A/N: Ok guys sorry for the delay first I lost the notebook I had been writing this in and then I hit writers block. I got back some inspiration but then lost motivation to write when I found out my little sister is in the hospital. I don't know when I will get you the next chapter but I will try for soon.
New Zealand and Liechtenstein were asleep in their cell. New Zealand was on the floor and Liechtenstein on the bed. It had been awhile before that set up worked though. Liechtenstein didn't want New Zealand to be uncomfortable while New Zealand didn't care about sleeping on the floor he was just being polite. They had fought about it for quite a bit but Liechtenstein finally gave in and took the bed.
New Zealand shivered despite being in a desert it got cold at night. He sat up and looked at the bed "Liechtenstein Can I sleep with you tonight?" He asked quickly and awkwardly. Liechtenstein blinked and then nodded.
"Oh Canada~" Italy said in a sing song voice. It was creepy and a sound most would have fled the area at hearing.
Canada turned to look at Italy "Yes?" He said to him his voice still hoarse. He couldn't walk away from him since if he did he ran the chance of being punished he didn't think he could handle that since he hadn't healed yet from the first beating.
"What? Speak up." Italy said and tilted his head still keeping up the song like voice.
Canada tried to speak a bit louder "I said, yes?" He couldn't really raise his voice so it didn't seem much louder. He hoped it was enough though as it was as loud as he could possibly get his voice. He shuddered as he thought about what Italy could possibly want.
Italy smiled a creepy innocent smile "That's better I could hear you that time." He said still smiling.
Canada shuddered "What do you want?" He asked Italy quietly but loudly enough to be heard.
"Nothing really, just wanted to mess with your pretty little head." He said running his finger tips lightly down Canada's jaw line.
Canada's eyes then clamped shut. He shivered slightly because of how light the touch was. Italy giggled and retracted his hand. He turned and walked away from Canada. He snapped his fingers; Poland and Austria were next to Italy shortly. "Both of you clean up the Canadian so he is presentable he is filthy." He said to them and dismissed them to their job.
Canada was lead by Poland to a bathroom. He was given soaps, scrubbies and a hair brush to work with. Poland explained which knobs did what and then left him to bath. Canada carefully took off his clothes and the bandages. Luckily the wounds on his back had not gotten infected so they wouldn't scar too horribly. He turned on the water and got into the shower wearily as he did not want to feel the sting of his back when the hot water touched the wounds. As he rinsed his body in the water he couldn't help but relax a bit. It had been so long since he had had a real shower that it felt so nice to finally take one.
He carefully scrubbed the dirt, sweat, and grime off of his body seething when he had to scrub his back. It hurt like hell but it felt so good to be clean again. When he was done washing he just stood letting the hot water run over him for a little bit longer. After about twenty minutes he got out and found that fresh bandages had been left for him along with clean clothes. He wrapped the bandages around himself wincing a bit as he pulled them tight then he put on the clothes. He knew he should be scared of what Italy had planned for him but for now he ignored it and just enjoyed being in fresh clothes and having a clean body. Only thing that would make this moment perfect would be to have Kumajiro back with him. He doubted that would ever happen though and so he contented himself to the things he could enjoy.
He ripped the brush through his hair it had grown and was at his shoulders now though he couldn't tell before since it had been a tangled mess. He had used mass conditioner though in the shower so that he could brush it. The little curl that sat almost right on his nose not staying where he tried to move it to so he gave up on that. He looked in the mirror but could barely see himself as he did not have his glasses on they had been left in Italy's torture chamber when he had been beaten. He shuddered at the memory and left the bathroom. As he walked down the halls on the mansion like place people noticed him for once since he looked so different from the others around him. Even Romano noticed although he also noticed the change in appearance and it worried him a bit but he would never admit that.
Ireland dropped into the swivel chair that was at the table he used for his files. He sighed and ran a hand through his long red hair. It was oily and dusty. "God I need a shower." He said to himself. It was a wishful statement though as they didn't have any running water and there was nowhere near enough in the water stores they had for such a luxury. Australia desperately needed one but even if they had the water to spare it wouldn't change the fact he needed to bathe. Unless you restrained that man you couldn't get him to bathe.
Ireland spun it the chair Switzerland just looked at him and shook his head "Shouldn't you be verking on contriving a plan to help us spring Liechtenstein?" he asked raising an eyebrow questioningly.
"I have been workin all day I am takin a break for a few." He said to Switzerland. He really needed one everything had him just a bit frazzled now, ever since WWIII started stress levels went up for everyone.
Scotland walked in with a white haired girl who had pale skin and bright purple eyes. She was a little beat up and had what looked like a few oil stains on her coat and a streak of black on her cheek. Ireland looked up and his eyes went wide then he recognized the girl. Scotland lead her in "I kno yeh kno 'er Ireland. Switzerland dis I's Antarctica. She I's well an old acquaintance of mine."
"How do you know she isn't affiliated with Italy?" Switzerland asked obviously surprised that Scotland of all people would be so careless as to lead some girl he supposedly knew to their headquarters. It didn't make sense to him why blow what little cover they did have? He shook his head and fingered his gun not sure if he should shoot or stay his hand until he knew for sure what side she was on. She could always lie to them but he was pretty good at reading lies.
" 'Cause Italy killed one of 'er brothas an' 'ave caused two othars teh goh missin'." He said to them and crossed his arms. Antarctica had told him a bit about her situation and that along with her literal polar opposite. "I alseh kno of anothah arctic nation dat I's against Italy an' wants 'er brothar an' fadder back." He said calmly. "Weh need mor membars an' deir terrain woud give us an advantage." He added knowing full well that Switzerland would like the sound of that idea.
Switzerland thought about this for a few moments. "It would put us at a disadvantage as well though. We don't know how to survive in that weather. We would lose battles quickly and likely as often as we won them." He said shaking his head he didn't see how it would work. He didn't doubt that she was at least a little trust worthy but he wasn't about to put much on that thought.
"I do and so do my brothers we could teach you to fight in and survive the worse than ideal conditions." She said to them. She crossed her arms as Switzerland looked at her with doubt. "I can. If Russia and Canada hadn't been captured they could help too but unfortunately they were." She said to him. "So are you going to trust me or not?" She crossing her arms the opposite direction that they had been.
The three other leaders looked at Switzerland expectantly.
"Fine, fine but if you do anything to mislead us I will shoot you." He said to her. He meant that completely. If she did anything that caused mistrust he would not hesitate to shoot her. They had all come too far for it to be thrown away because of some girl.
"Fair enough." She said to him and smiled again "Now I have heard that you guys lost a few people to a prison right?" She asked.
Ireland nodded a confirmation. "yes our brother and Switzerland's Sister." He said to her "They are apparently in the prison twenty miles from here." He added.
"good then we can spring them soon" She said and smiled.
"No we can't. We don't have enough people to pull that off." He said through gritted teeth. Was this girl crazy or something? There was no way in hell that they could pull off breaking into a prison getting past all the guards and then getting back out with out back up close at hand and they did not have that luxury as half the members were spread out leading other smaller groups of people to fight against Italy's growing power.
Antarctica just gave him a knowing smile "Do you guys have someone you trust to watch this place?" She asked them and looked at each of them
"Not really I think Norway or Denmark could watch headquarters." Australia said not thinking about the fact Norway was not supposed to be spoken about often due to the fact most thought him to be dead.
"good my brother did make it I was beginning to worry he was dead." She said "So Do you want them to stay here." She asked them
"Nay I'll stay I should stay with the notes. I'm the only one who can read them and I only know how to organize them" He said. "Anyways I'm the records keeper if someone calls I should be here to write down what they say." He said with a slight smile.
"Alright you stay here then. You three…" she said to Scotland, Switzerland, and Australia. "follow me you may like what I have to show you." She said turning on her heels and walked out of the room "I suggest you bring something warm to wear its gonna get cold" She smiled another knowing smile.
Scotland went and got a few thicker jackets and handed them to Australia and Switzerland. He followed Antarctica out of the hideout and into the glaring sun of the desert.
"I don't know how you guys can stand the heat here." She said to the three wiping sweat from her forehead. They walked a few miles and got to a small plane that could barely carry the four of them. "It's a good thing Ireland stayed behind.." She said to them.
"yea 'e woudn' 'ave fit." Scotland said to he and chuckled slightly. He climbed in and buckled up along with Switzerland and Australia.
The plane was not in good condition and as they went down the makeshift runway it made a wheezing noise. Antarctica pulled on the controls and took off. She looked at the monitors and gauges everything seemed to be fine. She had carried more than just three others in the plane but she would not likely do that again for awhile. For the first hour of flight everything went fine but once they got a little over halfway across Africa they began to have to evade bullets.
Large artillery shells whizzed by the plane Antarctica steered the plane sharply evading the fire from the ground."Hold tight guys this is gonna get turbulent!" She shouted weaving, dipping and turning every which way so they wouldn't get shot down. They all heard the distinct sound of metal grating against metal and immediately looked at the spot that was struck. The bullet had thankfully only grazed the wing causing little to no damage.
Finally they got over water they carefully picked aroung naval ships and other airplanes they didn't want to take any chances. As they neared the icy continent Antarctica dropped altitude a bit. She continued to drop steadily till finally she decended landing on another makeshift landing strip.
As the three nations exited the plane they put on the coats Scotland had grabbed for them. The biting cold turning their noses and cheeks red Australia shivered he was not accustomed to the cold. Scotland had gotten used to it since when Antarctica was little he had visited her a lot to make sure she was ok. Unbeknownst to most of the brothers Scotland had actually kidnapped Antarctica from her brothers and left her on the continent. For awhile the girl had resented him for leaving her. When she had turned ten he got really caught up in government issues and had pretty much forgotten her. She ended up hating him for a long time. She did finally come around to liking him again eventually. Well sort of. She stopped trying to skewer him with a harpoon after about a year but he was not entirely sure where he stood with her now that she was a full grown adult.
"Follow me there's a heated shelter nearby it might be a bit crowded but it helps keep the place warm." She said and walked towards a white horizon. It was hard to see since it was covered in a few layers of white snow. It was only half a mile away but it seemed further since they couldn't see it. Antarctica knew exactly where it was though and navigated to it with no problem. The other three nations followed her trying to keep pace.
Australia shivered violently he did not like this at all it was too cold and the sun reflected off the snow making it a bit too bright for comfort. "Are we almost there?" He asked when they were only about a quarter mile from the building. It still was hard to see but if you looked hard enough you could see slight shadows.
Antarctica nodded "yeah only a little further" She said. They walked for about fifteen more minutes and they got to the building. "You guys ready? What I have to show you is behind this door. It's pretty major too." She said putting a hand on the door knob as the other three nodded and she opened the door. Heat flooded out along with the voices of many people. Antarctica walked in and looked around "all right everybody we have a few visitors who need our help." She said as Scotland, Switzerland and Australia hurried into the small building and shut the door. The snowflakes that clung to Scotland's hair were bright against the red although they melted quickly and not a trace was left except for the droplets of water of course.
One of the males in the room crossed his arms but smirked his bright red eyes flashed slightly "So you finally decided to reveal ze existence of ze awesome Prussia." He declared in a loud obnoxious voice causing a girl to hit him upside the head.
"Shut up Prussia you are not as awesome as you think." She said to him moving her arm up shifting the sleeve of her thick brown kimono into a more comfortable spot.
"Hey zat's just your opinion. Everyone else loves the awesome me even you do secretly Vietnam" He said still grinning although rubbing where she had hit him for a girl she was strong. He looked at the three rebels "So vat can ze awesome Prussia do for you?" He asked.
Switzerland scowled "you can start by shutting up" He said irritably he didn't like the Prussian much he was obnoxious and had caused a lot of problems in the past. He looked at the other people in the room there were a ragtag of nations in the room most of them hovering around a space heater in the corner.
Prussia laughed that annoying laugh he had "Svitssy you haven't changed at all same old stuck up self" he said to him just trying to rile him up. He even used the nickname he had given him a long, long time ago that he had used to annoy the male when they were kids.
Switzerland growled slightly but took a deep breath to keep from shooting the Prussian in the face. "You haven't changed either. Arrogant, annoying and loud." He said.
"Alright you two that's enough insults… We need to get down to business before we end up with a murder on our hands." Antarctica said glaring at Prussia and Switzerland. "Alright so everyone as you know we have been trying to keep your survival a secret to gain an upper hand against Italy. Well now we are going to pop up and take him down. If we can all work together and not kill each other in the process we can take down Italy's empire and return the world to a slightly more normal state." She said to the group when she mentioned killing each other she pointedly looked at Switzerland and Prussia knowing they would have the most issues with that. "with that in mind we also have a few things to do along the way such as gaining back a few siblings that have been captured. We know their location but we need quite a few people to help break in and such. I was thinking that we could do that and join the rebels in their fight against the Italian Empire. They need as much help as they can get right now and their forces are spread thin right now, they don't have much of a chance. They can hold off attacks and start them in the weak areas of the Empire but they can't do much with how spread out they are." She said to them "So what do you guys say will you help them?" She asked and smiled hopefully.
The group murmured and whispered moving into a group to consult the decision all of them unsure of what they wanted to do. They spoke for an hour barely getting above a whisper except Prussia every time he spoke most of them wanted to throw something at him. But they let him put in his opinion which he was for helping them fight against Italy.
A/N: alright well I hope you liked the chapter hopefully they will start getting longer as we go along this one I think is the longest so far. Well plaese reveiw, they really would help motivate me to write.