Side Effects of Superstrength (Hetalia)

Author: Ashynarr

Summary: So you know how, canonically, Alfred can drag around cars and swing bison like it's nothing? Yeah, the other Nations do too.

Disclaimer: Hetalia's not mine.

Warning: Hilarity and chaos involving Alfred

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"Aw man, I haven't been to one of these in ages," Alfred grinned as he spun around to take in the vista. He hadn't stepped into a genuine faire in a long time, and the cheery atmosphere was enough to release a lot of the tension he'd been feeling for the past few days.

No one else had really been available to come with him, but that was fine - he'd be able to run around without worrying he was dragging people to or away from things they might or might not want to do and thus ruining their fun.

(Seriously, nothing ruined his own fun like ruining other peoples.)

"Come right up," He heard someone call nearby, drawing his attention from the shooting gallery he'd been eying. "Test your strength here - hit the bell and win a prize!"

Alfred turned to look at the tester, seeing the woman in charge chatting to a small family who'd stopped by to check it out. She was clearly buttering up the taller of the two men in front of his husband and daughter, smiling as he handed over the cash and offering the oversized mallet in exchange.

Figuring he had nothing better to do, Alfred approached as the man lined up the strike, bringing it down on the platform with a satisfying thud of impact.

The weight barely hit the halfway mark before coming back down, the man blinking then sighing as the woman smiled sympathetically. "Would you like to try again?"

Alfred knew from long experience that many of these games were, in friendly terms made more challenging and in more honest terms rigged for failure, and generally ignored it when his people were willing to shrug it off, but the man's daughter honestly looked so disappointed that he had to do something, even if it'd be a bit cheaty on his end as well. "Hey, can I give it a shot?"

She turned to him with surprise, having missed his approach, but quickly caught up and smiled as well. "It'll be two dollars, then."

He handed over the money and picked up the mallet, testing its weight while eying the setup. The setup generally didn't change too much from faire to faire, so if he remembered last time right… well, better to be safe than sorry.

He brought the hammer down almost gently, a test to see how far it'd go with a 'normal' hit, and calculating just the effort he'd need to give it a good ring.

"Oh, I'm sorry," She shrugged as it went just over halfway. "Would you like to try again?"

"Sure," Alfred smiled, handing over another two dollars before widening his stance slightly, adjusting his shoulders, lining up and shot, and ramming it with a much more satisfying smack.

The sharp clang of the bell was music to his ears, and he couldn't hold back the grin at her gobsmacked expression even as he turned to the family who had happened to be lingering and were now staring at the scene wide eyed as well. "Hey, you want something from the stall?"

The girl blinked and looked back to him, taking all of three seconds to reach that sense of innate trust most of his people held with him before smiling and pointing to a large neon pink dog. "That one!"

Alfred turned back to the women who now seemed to be looking between the setup and the weight suspiciously with an innocent grin. "Hey, you caught that?"

"Hmm?" She asked, before realizing she'd yet to hand over the prize. Slapping on a new smile, she handed over the doll and congratulated him, staring at him as she tried to will him away so she could make sure the setup still worked right.

Not that she would find anything, but hey, he'd made a kid happy and her parents thankful, so overall today had been a great day. Now to see if he could win that plush wolf he'd spied a few stalls over - hadn't Mattie said something about Nunavut's birthday coming up?

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AN: Alfred can be a troll too, see? But to be fair, it /was/ for the kiddies, so he can be forgiven for cheating a little bit in order to win a rigged game. Also, he isn't as dumb as he acts sometimes, people, remember that too!