New York City, Queens Area- 5:25 AM, September 20th, 2015

*Beep!-Beep!-Beep!-Beep!*

*Slam!*

Peter Parker woke up none-too-pleased and slipped himself out of bed. He combs his brown hair, washes his pale face, gets his lanky body dressed for school, and pours himself a bowl of cereal. He turns the TV on to check the local news.

"Today, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of WWII ending" A television announcer spoke. Peter remembers this being discussed in class.

After Pearl Harbor, the Nazis started gaining an upper hand even after the United States joined WWII, managing to hold their ground. They started conquering most of Europe, including most of the USSR, and at the rate they were conquering, people said they can possibly start taking over parts of China and the Middle East. In a desperate attempt to hold them back, the allies made plans to nuke Germany, not realizing that this was a mistake.

The Nazis foresaw the nukes, even though the plan was the result of an improptu meeting that can be made akin to elementary students keeping there heads down while lifting there thumbs in the air. Somehow, they were able to hijack the planes in mid-flight, even managing to fly one of the planes all the way to New York, which should have been impossible considering the constraints of that times technology. Weeks later, things got even worse, and perhaps stranger, as suddenly every single capital of every single state in the U.S. was nuked straight to hell. The next week after, parts of the USSR, China, and the U.K. were also nuked all at the same time. The ally's plan not only failed, but it also costed millions of lifes in Civilian causalities. It got to the point to where Japan and Italy split from the Axis powers, condemning the Nazi party's actions and declaring zero input to the decisions. What scared the allies most of all was the idea that there's a mole in their ranks.

Careful examination was placed on each member of the United Nations, along with anyone of notable power in their military and governments, wringing them dry like a wet broom. Despite this, everyone had a legitimate, air-tight reason to either not ratting the allies out, or why they couldn't. This only caused suspicions to grow between the allies, causing internal strife and distrust between them, a notable event being the USSR threatening to leave the UN and start a nuclear war with America, for being "Back-stabbing, honor-lacking hypocrites". As the turmoil got bigger and bigger, for reasons no one can explain, in 1955 the Nazi party just suddenly... vanished.

Their troops were gone from occupying all of the lands and nary a trace of their influence left. Although their whereabouts are still unknown to this day, the United Nations decided to declare the war officially over after months of looking for their whereabouts. For whatever reason, though, Japan has a hostile relationship to the U.S., with the U.S. responding in kind. About a month later, all of Hawaii was sunk to the bottom of the ocean without a trace left. Experts say that it's not necessarily connected to the events of WWII, and no one has taken responsibility or any actual proof that the Nazi's did this, but it's too much of a coincidence to some people.

Though... every time Pete thinks about WWII... he feels strange. Despite the fact that this is what is written in every history book, he feels like that wasn't what happened... or, at least, not what was supposed to happen...

"In celebration of this, the United States of America and Japan are officially starting the Unification through Youth program, a student exchange program that wishes to bond Japan and the U.S. closer together, letting go of our differences from the past. Forty-nine high schools, one from each state, have been selected to participate in the program, with forty-nine high schools from Japan participating. Each American high school will be sending two representatives of their best-and-brightest to Japan, with Japan already sending their students over this morning to announce the lucky students that will be flying to Japan!"

"Yeah right." Thought Peter. "Lucky my arachnid butt." He's heard many rumors on the internet about the local Yakuza controlling over %40 of Japan, with many of the people living in the Yakuza owned areas stricken with poverty. And even in the areas where the Yakuza has no influence, there are usually very strict moral codes that people are forced to live by, with punishments that come in with anything going so much as an inch past the line. In fairness, though...

"Peter!" Peter turns to the source of the sound to see his aunt May standing behind him, visibly annoyed, her gray hairs on end."Check the time! You're going to be late for school!"

Peter looks at his watch, gettings out of his chair. It's 6:00. Barely any time left to catch the last bus, he runs out of his aunt's apartment, leaving the TV on.

"And now we have a speech from president Dell-" Aunt May turned the TV off.

...

Peter goes outside to see that the bus is already long gone from the bus stop. "Dammit!" He's going to have to walk all the way to school, and he knows he won't make it in time. He won't hear the end of it from Mr. Conners.

"Unless..." Peter opens up his backpack and pulls out a red-and-blue costume. He's going to have to swing it. Suddenly, something urges him to look around. Straight across 100 meters from where Peter is standing is his High School. He looks to his right. Fifty meters from where his school is the ruins of what was once Manhattan. Even after 60 years, the radiation is still high amounts of radiation. What puzzles Peter the most is the fact that the U.S. government has done nothing to clean this mess up. They didn't look for survivors, they didn't try to clean the radiation. Nothing. The destruction left here is untouched. In fact, Peter has read that this is the case for all of the capitals bombed were left without any attempt to fix it. "Something tells me it's not supposed to look like that..."

"Oh, crap!" Peter stared at the ruins for over 5 minutes, and now he's going to be 5 minutes late for school. At the very least, it's an improvement from an hour and a half.

Midtown High School- 7:10 AM

After hastily changing his clothes on the school roof and running down four flights of stairs, Peter's greeted by an angry middle-aged man in a white button-down shirt, khakis, and a black tie along with a missing left arm. Mr. Curtis Conners.

"Parker! There you are! Where were you? The announcements are about to start!" He yelled angrily, his black tie flailing in the air. "You're our prized student here, you've never been tardy for anything, and yet here you are, standing right here, running late for quite possibly one of the most influential events in world history? Why are you even in this stairway! It's nowhere near the-" He pointed his stump of a left arm angrily at Peter mid-sentence, resisting the urge to kick a locker.

"Announcements?" Peter Parker asked hesitantly.

Mr. Conners put his face into the only palm he has left. "The announcement for the Unification through Youth program! We were talking about this for the past few weeks!"

Parker gulped. Not only is his school participating in the program, but there is a high chance that he is going to be one of the representatives for the program. Though he gets the strange feeling that... this isn't right.

Peter snaps back to reality and gives his teacher a nod. "Yes Mr. Conners, I'll be going to the auditorium right away." He runs to the auditorium, not giving his teacher a second look as he makes his way.

Midtown High School Auditorium- 7:15 AM

Arriving in the auditorium, the nearly filled to capacity, as every student in the school is attending. It took Peter four minutes to find a single chair that's open for seating, and it is in the middle of a row of twenty-five people. As he moves in closer and close to the seat, he's delighted to see that his high school crush, a blonde girl wearing a hair clip, jeans, and a purple blouse. Gwen Stacy is sitting right next to him. It was only until he sat down that he noticed that there is someone not as delightful sitting on the other side of him.

"Hey, Puny Parker!" Peter felt a slap on the back. He looked to his left to see a built, blond-buzz cut teen with a smirk on his face. Peter is sitting next to Flash Thompson, the local school bully. "Took you long enough to get here! What, did you not want to come today? "

"Can it Thompson," Gwen scolded at him. "People get late for buses."

Flash smirked. "Well, are you sure he didn't miss the bus on purpose? Who knows, Parker here could be a racist! Gotta keep that American pride straig-"

"Flash!" Gwen reached over Parker and slapped flash across the cheek. "How dare you accuse Peter of such wrong-doings!"

Flash rubbed his cheek. "Well, guess you just like defending your little boyfriend, huh?"

Gwen's cheeks turned red. "Oh! That's rich! You were the one who said we should've nuked Japan before nuking Germany in class, and then you said it's because their eyes wouldn't-"

"GOOD MORNING MIDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL." Boomed the principal over the speakers. In the middle of the stage stood an eighty-something-year-old man, wearing sunglasses and hair combed back. His accent is a thick Brooklyn accent. To his right were two Japanese students sitting in folding chairs- one male and one female. The male had brown messy hair and a dopey smile. He wore a red hoodie over a green polo shirt and light green khakis. In between his sneakers is a bright red backpack that looked much too small for him to wear. The girl next to him has her brown hair done in a bob cut and a more elitist smile on her face. She wore a blue jacket over a gray blouse, with white khaki shorts. She wore black sandals with fake jewels in their straps.

"I, principal Stan, would like to start the official welcome ceremony for the 'Unification through Youth' program!" The crowd let out a round of applause, however, various racial slurs can be heard in the background regarding the guests. "For many years the bond between the United States and Japan have been off on shaky grounds. A lot of times, we don't see eye-to-eye. But today, let it mark down a time where both nations set aside their grudges and unite together in the pursuit of peace and harmony!" The crowd gives off more applause, along with the frequency of racial slurs being increased two-fold. "May I present our first student to represent the bonds being sowed between nations- from Ozu Academy, please welcome: Shunpei Nara!" Principal Stan clapped his hands to start the round of applause as the boy with messy hair walked up on stage. With a smile on his face, he started his speech with words that no one could see coming.

"CHICHIN PUI PUI!" He said, giving a thumbs-up to the audience. The round of applause came to an awkward stop right after.

Flash leaned closer to Peter. "Hey Parker, I think we found an even bigger dork than you."

Not giving up his smile, Shunpei continued his speech"Do you believe in magic? Because what's going on right now... it's magic! The magic of uniting two countries, arm and arm, as brothers! CHICHIN PUI PUI!" He pointed a finger to the sky in glee, eyes closed in pure bliss.

Gwen leaned towards Peter. "You know, I don't necessarily agree with Flash, but he may be on to something."

"Gee, you think?" Peter whispered back.

"Let's get to know each other! I'm finishing up my last year at high school, and I've been selected as one of the two representative of my school because of my 'Overwhelming positivity'!"

"That's just a nice way of saying 'You're obnoxious', along with using the program as a convenient excuse to ship you off." Peter thought to himself.

Shunpei gives another thumbs up. "My overwhelming positivity comes from my desire to one day become a wizard. My desire to become a wizard comes from my favorite story as a child." Shunpei pulls out a book from his bag. It's a rectangular shape with a green background. On the cover is a childish drawing of a Grey-bearded wizard, above are words that Peter can't make out from the distance that he is at. "The Forest Wizard!" Shunpei takes a stick out of his back pocket, and then starts swinging it around in his left hand, his right hand still proudly displaying the children's book. With a final flick, Shunpei unleashed the words that will bring chaos:

"Chichin Pui Pui!" Shunpei gave a flick of the wrist, his face showing that this is a satisfying experience. "That's what the wizard would say whenever he casts a spell! Speaking of wizards, did any of you hear the rumors that there is a wizard in your city? I think his name is Mr. Strange... or Dr. Abnormal... or-"

Principal Stan cleared his throat towards Shunpei's direction, visibly trying to hold back a facial expression of annoyance.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm getting off topic! Now, onto the announcement!" Shunpei reaches into his bag and pulls out an envelope. "The lucky Midtown high school student who will be attending my school is... " Peter isn't too sure, but he thinks that the envelope is sealed with a wizard hat sticker.

Flash elbowed Peter. "Hey Parker, you ready to go to Hogwarts? I'm sure you can learn a spell to make you less of a-"

"FLASH THOMPSON!" Yelled Shunpei, his face full of glee while Flash's face is full of disappointed surprise. The entire auditorium goes into fits of both laughter and clapping, neither of them in a good Stan walks towards the podium, Shunpei stepping off, and gives a message.

The principal spoke up at the microphone. "Congratulations, Flash!" Peter couldn't tell exactly, but he's pretty sure the principal was trying to keep himself from laughing. "Will you please come on stage to say a few words?"

Flash, after giving off one of the longest sighs in the history of mankind, walked on stage, a grimace trying to pass for a smile on his face.

"Well, I guess I'm in the clear for that one." Peter thought to himself. "I hope the next person isn't as much of a loon. Though, why choose Flash of all people? Sure, he's great at Football, but we're supposed to do these based on academics, and I doubt the high school he's going to is big on football..." Flash walks on stage and attempts to give a speech. Nothing comes out of his mouth, simply left ajar, and he simply smiles, gives a thumbs up, and goes to Shunpei, shaking hand, and taking a seat. The principal walks back on stage.

"Would you look at that? Flash has no words to say. My, he's just too happy." The principal grinned with the kind of smile a 5 year old makes when he catches his older sibling taking a cookie from the cookie jar. Shunpei walks back to the podium, reaching into his backpack as he does so.

"In honor of this event," Shunpei pulls out a porcelain wizard hat from his bag. "I have a replica of Gandalf the Gray's wizard hat made out of porcelain, purchased from my school as a token of our..." Shunpei loses grip on the hat as it lands on the floor. Fortunately, a carpet was placed right where it landed (for reasons unknown) and it's all in one piece. Shunpei wipes sweat from his forehead, leaning forward to get a better view. "Well, at least it's still inta-"

Shunpei leans too far and falls down on the floor face first. Everybody in the room stops chattering. Shunpei rubs his elbow. "I think I broke something." He whispers. Fortunately, he didn't land on the wizard hat. Principal Stan ran down as fast as he could, waving at a nurse to come by. After the nurse and principal make sure Shunpei's okay, students standing by put Shunpei on a stretcher and bring him out of the auditorium. Principal Stan walks back on stage.

"That was a sad turn of events to have, however.." Stan gives a thumps up. "Let's have Shunpei's eccentricity brighten our mood and make today a great day! Chicken Bui-Bui!" Principal Stan attempts to recreate Shunpei's earlier enthusiasm, to which he was met with laughs first, and then claps.

"And now onto out next guest, from Amanogawa High School, please welcome- Miu Kazashiro!"

The girl sitting in the chair stands up and walks to the podium, having a happy yet cocky smile on her face.

She tapped the microphone and began her speech: "Hello Midtown high school!" She gives a hand sign and a cute smile to the audience. Boys start clapping for her while girls scoff from the sudden excitement from the boys. "I am so happy to be a part of the Unification through Youth program! Not just because of the history that will be made, but because I get a chance to be the queen of your high school! Just give me a month, and you'll all see what I can do " She winks to the audience. The boys start clapping more erratically, and the girls scoff harder. Some girlfriends are looking at their significant others weirdly. Miu continues with her speech "I am the captain of the cheer-leading squad, and our school is number 1 for cheer-leading in our country! If you want, I can show you a routine after the ceremony..." Boys practically cheered for her at this point, the girls giving her stink-eye. Boyfriends are getting slapped by their girlfriends. "I'm also president of the Kamen Ri-" Miu catches herself and clears her throat. "Sorry, I mean Curry Lover club!" The cheering stopped abruptly. Miu stood, dumbfounded, for a minute, and then tried to regain her composure. "It seems that none of you know this, but curry is one of the best and most exquisite foods in the world! Besides, wouldn't you like me in one of your clubs." She gives off a hand sign and a wink, causing the boys to get wild with cheers, and the girls stemming off even more jealousy, the ones with boyfriends even started showing envy towards her.

"And now, the lucky person to go to my wonderful school is..." Peter crosses his fingers...

Chofu Airport- September 27th, 8:57 AM

Peter gets out of the airport and sighs, looking around at his surroundings. The air is cold, and there was nary anybody in sight. Peter's was the poor soul who was chosen to attend Amanogawa high as part of the Unification through Youth program (He thinks Miu was hitting on him when he shook her hand). His last few days at Midtown were spent packing up and attending orientations for the program, to which he loathed because he had to take it with Flash (who had likewise feelings to the situation). The day he actually had to fly out was even worse: waking up at 2:00 AM in the morning and then taking a bus to an airport an hour and a half away, and then he had to spend three hours in customs getting the necessary forms and permissions all because of a typo within his name (Peter Porker wasn't entirely a flattering name, either), making him miss the first flight to Japan. He then had to wait two hours for the next flight, and he spent his entire time on his flight, 14 hours straight, wide awake from constant turbulence. Worst of all, his escort wasn't even here on time.

He spends the next fifteen minutes sitting down, looking around his surroundings. At the very least, it seems like he isn't living in a Yakuza controlled area, because the buildings all around Peter are of decent quality, and all of the people walking around him are healthy. He then starts counting all of the cars passing by, seeing how many will pass before he gets picked up.

One, two, three, four...

...

"Hello? Are you Pete-"

"SIXTY-NINE!" Peter woke up with a start, arching his back straight from the wall he was leaning against. He's surprised to be face-to-face with a woman. She's Japanese and in her early 30's, from the looks of it, wearing a plaid jacket and skirt "Oh, I'm sorry Ms, are you looking for someone?"

The woman, taken aback from Peter suddenly waking up, but quickly regained composure and restarted the conversation. "Yes, actually. Are you Peter Parker? The transfer student from Midtown High School?"

Peter blinks for a few moments. There's his escort. The one that was supposed to pick him up earlier. "Yes, I'm Peter Parker." He replied."What time is it?"

"It's 10:00AM." She tells him, unaware of how long he was waiting.

"10AM!" Peter yelled. "I'm sorry if I'm being rude , Ms, but why did it take you so long to get here?"

She smiled at him for a second before explaining. "Well, truth be told, we thought you were going to come tomorrow because of the flight delay. We didn't even know you were here until the other transfer student pointed you out."

"Other transfer student?" Peter looked around and saw another high school student, leaning against a black sedan. He's Hispanic with short, black hair, wearing a blue shirt and khakis. "That must be him."

"So, Peter, are these all of your bags?" The woman asked, a polite smile on her face. "Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't formally introduced myself, I'm Ms. Sonada, besides my escort duties I'll also be one of your teachers at Amanogawa." She smiles and gives her hand out to Peter.

Peter stands up straight and shakes her hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you."

After shaking hands, Sonada tells Peter: "Do you mind if I strap a luggage on top of the car?"

...

After 30 minutes of driving, Peter couldn't get himself to fall back to sleep. He couldn't think about anything or give focus to what's directly in front of him, he could only get himself to breathe while looking out into space. Peter was completely still ever since he got into the car, not a thought processing in his head. And then suddenly, as if a great epiphany reached him in his mindless stare, he looks to his right and faces the fellow transfer student. Opening his mouth, Peter let loose his great realization in his meditation: "So where are you from?"

The Hispanic boy, playing with a Gameboy, payed no attention to Peter's question at all. Peter sighed, almost as if the silence was a passive aggressive reply to his answer. "Look, it's just that, um... ya know, we're both pretty much fishes fresh off the boat here, and I think it would be good if we stick together, you know, at least get to know something about us."

The boy replied to him with more silence."You answer first." It seemed to tell Peter. Peter let out another sigh.

"I'm from Queens. New York. Now can you please tell me where you are from?"

More silence. "Alright, cool, I could care less."

Peter turns away and tries to get make an attempt to sleep.

"Arizona." Peter looks back. "Carefree, Arizona. Can you leave me alone now?"

"Carefree is right."

Ms. Sonada turns towards them. "Alright everyone, we're here! Make sure you take everything out of the car, I'm borrowing this from the school."

Peter gets out of the car and looks at the building in front of him. It's three-stories, about 20 meters long, painted white, windows all facing towards the parking lot. A row of trees are planted across the front of the building. "So this is the dorm you are staying at. We just finished building this last year. Here are your keys to your apartments, the staff will help you out. Don't worry about uniforms or figuring out where the school is, everything you need will be in the room. Please enjoy your stay, I have to leave for a faculty meeting now!" Ms. Sonada steps back into her car and drives away. Peter looks to the boy from Arizona.

"So, you need help with those bags?" Peter asked.

Peter is met with a dirty stare that tells him "Do you want my foot up your ass?", with the boy walking away with all of his bags in hand.

...

Peter enters his dorm room and throws his bags down on the ground. It's small yet comfortable, with all the bare essentials of living needed. On his bed is a small map of the area surrounding the next 5 miles of the building with directions to Amanogawa, and a neatly folded blue school uniform with a red pinstriped-tie on top.

"At least the uniforms don't look bad." Peter thought to himself, hanging the uniform in a closet.

He puts the map away in a drawer and throws himself onto the bed. "Tomorrow's the first day of school here in Japan. Miu was obnoxious, but she seemed like a genuinely nice person. Maybe I'll enjoy it here..."

Amanogawa High School- 7:45 AM

Gentarou Kisaragi is incredibly excited for today. He makes sure his pompadour is gelled well enough and straightens out his black jacket. "NEW-STUDENT TIME!" He yelled, crouching and throwing his arms up in the air while passionately yelling. He's part of the welcoming committee for the new students coming in for the "Unification through Youth" Program, and it would be the first time he makes an international friend. He faced towards a brown-haired boy's direction.

"Kengo!" Gentarou yelled. "Are the banners ready?" The boy sighed.

"Gentarou, you know I didn't want to be part of the welcoming committee." Kengo straightens out his tie. "Besides, you had Yuki and Tomoko assigned, remember?"

Gentarou looks at his chest in embarrassment. "O-oh.. that's right... you prepared the welcome speech, right!"

"JK was assigned to that."

"Ugh... what were you supposed to do then?"

"Nothing. I didn't want to be part of the welcoming committee, remember?"

"Ugh, being the leader is very hard... I wish Miu is here... Shun could've done some heavy lifting also... Ah!" Gentarou noticed a brown-haired boy that isn't Japanese walking into the campus. "That must be the first one! Oh, if only everyone else is here... NEW-STUDENT TIME!" He crouched and threw his arms up in the air again, and then ran to the new student.

"Hello, and welcome to Amanogawa High School, I'm Gentarou Kisaragi..." Gentarou bumped his right fist into his chest twice, and then pointed towards him. "And we're gonna be great friends. You must be..." Gentarou forgot to memorize the names given to them. "Uh... Parker! Harry Parker, right!"

Peter let out a sigh. "Well, this is going to be a different experience."

And that's Chapter 1, folks! Sorry if there isn't as much action as you expected, I wanted to use this chapter to give the history of the new world created through the merger. Though, I will let you guys know that there is going to be a fight in the next chapter.

As always, Rate and Review so I can attempt to better myself!

Stay Frosty!

~Supeed