Chapter Two: Berlin
Gilbert Beilschmidt, or Prussia/East Germany, was annoyed. Unawesomely annoyed. Some chick from another country was staying with him and West. Germany, who had been too busy to do so, had forced his brother to pick her up from the airport. So here he was, waiting for the girl.
Prussia tapped his foot impatiently. He didn't have time for this! Prussia would have rather been at home or out with France and Spain. For God's sake, he didn't even know what the girl looked like! All West had said-or all Prussia caught- was that the girl had eyes similar to his. He ran a hand through his sliver hair. That piece of information made no sense what so ever.
"Hey! Uh...excuse me?" An annoyed voice came from behind the Prussian. Prussia leaned back from the chair he was in to face the person speaking him. It was a sixteen year old girl. She had long, messy rainbow-colored hair that was pulled into a ponytail. Her skin was slightly tanned and her eyes were a bright red-violet. She wore a simple light blue t-shirt with multi-colored fireworks over it and the word "Wonderbolts" in large yellow letters. A pair of torn up denim shorts hugged her toned legs. She had socks on that went up below her knees. They were mulitcolored like her hair. A pair of dark blue converse hugged her feet. The girl was playing with a golden necklace that was around her neck, from which a gold lightning bolt shaped charm hung."Can you speak English?"
"Ja." Prussia repiled. "Vhy?"
"Thank God!" The girl said. "I'm looking for some guy named Ludwig...uh..."
"Beilschmidt?" Prussia guessed. The girl nodded confidently. Prussia stood to face her. "Zhat vould be mien bruder, my brother. He sent me here to get you."
"Sweet!" The girl picked up a dufflebag that had been resting at her feet. "So...who are you?" The words stung Prussia a bit. He had heard many people ask what Prussia was, and it hurt him. But this was just a human girl who was asking for his name.
"Zhe awesome Gilbert at your service, frau!" Prussia said, grinning. The girl laughed.
"Well, 'Awesome Gilbert'," the girl said, smiling as well. "Name's Ray. It's short for Raleigh, but don't call me that. It's really uncool."
"Alright zhen, 'Ray'," The Prussian said to her. "Let's get out of here. Zhis place iz starting to bore zhe hell out of me." Ray laughed.
"I like you, Gilbert Beilschmidt." She said as the Prussian led her out of the airport.
Rainbow Dash was starting to have fun on this mission. Originally she thought the mission was going to suck, mostly because Twilight took her wings away, (She had tried to change Rainbow's multicolored hair as well, but the pegasus refused.) and the fact that Rainbow Dash had forgotten to learn the language or at least pick up an English to German dictionary before coming to Berlin. But this Gilbert guy was totally awesome! He had driven her back to his home, which he explained he had shared with his younger brother.
"WEST!" The sliver haired man called out as soon as the pair entered the house, "Ich bin wieder da!" A man came down the stairs. He was tall and muscular with slicked back blonde hair and icy blue eyes.
"Wo ist das Mädchen, das du sollten vom Flughafen zu bekommen?" The man asked. Rainbow blinked. She really wished that she had asked Twilight to put a translation spell on her before they left.
"Sie ist hier." Gilbert said, placing an arm around her shoulder. "Dies ist Ray." The other man blinked for a bit.
"Schön, Sie zu treffen, dann." The man said "Ich bin-"
"Sie hat nicht Deutsch, kleinen Bruder zu sprechen." Gilbert cut off. "Sie spricht Englisch." The man turned red a bit.
"I apologize for zhat." The man said in English. "As I vas saying, I am Ludwig." Rainbow laughed a bit.
"So you're the Ludwig I was told about?" Rainbow Dash smiled. "Nice to meet you, dude!" Ludwig groaned and said something in German along the lines of "Genau wie Amerika."
"Zhe guest room iz upstairs. It's the last one on your left. I'm sure mien bruder vill be glad enough to show you."
"Vhat?!" Gilbert exclaimed. "But, Vest I vas supposed to meet-"
"Francis called und cancelled. Antonio got himself sick." Ludwig cut in. Gilbert sighed loudly.
"Fine." He grabbed Rainbow's hand and led her upstairs.
The guest room was where Austria slept when he lived with Germany briefly. But nowadays, Japan and Italy would use it. Prussia opened the door. The room looked the same as it did when he had last been in here. The walls were a pale yellow and the carpet was gray. There was a bed off to the side. It's white bedding was still untouched. The closet was empty and the desk had built up a thin layer of dust. A fan hung from the ceiling and a light was attached to it. Prussia turned it on.
"Zhe room hasn't been used in vhile so you're zhe first one to sleep here." He told her. But Ray was already walking in.
"Don't worry, dude." She replied to him. "It reminds me of home." Ray smiled and tossed her dufflebag on the bed. She rummaged around in it for something.
"Vhat are you looking for, frau?" Prussia asked and walked next to her.
"Something I brought...Here it is!" She pulled out a picture. It showed her, and six others-five girls and one boy. The strange thing about it was that Ray had a pair of feathery, light blue wings.
"Vhy do you have vings in zhe picture?" He asked curiously. Ray's expression turned to panic.
"It was a costume party!" She said quickly. Ray put the image on the table. "These guys are my best friends. I managed to convice her, my friend here-" She pointed to the one with indigo hair and large lavender wings-"Let me bring it."
"Vhere are your friends?" Prussia asked. Ray shrugged.
"I don't remember. Our queen sent us to different places. I got sent here on this mission."
"Mission? Vhat are you, a spy?" Once again, Ray shrugged.
"Sorta. My friends and I are known as the Mane Six. And Mane as in a horse's mane. Not like Main street or something. We're really important back home." Ray laughed a bit.
"So vhy are you here?" Prussia asked as Ray rummaged around her bag again.
"Can't tell you." She answered. "Top secret, by the order of our Queens. And no, they're sisters." Prussia blinked. Ray pulled out another image. It was of her and a male. They both wore blue and yellow jumpsuits and had flying goggles pushed up on their foreheads. She had the wings again, and so did the male, only they were a slivery teal. The guy had spiky dark blue hair and green eyes that could rival Spain's. They both looked happy in the picture.
"Who's that?" The Prussian asked.
"A friend." Ray said, a blush developing on her face. "A close friend."
"Vhat, like a boyfriend or something?" Ray shook her head violently.
"No! Nothing like that! Soarin is just a friend!"
"Soarin?" Prussia asked. "Zhat's a veird name."
"Well, it's just a nickname. He won't tell me his real one." Ray put the picture on the desk. Prussia laughed his usual "kesesese".
"You keep telling yourself zhat." The Prussian turned heel and walked out of the room.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Ray said angrily, following him.
"Nozhing, frau." Prussia snickered. "I'm saying zhat-"
Rainbow followed Gilbert down the hall. She was angry. She didn't like Soarin, no matter what anyone (or Rarity) said! They were just friends!
"I'm saying zhat-" Gilbert snickered before a loud voice cut him off.
"Was meinst du damit das Treffen verschoben auf nächste Woche?!" Ludwig's voice travelled on up the stairs. Gilbert and Rainbow Dash stared at each other for a minute before bolting down the stairs.
"Es ist mir egal, was Amerika gesagt, ich will wissen, warum!" The blonde said angrily. He was on the phone with someone and once again, brought up what Rainbow had deduced to be America in German.
"Es ist in Ordnung. Es ist mir egal. Ich werde Sie nächste Woche, Italien." He hung up and turned to the curious pair behind him.
"Vhat was zhat about?" Gilbert asked.
"Alfred moved zhe meeting to next week." Ludwig answered. Gilbert groaned and leaned onto the railing. Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow.
"Meeting?" She asked. "What meeting?"
"Vest und I are zhe German representatives for zhe United Nations." Gilbert answered.
"Nein," Ludwig corrected. "I'm zhe German representative. You just come along so you don't destroy zhe house."
"Zhat one time!" Gilbert shouted as his brother left the room. Once Ludwig had left, Gilbert grinned.
"Kesesese~" He laughed. "Looks like now I get to show you around zhe city."
"That sounds cool." Rainbow repiled, leaning against the wall. This mission just got twenty percent cooler.