Battle Royale For The Holy Grail: The Unlimited Route

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Fate/Stay Night is owned by Type Moon
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The various guest characters appearing in every arc are owned by their respective owners.

Hello, and welcome to my new Fate/Stay Night fanfic, and though Battle Royal for the Holy Grail fanfic is still ongoing, a new idea popped on my head and it has been bugging me non-stop and decided to give it a try and see if this would attract readers anew, especially when it was announced that the new Fate/Stay Night anime coming this October will be based on the Unlimited Blade Works route, which will no doubt differentiate from the first Fate/Stay Night anime.

So why make another fic similar to the one I'm currently uploading? Well, there are a few reasons that inspired me to try this out, which came from three different sources that helped me came with the idea to make this new experimental fic, and these are:

- Unlimited Blade Works anime movie

- Fate Prototype anime short

- Kamen Rider Gaim: Great Soccer Battle! The Golden Fruits Cup

Having watched the UBW anime movie, it made me wonder if an anime version would be possible since parts of it were incorporated in the first Fate/Stay Night anime, but when announced that a new FSN anime is coming based on THAT route, it tweaked my curiosity since the movie was quite "short" as it was condensed, seeing a possible 13 or 26-episode anime would revitalize my interest.

Also, I accidentally came across Fate Prototype when I surfed the web, and there I checked it on the Fate wiki site and learned that it was a "prototype" for the first anime that didn't pushed through, yet when I surfed it on google, I accidentally saw the anime short, lasting 12 minutes, yet the characters, and the settings made me curious and checked the characters, and learned that some of them, including the main hero and antagonists, were re-imagined, original versions of the first FSN anime, and after reading them, I began to brainstorm a story which I could use the characters in a future fic.

Then came the Kamen Rider Gaim movie, and though I couldn't watch the movie, since it's in Japan - and it would take 5 to 6 months before a subbed version comes - I had to rely on the websites about some of the spoiler plots and movie-exclusive characters, but after watching the PV of the movie's theme song, Your Song, it further inspired me to try out using the Fate Prototype characters, and how to incorporate them in my future fics.

After re-watching Unlimited Blade Works, and the Your Song PV, as well as reading the profiles of Kamen Riders Kamuro and Mars, as well as watching Kamen Rider Gaim episode 37: Baron's Soccer Summer Camp, I decided to make an Unlimited Blade Works version of Battle Royal For The Holy Grail, only this time I might incorporate some elements from other Fate series, such as Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, and see how this fic would go.

Well, that's the summary I can tell you right now, but you'll soon see where this would lead to, so here is the first chapter, so read and enjoy!

Fuyuki City...the climax of the Holy Grail War...

The scene shifts to an unnamed shrine where Taiki Kudo, in his armored guise of Armored Fighter Gaim, is fighting alongside the "Digital Wizard", Takuya Kanbara, as they deal with a huge homonculus-like entity, which is the Holy Grail, where it was merged with a Servant, who turn out to be Archer, who also gained the weapons and paraphernalia to become Bujin Gaim, and there he uses the Holy Grail's power to attempt to slay his enemies.

As Shirou Emiya and Rin Tohsaka managed to pull Ilyasveil Von Einsbern and Sakura Matou out of the mutated Grail, Gaim and Wizard then made their move as both jumped in the air and descended downwards, performing their flying kicks, their foot and leg ablaze with energy, they descended downwards and struck the weak spot of the Grail, weakening it and Bujin Gaim was harmed and this causes him to get separated from the Holy Grail, and this allowed Gaim to deal with Bujin Gaim while Wizard uses his magic ring to assume Infinity Style and prepares to land a decisive blow while Gaim fights Bujin Gaim.

"Damn you!"

"This is your end!"

"How can I lose to a pathetic human?!"

"You don't have the right to wield the Holy Grail if your intention is to kill innocent people!"

"I cannot, and will not lose to you! I'm so close to attaining true power!"

"Taiki...I'm all set!"

"Hit him with all you got, Takuya!"

"I will kill you both!"

Pressing the "cutting blade" of the Lock Driver, Gaim performed the "Orange Squash" which he slashes Bujin Gaim several times and the impact knocks Bujin Gaim back and is hurled towards the now-unstable Holy Grail, while Wizard-Infinity Style performs the "Infinity Kick Strike", and the blow connected, causing the Holy Grail to reach critical mass and it exploded, killing Bujin Gaim in the process, thus saving Fuyuki City and ended the Holy Grail War, and a few days later, Taiki and Ryouma Mogami leaves Fuyuki City and head back to Kyoto, so they can rest before resuming their "Invess Games" while Shirou and Rin resumed their normal lives.

-x-

Several months later...

The scene shifts to Kyoto, where Taiki comes in to conflict with Yggdrasil Corporation, who are in the midst of considering using their methods of "protecting" Kyoto from the Helheim, a mysterious world threatening to expose itself to the people of Kyoto, and during one of his conflicts with Zangetsu, an Overlord Digimon appears and attempts to kill his targets but was soon forced to retreat, and there Yamato Takaishi was told about the Overlords and this gave him a glimmer of hope as he is considering taking Taiki's words in seeking another means of saving their world, and both parted ways forming a truce.

"...I see...that's what you've been up to all this time..."

"While some are ruthless...some might be willing to listen to reason...we just need to give it a try..."

"Never have I thought that our methods were the only way...now you have given me a glimmer of hope..."

"There's no need to sacrifice everyone..."

"Very well...I will form a truce with you..."

"Really?"

"Yes...and I will talk to my colleagues at Yggdrasil...once they find out about what we discover...I may persuade them to help you in this matter..."

"That's great! Thanks!"

However, as Taiki is walking back to his hangout to tell his friends that a new hope is possible with Yggdrasil's aid, he did not notice that two individuals are watching him separately, one a middle-aged man, and the other a young teenager, roughly under 18 years old, in which neither one noticed the other yet, they are eyeing Taiki as if one of them wanted to meet him, yet the middle-aged man is seen holding a gold Apple Lock Seed, smirking before taking his leave, while the youth decided to secretly follow Taiki wherever he goes.

At Fuyuki City, Shirou lives peacefully with his friends and is enjoying school life as he and Sakrua Matou started to go out, while Rin Tohsaka goes to England to meet with the Mage Association, unaware that something amiss is about to happen at Fuyuki City, which would soon spread to other parts of Japan.

-x-

Elsewhere, a scene shifts to a cemetery where a young girl, apparently a high school student, is standing in the grave of two relatives, mourning their deaths while at the same time having an inner struggle on what she would do with her life as she felt that she is trapped due to a "fate" that has been constantly hounding him, wishing that there might be a way for her "fate" to change, even though she had a feeling that it is just wishful thinking.

"Today is the death anniversary of my dad and elder sister...this is just my self-assessment...but I have a terrible personality...I'm gloomy, cowardly...narrow-minded...and a show-off...and worst of all, I'm hopelessly average. So average. I wasn't able to obey my father's orders in the recent times...instead I ended up using my own blood..."

But her trail of thoughts were interrupted when someone came and stood beside the girl, who is wearing glasses, and there he offered the girl his "condolences", yet she rejected them and told him to leave.

"Good day..."

"..."

"I'm extremely sorry about what happened to your family..."

"..."

"They were so close to finding the Truth too..."

"Please leave."

"At midnight tonight, eight years will have passed. You can finally restart the battle, but why haven't you made any preparations?"

"I...I don't want to get involved! I don't want anything to do with the Grail!"

"All things are subject to cause and effect."

However, the man came closer to the girl and whispered something, which caused her to become apprehensive just as the man leaves the cemetery, and she mentally became a nervous wreck as she didn't want THAT scenario to happen and leaves the cemetery amid the heavy rain pouring down and drenching her outright.

However, she did not noticed that the young man, who earlier watched Taiki Kudo leave Yggdrasil, was there, watching her, and though his expression was stoic, he sees something in her an interest in her and is now considering something that would affect his future encounter with her and takes his leave as he remained unseen by the man who spoke to the eyeglasses girl.

-x-

At the Kotomine church, the unidentified teen glances at the exterior of the church before coming inside, looking around the area, seeing that it has been abandoned for several months after the Holy Grail War's conclusion, and by then through unknown means, he discovered that the recent Holy Grail War was a "fake", and there the scene around him shows the events that took place in Fuyuki City, which includes:

- The Holy Grail Wars, the first up to the recent one

- The summoning of Servants by their respective masters

- Taiki and the Armored Fighters forced to enter the recent Holy Grail War due to being given Servants

- The conflict it ensued

- The recent conclusion of the Holy Grail War

The young man then closed his eyes as he "disappeared" from the Kotomine Church just as someone came here and is about to clean up the mess that Kirei Kotomine left.

-x-

Meanwhile, the scene shifts to the streets where the girl in eyeglasses is walking amid the heavy rains, and as she is walking, a group of muggers are following her, intending to rape her, but then the middle-aged man blocked their path, allowing the girl to walk safely while the muggers are rather irritated at the man blocking their path, yet the man smirked as he taunted them before making his move.

"Yo."

"You old bastard! Get out of our way!"

"Move!"

"Damn! The bitch with the eyeglasses is gone!"

"You old faggot! Now you're going to pay!"

"We want to rape her...guess we'll have to settle in beating you up!"

"My apologies, young men...but I have plans for that girl...and I will not let you have your way with her..."

"So, want to play with us?"

"Let's beat him..."

"Hey, look!"

"A padlock?"

"Looks like I'll kill some time before I get to meet with the Armored Fighter...henshin."

The man then brought out what appeared to be a gold-colored Apple-themed Lock Seed, and the scene is blurred by the heavy rain yet light shone and you can see that the man is vaguely enveloped in armor, wielding a sword and a shield, and began slashing the muggers mercilessly, sparing no one and after killing them, the man, apparently an Armored Fighter, leaves the scene as if nothing happened while heading towards an unknown direction, though he can see Taiki Kudo passing by, yet Taiki did not notice him due to the poor visibility, and the Armored Fighter glances at Taiki, passing by him yet he did nothing, though there is a vague animosity emanating from him upon glancing at Taiki.

For some reason, the Gold-colored Armored Fighter has a mix of fascination...and hatred for Taiki, but for now he lets him go as he takes his leave, vowing to encounter him when the time comes.

To Be Continued…

Hope you liked this chapter, which mirrors the events of the Kamen Rider Gaim summer movie, though this fic acts as an alternate continuation of my current Fate Stay Night x Kamen Rider Gaim fic, though I guess it would act as a spoiler since my current fic is till ongoing.

While Gaim and Wizard appear though in the opening scene along having a brief climatic fight with Bujin Gaim, this chapter introduces another main character, and she is the protagonist of Fate/Prototype. She is Ayaka Sajyou, and she will play a role in this fic, but for some reason, her presence attracted the attention of the middle-aged man, who is also the unknown gold-colored Armored Fighter. The next chapters will slowly show why, and what lies ahead of Ayaka.

Preview:

The next chapter will show that Taiki is going to have one heck of a ride as he finds out that the current situation he is in has mysteriously changed...and that the people he know, and met, are acting...out of character, while at the same time finds himself thrust back to the Holy Grail War, only this time in a different scenario.