Author's Note: The last chapter was pretty much a retread of the whole summoning scene but as you'll see from this chapter things start going towards some interesting turns...
"Fate/Mega Man Zero: Chapter 2, The Reploid Vs. The Servant"
"You're a...boy?" Shirou asked in surprise.
"Hmph. Forget I asked..." The boy says averting his eyes.
"Ungh!" A pain shoots through Shirou's left hand. Like a hot iron has been placed on it.
As soon as Shirou felt that happen the boy turned to face the shed's door.
-There stands the man with his lance ready in his hand.
Moving faster than Shirou could think the boy leaps out of the shed without hesitation. Shirou get's up and follows him, ignoring the pain that his body feels.
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"There's no way that kid will be a match for him. Even armored like that he's smaller than me!" Shirou thinks.
"Sto-!" His words are silenced by the sound.
"Wha…?" He couldn't believe his eyes.
"What is he?"
The sounds of weapons, sparks are born from steel hitting a beam of light.
The lance-wielding man wordlessly attacks the boy who jumped out of the shed but the boy is able to parry the blows of the lance and knocks away the following attacks, driving the man back with every blow.
"I...can't believe it."
Shirou is shocked how that boy is overpowering that man.
A battle has begun.
What happened between Shirou and the man when he tried defending himself earlier wasn't a battle.
A battle is a fight between two people who can kill each other. Whatever the difference in skills, if each has a way to kill the other, then you can call it a battle.
The fight happening now is a battle in that sense.
The man with lance that is thrown with even more power, but the boy parries it with the "glowing thing" in his hands and closes in on the man.
"Damn…!" The man says as he retreats a bit. He then holds his lance vertically to protect his ribs as the boy goes for them.
"Guh…!" For a moment, the man's lance glows. It was a blow like a wavering explosion. The instant the man blocks the glowing thing the boy's holding the lance in his hand glows as if it was electrified.
The man and even Shirou could sorta tell what was happening.
It resembled a force of magical energy so strong that it was visible. In each of the boy's blows there was a terrible amount of energy. That outrageous amount of energy is penetrating the opponent's weapon just by touching it.
If you think of the man's lance as an accurate sniper rifle, the blows of the boy are like those of a powerful shotgun.
Every time the boy swings, the yard outside of the shed is filled with light.
But…that isn't what's overpowering the man.
"What are you doing? Using that strange weapon!" The man complains while avoiding the boy's fierce attacks.
"Strange? It can match against your attacks so I'd say it's normal..." Answers the boy as he attacks even more with the beam of light in his hands.
"You...!" The man retreats but does not even have a chance to counterattack because the boy suddenly switches to a weapon to attack him from that range.
Small yellow orbs of energy quickly fire from the boy's new weapon.
"Is that a...gun?" Shirou says in astonishment.
"Damn! You're even willing to use a weapon like that? You coward!" Shouts the man. His movements become less sharp due to him defending against the boy's rapid fire weapon making him use a different defense style than usual.
The boy yells as he continues to go on the offensive by quickly switching back and forth between the two weapons.
The lance-wielding man is able to block the physical attacks by watching his opponent's leg and arm movements only altering tactics when the boy uses that gun-like weapon of his.
One must admire how skilled he must be to be able to defend against these attacks. Even Shirou could admire his skills despite the fact he's trying to kill him.
However he knows that all one has to do against a defending opponent is to continue to attack until they break.
Oddly enough though the boy suddenly jumps back to gain some distance.
The reasons for doing so become very apparent when he starts to glow with incredible power.
Every passing second his power increases, even changing the color of the glow.
With the boy backing off from his constant attacks the man sees this as an opening and runs towards him with a killing strike.
But before the collision the boy releases that energy he was building up to execute a mighty attack.
The man sees his mistake and tries to pull back, but it's too late...
"Guh...!" The man is blown away by the attack.
"I was hoping that would defeat you, guess I didn't charge it long enough." Says the boy with discontent.
Their distance has widened.
The two stare at each other silently.
"-I don't know what happened to cause this but you seem to be a very Irregular Maverick.
It's not only Reploids that become Mavericks I see...Either way are you just gonna keep on standing there? You don't seem to be the kind of person who would, so if your not going to be one who attacks first I will pursuit."
"...Hah, you say some peculiar things Saber. If you're going to come towards me you will die. I don't mind if you have a death wish, but let me ask you this first.
What kind of cowardly Hero were you to acquire such Noble Phantasms?"
The man glares as if staring right into his heart.
"Nobel Phantasms? Not sure what those are but I will tell you this.
I never cared about justice, and I don't ever recall calling myself a Hero. I have always only fought for the people I believed in, so I won't hesitate...
If an Enemy appears before me, I will destroy it!"
The man is shocked by that response and lowers his lance, apparently indicating he does not want to fight any more.
"...?" The boy is puzzled by the man's action.
But Shirou knows that stance. After all, the attack that follows that stance technically killed him not too long ago.
"...You don't seem to seem to be an ordinary Servant. So I'll ask just in case since this is our first meeting as well...Do you want to call it even?
It's not a bad deal, right? See, that senile Master over there is useless, and it so happens my Master is a coward like you.
I think it's in both our interests to hold off on this match until we-"
"I refuse. You're not exactly in a position to be making those kind of offers and if you were just going to attack me later we might as well just end things here and now." The boy quickly answers.
"Well I see then! Geez, All I wanted to do was check things out, you know? I didn't want to stay that long since a Servant came out." Said the man disappointed and annoyed by that immediate answer given to him.
"Servant? You keep on using that word but what does it mean in this context?" The boy asks.
"Don't play dumb with me!" Replies the man even more annoyed.
Abruptly It seems like the air around them has started to distort.
The man lowers his stance.
A chill runs through the air at that moment.
The magical energy rumbles in a whirlpool, centered on that lance.
The boy readies his glowing beam and glares at the enemy in front of him.
"...See ya later. I'll take that heart of yours!"
The beast jumps.
The man instantly appears in front of the boy, as if he teleported, and…
Thrusts his lance at the boy's feet.
"Gae..."
With words themselves are charged with magical energy…
"Bolg…!"
The lance thrust at the boy's feet rushes towards his heart.
"…!?"
His body rises into the air.
The boy is driven up into the air by the blow of the lance, and he crashes down… no, lands on the ground.
"Rats!"
The boy, who hasn't even received a scratch so far...Has electric sparks violently coming out of his chest!
Shirou, already surprised by how an attack aimed at a persons feet could instantly target and hit the spot where the human heart should be is even more surprised by how electricity is coming out of the person it was just used on.
The boy checks the spot where the lance hit calmly.
"My power core is still stable. It's repairable but even then so I got back up power that I can use if I have to...
Now that I've seen that attack I will have to make sure not to get caught by it again, that's for sure." The boy remarks.
"My fatal Gae Bolg...You survived it and brushed it off like it was nothing!
What are you?!" The man yells at him.
"I am..."
The boy retakes his battle stance, then glares at the man.
"ZERO!"