Ritsuka and Salter are forced to confront Shirou and Saber, both of which seemed controlled by a strange force that drives them to fight the Chaldeans.
Salter's blade clashed with Saber's as they both tried to overpower the other. Artoria activated her Mana Burst and her oponent was sent flying towards a building, but Salter managed to land before crashing directly.
"She's not thinking right, all she wants is to kill us" - Salter said as she looked at her Master, who was fighting against Shirou - "I trust that you won't lose" -
Ritsuka was, on his own, fighting Shirou, who was using a reinforced pipe as a weapon. Fujimaru knew that a hit from that would cause a lot of damage, so he had to constantly avoid the attacks until he got an opening.
"I'm all in for non conventional weapons, but a pipe of something else" - the boy said as he dodged a last minute hit before finally seeing an opening.
Remembering his training with Scáthatch, Ritsuka started to deliver a series of powerful punches to Shirou the threw his enemy off balance and made him drop his weapon. He then tried to grab de pipe to use it himself, but Shirou kicked him in the chest and made him back off.
Shirou grabbed Ritsuka's head and bashed it against the street once before Fujimaru was able to get up, making him lose his balance and attempted to nock him unconscious with a good punch to the head, but once again Emiya managed to avoid this, headbutting Ritsuka and grabbing the pipe before slamming it into his stomach.
"You... Son of a bitch" - Ritsuka faintly said as he tried to regain his balance after the hit. He knew that this Shirou was out for blood, and if he slipped up before knocking him out, it was over.
Meanwhile, Salter and Saber kept on fighting, with the latter throwing her corrupted self into buildings while she tried to keep her balance and not cause great damage as it could mean problems for them later.
Saber unleashed a powerful blast of air from her sword that caught Salter unprepared and threw her against a tree. After that, Artoria unleashed a Mana Burst before trying to cut down Salter, yet she managed to avoid this by using her own Mana Burst as a counter.
"Salter, listen to me!" - Da Vinci said, speaking from Chaldea - "Artoria's Master isn't able to provide her with enough mana to fight for long periods of time. If you can keep her at bay, you and Master can win by simply stalling!" -
"I appreciate the advice, but I don't think stalling is our best bet here, we need to take them out, and fast" -
"In that case... You're not too far off from a cementary which right now is devoid of people. If you managed to bait both into getting there, you could knock both out with Excalibur Morgan" -
"Music to my ears Da Vinci. Master, did you catch that?" -
"I did, but..." - Ritsuka said while fighting Shirou, dodging a hit before punching him in the face - "We might knock out Artoria, but dear Emiya here is going to take a whole lot more damage than that" -
"You think you can stop him yourself and then we go after my other self?" -
"I'll give it a try. Let's see if all that training with Shishou and Leonidas payed off!" -
With one good hit on Shirou's hand, Ritsuka managed to disarm him before punching him in the face, kicking him in the leg to make him lose balance and slamming his head against a car.
"SHIROU!" - Saber yelled as she saw him fall before launching herself to try and kill Ritsuka, only to be stopped by a quick move on Salter's part.
"Holy shit" -
"No time to waste Master, we still need to take her down" -
As Saber started to get up from the ground, Ritsuka's hand raised as he used one of his Command Seals.
"Salter, by my Command Seal, finish this fight in one blow" -
"Hmph, I was hoping you'd say that... Ritsuka" -
With added mana from her Master, Salter charged a powerful slash just as Saber prepared to once again, unleash a wind attack. Powering through her enemy's hit, Salter slashed Saber clean, causing her to fall to the ground after losing consciousness.
The Master and Servant duo carried their unconscious enemies to a safe zone where they could be taken care off.
"Master, are you ok? You didn't took much damage from him right?" - Salter asked, concearned about Ritsuka's safety.
"I'm alright, my head just hurts a bit after getting hit like that, but nothing serious" -
As they were resting, someone known to them landed nearby, it was EMIYA.
"Oh, hi Archer, what are you doing here?" - Ritsuka asked playfully.
"Rin sent me to look for both of you... Why are those two unconscious?" - he asked upon seeing Saber and Shirou.
"Long story, we'll explain later, but for now we'd like to get back to Rin's house, can you help us carry him while I go with Salter?" -
Even with his protests, EMIYA was forced to carry Shirou back to Rin while Salter carried her other self.
"Worst first introducion in history" - Ritsuka said, joking about their battle.
"I don't know, there have been worse, remember Anastasia?" -
"Ah, how could I forget it... At least we got payback from that one" -
"What are you two talking about in the back?" - EMIYA asked the two, as he didn't understood their conversation.
"Private matters Archer. Shut up and keep walking" - Salter promply stopped him from questioning them further.
"Good job Fujimaru Kun, you managed to subdue a Master affected by a strange energy source" - Da Vinci said from Chaldea - "Now comes your next challenge, explaining everything to Tohsaka!" -
"Yeah... Not looking forward to that" -