I woke up to Pixis lightly shaking my arm. "Time to get up," he whispered quietly.

"Alright, I'll go wake the rest of the team," I let out a yawn before stretching out my back.

"Alright, I'm going to wake Shadis and we're going to get ready just in case," he mumbled.

"In case shit hits the fan?"

"No," he paused for a moment, "well, yes."

"Glad to hear you have faith in us," I mumbled.

"I do have faith in your team," he said placing a hand on my shoulder, "especially since they have a great leader, however, we don't know a lot about the mission and those uncertainties have me worried. Shadis and I will be standing by if you need extra assistance. If it starts to go sideways have Erwin open a portal and we will be right there to back you up."

"Thank you. We might need the help."

He nodded before heading out of the room I turned back to Levi to wake him up when he opened his eyes. "I figured you guys wanted to talk privately," he said before sitting up.

"Please tell me you got some sleep," I said looking at him. He looked like he had been up for a little while.

"I did, I woke up about ten minutes ago."

"Good," I said standing up.

"I'm going to run and wake everyone up so they have time to get ready, start getting ready," I told him.

"You sure you don't want me to go? It's going to take us a minute to get your braces on."

"It's going to take you longer to get all your knives in place," I laughed.

"You have a point," he nodded and I left the room.

By the time I came back, Levi was putting the last of his knives in their holsters. "Ready Malice Mind?" I asked, giving him a cheeky smile.

"Yes," he rolled his eyes, "I still hate the name they gave me."

"That's why you should have made your own before the media could."

"Okay Orbit," he rolled his eyes. I just laughed before grabbing my "costume" before quickly throwing it on. Once it was on I sat down and had Levi help me put my braces on.

"So how many knives do you have like 20?"

"I have 40 actually," he rolled his eyes.

"What the hell 40. How do you keep track of all of them?"

"Because I like knives," his voice was deadpan but he gave me a smile. "And most of them come in pairs of two or sets of three. On each arm I have 4 knives on each leg I have 8 and on my torso, I have 16. He said pointing to each individual section showing me where they were before turning around and showing me the ones on his back.

He had a pair of small knives holstered in each boot. A holster on each thigh that held 2 small throwing knives. A holster looped into each side of his belt that hung one on either side of his hips that each held two large knives. In his back pockets, he had two medium-size knives holstered in each pocket. On his arms, he had two big knives strapped to each of the insides of his forearms and two medium-size knives holstered to his bicep.

Across his jacket was an x that mom sewed on. The front and back each held two sets of 3 small throwing knives. Also sewed into his jacket was a holster on each side of the bottom of the x on his back each holding one medium size knife. Lastly right down the middle of his back was a holster that contained two big knives that took up most of the length of his back.

I only have one knife on me in my boot since Levi convinced me that I might need it for whatever reason. Most of us carry a knife aside from Petra, Eld, Marco, Mina, and Hanna. They don't like anything that violent. The only other people who don't carry knives are Mikasa and Annie because they don't really need them to do damage or protect themselves. I get having at least one knife on hand but 40 seems a bit excessive.

"Think whatever you want babe," he shrugged, "it's hard to deny that just one look at them when I'm using my power is enough to scare most people away."

True, how could I forget the one time he did use them. The person who was trying to detain us nearly shit himself as he ran away. I have to admit seeing 40 knives floating around a person and all of them pointing at me, I would shit myself too.

"Exactly," Levi laughed before giving me a hand helping me off the bed.

Now I wish my costume was cooler. I thought looking down at my braces. "Are you kidding, you have a cool magnet design on your sleeves and the solar system on the back of your shirt." I just raised an eyebrow at him. "Besides, do you know how heavy these damn knives are? You lucked out."I let out a sigh it was hard to argue there the less weight I have to lift with my power the better.

"Alright let's get going. I'm sure everyone is just about ready." We started heading to the common area.

"I wonder if anyone else upgraded their costumes recently," he mumbled looking down at his own which was just recently upgraded to hold more knives. The recent addition being the x mom sewed into with new holsters.

"They probably had too after the last mission, remember most people's clothes got burned in the fires."

"Oh I totally forgot about that," Levi mumbled, completely stopping in his tracks.

The last mission we had gone on sideways if I could even call it that. It was just a flat out trap. We thought we had found a small correctional camp, but it was a decoy. The second we were inside they tried to blow the place up. Everyone made it out okay, but not without a few burns and wounds. If it wasn't for Pixis's quick thinking we might have lost a few people. Jean and Marco were able to keep most of the fire off of us while Pixis Levi and I held the rubble from crushing us. Pixis Made enough room for Connie to escape. He ran back here and told Erwin the situation. He portaled us out the second he found out.

"I don't know how I could have forgotten about that," Levi pulled me close and placed a kiss on my forehead.

"I mean, I don't blame you, I'd rather forget about the whole thing too," I took a deep breath before we continued walking.

When we made it to the common area almost everyone was there already. Erwin and Armin were still running a little late, but so far everyone else was here. I looked around at some of the new costumes and they looked pretty cool. Jean's didn't change much from the last design. His black jacket still had a flame design on it, but now his pants also matched. I looked at Marco whose jacket was still the same. It was a white jacket that had a design that looked like it was freezing over however he was wearing black jeans now instead of blue.

Pyro and Cryo. I thought to myself I have to remember to use everyone's code names. "Your codenames are so fucking similar," Levi grumbled.

"Well if it's too confusing just call me Pyro Maniac instead,' he said proudly.

"No thanks, I'll just stick with Pyro," he groaned. Jean just shrugged.

I looked at Hanji, she was wearing a dark green jacket and dark brown pants. Her whole outfit had vines going across it that she made herself even her shoelaces were vines. I looked at her goggles and they were held together by vines. She now had a utility belt that she crafted out of vines. That was new.

"Hanji what's in those pouches?" I asked and she looked down. "This one has medical supplies and this one has animal food," she said happily before leaning forward, "and it's mother nature right now remember," she whispered.

"Right sorry," I mumbled. I'm already forgetting the code names. It should be easy to remember since everyone's outfits have their name on the back so we remember what to call them while on missions.

I looked at Pixis and his outfit has changed too. He wore a loose-fitting jacket that had purple lightning streaks going down the side of his sleeves that matched the color of his forcefields. He was also wearing wrist braces, however, his were a lot smaller than mine since his power backlash wasn't as bad, but it did have a similar effect. "The protector," I read the back of his jacket to myself trying to remember his code name if needed. I wasn't sure if we were even going to need them yet but it was still good to keep the names in my head.

I looked at Pixis who had a new coat. If I could call it that. It was more like a hooded black cloak that went to his thighs. It was almost shaped like a jacket but it didn't have a zipper. The design on it was two reaper scythes one on each sleeve. Mom really outdid herself with some of these designs. Under it, he was wearing a dark red shirt and normal black pants. "Agony," I read his codename. Yeah, I remember him we gave him it since he couldn't pick one. He wasn't the biggest fan of it but he thought it wasn't as bad as some of the other ones we gave him.

Armin and Erwin had made their way to us. Both of their costumes were the same since they weren't involved in the fire. "Armin was wearing all white since it helps him disappear better. I remember his codename since Mikasa and I gave it to him "ghost."

Lastly Erwin. His costume is one of my favorites since's it's a giant fuck you to the government. He's been captured three times. Two of the three times he's brought back a souvenir after teleporting himself out of there. The first time it was the orange prison jumpsuit pants. The second time he brought back a pair of handcuffs that he modified with Petra's help. He made them able to be taken off whenever he wanted as well as added a heavy-duty long-chain onto them that he uses in hand to hand combat. When not in use the chain is wrapped around his arms securely so it doesn't rattle. Lastly, his jacket is the classic black and white stripes as seen in most prison movies.

His codename is hard to forget since the media gave him it. The Escapist they call him. A man who can't be contained. I swear at least two of those three times he got captured on purpose. He hasn't tried to get captured again since recently they haven't been taking many prisoners. Now they are just shooting.

"Alright, it's about time you guys teleport out," Pixis said looking at me. "Your team leader will take good care of you. Stay safe out there. If you need back up you know what to do," Pixis said the last part directly to me.

"Will do." I nodded before looking at my team, "alright guys masks on."

I watched as everyone put their masks on. They were cheap fabric masks that covered our mouth and nose. Levi, Erwin, and mine were solid black. Armin's was black but with the word BOO on it. Hanji was actually made out of vines and flowers. Marco's was light blue and Jean's was red.

Shadis and Pixis left theirs off, for now, I looked around and made sure everyone's face was covered. "Okay, we got this just like we practiced." I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, "alright Escapist open the portal."