Blackout

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Twelve

AN: Had to rewrite this chapter. It might seem out of place. I keep my notes synced to my email and it got deleted, but all the other chapters were fine. -_-

Matthew sighed walking into the kitchen where Gilbert was sitting reading the paper. He looked up as soon as the blond entered. Prussia immediately noticed he looked nervous.

"Blair called." Canada said leaning against the door frame lightly scratching his arm. "He said Ash wanted to see all of us."

The albino got up and went over to Matthew. "Did they find something?"

"Wouldn't say, he just said that Ash needs to see us." Canada sighed. Prussia could tell he was stressed and put a hand on his shoulder.

"I'm coming vith jou, Liebe." Gilbert said and Matthew nodded. "Vhat time are ve supposed to be there?"

"In two hours." Canada explained. "We should leave soon though, it's going to snow."

The pair sat and watched TV for a little bit before leaving the house. The drive took longer than usual since it was snowing pretty heavily. The nations finally got to the warehouse.

The warehouse was an old abandoned storehouse that the government owned. They had never used it or had any plans to use it either. Canada's ghoul team used it as a base of operations for managing the finances as well as surveillance of problem ghouls across the country.

As they were walking up Prussia kept his hands in his pockets. He slipped with a yelp, but Matthew caught him before he fell and put him back on his feet. Canada laughed at the albino's scared expression as he set him back down. Prussia smiled and grabbed the door for him as thanks. The pair walked towards the back of the warehouse where Ash kept their computers. Ash and Blair were already there, but the other four ghouls weren't.

"Hey Matt, Gilbert." Blair greeted seeing them come in. Ash waved at them before turning back to their screen. "The others will be here soon."

They stood around chatting for a while before Amity and Zyler showed up followed by Shayne them Zola.

Shayne was a blond haired, green eyed, rinkaku ghoul. He mostly kept tabs on problem ghouls that Blair was able to stick a tracker to. Zola was a tan skin, dark haired, grey violet eyes, rinkaku ghoul that ran a funeral parlour a couple of towns over. She also was an amazing seamstress and mask maker.

"So what's the news Ash?" Zyler asked clearing his throat.

"Well, I found some info on that collar." Ash said pulling up some blueprints on their computer. "It looks to be a high voltage shock collar. It can output over 250mA AC, easily enough to kill a human or a ghoul. It can be remotely controlled too."

"Couldn't you just take it off?" Zola asked raising an eyebrow.

"Not a good idea." Ash pointed at a part of the blueprint. "If the neck band is cut or unbuckled it will shock the person. It's a simple magnet clip. If you got the drop on someone you could easily clip it on. Who ever has that remote can kill them in an instant."

"They were all ghouls at the party." Matthew said shaking his head. "The American CCG must have been involved somehow. Maybe ghouls from prison that took a deal?"

"I didn't find any info on where they came from, but I found this." Ash pulled up some more documents. Matthew skimmed over them eyes widening in surprise. "It looks like America has plans to attack Canada."

"Vell shit." Prussia cursed crossing his arms seeing the plans.

"When?" Amity asked.

"There are no dates. These could have been made years ago." Blair shrugged.

"That's the falls right?" Zyler asked looking over the map and Canada nodded. "Why there? They'd be bottlenecked easily."

"Especially when they could just walk right into Saskatchewan." Shayne pointed out.

"Can you send the plans to boarder security and a few people in the government as well as the military?" Canada asked looking them over again.

"Of course. Give me a list of names." Ash said opening notepad. "I'd recommend picking people that won't leak this stuff."

"Definitely don't want this getting out." Blackbird agreed starting to think if some names. "It's unlikely they'd make a move, but I do not want a mass panic."

"It would be stupid for them to attack." Amity said shaking her head. "It would do some irreparable damaged between the governments"

"And if America vere to attack Canada, what's stopping them from attacking another nation?" Prussia said running a hand through his hair.

"There would be a lot of problems." Shayne said shaking his head.

"Have to deal with them if they happen." Matthew shrugged with a sigh.

"That list?" Ash asked raising an eyebrow. Matthew started to list off names as Ash typed them down. "I'll send this stuff as soon as possible." They said.

"Thank you." Canada said a small slightly stressed smile on his face.

"Oh, no problem." Ash said with a smile. "I'll keep tabs on American forces movement too, just in case."

"Better to be safe than sorry." Prussia sighed. They continued to talk for a while before everyone said their goodbyes and promised to keep in touch.

-❄"Beynn."❄-

The next few weeks had been stressful and busy for Canada. There had been an unusually high amount of problem ghouls he needed to take care of and he felt like he hadn't been home in days. He was stressed and tired and wanted nothing more than to be home with Gilbert.

Matthew was sitting in parliament listening to members talk and give speeches. He yawned and rested his chin on his hand. He was scribbling notes, but he knew none of it would really make sense later. Blackbird blinked for a second and the talks were over. He must have fallen asleep.

Canada sighed and stood up stretching from his little nap before closing his books and leaving. He made his way to the truck and climbed in checking his phone. He had taken a contract that was for that night and was kind of regretting it, but he'd never go back on his word. Matthew started the truck and drove towards downtown Ottawa. It was still really cold out for late February and he didn't mind it at all. He was happy that it had stopped snowing though. He found a parking spot a few blocks over and began to walk.

AN: Did drawings of the OC ghouls if you want a visual ref. Posted them on my tumblr ( tallpoppy-canada). Should be the first post or look under the 'mine' or 'blackout' tag on blog!