I'M SO SORRY! My computer broke so I couldn't write anything. I'm so sorry. I'll try to post some more chapters as soon as I can but it will take some time. Again, so sorry.
Anyways, I watched Avengers: Infinity War. It was awesome. And now I'm hyped to write more fanfics. Wish me luck.
And now for the review responses:
To : I'll try to update my Fate Reborn fic as soon as I can. It's just going to take a bit of time.
To Hellhammer: I agree. If Shirou finds Loki out, Loki's screwed.
Anyways, back to the story
Shirou was working late at the SHIELD magecraft facility one day when he felt another disturbance in space near the facility.
"Not again," Shirou said, rolling his eyes. "Why are people always teleporting in here? Maybe I should set up a bounded field to stop that?"
As Shirou pondered, an orange portal opened up and a cloaked person stepped in.
"Can I help you?" Shirou asked, preparing his magic circuits.
"Who are you?" a feminine voice came from the cloaked figure. "Why are you teaching magic to the government?"
Shirou blinked. 'Magic? Don't tell me they can't tell the difference between magecraft and true magic. God, how dumb are these mages?' he thought.
"I have no idea what you are talking about?" Shirou half-lied. "I'm teaching magecraft, not magic. I'm Shirou Emiya, by the way."
The woman seemed to take that as a confession and drew her weapons, twin war fans of fiery energy.
Shirou raised an eyebrow. "That's a new one." He summons his swords and gets into battle stance. "Let's go."
The two charge and begin to exchange blows, sword blocks fan, fan blocks sword. It may seem that their evenly matched, however it was obvious that Shirou was holding back. As a combination of hundreds of Heroic Spirits, Shirou's reflexes were naturally superhuman, capable of breaking the sound barrier. While his reincarnation may allow non-magical attacks to harm him, Shirou's Armor of Fafnir can block almost all attacks a human can use. This doesn't let Shirou be careless, though, because he never underestimates an opponent.
With a quick slash, Shirou manages to disarm the mage woman, but she just summons more weapons.
"Well this is getting us nowhere," he said, as he summoned a new weapon, a crimson spear. Charging again, he slashed at the mage woman, who tried to block with her fans. However, the spear just sliced through the constructs as if they weren't there and the mage woman was barely able to dodge in time. She managed to bend backwards and jumped away, rolling and gaining her footing. She stands up, her hood falling off as she does so, a look of confusion on her face.
"How?" she asked.
Shirou spun his spear while smirking, causing irritation to the bald mage. "Oh, just Gae Dearg. Nothing much."
The mage, not understanding, decided to just finish this. She waved her hand and instantly they were sent into a parallel world. Shirou blinked in response.
"Second Magic?" Shirou wondered. "No, but it is a parallel world, a mirror world… That's interesting."
With another wave of mage's hand, the area around Shirou began collapsing upon him, the walls and surrounding floors were trying to crush him. Creating a flash air portal, Shirou escaped, teleporting behind her. However, Shirou was shocked to realize that magical runes had appeared beside him.
"Oh crap," Shirou said.
A giant explosion of magical energy appeared, and the entire area was frozen, all except Shirou. Again, the mage woman was shocked at this, never encountering an immunity to magic before.
"What in the world?" the woman muttered.
Shirou smiled and, after dusting some dust off of his torso, raised his left arm. "You haven't seen anything yet." He quickly moved his hand to the ground, using a prana burst to shatter the surrounding ice. Then, with a combination of wind manipulation and psychokinesis, he chanted an aria. "O Wind."
The shattered ice stopped in midair, floating. The shattered ice crystals were then sent straight at the mage, forming a spear. The mage, unimpressed by the spell-work, tried to blast the ice spear to pieces with waves of magical energy but the spear just reverts back into fragments of ice crystals and reforms instantly. The mage woman then creates a magical barrier, which transmutes the ice shards into light, fading away shortly after. However, after the light fades, the mage notices that Shirou had disappeared. She looks around, warily.
"Where are you?" she muttered.
Shirou, under presence concealment, creeps behind the mage woman, sword in hand. Revealing himself, he takes the mage by surprise, a sword to her throat.
"Now," Shirou says. "Why don't we get some answers?"
Okay, so this fic wasn't very long. Sorry. I'm still trying to get into writing mode. Thankfully because I'm basically done with all my exams I'll have more time to write. Anyways, it's time to explain some of my theories.
1st Theory: Servant invincibility – From all the info I've gotten from Type Moon works and the wikia, I've found out that most Servants have a conceptual defense against non-magical attacks. This means they can be hit by any attack without prana and shrug it off. Of course this protection can be negated by two things: fulfilling the conditions of adding magical energy to the attacking object or reincarnating the Servant. Servants naturally generate magical energy into their attacks, allowing them to fight off Servants with any items. I've also guessed that cosmic or reality warping attacks will work on them. A conceptual defense basically adds a law into reality to stop damage. However, cosmic and reality warping powers alter said laws so they can do damage. This also means items with those abilities, like the infinity stones, can cause harm to servants.
2nd Theory: Spiritual Form – What I always got confused in the Fate Franchise is why, if in spiritual form they're basically invincible, why don't they do it more often? The answer I thought of is actually quite simple. Spiritual form can still be harmed by magical energy, but in that form, Servants can move faster and ignore physical obstructions to make a quick escape. In a battle, a Servant can't use this ability to their advantage because they can still get hit by the prana-infused strike.