AN: So, I will be attempting to continue this story. I don't want to follow the exact Fate/Stay Night storyline so while I get a plot hammered out the chapters will be far and few in between. I don't have any proofreaders but for myself and I kind of suck at that. So please forgive me for problems. This chapter isn't exactly about awesome, its more of an slow chapter. A lot of it is some basic review of Gurren Laggan, which is very basic. A lot like something you'd find on a wiki. I try humor, but I don't think I'm any good. Gonna be some ooc, but I attempt to fit the character's to their original characterizations. I have noticed that I write little on Saber and her reactions, just as in this chapter. Might try and rectify that later on.
Disclaimer: I do not own the badassery that is Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan or the amazing that is Fate/Stay Night. They are owned respectively by, Gainax and Type-Moon.
"E-Emiya-kun?"
Note to self, flying through a wall is not fun. Bro's definitely gotten stronger. But at least I have nice pillows. Mmm... Soft, and squishy. Wait. Squishy. Pillow. But pillows aren't squishy.
"Emiya-kun!"
That voice. I recognize. Why was it coming from below me. Weird. I absent mindedly waved at the face of my Bro looking at me through the hole in the wall. Why was he pointing and laughing.
"Get off me you pig!" That voice, once again. Under me, at least until I felt myself get pushed off of those nice and soft pillows. I landed face down in the dirt.
"Phe," I spat out the dirt in my mouth. Well, today so far seemed kind of average when weighing the happenings, got killed, but somehow brought my Bro to life and we fought together. Then we did the manly thing and punched each other.
I was still slightly dizzy, I could swear there were stars spinning above my head as I pushed myself off the ground and shakily stood up. How many times had I done that today?
Too many.
I shook my head to clear it. Standing in front of me was a tall white-haired man wearing black skin-tight clothes under a red cloak. He stared at me with an intensity I hadn't truly witnessed since meeting the Anti-Spiral. It seemed full of... hate, confusion and interest. Next to him was a pony-tailed black-haired girl who was really familiar. I could swear she looked just like "Rin?"
She gave me a nasty looking smile, the kind that perverts have long since learned to run from. Lucky for me I wasn't a pervert, right? And why was there a small redness to her cheeks. "Hello there Emiya-kun."
A chill ran down my spine. She seemed to positively glow darkness.
This didn't seem good. "Uh.. Tohsaka, why don't we calm down." I waved my hands in front of me defensively.
That evil smile gained a twitch, "Oh but Em-mi-ya-kun I am calm." That tone had an edge to it, each syllable sharpening it.
"Simon! Run!"
I looked off to the side to see Kamina still peering through the side of the wall. But why run? Nothing was going wrong.
Or so I thought until I felt something small impact against my head and knock me out. At that moment I realized the reality of what my wonderful pillows had been.
Scene Change
I vaguely felt myself awaken, like that feeling when you're not asleep but you're not truly awake. I could hear sounds and various voices.
I didn't realize my mouth was saying words. "Just a few more minute Nia."
"Hey! Simon! Get your ass up." That was Bro. Oh wait. Now I remember, why is it that twice in one day I wake up dizzy and groggy with no idea of my surroundings. Either the Root is out to get me, as Kiritsugu used to say, or the Anti-Spiral was back. Personally, I'd prefer the Anti-Spiral to be back, if what my pseudo-father had told me was true.
"Ouch!" I involuntarily yelled when a hand slapped me across the head. It certainly helped me wake up though. I was surrounded by people. Four people I counted as I looked around. There was Bro on my right, that blond-haired girl on my left, and across a table from me was that white-haired dude and Rin. Shit.
"Tohsaka, I'm really sorry. It was totally unintentional." I stammered out as quickly as I could. I shouldn't be afraid, but I honestly don't like dealing with angry women, if Yoko was anything to go by. Oh and Nia. She had her moments.
"Ah, I understand Emiya-kun." That smile! That evil devil smile!
"T-thank you Tohsaka." She was scary. I may have faced down Lordgenome, Anti-Spiral and fought on battlefields ranging from the desert wastelands to the very universe itself, but that smile. Agh!
"So brother, looks like you finally got a girl." I turned and snapped a small glare at Kamina.
"No, she's not mine, and it's not like finally or anything. I did have one before. Except... she's gone." Thinking of Nia brought two feelings to me, sadness because she wasn't around, but happiness because it brought those fun memories back.
Just like the day of our marriage. It was easier to hold back the tears because it was at the same moment the happiest day of my life.
I wonder if I should move on, would she want me to cling to her memory for the rest of my life? I'm not sure.
I was shocked out of my reverie by another slap of the head, courtesy of Kamina.
"Agh, Bro, would you stop that."
"Maybe if you stop daydreaming."
"Alright, I'll try to focus." I would, considering that I was in a weird situation with no knowledge of how I got into it. "So, what is exactly going on?"
Tohsaka answered me. "You, are a master in the Holy Grail War. Of which I am as well. The two next two you are," She waved her hand at the two people sitting next to me, "your Servants. Though how you got two I have no idea, you're only supposed to have one." She seemed to have a small glint of jealousy in her eyes.
"Now, since you are a master in this war, you should also know that I am a master as well, which also makes me a magi like you."
Ok, those seemed to make some sense. I know what a magi is, even though I am a pretty bad one, but Holy Grail War... didn't Kiritsugu mention something on that? I would probably have to check his notes about that.
Might as well go with the obvious question, "What is the Holy Grail War?"
She took up an interesting, teaching position, left hand resting on her right arm across in front of her with the right hand having a singular finger raised.
"The Holy Grail War is a war that occurs every few years to obtain the Holy Grail. Masters in this war each summon a servant to assist them in the endeavor. One of those two must have told you something about it."
"Uh, not really, I remember something about Servant and Master, but then we were to busy being badasses to do anything."
"Don't forget you were getting it on with the chick here." Kamina interjected.
"Shut up!" Tohsaka and I yelled. At the same time, coincidence. That's all. Nothing else.
I failed to notice the tinge on mine or Tohsaka's cheeks. Kamina snickered while lounging with his sword leaning on his shoulder. Classic Kamina. On my other side, the other 'Servant' I had summoned was rather... demure, I guess. She simply sat there, hands resting in her lap, face calm and serene, and observing everyone at the table. She was on guard, I could tell, but beyond that she was sitting there quietly and unnoticeable.
"Well, ignoring my bro's rude comment, they haven't told me anything." I ended with a sigh. Today was an exasperating day.
"Well then. Servants are Heroic Spirits, people who were so legendary in life that they ascended into a form of immortality, retaining the mind and abilities they had in life."
That widened my eyes, so, legendary people. "Bro, you were right, so right. True men don't die, even if they are killed."
"Of course! I was the badass leader, a man among men." He gave me his own smirk, the one that spoke of confidence and spirit.
"Uh... this has been bothering me, why exactly are you calling each other brother?" Ah... Rin's questions was... interesting to answer. I wonder how I should. Kamina decided to do it for me.
"Hah! Of course we call each other brother. While we may not be related by blood, we are blood brothers. I believe in him and he believes in me. We have been there for each other through all our hardships. We are one, through the image I have on my back, and in my heart. We live on in each other and through each other. True brothers."
That. That was rather, touching. It reminded me of something I had said long ago.
Rin sounded doubtful, "So, you two know each other. Like from in your mortal life? Like personally knew each other?"
We both nodded.
She seemed grow angrier. "What the hell is this? First you summon not one, but two servants. Those servants are both sabers. Not only that, but one is someone who you personally knew in life. I have to call bullshit somewhere along that chain. Just what the hell are you?" Halfway through the speech her hand had shot up and was shakily pointing at me.
I glanced to Kamina, "Let me talk, this is my problem anyway."
"Go for it," He waved his hand as is permitting me to go forward.
Well, how to explain this. I couldn't exactly formulate an effective lie, but the truth was so outrageous that it wouldn't work. Would it? Eh, might as well give it a shot, I was never really for anything else but the truth.
I started, "What I'm going to say is probably extremely outrageous to all of you except Bro, so please do not interrupt my story." I looked them all in the eye as they gave a subtle nod.
"Ok, I am not from this universe. Well, we, including Kamina. But so, where we lived humans were forced to live underground while beast men roamed and killed all humans on the surface. One day that changed, a giant mecha, known as a gunman, dropped into our village. Me, bro and a friend, Yoko, fought it. It was hard, but early on that day I had discovered this, a core drill," I put the drill that I had been fingering on its cord around my neck on the table, giving them a chance to look at it. "With the core drill was a mini-gunman, that we called Laggan. The core drill is the key to use it, and with it we defeated the other gunman and from there blasted our way to the surface. There we found ourselves in conflict with other gunman, but with help from some of Yoko's friends, her village that had gone to the surface already, helped us out. We fought, and Kamina managed to capture a gunman for himself, he called it Gurren." He grinned at that.
"For some time afterwards we found ourselves with more companions and more enemies, fighting to survive against the beast men. Our companions would come together with us to formed team Gurren, well more like added onto it. We also improved in our skills, learning to combine our gunmen into one, Gurren Laggan. Eventually, we came to a point where we fought the leader of the beast men forces in our region, Thymilph."
Kamina spat out, "The bastard."
"We planned out an attack to take him down and gain control of his fortress, Dai-Gunzan. That battle was a major turning point in our journey. We defeated him and took the Dai-Gunzan, renaming it Dai-Gurren. But... it was at a cost." I slowed down a bit, biting back some tears at the memory. "The cost was, Bro's death."
I felt his reassuring hand on my shoulder. "Thanks," I whispered to him.
"But we had to move on, to truly free the world for humans and the oppression of beast men, we would have to move on and take down the Spiral King, Lordgenome. I was however in grief over Bro's death. Lagann refused to listen to me, and I gave up leadership to Kittan. But, at this time I met Nia. Nia was... wonderful, she was always sweet and smiling, even after we discovered that she had been abandoned by her father, the Spiral King. She was beautiful, in more ways then the physical, and I ended up loving her, eventually marrying her. But that's far forward. In the present time, she helped me pull from my grief, helping me regain my fighting spirit and purpose."
"After that we fought on, moving ever closer to the capital, Teppelin. We fought through the other generals in the Spiral Army, eventually facing the Spiral King himself. We defeated him, but as he passed on he gave us a warning. 'When the land overflows with a million apes, the moon shall become Hell's messenger and completely destroy the world of the spiral."
"The next seven years passed without much of a fuss, the main members of Team Dai-Gurren taking over much of the ruling government, which was way unsuited for us, except Rossiu, since we were all mostly rough and tumble sort of characters, unsuited for government. Eventually the Lordgenome's prophecy came true. On the night that I asked Nia's hand in marriage, the baby was born."
"Before I move further, I should explain the concept of the Spiral. The spiral is the energy that drives all races forward, the energy of evolution. It is powerful, evoked by fighting spirit. So pretty much it is influenced by the will of the user. It is a powerful force."
"However, moving on. On that night the Anti-Spiral made its move. Unbeknownst to all of us, Nia was an artificial person, created by the Anti-Spiral for such that the time came that the million people lived on the earth, she was to activate the weapon for our destruction. It was... hidden in her programming so to speak. The weapon was the moon, which coincidentally wasn't our moon, ours had been hidden in imaginary space. Onwards, the Anti-Spiral forces assaulted us, trying to stop us from stopping the moon, however, with Gurren Laggan and the help of Viral, a former enemy, we stopped the moon and retrieved our moon. It turns out that fake moon was in actuality a giant space ship, Cathedral Terra."
"It was with this ship, which we renamed Super Galaxy Dai-Gurren, that we set out to stop the Anti-Spiral's and save Nia. Using a method of transportation called perceptual teleportation, we moved to fight them. The battle was long and we lost some people. Eventually we ended up confronting up the Anti-Spiral after having rescued Nia. With the power of the Spiral we fought on the scale of galaxies. It took a lot, but we defeated them and returned to life on Earth."
"I married Nia... but... she..." I didn't know how to say this. "She... was an artificial life form. So... once the Anti-Spirals were defeated, the energy that was binding her together began to dissipate. That day, when we were married she vanished into bits and particles of light. We knew it was going to happen, but it was still sad. I decided to pass on the legacy spiral power and Gurren Laggan to a good friend and up and coming member of Team Dai-Gurren, Gimmy."
"I spent about five years afterwards traveling as Simon the Digger, doing what I did best, digging. Eventually a man with grey hair and red eyes offered me a chance for a new life and to bring fighting spirit to another world, so I took it. And thats how I ended up here, I just ended up here with my body back to about five years old."
The white haired man said in a tone of anger, "Zelretch. The man you met was Zelretch. He has magic that called the Kaleidescope that allows him to mess with alternate universes. He's an impossibly old vampire and likes messing with people."
"Eh, its ok, my adventurous side likes this sort of thing," I replied nonchalantly. "Oh, by the way, while I may look fifteen, I am mentally at least thirty years old."
Rin's eye had a certain twitch to it. Wonder why. Maybe shocked by the informtion? I guess. I turned to the blond-haired girl next to me, "So, I guess since I summoned two servants, and considering one isn't from around here, I'll call you Saber and we can just call him Kamina."
"Yes, that will be acceptable."
I turned back to face the rest of the table, Rin was still twitching, her eyes blank. Information overload definitely. The white-haired guy was silently chuckling at her predicament. "So, it's getting late, I'm going to head off to bed."
"Very well, I will accompany you." That was Saber, wait what?
"Huh? Wha- Why?"
"Yeaaaa get it on brother." Kamina, really? I glared at him.
"I am your Servant, your sword and shield, it is only logical that I share your room to better protect you."
It's not like having a girl in my room was disturbing to me, I had gotten over my insecurities a long time ago. Just the way she stated it... was so mechanical. It was a lot like... Anti-Spiral Nia. I couldn't let that be.
"Saber, you are not some thing, you are a person, you have feelings and wants. Besides, Bro can stay with me for better protection. Ok?"
She looked put out and sent a small look at Kamina, as if she didn't approve of him, "Very well, but I will stay in a room next to you."
"Thank you," and I was off walking down the hall, Saber behind me. Kamina was due to follow sometime later, leaving a still blank Rin and chuckling guy.
AN: Almost forgot, but I'm going to try and hammer out a character sheet on Kamina, but I don't have many resources for it other than what other people post for characters. So if someone can give a good explanation or direct me to some instructions or guide, that would be very much appreciated.
