A/N: This is a re-edited version of the pervious chapter 1 I uploaded. Some minor changes such as more emphasis on Philippine's opinion of America when they first meet. Also added "po" in some of her lines to add more personality. America also mentions his human name here.

MAY-JUNE 1898: SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

Ever since Philippines was little she' read about America in books. She read about his love for freedom and advocacy for democracy and equality, which under these times wasn't very favored especially to the nations who had colonies like England and Spain. When Spain started treating her strictly her admiration for the man grew bigger and bigger. Her admiration for her Hero gave her the strength to go up against her father. To her glee, she found out that he's here to help she immediately wanted to see him. At last, the damsel can finally meet her Hero.

"Mr. America," the officer called a man with dirty blonde hair. America turned his attention to his officer "The Philippine's rebel leader is outside. He says he wants to have a word with you. Will I let him in?"

"Oh sure, I'm sure he just wants to thank the Hero, that is me!" the officer sighed probably wondering why he's even leading this war as he went out of the tent and returned a few moments later with a man beside him. He was hidden in a cloak so his features weren't clearly seen. "Haha~ don't worry the hero, America or you could call me Alfred, is here to solve everything!" America smiled gleefully at the cloaked man in front of him.

"If you want to play hero then, go ahead, but I want to make one thing clear before I choose to ally with anybody." The cloaked man spoke but his voice was rather high pitched for a man clad in a mysterious fashion. Now that America though about it, he was also petite though most of the people here are petite compared to him. "I want to know your intentions of coming here. You can't expect me to believe that you'd just come here without anything in return now do you?"

"Huh? Well before I answer that, do you mind taking off the cloak? It's kinda suspicious, for all I know you might be Spain in disguise!" he stood in an attack stance anticipating that what he's suspecting might happen but the stance looked like some rip off from an old Chinese movie.

The man stood there for a while. 'This guy… I can't believe he's a super power. He seems really naïve." He thought to himself. 'but… I guess I could trust him.' Slowly the cloaked man took off his cloak revealing a woman? "I might have spent more than 3 centuries with Spain but do I even look Spanish to you?"

It took a while for him to respond. He was busy looking at Philippine's face. She had long shiny black hair tied in a pony tail. Her eyes were slightly slanted like Asians but her lashes were definitely Spanish. Her eyes had a dark chocolate shade- it was almost black but you could see a faint brown color. Her skin was tanned. She wasn't exceptionally pretty but there was something in her that he can't put a finger on like some exotic air about her that never disappears no matter how many times you scan her face.

"You have my people's cooperation America." Philippines extended her arm for a handshake. 'Ahh… his hand is so warm and soft… I can't believe I'm shaking his hand.'

He immediately snapped as soon as she called him. "No man, I'm just here to free you guys. That's a hero's job after all!" he extended his arm and the two nations shook hands.

"If you excuse me, po…" Philippines ended the handshake "I should be going now." She was about to put her cloak back on when America called her attention. 'But I really don't want to go… but I have to.'

"Hey, wanna hang out?" was his offer.

"Excuse me, po?" she asked calmly but in the back of her mind she was already going crazy, 'OMG OMG OMG! He wants to HANG OUT! Get that? HANG OUT!'

"I don't mean now. I mean after. So what do you say?"

She looked down on the ground an blushed slightly before regaining her composure and smiled at him "If time will allow us to." 'HELL YEA!' That smile was one of the many unforgettable smiles of the nation in front of him.

She continued out of the tent putting on the cloak as she walked away from America.

'Man… I can see why Spain doesn't want to give her up so easily. Still, every nation deserves his freedom. That's why I decided to become a hero.'

A/N: I'd like to thank various fanfic authors (both from and ) for inspiring me to write this. I'd especially like appreciate authors who wrote AussieXPiri(and from what I've found there aren't many) fics because without you guys I wouldn't have added Australia here. It was originally a USxPIRI fic.

Disclaimers:

This Philippines is mine. Everybody else(America, Australia, Spain, Japan, France, England and others) aren't.It's loosely based on historical events but it's not all that accurate either.I don't speak Spanish and French nor have I ever stayed in Australia enough to understand the way they speak English.I don't mean to offend anybody. If I did then it was never intentional.