"Robin? Robin, wake up. You're having a nightmare, wake up!"

Robin woke up in a jolt, her entire body sweating cold and her heart racing faster than Sonic wearing a bunny hood. She was shaking beyond belief and it took more than a few deep breaths to calm herself down. Rob just laid by her side, stroking her naked back in a soothing gesture and waiting patiently for her to gather her thoughts.

The window showed that it was still pitch dark outside, with their room being lit only by a single lamp that rested on the bed desk, meaning it couldn't have been more than a few hours since they fell asleep.

"Rob? You were awake this entire time?" Robin asked as she turned around to face him. Good gods, his face was sickly pale and his eyes were swollen from the lack of sleep!

"I woke up about half an hour ago, I think. Had another nightmare."

"Well, what a coincidence..."

To think that it was her first nightmare after 5 nights of peaceful slumbers, Robin shouldn't be surprised that one would eventually come back to haunt her. Did it really need to be about Rob dying in her arms though? No, no it didn't need to be about that. She would take another war flashback anytime, because she could deal a little better with images she would never have to go through anymore. But her nightmare this night… It hit way too close home. Specially after what transpired not a few hours ago.

Damn brain cells.

"Get some more rest," Rob suggested. "It's still 5 am."

"No… I don't want to," she said, mindlessly nuzzling on his collar bone. "Not with you awake like this."

"Are you seriously trying to convince me to go back to sleep like this?" he let out a heartfelt chuckle.

"Is it working?"

"No."

"Then I'm not going back to sleep."

Yeah, none of them actually wanted to go to sleep, that was pretty clear for them.

There was a comforting silence between them, despite their mutual fear of going back to sleep and reliving the terrible images of their nightmares. Maybe it was the fact that none of the nightmares could get them there. Or maybe it was the fact that that was the closest they had gotten in a while. But whatever the reason, both Robins just cuddled for a while, too engrossed in their peaceful quietness to care about anything else.

However, peace couldn't last longer, as there was still one little question that plagued their minds. It was nothing life threatening, or even that important, but it still bothered them.

"So," Rob coughed. "Um, did you like it?"

"Did I like wh- Oh," she let out an awkward chuckle. "I don't know. I feel awkward."

"Awkward? Really?"

"I mean, it was good. Really good, actually, but… It feels awkward, somehow."

"Do you regret it?"

"What? Gods, no! Rob, how could I ever regret it? I said I feel awkward now, not that I don't want to have sex with you ever again," she then whispered quietly, "I actually hope it's the contrary."

"That's already good enough. I'll take it."

She gave him a warm smile and snuggled closer to him, refusing to give in to her heavy eyelids. "I love you," Robin said, planting a chaste kiss on his neck.

"Love you too, Robin."

"Oh, by the way," she whispered on his ear, a mischievous tone on her voice. "Where did you learn to do that with your tongue? Wow, Rob, it sure was something!"

Her smile evolved into a grin as Rob blushed and refused to answer to her (rhetorical) question, instead turning his back to her. It was just so gratifying to be the one doing the teasing this time! She would enjoy every second of it.

"Was it with one of the Shepherds or is it just natural talent?" she purred.

"Robin, go to sleep!"

"Oh, and when you-"

"Go to sleep! You're ridiculous!"

"Make me!" she threw her arm around his torso and continued her teasing by leaving small bites on his shoulders.

He turned around and quickly stopped her with a kiss, followed by another one way less chaste. They still had a few hours before they had to leave, face Master Hand and deal with whoever was going to pester them because of Rob's fight. They could enjoy the few moments of peace that they still had. Or so that was their plan, until they heard the room's phone ringing, breaking any kind of mood that was building up.

"You've got to be kidding me," Robin mumbled.

"I'll get it," Rob groaned, extending his arm and blindly searching for the base. Once he found it, he lazily took the phone and brought it to his ear. "Hello?"

"Robin? I am soglad you are awake," the familiar voice on the other side said. "I called because I wanted to ask you and the female Robin to visit my office in four hours. There are matters we need to discuss."

"Master Hand, it's five in the morning," he grumbled. "Couldn't you have called in a better hour?"

"I called you because I remembered that I haven't told the female Robin I wanted to meet you two as soon as possible, before your battles scheduled for today happened."

"Couldn't you have waited until dawn, when we woke up?"

"Your voice doesn't sound sleepy at all. I would even guess you haven't been sleeping."

Well, he's not wrong, he thought.

"Anyway, I apologize for any disturbances. I expect to find you here at 9 am. Have a good night."

"Good night," Rob grumbled and slammed the phone on the base. "Gods damn..."

"What is it?" Robin asked.

"We have to meet him at his office at 9 am. He said it was urgent."

"W-What do you think he might want?"

"Something good, I hope."

"Robin, due to the current circumstances, I decided to give your fighting schedule to your female counterpart."

"Excuse me, what?!" both Robins exclaimed.

They should have expected that nothing good to come out from a reunion with Master Hand at his office. One would think that they had learned their lesson with their reunion two weeks ago.

"Please understand, Robin," the hand continued. "After your battle with Jigglypuff, we cannot afford to have something like your freak out happen again."

"But it wasn't his fault!" Robin jumped in to defend him.

"And that is exactly the problem. It is clear Robin has little to no control over Grima. Who knows what else might happen while he is out there fighting?"

"So what you are saying is that I can't even get near the battlefield?" Rob asked, staring at the floor.

"Not before we find a way to get rid of Grima," Master Hand said. "Until then you are not allowed to leave this hotel."

His head immediately shot up, his dark eyes completely wide.

"Wait, why can't I leave the hotel?!"

"I need you close in case anything else happens. I may be able to appear almost anywhere that I want, but I need to know what is going on first, don't you agree?"

"But that's not fair to him! He needs to go out every once in a while!" Robin interjected.

"This is not of your concern. Just concentrate on the tournament and let me take care of him."

"It does—I mean—I do worry about him. He's my friend," she bit her tongue.

"It's okay, Robin. Maybe it is for the better," Rob said, apprehensively.

"But Rob, are you sure?"

"No, but it's not like we'll convince Master Hand otherwise."

"Right you are, Robin," Master Hand said, making Robin cringe. "If I discover that you have sneaked away from the hotel, there will be punishment, do you understand?"

Rob nodded.

"As well as to whoever decides to convince you to go out for a few couple of hours," he turned to Robin, who also nodded.

And so their little reunion ended with both Robins having an extremely bitter taste in their mouth. Rob was prohibited from doing anything else. They were actually surprised that he was at least allowed to breathe.

At the cafeteria, after the reunion was over, Robin had to eat her breakfast in a hurry, since Rob's fight (that was now hers) would begin in an hour. She would make sure she arrived at the stadium in record time, while promising him before she left that she would pass by a library to see if she could find any information that linked to his current situation. He sincerely doubted she would find anything, and maybe even she didn't have high hopes in he research, but trying wouldn't hurt.

Rob just sat by himself at the cafeteria's table for a while, twirling his coffee with a little silver spoon and watching it getting cold. He paid no attention to some of the questioning looks he got from other Smashers there, not really in the mood to wonder what they could be thinking of him. He actually didn't need to, even if he wanted, because no more than three minutes after Robin had left him there, he saw Lucario approaching the table.

"Hello, Robin," he greeted. "May I sit?"

"Go ahead," he pointed his hand at the seat in front of him. "You want to talk about yesterday?"

"You read my mind."

"I just have good intuition."

"Anyway, yes, I do want to know," the Pokemon sat down. "Not onlyme, but all the Pokemon who watched the fight. Jigglypuff was specially worried that she might have put you in a coma and Greninja is just too shy to ask you what was that all about."

"Tell Jigglypuff I will live. For now, that is, you never know the day of tomorrow."

"That was surprisingly dark..."

"Sorry, I'm not in the best mood these days," he said, crossing his arms and slumping over his chair even more.

"What is it that bothers you?"

"Master Hand wants Robin to fight for me because of the incident from yesterday. I can't even leave the hotel anymore until he comes up with a solution for what he wants to do with Grima."

"Grima?"

"It's what we're calling the parasite that's in my aura."

"Right…I really have no words, I'm sorry," Lucario twitched his ears, feeling rather uncomfortable for him. "So what you had yesterday was a reaction to Grima?"

"I wouldn't say it was a reaction, as it was more of a struggling against him. Something about Jigglypuff's rest attack might have triggered him into trying to take over me. Or… At least I think that's the case. So tell Jigglypuff it's not her fault. She didn't know any better."

"I will keep that in mind."

"Oh, Rob! Good to see you here."

Both Rob and Lucario turned their heads to where the voice came from and found Shulk walking towards their table with a plate of eggs and a bowl of cereal. Rob really didn't think that should be the best combination to start the day off, but if Shulk wanted to have a stomachache, then it was his problem.

"Greetings, Shulk."

"Hey."

"Hi, Lucario," he said, before tuning his attention to Rob once again. "Where's Robin? It's so rare to see you without her, nowadays."

"If you're searching for her, she's already left to fight Yoshi."

"Oh, no. No, I was just curious. I actually wanted to talk to you," the seer glanced at Lucario. "Sorry, Lucario, but I'll need to ask you to leave. It's kind of important."

"I am not bothered. I will leave you to discuss in peace."

Lucario gave his seat to Shulk and left the table, heading towards the exit, only to find Greninja waiting for him there. "I didn't know Lucario ate at the cafeteria," Shulk commented as he saw him get out of their sight, along with Greninja.

"He doesn't," Rob said, following his gaze. "I think he just came here because he was curious about yesterday."

"Oh, right!" he turned around, facing the rather depressed tactician. "I never got to ask you. Are you alright? Robin was worried sick about you. She wouldn't leave your bedside no matter how much I tried to make her take a break."

"She told me that. She also told me you came by to visit me," there was a very small smile on his lips that passed unnoticed by Shulk. "So… Thanks for worrying, Shulk."

"Hey, you're my friend, after all. Of course I'd get worried," he munched on his cereal before continuing, "I don't know if Robin passed the message to you that I wanted to talk later, but since you're here, I might say this while were alone."

"What is it, Shulk?"

"Remember at the opening ceremony, a little before they called our names to enter the stage?"

"What about it?"

"Remember when I told you I had a vision?"

"Vaguely," he crossed his arms once more. "I kind of forgot you had one of your visions after everything else happened."

"Well, it was a vision involving you," Shulk said, looking at him dead seriously in the eyes. "I didn't know what to make of it at first, as it was very vague and I almost couldn't understand the context of the situation, so I didn't know if I should have warned you immediately or not."

"What happened?" Rob straightened himself up and uncrossed his arms. Now he was really curious. It wasn't often Shulk had any sort of vision involving him.

"I saw you unconscious, laid on a metallic table in some weird room. I don't know why, but I have the feeling that you, and even I for that matter, have already been there, but I can't explain why. I guess it's because that room kind of reminded me of my lab back in Colony 9?" he scratched his head, trying to dig something from his memory. "I don't know. All I know is that Master Hand was floating above you and Robin was watching you. I couldn't see her face, since she had her back turned to me, but… I think she was crying."

"That sounds ominously vague."

"Yeah, I can agree with you on that. Oh, and I remember some ball of light floating just above your chest, before it entered your body."

"How?"

"It just did. It reminded me of a ball made of ether, but I don't believe that can be it."

"I wonder if Master Hand found a cure," Rob mumbled to himself, quietly. "But Robin was crying in the vision, so that can't be it."

"What cure?" Shulk asked.

Dang, Shulk some really good hearing!

"You mean you don't know?"

"Don't know what?"

Robin explained his entire situation as briefly as possible, explaining bits about his past and what consequences it brought to his current life. Shulk just listened everything carefully, his sympathy towards Rob growing the more he explained about this Grima god and how being born to be his vessel screwed up the way he was now.

Yeah, he could definitely sympathize with him on that.

"And now I can't leave the hotel because of this," Rob finished off with a sigh.

"To tell you the truth, I also don't believe this vision has anything to do with Master hand finding a cure," he rested his hand on his chin.

"Still, thanks for telling me that. I don't know what I'll do with this information, but I'll keep it in mind."

"Anytime. So now what are you going to do? I mean, you are prohibited from leaving, so I was wondering..."

"I don't know. Maybe go back to my room and do nothing?"

"Since you're not going to do anything, do you want to go to the game salon with me for a while?"

"Don't you have any fights to attend to?" Rob raised an eyebrow.

"Not until 2 in the afternoon," Shulk said, resting his elbow on the table. "Come on, Rob! Locking yourself inside your room like this won't make your mood better. You need to distract your head."

It wasn't as if Rob had any excuse to refuse him. He could always be sincere and tell him he would rather wallow in self-misery, but the more he thought about it, the worse he felt. Shulk was right, he needed to do something to distract himself, or at least do something enjoyable. He was already on forced vacations and one step closer to death, so he might as well enjoy himself a little. Or try to, at the very least.

"Okay, fine," he said, nodding his head. "You convinced me."

3… 2… 1… GO!

Robin spawned at the Gaur Plains stage without any backup plans, only with Rob's initial strategy in mind. Since she had very little time to prepare herself, Robin had no idea if she should feel optimistic about today's battle or not. She saw Yoshi popping out from his egg at the other side of the great depression that separated both fighters, trying to analyze what she should do first.

Oh, things didn't look good in her favor. Gaur Plains wasn't very friendly to non-aerial fighters. Sure, she had her Elwind tome to aid her in case she fell down, but she could use her tome just so many times before it broke. Yoshi, on the other hand, had one of the best recoveries between the Smashers, being incredibly airborne and fast. It was clear who had the advantage here, but Robin wouldn't give up.

Yoshi ran to the edge and made a huge leap, ready to land on Robin's portion of the stage. She immediately started charging her Elthunder tome, ready to strike the second he landed.

"Oof!"

There!

"Elthunder!" she shouted, shooting a ball of electricity towards him. Unfortunately for her, he managed to roll away at the right time.

Robin activated her shield as soon as she saw him preparing to headbutt her, but was not able to punish him by grabbing him with Celica's Gale, for the impact sent her sliding a couple feet away and making him stay out of her reach.

"That's it, Robin! You're going down!" Yoshi said, playfully, as if that was all a big game to him.

"We'll see about that," she gave a roguish smile, jumping in the air as she spoke.

Yoshi jumped as well in order to give her an air kick, but Robin was faster and hit him with Arcfire, burning him at mid-air. She used that brief moment that stunned him to charge her Arcthunder tome, while Yoshi made sure to get away from her as soon as possible. He threw an egg at her, forcing her to stop everything she was doing to raise her shield again. Unfortunately, that was all but a bait for the tactician to get vulnerable enough for him to use his tongue and grab her. Yoshi swallowed her and transformed her into an egg, using those precious seconds where she struggled to get out from her shell to headbutt her.

"Ew, ew, ew!" she cried out once she was released, trying to wipe off the saliva from her body. "Seriously, Yoshi?!"

"Everyone tells me the same," the dinosaur pouted. "It's a biological condition."

"Oooh, this is gonna get so gross."

"Don't worry, you'll get clean once you leave the stage. That's how people can stand playing against me or Kirby."

"I hope so."

Yoshi dashed towards her, ready to kick her in the stomach, only to fail when Robin rolled out of the way and hit him with her Levin sword. With a yelp of pain, the dinosaur backed off and jumped once more, spinning around and using his tail as a whip to hit Robin in the stomach.

That was going to be a long battle, she could already tell.

"Robin, he won't stop jumping," Rob muttered, watching the television that broadcast the fight between Robin and Yoshi that hung on the wall ahead from him. "He's quick, but reckless. Maybe if you could keep him on the ground, or hit him with Arcfire while he's close to hit you..."

"One point!"

There was a loud clack that shook Rob out of his trance, forcing him to take his eyes away from the TV and back to his opponent at the other side of the air hockey table. What just happened?

"This wouldn't have happened if you were paying attention to the game than to the television," Shulk playfully mocked.

"Where is the code of honor?" Rob played along, reaching down the table to retrieve the red disk. "You saw I was distracted with Robin's fight."

"Oh, how is she doing, by the way?" Shulk turned around, squinting his eyes at the screen.

Just as he did that, Rob slid the disk across the table and hit Shulk's goal, making him turn back at him in surprise.

"Hey!"

The little screen on the left side of the table showed the digital score of 19-20, marking Rob as the winner of their game.

"If you were paying attention, that wouldn't have happened," he smirked.

"Low blow, Rob. You just did that because you were one point from winning."

"No, I just did that because I don't like being cheated on," Rob said, his eyes focusing on the TV again, "Ah! Robin got the kill! I can't believe Yoshi fell for that trick!"

"What trick?!" Shulk turned around just in time to see the replay of Robin using Elwind on Yoshi and pummeling to the abyss below them. "Hey, nice one!"

"She's using the strategy I recommended her," the tactician commented, kind of proud, kind of surprised at how she took his advices from heart.

"...Your face is red."

"What? I'm happy that she puts so much faith in me," he said, roughly rubbing his cheek with the palm of his hand. "It means a lot to me."

"You two really love each other a lot, don't you?" Shulk smiled.

"To be honest, being with Robin is one of the few things that keeps me going on nowadays," Rob confessed.

"Come on, Rob..."

"I know I sound like a downer, but it's true. I'm just… Really, really tired of doing anything," he sighed. "I'm actually kind of relieved that Robin took over my fight for today. I don't think I would be able to face Yoshi like this. I didn't even want to get out of my bed."

"Haven't you been getting any sleep?"

"It's not just about the lack of sleep. I'm just tired of everything."

"I… Really have no words for that."

"It's okay, I just wanted to let it out."

Shulk really hoped a cure to this Grima thing was found. He had the feeling Rob wouldn't last long if things kept going that way.

Master Hand keeps making things worse without even knowing and he has amazing cockblock senses. And about the air hockey game thing, I did plan on making them play chess, but decided not to, because I don't know how to play chess and couldn't narrate it and also because I remember playing air hockey a lot when I went to birthday parties when I was little. They always had one of those and I would always drag one of my friends or my sister to play.

Anyway, where getting close to the end and, wow, I can't believe I might actually finish this story. On an unrelated note, I know it's not a surprise to anyone, but Gemini will be on a hiatus until my motivation to write that story returns.

PozzyP: You're right, you should definitely review more often. I'm sorry about the direction I took with the Assist Trophies, but it was necessary. I really wanted to write about either Riki or Ashley, but then it wouldn't explain why Shulk missed him so much. Unless they were sentient beings but were constantly locked in a basement and only freed in battles. But let's admit it, that would be way too cruel. I would say great minds think alike, indeed! Especially when it comes to pushing gay girls into closets.

SharpRevan: RPGs are amazing, but I don't have a lot of patience to finish them. If Robin gets pregnant, then Master Hand would really lose his temper. I mean, one of the two Robins is mentally ill and can't currently fight and then suddenly the other shows up pregnant. I don't think he would appreciate it a lot.

Guest: Ouch! I'm sorry, I thought it was specific enough. I was kind of afraid of reaching rated M territory (had to tweak chapter 9 because that happened), but maybe I should have taken more risks. To be honest, I'm not really trying that hard to use as many words as possible. If I sound too wordy, I'm not doing it intentionally. Makokam already told me to proofread and yeah, I get kind of impatient and careless at times just so I can update faster. I've never heard of JackSepticEye, but I'll check his channel out!

NitroTheKidd88: Well, at the moment, neither of them cared that much. I hope this chapter answered some of your questions! And no, they didn't do Morgan, Like I said, the Robins are already going through some pretty tough times and having Morgan would just make things worse for them. But if they were to have Morgan, I have no idea if they would have Galeforce, because I don't know if Robin decided to become a Dark Flier at one point of her life. I also play casual when it comes to Fire Emblem. Strategical thinking is hard and loosing your units forever isn't fun (that's why I'm having difficulties with Sacred Stones), so I'm really glad Awakening had casual mode. Maybe the Phoenix Wright LPs are boring because it's a visual novel? I don't know.

I like to mix it up. I try to not camp too much, so I usually try to alternate between playing aggressively with the Levin and bronze swords and spamming Elthunders and Arcfires. Sometimes I get some hard reads, but I'm not that good at that and I usually don't follow my opponents off stage when I'm playing as Robin, because I tend to abuse of my Elwind tome when I jab, so I don't know if I'll be able to recover later.

SmashBrosFan96: I'm glad you liked Crazy Hand! Henry is a bloodthirsty sociopath that joins your army in the game and he's really, really funny. While I didn't put the bloodthirsty part, I tend to think Crazy cares very little about what others are feeling, with the exception of Master Hand and maybe the full-time veterans, who he feel closer to. Robin explained that she did what she did because she thought everyone would end up winning with her decision. She would disappear and people wouldn't have to worry about Grima anymore, since their lives were connected. In the game it is shown that the Avatar (Robin) despite being well-liked by others and being praised for their tactical abilities still have some pretty deep insecurities about themselves, like the male Avatar telling Tiki in their s support conversation that they know they will never be as good as Marth in her eyes, or asking their doppelganger at the wellspring of truth if they are worthy of standing by Chrom's side, despite everything that happened. So I basically took this characteristic and leveled up to eleven for drama's sake.

I don't believe their situation is a love square? Like, Rob and Robin are already in a relationship, and then there's Lucina pinning for Robin and Peach pinning for Lucina. That really wouldn't count as a love square. Actually, that's a lot of genres! And yeah, I also watch Chuggaconroy's LPs. It was thanks to him that I managed to watch Xenoblade Chronicles, since I can't buy the game because it's too rare and expensive here. I don't know why, but his videos are just really enjoyable to watch (and he makes terrible puns, so that's also great).

LegitElizabethWWEFan: Yeah, it only makes sense they would use protection. Hey, you have your reasons for not reviewing, no need to apologize. Don't worry, I'm sure Lucina's friendship with the Robins. Next chapter I'll definitely try make Robin and Lucina have something nice, quality time next chapter, but who knows? That's the best part about writing about Pokemon and other characters with no canon personality. It's all the more fun to try to come up with something for their personalities!

It's a little cliched, yes, but I like the idea of angst sex, so there. Part of it happened because they wanted to forget about their problems for a while, but it also happened because they kind of had this mutual thought of "you really don't know what might happen tomorrow, so let's enjoy each other while we can". Not the best way of thinking, but that's how they are rolling at the moment. Frederick looks like the perfect cross of prince charming and knight in shinning armor! Not to mention he's also part-time butler, I can see why you like him so much! Yeah, let's hope that happens soon. Your AUs are fantastic! To answer your question: I do plan on writing about 4 or 5 more chapters. I already have the key points and the climax of this story planned, I just need to sort them out. But yeah, we are close to the end.

WR300: Oh, then I'm glad you didn't get too much spoilers. They obviously had bought protection before. Obviously. They are always three steps ahead. I have no idea what your idea of a cliche game is, but I'll believe you.

Bighat12: I know, right? Crazy Hand being the annoying little brother type just seems to fit him so well! I'm not very fond of the hyper insane characterization he sometimes gets, but whatever. Everyone is entitled to characterize him the way they want, specially since he has no canon personality to begin with. Yeah, I wouldn't say seducing, as more as it kind of just happened. I think even Rob is surprised at how far they went. Palutena as a mischievous matchmaker makes a lot of sense to me. I don't know why, it just does. You and a lot of people have RPG as their favorite genre. That's actually pretty interesting to know! I don't understand what Nintendo is trying to do, honestly. I really don't.

Anyway, here are my questions:

-Would you guys be interested in reading another heavy make out scene (that's as as far as I can get with the T rating)?

-What did you expect to get when you first started reading this story?

-What's your favorite color?