Three days after the meeting in Historia's office. Morning.
Historia walks at a brisk pace through a long corridor.
"Ugh, I'm late...!" She groans to herself. She takes a sharp right and opens the first door on the left.
"You're late, Queen." A man says. He had a curled mustache. It looked like a stereotyped one just like in cartoons.
"Yeah, sorry. I still had paperwork to finish, and time just flew. I noticed I was not going to make it on time too late. My apologies once again."
"We will begin once you take a seat."
"Alright."
...
"We are gathered here today to discuss an issue regarding the Marley." A man says. His name is Bjorn... he usually hosts and moderates meetings like these.
As he mentions the Marley, many officials whisper to each other.
"The Survey Corps along with the Queen propose that they gather up a qualified team to infiltrate the Marley and return with the Jaws Titan... Ymir."
More whispering ensues. ..."Ymir? The one that sided with the traitors?"...
"Quiet down. They need the O.K to continue on..."
Another man pipes up. "No way. What would risking OUR soldiers give us? The Marley, too! Once they get ahold of the Founding Titan's power- it's over for us!"
Many nod their heads in agreement.
"We have Levi and Mikasa Ackerman going in with Eren! Along with other skilled soldiers like Hanji!" Armin counters. "It's safe!"
Conflicted murmuring fills the room and Armin continues.
"Not only that- Ymir is still on our side! It's not that we're going to fight with the army- we're just breaking Ymir out... Having less Titan Shifters is a con for Marley, giving us an advantage for the upcoming war."
"What makes you so sure of Ymir's life? She might as well be dead already."
Historia clenches her teeth at the thought of that.
Hanji takes out Ymir's letter to Historia regarding the new Theory developed by the scientists in Marley.
"Remember this?"
"..."
"Fine then. Do as you wish. I side with the Queen."
"So do I."
"Me too."
"The majority agrees with the Queen's case, then. Have at it- the meeting is finished."
Historia smiles happily. "Thank you so much! Please, all of you meet up at my office later this afternoon! I have to return to my office now to finish some paperwork."
She rushes off to where she came from.
"I guess that does it, huh?" Eren says, looking at everyone."
"We'll get going for now. See you soon." Levi says, dragging Hanji with him.
The afternoon following the aftermath of the high council meeting.
They all rendezvoused in Historia's office after the tense discussion about Ymir.
"I don't know how to thank you...!" Historia hugged everyone. She was crying tears of happiness.
"It was nothing. Now we need to tell Sasha, Conny, and Jean about this. I'm sure they won't mind, though." Mikasa says, hand on the queen's shoulder.
Levi taps on his wrist watch. "We need to be quick. We don't have time to stand around and do nothing. I'll trust that you three will inform the others about this new mission?"
Eren nods, grinning. "Count on us!"
With that, Levi and Hanji leave to do whatever.
The trio start to leave too, saying goodbye to Historia.
"We'll get Ymir back. Promise."
"I know. Goodbye."
"Bye."
...
"Alright, now who should we find first?" Mikasa says.
"Well, I say Sasha. Conny is always with her and you know- she's always where food is." Armin says.
"Then let's go!" Eren hustles the other two, as if he was in a rush.
They find Sasha munching away while Conny is telling her stories. Armin's guess was were pleased that they were finally assigned an important task. Lately they were given easy chores that no one really wanted to do. Jean however, took a while to contact. He was walking around the town, trying to pick up women. No luck, though. He wasn't as happy to get a job. He wanted to have more free time to do what he wanted. Alas, they all go to one of the Survey Corps bases- the one near the entrance of Wall Rose.
The squad of young adults are busy prepping for the upcoming mission of pretending to be normal villagers in Riese. They all walk back and forth, putting things in their horse carriages to take with them along the journey. Some are focused, some fool around...
"I can't believe you convinced them just like that, Armin. You're some kind of genius, huh?" Eren says, carrying a box to his carriage.
Armin doing the same, replies with a chuckle. "Nah. I just used psychology, I gave them what they wanted."
"Whatever."
The supervisors (Hanji and Levi) sit and converse while having a drink. They had finished before everyone. Jean jogs to the table where the boxes of necessities are, but is stopped short. He trips over Conny's foot, and goes flying, landing face first onto the floor. Sasha cackles loudly, pointing to Jean, who is ass up and face down. "Dude. Gahahahaha!" Conny snickers, covering his mouth with a hand. "Sorry, my leg slipped..." Sasha drops to the floor, dying of laughter. "Pftttt! How do you land with your ass up!?"
Jean gets up and dusts himself off, clearly angry. "Ugh! I'm trying to work! Go away!" He looks at Mikasa and blushes, noticing that she saw everything. "Gah!" he grunts, and storms off to continue working.
"Get to work! We don't have time to mess around!" Levi shouts, mad dogging Conny and Sasha. "Ack! Sorry, sir!" They both jump up and hurry to their duties. They don't seem to pull off anymore pranks after Levi yelled at them.
"...Jeez..." Eren whispers to Armin, sweat dropping from his forehead. Mikasa works quietly, minding her own business. Hanji crosses their legs. "So, when do you think Annie is gonna come out of the crystal?"
Levi shrugs. "There's no sign of it dissolving... It's already been years. There's a possibility that it'll never let her go." Hanji sighs, "I've been waiting to question her. Along with Ymir. Especially Ymir, if she's been alive for so long..."
"Yeah. Ymir clearly knew a lot about the biology of titans at the top of her head when she told Eren. Not only will her powers help the upcoming war- her knowledge is priceless."
"All done!" The former trainees sigh in relief as they drop to the floor together to rest. Levi sets his cup down. "Then let's start moving." They all groan and walk to their carriages. The Shiganshina Trio were together- Mikasa and Eren sitting in the front and Armin in the back; Conny and Sasha together; Levi and Hanji together; and Jean... alone.
Historia rushes in. "I tried my best to make time to visit you guys before you left! I barely made it on time!" Eren looks at her. "You need somethin'?" She shakes her head no. "No. I just wanted to wish you guys good luck." They all smiled in response (except Levi smh..).
"Yeah. We're gonna need it."