Dawn of a New Age

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Seventeen

That night, Canada couldn't sleep again. He crawled out of bed and stretched before leaving his room. He was going to go back to his spot on top of the heating pipe, but decided to find a nice window to camp in for the night. He found it easy to navigate the ship now that he could read and had been there for quite a while.

Matthew roamed the halls for a while before finding a nice window that was low and beside a wall he could lean on. He slid down the wall and pulled his knees to his chest before looking out the window. The moon was high in the sky, shining down on the clouds casting a silver glow on almost everything. The clouds just above the wastelands had a little bit of an orange glow. There were a few terras he could see in the distance. One of them had a few homes with lights shining through the windows.

Canada sighed and rested his head on his knees. He was missing home badly at that moment. He wanted to see Kuma and sleep in his own bed. The nation didn't really mind it in the Atmos, he was starting to think of the Storm Hawks as younger siblings, but he was longing to be home. He didn't let it show during the day. He was occupied enough during the day to almost forget about it, but at night was when the homesickness got to him.

The Canadian was taken out of his thoughts by a buzz in his pocket. He quickly took out his phone to find a text from Prussia. He was a little bit disappointed that it wasn't Alfred, but opened it anyways.

"Yo! How even?" Gilbert had texted. A second later there was another. "Like wut did u do to upset the gods enough for them to drop u in another dimension?"

"Are you drunk? Also how did you know?" Matthew texted back.

"No, surprisingly. America called me." The reply came seconds later. Canada was surprised it was so quick. "So what's it like over their?"

Canada cringed at the wrong form of there, but didn't bother to correct it. "Not bad. They have FLYING MOTORCYCLEs. What could be better?"

"I saw that. Alfred sent me the photos btw. Nice pics." The Prussian replied. "Meet any new people?"

"Lots. It's pretty cool; there are some people that aren't human. Like Junko, he's a wallop, but no one seems to care that he's not human." The nation texted. "It's kinda nice that people aren't getting judged by their species."

"I wanna be there so bad. It sounds so much awesomer than here." Gilbert texted. "And keep u company of course ;)"

A small smile spread across Matthew's face. The Prussian always said small things like this that would make him happy. "It's great here, but I'm a little homesick."

"It's only been like a day and a half." Gilbert replied.

"It's been about a month for me! The time moves differently here." Canada texted back quickly.

"So...1 hour=1ish days, 1 day=24ish days, 1 month=2.5 years? 1st being earth time and 2nd being other dimension time? That's insane!" The reply came a little later than before. "Quick math and estimations, but holy crap."

"Yeah."

"That means that America's flight to England is about 16 hours, not including drive to and from the airports. That's over half a month 4 you!" Prussia texted.

"Al's going to England?" The blond replied trying to push the time difference to the back of his mind.

"Yeet. He said that he tried to explain what was happening over the phone, but of course Arthur didn't believe him. And he also kinda forgot who you were... Ass." The albino texted. "How is this working even?"

"Not surprised there tbh. You mean the texting right? I don't know. I was thinking about that earlier when Alfred called. I didn't have to wait hours to get each word from him. It was just a normal speed convo." Matthew explained. "The time on my cell is what it would be back home too and the battery hasn't died. It's still at like 60%!"

"I'm not going to bother questioning dimension time physics and shit. It works and I can text with you so I have no beef with it." Prussia replied.

"Who even uses 'beef' anymore?" Canada asked.

"Ohhhh throwing shade! You jelly at my use of beef? Of how savage and on fleek it was? Or u just salty?" The albino replied. He also sent a cry laughing emoji and a 100 under lined as well. "I'm hip and down with the new slang."

"I am so done." Canada typed with a sigh.

"Your nopeing out then? XD" Prussia replied.

"Yup. I'm going to try and sleep. It's gotta be like three in the morning." Matthew texted. He was starting to get a bit sleepy.

"Sleep is for the weak!" Prussia texted back. "Have fun tho."

Canada didn't reply instead he rested his head against his knees and closed his eyes. He started to slowly drift off to sleep.

-❄"If I get married, I don't want a flower girl. I want all my partners' exs throwing salt."❄-

In the morning, Matthew woke up with the sun in his eyes. He groaned and turned his head to try and fall asleep again. He sighed and opened them again with a frown. The nation let his knees down and stretched before grabbing his phone that had fell out of his pocket and stood up.

Canada groaned and stretched his back. That was not one of the better spots he had picked to sleep. He started off towards the kitchen. He was really craving pancakes and syrup. The Canadian passed by the hanger and saw that it was still empty. He was beginning to wonder how early it was.

Matthew walked into the kitchen to find Finn asleep on the counter with his face in a bowl of what looked like oatmeal. He laughed quietly and started to rummage through the cabinets. He found ingredients that resembled the ones he needed; flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, milk, eggs and butter. He had no idea if they would act the same way, but was too hungry to really care.

AN: Happy Easter/April Fools! Also, been posting little meme/vine mini fic things on my Tumblr ( tallpoppy-canada) and posting a bunch of aph Canada related things!