Small disclaimer: I'm kind of bad at writing fighting scenes so if the fighting scenes fall flat, that's my fault sorry

CW/TW: swearing, violence, blood

(Third Person PoV)

Unfortunately for Tommy, he left most of his netherite stuff back in the server in a chest where his house is.

So he had to use what he had on him. Which was a crossbow and the iron sword that he currently was carrying.

Tubbo had a bow and a couple of arrows plus his netherite sword.

Ranboo had his netherite sword and a lot of pearls on him.

One of the men that was attacking the four rather colorful people and the old man on the horse, raced over to where the boys were at and slashed at Ranboo who managed to dodge it before stabbing the man.

Tommy armed the crossbow with an arrow and aimed at one of the men and shot him in the shoulder.

Bullseye! It was a hit.

"F*ck yeah! Take that b*tch!" Tommy cheered.

The wounded man snuck off and tried to jump Tubbo but Tubbo managed to stab him right in the gut out of surprise.

"Did I...just killed a man?" Tubbo asked, shocked and stared down at the sword that was now covered in crimson red blood.

The old man on the horse also known as Jeralt looked at those three in surprise.

"What? Who are those kids? Are they from the village?" He asked to no one in particular.

His daughter, the woman with midnight blue hair, glanced at the three strangers.

Who are they? She wondered.

She heard a battle cry and quickly turned around to see that one of the other strangers, not the ones who just appeared, had her back turned from one of the bandits who was going to attack her as she was fighting off one of them.

The woman ran as fast as she could to protect her before getting a sword to the gut.

...

(Still in Third Person but Byleth's PoV)

"Are you stupid!" A voice cried out.

Byleth blinked as she saw the young girl, known as Sothis, sit upon her throne.

"Where am I now?" Byleth asked.

"Back here. You died protecting that royal brat. But thankfully I was able to save you for this time being," Sothis explained.

Byleth tilted her head, confused.

"What do you mean I died? And you saved me? That makes no sense," she said.

"Ugh, I'll explain further later but let's just say I turned back the hands of time to save you and bring you here. I'll grant you the ability to do so but only use it in a case of an emergency. Be more careful this time," Sothis scowled.

"W-wait! What about those three strangers that appear?" Byleth asked.

"Strangers? I don't know who they are. Now quickly, save the girl and not die this time," Sothis sighed and shooed her away.

(Back to regular PoV)

Byleth's eyes opened as she saw the scene repeat itself.

She ran over towards the girl and slashed at the bandit before he could attack either of them.

"Woah. Thanks. Huh? Look out!" The girl shouted.

Byleth turned around, sword up to block, as another bandit, the leader, ran over to attack her with a giant axe.

"Damn you! You ruined it! Now you'll pay with your blood!" He shouted.

Whoosh!

Thunk!

"Gyaaaah!" The leader bandit cried and held onto his arm where an arrow was shot into.

Byleth looked around where the arrow came from.

There! In a rather tall boy's, with black and white split hair with some sandy brown tips and a mask matching his hair, hands was a bow. It disappeared from his hands.

"Tsk! I'll come back you hear me!" The man spat and ran off into the night.

Byleth tried to chase after him but Jeralt stopped her.

"He's gone kid. There's no need to beat over a dead horse," he said.

"Father...," she said before looking at the others.

"Man, you were almost a goner Edelgard," the brown haired archer said to the axe bearing girl.

"I was worried there but thankfully the blue haired woman saved you," the blonde lancer said.

"I'm just glad that we all made it out alive. Although I do wonder who are those other ones," the girl known as Edelgard wondered.

"Well I'm glad that everyone here is safe. Even you royal brats," Jeralt said.

Snap!

"What the-. Hey you three!" Jeralt called out to the trio.

"Uh oh...," Tubbo said.

"This is your fault Ranboob!" Tommy snapped.

"How was I supposed to know that my foot was going to step on that specific stick? That was rigged," Ranboo groaned.

They were trying to sneak away to collect their thoughts and see if they could find a way home.

"Who are you? State your business," Edelgard said, holding out her axe in their direction.

Tommy's hand was hovering over the hotbar where his sword would be.

"Woah calm down princess. One of them just saved your life and her life," the archer said, nodding at Byleth.

"You saw that? I wasn't quite sure who was the one who shot that arrow," the lancer exclaimed.

"Gotta have a great eye for this. Fortunately, I was trained for this type of thing," the archer explained.

"Well I see. Then they probably don't have any reason to attack us then," the lancer said.

"Right you are, your Princeliness," the archer said.

"Claude please," the lancer sighed and shook his head.

"Wait, princess? Prince? Royal brats? Who the f*ck are you people?" Tommy shouted, pointed at them.

"We could be asking you the same. Just who are you?" The lancer asked.

Then they heard horses neighing and footsteps.

"Why unless my eyes are deceiving me, if it isn't the Great Captain Jeralt!" A man with a rather interesting hairstyle cried in a booming voice.

"Oh no," Jeralt groaned.

Byleth tilted her head at this.

"Father do you know who he is?" She asked.

"Unfortunately I do," he muttered.

"Captain, do you remember who I am? It's me Alois," Alois said.

"Yeah yeah, I remember. Looks like you haven't changed a bit in these years," Jeralt sighed.

"Haha, you flatter me," Alois said.

"What are you even doing here?" Jeralt asked.

"I was escorting these three back to the Monastery. Unfortunately, thanks to that bandit attack we got separated. I thought we lost you but looks like all of you are in good hands," Alois explained.

His eyes gaze upon Byleth and the trio.

"Ohoho are these your children?" Alois asked.

"No, only one of them is. Her," Jeralt pointed at Byleth. "I have no idea who those boys are or where did they come from."

"Oh! Are they bandits that you decided to take hostage?" Alois asked, his hand over the sheath of his sword.

"Bandits?! Do we look like f*cking bandits to you!" Tommy shouted before getting hit on the head by Tubbo and Ranboo.

"Ahaha, don't mind him. He has no idea what he's talking about," Tubbo tried to explain before muttering something to Tommy that scared the blonde teen.

"They saved my life and hers. They probably aren't a danger to us," Edelgard explained.

"Yeah. Hey why don't they accompany us back to the Monastery. All five of them," Claude suggested.

"WHAT!?" Tommy cried before getting hit on the head by his companions.

"Well I knew it would have happened eventually," Jeralt sighed.

"Brilliant! This will be a nice journey for all of us. Come," Alois said.

"Guess we have no choice. Come along you brats," Jeralt said.

Byleth waited until the three royals were at her side and began to follow her father and the knights.

"Didn't even ask about what we wanted. Great, we could have find a way back home but nooooo. We have to follow these royal snobs, some knights, an old man and a f*cking emotionless woman," Tommy grumbled.

"Hey we heard that. It's either us or the dangers of the wilderness," Claude said.

Tommy opened his mouth to shout at him but a glare from Tubbo shut him up.

"We didn't get to introduce ourselves. I'm Edelgard, the Imperial princess," Edelgard explained.

"I'm Dimitri, heir to the Kingdom throne," the lancer explained.

"Best for last. I'm Claude, I'm next in line for leadership of the Alliance," Claude explained.

"Imperial? Kingdom? Alliance? Is there three rulers in this land?" Tubbo asked, his goat tail wagged with curiosity.

Edelgard raised her eyebrow but dismissed it. Must be a trick of light in her eyes.

"Well it's a lot more complicated than that. You're in Fodlan. Fodlan is split into three parts of territory. The Imperial Empire, the Kingdom of Fargeus and the Leister Alliance," Claude explained.

"Where we're heading is the middle where all three meet. It's where the Monastery, Church of Seiros and the Officer's Academy is," Dimitri explained.

"Officer's Academy?"

"Monastery?"

"CHURCH?!"

"Do you really have to be that loud?" Edelgard asked, glaring at Tommy who glared back.

"Tell us more about those three places. I never heard of them," Byleth said.

"You're kidding right?" Claude asked but she shook her head to show that she was serious.

"Well the Officer's Academy is where we study. Many of the students are from all three parts of the territories," Dimitri said.

"So it's basically school. Sounds boring to me," Tubbo said.

"Boring? Hardly, we learn many things. Such as swordsmanship, how to ride horse, leadership, magic, how to wield axes and lances and such," Edelgard explained.

"Wait did you just say magic?" Ranboo asked.

"Yeah that's what I said," Edelgard looked confused.

"The Monastery is basically the placeholder for both the Officer's Academy and the Church of Serios," Claude explained.

"Now tell us about this church. Is it like the Church of Prime?" Tommy asked.

"They're not going to know what that is," Ranboo sighed.

"Well the church is basically followers of the Goddess and the saints. Saint Serios is the main saint and the most powerful one. Haven been blessed by the goddess herself," Edelgard explained.

Ranboo muttered something about having a bad experience with a god.

Nobody but Blyeth heard him though.

"We have been chatting a lot and we don't even know what your names are," Claude noted.

"Apologies, I'm Byleth. It's a pleasure to be your acquaintance," Byleth said.

"It's a pleasure to be yours," all three royals said.

"I'm Tommy 'Big Man' Innit. I prefer Tommy or Big Man, Big T or-," Tommy said but got cut off by Tubbo.

"Just call him Tommy please," he said.

"I'm Tubbo by the way."

"And you are...umm pardon me but are you... Ranboob?" Dimitri asked.

Tommy and Tubbo looked at each other and burst out laughing.

Ranboo kept walking, embarrassed.

"I'm so telling Phil on you," he scowled through his mask.

"You wouldn't," Tommy stopped laughing and glared at him.

"Watch me," Ranboo then turned to the others.

"That's just a stupid nickname that Tommy gave me. My name is actually just Ranboo," he explained.

"Oh! I'm so sorry about that, I'll be sure to remember next time," Dimitri apologized.

"Nah it's fine. Honest mistake," Ranboo assured him.

"Hey Ranboo, thank you for earlier," Byleth said.

"O-oh! Don't worry about it, I just did what any person would have done in a situation like that," he assured her.

"Hey where you are even from? You don't sound like you're from here," Claude asked.

The trio stopped immediately and looked at each other.

"Umm...ever heard of America or the UK?" Tommy asked.

"What?" Edelgard asked.

"We're from the DreamSMP!" Tubbo blurted out.

"Tubbo!" Tommy and Ranboo cried.

"The DreamSMP? Where's that, I never heard of it before," Dimitri asked.

"It's a faraway land. Filled with people, animals, resources and ummm war I guess?" Tubbo explained, already too far in.

"War?" Edelgard asked.

"It's difficult to explain. Let's just say that it has a bad history," Tommy explained.

"Yeesh, sounds like a tough place to live. Here in Fodlan, we have skirmishes here and there but we haven't been in a full out war. You haven't fought in one right? I sure hope not," Claude said.

"Sadly, nearly everyone in the the SMP has been in at least one. Or at least large fights," Tommy explained, before pointing to his bandaids.

"Thankfully we have been taught to fight young," Ranboo explained.

"Wow, that so different from here...and yet, I feel like there are a lot of similarities," Edelgard said.

"I see. I hope you haven't been in deep losses," Dimitri said stiffly.

Tommy stayed silent at this.

"Oh look what's that!" Tubbo said, changing the subject as quickly as he could.

"Wow look at that, we're here already," Claude said.

Up ahead was a large palace like place. The sunlight made the walls sparkle brightly.

The grass was bright green and the water surrounding it was bright and blue. It looks healthy and well looked over.

"My companions, welcome to Garrach Mach," Claude said.

A/N: feel generous today. So here you go. Sorry if I spelled some of the names and places wrong

Cya in the next one -Flare