Author Note: This is my first story and attempt at writing so I will do my best to make sure this doesn't suck too much XD. 12/17/15 Sorry I am almost finished with chapter 2 I was sick for over a week so it took me a while to get back to writing. Also hopefully, this is the last time I rewrite chapter 1.
Gamindustri faces a dire crisis ever since the advent of ASIC- the Arfoire Syndicate of International Crime- morality has all but vanished as much as 80 percent of all students are rumored to worship the being known as Arfoire.
Despite being a poor being to worship, their parents taught their children to do so anyway. The government turned a blind eye instead of attempting to deal with the crisis in its infancy.
Thus, Gamindustri fell into chaos. The citizens accept the corruption as normal and takes no issue with acquiring items illegally. The victims of this mentality were sent to wander the Gamindustri Graveyard for eternity.
After a recently finished quest that required clearing out a bunch of monsters in Rebeat Resort, Shirou is currently heading to the Guild in Lastation to turn the quest in however Shirou's phone begins to vibrate.
"Hmm, I got a message from IF to meet up with her at the guild in Lastation, what a coincidence since I'm already headed there." Shirou mumbles a bit to himself.
Shirou age:13 is currently doing various jobs and quests from the guild to help regain shares from ASIC.
Five years ago a fire occurred from a monster attack in his hometown of Fuyuki, which resulted in many lives lost with Shirou being one of the few survivors and being saved and adopted by Kiritsigu Emiya.
After Shirou learned that Kiritsigu was a freelancer who worked to help as many people as he could because of his desire to be a hero, Shirou asked(begged) Kiritsigu to train and teach him.
Kiritsigu reluctantly started teaching Shirou how to fight and the basics to magic, when he heard the news of ASIC's activities, Kiritsigu stepped up Shirou's training and education.
The results are mixed while Shirou excelled at engineering his magical talent was much more limited, due to his unusual affinity towards the concept of "Sword" making many branches of magic either out of his reach or much harder to use.
However this affinity has had several unexpected benefits such as analyzing and recording any weapon, armor, tool, and shield he sees instantly in his reality marble the "Unlimited Blade Works" and with effort other objects as well.
A reality marble is an incredibly rare and powerful magic only recorded a few times in history with very little information about them available other than they manifest the casters internal landscape of him or herself so Shirou at the moment does not know how to use it only that he has one and can use the things recorded in it, including the history, skills, and experiences recorded in the UBW.
Kiritsigu also had Shirou gain some experience by bringing Shirou along on a few of the easier quests. However, Kiritsigu died when Shirou was around 12 years old right after passing down his dream of being a "hero of Justice" to Shirou.
Shirou shortly afterward meets IF when he was working on a quest, a girl a few years older than him with light brown hair, emerald colored eyes, and about his current height, and wore an oversized blue jacket with black, silver, and white detailing.
The two surprisingly (unsurprisingly) become friends quickly with IF taking Shirou "under her wing" and eventually starts to care for him as a younger brother, even though she denies it.
Recently IF has had Shirou take various jobs in Lastation while she goes on a "very important mission" with one of her friends, choosing not to say anything about the mission despite Shirou's best attempts at persuasion(pouting).
Shirou sends a reply to IF's text message"I'm on my way, see you in about 5 minutes."
He puts his phone away and starts walking again towards the Guild. "I hope IF and that friend she was talking about are all right, I wonder if she succeeded in that "secret mission" she wouldn't tell me anything about." Shirou mumbles again, then he starts to think about the "Viral" monsters he encountered on his most recent quest.
A short while ago.
Shirou is on a quest given from the guild to clear out some of the monsters at the resort but will encounter some unforeseen problems. Up ahead are the last group of monsters he needs to slay in order to complete the quest just a few Frog-in-the-boxes and a couple of Delinquent Cats.
Shirou grabs his semi-automatic sniper rifle from his very convenient storage disc checks the gun, turns off the safety, then takes aim at one of the frog monsters.
He then quickly nails two of the frogs alerting the rest of the monsters but before they can react….
"Trace On" defeats the rest of the frog monsters by launching a barrage of projected swords at them.
"Alright time to take down the cats, wait what!" As Shirou prepared to quickly end the battle one of the cats stops charging at him and starts changing into some kind of deadlier version of itself! And if that wasn't bad enough the other upon proximity with it transforms as well!
"What the heck is going on!?" Shirou exclaims in shock, as the two start charging at him again he quickly notices that the monsters are moving at a much faster pace than before quickly getting close to melee range.
Shirou regains his composure and puts away his rifle, and pulls out a flash bang then...
"Catch!" he shouts at them as he throws it and quickly turns away blinding the crazed monsters before they have a chance evade what was thrown at them.
"Seriously no one ever falls for that trick." Shirou says while shacking his head.
Shirou then projects a pair of short swords he saw a while back,(swords that are similar in appearance and ability to Kanshou and Bakuya but are not the same swords.) and quickly uses them to take down one of the cats with a few fast and furious slashes.
However the last remaining enemy quickly recovers forcing Shirou to deflect a powerful swipe from it's claws with one sword while lashing out with the other giving it a nasty looking cut to its leg slowing the cat down and causing it to hobble.
Shirou then throws both of the swords at it forcing it to try and dodge receiving a couple of scratches in the process. While the cat is distracted he quickly draws a large handgun and puts a pair of bullets between it's eyes finally putting the battle to a close.
After Shirou loots the monsters and puts away his weapons, he remembers something.
"Huh, I remember now those monsters I just fought must have been those "Viral" monsters IF warned me about, they are quite dangerous but as long as I keep my guard up I should be fine. Maybe. Anyways time to turn that quest in."
IF is currently looking at her phone(one of them at least) as the group stands in the Lastation Guild building.
"This place must be pretty firmly under ASIC's control I hope we can at least get legit intel….."
As If finishes her sentence her eyes widen and starts speaking again.
"Well looks like my contact is going to meet us here in a bit, and with any luck join us." She states witha slight smile.
"Oh who is this person your talking about iffy?" Compa asks curiously. Nepgear is also a bit curious as to who IF's contact is.
"You'll see in a bit I'll introduce him when he shows up." If says not giving any more information.
While Nepgear is interested to know who this "contact" is there is another thing she is concerned with right now.
"Well alright while you wait for your contact and gather information allow me to go ahead and accept some quests." she says eagerly and then walk over and asks for the available quests. However a girl about Nepgear's age asks the same thing.
The girl in question has black hair worn in pigtails, and ribbons has red eyes, and wears a black dress with blue lining. Nepgear thinks to herself "should such a young human girl really take on such dangerous work?"
The girl looks at Nepgear in surprise and says, "Oh you're here to do quests too right?"
"Huh? Me? Y-Yes, that is right." she says a bit nervous.
The mystery girl asks. "Huh. Are you sure about this? I mean, you're still just a kid."
"Huh? B-but you're a kid, as well..." Nepgear says a bit confused.
"I'm an exceptional exception." The unknown girl states, then continues."You have no idea how tough I am. But I need to get even stronger, so that I can…"
"so you can…?" Nepgear starts to ask. "Uh, nothing. Why are you looking for a quest anyway?"
"I want to help the people of this nation, and try to regain shares for the CPUs." Nepgear declares seriously.
"Wow aren't we serious? Talk about corny, that speech makes you sound like a goody two-shoes honors student or something." The mystery girl says almost disbelievingly.(Ok seriously say her name already I'm tired of typing "unknown" and "mystery" and stuff.)
"Wh-What the goodness is wrong with being serious about a serious problem?!" Nepgear asks shocked by the girl in front of her.
"Hahahaha! Sorry, sorry. I have not talked to a girl my age in a while." The still not named girl says.
"Come to think of it, it's been a while for… wait no, I've never met a girl my age before. Everyone's older than me." she says in realization.
"Uh-huh… well, my name is Uni. What is yours?" Uni asks.
"I'm Nepgear. I hope we can become friends, Uni." She says with a smile now on her face.
"Nepgear, huh? All right then since we're acquainted now, you wanna team up and complete a quest together?"Uni asks smiling back.
"You mean… you and me?" She asks her new friend.
"Yeah. I always do this stuff alone, so it would be a good change of pace to try working with someone else." Uni says.
"Okay, yeah! That sounds like fun. Let's go together!" Nepgear says in excitement.
Now the two new friends leave the building to go meet back with the others.
While Nepgear and Uni were talking to each other, Shirou spots IF and a girl he doesn't know.
The girl has light creamy pink color hair with matching eyes and is wearing a tan-white wool styled tank top with matching boots and a red plaid skirt.
"Hey, Shirou! Glad you could make it. How have you been lately?" Greeted IF with a smile.
"It's nice to see you IF. I have been pretty well thanks, for the concern." Shirou smiles back at her refraining from mentioning being attacked by viral monsters during his last quest to avoid worrying her.
"Um, are you and your friend alright? How did that "top secret mission" of yours go?" He asks IF.
"About that… We're still waiting on somebody else so I will tell you about the mission later, but Compa and I are fine."IF states reassuringly. Oh well that's good at least, I can't wait to meet our other "party" member, he thinks in relief.
"Oh, I almost forgot to introduce you two. Compa, this is Shirou a contact and friend of mine. Shirou, this is Compa the friend I mentioned to you." IF says.
"It's nice to meet you Miss Compa, I'm Shirou Emiya It's nice to meet you." Shirou says smiling at the pretty girl in front of him.
"You can just call me Compa, Shirou it's nice too meet you too I look forward to being your friend, and friend of iffy's is a friend of mine."Compa smiles back.
Iffy eh? Shirou looks at IF in amusement. "Iffy? Heh, I think that actually suites you quite nicely "Iffy."
"H-Hey! Don't you start with that or else I'll find a silly nickname for you too!" Exclaims IF inembarrassment. Shirou chuckles a bit at the bad comeback before asking a question. "By the way who is the other person were waiting on?" "Well I can introduce you two later, we have to go to Rebeat Resort to meet up with her so let's get going." IF says
So the group of 3 head towards Rebeat Resort to wait for Nepgear and unknown to them Uni as well.
Nepgear and Uni arrive at the resort and go to meet with the others. Upon arriving Nepgear sees IF and Compa but also a boy who couldn't be older than 13 that has Auburn red hair and Golden-brown eyes and is wearing a black and white zip jacket and a charcoal colored scarf around his neck. The boy seemed to have noticed the two of them first and turns to her and Uni.
"Oh are these the girls we were waiting on? I thought we were only waiting for one person IF. Who is she?" The auburn haired boy says. Before IF can say anything Compa says.
"Wow, so you made a cute little friend while we were at the Guild?"
"Oh. So you weren't doing quests all by yourself. I guess that's to be expected. I mean, those arms of yours are like, paper thin." Uni says, then the unknown boy interjects"Well isn't that a little rude? I mean none of us look very strong yet looks can be deceiving." He proves this by revealing a dangerous looking high powered sniper rifle. "Sorry about that I didn't mean anything by it. So who are you?" Uni asks.
"Shirou Emiya, and you?" Shirou asks. "Uni. In any case, if there are five of us, this quest will be easy. Let's get it over with quick, all right?" "Ok but before that who is the purple haired girl?" Shirou asks.
"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself I'm Nepgear, It's nice to meet you Shirou." Nepgear says with a smile at him. He doesn't say anything but smiles back as well.
The party of five now heads out to complete the quest.
"Tch! They already made it here… At this rate, they'll totally be getting in my way..."
"Fine. I'll finish them off this time, and I'll do it before they know what hit 'em."
Then the Underling goes off to devise a plan.
Authors note 2: Well this is the revision to the first chapter I used some advice I got from well the one review I have so far on this story so thanks Rose Knight of Neptune. Not much else for me to say except I'll be working on the next chapter tomorrow 11/30/15.