Oh geez! I can't wait to move into my new apartment! It's gonna be awesome! xD
Anyways, enjoy! :D
Green hills and yellow fields were the only movie tape to Robin as he continued his escape, driving on Brünigstrasse beside Lake Sarnensee.
Spotting a blue overhead sign that read "Sarnen-Sud (South)", Robin had a feeling he was entering the edge of Thracia, the only kanton that was dated back 776, even more than Ylisse (1775).
At least Thracia's ruler, Travant allowed any other people from other kantons to visit as long as they don't instigate a problem for AJRA to solve.
At least the Wyvern lover would allow a Ylissean criminal in without a doubt on who he really was.
Passing by the Gemeinde Sarnen building with ease, the flag waving it's white deer antlers on a steg while a six pointed star took the middle of the red flag, Robin felt as if he was at home but his worried mind focused on the feeling of his body.
His foot which kept his Touran on the move was slowly getting unresponsive.
A hesitating moment and he felt the signals in his nervous system respond to his brain, successfully speeding his minivan according to the assigned speed limit.
C'mon.Robin grunted to himself as he passed by various landmarks such as KantonalSchule (Kanton School) Thracia, KantonSpital (Kanton Hospital) Thracia, and other shops and restaurants that lined Brünigstrasse with tons of people doing their regular outdoor routines.
In a few minutes ahead of the speed limit got our frustrated tactician to huff in worry and annoyance.
With the Touran slowly rolling to a halt in front of a Socar gas station (the words "Migrolino" as the mini store and quick stop got Robin's eye to twitch in uncomfortable fear.), his heart almost beat in a hesitating moment of shocking worry as the car lurched only 3 km/h.
The nerve signals in his body that traveled from his foot to his brain was now completely thrown off and unresponsive due to his aching spine that made him grit his teeth in silent pain.
Exhaling while snapping his eyes open as if he realized some brilliant escape plan, Robin's breathing slowly caused him to sweat as he ultimately realized his dreaded end of his escape.
He can no longer use his feet to accelerate or brake.
No matter how hard he mentally commanded his legs to switch pads, it left him wailing in agony while pulling on his hair, a few bystanders walking past the vehicle found him a little crazy with question of looks thrown at this weirdo of a tactician.
Sobbing while the headlights and tailights flicked out it's hazards flashing every 3 seconds, he ultimately wished for this whole thing to never happen.
The awakening, stealing, escape, court, prison, escape again...it was just a waste of time!
Screw that dumb Toyota Prius of his!
It seemed worthless to even revive it anyway since Shulk easily had enough money to buy him another one in Virginia Beach!
But what has happened in the past is already gone and it must continue with a conclusion of a successful escape.
"Dry your tears, love. This is not good-bye."
Slowly inhaling his sobbing chokes and wiping his tears, Robin lifted his head up towards the mysterious angelic female voice that floated out of nowhere.
Squinting ahead towards the road, Robin gasped softly towards the lovely green haired figure standing elegantly in front of his minivan.
And no this was not Palutena, for the gassy goddess would just recruit him back to the Cute Toot House with a teasing fart.
It was Ylisse and Akenia's most favoured goddess, Naga, mother of divine dragons and it's sacred tribe of Manaketes including Nowi, Panne and Tiki.
The heroic feminine savour that resembled the divine dragon statue currently tarped over with a huge cloth was locked away in Fish Freak's steel company warehouse.
"N-Naga? Is that really you?" Robin stuttered nervously as his instincts told him she might disappear once he stepped out of his Touran but remained still in the driver's seat while confronting her for the first time.
Historic wonders from the Old Generation showered over AJRA as the heroes of the Lowell family heritage managed to slay The Shadow Dragon Medeus, the Dark Dragon Duma, and the Felldragon Grima just with the power of a divine sword Falchion and a holy shield The Fire Emblem, yet the New Generation managed to survive better with Naga's tributes of protection and love.
But if Ylisse or most importantly fish freak abandoned the goddess out of complete freewill and switched to Kalastta, that fish koi god, then why would Naga still be here, helping a certain tactician of Plegia around AJRA?
Bizzare as it sounded to him with a thoughtful hum, Robin patiently waited for Naga's reply.
She smiled softly, those smooth sapphire eyes blinked in a sweet way, "Ask and thou shall receive. Before you humbly mention anything about your legs, Robin, as a divine goddess, I am not able to make you stand back up on your feet again. Your act of a mistake and purpose has made you go through many tragic scenes throughout your life. Let it stay where you are because you're going to realize that suffering is a great gift to an honest person who can humbly forgive and repent. This is not the Alpha or the Omega. May Naga's divine snow bless the abstracted polar bear."
And with a seizing flash, the goddess disappeared, leaving flakes of green snow to freckle on the hood of his Touran, a winter specialty that only came around AJRA in December.
Robin felt his body feel much better, his spine lacking any pain for a temporary moment, although he backtracked on what Naga advised him.
Naturally Lucina and Reflet could already tell that part of the advise was not Naga's words but God's words to the tactician safe from any danger.
Canceling the hazards, Robin carefully thought on how he would possibly drive.
It was tough to even think about painstakingly driving with a hand on the pad while the other on the wheel.
Glancing towards the old broom stick with an awkward hum, that was left as an extra from his janitorial supplies he found near the school he studied and worked at.
It could possibly be my driving helper.
Carefully screwing in a small pad that acted as his artificial foot, Robin squeezed the stick between his paralyzed legs and the center console, blowing out a nervous sigh as he unlocked the parking break and gently let the pad push on the accel.
The Touran responded with a single obeyed command, veering slowly in the flow of the traffic until it gained speed according to the amount of pressure he put into it.
It was working!
Robin couldn't believe his driving skill!
One hand on the steering while the other controlled a broom stick could almost throw his Cast members into a state of unbelieving awe!
Exhaling while feeling proud, Robin continued to drive west of Thracia, unaware of a white mini van lacking the words "Polizei" on the vehicle following him.
"I hope to God you entered in 'Rathaus' instead of a 'Lidl' in the Nav, Shulk. What got you held up near the disgusting Uni where Robin and my father attended, hm?" Lucina rolled her eyes in annoyance as they both circled around the center of Ylisse-Stadt, both Ibiza and CRV lowering themselves until they found an wide empty street to use as a landing runway.
"Calm down. The plan of our escape was that each one of us was supposed to sell our house/apartment before we escaped to Virginia Beach." Shulk chuckled, parking in an open area so that he could speed-drill the wings off and lob them in the trunk.
Lucina stepped out with a huff as Shulk got his toolbox ready, triggering the Powerfix electric drill to spin while removing the palm sized screws from the side of his Ibiza. "True, but what exactly do we have to do with Rob's apartment?"
Shulk quickly placed the screws in his toolbox before facing her with a withering look, "Lucy, our search for him is a mystery to our hearts. There are clues everywhere that are easily uncoverable by us and I believe the apartment is the key to him left behind. I just know it thanks to Ether."
Lucina blew a nervous sigh and shrugged, "Whatever you say Shulk. I originally planned to come here in order to distract my father. It wasn't my complete idea to visit his mess pen of an apartment."
"Hey, we still have time. Just follow me and let's see what we could find, alright?" Shulk jogged towards the tall building next to Blauenstrasse 1, the first floor holding a lovely floral store.
Halting before the glass entrance, Lucina raised an eyebrow as she carefully watched Shulk strangely find the door key hidden in the mailbox along with several junk mail and bills taking up the tiny compartment, "Just how are you a genius detective Shulk?"
"Just call me lucky maybe." Shulk softly laughed with a light shrug as he neatly slid the key into the metal framed door, creaking with a swing as they both entered inside the elevator, Shulk still using the key to scale up to the fifth floor, the door that led them to an ultimate mess, both of them gasping towards the huge moment of a crazy tactician on the loose.
Shaking thier heads towards various objects (modem, clothes, hangers, cabinet rackers, feathers from pillows, shredded covers, shards of glass from Douche's old CRT TV- the frame shattered S&M style.) strewn across the rooms like a junkyard, they both donned on high confusion and questioning.
"For God's sake, why would he even do this?" Lucina entered the kitchen where she stepped on ceramic bits of plates with a gasp to find silverware littered along with beat out cooking ware, an avalanche of groceries collapsed from the squeaky open fridge, light flickering every three seconds.
"Your question would be answered if you saw this right here." With Shulk entering the BATHROOM, the ceiling light struggled to turn on where he found streaks of toothpaste swathed on the wall, "Must take revenge and revive the silver pegasus"while he stepped on broken orange medication bottles that littered it's contents everywhere.
Lucina obeyed, only for her to come in with a gasp of surprise. "Silver Pegasus?"
Shulk felt the BATHROOM wall with his fingers, paste easily crusting off from it's dried state, "Maybe he's dying without his Prius, that's so far I know of."
Lucina blinked in confusion at the chaotic mess strewn across the place, "You were right about coming here. Had we skipped this place, we might not have known that there was a sick tactician of ours stuck somewhere in AJRA."
"I told you so." With both of them raising a brow in confusion, Shulk reached towards the sink and drained the pool of Lorazepam (Amnesia), Celexa (Depression), and Gas X (Bloating) were cleared out while the toilet with the discolored broken seat gurgled on it's own after the sink devouvered the pills.
"That's what made him crazy." Shulk sighed as he lobbed the empty bottles near the wastebasket missing it's lid.
It then dawned on them that their friend got a savage schizophrenic attack while thinking on a possible way to escape AJRA.
Their missing puzzle piece was on why their friend went crazy after destroying his own apartment.
Was it because of Douche and Cia leaving him behind?
He didn't have enough time to sell the apartment and escape?
"Any idea where Mr. Nordsee could be?" Shulk wondered out loud as Lucina sighed, finishing off her Ovomaltine choco drink, the empty bottle returned to the center console as she gave out a clueless shrug.
"It was a good thing we didn't start off with the Rathaus. I say that the Shepherds are engaged in a meeting directly at the warehouse that's part of my father's steel company." Lucina reasoned as Shulk nodded in understanding, both of the cars flying over Kouga in order to reach Wikon, Hoshido.
It was very well unknown to Chrom as he was too busy talking to Frederick about a new AAI logo made of steel to be set in front of the gates of the third Spalentor in Ylisse, the city's long going tower that refused to fall in a short time since the huge change of period known as the Schism.
"You know what to do Lucky Lucy. Go for it." Shulk chuckled as they both quietly landed their cars on the parking lot and hid behind several cars, a few feet away from the knight's 2012 pearl white Renault Megane and the exalt's Nissan Qashqai, one of the doors currently opened.
Lucina almost wanted to laugh in her heart at the sight of her father too busy engaged in a conversation towards Frederick, who seemed to disagree with a bored gaze to everything he babbled about Kalasttas and his pure hatred of bees in AJRA.
The driver's door was left open, beckoning Lucina to tip toe in silence towards the seat, her brown eyes widenening in awe towards the only white Samsung Galaxy Tab-S PRO, the 8.1 screen to the tablet flickering to life after she pressed the side button with ease.
Ignoring the Nordsee wallpaper after she unlocked the screen with a slide of her finger, Lucina then groaned quietly towards the notification message of a reward through Candy Crush Saga until she x'ed that out in order to resume her mission.
Opening up Google Chrome, she glanced back towards where her father stood, both of the important icons of Ylisse now walked past the tarped statue of Naga before entering into the main building.
Bingo.
She had a huge opportunity to Region lock every news website on his Galaxy Tab-S. There were not many local news sites that she could think of but heck, she tried her best to lock the ones her father knew of incliding SRF, ORF, and Blick . ch.
Not to mention code locking a certain news station (SRF) in his Qashqai and Re-directing him to Nordsee instead of any other place that includes a newspaper stand, grocery store, or any other place.
That did the trick.
She silently slid off and closed the door, sprinting back to her CRV before Shulk brought up the rest of the plan.
"Now let's see his reaction at home." Lucina replied through the PA as they both took off towards north of AJRA.
"You're planning to build an AAI logo infront of the Rathaus?" Sumia sighed as Chrom groggily came in with a bucket of fishsticks in his hand and a Galaxy Tab in the other, "At least the Brand of Naga could have made sense."
"The divine dragon's out of the scene. Look, Sumia. It's my beloved Kanton. I get to do whatever I want with it, alright? Yes, you are more than welcome to suggest anything that could make Ylisse a better place (exclude the working Risens) but I just found my amazing belief to take a step further into a brighter future. Hell to Plegia, let's talk about that later. Why can't I access Blick on my Galaxy Tab?"
Sumia gave out a thoughtful hum as she stared at the words The Website your trying to access is currently region locked. Please visit settings to unlock the site."Perhaps just follow the directions in the screen as your fellow shepherd's follow your battle orders. It's that easy."
Fish freak sighed in annoyance as he gave up on the tablet, the device clattered on the coffee table as there was an earthquake, "Damn thing's trying to flicker on me again."
"Perhaps the TV could tell you something about it." Sumia picked up the remote to turn the TV on, only for a stray Parrallel Falchion to impale the JTC Genesis 4G flat screen, leaving tiny cracks and splutters of sparks to cough from it's splintered display.
"I'm afraid there's nothing on TV, mother." the familiar daughter voice struck back with a smirk as Sumia crossly questioning her un-acceptable behaviour, "Lucina, you stabbed a TV worth 200 euros right in the trash! How dare in Naga's-
"Dammit! It's Kalastta!" Chrom corrected with a huff of annoyance, giving Lucina to strongly glare at him too.
"Kalastta, whatever! What made you the sudden urge to strike our TV with your Falchion?" Sumia finished with a motherly whine as she stood furious, not daring to call in Lissa and Anina about the tiny house problem.
"Relax, mother. I couldn't keep my rages inside of my so I had to unleash them due to my uncomfortable feeling of my book sales not going well. I'm sorry." Lucina pulled back the sword from the spider-webbed screen, the plastic cracking underneath her foot.
Chrom very well decided not to comment about this as he was too busy trying to figure out the region locking issue on his Tab-S.
Sumia sighed and stared at the mess, "But I thought The Fukoro Chronicles were a best seller of yours. You studied marketing so you should know how drastically your books are achieving to a popular point of success. Hope never dies out Luce, and we all know that. Just for now let's move this to the curb shall we?" Sumia wiped her tears after giving her daughter a hug, who promised with a smile, "Sure mother, anything you say."
It took them a short amount of time to wheel the broken screen out into the curb, placing the device flat against the small recycling bin, a huff of pure hard work laid off from the both women when fish freak came out to inspect the damaged TV.
"Damn, it's such a shame after 2 years of watching Dreamworks Dragons. Oh well, here you go into the box." Flinging the original packaging into view, Sumia and Lucina's eyebrows raised in confusion as they both watched the Exalt of Ylisse tape the box and slap an International Shipping sticker on the front of the box. "There, let Shawn K do the rest."
Facepalming towards the AweSomE cast's favourite Youtuber, two guys from Louisiana that destroyed old stuff such as electronics, furniture, etc. for fun, Chrom proudly loaded the box into the rear of his Qashqai, promising his wife that it costed her to accept his favour, but disregarded it and told him that the TV was his.
"Did it work?" Shulk asked as Lucina climbed back into her CRV, both of them parked in front of a COOP pronto gas station.
"Yup, and father's never going to know about this thanks to my amazing technique of distracting him." Lucina smirked as they both got prepared to leave Ylisse and continue for their missing member of the AweSomE cast around AJRA.
Robin sighed as he slowly pulled over towards the shoulder of a grassy curb at the edge of Sarnen before entering Kanton Renias, his arms already grew tired from steering the Touran while keeping the broom stick the whole time on the accel and brake pad.
Cutting the engine, an uncomfortable growl from the driver's seat erupted out of nowhere as he jumped in shock towards the realization of himself accidently passing elwind in harmony.
Calming down with a sigh, Robin figured out that he had no control over the lower part of his body meaning he couldn't use the bathroom properly unless there was someone helping at his aid.
Sure, it felt embarrassing but he had to live with it just as Naga had said. And best of all, the AweSomE cast will attribute to his problems that were completely understandable.
Emitting a sigh, he thought about how he could comfortably move towards his mattress without breaking in the pain to his spine.
It was very well for the first time to drag himself with difficulty, using his hands to grip the sides of the front seats.
Blowing out a painful sigh, Robin calmly exhaled in comfort and racked his mind on what to do next.
Evening swept over the edge of Sarnen like a family feasting night. Distance shouts of random bystanders passed by through the walls of his 4 wheeled home, their jovial cries bringing a heavy feeling to his heart.
Where was his family moment one more time?
Quivering his lip with a shaky swallow, Robin decided to let his ears break loose from the outside activity and focus on something productive to do.
Since there was more space in the rear of his Touran, he thought about killing some time on his Thinkpad laptop, his brain ready for solving various multiplication facts with the help of a $100 math game known as Timez Attack.
Flicking the display on got his fingers rapidly typing in his password before proceeding to the desktop screen.
A click on the icon got him into the title screen of the game, logging in with his username he used for Beast Blog, a social messaging site only used for UNY students.
Of course, 'Historicrobin' sounded much better than Chrom's username which was 'Beanpaws'
Deciding which green alien character to play as, Robin chose Scratch over Candy since he had a higher jump than her.
It was the Lava stage so the furious heat almost made Scratch sweat with a wrecked mind. Re-fueling his knowledge of several shots of the Multiplication facts- in which Robin aced each twirling block of 10 questions with flying colors, he faced the final boss which happened to be a red winged european dragon of course, standing on it's hind legs while flaping it's wings got it's flames spewing in every direction.
While trying to focus on getting each fact right with simple ease, white eyebrows furrowed at the left of the screen where statue heads of dragons decorated the walls of the Boss stage as Robin blinked in realization that the statue dragon heads almost looked similar to Grima, the felldragon of Plegia that wanted to destroy Ylisse in the Old Generation.
Sure they shared the fellblood together, thus he refused to join Grima's tricky latter of a deal to spare the Shepherds of Naga and let him become a god. But in truth, it was a huge lie that slapped the Shepherds' minds awake and brought the downfall of the felldragon to a complete end.
You never cease to bring me to a failure, huh Grima?Robin shook his head at the side decor of the Boss room as one final question brought the huge dragon falling down in defeat, instantly raising his Brain power meter of 95% completed the tube.
Unaware of a vehicle halting to a stop outside while he was hot on the Time Attack mission, one of the people quietly stepped out, holding a rope while the other held a baseball bat.
Da ist er (There he is)the first figure whispered as the second nodded, approaching the windows of the Touran, the windows hindered with the makeshift curtains that sure guarded the tactician's identity from the public.
With one of them gasping towards the liftgate ajar just a crack open, Robin's fingers froze to a halt as his ears caught the rustle of footsteps against the grass.
"Who's there!?" With his Levin sword pointed aimlessly in the dark, Robin shivered and swallowed in nervousness, perhaps the police found him!
"Warum sollten wir Ihnen sagen? (Why should we tell you?)" the figures said while the hard crack of the bat against the evening wind echoed throughout Sarnen as Robin whimpered for life through the rope, tears almost syncing in with his panicked state of death.
It was unknown to Robin to who these people possibly were since they didn't possess any walkie talkies that the police use.
With his almond eyes searching for the word "Polizei" on the white VW Multivan, it was a dreaded end for the tactician to know where he ended up at.
Certainly the next step for a criminal.
5 letters.
REHAB.
Fluorescent lights shined white, camouflaging it's brightness into the walls and the floors of the mysterious place.
Soft voices and giggles of young women dressed as nurses aided their patients on wheelchairs and other equipment to help them walk.
The front desk phone blared loudly as a cheerful german voice answered the call while playing with her hair, giving an elderly lady to stare back in confusion.
Robin knew where he was and he was not going to question it.
Settled on the wheelchair he found in Sarnen, his heart felt like he was still in Thracia but the way the girls spoke were different, like they had some sort of accent twisted into thier swiss german.
Curious, Robin opened his blearily eyes and decided to roll down the hall, his arm catching the doorframe as he faced a really nice young figure dressed clad in a nursing outfit with sneakers, who shrieked and raised her hands as if she was a criminal now.
Her blonde hair almost fell down over her shoulders, those restless and sparkling blue eyes, got Robin to sit straight and hold back a breath, "Sorry, I didn't mean to run into you.- hope, you don't mind."
The lady checked her clipboard before staring down at him with her rocket fin'd glasses, "Robin Delahaye? I finally found you!"
An index finger thumped against his heart as Robin spluttered in confusion, "Me? But is this Thracia? Last I remember I was-"
"Whoa there amnesia boy! I might have to first introduce myself before we go into the long talk about your.." She then pointed towards his legs, currently strapped and secured "-walking tool."
Grabbing the handles to the wheelchair, Robin felt weird as a rock as his conversation with girls just started getting more difficult and more awkward.
First with Elena, then Anna, and now this pretty girl in nursing clothes?
Leading him into room 42, other patients absent except for him and a very nice well made bed, closet on the wall, bathroom to the right, and a small bookshelf just next to the doorframe.
"Well here we are! Please keep in mind I am not a hotel manager, givin rooms for free to everyone we see, but I'm a trade student from Ohio, Aquila. Came abroad to work with people with disabilities and other problems they suffer from. Ylisse is a very nice place. Name's Abby Hawkins by the way."
Robin refused to shake hands as his mind dead panned towards the location.
They brought him all the way from Thracia to Ylisse-stadt just for his Rehab treatment on his SCI state.
Abby now kneeled down and squinted in confusion, "You okay? It looks as if you saw a spooky ghost or something."
Robin shook his head and re-assured her with a smile, "Um actually, I'm fine. I was just thinking. That's all."
Abby stood up and smiled, "Great! Looking forward to be your caretaker until your legs are free from that chair! See ya!"
"Wait, Abby!" Robin called back, his caretaker returned to him with a concerned face, "Do you know, by any chance, where my car is?"
"Oh. Oh. Oh. That white Volkswagen of yours I presume is currently parked near the entrance of the Burgerfeld Animal Sanctuary. Don't worry. None of your belongings are taken. It's all there where it is, safe and secure. Need anything else, just hit that button on the remote sitting on your bed. Later Gator!" Abby left with a smile and quietly closed the door.
Robin sighed as he leaned back, the wheelchair emitting a parchy squeak.
Biting his lip in thought, those white eyebrows furrowed in worry as he heaved a heavy sigh and stared out of the window, blinds already greeting him with the wonderful backdrop view of the clear sky over Ylisse.
Fingers drumming against the spokes of the bike wheels his chair attributed, he rolled towards the window where he spotted a group of people relaxing by the wired fence that guarded the duck pond, the ripples across the surface of the pond in sync with the frogs croaking loudly before jumping into the water.
With no one there to help him around his escape plan except for Abby (who just thinks he's an ordinary patient and not some grocery thief that's lurking around AJRA, evading the police), Robin was unsure whether Gaius also tagged along after Dario and the others got really annoyed by his childish behaviour at the Wiltzwil prison.
Probably he followed by trace.
About to lean back with his eyes closed, he almost jumped a foot in his chair as the front door whipped opened to reveal a smiling Abby with those stylish glasses, "Hey, Rob. I just wanted to let ya know that lunch time came around. I didn't wanna break your peace but the schedule ordered me to do it. Well, you up for it?"
Giving himself a moment of silence, Robin hummed in thought and gladly accepted the offer for his stomach's sake, which was growling lightly in discomfort. "Sure. I-"
Halting dead, his expression of shocking realization turned into embarrassment as he laughed nervously, "I honestly didn't feel that coming. Heh."
Abby laughed softly and came in, grabbing the handles to lead him into the bathroom, "We all understand that when we have to go badly. C'mon. Let's get ya changed."
After the changing business got done, Robin felt relieved to wear a new protective underwear due to his issue in the lower part of his body thanks to SCI.
Everybody in the AweSomE cast will defiantly understand his problem except for Pittoo who would heartlessly laugh and call him a baby the whole time.
If that really happened then he would breakdown into tears or aggressively Valflame them down to hell. Blame the DDS.
But it was too far away for him now to see his friends again in Virginia Beach.
Abby, his caretaker who had been wheeling him down the hall the whole time, felt highly concerned about him. The past few days she glanced at his medical records just to get to know his information.
The mention of him suffering from amnesia, depression, and Lumentratudo (LDS; Light Dragon Sickness) got her heart broken and almost wanted to take her patient home away to Ohio.
Bingo. That could have been a good idea since Abby was working abroad for another 3 months before she finally returns to the states.
But he had to get out of AJRA now.
And with Abby tagged along, it wasn't going to work according to his impatience.
With his ears catching small voices to his right, Abby smiled while waving to a few other people in the room.
A middle aged man and woman were conversing with each other quietly while taking sips of coffee.
The other patient was seated on comfy couch in front of a flat screen TV, playing some sort of game that Robin was supposed to re-call in a flash during his college nights at UNY.
"Here we are! Not technically cafeteria in your mind but here's the lounge room. I'll get you a snack and some water. Feel free to meet other people. Bye Rob!" Abby waved in farewell as she hurridly sprinted towards the kitchen.
The couple at the table smiled with a heartous greeting in german before resuming their talk, clinks of silver ware against the rim of the ceramic coffee mug echoing loudly around the room as Robin eagerly wheeled up to the side of the couch to see...
"Gaius!?" heart beating in astonishment, the Thief paused his game and turned around, dressed in a REHAB gown. "Sup Bubbles? Good thing wheels are the substitute of your legs. Me? I have to walk around the hallways like an aimlessly lost puppy until my caretakers come and find me."
Raising an eyebrow, Robin wondered what Gaius was suffering with or Dario thought he was let loose as a crazy diabetic guy who simply wanted all of the candy in the world.
"I-I thought you were dead!?" Hand ruffling his white snow hair, Gaius laughed as he set the remote on the small table near his feet. "Who says dead? The only thing you should be happy about is that the felldragon is gone and you have nothing to worry about!"
"I do care for people whom I know and don't know. It's just that- I wonder how you got here?" Robin inched back in concern, allowing Gaius to sit up straight and take a quick sip of his coffee before resuming his jovial tone, "Thorn in You. They tranquilized me with a dart instead of a bullet seeing that Wiltzwil wanted to keep their star prisoner alive after all that hunky dory nonsense about crimes I commit everyday. Life's hard Bubbles, and we have to face it."
Brown eyes watered in heartbroken concern as Robin hugged his ex-college roommate in joy, "Let's just say it got easier thanks to you."
Gaius snorted in annoyance as he picked up the remote to resume playing his faviourite game, Flying Rabbit, "Bubbles, you don't have to say that. Besides, you happy I still have the Lexibook with me?"
Wiping a tear with a sniffle, he curiously glanced towards the carpeted floor of the lounge room where an irregularly shaped knock off Wii console stood in the middle, the Halogen blue LED strip blazed a soft hue down the middle of the device.
Robin nodded and gladly took the other remote from Gaius's hand, "Definetly. Wanna quick battle in the arena of Knights vs Dragons?"
"Careful Bubbles, you don't wanna fuck those things up. Hell yeah, I'm ready to show off the Kagian Avatar I am!" Gaius laughed as he patiently waited for Robin to sign in.
"Be sure not to use the reeking potion on my Battle Mage. This baby of mine gonna be equipped with a really dangerous A rank fire type tome that's more deadly than Valflame, I re-assure you that." Robin chuckled as picked the Zecarus mode which was same as Aedekon and Novanna except for Limited Units shortened up to 20 for each character/turn.
"Zecarus mode. Seriously Bubbles? My spellthief won't even be able to attack you since it has some really low defense stats." Gaius blew a long sigh as he waited for the loading screen to finish as the lovely clip of the two characters entered into the Arena Kagia.
Skipping the part where Ascald and Hardo, the twin rulers of Regna Kagia, joyfully announced their names, things got really down to buisness.
Robin, who kept playing as Euriki, the battlemage of Kagia, kept on flicking arrows from his Amew Yanon bow at poor Sokara (Stormfang), the Delyran exalt and hero of the game before switching to a B rank Wind type tome, Dragon Ray.
It was only three units away as Gaius controlled Stormfang to deflect the -5 attack with his holy blade/sword, Ragnarok, forged from the tooth of the divine dragon of flames, Solaris. "Bubbles, arrows really don't do shit. Infact, here's the taste of Snapperhook!"
With Gaius switching from Sokara to Sobek, a Valkyrie knight of Durene, Robin sensed his inner instincts of a sudden attack from Gaius as he controlled Euriki to dodge the 5 unit axe attack of Gauwill, the missed swing of the blade caught Sobek to muster up in a pissed off way and try again.
Robin almost laughed in mockery, "That all you got, Gai? You couldn't even defeat Garuga, the dragon of eternal shadows which almost wanted to destroy the continent of America, thus you're here trying to beat me in a friendly arena match in KvD. Not on my watch, buddy!"
Switching from Euriki to Sokara's daughter, Kendora, the future wielder of her father's sword, Parallel Ragnarok, he made her attack on the spot where Sobek to die with defeat.
"No fair! That was my only Valkyerie knight left from my Inventory team!" Gaius wailed as he summoned Stormcrest, Mercenary of Cresta and servant of Krotos, wielding the Gudorian King's sword of Garuga, known as Oblivion, the Saber of Mercy, "The blade of the Shadow Dragon Garuga is no match for you, Bubbles. Your line of America ends right here!"
"Not for long, Gai. I still have Euriki alive after how much damage you inflicted on my poor Kagian battlemage." Robin smirked as he got prepared to select his ultimate weapon to defeat Gaius in a short run one hit kill, only for the door to the lounge room to whip open and Abby came in with a plate of snacks and cups of water and juice.
"Sounds like you boys are having fun." Abby smiled as she set down a plate of baby carrots with ranch dip, cookies, and apple slices.
"Yup and he's about to kill me with his ultimate weapon!" Gaius shrieked like a startled 5 year old as Robin prepared to make Euriki engulf Stormcrest in waves ablazing pillars of fire.
"Excorcism of Hell!" Robin yelled in sheer victory as the one hit kill drained Stormcrest's health bar and Ascald proclaimed the Kagian battlemage/priest as the official winner of the friendly arena battle.
"Wow, Rob, you managed to defeat your friend in less than I could pour some OJ into both of your glasses." Abby whistled in amazement as she handed the two patients thier drink, "Don't wanna see our patients sick from a random cold, huck it up guys."
"Thanks." Both Robin and Gaius returned the empty glasses as they paused from starting another game, their hands hungrily grabbing the selected snacks like a crane claw, the plate finished in less than 3 seconds.
Abby was too stunned to even comment about their amazing eating style, it was just something she had never witnessed before while working here abroad for a year. She awkwardly took the plate with a smile and huffed out a sigh, "Well, it's bed time! If any of you need to get changed, just let me know, otherwise I'll lead Rob back to his room. See ya Gaius."
"Adios my pretty Aquilian babe." Gaius hiccuped after finishing the load of ranch sauce that was left in the plastic SOLO cup. "Hey, Bubbles. I'm gonna meet you in a sec before I go to bed with my dreams of Padre and me snug-."
"Alright." Robin smiled as he was wheeled towards his room by an escorting Abby, who hummed in happiness.
"If the pain stirs into the middle of your back or anywhere else, hit that button beside you in bed, alright Rob?" Abby smiled as she collected the tactician's used protective underwear in a bag and gathered some sheets about his daily log.
Robin smiled while nodding in glee and snuggled in bed, his blanket covered legs creating two snake like hills underneath the fabric were static due to his SCI.
Abby turned and headed for the door and closed it quietly, listening into the calm snores through the white door.
While struggling to fall asleep, the thunderstorm outside the windows of the REHAB kept him awake, mind flooding with thoughts of escaping this Hell hole, Robin focused on falling asleep, hoping for a good dream about the AweSomE cast in Virginia Beach.
Unfortunately not.
Flat screen TVs. Household appliances, electronic stuff all categorized in each aisle as Robin wondered why he was shopping in Fust again. Bizarre as it seems, the phone charger was in one hand while the his other hand held the I-Ocean X7 phone itself.
Shouldn't the phone charger be on his list of must get by now?
But dreams were dreams, no matter how non sensical they'd get.
Robin was intrigued to know what happens next.
Walking over to the counter, he sighed in relief towards the giant gruffly mustached gumball who wanted to wrangle him into another theft currently not present. Instead, standing behind the paying counter was a short blonde guy who encouraged him to pay for the charger.
But Robin stood still, wondering why the flat screen tvs flashing out a news clip caught his striking interest.
The guy whistled patiently while browsing through his phone, waiting for Robin to complete his shopping session at Fust.
Almond eyes deeply stared into all of the screens in shock as Robin dropped the items held in his hands to the ground in a painful sting of shocking horror that ran through his heart.
The screens showed a bunch of SWAT guards aggressively pushing a snow haired boy into the rear of the van.
With the doors slammed shut, Robin kneeled down while tears began pouring down his cheeks and eventually splashed into the carpet, the dream probably prophecising the future of his escape.
"NOOOOOO!" Brown eyes snapped open as his heart began beating in panic along with sweat pouring down his face as he jolted up from laying down, one glance towards the doors brought him sighing in relief at the idea of nurses currently absent from his sudden screams.
Blinking in confusion towards the dark room lit with the orange hue coming from the white window blinds, Robin began softly sobbing while his corrupted mind began replaying the nightmare that predicted his failed future.
His soft cries brought Gaius to dash in with a squeaking tone of worry, "Bubbles, I promised I would meet you in bed-ah I mean before you got to sleep. Nightmare bit your back huh?"
"Please, Gai. No jokes." Robin sniffled, shaking his head from side to side while gripping his neck pillow close to his cheek. "My dreams brought me the message of a failed future I shouldn't even pursue."
"Heck, they can be successful, Bubbles. Trick is, you gotta come up with a plan. That plan leads to escape and then it leads to a successful freedom of being free. You're really craving for that so badly, I suggest you look out of the window now." Gaius smirked as he closely watched his paraplegic friend lean closer to the glass with a gasp.
Right between the frog/duck pond and the entrance to the building, a REHAB staff worker roughly littered a cigarette in the pond before muttering some pissed off words. Halting beside the stolen white minivan which peacefully stood near the large entrance sign framed in strands of tall yellow-green grass, his eyes glinted with a spark of interest before smiling wickedly at the thought of borrowing it for a spin.
It would have been too stupid enough for the staff to leave the keys in the driver's door for they most likely didn't pay any attention of bringing it inside for safekeeping.
Robin's eyes on the stranger grew harshly silent in steaming anger as he barked a command towards the easily distracted Gaius, who swooned over Abby's handwriting on his first daily log recorded on the first day of the tactician's arrival at the REHAB, "Gai, quickly lift me up from bed and into my chair! There's someone on the loose with my Touran and I'm not about to spare his life even once!"
"Mmm, perfect snapshot for my next marriage." Gaius obeyed, carefully holding his friend's legs and upper back with both of his strong arms before setting him lightly on the chair, "Relax, Bubbles. That Polar Bear of yours has gone through many thefts now you wanna kill that guy for no reason? Stealing is part of a Thief's special routine and I ain't waisting my chance on doing murder."
"I don't care about a Thief's life or the dangerous attempt to murder someone, I just need that Touran back." Robin reasoned as he quietly rolled down the hallways without letting the nurses or anyone else track down his scent of stealthiness.
"Just make sure not to trespass the border into Skyworld!" Gaius reminded him as he let Robin roll free into the opening in front of the Burgerfeld Animal Sanctuary, wildlife calls from ducks, frogs, ponies, goats, sheep, pigs, and baby cows alive throughout the night.
"Gaius, take me on seriously. You sure you want to even stay here after your misery nights at Wiltzwil and at the REHAB?" Robin pleaded him with an incredous look of hope.
Gaius blew into the evening air as he spun around once, waving to a bunch of pink and black oinking blobs freely running around it's huge acred pen. "Just don't mind so much about me. Plus that hot Aquilian babe will escort me into some personal time with me after you've escaped. Sweet dreams Bubbles."
"Wait Gaius!" Robin called back with worry but the Thief had already disappeared out of his sight, causing him to snap back a silent complaint in frustration.
Touran over Thief. Focus Robin. Don't act like a madman, just screwing yourself up into distraction.
"For the AweSomE cast!" Robin called out into the darkness as he wheeled past the pond and into the path that led him to the gardens.
The sky turned bright purple, bolts of it's personal bold violet colors streaking over Ylisse as if the clouds attributed to the most UV (Ultra Violet) rays of glowing puffs floating quietly as a stealthy felldragon with a deep desire to destroy Ylisse with just one deadly breath.
Robin felt his arms tiring from the constant control over the wheels of his chair, but the sharp pains causing him to blow out an exhale every 5 seconds caused him to halt with a squeak lightly echoing with the ghostly winds over the REHAB building.
Leaning back while closing his eyes relaxed, Robin's ears didn't notice the sound of a flashlight beamed on him as the light's diameter grew larger and larger, revealing another REHAB worker.
"At last I found you snoozing in the gardens. Times up for you buddy." the guy drawled out in a german accent as he calmly gripped the handles, only for the tactician to forcefully push back his chair in defense, "Not on my watch."
The worker now suffered an injury to his aching crotch as he ordered a command in german for the rest of his workers to arrive, "Get that rat!"
Robin was in a deep state of distressed huriness. Pausing by several shaved off branches lacking any crystal tipped leaves, his brown eyes had no time to take in the strange greenish icy slush accumulated on the branch.
May Naga's divine snow bless the abstracted polar bear.
After all, Naga had blessed him with a useful tool, so why not use it?
Grabbing a handful of snow in a hurry, Robin wheeled off towards the stony pathway that ran down between the gardens of the REHAB.
That's it. Just a little more towards end of the building.
That was until the green snow had the ability to power his legs back to normal.
A sudden rush of signals shot from his legs to his brain as Robin felt his feet slowly hover over the foot pads of his wheelchair.
Has Naga given him the full restoration to his legs with this holy item!?
It was another miracle that relieved over his shoulder as Robin left the wheelchair crashing into the Asternweg gate, the rattling noise alerting a bird to take off from it's sudden fright.
Continuing down his way, he passed by the Klientierweg Gate that held a small brown wooden shed, a large pole standing oblique while waving the Kantons of AJRA with pride.
Running never felt this good to his legs as he slowly grew tired, dashing past the Irisweg gate with two AC's with brown covers tarped over it, completely unaware of the coincidence of Sumia tending her garden with an annoyed Chrom, face-timing her in boredom.
"Honey, just let me finish tending with these Emerald tulips." Sumia sighed with annoyance as fish freak pulled out his FSB 3000, ready to take down on any bee that came his way.
"Damn these fucking bees! They're even worse than Risens for Kalastta's sake!" Chrom growled while hastily pointing the barrel in every direction possible, keeping a lookout for any black and yellow buzzing shapes that blurred past his way in a flash.
Sumia rolled her eyes and calmed her husband down from entering a pissed off panic attack or possibly a war with these gentle creatures. "Just let go of the fact that they are dangerous. I have treated your stings 17 times thus I'm not going to judge on your behaviour of killing them off. They're part of the garden family like we are part of the Shepherd family with Lucina, Frederick and the others."
Those words seemed to lighten up Chrom's mood as the exalt of Ylisse sighed and accepted her words of advice, "Fine, fine, dammit. But if I really see another bee-"
Sumia shook her head in disbelief as they both walked down the path that led to a dull gray apartment at the ends of the gardens.
"-I swear Grima's not gonna sting my back this time. Even if Plegia really wants to start a war even though AJRA's considered a neutral country, I-"
Halting dead mid words, fish freak held his breath as he paused by a small billboard containing info and events hosted by a grocery store known as Denner.
A wicked smile lined his face as he read a small card with a picture of a bee:
ACHTUNG: Bitte gebeitzen Hafer (gegen Drahtwurmer) nicht Bluhen lassen.
Gift fur die Bienen.
He decided to keep the words to himself as he followed Sumia all the way to her parked 2007 silver Peugeot 307sw HDI, the headlights blinked twice for Robin to makeout in a flash, his fearful mind bringing up the arrival of orange vested safety pounders that wrangled all escaping patients from the REHAB.
Glancing up towards the distant chops of a Helicopter slicing through the purple sky over the gardens, Robin almost lost his footing as the ground changed from rough stones to smooth flat concrete, using his balance to recover himself with a helpful grip to one of the open lids of three metallic Zug dumpsters set beside the brown garden/pub house that belonged to the FGV Milchsuppe, a small facility for people who are are crazy and rueful to scamper and hungrily savage around normal people, causing emotional disturbances to the public that included theft, murder, and other abnormal acts of crimes existing on Planet Mira.
Just a little further. A robin never gives up on it's flying lessons!
A huge wooly tree stood still as Robin rushed past, giving the movement to interest a feline's eyes in sparking boredom as it lazily gazed at the tactician with a flex of it's claws.
Flashing past the gate to Begnionweg, a couple of Ylissean asshole teens sat by the bench, clad in Ray bans while their hats tipped backwards, sloping against their stylish modern cut, thier team jackets and ripped off jeans and sneakers caught Robin to cough with difficulty through the second hand smoke that stentched the air.
Laughs erupted in the distance as almond eyes watering from his panicked vision, he finally reached the end where his beloved Touran was parked by the gray apartment, an elderly lady seated on the first story balcony, snorted with a rough glance towards the youth tactician entering the white minivan in distress, keys already left in the ignition.
His heart leapt in a sudden rush of a beat as he slammed his foot against the accel pedal, the unnatural screech of tires scraped against Julia-Gasse-Strasse as Robin panted, his mind worried about how long Naga's divine snow will last until it completely wears off.
You got this Rob. You got this.
Driving down the middle of Freidrich-Miescher-Strasse, he decided to halt beside the flashing red Euro Airport Hotel Ylisse before urging the bus ahead of him to pick up speed.
Just make sure not to trespass the border into Skyworld.
With Gaius's warning stuck to the back of his mind, Robin made a quick turn down Flughafen-strasse, making sure the REHAB's van was not hot on his tail.
Driving down the eerie darkened road strung alive by crickets, Robin had no earthly idea where he was heading to. He was supposed to journeying east of AJRA until he hit the darkened border past St. Ferox and beyond.
With the headlights of the Touran striking the sign of Uni for Psychos, he took out his Levin sword that was making direct contact with one of the tomes hidden in the rear storage of the minivan.
What am I doing?
It was too stupid for him to even realize that his tomes were glued to him 24/7 thus his LDS was acting up again.
Robin then experiments by carefully getting the Hydroplane wings along with his spelltomes from the rear storage and uses his magic to closely escape by air.
Absentmindedly trying to attach one of the Hydroplane wings to the sides, the A7 connector on the left wing starts to self combust into flames, panic flooding his heart as Robin lobs it aside, leaving it as a distant signal for the workers to re-trace his escape on foot.
He completely forgot that he was being chased by the REHAB workers.
He had to get out of here, fast.
About to climb into the driver's seat, his almond brown eyes in the rear-view mirror literally turn red as Tendratudo possesses him into a deadly monstrous tactician who suddenly avenged on Grima's side.
The workers kindly spat an order for him to drop the weapons and surrender back to the building.
Playing with the lightning bolt shaped bladed dagger in his left hand while pulling out a Rank B fire type tome, the pages softly rippled in the wind as the words of the Ancient Tongue burned to life as Robin completely refused to obey their orders and strike them back with a deadly fire spellmove.
"Bolganone!" Sinking the blade into the grass like a dart striking the dartboard, the ground began to shake violently, an enormous crack splitting the face of planet Mira more than 5 ft, the scared workers jumping on either sides of the crack until their eyes glowed red-orange at the reflection of pure molten fire spewing violently out of the cracks.
He then switches spells to the rank A wind type tome, the Levin sword glowing green after maintaining the crack to stay alive.
The workers tried to stop him again with a tiny voice of fear but he refused and walked menacingly towards them, an expression of enmity haunting down their souls. "It's really kind of you guys to treat me back to what I was before. Join the crazy house, too late. You're one of them. Why would I be held into this crazy house supervised by the Templar Knights of Iris if I could make my beautiful escape towards Virginia Beach, Aquila."
Halting at the sunken Levin sword, crimson eyes studied the pattern of movement of the flaring pillars of fire similar to Arcfire but dangerously strong.
"Touch me one more time, the whole of AJRA will bow down to Grima's Truth." Venom wrapped his voice as cold as ice as he held the open tome glowing vivid green, the letters of the Ancient Tongue re-arranging themselves into the Latin battle phrase in which Robin almost screamed it in enraged hate. "Suscabit nunc Forseti! (Raise now Fire!)"
Green aura flexed from the pages as it twirled around the flaming pillars of fire. With right arm flung out while left hand gripped the Wind tome, the two elemental spells ablazed towards the workers, making them scream in agony, all of them jumping around like monkeys to ward off the fire that lapped their skin like a thirsty dog.
He softly laughed wickedly towards the scene before jumping out of the fiasco of sirens and lights approaching the location of a fantasy spell attack on 5 Rehab workers.
Climbing into the driver's seat, he almost jumped in surprise towards the rear-view mirror now displaying his reflection. The color to his eyes were back to normal.
Almond Brown.
It seemed Tendratudo warded away after the strange attack on the Rehab workers.
Just to blame his amnesia, it was a second before he couldn't remember any of the spell moves he just created while he battled the workers to fiercely leave him alone.
But his smile of sympathy brought himself to snap into reality as Robin drove off, leaving the workers to cry in pain as they ran back to their van, scarred for life.
No wonder the shield of AJRA was called the Fire Emblem after all.
15:47
Brown eyes lazily read the green numbers on the Dashboard clock overhead, as the Touran roared down highway 3, headlights spotting out 2003 silver Touran with a blue camping bag filled with camping stuff set on the roof of the minivan.
Another similar coincidence.
With a smile playing on his lips towards the mention of the plate from SKW (Skyworld; Future France), they both part ways as Robin takes the highway exit to Kouga, glad to have survived the horrific night at the REHAB.
Separation is not the end of being together.
What in the land of gravy did I write?
And why so long?
Well, just to say I'm really happy Robin escaped that hellhole of a REHAB! Yay, no more crazy patients like Risens on a zombie shopping spree! xD
Knights vs Dragons, the FE rip off game that Gaius and Robin play on the Lexibook, is made up.
All character names, settings, and game concept belongs to me. All rights reserved by me.
Until then, Falco276 out! :D