Mr. Puffin couldn't help but think how well he was gathering Intelligence. In fact, when he was able to get out of the room, he'd probably fly all the way back to Iceland and the others and tell him. Of course, there was the 'escape' part that they need to get done, and they coudln't go anywhere unless he, the great Mr. Puffin, found their way out.

But there was still no exit and the doppelgangers were still talking so he stayed put and listened in.

"We'll start with the superpowers." Dark Germany said. "Then we attack on from there. Each superpower's hatred will attack their own. Others will accompany and guard. No matter how much of an advantage we have, we can never underestimate them. Ever."

Dark Germany then spun on his heels and walked to the board that stood behind him. Pulling down a map that had been rolled up at the top of the board, Dark Germany pointed out the locations that they could target. Mr. Puffin made sure to try to remember them all but it was hard work.

Dark Germany kept on pointing to one place, stop and answer a question from the others or to take suggestions, then change his mind and go along with the suggestion (if one was made) and pick another target. Mr. Puffin wanted to shout out that Dark Germany was making things unecessarily complicated but he kept his beak shut.

"Alright, we have our targets then. Got them written down, everyone?" Dark Germany asked.

"We got them already." Dark America said in a drawling tone. "Now what's the next topic?"

Dark Germany pulled at the map and released it as it rolled back up. He made his way towards an empty seat near the front while saying, "I believe China's hatred has something to say."

Dark China stood up from his chair and took Dark Germany's place in front. "There are still a lot of countries we still need to capture. We only have a handful now, aru. And some of the hatreds are on their way with other countries. And from what I know, Germany is holding several countries at his house as 'headquarters', aru."

"I heard that too." Dark France said as the doppelgangers turned their heads to look at him. "A good number of them are there. Shall we take them?"

"Soft." Dark England interrupted Dark France. Dark France shot a cold look to Dark England but said nothing. "If it pleases you, there are four orginals at a fray above. My copies born of my magic that hath breathed life into are to entertain our guests."

"Dude, what the hell are you talking about?" Dark America asked, raising an eyebrow. "I know you like old English and crap but make it easier for us to understand."

Dark England gave Dark America a cold look similar to the one Dark France gave Dark England. "With airy breaths, I repeat that my copies animated by my magic are above on land. And, if thou wilt, continue to tame thine ignorant ear which fails to listen to my words, thou would have known my copies are addressing the situation as gentlemen."

Dark America shook his head. "Simplify it more dude."

"That was supposed to be simplified?" Dark Romano scowled. "He made it more complicated, the jerk..."

Dark England stood up abruptly and hissed, "Peace, I pray! If not for our cooperation, I warrant that thou wilt be burned and crippled by my curses."

"Forget about curses." Dark France scolded. "Repeat what you said about the four originals up on land. What are they doing with your copies? Surely you can answer that without using excessive sentences."

Dark England looked like a tomato; his face was red with anger and Mr. Puffin thought that he'd explode with rage but he didn't. Dark England snapped, "You idiots! I'm saying that America, France, Italy, and my own bloody original is on land right now fighting with my bloody copies of myself that I made with my own magic, damnit! Is it that hard to understand?"

"You can speak modern English?" Dark Denmark asked. "Why didn't you in the first place? That would make things easier, you know?"

Dark England sat back down and cleared his throat impatiently. "My good sir, 'easier' hath not my affection."

Dark America smirked and elbowed Dark South Korea, who was next to him, and said, "Am I right or what? I told you England's hatred makes thing needlessly complicated."

Before Dark England could retort back, Dark China scowled, "Aiya, can't I say anything without everyone fighting? I thought we had an agreement that there will be no silly things like this, aru." Then Dark China took a breath. "Can we settle things down and be serious? We have to consider everything in order to be successful and fighting among ourselves is one of the most stupidest reasons to be defeated."

"I second that, da-ze." Dark South Korea said.

"Of course you do." Dark North Korea muttered under his breath beside Dark South Korea but he didn't say anything else.

"Continue." Dark Germany said to Dark China.

"So England's hatred, you said that you can take care of your original, America, France, and Italy?" Dark China asked.

Dark England turned his head to glance at the doors of the room and said calmly, "If I say 'Ay', I lie. Assuming to have control o'er those four is a costly mistake. Methinks I should go and haul them in...what say you?"

Dark China nodded. "I say you will. Take someone with you."

Dark England took his gaze from the door and glanced around the room. "Anyone? If thou hast the will, come forth to me and we shall make haste to land."

"Ve...may I, England's hatred?" Dark Italy raised his hand.

Dark England looked skeptical. "Have you the will? Tell me, what motivates thee? Is it thine original?"

Dark Italy took a second to comprehend Dark England's words before he nodded. "I have been wanting to meet him face to face."

A knowing smile tugged at Dark England's lips. "T'is so? Come. Shall we make our departure?"

Mr. Puffin considered leaving with them when the door was open but he would be seen and he decided not to. Besides, he'd be missing out on a lot of information.

Dark England and Dark Italy left the room and Dark China continued. "While they're taking care of that, we'll make plans on how to find the others. The power is back on, right, aru?"

Dark Japan nodded at Dark China. "We turned it on just for this once. We can safely assume that Germany and the others back at his house will be using it to their advantage but their advantage will only last so long as we keep the power on."

"Which is only for temporarily." Dark China finished. "There is a high possibility that they're trying to locate the missing nations, aru. That will stall their attempts of capturing us. I don't believe we're in any danger, but we could never know."

Mr. Puffin felt a little nervous after that. He finally knew how careful the doppelgangers were and he wondered if they had noticed him. If they did, wouldn't they do something? Or were they waiting for him to break? Goodness, it was so confusing and he wasn't sure if they knew and were pretending not to know.

Or maybe he was getting paranoid.

"So does anyone know who is at Germany's?" asked Dark Denmark.

"Germany." the majority of the doppelgangers said at once.

Dark Canada raised his hand. "Italy's hatred and I ran into Cameroon, Sweden, and Switzerland the last time we were at Germany's place. Perhaps they're still there."

"We have Sweden here." Dark America said. "Although Cameroon and Switzerland...no one has reported back that they have those two so they might be at Germany's."

Dark China watched as the doppelgangers added in bits of information they had heard. After they had came up with an agreement, Dark China rushed to the board and began to write down the names of the countries.

"That's a handful, aru." Dark China murmured. "And there are some superpowers there too. Germany's hatred, who do you think should go?"

Dark Germany folded his arms, deep in thought. His dark red eyes flickered towards the Asian doppelgangers and said, "Is it true that all of you are very quiet and light on your toes?"

"You mean stealthy?" Dark South Korea asked. "Ha, you bet on it, da-ze."

Dark Germany glanced at Dark China. "Send them. Have them use stealth instead of attacking full on. Take one country at a time, when they're all alone."

Dark China nodded and sent a commanding look towards the other dark Asian countries present in the room. "Aiya, don't just sit there." he snapped. "Get going, aru."

"What about you?" Dark Japan asked.

"I'm staying here to help out, aru." Dark China said. "We'll be relying on you guys, alright?"

Mr. Puffin watched as Dark Japan, Dark South and North Korea, and Dark Vietnam leave the room. As they left, Dark America asked where the other Asian doppelgangers were.

"There's a whole bunch of you guys, so why only four?" he inquired.

"They're busy collecting other countries and their government and their people and stuff." Dark China said. "Apparently our originals evacuated their people to less populated areas and kept people in confinement for the time being, aru. We're having some difficulty going in and out without attracting attention but it's getting there."

Dark China went to sit down, ending his time up in front. Dark Germany rose out of his seat and asked if there was anything else they had to discuss. When no one spoke up, he said, "Dismissal."

"Mr. Puffin!" Taiwan cried when she saw the bird fly back to them.

Her cry made everyone else look up and rush to the bars without touching them. "Have you found the key?" Finland asked, seeing that the bars were still humming dangerously.

Mr. Puffin landed and panted. "Phew, that was a long flight back. I kinda forgot which hall took me where so it took me ten minutes to find you guys."

"Did you find the key?" Iceland asked his bird hastily.

Mr. Puffin shook his head. While everyone groaned, he said, "But I gathered Intelligence!"

"Well, we have no contact to headquarters, ana." Thailand said. "But it's better than nothing, ana."

Five minutes later, the countries were starting to panic. "They're going to get jumped, da-ze!" Korea whined. "And without warning, da-ze! If only I can tell Vietnam, da-ze. And is Japan there too, da-ze? If so I'd tell them, da-ze!"

"Only your siblings?" Ukraine asked.

"Well, that would make me sound like a bad person, da-ze. I'd tell all of them, da-ze."

"Say. Mr. Puffin?" Taiwan asked the bird. "You don't think you can fly all the way to Germany's and-"

"Hell no." Mr. Puffin exclaimed. "I know I need to exercise but come on, I don't want to kill myself!"

"Aiya...this is very bad." China groaned. "Okay, no more fooling around. We need to get out of here, key or no key, aru." He stood up and told Finland and Greece to move aside.

"What are you doing?" Greece asked.

China rolled his shoulders and said, "Escaping, aru." And with that, he kicked the wall of the cell. He heard a satisfying rumble of the rocks shifting a little under the force of his attack. Three or four more kicks should be able to loosen the bricks so that he could wiggle the bricks away from the wall.

Mr. Puffin frowned. He felt like he should tell China something but he couldn't remember what. "Oh well, it can't be too important." he said to himself.

China kicked the wall a few more times. As the wall started to break, China grinned and said excitedly, "Yes! We can get out in no time, aru!" And then he stopped. "What's that sound, aru?"

Silence. The countries and Mr. Puffin held their breath as they heard water. Mr. Puffin squawked. "Holy herrings, I forgot to tell you! We're underwater!"

"So now you remember?" Iceland asked irritably as water started to leak in.

"It would be sad if I heard water and still didn't." Mr. Puffin retorted, flapping his wings just to stretch them. "But it's not a big deal, right? Free water."

"If the water reaches the bars, then China, Greece, and Finland will be electrocuted by the water." Seychelles said anxiously.

"And water is a strong conductor." the Netherlands said, standing up at once.

Sweden stood up immediately and said, "Finland..."

"Aha, I'll be fine Sweden." Finland said nervously. "Um...the water isn't coming that quickly, is it?"

"Maybe I can block it." Greece suggested. China stepped to the side as the Greek took over, pressing his back against the wall, covering up the hole. The water ceased to fall but after a few moments, water ran down Greece's body and onto the floor.

"Aiya!" China cried, gripping his head with both hands. "I don't want to be electrocuted, aru!"

"Aniki, da-ze!" Korea yelled. "Don't die, da-ze!"

"I'm not trying to, aru!"

Mr. Puffin cocked his head thoughtfully. "This isn't the time to be daydreaming." Iceland scolded him harshly.

"I'm not." Mr. Puffin scoffed. He fluttered his wings and hopped down the hall. "I'm getting help. They don't want you dead anyway." And with that he took off again while Greece, China, and Finland tried to block the hole that was somehow getting bigger and bigger.