An hour or so later the helicopter had finally reached the base camp where everybody dragged themselves to the few empty beds that were open. Nobody even bothered to separate between boys and girls (they didn't really have a choice since it was just a bunch of bunk beds side to side). They just went to wherever and plopped down into the military style beds and passed out. All their exhaustion had finally caught up with them and now it was time to catch up with the stress. The morning (or more the afternoon) had come and the lot had all woken up, some of them slightly disoriented. It had been Alice who had first woken up, though she had woken up screaming with tears running down her face as if she were witnessing a murder. It had turned out that she had a nightmare that the world had ended and when she awoke to darkness, she thought it was true.
"Oh God what happened, somebody help! Please, where is everyone?!" She screamed over and over until Francis had gotten up and shaken her out of delusion.
"Alice! Alice! Alice! Wake up! It's okay!" He finally shook her out, finding her in a sweat.
Everyone else had woken up after the big commotion had taken place, and it all ended with Arthur on the floor with no shirt, Amelia hanging halfway off the top bunk, and all the rest freaking out as if it were a chain reaction. After everyone had calmed down they all sat back on their beds and just sat there. They were in a large dormitory that had around five bunk beds which brought up to ten beds in all just in that one room. There was no bathroom or anything, just the beds and a door. The walls were slick cement and the ceiling was high up with three light fixtures.
Nobody was ready to get up yet, but they were all dying for something to eat, so it was almost an answered prayer when Julchen came along with two guards who were holding bags.
"Mornin' ladies." She remarked, trying to get under the men's skin. "I thought you'd all like some new threads since those looked like they've gone to hell and back." She pointed out.
It was true. They hadn't changed clothes ever since they had left the airport back in the other world, and if you add that along with the saltwater damage and all, their clothes looked nearly unrecognizable from their original forms.
Julchen handed them each a little bag containing some clothes for them to wear. "I'd recommend visiting the showers down the hall. Also, your food's downstairs in the mess hall. You can't miss it." She then turned around and signaled the two men to follow her.
Francis looked down into the bag and then frowned as he pulled out his new clothes. He had gotten a plain red shirt with jeans (underwear and socks too) and that was it. "I will not accept this! I'd rather go out in the nude then wear this!" He complained but then Arthur hit him in the back of the head with his hand.
"Shut up and deal with it!"
"I don't know about you all but I'm taking a shower. I feel like crap." Amelia opened the door and turned down the hall towards the big sign that said "BATHROOMS/SHOWERS" in German.
"Ja, I think that would be a good idea." Ludwig opened the door and went through.
Everybody else followed and they continued down the hallway until they reached the separate showers where the two genders split up into their designated bathrooms. Then they realized that their time in the shower was one of the first times that the two groups had actually split up from each other.
Franҫoise undressed herself and stepped into the shower stall next to Alice's who was fiddling with the knobs, trying to find the perfect temperature.
"Ahhhh, this feels fabulous." Amelia moaned as she stepped into the warm water.
"As fabulous as Kiku?" Franҫoise joked but it had completely silenced the room.
Alice looked over at Amelia in question. "W-what?" She stuttered.
Feliciana glared over at Amelia. "What does she mean by that Amelia?"
"S-she's just joking. I don't know what she's talking about." Amelia casually shook off as she scrubbed her legs with soap.
"Oh Amelia don't think I don't know. I can always tell." Franҫoise snickered as she took her hair out of the bun and let the hair fall down onto her shoulders. "And Alice, don't think I haven't seen the way you look at Monsieur Francis. I don't blame you though; any French person would be impossible to not fall for."
"What the bloody hell are you talking about? How the hell do I see Francis? Fucking blind, remember?" She sneered as she pulled out her ponytails, letting her golden locks flow freely. "And why would I fall for him of all people?!"
"Now THAT even I can see Alice; you're totally in lovey-dovey love with that dude." Amelia grinned at herself.
"They've got a point Alice." Feliciana remarked as she poured some shampoo into her dark, auburn hair. "As a girl who's known as the country of love I would know." She gave a wink and a little smile.
"Oh jeez Feli~ you're one to talk. You haven't been the least bit loving to anybody for years!" Amelia retorted.
"Even so I STILL am the Country of Love." She then gave a scowl. "And what do you mean I haven't been loving?!"
"Ma petit Feli~, she's got you there. You've become more of a German than an Italian when you look at it all."
"S-Shut up!"
They continued on with conversation like this for nearly half an hour; during that time the guys were pretty much doing the same-only their conversations ended much more violently with a "fuck you!" or a "go die in a hole!"
They had all finally finished and put on the clothes that Julchen had given to them, though they were pretty bland compared to what they had worn earlier on. Franҫoise was given a light blue blouse with a purple, knee length skirt while Alice had gotten a green sweater with a plaid skirt and knee high socks. She felt the short skirt and frowned.
"Anybody wanna trade?" She glared at the skirt.
Everybody looked and they all broke into laughter.
"BAHAA oh God that's so freaking awesome!" Amelia squealed.
In the end…nobody wanted to trade and she was stuck with it.
Amelia had gotten bell bottom jeans and a blue button up shirt (which she abruptly tied up to make it resemble her other outfit somewhat). Feliciana looked into her bag and pulled out a dark blue tank top with a blue skirt and a ribbon for her hair.
On the guys side they were all fighting Francis to put on his clothes.
"Damn it Francis, nobody wants to see you streak!" Arthur shouted at Francis as he and Ludwig tried to keep him from leaving the bathroom so that he could get his old clothes.
"Non! I will not suppress my fabulousness with such disgusting clothing! I'd rather go naked than wear such atrocities! At least let me find my old clothes! Leave me with my dignity!"
"Big brother France! What if the belle donne (pretty women) see you? Isn't that a sin?" Feliciano tried to create a valid reason to keep him from going out in nothing but boxers.
"No, no, no, no, NO!" With one big heave Francis pushed himself out the door, taking the shirtless Ludwig and Arthur with him.
They all landed on the floor in the hallway with a thud, right in front of the girls who had just come out in their new clothes. Francis looked up and saw Alice in her short skirt and sweater, completely mesmerized. In fact, he was so mesmerized that he didn't realize he was being dragged back into the bathroom by Kiku and Feliciano.
"S-so cute~" he kept repeating as they kept dragging him.
"Where's your dignity now you bloody frog?"
"Waaaaaa~! We're so sorry!" Italy apologized when the girls all stared at them with utter confusion.
Kiku nearly passed out from the embarrassment of it all, but he continued dragging the dazed Francis back into the bathroom.
Finally, the guys finished getting dressed and they all came out with Arthur wearing a black button up and jeans, Francis in his (slightly stretched) red shirt and black jeans, Feliciano in a plaid blue shirt with cargo pants, Kiku with his grey shirt and black pants, and Ludwig with green army pants and a black shirt. None of them, though, had shoes.
Francis couldn't stop ogling how cute Alice looked in her short skirt and knee socks, and he was happy that she couldn't stop him since she couldn't see it. Unfortunately, he forgot about Franҫoise who bopped him one good over the head. Afterwards they headed down to the mess hall that was nearly empty; the only people in there were a few people that wore similar military uniforms and Julchen who was drinking a beer. She looked at the group and smirked.
"Nice threads." She laughed.
"Could you not have gotten us, or at least me, something more tasteful? This is utter garbage!" Francis protested.
"This is a military base ass wipe. We don't have fancy clothes except for what people cough up or what we find in the lost and found."
"Lost and found?!" Francis immediately started trying to take his clothes off but everybody kept him from getting any further than his midriff.
"Idiot! Don't take your clothes off here!" Alice screamed.
Julchen started to laugh again. "Jeez you guys crack me up." She put her feet on the table and leaned her chair back. "Go eat something. I got stuff to show ya." She waved her hand over to the table that had a bowl of apples, toast & toppings, bacon, juice, and coffee.
They all ate some, making small talk every now and then about stupid things like what they were wearing. Though in reality they were all curious as to what Julchen was going to show them afterwards. They all finished quickly and waited for Julchen to finish her beer.
"Isn't it a little early to be drinking beer?" Arthur asked.
"Isn't it a little late for you to be shutting up?" She retorted.
Francis chuckled at her sass. Julchen stood up and started walking towards the door. "Follow the awesome me!" She opened the door, and after a few eye rolls and stares, the rest followed.
She led them to an elevator where they all squeezed in and rode all the way to the -14th floor (ya…-14). They all stepped out and were given a lab coat and safety goggles. Julchen took a key from her bra and swiped it, opening the door to a gigantic, white room that had a giant glass window.
"Check this out." She brought them in and they all walked up to the glass wall and peered in to see three different types of Kaydoms strapped down, their brains out for display.
"My God…." Feliciana shuttered at the sight of the docile Kaydoms.
Julchen then pressed her hand against another pad by the door on the side, signaling it to open. She walked in and the girls all immediately followed. The guys, on the other hand, were dumbstruck at the sight of the beast's restraints. Amelia actually had to shake Kiku and the others out of it to get them to follow. Julchen brought them up and started to do a lobotomy on the brain of the Kaydom.
"Alright so as you can see here, the majority of their frontal lobe is similar to that of human brains with a few physical differences, but here's something that's weird." She pushed aside some of the grey matter, revealing a pulsating vein that had a big bulb at the end of its stem and little veins coming out of it.
"This part is emitting telekinetic waves. At first we had no idea what it was, but after stimulating it and taking some tests, we saw that the part was actually sending off powerful waves in one direction. We looked at the other two subspecies and found they had and did the exact same thing. Then we found something else. This one vein in particular is connecting itself to every other lobe here, stimulating it in different ways whenever we did something which resulted in a different body or vocal movement."
"What do you think it means?" Feliciana asked tensely.
"Well we theorized that this part is actually connecting itself telekinetically with something bigger. These monsters aren't actually in control of their bodies or actions, it's like something is suppressing their independent thoughts; something much more powerful has to be emitting directions for them, but what?"
There was a dawning silence and then Feliciana shouted at the top of her lungs in realization. "I GOT IT!"
"Damn girl what?!" Julchen looked at her with surprise.
Feliciana looked at the group. "It's just a theory, but what if the thing they're all connected to is something like a queen. A queen that, if we destroy, will kill all these things too! I mean, you said something else was controlling them right?!" She gave a squeal and hugged the nearest person to her, which was Feliciano.
"That's crazy Feli~" Julchen looked down at the brain and smirked. "But you may just be right."
"You said that those waves' things or whatever goes towards one specific direction right? That must be where their leader is located."
She had begun piecing it together until it had all made sense in every way and form. Feliciana smiled and gave Julchen a big hug. "How can we ever repay you for all this work?"
Julchen looked back at her and ruffled Feli~'s hair. "Just kill those fuckers for me."
-Ugh...can't sleep...but school...dang it. Anyways I'm nearing the super huge climax, but I've gotta do some other stuff before. Just hang with me please . Also, the weather her is colder than Mars! It's crazy D: