So, I spent the next few days working on a deleted scene one shot for this story. It'll be posted after this story is complete.
There's something so special about Robin I couldn't resist writing out an authorXcharacter story.
It's so cute to meet someone fictional in real life.
I mean it.
It's avaliable on SparkATale already titled "Rain" but I promise to post this once I'm done with ID (Purpose).
Beware that I'm detail-lacked with the rest of the AweSomE cast members.
I don't know how I end up writing so much for Robbie but not for his friends who are back in Virginia Beach.
I apologize my dear readers. xD
We now come back to Virginia Beach where the newly re-built AweSomE cast mansion takes place.
Enjoy!
"Alright Ragnell, I want you to decide which snack is the best for Snack of the Day for my cooking show."
Ike carefully watched his pet chicken cock his head in a confused manner, clucking at the two plates before him, pacing around in the hay coop before standing still again.
Salmon on a cracker or a 10 piece bucket of KFC?
The mercenary's fabled bird was very well unaware of cannibalism on his own fellow friends and pecked at the bucket instead, Ike immediately stood up with a gasp of surprise.
"Bingo, Ragnell! This one's going on air today!" Scooping up the confused fluffy white bird in his arms, Ike dashed to his room on the second floor (because the mansion was amazingly that large) where he plopped the bird on the desk while he set the camera on record.
Joining by his side, he whipped up the smile and bought out the usual introduction, "Welcome back my fellow Smash friends to this week's episode of Ike's cooking show. For our snack of the day, my very fabled chicken named Ragnell helped me decide which is the best snack for us to enjoy! It was a huge desicion for our poor bird here to make but he finally found his crusty friends in the bucket! Be sure to buy some KFC whenever you hit up the hunger!"
"Ragnell oddly declined salmon on a cracker perhaps because chickens don't eat fish or he was slightly upset when he watched that episode of me clumsily doing Great Aether on the picnic table."Marth happened to walk by Ike's room, placing an ear against the wooden door to listen to more of his odd cooking show that was currently aired all across Smashbook live. "But oddly he liked his fellow crusted friends so much isn't it a bit odd for a chicken to realize his own cannibalism fried into the bucket?"
Marth rolled his eyes with a huff, finding Ike's episode topic on KFC too much. The Altean prince disregarded his friend's daily cooking show although he ordered the poor indigohead to make him a sandwich or his faviourite, a bowl of glistening Cheerios, the irresistible crunchy cereal he got into once they lived in Earth AU.
Just that he thought about it, a little Cheerios with milk was just his daily breakfast so why not?
Climbing down the stairs that spread wide into an arc, Marth found Shulk and Lucina at the kitchen table, both of them seated opposite of each other, silence weaving around them except for a toaster getting beaten up (S&M destruction style) by the only white feathered angel in the cast.
"Oh, sorry." Pit apologized to the narrator as he sweeped up the remains of the toaster and dumped them in the kitchen bin.
With her Cosmicgate Nova tablet facing the ex-princess of Ylisse (Lissa took over after she quit), Lucina sighed as she glanced at her Smashbook newsfeed, awaiting a video call from her father who was miles east in AJRA.
Shulk popped open a can of Mountain Dew, sipping it occasionally while he finished placing the last touches to his next EDM event held in Interlaken, AJRA.
Feeling satisfied with his amazing trailer, the blonde hom turned his Samsung ATVI 9 notebook and smiled, trying to cheer up Lucina's feelings, "What do you think about this Lucy?"
With the into beats to the Tommorowland 2012 theme (What are you waiting for? VANRAY MIX) quietly playing out of the speakers, Lucina deeply didn't focus into her friend's ultimate creation as she shook her head with a frown and sighed, "That's not gonna help Shulk."
The blonde hom immediatly faltered in shock, "Why? Lucy, you always loved to help me out with my EDM events. What happened to you today?"
"Aren't you completely aware of our only member missing from the AweSomE cast?" tears softly trailed down her cheeks as Lucina choked back a sob, unaware of fish freak trying to call her.
Shulk sighed in annoyance and came around to comfort her while he accepted the call. "Shhh.. it's alright. We know he's left behind. But there's still hope to get him back. Just look upon God and everything will be okay."
"I said the same thing to him on my last message before we escaped AJRA." Lucina glanced at the screen to find a bunch of malted fishsticks stacked Jenga style in front of the computer monitor.
"Why does he always play board games with fishsticks? It's so weird." Shulk chuckled, finding the exalt to be a little cuckoo over these crusty orange things.
"Just don't worry for that now." Lucina continued to stare at her parent's bedroom, listening to the door flung open and watch Sumia enter the room, setting down a basket of fresh laundry on the double bed. After neatly folding a few of fish freak's faviourite shirts (which many of them concerned his message of his newly created religion), Sumia noticed the Terra computer monitor displaying her daughter's face along with Shulk, "Hey mother."
Sumia sat down, glad to see her daughter still in contact, "Oh Lucina, I almost didn't see you there. And before you ask anything concerning about your father-" pausing, she carefully moved the tower of orange to his nightstand, where the lamp sported a small statue of a Koi fish, "He almost went nuts over a small little bee that is currently buzzing around our house right now."
"Where is he?"
"Having lunch at the City Hall along with the other shepherds. Lissa's here if you want to talk to her, but she may be busy taking care of Anina right now."
"He's ALWAYS having lunch at Nordsee. I'm so happy that none of them made an appearance here in Aquila. Just tell father to call me back. I have something important to say."
"Alright, Lucina. Take care." Sumia signed off as she got up and resumed on folding laundry, every now and then glancing at the screen to see if the connection has not been cut off by some electrical technicians who happened to be Risens for whatever sole purpose they were hired in Ylisse for various jobs.
"What's the important point? That our missing member of the AweSomE cast is left behind?" Shulk helpfully guessed, finishing off his can of Mountain Dew.
"We won't have the ability to return to AJRA anymore." Lucina simply replied.
Shulk's eyebrows raised a bit in confusion, "Then how are we supposed to set up Destiny SMASH: Interlaken Showdown if we can't have the possibility to return?"
"Just wait until father calls back- oh great timing for fish freak. Hello father."
"What's up bitch? What the fuck are you up to?" Chrom happily greeted while he resumed on his tower of fishsticks, carefully pulling one out- Jenga style.
Lucina sighed at his use of language.
She, Sumia, and Lissa had told him many times to talk like a normal being though he refused to accept anything they said (including God's word) and simply stuck to his fishy personality.
"Father, please. There's something I wanna tell you and Sumia. I won't be able to return to AJRA to resume living there. Instead I can only visit for week or two as a tourist then return to Aquila again. Simple words. We burned our AJRAnian passports."
With the tower of fishsticks knocked over in surprise, fishfreak almost scoffed and stared at Lucina like she was a threat to the Lowell family heritage, "What? Why the fuck did you do that?"
"Does he really have to F bomb in every sentence?" Shulk sighed while he shook his head in disbelief.
Lucina banged her fists on the table getting her father's attention "Words that describe AJRA: money, bills, smoke, hell, robots, false religion,-"
"Don't forget about the mountains, cheese, and chocolate. Oh and watches, Plegia's really good at destroying time." Chrom helpfully interjected, carefully plying out another orange fishstick. To Shulk's surprise, it was amazing on how the tower did not collapse yet.
"Why thank you father." Lucina huffed in annoyance towards his childish behavour, "I think it's time that we stay Worlds Apart."
"Fine, fine. But remember this. Kalastta-"
"Nobody wants to even listen to your dumb religion anyway." Lucina huffed, rolling her eyes in annoyance, "I heard the message hit the front page of the plegian blanket (newspaper), I wonder if people still respect Naga there or not."
"Oh, switching back to the divine religion now are we?" Fish freak countered in a mocking tone, "Just for your info, we removed the divine dragon statue from the Ylisse Rathaus (Lucina snickered at the mention of the city hall) and moved it to Hoshido, currently sitting in my company's warehouse."
"And what was it replaced with? A damn fishstick of yours being held by the great Rappy McRapperson?"
"Damn, Lucy. You're helping me out here! Rappy should become our disciple!"
"Whatever father. I have nothing to do with Ylisse now. It's your Kanton. It's your Halidom. At least in that one meeting I suggested that we focus more on the city planning, thus you refused to help out and spend the rest of your day with Lord McRapperson. Seriously?"
"We were on a date at Nordsee! What's your problem?"
"If Sumia finds out, you're gonna be in huge trouble."
"Never gonna happen."
"Then why is the sidewalk bigger than the road, huh?"
"Because AJRA is tiny compared to the other countries in Future Europe!"
"That still doesn't answer my question. If you want nature, go to Bionis then! Forests everywhere! Infact, the Lagdou Wildlife Reserve and Shadow Dragon National Park have lots of trees, It seems pointless to even have a zoo in Ylisse!"
"But what about Belfire then? Sumia will have to drive once a week to Shadow Dragon National Park to look after her pegasus!"
"Let that be. I just wanted to let you know that we can't return."
"Well, I don't care because I captured a Nighthunter along with basket of gold and fish!"
Lucina rolled her eyes towards the mention Dreamworks Dragons. It was that day when her father confessed that all of his captured dragons were set free from his Galaxy Tab-S, infilterating Ylisse like it was the old generation again. True, it took so much hard work just to capture some 3D animated reptiles from a stupid game.
"Alright father. I think I'll see you later. Have fun with your 'Nighthunter'"
"Peace out bitch!"
With the video call clicked off, Lucina faced Shulk who was busy creating a unique sandwich for both of them.
Once done, he carefully brought them in a wobbling stack, setting it down with a smile, "Something to cheer you up lately."
Grabbing one and ripping the edge off, Shulk niched his brows as if he felt highly concerned for his member, "Hey. Something wrong?"
"Shulk?" Lucina's blue eyes stared into his. "If we possibly have no contact with Robin over phone, I'm pretty sure there is another way to contact him."
"How?" Shulk questioned, his hand grabbing in for another sandwich.
"There's an ability that all homs possess. I'm pretty sure you must be familiar with Ether." Lucina held her breath, waiting for an answer only for Ike to come in, "Did someone say anything about Aether?"
Shulk chuckled, "Not really."
"I was so held up on recording my cooking show, I wonder if Ragnell's pecking on a Cheerio or two." Ike wondered out loud as he opened the fridge to find some fried chicken bought from Food Lion lately and refill the KFC bucket to his heart's consent, when he slammed the bucket on the counter in realization, "That damn Marth! He better not feed my bird with that cheerios! MARTH!"
Instantly, the mercenary of Crimea rushed out of the kitchen, the only two members listening in to the loud thumps of the stairs as Ike rushed into his room and banged the door shut, the walls of the mansion shivering with an echo.
"That's unexpected." Lucina blinked in confusion as Shulk flapped his hand, "Awkward moment but don't take it too deep. Anyway, you were saying?"
"Ether. You think you can track him down in AJRA?" Lucina hopefully said, Shulk laid back in his chair and hummed in thought. Eyeing the tray, he decided to take it over to the sink while continuing on his thoughts.
"Considering he could be ANYWHERE in AJRA, I guess it would be worth a try." Shulk shrugged by the sink as he swept the breadcrumbs off of the tray and began to run a soft stream of water over it.
Sighing, he set the tray back to it's overhang rack and rested his back against the counter, facing Lucina, "Here goes nothing."
Sapphire blue rifted to pure gold as Shulk's eyes began to glow, an aura glimmering around him, his platinum blonde hair drifting in the non-existent wind.
After a few seconds, everything returned to normal, Lucina breaking the silence with concern in her eyes, "So, any hope?"
"Yes, Lucy. It's true. We did leave him behind. But why?"
Lucina almost huffed in disappointment, "Don't ask questions here. Tell me what you saw."
Lips curled into a quiver, Shulk heaved a sigh and sat down next to her, "Alright. He's stuck somewhere in Solothurn. Bizzare as it seems, his Touran was white instead of black. He currently has nowhere to stay but sleep in his car every night. And I wonder why a vacuum sitting in the front seat is in company with him?"
Lucina shrugged, "No clue at all."
A sigh broke the silence as the bluehaired girl stood up and walked out of the kitchen, leading Shulk infront of the weaponry room, where every member's weapons where displayed against the stone wall, a glass tube encasing it while light up numbers currently dim were placed next to their names and weapons, currently password protected.
Lucina approached the terminal, hands controlling the arrow keys as the lights jumped from
1. Monado- Shulk Nolan
all the way to
5. Levin sword- Robin Delahaye
which held none of the tactician's weapon displayed.
"Looks like he held it for defense." Shulk quietly commented, his heart really feeling that he should get his hands on his Monado now.
A tear or two trickled down Lucina's cheek as she choked back a sigh and shut down the terminal, heading over to a corner to sit crosslegged and dig her head into her knees. "Just where are you, Rob?"
Shulk mustered up his courage to yet comfort her the second time by walking over when his foot oddly felt a tilt in the floor.
"Strange." he muttered out loud, catching Lucina's attention to where he was staring at.
"A secret compartment?" she wildly guessed, her mind racking into how in planet Mira it even got there.
"This was definitely not part of our construction plan when we re-built the mansion." Shulk continued, kneeling down to pry the door open.
With Lucina's help, they both managed to unlace the hook that latched the door closed, a musty smell of dust and age lingering the air, their discovery making them cough with difficulty.
Once cleared out, their eyes widened in surprise.
Hidden deep into the corner of the tight space was a dusty covered book, a black hardcover leather bound tome (similar to the elemental tactician tomes that both Robin and Reflet use) sporting a blue flaming snake (Ouroborus style) and a few lettering in the Ancient Tongue above and below the snake.
"What did you find right there, Luce?" Shulk peeked over her shoulder to tilt his head in confusion, as Lucina carefully studied the cover, deciphering the symbols into an easy translated title to understand.
"Snakes, why'd it have to be Snakes?! by Anna Destiny?" Lucina held the book limp in her hand, facing Shulk with an odd look. "Why would anyone title a book like this?"
"More importantly, why would anyone mention snakes?" Shulk ruffled his brow into confusion as Lucina carefully exhaled and opened the book.
Skipping the title page, she faced chapter 1 titled "The Adventure Begins! :D"
"Here goes nothing." Lucina began to read,
"Guys, I have a grave announcement too make." Ike said solemnly.
The current smashers occupying the room with him faced him.
"What, someone die?" Dark Pit quipped.
Ike gave him a look before continuing his speech. "I'm bored as hell!" Ike yelled in pure rage.
They all groaned. "So, why don't you do something?" Robin sighed, irritation forming on his normally smiling face.
"Damn. Do you not know what bored means?" Ike asked, with not a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"It means you have nothing to do, basically." Robin replied.
Ike nodded in approval, and that's when that I-Have-A-Idea face of his grew onto his face. Hey, some of our AweSomE cast members are in here! I wonder if you'll appear here, too Shulk!"
"Heck, I'm double popular now!" Shulk chuckled as Lucina speed read through chapter one and moved mistakenly onto chapter 3 titled "The Temple Guard"
"Let's see if you appear in chapter 3." Lucina smirked as she continued reading, "Of course, considering what the guardian had just said, and the fact Shulk was grinning, made it look as if he was grinning at (or what was going to happen) what the guardian said.
This disturbed everyone, mostly Robin.
"What *gulp* unspeakable things...?" Pit asked shakily, quaking in his... Well, he had sandals, but they sure look like boots, so let's say boots.
They could almost feel the guardian's rage, which would've been bad, as rage probably doesn't feel good. "I WILL FUCK EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU OUT OF YOUR BRAINLESS MINDS!" The guardian screamed once more.
At this Pit full out fainted.
"No one is fucking anyone." A new voice said.
Robin's face lit up, so he seemed to recognize the voice, unlike everyone else.
They all turned around to see..."
"Oh no." Lucina faltered and dropped the book in shock, maintaining a scream that shook the whole mansion.
"Whoa, there Lucy! What caught you into screaming in surprise?" Shulk held her shoulders, looking around to see if any other members came in to see what the problem was.
"All these years we lived in Virginia Beach, how could he be in the AweSomE cast too!" Lucina stuttered the words out, shivering while maintaining her balance to stand up.
Shulk gave her a quizzical look, "Who? Robin?"
"No! It was a good thing he didn't see the bridges breaking during Big Bang on the Rhine and Williamsburg Fury!" Lucina picked up the book to overlook the cover again in disbelief.
"Lucy? Who are you talking about?"
"Who am I talking about?" sneering, she flipped to chapter 4 (Another Homie Joins us) and almost slapped the book on his face. "The idiot whom we just talked to over Smashbook!"
Shulk double took and carefully read the first sentence.
"Chrom!" Robin said happily.
"Your father's part of the AweSomE cast too?" Shulk slowly lowered the book, shaking his head in disbelief towards the origins of the AweSomE cast.
It was yet unknown on how the members would add in an 11th member to the team if thier 9th member, Roy was slacking off and they were tempted to replace the dosh dick with the fishsitck lover.
"It seems that the book has finally unveiled it's truth. Don't judge a book by it's cover." Lucina sighed and faced Shulk, holding up the book. "In a few days I'm going back to AJRA to distract my father from using Robin as a slave. Will you join me Shulk?"
She held out her hand, pleading Shulk to accept it.
"May 15th. Remember the date."
Lucina cocked an eyebrow in confusion as Shulk groaned and sighed, "Didn't I show you the trailer?"
"To what?"
"Our next EDM event in Interlaken, AJRA." Shulk reminded as they both closed the door to the weaponry room and climbed the stairs, ignoring the rap music blaring loudly from Roy's room, the dosh dick hollering too much pussy lately as they both walked into Shulk's office for a private talk.
With the door quietly closed, Lucina glanced at the paperwork on his desk, the first sheet regarding permission to Desmond and Zephiel, rulers of Bern to host an EDM event in Interlaken.
"Just don't worry about that for now. Let's think of a plan." Shulk set down his laptop and took a seat, Lucina sitting opposite. Pulling out a map of AJRA, he grabbed a red Sharpie marker and started circling the landpoint where thier only missing friend was stuck, "If he's stuck in Solothurn, I say he's going to meet a friend there.-"
"Donnel." Lucina wildly guessed out of the blue.
"Perhaps." Shulk took a moment to scratch his head in confusion before resuming to track down the path to Interlaken, "He has to take a right turn after Oftringen, continue down Highway 1 after crossing the border to Bern, evade the Bundeshaus (The Federal Parliment of AJRA), and directly follow Highway 6 to Interlaken where he should spot a huge stage with lights and smoke flaring in the sky. THAT'S when we come in and rescue him."
Lucina took a moment to replay the plan Shulk had just shared, "I accept it. But if we invite every smasher to the party including the teams, then my father should not be invited."
"C'mon, Luce. There's no harm in inviting him. Besides, he dosen't know that Robin is still here in AJRA." Shulk pointed out, re folding the map of AJRA and neatly sliding it back to the shelf, "Plus, if his Touran was a different color and as long as he saved the wings from his original black Touran, I have all of the tools to make it Hydroplane. Don't worry."
Lucina nodded and smiled, glancing up at the window to see a full moon shining brightly against the evening night drifting through Virginia Beach.
"Get the cars ready for take off for the 15th. We have a tactician to save."
What a bad ending. But that was the main plan for both of our lovely smashers for I can't wait for the 15th.
Destiny SMASH Interlaken Showdown! xD
Stay tuned for the next chappie where Robbie's gonna continue his way to meet up with Donnel.
Falco276 out! :D