I LIIIIIIVE! XD But seriously, this chapter took me forever, sorry about that by the way. I just have not been in a writing mood lately.

Usual disclaimer on all fanfics with 98% of the characters in this story not belonging to me, same for the shows. Enjoy this chapter and point out any spelling or grammatical errors to me, I'll work on fixing them as I write the next chapter. Enjoy!


The groups split up and stuck to the people who they knew, but they all decided to explore the new area. Gilbird, however, did not get the memo as he stayed on Erwin's hat, letting out little 'peeps' every once in a while and twitching occasionally. Saori giggled a little and kept commenting on how if Erwin wore dresses or frilly outfits more often she would look utterly adorable; but Erwin was having none of this as she glared at the red-orange-haired girl whenever the subject came up, which was quite often as it was the only conversation at the moment.

"I know girly isn't really your style Erwin, but come on! A fox-themed outfit, or something based off the time you take an interest in wouldn't be all that bad! I think it would be adorable! Oh! And some of the boys might even notice you! You'd become so popular!" Saori squealed with delight, trying to imagine the StuG commander in a frilly fox-themed outfit.

"Not happening." Erwin hissed. Ignoring the fact that she was one of the few people on the team who tied part of her uniform in a bow; 'cutesy-frilly-oozing-sparkle-fairy-glitter' really wasn't her style. If anything she tried harder than ever to look mature and dignified, since she had all too often heard someone comment on how her hair made her look 'undeniably, absolutely' adorable, like a small child. It had begun to aggravate her, especially since she didn't even look as small as the freshmen. "I don't know about you Saori, but I'm not one who wants to prance around in a flower field in a sparkly pink dress, with long flowing hair, and throwing glitter everywhere."

Saori huffed and glared at Erwin, stomping her foot. "Well, no one said you had to look that girly. Aside from that, wearing a frilly dress every so often won't do any harm; you four do know that right?"

"Don't drag us into this. You may be friends with Oryou and talk with Erwin over the radio a lot, but me and Saemonza really don't know much about what you talk about." Caesar put her hands up defensively, stepping away from the feuding girls.

"Actually, perhaps something more formal would work better for Erwin miss Takebe. Something like a female version of a military officer's uniform, but instead of pants a skirt!" Yukari interjected, hoping to end the rather silly argument.

"But what would be the point if she doesn't look cute…Unless you want an outfit like that too Yukarin!" Saori jumped. Despite not having said anything, she desperately wanted to see Hippo team in fancy dresses; and not be in a play or skit of any kind. "Any way, the only reason I bring it up is because you four looked so pretty in those dresses during the hidden talent competition!"

"Don't mention that!" Saemonza hissed. Despite the fact that all four of them did wear dresses, it took forever for them to figure out what they were going to do. And even then, they broke the one rule given to them by the student council.

"Everyone, please, calm down. We shouldn't be fighting like this, it's a ridiculous topic. Saori-san, if Erwin doesn't want to wear a dress she doesn't have to; Erwin, don't argue with her, that only makes her more determined." Miho huffed, spinning around to face the group. They were all stuck in a strange place and had no clue of what they had to do. As far as Miho was concerned, their biggest priority should be getting out alive, not arguing about dresses.

All the noise had woken up the yellow puff, that now called Erwin's hat its home; but it quickly realized that 'Prussia' wasn't anywhere nearby, and started chirping loudly and flapping a tiny pair of wings.

"Argh! Be quiet! You're the one that fell asleep!" Erwin growled, covering her ears. Even though the group had only been in this strange place for a few hours at most, Erwin wasn't all too keen to the idea of being dragged to some mysterious place, possibly by an insane murderer, just so said mysterious person could 'test' them. She knew looking for a way out was everyone's best option, but when a few people were crazy enough to think that they were countries, she started to worry for everyone else's safety, regardless of whether they were also kidnapped or not.

"Let him chirp. At least it's not our shoes or arguments about dresses." Oryou stated quietly. She picked up the small puff and placed it on Erwin's shoulder; which, despite annoying the blond, caused the small thing to fall quiet. "I guess that Prussia guy lets it sit on his shoulder all the time."

"And while it is with me, none shall take me seriously." Erwin hissed, glaring at Gilbird, who was currently attempting to organize her hair.

"We'll still take you seriously Erwin, yellow puffy thing or not!" Yukari cheered, saluting and jumping a bit. Even though Erwin lived with Caesar, Oryou, and Saemonza, Yukari currently seemed to be the only one able to cheer her up.

"Thank you Guderian. At least I know somebody will try." Erwin huffed, only half-glaring at Saori, now that the conversation of dressing up Erwin in frilly things was done.

They continued exploring in relative silence, only occasionally uttering 'oo's, 'ah's, 'wow's, and the very rare 'how fancy'. Despite the entire facility being extremely reminiscent of a large hospital, there were a few rooms that were utterly beautiful; such as the bath area and the dining hall, both of which were decorated with pale blue tiles, tapestries, and miscellaneous silver accessories. The halls only decorations were colored lines with words such as 'bedding', 'sleeping quarters', 'boys bath', 'girls bath', 'fitness center', and other fairly normal things, all leading straight to the doors. While none of the girls would deny that the facility was really bright, they also could not pin-point the source of the light; when looking up one would see light, but no ceiling or lighting fixtures, which was only made stranger by the fact that they could hear florescent lights buzzing. The girls eventually found themselves back in the room they had started in, looking at each other with a mixture of shock and admiration.

"Well, clearly this person has a lot of money." Sakoto stated, taking off her work gloves. He and her teammates had been fixing up their Porsche Tiger when they were suddenly dragged here.

"Yeah, but what bothers me is that they would do something like this. Kidnap some high school students, only a couple of adults, and a few kids. There must be more than one person behind this." Hana concluded, crossing her arms.

"I have an idea: even though not everyone is here, we could try to remember what we were doing before we were knocked unconscious and dragged here." Mako suggested, sounding bored despite the predicament.

"Well, I was at home researching the next school we were facing." Miho stated, as was expected of the commander.

"I was on my way to hippo team's house! I was going to pick up some models Erwin had wanted to borrow." Yukari chirped, looking at the blond.

"I was at home, sleeping." Mako stated dully. Everyone knew it was true.

"Oryou and I were taking a walk. We were also with Piyotan and Yuzu-san!" Saori said, glancing at Oryou, who nodded to show it was true. "I hope they're all right…"

"I was home as well, thinking about my next flower arrangement for the next show." Hana said in her usual quiet voice.

"Well, we were working on the Porsche Tiger so…yeah." Sakoto motioned to her teammates, all of who nodded and muttered agreements.

"I was reading about Rome in the library, no surprise there." Caesar muttered, fiddling with her scarf.

"I was practicing archery on the school's range." Saemonza stated, twirling her bow as if it could agree.

Erwin fiddled with her fingers and looked down. "I was in my room…at our house…waiting for Guderian."

"You look like you were plotting to molest her once she got there." Mako stated blatantly, noticing the sudden change in the blond commander's attitude.

"I would do no such thing! I was just reading!" Erwin yelled, blushing brightly.

"Okay, mind if I ask why you borrowed some of her models?"

"Because I wanted to find out about them! I was curious!" The blond huffed, crossing her arms. Everyone just stared at Erwin until she sighed and muttered something, too quiet for anyone to hear. "I said, 'I borrowed them for patterns.'"

"Patterns? Patterns for what?" Saori questioned, tilting her head.

"I'll give you a hint: it was part of our discussion in the halls"

"You were making tank-inspired dresses!?" Saori squealed, leaping at Erwin. Erwin just glared at Saori and nodded, backing away slightly so the other wasn't on top of her.

"Yes. I sew. Good job getting me to tell you all. If anyone else in our school finds out, I'll have a general idea of who I need to murder." Erwin growled, glaring at everyone. She didn't like people knowing she enjoyed sewing, or even knowing that she could sew at all. It was something the blond preferred to keep a secret.

"Cool! Can I see them when we get back Erwin? Please?!" Yukari begged, leaping closer to Erwin. The blond nodded, sighing in defeat; perhaps they would leave her alone once they saw how bad her designs were.

"Okay, now that we know Erwin's secret why don't we leave her alone?" Miho said, feeling sympathetic towards the StuG commander. "Any ways, it's not like these were daily happenings for us, right? At least not all of them." Miho confirmed, receiving a nod from everyone.

Just as the girls thought they were getting somewhere in their thoughts on how this happened, the voice came back on over the loudspeaker: "all attendants, please proceed to the mess hall for dinner. Thank you" The message was short, but confusing. As far as the girls knew, there was no kitchen, and when they had checked, the dining hall had been completely empty of food. Ignoring that, the girls obeyed the request and found their way back to the dining hall. They were utterly shocked when they entered and the tables were overflowing with various kinds of food. There were meats, fish, rice, noodles, even some traditional foods from different countries!

"So…when did this all get here?" A male voice asked, surprising all the girls. When they turned around though, it was only 'Prussia' and 'Canada'; the former quickly reunited with the little puff named Gilbird, who chirped happily.

"Wow, they have everything. Ah, pancakes! And…a maple fountain? Cool!" The man with the polar bear stated in a quiet excitement. Soon enough, everyone else began to arrive, all utterly shocked by the large amount of food in the hall.

"wow, Ibuki has never seen so much food!"

"What about what Hanamura-san made for the party?"

"Woah, look at all this food!"

"It does look good…"

"FOOOOD!"

"Hey! Sasha! Calm down! You're drooling everywhere!"

"We should be careful."

Erwin turned around and looked at the quiet, if not clearly off blond boy, who called himself Armin. He seemed to have common sense; the food had clearly been made by somebody, and that somebody was clearly whoever brought them here, so for all they knew, the food could have been poisoned.

"Armin's right, for all we know, there could be drugs or something in the food. We should be careful." Hange had spoken Erwin's thoughts, as well as a few others possibly.

"Whatever! Come on Ganta! There's candy and sweets over there!" a girl all in white, named Shiro, giggled; grabbing the boy and running to a table in the back that had nothing but dessert items on top. The girl quickly began placing an assortment of sugary confections on a plate she had grabbed when passing the table, and seeing as she had grabbed two plates, it was clear she was also getting some for Ganta; or so everyone hoped.

"It's not poisoned. There wouldn't be a point in poisoning us if the person planned to test us." A rather feminine boy, named Tsubasa, stated; he quietly went over to a table covered in an assortment of various fast-food-like edibles and took some. Almost everyone was shocked by his sudden statement, as if he really knew what was going on in the controllers' head.

"Um…how does he know that? Rule one of being a prisoner in enemy territory is to not trust anything they give you." Yukari had crept closer to Miho, whispering only loud enough for her tank-mates to hear. Despite the statement not being directed at Erwin, the blond couldn't help but nod slightly, agreeing the panzer loader.

"Hey, if eagle-man's okay with it, so am I! C'mon Kenchi!" A small blond boy chirped happily, grabbing the arm of a green-haired boy and running to catch up with Tsubasa. The blond identified himself as Yu, whereas the boy with green hair was named Kenta. The only girl of their group, apparently name Madoka, soon followed the boys in their hunt for foods they enjoyed.

Soon everyone was walking around trying to find some sort of food that they enjoyed, and with the large selection it really wasn't that hard. Erwin had finally decided of some rice and venison sauerbraten, and carried her dish to sit next to her friends and team-mates; she surveyed the dining room and found that everyone had reformed into their previous groups: the 'strike witches', the 'countries', the scouting legion, the 'ultimates' or whatever, the bleyders or blayders, the dualists, the deadmen (whatever those are), and the Oorai tankery team. She wasn't all that surprised, especially considering that today was the first day meeting each other, but sooner or later she knew the all had to get along.

The meal had gone off without a hitch, and there was no announcement after, so all the groups went back to exploring. The Oorai group, however, decided to take a bath; finding the area quickly and changing before diving into the bath water. It was warm, but not too hot or cold, it was absolutely perfect; soon the calming scent of lavender could be detected, and Erwin looked around in an attempt to find the source, but quickly discovered that the water itself was the source of the wonderful perfume.

"Wow, the water smell so nice!" Saori giggled, coming to the same conclusion.

"It's kind of like rose-water, except with lavender." Caesar commented, scooping up a handful of the fragrant water.

Erwin stayed silent, she had the very odd and unnerving feeling of déjà-vu; she didn't understand why she had such a feeling, she just thought this was uncannily familiar. She dunked below the water and came back up, wiping water from her eyes as she came up. Everyone was having fun with splashing each other and playing tag, when Saori squealed; everyone looked at the red-orange haired girl to see her point excitedly at Erwin, who just sighed and glared.

"Yes, my hair does this when it gets wet." She muttered, twirling the now limp strands of blond. Her hair still resembled fox ears, but they looked folded; like she had been scolded or had been standing in the rain and was trying to prevent water from getting into her ears. It looked fairly adorable.

"Oh, that's right. None of you have ever seen Erwin right after she takes a shower." Caesar points out, swimming over to her blond teammate.

"You guys should have warned us! Now I have to find her a cute dress!" Saori squeaked happily, splashing a few close people.

"Let us not talk about gowns at this current moment, it will likely cause another argument." Oryou hummed, gliding between the two girls. Erwin merely nodded and moved away from Saori; thankfully, the anglerfish team radio operator got the hint and dropped the subject.

It was about an hour or so later when the girls finally decided that they had spent enough time in the water, though, it was mostly because they were tired. Despite the fact that none of the girls wanted to sleep, they couldn't deny that it would be good for them; they would need all their strength and mental stability if they were going to find out who had done this to them, as well as these other people. They found that there were no separate sleeping quarters, and the girls would have to share a room with the guys; to say it was exceedingly awkward and caused concern with some people would be an understatement. Thankfully, there were two separate changing rooms for the boys and girls to change into pajamas separately; and dividing the room itself to have a girls' side and a boys' side was exceptionally easy.

The room gave a rather calm air, and like the bath had the very light scent of lavender; the walls were a light shade of purple, almost white; and the lights on the ceiling were duller compared to the lights in the rest of the facility, and were clearly controlled by a light green light switch near the door. The beds were like bunk-beds with a black frame; big enough to fit two people next to each other, and stacked three beds high. The bedding was either light purple with swirls of light pink, or light purple with swirls of light blue; the mattresses were comfortable and the pillows were plush, and the blankets, although appearing thin, were more than able to keep everyone comfortably warm. Before long, everyone was tucked in and the lights were turned out; falling asleep with small 'sigh's, or a sweet story of dragons and the odd adventure. Erwin and Caesar had decided to share a bed; as many people had chosen to do; but Erwin couldn't get to sleep, and judging by the fact that Caesar had been shifting a lot, neither had she.

"Caesar, you alright?" Erwin questioned, turning around to face her friend and co-commander.

"No. I…I don't know what to do. This all is way too crazy…where even are we?" The fellow commander had taken off her red scarf and was now holding onto it as if it was a blanket that could scare away monsters.

Suddenly Saemonza hung over the edge of her bed and looked down at her fellow tank-members, "I believe we are in another dimension, but the exact location is still unknown. My watch is still at about four in the afternoon." The gunner explained, handing the joint commanders her watch; the hands still on the four and just past the twelve.

"That is…weird." Erwin muttered, handing the watch back to her team's gunner. Caesar nodded in agreement, propping herself up on her elbow to see the watch better.

"Lady Caesar, Miss Saemonza, Erwin, I know you guys are concerned, but you should really sleep."

The three members of Hippo team looked up to see Yukari hanging over the edge of the third bunk, having heard the three girls talk about the oddity.

"I know it may be worry-some, but we need our sleep. What if the week before testing was a lie?"

"Guderian is right, we should get some sleep." Caesar commented, earning a nod from Erwin and Saemonza. The four girls snuggled back into their beds, but everyone knew that sleep was utterly impossible; even with stories, even with the phrase 'it'll be okay'; even with so many friends close by, sleep would never come to any sane person who had a week before these 'tests'.


Woot! That was long! and what do you call those people from Beyblade...the ones that actually use the beys...anybody know?

on another note, I'm probably going to update my story about Schro and Erwin eventually...but yeah, I'm a slow writer. Sorry 'bout that! Hope you enjoyed the chapter and the story so far! Any suggestions? Leave a comment or message or whatever it's called. ^w^