Chapter 21 - Events of the First Year

Somewhere in london1995Fate world

(General P.O.V)

A phone rings in an underground basement, the entire place stocked with various weapons and ammo lockers as a man in a crisp red suit comes down and answers the phone, speaking in a heavy french accent.

"Hello…?" He asks the person on the other end before he listens closely as someone on the other end talks at length regarding something, nodding along at certain points. Soon enough he then asks the following…

"How much for the job..?" He asks the other person on the phone, his eyes soon widening before he takes out a cigarette and takes a smoke to calm his nerves. As he listens to the person on the other end, his stoic business face begins to slowly change to an eager grin.

"Fantastic, we shall take the job, provided you introduce us to this Goddess you speak of, if she is what I think she is she may be able to help me and my comrades out with a big favor…" He says, giving his condition for taking the job.

He chuckles with glee as he gets his response, before simply saying..

"See you in Germany then Emiya…" Before he hangs up walking out of the basement into the kitchen, before announcing to the eight men having breakfast at the table..

"Gentlemen, we have a big job lined up in Germany, pay for the job Triple our usual rate, meaning each of us will be walking away from this with clean $1 Million Dollars in American Currency.." The man in the crisp red suit says, with one of the Americans at the table, wearing a helmet over his eyes merely chuckles with crazed glee.

"There is more however if our employer isn't telling us a complete load of pig shit…" he says, slowly building up to his most important announcement..

"We may have a way out of this world at last…."

Two weeks LaterGermany1995

(General P.O.V)

"So, who exactly are we meeting Kiritsugu..?" Arturia asks, wearing the bodyguard suit that Bulma gave her so long ago, following Kiritsugu Emiya as she leads Arturia through the streets, looking around before bringing her into an unassuming medical clinic.

"Welcome To the clinic of Restorative Extractive Doktorate, How can I help you..?" A blonde german-speaking nurse says. Before Arturia can say anything, Kiritsugu leads us forward and responds in german saying..

" Me and my friend here are booked in for a 10:30am appointment regarding potentially having a child.. Kiritsugu replies, making Arturia blush hard but say nothing.

"I see..who was the doctor you were seeing if I may ask..? The blonde nurse says, looking bored but her eyes have come alight with recognition.

It was Dr. Redmann of course.. Kiritsugu responds, the name Redmann ringing some bells in Arturia's mind but isn't yet able to recall what it means. Either while the blonde Nurse merely smiles and waves us through, pressing a small button on her desk to let her Employer know that the special patients are here.

Soon enough we're led into an almost too-clean doctor's office by the same nurse as another takes over on the front desk while she's away. Once the door is closed and the nurse is gone for about 4 seconds, the floor shifts and suddenly we're brought down to a secret underground level of the clinic.

"Ah, good to see you Emiya!" A thick Texan accent says, before we're both met by a hardhat-wearing man with goggles and a red shirt on. A very familiar red shirt at that, which the man notices Arturia immediately recognises his attire, further confirming his comrade's suspicions.

"Mr Conagher.." Kiritsugu replies, a small grin appearing on the Buxom ravenettes face. The Texan man looks over the two of us before looking squarely at Kiritsugu.

"Did you Magus somehow learn some sort of secret way to induce a second puberty or something, because last time I saw you and the Albino, you weren't THIS good looking.." Mr Conagher says, grinning even as Kiritsugu suddenly points her gun at his forehead.

The moment she does though various mechanical guns begin to come down from the room and aim right at Kiritsugu. Every last one of them painted a bright red colour, making Arturia finally realize..

"You're the Engineer from RED team!" She says, making the now know RED engineer to chuckle before having his turrets go back to idle mode. He soon pulls out a walkie-talkie before saying..

"You can come out now spy, she's the real deal.." He says as Arturia soon hears the tell-tale sound of a spy decloaking right behind her. The RED spy glanced at her with a clear look of approval at her appearance before others in the RED team begin to show themselves coming out of their respective rooms.

All except RED Medic however, making RED Engineer frown. He sighs loudly and goes to knock on the door of Medic's office.

"Medic, can you stop your magecraft experiments for ONE minute?!" Red engineer shouts, making all noise in RED Medic's office suddenly stop and a sheepish and blood-coated RED Medic come out.

"Oops, I vas in the middle of making another Homonculous, Archimedes needs his new body Ja?" The RED Medic says, giving a sheepish grin as a rather old-looking owl comes out of the room and onto his shoulder.

"Relax Medic, you basically made the current body of your pet bird able to heal itself like a fucking vampire, so why the fuck are you giving it yet ANOTHER body..?" An annoyed RED scout says.

This devolves into an argument over RED medic's desire to constantly improve the body of his pet bird constantly, or rather how he uses it as an excuse to continue experimenting with the Magecraft of this world.

"GENTLEMEN!" RED Spy shouts, catching the attention of RED medic and RED scout before he points to the room labeled Training room. "Go constantly kill yourselves in there to get this argument over with already.." RED Spy says, making the two arguing members of RED team race to get their weapons and enter the Training room for a while.

Suddenly both me and Kiritsugu are approached by the iconically drunk RED Demoman who offers a bottle of ale. "Scrumpy..?" He asks to which both Arturia and Kiritsugu decline before the Scottish man shrugs and takes a swig of the bottle before wandering off.

"So Miss Goddess, for how long have you been working as a contractor for the company..?" RED Engineer asks Arturia, something that completely shocks her as while she never expected them to know of it, in hindsight they probably asked her to be here BECAUSE of that fact.

"Only for two worlds so far, why..?" She asks, to which RED Engineer clicks his tongue but sighs in visible disappointment. Soon gathering his thoughts before deciding to elaborate on why they were here to begin with.

"You see, me and my friends were…Unfortunate enough…to be capture targets of a contractor like yourself, only he used us little more as playthings…" He says before grinning..

"But from what I've heard from Emiya here, you aren't like the contractor WE had so we were hoping that you could possibly be able to bring us back to our world so we can get back to doing what we do best.." RED engineer says, sounding a lot more casual after that earlier dark admission.

"To be clear, it doesn't have to be OUR original world, just a single version of it, we will handle the rest from there…" RED Spy admits, before pulling out an unsigned contract and placing it on a nearby table.

RED spy then gestures to the contract for Arturia to check over, the Blonde goddess taking a look and narrowing her eyes. She then turns to RED spy before asking..

"So you intend to use a Warehouse district in my Demi-plane as a base..?" I ask, with RED spy nodding. Arturia also notes that she is not to attempt to bind any of the RED team or else the contract between them is VOID and they will leave the next time a portal opens out.

"Do this for us, and until our world becomes available for you to bring us to, our services are yours.." He says, holding out a pen. Arturia takes the pen for a moment, genuinely considering it before nodding and signing the contract.

After which, RED engineer makes two copies, one for Arturia to take, and one for the RED team to keep. RED spy grins before announcing to the rest of the team…

"Gentlemen, we have ourselves a way out of this world at last under our new long-term employer, one Arturia Morgana Pendragon!" Which gets cheers from the rest of the RED team before suddenly RED Medic and scout come out of the training room.

"But I haven't yet to finish ze work for the Einzworths Homuculous request!" RED Medic says, before Arturia soon responds with..

"I won't be leaving for afew years anyway, so that should be plenty of time for you to settle current lingering affairs…" Her words gave RED medic a lot of relief as he was worried that his latest project would have to be canceled.

"Well then, I do believe we have a child to save from her current place of residence, don't we…" The RED spy says with a grin, making the rest of the RED team chuckle. Kiritsugu Emiya herself also grins with anticipation as deep within her hope blossoms.

Soon plans are made to get Illya free tonight and as Arturia and Kiritsugu take a moment to get to talk with just each other, Arturia begins to question Kiritsugu..

"Why don't we bring my Retinue rather than rely on these, admittedly quite capable Mercenaries..?" Arturia asks, Kiritsugu chuckles before responding with..

"You said before you don't want to catch the Magus Associations' attention, if we have the "RED team" as you call them do most of the heavy lifting, you be able to maintain your secrecy from the eyes of the clocktower.." Kiritsugu says, making Arturia blush but nod at the valid point.

After that, she only asks minor things like what she's paying the RED team in the first place, to which Kiritsugu would respond and soon enough time passes in Germany…

That night

The RED team alongside Kiritsugu and Arturia soon locate the Einzberns castle, with Kiritsugu having been aware of it's location from the start. The RED Spy pulls out some Binoculars while RED Sniper looks through his scope to check the perimeter.

"Oi spy, I can see that the target is in her room right now, she's got two maids with her, looks like she was crying recently.." RED sniper informs his comrade, who merely nods in affirmation while checking over the perimeter.

"Hmmm…..That is a lot of targets for Sasha to get through…" RED Heavy admits while Arturia notes that there is likely a bounded field around the castle.

"Got any way to deal with the bounded field..?" She asks to which RED Engineer chuckles before he says…

"Just one.." he then carefully hands a specially made rocket for RED Solider to use. The Crazy American RED Solider giggles with glee before he fires the rocket, the specially made explosive soaring forward and slamming into the bounded field. At First it looks like it did nothing but then the entire bounded field goes bright blue for a brief moment before shattering like glass.

Both Kiritsugu and Arturia just look stunned and turn to RED Engineer before he simply says.."You didn't think Medic and I wouldn't have worked on a way to deal with those pesky barriers did you…?:" with a smug tone to his voice.

"Uuuh, guys, WE GOT INCOMING!" RED scout says, seeing the horde of various Homunculus start to rush towards them.

"Hehehe, good, let's show these Nazi fools how a REAL American fights!" Before Solider suddenly jumps and use the blast of his own rocket to throw himself into the fray. RED Demoman only follows right behind and starts rushing toward all the Homunculus, firing pipe bombs from his grenade launcher and killing a bunch of them, explosions occurring all along the entire forest.

"Guys, we were supposed to wait for the…oh well, let's go tons of fun!" Red scout says before taking one of his two prepared cans of Bonk Atomic Punch and starting to zip past the line of Homuculous, dodging every attack from the horde of Homculous.

"Docktor, GET READY!" RED heavy yells as he spins his beloved mini-gun named "Sasha" With RED medic following behind, using his Medi-gun to support his team while occasionally using his own Magecraft-enhanced crossbow to get kills.

All while RED Sniper headshots any Homunculus that starts to get dangerously close to killing one of his team. Meanwhile, RED Engineer finishes up building his Dispenser, Sentry gun, and exit teleporter.

"Do you know of a more…discreet entrance in Emiya..?" RED Spy asks, who thinks for a moment before nodding, RED spy getting handed the Entrance Teleporter box by RED engineer so that extraction can happen in an instant.

Kiritsugu then leads both Arturia and RED spy to a hidden entrance that Irisviel showed her one time before they left for the Fourth Holy Grail war..

Afew minutes later

The Trio soon reaches a crossroad hallway, the left one being to where Illya is but the right-hand fork leads to..

"So, if I recall from the briefing, down that way is where we'll likely find Jubstacheit Von Einzbern..correct..?" RED Spy asks, giving the right-hand hallway a calculating look.

Kirtugu looks startled but simply nods and asks.."What do you have in mind..?" To which RED spy gives a small non-commital hum before responding with..

"You do realize if your daughter is allowed to go free, the old man must die you know.." To which Kiritsugu nods but says.. "We can worry about that later, right now all I need to do is–" But then RED spy pushes her against the wall and aims his gun at her head, completely catching both Arturia and Kiritsugu off guard.

Before Arturia can do or say anything, RED spy simply goes.."Do even a single supernatural thing, and you reveal yourself to the entire Einbernz family.." To which Arturia snarls but reluctantly backs down.

"Now…you're right in the sense that the mission is to save your daughter, but if we are to get her out successfully, the old fossil needs to die lest he hounds you and your daughter for the rest of your life.." RED spy says, before ominously giving the following question..

"Left…or right…who do you go after first…?" He says..

And then, after having a moment to think..

Kiritsugu gives her answer..

MeanwhileEinzbern Castle grounds

(General P.O.V)

RED Demoman drunkenly moves through the battlefield, lobbing pipe bombs and causing mayhem while the many, many Homonculus die through various explosions.

"Hehehe, Degroot!" Red Solider calls out to his comrade, rushing over while firing his shotgun at a group of Homunculus, he grins madly before declaring..

"I GOT 27!" He declares to which the Drunk RED Demoman merely grins and goes…

"19..Hich!" Before he points behind him and tells the Red Solider…

"Heavy and Medic got 48 so far!" To which the Red Solider grits his teeth, looking at the Russian and German Duo before screaming..

"I WILL NOT LET AMERICAN PRIDE FALL BEHIND IN THE FIELD OF BATTLE, I WILL KILL MORE!" And with a cry he rocket jumps back into the air and starts to throw himself right back into the fray.

"Ach….oh well.." Red Demoman says before he looks into his empty bottle, seemingly not noticing a large group of Homonculus behind him. That's when he pulls out his sticky bomb launcher and detonates a ton of sticky bombs that he hid in the bushes.

"KABLOOEY!" He screams as he kills the entire group of Homonculus with said sticky bombs. Crying out in triumph as he looks around for any more targets. Except no more Homonculus seem to go after him anymore.

"Ugh….looks like I have teh do the huntin' meh self…" RED Demoman says, lobbing a sticky bomb under his feet, jumping in the air and letting the force of his explosion propel him into another part of the battlefield.

On the roof of the Castle, a bow and arrow-toting Homonculus aims at the head of the RED medic before suddenly they have a hole in their head instead. Right by the Sentry nest, RED Sniper takes a moment to spit into the grass before refocusing his aim on another more sneaky Homonculus and firing.

"Hey Engie, you'd think they'd have learned to start trying to incorporate modern stuff after that Emiya woman showed them how deadly that stuff can be.." RED Sniper says to RED engineer who only chuckles and replies..

"In a way, they're artists, prideful of their work and as a result stubborn in many ways while also having fairly valid reason for not completely changing as well…..Still, the only one who has completely gone down the magus rabbit hole out of all of us is Medic, and you know he is even BEFORE we came here.." To this RED sniper can only sigh and nod at that retort from RED Engineer. At least with this job they actually have a way to get out of this crazy world, perhaps even find their own somehow..

One can only hope after all.

MeanwhileJubstacheit Von Einzbern's Inner sanctum

(General P.O.V)

The Ancient-looking Eighth head of the Einzbern Family stares down at the battle below him, soon hearing a single pair of footsteps come into the room and the sound of a gun loading..

"So, your betrayal of the Einzberns is complete Kiritsugu, truly unfortunate in the end but you were always a heretic.." Says Jubstacheit slowly turning around and looking right at Kiritsugu in front of him, the buxom woman looking exactly like she was when she left.

"You kept me from my daughter.." Kiritsugu says almost quivering with anger in her voice, making Jubstacheit scoff before responding with..

"Your daughter, she is merely the property of the Einzberns Family and we are her rightful owners, not a heretic like yourself.." Speaking in a tone laced with contempt for the woman in front of him.

"In the end, it does not matter.." He soon says, before turning around to face the moonlight above before adding.."Even if you kill me here, the time you waste finding the Homonculous will be all the time we need to move her to a place you'll never get her back from, so by all means.." Resigned to his fate considering Kiritsugu came here with that loathsome team of Heretics, had it been just Kiritsugu he might have been able to very easily deny her entrance, but those Heretics she brought along were perhaps even more Infamous than Kiritsugu herself..

Especially since he was able to see firsthand their ability to lay waste to even the most ancient of Bounded Fields like they were mere glass. As he feels the gun aimed at his back, he is surprised when he hears a completely different voice now come from the other end of the barrel of the gun.

"Then I can safely say Mr. Jubstacheit Von Einzbern.." Kiritsugu's form faded away to reveal the RED spy smirking before giving one last line..

"It's just good business.."

BANG!

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the castle

The real Kiritsugu and Arturia rush over to where RED Sniper had told them that Illya was being kept, soon finding the room and throwing open the door.

"M-MAMA?!" Illya says, soon going from a scared child to rushing over to Kiritsugu who holds her tightly in her arms.

However, both the maids at Illya's side quickly rush forward to try and get Illya away from Kiritsugu rushing forward with halberds ready, only for Arturia to rush forward and catch their halberds with her bare hands.

"Sorry girls, but you ain't interrupting this reunion.." Arturia says before moving forward and slamming their heads together to knock them both out. She looks at Kiritsugu and Illya hug while she goes outside and grabs the teleporter and deploys it in Illya's room.

"Hey Kiri, if you wanna grab something from here Now is the time to do that before we leave.." Arturia says which finally gets Kiritsugu's attention, nodding before looking for various keepsakes that they can take along, all while Arturia grabs some bed sheets to use as temporary ropes to tie up the two maids.

Soon enough though, the RED spy soon makes his way to the room, looking at the two now tied-up Maids and looking at Arturia with an exasperated expression on his face. "Are we really taking the Maids as well..?" He asks Arturia to which she simply replies.."Yep~!" With a Kakashi-style eye-smile, making RED spy sigh and rub the bridge of his nose to try and stifle an imagined headache.

Soon Enough Kiritsugu gathers everything Illya and Kiritsugu want to get from the castle before they all take the teleporter back to the sentry nest outside, with Arturia carrying the tied-up maids.

At the Sentry nest outside Einzberns castle.

(General P.O.V)

As the infiltration group finally returns, they see that the entire team looks singed, and bloody but grinning like loons. RED spy has a bad feeling and turns around and sees..

"GOD LORD, WHAT DID YOU DO?!" RED spy cries as he sees every room save for Ilyas has been coated in as many sticky bombs as possible, making RED Medic and RED Demoman laugh at RED spy's expression.

"Well uuh…ya see, Medic wanted me to set the thing up since it'll be our final job here in this world with a special flair to it, engie helped!" To which RED Engineer just gives a now stern-looking RED spy a sheepish chuckle.

"Ugh…fine.." RED spy relents, he figures that he might as well go along with the tomfoolery just this once. Then RED Medic produces a conductor's baton made out of a tree branch and begins to use the dispenser as a Conductor's podium.

"Now, engie, Demoman, if you could play ze music~!"

The two suddenly grin and while Demoman gets ready to time the explosions to the music, Engie turns on a radio and puts in a cassette tape that Medic gave him earlier.

"And…" Medic says before he begins to wave his baton without a care.

[Insert music: Tchaikovsky Overture 1812 from the movie V for Vendetta ]

Initially, the music produces no explosions as it gives a triumphant echo over the now-empty battlefield. The loud trumpets echoed before starting a Crescendo..

BOOM!

The moment the fast-paced part begins, the explosions begin to start to rip through various rooms of the Einzbern castle, practically going note for note with the song as RED Medic cackles with glee seeing this masterpiece of explosions take place.

RED engineer merely opens up a chair and cracks open a beer as he watches the fireworks, handing out some to everyone but only Kiritsugu, Arturia, and of course Illya don't get or want any.

[End Music segment ]

By the time the song is finished, the entire castle finally gives way and crumbles, utterly decimating the long-standing and ancient castle of the Einzberns. After which RED medic looks at the others with the same maniacal grin and goes..

"Well, with vat I think our Job Is done Ja?" with RED medic getting cheers from the other Members of the RED team. All While Arturia finally realizes…

"Oh god, I just agreed to be a ferry service to the fucking TF2 crew…" Groaning internally at all this madness and hoping for dear life that it doesn't cause problems in the future.

At least due to the contract, anything they earn, 30% of the take she gets, whether or not that'll be enough to deal with their insanity is another matter entirely..

Author's note

So, that's Year one already dealt with.

Oh boy is this gonna cause chaos in the future.

Let's get this out of the way, we won't be seeing the RED team very often after this initial recruitment chapter. They'll be doing their own thing most of the time since they are NOT bound to Arturia as such they won't be interacting with the Family much at all, save for perhaps only RED medic who can be called up to help heal but that's about it.

Does this mean that the Pendragons now have access to the TF2 respawn system..?

No, unfortunately, that is directly tied to that world (Likely due to the world's unique rare metal of Australium), and as such none of the Pendragons will ever benefit from that.

The destruction of the Einzberns

Under regular circumstances, this may cause unwanted eyes to fall on Arturia and her family, but it's because of how it was done that all the blame will either fall on Kiritsugu or the RED team.

This does unfortunately mean that unless Illya and/or Irisviel decide to start up the Homunculus production again, they and their maids will be the last True Einzbern Homonculus around.

RED team's appearance.

Basically, they were abandoned by a different contractor and dropped them into FATE expecting them to die while washing their hands of them. Hence why they made a full on legal contract for Arturia NOT to bind them, they are particularly sour of that incident still.

As for who that contractor was, you can almost certainly guess who they were.

Medic as a full-blown Magus

Honestly, It was only fitting considering his usual antics.

Right, see you all for the next chapter when it comes out!