Full Summary: After Japan uses his "Last Minute Technique", which no one can ever pinpoint the exact time of occurence, something dark and possibly dangerous is released within him. Balance is suddenly broken for an unknown reason and a war starts as the nations of the world try to correct it. The war, for some reason, also spreads to being a competition for domination of entertainment media. China has always suspected that Japan was the cause of the disturbance, and somehow gained a power that he wasn't ready for and shouldn't have gained when he did. But his suspicions are only confirmed when Japan does something crazy, unimaginable, and some might even say ridiculous: He breaks the fourth wall and calls upon anime. How will those involved in this "war" deal with this new threat of characters? And what will happen when they have to fight... Themselves?!

This isn't my first idea about someone breaking the Fourth Wall. Also check out my other one: How to Break The Fourth Wall In 10 Ways (A YGO fic).

So here's the idea behind... well, the idea. Japan is japan. Japan has anime. Japan is anime. Everyone is anime. And we all know of Japan's "Last Minute Technique", right? From the Extra Episode 3? Well the show never said when he used this technique, now did it? Or why. Well here is what happened afterward.

I used dialogue from both the sub and dub, so I hope it's all ok and good and whatever and stuffs. If you think my translation is crappy or whatever, I will happily give you the link to the vid I got it from if you want. This fanfic also includes references to and the use of several animes and anime characters in the later chapters.

This first chapter is an introduction to the actual use of the Technique. My adaption of it anyway. I do not own the scene or any of the Hetalia characters. I also don't own Melvin Ishtar or any other Yu-Gi-Oh! characters. I only own the vivid description/adaption of what happened.

I was unsure of the genre for this, so could someone help me out with this please?!

Ok here we go!

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ENJOY~!

Japan stood there, on the top of one of his mountains. He stood at the edge of the cliff, the tips of his shoes hanging just over the edge, and looked down. The only noise to be heard was the whooshing of air around him. The sky was dark and cloudy and the wind was tossing leaves around everywhere.

He was definitely in the right place. And this was definitely the right thing to do. But was it the right time? The world was in mental turmoil, and he was one of the few still at ease. He still wasn't sure about the exact outcome, but knew that it had to be good. And this was certainly the best time he could think of to do it.

Japan took a deep breath and turned around. He took about ten steps away from the edge. He angled his body to the right and closed his eyes.

The wind blew leaves around and ruffled his hair.

He sighed once more.

He began speaking. Both aloud in English and mentally in Japanese, at the same time.

If at all possible, I wished to avoid using this technique in our bout...
"I wanted to avoid last minute technique until the last minute..."

If you are now fighting at full strength, however...
"However it appears we are at the last minute..."

Then I shall have to act accordingly.
"So, last minute technique it shall be."

He lifted his left hand and put it in front of his face, fingers spread and palm facing him.

"My final ultimate move."
Final Secret Arte...

Focused his inner energy and let it flow throughout his body. He then aimed this energy at the ground in front of him.

He swept his arm across and, in English, shouted powerfully, "REVALATION OF NEGLECT!"

At the same time, and just as powerfully, he mentally shouted in his own language, "LAMENTABLE THOUGHTS!"

His voice echoed. He threw all his gathered energy at the target.

Bright yellow beams of light flashed out through the ground in front of him, then faded away after a second. A loud and deafening cracking sound was heard.

The ground in front of him suddenly cracked and the rock exploded could feel the ground he stood on shake, and felt the tremors run through the mountain. The same motion continued for several yards in a straight line in front of him.

His heart was bursting with energy, even as he continued to dispel it outwards.

The sound became so loud that it wasn't even audible anymore, even for Japan.

The ground continued to split for a few more yards, then suddenly stopped. The sound also abruptly, and it was deathly silent. Even the wind quieted. All that could be heard was the sound of Japan's harsh breathing.

Feeling slightly exhausted, Japan lowered his arm and sank to his knees. He tried to catch his breath, which felt to him like it was a mile away.

After his breathing had almost returned to normal, he stood up and walked towards the edge of the giant crack in the top of the flat-topped mountain.

He stopped, his foot a millimeter from the edge of the crack, and stared in awe at what lay before him.

He didn't know what it was. There were not enough words in the world or in any language to describe it. The only distinguishable and describable characteristics it had were that it was huge and almost completely filled the crack, it was alternating between being light and dark, had seemingly no definite shape, emitted a strange energy that seemed to seep into Japan's very core and lightly touched upon his creativity and will to fight, and looked like it wasn't even there. Japan could clearly see it, but he somehow felt like it wasn't even there. Like it didn't exist. Or shouldn't.

It cast no shadow. Which was odd for some reason. One would think that having no shadow makes sense, due to the fact that it seemed to be light and dark and also because the sun wasn't out. But Japan had the strangest feeling that it's lack of a shadow on the surface below it was odd.

Something from within the object called out to him. Hesitantly, Japan sat down on the edge of the crack, carefully lowered himself down to a small ledge below, and then found a handhold to hold on to.

He carefully leaned forward, using the handhold for support, and reached out towards the strange object. He could practically feel the energy leaping off of its "surface".

He never even considered wondering what the object did, or what was going to happen when he touched it. Not once did he think something like "What is this?" or "What happens now?"

At last, his fingers lightly touched the surface of the foreign object. A tingling feeling coursed through his arm. He closed his eyes and tried to focus on interpreting the meaning of what was happening at that exact moment.

Then his mind had a sudden moment of clarity, then a spilt second of confusion. A million thoughts and memories in his mind were registered at once. He felt a great magnitude of power flow from the object into his body. He pressed on it harder, and the flow of energy increased.

It was almost too much to handle.

He felt some of the energy leave him, but only a small portion of it that was almost unnoticeable.

He felt an explosion, both internally and physically. He felt his other arm weakening and loosing its hold on the side of the crack. His mind grew tired. It was too much to handle. No human could have ever handled it. Neither could he. But unlike an ordinary human, he realized, his mind would probably survive the ordeal and not be too overwhelmed or damaged to recover.

But he was still tired.

He didn't know if he had fallen completely yet, because he blacked out before his hand completely let go of the handhold.

Japan's hand lost contact with the broken inside of the huge crack and he fell off of the ledge.

The light and dark ebbing from the object suddenly jumped off of it in several small bursts. Only a small portion of it though. Barely a percent of each.

The bursts shot away from the nation and his land, and spread out to the rest of the world.

Everywhere around the world, televisions, computers, handheld devices, game consoles, and other various technologies all shut off for a second, then turned back on with the same screens and open programs as before, as if nothing had happened.

Hooray for Japan being an Earth Bender. JK he's not an Earth Bender, he's a ninja.
Or something.

What do you think happened? OOOOHHHHH mysterious!

Thanks for reading this and stuff!

Next chapter, we look at some of the impacts on everyone else.

But first! A preview in progress so I can make all of you totally interested:

Japan and China both stared at the crack that was floating in midair.

Japan smiled and casually walked up to the crack. "Japan!" China shouted at him. "What are you doing? What is that thing?"

From where China was standing, he could see Japan's pleased smile transform into more of a smirk. He closed his eyes. "The Wall," he said plainly.

"What wall? What are you talking about?"

Japan put a hand on the crack and concentrated.

China watched in amazement, his eyes wide, as the crack opened up and Japan seemed to call something out from it. A white shape emerged from it and floated to behind Japan.

The crack closed again, but remained visible. Japan stepped away from it.

The shape gradually took form, until China could make out the shape of a person. What was Japan up to?

He was about to ask as much, when the white faded into the features of the person. Japan turned around to look.

It was a male. He was an Egyptian looking man with blonde hair sticking up in all directions. He wore mostly black, had a glowing eye on his forehead, and held a golden rod with an eye on it that matched the one on his forehead.

He spoke in a weird and deep voice. Almost like two people were speaking at once. "Hey. You two there. Either of you want a hug?" He held up the rod towards them.

"Japan who the hell is this strange person and why does he want a hug?!" China shouted.

Japan ignored him and simply frowned. "Oops. I did not mean to call upon the Abridged version of him. But I think you get my point."

The man started glowing white again. "What the **** is going on here? What's happening to me?" China was surprised to hear an actual "bleep" sound in place of what might have been a curse word.

The man fully faded to white, then reverted back to the form it was in when it had first left the crack.

The crack opened again, and the shape flew back into it. China stared at the opening again as it closed back up.

Japan smiled at him, looking proud of himself. "He was from Yu-Gi-Oh!," he said. "One of the worst villans from it. But again, I was not looking for the abridged version. Sorry about that."

Yu-Gi-Oh... China recognized it as the name as one of Japan's animes. Something about card games...

"What do you think?" Japan asked. "Pretty neat how I can do that, huh?"

China didn't answer. He was too preoccupied by one small, but very surprising, thing that he had just noticed. And he would never tell Japan that he had seen it. Ever.

Because what he just saw, somewhere beyond the light and dark of wherever that opening led to, were a few other anime characters. And the most surprising character he saw in there... was himself.

It's only a general idea of what will happen, and not the actual text, but it will happen. And maybe I will just copy-paste it into the actual chapter it happens in. Who knows?
It's a teaser.
NOW I'VE GOT YOU HOOKED!1
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!1!11!

See you next chapter~!

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