October 6

Andy felt the sea on her face again as they had set out for sail earlier that morning with the repairs finished and The Golden Hind stronger than ever.

And now it was time to take down Blackbeard and get the Grail he probably had, and leave this sea.

Then they managed to find him of course.

Andy was grinning maniacally. She had, after all, devised the perfect Buster Call for the situation.

As soon as the Queen Anne's Revenge was within range, she let loose the command to the swapped in Sabers. "BUSTER CALL!"

Altera pointed her hilt to the sky. Lily pointed her sword directly at the ship. Alter and Siegfried, each on opposite ends of the Hind, activated Excalibur Morgan and Balmung respectively, and swung them from opposite sides. Accompanying the swords were all three divine archers firing their most powerful barrages at the ship.

For a moment, just before everything hit all at once, Andy could see the look on Blackbeard's face as he realized what was about to happen. And she loved it even as she felt her circuits strain.

And then the ship disappeared from sight, engulfed in Teardrop while buffeted by everything else.

Andy watched in eager anticipation as the 'smoke' cleared. Even if Achilles had his Shield, there was no way he could have defended from every angle from so many powerful Noble Phantasms in the way.

Andy saw the smoke disappear and the wreckage that was now Queen Anne's Revenge, not even good enough to be timber.

Though unfortunately, two Servants were still alive, Blackbeard and Hector, who stood on a small rowboat. And in the Pirate's hand was the golden Grail, one that looked exactly like the two others they had retrieved.

"Well gotta say I bit off more than I could chew, I knew you would come back for revenge Miss DnD, but this?" He pointed to his destroyed ship. "Was beyond my expectation, you're a true pirate, and this is my loss. I would have wanted this adventure to last longer, but such is fate. Well, the Grail is your-." His prolonged speech was suddenly stopped as they all watched Hector impale Blackbeard from behind, his heart skewered.

"And I'll be taking the Grail back thank you very much," Hector said as he pulled his spear out and threw Blackbeard's body into the water where it sank. "Gotta thank you for distraction, that always had his guard up, and hand close to his pistol. A genius playing fool is more dangerous than a fool playing genius." He sighed. "Well, the mission to capture a Goddess failed, so this old man better get back-"

"Teardrop." Andy interrupted/ordered, a command seal fading away, Altera once more grabbing the attention of the War God, Andy watched as the divine laser headed down towards Hector, but from the sea a sudden wall of white shoot up.

The beam hit the white and seemingly did superficial damage to the giant whale that now swam away from them.

"Was that a giant whale?" Came the shocked voice from Lily as ran over to the edge of the ship, where Andy was standing in shocked awe.

"...Did Hector of Troy just get saved by Moby Dick of all things?" Andy asked, not incredulously but to make sure she wasn't hallucinating. "That is what just happened right?"

"I believe so Senpai. That is the only legendary white whale that I know of." Mash said.

"Ok. Just. Just making sure that's what happened there." Andy said, shaking her head before refocusing. "We should probably try to follow it so we can get to whoever Hector is working for that's trying to capture a goddess for some reason."

"I hear you, Andy, let's chase that whale," Drake shouted as the ship turned and began sailing in the direction of the whale.

"Hmm, this ship is great, it has nothing on Prydwen." Alter said as she stood to the side of her counterparts younger-self.

"I thought that was your shield?" Andy asked the alternate Arturia.

"It is both, a ship that can become a shield, though it is more Mordred's as in my timeline I gifted it to her, to patrol, the sea of my Kingdom it and the coasts being her domain." Alter stated.

"Oh, so I'm guessing that Mordred never took Clarent then?" Andy asked.

"No, she was gifted Arondight after Lancelot's execution, after the relationship between him and Gwynevere became public." She answered.

"Ooh. I really wanna see your Mordred now. And the 'actual' Mordred too, honestly. Really, I should be trying to reunite the Knights of the Round Table. We already have three members by one metric." Andy rambled, still high off the utter destruction the Buster Call had wrought followed by Blackbeard getting a taste of his own medicine and thus not caring what she was saying.

"Yes, that would be a sight to see," Lily said.

"Actually, that's got me thinking. Do Servants bleed?" Andy asked the Sabers. "Because that might be physical enough to use as a Catalyst, right?"

"We don't actually our Saint Graph just simulates it when we're physical, it has little bearing on our performance. It's head and heart wounds that are bad, as that is where our Spiritual core is most connected!" Chiron provided the information as he shouted it from the other end of the ship.

"What the horse said." Responded Alter.

"I suppose that makes sense," Andy said, before remembering something. "Oh, right. Sabers! I'm swapping most of you back out for right now. I might call you in again later, but for now, I need some Casters." She announced to her Servants. "Any objections?"

"Understand Master Bad Civilization has been destroyed," Altera responded.

"I wish to go back to my burger."

"I'm painting." Said Lily.

"Call me when there are more Dragons."

"Alright, see you all soon," Andy said, picking her new selection before swapping them out. The Sabers all disappeared, and in their place were Medea, Waver, Caster Cu, and Vlad. "Sorry for the sudden summoning in, but I figured it would be a good idea to have you all here for this. And for Cu to fortify the ship, it is mostly wood still." Andy greeted the dropped in Casters plus Vlad. "Oh, right, Vlad, can you establish a Ship as your Territory?"

"Yes, I just need to create an anchor. Though I guess with the call back of the Saber's the enemy ship has been destroyed and what is the current status on the location of the Grail?"

"I wish to know that too." Waver added.

"Ah, right. We destroyed all of the known enemies except for Hector with the Buster Call, but then Moby Dick, as in the actual Moby Dick it seems, came up and swallowed him with the Grail. We're in pursuit of said white whale right now." Andy brought them all up to speed on the situation. "So, while we're in pursuit, I was hoping you could help me prepare some things."

"I see, never gone whale hunting, but a first time for everything, I shall set up my territory now," Vlad said.

"Then I shall help you, Andy."

"And shall I assist Cu Chulainn in the meantime?" Medea asked.

"For now, but did you bring the sheared Fleece with you? It would make what I want to do a lot easier." Andy asked, not remembering if she had asked the Caster to do so earlier or not due to the exhaustion starting to settle in at that moment.

"I did," Medea said while holding up a box.

"Oh, good. Thank you Medea, I hope this doesn't interfere with your potion making too much." Andy said as she took the box.

"It won't Master. Now then you two go an make plans." She said as she went over to Caster Cu.

Andy turned to Waver. "Alright, Waver, come with me. I think it would be best to show you first what I plan on doing so that I can know if its stupid or not." She said to the Pseudo-Servant.

"Well, it's only stupid if it doesn't work, trust me on that one."

"Oh, okay. I still want you there so I can know if this could kill me or not." Andy said as she led the Caster to her temporary 'workshop,' though she felt odd calling it that. It was a tad too Magus-y for her tastes. Once inside, she placed the box containing the fleece down on an empty corner of a table. "Alright, so let's start from the least likely to kill me and move up from there. These-" she motioned towards the cleaned arm and hand bones of one of the great dragons they had slain, now wrapped in basic looking cloth to keep it together. "-are more time consuming than life-threatening, since I have been designing the 'muscle culture' from the ground up, but they aren't really supposed to be done soon."

She passed over the bird carcasses. "Those are just exploding familiars I've been working on, not important."

She then pointed to a series of diagrams hanging on one of the walls. "This, on the other hand, is much more likely to kill me. Artificial Magic Circuits, the idea stolen from Zouken Matou. He's practically immortal and has a large supply of Circuits, so I thought stealing it would be a good idea considering me dying would mean the end of the world, more or less." She explained. "I also have no idea how to actually do the 'Artificial Magic Circuit' part, but the rest of it, a familiar that can easily move into and repair the body, can likely be achieved with the help of this." She pointed at the box containing the Fleece. "If each one of them has a piece of the Fleece, they'll be able to accelerate natural healing, and if I can divvy up myself among them all so that I don't die when I am killed, then it would be worth it, right?"

"I see you plan to create something similar to Crest Worms. Though with your body as the central part of it instead of consuming others for new ones. Yes, you have to be careful while separating your Soul from mind and body or else you would meet oblivion." Waver said.

"Yeah, that's why I wanted you to be here for the design process. And why I wanted the Fleece to play a central part since it can heal physical injuries pretty well in the meantime." Andy said. "But, do you know how to make Artificial Magic Circuits? I know they are some kind of pseudo-physical thing where its part of your soul, right? I was thinking of removing one and replicating it, but then I realized that'd probably kill me too."

"Well, you can remove Circuits that's how Crests are made and then infused with Spell Knowledge. But you can't really create Artificial Magic Circuits in that way you're probably thinking they are made." Waver paused for a second as it seemed he was looking the correct words to say next. "Honestly this isn't my field of expertise, you need to talk to an Einzbern to know more, or maybe talk to Medea about it, she would be able to help you more with this project. But I will say it is a good idea if it's successful, eliminating ways for you to be taken out."

"I do have good ideas every now and then y'know," Andy said proudly at her idea not being stupid. "And thanks for the advice. Oh, but since I highly doubt I'll be able to finish even the first of them during this Singularity, can we continue our Evocation lessons while I have you down here?"

"We can it probably take some time to catch up to the whale. Let's talk about the summoning of Wraith to gain information." Waver began.

Xxx

"Didn't expect a storm this bad," Drake said as she tried to keep the ship straight as rain, and lighting fell from the sky, and the waves tried to eat them.

And Andy had to agree though thankfully Medea had created a Bounded Field that kept the rain from hitting them, so they were dry.

"...Say, Drake, you wouldn't happen to know if there is anyone on this ship named Ishmael?" Andy asked, worried due to the circumstances of what may or may not be about to happen.

"Nope, we're all British here." Exaggerating her accent to obnoxious levels. "Though…" Drake paused and paled as suddenly flying beside was a green rotten looking ship.

"Oh that is so much worse, did the flying dutchman decide to swoop in?" Andy asked, half-jokingly, knowing it could very well be the actual Flying Dutchman. "Also, everyone, get ready for a fight, but don't attack yet." She ordered.

Though that wouldn't be necessary as Andy watched the undead looking crew on the ghost ship, jumped and just bounced off the Bounded Field that surrounded the ship.

"Bwahaha!" Drake laughed. "And here I was scared for a second, I ain't scared you fucking clowns, you can just suck my dick!" She shouted as she fired her guns into the ship, creating large holes as she laughed while doing so.

"Calm down Drake, no need to incite them," Andy said, before turning to her Servants. "Though feel free to join in, I'm sure they'd love some good old-fashioned Magecraft right around now. And Stakes."

And they all took those words to heart as the ghost ship was blasted apart, and Andy got to the name of the ship as it crashed and started to disappear. The words Flying Dutchman written on the back of it.

"I almost feel bad," Andy said as she watched the ship disappear behind them. "Almost." She said, before walking over to Medea. "Hey, Medea, I need your input on something important."

"Sure what is you need Master." She asked from her position.

"Firstly, how long does the Fleece stay effective for?" Andy asked, deciding to build up to the actual tough question.

"Well they work as long, Prana is cycled through the fur, and it is touching the body. Though, that forming of healing is slow with it being disconnected from him, that's why I turn it into potions for more immediate and acute effect." She answered.

"Mhm. That's good to know. Secondly, would there be any adverse effects of having it in constant contact with one's body? Like, say, I dunno, sewing it into oneself?" Andy asked.

"No there wouldn't, but that is kinda nasty Master." She responded.

"I'm well aware, but that brings me to my third question," Andy said. "Do you know of any methods to create Artificial Magic Circuits?" She said, deciding to just cut to the chase.

"Well, the fastest way to get magic Circuits would be to create Homunculi and extract them from them. Or convert your physical nerves into them, though that would hurt."

"I am not pulling a Shirou, thank you very much," Andy said. "But Magic Circuits can be harvested? Would it be possible to extract the Magical Core's from the Wyverns we've slain in the same way to use or are those too incompatible do you think?" Andy asked, recalling they had quite a few wyvern corpses, at least one of them had to still have a relatively intact core.

"For what exactly do you need them, Master, my response depends on what they are needed for." She said.

Andy sighed before switching to telepathy. It wouldn't do to go announcing her plans to the world, that would defeat half the point. "I intend to replicate the Crest Worms of Zouken Matou using my own body and my Stitchcraft in order to ensure my survival. To that end, I need to know how to make or harvest Magic Circuits, or Cores if that's possible, in order to do so." She explained before switching back to speech. "That is why I need to know."

"Ah, you intend to implant them into familiars instead of your own and then create a karmic link between them and your own, so that they work as an extension of your own. Quite clever, Circe did something similar making wings out the ones she harvested from her victims." She stopped speaking and switched to mental. "Though regarding the moving of your Soul if you plan to emulate the worm, I'm concerned in how it will react with Rayshifting. So, let's put it on hold until you return to Chaldea."

"Oh, yeah we're definitely still in the planning phase, don't worry about that part," Andy responded before switching to speech. "Oh, but for right now, do you have anything that numbs pain? Like a potion or something?"

"Not right now, though I'm getting rather concerned here Master."

"What about in particular?" Andy asked, knowing full well there were several things she could be concerned about at the moment.

"It sounds like you're about to engage in some self-mutilation." She answered bluntly, and now all eyes were on Andy.

"Not...not really self-mutilation, I'd say. More of a...precautionary measure." Andy said slowly. Uncertainly. "You remember what I told you happened when I called you in before? I really, really, really don't want to have to worry about that again and have a healer next to me at all times. So...so if I can have a way of healing myself, more Servants can be focused on the important things."

"Alright, then but I'm coming with and doing it," Medea said. "That should be handled by a professional."

"Alright, but in that case, Cu, you should probably help too, you'll be able to help with the Runic part of this," Andy said to the Druidic Celt.

"Alright, but this was your idea Master." Cu said as they all went into her Workshop.

Xxx

October 7

"Urgh," Andy groaned as she leaned forward over the ship, the morning sun shining on her after she had awoken from the last day's impromptu surgery. The Golden Fleece now sowed into Runes in the form of the Resurrection Sequence by Cu onto her back being her 1-up. And the passive healing the threads themselves granted. Though it was after waking up that and accidentally drinking her gender potion, she realized as long as that was active she couldn't change back. She really hadn't thought this through. After asking Medea about it, they had realized that it because of the thread being sewn into her, changing back would physically harm her. Due to the foreign object in it.

At least she got a kickass magical tattoo. And the motivation to get her Crest Familiars (name in progress) closer to the initial production stages. Though, for right now, she was just happy to have had her idea work.

"Master I'm seeing a ship up ahead." Came Chiron's mental voice.

"Any signs of Moby Dick?" Andy asked, quickly getting up and away from the edge of the boat.

"No, but I can see Hector on it, and it's… Oh, this is bad."

"NONONONONO! He can't be here, he can't why? Why does he haunt me!" Came the shout of grief and rage from Medea, as they quickly approached the ship and Andy could see it was a Greek ship.

And an arrogant voice came from it. "You were right Hector, they brought Euryale right to us." Said a smug golden-haired man. Who stood on the front of the ship.

"Jason!" Shouted Medea.

"Fucking game over man, game over." Came the panicked shout from Orion. "We're all dead."

"If it isn't the Witch, I would ask for you to join but, I already have a better version of you at my side." At that, a much smaller Medea appeared at his side.

"Hello there I'm Medea Lily, Princess of Colchis, now I ask would you all to die for Lord Jason." She said with a deceptively cute smile.

"Yes, these worms shall be torn apart like, you did your brother." Jason gleefully smiled.

"Apollo." Came the chant from her Medea as she fired a massive ball of fire at Jason, it was like a second sun had appeared. But before it struck it him, it hit a barrier, and the fire was qualed.

Andy used her Stat-o-Vision on the enemy Servants, a lot of the anger she still had against Blackbeard starting to latch onto a new target.

"My, my what a naughty Master we got here looking at Lord Jason, and I like that." Came the chill voice from Medea Lily.

"Oh, she tried to see our stat, well now please die like the trash you are. We need Euryale and the Ark for me to become king of this world. So Heracles retrieve her would you." Jason said.

"DON'T LET HIM GET ON THE BOAT!" Andy yelled as soon as Jason said 'Heracles.' "FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THEM, NOW!" She continued, desperately not wanting to have to deal with Jason and what was likely anywhere from 1 to god knows how many Argonauts and a Grail. She saw another figure now standing by Jason.

That was then Andy heard a boom, and Asterios was suddenly in front of her his body pierced with over a dozen arrows, that dripped a liquid that etched away at the ship's floor.

Andy, who had fallen back in that motion, backed up further. "Asterios?" She asked before seeing the dripping arrows and connecting the dots. "Oh fuck, MASH, CAMELOT!" Andy yelled, deciding defending against further attacks from what was no doubt Archer Heracles was most important right now.

"YOU CALLED ME ASTERIOS NOT MINOTAUR, I LOVE YOU EURYALE!" He shouted as he roared a jumped at the Argo as his body began to grow in size and became more white. "CHAOS LABYRINTH!" At that, the Argo was consumed by the massive structure with the Hind being just outside its wall. And they looked at labyrinth that now stood on the sea.

"Fuck," Andy swore at what had just occurred, only beginning to process that Asterios had just saved her life before no doubt losing his own. "We...we should probably leave, or nuke this place, but I don't think I have any nukes left."

"We need to leave, now we can not stand up against my brother on the sea, and we need to find this Arc, Jason spoke about," Artemis said her tone now completely serious.

"Yeah, we probably should. We need to...to make sure that wasn't a senseless sacrifice as soon as we can." Andy said, shaking at what had just occurred. She had been this close to one of the most agonizing deaths in Greek myth, and Asterios had just taken the bullet for her. She looked over to Euryale, who was standing completely still, tears leaking from her eyes.

"Why, why do the people I care about sacrifice themselves for me. First my sister, now Asterios."

Andy considered only for a moment before pulling up Grand Order Change and swapping out Waver and Cu for Stheno and Medusa, the two Casters disappearing with understanding nods and the two Gorgons materializing.

"Master... Sister?" Said the two of them simultaneously as their eyes shifted from Andy to Euryale.

"Asterios just sacrificed himself to stop Jason and the Argonauts, she needs some help right now," Andy said quietly to the two; she'd kept them more-or-less updated on the fact Euryale was there.

"Understood," Medusa said, and Stheno just gave a silent nod as they walked over to their sister, pulled her to the side as she cried in their embrace of her.

Andy, trusting the sisters would do their best, then went over to the other one affected by this personally. Medea, who was sitting over by where the front mast was.

"Um. I know you're not okay but…" Andy had very little idea how to deal with this. It was one thing talking to someone whose abuser suddenly showed up; it was another when they showed up with a younger brainwashed version of yourself. She had no real idea how to actually deal with this. At all. But she decided she had to try something. "If...you need to talk, I'm here."

"I thought, I was free of him that I would never see him again even as a Servant, the one the gods had made me fall in love with and betrayed my nation for his gain and quest. But why, why would she ever work with him? Even she is my younger-self she should have all of our lives memories and know of his betrayal of us."

"Brainwashing, for sure," Andy said with zero hesitation. "Jason's an utter scumbag like you said there's no way any version of you would willingly work with him after what he did. So he probably used the Grail to make a 'you' the same way Caster Gilles did with Jeanne in Orleans; a modified copy fit to suit his own twisted desires." Andy said, hoping what she was saying would help. "Maybe...I'm not actually advising you get close to her, lackeys won't be far behind, but if she ever gets close to you can use Rule Breaker and set her free?"

"Yeah, he probably used the Grail to mess with her mind, and making sure she can't reverse it. For the only thing, he could do while alive was, punch things, sail and make good speeches. Though our greatest problem is Heracles cause, he is following Jason of his own free will."

"How can you tell?" Andy asked, curious, though relieved to hear Jason was likely a pushover who would go down easily in the off-chance they managed to kill Heracles.

"Despite what you may believe those two are best friends, as Jason was one the few who saw the human and not the powerful Demigod son of Zeus."

"Oh." Was all Andy could say to that. "Well, um. There goes my only plan so far of killing Jason and running like hell." Andy said, now certain Heracles would somehow persist after Jason's death and hunt them to the ends of the earth if he needed to.

"Well, hopefully, you can come up with another one, you're good at making those Master."

"Yeah, hopefully," Andy said, staring back at the fading white labyrinth off in the distance. "Hopefully."