Blackout

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Sixteen

"Better not keep him waiting then." Amity said. Matthew nodded agreeing with her. He crouched down and took his mask out of his coat pocket and stuffed it into his jacket pocket.

Suddenly, everyone jumped as Prussia's phone started to ring. He quickly pulled it out of his pocket. The albino showed Matthew the contact.

"You can deal with him." Canada said seeing France's contact. He knew that's who must have been calling him earlier. "We've got to get going."

"Fine." Prussia sighed. Matthew patted Gilbert's shoulder as the ghouls went down the stairs to the street. He lingered for a minute giving the Prussian a kiss on the forehead. "Be careful." The albino said.

"I will be, as always." Matthew said with a small smile. Gilbert pulled him in for one last hug before letting him go to call Francis back.

Blackbird caught up with the ghouls as they reached the street and began the short walk to the bridge. Canada was nervous to say the least, but he was also angry. He was pissed that the Americans had the nerve to actually attack Canada. Although Matthew and Alfred didn't have the best relationship, Canada and America did. Matthew's anger and annoyance were probably the only things keeping his fear at bay.

"What's our plan?" Blair asked as they walked past the customs booths onto the bridge.

"Talk, hopefully scare them off." Matthew shrugged.

"You think the seven of us will scare off seventy soldiers?" Ash asked raising an eyebrow.

Blackbird shook his head. "Not at all, but if they do attack we should have the upper hand." He said. "We have the element of surprise and I doubt they'll have Q bullets for all our kagune."

"Famous last words right there Matt." Shayne snorted ducking under the security booths pole.

Finally, the ghouls were in view of the American troops. Canada could see them straighten up when they came into sight. Alfred immediately spotted him and stared him down. The Canadian looked down at his feet and took a breath before he met Alfred's eyes with his own annoyed glare. He had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach; he knew something was going to happen.

"Matthew." Alfred growled soon as they were in talking distance.

"Alfred." Matthew said narrowing is eyes. "What do you think you are doing?"

"I'm looking to make Canada the fifty first state and rid it of the infestation of ghouls." America said, nose in the air.

"And invading is the best way to do that?" Matthew snapped raising an eyebrow.

"I wouldn't plan on doing it any other way." The American winked with a smirk. Canada felt a shiver go down his spine, but didn't let it show. "Besides, I wanted to bring out the ghouls. It will be fun to hunt them down, but I see one has already appeared." He looked Matthew up and down. Then he glanced at the others. "And maybe six more?"

Canada narrowed his eyes at the comments. Alfred might have known now that he was a ghoul, but was unsure about the others. He didn't care that America knew about him at that point. He was focused on protecting his boarder and people.

"You can't just hunt ghouls down. They have jobs and families, they're just like humans." Matthew said. He was just trying to buy some time. He knew there was no reasoning with America.

"Pfff, yeah okay bro." Alfred said rolling his eyes. Some of his soldiers snorted at the remark. "Ghouls don't care about anything accept hunting and killing."

"That's all you're thinking about right now." Matthew pointed out. He could hear his friends shuffling and looked over to see them nodding. "Your current thought process is the same as you say a ghoul's is."

"Mines completely different because it's right." Alfred said crossing his arms. "Besides, your people will thank me once I'm done."

"How do you think it looks for Americans, unprovoked, to attack Canada only to be stopped by ghouls?" Blackbird asked raising an eyebrow and crossing his arms mimicking Alfred. "It wouldn't look to good for you 'bro.'"

"Enough talking, let's just get to it." America said waving his hand slightly and his troops rushed towards them. The American turned and started to walk back to his own land. The soldiers rushed right by the seven ghouls and ran towards the customs booths.

Matthew began to chase after them, the other ghouls right at his side. He heard the crack of rifles and knew his snipers were at work picking off the closest ones to them. Blackbird released his kagune throwing his mask on as he chased after the Americans. He noticed that the other ghouls had managed to get their masks on as well. In that moment, he couldn't care less that there could be cameras catching everything. All he could think about was protecting his land and people from this invasion.

Canada hopped into the air crystallizing his wings and shooting shards at the soldiers. They hadn't realized until then that the Canadians were chasing after them. The ones that were the closest to him collapsed, shards embedded in their backs. Ash hopped into the centre of the soldiers spinning and slashing at them with their tail. Blair was right next to them using his claws to cut through the troops. Shayne laughed jumping into the chaos with Zola hot on his tail. Zyler and Amity were sticking close together as well.

The soldiers didn't even get a single shot off before the ghouls and snipers had taken them out. Matthew and the other ghouls regrouped looking back to the American side expecting more soldiers to be heading their way, but there were none yet.

"Let's head up again." Canada said to the ghouls as his kagune disappeared. The others nodded and started to move. "They're not done yet." He sighed as they ran.

Blackbird brought up the rear just in case the Americans would try to shoot at them. As they were running, Canada finally realized the gravity of what just happened. Not only had the Americans actually attacked, but America knew he was a ghoul and he had willingly reviled himself as one too. There were so many other things he could have done in that moment, but he'd chose probably the worst one. Matthew pushed it to the back of his mind to deal with later and focused on the situation at hand.

"Let's split up." Matthew suggested. "Go in pairs and hide in different buildings. Keep in touch."

"Going back up to Gil?" Ash asked and Canada nodded.