Summary: Fate/Grand Order SI, as Mash's OC brother and Demi-Servant. Contains spoilers, Altered Singularities, and minor crossovers with characters.
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White was the snow, and grey were the clouds it fell from, and the wind was probably cold as it battered against the wall window the filled this corridor.
Though that was an educated guess, based on scientific knowledge of the environment of Antarctica and memories that seemed fresh yet old.
For this fragile body of mine would probably die within seconds of stepping outside no matter what protection I wore. Only this somewhat sterile facility was the reason that I had been able to live for the past six years.
Technically sixteen, but my memories of my old life had come to this body, and I had held onto with fervor, using magic to hold onto them better and not let them slip away.
Yes magic, or rather Magecraft existed within this world I had been reborn into, a world I was familiar with. Though not this world specially or maybe I did, for not all my memories had returned, I knew that at least about a year's worth of memories was still missing from my mind. I knew that I had lived to twenty-one last time around. My memories ended in the summer of my ninetieth year alive.
So, maybe I did learn of this world in my missing memories, but I knew the setting in which this world existed.
The Nasuverse, as it had been called in my old life, a fictional setting Urban Fantasy about vampires, heroes, and ideals.
But now, I was here, and it wasn't fiction.
It was real, and something I had come to terms with years ago. That I would never return to my old life, to my previous. I had hurt, it had hurt a lot to let go of them, and I had spent many nights apologizing to them.
But in this world, I had a new family, and they had helped get over my loss. Even if they didn't know about my previous life. Their presence had been enough. And there was also the fact that I would die in about a year and a half, which made the need to angst fuck and make the best of it.
"Starring out of the window again Matthew, I seem to keep finding you staring at the outside every single day." An aristocratic voice of the highest order spoke the name this body of mine had been by the person that could be my new father.
"Why wouldn't I be Wodime?" I asked the blond haired anime protagonist pretty boy, though I could probably also be thrown into that category now. Maybe even more so due to being technically Japanese genetically now.
"I understand, but even so your sister doesn't do this, and she longs for the outside world even more than you." He responded.
That was true, my new sister, my twin though not genetically as we were made from two different donated eggs. But we were made together. "True, but what are you doing here? The missions starts in like an hour or two. So shouldn't you be down in the Command Room with the rest of your team?" I asked the man.
"I should be, but one of the operators are missing, and he is supposed to make sure that we don't get divided by zero." The Brit joked.
Which caused me to become a little sheepish. For that was my job. For unlike my sister, I had no potential as a Master, despite our similar origin. So I was part of the operators that overlooked the various system. My mind magic, my only Magecraft abilities allowing me to learn numerous things.
"Sorry."
"There is no need to apologize, Matthew," Wodime responded with a kind smile. "But we should get back to the others now and prepare."
"Right, right," I said my hand going through my pitch black hair.
Wodime just gave me a small smile, and we began to walk through the corridor towards the elevator.
There was no small talk between the two of us, as I was still terrible at small talk.
"I already thought that all Master Candidates had arrived?" Wodime asked out loud as we came to a stop in the hallway as in front of us laid across the floor was a red-headed girl, dressed in the standard Chaldea Mystic Codes.
"Probably the last one, and it looks like she just came out of the simulator." I had seen this exact scenario multiple times this week. "You go on ahead Wodime, you don't need me to start up the procedures, and the less time you're away from the Director, the less she is going to think that you're trying to steal her position." For despite his earlier words I was not really needed in the procedure. I had just memorized the Rayshift instruction manual, via my Mental Magecraft. Which was the only stuff I knew cause fuck using Magic Circuits as much as possible that shit hurt to use.
"That is just a stupid Rumor Matthew I do not want the position as the Director of Chaldea. Despite my status as Marisbury's apprentice. Olga can keep her position, as it is her right as the Aminusphere heir. As you should know. But you're right I should go as A-Team shall commence the summoning of Servants soon for the solving of the Singularity."
At that statement, Wodime walked away going around the passed out girl on the floor and left the two us alone.
And that can so be taking the wrong way. I thought but who was I dealing with here? "There is only one way to find out."
"Wake up!" I yelled right into her ear as that always worked with the person that was my new mother.
"Argh!" She shouted and sat in less than a second. "Arh, my head is pounding." She complained.
"Yeah, that the usual symptom of using the simulator for the first time, do you want some water?" I asked.
The girl turned her head towards me and nodded. "Take a seat on the seat on the bench," I said and pointed to the bench that was right next to us, and next to it was a vending machine. For some reason, Chaldea's halls were filled with those but from what I had heard from the staff. It was something the Former Director had installed after a trip to Japan. Which made sense as from my memories Japan was filled with vending machines that contained lots of weird stuff. Though thankfully these didn't cost money. They were just fancy snack bars for when people didn't want to go down to the Cafeteria for food.
As I went over to the machine, I heard the girl take a seat on the bench with a massive groan of tiredness. Which was expected, and I wouldn't be surprised if she fell asleep again. As using the simulator for the first time did drain one mentally.
"Here," I said as her the water bottle that the machine had spit out. Which she then proceeded to drink like she had been wandering through a desert.
"Ah, that hit the spot. So pretty boy are you going to introduce yourself or you just going to leave a girl hanging after filling her up." She said with a grin.
And great she was a pervert, wasn't she even a deaf and blind person could see and hear that innuendo.
"The name is Matthew Kyrielight what is yours?" I asked as I took a seat beside her.
"Name's Asuka Fujimaru, so I guess by your clothes that you work in this place, cause none of the other guys were different clothing." Guess she was talking about the other Civilian Master recruits.
"I am one of the Rayshift operators and general technician," I said as I accessed the Servers via my armband to bring up information. Now let's see Asuka Fujimaru, Master candidate 47, age 17, arrived from Shinjuku Japan together with her twin brother late last night. Damn, she was a last-minute recruitment. And though it was probably done due to the ridiculously high Master Compatibility, she and her brother had. Though wonder he was.
Probably collapsed in another part of Chaldea after having gone through the simulator.
"Rayshift? Oh yeah, that was mentioned in the instruction pamphlet, man can't believe that Time travel and magic is real." She said with a joyous smile on her face like she had just discovered that her childhood fantasy had just become real.
"The proper term is Magecraft."
"Ah, don't be a stick in the mud handsome. So, the pamphlet didn't mention it, but I have to ask what is it. I am actually supposed to do?" She asked, and I wanted to respond with the fact that I wasn't that handsome. Like I would have said in my old life, as I was just a fat ball. An issue I had managed to avoid here, thanks to Roman.
"The Director is going to explain it to you all down in the Command Room," I told her, cause while I could tell her about the Singularity she and the others led by the A-Team had to investigate. I really didn't want to exposit when there were others who could do it for me.
"Ah, okay so where is that?" Asuka asked.
"Just follow me Asuka, I was about to head down here then I stumbled upon you," I told her.
"Heh, sorry about that I don't even remember ending up here," She responded sheepishly. "And hopefully on the way, we run into my idiot brother."
Yes, Ritsuka Fujimaru saw his name and picture on Asuka's profile. Though for some reason his name struck a chord with me. Perhaps it had something to do with the remaining memories that I had yet not regained. Though I was starting to get a bit concerned as I hadn't gained any new-old memories back in the last three months.
But that was a problem for later as now I had to help with making sure that the future actually happened.
It did not take long for the two of us to walk to the elevator that leads down to the lower floors where the Command Room was located. Though then we arrived someone was about to use it too.
"Sis!"
"Bro!"
Said Asuka and Ritsuka as the two siblings ran and embraced each other in a hug.
I ignored the two siblings and as they began talking with each other and went one of the two persons that Ritsuka had been standing with.
"Hey Mash," I greeted my sister. "And you too, Fou," I said as I scratched the creature that had attached itself to my sister's shoulder most of the time.
"Fou." He responded.
I didn't know what he was, but he seemingly wasn't any danger to my sister, so I let him be, and besides, he was as cute as a button.
"You sound like haven't seen me in days, so you found Senpai's sister?" Mash asked.
Senpai, huh? She had spoken about that desire before to find someone special, well not really just someone that was truly human that she could learn from. Though considering this was Fate, and Ritsuka just screamed main character to my senses. I would probably have to go mom and ask her to make me a shotgun.
Cause Roman was too much of a wimp to chase people away.
"Well, good thing you're here Matthew or else you would have been late to the director's speech." Spoke the second person that had been with Ritsuka.
"Isn't that first in like an hour?" I asked Lev, the man was one of the reasons that Chaldea was able to do what it did. And he came off as a very nice guy, that always wanted to help people. But in the last few months, something about him had become wrong. Nothing in his demeanor, speech or attitude or even his appearance had changed at all. But something deep inside of me reacted negatively to his presence, and I didn't know why? I had tried to figure out why, but I had come up empty.
So, for now, I ignored the feeling of wrongness that appeared inside my stomach every time he was near. Until I had an answer.
"Nope starts in ten minutes and the Rayshift to the Singularity in soon after." He responded with his usual smile.
"…Okay, everybody, we are going to go down now, or Olga is going to roast us and then eat us for dinner." I said as I quickly entered the elevator the others rapidly following me inside.
There was relatively little small talk as we went down, and then we arrived I quickly exited the elevator with large strides as I entered the Command Room greeted the others, and quickly went up into the Observatory where the rest of my fellow Rayshift Staff members where waiting for me.
"Sorry for the delay had to make sure that the last two Master Candidates made it." Which was technically true, but I didn't want to say I had been lost in my own head again.
Though as entered equations and numbers into the computer, and evaluated the data that Sheba, Chaldeas, Trigemesustus, and Fate provided us so that our mission could be a success.
All the while the Director made her speech to all the new recruits about what the mission was about, though at some point she had stopped, and continued a few seconds later. I didn't know why and didn't care. I was too busy with my own job, as my fingers, pressed the keyboard over and over again.
This continued until Wodime, and his A-Team along with the other Master candidates entered the Coffins as we went to initiate. Though as I typed, I could hear Lev talking with… was that Roman? Why would he ask for him to come down here? There wasn't any need for his medical expertize. I would ask him afterward, for now, I had a more important thing to worry about.
I took a sip of my water and as I placed it back down was when I heard a high pitched sound and when everything seemingly exploded.
And I only had one thought on my mind as it met oblivion.
I finally remembered.
Fuck you Flauros.
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"Urgh," I groaned as I felt myself wake up, a flood of new, no old memories flooding into my mind once again.
I quickly set about organizing and sorting into relevancy and storing them away to be looked over later.
But now, now I remembered what 'Franchise' I had been reincarnated into and… and, fuck.
I could deal with the level of fuck later.
Now I just needed to figure where I was, for this wasn't either Fuyuki or Chaldea.
No, I was in the middle of an entirely black void.
Lev's bombs had gone off, and I had been caught in the blast so… Was I dead again?
I knew Mash would be okay, so I wasn't concerned about her, but me?
"Well, you aren't dead yet." Spoke a male filled to the brim with bloodlust.
I turned towards the voice and saw a person that had not been standing there a second then I had looked around this seemingly infinite black void.
"It's only my presence and powers that are keeping you alive and healing you." It was obvious who he was, he was the Heroic Spirit that had been summoned into me. That much was obvious.
Though his identity was apparent to me, as I easily recognized his form. Those piercing red eyes, with bloody armor to match, long unkempt hair and on his shoulders rested his long blade.
"Kyo Mibu, Demons Eyes Kyo." Was the only thing I could say as I looked at my favorite asshole fictional samurai.
Well, he wasn't fictional anymore was he? Right now he was just as real as me.
"Of course, you recognize me. Those memories of yours are really interesting. Bit of a foreigner aren't you?" He asked me his voice dripping with an asshole.
"So, what do you want?" I asked.
"I want to fight all those strong people, of course, I want to kill them and prove that I am the strongest. Now while the holier than thou knight is willing to just give over his power. Why should you stay in the driver seat." Kyo stated as he approached me while unsheathing Tenro.
"Because behind all that battle and bloodlust Kyo, you're a good guy that just want to live with the people you love." I knew Kyo, I knew his character. I had read that manga so many, many times. And I knew exactly what words to say. "You wouldn't rob my sister of my presence."
"You weren't needed the first time around. Why do you think you will be now?" The blade was fully out.
"And if you did indeed take over my body, you wouldn't do it anyway cause if you did. You know Yuya would be disappointed in you." This was a gamble bringing up her would either result in my continued survival or death.
"Hmm," Kyo responded, and a second later the nodachi pierced my heart. "You drive a hard bargain boy. I lend you a bit of my power, but in exchange, I get to keep a few bits of the important memories you just regained. You won't know which but you appreciate it." Kyo said, and second, later the hilt hit my chest.
My eyes opened.
"Commence Rayshift Fuyuki, Japan 2004."
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A/N: One of two FGO fics I had my mind. The other won't come to fruition until part 2 is over.
