Welcome to the sequel of 'His Golden Fight or Flight' *add confetti here for lame effect* Now we see what's happened to Germany now that he's in the hands of Psycho!Ana and CrossBond! I got a few character submissions, THANK YOU, and I can't wait to see what else comes up!
For you just joining us, please read 'His Golden Flight or Fight' before reading on; it'll make sense if you read in chronological order.
Mind Talks are back! Just Italics are Germany's inner thought, except for obvious speech emphasis
'Small brackets is Germany's head's voice. He plays a part!'
"Italics in double brackets is another person speaking to him through his mind"
"Damn…the bastard can take a fucking hell of a punch"
"I'm surprised he's breathing…He should be dead. What the hell is this guy made of?"
"Quiet, you imbeciles!"
"Yes, Ma'am…."
"Now, get him dressed in CrossBond regs, dress the wounds, and get him to operations"
"Yes, Hail"
"Yes, Hail"
A door shutters open and shut.
"…you get to pull the pants"
"Hell no, you fucker. You get to!"
"I am not going near this dude's wang"
"We're not pulling off his underwear! Now come on, you've pulled pants off before"
"Not off unconscious men!"
"…You've pulled off men's pants?"
"…I hate you, you know"
"Hate me all you want, I know something new, now get pulling!"
"Alright, it has been three days, no visible or mental change"
"Hail Cross, may I suggest something else besides DNA recombination?"
"You may"
"I have developed a new theory and procedure involving mental telepathy"
"Go on Doctor Mann, you've peaked my attention"
"If we insert an interface here, at the start of the neck and brain stem, we could tap into the unknown parts of the brain. I believe our friend here could move or control anything with his mind if we do it right. Imagine if we could use that…"
"The one issue I have, Mann, is possibility of his death"
"Ah, that's the one beauty to this! With his surprisingly inhuman healing and resurrection 'powers', he would come back anyway! It's a win-win for everyone! You for having you toy alive and powerful, me for proving my theory correct, and him for…well, surviving, and you again for getting the boy closer!"
"Haha...I'm impressed. You have the all clear, Mann. You'll get your chance. If this fails though…"
"It will not, Hail Cross. I promise with my life and its research, it will not fail"
"I'm trusting you with him, because he is my only ticket to Feli"
"You'll get it. This will be your crowning jewel next to him"
"Week One complete, and he's showing signs of possible telepathy and telepathic powers. He has not showed signs of consciousness, but signs of being aware of his surroundings"
His eyelids were pulled back once more. He darted his eyes around, trying to see around Hail Cross' face. The eyelid snapped closed once more, and did not budge when commanded to move.
"Subject 3 shows signs of full awareness, but unable to show solid signs of consciousness. Must research into it…now….w…ge…"
The clatter of bars closing shut rang in Germany's ears, then the wail of humans that sounded inhuman. He lightly turned in the blackness. The screams were increasing. The clang and scraping of dragging chains echoed. The roar of inhuman cries grew. The yells of a gruff voice cut everything off. Then his voice rang out in unintelligible sentences, and the slice of sword echoed. Few cries followed it, and tears followed. Their sorrow seemed to seep into him from the barrier surrounding his black prison.
"Enough! His time came, no point crying over spilt blood" the man's words suddenly translated into English, and the cries and tears seemed to stop. Sobs echoed once or twice afterward. His snarl shut them up promptly.
The dragging of chains came again, and doors slammed shut. The sobs echoed once again coldly.
Germany turned an inch, and whimpered at the shock of pain shooting up his spine. He pried his eyes open, meeting barely-lit darkness and cold metal bars pressed to his nose. He blinked away the sudden stars and turned to the other side, keeping back bubbling whimpers from his spine. His mind decided then to turn on.
It hurts, why does it hurt? What the hell's stuck into my neck, and why am I whimpering like a school girl?
'Who are you?' an Italian-German accented young voice said in response, spooking Germany.
Who are you? What are you doing in my head?
'They did it…Cross…Crossb..
CrossBond. They did something to me?!
'Try to relax! You're spreading the distress!'
HOW?!
The wails of the others began to ramp up, some screaming out 'what is going on'. They were bashing at the bars, metal ringing from everywhere. The man from before was shouting over the chaos, sending a few into full hysterics. Germany went to cover his ears.
'Send them something warming, something calm!'
I don't know how, what the hell is going on!?
'THINK OF ITALY!'
I-italy…Italy…
The wails ceased and were quickly replaced with the light and hard snoring of humans. Some hooted with each breath, some growling. The mixture of animal, inhuman, and humane sounds mixed oddly well. Germany sunk into the pulsing memory of his Italy.
'I couldn't explain, even though I'm in your head, I don't even know!'
Alright, who can? I'm not trusting CrossBond
'Um…Well….I..I-uh….'
Relax. We'll think of someone. Maybe one of these….
'Test subjects? Experiments?'
It seems cruel to call them that, but it doesn't seem right to call them human
'Agreed. Maybe….um….Captus?''
Captus?
'Latin for prisoner. It seemed to fit'
How do you know Latin?
'I existed a long time ago…before I was just a voice in your head. It's….hard to explain the rest'
"Hallo?"
Germany pulled from his mental talk with his…'ancient' conscious voice. He groaned as he tried to sit up, his arms straining to hold his weight. They bowed and he dropped to the floor of the cage with an 'oomf'.
"It's ok, take it easy. Everyone's usually weak after their time in operations"
Germany sighed against the metal floor. He braced his arms again, feeling the heavily corded muscles tighten up. He groaned as he pushed up, his arms finally supporting his weight. He never thought he wouldn't be able to hold himself up, it seemed so wrong. He finally rolled onto his side, taking in heavy breathes. He just felt….weak, and the feeling was so alien and unknown. He wasn't weak, he never was! Was he?
'Don't start trying to ask that, just say hello to the person'
Shut it before I filet you
'If you could, you would burn too'
Maybe not
'I'm connected to you more then you know'
I…wait what?
"Are you ok?"
"What?" Germany looked around, trying to process the new voice in his head. It was womanly, gravelly and stone-edged, but womanly. Tapping of metal drew him to the cage next to him. He stared wordlessly at the human in the cage, dumbfounded. How could the girl look so calm here?
Her hair was messy and stringy, an odd curly-wave to it as it fell to her chin. Small, thin and ragged claw scars lined her left eye, another ragged one crossing her throat. Her hair was parted and cut clean away from her face on the right side of her face. She stared at him with crystal-like grey eyes, reminding him of dusty diamonds. She wore a torn-up black tank top, and small light grey shorts, barely going down to mid-thigh. An odd bracelet, thin and black with flickering white lights, was tied to her right wrist. Something about the appearance seemed familiar to him…
What was it?
"Keep it down. You're confused, I understand. I never knew I would meet another one"
H-how the fuck are you…
"You can talk through your mind now. It's called telepathy. CrossBond did this to you, I'm sorry"
CorssBond….god dammit! D-did…Did Feli end up here?"
"Feliciano?! What about him?"
"You know Feli?" the girl asked desperately, gripping the bars tightly. "Is…is he safe?"
"Why would you…."
"Hey, dipshit! We're trying to relax. Shut it!" a new voice shouted, pounding on a cage sharply.
"Ankoku, be quiet!" another girl shouted.
"Why should I? This bitch is talking while I'm trying to sleep away this damn depression!" Ankoku shouted back.
"Ankoku, the ears!" The girl next to him shouted, and a low hiss echoed after it.
"….I'm sorry…." Ankoku said shyly, soft scraping entering the air.
"It's ok, Shadow. Relax a bit. I'm just trying to get our new cage mate relaxed"
"A new person? Is he the blonde they put in here a few days ago?"
"…a few day?" Germany whispered, pressing his palms to his forehead.
"Yes"
"My gott…" Germany whispered, curling up into a ball. Days knocked out? What did they do to him? HE couldn't comprehend all of this.
"Alright, filth!" shouted another voice, doors slamming open and flooding the dark room with light. "Time for exercise time!"
Cages were unlocked; chains and cuffs were clipped and closed on everyone's wrist. As the female guard came up to Ludwig's cage, she hesitated. She smirked at him coldly.
"Well, well. Look who's awake. Hello there Subject 3. How was your nap?" she said, placing her hands on her hips. Ludwig scooted forward, growling at her. She only laughed back.
"Bring it on big guy!" she taunted, twirling the hand cuffs around an index finger. Ludwig snarled, grinding his teeth down. The guard suddenly gasped, dropping the cuffs and grasping her head, groaning as if it were being crushed.
'Germany….Germany stop'
Why should I?
'You're going to kill her!'
She started it! I'm going to finish it!
'This isn't you! Stop it! Stop it!'
Shut up!
'ENOUGH! THIS ISN'T US!'
…Us?
The guard dropped to the ground, gasping for breath as she lay unresponsive to the other experiments. They all looked at him with a mixture of fear and thanks. By the time they scattered near the door, two more guards came in wielding shock sticks and begun their assault.
"Who did it?!" shouted the largest man, about to beat down on a young girl, tiny bird tail opening and closing in fear.
"Me.." Germany shouted, panting. The attack he did drained him of energy. The guards looked at each other, frightened. They knew what they did to Germany, and now knew what it could do. They carefully let Germany's cage door open, and he crawled out, stepping up to his full height as he cleared the cage top. They audibly swallowed and quickly led the crowd out of the doors and down the hallways. Their shock sticks still buzzed with electricity.
"So you really did that to Jem?" said a girl as she walked beside Germany. The girl was an oddity, to say the least. She was taller than the rest, looking fully grown but beaten. She could easily be 18, maybe 20. She had black hair, edges and tips dulled out to grey. She was freakishly pale, almost deathly pale. It reminded him of his brother's skin, but lighter, much lighter. She had the most curious eyes too. They were a deep purple, but rimmed lightly with almost acidic green. She smiled at him briefly, showing sharpened canines.
Her appearance didn't get him though. It was her….'add-ons' that did. Somehow, someway, she looked part devil! A long black tail wound around her hand, the point tip hanging away from her. It looked barbed, and something green seemed to bubble up at top. She swiped it away before it could collect much more. She also had small pointed ears; it wasn't much of a point, but you could see the difference.
"I think so" he finally responded. The girl giggled creepily, hopping on one foot, then the other. Her tail swayed back and forth, bouncing around with her odd happiness.
"That was amazing! Hehe," she giggled, "she deserved it, the dumb bitch" she finished coldly, ears flicking upward.
This girl has to be a bit crazy.
"Are you ok?" he asked softly. She suddenly shook her head like something had landed on it, and stared blankly afterword. The life popped back into her cheeks and she giggled softly, less creepily.
"Yes, yes I am. I'm sorry if I scared you mister! You see, their experiments on me kind of….umm" she dropped the sentence, humming an odd tune before continuing with a satisfied grin.
"They implant Kraz into me, and he showed me things, and I guess I lost my mind a bit...hehe" she said giggling. She looked around sporadically, humming a broken tune. Then she froze up, and unfroze in a matter of seconds, hopping down the hallway. She waved back at him.
"Bye mister!"
"That was…."
"Maddie's been like that for a while" the girl from before, his next door 'cage mate', had joined him this time. Something still seemed familiar about her, but he couldn't put anything together.
"Who's Kraz?" Germany asked, noticing the doors ahead of them were open, revealing actual sunlight, and a cold dirt courtyard, spotted with grass patches. Some of the experiments began to run right out into it, heavy footfalls echoing down the hall.
"From what I pieced together, Kraz was a shadow-demon sort of thing that they implanted into her for shits and giggles. It drove her insane before it tried to attack the facility guards. She still 'talks' to him at night"
"Creepy…"
"Yep, we also call her Madd. It fits her" the girl said, nodding. They stepped out into the courtyard, it still reminding Germany too much of a jail yard. All it lacked was tall concrete walls with guards primed with sniper rifles at the top turrets. The yard was somewhat large, maybe being able to fit a few hundred people in its barriers. Small patches of bright green grass sprouted out of the dirt, and light green blades dotted here and there. Two trees stood in it as well, one bend completely in a curve, one end hollowed out into what looked like a slide. The other end was stripped of bark and branches, tiny foothold like stumps left. The other tree was ram rod straight, still bearing its branches and leaves, meaning it was still spring. Branches had been arranged to act like seats, a small cleared out are of the top curved and twisted to look like a hideout. Some had already begun to slide down the tree slide, giggling and laughing like CrossBond didn't exist. The girl led him to the tall tree, and slowly started to climb up. He looked up at her as she settled on a large branch.
"Well…are you coming up or not?"
Germany looked behind him, surveying the rest of the yard. He spotted Maddie sitting on the bent tree upside down, shouting in Korean at a younger girl. The young girl looked almost too young, maybe ten or twelve, with a blonde bob haircut. Her eyes looked mystifying, both blue and swirled pink like cotton candy. The younger girl looked oddly miffed, small fairytale-fairy wings flapping in anger on her back, a small ball of what looked like half-frozen water in her hand. She shouted back in what sounded like a creepy mix of Korean and Russian, though Maddie looked unfazed. She shot up from her crouched spot only to trip on her own feet, falling on her face with a wail.
"I'll be a minute" Germany said, making his way to Maddie and fairy-girl. As he approached them, the little fairy girl stood up to her full height, only reaching his stomach, or the middle of his forearm. She looked at his face, and began to shout in gibberish. He turned his head in confusion at her words, and decided to kneel. He still was taller, but it gave the girl a bit more ability to relax her neck.
"Crud…um…sorry there" she finally said in English "Who the hell are you? You're new here, aren't you?"
"Ja, I am" he said in return. His knee started to ache, so he sat firmly down on his butt, crossing his legs. The girl finally got to look him in the eye.
"You're German? L-like actually German?" she said, staring deep into his eyes. He nodded. Her cute pink-blue eyes lit up.
"Cool! I'm French on my mother's side, German and Dutch on my dad's, I think. I may be mixing those up. Like mixing up food! Ohhh, now I'm hungry! Do you have any food? So, what powers to you have? I'm proud to be part of the paranormal! CrossBond fused me with a weird little pixie thing they somehow made with Kraz, and now I have these wings," she turned around to shake her wings, "and I can control water and stuff! What did you say you could do again?"
Germany was disoriented at the girl's ability to speak all of that, including the random subject change, in one breath. She was like a giant ball of energy, forever going. Germany shook it off, and took a breath before answering the girl honestly.
"I'm not entirely sure. All I know for now is that it's something to do with telepathy and telepathic abilities"
The girl stared at him in wonder. Maddie and turned around to look at them, laying on her stomach and hands under her chin, her legs swinging idly behind her.
"Wow! We've never had anyone with that!" the little girl shouted. Maddie hummed in agreement.
"What's your name, big German man?" Germany chuckled at the little girl.
"I'm Ludwig"
"Wow, he is German!" exclaimed the girl and Maddie. "My name's Esme….um Rose…something. I know it's longer, that I know! You can just call him Rosa or Esme! I think I can call you Lud! I like it!" Esme exclaimed. Suddenly, she looked back to the slide and ran for it, leaving Ludwig to ponder how the girl could be so…random at the most random times.
"She's a ball of fun" Germany said, addressing Maddie. She looked over to Esme, who waited her turn for the slide. She poked at the boy in front of her, gibbering away with him.
"She can be. She's got a really fiery temper, though! Fairies man, never can trust them" Maddie said in a soft whisper behind her hand, but it still attracted Esme's attention.
"SHUT YOUR DIRTY WHORE MOUTH, DARKLING!"
"Holy…." Germany muttered. Her language….it was more fouler then Prussia's, and that's a feat to be questioning honestly.
"Told ya~" Maddie sang, flipping onto her back and back to her upside-down position. Germany got up for his seat and walked back over to the other tree. The girl from earlier was till perched on the branch.
"Now you've met Esme there. Time to meet the other socially acceptable here" she said, offering a hand up. He declined it softly, pulling himself up with both arms. He balanced himself carefully, watching the girl go up once more into the ball of branches. He quickly followed, watching for sharpened twigs to snap at him. As he climbed into it, the two unknown pairs of eyes met his.
"Who are you?" one hissed at him. The girl looked maybe fifteen, skinny but not too skinny, only the first set of ribs poking through her pale skin. Large, puffy black hair, ending in purple, covered her cat-like dark purple eyes. Two black cat ears poked out of her hair, twitching and lowering in an attack position. Her tail curled around one of her legs. Her claws were out, digging into the branch she squatted on. Her mouth was open in a hiss, large cat-like canines greeting him somehow in a pearly white gleam.
"Ankoku, it's ok. This is the new guy I told you about" his cage-neighbor said softly, placing a hand on Ankoku's shoulder.
"Oh! I um…" Ankoku curled her claws and teeth back in, her ears flattening in embarrassment. "I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you for a second"
"It's alright" he said, finding a spot next to his cage-neighbor. She smiled and gestured at the other unknown girl, who was looking at him with a mixture of curiosity and something else.
"And this is Deje"
Deje shorter then the rest of them, able to stretch out in the little tree cage. Her black hair hung in parts down her shoulders, cradling them in onyx silk. Her skin was tan brown, almost like Seychelles, but a bit lighter. Chocolate brown eyes stared at him, surveying him up and down. She was almost stick thin, cheek bones jutting out sharply on her face, rib cage poking out as well. Her ears barely poked through her light brown bunny ears that folded over them. From the ears, he assumed she had a bunny tail as well.
"I'm Deje. You are?" she asked softly.
"Ludwig"
"Ludwig, huh? I'm going to be right here when I ask if you're German right"
"Ja"
"I knew it!" she said, pumping her fist into the arm. Ankoku chuckled softly with his still unknown ally.
"So…" he said, facing the unknown girl, "You're name? I feel like I know it already but…" the girl cut him off his a rising laugh.
"Feli didn't tell you? Maybe he did, but my name's Marieanne. His 'dead' ally"
First chapter complete! I would like to thank HetalianUnicorn, DayLightDove, Angelo Assassin, and crazy YinYang writer7 for submitting characters for this! They were great and fun to write and build up(since I get to build up some parts).
The next chapter will be here soon! Thank you for reading the sequel!