Author's note~ sorry the chapter was late my internet was down. I hope you enjoy the chapter! ~TJ

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As we walked in the room Pixis pulled us Eren and me aside and told us to sit up by the front. We took our seats and watched as Erwin, Ymir, Berthold, and Armin were also pulled aside and directed to sit next to us.

"This must be about our mission notes," Eren whispered.

"I think they are going to try and see who wants to raid the camp."

"Do you think they are going to bring her up?" Eren asked as he was thinking of Ilsa.

"I don't know." I looked around the room to see if everyone was here and saw the two civilians were sitting in the back.

"What are they doing here?" I asked Erwin hoping he would know.

"They wanted to know what was going on, so Pixis invited them to listen in."

We all quieted down when Pixis and Shadis walked up to the front.

"Hello everyone, as some of you may know there was a recon mission last night. The point of the mission was to find out if there was a correctional camp at a point where another group of exiles were captured. Well, they found one. So thanks to their notes," he said, gesturing to us, "we can start planning a raid on the camp."

The room erupted in cheers. A few people shouted that they wanted to be a part of it.

"Alright, settle down everyone," Shadis tried to quiet the room so Pixis could continue.

"We will have a chance at the end to talk about who wants to be on the mission, but first let me explain what we are going up against. First of all no matter what we are going to have to call other exiles for back up. There are too many guards, and there were speculations of them upping the guard level as is. We are also going to have to set up places for these people to go."

Auruo's hand shot up, "Pardon my interruption, but there's a group of Exiles that have recently contacted us they have a place for refugees. I mentioned to them that we were looking for a camp and they said any refugees we come across we can send their way."

"Thank you Auruo," Pixis nodded, "well that's one issue solved."

He went back to addressing the notes. "From what their team noticed," Pixis pointed to us, "guards do routine patrols around the whole perimeter and the inside of the compounds are heavily guarded. There are guards positioned by each building. There are cameras monitoring every inch of the inside. We don't have an exact number of inmates, but the notes say there were at least a couple hundred."

I got distracted by Eren's thoughts. He already had a plan of how to raid this camp. "Write it down," I whispered to him making sure that he wouldn't forget this plan since it did sound like our best bet. I watched him pull out a pen and paper. He still keeps a mini notepad on him, adorable.

"The prisoners are kept in different conditions based on their badge colors. Red Badges are kept in a room filled with up to 10 different people per room. They have a little more freedom and a slightly bigger room with less guard presence. Green Badges are kept in rooms with anywhere between 2-4 people in a room based on their powers. There is a slightly heavier guard presence but nothing too severe. Blue Badges on the other hand are kept in tiny rooms by themselves. Their whole section is flooded with guards. The notes say there are at least two guards per each cell, maybe more." I could feel the tension in the room rise. I don't think people realized just how many guards might be here beforehand. Even what Pixis was describing was minimizing the number of guards Armin saw.

Pixis finished explaining the rest of our notes to everyone before getting really quiet. He must have hit the last note on the list. "Lastly, I wanted to address something. I don't want this to affect your decision to join the mission, however, you all deserve to know. While the team was gathering information they recognized someone in the camp. Ilse langnar-," Before he could even finish what he was going to say the room exploded with outrage.

"They're going to fucking pay," I heard Sasha say.

"Why would she be there. She's too nice to be there!" Christa yelled.

"Everyone shut the fuck up and let the man finish," Reiner said and everyone went quiet. I've never heard such hurt in his voice. Reading his thoughts I can see why. She was one of the only people to actually talk to Reiner even after he tried to push her away. He considered her a friend.

With the room quiet, Pixis continued. "Anyone who wants to join the mission is welcome. I will be heading to the conference room if you are interested in being a part of the mission. Meet me there in 30 minutes. Meeting dismissed," he said and I watched everyone get up with the intent of heading straight to the conference room and just waiting there. Myself included.

I watched Eren walk up to Pixis first. Uh oh here we go. I turned around and walked up to Eren trying to figure out what the fuck he was getting us into now.

"If this is about signing up for the mission then meet me in the conference room," Pixis said hoping that would work. It didn't.

"I actually wanted to talk to you," he said and Pixis looked pleasantly surprised that it wasn't about the mission.

"About?" He said giving Eren a little smile.

"The mission," his smile vanished. "Look, I just want to run some ideas by you. It might solve some of the issues that we came across," he said and Pixis gave a sigh knowing that Eren wouldn't give it up.

I watched Pixis plop down in a chair and waved me on to continue, "fine." Levi came up next to us and took a seat behind him to listen in.

"Well, the first thing is about team leader," I started and was instantly cut off by Shadis.

"Absolutely not, this is too big of a mission to have a child leading it-," Pixis cut him off.

"Now, now, let him finish."

"I wasn't saying I wanted to be team leader, well I mean, I was, but not the only one," I said and Pixis raised an eyebrow.

"Not the only one?" He asked curiously.

"What is that even supposed to mean," Shadis rolled his eyes.

"Well, this is a huge mission right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, we should separate into different teams. Of course, we have you lead us in, but you won't be able to keep watch over everyone, so we should split up into teams that we think we can best manage and have a bunch of team leaders leading their own groups," I explained and I watched Pixis's raise his eyebrows and look to Shadis.

"He never fails to amaze me with his ideas," he mumbled pointing to me and I let a smile slip onto my face.

"I like it," he nodded.

"Now can I give you my second idea that could help us a lot with the guard problem."

"Yes please continue," he said, leaning in more interested in what I had to say now.

"Well, we should start the raid from the inside." I could tell I lost him right there he looked confused.

"Explain." He said quietly as he tried to wrap his head around what I said.

"Well, Mina, Armin, and Ymir's powers would come into play here. We can start with Mina's power."

"Possession? How would that work?

"Well, her power requires her to be in a mile radius of the person she is controlling, and she can control them for up to thirty minutes," I said trying to remember the exact parameters of her power. "So as long as we can get her within a mile of the camp, which is doable. Then she could possess the guard in the camera room and have them shut down the cameras."

"And if there is more than one guard in the room."

"The thirty minutes we were watching the camp there were only one or two guards in there. So that's where Franz, Armin, or Erwin come in. We could either have Franz replicate Mina's powers, however, he would only be able to hold it for five minutes, or we could use Armin or Erwin. Armin could easily slip into the room and knock out the other guard, or we could have Erwin teleport into the room behind the guard and knock him out.

"How will Erwin know where to teleport?"

"Before we start he can use astral projection to scoop out the camp so he knows his way around it."

Pixis nodded. "Alright, and you said Ymir's powers would be needed for this?"

"Yes, she can have spirits interact with small items. So maybe she can have them grab the keys of the guards and pass them to Armin. or something like that."

"I like it so far," he nodded, "what's next?"

"Well, that's when we start the raid. We have Erwin portal us inside the compound in the camera room where the guards will be knocked out. We divide and conquer. If we avoid the guards around the compound and skip to going straight inside then we deal with the least amount of guards this way."

"I have to admit, you're an amazing strategist."

"I hope you have all those plans written down," he said and I nodded holding up the notepad. "Good. You ready to share them?" He asked and I gave him a nod. "Alright then, let's head to the conference room and we can plan more from there depending on who actually decides to join the mission."

I nodded and looked at Levi. He liked my ideas! I thought to him. He just gave me a smile. We followed Pixis and Shadis down to the conference room where almost everyone was waiting.