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Now, may I present you…(drum roll please) the long-awaited Chapter 0! Enjoy~

(? POV)

We see the hooded figure from before now in a darkened room. His back is facing the viewers, and he's reading from his book.

?: Fujimaru Ritsuka, a third-rate Magus, managed to attain the position of a Master in the secret organization, Chaldea.

The camera now looks over his shoulder, revealing what he had been reading: A moving image of Ritsuka woken up by Fou was shown.

?: There, he met Mash Kyrielight, a mysterious girl working as the staff there, as well as many other characters.

He flips another page, showing Ritsuka and Mash sitting on a bench. He flips again and again, revealing Dr. Lev, Director Olga Marie, and Roman.

?: However, disaster struck. Chaldea was sabotaged, and the Command Room now in flames. It seems to be a premature end for the young man.

Flaming pages start fluttering down from the ceiling, as it showed the scene of Ritsuka holding Mash's hand.

?: But.

*thump* He turns around and grins underneath the hood. The flaming pages cast a menacing glow on him.

?: Quite the contrary, his journey has just begun.

The room darkened completely.

Chapter 0: Fuyuki

Part 1: Burning City, 2004

(3rd POV)

Singularity F

"YAAAAARH!" Mash yelled as she shield-bashed a skeleton. It got thrown back and shattered into pieces.

She then planted her cross-shaped shield into the ground, blocking the oncoming arrows, before kicking another skeleton that's sneaking behind her.

A dagger-wielding one clawed at her shield, groaning and creaking with death. She simply picked up her shield with the skeleton before slamming it into a nearby wall.

Wave after wave of corpses swarmed the girl, but she fought back with her fists, kicks and that massive piece of metal.

Through it all, Ritsuka could only watch with his mouth agape as his kouhai threw herself onto the oncoming enemies.

'Sugoi…' he thought. He had just woken up courtesy of Fou (how did he get there?) to the sight of a destroyed city. The clouds are black with smoke, reflected orange by the flames, and the air was choking with sulphur and ash.

Then those monsters appeared, him being alerted by the sound of rattling bones. With him only in his Chaldea Uniform Mystic Code, he was as good as a sitting duck for them.

He thought about fighting back or hid in the buildings, but then an unexpected help arrived.

Flashback

"Senpai, leave this to me!" Mash said as she materialized a giant cross-shaped shield that was bigger than herself.

"Gi—GAAAAAAAAAAAA!" the creatures roared.

"—Linguistic communication impossible. —Identifying life-form as hostile. Master, your orders please."

"Eh?" Guess who said that.

Flashback end

After she finished off the remaining skeletons, she walked back towards Ritsuka. As she had been moving all the time, he didn't have a good look at her. Now that he could, he averted his gaze with a blush.

She appeared to be wearing a collared dark bodysuit with purple trimmings, with a diamond hole that exposed her navel. A matching pair of gloves covered her forelimbs. Pieces of armor formed her skirt, and thigh-high heels completed her attire.

Dismissing her shield in a flash of particles, she asked, "Daijoubu, Senpai?"

"Mash, what are you wea - wrong question." He shook his head. "Are you always this strong? And what are those things?"

"A-ah, well, no," she blushed in embarrassment, "I always had to stay after class in combat training; I couldn't even do a pull-up. And as for them…" she frowned. "...I don't know. Something that doesn't exist in our era. Maybe they're the cause of this Singularity or a by-product of it."

Ritsuka's wristband decided to start beeping, and the static holographic screen of Dr. Roman was shown.

"- inally got through. Hello? This is Chaldea Command Room. Anyone there?!"

Chaldea Command Room

"This is Mash Kyrielight, a member of A-Team. I've completed the shift to Singularity F," she answered back. "With me is Fujimaru Ritsuka, mind and body intact." In response, he waved at the screen.

"Rayshift compatibility and Master compatibility both satisfactory. Please register Senpai as an official Master," she continued.

'Thank goodness they're both okay,' he sighed in relief. "… so Fujimaru-kun also got roped into the Rayshift huh? I'm really glad that you're both okay. But Mash, WHAT'S UP WITH THE OUTFIT?!"

Then he proceeded to berate Mash's state of dress like a father scolding his delinquent daughter. The newly-made Master could only look away while scratching his cheek awkwardly.

It wasn't long before the girl got fed up with his antics. "—Dr. Roman. Please be quiet. I think you'll understand the situation better if you check my condition."

"Your condition?" He typed a few keywords into the computer, and the bio of Mash was shown. "! Wh-Whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA! Physical strength, Magical Circuits; everything's improved! You're not so much a human, but—"

"Yes. I don't remember how it happened, but it seems that I have survived by fusing with a Servant." She gave a downcast gaze. "This Servant lost its Master in that explosion and was doomed to vanish. But at the last second, he offered me a contract." She looked back at the Doctor with determination in her eyes. "In return for the abilities and Noble Phantasm of a Heroic Spirit, he wanted me to eliminate the cause of this Singularity."

'So that's how she survived,' Roman and Ritsuka thought.

"A Heroic Spirit and a human fused… A Demi-Servant?" 'So it finally succeeded, huh?' he thought before asking again, "Does this Heroic Spirit still have his consciousness?"

Singularity F

She shook her head. "...No, he gave me his combat abilities then vanished. He never revealed his True Name even at the end. So I don't even know whose Heroic Spirit I am…" She then resummoned her shield.

The shield, as stated before, has a cross-shaped design, with a circular middle part inscribed in an unknown language. A single rich-blue jewel was encrusted on the top part of it. She looked small when compared side by side.

"...Nor what kind of Noble Phantasm I'm holding." She sighed dejectedly. "At this point, there's too much that I don't know."

The doctor tried to cheer her up, while Ritsuka was just listening to the conversation in complete confusion.

'Master, Servant, Heroic Spirit, True Name, Noble Phantasm… just what else that I didn't know until now?' he sweatdropped.

"Now that Mash has become your Servant, Fujimaru-kun, you are now her Master. She's the first Heroic Spirit you've entered a contract with." Seeing his confused look, Roman laughed weakly. "Right, I never explained what Masters and Servants are to you, did I?"

The hologram started glitching sporadically.

"Doctor, you're breaking up. 10 seconds until the connection is lost."

Chaldea Command Room

The screen showed an image of the generators with a "WARNING!" sign flashing.

"Huh, so Sheba's output is unstable because we switched to the backup generators? Oh well, I'll brief you later." Roman typed something quickly into the computers. "Both of you, I'm getting a strong leyline reading about 2 km from where you are. Try to get there somehow. That way, it will stabilize our connection."

"Listen, don't do anything reckless, will you? I'll try to bring the power back up as soon as—" The connection cut off. "Ah."

Singularity F

She exhaled from her nose. "...Well, that's the Doctor for you. You can't rely on him in situations like this."

"...Is he really that bad of a worker?"

She only smiled in response.

"...Let's just head to the coordinates he mentioned." "Hai!" "Fou!" They looked down.

"...Ah. We forgot to let the Doctor know Fou is with us."

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

As you can see, Director Olga Marie Animusphere was not having a great day.

"Wh-Who are these guys, anyway? Why do these things keep happening to me?" she screamed hysterically, as she scrambled away while firing Gandr after Gandr spells on the wave of bones.

Her neatly combed platinum-blond long hair was now disheveled, orange eyes glancing madly at the skeletons with unshed tears. Her black robe with orange trimmings was stained with soot, and so did her once pristine white skirt. Her orange tights were torn in several places by sharp gravel. Gone was her air of confidence during the orientation, replaced with the primal need to survive.

"I can't take it anymore! LEV! Where are you Lev! You were always there for me, right? RIGHT?!" By now she's hysterical from fear, still clinging on the hope that he would magically appear around the corner.

A skeleton had enough and, with a speed not proportionate with its frame, lunged towards her. She could only watch in horror as it swung down the sledgehammer in its hand. Time seemed to come to a crawl.

'This is it… it's the end for me… dead in this godforsaken place, alone… without anybody acknowledges me…Oh Lev, where are you?'

She closed her eyes and instinctively put her arms up.

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"...?" She took a peek, before widening her eyes in complete bewilderment.

The skeleton was suspended in the air... by what seemed to be a piece of cloth out of all things. It snaked around the creature's entire body and limbs, effectively halting its movements. The sledgehammer was centimeters from kissing her face.

It growled and tried to struggle out of its bindings, to no avail. Olga Marie heard the sound of running from behind, before a figure vaulted over her and delivered a flying kick.

*...CRASH!*

His foot landed squarely on its face and send it flying towards its companions. The crash was enough to dislocate the corpses. He then landed gracefully on his feet. The cloth from before warped around his neck loosely like a scarf.

"...he's late," he muttered.

Before she could ask what her savior meant, another voice caught her by surprise.

"Director Olga Marie?/Director?" Mash came into her field of vision. She sounded just as surprised as her. Behind her was that Master who was late for the briefing.

"Y-You two?!"

"Mash, hold them off!" "Hai!" As she ran off to deal with them, he then noticed the person beside her and bristled. "! You're…!"

Seeing the aggressive stance the young man took, he merely raised his hands in surrender. "Ease. I can assure you that I meant no harm."

He took off his hood, revealing a man with Asian features. His black hair bangs were swept towards his right, and his equally dark eyes shone with hidden mirth.

"I suppose that introductions are in order. I'm Woz, a prophet."

As she finished off the remaining monsters, Mash rushed back towards her superiors, before witnessing an event that stopped her in her tracks.

The man kneeled in front of her Senpai, like a peasant bowing to a ruler.

The next thing he said, however, forever changed the fate of everyone present.

"It's a great honor to finally meet you… waga Maou."

NEXT, ON GRAND TIME ORDER:

Kojirou: Servant Assassin, Sasaki Kojirou. I have come to serve.

He took a firm stance with his katana by his side, facing off the opposing Assassin.

Medea: Oh my, aren't you a rather cute Master?

Magic circles of varying sizes appeared behind her as she fought with Medusa.

Caster!Cu: Looks like ya guys are in a tight pinch, ain'tcha?

The blue hooded Irishman fired Runes at the woman, before setting off all of them.

Chapter 0, Part 2: Holy Grail War, 2004.

Archer: Well, well, well...

Archer glared at the retreating group.

Archer: Looks like I'll be seeing some old faces.

A/N: Aaaaannnnd done! That took longer than expected, but it's Finally Time!

Edit: Just noticed that it's shorter than the last chapter... XP

Chapter 0 covers the Fuyuki arc. Why Chapter 0 but not 1? Because it's not the First Singularity! (Although technically it is but that's not the point!)

Part 2 will be Futuring our summoned Servants, corrupted snek, and Irish doggo. At my current speed it will be published soon, so be patient. Guess who appeared in the end?

I will be splitting the Fuyuki arc into Parts, guess what will they feature?

RR, and stay healthy!