A/N: This is an affectionate parody~

Anna pointed the divine relic, Breidablik, towards the heavens.

Nothing happened.

Sighing she brought her hand down and examined the device. She didn't know what she was doing wrong! The legend stated that raising the relic high would summon a legendary great hero! Yet, she'd been doing this for months now and nothing happened! Anna angrily began to shake the relic, having finally snapped, this wasn't anything new and Anna's summoning attempts usually ended the same way. However, today happened to be different. Her index finger had found its way to the trigger and as she raised the relic up high to smash it on the ground in a fit of rage, a brilliant light erupted from the device!

A light so powerful that it sent Anna face first into the pavement, parted the clouds that hung overhead with ease, and briefly lit up the entire area before dispersing once more. Anna was flabbergasted at what had just happened, but as she stood up something hard and heavy hit her over the head and she passed out.

Fire Emblem Heroes!

Book 1/Preface: Part 1

"I summon thee!"

"Ouchie! What was tha-? Oh!" Anna noticed the figure collapsed beside her and had just manged to pick herself off the ground when they began to stir. Was this really happening, because she really hoped it was! Glancing at the relic in her hand Anna bit back a grin, there was no doubt about it. This was, no it had to be!

She'd summoned the great hero!

Ah~ She could practically feel the gold his Majesty would bestow upon her!

"Oooh! You're here? Then the ritual actually worked?" Anna began, startling the... Young man? No, that didn't matter! "Ahem... Oh Great Hero from another world! Thou hast come so far to fulfill your role in our legend! For our kingdom now stands on the very brink of ruin, and thou..." Now that she thought about it, from what she could make out of his face that wasn't hidden by his hood, he didn't look that much older than Sharena... "And thou..." Was he even a he? He could have passed off as either a man or a woman!

"Hold on. Are you really our Great Hero? You don't look like the thee-and-thou type." Anna asked, doubting her success. Her treasured gold began to fade further and further away from her.

"I don't even know what's going on..." Great, just her luck. She finally summons something from that stupid piece of junk and it can't even talk!

"Why are you acting like you can't understand what i'm saying? I heard you speak perfect English not even a minute ago! Oh wait, that's why..." he muttered before reaching over to Anna's head and yanking off the ear muffs she was wearing.

"Ah, I forgot all about those!"

"Fascinating. Now where am I and how did I get here? I'm pretty sure I was on my way to the bathroom before I wound up... Wherever this is... And why am I dressed like a certain tactician from a certain game that saved a certain franchise?!"

"What's that? You want to know where you are? And how you got here? Fair enough. You're in—" Suddenly an Axe Fighter came running out of the bushes, axe in hand, and charged at the duo with a war cry.

"I FOUND YOU!" he roared as he blindly charged at the ginger. "Hyaaaa!"

"Drat! How did one of those Emblians get here already?" She asked aloud, before remembering what the relic did earlier. Of course he'd seen that light, stupid piece of junk. If it wasn't such an important relic of the past Anna would have smashed it to bits with Nóatún! "Stand back! I'll take care of him somehow!"

"Just hack and slash, he's literally just running towards us."

"Oh yeah..." Anna muttered, easily cutting the idiot down. He practically ran towards her axe! How were they loosing this war again?

Oh right, evil heroes and a kings refusal to assist their order with anything more than the bare minimum.

"My name's Anna. I'm the commander of the Order of Heroes!"

"Nice to meet you I guess, my names Colon."

"Colon? That's an odd name..."

"Yeah, my parents hated me, wanna guess what my last name was?"

"That's sad." Anna replied, completely ignoring the last part.

"Yeah, anyway... What's the order of heroes, and more importantly, where am I?"

"The order works for the Askran Kingdom, and we believe that Heroes should live free! Our enemies, however, enslave them—the fiends!"

"Heroes? So it's like Pokémon?"

"What's Pokémon?"

"Th-! Never mind, just continue please..."

"Right... Anyway, this realm has gateways to other worlds where Heroes come from. Have you heard of The World of Awakening? How about The World of Birthright? Or The World of Conquest? There are so many more! The Emblian Empire invades those worlds and binds their Heroes to service. We fight for their freedom!"

"Wait, so it's like slavery?! and bind? What, do they have some kind of medieval Pokéballs? This is all so confusing, and how did I get here!"

Anna ignored him, "That soldier was from the Emblian Empire, which will soon invade our neighboring kingdom Askr." Colon visibly paled at this, a war?! "I was desperate for help so I performed a summoning ceremony, and you just so happened to have appeared out of nowhere!" She left out the irrelevant stuff.

Colon didn't need to know the countless of sleepless nights she'd wasted trying to get that stupid relic to work. The insane amount of missed profits she'd had to endure for the sake of a stubborn and his equally foolish children. Why couldn't they just make up already! Shaking her head, Anna addressed the hero she'd summoned. As unremarkable as Colon appeared, Breidablik had summoned him. "Lucky us! But there's no time to rest. We have to act fast if we're going to save our kingdom!"

"Um... Don't I get a say in all this?"

"Well, if you don't agree the Emblian's are sure to kill you."

"And just like that, i'm involved in a war. Fantastic." Anna smiled at his enthusiasm and the two left the area.

The story begins with Anna summoning the Summoner. She greets them, but briefly stops and wonders if she summoned the real Great Hero as they don't seem the type. As she starts to explain the situation to the Summoner, they are attacked by an Emblian soldier and are forced to fight. After a brief combat encounter, she introduces herself as Anna, commander of the Order of Heroes. She explains that they are currently in a realm where heroes can be summoned from other worlds. The Emblian Empire enslaves those heroes, while the Askran Kingdom fights for their freedom. In desperation she performed a summoning ceremony from which the Summoner appeared. She then hurries the Summoner along because they need to save the Askran Kingdom from an Emblian invasion.