Smash Mansion, Garden Area
Beth is sitting in the garden with her guest being Captain Falcon, the Ice Climbers, Little Mac, Olimar, and Alph. The female professor is impatiently tapping her foot. She was getting annoyed. Her brother had left to go out somewhere without telling her leaving her to deal with this tea time on her own.
"Goddamn it Byleth! Where the hell are you?! You know I'm not good at doing these tea time things on my own! You're the one who set these things up and now you're leaving me alone to do the work!" Beth screams to herself.
"Is everything okay?" Little Mac asks.
Beth sighs. She turns to her guests. "Yeah I'm fine. I'm not used to doing these arrangements on my own. I usually have my brother here with me. Looks like he's running late, so I'm left to handling things on my own. You can pour yourself some tea if you want." The female professor was not very professional like her brother. She leans back on her chair, resting her arm on the back of it and crossing her legs. "Anyways, go ahead and talk about yourselves. What do you do?"
"My sister Nana and I climb up icicle mountains." Popo states.
"Is that all you two do?"
Nana begins to think. "Hmm...Yeah. Pretty much."
"Wonderful…" Beth mutters sarcastically. She turns to Olimar and Alph. "What about you two? You look kinda freaky. No offense."
"I am a father of two with a beautiful wife and a pet. I work in a deep space company where I collect valuable items around the world that are worth a lot of money." Olimar answers.
"I'm just a regular explorer along with my friends Captain Charlie and Brittany." Alph answers. Suddenly, a bunch of Pikmin came climbing on top of the table stealing the fruits from the fruit basket.
Beth screams as she leans back on her chair. "What the hell are those things?!"
"These are Pikmin. These creatures have been helping us a lot on our adventures." Olimar answers.
"There are seven kinds of Pikmin. Red, blue, yellow, white, purple, rock, and flying. All having their own different attributes and abilities." Alph informs.
Beth watches as the Pikmins jump off the table and run away to the mansion with all the fruits. She shudders. "I definitely don't wanna know where they come from. They all creep me the hell out." The female professor turns to Captain Falcon. "So what about you? You got a silly looking outfit on, so I assume you do something cool."
Falcon chuckles. "You'd be correct missy. I'm Captain Falcon. I'm an intergalactic bounty hunter and the F-Zero Grand Prix champion! You can also refer to me as a personal hype man for Smash!" The F-Zero racer smirks.
"You're a mercenary too? Nice. So what is this F-Zero thing all about anyways?"
"The F-Zero grand prix is a very special race. It's very fast paced and extremely dangerous. My Blue Falcon is the greatest racing machine you'll ever witness. I even own my own spaceship I call the Falcon Flyer. I use it to find crime activity."
"Have any particular bounties that you'd never forget?"
Falcon begins to think. "Well, I do have a few notable rivals. Samurai Goroh, Black Shadow, and a clone of me named Blood Falcon. Those three in particular put me through a lot of stress, but I bested them all no problem Although I'll admit, I've almost died a few times."
"Interesting. I think you're pretty cool." Beth smiles. She turns to Little Mac. "What about you? I see you're wearing gauntlets, so I assume you're a fighter."
"These aren't gauntlet, these are boxing gloves." Mac corrects. "But yes, I am a fighter. Err, boxer to really be specific. Boxing is primarily fist fighting. I'm a former boxing champion. I fought against a lot of crazy fighters from all around the world with my coach Doc Louis by my side. He helped me train to get into boxing in the first place."
"Former champion huh? So you must be really strong huh? Has anyone tried to cheat to beat you?"
Mac nods. "Oh yeah, multiple fighters. This guy Great Tiger disappears and uses his clones, another one named Bear Hugger tried to use a squirrel to fight me, Aran Ryan tried to swing a horseshoe at my head and he wasn't banned, Soda Popinski drinks super powered soda to fight me. These dudes were crazy. Sometimes it felt like I was fighting for my life in that ring."
Beth snickers. "Least you didn't crack under the pressure. I mean if you're the champion, you gotta be ready for any tactics from anyone trying to take that title from you."
"Seriously. A lot of people doubted me because I was short, but I showed them that I'm nobody to mess with." Mac pumps his fist with a smile. "By the way, I ran into one of your students earlier. He had cyan hair."
Beth already knew who the boxer was talking about and groaned. "Casper. Lemme guess, tried to pick a fight with you?"
Mac nods. "Yup, and I knocked him out with one punch."
"The expected result. Sorry about him. He means well, but he can be very...stupid."
Front of the Smasher Mansion
The Gatekeeper is standing by the front door watching over whoever may come in or see if there is anything to report. He turns to see Byleth approaching the mansion dragging a giant orange and blue fish in his hand.
"Woah! G-Greetings professor! I-I see you got yourself a really good catch today!" Gatekeeper yells.
Byleth turns and waves to the Gatekeeper. "Yes." He simply replies.
"Nothing to report!"
"Thank you Gatekeeper." Byleth continued to drag the giant fish to the garden area. He makes it to the garden and waves at his sister and the other guest. "Hello everyone." He waves.
Beth and the other smashers turn to Byleth. Their eyes widen at the giant fish Byleth had behind him.
"Is that the fish from the Summit?!" The Ice Climbers yell.
"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Beth yells in anger. She walks to her brother and grabs him by the collar. "You're telling me you left me to do this alone so you can go on a fishing trip?!"
Sothis appears beside Beth. She shakes her head with a disappointed look on her face. "You're an idiot Byleth."
"Okay, maybe that was a little irresponsible of me. But look at what I caught. Isn't it an amazing catch? I had to sit on a giant icicle in the water to get this guy. He was a fighter." Byleth says.
"FISH!" A female voice screams.
Byleth, Beth, and Sothis turn to see Flayn in the garden with her eyes glowing and her mouth watering. The young girl rushes up to the giant fish and jumps on it. She takes a bite of the fish.
Sothis sighs. "That girl ain't right sometimes." She says.
"She is your grandchild after all. I wonder where she got it from." Beth snarks.
"Easy there Flayn, we still have to cook it first before we start eating." Byleth tells the young girl.
Flashback
Foldlan, Year 1174
A group of bandits have come to ransack a village of it's food and supplies. Rummaging through houses, destroying property, beating up some villagers and even killing some of them. Screams of terrified villagers echoed throughout the village. There are fifthteen bandits spread around the village with their leader, Nakarcu in the middle. Nakarcu is a tall and muscular man with a scar over one of his eyes and a gap in his teeth.
"Take everything that you see! If anyone gets in your way, kill them! Man, woman, or child! It doesn't matter!" The bandit leader demanded.
In the distance, Captain Jeralt Eisner is looking on at the danger along with his now fifteen year old twins, Byleth and Beth. The two twins are wearing white button down shirts, black pants, and black boots. Byleth has a steel sword strapped behind his back while Beth is wearing steel gauntlets. Byleth has not changed much in appearance from when he was younger, but he was now slightly taller than his sister. Beth now has her hair down and her features are starting to show on her chest, she also has a white bandage on her face from an altercation she got into earlier.
Today is going to be the twins first job as mercenaries. Jeralt thought that they were finally old enough to pick up a weapon and start doing jobs. He made sure to train them both on how to fight along with his other crew mates. They were both proficient at using a sword, but Beth wanted to learn how to fight with gauntlets in particular.
Jeralt shakes his head and groans in annoyance. "Damn bandits. Causing nothing but trouble and killing innocents like the hooligans they are. I know its nothing we haven't dealt with before, but it's still annoying to see." He turns to his twins. "Now this is your first job kiddos. I know me and the boys trained you to fight, but to be honest I'm still worried about sending you out there. The rest of the crew and I will be behind ya. If things get too dicey, run away. You understand?"
"You worry too much Pops. We can take care of these guys no problem." Beth says confidently. She taps Byleth on the shoulder. "You ready brother? Let's save some people." She smiles as she pumps her fist.
Byleth nods to his sisters. The twins rush to the village. Jeralt holds his head and sighs. "I hope I haven't made a mistake. I know Sitri wouldn't like the fact that I'm letting them do this." The mercenary captain follows his children.
Byleth and Beth make it to the entrance of the village. One of the bandits sees the twins at the entrance. He turns to his leaders. "Captain! We got some kids over here!"
Nakarcu turns to see Byleth and Beth. He wasn't phased by the twins in the slightest. "Well what are you standing there for? Kill them! If they intend to get in our way then get rid of them!" He demanded.
"Hey you ugly bastard! We're taking you down! You and the rest of your band of jackasses!" Beth shouts. Byleth takes out his sword from his back.
"What a loud mouth brat you are! Change of plans. After we get rid of the boy, me and the boys are going to capture you and teach you a lesson. I think you'd make a good stress reliever." Nakarcu says with a wicked smirk.
"I'll get rid of the boy!" One of the bandits screamed as he charged at Byleth an axe in hand.
Jeralt makes it to the entrance and gasps. "Kid watch out!" He yells.
Byleth could feel a strange force activating within him. As the bandit raises his axe, Byleth swiftly cuts off the bandit's hand. The bandit screams in pain as blood begins pouring out of his arms. Byleth decapitates the bandit with his sword. The young boy looks up to the other bandits with a stoic and heartless look on his face. The bandits are in shock to see one of their members being easily killed by some teenager.
Another bandit rushes at the twins with an axe in hand. This time, it was Beth who was beginning to feel something activating inside of her. The teenage girl dashes at the bandit and punches a hole through his chest. The bandit coughs up blood, he collapses to the ground as Beth takes her gauntlet out of the bandit's chest. Looking at the blood on her gauntlet, the teenage girl begins to feel a rush. She begins to laugh.
"Is killing someone supposed to feel this exhilarating? I kind of like it." Beth turns to her brother with a smirk on her face. "Let's slaughter them." She says darkly. Byleth nods his head. The twins go charging at the bandits.
Nakarcu growls in frustration. "Kill those kids!" He demanded.
The bandits let out a battle cry and go charging at the twins. As a group, surely these two kids wouldn't be able to handle thirteen bandits all at once. Oh how wrong these were. Byleth effortlessly decapitated seven bandits who came running at him one by one with his steel sword. While he didn't speak, he thought it was foolish of the bandits to not gang up on him. They didn't have much of a brain to begin with, so he wasn't surprised by this fatal flaw. Meanwhile Beth stabs five bandits with her steel gauntlets. One of the bandits swung his axe down at the teenage girl, Beth grabs the bandit's arm and slits his throat.
There was now one bandit left. He stopped in his tracks. Seeing his comrades with their heads gone and pools of blood around them. It freaked him out. He was shaking in his boots. This was something he definitely did not sign up for when he became a bandit. He looks up at the twins with a horrified look on his face. The twins had blood all over their once purely white shirts, the side of their face having blood, and even some blood on their hair. Byleth stared at the bandit with a cold and unmerciful look while Beth had the most sinister smile on her face.
"W-What the hell are you two?!" The bandit screams. The twins began slowly approaching him. The bandit drops his axe and raises his hand in the air. "P-Please! D-Don't kill m-GAAAAAH!" He coughs up blood as Byleth stabs in the chest with his steel sword. The bandit falls to the ground.
The twins turn their attention to Nakarcu. The bandit leader couldn't believe it. He just witnessed his entire team get mutilated by teenagers. Any sane person at this point would retreat and never look back, but Nakarcu was stubborn. He's already gotten this far, he wasn't going to back down like some coward.
"Damn you fucking brats! You may have killed my men, but you won't kill me! I've gotten too far to lose to two kids! I won't allow it!" Nakarcu let out a battle cry and came charging in with his silver axe.
He swings at the twins, but they quickly dashes back out of the way. Byleth swings his steel sword at Nakarcu's, causing him to scream in pain and fall on one knee. Beth runs in and knees Nakarcu in the jaw, breaking it and making him fall on his back. The bandit leader's silver axe falls out of his hand.
Beth gets on top of Nakarcu's chest. She takes off her gauntlets and cracks her knuckles with an evil smile on her face. She begins punching the bandit leader repeatedly. Breaking his face, having his blood spill on her hands. Beth felt powerful punching the life out of this low life bandit, she began to laugh in enjoyment. After Nakarcu stopped showing signs of life in his body, Beth gets off of the bandit leader.
"You don't deserve any mercy." Beth states. The teenager cracks her neck and lets out a groan as she stretches. She turns to her brother. "Nice job there Byleth! You really know how to use a sword!" She gives her Byleth a thumbs up. Byleth replies with a nod and also gives his sister a thumbs up.
Jeralt couldn't believe what he had just witnessed. His kids savagely murdered sixteen bandits with relative ease. It baffled him. Scared him almost at how merciless and deadly they were. He couldn't argue it though, they got the job done. The bandits had it coming to them too. Byleth and Beth walk back to the entrance of the village to meet with their dad.
"I...I don't know what to say. Y-You..." Jeralt spoke.
"Did a good job? Handled things well? Did better than expected?" Beth asks excitedly, trying to finish her father's sentence.
Jeralt sighs. "Yes, you did a good job. You both looked a little crazy out there. This was something I definitely didn't expect from either of you."
One mercenary came rushing to the Eisner family. "The boys and I saw everything back there! That was amazing! Jeralt, you didn't tell us your kids were such trained killers! Have you been holding out on us capt?" He says.
"Don't say that, I was just as surprised as you were to them in action like this. Anyways, the job is done. We should all check on the villagers in the village and see if there's any way we could assist them. Bring the other guys here." Jeralt commanded.
"Yes sir. Can't wait till we get to a bar and talk about this! Look out everyone for Jeralt Eisner's deadly twins! His son, the Ashen Demon Byleth and his daughter, the Scarlet Fist Beth." The mercenary jokes.
"Enough with that. Now get everyone over here."
The mercenary runs to go get the rest of the mercenary group.
"The Scarlet Fist…" Beth mutters. She smiles. "Yeah. I think I quite like that nickname for myself. What about you By? Ashen Demon is a pretty cool nickname huh?" She asks.
"..." Byleth just kept his usual stoic look.
Beth sighs and shakes her head. "Still not much of a talker. I'll just assume you'll accept it." She laughs.
Flashback ends
Author's Note: Hey all, just wanted to make a quick note about Byleth and Beth in the flashback. They are unaware that they are carrying crest inside of them, but Jeralt knows that they do have crest but won't tell them.
Next tea time is going to feature Peach and Daisy, and I love me some Princess Daisy.
