I actually managed to update this story and not be late, yay me!^^
I apologize in advance for the horror your eyes will go through by reading this.^^''
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Prussia, Canada, Japan, America, France, Italy, Romano, Hungary and Spain were running for dear life. The black Noppera were surprisingly fast, despite the heavy claws on their feet and hands. The group was running through the halls of the mansion as fast as they could but their followers were persistent.
America took a quick look back, only to notice one of the aliens suddenly raising its head and the red light-bubble hanging from it growing brighter. The Americans eyes widened, he knew what would come now.
"Watch out!" he yelled at the others. "He's gonna zap us!" Everyone ducked away in time to avoid the red laser beam shooting out from the monsters head. The beam missed them by an inch and collided with a wall, tearing a huge hole inside it.
The group stared at the crumbling hole in shock. "What the hell?!" America exclaimed, when they started to run again. "I thought those beams only turned things white!"
Japan shook his head, his brown eyes shaking when he took a glance back at the damage done by the monsters. "That may have been the case with the Nopperra from our dimension, but you heard what that other Itary-kun said. They are from a different worrd. Therefore there powers are different from the ones our Noppera had."
"Hey! Less-a talking, more-a running! They almost-a have us!" Romano yelled back at the two, slight panic in his voice. Prussia looked back over his shoulder and clenched his teeth in desperation when he saw the older Italian was right.
The albino frantically looked around for an exit and almost sighed in relief, when he saw they had almost reached the front door. "Zhis vay!" he shouted, heading towards the doors and throwing them open with full force.
What awaited them outside was chaos. Countries and human servants were screaming and running all over the place in panic, trying to get away from the black Nopperas. The group stopped aprubtly, watching the scene in front of them with terror and despair.
"Well," America said, stepping forward and cracking his knuckles with a grin. "Looks like we have to do this the hard way!" And before anyone could stop him, the young country launched himself down the stairs and into battle.
America let his fists fly left and right, each blow landed with accuracy and brutal force. Each time he hit one of the black Noppera, it flew several yards away, before it crashed to the ground, dazed.
Prussia watched with wide eyes then shook his head and dashed down too, a large grin on his face. "Hey! Don't zhink jou can beat zhe awesome me! I'm going to beat zhe crap out of zhose bastards!" The others followed suit and soon, a heated battle enraged between the little group and the overwhelming force of the attackers.
It didn't take long for the other countries, who until now had been running all over the place like chickens to notice what was going on.
All of a sudden, Switzerland, who had also been invited to the wedding, pulled out his gun and fired a shot at a Noppera, that had flung himself onto Liechtenstein, blowing it back a few meters.
That started a chain reaction. Soon some of the countries, together with some of the braver humans lunged themselves at the Noppera. The battle raged and for a while, it seemed like the forces were even. But then the tables turned.
The black Noppera didn't seem to tire at all and even though they could easily be sent flying with a good-landed blow, most of them only lay there for a short time, before they got up and attacked again. The countries were in a tight spot. Since nobody except Switzerland had any weapons on them, they were fighting with bare hands.
The Nopperra were slowly closing in on the fighters. Some of them had already landed nasty blows with their claws and teeth. And to top it all, more and more of them were steadily coming out from the mansion.
Prussia was fighting five Nopperras at once. He grabbed one of them and threw it onto its comrades, knocking all of them out for the time being, but the next ones were already coming for him.
The albino was breathing heavily, sweat running down his forehead. A quick look around told him the others, too, were slowly reaching their limit.
Japan looked even paler then usual, one of his hands was pressed to a huge bleeding scratch mark on his right side. France blonde hair was disheveled and dirty from the fight and he was already panting from the effort.
Canada and America were fighting back to back, but America had already suffered a heavy bite wound on his left shoulder and Canada, though he did his best, was no fighter, his blows were to weak and merely startled the attackers for a second. Spain was having the hardest time, he was protecting the Italy-brothers, who had cowered themselves behind him, crying in fear.
Prussia slowly let his fists drop and stared at the floor, his eyes shaking.
Ve...don't have zhe slightest chance. Ve're outnumbered...he thought. In his haze, he didn't see the black Nopperra coming at him in a slow, almost casual looking walk. The creature stopped right beside the ex-nation and bared his teeth in what looked like a bizarre grin. It raised his right paw over it's head, ready to strike and...
….was suddenly hit in the head with a bullet, hard. The Nopperra made a surprised sound. It wobbled a bit, then fell backwards, not getting up again. Everyone stopped fighting at the sound of the bullet. Automatically a few heads turned to Switzerland who threw his hands up in defense, as if to say 'It wasn't me!'
Prussia looked at the (dead?) Nopperra beside him with big eyes, then, slowly, let his eyes wander into the direction the shot had came from. That when he saw it.
A whole battalion of austrian and german soldiers was coming down from a hill nearby, guns raised and hollering battle cries. The Nopperas seemed confuse at the sudden increase of number on the enemies side, a few even took a slight step back.
Before they could register what happened, the soldiers were there, shooting at the aliens with all they had. The creatures screamed in agony when they were hit. Some of them had the guts to try and fight back, but were quickly overrun.
The Nopperas gave furious snarls and growls. Eventually, they retreated back to the castle. One of the soldiers, a general, stepped over to Prussia, who was still on his knees and grabbed his shoulder, shaking the albino a bit.
"Sir! Are jou alright?", the general asked, looking a bit anxious. Prussia just stared at him for a while.
When he noticed the man had asked him a question, he quickly snapped out of it and got to his feet.
"J-Ja...I'm ok.", he said, voice still a little bit shaky. The general seemed relieved at that. Then , his face turned serious again.
"Sir," he started. "Zhe enemy has retreated for now, but zhey'll come back soon! Ve need to evacuate zhis place. Now." Prussia nodded grimly.
The soldiers began to lead the countries and the humans away from the battlefield. Italy suddenly propped up beside Prussia, tugging at his sleeve, with a scared expression.
"W-Where-a are we going?" he asked the ex-nation. The general had heard the question and turned his head around to look at Italy, giving the smaller man a quick salute before he answered.
"Sir! Zhey are a few millitary barracks not far avay from here! For zhe time being, ve'll hide in zhem and overzhink our strategies!" The general then looked at Prussia. "By zhe vay sir, ve couldn't contact jour brozher vhe zhis happened. He vas supposed to be in charge of zhe batallions and I'm a little worried about his state. Jou vouldn't happen to have seen him?"
Prussias face darkened and Italy turned his head down, tears in his caramel-brown eyes.
"He's...currently in zhe hands of zhe enemy.", Prussia answered, his voice strained.
~Meanwhile in the cathedral~
"You won't get away with this!" a furious England screamed, tugging on the ropes that tied him to the column next to the altar and glaring daggers at the countries from another dimension. "Untie me at once you bloody bastards, or I swear to god, I will-"
The other Japan groaned in annoyance (something the real Japan never would've done) and pressed a hand to his forehead. "Ē kuso, that other Engrand is annoying as herr!"
The other Germany nodded, pinching his nose at the loud, seemingly endless flow of curses, coming from said nation. "Ja, for once, I agree." The other England had his hands clasped over his ears, his face crunched up in what seemed to be agony.
"Uwaaahh, please make him sto-hop!," he pleaded. "I can't take his foul mouth anymore~!"
"Seriousry boss, can't we just gag him or something?" the other Japan asked, looking at the other Italy with pleading eyes. The purple-eyed man just shrugged.
"I thought it-a to be amusing at-a first, but do whatever you want-a with him-a. It's-a not like I care." he said, eyes still on the portal were the black Nopperras were coming out. The other Germany gave a sigh of relief at that, took of his belt and walked over to England.
Englands eyes widened, when he saw the big man coming towards him and though, he would never admit it later on, he felt a little bit frightened at that moment. "D-Don't you dare doing tha-mmpff!"
The other Germany had already clasped the belt around Englands mouth, not caring for the mans protests. He finalized the gag with a few, rough tugs, smirking when England winced in pain.
With that being finished, the other Germany turned around and returned to his place beside the other Japan. When he passed his counterpart, he took a quick glance at him. "He looks pretty vorn out Luciano," he said, directing his gaze toward the other Italy. "Are jou sure he's going to last until everyone from our dimension has arrived?"
The other Italy turned around, smirking and walked over to the real Germany. He caressed the blondes cheek in what would have been a loving gesture, if it weren't for the malice in his eyes. "Don't-a worry about-a that. Our little power-cell here is-a not going to collapse until-a I say so. Besides," he grinned, looking at England, who was still trying to fight the ropes. "This-a one seems to have a lot of-a energy. Should-a our current power-cell collapse, we can just-a take him instead."
Englands eyes widened at that. Dammit Germany, snap out of it already!, he thought, desperately trying to capture Germanys eyes with his. But the Germans eyes were dull and emotionless.
England sighed in resignation.
Prussia, please hurry, he thought.
~In the Barracks~
The barracks conference room was filled to the brink. Although, the servants had been evacuated to the trains, there were still the soldiers and the countries.
And the countries alone took up some place. Everyone was speaking at once. The large table in the middle of the room shook from all the noise.
Prussia was sitting at the head of the table, gritting his teeth. Since his little brother was currently a prisoner to those lunatics, the general had asked him to take the lead. But right now, it was downright impossible for him to even speak to everyone.
The albino pinched his nose and sighed in annoyance. Was this what Germany was going through, when he attended a meeting? If so, Prussia could understand why his little brother always seemed so stressed out afterwards.
Finally, his patience ran out. Prussia jumped to his feet, almost knocking his chair over in the process and slammed his hand on the table hard.
"QUIET!" he boomed. Immediately, the talking all around him stopped. Prussia cleared his throat. "Ah, much better. So, first off all, I vant to tell jou, I'm planning to beat zhose alternate versions of us. I already have a plan, but it's really risky, not to mention dangerous."
"Hey! You're not even a nation anymore, so who says you can be the leader?" Sealand interrupted from his place on the table. He had to stand on his chair for being able to look at Prussia, which made his insult a little less hurtful then he meant it to be.
Prussia raised an eyebrow at the small boy. "Alright. Do jou have an idea how ve can beat zhe crap out of zhose guys? I'm listening. Surely jou have already come up vizh a startegy and battle positions for each of us. Jou probably also already calculated zhe pros and cons of each of jour ideas and veighed zhem out against each ozher."
A few chuckles could be heard throughout the room. Sealand blushed a deep red. He opened his mouth, but then clapped it shut again and dropped down, crossing his arms and pouting. Prussia nodded.
"Zhat's vhat I zhought." he looked around the table. "Anybody else vant to take zhe vheel?" Collective head-shaking. "I didn't zhink so."
Prussia cleared his throat again and leaned forward on the table, supporting himself with his hands. "Listen," he said. "Zhis isn't like any ozher battle any of jou might have fought before. Our opponents are strong, ruthless and vill stop at nozhing to reach zheir goals. I know zhat some of jou are scared. To zhose, I just vanted to say: Jou don't have to do zhis. Zhey're still some functioning trains at zhe stations. If jou don't vant to fight, or if jou can't for vhatever reason, jou can still leave and save jourselves. Zhat's all I vanted to say before I vas going to tell jou my attack-plan."
After Prussia ended, he waited for a while, looking around the room. Hesitantly, Sealand stood up from his chair. "I-I'm sorry," the small wannabe-nation muttered. "But...I'm the weakest one around here. If I were to fight those things...I'll surely be crushed under their foot."
With that, he slowly left the conference room, avoiding everybody else eyes when he did so. After that, a few other nations followed him, pure shame on their faces. Ever so slowly, the room emptied, until only half as many nations were sitting on the big table as before.
Prussias eyes widened, when he noticed the Italy-brothers and all his friends were amidst the ones who stayed. He felt his eyes go wet. "Jou guys..."
France smiled at him warmly. "Mon ami, did you really zhink we would just leave you like zhat?"
"Yeah, dude!," America grinned. "We owe ya' one, after all. Ya' know, for not believing you, when you tried to warn us and such."
"Hai.," Japan nodded. "It's exactly as America-san says."
"We won't leave you." Canada said, smiling warmly at Prussia.
"Gah! Who are you and since when are you here!" America shrieked.
"I'm Canada...and I've been here the whole time." Canada answered in a depressed voice.
Italy stood up from his chair, a determined look in his eyes. "Ve! Even if-a those Noperra guys are really creepy, I won't let-a them discourage me! I've sworn to save Germany and-a that's exactly what I will do!"
Romano just groaned and looked away, arms crossed over his chest. "If-a that dumbass stays, I have to stay to, I guess. Can't-a let him get-a hurt after all."
"I'll stay, if Roma stays!" Spain beamed, making the older Italian blush.
"So hurry up and tell us your plan already!" America said. "How're we gonna beat the "2Ps?"
Everybody turned their heads to look at him.
"2Ps?" Romano asked, frowning.
America nodded.
"Yeah. 2P. Like Player Two. Ya' know, like in those crazy-ass Multi-player games, were the characters the guest players control look almost the same as the host players character, just with slight differences? And those guys look just like us but they aren't, so-"
"All right, all right, I get it-a!" Romano interrupted in an annoyed voice. Prussia stared at America for a moment, clearly confused but then shook his head and went on.
"Right, okay. So, like I said, my plan to attack zhe...2Ps involves two operations." He turned around to the large computerscreen on the wall behind him and tipped on it a few times, making a 3D-image of Austrias mansion appear.
"As far as ve know," Prussia started. "Zhe enemy has his main base here." He tapped his finger onto the spot of the image where the cathedral was, magnifying it. "Zhat is vere all zhose Nopperra keep coming from. Zhe root of all evil is zhe portal zhe enemy has created. Zhey are currently using my little brozher to keep it open and stable. England from our dimension should also be zhere, he, too is at zhe time a prisoner of zhe 2Ps"
If he's still alive zhat is,Prussia thought for a moment, but then quickly banished those thoughts and turned around to the others again.
"If ve vant to vin zhis, our main goal has to be zhe destruction of zhe portal. For zhis to happen, ve need to cut it's connection to Germany. If it's power-cell is gone, zhe portal vill collapse in no time. But of course, zhe enemy vill expect us to do such a zhing, vich is vhy it vould be unvise to attack the cazhedral directly. Ve vill move in in two groups. A big one and a smaller one." Prussia turned to the screen and tapped on it repeatedly, creating a big group of dots.
"Group one vill attack from zhe front. Zhey vill have zhe majority of zhe troops. Zhey're going to zhrow everyzhing zhey have at zhe enemy and fight zhem vizh all zheir might. But zhat vill be merely a distraction. Who vill lead zhis group?" Prussia asked.
America raised his right hand. "I'm gonna kick' em in the nuts so hard, they'll hardly be able to fight back!" he grinned.
"I don't think they even have nuts, America-san." Japan pointed out. Prussia nodded in contentment at this answer. Then he turned to the screen again and created a smaller group of dots, moving them behind the castle.
"Vhile zhe enemy is distracted vizh group one, group two vill jump into action. I vill lead zhis group. Austria vill be in it too, since he knows zhe mansion zhe best." Austria nodded.
"I'll help as much as I can." he said in a serious tone.
"Group two vill infiltrate zhe castle secretly and make zheir vay to zhe cazhedral. Vhen ve arrive, ve vill do everyzhing in our power to save Germany and England and shut zhe portal down." Prussia looked at the persons sitting at the table. "Who else volunteers to be in my group?"
Italys hand immediately shot up and after a while, Romanos did too. Japan and Hungary followed suit, so did France. Prussia nodded, making notes on the screen. When he was finished, he took a deep breath and looked at the others once again.
"I vanted to tell jou guys how zhankful I am. If zhis is zhe end, I'm proud to have fought zhis battle vizh jou." A few nodded as if to say 'Don't thank us. It's our pleasure.'
Prussia grinned and raised his fist into the air. "Now, get jour equipment and change into some uniforms and zhen ve'll show zhis fuckers vhat happens, vhen jou mess vizh zhe vrong dimension!"
"YES, SIR!" Everyone yelled in unison, Italy being the loudest.
...Yeah, I'm really not good at writing epic scenes.^^''
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