DISCLAIMER: Hetalia is not mine. Only my OCs... except for Sonya and Violet. Violet belongs to Crodelia Rosencrantz and Sonya belongs to Mr. Grell Michaelis.
A/N: Gyah! I'm such a terrible person! Haven't updated LCeA yet, because of stupid Writer's Block, so I just choset o post up Vanished already! Gyah! For those of you reading LCeA, I am so sorry! Please forgive me!
On the other hand...
THIS IS THE SEQUEL TO "SCATTERED". IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THAT YET, THEN I SUGGEST YOU GO AND READ IT! Or maybe not. It could be read independently if you want... You just won't get who these people are and how stuff happens. Meaning JUST GO READ "SCATTERED" FIRST!
Ahem.
BTW, the line breaks will be changed. D: I'm sorry, but I need to keep the mood of this story, so back to the original.
Anyways, the chapters here will be longer than the chapters in "Scattered", just so you know. Anyways, that's it. Roll the film~ (I missed saying that!)
Chapter One
Roswell, NM, 5:00 A.M. - Tony's spaceship:
"Dude, this is where you keep all those transporter things?"
Tony nodded eagerly and gave America thumbs up, confirming America's belief. He wanted to show America the only room in his spaceship he never took America to. "Dude, that is so cool! You should have shown this to me before!" America excitedly babbled as he carefully fingered the buttons in the control room. He looked up only to see one of the largest screens he's ever seen in his life. "Dude…"
He saw a scale map of the world on the screen, showing where the transporters were and where they can take them to. Since it was touch screen, he touched some of the markers, showing exactly where all of the transporters are: right here in Roswell, New Mexico.
Well, that was all except one…
America only realized that one transporter wasn't in New Mexico. In fact, it was out of this dimension. He scrolled right only to see that it was in the parallel universe where, apparently, the personifications of nations were make-believe and that they were just in some anime. America scratched his head and sat down in the rolling chair, wondering how the transporter got to the city of La Puente…
"That sounds familiar," America murmured quietly, trying to recall exactly where he heard it before. Suddenly, he snapped his fingers and exclaimed, "Oh, wait! I remember that now! That was where that girl lived!" He sighed sadly as he mentioned, "But what was her name…? Hmm…"
A sudden nostalgia came about as he tried to recall the events that happened the year before.
As the girl with black hair heeded America, her eyes grew wide. "Um... you're... well... you're in La Puente in Baldwin Park. We're near Los Angeles..." she stammered, suddenly breathing heavily as if he was a celebrity.
"Are you okay?" America asked her in concern, noticing how rapidly she was breathing.
"I'm… OK. Hey, aren't you America?"
"How did you know?"
"Hello! Isn't it obvious? Hetalia is really famous here… or, at least, it was. I just discovered it, but I think the craze for it died down. Anyways, you're in it, and… yeah, I know you. I'm even a fanfiction writer!"
America raised his eyebrow at this stranger, wondering what in the world she was talking about. He just shrugged, knowing at least she won't call him crazy when he began to tell how he ended up in her "world".
"Gee Louis! You do need help." She commented once America finished. "Well, maybe you can collect your friends by plane, but here it costs a lot!"
America rolled his eyes at the girl, knowing what she meant. "Don't talk to me about it." he groaned sarcastically. "I think I'll find out a solution if I have a place to stay... um, what's your name again?"
"Selena," the girl introduced herself.
"Oh, that's right! Selena was her name…" America recalled, remembering what happened. He gave up the transporter to Selena and the Human Crew so that they can get home. Suddenly, he wondered how Selena was doing…
Slowly, he leaned forward and touched the dotted marker on the screen, making a pop-up appear and show him the location and the owners of the place. He was surprised at how mature Selena seemed now for a fourteen-year-old.
"Wow…" America whispered, leaning forward a bit more. Suddenly, the rolling chair wheeled away, making America fall and accidentally hit a random number of buttons before he hit the floor with a thud. Wincing, America got up, only to see the screen shut down. America began to panic for a moment before the screen lit back up, making America sigh in relief.
"Thank goodness Tony didn't see that," America sighed in relief, looking up at the screen. Suddenly, he realized something…
The marker for La Puente was gone!
"Dude… what happened?" America wondered aloud, knowing something very bad must have happened.
~0~
La Puente, CA, 4:00 A.M. – Selena's apartment:
Selena laid there in bed, staring blankly at the ceiling and trying her best to get some sleep. School is tomorrow… I can't miss it by sleeping in, Selena told herself, turning over and squeezing her eyes shut. Suddenly, she was disturbed by a strange buzzing noise that she never heard before.
Buzz… buzz… buzz!
What is that noise? Selena wondered, getting up out of bed and realizing that the ceiling was illuminated by a bright, turquoise light.
Turquoise… Is that the transporter?! Selena realized, hurrying over to the desk where she placed the transporter a year ago. Why is the transporter acting up now? Wondering this, Selena decided to poke the transporter to find out what's going on.
This was probably the wrong time for her to poke something.
Suddenly, the turquoise light got brighter, forming a huge ball around the area and Selena. "Whoa…" Selena gasped, hastily stepping back from the transporter. The turquoise light only intensified and soon, it started to cover Selena in its light. "Whoa!" Selena yelped. The turquoise light started to engulf her body, part by part. "Help!" Selena cried out, before she was fully engulfed by the light. She heard the buzzing noise intensify and suddenly collapsed. The light swirled around her and soon it diminished into nothingness, taking Selena with it.
Selena vanished into thin air.
~0~
Torch Junior High, 7:50 A.M.:
"Hey, Laurie," Violet greeted her friend as they both entered through the gate. After they let the campus aide check if they're uniform shirts were tucked in, they both hurried through the gate, binders and backpack intact.
"Hey, Violet," Laurie greeted quietly; surprised to see Selena wasn't already there. "You arrived later than you usually would, Violet…"
"Ah, well…" Violet chuckled, gesturing to her trombone case, "I accidentally hit Adam in the leg hard with the trombone, so I had to help my parents get Band-Aids. Then, my sister couldn't find her backpack, so I had to help her find it. Next thing after that, I realized that I left my binder in the kitchen. There you have it."
"Oh…" Laurie nodded, looking everywhere to try to spot their mutual friend. "Where's Selena? She would have arrived by now…"
"Well, she's probably going to be late," Violet sighed, knowing Selena never wants to be late. If she was, then her head would be chewed off by the principal, who always stands in the front and screams at the people who just arrived late.
"Aw, that sucks… then again, she arrives as soon as the bell rings," Laurie pointed out, remembering that's what always happens when she's late.
"True… wait, how did you know that?" Violet asked curiously, knowing Selena wasn't in her class.
"Selena tells me," Laurie told Violet, in unison with the ringing bell. Laurie picked up her binder and waved good-bye to Violet, who just picked up her trombone and began to go to class. Violet waved to Laurie, whistling as she hurried to her P.E. class. She looked over her shoulder to see if she can spot Selena rushing through the door with her French horn instrument.
She wasn't.
Maybe she'll arrive very late… or she's absent, Violet theorized mentally, shrugging it off and hurrying over to the locker rooms before the late bell rang.
~0~
9:00 A.M., Selena's apartment:
"Yes, Officer, this is just like last year… Selena was here one moment, and then she's gone in the middle of the night! Someone probably kidnapped her!"
"OK, ma'am, take it easy," Officer Johnson told Selena's worried mother on the other end. "We're going to try our best to find her, OK? We'll check in with the other police in the nation to find her."
"Thank you so much, Officer," Anna, Selena's mother, thanked the officer as she hung up the phone, tears starting to form again.
Why is her daughter missing again? Not to mention it's been a year since she went missing for three days straight!
Sighing, Anna got up and wandered over to their shared bedroom so that she can relax and watch TV. As she turned on the small TV, she figured that something was missing…
She looked down on the desk where the old computer sat on top. Usually, a cluster of little dolls and piggy banks would be around here, along with that silly little machine Selena called a transporter. However, the transporter was actually gone!
Gone…
Anna quickly scrambled out of the bedroom and dashed to the living room, not caring about leaving the TV on. She dialed the only other number she could think of that moment.
"Rick, I think something bad happened to Selena."
~0~
"Dude, check it! It's a chick!"
"Bugger, don't talk too loudly! She's going to wake up!"
"Ai yaa, you both are talking too loud! If she wakes up, she'll blame it on both of you! Plus, we can't be too loud, or else they will find that we're skipping work!"
"So we should whisper, da?"
"Ja, we have to."
"Ve… but don't we have to wake her up?"
"Hai, she can't stay asleep forever."
"Maybe I can wake her up myself…"
"Just how will you do that, France?"
"Well…"
Those voices… Selena subconsciously thought to herself as she heard these strange voices talk around her. I know them…
Selena pondered for moments, wondering where she heard them before. Suddenly, she remembered.
Hetalia…
Oh wait, what?!
Immediately, Selena's eyes flew open, revealing eight men grouped around her. She could instantly recognize them form left to right, so she did the only other thing a fangirl would do.
She pounced on Japan.
"I'm with you guys again! Oh my gosh! This is so great! I can't believe we met up!" Selena kept blabbering, not caring about where she was or that something seemed different. Japan never pushed her off…
"Um, well, what?" Japan stammered, not even attempting to push her off. America sighed in exasperation and carried Selena off of Japan, setting her down on a bunk bed.
"I mean, it's only been a year!" Selena chattered excitedly as she climbed onto the bed. "Don't you remember? You guys ended up in our world, I spotted America out the window, and we used a transporter to travel around the world, blah, blah, blah…" Selena glanced at the befuddled looks of the eight nations, wondering what was up. "You guys don't remember this?"
"What is your name, love?" England asked curiously, making Selena inwardly gasp in shock.
He doesn't remember my name?!
"I-I'm Selena, remember?" Selena stuttered, knowing that he knew her name. "You asked me that when we first met! You were the one to mention what would happen if you didn't get back to your dimension in three days! D-Don't you remember that, England?"
"Dude, how did you know his name?" America asked in surprise, shocking Selena even more.
"I-I explained that to you!" Selena ranted, standing up. "I told you that you were in an anime show that is pretty famous!"
Every nation tilted their head to the side, making Selena panic mentally. T-They don't remember me?!
"…Oh wait, I think I get it now," Japan suddenly piped up, making every nation stare at him in shock. Selena sighed in relief as he said so.
"You do? That's great!" Selena sighed in relief, smiling at Japan. "I mean, I thought you wouldn't remember me and-"
"No, actually, the thing is we don't know you," Japan informed Selena, making her sigh in exasperation.
"You don't?" Selena sighed disappointedly, slapping her forehead.
"No, we don't," Japan responded, making Selena groan and sit back down on the bed.
"Then, what do you get, Japan?" Germany asked, making Japan nod gravely.
"She is thinking about the parallel version of us," Japan explained, still making everyone else confused.
"What do you mean?" China asked curiously.
"Do you remember when the chief engineer accidentally made a portal to that universe where everyone seemed… happier?" Japan recalled, making everyone but Selena nod. "Well, she probably interacted with those versions of us, not us."
"…What?"
The nations sighed, making Selena glance at the others in panic. "What? I really don't know what's going on!" Selena panicked, sighing in exasperation. She sat down on the bunk bed tiredly, holding her head. She breathed in and looked at the nations, exhaling a little bit. "If I'm not where I think I am, then where am I?"
The nations glanced sideways at each other, as if not knowing what to tell the girl. America stood up and went over to Selena, showing the print on his shirt and looking her in the eye.
Selena's eyes widened at what the words on the shirt read.
"Welcome to Uniendis."
~0~
2nd Period, Torch Junior High:
"Hey, where's Selena?" Yvonne asked as she took out her French horn. She was second chair French horn, but she wondered where the section leader went. She knew very well that she was almost never absent.
"I don't know," Betty shrugged, taking out her French horn as well. "Maybe this is one of the few rare instances Selena is actually absent."
"Oh," Yvonne nodded, sitting down in her chair. She looked at Mr. Alm in confusion as he set up the TV on the regular channels. "Hey, Betty, do you know why he's setting up the TV? It's supposed to be a playing day today."
Betty shrugged in confusion once more, making Yvonne sigh and flip open her music book. Soon, Mr. Alm stood in front of his podium, counting slowly to three and making everyone quiet down. "Everyone, please, settle down," Mr. Alm called out, making all the chatter die down. "Now… the principal asked me to show you the news right now… and it is pretty grave… do you guys still want to see it?"
"Sure," everyone chorused, making Mr. Alm turn up the volume as the reporter began to report. Violet was shocked to see the title "Was the Transporter the Thing?"
"Around 4:00 A.M. this morning, parents Anna and Rick Mendiola discovered that their child had mysteriously gone missing," the reporter began. "However, they were surprised to find that no windows or doors were opened, and the security cameras didn't show any evidence of someone kidnapping their child. But is what the parents claim actually true? Lilly Javier is on the scene of La Puente to see what is going on."
No, wait, this can't be a coincidence! Violet mentally panicked as the scene transitioned over to another news reporter. Transporter… the parents' last names… please don't tell me Selena went missing…
"Anna Mendiola has been extra cautious around their youngest child Selena Mendiola ever since she first went to school," Lilly reported as the screen showed baby pictures of Selena, making the Band class giggle and Violet shocked.
Oh no, she did… Violet worried as the report continued on.
"She was my baby," Anna confessed to the cameraman, making the class giggle harder and Mr. Alm shut them up. "I really wanted her and her brother to be safe."
"However," the reporter continued, "all of her tries to keep Selena safe were unsuccessful after that incident a year ago. Selena and her best friend, Violet Sanchez, went missing for three days straight last year, making Anna and Violet's parents more cautious around their children."
Everyone in Band turned and stared intently at Violet, knowing that Violet was hiding something. "I-I'll explain what happened later, but you have to know that I'll be telling the honest-to-goodness truth," Violet stuttered, making everyone nod and turn back to the screen.
"Anna could not believe what her child's explanation was for disappearing after Selena returned home safely," the reporter continued on. "She told us that her daughter disappeared and traveled around the world! It almost seems impossible, going to nine countries in three days! Selena told her mother a year ago that she used a transporter! To our crew's shock, Anna even provided us with a picture of Selena posing with that transporter!"
Everyone's eyes widened as Selena was shown, giggling as she posed with the transporter. Again, everyone turned to Violet, a questioning look in their eye. "Again, later… I'll explain later, dudes," Violet stuttered, looking down at the floor with guilt.
"Just like last year, though, Selena has gone missing, and Anna easily suspected that the transporter had something to do with it. However, the police are skeptical of Anna's theory, and are continuing their search nationwide instead. However, if no trace of Selena comes up, then the police will turn to the foreign police. If you have any information about Selena's whereabouts, call the number on the screen. I'm Lisa Gutierrez," the reporter concluded, right before Mr. Alm turned off the TV. Everyone remained, surprisingly, quiet, processing the thought of Selena Mendiola, the girl who'd always show up and just focus, gone.
It seemed… strange.
They could only get one explanation.
Everyone then turned to Violet, including Mr. Alm, who was just raising an eyebrow at Violet. "Violet… Can you tell what happened to you and Selena while you guys went missing?" Mr. Alm asked slowly, making everyone intently listen to Violet.
Violet's eyes wandered over this talkative class, and sighed sadly. "All right, fine, but you have to know that I'm telling the sole truth and I'm not joking, OK?" Violet told everyone, making them nod in unison.
"OK… here's how it went…"
~0~
"U-ni-en-dis?" Selena slowly pronounced, letting the name roll off her tongue. "Um… where is that?"
"Everywhere," America answered, sitting next to her. "It's everywhere."
"…What?" Selena asked, making everyone glance at each other uneasily.
"You see… well… I'll start from how this all happened," America stammered, beginning to tell a story.
"My president was elected ten years ago, and he seemed nice at first. He had plan for all of us Americans to be able to pay back our debt to China and such. Suddenly, he declared war on China. I think it was because Japan was our ally or something, and he wanted that one island near them. Then, we actually… won. China was under American territory then."
"What?!" Selena exclaimed, glancing back and forth at China and America.
"Yeah…" America nodded sadly, patting China's shoulder awkwardly. "Anyways, this angered some countries and they declared war back on us. Suddenly, my president was drunk… on power, I mean. He thought that, since he conquered one of the most powerful countries we knew, he thought he could actually… conquer the world." America gulped nervously as he continued on. "He fought back, and soon, someone declared a cease-fire." America sighed, glancing over to Italy and shocking Selena. "Italy's boss called a cease-fire, and they scheduled for us nations to have a meeting that day, but then my president canceled it. He said that the world leaders had to meet alone."
"S-So what happened after that?" Selena asked, getting England to continue on.
"Well, after the meeting finished, I heard word from my queen… I couldn't believe what she said," England continued, sighing a little bit. "I heard them say that they will try to recreate Pangaea, only the whole world will be under control of one leader and the world will be in harmony. Now, I knew it was too good to be true, but it wasn't. I thought it was great because that would mean we're not separated and not much war would happen. I was wrong."
"You see, America then told us that if the president took over, we'd have to pay the price," France continued on, nodding sadly. "We'd have to pay higher taxes, and we'd have to work day in and day out. We wouldn't have any freedom at all to practice our own cultures. We'd have to be slaves to the Americans."
"Still, my citizens and I hated the idea," America finished off, clearing his throat a little. "We tried to rebel and tried to warn everyone else, but he soon frightened us too much."
"…How?" Selena asked quietly, making America look down on the floor guiltily.
"H-He killed half of the immigrants in the U.S.," America wavered, close to tears and shocking Selena.
That monster! Selena thought to herself, enraged at the thought. How could one man kill all those people!?
"T-That monster," Selena whispered fiercely, seething. She knew that she and a couple of her classmates were immigrants, so imagining what it would have been like was nauseating.
"Yeah, so we stopped the rebellion," America chuckled weakly, shaking his head. "Then, he suddenly came up with the idea to have us work as well. Now, everyone is under captivity of this horrible man. He's currently at war with those minor countries that he overlooked."
"I-Including Sealand," England stammered, blinking past tears for his little brother. Selena's eyes widened, tears beginning to form at the pain these nations went through.
"I-I'm so sorry…" Selena whispered softly, wondering if she should put her arm around America's shoulder for comfort. Knowing she should anyways, she slung her shoulder around him and hugged him, soothing him a little.
"T-Thanks, dude," America stuttered, patting Selena a little. "You're not bad for someone who fell out of the sky."
That made Selena jump and hit her head on the bunk bed.
"Ouch…" Selena winced, rubbing her head as it throbbed in pain. Once it went away, she got back to her statement. "I fell out of the sky?!"
"Si, you fell and you looked like you were asleep!" Italy informed her, making Selena's eyes widen again.
"D-Did I come with some strange machine?" Selena asked, wondering where the transporter was.
Germany held up the transporter, which was crushed and ripped apart by now. "Do you mean this?" he asked, making Selena's jaw drop.
"Y-Yeah… that's mine," Selena sighed, knowing she can't get home. "Well, I can never get home now. What do I do?"
"Well, you could just lay low for a while with us," Japan suggested coolly. "Besides, we haven't had someone like you for company in a long time."
"Yeah, it would be nice!" China agreed, getting everyone's consent.
Selena sighed sadly, knowing she had no other choice but to join them.
"OK…"
Someone please find me soon…
~0~
Lunchtime, Torch Junior High:
"Violet, I've been thinking," Jazz suddenly spoke up, catching Violet's attention.
"Yeah, what is it?" Violet asked, curious to know what Jazz thought.
"Well… do you remember how that stupid 'Legend of the Black Oak Tree' came true, and that stupid tree in front of our elementary school was actually some magical tree that blew off mischief?" Jazz asked, recalling the old elementary days and making Violet chuckle.
"Yeah, that was always fun whenever we had to take care of that mischief," Violet chuckled delightfully, remembering the times. "Remember when you guys all caught Dance Fever, and Selena and I had to take care of it?"
"Oh gosh, don't remind me," Jazz groaned, remembering that the fever got her to tango with her worst enemy Jake. "Remember when you tried to tell us about that talking flower?"
"Hey, it was real, OK?" Violet defended herself, crossing her heart to prove it.
"Anyways… I was thinking… what if we think of the situation like those adventures?" Jazz asked, confusing Violet a bit.
"What situation are you talking about?" Violet asked skeptically, wondering what was going on.
"I'm talking about Selena going missing!" Jazz piped up, shocking Violet. "I mean, I know that the police can handle it, but if that transporter story you told us is true, then that thing took her somewhere!"
"But still, we're not even old enough to travel around the world and try to find Selena!" Violet argued, thinking this plan was crazy.
"Well, no, I don't mean that!" Jazz pointed out indignantly. "You said that one of your friends could probably be an engineer when he grows up, right?"
"Well, yeah, that's Elias," Violet agreed, nodding a bit.
"Well, tell him to build a transporter, and we can be on our way!" Jazz exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air as if it was obvious.
"What if that doesn't work?"
"Trust me, it will!"
Violet rolled her eyes, silently considering the possibility. It would be nice to get both gangs back together…
"…All right, I'll try it."
And scene~ Wow... 4,000 words?! Told you they were longer...
Anyways, it's good to be back! Expect to see more of the Scattered crew next!
Next Chapter Summary: Selena and the alternate Hetalia characters find out about a prophecy... with a twist! Meanwhile, Violet calls on Elias to help build a transporter, which might be hard without blueprints. Plus, Jazz convinces her elementary friends to group back together for another one of their whacky adventures!
See ya next time~
-Forever