Its Christmas time! And as a celebration this is chapter two of my multi-chapter Christmas (and possibly New Year's) Smash Bros Fic! As always I do not own anything mentioned or quoted in this fic, read, review, and have a good one.

P.S Shoutouts to the two people that have reviewed the story so far. It isn't much to most, but it's nice to get some words of encouragement to keep going :D

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Shulk and his "wingman" Lucas were currently hiding behind a bunch of bushes in the mansion's garden, stalking- uh, rather, were watching Robin.

"So remind me Lucas, what are we exactly doing again?"

"Simple, we are observing," he replied as he got his binoculars out to observe Robin's movements.

"More like stalking," Shulk said rolling his eyes in reply.

"Call it what you want, I call it getting to know your enemy.

"But-"

"No 'buts' we are going to get your dignity back and mend your broken relationship with Robin ok?" the psychic boy curtly replied.

"You know it sounds weird when you put it like that" the older blonde replied raising an eyebrow.

"Hey that's not my fault you think like that."

Shulk sighed, "Look, listen-"

Suddenly he was pushed down to the ground by the younger boy next to him.

"OW! What was that for?!"

"Shhhhhh," was his only response as they heard two voices come into earshot.

"So what you are telling me is you lost a rare tome and you have no idea where it's gone?" came a deep voice.

"Yep, it was the 'Book of Naga' and it literally just disappeared without a trace…"

'That's Robin… I wonder what this Book of Naga is...' Shulk quietly thought to himself

"And where did you find this exactly?" came the male voice.

"Once the war with Grima was over, our shepherds went to the out realm gates to explore other worlds, which is where I came across the tome in a place called 'Infinity Regalia'."

"So, are you going to get it from Infinity Regalia? There may be a chance it has somehow ended up there again."

"No, I don't want to endanger the Shepard's for such selfish reasons, especially not now, when it's almost Christmas… Plus I don't think Lissa would appreciate going on missions so close to Christmas either."

"Yes, that I can agree with. Now was there anything you wanted to talk to me about?"

"Well… it's about Sh-"

*ACHOO*

"Wait… did you hear that?" Robin asked the other male with her.

"No… what is it?"

"Hello? Anyone there?"

"Oh no…," Shulk whispered as saw both Robin and the other boy who looked strikingly similar to Robin move towards the bush they were prone behind.

"Quickly, move quietly,"the blonde boy in front of him whispered as both he and Shulk started to crawl away from the bushes they were hiding behind, hoping to circle around the investigating duo and get to the back door of the mansion.

And thankfully they just barely made it back into the mansion before the male of the duo turned around noticed the door close behind them, but he shook his head thinking it was nothing and turned back to Robin.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?"

"It's…. about Shulk."

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Both blondes ran back into Shulk's room and shut the door behind them, sighing in relief.

"Geez that was close, thankfully we didn't get caught," Lucas said panting as he crashed onto Shulk's bed.

"Yeah… So what was the point of that again?" the blonde Homs asked Lucas in curiosity.

Lucas simply smiled at him in response and said, "Wait until after dinner tonight, you'll know what I mean when the time comes."

"Well, I gotta go, so I'll so you later, OK?"

"Yeah… sure Lucas".

Once he left, he sighed as he put his face in his hands.

Why did he have to be so vague and cryptic for?

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So, when the time came, Peach called everyone to the main hall for a meeting.

"So, just like we have done in the past years before, we going to be doing secret Santa again!"

The room erupted in mostly happy chatter as they wondered who they would get this year.

"I'm going to be coming around table by table and handing out a slip of paper that will have a person's name on it. That will be your secret Santa for this year, and remember you only need to spend a little bit on getting a present for someone, expensive presents aren't necessary."

After explaining how it will work Peach eventually came around to Shulk's table and handed out a piece of paper to him, Lucas, Ness, Pit and Toon Link. Something he noticed about his turn is that Peach seemed to take her time grabbing a piece of paper for Shulk. Once she handed it to him, Peach gave him a wink and a smile as she moved onto the next table. Shulk quickly proceeded to open up the folded piece of paper he was given and read the name on the piece of paper written in cursive.

"Robin"

Shulk widened his eyes as he stared at his piece of paper.

'Robin?! Of all people I could have gotten?!' he yelled in his mind.

"So Shulk, who did you get?" the brunette angel asked him.

"I got… Robin" he replied with mixed emotions.

"Nice! Hey Ness, who did you-"

Shulk's thoughts in his mind were all over the place as he spaced out. Of all people, of all 55 people he could have gotten, he got Robin.
Just his luck. As if his day could get any worse…

"You got Robin huh?" Lucas asked him, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Yeah… somehow… I just don't know what to get her, heck I don't think anything I will get her"

The younger blonde smiled at him, "Shulk, meet me at the front of my room tomorrow, we are going to go on an adventure, oh and make sure you bring your Monado with you."

This wasn't going to end up well.

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And so on the next day, Shulk met with Lucas who led him down to the basement of the Mansion.

"Can you please explain to me what makes this thing you are looking for so important that needed me to bring my Monado with me?"

"Hold up I'm trying to find something" Lucas swiftly replied as he left around pressing on random parts of the wall.

Then a loud *click* echoed throughout the basement as a large stone door slid open revealing a hidden room.

"Let's go shall we?"

'What is he doing?' he thought to himself.

But he followed after him, walking through a dark hallway they ended up at a room with a large computer with what seemed to be portals to each of their worlds. Lucas then started tinkering with the rather large looking computer. He stared in wonder at what he was seeing; this technology was so… advanced. Nothing on Mechonis or Bionis could compare to what was hidden here. Suddenly one of the portals started to glow brightly as Lucas finished tinkering with the computer.

"Well, you ready to go get Robin her Christmas present?" the psychic asked in delight.

"Firstly, what do you mean? Secondly, how… how do you even manage to use of these things?" he asked in bewilderment instead of responding to the question.

Lucas chuckled at him, "Why Shulk my friend, we are going to go to Infinity Regalia of course! Oh and to answer the other question, I use these to jump between here and home all the time. That's why sometimes I will go M.I.A for a short while."

He looked at the boy in surprise, then turned to the portal.

"Christmas present huh? Well I suppose it shouldn't be so hard, so we should get going now, huh?" Shulk said finally responding to Lucas' previous question.

They both stepped in as their vision was filled with white.

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Shulk felt like they were taking forever to get to their next destination and when they did he jumped back in surprise as a red head woman was very close to his face, was looking at them curiously.

"Ugh… where are we?" Shulk asked after his close encounter.

"The… out realm gate… I think?" the blonde psychic replied.

"Right you are! Though I don't think I've seen you two before… You wouldn't mind telling me your names would you?"

"Shulk."

"Lucas."

"Well Shulk and Lucas, my name is Anna and I am in charge of being gate keeper for the out realm gate!"

"So… Anna was it? You wouldn't know how to get to Infinity Regalia would you?"

Anna widened her eyes in surprise, "you know of that place? I should warn you, the last group of people who got to go came back pretty beaten up.

"It's ok, I'm sure we can handle ourselves, right Lucas?"

Lucas gave a confident nod in response to him.

"Welp, don't say I didn't warn you, just give me some time to prepare the gate for you."

A few minutes later

"Ok, it's ready to go! Oh and before you go, if you need to come back in a snap, just call me and I'll help you out!" she said winking at the two.

"OK! Let's get going shall we?" Shulk asked as he held up a hand to lift up Lucas.

They walked up to the gate in silence.
"You ready?"

"I'm ready," came the reply from Lucas.

Shulk held onto the Monado's hilt as it sat on his back and Lucas balled his fists glowing with PSI as the two stepped into the gate ready for the unknown.

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All was silent as the two fighter's teleported into the ruins, all was silent.

Too silent.

The two slowly but surely walked into the open room in front of them, there was nothing.

They looked at the two rooms next to their own and like before, there was nothing.

They kept walking until they saw what looked to be a chest.

They reached the chest with uncertainty as to if it was a trap or not.

"It could be an ambush you know."

"I dunno" the psychic user replied in amongst the eerie silence.

"I think we should open it now, then open the others if it isn't what we are looking for and get this over with as quickly as possible," Lucas added.

"Right… let's do that," Shulk said in agreement

"Here goes nothing…," he said quietly as he opened the chest to find… a blue book, rather a tome and it was quite heavy Shulk noted.

"There it is, your Christmas present for Robin, The Book of Naga."

"Do we even know what the Book of Naga even looks like?" the Monado boy asked aloud.

"Nope but I'm willing to bet it is if the other two chests don't have any this is it."

Suddenly Shulk got a vision, a bloody one at that.

"Yeah, lets go-"

An audible squelching noise was heard as Shulk turned to see a knight in red that had ran an iron sword through Lucas'back, his body lifeless, and blood constantly flowing out of his body.

As the vision died down he quickly turned to Lucas and saw a red knight sneak up behind him.

"Get back!" Shulk screamed as he pulled Lucas back and retaliating with a slash to the armoured foes chest plate, slicing it in half with one clean swipe, causing the red knight to flinch back in pain.

"Are you alright?!" Shulk screamed, his voice almost cracking.

"Yes I'm fine, but let's get out of here!"

And then the two ran as fast as they could to where they first teleported, effectively getting themselves surrounded. Thankfully to Lucas' quick thinking he placed a shield around them to keep the foes out.

But the shield fell as quickly as it was put up as a constant stream of foes broke down the shield, charging in.

Both fighters fought to what seemed to be no avail as the Shulk was soon mortally wounded with a stab wound to the chest. He coughed up blood and fell back onto an unsuspecting Lucas who fell with him.

He saw the knights surround them as the raised their swords to finish them off.

Then he looked down as heard Shulk say, "A-Anna… help… please."

And within a moment the two had disappeared as the swords clanged on what has now solid ground.

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The two teleported back to the Out realm gate entrance.

Anna looked down and gasped as she saw Shulk with blood coming out of his chest, she attempted to help stop the bleeding.

Once she finished wrapping the cloth tightly around the wound on his chest, the bleeding seemed to stop. She looked to the blonde psychic with empathy, who was now slightly red eyed.

"Smash mansion," he simply said to her.

She raised her eyebrow in response but quickly realized what she meant and quickly got up to set up the out realm gate to the take them back to the mansion.

Once it was ready Lucas carried Shulk with one arm around his shoulder and stepped towards the gate, before turning around and say "Thank you, Anna," then disappeared into the gate.

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Once they were there, he carried Shulk out of the basement, but try as he might he was just too tired to take him there. They were almost killed after all.

He was suddenly spotted by Pit passing by, who besides being shocked out of his mind, volunteered to carry the Monado boy to the infirmary, to which the psychic boy was thankful and promised to meet him there.

Before going there, he ran to Shulk's room, and slid the blue book under the pillow. He hoped they at least got the right one…

After retreating from his room, he ran to the infirmary to find tending to his wounds with Pit sitting in a chair with a dejected look on his face.

"Is he going to be ok?" Lucas asked very quietly, he was surprised the good doctor heard him.

"He-a will be alright… for-a now anyway. I suggest you both leave and get some rest. You can visit him tomorrow."

He sighed in relief. He was scared that he and Shulk were going to… well, die.

'I've enough of today, I just need to go to bed' Lucas thought to himself.

But of course before things never went his way did it?

"L-Lucas, do you know where Shulk is?" he heard feminine voice call behind.

Lucas suddenly stiffened in place.

"Lucas? Are you OK?"

Oh.

No.