A/N: Yeah, did it again. So much for priority. Anyways, my other story is on a temporary sort of hiatus, so I'll have some time to update this.

And it's longer. Whew.


"Good... Gods..." Robin gasps, just as the last Risen bursts out of existence.

"Thanks, Rob-bro." Chrom and Sumia walk past the weak tactician. "Now we're gonna go talk to a bunch of scholars. Hope you brought your negotiation pants."

Robin looks up, confused at what Chrom just asked him. He gets up to follow them, noticing Lissa and Frederick tagging along as well.


Eventually, they reach a hill.

"What is that...?" Robin asks himself. They all reach the peak of the hill, the small group spotting a rather large pegasus sitting at the top of it.

And bizarrely, it was saddled and seemingly battle-ready.

"Cool! A flying pony!" Chrom screams. He immediately lets go of Sumia, before rushing toward the pegasus.

He does not even get a glimpse at the animal before he is knocked unconscious.

Where were you when I was being kidnapped? Robin internally groaned. The pegasus neighs happily at the unconscious prince, kicking it one more time.

"Hey." Sumia walks up to the pegasus. "Here, take this carrot." she smiles and holds out exactly what she said she was.

The pegasus neighs happily, before leaning toward the carrot.

Sumia immediately moves it away from it. "Nope. Only if you promise to not beat up my boyfriend and instead become my permanent slave."

The pegasus makes the exact same noise as before.

Sumia smiles, before holding out the vegetable.

The pegasus accepts.

Robin immediately gets on his knees, only to scream into the sky. That is the unfortunate result of having your only hope for freedom taken away from you just seconds after having first received it.


It is only a couple of hours until they reach the border to Regna Ferox.

For whatever reason, Sumia had stayed behind. According to her, something about "Pulling a heroic entrance at the most unexpected moment possible." Even the tactical genius had no idea what she was talking about. Then again, little had seemed to make sense to the tactician.

"I-I-It is so cold..." Lissa mutters. "F-Frederick? Could you let me-?"

"No." Frederick glares toward the princess. "I don't care if there are Risen surrounding you, I'm not letting you steal my warmth."

Lissa frowns, and the group is silent.

They soon reach a large fortress, only to spot a large army stationed on top of it.

Chrom groans. "Great. There they are." He then turns toward Robin? "Do you have your negotiation pants? I think you'll need them with these pricks."

Robin nods, ignoring the 'pricks' comment. "I do. I shall state our business, and if diplomacy is not an option, I have already prepared a battle plan."

"Okay." Chrom rolls his eyes.

"Based on the given descriptions of the Fer-!"

"YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME, MORON!" Chrom yells.

Robin blinks. "But you're our captain, wouldn't you want to know what our battle plan would-!"

"Battle plan, no battle plan. It doesn't matter. All that matters is that we have Frederick." he points toward the great knight. "He can oneshot everything! We don't even need to focus time or effort into our other soldiers in the event that the enemy grows too strong to handle Frederick."

The prince and his knight laugh, while meanwhile Robin simply rolls his eyes and walks toward the fortress.

"Greetings." he announces. "We are the Shepherds, led by Prince Chrom of Ylisse. We wish to speak to the Khan."

"Ah. Alright." a woman on the roof of the fortress walks forward, looking down upon the tactician. "I notify the guards that you are here." she turns around toward a nearby man, a mage, by the looks of it.

"Open the doors! These are the Ylisseans!" she announces.

The mage nods. "Yes, Mistress Raimi." he turns toward a nearby lever and begins to turn it.

Huh? No battle? That's fine by me. Robin laughs internally. Today may finally be a decent-!

"Hey! Morons!" Robin freezes up, not even turning toward the voice behind him.

The guards stop. "What is it, Lord Chrom?"

"SHEPHERDS! ATTACK!"

Robin blinks. What?

The guard next to the lever jumps as he spots his comrades being attacked by the Shepherds. "M-Milord, it is fine! We can give you whatever you-!"

"Just shut up and fight, fancypants!"

A few of the guard on top of the fortress rush to the front, pulling out weapons and tossing them toward the prince.

"No! NO! THIS IS THE END OF- Ow! Gah! Oof!" Chrom is quickly knocked onto the ground by a barrage of projectiles.

Books. Robin could feel his palm progressively getting closer to his face.

BOOKS. "Chrom! They are just books! There is no way that they hurt that-!"

"GAAAAAH!" Chrom leans up, holding his arm and screaming.

Robin sighs. "Now what?"

"I HAVE A PAPERCUT!" the prince falls onto his side, clutching his arm and screaming like a madman.

Robin was about to ignore him and assist the other Shepherds, yet only after he turned had he noticed that the other Shepherds had already subdued the Feroxi threat.

Robin facepalmed. Had the enemy not used ordinary books as their primary choice of weapon, Robin possibly could have been impressed.

Yet he still wasn't surprised. It did not take a wary individual to see that Frederick was the only one on the fortress, while the other Shepherds were simply sitting at the base of the building. And the knight was shirtless again.

How is he not bothered by this cold? Robin asked himself.

He simply sighed, before dragging Chrom to the peak of the fort.

"AHHHHH! IT HURTS SO- Oh, look. We won." Chrom immediately stops clutching his arm, only to get back onto his feet and look toward the injured Raimi. "You can let us in now." he says.

"Y-Yes, milord." she gasps. She limps toward the lever, before turning it.

"Oh come on!" They hear a distant voice. They all turn to see a familiar Pegasus Knight fly onto the fort.

"Hey, Sumi!" Chrom grins.

Sumia jumps off of the pegasus and into Chrom's arms, the latter seemingly forgetting that we was unable to stand just a minute ago.

Raimi soon stops twisting the lever. "A-Alright, Milord. We have done the deed."

Chrom lets go of Sumia, who falls to the ground with a yelp, before turning toward the commander.

He tilts his head. "That's not good enough. We are going to need an escort to the castle, now, and you are going to dance like a monkey for me."

"Y-Yes... Milord.." The woman gasps. She leans upward, futilely attempting to dance.

"Not good enough." Chrom rolls his eyes. "Your whole army has to do it."

"B-But milord..." Raimi frowns. "You killed them all..."

Chrom frowns, examining the battlefield. "Oh. You're right." He shakes his head and shrugs. "Oh well. Just escort us then. But you still have to dance for me."

Raimi groans, before limping toward the stairway.

And meanwhile, Robin simply stares in horror.


A/N: I may have gone a bit overboard there.

Maybe more than a little.

Yeaaaaaah. There's no denying that I must have been in a really weird mood to have thought of this.

Anyways, the updates for this chapter will probably be a bit more frequent now, given that Change of Fate is not going to be updated for a little while. I may push an update some time soon, yet I can't promise anything.

Nor can I promise another update soon.

Anyways, do whatever you want, readers.