A/N: Dakota's mini-rant on Halloween mostly came from memory, backed up with Google. Sorry it's a bit short, but I updated quicker than normal!

All referenced material is being used under the fair use clause. Brooke and Dakota are our own creation.

"We have two weeks!" Brooke said, looking at the calendar. "Two weeks to Halloween!"

"You know that Halloween was originally a Celtic festival called Samhain mixed with two Roman celebrations, the Feast of Pomona who was the goddess of fruits and seeds and Parentalia which was to honor the dead, and then the name comes from the Scottish term for the event 'All-Hallows-Even'. The Christian church then tried to make it lighter by putting the next day 'All Saints' Day' for the Saints." Dakota said, looking at the newspaper.

"You just read that off the page." Brooke argued.

"No I didn't. I actually knew that off memory." Dakota replied.

"She isn't lying." England added, looking at the newspaper.

Ding~dong

"I'll get it!" Prussia yelled, stumbling as she opened the door. "Hello?"

"Delivery for Dakota Roth." the deliveryman read off.

"Dakota! It's for you!" Prussia yelled. Dakota then stumbled as she came over.

"Yes, oh sh-nap, it isn't more units?" Dakota said.

"Sorry miss, can you sign here please?" He said politely.

"Keep up being polite, you'll get a good girlfriend." Dakota said as she wrote down her name. He wheeled in the two crates.

"I'll keep that in mind. Here are the manuals, have a nice day." He waved.

"You too." Dakota looked at the manual titles after she closed the door. "Oh H-E-double hockey sticks!"

"What?" Prussia looked at the manuals. "Yay and Oh-!"

Prussia covered her mouth to keep from swearing in German.

Ludwig: User Guide and Manual

Ivan Braginski: User Guide and Manual

"Guys? We need to be careful, we have both Germany and Russia in crates." Dakota announced carefully to the table. Immediately everyone voiced their opinions.

"What?" (Spain)

"Oh dammit, it's the potato bastard!" (Romano)

"At least it's not the git." (England)

"Vee, Germany!" (Italy)

"We are so dead meat." (Brooke)

"No, aru!" (China)

"Oh non." (France)

"I'm not waking either up." (Canada)

"Order! Order! One at a time!" Prussia ordered. "We need to arrange our attack strategy!"

"We should probably get your brother out first, he'll probably won't go crazy on us." Brooke thought aloud. Everyone seated, excluding Romano who had stood up to object having Germany, agreed.

"Oui!" (France)

"Seems like a good idea aru." (China)

"Vee, sì!" (Italy)

"Oui." (Canada)

"Fine with me." (England)

"Sì!" (Spain)

"Sounds good." (Brooke)

"I don't like it." Romano objected.

"Why don't you agree Romano? I agree." Spain asked.

"Or is it on your policy that my bruder is a so-called 'potato bastard'?" Prussia asked. "If it is, then I am ignoring your un-awesome input and we will wake up my little bruder first."

Romano opened his mouth to respond, then shut his mouth.

"Good." Prussia stated sharply. "Now I'm going to go try to get him up since this manual is so not-awesome." She threw the papers down randomly on the table in her irritation at the lack of proper information about her brother, even though it would be weird to have it be correct.

"Go ahead Prussia, do your best." Dakota said. "We'll try to find a fail-proof way to get Russia awake."

She smiled and walked over to the Crate which was Germany's.

"WEST!" She half-shouted, sounding more like the regular version of the Unit. "West!"

WHAM!

"What do you want?" Germany asked.

"SH! Not so loud. Come on." Prussia dragged her brother over to the kitchen. "We all need your help trying to get the other unit, Russia, awake without killing or maiming any of us."

"Anyone able to imitate Belarus?" Germany asked, looking at the manual on the table.

Silence welcomed the question.

"Well?"

"We could rip a sound clip from Hetalia." Dakota offered.

"Go try that." Germany said. Dakota walked over to the TV.

"Better yet, we could just use the episode." Dakota said, putting in the disk. "Brooke, what episode was Belarus breaking into Russia's room?"

"I dunno."

"Thanks." Dakota muted the TV and started skipping past each episode. "Bingo!"

Dakota paused it and turned up the volume. Then she pressed play.

"Big brother?" the TV called, before being re-paused as the box started shaking.

"Go away!" the box whimpered. Dakota and Germany pulled off the box lid.

"Russia, it's okay, your sister isn't here." Dakota said, after turning off the TV.

"Ah. Thank you, comrade." Russia said, straightening up and climbing out of the crate. He noticed the other crate and Germany.

"One of the rules you need to know about this household is that there is to be no rape or molestation of all other household members. France can attest that I will punish for that offense." Dakota stated. "Now then, come meet the others."

The countries warily watched Dakota walk in with the two taller units.

"Hello, Comrade Prussia." Russia greeted.

"Stay clear and I won't stab you through with my sword." Prussia threatened.

"Prussia, I don't want to clean up Russia's blood so please do not stab him." Dakota said. "Or poison, suffocate, shoot, or any other method to kill him."

"Aw... mind reader." Prussia said, making a pouting face.

"Same goes for you, Canada and Kumajirou, against other Units as well." Dakota added. "Russia, you are also in this category."

"Why specify just those Units? Those two are also violent!" France said, pointing to England and Germany.

"I already told England not to curse anyone, and I expect Germany to keep a cool head and not try to murder anyone." Dakota replied.

"Besides, you are all technically very violent in comparison to the normal citizen in each respective country." Brooke added. "For example, Manzanar and the other Internment camps out West. Plenty of Americans are ashamed we even dared do something like that."

"Exclude all the ones that want to do the same with practically any country's citizens and family the US has ever had a disagreement with and the Israelis just because." Dakota reminded her sister.

"And people that think Florida is a separate country." Brooke grinned. "Some of them can't even come to terms about Alaska joining the Union in the '50s."

"Idiots. All of them. We should dump them in Cuba." Dakota said. "Let them run another fail attempt to drive the Communist dictator out."

"Americans still do not like communists?" Russia asked.

"No, it was a joke about letting them all commit suicide on a pointless mission that they believe strongly in." Dakota shrugged. "Most people don't get it."

"Did you know that we even have a Naval base in Cuba? We pay the lease by check, but Cuba has refused to cash them for decades." Brooke added. "I think they hate us more than we hate them."

"So in reality, it seems we got over our hate of communists as a country, but the others haven't gotten over their hate of the Salad Bowl of the World." Dakota laughed.

"Ow! Stop poking me!" Romano yelped suddenly, jumping up and away from the Spaniard.

"Aw mi tomate, why do you blame me?" Spain asked.

"Because you are sitting next to me!" Romano accused.

"He has a point, you know." England said, taking a sip of the tea China and him had prepared after Dakota had left to get Russia.

"Vee, I'm hungry!" Italy exclaimed.

"That was random, aru." China noted. "We ate not that long ago, Italy."

"There should be something in the pantry, it shouldn't be too hard to find something."

"That's what she said!" France immediately added

THUD

"And that is why you always lost wars." Prussia scowled, making sure her punch to his head made her point.

"I have not lost that many wars!" France objected from the floor.

"Name one then." Prussia crossed her arms.

"Ah, er..." France delayed. "Um..."

"I think it would have to be World Wars for the latest victory." Dakota said. "And back in Roman times for the next one."

"That's harsh!" France said. "I must of won some other war!"

"Well, most of the time you were piggy-backing on other countries, or buying yourself out of the war." Dakota said thinking. "I don't know if we can count Napoleon toward a victory, he got kicked out twice by England."

"Maybe there was a war we don't learn about during the Age of Exploration?" Brooke offered.

"I dunno. I mean, we really don't even focus on our own losses. Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, War of 1812, any other losses?" Dakota said. "Wait, no, that one wouldn't make it into a European textbook. Never mind."

"America does tend to be on the winning side aru." China noted.

"Yeah, never really thought about it that way." Brooke said.

"I wouldn't call some wars 'wins' though. The American Civil War for one. I mean with what's going on in Florida, 'n' all, I wonder if the Deep South ever got the lesson." Dakota said. "Federal Courts should be able to straighten everything out though, they haven't gotten a big thing like this in years."

"Americans still confuse me." England stated over his cup of tea.

"Well no duh, we believe everyone has a right to be different and they are free to express it." Brooke grinned and gave a thumbs up, surprisingly like one America gave at a World War II war meeting.

"I'd raise my toast to that." Dakota said, lifting up the piece of bread she was eating. Most everyone either smiled or laughed, Germany and Russia just had dumbfounded expressions on their faces.

China then went back to possessively petting his new stuffed animal dog whispering something in Chinese. Prussia had a bet that it was something along the lines of 'my precious'. So far, no one had bet against her.

A/N: The thing about American being the "Salad Bowl of the World" came from my American Lit teacher, we don't assimilate-we form little clumps.

My Hetalia manga in English confuses me. And I quote: "However, Silesia remained in Austria's clutches, and the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle."

Actual War Result: Prussia took control of Silesia, Spain received some formerly Austrian-controlled Italian territory, France had to withdraw from Netherlands to get Cape Breton Island back and return Madras in India to England along with the Barrier towns to the Dutch, and two countries Austria conquered were restored.

WARNING: This, and possibly Chapter 7, will be the last chapter(s?) posted for a while. Defiantly around Thanksgiving/December when more chapters will be posted. I might post some before then if I finish them quickly. I am NOT abandoning this story, just high school is being it's usual self and getting in the way of free-writing.