Warning: This fanfic dealt with probably controversial themes and you may find it not suitable for you. If you still decide to read, then stay strong and brace yourself for what you are about to read. This story here happens in Arc 2 and thus may contain some spoilers.

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Chapter 8: Hexagon Siege

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Back to where the team is at

"You said that anyone can enter through the wall after 2 days of its destruction?" The Finnish asked the blond-haired girl again.

"Yeah, and by anything, I mean anything. That walls you passed through are just now normal concrete and it poses no harm towards anyone" Alfin said.

"They just built something extravagant that held no real practicality, but I guess it is just what German always be like, make something too complex for a normal human," Pierce said.

"You're not wrong about it, that is what I could tell the least," Arnold said as if he got a firsthand taste at it.

The team keeps moving through the ruined urban area with sprinkle rain that covers further than the horizon. Under such a condition like it, there will be bound off somebody who will take advantage of it and ambush them.

The Finnish who is walking ahead of the team in a considerable distance, scouting for any potentials enemy. But little did he know that he is their target.

"Gah!" A sharp pain course through the Finnish body, starting from his feet. He quickly fell to the ground from the sudden attack that struck him unprecedently.

But even then, he still keeps a clear mind and the pain it gives remind him of something, something that stuck in his distant memory.

"Let me help you!" Desmond quickly comes to his side.

The Finnish realized what this tactic is, realizing just from the pain he has, he quickly tries to stop his friend from getting near him.

"Stop! This is a trap!" Before the Finnish said all of it, he heard another shot and what followed up is silence, that it's, just silence.

"Someone is here, everybody! Get to hiding, I'll take him somewhere safe." Desmond realized what it is from that shot, it is not a fire sound of anything, it was a misfire.

The next moment, everybody quickly hides among the ruined building. They were all split up and disconnected from each other, except for the connection of Masters and Servants, they all are oblivious to anything else.

"Archer! Use your Hawkeye to check where is the shooter at!" Gudao telepathically communicated with his Archer, Shirou.

"Got it, Master" Shirou replied the same way back to him.

The tanned Archer quickly takes a look but before he gets to see anything properly, a shot came to pierce his head cleanly. Shirou managed to evade said attack but that wasn't just one in the direction he peeked. He got hailed in by many shots that pierced through the wall of the ruined building they stayed in.

"Damn it!" Shirou said before tracing his twin swords to deflect said bullets but when he struck the bullet with his blades, the blades shattered in one hit. Seeing the power behinds the said bullet, he realized that the only thing that has such power is Servant and multiple hostiles Servants are trying to kill them off.

"Master! Breakthrough adjacent houses! We have to split up or they'll kill us, this decayed wall won't stop them!" Shirou replied telepathically towards his Master.

"Got it!" Gudao replied telepathically back.

Heard what his Servant told him to do, Gudao realized he has to act soon or else. Channeling mana through his arm, he uses Reinforcement and utilizing his Mystic Code for extra firepower.

"Phantasmal Reinforcement!" Gudao said at the top of his lung before he punched the wall that he believes to be connecting toward the next ruined building.

With all his might, he shattered the wall with his bare reinforced strength alone, a Servant could probably destroy a house like this just by breathing at it so it isn't surprising to them. After he managed to do so, he started to come charging through the ruined building and repeated the same process, he'll need to stay nearby his Servants so that they can fight more effectively.

"Archer! Tell everyone to split up into three groups and take down the marksmen before they take us down." Gudao told his Servant telepathically.

"Understood!" Shirou told his Master telepathically.

Meanwhile, the Finnish is resting next to the wall of the closest ruined building they could get in. Desmond is treating his wound after he extracted the bullet that wounded the Finnish.

"What did we do to them that they trying to kill us now?!" Desmond said while treating the Finnish.

"Desmond, give me the bullet that harmed me, I'll at least able to tell what nationality of the Servants that aimed for us." The Finnish told his friend.

Desmond quickly grabbed the bullet tip that was in the Finnish's foot and show it to him. It was just in seconds but the Finnish's eyes turned hollow when he realized what this bullet is.

"Um, it is the Azure Soldiers or the SS Waffen specifically?" Desmond asked?

"Worse..." The Finnish said in a voice that indicates that the shitshow they had just only begun.

Suddenly, Richard burst in and telling them.

"You two! We have to split up and taking down the sniper teams, right now!" Richard said before he evaded another shot that was aiming for him.

"Tsk, I'll have to deal with them sooner or later. Desmond, how does my wound look right now." The Finnish asked his friend.

"Well... You can walk, I think? I hope you can accept the agonizing pain when running recklessly." Desmond said back.

"Whatever, I don't accept myself being a deadweight anyway, I'll go for one alone, you will assist the others." The Finnish said back.

"What! What makes you saying something like that, you got shot in your feet and you intended to do something like this alone?!" Desmond asked his friend why he intended to risk like that.

"I'll have my personal experience against them back when I was human, plus, I don't want all of you to get into the crossfire of my Noble Phantasm." The Finnish said back to his friend.

Desmond became silent, he just hardly understands the concepts of being a lone wolf in warfare like this. Why does his friend think of heading out alone from others is a good idea in the first place.

"Desmond, I know what you are thinking but please put your faith in me like how you do the same with your god." The Finnish asked his friend to reassure him.

Desmond became hesitate for a few seconds but he decided to put his trust in his friend.

"You better not dying or I'll use Satan's power just to bring you back!" Desmond decided to scold his friend for one time before pulling him up.

"Don't worry, you don't even need to treat my wounds after dealing with them. For there is no wound to fix at all." The Finnish said to his friend before heading off towards where the direction of the bullet that aimed at Richard would be fired from.

"Tsk, I never liked you deciding to be a lone wolf so often like this but it wouldn't be like you to not do so at all," Desmond said to himself before he heads out to assist the other team.

And so, the battle has just begun for them.

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Break Through

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Back to Arnold's current position

"For the love of anything, how in the world can we advance!" Arnold said while hiding in a ruined building, it seems that he hadn't been spotted yet

"If you have the time to complain then use that time to think of any way to defeat whoever behind there, I don't have the dexterity it took to firing back without getting killed myself!" Alfin said to him.

"Oh common! I'm a soldier, not an officer!" Arnold said back.

In amidst of their argument, somebody managed to get to Arnold's side and quickly said to him.

"Arnold! We need to plan something right now, the cover we had won't protect us for any meaningful amount of time!" Gudao said to the man.

"If it was as simple as that, we wouldn't be arguing right now," Arnold said back to Gudao.

They were surrounded by multiple snipers and they whittle down any cover they have. Gudao has many times faced with situations where he has to plan strategy amid the battle and this wouldn't be an exception.

Gudao focused his mind and thinking about how they would break out of this situation. Gathering any facts or anything that could help them. Seconds passed, the ruined house where Alfin is hiding has its roof collapsed and its debris fell on her. Such things like that wouldn't make a scratch but now she is defenseless. Within that fragment of time, a spark of brilliance appeared in his mind when he thinks about the situation when Desmond's attempt to save the Finnish could have resulted in his death but nothing happened, he thinks that what if that moment happened not due to dumb luck but another Noble Phantasm of his. An unlisted one at that.

"Archer! Assassin! Where's Desmond!?" Gudao telepathically communicates with his Servants since he can't allow himself to peek through.

"Master! Are you fine? Desmond is with us but where are you!?" Shirou communicated with his Master.

"Archer! Can you bait them so that Desmond would try to save you? I know it is suicidal but this the only way I can think in a moment like this!" Gudao telepathically replied to his Archer.

"Not that our place is any better, it is on the verge of collapse anyway, I'll talk to Desmond to see if he would follow through," Shirou said back before he got cut off.

"Damn, if this the necessary action to break through then dead be damned. I'm going to do this." Shirou said before he prepared to rush outside from the building that is full of holes.

"Onii-chan! I'll do it in your stead!" Before Shirou do anything, his sister jumped out first and attempted to evade the sniper's attack. Her swiftness allowed to evade most of it but it is a bad idea to underestimate the power behind said shots.

"Kuro!" Shirou screams as he sees his sister jumped straight into danger.

A spurt of blood burst through her, the sudden shock makes her lose her balance and fell flat into the ground, the rain washing away her life as the bloody stream flowed from her body.

Desmond instinctively jumped towards her in an attempt to bring her to safety. Nonetheless, he quickly became the snipers' next target. The next moment that should have spelled his demise was replaced with nothing, nothing at all. Gudao has seen what happened from where he stood and quickly jumped into command.

"Arnold! Get out there and distract all of them, you know how to deal with all of this sniper better than us." Gudao told Arnold.

Arnold quickly gets up and dashes towards where he would believe to be the place that the snipers fire from. It is only his hypothesis based on the bullet 'holes' but it is the only lead he had.

"Wait! Take this!" Alfin rose up from the debris and threw him a radio.

"Wait! How did you get this!?" Arnold asked while looking back at her while running.

"I asked that Assassin for a portable communication device before but never expected this portable! We'll need to keep in touch should we wish to break through their parameter!" Alfin said back to him.

Arnold runs with a speed beyond how one would expect, he has experienced being pursuit and been attempted to gun down by many Brittish soldiers in his memory and so this wouldn't be much different. Hell, he would say this is easier since this an urban area, not an open field that is heaven for snipers.

But he wouldn't drop his guard regardless, there is a huge difference. The snipers in his memory were soldiers that given a scoped sniper rifle and that is, it is unclear if they are as skilled as anything he knows at all. This one, however, includes many snipers whose skill reached the realm of legend itself. If they managed to reach the status of Heroic Spirit then their skill with sniping is no doubt beyond any recognitions.

He takes a deep breath and quickly gathers his pace. There is no use comparing them now, he has his duty and he'll follow it through to its end.

Meanwhile, Desmond is tending to the wound of the little Archer, he glad that it didn't strike anything vital but he didn't like her rash action like that.

"For God's sake, why did you do something like that? Why didn't you consider others before you doing something like that?" Desmond scold the little Archer's for her action.

"Sorry, I thought that using my smaller physique to my advantage was a good enough idea but you see how wrong I was and you can laugh at me for all you wanted," Kuro said as if she regretted her whole decision.

"I'm just glad that you were okay, but it looks like your Master has guessed all of my Noble Phantasm just from what happened and my action alone, I give him that at least," Desmond said as he praised her Master.

"Well, if he didn't do so from long before, he wouldn't make it this far. He is the type to never back down no matter how dire it is. He is willing to make gods his enemy if they threaten humanity themselves." Kuro describes her Master.

"And you know what else is not surprising? I too would believe it." Desmond said while tending the wound that Kuro sustained.

Even with two Servants out of commission, they managed to finally break through the situation, now they have to reach the snipers and it won't be an easy task no matter how one can say.

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Messenger's Call

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Back to Arnold's position

"We'll be making a pincer attack towards one of the sniper's location, information is indeed one of the most important aspects of warfare like you said," Arnold said back through the walkie-talkie.

He evaded another shot before it hits him in his vital which results in a graze that cut through his clothes but no damage is done.

"But I'm afraid that I can't afford to spare much more thought talking to you while I'm under heavy fire. If you got something critical to report, call me and I'll pick it up!" Arnold said before he cut off the communication.

Dust flying up just from his sheer movement alone, Servants that have speed as their strength would probably laugh at him with the speed that is supposed to be called his 'best' but they still going to give it to him that he is far faster than how any Modern Servants could be.

Athletics and swift, he dodged another shot that pierces through the wall of the ruined building, his reaction is good enough to the point that even if it is about to hit him, he could still swerve his body so that it would be at best graze him. The tightly packed building gave him a good cover so that the snipers got no choice but to guess it based on his behaviors and actions so far but most of the time the sniper guessed correctly where he is.

"Persistent to the very end huh? I'll find you and I'll take you down." Arnold thought about what he wanted to do.

Before he knew it, he got himself to a wide-open space, assuming is a large road and intersection area. But there is one thing that spells a wrench to the gear in his plan, Azure Soldiers, and a lot of them and a few Panzers in the current area he just got into. It seems that they were patrolling the area and he just alerted all of them.

"Oh for the love of-" Arnold said before he got greeted with a hail of bullets and ballistic at his face.

His body instinctively pulled back before he got hit by any of those but now not only he got Azure Soldiers on his pursuit but also a sniper that wanted his ass on the plate.

"Crap! I don't have anything that could be used for dealing with large groups like this. I'm a runner, not an artillery crew!" Arnold thought while evading the hail of bullets.

Within the heat of battle, he felt his mind is pushing beyond its limit, seconds become minutes, minutes become hours and so on. He decided that he'll have to search for anything in his mind should he wish to overcome the situation he is in right now.

Felt as if becoming lighter, his consciousness returned to the sealed armory of bygone past. He stood there, scrutinize for anything that can be used as a weapon to take down large groups. Unfortunately, the only thing that was in his armory was pistols, infantry-issued rifles, some grenade that would explode for a pitiful amount of range, and smoke grenades that would probably act like nothing towards the sniper and a flamethrower that would paint a target on his back and the target would say 'shoot me'.

"Oh for fuck's sake, nothing here is viable," Arnold said while his frustration started to build up.

Amid his frustration, the sound of something caught his attention. He looked around and realized that it was the sound of a pigeon. He saw the pigeon cage in his memory sitting on the desk and a book is placed on it.

He came to check the book first only to realize that most of the pages are blank but what surprised him is that the pages have what is written here is a summarized version of part of his memory, it is mostly random and about for now but he would have appreciated more if he could recover his memory and learn the truth of who he is.

He takes a look at the pigeon that is inside the cage, it looks back at him in the eyes. He realized that perhaps there is a way for him. Perhaps. But he hesitated for also realized that there is no artillery crew or even a place for it to go at all. He stuck in an impasse, not knowing what to do but decided to put it all on a dim hope.

"Not like I have any better choices left, either do or die. Here I go!" Arnold said as he grabbed the pigeon cage and head out towards the exit that will return him to reality.

The bright light behind it blinds him but his vision soon returns to what he is doing, fending off a large group of Azure Soldiers while evading their fires.

He takes the pigeon out of the cage and opened the leg canister that was attached to its leg. Surprisingly, it didn't fly off instantly but sitting on his shoulder while Arnold is under heavy fire. It almost as if like it is waiting for Arnold to write something in it and it will only fly when he did so.

There is also a piece of paper and a piece of graphite inside the canister, he knew better to find a place to write this than multi-tasking on his two arms alone.

Closing the canister again, he made a run for somewhere that the Azure Soldiers' attacks won't reach him immediately. Being hunted by a marksman isn't enough but an army that pursuing him made the situation worse already. Deciding that he should at least try to reduce the probability of getting shot as low as possible.

With smoke grenades held on to his side belt, he threw a few of them in the direction in front of him, the sniper seems to know where exactly he is but this will make them check twice for every shot.

The smoke grenades detonated covering a surprisingly wide area. This would buy him more time. He sat down behind the wall of a ruined building and grab the contents in the container.

"What should I write?! There is no support here or any army at all. Forget it! I'll just write it and hope for the best." Arnold thought.

And so Arnold wrote.

'Send artillery barrages at the squad 50 meters ahead of my positions'

And in the next moment, he put the contents back into the container and close it off. And in the next, he threw the pigeon to the sky with all of his might behind it and move out before getting spotted again.

The pigeon flew up through the smokescreen as it flies toward the glooming cloudy sky, like a bolt from the blue, the white bird that was freed from the stain and filth of the land it came from. Like an angel, it carries the message towards heaven beyond, Arnold who is running look up towards it and watch as it disappears into the clouds.

Nothing happened in those seconds, Arnold felt like he got played into a fool's errand and as like how he thought, useless. But that was just for those seconds alone.

Right in the next moment, the shells came burst from high heaven into the ground below as it was aimed towards the Azure Soldiers. Like sinners facing god's judgment, they were dumbfounded at the turn of events that is happened in front of their eyes. In the next moment, a massive amount of explosion went on as the land in front of Arnold's eye was razed to the depth of hell itself.

It all happened not even in minutes and what followed up is only the sound of rain, and large craters on the ground left behind by such a devastating strike, a large cloud of dust that was left behind mixed with azure ashes that fly through the air with it and the dumbfounded Arnold as if he saw the power of heaven itself.

Realizing the power he has again, he found out that he has the power to turn the tides and it makes him far more determined of what to come. And so he'll strike back with all he got.

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Soaring Heaven

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Back to Shirou's position

After analyzing the bullet's path, Shirou begins to pursue the location of one of the snipers.

Another shot was fired but Shirou managed to deflect the bullet after he put enough mana into his twin sword. He has his father and mother followed him so that they could block off any escape path that the snipers could use should them attempt to escape when Shirou got close.

The urban area helped a bit in making them harder to be detected but it does almost nothing to slow down the bullets that were aimed at them, the rain doesn't help in the slightest for Shirou either.

"Master. Do you copy right now?" Kiritsugu telepathically communicates with his Master.

"I heard you, Assassin. I'm breaking through the apartments that were adjacent to each other. Although I can't exactly peek out to the large road, I am still trying to get as close as possible so that I can support all of you in any way I can." Gudao telepathically answered back

"Understood, I'm going to get to the top of the buildings so that I can scout in any way I can, my Presence Concealment should work right now," Kiritsugu answered back before getting on to his plan.

Assassin jumped to the top of a nearby building, it gives him a good vantage point so that he could scout the surrounding area. As far as his sights could tell, it is just mostly apartment buildings and some bit taller buildings.

"Honey, did you found anything yet?" Irisviel asked her husband who she is hanging on from the back.

"Not yet, there is hardly anything the snipers could use as a good sniping spot but considering that they were Heroic Spirits, I doubt that they wouldn't have found one already," Kirtisugu said to his wife.

"Kiritsugu, is that?" Irisviel said when she saw something.

"Crap! I have to tell him!" Before Kiritsugu said it, it was too late for him to intervene when his son his rushing toward the danger zone.

Back to Shirou's location, he is rushing toward the area ahead of him head-on, a large open road that would make him susceptible sniper attacks and to make the matter worse, he has to come across a patroling group of Azure Soldiers.

"Shit." Shirou thought when he realized the grave situation he got himself in.

Changing his stances of action quickly, he swapped his twin sword for his bow and rapidly firing at the Azure Soldiers, the enemies also return fire like a hailstorm that was aimed at him, not only he has no chance or time to charge even for a Hrunting let alone anything that could take down Panzer, the sniper he supposed to aim for is probably taking advantage of his situation right now.

"Damn it! How am I supposed to breakthrough now!" Shirou thought while dodging the hail of bullets.

The number of enemies he supposed to fight is staggering, the Panzers that blocking Shirou's attack aren't even flinching from it at all. Kiritsugu and Irisviel who are observing their situation right now know that they have to do something.

"I'll have to take down those Panzer!" Kiritsugu knows full well how dangerous the situation that Shirou got himself in.

In the next moment, he takes out a large rifle, its caliber is bigger than the 50 cal sniper itself. The A-Square Hannibal, one that uses .557 T-rex. M82 is good when he had to deal with groups of enemies that aren't too defensively powerful, WA2000 is for designated distance sniping. But A-Square is for when you got no other choice of taking down powerful enemies without resorting to explosives or missiles.

He broken-charge the bullet and then enchanted it with Chronomaturgy.

Time alters - square accel

He then loaded the bullet into the rifle and prepare to hold the trigger. If he fires it, his Presence Concealment will wear out and exposes him to everyone else but he accepts it, his family is the last line for his sanity and he can't afford to lose anyone, not when he and his family made it this far. He will help his son regardless if it is going to endanger himself.

He held the trigger and what followed up is a loud noise created from the sound barrier being destroyed by the sheer velocity of the bullet. What followed up soon enough is the three Panzers that supposed to cover the Azure Soldiers behind them got shredded to pieces along with the soldiers behind it by the power of his attack. The numbers of Azure Soldiers managed to be cut down to acceptable so that his son could find a way to breakthrough.

Kiritsugu let out a deep breath of relief but everything has its price.

"Kiri!" Irisviel warned him of an incoming attack.

"Huh?" Kiritsugu before realizing what has happened, his back was turned and the person received that attack was his wife. Even when his wife blocked that attack, he still felt the impacts and forces behind the said bullet and it knocked both of them off the building. Kiritsugu fell face flat into the ground but it is a far more acceptable consequence than being headshot by the said thing.

The rain continuously fell on both of them, lying silently on the cold ground. Fortunately, none of them died, Irisviel's Child of Nature gives her the blessing from the Reverse Side of the World for being made in there by the hands of humans. No matter how much trauma and pain she may suffer, she will remain unchanged no matter what for she is as pure as her innocence. That is what her skill Child of Nature is after all. She takes advantage of this skill by shielding her husband from attacks that could kill him while remaining unharmed no matter what it is.

*cough*"I think we out of the sniper's sight, for now. That person thinks that we were killed by him." Kiritsugu let out a wry smile.

"Yeah, I hope our son would manage to break through the situation," Irisviel said to her husband.

They are out of this fight for now. This will be Shirou's only chance to turn the tide, he will have to use all of what he has or it will be his end.

Back to Shirou's position, the significant difference in the enemy's number did him wonder, now he has more leeways to deal with the predicament he is in.

"Jii-san... Okaa-san... Damn it, I'll have to do this, I need something, something that can wipe them all in one fell swoop, something that isn't Caladbolg or Hrunting." Shirou thought while he is dodging the stream of constant bullets although the intensity is far less than before.

He thought for a while and calculating his possible way of breakthrough, his Mind's Eye allows him to narrow down the possibilities to the one that would give him the highest chance to succeed.

"As much as I hate to do this, it seems that there are no other options for me," Shirou said before he spiritually leaped into what would be called his darkest memory.

Word of God: For this part, use Fate/stay night - Emiya

Memorial Essences is a key and a gateway to greater power as it grants Servants additional Noble Phantasm that they couldn't use with the class they are in or enhance the one they already had. One thing though is that said memory isn't always a good one for it may show them at their utmost worst or memory that they would rather be suppressed. But nonetheless, it is necessary for Servants to move beyond their past or worst possibilities should they wanted to become stronger for the sake of being able to protect humanity.

And Shirou Emiya wasn't exempt from being shown his worst possibility and turns out being Counter Guardian wasn't his worst fate, there is also his another Counter Guardian version who was so mentally broken and deranged that it was unreal and when Shirou received his Memorial Essence, he fell into a coma for about two days before awaken from it. Shirou himself knew well that power by itself is impartial and reliance on the heart of its user. Even if it is a weapon belong to his worst possible self, he will not deny the power it would be able to grant him in this dire situation.

Shirou reached for the memory that he pushed to the furthest back of his head. What greets him first when he reached it is a really fast wind, a wind that is so fast that it doesn't allow any human to exist. Shirou knew such a wind like that in the first place, it was the gale inside his Reality Marble. But this one is different, it was filled with filth and ashes, contaminated with malice and hatred. It felt like if he let his guard down in the slightest, it will corrupt him in no time sooner. He keeps stepping forward despite the gale wanted him to die, the dark crimson horizon that contrasts greatly with his from every fiber of his being, in there stood a man with skin as dark as pitch black with gold plated throughout his body in a way that he was breaking down and fixed himself by fixing gold on it. In old Japanese, anything broken will have to be fixed with gold in order to show that mistakes and flaws shouldn't be forgotten but to remembered.

That man has been taking drugs in order to push his abilities to reach and go beyond the level of Servant's and overuse it to such a degree that his body breaking down because of it, Shirou keeps his step forward as the contaminated gale pushing him back, the gold-dark Servant started to look back at him and said.

"Never thought that you actually seeking my help now, aren't you?" The man said back to Shirou.

Shirou's vision fired up as he forces as much heat into his body as possible. His limbs cut through the gale like blades against water.

"Can you keep up with me?" The gold-dark Servants said back to Shirou

Whether to scorn him or trust in him. As if he is waiting for Shirou's to get there. Shirou in his heart knows clearly what decision to take.

"It is not that whether or not I can keep up with you-" Shirou said before he clearly follows up with all of his determination.

"It is whether you can keep up with me!" Shirou said as he reaches towards the man who he despite becoming.

Shirou's consciousness returned back to reality with the wind of his suppressed memory died down.

He steps up, analyzing the enemy, there are about fifty-sixty of them with a few Panzers left, he will need something that will finish all of them off with one swift blow.

Excalibur is out of the question, costs too much energy for somebody like him and will require a Command Seal from his Master to compensate for the cost. Hrunting and Caladbolg will take too much time to deal with this situation. My power and his are different like light and darkness and so I can only utilize what both of us have used for almost of our lifetime.

Shirou took a deep breath, he put all of his mana into his arms and projected the twin swords he always used.

Spirit and technique, flawless and firm

He took another deep breath while evading the bullets, not removing himself from what he supposed to do.

Strength rips the mountain

Dark energy and statics form from his arm as if he is channeling his inner worst, this is a gamble for he is using Noble Phantasm from someone who basically contradicts him to his very fundamental despite it is also his very self.

Blade splits the Yellow River

He connected the two pommels of the twin sword together and it turns into a duel-bladed melee staff, he felt his body is aching for attempting something blasphemous to his existence.

Fame reaches the Imperial Villa

"Trace Overedge" Shirou said as the duel blades of the melee staff turned itself into the amalgamation of a demon and angel's wing. His eye turned into the glint of cold steel as there is only his killing intent left behind it.

Two of us can't hold the heavens together. Soaring Heaven!

With a single whirl of the blade he held, he exceeds godspeed before anyone could blink an eye. In just an instant, he cut through the horde of Azure Soldiers with a slash of blended light and darkness of hell and heaven. There is no counterattack left for the only remain is the azure ashes that flew through the wind and rain. For good...

A single whirl filled with his vigor put the entire fight into his decisive victory, but if only he could feel it anymore.

Word of God: For this part play Fate/stay night - Ever-present Fellings

Kuro came into the scene and saw it all unfolded, she was dumbfounded by his strength and despite they shares the same power, it is clear that her brother has the experience under his belt saved him.

The man was trembling with fatigue and shaken from the power he used, he suppressed his own fear and put his life on the line for the final blow of his. His crimson shroud was torn from the sheer power it has to handle.

From the moment she started to walk towards where her family is to witnessing her brother's move, it took her only half a minute but that half a minute she used determined the final outcome for her brother.

"Shi-" Kuro said when she made it and saw the battle he partakes in has ended.

The winds blow through the clearing as if signaling the conflict has ended. The only thing left was the figure in her vision.

Only the sounds of wind and rain remain for the battle has ended. Using his own will and determination, he fought against his death and won. He faced his own worst nightmare and defeated that fear himself.

His figure looks heroic and powerful, there is no doubt left in him now.

He cast away all of his agonies when he projected something that was never belonged to him and never will be in the first place

"-Shirou" Kuro said again as she keeps watching in sorrow.

His body looks like they belonged to somebody else's now. It was a foolish yet sacred end with no return.

*cough* Shirou resumed his breathing, his vision was in statics and felt like he was going to broke down any second now. His sister voiced awaken him back from flowing into eternal slumber. The dual bladed staff in his left arm has disintegrated from his hand and what is left behind is a profusely bleeding arm due to overexertion.

"Kuro?" Shirou said tiredly from exhaustion and doing something he never familiarized with.

Before he realized it, his sister dashed towards him and deflected a sniper's bullet to protect him from the snipers, it seems that it has slipped off his mind after he did such an attack like it.

"Mama! Papa! Take Onii-chan to safety!" Kuro said as loud as she can to call for help.

As if acting upon their instinct, despite that they were in no better condition, both Kiritsugu and Irisviel came to retrieve their son back into safety and it seems like Desmond has also made it.

She looks back at the general direction towards the sniper and just by looking at her gaze, one can already tell that there won't be mercy.

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Through Fire and Flame

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Back to the Finnish's position

Another large explosion, it would be surprising if nobody managed to notice it. The dust that was kicked up from the blast still linger around, the hazy figure of a man slowly walking through the dust cloud.

In his eyes, there is only a stilling flame of hatred in it. The azure ashes created from an annihilated group of patroling Azure Soldiers mixed with the cloud of smoke of dust. One can tell that he doesn't like to play around with his enemy at all and he doesn't hesitate using his Noble Phantasm if nobody is around.

He keeps walking but the aura around him makes him extremely menacing. Truth be told, it is a wonder that none of the others has noticed that anywhere he walks ended up turning into a blaze that the rain can't extinguish at all. Anywhere he goes, it turns into hell.

Needless to say that all of those smoke make it near impossible to snipe anything at all.

"I can see why my Master told me to be careful with the demon of the Third Reich, that man only wanted to see the world burns." The Russian girl said.

The hellfire keeps spreading further towards her, the place she is in right now is an abandoned university that was half-collapsed from long before but still grants her enough coverage and height.

The figure she is hunting for keeps blending in with the smoke and fire, making her ability to snipe her target drastically reduced. There were many times that she could have decided to change her location but keeps thinking that she may be able to hunt him down if she keeps pushing on.

"I don't know which part of your is more blatant, your persistence or your Russian ancestry." An unfamiliar voice was said, the girl instinctively fires her rifle at the source of the voice.

The bullet hit somebody and it was the Finnish but not a single drop of blood was shed and he didn't flinch in the slightest. He stood there menacingly, like a fortress wall that would crush her alive.

"How!? How did you-" The girl said in surprise with a hint of fear in it. Never in her service did she gotten spotted near like this.

"Listen here, you little shit. I don't have time to play this stupid game of you and your Master. I don't know what kind of man he was but there is one thing to be sure here is that this place will be your burial ground." The Finnish said back with a voice that would strike fear in everyone's heart.

"Not for that long, heretic." The girl said back as she retaliated by firing her rifle straight into the Finnish head.

It is unknown if it is just because of dumb luck or he really that skilled for he literally just dodged the bullet just by tilting his head while the rifle was fired at point-blank range. Never in her life has she ever saw someone that could just dodge a bullet at point-blank.

"So it is clear then, you chose to die," The Finnish said as if he has decided her execution.

He takes out a Molotov and threw it at the ground in front of him, completely separate them from each other.

"What is he planning!?" The girl said in confusion as she tried to sort out the mess that is unfolding in front of her.

As if receiving an answer instantly, a blinding light shines on her, she looks at the window and saw something that completely dumbfounds her.

A helicopter, one that was armed to teeth with machine guns and missiles. In her eyes, she was looking at something that completely not belonged to this time. Humanity's biggest fear, after all, is the fear of the unknown.

The helicopter begins to rev up its machine gun and firing with a stream of bullets that would make the rain out there looks like a single drop to a flood.

Gather her composure, she makes a mad dash through the hallway while the helicopter chases after her. When she almost gets caught in the helicopter's line of fire, she lunged through the staircase nearby, dodging her death.

"What in the hell is that thing!? I have never seen anything like that-" Before she caught her breath back, her body instinctively evaded as a missile fired towards her.

Pursued by something that was out of her range of knowledge, she desperately trying to find any way out of this. For now, running away is her only valid tactic for this one.

The building started to collapse from the heavy fire it undertook, she has little time left and she will have to use anything that could give her an edge against her newfound enemy.

She decided to at least test out if her attack work, aiming her rifle at the helicopter that wanted her to turn into minced meat, she pulled the trigger. Perhaps she already anticipated her own disappointment for her bullet just got bounced away when it hit the helicopter.

"Well, that's a bummer," She said before she dashed into the closest room before the helicopter's barrage sweep her out.

The building won't last long, it is a surprise that it can still stand despite it is on its last leg. Her survivability is now counting below minutes, it is to act now or die onward.

Checking all the possibilities, she has little solutions left, the building won't last long either. Within the impasse she stuck in, a sudden idea gives her the answer to the dilemma she is facing right now.

"That's it!" She said. The Russian girl quickly materializes a larger rifle, an anti-tank rifle. The thing is too bulky to carry around and too overkill for her job but it is the necessary part of her plan.

Just right at that moment, the building has finally given up from the helicopter's onslaught and started to collapse. Almost within seconds, she dashed out of the room and jumped through the window of the building. The helicopter quickly pursues her and started to rev up the machine gun.

"Eat this!" The girl said before she fired the anti-tank rifle at the helicopter's weak point. The rotor.

Broken the sonic barrier, the bullet moves with a speed that would pierce through everything and not even in a second, the rotor blew up and soon the helicopter lost its own control and spin uncontrollably.

She landed on the ground safely despite she jumped from a three-story building, the university that sniped on now is nothing more than rubbles, and the helicopter soon crashed onto the ground and exploded into a wreck.

"Too close right there." She let out a deep breath after surviving such an encounter like that.

But something doesn't bode well with her, her instinct is telling that there is more to this how it meets the eye. Wary of whatever is going to happen, she looked around if the 'heretic' is still here or not.

She heard something, it was something falling from the sky and when she looked up. She realized that she has been played completely into that the Finnish's plan.

What was up in the sky was a barrage of falling bombs, one that she doesn't even recognize at all. The barrage is too large to escape right now.

"Crap..." She said before the bombs impacted on the ground.

What happened next is hell literally raised, the entire section of where the bombs landed literally turned into hellfire. A flame of the eternal nightmare that would outlast till eternity.

At a distance away from the bombing, the Finnish turned his back from the aftermath, only giving annoyed sigh as he has resorted to something like that. He doubts no one would notice it. No one wouldn't notice it for sure.

He walked away slowly, as the sounds of the blaze can still be heard through the rain

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Thousands-Bullet Revolver

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Back to Pierce's position

"Richard! Left flank!" Pierce commanded Richard as his Servant dispatched another Azure Soldier.

Both of them are holed up in a building for now. It seems the sniper only fire at them if they are out in the open field or at least in its vision.

"Slow but steady, we will reach there soon," Pierce told his Servant.

"Yeah, soon... But the Azure Soldiers are posing more threat right now. Did all of us just alert all of them in this ring?" Richard asks his Master.

"We can't know for sure until we deal with those pesky snipers, put your wit on top!" Pierce replied back to his Servant.

They will have to pick their chance and path well, just one moment of being careless and they are already dead.

"Okay, go!" Pierce commanded Richard to head out first.

Right even when he steps to outside, he deflected the bullet with a bayoneted rifle. His wit is still enough to block attack like it which kinda makes Pierce concerns that he might be falling into a trap.

"2 o'clock! 1st Class inbounds!" Pierce commanded his Servant as he proceeds carefully, his armor can withstand Azure Soldiers but completely outclassed by Servants' attack.

Deflected another of the sniper shot, the old man started to feel more suspicious about the snipers they are fighting against, thinking that they are in a trap or something.

"Richard! Switch your tactic! Go into the small alleyway and proceed carefully towards the sniper's position.

"Got it!" Richard said back to his Master.

Sidestep into the small alley, the area here is pretty tight and so it would completely block his enemy's view. And if the sniper's behavior is still the same, they will make it there in no time with no counterattack.

Azure Soldiers started to flood in more into the alleyway that Richard is in, if it is not gonna be the sniper that he is worried about, it will be those monster behind that mask of theirs.

Only with his annoying sigh, he whipped out a double-barrel shotgun and prepared to fight his way through again. It is just simply because of his invention that he suddenly got associate as a person who knew very much about firearms.

Words of God: This one, I kinda don't know how to describe properly so you may have to search "FF8 Irvine's Limit Break". I'll probably fix this one soon if I know how to describe it without making it sounds stupid.

He took a deep breath and prepare to attack, holding the shotgun in his hand and aimed at the enemy. Within not even a second, he fired the first shot which burst through some Azure Soldiers, the remaining which saw how his attack begins to return fire.

Moving his shotgun to the side of his back while it still aimed in the direction towards the enemy, with a speed that leaves only afterimages, he fires another shot that held unrivaled power that sweeps the entire alleyway in front of him, soldiers, ballistics, anything in front of him in the alleyway got blasted to smithereens and ashes.

There are still more coming in, he quickly spins around and changes his stance into holding the shotgun one-handed. Another shot was fired and it comes with a hail of shrapnel that burst through the small alleyway he is in.

The alley is clear for a while and he started to move out, he wonders if his Master could pull through this like him.

For every step he moves, he fires his shotgun once. Even if it is slow and steady, they'll make it there in no time.

Unfortunately, though, warfare has always been full of unpredictable aspects, making any plan no matter how tight it is still prone to go completely wrong. And it just happened to unfold right in front of him right now.

Feeling something rumbling beneath, his gut is telling him that something huge is coming near here. People did say that you can't be too precautious and that has indeed paid him off. Decided to go against his Master's plan, he bursts through the nearby buildings in his attempt to at least warn his Master of an incoming enemy.

The walls did nothing to stop him as he burst through and when he was in the middle of doing so, he heard something loudly burst through the buildings that were on the alley he used to take. He started to feel more worried that they probably triggered the boss here.

Soon enough, he burst to the other alley and saw his Master still trying to fight his way through the horde Azure Soldiers. He felt a bit of relieve knowing that his Master is still fine enough but that brief moment of relief is also shattered soon when he suddenly saw a barrage of bullets piercing through the buildings in the alley in front of him. Whatever it is, it is clear that it wants to wipe both him and his Master out.

"Duck!" He said as he jumped in and held his Master down against the ground. It was that single moment that decided Pierce's fate as the barrage cleaves through the Azure Soldiers mercilessly and shatters the buildings around them. Both of them managed to make out unscathed for that moment.

Clouds of dust fly from the destruction left behind. Only deafening silence remains. The giant figure made of steel is advancing towards them. It is ominous like a black star

Words of God: For this part, play Evangelion - God's Message.

Richard pulls himself up and quickly materializes his Noble Phantasm, the Gatling gun. He looks eyes to eyes towards the figure and when the dust settles down did his suspicion has been confirmed. The figure was a Tiger, that steel tiger head of that mech is a dead giveaway already.

Face to face, the Tiger begins to fire its machine gun, Richard begins to fire his and when the moment comes, it is was a clash between two forces of nature.

Thousands of bullet fly towards each other in a matter of seconds, each bullet hit deflect each other in perfect sync. It was literally raining smithereens from the clashes of those bullets, both sides don't give up at all.

The Tiger's eyes started to glow red as if it started to get impatient with its target. The machine gun on its arm started to have some sort of mana particles circulating around the gun's barrel. It was at that moment, something just dropped in Richard's stomach as he feared that he will be erased in those next seconds if he doesn't do something.

Adrenalin floods through his body, time seems to flow slower than normal to him. He begins thoughts to himself.

"Oh no, just what can I do here? This is it, I'm going to die. If even that tanned Archer's explosive shot can't make a dent in this thing then how am I supposed to defeat it?" Richard thought.

His body started desperately search for a solution in his life and death situation. Searching through any fragments of his memory, it seems like the effort of doing so is going to be a futile one. But there is the voice of someone that recalled him.

His Master, the man with a heart made out of pure determination. A man who was so valiant that even he himself would call him as a hero. If there is anything that would stick out to him, it would be his advice.

"Power is simply the extension of one's soul, what use does it have if not used to its full potential." Or so he heard, he has too little time to recollect the whole thing completely.

Realized what he is truly lacking, he determines himself. He now understands why soldiers can put on a brave face even when facing death itself. He realized just what he has been lacking, a will to not back down on the face of adversary.

Time started to flow back into normal pace, the Tiger's machine gun is having so many mana particles surrounding it to the point it became a halo itself. He knew what is going to come next and he will overcome it.

And it was as just like how he thought, the machine gun is no longer firing any bullets but it straights up firing beam itself. Before that beam of destruction came to evaporate him.

"And this is to go further and beyond!" The man said with a heart of iron, he doesn't fear his imminent death anymore.

After he said it, the Gatling gun started to also fire beam to counter against his opponent. Any ranged Servant can fire beam as long as they put enough mana into their attacks and most of them have a ton of it.

Two beam clashes with each other creating a blinding flash that burst through the dust clouds. If anyone pays any attention, they would see it clearly that something is happening.

Pierce can only look in awes in the face of the clash that is going on.

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Silver Wing - Golden Wills

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Back to Arnold's position

After he managed to break through the patrolling units, there is almost nothing left on his way towards his target. Even if the enemy can somehow identify him among the buildings, he would manage to evade said attack somehow.

"Almost there! Now I just need to-" Before Arnold thought all of what he wanted, he came into a standstill. Now he realized why the enemy is so confident. The place that they sniping from is surrounded by a large open area. If he goes out there, he will get head shotted in an instance.

"Damn it! I was so close!" He thought as he hides behind the closest building.

Devising what he needed to do next, he can't just rush out there like a headless chicken. Nor he has anything that could protect him from those powerful shots.

They said that in the hardest time did the ingenuity prevails and his action right now is probably the one that would be added into those examples.

He checked whatever he had and hoped that he has something that might help him. And when he looked at the pickaxe that he brought along from yesterday. When he did so, he has a flashback that he destroyed the Tiger's arm with said thing. And when he realized the tactic that was used back in that distant wartime. He put two and two together and an idea sparked in his mind.

"Perhaps..." He mumbled.

He started to take out his pickaxe and prepared for whatever to comes afterward from this action. In the next moment, he struck the pickaxe against the ground and a cloud of dust burst from where it landed right in the instance.

He was prepared for such an action and he didn't expect he would be dazed from its power would be like this but he got what he needed, a pit for his next step.

He looked at where the sniper's building is and then he jumped into the pit. Holding the pickaxe again as he prepared to do whatever it takes to defeat the sniper.

He cleaves through the wall of the pit and a staggering amount of rubbles were razed to above the ground, creating a long trench at the direction he struck. With a smirk on his face, he rushed through the trench itself and for each time he about to reach the end. He will strike another one in a different direction to close in the building.

There were attempts to shot him down but most were unable to hit him due to the fact that the sniper can't perceive him nor his speed which also means whoever is there can't shoot him accurately.

Another strike against the ground, he started to get closer as his intuition can tell, the distances he took doesn't lie about this as far as he can concerns. There is one thing though, doing this repeatedly actually taking a toll on his body despite he not showing it himself. He probably can just make a straight path towards the building but the moment he peeks out to that path would just be his doom. But he can't afford to do much of this unless being exhausted to the point he became a sitting duck for the sniper is a good idea to him.

"I can't keep doing this, there has to be a way for this." He keeps thinking of the possible choice he can take.

Another idea sparked in his mind, perhaps he can do this.

He throws a grenade at the end of the trench, he has 4 seconds before it detonates. Rushing head-on towards it, he put his stamina in the pickaxe and strike with all of the strength behind it. Grounds were leveraged as the rubbles fly everywhere. He jumped on the area on top of the grenade he threw, and as it blew up, the force pushes him towards the sky.

"I have to do this. If I wanted to find the truth about myself." He thought as he leaped from each rubble in the air with unreal speed.

The rubble would fall down soon eventually, he is still unable to locate where the sniper is in the building and so he resorted to the final option.

The same pigeon appeared in his hand and he threw it into the sky above. If he can't find whoever it is in that building then he would erase the building away.

Unfortunately, there is something that was called casualty and pigeons was unfortunately included along with the death toll in WW1. And he soon realized, he has used his only trump card sooner that it should be.

The pigeon was mercilessly shot down and what remains were just its scattering feathers. He witnessed in shock and realized he can't unturn his action anymore. It is all downhill for him from this point.

"No... What can I do now? I'm going to die..." He thought as despair start to seep in his mind.

But the killing blow never came, he got knocked back into his sense when an explosion shook the building and the air around it. He looked at the building as it started to get closer to the verge of collapse as the explosive barrage keeps knocking into the building.

He looked at where the firer might be and he saw it, the very same blond girl from before. Running with a speed that would make any modern ground vehicles eating dust. In her two hands are what appears to be single-use rocket launchers. She keeps firing them and discarding them right away after using and then materializes another one in her hand. All of this is repeated with a speed that would be afterimage for others.

Not even in half a minute, the building collapsed as it became nothing more than rubbles. Arnold started to get his stance properly and landed on the ground with his feet. Alfin gets nearby him and checks to see if he is okay or not.

"Thank god that you were okay. Why did you do something like that?!" Alfin asks with a slightly annoyed tone.

"Well... I planned that I could just close them in by creating trenches that would surround them but dear lord that doing so is really energy-consuming. And so I decided to just bounce it off like that." Arnold said.

"You shouldn't do something like that but thanks for you that I managed to open my way to attack them. So thanks." Alfin said with a smile on her face.

Arnold can only look at her, who wouldn't feel happy when they saw a smile like that? But something doesn't feel right to him. That smile of her is genuine but her eyes just for some reason feel far off.

"Wait, what is that?" Arnold said as a blinding light is flashing from a not too far off distance from there.

"We have to check out! Something might have happened!" Alfin said as she rushes head-on.

Arnold can only follow her up, there is something that just feels right and wrong at the same times and he can't put it into his mind. He decided that he should at least observe her more before passing down any judgment.

He follows her up as they head towards the clash between two forces.

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Crimson-shrouded Hero

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Back to Shirou's position

At the back of somewhere, Shirou slowly regains his consciousness as he breathing tiredly, he didn't expect to put in so much work for a singularity that was already in the modern age but it seems that you can't judge a book by its cover.

He pulls himself up and sees a crimson shroud covering his left arm which is now healed and a note that was lying next to him the whole time. He doesn't know when it was here but he is going to check it out at the least.

'Dear brother
I'm sorry for leaving you like this but I have to say what did you there make me realize how inexperienced I am. I have always kept the idea that if I at least know how to use my power properly, I would be able to keep up with the threat that is looming humanity itself. But that moment when you faced your own fear and overcome it. It felt like something in my gut has just dropped and given up, realizing how much of a kid I still am. Even so, two of us are two half of a whole and I swore on you that I will ascend to the level that you are on. The rest of us are on the path to hunt down that sniper who manipulated all of us to jump into danger. Rest while you still can, Onii-chan! 'Cus you will be needing it!
Your sister

Kuro'

A smirk form in Shirou's face, he knew well his sister and he wouldn't put it off the fact that she truly cares about him even if they have any sort of sibling rivalry. He looked at the shroud and analyze it. He smiled as he saw it.

"The Shroud of Martin huh? You did your homework well enough. And quite nostalgic too."

The Shroud of Martin has some Anti-Corruption effect which they used for him. They thought that he might be corrupted by something and decided to patch it up and then shroud it in the fear of the possibility of corruption.

"Not that I could blame her for doing so, I could have died for real if it weren't for her. Since I'm going to wear this shroud on my arm now, I'm going to at least change up a little bit.

He traced a similar piece of cloth with the same property as the shroud that covers his arm. He wears it on his head like a headband, it is a nostalgic feeling that he can't quite sure where it comes from in the first place. He decided to steps outside and check where he is.

The sprinkling rain greets him as they drop to his silver hair, the sky has begun to turn dimmer as the night begins to approach, he knew he has to act soon enough and thus the first action he should take is to find where his family is.

Back to Kuro's position

"I swear on my brother that I'll make it. For the sake yours and everyone else." Kuro mumbles under her lips as she running towards the building that she designated herself.

The group of four is now making their way to their target, a lonely and run-down apartment building near riverside. Surrounding it is a large empty field.

"Wait, hold on! Where's our Master?!" Irisviel asked if anyone knows something.

"Our Master is behind us, he knows where we are so there is nothing to worry about," Kiritsugu said to his wife.

"So does anyone know how to destroy a building, 'cus I sure as hell can't even harm a fly," Desmond asks everyone else.

This is just a single building so if they can save their energy, they would take it in the drop of a hat.

"Kuro, I and your mother will jump to the top of the building near here. You will draw their attention so that we would get a clear shot to destroy that building. If it is getting too dicey then retreat. You hear me?" Kiritsugu said to his daughter.

"Understood," Kuro said back to her father

"I'll follow her too, at least I would take her to safety if the situation got really bad for her," Desmond said.

"Then I hope that I made the right decision in putting my faith in you," Kiritsugu said.

Both of them split their way, their path may differ for now but they have one target of the same.

"Something doesn't feel right, that building, it felt like I heard something about it before but I can't tell what it is exactly." Desmond thinks as he looks at the building

Something will unfold, it is just a matter of when.

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Decisive Intervention

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Back to Pierce's position

How many minutes have passed? Those concepts were completely pointless in the face of the clash in front of him. The tension is unstoppably rising as Richard is trying to push back the beam of annihilations of the Tiger. Pierce looks in worry as he knows that if his Servant can't keep up with the Tiger anymore, it would also be his end, his heart is beating rapidly as his stress started to build up as time goes on.

He just a human, and an undeveloped magus at that. There is no way for him to assist his Servant.

The beam started to approaching Richard as it pushing back Richard's mana beam. Richard can feel the anxiety that is building up as his fear seemed to be nothing but assured.

But thankfully, Lady Luck smiled with them this one time. The Finnish jumped out from the clouds of dust and fired his anti-material rifle at the Tiger's machine gun and swayed its aim away from its target. Richard takes the moment and dodged slightly and aimed his Gatling gun towards the center of the Tiger.

The Tiger suddenly broke out of its lock-on and fired its beam aimlessly into the distance and then the unexpected blow from Richard's Gatling gun pushed back and tumbled it into the ground.

After the Tiger got knocked down, Richard dematerializes his Gatling gun and fell to his knee. He never has been feeling this tired in his life. Richard came to back him up and aid him.

"Richard! Are you alright!?" Pierce pull his Servant's arm to his shoulder so that he could carry him to somewhere safe.

"Yeah... Somehow..." Richard said tiredly to his Master.

"Get out of here while you still can! I'll draw as much of its attention as I can!" The Finnish said as loudly as he could.

The man draws out his Suomi SMG and fires it at the Tiger or specifically, its joint. He has imbued the gun with ice spell which he would use it to create a snow path for easy traversal. But in this situation, he imbued with a higher mana cost to froze anything that it hits. The Finnish knows well that none of his arsenals would be able to kill the Tiger in the first place so this is the least he could do, to immobilize it.

The bullets impacted on the Tiger's joint as crystalline ice started to form on the Tiger's joints, it tried to move but the frozen joint makes sure it remains unable to move. The damn thing sure is persistence for it refused to back down no matter what.

"Damn this thing, I fucking wish that the last time I would see these things is in hell!" The Finnish said in frustration. He doesn't even want to spend another second of his on this thing.

The ice bullets froze of its machine gun and cannon, rendering its only attack choice is to rip him apart with its claw. The Tiger begins to charge towards him in order to rip him apart alive,

Evading its grasp, he doesn't know if he has anything to take it down. He wishes for any additional help to cut short of his work and not resort to using his Noble Phantasm.

Convenient timing is surely convenient because there are two more allies of his jumped in to take down the Tiger. Who else but Arnold and Alfin.

"Burn in hell!" Arnold said at the top of his lung as he leaped towards it with a flamethrower in its hand.

Just like the last time he fights it, he plunged the flamethrower into its eye and hold the trigger. Flames soon erupt out from its plating as it became nothing but a tool of execution.

The Finnish sees it and decided to use a simple tactic but really effective, taking his chance and materialize a wood stake in his hand and he plunged it into the tiger's knee making it knelt to its knee. Not only that but he also started to imbue ice spell into it and making it started to freeze from there.

The Tiger suddenly got locked into an undesirable situation and its operator attempted to get out the Tiger but unfortunately for it, even the escaping hatch was frozen from another imbued stake impaled straight through it.

Struggling to breakout, everything was flowing through its plan only to suddenly blew over by the Finnish and two other Servants. The damn thing just swinging its claw maddeningly in order to just to kill anything around it.

"Not so fast!" Arnold said as he strikes his pickaxe in retaliation against the Tiger as its claw tried to grasp him. Not even in a second and the claw was knocked into a far distance.

Having all of its possible ways to counterattack stripped off. This has now become its execution.

"Everyone! Fall back into the safe distance! I'll wipe this damn thing off the face of this planet!" Alfin said with a clear voice.

Both the Finnish and Arnold leaped away as far as they can, they don't exactly know what is the 'safe' distance so all they can do is just run as far as possible from the Tiger.

A large explosion soon proceeded which created an extremely large noise and an earthquake soon come after, dust flew into the air as they cloud the last remaining light. Both of them tripped and confused for they don't even know exactly what has caused the said explosion.

Whether it was her Noble Phantasm or something else, they don't know but they could tell it was really powerful.

*cough* "Dear lord, what happened?" Arnold pulled himself up from the ground as the dust around him making it difficult for him to tell.

He decided to run back to see what has happened and what greeted him there was a really large crater, stretching out towards a really long distance. If modern carpet bombing was compared to said envisioned attack, it would be like comparing a nuke to a MOAB. There is only one word to describe it, overkill.

He turned his eyes on her, seeing her eye has turned into an amber color. It was like seeing a calm sea turned into turbulence whirlpool. If this is the power she held and she could have easily used on anyone then why does she have to make an alliance with everyone else?

Alfin suddenly noticed Arnold and she snapped out of it and her eye turned back into normal.

"Sorry! Did something went wrong?" Alfin said as if all those times of her were spent to look into nothingness.

Arnold can only see it in silence, she is hiding something that even he can't fathom what it is. Even if his anxieties grew, all he can do is to observe further.

"Nothing... Glad to see that you're alright." Arnold said.

And so the silence fell once again, it might be peaceful for now but this was just a brief respite from what is going to happen next.

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Oncoming Destruction

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Back to Kuro's position

She made her way to the designated location, a place that is in the opposite direction of the place that her parents chose. The plan is that she will divert the sniper's attention towards her side and her parents will blow the sniper's hideout to kingdom's come. Sounds simple but very hard to execute for one single mistake could cost the entire plan and maybe her life. But she is willing to do so anyway, nothing could be done without sacrifice, it may not necessarily mean one's life but it is required nonetheless.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Desmond asked the tanned little girl.

"If there is any better choice, we would have done so, that open field is a dead zone for anyone but extremely powerful Servants and the EKS has pretty much forced us to play by that rule," Kuro answered back.

"Well, you better know when to retreat. There is no point in die fighting." Desmond said.

"Yeah, yeah, I already know," Kuro said before she jumped to the top of the building she chose.

She needs to do something that would draw its attention, and so she drew out her bow and traced a Caladbolg, she then altered it into an arrow and then charging mana into it. The azure tint light shines from her position.

Needless to say that it caught the hideout's attention and Kuro expected it to be a sniper shot but nope. It was a hail of bullets, caught off guard by such an unexpected attack like that, she quickly dematerialize her bow and arrow and traced her twin sword. She also traced multiple swords around her and fire them off to deflects the oncoming barrage.

"Didn't expect something like that! But I'm not going to fall here!" Kuro said as she strengthens her convictions against the onslaught.

And so she started to face the oncoming hail of bullets, whether or not it would be a good idea.

Back to Kiritsugu's position

"Okay, she's got the attention of whoever it is in there. Iri, charge this thing with as much mana as you can. I'll then time alter this thing and so we can blow that up. " He said as he materializes a rocket launcher and its ammunition.

Iri then holds the rocket and then channeling mana into it. It started to shine in the azure tint light much like how her daughter does with the sword-arrow. After that, she gives the rocket to her husband. He applies his spell to the rocket.

Time alter - square accel

The rocket now has its time speed of four, he'll have to use it quickly or it will detonate on his hand due to time dislocation which will make it implode if left for long.

Loading the rocket into the launcher, he aims it toward the foundation of the building, thinking it will destroy the building in one fell swoop.

As much as he thought, underestimation can be fatal.

Back to Kuro's position

She has been deflecting so many bullets and among those barrages have some explosive shells that would cripple if not outright kill her on direct hits. Desmond is looking in worry, he knew something is really wrong with this building and he still can't tell just what is exactly wrong in there. Something is going to happen, he knew that he isn't the brightest mind but he has to do it if he wanted to avert the worst from happening.

The building started rumbling. As if it has a mind of its own and it felt that it has wasted enough time to deal with her. The intensity of the barrages started to strengthen itself and even Kuro started to struggle against the onslaught. Her parents have to do something, now!

Back to Kiritsugu's position

Kiritsugu aims the rocket launcher at the designated weak point. Within the next second, he fired the rocket launcher, the rocket moves with an insurmountable speed with a boosted payload which would blow the whole building apart. But something unexpected happens, the bricks from the building flew out instantly and created a bounded shield which stopped the rocket right on its tracks. The rocket tried to pierce through but unsuccessful and it soon blows up with a blast that shook all of its surroundings. Can't believe what he saw, he didn't expect something like that from a Modern Age Servant. The building started to shake more intensely as if started to become alive. Within those next seconds, Kiritsugu and Iri are going to see the worst nightmare beyond their darkest fear.

The building rose up, standing by itself with its own leg, it is restructuring rapidly into a humanoid while still remain firing at its target, Kuro started to get grazed more and more as the onslaught become harder to fight against. Before she realized what is going on, she realized that the plan has all failed already.

What she is looking at is now a large humanoid archaism, with its right arm literally where all of its firepower concentrate. Now, it is charging its power in order to wipe her out of this world. A continuous stream of bullets and shells were now replaced by a blast of pure condensed power. With no way to retreat or escape, all she can do was to feel the death's embrace. A single tear sheds from her eye when she about to witness her own doom.

A blast from said attack burst through the arrays of buildings and into the ground. When it thought that it has killed its target, it instantly turned its back while the beam still fired, both Kiritsugu and Iri were still in shock from what they witness and they realized that they will also become its next victim. Before they realized, they were getting blasted by that beam. It was extremely painful as they felt even their own soul burning into ashes.

That giant isn't building anymore, it was akin to a Titan, like those Titans back in Greek mythology where they wage war against gods and they almost won. Servants, however, aren't gods. Its firing has ceased, with eyes shown with light as red as its bloodthirst. The night has begun to fall as their nightmare has now just begun. The remaining survivors will have to fight with everything they got or else, it will be the end of every one.

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Angel of Doom

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Words of God: For this part, play Evangelion - Angel of Doom

The night has come and there is only darkness covering the surrounding, an immense pain coursing through the body. She opened her eyes and realized she is still alive. A combination of exhaustion and pain. That is the proof of her survival.

"What happened..." Kuro said tiredly after she recovered from what looks like her supposed death.

In her vision, she saw the man in green military attire, the legendary medic, Desmond Doss. By some twist of fate that he managed to save her life even in the brink of death.

"You finally awake, thank god that was just a massive amount of bullets and not a blast of pure energy. If that was the case, there won't be any 'body' left to save." Desmond said to her.

She takes a look at her self, bandaged from her head straight to her feet. She surprised that she supposed to be swiss chess and not being in one piece right now. She also notices her Master has also gotten here.

"Master? Thank god that you are alright," Kuro said to her Master.

"Yeah, Desmond pulled a surgery with precision and speed that would make many top speed Servants jealous but that is beside the point. We are here because we are now in a dire situation and by I mean 'dire', I mean that we are going to be annihilated!" Her Master said with a bit of sarcasm and panic in his undertone.

"Wait! Where are Mama and Papa? Desmond-san! Do you know where are they?!" Kuro said frantically when she realized what she is missing.

Both Desmond and her Master take a heavy gulp which signifies that something horrible has happened. She wanted to deny that fact, she doesn't want to accept the reality that her parents are-

A single drop of blood drops on her forehead and she looked up and realized that there is no more denying as she looked at the undeniable truth. Her own pupils shrink in horror and despair as her realization unfolded in front of her. Her own parents' lifeless bodies and pools of blood were on top of her the whole time. Her own heart feels that they just wanted to cease beatings upon this image.

"No. No, Nooooooooooo!" Almost like having a breakdown, her own denials make her wanted to rip her gut out in pure disillusion. Her own cognitive dissonance wanted to rip her apart from the sheer guilt.

Gudao can only look in silence, he initiates communication with the Shadow Border.

"Da Vinci? Can you prepare Emergency Evacuation?" Gudao asked with a serious tone in his voice.

"Master? What happened?!" Da Vinci on the other side of the communications asked when she was asked about that very subject. Emergency Evacuation was developed to escorts the Master and nearby Servants from danger back to Shadow Border when things have flown beyond anyone's control.

"We... We have-" Before he said anything, Desmond held his hand on Gudao's communicator and signal him where the body of Kiritsugu and Iri are.

The wife who still held tightly to her husband as the man started to slowly rise up from the pool of blood. He stood up and walked painfully while blood is still dripping from both of his and his wife's wound. Iri's Noble Phantasm has saved their life as it allows those under its effect to survive one fatal attack no matter how powerful it is. His walking is slow but with each step, he stood straight and looked at the Titan which is now searching for them, wanted to annihilate everything that it has deemed as a threat.

There is only a look of nothingness in his eyes. Of a man who wanted someone to die and he'll make damn sure it did.

That very moment burned into Kuro's mind, of a man, with a determination and a will of steel. She made her mind and decided that she will be the only person who will put a stop to that Titan's rampage. She has the power and she will do so in her parents' stead.

"Kuro! Where are you going!? Your injuries aren't healed yet!" Gudao said to the tanned little girl as she rushes outside.

"Bring Mama and Papa to somewhere safe! If they receive any more damage, it will spell the end for them!" Kuro said to her Master.

He hates that she has a good reason to say so, Kiri and Iri got extremely grievous injuries and if they decided to do something. They will most likely die in the process.

"By the power of my Command Seal!" Gudao held his hand and about to use his command seals.

"Master! You possibly can't-" Kuro said as she thought the very man who she trusted would get in her way of retribution.

"Use this renewed power to destroy that Titan for once and for all!" Gudao said with conviction, he put all of his faith in her as the last hope of breaking through this dilemma.

She was dumbfounded by his trust, she was too hotheaded in order to think clearly when he held his Command Seals but now with vigor whirling through her body. There is only intent behind it. To destroy that monstrosity for once and for all.

She rushed to head out and reach for a vantage point to snipe that Titan with the strongest weapon she has, the Excalibur. She has better circuit quality and mana reserves than her brother but that doesn't mean she would know how to use it to the strongest. But nonetheless, it is all bet on her.

"Desmond, take them to safety. They aren't allowed to fight until they are in better health." Gudao said to Desmond.

"Understood. You better run for your safety. This thing will destroy you in the instant it found you and it will be game over if it did so." Desmond told the man.

Both of them handshake each other and wish each other luck. Now the fate of everyone is resting on Kuro. She has to do this or it will be the end of humanity's last hope.

Meanwhile, Arnold, Alfin, Pierce, the Finnish, Richard are witnessing the Titan's rampage on the distant horizon and they understand the emergence of the situation right now. And so they are rushing toward it. In hope of stopping its destruction.

"Shit! Have things turned this bad already!? I'm surprised that the Nazis didn't take action when this level of destruction is being displayed!" Richard said when he saw the burning horizon created that shines even the dark night.

"Hey, you! The white coat! Do you know what that thing is!?" Arnold asked the Finnish because if there is anyone that would know the threat better, that would be the Finnish.

The Finnish sees that thing while remaining in silence, it reminds him of those worst times and the turning point of history itself. He utters the answer for he himself has personal experience with it once.

"Pavlov's house. The very turning point of WW2 history, seen by its enemy who was crushed under its might. It was Soviet's symbol of resistance." The Finnish said as if he has witnessed it himself before.

"You... You identified it just by seeing it!?" Pierce said as he attempted to keep up with the Servants who were obviously making him eat their dust. His feeble attempt at Reinforcement gives him a slight boost to keep up and that is all there is to it.

"Is there any way to destroy it?!" Alfin asked the Finnish again.

"That... I have never found it if there is any way at all in the first place. In history, that apartment held up against the continuous German's onslaught for it is the critical location in the Stalingrad and they did so for two months and thus marked the end of the Battle of Stalingrad. From there onward, it is Soviet who takes back their stolen land and supposed to wipe Berlin of the face of warfare. Until that dictator managed to find leverage and annihilated both of the deadlocks from Allied soldiers and Soviet soldiers and from there onward, Soviet is annihilated and forever gone from the history of this timeline." The Finnish said.

All of them are looking at that giant figure as it razing the buildings below it to find anything at all. There is no way to hide anymore as its destruction will alert all of the Nazis' personnel and they will all be man hunted. All they can do is that they can still look forward to tomorrow in the first place.

Meanwhile, Desmond is carrying both Kiritsugu and Iri after having treated their wounds. Their wounds were much more serious and they were on brink of death in about a second but he managed to save both of them simultaneously with a speed that probably makes Nightingale red in jealous.

Now, his next step is to bring them somewhere safe, carrying two people at once does hamper his speed a bit. Not that he can't carry more but he has no more place to carry without accidentally drop them off somewhere. That Titan or to be exactly "Pavlov's House" is scouring everything up to find anymore thing to kill.

"I have to get away from it as far as possible." Desmond thinks while carrying two heavily wounded people on his back.

He doesn't know how they could advance any further anymore. Even survival is just unthinkable at this point.

Meanwhile, Kuro has gotten to her vantage point. She stood on the possible highest point that wasn't destroyed yet. Looking at that 'Pavlov's house' in pure disgust and hatred, she channels her mana in order to create the only weapon that could stand up against it.

Trace on!

She said her spell after she grasped that weapon in her inner soul. The sword started to take shape and begins to form. In a matter of seconds, the Excalibur in its glorious light appeared in her hand. But this isn't enough yet, as powerful as Excalibur can be, she only has one shot and she will have to use it to its full efficiency and that is to turn it into an arrow. But to turn Excalibur into an arrow is equal to understanding its fundamental. In other words, pure impossible for a human. However, she isn't human, she is a Servant and she has received the power required to do so. There is no turning back, she stood her ground and traced her bow and begin the process of turning it into an arrow.

The Excalibur started to glitch out like a broken TV, it is what would happen if it was forced to change it form. However, Kuro has used Excalibur as a Broken NP arrow once and it didn't harm her as far as she concerns. The process of forming the Excalibur arrow requires time and the more mana she has the faster the process but she doesn't have the luxury of doing so. But that won't be stopping her at all. Keeping the arrow charged mana, its bright light started to illuminate the dark raining night.

The Pavlov's House seems to notice something as it started to move faster from power walking into full running. That move completely caught everyone else off guard for they assumed it would slow-moving that completely shatters that belief. It was like watching hungry beast trying to devour its prey alive.

Desmond's tried to outrun it but it was to no avail. If he runs for a kilometer per second, that damn thing would run a mile per second. The moment the Titan got what it suspected confirmed. It swings its arm in order to swat Desmond and his patient into a mess that would be even worse than splatter. In doing so, it razed the entire section of the city in fell swoop and a large amount of rubble got thrown into the sky and some of them is even a large slab of rock and stone. Desmond managed to narrowly avoid his death in a hair breath but he stumbled by its attack and fell into the ground, he looked at it and fear spreads through his body. He wishes that God is still with him for there is no way for him to run away from it anymore

Those rubbles that were flung into the sky soon fall into barrages upon the incoming group that is trying to stop its rampage and a large slab that is about ten of the size of humans landed in front of them.

"We need to stop that damn thing now or there won't be the next day for us!" The Finnish said as barrages of rubbles keep landing on where they are.

"Wait! Is that!? That little tanned archer is trying to defeat that Titan but it might notice her and she will be killed!" Alfin said as she saw a glimmering light in a distance.

Tension is rising high, their time is running out like a speck of dust in an hourglass. Arnold is the one that breaks the impasse as he gives out his solution.

"Quick! Carry that damn slab to her location so that we can guard it should it fire the beam of destruction like how you saw it happen on the horizon. Uses Reinforcement if you can because that is the only thing we can use against it." Arnold said his solution out loud for everybody.

They don't have any more solution and they will have to use the only solution they had now. The 4 Servants quickly pull the large slab of concrete out from the ground, by some miracle that it is still in one piece. The 4 of them carrying it and run as if their lives depend on it.

The light that Excalibur gives off is shining to the point that even the distance surrounding her location is basking in its light. The Excalibur has finally turned into an arrow but she still has one more process, charging it into a Broken NP. She pitched in with all she has. She felt so hot that her sweat is falling like with the rain and even the rain itself helps so little with her situation.

The Titan has noticed her presence and begins to turn its right arm into a cannon and aimed at her, ignoring its previous target. In the next moment, it fired.

"Shit!" Kuro thought when she saw that beam is about to slam on her body. She instinctively looked back as if she didn't want to face it

But her death never comes. The 4 Servants have made it in time and shielding her from the blast of destruction itself. Using their Reinforcement and everything they had, they gives her precious time that she needed.

"Hurry!" Alfin said to Kuro.

The Titan started to getting more pissed as it was so close to killing its target. Increasing its firepower output, it wanted to kill whoever it is protecting her and that girl herself.

The blast started to get more intense and the slab of concrete started to fall apart, the 4 Servants push themselves beyond their limit to just buy more time for her. The Excalibur is still being charged and it is nowhere being finished. It was almost hopeless as the odds were more and more against them. The slab of concrete that protects the 5 of them are now being fallen apart more and more as it started to become as small as the size of a car.

"We can't keep this on anymore!" Richard said as all of their death is getting more and more close.

And just when they thought death has claimed their lives, their last hope has finally arrived.

Rho Aias!

The shield of 7 petals appears in front of them. Completely protecting them from the blast, the crimson archer has finally arrived with the shroud covering his left arm flapping in the gale. His right arm keeping the shield up so that they blast can't reach them. He didn't come any second too soon for the very slab of concrete that protects them shattered into pieces as it ceases to fulfill anymore of its duty.

"This is your chance! Kuro!" Shirou said to his sister.

Steeling her determination, the arrow in her bow has finally broken charged and prepared to be fired.

"Now!" Shirou signaling his sister.

The moment she heard it, she let the arrow loose and it flew towards the Titan. Piercing through the beam, the arrow was indomitable against it. When it got close, the Titan uses the last resort and created a bounded shield to protect against it. The arrow was blocked but it doesn't cease to move. The shield started to get more cracked up the longer the Titan tried to block it. Soon, the arrow pierces through and bust right through the cannon of the Titan. And then, the power behinds it finally unleashed as the Titan was blown apart and the pillar of golden light pierces through the heaven, signaling that victory has finally belonged to them. They have made it, they have made it through the nightmare.

Writer's Note: Now that I finally got this out, I can take a break from writing for now. The school has definitely not being kind to me and this year, it decided to tighten the rules to the scale of Alcatraz but on 11. Anyway, thanks for reading and hope that you enjoyed it.