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Told in first person view as Robin (female)

As surprised as I was that I had been invited to perhaps the greatest fighting tournament in the universe, nay the multiverse, I did think to myself that I had a shot to be one of the best. Master tactician? Check. Tome with countless powerful spells. Check. Nothing could go wrong. Oh how wrong I was! It was before I even got to the Smash mansion that things started to go wrong; I had just said my farewells to Lucina and Chrom:

"Don't just do us proud Robin, do yourself proud," Lucina said, pulling me into an embrace. "Do that and you'll have nothing to fear."

"Famous last words. Thank you, Lucina. I'll do my best," I said, returning the hug. "I'm just sad that you can't come with me. Take a little piece of home to keep me company."

"I'm not sure you'll be totally alone…" Chrom suggested.

"Huh?" I exclaimed, gently pushing Lucina away. I didn't understand what he could mean.

"I've heard," he continued. "That you're not the only one from our world to be invited."

"But…who could possibly be more worthy of a place than you two?"

"You're about to find out," Lucina announced, pointing behind me. I turned (a considerable feat considering how heavy my coat was) to where she was gesturing and gasped. It was a train of several carriages, but floating clear off the ground by at least a metre. As it drew closer I began to make out a symbol embossed into the main locomotive. I reached around in my coat until I found my official letter of acceptance and turned it over. The same symbol of a circle with two perpendicular lines struck through was stamped on.

"Well…I guess this is it." I raised an eyebrow and sighed when the doors of the foremost compartment opened.

"Don't think of it like that," Chrom said, holding out his hand. "This is a great opportunity for you and at the very least you can meet some new people to forge alliances with. Just have fun."

"Yeah you're right! I said, brushing away the clouds of doubts. "I won't let you down!" I shook his outstretched hand before turning away. That train looked ever so imposing but it was now or never. My mind made up, I stepped aboard.

"Don't forget to write!" Lucina yelled up at me, waving her hand as the train began to leave.

"I won't! Goodbye!" I waved to the sword users who were rapidly shrinking in size below me. Either that or the train had gotten bored of waiting and taken off before I'd even properly stepped inside.

"Just me now." I thought before realising that the door was still open even as we ascended. In the interest of not getting thrown out of the competition before I'd even arrived, I closed the doors behind me and turned, only to come face to face with a green skinned humanoid, dressed up in a conductor's uniform.

"Arrgh 'ello there Lass!" He boomed, shaking my hand a little too vigorously for my liking. "Th' names Kapp'n!"

"Robin," I said, tentatively shaking his hand back.

"Eh?" He said, puzzled. "Well there can't be two of yer can there?"

"Huh?"

"Yeh I met 'nother guy jus' like you not 5 minutes ago. Come teh think of it…" He paused, scratching his chin whilst eyeing me suspiciously. "'is name wus Robin as well."

"His?" I queried, not liking where this was going.

"Hm? Yeah but nuff said 'bout that, har har!" He exclaimed, finally letting my hand go. "Could I see yer letter?"

"My what? Oh right." I dug around in my pockets, panicking slightly when I couldn't immediately locate it. After some time (with Kapp'n waiting patiently) I eventually located it in one of the deeper pockets, just to ensure I didn't lose it: it was, after all, my lifeline into Smash bros. I was immediately reassured when I felt its familiar papery texture brush against my fingers and was somewhat reluctant to hand it over, even though I knew it had to be done. It appeared my fears were unfounded as Kapp'n quickly handed it back over within seconds of me giving it to him.

"Har well it looks like yer good to go! Coulda sworn I've seen ya before though…anyway take yourself a seat, we're arrivin' shortly!" Before I could even thank him for his time the strange creature had wandered into the next carriage leaving me half tempted to follow, just to find out just what he meant be 'him'". Was there a male version of me here as well? Was his Lucina also male with Chrom as female? I tried not to think about it and instead took a seat by the window of the nicely decorated compartment. Soon, however, the thoughts came drifting back.

"Maybe Kapp'n just mistook me for another one of the smashers? He doesn't exactly look like the brightest spell in the book. Or is it tome? I've got to remember the correct terminology if I'm to even stand a chance of competing, let alone winning." I sighed for the umpteenth time, resigning to stare out of the window as we travelled high above sky, traversing more worlds than I thought even existed. Each one more beautiful than the last, I couldn't help but let my mouth hang open in a very un-lady like fashion at the splendour of it all.

I could make out worlds of jungle and pure water. Rock and ice. We briefly passed a world of open grass plains and towering rock formations that looked like it was straight out of a story book. Simply beautiful. Though it could've been just my imagination I swore I could've seen a figure with blond hair and red jacket waving up at me from the surface. I tentatively waved back before realising that it was impossible he could have seen me.

"Oh well. It's not like I'll ever see him again." I concentrated once more on the scenes unfolding below me, just catching a glimpse of a world of candy and sweets swing by before we were off again. There weren't really any more interesting ones after that but the one with the red grass and city enclosed inside a dome of glass really did impress me. "The architecture involved…," I murmured before I was yet again whisked away to sights unseen.

It was another half an hour before I arrived and in that time nearly died of shock at eventually meeting the other Robin. He didn't just look like me, he spoke like me, wore the same coat and carried the same tome. I've seen many a strange sight but meeting…myself…was off the scale. It became way too awkward for us to talk as our experiences were pretty much identical except for romance and neither of us were prepared to go there. Toward the end we couldn't even make eye contact for fear of questions that we inevitably knew the answers to. Lucina being there really didn't help matters. She was apparently the Lucina from the other Robin's world which annoyed me to no end.

"How come she gets to be here and my Lucina doesn't! How do they decide if they're literally the same person?! Same could be said for me and…me. This is too weird…and I haven't even arrived yet."

As if on cue I felt the train jar unpleasantly to a stop, noticing the other Robin mirror exactly my reaction. "Creepy". The doors at the end slid open, letting in a golden light that suddenly made me want to hide. "I don't deserve to be here. I'm not worthy. Hell they probably invited that other Robin to replace me at some point." Never-the-less I followed out other Robin and his Lucina, almost hiding behind them so I could just melt away and be ignored by the veterans. If only I could've been so lucky.

A/N You're probably going to get a lot of cliff hangers 'cos I love them so much. This is my first time writing smash bros but I've wanted to write this ever since a certain character was revealed...who I'm not going to say (yet). Please review just so I know what I did well/ could do better on. (For fans of my other story sequel don't worry! I'm just brainstorming ideas so bear with me!)

See you on chapter 2.

Ps if anyone gets the references to the places Robin briefly saw you get all my respect!