Screen 1 — Marley Infiltration
Four years after the battle at Shiganshina…
Eren has slipped into Marley under a fake identity.
Hair longer. Eyes empty. Moving like someone who's already said goodbye.
He sits on a bench near the hospital. Falco's chatter gives him a thin thread of humanity to hold onto. But his mind keeps going back to one thing.
The rumbling future.
In a hidden alley nearby, a skeleton in a worn black coat leans against the wall, hands in his pockets.
Sans. Watching Eren from the shadows.
A cigarette burns down to ash, untouched.
He knows Eren's plan isn't just war.
It's genocide.
And right beside him, Papyrus—taller, cleaner armor, a red scarf dulled by dust—keeps pacing.
Papyrus:
"Four years of waiting. Four years of no answers. And now we're sneaking around a foreign country? Brother, this seems extremely not heroic!"
Sans:
"yeah, well. sometimes you don't get to choose the mission. you just try to keep someone from doing something real stupid."
Papyrus hates this place.
He hates the fear in the air.
And he hates seeing Eren look like a stranger.
Sans?
He's here because if Eren falls any deeper, someone needs to catch the fallout.
Even if that someone burns with him.
Screen 2 — Marley's Next Warriors
Marley's warrior candidates gather near the training grounds.
Gabi bragging about blowing up a train.
Falco trying to keep her ego under control.
Colt watching them like a stressed babysitter.
Pieck pretending she's tired so she doesn't have to salute again.
Papyrus stands among them like he somehow belongs.
He adjusts his scarf and looks proud.
Papyrus:
"I've spent four years studying heroics, and I can confirm that friendship and perseverance are the ultimate victory! Also yes, Gabi's shoes are still incredible."
Gabi beams. Someone finally recognizes her drip.
Falco sighs in relief that the skeleton isn't yelling or killing anyone.
Pieck squints at Papyrus like she's trying to solve a puzzle.
Pieck:
"Why is a skeleton mentoring our warrior kids?"
Colt:
"He just… showed up one day. He's weirdly helpful."
From a distance, Eren watches Papyrus laughing with them.
It bothers him.
That kindness.
That simplicity.
It's the exact thing he's trying to destroy in himself.
Eren thinks:
"He really doesn't belong in this world."
Sans stands near a doorway, bored out of his mind.
Sans:
"great. more kids who think war is fun. nothing could go wrong."
He doesn't try to connect.
He already knows what's coming.
And he's not in the mood to pretend everything will be fine.
Papyrus keeps smiling.
Sans keeps quiet.
And Eren keeps changing.
Screen 3 — Declaration of War
The lights brighten.
The applause rises.
Willy Tybur stands center stage and sells a story the world wants to hear.
Paradis is the devil.
The walls are a ticking bomb.
Marley must save humanity.
The crowd eats it up.
Underground below the stage, Eren and Reiner sit side by side. Two broken products of two broken systems.
Reiner finally cracks.
Tears.
Guilt tearing through him like shrapnel.
Reiner:
"I've killed so many… I destroyed your home… I ruined your life. I'm sorry."
Eren doesn't flinch.
Eren:
"We're the same."
Reiner's heart drops.
Because he knows Eren means it.
Sans leans against a support beam. Arms crossed. Eyes dim.
Sans:
"kid's not wrong. you push monsters long enough, they start acting like one."
Papyrus steps forward, voice trembling.
His optimism is fighting for survival.
Papyrus:
"I… I believe people can change. But you're starting a war nobody can stop. If you keep going… you'll destroy us too."
Eren stands.
And for the first time since the basement…
he smiles.
Eren:
"I know."
Above them, Willy finishes his speech.
"And that is why we must destroy the devils of Paradis!"
The crowd roars.
Eren's bones crack.
Lightning erupts.
The War Hammer Titan's shadow rises in response.
The festival becomes a battlefield in one heartbeat.
Sans' pupils ignite.
Papyrus puts his hand to his chest like a shield.
And Eren's Titan lets out a scream that cuts history in half.
Screen 4 — The Attack
The sky opens and death drops from above.
Scouts descend from airships with gear the world has never seen.
Blades flashing.
Thunder Spears cracking the air.
Liberio turns into a graveyard in minutes.
Armin lands at the harbor.
One transformation.
A blast brighter than judgment day.
Thousands gone without a scream.
Mikasa confronts Eren in the rubble… but still follows him.
Levi hunts warriors like he's checking names off a list.
Meanwhile the War Hammer Titan shatters the ground.
Eren digs in.
He refuses to stop.
Sans walks through the chaos, jacket scorched, eyes flickering with that blue rage.
Soldiers fire, scream, run.
None of it matters.
"didn't wanna get in your war," he mutters,
"but you made me pick a side."
Bones erupt from the street.
A wave of skeletal spikes cuts down entire squads.
Snipers panic as glowing skull blasters materialize in the air.
He pulls a finger trigger.
Boom.
Gone.
Papyrus is behind him, trying to be precise.
Using telekinetic bones to incapacitate instead of slaughter.
But the battlefield doesn't care about good intentions.
He looks around and realizes something terrifying:
He's saving Eren.
He's helping this massacre happen.
Sasha keeps firing, fighting like her heart's already broken.
Until a rifle cracks.
She falls.
Her last word is a joke about meat.
Conny screams.
Jean freezes.
Mikasa collapses.
Sans clenches his teeth so hard the air vibrates.
Papyrus whispers,
"Why… why did this have to be the way?"
Eren doesn't look back.
He walks onward, through blood and bodies and smoke.
Because in Marley…
he's not the hero.
He's the monster knocking on someone else's door.
Screen 5
The Escape Isn't a Victory
The Scouts pile into the airship.
Blood on their boots.
Smoke still rising from Liberio.
No one is celebrating.
They're broken in different ways.
Then a clank on the hull.
Gabi and Falco.
Clinging to the tail like kids who refuse to let the world take one more thing from them.
One shot.
One stupid, cruel, perfect shot.
Sasha falls.
Connie screams.
Jean grabs the kids and throws them inside.
Everything spirals.
Papyrus freezes, shaking.
He liked Sasha.
She was the kind of human who laughed with her whole soul.
Now she's disappearing in his arms.
He doesn't understand how hatred travels this fast. How one child's grief becomes another soldier's death.
Sans watches Eren's face twist into something unrecognizable.
That laugh that isn't a laugh.
There's no humanity in it.
Only an echo of someone who can't live with what he's done.
Sans snaps.
A short-range skull blaster erupts beside him.
No fatal hit — just a disabling burst.
Gabi and Falco slam against the wall and go unconscious.
Then Sans turns the beam on Eren.
Drops him too.
Not to hurt him.
To shut him up.
To stop that sound.
He stands over the three of them, voice low and flat.
"enough kids have died today. no more."
Papyrus wipes his eyes and looks at the sky outside the hatch.
"All this time… I thought we were helping save the world,"
he says quietly.
"So why does it feel like we're helping destroy it?"
No one answers.
Sasha's body lies still.
Her joke hangs in the air like a ghost.
"Meat."
Victory means nothing.
Because the cost climbed onto the ship with them.
Be continued