Another story! *cheers* Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia. that is why I write fanfiction. This will be the only time I write this in this story!
This is based off of those Hetalia unit fanfictions I keep on reading, but it isn't a unit fanfic!
No more. The countries were no more. Dissolved into one supernation. The concept of a nation was abstract; the idea of a personification was unbelievable.
Despite the lack of borders, all the people live a very peaceful life, not much different than life today. Adults work, kids play, and babies whine. The only difference? Almost all of it happens in a digital world.
The program is called Marukaite, and it is a digital world for you to work and live in. You can interact with other people just as it is a real environment. In fact, the only people in the Marukaite world that are not real flesh and blood are the Hetagrams. They act as normal people, but are considered objects; they can be bought and sold. There are hundreds of different Hetagrams for purchase. The problem? The countries are among them.
Viola awoke in her bare bedroom, staring at her bland ceiling. Groaning, she looked at her alarm. It was 7:00 exactly. Yawning, she walked over to her Marukaite console, a big levitating chair with one single button in the arm. Plopping down in the seat, she pressed the button and a holographic screen popped up in front of her. "Where would you like to go in Marukaite?" a robotic voice asked her.
"First my bedroom so I can get changed and greet my parents. Then transfer me to my school." She commanded, and felt her consciousness enter the machine.
When opened her eyes, she was greeted by her digital room, which was much cooler than her real room. Posters littered the walls in the same way books littered the floor. Her giant board at the back wall had pictures of her favorite Hetagrams on it. One of which was coming today. Viola squealed at the thought of her new Feliciano Hetagram coming. Her schoolgirl outfit materialized on her as she skipped down to meet her parents.
"Hi mom! Hi dad!" She gave a peck on the cheek to both of her parents as she sat down for her virtual breakfast.
"What? No hi for me?" Viola's annoying little brother piped up, chewing on a digital piece of toast.
"Hi Carter." She said without emotion. Because her parents had a thing for favoritism, Carter was getting a Alfred Hetagram today, one of the most expensive and more popular Hetagrams out there.
Mom handed her breakfast, which Viola took no time in chowing down. "Now Viola, you Hetagram will not arrive until every bit of your homework is done, so you had better finish it fast. Same goes to you Carter. And remember, we got you guys your Hetagrams for helping you around the house, NOT for goofing off. If you misuse them, we will delete them. Understood?" Mom gave Viola a stern look, like she was the one who always came home with bad marks. Besides, she had picked Feliciano for a reason. He was known to be kind, and caring, and a bit of a baby. He was a good cook, and had experience in cleaning. Although Viola was tempted to get his brother, Lovino, cause he seemed hot, Viola knew that the Lovino Hetagram was bad tempered and had a mouth. Carter, being the idiot he was, stupidly chose the Alfred Hetagram, even though he was well known for being messy, loud, obnoxious, and outright stupid.
After Mom finished fussing, Viola teleported to school, where she immediately met her friend Belle, and her Roderich Hetagram. Belle's parents were filthy rich in Marukaite, so when Belle began flunking in music, they bought a Hetagram just to help her improve in that subject. While Belle probably has about five Hetagram's, Roderich was her favorite.
"Hey V! Excited?" Belle bounced up to her and pulled her in a hug, while Roderich just gave a curt nod. "Its going to be so great once Feli gets here! Maybe you could bring him to school so Roderich could have someone to talk to! Wouldn't that be great Roddy?" She turned to the Hetagram, who thought it over. "It would be nice to have someone to converse with, but I have heard that Feli Hetagrams can be very loud and annoying. I hope yours is not to rambunctious, Miss Viola."
"I hope so to." Viola gave a nervous smile. "My mom said that if I misused him or if he didn't meet her standards than she would delete him." At the word delete, both Belle and Roderich paled. "Delete... Yesterday my mom deleted Lili because she wasn't behaving properly. She was hiding something for me, but you know how bad Lili is at keeping secrets! Mom thought she was glitching so... So Lili's gone." Belle rubbed at her eyes. Lili had been her very first Hetagram, which her parents bought for her once she hit puberty. Lili had been a person to vent to. She was almost like a sister to Belle.
"Students! Take your seats! Your teacher is feeling ill, so I will teach the class!" a Francis Hetagram spoke up from the front of the class as everyone filed to their seats. Roderich just stood next to Belle, as he was not a student.
Thanks to the Francis substitute, first period was fairly interesting as the sub got slapped several dozen times from making sexual remarks at the female population. He eventually gave up on Belle after Roderich nearly beat him to a pulp with a clarinet.
The rest of the day was uneventful. The classes were a breeze, so Viola just zoned out and thought about her new Hetagram. She was sure Feliciano and her would become great friends. He would teach her how to cook, and she could show him all the amazing places around Marukaite. They could go visit Belle's mansion and meet the families dozens of Hetagram's. She was sure Feli would get along well with all of them.
She made her way to the locker rooms for her last class, gym. As Viola was getting her clothes, she was thrown into the lockers. She whipped around to find an Ivan and Natalya Hetagram standing behind her. Their owner, Kathy, stood a little ways back, smirking. Ivan picked Viola up and shoved her against the wall. "What do you want me to do? How should I twist her?"
"Painfully." Kathy purred, and Ivan's childish grin grew cruel. "Da, this will be fun! Ufu-!" He twisted her shoulder painfully. "Big brother, leave some for me to." Natalya kept her expressionless face as she drew a knife. Viola felt the cool metal on her cheek. Natalya cut, and she bled. Viola got ready to scream, but Ivan clamped her mouth shut with his huge hand. Kathy walked up to her. "Don't you dare make a sound, you disgusting vermin. I'm just getting my well earned revenge." Her voice hissed in Viola's ear.
"You've been giving your 'revenge' ever since junior high. I think were even." Viola huffed, wincing as Ivan twisted her arm even more.
Kathy snorted. "You think were even? You humiliated me. My name is a joke all over Marukaite! My parents refuse to log on because of you! I have to support myself in this damn world!" Kathy started screaming, which wasn't smart of her. The P.E. Teacher and about a dozen security Hetagram's rushed in, guns drawn. "What's going on here?" one of the Vash Hetagrams demanded. Kathy turned away, and pointed to the two Hetagram's. "Sir, my two Hetagram's started malfunctioning. I was trying to get them to stop." Ivan's eyes widened, and he released Viola. "No! We did no such thing!" Kathy turned to him, a wild look in her eyes. She blocked her voice from the security and the teacher, and yelled at her Hetagram's. "You failed! Do you hear me! You two failed me! You deserve this, you worthless scum! You're nothing to me! Useless, stupid pawns! All I wanted you to do is to kill her! Is that so hard? One broken neck! One severed head! I've seen you do it! I saved you from that gang! You killed without reason! I gave you reason and you fail! You deserve to be deleted!" She turned away from the stunned Ivan and Natalya, and looked back to the security. "I am terribly sorry."
"Miss?" The teacher ran up to me. "Are you okay?" Viola nodded. "Ms. Peters, I am sorry, but two malfunctioning Hetagram's are dangerous. I am afraid we must delete them." The security began to drag the Hetagram's away, while Kathy just shrugged. "It is okay. I do not want them hurting anyone else." the teacher thanked her for her understanding, and left. As soon as he was gone Kathy gave her a death glare. "You wasted me two perfectly good Hetagram's. That's another thing you've done to me." She punched her in the stomach before leaving. "Bastard."
Viola decided that she had a fairly good excuse to not take gym today, so she packed up and headed home, using some Itacoins to fix up her wounds. "Mom, I'm home! They let out early! I have no homework!" She walked in and was greeted by a smiling mom. "Feliciano will be brought to your room any minute, so go upstairs and wait!" Viola squealed and gave her a peck on her cheek before teleporting herself up the stairs.
She entered to find a floating downloading bar levitating in the middle of her room. Only 23% left. That should give her enough time to tend to the wounds she couldn't heal. She walked over to her medical supplies and began wrapping her shoulder. She had jostled it when she was thanking mom. She winced as she moved once more.
"V-ve..." A moan came from behind her and Viola turned around. "Hi Feliciano! I'm glad that your finally downloaded!" She clapped her hands excitedly as Feliciano looked around at his surroundings, confused. "Ve? Where am I? Where is Germany and Japan? Do you have pasta?" He sat up, staring at his hands, wiggling them like they were foreign objects. "Ve! It feels weird to move!" He kept on wiggling until it looked like he was having a seizure.
Viola frowned. She hoped her Hetagram wasn't malfunctioning. That would be a waste of money. Walking over, she picked up the owners manual, looking for something about spasms.
"If Feliciano begins to twitch uncontrollably, feed him pasta and claim it is siesta time." Does this guy solve all of his problems with pasta and naps? Sighing, she dropped the manual. "Feliciano, do you want pasta?"
Feliciano stopped wiggling his body and jumped up, excited. "Ve! Yes! Where?"
Viola giggled. "Its downstairs, but you have to make it. Are you okay with that?" Feli nodded happily and skipped downstairs to his pasta. Viola picked the manual back up and looked through it again. They would be buying lots of pasta.
"Ve! Lithuania! What are you doing here?" Viola heard Italy say from downstairs, and she frowned. Who was Lithuania? Running down the stairs she found Feliciano talking to her Moms personal Hetagram Toris, who operated sorta like a maid around here. Toris looked at Feli, confused. "Um, Miss Viola?" He called out to Viola who was now standing at the doorway to the kitchen, "Is this you Hetagram?" She nodded, "Is he programmed to act this way?" She shrugged, and Feliciano looked confused. "Hetagram? Is that a type of pasta?" Both Toris and Viola stared at him. "V-ve? Did I say something?" He panicked.
"Miss, I will leave you to deal with your Hetagram... I hope he is not malfunctioning." Toris said with a short bow before exiting the room.
"Feliciano?" Feli looked at her and smiled. "Ve, you can call me Italy!" Viola shook her head. "Um, okay, Italy... Are you malfunctioning or something? Because if you are my parents will delete you, and I don't want that to happen." at the word delete, Feliciano/Italy panicked (again). "Deleted? It wasn't just a seista dream?"
"...What?" Viola was confused. Italy looked at her. "What is this place? W-what am I?" He stared at his hands again.
"You are in Marukaite. It's-well it's a virtual world where pretty much everyone lives."
"Everyone on earth?"
Viola paused. "Well, pretty much. Only in the most rural places people do not live there lives in the Marukaite world. And you," She glanced at Italy, "Are a Hetagram. they are the only purly virtual people living in this world. They can be purchased and programmed to do most of everything." Italy soaked that in. "So that's what they were doing, ve..."
Now it was Viola's turn to be confused. "Doing what?"
"Help me with the pasta, and we can talk while cooking."
Despite what Italy had said, he had said nothing while they were cooking. Only after they had finished eating had he begun to talk. "Ve, that was good! Now, do you have a world globe? One of Earth?" Viola nodded, and went to go retrieve a globe. Italy pulled out a marker and began writing and drawing lines all over it. "W-what are you doing? Dad's gonna be so mad!"
"Ve?" Italy looked up. "Its washable! Now look." He pointed at the globe with scribbles all over it. "These lines are borders, ve! Inside each border is a country! See, this is where you live, right?" He pointed to one place on the map, "That's America! And America can be further separated into states to! Your state would be..." He drew more scribbles, "We would be in New York! And countries can be grouped together to make land masses! You see Canada, America, and Mexico?" Viola nodded, still trying to make sense of it, "They make up north America! All these countries down here are South America, while all these tiny countries are Central America! All together they make the Americas!" Viola was beginning to get a basic grasp of it. "And over here," His finger moved across the Atlantic ocean, "This is Europe. A lot of small countries are just all Smushed up here, ve! See, this is England, and France, and this is Spain! This over here is Germany, and this is Austria, and Hungary! Ve, these are the Baltic's, and this is Belarus and Ukraine! They were once part of Russia! And this is Switzerland, and that tiny dot is Lichenstien! Poland is over there..." Italy trailed off, still pointing to different countries. He soon moved on to Asia, where Viola could only remember China, Japan, North and South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. "Ve! And that's all the countries of the world!"
"What's that one?" Viola pointed to the boot shaped country in Europe. "Oh! That's the best country out of all if them! Me and Fratello live-lived there. I guess it doesn't exist anymore, if were here in a virtual world, ve..."
"So, what do these 'countries' have to do with anything?" Viola asked, skeptical. "Oh! Well, with each country, there was a personification! This person appeared whenever a new country was being created, and lived until that country completely died. The personification acted pretty much like if their country was a human! All of there actions were reflected on there own countries history. If two personifications got in a fight, than it would reflect on history. Once there fights created wars, they would go on the battlefield and fight next to their men!"
Viola did not exactly see where he was getting at. "So...?"
"Well, one day all of these personifications went to a world meeting, but when they got there their bosses had a huge surprise. All the borders were to be dissolved and the world would be just one collective nation! The personifications no longer had any use, but they could not be killed cause they were immortal! So to preserve the nations but also to effectively immobilize them the leaders of the world reduced them to a computer code. They are probably still sleeping... But after hearing what you said I have an idea!"
"... I'm afraid to ask, but, what?"
"Marukaite's code is based off of the personifications. This world is based off of the code of Earth! And while Marukaite is based off of the worldly part of the personifications, the Hetagrams are based off of their humanly characteristics! All of the nations have probably gotten mixed up with the Hetagrams, because they look exactly like them!" Viola gasped, finally hearing what he was saying. "Y-you mean-"
"Ve, yes! That country right there is Italy! I represent the northern half, while my brother Romano represents the southern half!" Viola stared at the nation, and fainted.
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