Rin POV

The preparations were ready, the idiot seemed to still be alive, since she could feel him through her connection, the IMBECILE tried to use his reality marble by himself without mana around, she could watch the entire battle and had to briefly give him some mana through their shared magic crest or he would die.

She watched as he processed all that mana and almost burned his own magical circuits, if it was not for Avalon, probably the idiot would die. She needed to go there before he does something even more stupid.

"You watched what happened by your link with him, right Saber?" Rin asks

"Y-Yes, my master put himself into a dangerous situation again." Saber sigh

"You don't need to be gentle and polite, just say it, he was a I-D-I-O-T, how can he put himself into deadly situations so often? He had the god damned mercenaries for that, they should fight and if needed, die for him, that's it. That hero obsession will end up killing him." Says Rin biting her thumb nervously, walking from one side of the room to another.

"Well, at least he is save, and he saved most of his comrades, and he seems to be in good terms with the local authorities, i mean, the way he was forced to use magecraft in public, he should be in deep trouble, compared with what could be, he got out of that well. " Says Saber

"That's the luck of the idiots, they usually can get away with a lot of stuff, but it's not infinite!" Screams Rin opening her arms dramatically

Bazett got down from Rin´s mansion first floor, in pajamas, with her toothbrush on her mouth, like a zombie, with her left arm sleeve dangling, since she lost her arm. She looks at the fuss of the two and says. "So… The so called suicidal kid still in one piece? Why the drama?"

"The drama is that oneechan will give him some beating for worrying about her like that!" Says Taiga, following Bazett. "Speaking about him… How is breakfast?"

"I will ask something on the app, Rin woke up late today…" Says Bazett, Rin blush since she is not the breakfast type, due to laziness.

"Shirouuuuuu i need my foooooood!" Scream dramatically Taiga, the hypocrite.

"Rin, we should gather our stuff and go to the container, Shirou said he will summon us in a few hours…" Saber warns, they start to run to do things and chaos ensues

Shirou POV

Shirou arrive at the Ship, and this time, he see that somehow, Burk managed to convince the Imperials to let him see Mara, she is on the ship too, working on the kitchen, seemingly overloaded, Shirou as arrive, offer to help, for his surprise, Diocletian reveals to know how to cook, since Custodians seem to pick many hobbies to improve themselves, one of his was cooking.

They work in the kitchen to feed everyone, once the food is on the stoves cooking, Shirou tells he need to rest, sleep a bit, not a total lie, he had his nose bleeding and almost had an aneurysm in the throne room, the Custodian nods and he walks away from the kitchen, then Shirou briefly calls Burk, with him to an isolated room. He seems to have a serious issue to talk with Burk.

"Hey, Burk, you are the only one with a full list of all your workers right?" Shirou asks.

"Yeah, what's wrong kid?" Burke asks.

"I need you to pretend some people were always part of the crew, if anyone asks, just tell them they were doing scouting on the first time we arrived." Shirou says.

"Sure, who do you want to bring here?" Burk asks.

"You promise to keep it a secret?" Shirou asks, knowing secrets can´t bypass telepaths, but who would go after Burk? And the emperor himself put some defenses on his own head after all, so he could keep the people aware to a minimum.

"I promise, now tell me, this curiosity will kill me." Says Burk

"I'm not from this universe." Shirou says flatly.

"What?" Burk says confused

"Long story short, I was born here on terra, but in the second millenia, and I have some evidence that i´m not exactly from this holy terra past, but another one, with some different traits. I was supposed to be dead, something brought me here, that's why I have the "spooky abilities" that aren't warp related, they are the only ones where I come from." Says Shirou

"R-Right, that's weird but at the same time explains a lot of stuff, so what does this have to do with bringing someone here?" Burk asks

"I might have a way to bring some of my "family" here, but it's a one way trip. I don't think they should come here, but if they are so stubborn, better come with my help here, than try to find their own way and appear in some weird world, ruled by evil aliens or something, or worse." Says Shirou.

"Hmm… So you want me to pretend they were part of the crew all the time." Says Burk

"Yes, they might have some trouble learning low-gothic, but since i met you i'm trying to teach them before sleep, they talk to me every day before i sleep, through a connection we have." .

"You know, if that was another person asking, i´d think he is insane, or high, or both." Says Burk "So, what do you need?"

"A large space, since they will bring their personal items, and an alibi, can you make it work?" Ask Shirou

Burk nods, and takes him to one of the deposits of the ship. There, they prepare the space and Shirou lifts his right arm, asking Saber by the link. "Are you ready Saber? I will wait 3 hours, if you aren't ready by then, just tell me, if you got ready earlier, just tell me. I will use the command spell"

After a little more than half a hour, Shirou receive Saber signal that they are ready, and he lift his right arm, in front of Burk that look intently at the scene, then the back of his hand start to shine, for Burk surprise.

"By the power of this command spell, I order you Saber, come to me now!" He says, channeling as much of his own OD as possible to the command spell. It's draining, but the cristalysed miracle happens, a small dot appear on space, that distorts, and suddenly a large container appear on the deposit, being held by two woman, one of them a short petite blonde with blue clothes and medieval armor, with hair tied on the back, and the other a red hair with a single arm, wearing a business suit, a weird cloth for Burk standard.

The two women drop the container on the metal floor, and loot at Shirou smiling, the container opens and Rin and a hysteric Taiga leave, Taiga running towards Shirou and lifting him up in a bear hug, rubbing her fist on his hair angry at the same time that she cries.

"Shirouuuuuuuuu! Oneechan is here now! My Shirou is little again!" She says with tears flowing on her face.

"Owwww owwww… I'm happy to see you too Taiga neechan, that hurts!" Says Shirou with a nervous smile, but he can't disguise his happiness.

Rin and Saber approach too, Rin coughs and Shirou, without patience for her tsundere act, just goes and hugs her too, and Saber in a group hug. He then waves to Bazett, who waves back, surprised that there´s another person there.

"So… It's ok to bring the Master you saved to hell universe?" Shirou asks

"Hell universe?" Burk asks.

"Long story… Don't mind me… " Shirou answer awkward

"Since I lost the war and got crippled, I lost my work, my position in the family, and became a freeloader on Rin's house. She saved my life and gave me a place to be. I kind of owe her and, since I need a new start, nothing like a new world right?" Says Bazett waving, trying to make it sound nothing much, even though she really is going far in her gratitude to Rin.

"Saber… I´m sorry, the Emperor confiscated Avalon, he said I was using it like a Crutch, he told me he will only return it to me once I'm ready for it." Shirou says feeling ashamed

"I don't like this stranger putting his hands on my scabbard, but… He has a point Shirou, you need to get yourself in shape again, and improve your skills. Actually you need to grow up all over again. You told me you were a kid again, but seeing you in person is still strange." She looks at him, with a confused expression.

"I know, now i can call all of you obachan's" Shirou, the man that does not fear death jabs.

The girls look at him all at once, they release lots of killing intent, Burk even do a few steps back, and slap Shirou shoulder like to give moral support or say goodbye. Taiga picks her torashinai and says with a twitching eyebrow.

"...Maybe my little Shirou needs some warm up right now, for the old times…" Taiga says.

"W-Wait, neechan, i was just kidding! Seriously! Burk! Save me!" Shirou screams

And Emiya remember again, why some things aren't said to women, ever, and he thanks to that understands again how Avalon helped him keep the pain short, by healing his wounds faster than they should heal.

The next 20 days were about repairs, and light physical training, plus swordsmanship training from Saber and Diocletian, the Custodes was impressed and asked about Saber, Shirou just said she was his former master, a half truth, and that she was there as his bodyguard and instructor, now he had three instructors to hone his skills, Taiga for more human level skills, and Diocletian and Saber to push up his limits.

On the repair work, it followed with Shirou using his alteration magecraft on the complicated cases, magic derived from his projection, to fix the equipments the Techpriests didn't knew how to repair, or that they had no proper tools to do, on the process, he decided to teach them, what was the problem, and how to fix it.

When they asked about the machine spirits, Shirou, to be diplomatic, said that only the priests could properly appease the spirits, was their sacred role given by the omnissiah. He could only understand the spirits vessels and work with them.

That answer seemed to do good for their self esteem, and kept them out of his neck. The bad side was the mantras, incense and oils being poured through the ship, but that was better than having a bunch of angry priests calling him heretic.

Then Shirou and Diocletian traveled to one of the Imperial battlefields, using the same usual dropship from the custodes, taking with them, Rin, Saber and Bazett, that managed to get a cybernetic arm, through Shirou request to Dumont, that felt proud of be of use to the omnissiah new herald.

On the way, Diocletian tells them the basics about the thunder warriors, how they are enhanced, and briefly touch about how it was a hastily job made out of necessity, and that they have complications, how they have short fuse and get angry easy due to the enhancements that mess with their hormones and increase aggression.

The warriors were almost as tall as the Custodes, and physically speaking, even slightly more powerful, even though they were inferior everywhere else, being lifespan, experience, technique, stability, equipment and such.

The battlefield is the region of Samerkend. The battlefield was on a Stalemate, with Thunder warriors and mundane imperial soldiers on one side of the trenches, and Udug Huls and Akkad soldiers on the other side.

"I´m Emiya, I was sent by the Emperor to help here in this battle, please bring me the bodies of the Udug Hulls defeated, I need to confirm one thing." Asks Shirou.

"My name is Ushotan, i´m the Primarch of the 4th legion of Thunder Warriors, we gave all of them to the Biotechnical Division for study, we kept only three because Lord Diocletian asked through vox. " Says the Thunder Warrior Primarch.

"That must be enough…" Shirou says

The bodies are delivered in front of Shirou, he grimaces, three young warriors, two males and one female, in a terrible state. He approaches them with pity on his eyes.

"Poor souls…" Says Shirou

"Are you feeling pity for the enemy?" Ushotan asks,raising his voice, feeling offended.

"If what i heard is truth, they are said to be Slaves, they didn´t had really a choice, what i want to know is the kind of leash they have. If we can remove it." Shirou says, flatly, the man still seems to understand, but still seems angry, suddenly he snaps, that's one of the issues with Thunder warriors, you don't enrage one, even by accident.

The warrior look at the kid with red eyes and bulging veins, and suddenly swing his enormous power broadsword against Shirou, the power and speed were abnormal, but Shirou eye of the mind warns him, plus the obvious signs, it was easy to read that attack, the kid reinforced legs explode on a jump, barely avoiding be cleaved in two.

"I'm not your enemy Ushotan, lay down your weapon." The kid says with an unnerving and unexpected experience and calm, for a child that was almost split in half by a giant.

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The giant it's totally out of his mind and lift the sword again, Diocletian almost interfere, but it's Saber that blocks the second attack from the giant, for the Custodes surprise, and suddenly the giant stops moving, with 5 black keys on his Shadow, that Shirou projects quickly, as Saber lock the giant in place, his anger remain briefly until he starts to breath ragged and calm down.

"Are you calm now?" Asks Shirou

"I… I´m sorry for this shameful behavior… I can see why the Emperor sent you, and the "war goddess" here little warrior…" Says Ushotan, as Shirou with a wave of his hand dismisses the black keys.

Saber slightly blush with the compliment, not used to be praised without her king status being the source. Rin, still in shock, almost had no reaction time to all that happened in the blink of an eye. Bazett was covering her, Rin´s safety being her priority.

"So, why do you want to look at the bodies, Emiya?" Asks Diocletian.

"Dio, they are gene-forged slaves, raised to be warriors on Akkad, they could just be normal enhanced professional soldiers, but they are slaves. Why?" Asks Shirou

"...Because they are living weapons and are birthed for that?" Ponders Diocletian

"Yes, but the term slaves is not used lightly, i asked around and it seems they use prisoners, young prisoners. They capture as many enemies and civilians from enemy cultures as they can, they even tried to kidnap me, the process to make a Udug Hul has high mortality or failure rate, they use slaves because they are not willing to sacrifice their own citizens to do it, they create disposable slaves, with enhanced powers, that in some ways, is superior even to the Thunder Warriors and Custodes, i mean, they pack all that power on a normal sized body. It has to have a price, if it was simple, the Emperor probably would already have a similar method, that makes a less obvious supersoldier." Says Shirou as he approaches the bodies.

"Trace On." He scans the bodies, then he smirks."As i tought… I can feel some energy here, it is weird, tainted, but it's there…" Shirou stood up. "I don´t know how the process works, but I know how he controls them. Let me explain…"

Everyone looks at Shirou curious, even the Theologiteks nearby, since they were the firsts to perform dissection on the enemies, before sent to the biotechnical division.