Familiar of Zero Crossover (with Company of Heroes 2)

Prologue

This was just a random Idea I had popped into my head, as I was conflicted in whether or not I should watch more 'Familiar of Zero' or should I play 'Company of heroes 2'? As I had got the DLC of the British forces. So after having an internal argument with myself, this idea popped into my head what if I took a sniper from the British in 'Company of Heroes 2' and put him into the 'Familiar of Zero' universe alongside Saito? The sniper will be serious in some situation (such as battles and other things that require to be serious) and there will be complete utter randomness in situation that are not. The story will follow the anime.

Thank you, for having a read at my story. I will try and balance this out with the other things that I have to do in my life and with my other fanfic.

Also spelling and grammatical error as well as other mistakes may have slipped through

(December 1944)

In Cold snowy forest in the middle of Belgium. The allied offensive came to a stop at the failure of operation 'Market Garden' to take the final bridge at Arnhem, after taking the previous cities and their bridges, (It was litterly one bridge to far). With supplies running short the Allied offence had to be called off. With Christmas not far off the Allied command sent war weary soldiers and new recruits to the Ardennes forest as it was relatively quiet and therefore there the Allied command believed that there would be less action.

However the Allies were wrong, with bad whether causing planes to be grounded the Germans to this opportunity to attack the Ardennes and catch the Allies completely off guard with the combination of artillery and panzer divisions to support the infantry. The point of the Ardennes campaign (for the Germans) was so the Germans had a secure path to Antwerp, which was a major port in Belgium. To do this the Germans needed to take a series of towns and villages that are located within the Ardennes region. One of these was the major crossroad town of Bastogne which had six roads leading to different parts of the region which made it vitally important for supplies for both sides.

As the battle of the Ardennes continued the Germans had managed to take most of the region threating to force the Allies out of Belgium and back into France. However the Germans had overextended their assaults as supplies begun to run low and German tanks began to run out of fuel. The Allies saw as the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, retake the Ardennes region and cripple Germany's army on the Western Front.

During the siege of Bastogne after seven days of sieging by the Germans, General Patton's third army had come to support from the East and Field Marshall Montgomery would be supporting from the west of Bastogne. It is from the division that Montgomery is leading that, an SAS sniper: By the name of Andrew Smyth (sometimes referred to as Andy), who was a young man form Ulster was scouting ahead of the division to make sure that the road to Bastogne is safe for the British division to advance and reinforce the 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles at Bastogne).

Andrew was a young man in his earlier twenties, with dark short brown hair and had blue eyes. He had an average build (despite the fact of being in the army why he has not changed is anybody's guess). He was equipped with a "Boys" anti-rifle which was used supposed to be used on armoured targets and not on infantry targets like some others snipers did. So to counter this barbaric method in his opinion he carried with him a modified Lee-Enfield that would help to assist him with sniping enemy targets. He also carried with a Sten submachine which he used in case he was stuck in a situation where close quarter fighting was required, that and his knife too care of that as well. The weight of caring all of this equipment would be enough to drag anybody down but not Andy, he would rather be sure that he had everything than be caught in surprise and with no solution to combat the problem and if he need to run, he could just drop all the weaponry and leg it. But he hopes that it doesn't come to that every time that he does a mission.

He had been told by Montgomery to scout ahead and inform them of any enemy position that he came across. He had been also old that if he was confident enough then he was allowed to engage and eliminate enemy forces. The main important factor of his task was to look out for anti-tank guns and tank destroyers, this was because most of Montgomery's force consist of tanks, with only a small amount of soldiers, and so anti-tank weapons are targets of priority.

It had been around 30 minutes since Andy had left the British division into the winter wilderness of the Ardennes forest. Before each of the mission he is equipped with special gear (This is pretty much the predecessor to the guile suit or the world war 2 version whichever you want to consider), it was certain type of fabric that had different pieces of plants attached to it, this also included his helmet, the planets that were attached to it were all white in colour so that it would help to blend in with the winter environment. He also had a mask obscuring the moth part of his face, this helped to reduce the condensation that came from his mouth as enemy soldiers would be able to see his position and his cover would be blown.

Andrew had been tracking through the forest at first he thought that the forest was clear of any enemy presence that was in this particular part of the forest. Until he spotted what looked like footsteps and tread tracks in the snow in what looked to be a road. With the tracks in the snow there was an occasional notch in the now, which was probably left by the shield on an attack tank gun. This help to indicate the presence of enemy foot soldiers and anti-tank guns are in the area, the only thing now was to find out what made the treads in the snow, he didn't know what had made the wider treads in the snow, as they obviously don't have the vehicles to pull them if they have to be pushed through the snow, which means they ran out of fuel or conserved the fuel for other vehicles.

He decided that he would follow the tracks on the road although he would follow them close by in the fields and on numerous occasion saw halftracks as he did so. Although he did not show it nor did, he tell anyone about it but he was getting sick and tired of all this killing, he joined the army to defend his country, now they were preparing to invade Germany.

'Why did so many people have to die? Why were still being asked to fight?' he thought 'We pretty much have the Germans on the back foot, yes this is for defending freedom but... Germany is fighting and losing a multi-front war it is facing the two allied powers to its west and they are versing the Russians in the East and they are using their troops like toys. Disregarding the lives of those fighting for them and sending them to die against the Germans, what was the point? Although I do have to admit that if it wasn't for the Soviets attacking from the East then trying to defeat the Germans from one front would cost more lives than it already has and it could have been a constant stalemate between Germany, the USA and the UK.'

He trekked through deep snow in the neighbouring fields as he followed the tracks that were left in the road because of the deep snow. He then came across what looked like to be a small village just on the outskirts of Bastogne. Just as he was about to asset the village of the Germans who occupied it he had been contacted through his radio by Montgomery.

"I say Andy what's taking so long. We need to reinforce the 101st that are trying desperately to hold onto Bastogne." He picked up his radio and replied back.

"I was following tracks in the snow and it looks like there are foot soldiers in the area and evidence that anti-tanks guns and that some forms of vehicles in the area. I have now came across a small village just outside Bastogne and I will assess the situation already I can see a number of soldiers around the village. I will radio back with a full assessment later." With that he out the radio back into his pocket.

"Roger that, perform a recon sweep as quick as possible and then support the company when we move to engage, over and out." With the radio between the two of them over Andrew then began to move onto a small hill, that had numerous pieces of greenery on it (despite the fact that it was winter) that was just located on the village's Western flank. The village itself wasn't very big with it not being that far from Bastogne and getting supplies from the town, several buildings of different sizes with a town hall located in the middle. He then noticed that there were a series of Pak 40 anti-tank guns overlooking the road in which Montgomery's forces would be coming from, while to the southern road there was a tank destroyer overlooking the southern road and it was supported by panzer grenadiers and some of them were equipped with panzerschreck. It looked like they really didn't want any armour to get through, considering the tanks they are using have very little fuel in them and they know they can't do much if they have little fuel for their tanks to take on others so they need to find other means on taking on armour. With that stated there are fairly large amounts of infantry that are guarding the other two roads into the village they must know that Montgomery's forces are coming more or less from the South and West and have focused with the anti-tank forces to those sides. Before he would radio Montgomery what he had seen there was a large building in the centre of the village that was heavily defend by infantry and what looked to be two Panzer IVs on either side of the building. Andrew thought that it was possible that the German are using the Town hall as a temporary command post. He then picked up his radio to inform Montgomery of the current situation

"Monty, I have completed my assessment of the village."

"Go ahead Andy" said Montgomery wanting to hear the report

"I count 3 Pak 40s covering the Western road which is the road you will be approaching from. On top of that they have a tank destroyer overlooking the southern road along with panzer grenadiers with panzerschreck. It looks like the Germans in the village have focused heavily into putting the anti-tank defences on the East and West side of town, but they are unsure of which road that you will come down."

"Anything else?

"Infantry divisions are stationed at the other two roads located at the North and East. But located in the middle of town is the town hall, this building is being protected by two panzer IVs and there a several MG positions around the town hall as well as a German garrison."

"So I will move the armour around hopefully not get bogged down by the snow in the fields and surprises the German defends from the North and East with small infantry support. While you and some commandoes that I will send your way will focus on the anti-tank forces in the West and South, but do not engage that tank its armour is beyond the capabilities of the 'Boys' rife. Also hold your fire until the commandoes get there."

"Yes sir holding position" replied Andy as he waited for the Commandoes that Monty was sending him to reach him.

It had been roughly 30 minutes or so for the commandoes to reach his position roughly the same time it took him to scout the area and arrive at the same position as commandoes and snipers were roughly trained the same in the Scottish highlands and so had the same experiences.

"Monty the commandoes are here with me" said Andy as he picked up the radio to inform him of their status.

"Roger that, the armour has just got in too position as well thankfully there were no delays with the deep snow, thanks to us being able to get one of the Shermans equipped with a bulldozer and ploughing the snow away. Pick your targets but hold your fire don't attack until the armour has made the first strike, then take out the anti-tank crews while they are still in disarray.

"Affirmative sir, targets picked and a waiting for the signal" Replied Andrew

It was not long until Monty and his force appeared, let's say that it completely caught the Germans completely off guard as they were not expecting the amour to come from the other direction. They tried to quickly get their get their anti-tank guys around but Andrew and the commandoes had managed to get many of them before they were able to get many of them before they had a chance to get a shot at the tanks. After the Pak 40 was taken out Andrew and the commandoes had to get off the hill and down towards the village and get into a position to take out the tank destroyer which was starting to take shots at the British tanks and had eliminated one of the Cromwell tanks as a result.

"Man the Pak Lads and engage that tank, before it destroys anymore of our tanks" ordered Andrew to the Commandoes as the Tank fired another shot at one of the tanks and thankfully it bounced off. Andrew was also a captain (despite his young age, he was a captain, thanks to the special training he received while in the Highlands) so he was allowed to order other squads, as long as there wasn't anyone of equal or higher rank in that squad. The commandoes quickly got onto one of the Pak guns and then trained its gun on the tank destroyer.

"Firing!" yelled one of the commandoes and fired the Pak 40 straight into the rear hull armour of the tank igniting its engine and blowing it up.

"Alright lads, now let's go up and link up with the amour and assault the Town hall." Said Andrew as the remaining armour that survived the tank destroyer's assault had gone back around the village to link up and engage with the enemy in the town (village?) hall.

After getting to the Town hall Andrew split from the commandoes and went into another building that overlooked the courtyard area in front of the town Hall and he could see all that was unfolding in front of him. He saw the British tanks which consisted off Cromwells and Shermans engaging the Panzers that were stationed in front and the commandoes that were helping the rifleman engage the Infantry targets and how they were helping the wounded and how the Germans were doing the same. He needed to take a moment to think through what he was seeing,

'At the end of the day they are human just like we are, the only thing that is separating us is our loyalty to another nation but other than that we are both human'. He thought. After thinking about that he hosted his Lee-Enfield and took a couple of shots at a MG nest that were preventing the commandoes and the rifleman from advancing. With the MG neutralise the only thing that remained was to take out the tanks that were keeping the infantry suppressed. The solution to this problem was simple, first of all Andrew eliminated the gunners that were manning the MG42s on the top of the panzers and then the friendly tanks would take them out. However what was not part of his plan was to get noticed by the panzers as one of them noticed were Andrew was hiding and fired its main gun into the building and with Andrew narrowly missing the explosion as he rushed down the stairs as his cover had been blown.

Just as he had been running out he remembered about the Pak guns that the commandoes had used earlier and wonder this could help reduce the casualties and loss of armour, if it was possible to do it again.

"Scotty?" Andrew called out to one of the commandoes

"Aye sir?" replied the commando that was now called Scotty

"Is it possible that we can get some of these Pak guns from the other side of the village, bring the around and engage the Panzers from another angle? That will help to take the pressure of some of our own tanks" He told them.

"I see where you're coming from laddie, Alight, Jim and Ailbert (Scottish version of Albert, I think?). Go and get one of the Pak guns and see if you can engage the left panzers flank from the alleyway.

With a short affirmative from the commandoes they went on their way to retrieve one of the Pak 40s.

(Couple of minutes later)

They were sure taking their time, one of the panzers was destroyed due how long they were taking one of the British tanks managed to get a shot off, and they had little to no cover and they were starting to give off about where they were and by 'they', I mean Scotty cursing quite a bit.

"Where are those lazy Shites." Yelled Scotty getting infuriated at the current situation. After he said that the loud bang produced by a Pak just went off, and then after bang went off follow by a bright from where the Panzer was sitting and number commandoes and Andrew had to shield their eyes due to the sudden change in light. When their eyes had got adjusted to the hang in the light they took their hands away to see that the tank was in flames.

While Andrew had taken a stance of respect due knowing they had died fighting for their country and for what they believed, but also with a bit of sadness too as someone shouldn't perish like this. Scotty on the other hand was in a stance of jubilee. "That's right, burn Jerries". Andrew (although no one noticed) did start to have a look of disgust on his face after that, while yes it was great that the tank was taken care of and they could take the town hall, it was not however great to glorify killing someone at the end of the day there're Human, just like everyone else and and it simply was not great on celebrating a gruesome death. There were times because of this that Andrew tried his best not to kill when there was another way out. He may be a sniper and they were professional killers, but even snipers have standards.

After the tanks had been taken care of there had been no real difficulty after that, as the German garrison that had been in the town hall had surrendered, this is what Andrew preferred, unnecessary bloodshed. After the garrison had surrendered, Monty's force secure the town investigating it for any important document that may consist of German deployment plans.

"Alright, gents with the current German deployment plans, we will be moving out to Bastogne in a short while so rest up while you still can. Before we head out and reinforce the 101st. Stated Monty.

Most of the soldiers groaned at that but they knew that they could not disobey an order from their superior, and that the 101st were counting on them to eliminate the Germans that were assaulting Bastogne. The only soldiers that didn't complain were Andrew and the other commandoes that were under Monty's command, but that due to the fact that they had more training and more discipline then the other infantry within the British forces.

30 minutes or so after the break had been declared, the time was spent counting the dead and who had been lost, Plans being made on what was the next course of action that should be taken and of course the most important part of that break to most was that there was no combat and they could spend that time resting. That was until they had be called to regroup and get in position within their division. Going back with the original plan of scouting, Andrew was required to scout ahead to know that the route was safe to Bastogne and that the Germans within the Town hadn't radioed ahead to other German positions about Monty's division and how strong the division was.

"Andrew, you will need to go ahead and scout ahead to see if there are any Germans that are laying a surprise attack for us." Ordered Monty

"Yes sir" replied Andrew with a quick salute as he advanced into the forest, which was located on the village's north-eastern flank.

(Ardennes forest)

"Once again I am out in knee deep snow, trucking in the fields, looking for whatever places the Jerries, might be using to surprise Monty and the soldiers." Complained Andrew going through another field of snow in the forest. Although he didn't show it, he was confused why Monty needed to use him in the first place, this was because Monty had faced surprises and big odds before when he faced Rommel and his Afrika corps in North Africa and he did it fine without Andrew's help when he was deployed to another front. The most logic solution would be that he was concerned about his men he probably wanted to know what he was dealing with so that he would know the best solution to counter with as little life loss as much as possible. While he could see that Monty wanted to defend his men he did however like the way that he relied on Andrew as a way of gaining Intel on what he might face.

'Isn't that force deployment paper that we found in Chenogne is enough to tell us what German focus are in the area' thought Andrew, to be honest he wanted to tell Monty that but he did not want to disobey an order from a superior and get shot for treason because of it but he still didn't understand why he needed to be sent on all these scouting missions. To be honest all that he wanted was for this war to end, and end the bloodshed that it caused.

He silently made of wish of how he wanted to get out of here, were there was bloodshed for the most pointless of reasons. The reason that Germany wanted to expand its borders was to have 'lebensraum' (living space) for Germans. All it result it for 5 long bloody years, which has cost the lives of citizens from many nations, there were also reports were some allied division beginning to notice that the German army was getting increase younger with soldiers as your 14 and 15 appearing in the German ranks. This signal that the Germans were getting desperate and were running out of manpower. He wished that he wouldn't have to kill a young boy mainly because he was forced to fight in a war that he possibly doesn't want to fight. This was one of the reasons that he was beginning to show resentment towards the war.

After finishing that silent wish he continued his trek in the snow, until he began to hear a voice.

"My servant that exists somewhere in this vast universe"

Andrew stopped momentarily and pull out his Sten as he looked around the winter landscape as he tries to find the source of the voice.

"My divine, beautiful, wise and powerful servant, heed my call."

'That sounds like the voice of a young girl' thought Andrew Sten still sweeping around looking for the source.'

"I summon you from the bottom of my heart, answer my call and appear!"

"What the…" Shuddered Andrew as the voice yelled out, he then had to shield his eyes from a bright Green light that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. As he lowered his hands down from his eyes he began to take in what he was seeing in front of him, what he saw was a green spherical oval hovering in the snow just in front of him. He picked up his radio to tell Monty on what he was seeing and hopefully he would believe him and that he wasn't going crazy because of war exestuation.

"Monty I don't know if you will believe me but there is this giant orb in front of me just hovering.

He waited for a reply… and waited… but all he heard on the radio was static. He silently cursed as he realised that he had lost all contact with Monty and hooked the radio back on his belt. He could have left the orb alone and continued on with the rest of his mission, but he didn't want to leave this orb alone, for all he know is that it could be some Nazi experiment and it might endanger the lives of Monty's men and with no way of contacting him he had no way of telling them and he needed to hurry as every second that went by, was more time wasted to save the 101st. So he decided to investigate the strange green orb in front of him. He levelled out his Sten to the orb that was in front of him and began to take slow steps in front of him towards cautious of what the orb might do, if it will do anything.

He soon became within touching distance of the orb that was in front of him, he stopped at this point as he stared at the orb and looked around the orb to make sure that there was nothing waiting on the other side of it. He then began to lower his gun and attached it to his belt as he began to reach out and touch the orb, when he first touched it, it jiggled and rippled across the orb at first he thought of it as no big deal but then the orb began to expand and took a hold of his hand and he began to panic and flail widely as he tried to pull his hand out with his other hand, but in vain as it soon took a hold of his hand and he was pulled into the green orb. Funny thing about it was that the orb itself was green but he was taken to a black abyss.

Japan 21st century (not sure what year but the anime was first done in the early/mid 2000s)

In the busy streets of Tokyo city centre a young man dressed in blue coat with black trousers was walking sown those busy streets carrying a laptop. Wondering if he was going to be able to pay the rent for the apartment he was staying at he thought about getting a part time job. Until he saw something it the middle of the street that he was going down, he noticed a green orb in front of his path, he rubbed his eyes just to make sure that he wasn't seeing things.

"Uh… okay, does anyone else noticed" he said towards the people walking by, but the people just continued on like he wasn't there.

With a look of confusion on his face, more so out of curiosity than anything else, he began to walk towards the green orb with a mystified look on his face, he soon stopped within touching distance of the orb. With curiosity getting the best of him he raised up his right arm and touched the green orb causing it to ripple which caused him to get and amused look on his face. However amusement turned into fear when the orb stretched out to get his arm and started to pull him in. He initially tried to pull himself out but he soon realised it was a losing battle, he then called out for help.

"Anybody, help me! He yelled out but once again the people ignored him and he dropped his laptop as he was pulled into the green orb into a black abyss. While the green orb disappeared and all that proved that he was once in that Tokyo Street was the laptop that he had left behind and into a black abyss.

A/N Okay the First chapter tell me how good/bad did I do? Criticise where criticism is due with no flames.

I'm basically writing this for the sake of it, and also I don't how I should write this and by that I mean in the first or third person, you can decide that or I will just continue it in a way that I feel like if nobody answers. Which is why I sometimes going in between the different persons.

It will Saito and the sniper will be on adventures together.

I decided to put the first part of the second episode on which Saito in this. So that in the next chapter it will start with the first part of the anime. I will try and make them closely related with the anime as they go but with some of the chapters there will be some shenanigans and randomness. So bear with me

Thank you for reading this fic that I just decided to make for the sake of it but will continue the write it nether the less.