Hetastuck Act 6
==Be Matthew Williams
You are now the country of Canada and you are still having a hard time getting your mind wrapped around the fact that a video game had just sent you to an unknown planet which is probably not even in the same universe as Earth. Not only could you not believe that, but your mind could not quite process how your Polar bear is now a weird ghost thing. For some odd reason, you feel like you know this place, though you can't imagine how you might have gotten here before… Maybe if you think hard enough, it will come to y— wait! You got it! You remember seeing this place hundreds of times in the clouds of Skaia when you were asleep! So... are you asleep right now? Are you somehow just imagining all this on Prospit? Well, you can't really see how that works but there is one way you can to find out.
It's time for a nap.
==Be Alfred F Jones
You are now the United States of America and you have just finished getting some little kid into the game you are playing. Not that you mind, you are the hero after all, and you have just saved the kid from a meteor! Now that you got that out of the way you can now go explore the new—
Wait, who is that?
Fuck no, not now.
sovietSunflower[SS] started pestering hamburgerHero[HH]-
SS: Hello.
HH: O GOD WHAT DO U WANT
HH: I DON'T WANT 2 TALK 2 U
HH: LET ME PLAY MY GAME OK
SS: So you have the game too I see.
HH: O GOD U R GOING TO B PLAYING 2
SS: Yes, I will be.
SS: I am looking forward to playing with everyone.
SS: I just thought I might let you know since you probably made the game in the first place, da? (^J^)
HH: NO I DIDN'T
HH: I HONESTLY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE I GOT IT FROM
HH: JUST GO OKAY
HH: I'M GOING TO GO EXPLORE THIS NEW PLACE I JUST ARRIVED AT
SS: A new place? That sounds exciting; maybe I will be able to make some new friends, da.
HH: WELL IF U WANT TO BEFRIEND THE IMPS I GUESS
HH: LISTEN I HAVE TO GO
HH: I WANT TO CONTINUE ADVENTURING THROUGH THIS PLACE
HH: BYE
hamburgerHero[HH]ceased pesteringsovietSunflower[SS]
hamburgerHero[HH] blocked sovietSunflower[SS]
You're glad you are done with that guy, now to go kill some imps that are apparently based off of Tony… actually, maybe later. You're feeling a little tired right now…. It's been a while since you have last slept now hasn't it? You guess you'll just progress more into the game tomorrow….
==Alfred: Dream
The moment you lay your head on your pillow you feel your eyes snap open. You don't feel like your normal self and wait— why is your bed gold? You sit up only to realize that you are definitely not in your room. You're also not on your bed, and you are not sleeping in your normal (heroic) pajamas. So where are you? You stand up from your bed and stick your head out of the window where you see hundreds of huge golden castles and churches all beneath a huge blue sky filled with huge white clouds, which wait a minute— are those even clouds? You squint your eyes to help look at them more closely through your glasses and you soon realize that there are pictures in the clouds, actual pictures, not just shapes like normal are.
The cloud you are currently looking at shows a scene which showed your newly discovered planet (which you have sadly not been able to explore yet) being cracked and torn apart, the sky looked like it was filled with smoke and as crazy as it sounds, it looks like it was in the midst of being destroyed too. The floating islands crumbled and fell through the fog, but as you look closely at one of them, you could make out two men standing in front of a body, one leaning down to examine the wounds on the fallen man while the other looked alien-like with grey skin and some sort of dark energy leaking off of him. You thought he looked sort of familiar but that was silly, he had grey skin and dark magic on him, it was impossible! But why do you feel like you know him? You wondered who the dead person was, although you couldn't tell due to the scene being changed to show a landscape which was filled with old-fashioned buildings, statues and fountains that where the color of oak and had leaves growing off the sides of them.
"America…?" You tear your eyes away from the sight at the sound of a familiar voice. Your little brother Canada was dressed in golden pajamas that look exactly like the ones you are wearing and was floating several feet away from the tower that you have just woken up in. "CANADA, WHOA YOU CAN FLY!" You exclaim as you spot your little brother floating towards your tower.
"Yeah, it is a thing that we can do here on Prospit…."
"Whoa, WE can fly here!?" You grin widely as you jump off from your tower and find yourself floating off to the side instead of just falling towards the ground due to the bitch that is called gravity. "Oh god this is SO AWESOME; take THAT STUPID BRIT! I DO HAVE SUPER POWERS... AND CAN FLY HAHAHAHA!' You exclaim as you soar off far above the golden architect below and race off feeling the wind rush against your face.
"Haha, well you do get to fly around…just only here on Prospit." Said Canada as he tried to catch up to you.
"Wait, only here?" You stop and turn around "What even is 'Prospat'?"
"Well in short, Prospit is where our conscious goes whenever we fall asleep. It is one of Skaia's moons and—"
"So we get to wake up here whenever we fall asleep? AWESOME!" You grinned "England would be so jealous, I can't wait to tell him all about this place!"
"Umm, actually he already knows." Canada corrected "He woke up just after the meeting, I saw him floating around and he probably spent the entire plane ride back to Britain here."
"Really? Dammit, how many people are there here?"
"Well, there are quite a lot… I've spent my entire life here, France has been hear for probably around a century now, that one micro-nation Sealand woke up sometime this year…. Let's see... while you were asleep in that tower, Spain, the Italies, Liechtenstein and her brother Switzerland were all asleep in their respective towers too. I'm actually pretty surprised that there aren't more people awake here, maybe there are more on Der—"
"Ciao~!" Suddenly the two of you hear the voice of a very familiar Italian man. "I didn't know the two of you also woke up on this yellow magical world too! Look Romano, I told you we were not alone!"
"You fucking idiot, you don't just go up to people flying around in golden pajamas, you stupid bastard!" Yelled another Italian voice.
"But aren't we all flying around in golden pajamas? Besides it's just America and his brother Canada!"
"Fine, do whatever the fuck you want…."
You and Canada both grinned when the two of you saw the Italian brothers, Italy and Romano.
"Hey Italy, so you and your brother are awake now? Everyone seems to be waking up now…anyway welcome to Prospit, also thank you for acknowledging me." Canada said softly to the newcomers.
"Don't mention it~!" Italy replied smiling cheerfully.
"What the fuck is Prospit?" Romano asked, "and what is with these damn clouds? Can they even be called clouds? I don't know dammit."
"Oh those, yeah what is with them? I was staring at them a while ago, and I saw two people in front of a dead body as my planet broke apart around them. Also, one of them was grey and had floating wizard magic-black stuff coming off of him; what was up with that?" You recall to the three of them. Suddenly a horrified expression comes across Canada's features.
"Well, I have learned throughout the years that I have spent here that the clouds of Prospit show important events that have happened, are happening, or will happen in various different places…. Recently, the scenes have been stranger than normal. Years ago, they would mostly show me things that would happen in upcoming wars or other world changing events that kinda made sense. Now they just show exotic fantasy worlds along with gruesome scenes from these places. Only now do I think that I am starting to understand…." Canada said quietly while everyone else tilted their heads to stare at the sky. There was a different cloud floating above them now which displayed another horrible event where a teenage girl in the same grey like skin and black magic as the other man was shown standing outside of a castle in front of three dead bodies: two were adults while the other was a boy in blue pajamas. She looked infuriated as she stood in front of a black humanoid dog with wings. She raised the wands she held in her hands, ready for a fight, but it wasn't long until the black dog stabbed her and left her to bleed to death before flying off. It wasn't until moments later that the cloud had finally floated off into the distance.
"Ve~? What was that?" Italy said weakly, grasping a white flag in his hands despite being on an alien dream planet, "what was that thing? It looks scarier than anything I've ever dealt with!" He then started cowering behind your back for protection.
"What the fuck was that thing?" Romano screeched, "I'm getting off this stupid yellow hell, come on Veneziano!" He then grabbed Italy and together they raced back to the planet's surface, leaving you and your brother to question why they hurried off because of something they had just seen in a cloud, but it was the Italian brothers so it really was no surprise.
"Do you have any idea what we just saw?" Canada asked after a moment of silence.
"Well I think that we just saw the Italian brothers run away after seeing pictures in clouds," you reply, "not surprising at all."
"No, I meant in the clouds." Canada said softly with an annoyed expression.
"Well I'm pretty sure it was of a teenage dark arts master-chick being killed by a demon dog thing in front of some dead bodies on top of a white castle on a giant checker board." You tried to remember as much as you could from it, "you said that the clouds show events that are going to happen in the future or past or even right now or something, right? So does that mean that if this is going to happen in the future, can it be prevented? If so, then maybe I can go and be the hero and save this wizard girl!" You exclaimed. Canada responded with a facepalm x2 combo.
"Well I guess, I've never really thought about it…." He then took his hands off of his face "Anyway, I guess I will be going back to bed now. Maybe I will be able to figure out what just happened if I'm awake... So good night I guess" He said, despite how bright the sky on Prospit is.
"Okay, see ya, Canada!" You shout as you watch him fly back to his tower. You should probably go to bed too, but you hesitate because you remember what you had seen in the sky before Canada found you and realize how suddenly the land you had just discovered did not seem that cool anymore. You had seen it being destroyed, and even though you are a hero, you know that no human can stop that from happening, and it did seem pretty terrifying. If what you saw was the future, then you should at least try to stop it, right? You are supposed to be the hero; you can't just sit around on this yellow dream planet while people are dying! You then decide to fly back to your shiny yellow tower.
You will never admit it, but in the back of your head, you were secretly hoping that you will never have to wake up on the Land of Sky and Islands again.
==Be Lili Zwingli
You are now The Principality of Liechtenstein and you are currently staring out of the window of your brother's golden tower on the dream Planet of Prospit. You have woken up some time ago and it is only today that you have finally found someone who is not sound asleep, high in their golden beds. But you don't go to talk to them though; you will have plenty of time to do that when you play the game with them and your brother! You are pretty excited for that, but for now you would just watch them as they fly around the unique clouds of Prospit, far above the ground.
You look down to your brother's sleeping body and whisper, "big brother, why won't you wake up?" You have spent most of this week's nights standing here, hoping to be the first person your brother sees when he wakes up, but no matter how hard you shake him he seems determined to stay asleep. You glance out the window again, the four men who have been flying around a moment ago seem to be gone now, probably to go back to sleep. You take this as a sign, and after saying a quiet good-bye to your sleeping brother, you fly out of his tower and back to your own.
==NOT ANOTHER AUTHORS NOTE GOOD LORD DON'T
PrussiaGeneticist[PG] opened memo on because she has no life—
PG: Hello Beautiful Hetalians, Homestucks and Hetastucks who decided it was a good idea to read this, kisses to you all!
PG: I have a few announcements to make, I am sorry for the short hiatus but I had a trip to Germany and I also had to focus on school work for a while. I am also sorry that this was posted on Wednesday not Tuesday as it was promised, I had computer problems. Sorry, but we now back up and running and will be updating every Tuesday :) (Hopefully)
PG: Now that that is out of the way, here are some of the real announcements.
PG: I am going to be posting character profiles that I have for this story on my profile. It is mostly for reference and it would have some blank parts in it for things that have not been revealed yet, but please check it out! I will be posting them a little while after this is put up. They would also be updated every time a new chapter is posted :)
PG: Another thing that I will be doing is this fic would soon be available to read on AO3 mostly because I have some memos planned out for later on that would become EXTREMLY hard to read if everyone is typing in black. So if you like AO3 better than fanfic, then please check out my profile. When it is up it will be linked on there. One other thing is I will probably end up changing the pic that this story has because even though I love Calmasis, he just has nothing to do with the story and I just put him there because the fic looked blank without a picture (and I am proud to be able to draw that thing).
PG: Remember to check back for updates every Tuesday!
CheshiredPsychopath[CP] responded to memo
CP: Hello fellow Hetastuck readers. If you did not already guess, I am the personal beta reader and editor of this fanfiction, as well as the co-producer. I just wanted to inform all of those who are reading, following and are probably anticipating the next act that there will be another (slightly unexpected) hiatus, as the author has been experiencing technological problems and I am incapable of updating the story as well because of schoolwork. The both of us hope to fix the problem and have a new chapter up as soon as possible. If worse comes to worst, I can attempt to post the newer acts myself. Just know that there is absolutely nothing to worry about, as we won't continue this hiatus for much longer, especially since summer break is nearing and we won't have as much work to be concerned with. I can also assure you readers that we will certainly not discontinue this story.
CP: ...At least without informing you on the matter (Apologies on the formalities, I assure you that I am less sane offline, although I am still repetitive). ;)