America looked around for the voice and was startled again when it retorted.

"Don't bother looking for me now-" Suddenly the room grew whiter and the panels rippled, Alfred saw the chance to slip his hand behind one of the panels, he'd seen a passage with an arrow pointing 'GO THIS WAY!'

"- when I've only just gotten here."

Alfred turned from his position of staring down the passage, to look at a massive robot- protruding from the ceiling.

"Where am I?!"

"Oh, look at the time," A large digital clock fitted itself into the side of the wall, and had the word time in place of numbers.

", I really must be getting off to changing a toaster and a calculator into "somewhat" intelligent life."

The robot pulled up into the tiles, moving to look as if it was never there.

America took this chance to slip past the large tile and move into the passage while the tiles fitted back into place, now, it was as if the country was never there.

He glided down the labyrinth of halls, guided by large blue arrows and simple directions, picking up some of the things that might have some use later on... - well at least what he could fit into his pockets.

He slid down against the wall and looked up at the ceiling, 'ONLY 300 MORE FEET! KEEP GOING!', three-hundred more feet and that would be the number of pieces his would be in.

"Hello?"

America looked down the small passage way, wa- was that a voice?!

He jumped up and started running to the direction the voice came from, desperate for one more look at something other than brown walls or white shoes.

"Hello?! Is someone there?! Wait for me!"

His shoes clacked on the cement floor as he ran for the voice.

"Oh, oh my! HEY, SOMEONE'S ACTUALLY HERE!"

The voice yelled to what Alfred assumed were other people and he heard the clacking and stumbles of more coming around the voice.

The voices, the noises, the yelling, Alfred closed his eyes and gunned it. He ran into a bright room, and into someone's arms.

"Look, it really is a person this time!"

America looked up at the man he rushed into, apologized, and scooted off.

There were several people in the room, a young girl, the man he rushed into, a smaller man, and a tall silent man sitting in the corner of the room.

"So what's your name?" The first man asked.

"Oh, it's!... It's.. On the tip of my tongue..."

"Oh, I should've realised you wouldn't know; I mean, none of us did."

Alfred looked around the room and studied each person, memorizing their details.

The man he ran into was the tallest person on the room, his hair styled as a faux-hawk, there was an ever-present smile on his face. The young girl had a short boyish haircut for her blond hair, and had a small purple bow to make her even more cute. The smaller man had short black hair and an asian looking face, he blushed from embarrassment as he looked up to see Alfred staring at him and quickly looked at his hands in his lap. The tall man in the corner was already staring as Alfred guided his eyes over. The blue eyes of the man piercing, his short blond hair making up for the unreliable emotion on his face; for some reason, Alfred found himself fixated on his clothing choice, why, why was he wearing a lab-coat? After pulling in what he could tell he looked back to the man who was talking to him.

"Anyway, they call me Mat. Only because when we first met, my hair looked matted ( though it wasn't) like a dog's fur."

"I'm Lilith, because I really like lilies."

"My name is... Q, because Mat said I was really smart; and that the letter Q is smart."

Mat, Lilith, and Q had introduced themselves, but what about the other guy?

Lilith saw Alfred staring so she took his hand and led him over to Alfred.

"Well since you're new, why don't you try to think of a new name for him?"

Alfred looked up at the man and actually thought very hard for this. What should he name him? It needed to fit him, it absolutely had to, don't ask him why- he wouldn't know.

"How about...Ber...?"

"Ber?" Lilith sounded a little uneasy so Alfred tried to make up something quick, he looked around the rooms for help, not much; but!

"Ber- Ber.. wa- wall...d. Yeah, Berwald!"

'What the hell am I saying?! Berwald is that even a name?! Cold walls?'

The man grunted and looked to the side, Lilith saw this and smiled.

"He likes it!"