"the internet killed the video star "
[インターネットがビデオスターを殺した]
an aph facebook fanfiction
DISCLAIMER:
Don't own Hetalia. You should already be well aware of that.
I also don't own the title. I got that from the song "The Internet Killed the Video Star".
Not much else to say, except enjoy.
The spellbook riddles were just a test. This is where the real brainteasers come in. (This is also where you learn how my mind works.)
session twenty-six :: lights out [breaking behjamin]
- thursday, september 3rd
PROBLEM SOLVING:
answer :: NIKITA HAS UNTIL SEPTEMBER THIRD
conclusion :: It actually was harder to make than it is to solve. So why it takes them four days is beyond me. :)
question :: who is the hacker after now?
hint :: There are actually TWO clues. One of the clues is, obviously, the message that Thanatos leaves is one. The other clue is... well, if I TOLD you it would be far too easy, now wouldn't it? Got keep the surprise up, now don't I?
(Mobile) Chereneko Braginski: I GOT IT.
Yao Wang: What? What?
(Mobile) Arthur Kirkland: Do you have the code?
Chereneko Braginski: Yes.
(Mobile) Kiku Honda: H-How did you do it?
Chereneko Braginski: I didn't do it, Eduard did. :)
Kiku Honda: Lovely. Tell us, please, what the message is.
Chereneko Braginski: Nikita has until September Third.
Yao Wang: ... That's the MESSAGE?
Arthur Kirkland: Wait. What's the date?
Kiku Honda: September 3rd.
Chereneko Braginski: I tried to warn him, but he said that "he'd be stupid to try anything".
Yao Wang: What does he know that we don't?
Chereneko Braginski: A lot, I think...
Liane Zwingli || Nikita Arvolskaya: You're not worried?
Nikita Arvolskaya: Why should I be?
Liane Zwingli: You didn't hear?
Nikita Arvolskaya: I did. But I'm not worried. If he tries anything, all I have to do is say... 4 words? And he's as good as dead?
Liane Zwingli: Will it work?
Nikita Arvolskaya: Of course it will. Why are you so worried?
Liane Zwingli: Because... I don't want you to get hurt...
Nikita Arvolskaya: That's so... How sweet of you, to be so concerned.
Nikita Arvolskaya: Don't worry. You don't need to be.
(Mobile) Gilbert Beilschmidt || Chereneko Braginski: Are you serious.
Chereneko Braginski: I'm as serious as a hydrogen bomb.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: I thought it was as serious as a heart attack...
Chereneko Braginski: I'd take an infinite amount of heart attacks over nuclear radiation any day.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Good point.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: But really... who is this hacker person and why are they after Nikita?
Chereneko Braginski: I don't know. It might have something to do with our mother's death, but Nikita's our stepbrother. He has nothing to do with it.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Odd.
Gilbert Beilschmidt || Nikita Arvolskaya: Hey, hey, hey~ You home?
Nikita Arvolskaya: Yeah. Ivan's hanging out with Amelia, Chereneko's at a Student Government meeting...
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Braginski and Jones? Like, yeah, THAT'S believable.
Nikita Arvolskaya: Seriously.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: And the world falls apart.
Nikita Arvolskaya: Hn. Like anything's happening between them.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: I have my sources that say otherwise.
Nikita Arvolskaya: What sources? I don't believe you.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: How about Matilda Williams, who, FYI, LIVES with Amelia and therefore knows these things?
Nikita Arvolskaya: I don't even know who that is.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: How do you NOT know her? She's, like, INSANELY frickin' cute.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Oh, right, I forgot. You're Ivan-sexual.
Nikita Arvolskaya: Hn~ nothing wrong with that.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Feh. You REALLY need to get laid. And by someone who's NOT Braginski.
Nikita Arvolskaya: Whatever, whatever.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Hey, Adrian's free. ;) Or Liane. ;)
Nikita Arvolskaya: Haha. [opkloljl;';\
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Is this another code or something?
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Um... Nikita?
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Did you seriously leave? You can't leave the awesome me hanging like that!
Gilbert Beilschmidt: ... Okay, now I'm not amused.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: NIKITA. Where did you go?
Gilbert Beilschmidt: ... Nikita?
Nikita Arvolskaya || Gilbert Beilschmidt: Hello. Your precious Nikita can't come to the computer right now. Please leave a message after the tone.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: You're not Nikita, are you. Who the HELL are you?
Nikita Arvolskaya: Thank you for calling Gilbert, and good night.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: ... What did you DO?
Amelia F. Jones: Is SEVERELY freaking out over Gilbert. DX
Arthur Kirkland: Why?
Amelia F. Jones: He's all jittery and shaky when he was talking to me over the phone and he keeps stuttering and talking with numbers...
(Mobile) Yao Wang: Numbers... really?
Amelia F. Jones: Yes!
Chereneko Braginski: Tell me the numbers, Amelia, if you remember them.
Amelia F. Jones: He made me write them down, so I have them.
Amelia F. Jones: Um... he said 13, 18, 16, 18, 7, 26 then he made me stop.
Chereneko Braginski: Wait a second. 13 18 16 18 7 26. That's Nikita's name.
Yao Wang: In the code that the Hacker gave us?
Chereneko Braginski: That's it.
Chereneko Braginski: Amelia! Can you send me the rest of it?
Amelia F. Jones: Sure.
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Amelia, where's my brother?
(Mobile) Amelia F. Jones: With me. :)
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Ja... because I feel so much better hearing THAT.
[Arthur Kirkland likes this]
(Mobile) Chereneko Braginski: It's okay Ludwig, he's with me as well. He's trying to find Nikita.
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Oh... Just make sure he doesn't hurt himself.
Chereneko Braginski: ... He likes to do that whenever he's having his episodes, doesn't he?
Ludwig Beilschmidt: I don't understand why, but yes.
Chereneko Braginski: It's a standard symptom.
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Just... please, keep him safe, Chereneko.
Chereneko Braginski: Yeah. Of course I'll do that. ^^
Amelia F. Jones: Cher! He thinks he found him!
Chereneko Braginski: Where?
Amelia F. Jones: Ivan's room!
Ludwig Beilschmidt: I still don't understand how he does that either...
Chereneko Braginski: And you say your brother's not a genius. ^^
(Mobile) Ivan Braginski || Thanatos Winter: Than. It's done. I think.
Thanatos Winter: You THINK?
Ivan Braginski: I don't think I killed him though.
Thanatos Winter: UGH. GENESIS.
Ivan Braginski: Than, listen to me. I need you to send this message to Nikita's phone while they're all in there, okay?
Thanatos Winter: Only if it kills him.
Ivan Braginski: I'm not going to kill him, Thanatos.
Thanatos Winter: Why the hell not?
Ivan Braginski: Someone else is going to do that for me. And I already have my target picked out.
Thanatos Winter: Why don't you just do it yourself?
Ivan Braginski: Because I'm fitting in with her culture by being lazy. Now do as you're told, silly. :)
Thanatos Winter: 'Kay.
Thanatos Winter || (Mobile) Nikita Arvolskaya: Roses are black, lilies are white; on the 21-12-5-9-7-19 of september, 26-14-22-9-18-24-26 will disappear from sight.
(Mobile) Chereneko Braginski: We found Nikita.
[Yao Wang and 11 others like this]
Laima Lauriniatis: Ch-Chereneko... D-Don't tell me he's dead, Chereneko... please don't.
(Mobile) Amelia F. Jones: He's not dead. But the Hacker did a number on him.
Kiku Honda: How bad, Ame-chan?
Amelia F. Jones: It LOOKS like mostly surface wounds - but then there's a couple others that aren't so surface-y.
Amelia F. Jones: It might have been one of those torture/ritual type-things. Where you drag it out as long as you can to inflict as much pain as possible. Only thing is, the victim usually dies at the end so why he left him alive is a puzzle.
Chereneko Braginski: It's far more emotionally damanging to leave the person alive than to kill them.
Amelia F. Jones: Ick.
Xiang Wang: Seriously. How, like, fucking sicker can you get?
Yao Wang: Damn! Damn it, how did we make that mistake?
Arthur Kirkland: Don't beat yourself up, Yao, it's not like this could be prevented.
Yao Wang: Yes it could have!
(Mobile) Eduard von Bock: No, we're dealing with a professional. This person knows what they're doing.
Arthur Kirkland: Find anything significant?
Amelia F. Jones: More tarot cards. The Devil was pinned to the mattress with a blade.
Yao Wang: Why is it always the Devil, I wonder? It seems to be the card that Ivan and I DIDN'T dream about that one night that is the most revalent.
[Arthur Kirkland likes this]
Xiang Wang: That's what was bothering you? Yao! You could have just, SAID that.
Yao Wang: ...
(Mobile) Madara Galante: They left a knife?
Amelia F. Jones: Looks like the same one used on Nikita.
Laima Lauriniatis: U-U-Used?
Yao Wang: He LEFT the weapon AT the crime scene?
Arthur Kirkland: ... Idiot. :)
Eduard von Bock: If he left the weapon at the crime scene, we're probably not going to find anything on it.
Eduard von Bock: This entire thing was planned out, even the littlest detail. In fact, I'm sure that he wanted to leave him alive.
Laima Lauriniatis: J-Just tell me how he is... please... Amelia...
Amelia F. Jones: There's knife marks on him, mostly on his stomach, his sides, his chest. There's one on his cheek, a gash on his leg, and then on his left side... are stars. Stars with lines through them.
Amelia F. Jones: The majority of the cuts are minor, but there's one under his ribs that was bleeding like crazy. And a couple others. It's okay, though... he'll be okay.
Laima Lauriniatis: ... Okay.
Amelia F. Jones: Now don't go all emo on me, Laima!
[Eduard von Bock and 8 others like this]
Kiku Honda: Wait. What was that symbol on Nikita?
Chereneko Braginski: Stars with stripes through them.
Kiku Honda: ... Oh.
Yao Wang: Oh what?
Yao Wang || Kiku Honda: Oh what, Honda?
Kiku Honda: It... It is nothing Yao-sama.
Yao Wang: That's BS. Tell me what's wrong, Kiku.
Kiku Honda: Why should I? You never mentioned your dream to us! And we were - and still are - concerned from your safety, Yao-kun!
Yao Wang: I didn't want to worry you, or Mei, or Xiang, or Yong-Soo. I just... didn't. I thought it meant nothing.
Kiku Honda: I just have a bad feeling I already know who the target is, that is all...
Yao Wang: Just sleep and we'll deal with it in the morning, Juwan.
Kiku Honda: Alright... Oyasumi, Yao.
Yao Wang: Oyasumi, Juwan. Suu iitodoriimu. :)
Ivan Braginski || Yao Wang: Suu iitodoriimu, Wang Yao.
Ivan Braginski: ;)
special agent akane: Aloha! Welcome to the Author's Note! Today's very special guest is... Thanatos Winter! What's up with you, Than?
Thanatos Winter: Um. Nothing much... ^_^;
special agent akane: So. This arc has 6 more chapters to go. And considering that I have ALL of the chapters up to 34 written out already, that's going to be nothing. It'll fly by at super-sonic-speeds. Unfortunately, that means I don't get to spend as much quality time with THIS guy. [/hugs Thanatos]
Thanatos Winter: I might actually miss you all...
special agent akane: Well, I'll miss you. I like writing for semi-crazy characters.
Thanatos Winter: And the fully crazy?
special agent akane: I love that all the more. ;)
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