Nanaba let out a sigh before nodding, "I figured we would have to switch some people around at some point," she said before nodding, "so who were we thinking?"

"Only three people would be switching. We were thinking that Rico should switch into team A and Marlowe and Hitch should switch into team D." Pixis said.

Before he could even explain our reasoning she agreed. "Do it," she nodded, "I like that a lot better. Honestly, I was worried about Marlowe and Hitch being in team A, to begin with. It's not that I'm not worried about Rico, but I know that she can definitely hold her own," she said, almost letting out a sigh of relief.

"Alright, we are going to check and make sure that it's okay with them first," Pixis nodded.

"I'm sure Marlowe and Hitch will be relieved. Rico probably either won't care, or she'll be happy to be on the front lines," Nanaba said before calling the three of them over.

I call over the rest of team D before thinking to Levi. It worked.

When everyone was in front of us we announced to them that people would be switching. When we named them off Nanaba was right I saw a sigh of relief from Hitch and Marlowe. Now I feel bad for asking them to be on the front lines they clearly weren't comfortable with it. I have to remind myself to tell them that if they ever feel uncomfortable with a team that I make to tell me. If I would have known how worried they were about it I would have switched them a lot sooner.

Rico, on the other hand, wasn't as happy as Nanaba thought she would be. She had her arms crossed and was staring at us with a confused glare.

"Is this switch okay with everyone?" Pixis asked. Team D agreed and so did Marlowe and Hitch. I half expected Rico to state some objection, but she never did.

"Sure I guess," she mumbled.

Team D started walking away with their new teammates trying to catch them up on their roles and their plan.

I gestured for Rico to walk closer to me so I could see what she was thinking. "You looked really confused about the switch?" I asked her.

"You said you needed me on that team to make it stronger?" She asked.

Shit, I did say that. "Well, I'm going to be a hundred percent honest. I only said that to make you more interested in joining the team." I half expected her to hit me, but she stayed quiet, "but I wasn't fully lying. Your strength would have greatly helped their team, however, I wanted to put you on our team from the beginning but I didn't know how you would react."

"React to what?" She asked, glaring into me. Fuck her glare is intense.

"Well, to our plan," Levi said, stepping in. He could read her better than I could and I'm assuming he would put a stop to me telling her if she wasn't okay with what we were telling her.

"What plan?" She asked. Her voice wasn't as harsh this time.

We had made it to the rest of our team. I didn't think I should tell her right now since if she did react badly the last thing I wanted was her telling everyone. She should be told in private so if at first, she doesn't agree with it we can try and talk her into it or at least try and have her agree to not tell anyone.

"Pixis incoming," Levi leaned in and whispered.

I looked back to Rico before Pixis was in hearing range, "Not now, meet me in our room after training we will be having a team meeting there." I told not only her but the rest of the team.

She looked confused and she watched as Levi and I threw on innocent smiles to greet Pixis. "What's up?" I asked him.

"We are going to give your team and team D a little more time to fill in your new teammates about their roles," he said before giving me a pat on the back and heading back to his own team.

I let out a sigh of relief. "Alright, so for these run-throughs here's what I want you to do," I said filling in Rico.

After I finished explaining she shook her head, "what do you mean for these run-throughs? Isn't this what we will be doing for the actual mission?" She asked.

"I'll explain it in the team meeting later, I promise."

She took a deep breath. I could tell she was frustrated with me avoiding the answers, but this wasn't a good place to talk about it. She just rolled her eyes but eventually just nodded. "I'll hold you to that," she mumbled.

We went through training. The first few had a few mistakes especially since there wasn't a lot of communication between the team leaders. After Thomas activated his power we were able to squeeze three runs in with that practice. We did them nearly perfectly aside from a few little mistakes, but there was definitely some improvement. After his power wore off we did a few more runs. There were still some communication errors, but not as many as before. After having a nearly perfect run at the end we decided that was a good stopping point. Everyone was exhausted and we had only a few breaks in between each run for people to rest and eat. Nearly the whole day had gone by and we did nothing but train for this mission.

Most people planned to go straight to bed after dinner, but our team still had a meeting planned. We all ate in a tired silence. Levi and I finished eating first and gave our team a nod that let them know we would be waiting in our room. We didn't all want to leave at the same time that would be suspicious.

We sat down and hoped they would stagger their arrival, but not too much since we did have to make this quick. We all needed to get a ton of rest since we would be waking up in the middle of the night for this mission.

Levi and I were sitting on our bed waiting for the others. Sasha was the first one to join us. She came in and plopped down on the bed laying over both of our laps.

"Comfortable?" I asked and she nodded.

"I'm tired, can the other's hurry up?" she mumbled with closed eyes.

"Don't fall asleep," Levi rolled his eyes.

Rico was the next one to poke her head in. She saw Sasha laying over our laps and nearly asked us what was happening but decided against it.

"Are they here yet?" Sasha asked letting out another yawn.

"We're just waiting on Jean and Marco," I mumbled.

She let out a disappointed sigh, "We always are."

"Quit your bitching we are right here," Jean said walking in the room with Marco trailing behind him mumbling for him to be nicer.

"Alright, I know you are all grumpy, but can we make it through this meeting without killing each other," Levi rolled his eyes glaring at both Jean and Sasha.

"Fine," Jean said before leaning up against the wall.

"Alright, so it's time to go over our actual plan," I started before looking over towards Rico, "but first let's fill her in."

"If you aren't okay with something we say they please let us know," Levi added, "there's a good chance that you won't be."

She squinted at Levi's words. I could tell she wanted him to explain what he meant by that. So I decided to start talking.

"Well, as you might have realized, this mission is very personal to us-," I started.

"You're right I did notice, why is that?"

"Well, everyone here came from the same school, we all were students or teachers there. When Pixis realized where this all was heading he shut down the school and invited us all to come with him. Not all of our fellow classmates decided that it was the best idea. We didn't think much of it. Most of them weren't ready to fight so we assumed they would be safe, that was until we did the recon mission at the camp. We had just figured out they were grabbing blue badges just because they existed. When we looked in the camp we saw a familiar face." I stopped talking. I felt the same rush of anger wash over me.

"One of your friends from the school?" She asked.

"Yeah. The thing that's getting to us all is that we know the only reason she got grabbed was because she's a blue badge. She's the nicest sweetest person you will ever meet, and she's locked up in a horrible place for nothing more than just existing." I said through gritted teeth. I crossed my arms hugging my chest and closing my eyes trying to calm down. I felt Levi's hand on my back.

"That makes sense of why your group seems so determined to free this camp," she nodded.

"Don't get me wrong we would still be determined even if we didn't know anyone there, but..." I let my voice drift off.

"It makes it personal," she finished, "I get it. What does this have to do with your guy's plan?"

"Well," I sighed deciding to just go for it, "I'm stupid and reckless, so I grabbed a group of people who I thought would also be stupid and reckless, and Marco," I said nodding at him, "he's only here because his boyfriend is stupid and reckless."

Marco just smiled at me, "the things I do for love," he mumbled before grabbing Jean's hand.

"We are planning on following the plan that I came up with to start with, however, I know that when we all go in we might have a harder time keeping up with the rest of the teams. We are going to make stupid mistakes, and we are going to be running ahead and taking on more enemies than we should. Which is why we wanted to switch Marlowe and Hitch out of the group. I kept telling myself we would be able to protect them, but in all honesty, I don't think we would be able too."

"You're lucky you switched them out, if your stupidity got them hurt I would have killed you," she said glaring into me.

"I know, and you would have every right too," I nodded, "that being said, what are your thoughts?"

"My thoughts are that you are all stupid, and are on a suicide mission," she said folding her arms staring me down. There was a long silence in the room. "I'm in."

"Wait what?" I asked. Did she just say what I think she did?

"I said I'm in. Someone's got to keep you all from getting yourselves killed," she sighed, "and honestly, I guess you can say I'm stupid and reckless too," she mumbled, "let's save that friend of yours. You've talked her up so much I want to meet her," she shrugged.

I gave her a big smile and nodded, "okay."

"You won't tell anyone?" Sasha asked.

"Of course not, I'm no snitch. Besides, I just agreed to help if I tell anyone imma get my ass beat too."

She's got a point. "Well, if that's all then I'm going to bed," she said before walking out.

"That went easier than expected," Sasha mumbled.

"Honestly I expected her to chew us out more," I said looking at the others.

"Nah, I told you she was cool," Jean smiled.

The others left for their rooms too and we got ready for bed. After we finished changing we laid down and I knew falling asleep was going to be a pain. I was so nervous about tomorrow and my mind was all over the place. I turned to Levi and apologized.

"It's fine babe," Levi said, placing a kiss on my cheek, "just remember we have to get some sleep to perform at our best. Ilsa deserves our best efforts."

"You're right," I sighed. I just needed to find a way to shut down all the thoughts in my mind.

Levi just shrugged and I felt him force an emotion on me. A wave of calmness washed over me. "Better?"

"Actually, yes," I nodded. I didn't think that would be as effective as it was.

"Alright now hurry up and go to sleep, or the next one I'm going to make you feel is tired," he said. I nodded and cuddled up next to him and closed my eyes.

"I love you," I said. I had to say it before the mission in case I forget to later he has to know that in case something happens.

"I love you too, now would you quit thinning like that. Nothing is going to happen, we are both going to be fine. We will both make it back home," Levi said his hand caressing my cheek. He placed a kiss on my forehead and pulled me close. Despite what he said I could feel he was just as worried as I was. This mission was going to be riskier than any one we've been on so far.

"I promise when this is all over we will get married," Levi said and I smiled.

"I'll hold you to that," I said closing my eyes.