Soon enough, Benjamin returned with a couple of extra tools in his hands. He swung the door open and paused as he briefly searched for me in the chair. As the door creaked closed, I silently stepped out from behind and before I could hesitate, slammed the loose drawer down on his head. His head easily broke through the bottom wood and the drawer hung by his neck. After the crash, I immediately attacked the back of his knees, kicking them out. He fell to his knees and I quickly bounded his wrists and ankles together while he was out cold. I then searched him for anything useful. Unfortunately, no 3DMG but I managed to snag a small knife and metal handcuffs. Stuffing them into my pockets, I slammed open the door and sprinted out. A dark lining of stairs greeted me and I ran up with no hesitation. As expected, someone had been on post at the top and whirled around at my footsteps. But at that instance, I was already at his face, slipping past his side, cuffing one of his wrists.

"Hey!"

Speeding it up, I yanked backwards, pulling on the cuff and linking the other end to the stair banister. I left as the guard began yelling at the top of his lungs, running before reinforcements could come and help him out. Not surprisingly, I had found myself in a stone house, emerging from the basement into some sort of living room. However, there wasn't any more guards up here and so I paused, eyes frantically searching for the main door out. Luckily, it was only a few metres away to my right and I began towards it.

"What the- get her!"

My head whipped to my left and spied two more guards dashing out of the kitchen. I grinned and sprinted out the door before they could reach me. However, once I got outside, there was no way to getting away fast enough. Not without 3DMG at least. So I halted in the middle of the street and turned to face the incoming soldiers. I needed to knock them out and steal one of their gears because I had no idea where my gear had gone. They came at me, a sword drawn from one. He lunged at me, blade high. Shoving my hand into my pocket, I grabbed onto the ripped paper confetti and chucked it up into his face. The officer blinked into the paper and landed clumsily, wiping at his face. I swiveled out of the way of his landing, drawing out the small dagger I had pinched earlier. His blade came down on empty space and I swiped at his arm. Blood spurted out and he dropped his sword out of pain, his face disgruntled. With that, I pulled my fist back and let it fly, smashing him right in the nose. More blood spurted out and he collapsed, his good hand flying to his face. The other simply stood at his place, stunned. Breathing heavily, I braced myself, slipping my leather-made weapon into my free hand. I watched. Suddenly, his right hand reached for his blades. I flicked the leather whip, snapping at his hand. The soldier jerked it away from me, eyes still wide.

"Don't move or I will hurt you." I growled, eyes narrowing. The soldier remained silent, staring right back at me. i flicked my head towards his waist.

"Gear, off. Now."

I cursed, my grip tightening on the 3DMG handles. The gas canisters had been low when I stole the gear off the officer and now I was stretching my luck, purely running on fumes now. Wall Sina and the MP headquarters were too far to make it without gas and so I headed to the Survey Corps Headquarters instead. Also, my body was slowly shutting down due to my lack of water and loss of blood from Benjamin's greetings. Finally seeing the edges of the training grounds, I sighed in relief and clumsily prepared to land. My vision was blurry by now and my legs refused to move. With that, I hit the ground hard, skidding and rolling across the dirt-packed floor, kicking up a small dust storm behind me. The 3DMG dug and cut further into my skin as I rolled along the dirt. I soon collided into a tree trunk and halted to a stop. As green cloaks surrounded me and the voices increased in volume, I gave up fighting and let my consciousness fade.

"Do you not understand the gravity of the situation? Where is Levi?"

I groaned quietly as the sounds from reality began to drown out my pleasant and urgh, painless dream. My shoulders throbbed and my legs felt numb, frozen with pins and needles. As I took a good look at myself, my face curled into a grimace. Bandages wrapped around me like a mummy, covering all four of my limbs.

"Fine then. Go find him this instance and get his ass back here as soon as possible...sometimes I don't understand why I haven't fired him yet."

I recognized the stern voice instantly and blinked in surprise. Erwin hardly sounded as frustrated and impatient as I was hearing him now. As sleep threatened to take over again, I pulled my eyes open wider and looked around the dim room I was currently situated in. Survey Corps. Infirmary. Wait, no. It looked like Erwin's-

The door clicked open and my eyes whirled to the opening, watching the Commander himself enter his private quarters.

"You know, you talk in your sleep." He stated, already knowing I was awake. Start off a jab.

"We have to stop meeting like this, people are going to talk." I teased right back, making a face as I moved into a sitting position.

"You had quite a few visitors. Levi included."

I cocked my head and waited for Erwin to make his point.

"The Captain overheard you cursing a certain Benjamin into hell."

The blood drained from my face and I forced my next few words out.

"Levi's gone, isn't he?"