I have to tell you all this up front- I can't get into France's character, so he is the most Out Of Character (OOC). The reason being… well, he's not very easy to describe.
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Chapter 22 (Sealand POV)
"So, mes Amis (my friends), zis is ze plan zat I 'ave made," France spread out a sheet of paper with the layout of the prison etched in pencil. China had finished his cooking, and we were all back in the room where the Straw Hats slept. "Alfred, you run in and destroy ze door. Eif zere are any guards, Yao will defeat zem,"
China grudgingly nodded. "I am the only one who can fight without hurting them, unless you can," he asked the Straw Hats.
"Depends," Robin said. "How are you going to do it?" Come to think of it, I never saw her fight.
"I will use pressure points," China said simply. "I memorized them all,"
Robin said nothing. Her method was probably less effective, I presumed.
"So what's step two?" asked Sanji.
"Zat is as far as I 'ave planned," France said gracefully. "Quoi? A simple plan is best."
"But all that's left after that is to get them out, right?" Luffy said optimistically. "We just have to break the bars, and then we're home free!"
"All right!" Alfred shouted. "We're gonna bust Iggy and the others out!"
Later…
We gathered around the door of the tunnel that acted as a prison. We all agreed not to bring weapons, since we were apologizing, but I was sure that most of us brought something. Zoro refused to part with his white sword, so we let him bring it as long as it was hidden and he promised not to use it, and China brought the food in the wok he used to beat up the Axis. I grudgingly gave up my sniper rifle, but I had a standard-issue L9A1 handgun strapped to my leg [1]. I'm sure that Russia still had his pipe somewhere.
"Okay, everyone ready?" America asked.
"No, I-" Nami was still drinking a bottle of tea, but since when did America listen to anyone?
CRASH! America punched down the door, knocking it off its hinges and leaving an imprint that reached as deep as Germany and Spain's boot and axe when they hit it the day before. "THE HERO HAS ARRIVED!"
"Is he always like this?" asked Zoro, embarrassed by his arrogance.
"You have no idea…" China said in response.
"Even if he's not really a kid, I can't believe that he could do that…" Nami said, still impressed.
"H-hey! How the (Hades) did you get in?" a guard panicked.
Wait a minute… "Hey! You're the one who shot me last night!" I charged towards him, and tackled him in the (parts that makes boys boys). Once he was down, I held him in a full-body lock.
"H-how did you-" he managed to choke, presumably about to say 'how did you survive'. Give me a break; you'd think that he'd be glad that he didn't have a murder on his conscience. "A-are you that ghost of the kid I killed last night?"
Or that. "No, if I was, I'd be dragging you to Hell. I'm just dragging you through the dirt!" I tightened my grip on him.
"Peter! Let go of him!" Jerk-England shouted from the cell. Instinctively, I obeyed. Byproduct of living under him, I guessed. Or he just yells loudly. As soon as I let go, China swooped in and jabbed the guard lightly in certain spots. He apologized in Chinese, then English, and laid a few dishes and a bowl of rice next to him.
"Cap'n!" Robin ran towards the cell.
"Ve~ Ludwig!" Italy waved his arms happily once more. Romano stood in silence, but I knew that he was glad to see Spain.
"IGGY! MATTIE!" America tore apart the bars with his excessive strength, leaving enough room for Russia to step through. Germany went first, followed by jerk-England, then Spain, Japan, and Canada.
"Arigato," Japan said to all of us. "Sank you,"
"No problem, dude!" America said.
"Lovino!" Spain hugged him affectionately. Romano edged away slightly.
"H-hallo," Germany said to Italy. Formal as ever, I see.
"Aiyah! Have you forgotten why we are here?" China asked.
"Eh? I thought that we were rescuing them?" America said cluelessly.
"We also came here to apologize to them, remember?"
"You did?" Canada said without very many other people noticing. "I'm sorry, John!"
"'John'?" I asked.
"That's his name," jerk-England explained. "Before you came, I worked at the bookstore for a while so I got to know him. And I threatened him just now using his name, so Canada knows,"
"Canada?" Chopper asked.
"That's my name," Canada said. He took a deep breath, and let it out. "Okay, this is how it is." He explained that we were hiding our real names so that jerk-England could remember them on his own, how we knew each other (he was lying to cover up the fact that we were nations here), and that we couldn't tell them our secret until jerk-England remembers."I'm sorry I kept this from you!"
There was a long pause.
"Well, now we know," Zoro said passively.
"Well, we didn't want to really pry, anyway," Chopper said, his body not agreeing with what he was saying at all.
"You're not surprised at all?" Canada said, almost scandalized.
"Oi, in that case, what're your names?" Luffy asked.
"Well… Arthur? Which ones do you remember?"
He looked off into space for a while. "Let's see… your name is Spain, right? You're Germany, I know for sure that you're Canada, and you're America," he turned to the Italy brothers. "I can't exactly sort out what your names are. They're Italy, Romano, or Veneziano,"
"Ve~ our last name is Italy!" Italy said. I never actually thought of it that way, but if it works for them…
"I'm Romano, fratello is Veneziano," Romano explained. "But fratello is called Italy by everyone else,"
"Your name is Russia, and you are…" jerk-England paused. He had a look of pure hatred on his face, "France…"
"Ohonhonhon! So you remember, ma chérie!" France said obnoxiously.
"I'm not your bloody darling, you bloody frog!" jerk-England got his sword out of nowhere.
"You truly sink zat you can defeat me?" France and England began to duel, a strange sight when they were both wearing the uniforms they wore in WWII.
"Well, I beat you at least a dozen times!"
"Aiyah, why can't they ever stop fighting?" China said exasperatedly. He and Japan were the only two whom he did not remember, besides me. "Come on, we must apologize to the ones that were injured,"
Zoro picked up John, and we left the cave for the hospital. I think that France and England stopped fighting after a while, because they got there before us.
This was going to be very awkward…
Later…
"Well, that could have worse," Spain said optimistically.
"But it was still a bloody disaster," jerk-England muttered.
"You mean when we tried to introduce Canada to Mary so that he could say sorry, and she couldn't see him?" Ussop laughed.
"Or when it turned out that Peter shot Adam from behind so that he never saw him, and he kept on yelling at Ussop to confess?" Nami joked.
"Or how Sam refused to admit that Kiku beat him?" Zoro said. "Not all warriors have to be adults,"
"All of it," jerk-England said bitterly.
"什麼 (what)!" China roared.
"The food was good, though," I said quickly, since jerk-England wouldn't say it. The one thing that ticks China off is people insulting his food.
"But the chief was allergic, wasn't he?" asked Sanji rhetorically. "So I made him lunch,"
"Dude! He was poisoned with your peanuts!" Alfred giggled.
"Vell, at least he let us out," Germany said soberly.
"Ve~ after fratello and I made him pasta!" Italy flounced around some more.
"Don't you dare wear that in public again!" Romano was itching to choke his brother again, but if he did, then he'd get arrested. Again.
"Come on, we still have some time left, don't we?" Spain said cheerfully. "So we can have another fight!"
The fight? Oh, I had clean forgotten! "So who's next?"
"It's Chopper vs. … I forgot the box on… 'Si-yi-lan-de'." Nami pronounced the last words awkwardly.
"Si-yi-lan-de…?" I repeated. "Wait, are you talking about Sealand?"
Nami shook her head. "China told me that is was Si-yi-lan-de,"
"That's just him; it's actually called Sealand," I said. Man, it was weird using my name on my land. It was like calling someone else by my name. "Anyway, I think that you left the box on the top shelf in the meeting room,"
"Thanks," she said hastily, and ran back to the docks. Was it just me, or did she notice something when I said my name?
TO BE CONTINUED!
[1] Sealand's gun, L9A1- standard issue for the British army since WWII. Perfect for Sealand.
What got Nami so excited? Who's the next person to fight? And when will someone notice Canada?