Alfred opened his eyes to the ceiling of Arthur's basement. He blinked a few times and sat up. He looked around and saw Arthur get to his feet. "Are we back?"

"Seems like it," he said.

"That was… an adventure," Alfred laughed. "I don't know what else to call it."

Arthur cracked a smile, "Maybe the word you're looking for is 'experience'?"

"Yeah, that! An experience," Alfred decided he would use that word more often.

Arthur picked a book up off of the floor. He flipped a few pages, "Now, let's see…"

Alfred looked around the room, it was a complete mess. The wind must have done all of this. Arthur would have one hell of a time cleaning it up.

"Aha! I found it!"

"What?"

"So, Alfred, would you like to see some fireworks?"

Alfred's eyes lit up, he loved fireworks. It was why he always set them off on the 4th of July. "YES. Yes, yes, yes!" He couldn't contain the bright smile on his face.

Arthur set everything up and read the incantation. A few minutes passed before anything happened. Suddenly, color exploded from the floor. It crackled and sparked in the colors of red, white, and blue. They exploded like actual fireworks. Alfred watched them in awe. He had no idea magic could do this!

"This is awesome!" Alfred laughed. The fireworks ended and left ash all over Arthur's basement.

Arthur smiled, "I'm glad you liked it."

"Dude, that was incredible! I didn't know magic was so awesome!" Alfred was beaming.

Arthur scowled at how dirty his basement was, "This is going to be hell trying to clean up."

Alfred got a brilliant idea, "Hey, I'll help you!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, man! Call it… payment for those awesome fireworks!"

"Thank you, Alfred. I mean it."

Alfred flashed him a smile, "What are heroes for?"

Author's Note:

This was really fun to write and it was the first story a posted to Fanfiction. I have other stories as well (they're all unfinished), but I thought this one was pretty good! I decided to make a happy story that wasn't too hard to write, because all the others I have ongoing have really heavy plots (character death and other horrible things). Plus, I posted this story to get some reviews on what I need to improve in my writing. I wrote this story in Google Documents and this chapter and the last one took up seventeen pages.

I have seen so many Revolutionary War fics with usuk and, personally, I despise usuk. So, I decided to make a fic with America and England just doing whatever. I wanted to make it so that the Revolutionary War was something they joke about in the modern day, because, literally no one is upset about that war anymore. England was not 'heartbroken' over it, if anything he was pissed about America trying to gain his independence. He was more like Mother Gothel during the Revolutionary War. England actually enjoys the Fourth of July, because America throws awesome parties and why wouldn't you enjoy it? He wouldn't be upset over something that happened over two hundred years ago and wasn't even that devastating to him. It was more of an embarrassment though, essentially the British were beaten by a bunch of farmers. Note: This is just an expression. Not everyone who fought in the Revolution was a farmer.

It's my headcanon that America was still very young at this point in his history. He was super short, like a kid, which he was. I bet if Alfred had told him he was friends with England in the future he would be like, "WHAT. HOW."

This chapter was very short because nothing else really happened except for the ending. When I was writing the chapter before this I didn't intend to post it to Fanfiction, but I thought it was good enough so I did. That is why the other one is so long, because I had to find a spot to end the chapter on.

I would like to thank everyone for reading my story and everyone who left a review. They are greatly appreciated. I will be posting more stories to Fanfiction when I actually get around to finishing some. I hope everyone who read this story enjoyed it. If anyone would like, they could send in some story ideas that they would like to see written.

Happy Fourth of July!