Author's Note- Hey everyone, was brought on by a request. RenLen123 mentioned a game that I should highlight and there description reminded me of a real life situation.
Disclaimer- I do not own Hetalia…or Apple…or Pacman. Also, do not try this at home. You will most likely get in trouble for it.
Pacman
It had been a snowy morning in the nation's capital, which meant things got to a late start. America was okay with that. He wasn't particularly a morning person, so he enjoyed being one of the only people in the office for a while. That morning he chugged though two pots of coffee and worked through a stack of paperwork that had been sitting on his desk since before Christmas. Feeling very pleased with himself, America was about to head out of a late lunch at the cafeteria when there was a loud rap at his door.
"Come in." America said, straightening the forms on his desk. He expected one of the building mail runners, but a black suited official walked in instead.
"Sir, we have a situation." The man said grimly and the nation knew that he must be a member of the Secret Service. Generally Secret Service visits meant trouble.
"Okay." America replied, not exactly sure what else to say.
"It involves a number of individuals for whom you are legal guardian for have lead to a disturbance at the Library of Congress. They are currently in custody of the library's security staff."
It took a conscious effort for the nation not to swear. "Do we know what the problem was?"
"They did not specify over the phone, but they did request your presence at the Library as soon as possible."
"Well," America ran through the tasks he had to do before he left the office. "I need to lock up a few things, get my coat, and then grab a cab so I should be able to get there in about 30 minutes or so."
"15, sir." The Secret Service man interjected calmly.
"What?" The nation asked his train of thought knocked off the rails for a moment.
"You should be able to arrive at the Library of Congress in 15 minutes, Sir, due to the fact that there is an unmarked government vehicle currently waiting outside of the building for you."
"I guess that I better get things backed up then." America sighed, then stuffed all his classified documents into the desk before locking it and following the dark suited official out of the office, down the stairs and into the snow.
"Do you have any idea what they were trying to do?" America asked as he watched the security footage play across the screen for the twentieth time.
"We were hoping that you might shed some light on the situation." One of the security guards said grumpily.
"The only hypothesis we could come up with was that they were playing some type of game." A librarian attempted to be helpful.
"Of course they were." America tried to ignore his growing stress headache. "Can I speak with them?"
"Yes you can, we can even release them into your custody as long as you make sure they don't cause further disturbances in the library." A second librarian stated with exasperation in her voice.
"Thank you, I will make sure that these six will stay out of your hair."
America signed all of the paperwork to allow his states to be released and then ushered them out the unmarked vehicle still idling outside of the library. It was a tight fit, but everyone was able to squeeze into the SUV. Then America gave the driver the order to drive to his Virginia home. You could have heard a pin drop during the first 30 minutes of the drive. America was fuming and the states knew better not to make a sound. Finally the nation broke the silence.
"What do you all have to say for yourselves?"
"That was awes…" California started, but was interrupted when Texas trod hard on their foot.
"Sorry." Ohio finally spoke up. The state seemed to be sincere but still refused to make eye contact.
"Well you should be." America vented. "You are supposed to be example to our nation citizens. How could you even consider doing something so irresponsible?"
"Well, our meeting got canceled because of the weather and we all were here so we thought we would hang out." Alabama explained quietly. "After chatting for a while we started bored, do we pulled out our iPads and started a Pacman competition. Part way through we were looking though the window in the meeting room at all of the shelves and we got the idea that we could play Pacman with us as the pieces…"
"And who's idea was it to physically play Pacman in the library stacks?" America scanned the faces of his states and picked out the one who looked particularly guilty. "California?"
"Fine, it was me. We were dragged across the country to attend a meeting that was canceled because a few old geezers have no clue how to drive in the snow." The state through up their hands in disgust. "Despite that the six of us still met and made a lot of progress discussing the issues. I think we deserved to do something fun during the afternoon."
"It wasn't like there was that many people here for us to bother. I mean, not many people came to the library today…" Maryland added quietly.
"But there were people here, plus you were recklessly running about one of the most valuable library collections on the planet. Did you even consider the fact that you were not only being disrespectful to the other patrons, but also to our national heritage?" America paused long enough for the states to mutter a few variations of no before continuing. "Well you are all going to plenty of time to think about it because you all are grounded until you fly back to your home states."
There was some initial whining, but it quickly died down as soon as America looked towards them. They drove down the road in more silence until America broke it again.
"Pacman, what in the world were you thinking?" America muttered to himself.
"Well," Florida shrugged, "we couldn't figure out how to play asteroids."
End Note-So was the story at least mildly entertaining?