Chapter 1: The Expedition
"Hey, Estonia! Wait for us!" Lithuania and Latvia shouted after Estonia, who ran ahead of them into the meeting room. The Baltics were late again to the UN meeting. Lithuania and Latvia stopped running when they entered the room, standing next to Estonia. The nations inside the room were silent as they stared at the Baltics in the door.
"We're... Extremely sorry for being late... Again…" Estonia said as all three of them went red with embarrassment.
"It's ok dudes!" America smiled cheerfully. "Have a seat!"
"Just try to make it on time next time." England sighed.
"W- we will, Mr England." Latvia replied, taking his seat between Estonia and Hungary.
"Ok, I will now introduce the topic we were talking about a few minutes ago before the Baltics came in," Germany said. "America suggested sending him, Canada and England to Pluto's 4th moon, Kerberos, in order to extract a piece of the surface of the moon, which could help us in going forwards in finding life beyond Earth."
"May I just ask again, WHY ME?!" England yelled.
"Because you'll finally experience something exhilarating for once in your life!" America replied.
"Shut up! My life is full of exhilarating things…"
"Like what?" France asked. "Getting attacked by ISIS?"
"Shut it you frog! Don't bring that shithead into this, ok?!"
"So if England doesn't want to go," Italy said. "Who will go with America and Canada?"
"I will." Austria said, rising from his seat bravely. Hungary gasped. Her heartbeat quickened.
"Roderich, are you-" She began.
"Yes, Elizabeta, I am sure. I will make you proud. I will show you I can be brave. I thought you would-"
"Then it is decided." Germany said. "America, Canada and Austria will be sent off to Kerberos in two months. During their absence, England will govern America and Canada, while I will govern Austria."
"Ooh, this will be fun…" England said, with a creepy smile on his face.
"I don't think it's a good idea to leave Canada and America in Arthur's hands." America commented.
"At least I'll get your people into shape! How high is your obesity rate again?" America ignored England's reply.
"I think we can end this meeting here dudes! I'll see you guys again later!" Everyone left the meeting in the space of 5 minutes. Hungary couldn't help but worry for Austria's future. She swore to herself she would spend the next two months with Austria. Maybe she could even talk him out of it?
Of course, only one person remained behind in the meeting room.
"Oh... They never seemed to care about my opinion after all…" Canada said to himself.
"Roderich, please, don't go!" Hungary pleaded. She was on her knees at his doorstep. Austria sighed, but calmly replied,
"Elizabeta, I'm doing this because I want to help this world for once! Please, let me do things as I want to do them."
"B-but..." Hungary started sobbing. "I... Need you... Without you..." Hungary didn't finish. She was crying too much to finish.
"I'm sorry Elizabeta. I'm going to Kerberos whether you like it or not."
"Ok, are you ready?" Germany's voice asked through the speakers.
"Yep! Let's go!" America said, cheerfully. The shuttle they were in had many fancy buttons and switches, luckily they were given two instruction manuals to make sure they don't end up dying. The room in the shuttle was vast, you could easily fit all the European countries in there.
"I can't believe you're not scared," Austria commented. "We're leaving Earth for the next few years."
"We'll survive somehow, Austria." Canada said.
"I'm starting the countdown." Germany said. "Drei… Zwei… Eins… Null!"
That day seemed like yesterday, but was in fact almost five years ago. Canada, Austria and America quickly put on their suits as they prepared to leave the shuttle.
"We waited two years for this." Canada said. "Let's make it count."
"Of course we will!" America said.
"For Elizabeta!" Austria said bravely.
"For all of mankind!" America added.
"Let's do this!" All three of the cheered as they left the shuttle.
Kerberos was quite chilly, even with the astronaut suits on. Canada left last, since America and Austria weren't bothered to carry the special extraction equipment. Kerberos' surface was grey and colourless, but seemed a little bit slippery, since the ground beneath them was ice and rock. The gravity on Kerberos wasn't as strong as gravity on Earth, but it was stronger than the Moon's (Earth's Moon) gravity. Canada and Austria set up the extraction equipment while America took photos of the surrounding rock and ice structures with Japan's camera. Japan said he wanted to have images as if he'd been there himself.
"America, we're finished." Austria said through his earpiece.
"Coming!" America replied.
"Guys…" Canada began. America and Austria completely ignored him.
"Ok, let's start cutting it out." Austria said.
"Guys…!" Canada started getting more and more uneasy.
"What is it, Canada? We're trying to-" Austria began.
"THERE'S A HUGE SPACESHIP!" America screamed and pointed at the gigantic purple spaceship above their heads. Suddenly, a large purple laser emitted from the ship.
"RUN!" Austria yelled. Before they even managed to make a single step of retreat, the laser sucked them into the ship as they screamed and begged for mercy.
Hungary turned on her TV back at her house. She was slowly becoming more and more overweight, because she started eating more as a result of the depression caused by Austria's French Leave. She remembered that day clearly, when she waited patiently outside his house for two days before getting news from Prussia that Austria was sent to Kerberos. Hungary listened carefully as the female reporter explained.
"Alfred F. Jones, Matthew Williams and Roderich Edelstein have been deemed missing by NASA. It has been nearly a decade since the three astronauts have been heard from." To say Hungary's heart shattered was an understatement.
Author's Note: Sup dudes! I decided to start this because it seemed like a great idea to me, but I'll try to update HetaTail as well. Maybe I should end HT soon… Meh, I'll see. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please review it, saying what you think I should include! Thanks!
