Thanks to AquaEclipse, Kramburg, RusAmeChufan and Bob Ross for reviewing. Well this may not be much, due to my slight writer's block but I really wanted to update this. The next chapter will be longer. Now, on with the show!
Taiwan was abruptly woken up from her weird but great dream, just after she deemed the Awesome Trio all royal musketeers in gratitude for saving Formosa and saw Captain Ivan being put behind bars, to be greeted awful burning light and she was quickly snapped out of her drowsiness when she saw that the sun was up and shining and will soon blind her if she didn't change her awkward position on the bed.
She didn't sleep all night like that, did she? Taiwan hugged her Stitch plushie to her chest and yawned.
Wow, what a night.
Taiwan rubbed her eyes and felt her hair, cringing when she did. Oh, great, her hair's a mess too… she'll have to fix that before America wakes up. One of the last things she wanted was for him to… wait.
America…
She nearly fell off the bed.
Oh dear, what time is it? How long has she been asleep? Was America awake yet? Oh no, he didn't see in this position or hear talk in her sleep, did he? Was Taiwan talking in her sleep while she dreamt of musketeers of singing Vikings? What if America did hear her, and thought that she wasn't dreaming of him but instead some sap she had interest in? What if-
Okay… Okay… okay… one thing at a time, Taiwan, one thing at a time.
First of all, that was probably the best dream Taiwan ever had.
Gosh, has she been drooling in her sleep? Gross! She could have sworn that stopped happening last decade-
"Morning, Mei-Mei!"
Taiwan shrieked and quickly jumped back into her bed to hide under the covers from fright, but then she heard America's boisterous laugh and she found the hero himself grinning down at her in his Batman pajamas.
"Oh…" Taiwan said sheepishly, feeling her face heat up as she smiled nervously. "Good morning, Alfred! How… How long have you been standing there?"
"Not long. I just got out of the bathroom and saw you up and awake! Sorry for scaring ya by the way," America laughed again "So, how are you? Want some water? I made pancakes too by the way, Mickey Mouse shaped too!"
"Oh, Alfie, you shouldn't have!" Taiwan giggled as she hugged his arm. No wonder the room smelled nice! "I slept great, but you won't believe the dream I had…"
America grinned brightly. "Oh, I can believe it. I could tell you were having loads of fun."
"W-Wait, you heard me sleep-talking?" Taiwan squeaked as she frantically tried to fix her hair. "How much? What did you hear?"
America smiled, but for some reason, it sent shivers down her spine. "Enough."
Taiwan let go of his arm and froze from looking at his stare.
"You didn't think I'd catch on, did you?" America asked darkly, chuckling ominously while the light from his eyes suddenly vanished. "But I did! I know exactly what's going on with you and what that dream of yours was alllll about, Mei-Mei. I can't believe you all of people would think I'm that stupid…"
Oh dear… oh dear oh dear oh dear…
Taiwan trembled and waved her hands around frantically. "A-Alfred, please, it's not what you think-"
"That's one of my favorite movies, you know."
"…Huh?" Taiwan squeaked in confusion.
"Dude, Mei, I can't believe you never told me that you watched Disney's Three Musketeers!" America exclaimed cheerfully while Taiwan nearly fainted from relief. "It's like one of the most underappreciated Disney movies ever! Not to mention one of my favorite movies with Mickey in it! Then again, they're all my favorites! Cause it's good ol' Mickey Mouse! Except, uh, well, for Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, it didn't really have charm. No, scratch that, I do like it. It's that creepy short I don't like-"
"Alfred!" Taiwan shouted, raising her voice before she could get overwhelmed, and she stared at him curiously. "Did… Did you mention something about Disney and musketeers?"
"Yeah, you know… Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers?"
Oh… so that's the movie she was dreaming about. Yeah, Taiwan remembered now, she did see that movie once… Huh, wonder why she didn't remember.
Taiwan sighed in relief and she mustered up a weak grin. "Was it that obvious?
"Yup, a true Disney fan would know. You talked a lot in your dream too." America chuckled good-naturedly, and when Taiwan paled, he quickly waved his hand dismissively. "Aw, don't worry about it! I slept fine, and you looked like you were having tons of fun, so I didn't wanna ruin it for ya."
Taiwan blinked, not quite sure how to react, but she smiled again anyways. "Um, thanks, Al."
…Should she tell him about it?
Nah, it'd probably be a little weird right now. Maybe she'll tell him in their honeymoon.
/ / / / /
Vietnam felt rather content as she sat on her admirably comfortable bed reading a book she brought with her to this insane trip. After the earful she received from China for sneaking off and leaving him alone, she was gifted solitude.
But it won't last long, she thought bitterly. Sooner or later today she'll be forcibly dragged into yet another one of China's relentless quests to keep Taiwan miserable, and Vietnam will have to find a way to stop that from happening.
She had received word from Hong Kong that he has arrived in the country and will meet up with her in the hotel soon… or at least, that's what she hoped he said. His text contained a variety of abbreviations and numbers and an overabundance of the words 'like' and 'totally'. Vietnam wasn't exactly very knowledgeable in that type of interaction, so she hoped she that wasn't wrong.
"Oh, Lien!" China called cheerfully, in a good mood for once as he came into her room with a plate of noodles. "The noodles are ready, aru! Come over and eat them so we can follow Taiwan and the idiot!"
Vietnam simply sighed and gently set her book down on her study. Well, there's no point in complaining. She'll eat his food, go off to him to wherever they're going to next, and find a way to escape him away to-
Then the ceiling suddenly came down on China.
"AIYAAAAHHHH!"
Vietnam flinched and very nearly ended up falling off the bed from her near heart failure, but she quickly regained her balance and saw a large gaping hole in the ceiling along with the ventilation shaft, which happened to be the thing that fell on him.
Oh. Perhaps luck was on her side after all.
Once the dust cleared, she peered over to see if China was (not) alright, but she ended up seeing another surprise.
Vietnam wasn't sure if she wanted to sigh or crack a small awkward smile at the sight of Prussia and Denmark writhing around on the floor, with China and the remains of the ventilation shaft having somewhat broken their fall.
"Did we… do it, Gil?" Denmark groaned, trying to sit up before falling back to the ground giving up. "Are we in Russia's room? Or in our room? Or in some room?"
"I'm… not really sure, Matt," Prussia groaned back, lifting his head and spitting out dust. "Let me check once I pop mein awesome shoulder back into mein awesome socket again and shoo all the tiny Gilbirds flying around mein head…"
"You sure they're Gilbirds, buddy?" Denmark asked dreamily, laughing tiredly in his delirium. "Because I think I'm seeing a bunch of Norways smacking me… No… wait, wait, wait, there's the Gilbirds."
Vietnam blinked at the display of stupidity, and she decided that she wanted an explanation. "What on earth is going on here?"
After she spoke, Prussia stopped groaning and Denmark stopped laughing, and the two Europeans quickly scrambled to their feet and when they saw her, they gaped. Before Vietnam could ask what they were doing here, Prussia cut her off.
"Vietnam?" Prussia said in disbelief, sneering. "What the heck are jou doing here in Al's place?!"
"I should be asking the same thing to you," Vietnam responded in a deadpan tone, raising an eyebrow. "I didn't know that America planned for the 'Awesome Trio' to get together when he's already with Mei."
Prussia merely snorted at that. "Ja, well, the thing is, Al doesn't know we're here… But we are here on important Awesome Trio business!"
"Ja, that's right!" Denmark piped up, still stumbling a bit here and there. "We came here to help Alfred score!"
"And to stop that unawesome loser, Russia, from making everything unawesome like him and ruin their date!" Prussia barked, and then promptly smirked and cackled. "Kesesesese~! You should have seen the semi-awesome chick clock Russia across the face!"
"Don't worry, I saw it," Vietnam said blankly, while trying to register what they're telling her. "Now tell me, what were you doing in the vents?"
"Oh, Dane and I were trying to find the unawesome Russia's room to kill him and then dump him in some ditch somewhere, but we got lost and ended spending the whole night in those unawesome vents." Prussia said casually, as if it were a normal thing they often did, and Vietnam could only stare at him in disbelief, then he scowled at Denmark. "But we wouldn't have gotten lost in the first place if someone remembered to bring the map!"
Denmark glared back at him. "Hey, you're the one who made it! And I don't remember you telling me to bring it!"
"Telling jou to bring- Are jou kidding me, Dane?! Jou were seriously expecting to remind to do an obvious thing as that?!" Prussia squawked angrily at his fellow Trio member. "Seriously, jou can't be that stupid that jou need me to… Nein, nevermind, you are stupid."
"Hey!" Denmark protested, offended at the remark (fact).
"But anyway, admit it! It's jour fault we were stuck crawling through those stupid vents all night!"
"Only if you admit that it's kind of your fault too!
"Nonsense! The awesome me is not to blame for any of this!"
"So whenever you do something and it all goes horribly wrong, it's always my fault?!"
"Duh, obviously."
Vietnam stared at them blankly, not sure if she heard all that right. "I'm sorry, you said that you spent all night crawling through the vents?"
"Ja, what about it?" Prussia shrugged, snorting again. "And what about jou? What are jou doing here?"
Vietnam narrowed her eyes in annoyance. "I came here with China, though I didn't do it out of my own free will."
"China?!" Prussia shouted, and after a nasty scowl he groaned exasperatedly. "Oh, great. Now we have another unawesome guy to worry about. Where is the turd? I'm going to punch him in his girlish face."
"He's behind you. In fact, you were lying on top of him just a couple a minutes ago."
Prussia stared at her oddly, as if the very notion was utterly ridiculous (but then again, so was this entire situation), and he along with Denmark turned around to see a groaning China lying under the ventilation shaft's remains, leaving only his arms and legs visible. Prussia gasped in horror.
"Oh mein gott!"
Vietnam took a long deep breath and sighed. "Yes, Yao got crushed once the ceiling came down. But don't worry, he-"
"Gilbird is being crushed under that unawesome loser! Dane, quick, help me move China's carcass to save him!"
Vietnam face-palmed.
/ / / / /
Big brother's missing.
Belarus's scowl deepened at the thought as she polished her favorite knife. For the past two days, she has lost track of her big brother, and to say she was not at all happy about it would be an understatement. She hated this. She was frustrated, confused, sad, upset! Belarus prided herself in knowing where Russia spent his days and nights and every waking moment.
Where could Big Brother have gone? Some place where he foolishly thought he'd be safe from her deep, true undying love for him? Some place where he hoped to disappear long enough for Belarus to die of heartache? Ha! He'll never be able to escape from her or her love for him. She'll never ever give up trying to find him, NEVER! She will find him. They will marry and become one.
Either this was a desperate yet smart attempt to lose her, or something else was going on.
She asked everyone who could be of use to her, even Russia's boss, but none of them helped. The Baltics got kidnapped by the plot, so they couldn't help her. China told her that he hasn't seen any panda bears following him around lately. And Ukraine wasn't answering her calls.
Despite what most people would assume she'd do or think, Belarus highly doubted Russia ran away with Ukraine to elope. Ukraine would never do that, and she also knew how much becoming one with Russia meant to her.
Something was very wrong here…
She was going to get to the bottom of this using whatever means necessary.
/ / / / /
This was going to be another great day!
America smiled brightly and happily kept telling one of his best buddies all the cool things they'll do in Epcot, with Taiwan grinning back clinging onto his arm again. She's had a bit of a habit doing that, but if it made her happy then America's A-Okay with it.
Boy, this date was going better than he thought it would!
He's got everything planned for today too. They'll go to Soarin, Imagination, Test Track, and most importantly, the World Showcase! Though he's gonna let Taiwan choose whether they're going to the left or to the right. Either way, it's gonna be a lot of fun walking under the hot, merciless, cruel and boiling sun, but it'll be fun!
England always kept telling him that he'll never get a girlfriend with his 'bloody annoying laughter, buffoonery and inability to read the atmosphere', but hey, it's not like Iggy has a great personality. Besides, America didn't think he was that bad! He was the hero! That's got to make up for all his faults, right?
Well, America wished England was here so he could see how dead wrong he was. Taiwan's having a great time here and she's loving spending time with the hero. Take that, England! What did he know about romance anyway?
Speaking of England, another weird thing was that after America accepted Taiwan's request, he got pulled over by England so that ol' Chewbacca Brows could go all "Blah, blah, blah, what the bloody [BEEP!] are you thinking? Blah, blah, do you want to get on China's bad side? Blah, blah, blah, it'll be pandemonium. Blah, blah, blah, Alfred are you even listening to me?!". But America knew better than to listen to him.
Geez Louise, Iggy didn't know how to make up his mind. Did he want him to be happy or not?
Well, who cares about England right now? America and his best girl buddy were in Disney World~
"Come on, Tai! Next stop: Epcot!"
/ / / / /
Vietnam was still having very mixed feelings about this. She stared unimpressed at the annoying smirking Prussian holding a hat with leaves, or a 'tree hat' as he called them, for her to take and put it on herself. But she'd much rather not go out looking ridiculous.
Prussia kept telling her that it always solved all the Awesome Trio's problems. How…?
After much yelling, screaming, and accidentally tipping a sofa over China's corpse (don't ask), Prussia and Denmark calmed down and they were all able to have a calm, reasonable conversation… Well, as calm and reasonable Prussia and Denmark could be.
The three of them quickly came to an agreement that since Prussia and Denmark were working to make sure America and Taiwan's date goes smoothly and Vietnam was doing the same thing, they should work together. Prussia and Denmark figured that sure, they could use some more help and that Vietnam was 'awesome enough', while Vietnam figured that they needed someone with rational thinking.
After all, if they were going to go against Russia and China, they all needed all the help they could get.
But she quickly learned that she's going to need a lot of patience with these two and their antics.
"Put on the awesome tree hat." Prussia ordered haughtily and tried to shove the hat into her hands.
Vietnam gritted her teeth and pushed the hat away. "I don't want to put on the tree hat."
But Prussia merely snarled and tried again. "Take the awesome tree hat."
"I won't take the tree hat." Vietnam responded blankly and pushed the hat away again.
"Love the awesome tree hat." Prussia demanded.
"I will not." Vietnam snapped.
Where's Hong Kong when you need him?
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