When I woke up I knew something was wrong. I felt way too refreshed for it to have just been a few hours. No one woke me up? I looked around and saw Levi, Jean, and Marco all still laying in the bed sleeping. No one woke any of us up?

I went to sit up when I saw a note taped to the wall near the door. I wanted to read it but didn't want to wake anyone up. God, how am I gonna- wait. I made a small gravity field just a few feet away from it and watched as it slowly moved over towards it. I made another one closer, making the first one disappear. I kept doing it until the note was within reach.

I let my eyes glance over what was clearly Pixis's handwriting. "I decided not to wake you guys since we mostly had it handled." I saw just under the first message was a second message that seemed newer. "Mission went smoothly, everyone is back safe."

I let out a sigh of relief and leaned back in the bed. "Good news?" Jean asked, moving his head to look at the note letting out a small yawn as he woke up.

"Mission went well."

"We missed it?" He asked a little more awake.

"They let us sleep in."

"So who was there back up then?"

"It doesn't say but I'm assuming Pixis and Shadis maybe? Maybe some others?"

Jean moved over enough so I could get out of the bed without waking the others. I had to go talk with Pixis and hopefully Hassam. This won't be the only time he has to go out like this. I need to figure out what form this mission worked and what didn't. I'm just hoping they are still awake.

After Jean had moved over enough I used my power to float to the ceiling before moving out of range of the bed and lowering myself back to the floor.

"Show off," Jean mumbled before rolling back over and going back to sleep. Guess he wasn't as awake as I thought he was. Then again he was awake enough to shit talk me.

I headed out of the room and to Pixis's office to see if he was still up. To my surprise, both he and Hassam were there. Perfect.

"I'm not interrupting am I?" I asked, knocking on the wall as I poked my head in.

"Not at all," Pixis said, gesturing to the other chair in the room.

"I wanted to see how the mission went since no one woke me," I said looking at Pixis knowing damn well he was the one who left us sleeping.

"You looked like you could use the rest," he shrugged, "and the mission went perfect. Almost too good to be true," he whispered.

"You think they are planning something?"

"I'm not sure," Pixis sighed. "There's just something to clean about all of this. I mean not a single problem, no repercussions, no nothing." He leaned back to try and think.

"That definitely doesn't sound right." I could see why he sounded suspicious of this. I mean it sounded suspicious.

"Or, I could just be safe with the crowd?" Hassam said so naively that I almost pitied him.

"You do realize that these are the same people who tried to gun you down in the middle of the night? The same people who kill people like us without hesitation cause they see us as less than human? The same people who debated for hours if they should kill a whole group of people because someone leaked the truth at a press conference."

"They weren't going to kill them, were they? Wait, were you there?"

"We were the cause of it," I said with a shrug. "We needed to get our message heard, get the truth out there, what a better way to do that than have their own pawns spread our message for us?" I asked.

"That's quite devious if you ask me," Hassam said with a smirk on his face, "I have to give you props. I thought they said that of their own free will."

"Why would they do that? Out of the goodness of their cold dead hearts? Those people couldn't care less whether we lived or died."

"Well, now I feel bad for feeling sorry for them," Hassam shook his head, "when I heard they were getting taken after those speeches I felt bad because I finally thought they were doing what's right, not that karma was biting them in the butt."

"I mean don't get me wrong I still feel guilty about it, but it's hard to feel so torn up by it after what they were about to put us through." I rubbed at the back of my neck. Even if they were horrible people they don't deserve what happened.

"Now you see why we think they are up to something? They won't just let this go as it is. They might have held back to give us a false sense of security. All I'm hearing is that next time you go out we have to be extra cautious." Pixis said, turning to Hassam.

"You really think they are going to try something?"

"I know they are." Pixis nodded.

"We will just have to be ready for anything," I said before sitting back and starting to brainstorm.

"Well, what should I do?" Hassam asked, realizing this next part of the conversation was way out of his league.

"You need to start getting more stories from everyone right? I mean you shared Pixis's story last time, and also how the government tried to kill you, but your going to need another one right?" I asked and he nodded.

"That's right, who do you think would be willing to tell me a story about their life that would be okay to share?"

I looked at Pixis and I could tell we both had the same idea. "Go to Molbit," We both said before I continued. "ask him to tell you more about Ilsa. I'm sure he would love to get her story out there."

"Not to mention her story would be great to get people to open their eyes. She wasn't an exile, she was a normal person just trying to live her life until she was kidnapped, tortured, and killed," Pixis said, his teeth clenching at the end as he forced out the rest of the words.

"You told me a little bit about her during our meeting, but I wasn't able to use specifics with the short time I had to tell your story."

"Then hers will be perfect, it's sure to get people to realize how wrong all of this is. She was a good person who didn't deserve any of this." Pixis got really quiet as he shook his head. I could tell Ilsa's death was still affecting him, I mean it's still affecting all of us. Reiner's death even more so. Neither of them deserved it, yet here they are six feet deep because the world can't realize its own issues.

"Are you guys okay?" Hassam asked. We had both gone quiet being trapped in our thoughts

"We're fine," Pixis cleared his throat.

"We need to start planning, we will fill you in on the details after we get some fleshed-out ideas," I said, also clearing my throat sitting up straighter in the chair.

Pixis passed me the notepad without me even having to ask. Hassam just nodded "what should I do if Molbit is asleep.

"If he's asleep then you should go to bed and try and talk to him in the morning, we will probably be here all night," Pixis responded.

"What about you two?"

"Yeah, I mean I just woke up, I'm not going to bed any time soon, and he's a workaholic."

Pixis just shot me a small glare before rolling his eyes, "I just want to make sure everyone's safe, that doesn't make me a workaholic."

"Tomato, tomato," I shrugged.

"The saying is tomato tomahto," Pixis shook his head.

"Yeah but that pisses me off saying that because it's pronounced different, but if you say tomato tomato then it's exactly the same which is the whole point."

Hassam just started laughing before apologizing, "sorry, but man if the rest of the world could see what I could then they would see just how human you all are," he took a deep breath and excused himself to check and see if Molbit was awake.

"I mean he's got a point, if people see how we interact they could see we are the same."

"Whatever you're thinking, drop it," Pixis rolled his eyes.

"I'm not thinking about anything... yet."

"We aren't going to video anything," Pixis struck down the idea before I could even pitch it.

"It's just a thought."

"A bad one."

"Fine, let's get to planning," I said, getting us back on track.