Hey guys! RGQC here with a special chapter for all of you lovely people out here. Now, as some of you may know, most of you voted for the pre-fall of Beacon path in the review's chapters ago. But I still have some ideas that I had if the story went with the post-fall of Beacon. I'm honestly not sure how some of you would view it but I hope you enjoyed this short omake on the alternative path in which this story could have gone through. NOTE THIS OMAKE IS NOT CANON.
With that out of the way, man do we have some comments I wish to address.
jure rollo: I have to admit myself, a part of me wishes to rewrite that part specifically because I too actually found it annoying. I'm not good at this character's stuff as I think I made some of them out of character in this story. Hopefully I can learn to make it better yea? Thanks for the honest opinion.
Zekken182: Uhh… Morgan and the Faes? Especially the faes, those guys as the asshole of the bunch and would no doubt cause trouble in Remnant. Or is it the dead god? Who knows…?
Willywonka3234: My upload schedule? Well… it's more like two weeks this story then another two weeks for my other story I'm working on. Sometimes I produce it early or later. Kinda depends on my mood to be honest with myself.
SkyChaser17: Glad you enjoyed it! Gotta love that woman of culture reference.
Dragon Of The Ecplising Moon: Thank you, Dragon of the moon.
Lance Eterna: Ehhh…. They'd probably try to kill each other. Well, it is most likely Tristan that would plot for Mordred's death.
Guest: Salem and Morgan as of yet are not aware of each other. It is only because of the Grimm that Morgan is somewhat interested in Remnant. I have no intention of including chaldea, Remnant is already a mess with the inclusion of Morgan and her Fae. Adding Chaldea would make it even more messy and I doubt I could handle it.
SunlitOverdrive: Yea, Raven would indeed most likely get some sort of pdst from fighting against Mordred. She would probably question her ideology while at it. No spoilers however.
CreativeName: Canon is already fucked with the Servant's present on Remnant and with Mordred's plan to hunt down Salem's followers. Could be just me but I doubt that Raven actually pays attention to the TV. So, yea. But I suppose she could point it out and nobody would believe her.
VGBlackwing: Thanks! As for the reviews, I believe that they were referring to what happens if any of them were to somehow acquire Mordred (Not SI Mordred mind you) as a servant somehow and not literally part of the story. But this is just what I thought about it.
Nergal-D: Well, it says online that Jinn is also able to know if a person has a question for her. So, under that assumption, I made it that Jinn knew the exact question that Mordred wanted to ask since she is all knowing. Except for Lostbelt Britain. As for what Morgan would do with Remnant? She only cares for her rule of Britain, the fate of Remnant would most likely won't matter much to her. Even if it burns.
Jose19: Ouch.
.jr: One would say that… I am on a roll? Eh? Eh? Ah that was shit.
Guest-Questioner: Hilariously enough, that was my intention with that Vampire. To make him act a lot like Q.
Misaka Phenex: You really want to see Mordred kill everyone huh? Not saying that bad or anything…
Kitsune Obsessed Freak: Would you believe me if I said that I'd forgotten that he had that? Because I actually did. How did I forget? I have no idea.
Amerdism: Correct me if I'm wrong but, I'm pretty sure Mordred's master used his command seal to boost Mordred's magical resistance when Frankenstein was using her Noble Phantasm on her. As for Mordred's Noble Phantasm, it is also currently weaker than usual until later on.
Miraziyui: Thanks for your honest response to my story! It means a whole lot to me. As for Mordred abandoning the Relic? Well, she sees it as a big burden to carry it along and there are many things that could go wrong with her taking it. So based on what she knows, leaving the relic behind is the best choice she had to make to her at least.
As for those whose reviews are related to Zelretch, he's based on Q from Star Trek. To be honest, I intend for him to be this guy who is both enigmatic yet helpful since we all don't know what his goal was by sending servants to Remnant. As some of you pointed out, he seemed more reminiscent of the fandom's portrayal of himself. I won't deny that. But it's interesting to know how he actually was. So, thanks for the information.
Besides that, let's begin this omake!
As with my other works, I do not own RWBY or any of the Fate series. All of them belong to their respective owners as such.
Chapter 7 Omake 1 (Non-canon)
Worst Family Reunion Ever
It's been a long time since I've reflected back since I was here all those months ago. All those days alone and basically lying to pretty much everyone I've ever met over my identity as Mordred. Or Saber as I asked them to call me. I've done things that I never thought I'd ever do and commit what some would consider crimes indeed. I was just being pragmatic of the situation but we are getting distracted, I should start from the beginning.
Or more accurately, how I intervened in the battle for Haven and stuff happened. Let's just say, none of them expected me to show up out of nowhere and chop off Cinder's left Grimm arm before initiating combat with my sword and pistol in hand. I was in my disguise outfit of course and no one knew who I was but I arrived a bit late to the party, since I didn't have the exact date as to when the battle of Haven would start.
Oh, and I was sleeping… Oops.
But in the end, it happened somewhat similar to canon. Weiss gets her ass kicked by Vernal and followed but having an arrow through her gut. Jaune proceeds to unlock his semblance all while I keep most of the baddies back. Though, I could tell that all of them had questions as to who I was, and why was I helping them.
A whole other bunch of stuff happened similar to canon except it was heavily in Ruby's team favour with the presence of me and not like canon in which they were barely holding. Oh, and like before, Blake and Sun joined the party soon onwards as I proceeded to solo Hazel myself.
And I pity the poor guy while at the same time, find his motive for working with Salem foolish. Losing a family member sucks, but he let his hunger for vengeance get the best of him, and he didn't think through it that Ozma can't be killed. What a fool he was. Letting his emotions blind him to reality. Perhaps this was why Mordred despises humans so much? That we uphold grudges while also forgetting our debts to others. We do good deeds when it's convenient, but overlook great evil when it's too troublesome to us. We act out selfishness, and if our plans were to fail? We'll blame it on something else besides ourselves.
In this case, it was Hazel blaming Ozma for his sister's death, even though his sister knew the consequences.
How blind of him.
It was soon that Yang, like canon, emerged from the vault with the Relic at hand. And Emerald did the cry of misery or whatever. Let's just say I didn't allow her, Mercury and Hazel escape like how it happened originally. I wanted to just remove them out of the picture permanently but, doing that would risk the ire of pretty much the entire Team RWBY and gang. So, I just proceed to knock them all out with the sword to the back of the head.
I needed them to be in good relations with me. All so that I could get close and ask Jinn the question without anyone prepared to stop me from asking. Oh, and I need to be with them just in case. After all, my encounter with Danzou just proves that there were servants here already. Who knows what they would run into.
I could ask as to who threatens humanity but that would no doubt bring up more questions and stress to pretty much everyone. So, I'll stick to asking about Salem just in case. Though… It makes me and everyone else blind to the other threats of humanity but I'll deal with that when it happens.
After that fiasco, they actually asked me to come with them, no doubt curious as to this strange blond girl in an overcoat, showing up out of nowhere and helping them push them back. Though some of them, mostly Qrow, tried to push me away or ask me to leave, I was not planning on leaving anytime soon but it appears that my assistance against Cinder had earned Ruby's trust and she argued on my behalf.
How naive of her.
But long story short, I followed them back to their hotel. Ironically enough, I stayed just across from their hotel but they nevertheless invited me into their home. And then came the questions. Lots and lots of questions.
Most of them came from Weiss, Qrow, Ozma and surprisingly Jaune of all people but I answered their questions vaguely. One of the main questions that they asked me was related to Cinder. And rightly so, since they heard her ranting about how I had magic but they couldn't prove it. Even Ozma, who I was terrified of meeting, couldn't sense the magical energies in my body. Thank God.
It wasn't long till me and Blake were given the talk from Ozma as to the origins of Salem and such. But I wasn't paying attention, in fact, I was too busy looking at Blake's cat ears and I had to stop the urge within myself from petting her.
And so, the night ended just like that. Last I remembered, a day or two later, I proceeded to call for a meeting since at this point, some of them clearly trusted me. Way, way too easily. And good thing Ozma proceeded to bring the relic in his hand.
I proceeded to call Jinn out much to everyone's surprise, especially Ozma who wasn't expecting it in the slightest. I asked her how to defeat Salem and she told all of us that to defeat her, we needed to gather all of the four Relics in Remnant to defeat Salem. Somehow...
That just ended well as everyone got their hopes up in fact though I could tell that many of them had even more questions as to how I knew about it. And Ozma did mention that they needed to head for Atlas.
Good. But I earned Ozma's ire as after the meeting, he pulled me into the corner and began to question me heavily. To hopefully get him off my back, I mention that the brother gods were the one to bring me here, they did not of course since it was Zelretch who sent me here. But I needed to get him off my back, and it worked.
Thank you, C- rank Charisma.
A couple more days passed and I had suggested to Ozma that he should tell them about the Relic's tendency to attract Grimm or else, it would shoot everyone in the foot, he agreed. I guess it's because he assumed that I was dragged into this work thanks to him so he actually listened. Though it was obvious that he still doesn't trust me, not like it matters.
Next thing I knew we were off on the road once more towards Argus with a van that Qrow had rented at the request at Ozpin. Most of the students were in the Van except for me and Yang who rode on our motorbikes instead. When Yang first saw my motorbike, she was actually impressed with it. Much to my reluctance to tell her that a Vampire gave it to me.
What I've just said was a summed-up version of what had happened but things were not that smooth. Grimm would regularly attack our small caravan but several of us were always on guard when we set up camp. Though… Things were about to change tonight.
As of yet, I was staring at the campfire while occasionally poking it with a stick as all of team RWBY were sleeping. Jaune was awake and was sitting not too far from me with Ren while Nora was in her sleeping bag. Due to my Servant traits, I technically didn't need to sleep in the slightest, so I usually requested to watch the night.
It was then that Jaune spoke up. "Saber?" He asked as I looked up at him.
"Yea Jaune? Whatcha need?" I wasn't sure why he called me but I had my guesses, one of them is that he wished for a spar again, since he had only a sword and shield, it seemed perfect for me to help him get up to standard and it did work, he skill with his sword had slowly improved as time went by. Though, I won't deny, I had to kick his ass multiple times in a row to get him in line.
In front of everyone.
I was a bad teacher huh?
"Something feels off right now…" Jaune uncomfortably spoke as he kept looking around. I have to agree with him, something or someone was watching us in the forest? Was it Grimm? Or something else?
"Yea… I feel it too…" Ren agreed as he too began to look around. But unfortunately for them, while they couldn't sense it, I could as the voice that had helped me countless times in the battle of Haven whispered into my ears once more.
Enemy servant approaching rapidly to you.
My eyes widened as I stood up and stared at the direction, I could feel the magical energies of a servant rapidly approaching our camp. Whatever it was, it's heading towards our location at such speeds that I think that we only have a minute or so to react.
"Saber?" Ren tilted his head as he asked.
"Something's coming, and it's fast. Get everyone up now." My voice came out strained as I pulled my sword out. Both Jaune and Ren, seemingly understanding what's happening from my tone alone, went off to wake everyone.
"Huh? Jaune?" what are you waking us up now?" Ruby was the first to wake up.
"Some things are coming fast. So, get up, Me and Ren are going to wake the others while Saber stands guard." I could hear Jaune speaking in the background as Ren could be seen waking up Nora before moving on to Oscar and Qrow who weren't that far off.
It didn't take that long for everyone to get up again but, clearly most were rather cranky till Jaune and Ren told them the situation.
"Saber, what's coming?" Yang asked as rubbed her eyes, after we met at Haven, both Yang and I kinda became buddies of sorts. In fact, we both regularly had spar of our own when either one of us had free time, though I had to hold back massively so I won't accidentally break her bones or kill her in the process. Then again, I have to lie that I have 'aura'. It's just that they don't protect me but my wounds heal quickly. They at first questioned about it first but soon relent.
…
I didn't give her a response as I continued to stare at the forest. How am I supposed to tell them that they would have to deal with a servant coming towards us? And I don't even know if said servant is friendly or hostile. Gah…
"Saber?" Blake was next to ask. But like before I didn't respond. Yet the servant was just behind the tree in front of us, and what came out of it made me lose my composure as my body began to stiffen so much that everyone noticed it.
What came out from behind a tree wasn't any other servant or Danzou who I doubt would reveal herself like this. The one who came out from it had incredibly pale skin, she possessed platinum hair that was tied into a braid, her eyes glowed yellow and stared directly at me without any sense of emotion in it, she was also wearing obviously heavy black armour as well as wielding the sword I'd never thought I would ever see it first-hand.
Excalibur Morgan.
That sword. That damn sword. Why him of all people! Yet I could only mutter one word as my eyes widened in shock. At this point, I doubt I know who I am at this point. My memories are all mixed up with the two mixing together.
"Father…?
"Father?" Everyone else asked as they looked at me for answers.
"Mordred." That was the only word that came out of his mouth. Cold and lack of emotion.
"Mordred? Is that your actual name, Saber?" Yang then asked as she rested her hand directly on my shoulder, which was fortunate as it snapped me out of my shock. But I couldn't give an answer back. I just couldn't.
"Hmph. I'm aware that you possess something magical, it is of interest to me. Hand it over." He requested the relic that we had, though it's more like an order as I noticed Oscar running back to hide it. Good, keep it away from father. That is for the best.
"Who are you?" Ruby walked forward before asking. But I doubt that he would listen to reason. Not this version especially…
"I have no intention of introducing myself to someone who I would crush." Father declared it as if it was his degree, at the same time, I noticed that everyone was beginning to tense up as the situation was getting hotter and hotter.
"And do you really think that I would allow that to happen?" I warned him as I stepped forward before nudging Ruby back. None of them could beat him, only me. But I could feel my anger and rage boiling beneath me as well.
Father stared at me with such apathetic eyes as he finally remembered that I existed. "It appears that … you were too summoned into this world. It's fitting that I would be the one to put an end to you. Permanently." Father said it with such empty care in the world. It genuinely hurts. Was this how Mordred felt when Artoria rejected her?
"You're not the King of Knights I know. You're nothing like him!" I snarled before yelling at my so-called father as I took another step forward, guess there's no hiding anymore, judging from everyone's looks at me, they have more questions. I'll deal with them later.
"And if you think you're just going to crush everyone here, you'll have to go through me!" With that, I stabbed my sword into the ground as everyone else was understandably confused by what I did but none of them chose to speak out, except for one.
"Saber! I don't know what you're hiding but let us help you." She spoke with such determination that it's admirable as she brandished Crescent Rose. But I know in my heart that only I could stop father. She would just get in my way and potentially get herself killed.
I won't let that happen.
Ever
"Ruby… Everyone else, hear me." I called out, my voice lacked the boastful and energetic tone. Just a pure lifeless tone exited my mouth as I continue to stare at father.
"This fight is between me and my father. Do not interfere with our fight, it will not end well for you." I demanded as I looked at them directly with a determined glare.
"You better stay alive, Saber, you got a whole lot of questions to answer." Jaune was the first to speak out, not that I blamed him or anything.
"Saber, are you sure you can do this?" Weiss was next to ask, much to my surprise at least.
"Yea…" That was all I said before I turned back to father as my armour appeared over me with Clarent in my hand, even though it was soft, I could hear gasps of shock and Ozma mumbling.
"She has magic all along..."
And with that, I got into my stance before both I and father leapt straight at each other before both our blades clashed.
CLANG!
Clarent clashed with the corrupted Excalibur as a shockwave washed over the entire forest and made several of my friends lose their balance. Both of us began to exchange blows as I parried or blocked father's attacks before launching my own at him, only for him to do the same as we continued to exchange blows.
Father blocked one of my blows only for me to straight up grab Excalibur by the blade before pushing it towards the floor as I headbutted him in the face. Father then staggered backwards as I sent another attack by the side but father recovered faster than I thought and dodged to the side. He then sent a counter attack directly to my head only for me to twist my grip on Clarent and parried his attack on me.
"Damn it father! The hell happened to you! I always believed that you're a perfect king! So why turn to this?!" I shouted at his face before he dislodged Excalibur from my parry and sent a slash directly at me. Without hesitation, I dodged back but Excalibur still managed to scratch my chest piece as he then spoke.
"You're correct, however, your actions have ensured that the true ideas of Camelot are no longer needed now." He said as he continued his relentless assault as it pushed me on the defensive.
Clang! Bzzt! Bang! Shank! Chung! Tink! Clank! Slink! Tung! Bzzt! Bang! Clang!
"Damn! I need to retake the initiative!" I thought to myself as I pushed Father off me before sending a devastating punch into his face as he flew back. I used my mana burst to appear right in front of him before I swung Clarent at him, though it too only managed to nick his armour slightly. Father then punched me downwards which forced me on my back before he swung directly for my head. I just had a second or so to avoid that attack of his as the ground cracked under the energy used by father.
BOOM!
Next thing I realised that dark magical energies began to engulf Excalibur as he swung it at full force towards me, knowing that he's using is mana burst, I did the same as Clarent was engulfed in crimson lightning magic before I swing Clarent at father with a roar of my own.
I wasn't sure what had happened but, there was a flash of light that blinded me as soon as a powered-up Excalibur clashed against a powered up Clarent. Next thing I knew was that I was flying into the air with parts of my armour broken off before crashing in front of everyone.
"Ow… Is he down?" I groaned as I slowly got back to my feet. Unfortunately, that's not on their minds right now.
"Saber, what was that?!" Yang yelled in shock at the carnage that me and father were doing.
"That was awesome!" Nora yelled in the back as Qrow could be seen protecting Oscar from me. Understandable, I suppose.
"Yea, yea… Is he down yet?" I asked as someone finally gave me the answer I seek.
"No." Father had the decency to respond back. "Though it appears that the same cannot be said about you." He said as he walked through the smoke and towards everyone else. I could see Ruby and friends quickly pulled out their weapons and fired at him but father just blocked those attacks with Excalibur or his gauntlet.
"Everyone. Pull back!" I ordered as my helmet retracted to reveal my rather furious expression on my face as father seemed to pause in his pursuit when he saw me channelling my Noble Phantasm.
"Saber! We are not l-" Blake refused only for me to cut her off, like hell I'll let them get caught in the blast!
"Just do what I say! Get to cover now!" I ordered Blake and several others nodded reluctantly before retreating back as father could be seen preparing his own attack.
With that, the space around me became red blood as Clarent itself was covered in crimson magic as parts of it began to shift around. Crimson lightning began to erupt around me as well. Father on the other hand, got into his stance as he raised Excalibur above his head before it was immediately covered in black and purple magic as it condenses around it.
"For this is the wicked blade that destroyed my father!" I began to recite what appeared in my head as Clarent erupted in crimson energy that pierced the skies as I readied it and myself to cast it.
Father on the other hand, also began to recite in a monotone tone. "Vortigern, Hammer of the Vile King, reverse the rising sun. Swallow the light." His weapon erupted in black-purple energy as he too readied himself.
"Excalibur-"
"Clarent-"
"MORGAN!"
"BLOOD ARTHUR!" I let out a bellowing roar in response to my father's own Noble phantasm as I swung Clarent directly at father as I released it towards him. I couldn't see from my angle but I know that both Phantasm smash against each other as I could feel the massive shockwave that erupted from it. Even though I couldn't hear them properly, I could hear their awe and shock at the powers that my father and I had unleashed on each other.
BOOM!
"What on Ohm is that?!"
"Everyone! Get back now!"
"Hang on!"
"She has that the whole time?!"
Next thing I knew, both our Noble Phantasm ran out of juice as I could once again see father still in one piece, but as I tried to move, an agonising pain erupted all over my body as I collapsed to my knees with the support of Clarent.
"Drat! This sting." I gritted my teeth as I forced myself back onto my feet only to hear Ruby call out to me.
"Saber watch out!"
You're about to be attacked.
I looked up only to see father in front of me! And he had Excalibur already swinging towards me! What! How did he? Shit! Even if I could move, I still would not have time to react! I'm a sitting duck!
SQUELCH!
Next thing I knew, Excalibur pierced right through my armour and through my chest as my eyes could only widen in shock. Damn. I wasn't able to react in time… I'm going to die, am I?
"A fitting end for a traitor." Father muttered out as I could hear everyone else calling out to me in shock and terror, I won't blame them and I'm pretty sure I gave them a reminder of Pyrrha's fall. Pain. So much pain. Everything is starting to feel cold.
…
No.
I won't die here. Not yet! I still need to protect them! I can't die here! I still need to save humanity! And I'll rather go out with a bang instead!
Father then tried to pull Excalibur out from me but I didn't let him pull it out of me as I grabbed onto the blade as I growled directly at him.
"Not… yet… Father..."
"What?" Father seemed genuinely surprised at my resistance when I backhand him in the face, and without giving him any time to react, I proceeded to shove Clarent straight into his torso. With his sword still stuck in me.
STAB!
"If… I'm going down... I'm... taking you with me. Again." I groaned into my father's ear before pulling Clarent out from his chest as he collapsed onto the ground.
"It appears... that I have failed you. Mistress." Saber mournfully sighed as I continued to stare at her. Yet, that only brings up more questions than answers but. For now, Ruby and her gang are safe from him. And the relic is still intact. So that's good. I continue to watch as father began to dissipate before I remember something.
"Damn… I'm not going to make it." I winced in pain as Excalibur began to dissolve into purple particles before dissipating into nothing, this obviously left a rather large hole in me but at this point, I was barely conscious and just kept awake thanks to my B Rank Battle Continuation trait.
"Saber!" I heard Yang yell at me as her sister then took over.
"Oscar! Can you go and grab the Medi kit?"
"R-right!" He yelled as he ran out of my sight and back into the camp. But I wasn't paying attention, I was too busy looking at the carnage that father and I had caused. Trees could be seen either uprooted, smashed or on fire. Man, sized craters litter the forest as the smell of my blood permeates my nose.
Everything then became blurry and faded into black as I collapsed onto the ground, followed by the muffled cries of my friends.
And we are done with this Omake what if chapter. If I were to call it that.
First thing to address in this what if story. This Mordred have already spent months in Remnant, so at this point, the two personalities have already begun to fuse at the start of this story. So, like referencing Artoria as father and such.
As I said before, this is basically a what if scenario and is non-canon in my story. So, things that happened in this chapter is very unlikely to appear in the main story. So please take note, ok?
And then we have the battle between Artoria alter and Mordred. What do you guys think of it? Did you enjoy it? I hope you do. And I wish to give a shout out to MorgothII, for those who liked the Grand Order stories, I think you would enjoyed this one! After all, it got Mordred in there!
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