My Body... Is Made of Machine?
Chapter 1 : Transefered to Other Dimension, By Zeltrerch of course!
Oh hi there! Welcome to my new Fanfiction. I, death will guide you in this story...
Slay: Hey! Isn't it was supposed to be ME who always guide the reader!
death: Not anymore atleast. Now go, before i pick my sycthe!
slay: Cih, spoil sport.
death: Now that the intuder has gone for good, let's start the story!
Disclaimer: I don't own Infinite Stratos, if I do, I will rename is as Unlimited Stratos.
"talking"
(thinking)
[IS name or weapons]
*expression*
(Time or Place)
Murphy's Law: The Bigger the machine/slash/space ship/slash/robot, it will only move faster. I mean just see Super sentai show with their Megazord! Somehow, a freaking giants robot teleported to the battle field in a few seconds. SECONDS!
Made-of-Machine
It has been twenty years since the true end of Holy Grail War. Live has been more difficult since then. Not to mention a lot of things that has happened since then.
I still remember the event that shaped me like this. It was thirty years ago, when i still an amateur Magus. I helped Rin to win the fifth Holy Grail War. It was my first
step of becoming an ally of justice. Well, it's more like my first true steps.
I have fought my alternate future self, and win luckily because my sheer willpower alone, fought against the Kings of Heroes, and win. But my proudest achievement is the power that my alternate future self died at... The power that definite an existence called Emiya Shirou...
Unlimited Blade Works.
It was the power that i gained to save as many as i can. It was the power that i gained when it is my twentieth Dead apocalypse hunt. It was the power that saved many lives that i should not be able to.
But enough of that, let's talk about my live, shall we?
It was five years after the War that Rin invite me in a missadvanture to a place that lesser men would die in, the Clock Tower. Durring that time, i have experienced many things. Start of becoming an apprentice of the Wizard Marshall apprentice, becoming Clock Tower chef, and ended as a freelance enforcer.
I even have travelled about a three quarter of the world doing many deeds that even i lost count of. (Not that i count it in the first place.) Some of it were heroic, yet a few of it is not so good. Never less, i have saved many lives, yet i am unable to stop the meaningless death. Because Emiya Shirou lives is to save everyone, i cannot accept an ideal to save as much as i can, and leave the rest as sacrifice. No, Emiya Shirou is a person with an ideal to live, he is a person to never give up to save someone no matter what is the sittuations. But even then, i can't help but accept this fact. No mayter woh hard you try, you can't save anyone.
Ten years after the end of the Holy Grail War, Me, Lord El-Melloi II and Rin decided to put an end of the Holy Grail War by permanently disable the greater grail. It was not easy i tell you. Because there are MANY magus that want to use the Grail for their own selfish bennefit. Still, it was worth of because it in the end, we managed to do it after yet another event that similar to the Holy Grail War.
Now days, i am still the same freelancer that work to save someone. In the end, nothing has changed. While i still constantly chase the dream that Kiritsugu has left me, i am no longer the kid i once was. I only needs to
look at a mirror to see how much i have changed.
My formerly red hair has drained all of it color, becoming almost white like what archer look like. My skin get more tanned. It was like i have lived in tropical island for the past five years. Heck, even i get much more taller that make me almost look like i am Archer carbon copy. And it's all happenend because excessive use of Projection. Well, at least it makr me kinda cooler than before.
But the greatest change lies within my i still holds my ideals close to my heart, i pull through all the suffering and frustration with the support of my friends.
So it was the summary of my complicated lives. This is the live of Emiya Shirou, and Emiya shirou is-
Wait, is that Zelretch i sense?!
True to my word, the Wizard Marshall himself decided to come here. I don't know why, but i feel that as if my live is in danger. Call it paranoid, but when you have met Zelretch, it's better that then sended to a crazy universe.
It was the moment he sat in front of me that the neverous feeling has replaced with dread. My fear were confirmed when he spoke the dreadful words...
"*sigh* I am bored..."
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...
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"Zelretch IS BORED! RUN FOR YOUR LIVE!" A random woman screams from pure teror that even i cannot wishtand.
Zelretch...
Bored...
...Oh root, please have a mercy!
I shaked my head to snapped out my mind.
All hell breaks loose as every last person makes
a mad scramble for the nearest exit. Naturally, i do the same.
I only have two options available.
The first option is the door, which unfortunately, makes me have to go through Zelretch.
The second option is the window, which unfortunately, leads to a 500 foot drop down the clock tower.
...Heck! I don't even need to chose!
Reinforced my body to max, i jumped out of the window. I would rather plummet to solid ground and break every bone, muscle and fiber of my body than be anywhere near Zelretch!
However, as i begin my long way down, a bunch of ethereal threads wraps me like a mummy and pull me back into the building. It seems that Zelretch specifically wants me... and i am not happy. In fact, i'm more scared than anyrhing. Facing Dead apocalypse is one thing, facing a bored Zelretch however, is very different things.
"NOOOOOO! HAVE A MERCY ZELRETCH!" I throw away all of my manly pride and begs like i have no tomorrow. I have seen too many of Zelretch's mentally broken pupils to give 2 cents about my pride. And i don't want to end up like them.
"Hey... Thats rude you know?" Zelretch sighs "I'm not going to kill you"
"THATS EXACTLY WHAT I AM AFRAID OF!"
"Cheeky little brat aren't you?" said Zelretch as he sinks his foot into my gut. "Calm down for a bit will you? We need your help."
"... We?" I asked. " What do you mean by We?"
" If you calm down, I'll take you to the others" I began to relaxing my nerves, but my muscle still slighty tense so that if this is a prank then i can instantly escaped.
"Lead the way... And try not to cripple me okay?"
"Hehehehe. No promises." That... didn't calm my nerves...
Made-of-Machine
Currently i am inside of Lord El-melloi II office. There are four magus insides of it. There is Me, Zelretch who dragged me here, Lord El-melloi himself, and my old compainon Tohsaka Rin.
She look like she hasn't changed since our last meeting. Well, maybe she did grow a little taller.
"Well this is an interesting reunion." I say as i reaches my hands out to Rin. "Long time no see Rin"
"Its been really a long time, hasnt it." Rin replies with a handshake. "3-4 years maybe?"
"3 years, 8 months, 7 days, 2 hours, 8 minutes, 48 second and stopped counting since 10 seconds ago." I repplied with a joke.
"Hahaha. When did you get so cynical? " asked Rin.
"Life tends to do that to you. Dont worry about it. Anyways, what's this all about?"
"Take a seat Emiya Shirou." said Lord El- Melloi in a serious voice. "This may take a while"
Lord El-Melloi takes out a thick envelope and hands it over to me. This is actually the same type of envelope that i receive when someone has a job for me. This made me a little nervous.
My mind began to guess what inside of this letter. Could it be that there is another sealing designation threatened the lives of the innocent?
No, that's not it, if it was something like that, then the package should filled with many paper, not a painting about-
Me?!
Granted, the me in this picture looked like i were wearing some kind of metal piece while standing on top of seemingly many woman in a school swimsuit with some kind of hovered armor. If i had not know any better, i would have flinched. After all, i have learned the hard way NOT to hurt any female that much. Defeat yes, not beat. What would saber think about this?
"Emiya Shirou, I assume that you know about the existence of the Multiverse, correct?" Lord El- Melloi asks me.
"Of course. No one who is familiar with the world of magic doesnt know about it." I stated matter of fact.
Multiverse AKA Pararel world. In layman terms, the Multiverse are worlds that answers the WHAT IFs that we have come to ask.
What if it was Britannia who dominated the world instead of America?
What if Age of Gods never ends?
What if Gaia have lesser influences toward us?
What if there are Alien who invades earth?
What if Dead apocalypse never have been made?
What if Lorei Bartomelei is at the same age as i am? (i shudder at that.)
What if King Arthir is actually a female in disguised?
Well, the last one is actually right.
Those types of what-if scenarios exists in other realities that runs parallel to this world. Naturally, the number of Parallel World are as many as there are possibilities. Limitless, as if you are nothing but a mere particle compared to the sky. Infinite and never ended.
"Good. Then, what do you think about the painting?"
What painting-
Oh, that one.
"Well... I have my fair share of stalkers, so this isnt really new." The sad thing is, it was true.
Due to my line of work, i have garnered a hefty number of supporters and haters alike. Truth be told, i finds it easier to deal with his enemies than his supporters (No, i am serious) All my enemies ever needed was to be at the receiving end of a pointy sharp stick.
While i do appreciate my supporters ... er... support, there are a few of them that becomes overly obsessed with me (Kinda scary if i say so myself.) some try to copy me (which normally leads them to their early grave, poor soul.) while others try to marry me into their family (by force if needed be. It was kinda embrassing to turned down a confession while the other were observing you.). Either way, when these types of people are around, my work load increases exponentially.
I see the painting again to see the detail that i miss. Now that i think about it, it seem that i miss a few details like the futuristic tower in the back ground wich may have been destroyed, the natioanally painting on each hovering armor, and a flag with symbol of the world and the word 'IS' that burned and left few hole in it.
I in this painting i looked like still 18-22 years old and retains my white hair and tanned skin. Weird, last tine i checked, in that time i still have my red hair.
What the meaning of this, i don't know. But maybe, there is someone who need to be saved...
Or maybe i in that painting is the one who make this happen... Nah couldn't be.
"Well? What do you think?" It was Lir El-Melloi who asked me.
"... I think someone just wasted a lot of time making that" And i really think so. This level of painting would need a lot of time just to draw the sketch. Not to mention the fortune it would to someone who sell it
"Please cut the melodramatics and get to the point."
"Shirou, this painting was made by a powerful seer." Seer? Don't tell me it was a kind of THAT painting.
Seer is like a fortune teller. They are well know because they have a reputation of being 100% accurate in all of their predictions. Just like the rest of the can-see-the-future hipies, they have no memory of what they have predicted, and more annoyingly, they can only express it on some sort of confusing art form (poems, painting, etc.)
"I dont get the point Zelretch. So what if I'm in that prediction? There are tons of world shattering predictions on people who are much stronger than I am. I could have sworn Rin had one of those. What makes me so special?" That was true. I have seen one of those painting, and one of them even have the earth split to two, a monster eating human, and even one with Dead apocalypse ghoul become common and almost overtake human reign.
"This prediction came from an alternate world where the entity known as Emiya Shirou has yet to exist. Do you understand?"
"No... I don't." Mind you, this isn't a sascram. What relevance does his still non-existent alternate self have to do with... Oh...
(In order to stop his suffering, he tried to eliminate
me before I could become him...) ..Archer.
"From the looks of it, you understand what we're trying to get at. What we want you to do is to stop the prediction from ever happening"
"...Seriously? You dont need my help for that you know, Rin? Zelretch alone can level an entire city block in 2 seconds flat. An unborn child isnt even a warm up to him"
"Trust me Emiya Shirou, i would have done that if i could" Zelretch massages his head in rare frustration. "Unfortunately, The Gaia of that world have more power than our Gaia have ever capable of. I can only pinpointed where you in that world will be born, but i cannot come myself and kill him..."
W-what? That's... That's terrific!
"How in gods name am I suppose to eliminate the target in that world?!"
The three makes a difficult face. An obvious sign that i am not going to like what i am about to hear.
"... Have you ever heard of the ability called OVERWRITE?" O-OVERWRITE! But that's...
OVERWRITE, It is the act of forcing a living soul into a living being by completely crushing the soul existing within the body. It's something similar to those computer games that Lord El Melloi enjoy so much. By overwriting the previous saved game by another one, the old data is forever lost.
Naturally, it has some fairly harsh restrictions.
The main restriction is the abnormally high compatibility requirement between the soul and the receiving body. Anything short of 100% compatibility will result in the death of both.
Naturally, a 100% compatibility is impossible unless the 2 are the exact same person, which brings up the 2nd and most terrifying restriction.
The only way to find the exact same person is,
unfortunately, by traveling (or in this case, observing.) through the multiverse into another world.
Want to know the worst thing about it? You have to put your faith on the only person capable of traveling (obseving) through the multiverse. Zelretch!
Its not the act of Overwriting that bother me (well in all honest it do bother me a fair bit). Its the fact that my life is in Zelretch's hands that scares the hell out of me.
"Rin... are you telling me to do what i think you want me to do?"
"No Shirou... I am asking you to do what you think i want you to do" Rin massages her forehead in frustration. "These people who needs saving are not from this world. They are of no concern to you what so ever and you have no obligation to save them."
That is true... but now that i know about it, i can't ust simply turn a blind eye from it. Before i could even voice out my decision, Rin throws a very painful truth at me.
"Remember this Shirou. If you agree to help those people, you will cease to exist in this world." Hard, cold, but it's true.
"For your information Emiya Shirou, OVERWRITE requires your soul to be transferred to the other vessel... leaving your body soulless"
So, if i say yes, my body will die, while my soul will remain there. It is one way ticket, so there is no turning back.
"I understand that this is not decision you can make on the spot. I'll send you what little info Zelretch could compile. Learn what you can for now, then give us an answer. Remember, you dont have to do this." Thank you Lord El-Melloi, i really need that.
Made-of-Machine
(Two days later.)
For past fourty hours, i cannot sleep. Thinking the pros and cons of accepting the offer. If i do accept the offer, i will end up killing an innocent life whom future could is still not set in stone. What if the seer was wrong? What if i end a person of great benefit to the world? Am i cruel enough to sentence the unborn child to death for a crime he may not commit?
On the other hand, if the unborn child DOES go through with the prophecy, my failure to do anything about it will cost a lot of innocent people their lives. It's as ARCHER once said: Kill one to save hundreds.
Is there is no other choices? Is this is the only path? Certaintly, i still can save the life of the unborn child while at the same time save the world. Emiya Shirou should never give up. Emiya Shirou should try his hardest to save anyone. And yet, i understood the meaning of 'You can't save everyone.' I still try to deny it with all my power, and yet...
Yet in this choices, there is no 'saving everyone.'
So i made up my mind, and call Lord El-Melloi.
Just this once, i chose the many over the few. That's what i always keep telling to myself.
"El Melloi? This is Shiro-"
"Thats LORD El Melloi to you brat!"
"Wow... touchy... Anyway, i will do it."
There are few seconds before El-Melloi answer me.
"...Are you sure about this Emiya Shiro? I know you already thought about this, but once you go through with the Overwrite, there's no turning back."
I can feel it, the uncertainly that held me from doing this. Once again i squashed that feeling, it would not do for a hero to flatter. A hero always try first then do the impossible later. A hero must not flatter, because they are the being of our hope. A hero exist is...
To save... To grant salvation...
"Yes, i'm very sure. Beside, I wouldnt be a hero of justice if i just turned my back on this, right?"
In the end, i'm just a faker. Someone who copy a hero's greatness. But, even if i'm just a mere copy, i would try my hardest to become a hero. Such is what i desired to be.
"I see... Head to my office in 12 hours. My preparations would be complete by then."
"Okay, see you later then."
Made-of-Machine
(Twelve hours later.)
I stand in the middle of a very, very, VERY (don't mind the capital) large magic circle. In fact, its so large that they had to draw it on the walls and ceiling due to the lack of space.
"Man... I had a feeling it was a large ritual, but THIS is BIG." I know it's big, but damn. I don't think it would be larger than even Lord El-Melloi already humongous office. But then again, we talk about OVERWRITE here.
"Well yeah. We're trying to force a soul into another body in another dimension." Yes Rin, you don't need to remind me.
" This spell forces your soul out of your body and turn
it into something that the Wizard Marshal can bring to the other world." Naturally, i can't help but be squeamish after hearing Rin's explanation. I forced my discomfort down and relaxes. Well, at very least it worked.
"So, what now?"
"...This is your last chance to back out Emiya Shiro. Recall all of your past experience. Remember all that you have done and what you have planned to do. Are
you truly fine with just leaving it all behind? Think slowly and carefully before-"
"I already said I'd do it, didnt I?" I quickly cut Zelretch off. I already think about this for past hours, and i have made up my mind. No matter what's problem may face up, i will face it heads on.
"You really are a justice nut just like Rin said"
"I take it as compliment."
All of sudden, the magic circle beneath me glowed bluishly.
"I guess its time..."
Rin...
"Yeah... I guess so." It was sad thing. Rin has been my best friend ever since the end of Fifth Holy Grail War. She also has helped me a lot of time, and now i'm just leaving her like this... I don't know that a distorted person can have a 'Broken heart.'
"Take care of yourself Rin." My tone was filled with sadness when i said that.
"That's my line."
They chant's very long and unfamiliar spell. Slowly, i feel my conscious leaving my body.
And so, the existance called Emiya Shirou leaving his body behind.
Made-of-Machine
How long has it been?
For what should be only few minutes, it feels like a decade in here.
There is no one to talk, except for myself. It feels lonely, but eventually that feeling have gone, just like any feeling i ever have before.
I cannot feel love, for a sword cannot be loved...
Nor could i feel hate, for a sword cannot be hated...
I cannot feel selfishness, for a sword is to be wielded...
Nor could i feel despair, for a sword is to be used...
But even then, a sword could feel hope, a sword can feel selfless...
For a sword is to be wielded, until it break, or until it rust. It doesn't care whatever the case, nor does it care whoever may wield it. Normaly, they don't have their own purpose.
But in this case, the sword have a purpose of it own's. This sword doesn't need to be wielded, because this sword already wielded by the sword it self.
It have desire... To save.
Strange isn't it? A tool that originally used to kill want to be used to protect? That is the job of a shield, not a sword.
Yet, this sword doesn't care. As long as it can protect someone, then it would kill. It's a contradiction, it want to save everyone, but it can only kill to save. Such is the fate of a sword no matter what type it is. Such is the fate of sword incarnation. Such is the fate of Emiya Shirou, no matter how many times he tries to deny it.
But maybe, just maybe, his other world version incarnation would help this Shirou to chase his dream.
Afterall, what machine purpose, if not helping human?
Made-of-Machine
So this is my new story. My first Crossover to be exact. My first Fate/Stay night and Infinite Stratos Fiction. This is telling VN version of UBW good end, but without Rin end up with Shirou.
What do you mean by more powerful Gaia? Well, without Magecraft exist in IS world, Gaia have much more power because she doesn't need to use it all the time denying magecraft. So she saved up more energy.
What about Alaya? Well, because of lesser threat that human could provide, Alaya doesn't found herself in need of Counter Guardian, so she doesn't have any in that world.
What about other Shirou incarnation? Well, just look at how many times he fix school machine until he dubbed as 'the fake janitor.'
So that's all, hope you enjoy this!
And thank you ginobi-san, for this prolouge is inspired by you!
deathslayali study inside of class.
Now, to the good mark!