries to shield the two kids and Sasha with his body, but Pieck takes the last vial of healing serum she has and gives it to Sasha. The shifter's head quickly regenerates.
Porco, now a fully-formed Intelligent flying-Titan pseudo-shifter, glares at the group and charges forward to devour them all. But before he can, Sasha emerges from the crowd (her head completely healed minus her hair) and she bites her tongue.
Niccolo and the others (including the MP's and Good Eldian Society members) watch in awe as Sasha takes her Female Titan form. The fully-formed shifter roars and punches the Porco-Titan in the face. The pseudo-shifter is knocked back. The MP's try to charge at him but the Good Eldians intervene (which also means that the MP's are keeping them from helping Porco with Sasha).
Porco gets back up and flaps his new wings hard. The force pushes back his own men and the Military Police. It nearly blasts away Niccolo, Pieck, Gabi, and Falco, but Sasha kneels down and keeps them in place with her hands. She tries to look forward but Poeco is blowing wind in such a way that the dust rises and it becomes impossible for her to see. Porco uses the opportunity to fly up and dive down on Sasha before she can register what is happening.
The flying Pseudo-shifter knocks Sasha to the ground and holds her in place with his wings. She tries pushing him off her, but Porco uses his elongated neck to wrap around hers. Porco's spine is still at the nape, but his Titanic neck alone is crushing Sasha's.
"Get the kids to safety!" Niccolo tells Pieck.
He runs to grab the Anti-Titan rifle while Pieck carries Gabi and Falco away. Sasha struggles to scream and force Porco off of her. She tries to break free by changing her fingers into crystalline claws but Porco has wrapped her wings entirely around her upper body. Keeping her arms on the sides of her body.
Niccolo fires a round from the anti-Titan weapon at Porco's eye and the pseudo-shifter screams and loosens his grip around Sasha's neck. The Female-Titan bites at the flying-Titans nape and Porco immediately lets go and backs away before she can rip off a piece and swallow him. The last thing he needs is a flying Female-Titan.
Sasha looks at Niccolo and the others on the ground and she motions for them to cover their ears. Niccolo gives her a thumbs up and runs to Pieck and the kids who are taking refuge in the forest.
"Quick, cover your ears!" Niccolo yells.
"Why?" Pieck asks.
"Because she's about to scream!"
"So? There are no Titans here for her to summon."
"Yes, but there's something Sasha told me about her Titan that I didn't tell anyone."
Sasha takes a deep breath in. As she does, her vocal cords swell larger to the point where Sasha's neck looks fat. She opens her mouth, so wide that the strips of skin on the side of her face break apart, and a fleshy hollow cylinder (like an organic cannon) grows and extends out of it before hardening into crystal. Pieck is both interested and disgusted by the scene.
"With Queen Historia deeming the use of Mindless Titans inhumane, they wanted to see if the Female Titans scream could be altered to be used offensively. When Sasha was selected to be the Female Titan she was given an Intelligent Titan form before getting to swallow Leonhart's spinal fluid. But Historia and Smith altered her Titan form. They gave her an enlarged vocal cord and formed it in a way where the sound and a powerful air blast would be directed at a single spot. And the Female Titan already had something like a sound attack."
The flying Titan tries to fly up and dive on her again but the Female Titan screams, sending a powerful soundwave directly at Porco. A cloud ring from the condensed air pressure flies at Porco at 200 miles an hour. The force pushes him back while the sound causes his Titan eardrums to bleed and scrambles his insides. Porco collapses to the ground and steam emits from his mouth as he recovers from the pain. The resulting soundwave causes all the men and women below to cover their ears from the pain and the glass on the windows to break.
Seeing this, the Good Eldian Society immediately goes straight for Sasha. But the releases another scream of less intensity and the Good Eldian Society members are knocked back. The ones who are carrying thunderspears immediately explode. Seeing his army defeated and the Female Titan stronger than before, Porco gets in the air and flies away.
"He's getting away! After him!" Floch shouts.
"He's too high up for our ODM gear and none of us are flying pseudo-shifters," an MP says.
Floch growls. He grabs a nearby anti-Titan rifle and tries firing at the Porco-Titan. But it continues flying over the distance until it is gone.
"Damn it!" Floch throws the rifle down in anger. "You! Former Cart-Titan! Where is he going!?"
"If I still know him, as far from this island as possible."
"Tell all units!" Floch yells to the MP's. "We cannot let Porco Gilliard escape this island!"
"But sir, what about these guys?"
The officer points to the remaining members of the Good Eldian Society and the people of New Liberio who helped him. Including Ben and Karina Braun.
"Ugh, fine! Arrest these guys first. But then tell HQ!" Floch walks over to Niccolo, Pieck, Gabi, and Falco. Sasha crystalizes her fingers and places them around her friends protectively. "Relax, I'm not here to hurt them. As for you, Marleyans. I bet you think you're heroes now, but you still played a part in this. And we're going to be keeping a close eye on New Liberio. See you at your trials."
Floch walks away to join his fellow MP's in arresting the still-alive members of the Good Eldian Society. Pieck and Niccolo turn to Gabi and Falco.
"Are you kids ok?" Pieck asks.
"No." Gabi looks at her aunt and brother being arrested, as they look at Gabi feeling betrayed. "I feel like a filthy traitor and I still don't know what I would have done differently today."
Pieck and Falco hug the girl, Gabi cries into their shoulders and reciprocates. Niccolo gazes up at Sasha's Titan form. It is a thing of both monstrosity and beauty.
"Are you ok, Sasha?"
Sasha stares at the devastation before her. The burnt bodies. The damaged house. The shattered windows. And the traces of debris from weaponry on the ground.
"...No."
Sasha sits down and stares at the destruction. Niccolo places his hand on her gigantic ankle, trying to comfort her as best he can. Sasha lowers her hand and strokes his head with her thumb.
I got the idea for Sasha's mouth canon from the Bat-Devil in the Chainsaw Man manga.
This isn't the last we will see of Porco Gilliard, but the Good Eldian Society is crippled pretty badly and New Liberio is going to get a bad rep.
All comments are appreciated.