Hello everyone and yes, this is a rewrite of "When Worlds Collide" i know, another version of this story updated.
Yeah, i updated ANOTHER version, i know don't mention it, as i want to prefect this story and if any of you known me, you know i tend to make multiple projects(Aka stories) out and versions of said story and i cherry pick which one i like the most and delete the rest. I know it's a quirk of mine and i am trying to fix it, but my mind tends to run a million miles a minute and once it focus on a topic, it doesn't leave till i write it up.
Even thinking of a BETTER story version. So yeah, i'll be honest, i took a little inspiration from on this prologue and much more different from the norm i write.
So, as for the new title, well i didn't just take inspiration from Mr. NeonZangetsu, as iv'e been re-watching some classic DC movies like "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight" and of course,"The Dark Knight Rises" which is where THIS title comes from. Hopefully, this'll be the last time i upload this story and this time it'll be permanent. So as always i don't own Fate-series, Marvel or RWBY.
So please read, review and "What the fuc-BOOM"
Prologue: A Reaper's Tale
Unknown POV:
Ya know, as a child, i'd never image my life would take this kind of turn.
Well to be fair, my mom was not only a dangerous magi of an old and ancient family that helped create the Holy Grail War, but she was a scientist and even an international mercenary in several countries. If that wasn't enough, turns out my dad is none other then the smartest man in the world and the hero, Iron Man. Way tp drop the ball, i know.
God, feels like a lifetime ago. I remember, one day i was just a wandering Magi with my first Servant, Jeanne, just trying to survive and help all those i could ya know. The next, i'm fighting for humanity future charging through gunfire, flaming boulders and all kinds of hell. A hell on Earth kind of situation, where those battles were the most brutal battle iv'e ever fought in.
Not even Loki's siege on New York could come close to it. Make no mistake, his invasion force was nothing to scoff at, in numbers that is. Weapons? Okay, it's alien tech and honestly, the kinda thing you'd see in a Sci-fi movie, so yeah not impressed. The Chitauri themselves? Not impressive either. Really, to me they look like Star Wars characters that got a big, fat:
REJECT!
I hope you heard that Loki, you asshole, reindeer reject.
You got rejected twice fool!
Alright enough of that, you're reading this, so does that mean you want to known my story?
Okay, i'll tell you my story.
My name is Xero Mazoku/Stark to most and i guess you can add Le-Fay and Pendragon in the name as well. Since, as it turns out, i'm a direct descendant of the half sister of King "Arthur" Morgan Le-Fay. But that's just splitting hairs and would attract more, unwanted attention onto me and iv'e got enough as it is, i don't need anymore.
Dad might love the attention but i myself?
Most certainly DO NOT like it. Some might say my actions would be very hypocritical of me, but the truth is i'd prefer to stay in the shadows. To be a nobody, as i'd rather sit on my ass and play video games with Tomoe all day, if i could but sadly i can't. The thing you've got to known about me, when i first got my powers, i decide i wanted to help people.
Simply because it was the right thing to do.
My family we're always considered to be black sheep, among the Magi community. While we do dedicated ourselves to our craft, we won't hurt innocent people in the process. Most magi don't care who gets hurts and even test their..."experiments" out on them. That is something the Mazoku never does, as we have our own principles to follow and one of them is NOT to spill the blood of the innocents.
Thanks to the Mazoku Grimoire, i have been able to understand our families history. It automatically updates itself, as each Mazoku family head infuses their magic into the book, adding their own protections and history to the Grimoire That's how i discovered my mother was not only a mercenary but the ability she recreated from our first ancestor, that would earn her the moniker:
The Phantom.
The ability to leave a shadow of sorts of yourself behind, so when someone attacks all they're hitting is thin air. However to do this, you not only have to be very fast, along with being able to manipulate you're mana on a mastery level you have to be light. More to the point, either very little to no armor on you in order to make the "jump" so to speak.
Thankful, i have learned how to master my mana on such a level, i can use said mana to empower my body. If you ever watched "Naruto" it gave me plenty ideas on how to use my mana. Since i have to flood my body with mana to keep it upright and stable, using it like how Tsunade use's her Charka to give her super strength, i do the same. While it's no where near as powerful as her's or any Servants for that matter, thanks to me merging with many of said Servants, my body has been enhanced that can surpass Steve.
Oh...i'm getting off topic aren't i?
Well, lets get back to the reason why you're all reading this. To start off simply, my parents are Tony Stark and Lilith Mazoku. My first Servant i ever summoned, was the holy maiden herself, Joan D'Arc or as i known her as, Jeanne D'Arc. I was born with a terminal diseases with no cure and was very, very rare that had been nicknamed:
The Twelve Year Sickness.
As the name implies, i would get sicker and sicker each year from birth, to i die at age twelve. Ever year, the sickness would come back like clockwork and i felt my body weaken each year. I remember now, that my mother slowly changed as well. From a loving woman, to a down right evil bitch that, in the end saved my life, as the ritual she did would destroy her but cure my sickness.
The ritual to summon the Ruler class Servant, Jeanne.
My mother used a forbidden blood sacrifice ritual, that would merge my body, my soul itself with Jeanne's, in order to for a lack of a better word, supercharge my immune system and essentially FORCEFUL crush the disease cells within my body. Basically, mom made sure Jeanne's Servant body beat the ever living shit out of the disease cells, to the point that it would become harmless in the grand scheme of things.
Or at the very least, ensure i could outlast the disease's effects, so it could no longer effect me.
Just one more reason for me to love Jeanne all the more, for everything she has done for me.
Moving on, when i turned twelve, my house and mother were burnt down as my sickness was cured and the only way mother was going to let this end, was to destroy all connections she had to me. She feared i would feel guilty for what she had to do and believed i would blame myself for causing her death, so she could save my own.
Well, she wasn't wrong and to be frank, it was a little extreme. Even more so, to place a memory seal on my skull, to ensure i wouldn't remember until i found her lab on Blackwood mountain. Maybe in her twisted mind, she was being selfish, as i was clearly never meant to find the secret lab and it was nothing more then sheer, dumb luck.
Then again, when she messed with altered magic, is it any surprise that she was, well i guess you could say crazy.
I have no idea what her thought process was like in the end. Hell, not even Altera could tell me for certain, as towards the end, she just withdrew into herself and pretty much keep everything she did a secret.
Even to the point, she locked Altera out of her mind. While yes, masters and Servants develop a bond that allows them to be on the same mental wave length, to the point they can hear each other's thoughts and even talk to one another, once the bond deepens. But to LOCK someone out of the mind, is a skill few possess. My mother was one such person.
So, for three years we traveled all over the world. Saving people, killing soldiers, merc's and anyone that tried to capture me and Jeanne since we're "anomalys" and all that other bullshit. Namely those who understood i had unique abilities and aren't the type to take "No" for an answer when i wouldn't give them my services.
Even back then, i knew it was imperative i kept my abilities and more importantly, who Jeanne truly is, a secret. Of course now that the world has seen me in action, live TV no less, everyone knowns i can summon heroes from the past and now i'm going to be hunted more then ever. Everyone that has ever dabbled in bio-weapons or used mutants powers as weapons, will come at me and come hard!
The difference between now and back then?
I'm more then capable to protect myself and i have more then just one Servant. But enough of that, back to the story.
Three years later and i get recruited by the Chaldea Security Organization. It was during that time, Jeanne and i, decide to summon another Servant. Ruler class Servants are feared by other Servants, because unlike the rest of the classes, Rulers can have Command Seals. Meaning they have absolute authority and there is nothing any Servants of the other classes can do about it.
But Saber class Servants are considered the strongest of all the classes, even with extra class Servants thrown into the mix, Sabers are by far the strongest. Both in skills and numbers. They're are A LOT of Saber class Servants and even though they're at a class disadvantage against Archer class Servants, they know if the Saber gets up close and personal, it's game over.
Well most Archers. If you're a certain golden king or a certain red clad bow user that uses swords more then he does his bow, then it'll be interesting to say the least.
But that's just splitting hairs.
I suppose i should be thankful, as i have both of these men in my deck and am i very thankful for it. Despite one of them being a constant pain in the ass, he's a good man under all his arrogance, boosting attitude. But then again, when you're humanity's very first recorded hero and with a power, that can challenge the gods themselves, you have every right to act arrogant.
But ya know, looking back i had no idea what i was getting into, nor the danger that we were in. At the time it was nothing more then just another job to me. But how could i have known, how could anyone have known what was waiting for us?
Not me.
Not Jeanne.
Not Artoria.
Not Gudako.
Not Olga.
Not Mash.
Hell, not even Romani himself.
I had no idea of what kind of hell i was getting myself into and by the time i did, it was far, FAR too late to back out. Not when all of humanity itself was destroyed, collapsed in on itself as a result of the past being tampered with. Guess it's true, you step on a butterfly in the past and it can have massive repercussions in the future.
If that wasn't enough, the 49 masters that were suppose to help me, during the "Grand Order" were all killed. We were betrayed by one of our, a man that i will NOT repeat his name. This veil man attempted to sabotage everything Olga's father built and tried to kill the woman herself, during Singularity F. I hate to say it but if it was just Gudako, Olga probably would have died.
It was only thanks to me keeping a grip on her when that bastard suddenly showed up, Artoria using her NP a second time on the bastard and Jeanne's Luminosité Eternelle that we were able to save her. From the moment i met him, something about him rubbed me the wrong way and when he suddenly reappeared, after we defeated Saber Alter, i knew that he had something to do with it. Olga was heartbroken but at the very least, she lived. The bastard got away, only thanks to the Singularity being restored to it's natural state, with the grail taken and Artoria Alter being defeated.
From there, we learned that all the other masters were either dead or dying. Which just left a handful of workers left, Romani, myself, Gudako and Olga.
That was it, we were all that was left to save humanity from the demon god pillars.
The world was destroyed, because certain points in time have been so badly screwed over, they helped create disorder within human history. Ones that ultimately lead to the destruction of humanity. For a while i did good, fixed three Singularity by the skin of my teeth admittedly and gaining more and more Servants. At the time, i didn't let Gudako join me, as after the first Singularity was a hell on earth.
I didn't want to expose her to the harshness of the world and her brother, Gudao wanted me to protect her and made me swear on his dying breath. I know, it was impossible but i just wanted to protect her. Unlike me who was raised in the magical world, everything was new to her and what's worse, she was a first generation Magus. Not that i'm against first blood Magus, it's just much harder for them to learn magic, where's someone like me, who came from a magically family using my mana was like breathing for me.
But because i couldn't even remember my mother's last name(Seeing as she had placed a memory seal on me, to protect me from her enemies) at the time, i didn't known the family arts nor the crest, so it made it much harder for me to use magic but i got by. It didn't help that my spine was damaged in a way, that mana was needed to keep me steady.
I let Gudako come with me during the first Singularity but nearly died, trying to protect her. The girl was so horribly navie, she didn't understand the danger we were in, nor using magic incorrectly. Before we left for it, Olga made me the "Primary master" and Gudako the "Secondary master" due to me already summoning two Servants and already having experience in fighting with them.
So it made a whole lot of sense and even then, Gudako had this "Wide eyed" look to her.
It was only shattered and the reality of the situation soon crashed onto her, when i had to protect her, nearly dying in the process. After that, Olga had forbid her from coming along, till she had more training to at the very least, learn to put up a shield. Nearly dying and having to have my heart restarted five times, had certainly been a blow to her psychic.
To be fair, i did fairly well on my own and without having to watch her back, i believed i could have done this on my own.
But i was wrong.
Horribly, horribly wrong as i learned that i couldn't do this alone the hard way. It was during the fourth Singularity, did we learn who was behind everything. The one that was behind the destruction of our race and who screwed history so badly.
Solomon the King Of Magic.
The first time i saw him, i'll say it, i was terrified. I was so scared, i felt my entire body shake, my knee's buckling and my entire mind froze at the power rolling of him in spades. I lost a lot of friends that day and it was only because of teacher, did i get out alive. He killed all the Servants in my party and it's only because Teacher is unable to die, did i get out alive.
Never once in my life, have i ever felt so much power in my life. I don't even think Gilgamesh had so much power, when i first summoned him. It was honestly easier to deal with him during the first time i summoned him and compared to Solomon, he was... not nearly as strong.
Please don't tell him i said that, otherwise he'll hound me for days.
Anyway, it was the first time that i ever really, truly felt powerless. Back when i was living with mom, i was always weak due to the sickness but i didn't feel powerless. Not like how Solomon made me feel.
I was but a mere new born kitten, compared to a fully grown lion on super steroids.
A bit dramatic i know but it's true.
After that, i knew i had no choice but to let Gudako join me and i myself knew i had to get stronger. In terms of physically, mentally and even magically. If i, no WE were to have any chance of beating Solomon, we needed to get stronger. Thankful our Servants had no problem with training us and some were even eager to teach us.
As time went on, me and Gudako gathered more and more allies to our cause. But since i had a much higher affinity for Servants and due to my magic circuits being stronger then hers, it was more logically for me to summon more Servants then her. It was simple cold logic and this was war.
Soldiers win wars and we needed as many as we could get.
Of course after London, pseudo-Singularity started popping up as well. Nothing really more, then minor things, compared to the real deal but they were dangerous in their own right. What's worse, unlike the big ones, these breaks in time, would change history permanently. Thus me and Gudako had to create persona's to hide who we truly were, in order to fix them.
Which lead us to meeting Steve and the rest of the Howling Commands, something we don't regret. They were great men and now that Steve and Bucky have been thrown into the twenty-first century, they got really lucky. Seeing as myself and Gudako were people they can trust and with HYDRA on the lose, trust was what we need.
Goddess, when i think about all the crazy adventures we've had me, my Servants, Gudako and hell, even her own Servants is enough to make my head spin. One of those adventures lead me to not only face off against my Servant self, an Avenger class no less but made me see what would happen to me, if i keep waking down the path i was on, after London.
Me, fighting the entire world, just to protect those i love. Not caring who i had to kill and if that meant i had to kill EVERYONE in the world to protect them, that version of me would have done it. Thankful, i have been able to erase that timeline as i saw what i would become and swore to myself, never to become HIM.
It won't be easy but i believe i can keep myself off that path and if i can't. Well, my family will just have to knock some sense into me, won't they?
But even after all that, it was far from over, as after each Singularity we closed, they got tougher and tougher with new enemies and allies alike in each one. But we got stronger too and even as a first generation magi, Gudako gone beyond what any normal day magi could ever hope to reach.
Battle experience, coupled with life and death situations certainly do that to ya.
But, like everything else, the Grand Order had to come to an end. It SHOULD have ended when we faced Solomon in his time temple and we beat him, while we managed to talk him down. Our journey should have ended there but it didn't.
Like everything else, we hadn't seen the full picture and thus, the TRUE enemy revealed themselves:
Goetia the King of Demon Gods and a Beast Class Servant 1.
We barely had time to react when he attacked. Just finished fighting the strongest Servant we have faced and coupled with our battle wounds, we stood no chance of beating the King of Demon Gods. But by some case of bad luck or stoke of good luck, he only intended to erase Solomon for his "incompetence" by destroying his human form.
Romani.
But Olga shoved him out of the way and took the attack herself. She should have died but Solomon, having his faith in humanity restored, gave his existence on the Throne of Heroes to save Olga by turning her into a Servant. Like how Fou used his own power as a Beast Class Servant, to revive Mash. I always wonder what Fou was and now that i known, it still doesn't make much since to me.
Guess something are just best left unexplained.
After that, when all was said and done, the Grand Order was done and me and Gudako could return to our own time. But the Servants had a little surprise or rather, Romani did. Knowing his end was near, Romani had used a spell, one i do not know, so that the Servants would be bound to us, rather then Chaldea. Thus, allowing them to stay with us.
That spell actually came from Illya and her use of the "Class Cards" in her world. The cards themselves were basically a safe zone and anchor for the Servants to hide away when they needed to or even if they died. Yes, i still held the command seals on my body but the cards themselves, were basically what someone would call:
Haven.
I suppose you could call it.
Da Vinic had brought the idea to the doctor but could not do it safely. Not without risks damaging their spirit origins and had held off the idea but managed to create a baseline for it. Yes, i still could USE them but to do so, the Servant themselves would need to stay in Chaldea, so it wouldn't get confused on who's who. Like a soul being bonded to another source and the cards were the body without said soul. If i tried to use the card, with the Servant present then it was basically be like trying to mash two being together, to create one being.
Illya and the others could use the Servants power without losing themselves to the spirit within. While yes, the cards of the spirt would still influence you, there was no danger of the two becoming one.
Permanently
Romani just simply supplied the power needed to make it a reality, so the Servants and cards could be used at the same time without the danger of being permanently fused forever. The fact, when the Servants would "Die" and simply go within their cards, really made things so much easier and simpler. I tried to keep everyone alive but in war, people will die, no matter how hard you try.
The best you could do, was to keep as many alive as possible. But having an anchor for their sprit origins and keeping my friends alive made things(And me) a lot better, as we would soon be faced with a new threat to humanity.
Comos In The Lostbelt.
They are supernatural alternate dimensions and are basically the world itself to be failed timelines. As opposed to the Greater History of Man, the history of "winners" born from correct choices and and with each proper prosperity leading to the "present", the Lostbelts are histories of "failure" born from the wrong choices or false prosperity for humanity. Such is their nature of failure that they are even cut off from the greater multiverse.
The Lostbelts started to surface and establish themselves on earth itself after the Crypters allied with the Outer Gods and instigated an attack against Chaldea. The Crypters were seven former A-Team Masters who died in the attack of Lev Flaros, but was revived by someone presumably loyal to the Outer Gods.
Unlike the Singularity, where we deal with it, it'll repair itself the Lostbelts, once they were repaired were...destroyed.
Not something i like to think or talk about and the only reason i can sleep at night, is the fact, those timelines were decaying. They were all headed towards a "Bad end" and all our actions did, was speed things up. Really puts things into prospective to say the least.
Moving on, long story short, we finished them and with human history and Pan-history restored, me and Gudako had been transported back to the same day we came to Chaldea. Only Chaldea was no more, the history of what happened, the other master's deaths, the Singularities, Lostbelts, everything was like it never happened. Our bodied had been restored to fifteen and fourteen respectively.
No one knew what happened, because for all intents and purposes it never happened. But me and Gudako knew better and figured it was for the best. All the pain, death and destruction never happened and humanity was never destroyed, even though some things we did in the past remained, we both knew it was simply is what it is.
We could go back to our lives and no one would be none the wiser of what we've done.
After that, me and Gudako went our separate ways, promising to see each other again. So, for the next two years, i did what i always did. Only much more effective, easier and with a whole lot more friends. But at the same time, i got complacency and needless to say, i paid for it.
Big time.
Thankful that lead me to meeting my father, Tony and through a series of events have lead me to becoming one of Earth's greatest heroes. Leading a group of modern heroes against an insane god that could match Mordred in "Daddy issues" only much worse. Even though we beat him and his army, i had no idea that it would unleash a new reality.
It seems Loki's Servant had one last, desperate card to play and as a result, our world has merged with another. A whole new adventure awaits us and like everything else, i have a feeling i'm going to have a hand in changing it.
Cause i can never get any peace with these types of situations.
Goddess damn it.
Done.
Devil out.