Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia or Wolf Creek. I only own my OCs

Edited: 13/10/2018.

Warning: I forgot to put this in place last chapter, but it wasn't needed in that one anyway. This story is rated M so that means language, violence, blood etc. So if you aren't comfortable with any of that then you have been warned.

The world meeting for once was productive, until the end of it. Australia sat surprisingly silent throughout the meeting, he was trying to figure out how to capture Mick. When he was younger and still had to live with England he had spent a great deal of time running around with Ned Kelly and the rest of his outlaw gang, so it should be pretty easy to try and figure of what Mick was up to.

The easiest thing would be going to the most popular tourist hot spot Wolfe Creek, those are where most of the disappearances have been taking place. Then again, Mick was unpredictable at best, so maybe he should ask some people that know him on a personal level. He could think of only one pub that was out near that area, he had helped the owner a couple of times getting rid of some of the more deadly animals that would scare away business, so he could cash in a couple of favours.

"And now, we have an increasing number of tourists going missing in Australia. Care to elaborate for us?" Germany read from a sheet of paper and looked at Australia, waiting for him to explain any reason for the missing tourists.

Unfortunately, Australia was far too deep in concentration to notice he was being addressed. It wasn't until New Zealand had nudged him in his side that he was startled back into reality, noticing that all eyes were on him waiting for him to respond. A light dusting of red rested on his cheeks for being singled out and all the sudden attention.

"Uh…what was that?" Australia grinned sheepishly.

"Please try to pay more attention next time," Germany lectured with a sigh, "I said that many of our people have gone missing at your place while holidaying, which is unusual."

Germany paused for a moment in thought, "Is there a new animal that we should be aware of?"

Australia was notorious for having most of the world's deadliest and dangerous wildlife, so it wouldn't be anything new to them if something else was discovered.

"We tried telling them not to swim where the crocs are, but do they listen? The rangers are working on placing more signs around," Australia replied. He was fairly confident with his lie, while he hated having to lie, his boss forbade him from telling them that they had a psycho and bloodthirsty murderer on the loose. Besides, he really didn't think that would go down well. But he would tell them as soon as the madman was caught, that way they wouldn't freak out as much.

His confidence faltered when several nations raised their eyebrows, clearly not believing him.

"Really?" England asked sarcastically, "Because one of my citizens came back from a backpacking trip missing two fingers in the exact same place on either hand and covered in blood, he was so traumatised."

'Shit, think fast' Australia mentally panicked. At that moment, it was like a light flickered on his head. The idea he had always worked before, it was a card he usually played so he was confident that it would work…at least he hoped it would.

"Actually, now that you mention it, I did find this new species of parasite. Nasty little buggers, they bite you behind the ear and causes ya to get internal bleeding, organ failure and in severe cases loss of limbs," Australia lied once more, inwardly grinning when some of the nations looked horrified at his discovery, now to bring his lie home, "Next time I'm over, I can bring one for you to look at if you wan-"

"No!" Several panicked shouts came from around the room, wanting to be nowhere near the insect. Australia visibly relaxed and tried to keep the smile off his face, describing one of his most dangerous animals always worked. Sometimes, if he was really bored in the meetings, he would 'accidently' lose whatever snake or spider he had with him, it always cleared the room.

Germany cleared his throat uncertainly and announced that, that would be all. Australia sighed in relief, at least that will stop them from prying anymore; at least he could give up the lie when he caught the bastard.

His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of several ringtones alerting an incoming notification on the phones of all the nations in the room. A few nations opened the notification and quickly read it. With wide eyes they turned back to Australia expectantly.

'This can't be good,' Australia wearily thought to himself. Maybe the news about Mick Taylor was leaked?

"Hey bro," New Zealand was the first one to speak, "Why did your boss cancel all tourism to your place?"

Another ding sounded in the room as New Zealand read from his latest text message, "And why has your boss messaged saying that we are not allowed at your place?"

"W-What?" Australia asked confused like he was a kangaroo caught in the headlights. This was news to him.

He thought his boss was going to keep quiet about it, instead he just out of the blue cancelled tourism without so much as reason why. How was this supposed to maintain the peace and keep quiet? He wouldn't put it past his boss if he had did that deliberately, just for Australia to squirm under scrutiny. It was probably pay back for those snakes he had put in his office.

Oh, he was going to kill his boss, not literally of course, but he was definitely letting Steve loose in the man's office next time. That man had a habit for jumping in at the wrong time, and this was clearly the wrong time. His boss was fairly new at the whole prime minster job so he only just found out about personifications and was still unused to dealing with them, which often left him in an awkward position. He remembered when he had to introduce his boss to the other personifications, Australia had to lead him out of the room before the man could say anything that would surely offend the others.

He had just got any suspicion off his back with the lie about the parasite, how was he supposed to talk himself out of this one?

"I-It's about the parasite," Australia stumbled, not having to prepare for this outcome, "We haven't got an antibiotic for it yet."

Australia cringed when it sounded like he was asking a question and not a statement. He hadn't even explained the real reason why he needed to be at the meeting either, which he doubted will go over well now.

"I also won't be able to attend the next meeting," Australia explained when he finally got the confidence back in his words. He blamed his boss for throwing him under the bus.

This made most of the nation's alert and slightly alarmed if they weren't already. They had no idea what was going on to make Australia's boss temporarily ban them from entering his country. Suspicions already arose of what the reason could be, and some of them were proven even further when he announced that he wouldn't be at the next meeting. They never missed a meeting, no matter how much they hated them.

"I assume you have the correct documentation for this?" Germany raised his eyebrow. Australia reached into his pocket and pulled out the sealed envelope and handed it to Germany. The older nation looked over it carefully and handed it back to the Australian when he deemed everything to be in order.

"Australia, are you okay dude?" America asked concerned, trying to read his friend for any signs of trouble. Australia just nodded with a grin, trying to his best to seem ignorant to the amount of looks the others were shooting him.

When the meeting was finally adjourned and people started to leave Australia was the first out of the door. He knew that he would be cornered after the meeting with questions from his friends and family, and he wanted to avoid making up anymore lies than he can keep up with. He hated having to lie to them, but he didn't have a choice. Besides, if any of them did come to his home it would be harder to protect them and catch Mick.

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Australia was busy gathering the supplies he would need to for the road and to somehow keep Mick contained while they waited for the police. His boss had given him a car that seemed suitable for the outback, he would've preferred to use his own but it was in need of repairs and he hadn't gotten around to fixing it yet. Australia placed his knife on his kitchen table along with a rifle. He doubted he would need the rifle or the knife but it was mainly for decoration. He was going into the rough local area of his home and most people that hung around there weren't the friendliest of the bunch. And he needed to at least look like he would fit in and gain their trust, otherwise it would be hard to get anything out of them.

"Bro?" Came a familiar voice followed by a knock at his door.

Australia had jumped and whirled around to face the person that had startled him. He relaxed at the familiar face but then tensed, he was less than pleased to see who it was. He cursed himself for not being able to sense another nation's presence, he was just too distracted as of late, something he should probably work on improving later.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" Australia glared, but he opened the door anyway and stepped to the side to allow access to his younger brother. "I thought the message was pretty clear, which was to stay away from here."

Australia didn't mean to sound so harsh but it would be harder to lie to New Zealand's face. They had grown up together and both only having each other for company on their side of the world they spent a great deal of time together. And if New Zealand found out what he was doing he would surely want to go with him, which would be a disastrous. Because no matter how similar their accents were Mick would be able to spot the difference straight away and then place his little brother into the category of a tourist.

"Look, I know what the message said," New Zealand rolled his eyes and stepped inside his big brother's house, "But me and some of the others are worried about you."

New Zealand's voice was wary as his eyes shifted around the room, looking for anything that his brother was trying to hide. It was obvious to him at the meeting that Australia was hiding something, and it was the hot topic of rumours circulating around the other nations, they had all crowded around him wanting to know what was going on. They had all assumed that since he was the closest personally and geographically to the older Oceanic nation that he would know what was up. But he was just in the dark as the rest of them. His eyes stopped at what he saw resting on Australia's kitchen table, his face paled as his mind raced back to some of the more popular rumours about his brother.

"I'm fine. Look the only reason I won't be at the meeting is that I'm going away for a while, using my holiday time, less time I have to spend with my boss after all."

The last statement heightened New Zealand's already nervous composure. The fact that Australia mentioned that he was going away for a while made his green eyes fill with desperation and fear for his older brother. And since when did his brother ever find an excuse to skip out on meetings, he skipped out on them all the time when he had to meet up with that leader of his, and he didn't need a written document to excuse him then.

"Australia, please don't go through with this-" New Zealand pleaded, every word laced in desperation for his big brother.

Australia froze. Did New Zealand and the others find out about Mick? Maybe the news was somehow leaked. But however, the kiwi found out, wasn't important. What was important was that his boss was going to kill him if any of the other nations found out.

"I don't know how ya found out about this, but you can't tell the others. It'll be over before you know it, and no one will ever have to know," Australia tried to persuade his little brother to be quiet about it.

"Of course people will know! Please don't do this bro!" New Zealand pleaded once more with Australia. "You can't keep something this big without anyone noticing. People will hear about all the death and destruction because of this. Besides you really think you can do this on your bloody own? You have many allies that would help you if you are in trouble."

Wait what? Australia was now confused, what the heck was New Zealand talking about? Why would he need a full army to take down one human?

"What the hell are you talking abo-"

"You should have told us you were going to war. Or the very least who you are fighting against!"

'Oh for god sake' Australia groaned under his breath. So this is what everybody thought from the meeting, that he was starting world war 3? They had the world meetings to practically start fights and disagreements with one another anyway.

"I'm not going to war with anybody" Australia protested.

"Don't lie, why else would you have weapons on your kitchen table," New Zealand argued, "Unless it's another Emu war? You know how well that ended last time."

Australia shook his head with disbelief. Clearly, he should have told them just from the start, maybe if he argued with his boss more on that detail he wouldn't be having this argument right now. He placed his hands firmly on his shorter brother's shoulders to try and stop his rambling hoping that his words would persuade the Aussie not to go through with it.

"Zea stop it!" Australia raised his voice slightly to get his brother to be quiet and actually listen to him. Thankfully it worked. New Zealand looked up at him with wide teary eyes. If the situation were on a lighter note, Australia would have teased his brother saying that he looked like a little lamb.

"I'm not going to war with anybody or anything. Now, I don't know where you got that crazy arse idea from but I want you to forget it, okay?" Australia explained. New Zealand looked immensely relieved as he knew his brother wasn't lying, or going to war.

"Oh thank goodness! The others will be so relieved," New Zealand smiled and sat down on his brother's couch. Australia sat down in the arm chair across from him.

"How bad is it?" Australia asked simply. He didn't specify what he wanted to know, as he knew New Zealand would be able to tell what he meant. After he caught the wanted man he would have to do damage control when he saw the other nations, and finally put their suspicions to rest.

"Well it's not dandy," New Zealand explained, "There's a few rumours, but two are the most popular. You know about the war one, at first everybody thought it was that, and America blamed Russia, you know their tension. Bro he was almost ready to invoke the treaty to help you…we both were. Even Dad would intervene, he's really worried."

Australia sighed, he guessed it was a reasonable conclusion to jump to, his boss certainly hadn't made things any easier with those messages. It was good to know that England was still looking out for them, even though he and his brother had grown into strong and capable adults it was still nice to know their Dad would still be there.

"And the second reason?" Australia asked, already having a feeling that he probably won't like it.

New Zealand hesitated, "Well the other rumour is mainly the nations that are closer to you and are familiar with what happened to you in the second world war. After what you had been through and how you acted after the war they thought…well you know"

Australia ran and hand through his hair and groaned in frustration. Seriously, you are a prisoner of war one time and they automatically think he would relapse. It had been decades since then and he had long forgiven Japan for it. They were even mates and on good terms with each other.

"You didn't believe it at least, did you?" Australia asked.

He narrowed his eyes when he lacked a response from New Zealand who seemed to suddenly avoid his gaze.

"Really Zea?!" Australia asked incredulously, "I'm not bloody suicidal!"

"Well what was I supposed to think?" New Zealand defended himself, "You know how bad you got after your time in the prison camp. Besides, you were acting really distant at the meeting and your boss banned us from entering your home. And you normally tell me everything and suddenly you were shutting me out again."

New Zealand's voice was raising again by the time he finished speaking. It appears that he still wasn't completely over the fear of something happening to his brother. At least the others would be relieved that Australia is not going to war.

"You still haven't told me what you are up to anyway. You have weapons all over your kitchen table and you have a new car outside."

Australia thought he may as well tell New Zealand, maybe he could help keep up the lie at least until he was able to get everything sorted out. It would be a relief to finally be able to tell someone at least. His boss could live with it. So he told his brother everything, starting from when his boss called him into his office to after the world meeting. Once he was finished New Zealand sat there with his arms folded across his chest and looked at Australia as if he was an idiot.

"You know this is possibly one of the most reckless things you have ever done, right? I know he can't kill you but he can do a bloody fine job of injuring you. Why do have to go anyway? What happens if he finds out that you're not exactly human? I'm sure that will be easy to explain, he shoots you in the chest and then you wake up five minutes later, what are you going to do haunt him to death?" New Zealand questioned.

The sheep populated nation was starting to get a headache, he knew this was going to make the other nations think they were crazy.

"I won't give him the chance to get the jump on me," Australia shrugged his brother's concern off. That thought had crossed his mind he will admit though.

"Can't the police just handle this?" New Zealand asked.

"Apparently he's pretty good at avoiding 'em. Besides, my boss knows that I know the land better than anyone and it was basically an order from him." Australia explained.

"The others won't be happy about what you're doing."

"They won't have to know until he is caught, if my wonderful little brother in the whole world would do his favourite older brother a favour," Australia smiled innocently.

"Oh no, you are not getting me in on this lie! The others are expecting me to tell them what I found out while I was here" New Zealand argued.

"Please Zea! It won't be for very long a week at most maybe two. I'll be fine I promise, trust me I'm not gonna let a psycho human get the jump on me," Australia pleaded with his younger brother.

New Zealand didn't want to budge, but he knew it was the truth. He would've felt better if he was there with his brother but after what he said about this Mick person, then he would probably be a liability. Not that he couldn't handle himself, but he doesn't know Australia as well as…well Australia himself. He sighed in defeat and stood up to look his brother very seriously in the eye.

"If you're not back within a week, I'm telling Dad and the others."

Australia grinned and hugged his little brother, ruffling up his soft curls. The silent promise to the younger nation was sent through the hug and New Zealand couldn't help but smile, not matter how worried he was he knew his brother always kept his promises.

"Thanks mate!" Australia said appreciatively, "Come on, I'll drive ya back to the airport, if you help me load some things into the car"

Once everything was packed, they headed to the airport. Australia walked with New Zealand though the crowded building and paid for his flight back to his home, to say thanks for keeping his secret until he got back.

"I'll see you soon little bro, promise" Australia patted New Zealand on the back and waved him off.

Australia lowered his sunglasses over his eyes and turned up the radio, filling the car with a song by one of his country's bands. He started to drive towards the outback, where he knew the local pub resided. He only hoped he knew what he was getting himself in for, but how bad could it be, it was only a human.

Hey Guys! So the whole WW2 reference is about Australia being in a POW camp in the Pacific war. It's also a reference to my fanfic 'Australia' which will be coming up in the later chapters of that story. But basically, he gets pretty depressed and suffers from PTSD because of it. Please review :)

Do you think catching Mick will go as smoothly as Australia thinks? Or has he underestimated Mick Taylor?