Hey, what's up guys, Flipkicks here, and today I bring you is a new chapter for "Fate: A Reaper's Grand Order", thank you guys for checking out the story and what you all thought of the previous chapter.
This chapter continues on where we last left Ichigo with Proto Merlin.
I do not own either series involved.
Singularity F
Part 6.5
Garden of Avalon
The created worlds are completely cut off from normal reality, projecting their internal landscape and sealing off the regular World. Following the World Egg theory, the actualization of a Reality Marble is the result of switching the Self and the World while keeping the boundary the same. The size of the Self and the World is switched, enclosing the World in a small container while the Self is expanded. The contained World is the World Egg and the name of the theory. They will encase anyone within range, causing them to disappear from view. Magi are still able to feel the presence of the Bounded Field, and while they cannot be directly affected from the outside, a large burst of mana, such as Excalibur, may be able to disrupt them. The World constantly attempts to crush the unnatural bounded fields as they are not created by spiritual beings, meaning that it costs a great deal of magical energy to construct one and keep it stabilized. This generally only allows them to be used for a few minutes, but given their powerful nature, that is likely enough time to properly utilize them; even the strongest Dead Apostle cannot maintain a Reality Marble for more than a single night. Each world has its own set of patterns and rules, which can be said to be an invasion of reality by the diagram inscribed on the soul, and as it is just one aspect put into form, the user cannot add their own will into the form of the barrier.
"This little marble can really help me and the others?" Ichigo raises an eyebrow, "Still confused by this item."
"Depending on the person, this could be a 'second world' so to speak." The caster then shows the Servant, Archer, "I'm sure you're familiar with this Servant."
Caster begins to show a point of view between the white-haired Servant against a teenager with auburn hair and golden-brown colored eyes. He is wearing his casual clothing, consisting of a blue and white long sleeve baseball jersey T-shirt and blue slim straight jeans.
Ichigo begins to see the fight between the two, making him wonder why the two are fighting.
"Archer in this timeline is facing his past self." Ichigo raises an eyebrow, "Basically in Archer's timeline, he becomes the Hero of Justice that one man 'embedded' in him."
He sighs in what Caster told him, "Hero of Justice, what a fool." He scorns at the guy facing a potential future self, "Being a Hero of Justice is nothing but pain. You can't save everyone, sometimes people have to die whenever it'll be from natural causes, suicide, or murder." He could tell that this Servant from looking into his eyes, he sees nothing but pain while the guy wants to be this Hero of Justice.
"Seems you disapprove..." Caster noted, "Why's that?" She asks him, curiously.
"You can't force an idea that on some kid. Hell for me, I was forced into a past situation and now I found myself here." Ichigo replies to the Servant, "After the Winter Wars, I found myself being powerless and thought having my powers would make me whole but this past Blood War, made me think that I don't want to keep on doing this."
"Winter Wars? Blood War?" Caster begins to look into Ichigo's memories and different timeline of events and Ichigo raises an eyebrow as to why he is seeing these multiple different timelines. "Oh, a 'Winter Wars' when you faced this man, Aizen, and this 'Blood War' against 'YHWH'?" She looks baffled to see that he faced the four-letter word for God.
"Not YHWH, Yhwach. The Bastard in my world is all-father of Quincy's." He corrected her, still feeling the rage he felt after killing him. "A so-called lover of peace but was the one to start the fighting after when I got my powers back."
"Mind telling me about these Quincy's?" She found an interesting topic.
"The Quincy's are Human mediums that have the ability to detect the existence of Hollows. It all started when they began training to confront Hollows in order to defeat them, the same as Shinigami do. Most of the Quincy were destroyed by the Shinigami over 200 years ago in order to prevent the collapse of the world. Quincy is the polar opposite of Shinigami."
She then looks into the Quincy timeline and sees everything that Ichigo is telling her is true. While she has seen many different things from dragons, succubus's, incubus's, mages, old wizards, and so on but she never thought she would see more supernatural people from comparing to what she knows.
"Interesting..." She mutters to herself as she sees people with spiritual bows and shooting them. "To think that use their own aura or chi..." She doesn't know what to call it.
"It's called Spiritual Pressure or Reishi." Ichigo brings out his large Zanpakuto, "I'm what is usually called a Grim Reaper of Japan, Shinigami." He then shows Caster his Reiatsu and Caster couldn't believe that a mere late-teenager could have this kind of power. It's no wonder that he was on par or even better than Archer during the skirmish. "I'm what you call a Hybrid."
"Oh really?"
"I'm a human but I'm beyond a normal human. I'm a Pure Quincy by my mother's side but she was infected by a Hollow while my father is a Pure Shinigami. Some call me a Transcendent being even though I don't feel like a God or anything like that." He stated to the Servant, "I'm just a human with supernatural powers."
Caster could tell that he hasn't had a normal teenage life for a while and judging from what he is telling her, he's been fighting nonstop against these people. Reminding her of the boy she raised to be King.
"Will this really help me?" He asks her, still examining this reality marble that Caster gave him.
"Of course!" She says in a chipper tone, "Maybe this will help." She uses the tip of her staff and begins to insert knowledge into Ichigo.
His eyes widen, absorbing the knowledge that Caster is giving him forcefully. He begins to see everything that this worlds or something version of himself. He sees all the memories that are the same as his but he sees that he unknowingly participated in the Holy Grail War. Apparently his Servant was Ruler, Jeanne D'Arc. This world's Ichigo was potentially the winner of an alternative timeline but for some reason, those memories are burred.
He then sees what was life for him after the Grail War and sees everything went downhill for him. He sees that he lost the people he cared about the most, his family, his love ones, all gone. He sees everything that would lead him to form a contract with the World, becoming a Counter Guardian.
He falls on his knees, panting very hard, still absorbing all the knowledge of a different Ichigo.
"What...the...hell..was that?" He said, panting as his right eye begins to turn bright blue.
Seeing this surprised Caster, she didn't think that the knowledge of a different Ichigo would have this effect on him. 'So this world's version of Ichigo has Pure Eyes...interesting.' She could have to note this one in her memory, "What you experience won't harm you but the memories of a different you are integrating into you. You'll gain the knowledge of a different you and you'll know all kinds of tricks."
"Could have at least warn me." He slowly picks himself up and Caster helps him stand, still adjusting to the memories integrating into him.
"Well, you wouldn't be able to know if I hadn't done it." Caster stated to him, "You'll need these mage skills that your counterpart knows and you should be able to return to your timeline after dealing with these singularities."
"And you probably want me to learn from the guys at Chaldea huh?" She nods her head.
"Of course, there are things that only skilled mages know compare to you, no offense." He waves it off, "Both of those mages should be able to teach some basic forms and you'll exceed in completing these singularities and now I believe its time for you to return." She hits the ground twice and Ichigo begins to hover into the air.
"Wait, how do you know my name?!" She merely gives him a cheeky smile as Ichigo is flying away from the Garden.
"You'll find out soon and you'll need this as well." She picks up one of the many flowers in her garden, sending it to Ichigo, "We'll meet again Ichigo!"
And that ends this small chapter. Ichigo was given a couple of new skills and memories with a different counterpart and this was from my own story "The Reaper's Unlimited Heaven", I thought it would be a nice feature to add to this story and a throwback to the original title "TRUH: Unlimited Blade Works".
I'm leaving to the reader's opinion on what really happened to this world's version of Ichigo.
While its a followup chapter with Ichigo and Merlin, its a side chapter, and the next chapter won't be out for quite a while since I want to focus on putting a new chapter and hopefully trying writing a new chapter for "The Reaper's Memories" since it's been months since I've put an actual chapter and also I wrote a new crossover story, "A Reaper Amongst Dragons" A Fire Emblem X Bleach story so check it out.
I hope to hear what you guys think of the chapter and as always, I'll talk to you all later.
