Guess who is back with another ArcherXHakuno fic! Me...because I can never not write for my favorite pairing. Anyway, Fate/Extella universe fic. I was quite salty when I realized Archer got shafted in the game so I decided to take it upon myself to write an Archer based arc. Like always, I hope you enjoy.

Archimedes took a deep breath and stepped into the throne room with a pleasant smile on his face. He had seen many versions of this throne room in the different parallel worlds he traveled but this was one he had not seen in a long time.

Unlike Nero, who had a huge, heart-like throne, or Tamamo's luxurious lounging couch, this one was a simple red chair. Sitting in the chair was the woman, adorned in a white dress with red accents, who seemed to destroy his plans time and time again. Not this time though. This time she was a vital part of his plan.

Next to the chair, was her servant, the red-clad Nameless.

Both of them looked up as Archimedes made his entrance.

"Has something happened?" asked Nameless.

The Caster shook his head. "Nothing bad, don't worry. In fact, I was finally able to uncover another power of the Regalia." The lie slid off his tongue easy enough. This was something he had been working on, hinting at for a while now.

Hakuno stood up straight. "Really?"

"It was buried deep in the records, it took some time for me to find it, a very long time as you can see." He spread out his arms. "Now I am sure the menace that seeks to destroy the world can be defeated."

Hakuno rested her hands over her heart and smiled at Archer. "Finally, maybe we can stop all this fighting."

Archer nodded at her.

Now. Now was the time for his plan. Archimedes held out a hand. "If you please, may I have the Regalia? I need to upload the data to the ring itself. Carrying it around has been…a burden." He ended his sentence with a small chuckle. A joke in this apparently serious situation.

Hakuno stood from the chair. The Regalia was on her ring finger. Unlike Nero and Tamamo whenever they were in the throne room, Nameless would give it back to her. What a pointless thing to do but it was the only reason why this plan would go so well.

The girl approached Archimedes. He had to resist the urge to laugh. He had done too well this time around. Neither of them suspected his real goal. He had played them both, helping them whenever they needed him, assisting more than he had done in the other worlds. He became the trusted second-in-command. So that was why the red-clad Nameless did not shadow his master. That is why he stayed by the throne with his arms crossed. That is why Hakuno removed the Regalia from her hand and held it out for him with no suspicion in her eyes.

It was so easy.

Dead worlds were so easy.

He smiled and took the ring from her. "Thank you Hakuno. It will only be a moment." With the ring tight in his grasp, he turned to Nameless and unleashed the trap he had put around the throne a week ago when the two of them were out.

The poor servant. Surprise lit up his eyes as a cage made from the glowing glyphs of Velber surrounded him.

"Archimedes!?"

He smiled at Nameless's cry that sounded more like a curse. His other hand snaked out and grabbed the girl's arm before she could stray too far and he released a spell. Those wide eyes closed and her body crumpled. Archimedes shifted his grip so she was leaning against him. It would do no good if she fell to the ground and damaged a part of her digital body.

He smiled, his true smile, not the one he had been giving these people for the past month, at Nameless. The servant could not move, Archimedes had designed the glyph spell to contain the Titan Altera but he had made a few modifications. He wanted Nameless to see this. He wanted the man to see Archimedes take her away.

"We trusted you," Nameless snarled. His body twitched as he tried to break free of the cage but, of course, it was a cage to hold a giant. There was no way a puny servant like him could escape.

"Maybe you shouldn't have been so trusting then." Archimedes put the Regalia on his finger and temporally overrode the owner data. He could have rewritten it to make himself the owner but that would take much longer and what was the point in that? He just needed the Regalia for one little thing.

Well, technically it was one big thing.

He accessed the data of Hakuno Kishinami. Winner of the Holy Grail War. This would take everything the Regalia had probably. He was doing something he didn't know would actually work. Yes, it was probable, he had calculated if this plan was even feasible but who knows what would happen in practice.

He finished the rewiring of her data and slipped the ring back on her limp finger. She was probably the best person to hold the Regalia. Although, he didn't know how useful it would be once they crossed worlds.

He picked up the girl in his arms. She was surprisingly light for someone that had been pissing him off in many different worlds.

"Don't touch her!"

Oh yes. Nameless was still here.

Archimedes turned to the man. He couldn't help it. He needed to gloat his victory. "Don't worry, this world was always doomed anyway. It doesn't matter what is done, this would have always resulted in a dead end world. However, I guess you won't be there to see it as you won't have a Master anymore."

Enough.

He had already spent too long here. He could hear Nameless cursing him. It didn't matter. Nothing of this world did. He just needed the girl of this dead end world. He had wasted so much time to track down a different parallel world with those two.

This time though, this time the Umbral Star would fall and this time he would finally win.