Hey I haven't been to this site since last year! (Heh,heh. New Year's humor!) I hope you guys had fun on your holidays. I had allergies all throughout Christmas! Also thanks to everyone who sent me there ideas! They may not go exactly as you had them in this chapter but I hope they're as close as they could be and more will appear later down the line. Here some responses to some things though:
To The Shleffelenn, about Master Core… I wasn't really planning on it but I'll think about it.
To Icecrafter, I said a couple chapters ago I wasn't using Subspace's story because the plot was too confusing, but it was also because some of the characters weren't there and I couldn't find a way to tie it into my story. I've kept some things from it (the trophy thing, some of the Smashers friendships with one another, etc.), but now that I've thought about it, maybe I can do like I did with Master Core, put it in the past with some changes. And about the R.O.B.s I had an idea if the whole other idea I had earlier comes to light that maybe the "Master Robot" as you called him shut himself down after he couldn't bear with losing the rest of his kind, but he didn't know that some of the R.O.B.s "brains" survived and were put in new bodies and newer R.O.B.'s were made to commemorate them. Actually the inspiration for R.O.B. 83 was the R.O.B. that was waving goodbye to the Ancient Minister in Subspace Emissary (I admit that moment gave me the feels).
To awesomesauce01, for guessing it was Final Destination in chapter 2 you get an extremely belated cookie!
Also I will be correcting spelling errors and a few other things I have in chapters 1 and 2 as soon as I can. So if you re-read the story and see a few differences, now you know why. Speaking of which, I fixed that little error from last chapter.
Finally, I left a list of my Smash OCs on my profile, along with short bios of them. All of them don't have bios yet but they will get them as soon as I can. Leave me a comment on what you think of them!
Edit: I decided to keep whoever Robin married ambiguous like most of the others. What? I can change my mind!
It was nightfall in Ylisse. It was so peaceful you almost wouldn't believe that the land was at war. But the silence of the night was slightly broken by a glowing portal some distance from the castle and out came a small robotic figure.
Marley had a antennae come out of her hat and it beeped to close the portal and used her LED eyes to scan the area as she retracted her antennae. "Wow… Pretty Boy's home changed a lot afta 3,000 years. Oh well, better get these letters to da castle."
She then pressed the wings by the envelope on her hat and small jets came out of the sides of her body and took off to castle.
Later…
Sumia came out of infant Lucina's room after putting her to bed. It was still a little weird having both a baby and adult versions of her daughter in one roof, but she loved them both just the same.
"She's asleep." She whispered to Chrom at the end of the hall. He gave his wife a smile "That's good."
The two of them walked out to the balcony and looked at the sky.
"Do you think Lucina and Robin are alright in this 'Smash World' place?" Sumia asked Chrom. "I'm sure they're fine. If what Tiki said is true and the Hero King really is a veteran of that tournament then they are in good hands." Chrom answered. When Tiki told him and the other Shepherds that this tournament invited people from different times and the Hero King was a part of it, he almost couldn't believe it. But then again after everything he's been through he's become pretty open minded. As much as Chrom didn't want to admit it, he was a little envious.
"I just wonder why Tiki never mentioned this before…" Sumia thought out loud.
"Like she said, it's been a very long time. Her memory's not what it used to be, even for a manakete."
"Chrom!" called out another female voice behind them. The couple both turned to see Lissa running towards them.
"Lissa, what's wrong? Is someone attacking?" Chrom questioned his sister who was trying to catch her breath.
"No… we have a visitor. A really… unusual visitor."
Down at the fields…
"What a fascinating creature, isn't it Mother?" Laurent asked his mother Miriel.
"Quite so, Laurent! A dragon that is completely artificial, yet it has intelligence and emotions! It would make a very interesting research!" She gushed back. It was rare that Miriel got excited over something. The rest of the Shepherds were outside the castle for night training. Imagine their surprise to see Marley fly towards them. Because of Grima they were always a little jumpy, even after his defeat, but when they saw the logo on her chest they calmed down.
"Whoa there! As much as I love being showered in attention, cuz who wouldn't love this face? I can't stay here, I'm on da clock." Marley said as she back up from the two.
"I found them Miss… Marley, was it?" Lissa said as she came out of the castle with Chrom and Sumia.
"Yeah. You Lucina's folks?" She asked as she rolled towards them, her body barely reaches their knees.
"Yes. Can we help you?" Chrom answered looking puzzled at the small figure. Marley looked up and down at them, and then gave a shrug.
"Time travel is such a weird thing. Anyways, I'm da Smash World Delivery Robot! I got letters from Lucina and Robin for ya!" Marley announced proudly with a salute. She pressed the envelope on her hat and the box on her back detached itself. She opened the lid and took out two letters.
"Really?! Let me see!" Sumia exclaimed as she took one letter while Morgan, Robin's daughter, took the other.
The respective families read their letters.
"Looks like Father is enjoying himself, despite him finding the place strange. I mean he has a talking frog for a roommate!" Morgan spoke up after reading the letter. The rest of the Shepherds just gave her odd looks.
"Okaaay, how's Lucina?" Gerome asked, curious on how his wife was fairing. Chrom looked up from the letter "Well… She's doing fine; she's starting to make some friends but she's having trouble making conversation with Lord Marth. Whenever they see each other, they freeze up; they can barely talk to each other."
"Aw… poor Lucy…" Cynthia said sympathetically.
Tiki broke away from behind the group. "Oh dear…. I was hoping that the outcome would be different… but I suppose nerves are getting in the way"
Marley turned to look at the manakete and got a big grin on her synthetic face "Hey Tiki! Wazzup! Been a while!"
Tiki just blinked in confusion "I'm sorry… have we met?"
The Mail-Bot looked a little hurt "It's me, Marley! Remember?"
Tiki shook her head in a "no"
"Maybe 'dis will jog your memory…" Marley slapped herself and making her head spin around several times giving everyone scared looks but made Tiki laugh.
"Ah yes! I remember now!"
Priam stepped up to Marley once her head stopped spinning. "Um… Doesn't that hurt?"
"Nah… I ain't flesh and blood like you guys…!" Marley stopped and got another look at Priam.
"No way! You got some of da same looks as Meathead!"
They looked at the robot dragon in disbelief. Was she being rude on purpose or was there no filter between her brain and her mouth?
"What do you mean 'Meathead'?" Priam questioned glaring at Marley.
"Well you probably know 'em as Ike…"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Ike? As in the Radiant Hero Ike?! My ancestor?!" Priam repeated not believing what he just heard.
"Yep! He's a vet in Smash too! Along with Pretty Boy and Hot Head!" She answered as she looked around and saw everyone confused. She gave a defeated sigh "Marth and Roy."
"Oh."
"Excuse me but … who is this 'Roy' person?" Owain asked. "He's known as da Lion of Pharae back on his turf." Marley replied.
Everyone let out a collective gasp. "Ok! Now I'm officially jealous!" Owain exclaimed.
Chrom went wide eyed; he heard a rumor about a warrior who was a descendent of the Lion of Pharae and even wielded of the Sword of Seals. Descendents of three legendary swordsmen and their ancestors being friends in a multi-dimensional tournament. Is this just a weird coincidence or fate? He thought curiously.
"Ok ok, now dat da shock fest is over, would ya like to respond to da letters before I go back?" Marley said breaking his thoughts.
"Oh yes, please just give us moment Marley."
"Don't sweat it. There's no rush." She said shrugging it off.
"Oh! I also need to send Lucina something! I'll be right back!" Gerome said as he went inside the castle.
Marley looked to where he ran off to. "Where's he goin'?"
Cherche just smiled "Oh he's just getting something for his wife that he's been working on for a while…"
"Ooooo~" Marley said in a sing-song voice.
The next morning in Smash World…
Robin and Lucina were once again waiting by the cliff side after breakfast. But the former noticed that the latter was slightly dozing off.
"Lucina… are you alright?" Robin asked with concern.
"Huh? Oh yes, I'm fine." Lucina replied in a tired voice. Reality is she in the Training Room on the third floor after Erin showed her where it was and was there training nonstop until after midnight.
Robin was about to protest when their instructors for the day showed up and looked like they had four for the day before they would split. They recognized Mario and Samus but the other two were only familiar from the Trophy Room in the Original Twelve section. One looked like Mario except he was slightly taller and thinner along with wearing green clothes and the other was a round pink creature that looked like Kirby except it had smaller feet, larger green eyes, cat-like ears and a single hair curl.
"Ok you two, time for your aerial training before we split you up for the day." Samus said to them through her Power Suit.
"Aerial training? I thought this was a recovery lesson." Robin questioned.
"Not-a recovery as in healing. We-a call recovery when you are-a sent flying away from a stage and you are-a trying to get back on." Mario explained. Lucina shuddered at the memory of flying off the Battlefield courtesy of Captain Falcon.
"By the way, this is my-a brother Luigi and this is Jigglypuff, fellow Originals. They will-a be helping us during this-a lesson." Mario said introducing his brother and the Pokémon.
"H-hello"
"Hi there!"
"Okay let's get on the lift and we'll be on our way." Samus called out as a lift came towards them.
Later…
The six of them rode to lift to one of the islands that float over Fighter's Canyon. The Shepherds saw that that this island was much bigger than Battlefield and instead of the floating platforms they were just a few trees and some sort of tall concrete pillar that they weren't sure what the use was for.
"Okie-dokie. Time-a for your first lesson." Mario stated as he went towards a tree. "What-a would you think if I say-a I can jump to that-a high branch easily?" he said pointing to the highest branch.
Robin arched a brow "I mean no offense Sir Mario but that branch is much too high. You couldn't possibly reach it by simply jumping."
"Oh really? Watch."
Mario then jumped in the air and then kicked his foot down and went even higher towards the high branch. "See? Easy."
The jaws of the newcomers dropped "But…how did you do that?! You jumped in midair!" Lucina exclaimed in disbelief. (Now that she was fully awake)
"You must be using some kind of magic to be doing that!" Robin added in.
"Oh it's no magic. It's called a Double Jump. Everyone in Smash World can do it, not just competitors." Samus answered as Luigi demonstrated the Double Jump to join Mario on the branch.
"Some of us can have more than two jumps. Like me!" Jigglypuff demonstrated as she jumped once than puffed up to float several times in the air, then she floated back down. "It's why I'm one of the group's best air fighters!"
Mario and Luigi jumped back down from there perch to face the newcomers. "Now it is-a your turn to-a try it. Jump to that-a branch."
"Don't-a worry, it's easier than you think. Just-a jump, focus energy on-a your feet and-a kick down." Luigi spoke up.
Robin and Lucina turned to each other wondering who would go first. In a silent agreement Robin went first.
"Alright…here goes." He said to himself as he jumped it the air and like he was told he kicked down for extra lift.
"I…I did it! It really was easier than I thought." Robin called down.
"Ok, Lucina. Your turn." Samus said to the swordswoman.
"Very well." Lucina replied. She jumping and kicking down, but nothing happened.
"Um… I didn't work." She said sheepishly.
"Oh don't worry about it, not everyone gets it on the first try. Just try again." Jigglypuff assured.
Lucina took a deep breath Focus Lucina… you can do this she thought to herself. She repeated the process again. Jump and kick down, but this time succeeding.
"I did it!"
"Good work Lucina!" Robin congratulated.
"Now that you two mastered Double Jumping, time for the next part of training." Samus said as she and the other Originals walked towards the pillar. The two of them jumped from the branch to follow them.
When they got to the pillar they saw that it had numbers on it as it went higher up.
"As-a incredibly useful Double Jumping is, sometimes it-a may not be enough. That's why sometimes you-a need to get creative." Luigi explained.
"How so?" Lucina questioned
"Use can use an attack that you have at your disposal, like so." Samus demonstrated as she jumped into the air while being curled into a ball and some sparks were flying around her. It lifted her to the twelve foot mark.
"Not only you will get lift but also cause some damage if you're lucky." Samus explained when she came back down.
"Now you try!" Jigglypuff encouraged.
"I'll go first this time Robin." Lucina said to the tactician. He nodded "Be my guest."
Lucina gave some thought on what to do. Eventually settling for a jump upward slash combo, she came back down herd some sort of noise from Samus' helmet.
"Seven feet. Decent, but I wouldn't write home about it." Samus stated bluntly. Lucina gave a disappointed look.
"Sam!" Scolded Jigglypuff
"What? I can give support or I can give the truth, you can't have both."
"No, it's ok. I prefer the truth, that way I can improve my skill." Lucina said truthfully although still disappointed with her result.
"Ok Robin, your next." The bounty hunter gestured to the pillar.
"Very well." The tactician responded. He already had an idea of what to do thanks to the entry match and Samus' demonstration.
"Elwind!" He exclaimed as he unleashed the attack below him making him have a lot of lift.
"15 feet. Impressive." Samus stated.
Robin gave her a small smile.
The following hour was pretty grueling. The veterans assigned the Shepherds to get back on another floating island that simulated a platform stage after getting repeatedly tossed overboard until they got the hang of it. Luckily the island had a barrier around, just like Battlefield so if they didn't make it they'll turn into trophies.
How will they get thrown off?
"THIS IS MADNESS!"
"ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE?!"
Giant slingshot, of course!
It was hard to tell at first glance. It was just two logs with a giant rubber rope. The two of them were already loaded onto the pad, but they weren't told until AFTER they got on.
"A little bit! Bon voyage!" Samus exclaimed as she let the pad loose sending them flying.
All was heard were the pair's screams and the explosion plus fireworks of being KO'd. With a bright light both of their trophies appeared back on the surface.
"Don't-a you think we could've warned them?" Luigi questioned
"We never got a warning on our training, why should they?" Samus replied simply making the others shake their heads.
Back at the mansion…
In the living room Ness and Greninja were playing a game of checkers. And Greninja was losing. Ness made his move confidently. "Ok Greninja, your turn." He said.
The Pokémon looked behind Ness and gave a shocked look "Rook over there!"
"No" Ness replied flatly
"Why not?" Greninja asked back.
"I know this trick Greninja. When I turn around you're gonna flip the board over and say it was an earthquake."
"No rearry, rook behind you. I won't do that." The ninja frog promised.
Ness gave a sigh. He knew Greninja was going to cheat but decided to humor him by turning around.
"EARTHQUAKE!" Greninja shouted as he flipped the board over, just like Ness thought.
"That was a big one." Stated Greninja. Ness just sighed again but looked up to see Robin and Lucina walk in looking tired beyond belief and they both fell face first on the couches, giving tired moans. The training was a lot tougher than yesterdays, Samus was pretty rough on them and Jigglypuff wasn't kidding when she said she was the best at fighting in the air.
"Are you guys ok?" Ness asked them. "Yes… just exhausted. We had recovery training today and Miss Aran was pretty strict with us. She was quite different from when we talked to her yesterday." Robin replied as he slowly turned to him.
"Yeah… Samus has the toughest attitude out of us when it comes to training and to the actual matches. But believe me when I say outside of that she's a lot nicer now than she was back then." Ness explained. Robin got another look at the boy in front of him. "You're one of the Original Twelve are you? I remember seeing your statue in the Trophy Room."
"Yup! I'm Ness. Nice to finally talk to ya!"
Greninja went over to the other couch and gave Lucina a poke, but she didn't budge. "I think she's dead."
"MAIL CALL!" a voice echoed through the mansion.
"Marley's back!" Ness exclaimed as he ran out the living room with Greninja close behind. Robin got up from the couch and walked towards the other couch where Lucina was "Lucina, get up. Maybe Marley has something for us."
Lucina stirred from her short rest. "Uh… yes. Let's go!"
In the mail room…
All the Smashers that were expecting mail ran full speed into the mail room on the first floor (there's nothing much in the room but a large table and a few chairs), nearly running over Marley in the process. She broke free from the crowd but her head was spun out of place. As put it back the way it should she gave the others a look "Animals!" she sneered as she rolled away, until she Robin and Lucina come in.
"Hey you two! I got ya letters right here! Didn't want ya to look through that mess, since youse are new around here. Oh and Lucina youse got a package along with ya letter, from a certain someone~" Marley insinuated while winking and handing them their mail.
Robin went over to a chair to read his letter and Lucina went to another to read hers.
She felt so glad to hear from her loved ones back home, it gave her some comfort. There was even some advice from her father to at least try and talk to Marth. Maybe even try to challenge him to a match, if it worked for the two of them it will probably work her and the Hero King.
Maybe that could work… but I need to train more. I need to at least give Lord Marth a decent challenge when we do go against each other. Lucina thought to herself as she opened the package on her lap. She gasped softly when she saw what it was.
That same mask she used when she disguised herself as Marth. The last time she saw it was before it was sliced in half, all this time Gerome was making a new one for her? She then saw a note from behind the mask. It read: just a little something to give you luck my love, like you said "the future is not written". Give everything you got out there. Your husband, Gerome.
Lucina shed some tears a little, but they were tears of joy.
"Oooooo, nice mask!~"
Lucina jumped to see Marley right in front of her. "Your hubby's been workin' on dat for a while. Ya like it?"
"Yes… I love it…. Thank you for bringing it Marley." Lucina thanked sincerely.
"Aw…don't mention it!" Marley gushed.
"Hello? Are Lucina and Robin here?" Said an unfamiliar man coming in the room. He had short dirty blond hair, was wearing a blue shirt and a sash with sword strapped on it.
"Yes we're here. Can we help you?" Lucina spoke back while Robin looked up from reading his letter.
"Yeah, name's Reggie. I'm one of the Mii Fighters here. Sakurai told me to tell you the next trainers you'll be assigned for the rest of the day." The newly named Reggie introduced. Lucina remembered his name from Erin and Roy "Wait… why isn't Mr. Sakurai telling us this himself?" She asked with curiosity.
"He wanted to be here, but he's making more items and plans for more stages. So he'll be busy for a while and he wanted me to pass the message. Lucina, you'll be training with Link and Robin you'll be training with Ike and Zelda." Reggie explained.
"Why am I getting two instructors when Lucina's only getting one?" Robin questioned.
"When newcomers get individual training, Sakurai assigns the instructors depending on their fighting style. Robin since you use both a sword and magic he thought they'd be the best choices for you."
"Alright, I understand." Robin nodded.
"But since it's almost noon, you guys wanna eat first or start right away?" Reggie asked.
Lucina got up from her chair "If you don't mind, I'd like to start training now please."
Robin and Reggie looked at her, the former was more concerned. "Ok then, I'll get Link and you'll start right away. How about you Robin?"
"I think I'll eat first. Then I'll start." He answered. Robin was worried about Lucina pushing herself too hard but he knows she doesn't like it to be watched like a hawk.
Lucina… Take it easy…
In the training room…
Link was having Lucina demonstrate some simple sword fighting techniques so they can be her "Smash Attacks" as they call it by having a sparring match in the training room on the third floor. After that they moved on to Specials (Link had to use just his sword since that's all Lucina uses) but before they started on they had two other visitors.
"Hey Link!" greeted two younger voices. They turned to see Rinku and Toon come in the room.
"Hey you two! What's going on?" Link asked his "brothers".
"We've been waiting for you for lunch, but Reggie said your training Lucina today. So mind if we watch?" Toon answered.
"Sure, I don't mind. How about you, Lucina?"
"It's fine. You are Young Link and Toon Link, correct?" She said, remembering their names from the talk she had with Roy.
"Yeah, Robin told us about you while you were in the infirmary." Rinku responded. Lucina just rubbed the back of her head. Link cleared his throat getting her attention. "Shall we get back to training?"
"Oh yes, please."
"Another method to cause damage is to have a hold on your opponent as long as you can to cause as much damage as long as you can like so…" Link explained as he pulled out his hookshot from who-knows-where and grabbed a nearby Sandbag (Lucina saw these Sandbags when she was doing late night training. She was impressed by their durability), pulled it towards him and hit it with the back end of his sword.
"And before they can break free from a grab, you can have your chance to throw them off the stage." The Hylian said as he gave the Sandbag one strong throw across the room. When it fell over it stood back up, like they always do.
"It may seem a bit brutal, but this a tournament where nearly anything goes, so don't worry. Anywho here's one more thing to go over, shielding." Link said.
"Shielding?" Lucina repeated.
"It a magic technique of this tournament that all the Smashers can use once taught. Hey Rinku can you help me out with this?"
"Sure." The younger Hylian replied. He suddenly brought out his sword and charged towards the older Link. Lucina was confused to what was going on until Link crossed his hand and a small barrier of light surrounded him as Rinku kept slashing and the barrier kept shrinking little by little. After a bit they stopped and the barrier vanished.
"What was that Link?" the Shepherd asked.
"That was the shield. You think of the word 'protect' put your arms or whatever you got in front of you and a barrier will appear to protect you from some damage." Link started and then Toon spoke up.
"But as you could tell the shield's only temporary, it'll shrink the longer you have it up and it'll shrink faster the more damage you get. If you leave it up for too long or if someone completely shatters the shield you'll get a case of the 'dizzies' leaving you wide open."
Lucina nodded in understanding.
They started to spar once more but this time Link insisted that Lucina practiced grabbing, throwing and shielding. While she got a hand of the first two quickly, the shield technique was giving her some trouble.
After she finally got a hand at shielding as the veteran Smasher was chipping away at her shield and even though it was shrinking rapidly, Lucina wasn't letting the shield down.
"Lucina, let the shield go!" Rinku exclaimed. But it was too late; the shield broke leaving Lucina disoriented and wide open to one of Links bombs. After she fell on the ground Link went over to her get her back on her feet.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
"Yes… I think… I assume those are what you called the 'dizzies'?" Lucina replied between breaths.
"Yep and I thought I told you can't have the shield up too long. But it's like you already forgot." Toon scolded.
Lucina felt weird being scolded by someone younger than her but then again he was her senior in this tournament. Then suddenly her stomach growled making her blush again. Toon just gave a small laugh "Oh I get it! You were distracted by hunger!"
"Um…."
"Hey don't worry about it, it happens. So would you like to join us for lunch?" Link asked.
Lucina looked at the three of them for a bit. According to Roy they had the same problem she had when they got together, maybe finding out how they became close can help her.
"Yes. I'd like that, thank you." Lucina replied with a smile.
Please note that the pairings I gave everybody in the FE: Awakening part here are just for this stories sake. Since I never played the game and because of the whole "you get to chose who marries whom" thing, I don't have any strong feelings one way or another for a pairing, if you chose differently, I'm sorry! That's why everyone else is still ambiguous! I hope I got everyone in character though…
Also if anyone still wants to PM me a descendent for Roy to appear in the epilogue, you still have a chance! If I like your OC I'll let you know and he/she will appear in the story! Also next chapter will feature Robin's training and a little moment with Lucina and the Links, so patience!
But I have some questions: For Young Link, should I mention Majora's Mask in any way? Since it's very… out there for most Zelda games I'm not sure what to do with it:/ Also I have a headcannon were most of the Smashers of the "Miscellaneous" or "WTF" category, like Wii Fit Trainer, Duck Hunt, R.O.B. and the Miis, all live in Smash World I just have trouble deciding which ones, any ideas?
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