Hetastuck: Prologue

== Be Kiku Honda

You are now the country of Japan. Another World Meeting has been announced, but you are uninterested of the concerns of the countries that are anything other than your allies.

Germany is giving a lecture about the use of coal, and America is constantly mentioning that it's easier to make use of gasoline or oil instead. This resulted in a scolding by England as he knew his recklessness would end in explosions and possibly destroy half of his country.

Greece was sleeping, so you wouldn't be able to start a conversation with him; Italy is going on about pasta to Romano who doesn't seem interested. Instead he's glaring daggers at Spain who was having an unsuccessful conversation about tomatoes with Prussia. Turkey was halfway across the room talking to a few other countries, the Baltics are mumbling quietly to each other under Russia and Belarus' supervision.

You weren't sure if France was staring at England or Canada, as they were sitting next to each other. You didn't want to even comprehend the dirty thoughts that may be swirling around in the Frenchman's head. You knew it had to be something bad in someone else's point of view, because his gaze didn't falter and soon he began to drool.

China seemed to be busy with Korea and Taiwan, so you had no one to talk to, really.

Although you didn't mind, you'd just discovered a new game that consisted mostly of English. You asked America if he might've produced the game, but not even the cover seemed to be familiar in his eyes.

The game seemed to be called Sburb, and you're not exactly sure where it came from, or if there's more than one copy. Maybe one of the countries wanted you to test such a game? You were, after all, such a man for the job. But there weren't many countries that were fluent in English, so that gave off a very limited list of people it might've come from.

The meeting ended faster than you expected, and as all the countries were dismissed, England approached you in a casual gentlemanly state. Even though he seemed that way, you could see through his facade, he was troubled, possibly confused about something.

You weren't like America; you could sense the atmosphere between you two although it's very questionable.

"Hey, Japan, have you ever seen any of these before?" He took out a cover that was exactly like yours. It was the same house printing, a perfectly white background, and large green letters that spelled "Sburb Beta".

You were shocked that he had one too. Apparently there was more than one copy, and they were being sent to the most unexpected countries. Your shocked must've been noticeable, because you hear England's voice ask "So you have seen one before, am I correct?" You merely nod and ask politely if you can examine the case, and he gladly obliges.

You look very carefully around each block of text, the faint limited amount of colors printed upon the back; the very feeling of the plastic seems exact. You divert your attention from the case as the British man says "I'd found this in my mail earlier this morning, I asked if it was from America and he said he'd never seen it before. I just assumed that if it wasn't from the bloody American then maybe it was from you." It seemed like he was in the exact situation as you. A strange video game from an unknown country appearing on your doorstep, unsure what to do with it or what may be inside...

You decide that once you return to your house, you will engage interaction with the strange game.

==Japan: Hurry up and get home so you could begin this Game

You tried to return home as quickly as you could so you could try to at least get started in this strange game, but seeing as you live in Japan (since you are the personification of the nation) and the world meeting was held in America, it took you about 12 hours to fly home. Not to mention how incredibly tired you felt. You were getting too old to be flying around all the time, but as the representation of the country it is one of your responsibilities to attend these meetings. But regardless of how you felt, you still wanted to try out this strange game, maybe a few minutes wouldn't hurt.

You reluctantly take the disk out of its plastic casing, and place it caringly into the slot on your computer. You personally have no idea if it has a virus in it or not that may destroy your computer, so you take caution. The compartment that holds the disk returns to its position in the computer, and the entire device starts to vibrate. On the screen you see the game's title in bold, neon green letters.

Your name is Kiku Honda and you have just installed Sburb.

What you didn't understand was that this was going to be the worst possible mistake you have ever made in your life.