#Chapter One

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Fire, everything was on fire, I had no idea how I had arrived here in this… my surrounding was filled with wreckage and debris everywhere but it was enough to tell me that I was inside a building. All I remembered were multi-coloured lights shining down then nothing.

“Ugh.” My head was pounding as I orientated myself among the roaring fire and the heat.

There was a survivor.

“Hey! Anyone!? Where are you!?” I ran, hoping for a response. The roaring fire was an obstacle but I pushed it aside and focused on my task, saving someone in danger.

“Over... here.” The voice was weak and feminine, thus a girl. Her few words were enough for me to pinpoint her location, and as I ran towards the voice I saw a figure with purple hair —an unusual colour— trapped underneath a huge chunk of debris.

“Hold on I’m coming!” I yelled as I reached closer. The closer I got, the more of her features… No! My body kept running but my mind recognized her; it was impossible.

Trapped underneath a block of debris was a purple-haired girl in glasses, her lilac eyes in pain. She was someone I knew through fiction, someone who had a troublesome fate in store for her. One which I only knew from the wiki and the internet since the game was not available in my region.

She was in front of me, and hurt.

“Hang in there Mash!” my voice echoed through the room, the room where the future of humanity in this world was monitored. Dammit, this is too much for a joke she’s bleeding the debris had crushed her.

“Who …are you?” good she’s still conscious, I checked her over blood was pooling under her chest area. Dammit, Galahad finish the contract with her already.

Kneeling down towards her I faced her “I’m a friend, now stay with me I’m getting you out of here” I reach for the debris.

Argh!

The heat of the wreckage transferred heat through my hands forcing me to recoil. ”Leave me, worry about yourself” Images of Mash coughing and bloodied form filtered through my mind.

NO! I refuse to let her suffer, kneeling down I placed my hands on the edge of the steaming wreaking. Burning sensations assaulted my arms, I ignored it. I forced my muscles to work, clenching my teeth I kept pulling putting all my focus into my arms.

Power flooded through me as sparks flew and red lines crawled up my arms.

BOOM! The wreckage smashed into the ceiling letting in orange lit from the inferno, I felt a fire in my arms.

Fighting through the pain, kneeled in agony, as the river of pain coursed through me, I looked at my arms.  

They were limp I could barely feel anything else but numbing pain. From the elbows up my arms had turned blue and purple, twitching in pain. How, despite the pain my curiosity kept me lucid. Did I perform magic or something?

Coughing broke me out of my thoughts, Mash. I pushed through the pain and attended to her, she was bleeding, “Mash, can you stand?” getting a weak nod, “then grab my hand.”

I dangled my right arm in front of her. She grabbed on with both hands her grip was weak.

“Th…ank you” her voice was weak and her face looks pale but she was a pale character so I cannot tell. Blood was seeping from her back of her hoodie and drops of blood were dripping to the ground.

Once she was up, I lend her my right shoulder for support. “Can you apply some pressure on yourself? Sorry my arms are currently useless.”

I bit down into my left sleeve of my blue shirt and pulled tearing off a long strip of cloth. “Can you bandage yourself with this” Speaking through the cloth my muffled voice reached her.

“I kno…w ba…sic fi…rst aid” her breathing was becoming more stable but she was still critically injured we needed to stop the bleeding. I turned my jaw towards her and dropped the one end of the cloth into her open hands.

Using me as a crutch Mash applied my makeshift bandage it around herself. I dropped the other end when she started tying the knot.

“Tha…nk you for your assistance, but who are…you” The bleeding has stopped for now but looking at her she was in no condition to be walking and I cannot carry her with my arms in this sorry state. “How did you arrive in this part of the facility?”

“My name is Tobi and as for how? ...I don’t know?” Questions for later? Then the memory of rainbow  colours popped up. The wizard marshal huh.

“Fou” a high pitched voice from below distracted me from my rant. Tracing my eyes back to the source I saw a white creature and froze. Right in front of me was Cath Plug in its cute and fluffy form looked worried about the girl in my arms. How did I not notice it?

I let the potential Beast climb up on me and lick the girl checking on her condition.

"Warning: Severe atmosphere breach." a voice comes from all around, emotionless and metallic the defense system perhaps. "All personnel please report to panic stations. Warning: Fire suppression systems offline. Please refrain from using the elevators. Warning: Structural integrity compromised. Move with caution."

No, no this is bad if we go there we will not survive. Think brain think, racking my brain for a solution I came up empty if we go to Fuyuki now as we were our deaths were guaranteed. Looking at Mash an idea came to me “GALAHAD!” my roar echoed “Finalize your contract with her, you’re a knight right save her”

Mash gasped as I looked down her eyes were staring at something.

“You stranger” a male voice resounded around us “You know my name and the nature of my contract with this young girl” A figure appeared he was clad in purple and black knight armor without a helmet letting his lilac hair ran free covering his eyes and a sheathed sword strapped on his left.

Without a doubt, this was Galahad the Knight of the round table, a perfect knight and a saint whose legend stated found the Holy Grail.

“Do you intend to save this girl?”

“Well of course, just form the damn contract already knight” I screamed at the knight.

“You know of her fate?”

We don’t have time for this.

“Yes, now form the damned contract.”

Her breathing was getting weaker.

”Will you take responsibility for her once the contract is formed?”  

Just form the freaking contract already, I don’t care what I have to do.

“Yes I will save her!” my desperate answer seemed to have appeased the spirit.

“I will need your power, I shall finalize the contract please supply the needed power”

Power like that time, I don’t even know how to access it

“We do not have time hurry.”

Something inside me broke and power flowed through my body, sparks flew once more illuminating us making Mash gasp. Maybe it was the situation, my desperation I have no idea but it did not matter I will not allow this girl to die.

“You want power take it just save her”.

"Emergency procedure: locating potential master," the cool voice says tonelessly into your ear. "Potential master found,”

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Wait is it talking about me?

“Rayshit system transferring to final stage. Coordinate: January 30th, 2004 CE Fuyuki, Japan"

Light consumed the room.

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A large rectangle appeared above the circle as the ground shook, it out lined into the shape of a two large stone tablets. Engravings of a giant tree decorated the tablet.

Symbol were engraved throughout the room which contained a large glowing circle in an intricate pattern, dancing electricity above it.

The stone door boomed with energy which caused the symbols in the room to glow and it soon opened. A large eye peered through and a figure reconstructed in front of the giant eye, in the process the summoning circle in reaction to the energy from the gate, lit up.

Orbs of light materialized, rose up and spun in a single orbit around the circle, behind the other like a never ending relay race.

A figure half formed in pure light, as the darkness reached down to shake hands with lightning. They met and exploded in light and power, the half formed figure fell atop the light and an explosion of colour remade the interior lighting. Both figures forms melded together.

Moments passed, and soon the new figure emerged.

It resembled a man who slumped onto the floor unconscious his odd white coat duster lined with a single purple stripe. Than the eye closed along with the door then disappeared.

The circle on the ground hadn't stopped spinning in reaction to the phenomenon and [rebooted] as it lit up, and orbs of light materialized once more to spin in orbit behind the other like a never ending relay race.

The light died down and a women clad in black with Crimson Hair and spear. She materialized near the figure on the ground.

She looked at him for a moment, but she had seen worse, "Are you, my Master?"

The man stood as he tried to keep from wondering who had said that.

"Excuse me, you seem to have me at a disadvantage," as he faced the wall away from the confused red-head, she was behind where he was facing, "If you could turn on the lights, I would love to answer your question. Then you can answer mine."

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"..The room is well lit. In fact they are flashing red for evacuation purposes, due to the fire."

"What fire?"

"I can smell a lot of smoke and burned rubble Master, a lot stronger on the nose than what I'm normally used to."

He stood turned to the direction of the voice and blinked the pale whites of his pupils. The spear-woman realized why he thought the lights were out.

He blinked, "...I seem to be blind," waving his hand in front his face while he blinked, "It wasn't like that when I woke up this morning..." he mused.

The surprised spear-woman, had never found herself with a blind summoner, but not anything she couldn't adapt to, "Not to worry, Master, I know a spell that can heal your ailment," she stepped closer and started to trace lines on his skin.

It would regenerate and speed up his natural healing ability while giving him a brief sonar-like ability to tell where things are.

"Uhm," the action made the man wary.

"Hold still, if I make a mistake you might die," her words made him stop moving.

"Never had anyone threaten me to help me before," he intoned nervously trying to make small talk.

She ignored him and finished the sequence.

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The man clad in white felt a burning sensation in his eyes, as if they were being eaten by small bugs and grown back.

He nearly blacked out from the pain. He would have had she not traced something else on his skin. Soon a calming sensation spread throughout his body. The pain lessen somewhat as the intensity drained away.

He could see now. Even if everything looked like Marine World's Under the Sea Attraction. And without colour, wait he wasn’t using his eyes, now they seemed to waver in and out of vision as he could feel his eyes dematerialize as soon as it regenerated. At least he could ‘feel’ where everything was.

Sort of.

What was even happening anymore.

"Thank you, a question if I may?"

"Go ahead."

"Do you know who brought us here?"

"Master, didn't you summon me?"

"Summon?"

"Did you not perform the Servant summoning ritual master?"

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I stood there for a moment, not actually believing my ears.

Its okay I could, Adapt.

Just simply, adapt.

It’s no big deal. Adapt.

I had been disoriented and a part of me was shamefully denying reality.

I had already guessed it, it just wasn’t supposed to be possible.

Master. Fire around us. Summoning. Naturally this could be one massive joke at my expensive...but by taking away my eyesight, too? That's going a bit too far, I also got it back a few moments after a blinding pain in my eyes, pun intended. It could be a question of an elaborate magic trick to have that happen, but I couldn't think of a proper motive as to why anyone would do something like this. Especially, to a guy who was sure he didn't have friends who would do something like that. Nor was I rich, or famous.

Logically, it left me with one option as to what it was, but I was having a hard to time believing it could just up and happen no matter how much I thought it would be cool if it did happen. Instead of denying it any further I decided.

It was what it was. No sense in spouting side character lines. Because realistically enough being way too whiny and not enough ‘Getting-Sheet-done’ gets you killed.

Servant summoning.... Fate Stay, huh? Depending on the series I could guess how screwed I was.

Except FGO and Fate Extra. I had little information on the former and jack on the latter.

She didn't sound like a Saber and since she was a female that just did Magic...So naturally that would mean...wow, my luck was bad.

I decided to answer her question for who summoned her, "Well, seeing as I got summoned too, then no. Unless I did it while I was sleep waking or drunk. Which I'm sure I did neither of."

"An interesting predicament master, however those command seals on your arm are proof that you summoned me."

I felt the groove of the hand and found some markings there. Since I couldn't read braille I had no idea what it was shaped like.

"I see. Well introduction are in order, you can call me," I paused what was my name,"...Ryo...?" that sounded right-ish, still something off about that, but I decided to ignore it for the time being, "What's your name Miss? If you don't want to answer, what's your class?"

Please don't be Caster Princess of Cholcis: Medea. I saw Fate Stay, I know how her Masters end up.

"I have been summoned as Lancer," YES, its not Medea! ...Still have no idea who she is though.

"Lancer, eh? Nice to meet you," at least she doesn't want me dead right out of the gate.

"Likewise Master."

That's great Lancer, you gave me my eyes back, wow that is...I’m an ungrateful asshat aren’t I. Though I’m so far in her debt I'm going to need a skyscraper to shovel my out. I didn’t want to think anything bad of this woman who had helped me but honestly this paranoia was going to keep me alive. If I was going to repay her I’d have to be subtle and in a position of security before I did.

"Any chance, you know where we are?"

"Chaldea, currently we are in a base on a mountain in Antartica."

That's such a damn relief, at least I'm a lot safer than I would be if I was elsewhere in the Fate Franchise. I know so close to nothing about the plot it isn't funny. Well...still better than being summoned to Attack on Titan or Tokyo Ghoul. Ha. Ha. Ha. My apologies A.O.T. and T.G. SIs and fans but your favoured media is horrible.  

"Emergency procedure: locating masters" the cool voice says tonelessly into your ear.

"MASTER found,” Right, this was thing, “Rayshift system transferring to final stage. Coordinate: January 30th, 2004 CE Fuyuki, Japan. Shall begin soon please head to the Rayshift location," as in No Man's Land Central. Don't pretend it’s some flight to a Disneyland Amusement Park.

Arrows of light lit up the wall and a door opened. Is the computer guiding me to the Rayshift area, WAIT!

Emergency...has the place already been attacked? I hadn't noticed it then but the place sounds barren, where is everyone?

I noted a number of flashing light different from the rest. They looked to be one's that guided evacuees. I barely remembered what had happened but if there wasn't anyone here and an emergency was happening it was likely that weird pokemon professor guy had attacked the base.

"Lancer we have to follow the lights."

She kept pace with me as we trailed the glowing strips. Chaldea was supposedly super high tech mixed in with magic. Too bad I couldn't see. I believe this place had been attacked, I hadn't remembered what happened next. Lancer and I soon faced a giant steel door.

“Rayshift system transferring to final stage. Final Call for Masters."

The door opened and more arrows appeared on the floor to guide me.

Only a few feet into the room, before the Computer sounded out.

“Rayshift system transferring to final stage. Coordinate: January 30th, 2004 CE Fuyuki, Japan"

Soon light blinded me and I felt Lancer's arm wrap around me.

##January 30th, CE 2004; Fuyuki, Japan.

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Consciousness walked in with pain. It laced my entire body causing me to scream. Another sensation I felt was a drain but I pushed that aside as the pain took up most of my focus.

Then as something wet touched my face and the sound of an animal mewing, opening my eyes I was greeting with Fou licking my face. My scream turned to groaning, I could tell that my arms were still limp. So it took a while to pull me up to take a look at my surroundings. I was greeted with the scene of fire and burning structures.

It was the remains of a city everything was dark and smoke filled the streets. At least this time I was in a city, going by the plot so far I guess this is Fuyuki city, the place where the story of Fate Stay Night and Fate Zero took place.

Well, fictional no more, I thought re-orientating myself.

“Senpai, are you awake” turning to the voice I saw her, now clad in black armour, thankfully her navel was not showing and the armour covered her perfectly she tough I wish her thigh were more armoured but greaves helped and shoulders were bare showing vulnerable places since they were exposed except her head.

Most importantly she had the giant shield with the cross, Galahad’s Noble phantasm, Lord Camelot. Damn anime tropes and Saber’s particle armour.

"Yo, soo... how you doin’?" said a voice I hadn't heard before-OW WHY!?

"Who are you?" Mash stood on guard with shield

I turned to the voice, and found a dark haired guy in white coat duster, looking back.

“Fou,” Oh another head popped up on my shoulder, sneaky little beast. My senses must be pretty dull since I did not notice him or this person. Fou seemed to be shivering...Forcing myself to stand I notice that he wasn't alone...

Scathach!? How is she here!!!?