"To, or not to sick the Medjed on you," Nitocris muttered as her mouth still hung slightly open.

"I would say not, since you did tell us to kill your sphinx, especially since you didn't specify who or how and Sir Bedivere here appears to be on our side," Andy said, thinking quickly as he did not want to have another ancient Egyptian god [s]card[/s] to deal with.

"Fine you win, I shall guide you to the Great Temple," She sighed as she leaned on her staff.

"Thank you for your generosity," Andy said with a nod, not wanting to anger the Caster any more.

"You should now follow me, for as long as you do, the desert will not harm you," She said as she turned around and began to walk.

The group quickly followed, and in the meantime, questioning was happening behind the female Pharaoh.

"Sir Bedivere, would you kindly explain what the fuck is going on?" Andy asked the knight quietly, baffled as to how a Knight of the Round was running around with the arm of a Celtic god during the crusades, even with the 'Merlin did it' explanation.

"Which questions do you want answers to, Lord Andy?" Bedivere asked.

"First of all, how do you have the arm of Nuada Airgetlam?" Andy asked, as in his mind, that was the most pressing question.

"As I said it was given to me by Lord Merlin, he summoned me to the realm of Avalon as a Servant, but among them, I could be considered one of the weakest as I barely qualify as one. While I am three times greater than any knight among the Rounds, I was quite ordinary. I had nothing special to me. I don't even know why her majesty invited me to join their ranks," He spoke in a saddened.

"Ah, don't be like that Sir Bedivere, you were the heart of the team you made everyone's day brighter. For you were one of the few that has seen our King smile," Gareth said with a smile of her own, one guided towards her fellow knight.

"Thank you for your kind words Sir Gareth, but even so I am weak Servant, I do not even have a Noble Phantasm, only this silver arm technically serves as one," He said as he lifted up his mechanical appendage.

"Mhm." Andy hummed, eyeing said arm enviously for a moment. He'd known of Airgetlam since he was little, since it was basically the only divine prosthetic he'd ever heard of, and seeing it now, in person was cool, but it wasn't like he was going to tear off his own arm to have it. "I see. But why did Marlin decide to send you in now? What's special about this one?" Andy asked, suspicion already rising based on the earlier reactions by the Hassans.

"He was very coy about it, but from what I was able to gather from his words someone called the Lion King has empowered the Servants under his command with something called 'Gifts,' and my arm has the power to sever that 'Gift' from them severely decreasing their power," He answered.

"Well, that's awfully convenient of him," Andy noted as he checked Bedivere's stats to confirm his words.

"Lord Merlin wishes for you to succeed in this endeavor, for he would be quite saddened if humanity was to vanish, and all their stories were to disappear."

"Nice words, but somehow I can hear the condescending tone in those words," Ritsuka commented.

"That is Sir Merlin for you, Master," Gareth responded.

"I still don't get how Merlin stole Airgetlam to give it to you, Sir Bedivere, but I am going to trust you for now," Andy said, still hung up over this. "Actually, I just had a great idea," Andy said, before swapping out the still-in-the-backline Georgios for Saber herself. "Hey, Tori, look who I found."

"Sir Bedivere?" She asked as her eyes landed on her knight.

"Your majesty!" He said in shock as he immediately took a knee. "I did not know that you had been summoned by this Master as well, though then I saw Sir Gareth, I thought that maybe you…" He trailed off.

"Rise my knight there is no need to bow before my any longer as Servants we are both now of equal standing," She stated as she held out her gauntleted hand.

The knight grasped it and raised himself up, and though now, he hilariously stood almost four heads taller than her.

Andy covered his mouth to smother the snicker at the height difference, transitioning into clearing his throat to hide it, mostly from Nitocris. "Ahem. Please feel free to catch up you two, but do remember the situation." He half-warned.

"Of course, mother," She responded.

There was a swishing sound as two heads immediately turned to look at their king at what she had just said.

"I shall explain later," Arturia said as they continued to walk.

"Of course my king," Came calm response from Bedivere while Gareth was imitating a fish.

"Now, if you're done fooling around now, look down and behold the Great Temple of his majesty, the Ramesseum Tentyris!" Nitocris said coming to a stop at a slope that leads down to the temple. And here they could see it, a massive temple complex that looked to be made out of a bunch of other temples.

"'Gaze upon my works and despair' indeed, damn," Andy said with a whistle as he looked over the complex from their viewpoint.

"I can see why he deserves the title of King of Construction, I can even see the Dendera, Karnak and Abu Simbel are a part of it. 'All temples past, present and future exist for my sake.' This is definitely a Noble Phantasm as two of those temples were made after his time," Da Vinci stated as she observed the complex.

Andy took another lookout at the temple complex and felt a bit of the 'despair' part he had just jokingly mentioned. "That whole thing is his Noble Phantasm?"

"That is correct, Master of Chaldea, behold the great Pharaoh's power, now let us get down there, he is probably expecting us," Nitocris said.

They did precisely that, Andy planning an escape plan and route the whole way through in case this went south as he was expecting it to, internally cursing that he could no longer just bring five Servant Buster Calls at the drop of a hat, a side effect of bringing Ritsuka that he had overlooked. He also took the time to admire the architecture, since the place was legitimately beautiful.

Though to his surprise, actual humans were walking through the temple as they went through it; apparently they were native people that Ozymandias had taken as subjects to protect them from the Lion King, and so they were all walking a wide berth around their group even if Nitocris were leading them.

Though to make it worse, the place according to his Servants and Ritsuka's it sealed of their Noble Phantasms making them unusable. And Jeanne saying that the place was filled to the brim with Phantasmal Beasts acting as security.

So she suggested playing nice with the guy as her Revelation Skill was telling her that if they took a directly hostile action, they would be cursed to hell and back by Divine Authorities.

"Lord Ozymandias, I bring guests that seek an audience with you!" Nitocris stated as they entered the throne room, and upon a golden throne, sat the Pharaoh.

Andy's first unbidden thought upon laying eyes on the Pharaoh was 'oh god no he's hot, shit,' which just completely derailed his entire train of thought, and as such he quickly bowed in greeting and to hide his face.

"You're so noisy, Nitocris I was just in the middle of resting, and here you come with guests? Well, it seems that one knows proper respect. So you're the ones from Chaldea? Honestly, you being here is a surprise I had thought you perished during the fourth Singularity, but it seem the eyes of Ra can be wrong sometimes," The man spoke with the voice of Dio Brando.

"I have very much so survived, your majesty," Andy said. "Also, the stories of your countenance failed to capture the real deal." He said without thinking, his two thought processes of 'oh god he's hot' and 'be polite' mixing.

"Flattery will get you everywhere."

"Dude control your gay thoughts, though even I are having them. But to cut to the chase your Majesty, we're here for the Holy Grail so we ask of you to part with the knowledge of its location?" Ritsuka requested as he too took a bow.

"The Holy Grail, you say? You mean this?" He asked and in his hand, the golden cup appeared.

"The Grail!" Mash exclaimed.

"I will tell you this I will not part with it, for you are too late, far too late, if you had arrived six months, earlier this Grail would have been the source of the Singularity, the source of a never-ending crusade that would have become the seedbed for a Demon God to manifest," He stated.

"I get it the Crusaders summoned you didn't they?" Da Vinci asked. "But you betrayed them and established this territory for yourself converting it into 1000B.C. Egypt? A Singularity inside of a Singularity."

"My you are a smart and knowledgeable, one tell me your identity, Servant?"

"She is the Renaissance (wo)man, Leonardo Da Vinci, the Ultimate Genius and the smartest person in the room at any given moment." Andy espoused for Da Vinci, not exaggerating in the slightest as far as he was concerned.

"Thank you for the praise and introduction Andy, though I will say that I am a teensy tiny bit less of a genius compared to you, your Majesty," Da Vinci said.

"Da Vinci? I did not expect that you were a woman, but I will say that your beauty is comparable to that of my Nefatari's own,"

"But let's get back on topic, if the Grail is no longer the source of the distortion of Human History what is?"

"That should be obvious the Lion King and the Holy City he established after he crushed the Crusaders," Ozymandias answered. "Though speaking of knight-." Ozymandias' words were cut off as his head slowly slid to the side of his neck before he quickly pushed it back into place. "..."

"Did his head just?" Ritsuka asked.

"As I was saying to think that I-." His words were again cut off as his head again started to slide off his neck, and once again pushed back into place.

"Uhm. Your Majesty, if you'd like, I could heal that for you?" Andy offered, weirded out about the whole 'head falling off' thing, but really he'd seen weirder. "A-Assuming, of course, that's happening because of an injury, I meant no disrespect if otherwise."

"Heal, what? There is nothing wrong with my neck and to insinuate as such is worthy of execution though I shall let it slide you are a peasant after all your eyes are not as acute as a falcon's," The Pharaoh proclaimed. "And now, where was I? Ah yes, speaking of knights. I was certainly not expecting to see the one who wields the Holy Sword here, though you're different from the one I encountered during that Grail War in Tokyo, gender being the obvious one," He stated with reminiscence, like it was of a memory of him having gone on a vacation.

"My apologies, your Majesty; thank you for your benevolence," Andy said with another bow. "Though, forgive my insolence, could you perhaps go back to the Lion King situation?" Andy asked, filing the 'Tokyo Grail War' thing away for later.

"What is there to address? He is the enemy you need to defeat, his city and sanctuary is located north-east of here in the wasteland he created as a result of his war against the Crusaders. Though you bringing her has brought me a good mood, I shall allow you to stay for the night and grant you safe passage through the desert," He generously stated.

"Thank you once more for your benevolence, your majesty," Andy said with another bow while hoping he wouldn't fuck it up by accidentally insulting Ozymandias again.

"Yes, thank you, your majesty," Ritsuka also thanked the man giving a bow. "Though may I ask why you choose to use your Greek given name?"

"Because it is so much cooler than Ramses that much should be obvious!" He answered.

"I agree it is really cool," Ritsuka responded with a thumbs up.

"Heh, you're like if my dearest friend and brother were split into two people," He said aloud though he probably didn't mean too.

"Thank you for the compliment, your majesty. We shall depart by your leave." Andy said.

"I shall see you off in the morning," The Pharaoh responded as he sat back down on his throne.

"Well, that was intense," Mash stated, finally speaking after her little shout as Nitocris escorted them to their quarters.

"Of course for when the Pharaoh as the incarnation of Ra upon the earth looks at you with his gaze, you're seen by the sun itself," Nitocris stated.

"I do feel a little more tanned…" Andy said idly, despite still wearing the plugsuit under his clothes.

"Well, at least we now have a direction we can go," Ritsuka stated.

"That is correct, though let us first rest and eat before we set out tomorrow," Da Vinci stated.

"Yeah, that's probably the best idea," Andy said aloud, while telepathically, he spoke to Fuma. "Kotaru, see if you can scout this place out awhile, but prioritize not getting caught over everything else."

"I shall My Lord, thankfully this place does not compromise Skills, as it does Noble Phantasms, though as long as I do not direct hostile actions towards the ruler of this place I shall be Golden as Lord Kintoki would say,"

"Please don't start doing the Golden thing too. I can only handle so much of that." Andy chided.

"I shall try not too."

Andy then turned to the still-catching up Knights of the Round Table, now that Nitocris left them in their (admittedly very nice) accommodations. "Alright, so, Q-and-A time. Sir Bedivere, how much do you know of the current situation? As in, how much prior to our arrival have you been here, and do you know what's actually going on?"

"A Singular day, and nothing really only that we're in is a Singularity," He responded.

"I see. That's a shame, we could have used more information." Andy said, shaking his head. "Oh, but, any questions for me, Sir Bedivere?"

"Just one," Bedivere said, looking between his king and Andy. "'Mother'?"

Xxx

June 21st

"Taadahh! The Da Vinci Sphinx Dune Buggy is up and running, thankfully Lord Ozymandias was kind enough to provide materials for me to use," Da Vinci presented her car to all of them now standing outside of the Pharaoh's Temple. "For I am not walking on foot through this desert anymore."

"...Aren't you supposed to be a Caster, not a Rider, Leo?" Andy asked as he stared at the 'buggy.'

"I can actually be summoned as one, though I will be limited to all my vehicular inventions."

"You can enjoy that Da Vinci I am going to be on Boudica's chariot," Ritsuka stated as the Rider Class Servant manifested.

"Ready to go Master, so it's this Holy City? We shall be heading towards?" The Rider asked for confirmation.

"Right, Boudi...whoops, not used to that yet, sorry," Andy answered for Ritsuka before remembering.

"It is fine, Andy, so shall we go there? Or is there another place we shall go to first?"

"Well, remember when I said that this was like a Singularity inside a Singularity? Well, I detected another anomaly via my staff inside the desert yesterday. But I say we save that for later for we need to re-establish contact with Chaldea and figure out this whole Lion King business before we touch that, in my professional opinion," Da Vinci informed them.

Andy shrugged. "Considering the Pharaoh was telling us to go there, I'd have to agree with that plan for now."

"I am finding no objection to that idea," Ritsuka said as he joined Boudica on the chariot while Bedivere and Mash situated themselves on the Da Vinci Mobile.

"Sweet, then let's ride. Hit it, Leo!" Andy said as he hopped in the Da Vinci Mobile.

Xxx

When Ozymandias had said, the Lion King had created a wasteland, he hadn't been exaggerating as they had just exited the desert and the area in front of them looked more like a volcano had unleashed its load on the area.

"Oh, my god I've finally gotten in contact with you guys, what happened?" The holographic image of Roman said in relief.

"Hey, boss! We met a Pharaoh who's basically Ancient Egyptian Gilgamesh, and is making a Singularity with the Grail inside of the main Singularity which is being sustained by something else." Andy updated Roman. "Also, The Hassan of a Hundred Faces is here, and the 'bigger' singularity is apparently stocked by knights based on their reaction to Sir Gareth. Also, it's being led by someone calling themselves the Lion King from the Holy City, which is leading me to believe it's Richard the Lionhearted gone even more coocoo."

"Ah, that makes sense; you're probably right about it being King Richard," Roman responded having learned how to understand Andy Speak. "Though for you guys, I have a bit of a gift for you. Sheba was actually able to create a map of the area, and we have an overhead view of most of the place. To your right, you can see what I presume to be the Holy City, a rather massive place," He pointed to it on the screen.

"Ho-o-holy shit, is that thing to scale?" Andy asked as he looked at what appeared to be a truly massive castle/walled city with equally massive perimeter walls thick enough, he could clearly see them on the map. "What are they expecting, an army of titans?"

"An army of insane Crusaders or probably even that Pharaoh who I assume is Ozymandias as he is the only one that fits the description you gave," He responded. "But yes, it is mostly to scale the city is absolutely massive compared to what existed in this age."

Andy whistled. "Daaamn. Guess we won't be able to pull a Jericho here." He then thought about the situation for a second. "Though, we are gonna see what's up with them first before even thinking of attacking, right? Since all, we have to go off of is the words of the Pharaoh, and we don't know anything about these guys." He proposed, since for once, he actually had other people (who weren't his servants) to lead.

"I agree with that, though the best bet is to try and find some of the locals and get their opinions on what is happening here," Da Vinci said. "So let's drive across this literal wasteland, though those craters I can see makes me a little concerned."

"Now that you mention it, I can see it too; those are craters, aren't they?" Mash asked.

"And if they are, what could have made those?" Ritsuka asked the sound of spit being swallowed could be heard from his throat.

"...Oh god, they have a Final Fantasy Final Boss on their side, don't they." Andy stated more than asked as he put the pieces together of the literal scorched earth and the massive craters (using the city as a reference), which would have either been meteors or some other Anti-Army (or bigger) Noble Phantasm dropping...from...the sky…

Andy looked up in mounting horror, trying to spot anything up there that could have done it, but all he could see was the ring caused by Solomon's Phantasm, which ruled out satellites, but magic. "...We're going to need to be extra careful. And extra diplomatic."

"I, I agree with that, Andy so get going," Roman said as the hologram disappeared.

"...Ritsuka, please let me handle the first impressions and negotiations for this. I know you've got a lot of charisma, but I really don't want us to get fantasy nuked at the gates." Andy said after a moment of uncomfortable silence.

"You can have this one, Andy, for I am kinda scared. I am used to weird not all the Dakka as they say," He finished with another swallow.

"Yeah, overwhelming firepower is an issue you're going to be dealing with a lot now. Luckily for you, it's just this one and the last one left." Andy said with a sympathetic grin. "Don't forget about Grand Order Change if you need to bring in the Big Guns."

"I know, I know, let's just keep going."

After that, they continued their trip through the wasteland with two things of note happening. The first was that they had run into the aftermath of a massacre with a bunch of bodies having been sliced into pieces consisting out of men, women and children. Though the most noteworthy body being a decapitated Hassan that wasn't one of the HFH's bodies. Da Vinci suggested it was the Hassan of this era.

And what made it worse were the ravenous Ghouls they had to kill that was feasting on the bodies.

Though their spirit had been lightened, then they had run into a group of refugees that were making their to the Holy City to seek shelter. As apparently this time of the month they were opening the gates to let people inside.

They escorted the refugees to the Holy City, where outside of its gates and massive walls, a tent city of other natives had formed. All of them waiting to be let inside.

"Mother, there is something about this place that… I don't quite know, but it is setting off my instinct everything about is screaming trap, but according to the people of this land, people have been let inside," Arturia spoke as she poked the bonfire with a stick night having fallen once again.

Andy let out a half-relieved, half tired sigh. "Good to hear my suspicions backed up. This place…" He switched over to telepathy, in case they were being listened in on. "I don't like it one bit. It's...too good to be true, in the most literal sense."

"Blondy is right Master, this place while it might not look like it, it is soaked with grudges and wishes of vengeance," Joan said as she ate some rations.

"Mhm. That's even more worrying." Andy replied, before switching to speaking aloud with a degree of cheer he did not have before. "Well, it looks like we'll just have to wait till tomorrow to find out for sure, won't we?"

"No, no, we won't; something just exited the city," Da Vinci said.

And at that, the night became day.

And what followed was the sounding of slight panicking from the refugees over the sudden sunlight bathing the area.

And Andy could feel it a massive source of magical energy standing in the middle of the mile-long gate, and as he stared at it, he felt a sense of growing dread as he realized he recognized that gate.

"'The sun shall always shine upon you' those were the words of Lion King then I was granted my blessing of Sunshine I am Gawain welcome to the Holy City of Camelot!" He announced himself and around him stood knights decked in armor.

"Motherfucker," Andy said softly. "They remade Camelot. Of course." He quickly sent out an order through telepathy. "Arturia, astralize now."

She quickly obeyed though Andy had seen the shock on her face, then the Sun Knight had appeared.

That was when a second voice spoke, and atop the wall, a figure stood and the voice was familiar; it was Arturia's voice. "I am Lion King, I welcome you all to this Holy Selection, I know you have traveled far but only those with purest of souls may enter the walls of Camelot," At those words, two humans among the masses shined brightly.

"Gawain, my knight, bring them in," The Lion King said and vanished from the wall.

"Knight enforcers, you have your orders take the chosen ones and start the Holy Extermination." At that, the sound of screaming was heard as within seconds, arrows rained down and people were slaughtered.

"Mash! Show these fuckers the real Camelot!" Andy ordered, the screaming refuges breaking him out of his growing dreadful stupor at having to fight what was likely going to be the whole Round Table.

"Sir, GAWAIN!" Came the shout from Arturia as she manifested and shot off towards the knight in a blind rage.

"That won't work, Senpai!" She shouted.

"Let's just save as many people as possible, Gareth, Vlad, Nobu start exterminating these knights and round the people!" Ritsuka shouted.

"But… Sir Gawain and her majesty? Why are they?" She began to ask and looked like she was on the verge of a panic attack.

"Gareth, you need to calm down; we get answers later but the people are most important, and Andy, I think you need to go and support your daughter!" He shouted at him.

Of course, Andy had already transformed and leaped at the clashing knights before Ritsuka had even opened his mouth, Tenfold Shields forming around his body as he did, Mash and Joan already inbound towards Gawain.

"Ah, more trash," The knight stated as he took a stance at the three Servants and Andy.

Xxx

A/N: Here is a Chapter of the second anniversary of the story and now the Camelot Singulartity truly begins. And to say a few words if I went back in time and had to write this story a new there is a few things I would have done differently like not iceing Ritsuka, doing stand and Persona stuff from the start. Having proper Social Links and limiting Passive's Servant pool to like two dozen while Ritsuka had the rest.

But I am rectifying some mistakes now and I hope you enjoy the rest of the Arc, though hopefully maybe we finish part 1 before the new year ends and 21 starts.

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