Pasadena, Los Angeles 

"We've been working for how long Gal? This job, we're warring on two fronts and one of the fronts doesn't even know we're working against them. Yet, they're playing checkers and He is playing chess." Pieck spoke with a certain amount of monotone in her voice, she could not willingly stand by with certain actions. It was why she had opted not to take the Colossal opp. 

Her partner, Galliard stood by the window, watching the multiple Russians walk in and out of their headquarters. Gathering info before the armies of the true Narco-Empire would swoop in and blow it up. Just like every other mission ended in, carnage and a whole lot of profit for the boys at the top. 

"It's been two months, don't worry. We'll be going home soon, we just have to finish this. Then we deal with Peralta, what could he do to us? Who could he have to assist him?" Galliard asked curiously, Peralta was alone beside his few detective buddies that followed him into the firm. 

Pieck wasn't so sure, people were starting to dislike them as a whole. They saw them as tyrants, they were often known as Devils. Even though they were doing the dirty work of said people they were fighting, it seemed to be another league of its own. Each department of their empire had reputations and it was becoming repetitive. 

"The Eldians for one, their gang has been terrorizing us in Philly, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Detroit. Every unit has had a run with them sometime and the brass is worried that LA might be next, we just have to get this done and report that there is nothing wron-" Galliard gasped, his eyes widening as he recognized the man stepping into the Russian bar. 

Erwin Smith...

"He's here? Well then, it seems things are just heating up." Pieck was calm, knowing that if Erwin was here then Hange and his bodyguard, Levi was not far behind.

How odd for them to be here exactly, what exactly were they doing here? Things were not exactly the best for the warriors and the eldians were not what they needed. 

"This isn't exactly good heat for us Pieck, Erwin is not the guy we need right now. He's the brains behind the attack on the 5th Street Warehouses, as well as the Tops Casino in Detroit. He wanted to cut off the new cash flow that we just got from bribing the new guys, shit is going to go downhill if he's here. We were stable in a lot of places, now? We're just fucked!"

Galliard had once had a run in with Levi and still had the scars from that day, this was not going to be a good deal with the Russians. Erwin would want their cooperation and that was that. Now he was beginning to get flashbacks. All the attacks and plans from Erwin, how many attacks had that been? Just who was involved? How did they know when to hit and all the vulnerable spots? It seemed like they had a mole. ]

"I'm not praising this at all Galliard. Though you have to admit, this could be a pretty good chance to end the Eldians. All we have to do is put a bullet in Erwin's head and we win. No one will be able to replace him, in the end, we can prove that we are the true eldians, right!?"

Galliard sighed, not even giving Pieck's little plan another thought and going back to watching the bar. If Erwin was here, it was not going to be for a big move. They usually had Eren Yeager or Jean Kirstein on this job, this was going to be something interesting. Even if it was just a meeting.

"They want us to pull out, now. We can't stay to investigate! Come on, we tell them what we saw and then we leave, understood?" Pieck knew that Galliard wanted to play the game, he wanted to see what they would be up to as a soldier of the now Devil Eldians, people who fought for the betterment of their true history. 

Galliard turned to look at the woman who was known as the next in line for Chief of Movement. He sighed, not looking away from the window until a bullet zoomed by him, impact the wall behind him. They both ducked down, looking frantic as they reached for their weapons, blocking the door. 

"Fuck! Well, it seems they have other plans, get them here now! We are not surviving this alone, do you understand!?" Galliard was the one giving orders as he could already assume what was going on. Either Erwin had played them and the sharpshooter, Sasha was here already or something deeper was at play here. 

Pieck grabbed her own rifle and peaked over and immediately regretted it as another bullet zoomed by them. Crawling across the floor, looking rather animalistic, she dialed the very number that she would regret. It seemed that she had to do her duty now as the second in command. 

"Good, I'll cover you!" Immediately after this statement, Galliard started firing, already believing that they were severely outnumbered. Maybe Jake Peralta had a few people out there for him or...something that Galliard did not wish to admit, he had gained the alliance of Erwin Smith.