Shirou POV

It's been 14 years since i was forbidden from using my magical circuits, my monthly examinations and tests proved a high recovery, my magecraft might return in the next months, if i keep recovering. I spent all my now increased OD sending all my magical energy to Saber, every single day, which spared Rin from it. She loved being able to store that energy, stronger and more abundant mana, on who knows how many jewels, you are welcome i guess?

I didn´t stop fully in the last 14 years though, I not only kept intense training with martial arts, swordsmanship, spearmanship, guns use(projectile and energy) and bows(at my own insistence, they kinda seem to underestimate bows for some reason). Training that reduced in intensity once I reached a plateau. Going to "maintenance" training, which needed less hours, with the free time, I started to explore my cybernetic implants.

I discovered a lot of things like that, first, i still could improve my implants, after study them, using the inferior structural grasp from my crest and all variants and alternate versions the Empire had, some of it unique archeotech, some of it, found on the fleet during more than one decade of repairs and inspection, some the Terrawatt clan and the emperor personal engineers could produce.

I managed to combine the best traits of all similar implants, and test the results outside my body before upgrading, curiously, their tech while absurdly advanced, due to be millenia above mine, before replace them with my exclusive "Emiya pattern" Mind Impulse unit", "psy booster", "savant implant" and cogitator. I noticed that some of the imperial tech looks like 80's tech, something Anachronic compared with how sci-fi they are.

I managed to upgrade that 80's tech with tech from some cutting edge computers from 2004, including a tablet released that that i had a small fancy cogitator with touch screen and camera, that had copies given as gifts to the Custodes, Malcador and big E, i even had it with a fancy copy of Sk*pe, for video chat, better than Imperial clunky weird 80's video chat system, and lots of functions, with the option of adding a wireless keyboard.

After seeing what I can do, they kindly allowed me to study imperial tech and fiddle with things, of course, some ancient dangerous archeotech was out of limits, but they let me play around even with military grade stuff, at least equipment from Thunder Warriors, as a test.

Obviously the first thing I asked Malcador was why they have no leg servos on their power armor, while the new first legion Astartes do. Malcador had no idea I already had blueprints from all Custodes weapons and armors I got in my field of view.

The quality of the readings dropped after my circuits got fried, but I still had the lesser structural grasping on my crest, and my addiction remained. It seems they somehow become aware of some of what i discussed with big E, they didn´t seemed shocked or hold a grudge after what the Emperor planed to do with them, they seem to know that their berserker rage and rampant illness derived of the augmentation would eventually make them do something horrible, or die a slow and agonizing death on a deathbed.

The idea of receiving a merciful killing from big E, on a battlefield, with their honors intact seemed somehow acceptable. Of course, some got mad and felt betrayed, but most had a mindset that accepted well.

Yet, they felt happy, all of them, once they knew i found a alternate solution, since my fleet had so many stasis pods, that with the imperial pods as a extra, would be feasible to keep almost, if not all of them in stasis, enough to find a cure for their instability.

From my first meeting with a furious Ushotan, now it seems they are on good terms with me, the nickname "Sword King" stuck and spread like fire. The fact I improved their power armor, updating the upper half and installing leg servos, with tech derived from Astartes and Custodes, and my own touch, helped.

Of course, i had it to be manufactured on the fleet by Dumont, and since Malcador and big E didn´t know i "reproduced" the tech of the legions and Custodes, was easy to ask them to keep the tech a secret from the Thunder Warriors, after all, if the First Legion had rights to have their unique toys and secrets, was fair to let the Thunder Warriors keep their own military and logistical secrets.

I got all tech priests responsible for the Thunder Warriors equipment working on my fleet, and got it increased by 7 big cargo ships. Courtesy of big E, since how the Thunder Warriors legions become a fleet based military force, once the unification ended, and i were to become a Rogue Trader, big E allowed me to keep them, on a lease, to reclaim human worlds for the Empire and acquire new worlds.

Of course it had conditions, four conditions, one, i would never increase their numbers beyond the round up number of survivors, i guess limit my power and keep balance it´s wise of him, two, i would be forbidden to make new Thunder Warriors before finish fix their instability, i found that very fair, i would do it if he had not asked.

Three, I would be under his scrutiny, if I were to use them against imperial designs, they would return to Imperial command, and last, he would have the Authority to reclaim the Thunder Warriors if a need arrived. Otherwise, they would serve my Rogue Trader dynasty and anyone I lease them, with these terms being upheld.

Once I had control over all logistical and R&D resources for the Thunder Warriors, it meant two things. First, I received massive amounts of vehicles, aircraft, equipment, weapons, armors, and personnel, including many tech priests, and some bio-alchemists, imperial chirurgeons, geneticists, and engineers and technicians from before the Emperor allied with the Terrawatt clan.

He was still in command of them until the end of war, but since i was forbidden from battlefield for a while, as a kid and without my magecraft, as i grew up and recovered, my work besides cook nostalgic food for the big E, was keep his warriors well supplied and equipped, and of course, set the unstable and sick ones on early stasis.

The fleet 14 years later was slowly becoming properly staffed, the two battleships were massive, and were almost fully staffed, all debris were collected and sorted, what could be used to replace broken parts from the ships that could be saved, kept as spare parts, and what was utter trash and broken components. What could not be fixed or saved, was melted and used as materials to build on the largest of the closer asteroids on a space station, a space dock for the ships. all ships and docks were secured by Udug Hul soldiers, the mundane soldiers from Akkad, being absorbed by the imperial army, remained permanently on Terra.

Roughly half the 200,000 Udug Huls were kept on terra as Taiga's mercenaries, working as security for Rin's business and peace keeping troops and bounty hunters, the other half remained securing the fleet and the station, protecting not only the Ships, but the defenseless Thunder Warriors on stasis.

This made the former rivals develop a respectful relationship, since now, former enemies were working together, and protecting each other. The space station was for my horror named "The Sheath", in a reference to my nickname as "sword king", i did cringe a lot at that in the end.

With the lives of their wounded and sick tended properly, and while impossible, sealed on the stasis chambers for later solution, the morale of the thunder warriors, now with improved equipment by me, rised.

Having access to so much equipment to work on, supplies, resources, technicians and tech priests, that by the heavens, managed to turn a blind eye to my innovation, since i was a envoy of the omnissiah, explained i was just combining known tech instead of create something new, and call it "artifice armors", somehow using a wording that helped ease the blatant innovation, i managed to calm them down and have their support.

As I grew up I used that knowledge to slowly design my future armor and weapons. Yes, I hoped I would recover my magecraft, but I decided to plan for the case if it was lost forever, i had to do something about it.

So using all I knew about forging and swords, something I had Archer memories to help, and with some help from Malcador and Big E, who to my surprise, was a master craftsman and made some relic level weapons before. I managed to craft my own advanced bow, my pistols, rifle and twin power swords.

About the pistols, well, i studied the so called "stubbers", comparing their tech with pistols from my era, that i had the blueprint on UBW, even if i could not use magecraft, i still could study my inner world freely.

After fiddling with materials, some advanced ones from my time, and some from the current era, I managed to design a more durable, rough, compact, light and reinforced pistol, using runes from Bazett and help from Rin to have a more permanent reinforcement, transforming them into mystic codes.

The bullets, of high pistol caliber had most advanced possible primer and propellant, yet, with both having reduced amount, the reason was simple, i studied how to make reinforced propellant, like everything too reinforced exploded, it would be a way to increase space by using less propellant, and create larger and denser projectiles, on my case i made armor piercing projectiles using depleted uranium adamantium coated, making the heaviest and hardest projectiles, that were reinforced near the limit, to the point that any small injection of energy would turn them into broken phantasms, extreme armor piercing exploding ammo.

The bullets in the end were almost subsonic, but besides toughness, the pistol had another magical property as mystic code. It could conduct my crest magic. It was a user-only mystic code, linked with my magic crest.

Using my crest, I could accelerate the projectiles using time later, making them hypersonic, like a railgun. Without magical energy, they were high piercing projectiles with average pistol speed and high density and hardness. With magical energy, they become hypersonic and explosive, becoming more lethal than bolters.

Same tech was used on my sniper rifle, then working with my plasma pistol, after use the most advancements of all models, current and Archeotech i had available, my third weapon with Rin's elemental magic, and Bazett runes received extra cooling, magical one, becoming more stable and capable to charge more and faster, making the plasma weapon that was already obscenely powerful, scarier than ever since it improved on all aspects absurdly.

I made an improved version of Archer's bow, with even better materials, and the same link to my crest, if with enhanced strength the bow could shoot absurd shots? With time magic that was even more ridiculous.

The armor had to adjust to my own style, so I needed it to not be bulky like they are, making it adjusted for my body, thinned the ceramite highly and made it into a mystic code too, with that, the power armor would be able to in a emergency receive my time magic, it still would ruin my day, but since the armor was designed for it, it would be more efficient, besides that, the armor would be projected to be reinforced, just by pour magic through the crest link, with that it would become tougher and the servos stronger, with it, more power and speed would come too.

On top of that, it could deploy magical shields and bounded fields, pre-programmed, using the green energy shield from Rin as one of the options. As natural shields it would have conversion and refractor fields. The armor would sync with my improved MIU, working almost as well as a space marine armor.

With state of art life support, sensors, outside and medical sensors and integrated cogitator, the armor sported drug injection systems in case of medical need or need of a drug enhancement in combat.

With all that, and the smaller servos being reinforced, so with smaller components they would be able to generate more strength without break, I managed to make a lean and flexible suit. The finishing touch was the improved custom made jetpack, using advanced materials and ionic wind thrust, it was what took me more time to develop, using the best tech of all "patterns" the empire had, and some knowledge from my era, it was enhanced further with magic runes and elemental magic from Rin, but made so it can work even without magic, and even then, still outperform the others.

The result was armor that protected me more than the average bulky ceramite armor, and had more power, speed and agility too, being able to allow me to fight in 3 dimensions. The armor was costly, time demanding Of course I made some for Rin, Taiga and Bazett too, Bazett had the MIU implant, and was very happy with the mechadendrites.

That hardcore warrior woman only cared about practicality and didn´t care about how creepy the metal tentacles were, the more time passed the more lethal she become, still, can´t not love her at all. Rin and Taiga decided it was too invasive and refused the surgery.

The twin swords followed my preferences, now, while they are short swords for me they are as big as long swords, compared with the kanshou and bakuya for my old self. They are twin curved power swords that i forged with the Emperor's help, they were as always, further enhanced with Rin and Bazett help, and become some really mastercraft mystic codes, the kind that could easily become noble phantasms, on the right hands, i hope one day i will be worthy of be called hero and they will.

During that time, Taiga had 3 kids with Merek, one boy and two twin girls, the boy's twelve and the girls are ten. They call me big bro, the 3 pests are too damn cute to get angry with, they love practice kendo with Taiga and Archery with me, listen ancient music, watch ancient cartoons and movies and play from our massive collection of video games, we have a blast on m*rio cart. They are amazing kids, even though they inherited their mom's rotten personality.

Rin´t pregnant too, and so it´s Bazett, i´m still trembling with happiness with the news, managed to convince Malcador to take Bazett out of the battlefield, she got angry with me for be overprotective but she understood i was worried with our kid.

Yeah, i know my friends, even Issei would joke if they knew i´m with 3 women now, Shirou "harem king" who would imagine that? Issei would have a heart attack if he knew one of them was Rin through, and would think the "witch" got me into a depravity cult or something, well, he almost got on the spot with the witch thing, she is a magus, not a witch through..

Saber seemed a little sad, in her condition as a heroic spirit, it might be impossible for her to have children. Still, since she became a heroic spirit without actually dying, in her last moments, to the point she can´t get spiritual form, it's still a mystery. We hope we can have a kid one day.

Eventually the people from the liberated areas from Albyon and Albia learned that the promised king was a female, and she started to be called the Warrior Goddess, and her fan club grew even more, like some sort of idol, that´s a beauty with rank B charisma, i don't like how they fawn over her through, i´m also a man and know how their heads work. Stop fawn over my Saber perverts!

I'm currently on the transport ship, fully armored, with a cameleoline cloak above it, i´m going to the joint operation on Bazett place in Albyon, the mission is simple: invade the enemy palace, capture or eliminate him, more probably the latter.

Simultaneously, Saber will deal with the Unspeakable king, Arik Taranis is helping her, while i´m going with my old friend Emperor himself is supervising the first offensive against Maulland Sen Confederacy. Since it's full of "Warp related menaces" according to him, he said it´s dangerous to send us there, it seems he is immune to whatever horrors lurk in that dimension called warp.

Ushotan POV

Again going straight to the unforgiven battlefield on Albya. I can already feel my heart pumping. I have a kid with me that i met 14 years ago. The little "monster" grew, even stronger than would be possible with the Emperor's procedures.

He is wearing thin and weird armor, without ornaments, besides several weird symbols on the shoulder pads and waist. He carry two equally weird stubbers, and short swords on his sides, a plasma pistol holstered on the back of his waist and a rifle strapped on the back all through magnetic lock

I heard he lost most of his "magic", yet, he feels more dangerous than ever. The soldiers cheer, "sword king" they say. Some of them met the little monster on the field, some had training bouts with him. They know the kid it's the real deal, even without his magic, and as he was growing, he became a little monster that could rival the us or the Custodes on skill, the morale of troops could not be higher.

The battlefield still chaotic, yet, both lines were being held, some incursions from them, some from us, the enemy town in ruins turned into a maze, we dropped from the transporter, while we landed, we noticed that the kid didn't land with us, he flew to the top of a building, and kept jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Show off, we followed through the ground, with relentless advance, in inhuman speed, our shots being true, our strikes killing or maiming enemies with a single hit with surgical movement and positioning.

Despiste the enemy's good positions and weaponry, we were the elites of our legion, eventually we got into an ambush, a good one, mounted weapons and armored vehicles plus soldiers in cover. We would do as always do when we are outmaneuvered like this and get into a bad position, make good use of our superior armor and speed, block most fire with our thick armor, use the occasional convenient cover, evade what our preternatural reflexes allowed, and rush at them, shooting as many as possible before engaging into melee, we would have some losses, but it was inevitable.

Or i would think so, heads of the heavy weapon gunners started to explode, shots pierced the armored vehicles seemingly on the ammo deposits, causing massive explosions, and no one could find the sniper that did it. Until i checked my hud and saw his positioning, the kid was more than 4km away, hitting the shots with absurd accuracy as he kept advancing, he didn't even stop to aim, every step, was followed by a shot, and if i didn't had his position on our shared sensors, i would not see the monster virtually invisible with his cameleonine cloak, moving like a predator forward. Sword king? I´d argue that maybe he is more of a monster with guns, and he was not even using his spooky magic.

I lost the kid from view, and after several city blocks, we finally reached the palace, more dead guards, we were about to enter when we saw it, something flared, and the kid was sent flying from the palace, doing a backflip in the air and regaining his composure, a thrust appeared from under his cloak briefly and slowed his fall.

A man with red skin, blue and shite noble clothes with a long black cloak, long dark hair, dark eyeballs and horns left the palace, he was literally floating in the air, with a gesture, multiple ice shards flew on the kid direction, being held by a purple aura, he avoided them with a roll to the side and shot once with the rifle. Holstering it on his back again and drawing his pistols, that started to shot repeatedly, piercing a ice wall that appeared from the ground and bashing into the man's purple energy shield.

"You dare! You fucking DARE?" The man snaps.

Suddenly it seems the battle between the two will get serious, and we have to move our weight too, i ask my boys to make a perimeter, and kill or delay any reinforcements the mad king Uileam the Red might have, while i decide to join the kid on his fight, there´s no way i will be out of it.

Shirou POV

The Thunder warriors are amazing, see them rushing, it almost feels like see a squad of "Berserkers" rushing, but instead of his stone sword, with a massive gun and his fists, even enhanced by whatever magic Uileam the Red bestowed them, the best of them manage to keep fighting for like 3 seconds before have their heads crushed.

They are too confident, instead of a tactical and stealth approach like me, they are trying a brute offensive. Yes, they are like a bulldozer going through it like a breeze, they helped me with a distraction, but eventually what i feared happened,they were ambushed, even at this distance, with my reinforced sights, using a synched vision and aim assist, to compensate for the inferior reinforcement i have currently, i manage to stabilize my shots and aim with inhuman precision as i advance. Every shot more challenging than the earlier, since him moving and distancing from the targets, yet, i manage to hit all of them.

Eventually i arrive at the mansion, kill the guards is easy, my weapons are capable of pierce ceramite power armor, and even auramite armor if i go seriously with them, i do not even need to use magical energy on the shots.

I enter the palace, using a mix of my enhanced senses, sensors and guts, i start to clear, room by rom, sealing them to prevent surprises, as i advance i slash the occasional guard with my twin swords, faster than they can react, slicing their throats so they can´t scream and call for help. I arrive at the throne room, there i find a man looking at a small table with a cogitator with an antennae.

I remain a few seconds cloaked as i enter using structural grasping, my head hurts, i feel sick, it seems like a remote control for something. It's covered in weird symbols and has a faint purple aura, the control has parts made of flesh with bulging veins, like it's partially organic and grotesque, a cybernetic abomination with several eyes, looking around, one of the eyes locked on me.

The device/creature emit a high pitched sound, like an alarm. Before the man can react i shot at it with my plasma pistol, in an angle that would vaporize it, and hit the man in the throne, Uileam the Red himself. If his location didn't give it, the red skin would.

The creature is vaporized and the shot hits, a purple wall that reveal itself with the impact, the man look at me and his eyes darken, his orbits becoming pitch black. Suddenly all i can see is the rooms i crossed earlier getting far from me, i´m being pushed back with absurd strength, crushed 3 walls, only kept my back and ribs intact due to the power armor, a orange plasma bolt hit my chest in time for my force field to flare, blocking it with a bright flash as i fly outside the palace, backflipping and using the jetpack to soft my landing.

"You dare! You fucking DARE?" The man snaps at me, furious because i vaporized his pet/remote control.

"I felt it would be up to no good, so anyway i started blasting." I say with a grin, that he can't see due to the helmet.

"You fool! Now no one can control it!" Says Uileam.

"What are you talking about?" I sai.

"You really don't know anything huh? A living god… Its awakening, i would control it… But now it´s unleashed. With me it would just be a tool of control, now, it´s a force of nature." Says Uilleam and laugh hysterically "You took my prize, i will take your life."

Suddenly, the bodies of the killed soldiers start with a mere gesture of him, to fuse into 4 massive flesh golems, with multiple agonizing heads protruding from the chest, and a massive beast head on top, similar to a horned reptile.

I shot at one of them, that avoids and rush at me, hitting me with the shoulder faster than i can react, i barely manage to roll back up to break the fall and recover my composure and i have to dodge 3 more blurs, attacking me with red glowing claws.

Ushotan hit one with a full automatic burst of his bolter, seems to be his last clip, without bother to reload, he split the wounded creature in two with his chainswsord as he advance piercing the other with a charge. The sound of chainsaw eating flesh echoes.

I avoid the last two attacks as i charge my plasma gun, with the free hand i use my custom pistol to unleash a semi auto burst on the two, i shot in a angle that if they avoid, it will go on Uileam direction, it works, they take the hits to protect their master. A full armor piercing clip goes, instead of reload, i drop it and draw the other pistol, repeating the process, both the creatures fall on the ground covered in holes, one dead, I stomp the head of the other with my armored boots. Crushing it.

Uileam release a giant wave of flame towards me, i block with my refractor field, until the energy drops, then i replace charging my armor with my od, materializing a green spinning rectangle shield, it´s Rin enchantment, the same she used against Illya, and the one she offered to Bazett on the past.

The entire ground around me turned to hot searing glass, but i persisted, releasing the charged plasma at the tyrant, a massive plasma blast. He again blocks with a wall of ice, that is vaporized as he is hit straight on his shield,, but this time it impacts on his hidden plate under his shirt, and pierce it, it hurts, a full charge of my enhanced plasma gun was enough to pierce his defenses and burn his chest badly.

He starts to heal, almost like a dead apostle, the "vampire" theme seems strong on this being. I charge, dropping the plasma pistol, that´s now cooling. I unsheathe my two power blades, reinforcing my servos and using a thrust of my jetpack i move as a blur, he is unnaturally fast, he is capable of try to react, i say try, my dual ascending cross slash sever both his hands, that turn into a red myst, being absorbed by his wrists, he is trying to regenerate again.

But i reverse the blade and slash down again, on a descending cross slash, reversing yet another time and doing a cross slash on horizontal, decapitating the being, as i kick back his body, his decapitated head fall in front of me as his regenerating body is sent flying back.

I look at his panicked head as i pick a melta grenade on my belt, and stuck on his mouth kicking it into the air, like a soccer ball, the head detonates.

"Regenerate this!" I say, as his body starts to decay and turn into dust, i sigh relieved and drop to my knees grasping for breath. "Now… What the hell you did?" I ask myself, thinking about his words.