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Levi jolts awake at the annoyingly loud alarm over the intercom. Just woken up from his precious nap from god knows how long he’s been asleep. Great, what is it now? Another Karaoke announcement? Levi was NOT in the mood for another get-together when they’re in space with a bunch of ruthless alien spies among their little civilizations of what humanity has left.
Erwin’s voice is loud and clear, blaring through the speakers of the Skeld.
“Attention Everyone! We will be having a meeting in the cafeteria for our new recruitments arriving today! Please attend on time at 7, if you do not wish to clean the bathrooms and take out the trash!”
And with that Levi got up from his bed, he loves cleaning really he does, but sometimes he really hates cleaning the toilets. And he’s especially not in the mood for that either since Erwin oh so peacefully destroyed his good rest. He changed into his uniform, a ‘Black’ jumpsuit that’s almost if not, a little too big for his size but he doesn’t really care at this point. The color makes him look cool and intimidating and nobody really dares to mess with Levi so he keeps it that way. Easier for him to not make emotional connections with anyone in case anything were to happen.
He puts his helmet on and carried on his way to the cafeteria, most of their meetings are held there since it’s the one of biggest rooms in the ship.
By the way they don’t really need their helmets it’s just a matter of safety precautions, you’re in space and oxygen doesn’t exist there so they have to use what they got. Anyway.
He’s walking out of his room when he sees ‘Cyan’ and ‘Brown’ racing down the hall to the cafeteria, “Oi Sasha! You cheated and tripped me back there! Totally unfair!”
“Sorry~ Better keep up slow poke!”
Levi could tell she was grinning under her helmet.
As he walked to the cafeteria he noticed most of his crewmates were already there. ‘Purple’, Ymir, was always with ‘Pink’, Historia, given that they were girlfriends.
‘Orange’, Hange, talking to their Captain Erwin, sporting his ‘White’ uniform as usual.
Connie and Sasha chasing each other around the cafeteria, nothing new. The only other crewmate missing was ‘Blue’ which by the way is running late, guess he has toilet and trash duties. Sucks for him.
“Alright settle down, is everyone here?” Erwin says as he examines each of his crew members, just until Jean comes running from the hallway out of breath. “Wait Captain I’m here! Am I late?”
“Yes and congrats you get the late cleaning duties!”
“But I was in Security! The wires kept shocking my fingers!” Jean grimaced whilst Connie and Sasha pat his back in pity.
“No excuses Blue, anyways moving on. We have 3 new recruiting crewmates from MIRA HQ, they already informed us that they are well trained and will help us navigate to Polus and collect artifacts for research and bring us back home for laboratory testing. Anyone have any questions?”
”Do we have to share rooms?”
“Most likely Cyan.”
”Where are we meeting them?”
”Unity’s space station”
”Do we have to teach them the tasks?”
”No they’re fresh trainees and been taught everything they should know, so they’ll be helping us”
“Can I-“
“No Brown you can’t have an extra serving you already the rules.”
“How do we know that there’s not an Imposter among those three?” Levi said, the room slowly tensed from it’s lively atmosphere.
It wasn’t a secret that there has been a fraud in their crew before, not too long ago even, killing previous members and trying to create distrust within the group. It wasn’t as small as this crewmate as it was before, many lives were lost until they finally caught the intelligent being. Hange wanted to experiment the alien for research and investigation, Erwin suggested they couldn’t risk anyone else or lives to be taken again so they sent the damned creature through the ejection shoot like all trash goes.
Erwin sighed, distressed in his tone, “I can assure all of you that our new members are human, I won’t let anything like last time happen to us again. For now let’s give our new comrades a warm welcome.”
The ship pulled into a stop, a seemingly active nearby space station, 3 figures with luggage waiting to board the ship. Everyone chattering to themselves or to each other.
“I wonder if they’re nice?”
“My Historia~ Just stay close to me okay?”
“I wonder if they brought us more food..”
“Sasha I can see your saliva in your helmet from here.”
“I don’t wanna clean..”
Everyone stayed silent as the new members boarded their ship. All three sporting primary colors, Levi supposes it will be easier to avoid them. There’s one in red followed by smaller person in yellow next to them, and a tall muscular looking figure standing behind them in green.
The one in red moved up first, “Hello I am Mikasa, otherwise known as Red, I look forward to working with you all.” She had a calm voice and was almost bored if you studied it enough. There was a red beanie decorated on top of her helmet, fits right in with the others and their own accessories.
Pink with a flower on her helmet, Cyan and Brown matching with cowboy hats. Hange with a head mirror to show her position as the medic. And Jean with a paper on his head labeled ‘Dum’. Which he, himself hasn’t noticed yet.
Heck even Erwin wears a captains hat every once in a while he kept from All Hallows’ Eve, an old human tradition he insists on celebrating much to Levi’s dismay, to fit in with his crew and their shenanigans.
Back to the meeting.
Yellow came up front with a friendly vibe, a big leaf on top on their helmet. “Hello everyone! I’m Armin or just Yellow~ As you can tell by the suit. I’m also a fellow researcher and look forward to working with everyone here!” This kid was almost too friendly for Levi’s liking. Armin nudged the green guy with his elbow to introduce himself. The tallest grunted from that but didn’t say anything, just folded his arms.
‘Huh. Maybe he’s selectively mute.’ Supposes he’s reserved just like Levi.
“Oh right well Eren here, isn’t much of a talker and likes to keep to himself mostly, he did tell me that he’s a trained pilot and electrician. As for myself I’m specialized in medical research and laboratory. Mikasa can do almost any given task really. We hope to be of good use!”
“Right thank you, Yellow, seems to me you guys are a perfect fit for our team. You can freely interact with any of us if you have any questions or concerns, no need to be afraid since there’s a long journey ahead of us.” Erwin said with a chuckle.
‘Right because the rookies are going to be with us for the next 2 months til we make it to Polus..’
“Alright everyone now that we’re settled in we can’t wait around anymore, let’s get back to work! This ship doesn’t run by itself. Make sure to check in at Admin and check your task schedule for the day, that’s all. Dismissed.”
“Yes captain!”
They saluted and went to their duties as per usual, Jean sulking eerily behind Connie and Sasha. Levi stayed just a little longer so he could talk with Erwin about his suspicions. He was the one that caught the impostor after all.
“Red, Yellow, Green. Come with me, there's some things we need to talk about first.”
Levi heard as soon as almost everyone was dismissed, he guessed Erwin would tell them what the emergency buttons and body report button badge on their suits were for, in case of any suspicions like last time.
Levi watched as the trio followed Erwin to the storage room, catching a glimpse of the tallest, he could almost swear that Green, No Eren, was looking at him back. As if he could see those determined eyes and was that a smirk? underneath that helmet.
He felt nervous? Oh god why was he nervous? He hasn’t felt like this in years. Not even when he saw his old friend, Petra’s dead body in front of him. Not even when he was being accused of Petra’s murderer. Surely not even when he was certain that Gunter, who was suspiciously aggravated and hostile towards anyone who got close to him was the impostor. And by god he was right and caught him.
Why did this new kid make him feel anxious all of a sudden? Levi shook his head tried to distract his thoughts away. It wasn’t working.
‘I still need to talk to Erwin, something doesn’t feel right. Especially with that kid.’
Levi was determined to find out what it is.
Erwin came back into the cafeteria heading towards navigation, surprised to see Levi still standing in the same spot. He assumed that he was doing his tasks by now.
“Black? I see that you’re still here, Is there anything you need?”
“Yes as a matter of fact I don't entirely trust the new members. And before you interrupt me let me finish, Captain. I just have this gut feeling that something bad is going to happen to any of us soon.”
“And with this gut feeling of yours what type of ‘bad’ are we talking about here Levi?”
“I don’t know just yet but I just get this weird feeling from one of them. Maybe like another impostor?” Levi can’t tell Erwin that it’s Green yet, it would be too early to make assumptions on him when any of the three can be unpredictable.
“Levi I understand you’re just anxious and tired from earlier and have a hard time socializing, don’t worry you’ll warm up to them eventually.”
“But Erwin-“
“Just have a drink and refresh your mind. If anything go to Hange if you’re feeling sick. And besides it’s my sworn duty to protect you all no matter what happens. Be sure to do your tasks today.” And with that the giant white astronaut was gone.
Leaving Levi in his thoughts and the feeling of being watched.