Antonio growled as he was scratched by another branch, this forest was so overgrown that it was nearly impossible to walk through, let alone sprint and try to escape like he was doing now. The fact that he was being chased by himself, albeit a darker him, but it was still difficult, like the man could predict his every move and Antonio was running blind.

A static-y sound came from behind the curly haired brunette, something he suspected to be a communication device of some sort, and a small voice came back to him.

"Alonzo, get him the fuck away from the compound, we have that French bastard here and we don't need him causing any trouble!" Snapped a voice with a distinctly Chinese accent, or at least what sounded like it, though he had never heard Yao with so much malice in his voice so he could be wrong.

But what was this compound that they were speaking of? Were they keeping Francis and Gilbert there? Many of these questions spun around in his head as he ran, so he didn't notice the black sneaker than caught on his foot until he was half way to the ground and already throwing out his hands to catch himself.

The Spaniard spit out a few pebbles that had tried to make themselves home in his mouth, muttering an angry, "Damnit," when he realized who now stood above him.

It was Gilbert, well not, you know Gilbert, but one of the darker versions of them. When Antonio saw his hair color, he couldn't keep from snickering a bit at the unnatural black. Gilbert had always been tempted to dye his hair a darker color so he wouldn't get weird looks every time he went somewhere, but both Antonio and Francis had managed to convince him of how terrible it would look.

Seems like we were right about that, a Prussia without silver hair is just weird looking...

"What are you laughing at Tony?" The black eyed man asked leaning a little to close for comfort, yes Antonio was the one who usually invaded people's personal space, Romano's specifically, but that didn't mean that he liked his bubble popped.

The Spaniard snorted at the attempted intimidation, "You, obviously."

He was only slightly surprised when a burning started on his shoulder blade and when he turned to look, he saw a pretty decent sized cut ending haphazardly close to his neck, "Hmm..." he mumbled looking at the shining blade in the other Prussian's hand, the silver made dull by the sticky red blood, "Seems like someone's got a temper~"

Antonio was pretty sure that after all these years of denying Romano's claims of him being an idiot, he had basically just proved the angry Italian right. The next cut slicing down the other shoulder, dragged a startled shout of pain from his throat, but the brunette just smile a bit forcefully.

"Haha... you seem a bit angry," he grinned widely, barely making a sound when a slim hand struck him across the cheek, splitting his lip, "But you are nothing compared to my Roma..." he snickered.


Ivan smirked as he slipped simply and easily through the dimensional barriers, he had helped creat most after all and he had become quite a frequent visitor to this world. It wasn't difficult to sneak himself through the gates from one world to the next without anyone else noticing, he especially found it amusing to do while Arthur was summoning something.

Somehow, even after the terribly done spell Arthur had performed, the Russian managed to get the mirror to spit him out right where he wanted. For some odd reason or another the platinum blonde felt that the others would not be so happy if they knew about what he was involved in and how much of a hand he actually had in this whole game.

Of course it wasn't entirely his fault that he had been brought into this, he loved himself a good game and who better to spy on the other nations than Ivan? He was so obviously unstable and mentally unbalanced all of the time that none of them would ever notice the slight difference, the more carefully observant look in his eye as he watched them during the meetings.

Except, sadly, the one country that he never would have suspected, but at the same time, would know his patterns and moods better than anyone else.

That stupid, capitalist pig just had to go and start to get curious. When the first system update came back stating the presence of unknown spyware, the Russian had known that something had to be done, before the American found out what was really going on.

Thankfully the Otherworld's nations had begun to make their moves as well.

So really it was no surprise when Alfred had somehow gotten ahold of Arthur's cupcake and all the other thought of it was idiots being idiots.

Boy, were they ever wrong.

"Ivan, comrade! Good to see you have come to join us in this game!" Called a voice familiar to the platinum blonde, walking into a large room filled with a dinning table, though it was probably used for something entirely different.

A large brunette sat at the head of the table, shuffling a deck of card carefully as his violet-red eyes follwed the other Russian's movements, "Sasha, I am surprised to see you here without, Lee or Kira~" The response seemed to almost traslate as a threat to both Russian's ears.

But neither would ever think of making a move on the other, for the sake of the plan at least, when the plan was finished though, all bets were off, "Mhmm... they are busy taking care of your French friend, he doesn't seem like much of threat now, considering... oh well..." Sasha cut himself off with a shrug, lifting his eyes to once again meet Ivan's.

Nodding to the cards, the brunette smiled innocently, but the blonde could read so many other messages behind that smile that others would probably never even think of, "Would you like to join me?"

Ivan thought a moment before sitting down next to his counterpart, "Da."


Yes I do realize that these POVs do not have anything to do with one or the other and I have yet to introduce quite a few of the rescue team but it is really difficult to come up with new situations and not repeat myself, so just be prepared.

I believe that only Prussia, Germany, Canada, China and Japan have not been shown in the 2p!world yet and I already have two, well technically one, written out and ready for the next chapter, so yay! for planning ahead!

Tell me what you think, please, it really helps when it comes time to write!

Well until next time~

BYE!