We walked down the halls and took out the few guards wandering around. Until we hit the room filled with prisoners. We all took a deep breath before I nodded to team A. "We're about to go in. When it's time for teams B and C to come in we will call for you but until then don't move from here." I said. They all nodded.
"Alright, Marco's ice wall won't be enough to stop all these bullets so Levi I hope you're ready," I whispered looking at him.
"As ready as I can be facing down a wall of guns," he mumbled.
"Jean if you can use your fire to try and keep them grouped up as much as possible."
"What do you need me to do?" Marco asked. "If you can jam or freeze the guns with any water then do that," I said and Marco nodded opening the bottles he carried in his pants so he had access to the water.
"I'm just melting the guns right?" Petra asked and we nodded.
"Everyone ready?" I asked.
"Ready," everyone repeated back to me.
I put my hand on the door and nodded. I used my power to not only rip the door off its hinges but aimed it at some of the guards that were more grouped together; they hit the ground and instantly it was raining bullets on us. I made a strong gravity field to the side of us to pull all the bullets away from us while using another to keep us in place. One by one all the guards' guns melted in their hands dripping between their fingers.
Levi was watching the other side of us keeping the bullets off of us from that side. I watched a few of the guards desperately hit their jammed guns or even throw them on the floor when they started freezing from the inside thanks to Marco.
Jean was using his fire to move them all together but made it look like he was aiming for the guards so they wouldn't realize.
"B, C" I yelled, making another gravitational field pulling the bullets away from where they would be walking to catch up to us. When the last few weapons were liquified I had Marco put up an Ice wall. "Guard the Chemist," I said to Franz and Hanna before charging forward.
"Fight these cursed," a guard yelled.
I watched as Ymir ran forward and jumped wrapping her legs around the guard neck before swinging her body weight and flipping them as his back hit the ground with a thud. I turned my attention back to the guy I spotted. This dude was ripped and he was headed straight for where Petra was. I decided to intercept him. I ran up and gave the back of his leg a good kick watching his legs fold under him. He went to reach for me but before he grabbed me I decided to introduce his face to the ceiling.
I moved on to the next person when I was sure he wasn't getting back up. I looked around to make sure none of my teammates were in trouble. Levi was handling himself fine. Mina was even kicking some ass. No one seemed to be in danger until I saw four people surrounding Reiner. I know he can handle himself, but a little help couldn't hurt.
I ran over as the guy sneaking up behind him was about to swing. "Watch your six," I called out as I roundhouse kicked the guy behind him in the face.
"Didn't know you were that flexible," I heard Jean call out a little behind me.
"I did," I heard Levi say a little behind him.
"Not the time idiots," I yelled back shaking my head. They need to take this a little more seriously.
"I don't need your help, I have this perfectly under control," he mumbled.
"Sure you do," I said, staying behind him staring down the guards who looked like they were rethinking their choices.
I waited until I saw an opening "Duck!" I yelled and Reiner dropped to the floor. I used his shoulder to step up and jump off it landing my foot against one of their faces.
While Reiner was on the ground and the other guards were distracted looking at me he took the moment to sweep their legs out from under them. Before they could even try and get up Berthold came out of nowhere to help Riener take care of them. I looked around to see who else needed help. That's when I realized everyone was pretty much taken care of. All the guards that were still conscious were tied up by Hanji's vines. Hanji was going around to all the unconscious guards and tying them up too. Good, we can never be too careful.
We had Petra walk over with us to help us open some of the cages. Some of the guards were shouting obscenities at us, but we didn't pay them any attention. At least we weren't the ones tied up. I watched as one guard shouted something and Petra stopped.
"Who said that?" she asked.
"Said what?" Honestly, I wasn't even listening to half of the things they were saying.
"Which one just spoke?" She asked.
Ymir pointed at the guard laying by her feet. "He did," she said, pointing him out for her. I watched as she marched up to him with Levi not far behind her. "So you are the one who was talking shit about blue badges. You look as pathetic as you sound," her tone dripping with venom. She kneeled down and untied him. He stood up a little confused at first but was about to swing at her.
"What are you doing?" I asked running over but before I could say anything she punched him knocking him out cold.
"Making it a fair fight," she said before walking back over to the cages and going back to helping people out of them.
"Did she just-?" I asked Levi.
"Yup, the real kicker," he said looking at me, "she doesn't even feel guilty about it."
"That was so awesome!" Ymir yelled, "that shocked even Ils-." She cut herself off by throwing her hands over her mouth. Everyone just froze and looked at her.
"Ilsa's here?" Reiner asked, his voice cracked for a moment before rage flashed through him. "Has she been here the whole time? How long were you going to-."
"Enough," I cut him off. "This is not the time to discuss this. We can do it when we get back." I said before feeling my chest tighten. I mean I figured as much when she and Levi got all secretive, but assuming it's true is different from actually knowing.
We finished letting out all of the prisoners. "We need to get them back," I said and Erwin nodded. He opened the portal and walked through making sure it was clear to send them back. "Everyone else, try to get as much information as you can from the guards that are still conscious." I knew we probably wouldn't get much but it was worth a chance. Everyone started walking around talking to them and threatening them while I kept an eye on the people we just saved.
"It's clear," he said before giving them the go-ahead to walk through. Once all the people had walked through he let them know he was going to close the portal. "Wait there we will be right back."
"What's the matter?" I wondered why he didn't just leave the portal open.
"The other team needs the exit portal," he said. "To not overdo it I need to focus on this," he said taking a deep breath and closing his eyes. That's right it must be hard making a portal that he doesn't have any contact with. Normally he would have contact with at least one end of the portals, but not this time.
We finished asking the guards as much as we could all we figure out is that they really want us to go to hell and to fuck ourselves. Just as I thought it was a long shot, but it was worth trying still.
"They just finished getting their prisoners through. They are coming through now. He said letting me know they were almost through.
"That's fine," I said before hearing several loud shots ring out.
I watched Erwin go down before feeling a sudden pain shoot through my back. I too fell to the ground. I turned just enough to see what was happening. The two guards Armin and Franz knocked out in the hallway had come to it seems.
I watched as everything happened in slow motion. Mina was the next to go down. Jean tried to turn to see what was happening just to get shot. Marco jumped over him as he fell to the floor. Levi had jumped over me before looking up towards them to use his powers to get the guns away from them. Before he could I watch as Ymir who had stepped in front of Christa went down. Right as Levi got the guns away from the first one the last one fired again before Levi could get the gun away from him too. I watched as Berthold jumped in front of Reiner and hit the floor with a loud thud. Hanji quickly used her vines to tie them up before freezing up; she didn't know who to run to first.
"Franz I need you to copy Erwin's power and make us a portal home!" Levi yelled.
Everything was starting to get really blurry I looked around and couldn't see much of what was happening. Where did they get shot? Who was moving who wasn't?
I felt as Levi picked me up right as my vision started to blacken. "Don't you dare die on me," Levi said and that was the last thing I could hear before I lost consciousness. Shit, this wasn't supposed to happen. Not again.