Its Christmas time! And as a celebration this is chapter one of my multi-chapter Christmas (and possibly New Year's) Smash Bros Fic! Spoilers for FE Awakening and Xenoblade Chronicles if you haven't played them. Also call me out if you want for the sappy title, but there wasn't really anything I could come up with :/ As always I do not own anything mentioned or quoted in this fic, read, review, and have a good one.

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Two people stared intently at each end of their parts of the board, their minds racing into overdrive.

On the left, there is Robin, a tactician for the Ylissian army. Well, at least from where she was. There was also another Robin like her named Reflet, a brotherly figure who had an almost identical memory set to hers… But we'll get into that later.

Meanwhile on the right we have Shulk, a young man who defied his fate above all odds and took back his world from a mad god.

But of course that didn't matter. In fact none of it did, as both were sweating from the brow trying not to mentally collapse under the pressure.

"It's your turn… Shulk," Robin said to him reluctantly.

He simply nodded and stared at the board.

'One move is all I need to change this around… just one,' he thought to himself as he moved his towards a bishop moving towards Robin's King piece.

"Check…mate," the Shulk said slowly as released his hand off the Bishop.

He slowly looked up to Robin's eyes zipping around the board trying to find any way to counteract his previous move, but no avail.

And she was beginning to look very uncharacteristically pissed off.

"DAMNIT!" the tactician yelled as she slammed the table, sending the Chess piece flying everywhere. "That's fifth game you've taken off me! That's never happened before!"

"Robin, please calm down…" the Monado boy said quietly trying to reason with the tactician.

"No! There is no way you legitimately beat me… Yes that must have been it! You used your visions to your advantage didn't you?! Cheating bastard!"

"Robin please, I did not cheat!"

"What is going on here?!" a third voice cut into their argument.

The two looked towards the door of Robin's room seeing Peach standing in the doorway hands on her hips, a disappointed scowl spread across her face.

"Your highness, Shulk keeps cheating and won't play properly!"

"Princess Peach, please can you tell Robin I'm not cheating?"

Peach sighed as she put her hand to her face in annoyance. Why did they have to act like such children over a mere board game?

"Robin, Shulk isn't cheating. He isn't the kind of person to do that."

"But-"

"No buts! Now you two need to get out more of your rooms more, so I suggest you start by helping me with hanging the decorations and setting up the lights. It is almost Christmas you know!"

The two silently nodded at her as she left.

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Despite what had happened a few hours ago, Shulk was in a better mood than ever, helping out around the mansion setting up for what was going to be the biggest celebration of the year… well besides the New Year's celebrations.

Shulk was at the front door of the mansion hanging up the last few lights around the top frame of the door. He looked at the lights, his hard work paying off in pure satisfaction. But then he noticed on the sets of lights across from where he was wasn't hanging up properly like he desired, so he carefully reached over to put it in its position properly.

Coincidentally Robin had also come to the front door to hang a wreath on the door. She smiled. It was the final set of decorations they were going to put up for the day. It seemed like her day was looking up more than ever compared to the morning past.

Of course as fate would have it, they would be having none of that.

Shulk, trying to hang up the very last light, hung it up, at the expense of not only his dignity but also his already strained relationship with Robin. The blonde slipped off the ladder sending him falling towards the ground. Without a second thought he thrust out his hands towards the ground to lessen the impact on the rest of his body.

Then there came an audible crash sound that was heard all throughout the mansion. Shulk's vision was slightly slurred as he tried to recover from the fall. He tried to push himself up but noticed his hands were gripped on to something…

Soft.

Rather two soft things.

He heard someone underneath him groan, a feminine voice groan due to something, rather someone falling on top of her. That's when he realized he was going to have a bad time.

He looked at the person he fell on top of.

White hair, pale skin… Oh no.

It was Robin.

'…shit' he thought to himself.

Suddenly Robin's eyes flew open as they met with Shulk's. They looked at each other, staring at each other for a few seconds before Robin's face got very, very, very red.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAA, PERVERT! Get off of me!" she screamed as she raised her hand and slapped him off her, leaving a big red hand mark on his face as he pressed his face to stop the stinging.

"Curse you Shulk, have you no shame?!" she yelled angrily at the bewildered blonde on the floor.

"Robin please I-I…"

"ARGH!" she yelled putting her hands to the sides of her head as she stormed off into the mansion in anger and anguish, leaving another blonde fighter standing in the hallway very confused.

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Later that night Shulk sat in his room contemplating whether or not to consult anyone about his current predicament before he heard a knock at his door.

"Come in," he sluggishly said.

Shulk saw the door open and saw a certain blonde PSI fighter peek is head through the door.

"Is it OK to come in?" he quietly asked Shulk.

"Yeah sure Lucas."

…

"Soooo…." Lucas started.

"So?" he questioned in reply.

"What happened with you and Robin?"

Shulk widened his eyes and thought to himself 'should I really be discussing this with him? Well I did want to consult someone about this so…'

So, he proceeded to explain what happened between him and Robin everything from their Chess games to when Robin last stormed back into the mansion.

To Shulk's surprise, Lucas was quite a good listener, who seemed to think long and hard about what happened and how to fix is his extremely strained relationship with Robin.

"Well I don't know much about Robin, but I can tell you I have a lot of experience in fixing strained relationships."

Shulk however wasn't easily convinced and raised an eyebrow at this revelation.

"Really now?"

"Yep."

….

There was an awkward silence for a split second.

"I suppose you want me to tell you, don't you?"

Shulk merely nodded in response.

"Well, much like you I was also in a situation where a girl thought of me as nothing but a peeping tom or a pervert. This girl's name was Nana and before you ask, no not Popo's sister."

Shulk felt relieved, Popo was very protective of his sister. He shivered thinking of what he would do if he found out some touched her sister in the wrong way...

"My family was visiting hers when I attempted to hide a birthday present in her room, as a surprise ya know? Though as lady luck would have it I stumbled into her room when she was getting changed. She wasn't naked, but she was pretty bare."

'He's being oddly mature about this... I think' Shulk thought to himself.

"She screamed, there was a misunderstanding, I got into trouble. I eventually talked to her, explained what I was trying to do and we got our relationship back in line."

"So what you want me to do is talk to her and try to reconcile and salvage what little respect she has for me left, if at all?" Shulk asked in response to his story.

"Yep."

"…Wow."

"Yep, and I am going to be your personal wing-man," he cheekily remarked putting on a pair of black sunglasses on and putting his arm Shulk.

"Wingman? Look Lucas I appreciate the help, but I don't she is as forgiving as you think. Plus I don't think this is going to work out-"

"Shulk my friend! I don't think you realize what you got here, so why don't you just ruminate, while I illuminate the possibilities!" He quoted from a certain movie while music started playing out of nowhere.

'Oh no' Shulk thought. Though he had only recently met the 15 year old boy, he was told he had completely changed last time he was here. He changed from a boy in constant sadness and despair to a bright young man with an affinity for music and singing and he was damn good at it.

Though unlike the others, he wasn't too big of a fan compared to others in the mansion.

'This is going to be a while' he thought to himself.

About 2 minutes later

"You ain't never had friend like me!" he finished in a pose.

Shulk sighed.

"You aren't taking no for an answer are you?" he questioned the younger boy.

"Nope!"

Shulk sighed to himself.

This was going to be a loooong week.