AN: Another day, another compilation of snips. Enjoy everyone, and I hope to hear what you think.

13.1

[Fate Grand Order]

It's Probably Pirates

"Why is it when something happens, it's always you three?" Ritsuka questioned as he sat behind a desk… the rest of the building slowly collapsing around him with Cu, Altria and Nobunaga standing in front of the bombed out door.

Nearby, an army of demonic starfish were being fought back against. Edmond, Mash, Okita and Waver were leading the charge against the enemy forces which thankfully were quite stupid.

Of course the slowly approaching ghost ship being manned by probably a dozen shadow Servant pirates by his account was a mild concern. Only a mild one.

"I mean… I wanted to see what was out there? We don't really get to explore the Shadowlands?" Cu offered, rubbing the back of his head, the Lancer mostly amused at the current situation rather than worried about it.

"How was I supposed to know there was a sealed sect of ghost pirates trapped here?" Altria offered. "Of course I wasn't the one who blew the seal off."

"Hey! Don't put the blame entirely on me for this one! You two provided the materials for the bomb!" Nobunaga shot back as a massive explosion went off in the background, a cannonball flying right between the three Servants and their Master.

"FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL I COME! BRING ME THINE TITTIES!" One of the enemy Shadow Pirates shouted, Ritsuka face palming.

"Of course a copy of Teach somehow got sealed… Okay, putting aside the fact you two provided Nobunaga with the materials to make… What kind of bomb?" Ritsuka questioned.

"Anti-magic bomb strong enough to blow up divine steel," Cu said, Altria nodding sagely as Nobunaga rubbed her hands together, trying not to cackle as Ritsuka slowly stood up.

"Putting aside Nobunaga's ability to make increasingly ludicrous and impossible bombs with whatever anyone gives her-" Ritsuka started as Nobunaga finally caved.

She cackled. "Just let me show you what I can do with a water heater and a lot of salt!" the Archer decreed, Cu clearly contemplating it as Ritsuka started walking out, shifting from his in-loop identity to his Lotos identity.

"Save the bombs for the enemy, right now, we've got ghost pirates and demonic squids trying to ruin our summer vacation. So get your guns out," she started, pulling out Exagryph as she said so. Altria pulled out her sniper rifle, Cu a pair of M16s… and Nobunaga summoned her homemade minigun. "Let's get to work."

13.2

[Fate/Grand Order] [Various] [Star Wars]

Bad End, Try Again

Ritsuka nervously chuckled as the man in his Pocket looked down upon him. Darth Vader, better known as Anakin Skywalker, visibility emotionless as he sat in an amazingly comfortable golden chair. "Uh… sorry, standard procedure at this point," Ritsuka offered as Vader looked around the rather well made lounge he was in.

"I find your lack of faith disturbing," he noted before noting the titles of the many magazines and books around the lounge that stood out… most of them involving warnings, 'do nots' and he even saw a sign on the wall. 'Number of Loops without a Crash', currently at 17… which wasn't a great sign. "Do you just pull people into your Pocket the moment they Awaken?"

"I kinda have to… well I suppose I don't, but after the last couple times, I'm not taking chances," the Master admitted as Vader hummed. "See, our Loop is… volatile."

"I find doubt in that," the armored Anchor of Star Wars noted as Ritsuka took a deep breath, and then pointed at the sign on the wall.

"Then let me tell you how the last ten crashes caused by visitors happened," Ritsuka said.

[Half Life]

Gordon Freeman

"I'm telling you, that's not how this works!" Gordon argued with Da Vinci again for the upteenth time in this Loop. "All this magical bullcrap is-"

"Freeman shut your fucking mouth," Da Vinci growled, finally resorting to swearing. "I get it, you're a scientist, not a mage. But you should understand how Magi-tech works and why we do such things. None of the other scientists are as stubborn as you!"

Before Freeman could continue his tirade, the door to the lab opened. "Hey Da Vinci, Beowulf wanted to know if we could do a supply run to that Singularity in Norway we discovered," Ritsuka called, the male Master smiling as Freeman rounded on him.

"And that's another thing-" Freeman was about to start again when Da Vinci finally summoned her staff, putting it to his back with an ominous hum.

"Freeman, can you please stop. This is how things work," Da Vinci said very slowly, choosing her words very carefully, Ritsuka slowly backing away from the door.

"No, I'm not going to stop. Not until I can make sense of how the science in this Loop works, not the Magic!" Freeman shouted… and then he, Da Vinci, and Ritsuka froze. "Oh… Fu-"

He didn't get any farther than that swear when the Beast he'd been warned about appeared, already with a fully charged attack at the ready, and fired about half a second after his appearance. Less than a second later, the Loop Crashed from the deaths of both Ritsuka and Gordon.

[Codename Kids Next Door]

Numbuh 3

"Oh my gosh! This is so exciting!" Numbuh 3 declared, dancing around the summoning chamber as Ritsuka rubbed the back of his head.

"Um, Number three?" Ritsuka asked calmly as the little girl kept dancing around, avoiding Ritsuka's attempts to catch her by accident.

"Oh we're gonna save the world from the greatest of evils! We're gonna find the rainbow monkeys across time! This Loop is gonna be so fun! I can't wait for the others to get here!" the hyperactive operative proclaimed, throwing her arms into the air with a smile.

"Oh no…" Mash muttered from the other side of the window as Ritsuka hung his head.

"And… there goes this Loop…"

"What?" Numbuh 3 asked, before less than a second later Solomon appeared behind her. Slowly she turned around to stare death in the face. "...Oops."

[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]

Billy

Ritsuka blinked in utter surprise as Mash screamed in shock, alarms blaring all around them. The moment the light of the summoning chamber had died down, she'd only gotten a split second view of what appeared to be a little kid wearing a baseball cap and a striped shirt.

She hadn't been able to get anymore than that, since Goetia's fist came through the ceiling and splattered the little child into red paste and golden dust. Whipping her head up to see Goetia, in all his glory, looking down from the hole he'd made in the building.

"Ending this timeline is a mercy," The Beast declared, and Ritsuka really didn't have time to ponder that before being obliterated herself.

'What the fuck.'

[Red Vs Blue]

Caboose

"Okay… um," the armor-clad Anchor started before scratching his head. "What wasn't I supposed to do again? Oh! I know!"

Ritsuka facepalmed as Caboose whipped out the booklet he'd been given earlier from his Pocket to read it. "Let's see here… uh, Rule 1. Don't take this out of your Pock-"

He didn't get any farther as Goetia appeared amid the plains of America, obliterating Ritsuka, the visiting Anchor, and everything else with his Noble Phantasm before Mash could even attempt to bring up her own.

At least they'd made it to America this Loop.

[Warhammer 40K]

Tzeentch

"BEHOLD!" Solomon looked up from his throne in actual surprise as the form of Tzeentch appeared before him, an invader in his Temple of Time. "You think your plan will succeed?"

Solomon just… blinked, before clutching his right hand, a dozen demon pillars appearing before the Chaos God, who merely laughed at this. "Oh come now, that's the best you've got!? And Leman told me I should be expecting a challenge!"

"You are from Chaldea," Solomon said bluntly, narrowing his eyes as Tzeentch merely snapped some form of claw, the Chaos God of Change busting through several of the greatest magical protections concocted, and driving the twelve pillars to madness with a mere glance, the Demon Gods beginning to tear each other apart as Tzeentch spoke.

"I am from far beyond Chaldea… I am Tzeentnch, Changer of the Ways, the Master of Fortune, the Great Conspirator and the Architect of Fate!" the god boasted. "And I shall be the one to claim the prize of-" Tzeentch started before Solomon just...vanished.

"What…" Tzeentnch muttered. "HEY! GET BACK HERE YOU COWAR-" He didn't get to finish as the Loop Crashed… Solomon had decided that rather than fight this monster of a Servant, to instead just kill its Master.

"SOLOMOOOONNNN!"

[Megaman Battle Network]

Lan & Hub

"Target deleted!" Hub declared as he pumped his fist, the Demon Pillar Zepar screeching as it faded away.

Lan had decided to jack him into Chaldea's systems at Da Vinci's request, mostly to see if there were any bugs in the system. Turned out there was a demon pillar roaming around in Cyberspace, which he'd promptly dealt with in the usual manner for viruses from his home Loop.

"Uh… Lan?" Hub questioned when he didn't receive a response. "Lan you there?"

Hub, better known as , was very concerned Lan wasn't responding. "Lan, come in!"

"The boy is not coming," A dark voice proclaimed as the cyberspace started to break down from what Hub quickly identifies as it being… well in the process of being utterly obliterated from the outside the terminal.

'What the heck happened out there!?'

Outside the Terminal, ten seconds ago.

Ritsuka bit her lip as Lan explained the situation. "So Hub's dealing with the Demon Pillar right now, so we should be clear now."

"...You know I just thought of something," Ritsuka started as Lan raised an eyebrow.

"The King of Mages can read books… can he read… data he's seen?" Ritsuka started…

There was a few seconds of silence between the two Anchors, before their question was promptly answered by Chaldea being engulfed by Solomon's Noble Phantasm utterly obliterating it.

[Dragon Ball]

Yamcha

"Alright, I've got this one!" Yamcha declared, punching into the palm of his hand before launching into the air like a rocket, knocking Ritsuka and Mash off their feet from his rapid ascent.

Before him, an army led by the vicious Cu Chulainn Alter, the Berserker pointing his spear towards him, commanding his Archers to fire their arrows as in the background, Karna and Arjuna clashed, blowing apart mountains with each swing. "Guess I don't have to hold back," Yamcha noted with a grin, scratching his finger across his cheek with a snicker before spin kicking to deflect a large barrage of magical arrows.

After said showy display, he decided to rain down some havoc. Starting by creating Spirit Balls at the tips of each finger, and throwing them into the arrow, rapidly clawing to launch them in sets of ten until there were several thousand coalesced into one big blob.

"Taste my Savage Wolf Spirit Bomb Ball!" Yamacha ordered before Instant Transmissioning to just above the 'Spirit Bomb Ball'. He then started spin kicking, whirling around to send the orbs in all directions, packed with enough Ki to level the battlefield.

Chaos rained down upon the battlefield, Celtic soldiers screaming as they were either killed or sent flying from the concussive force of the exploding Spirit Balls. Within seconds, the battlefield was decimated by his attack.

When Yamcha stopped spinning, the army had been obliterated, save its commander, who was surprisingly still standing, his arm regenerating from its vaporization. The Berserker growling before looking across the battlefield. He then watched the monster, Cu Chulainn Alter… chuckle, looking up to him before pointing a single finger towards the other side of the field. Slowly Yamcha followed the finger and gasped in surprise at what he saw.

Ristuka was down there, in a crater his attack had made, in an unfortunately familiar pose.

Yamcha barely had time to realize his error before Risuka died and the Loop crashed.

[My Little Pony]

Pinkie Pie

"That's a weird Servant Senpai," the unAwake Mash noted as Ritsuka blinked in surprise at the bouncing pink pony on the summoning chamber, a grin on her face.

"OH YEA! NEW LOOP PARTY! WOOOO!" Pinkie managed to get out, before being surprised with the appearance of a massive horned demon thing with a fist telefragged through her chest, and the creature's other fist through Ritsuka's chest.

Ritsuka spat up blood in surprise, Pinkie letting out a sheepish smile.

"Oops… uh… Apology Party later?" was the last thing Ritsuka heard before she died.

[Undertale]

Undyne

A blue spear, and red spear. Two spears, two warriors, clashing before a broken white building.

Undyne standing against Cu Chulainn Alter, the mightiest warrior in America. They broke off from each other again, a grin across her face as he stoically spun Gae Bolg.

"Undyne! Enhance!" Ritsuka, the male Master of Chaldea called out, the resident Anchor boosting her strength as Undyne smirked, snapping her fingers to summon an array of spears, launching them at the monster of a man and charging towards him laughing.

He spun his spear, deflecting all her spears before meeting her charge, spinning his spear like a drill and ramming it forward, the tip of her own spear shattering. But she just made a new one to barely deflect her opponent's weapon into her shoulder. Blood spraying from her shoulder as she rammed her spear into his. Barely a cut across the monster's shoulder, but breaking his armor as she spun backwards, deflecting another stab with the spin of her spear.

"Kid! This is awesome!" Undyne cried out as the sounds of a gun rang out, Nightingale leaping in to join the battle as the bullets of her pepperbox bounced off Cu Alter's protection without even a glance, his tail whipping around behind him as Rama charged in, swinging his sword with a scream.

"For Sita!" His blade clashed with Cu Alter's spear before the two engaged in high speed melee combat, Undyne charging back into the fight the moment Nightingale had her patched up with a bit of magical healing. The nurse pulled out a grenade and rushed in to join the melee as well.

"Order Change!" Ritsuka called out, Undyne feeling herself warp, swapping places with the top of the stone pillar direction behind her opponent. She leapt off it, grinning like a loon and trying to drop down upon Cu Alter's head.

His tail whipped her out of the air as he tanked Nightingale's grenade right to the face, getting slashed across the chest by Rama's blade in turn. Undyne flipped back to her feet in midair, reaching for her chest and fleeing the blood on her armor. "Heh… And this isn't even the end…" Undyne chuckled before running in once more, Mash rushing in to join the battle as well alongside her.

The shield clashed with Cu Alter's spear, stopping it dead in its tracks as Undyne leapt over Mash's shield. With an array of summoned spears, she lanced downwards, cutting straight across Cu Alter's face and impaling him in multiple places with magical spears. He roared, flexing and ignoring the damage, healing up from it before spinning around to try and stab Undyne, his tail battering Mash's shield.

Nightingale rushed in, grabbing the Berserker's tail, stopping its thrashing. "I TOLD YOU! YOUR SICKNESS!" She began to spin him around by the tail. "MUST BE PURGED!" The nurse cried out, using her immense strength to toss the Berserker into the White House, smashing him through a window.

He burst out moments later to continue to fight, trying to ram his spear right through Nightingale's chest. "Osiris!" It instead met a golden barrier formed before the nurse, allowing her to empty an entire clip of pepperbox ammo straight into Cu Alter's face, Rama rushing in before the barrier could vanish. He clashed with Cu Alter again with his sword, Undyne joining in as well once more.

The fight continued, four Servants against the One-Man War. And when they finally managed to knock him to his knees, the Berserker panted.

"If you think I'm done…" Cu Chulainn Alter began, before throwing his spear out to the side, red lighting crackling across his form, a red shawl forming as more spikes formed across him. The Warrior, Cu Chulainn Alter, had evolved.

The War raged on. For Undyne, it was just that, fighting a grand opponent. A warrior who refused to fall. 'Reminds me of those villains who just refuse to fall,' she thought. The battle continued to rage on… He transformed again after nearly five straight minutes of fighting off four Servants and the constantly casting Master, giving his Servants all the support he could provide to face down this monster.

'You know… My life is pretty awesome…' But she wasn't perfect, none of them were. Injuries mounted. This monster was a warrior, par excellence. Rama nearly lost an arm, Nightingale barely avoided losing an eye, or maybe she did, she covered it with a bandage moments after nearly getting stabbed through the head.

Even though she'd been wounded badly in the warrior's third form, she too, refused to fall. She was Undying… Roman had shouted that their friends could only hold so long. They had to face down this man, and beat him, before the world was destroyed by the 28 rampaging demon pillars. 'If they're going to put everything on the line… I WILL TO!'

Undying against Undying. The Knight against the Beast. Spear against spear. A fight she fought with friends by her side. 'If only Alphys could see me now,' A stray thought crossed her mind as her spear once more clashed with the drill. This time however… her spear came out on top. She was determined, and she was going to WIN!

She finally knocked his spear away, sending the twisted spear into the walls of the white house. Disarmed of his weapon, the injured, but still standing warrior, Cu Chulainn Alter, finally took a deep breath. "You're strong… Warrior."

"You said it yourself," she pointed her spear at him, putting one hand to the red heart across her chest. "If you think I'm done…" she grinned, clutching her hand tight into a fist. "You've got another thing coming!"

"Then you too shall learn the pain she did!" the man roared, throwing out both his arms, Undyne watching as they were engulfed by massive claws, tipped with spears. She saw his grinning face as a helmet formed over his head. The wicked helm with a red horn. His arms were completely engulfed in scales as the armor across his legs became even more beast-like. He was a demon. "KNOW TOO THAT YOU SHALL DIE A GLORIOUS DEATH!"

"This has to be it!" Rama noted, summoning a golden mace into his free hand, wielding his sword with the other. "He can't possibly take much more."

"Even if he can," Nightingale pulled out a bouquet of grenades to go alongside her pistol. "He is a sickness, a cancer upon this world that must be removed! No matter the cost!" The Nurse of Steel declared with a mighty cry.

"Ready for the final battle! Let's go Senpai!" Mash added as well, raising her shield as Ritsuka nodded. It was a shame that the pinkette wasn't Awake, even if her Master was.

He charged, and she went to meet him in battle. 'Putting my life on the line… Fighting the unwinnable fight…' Her spear met one claw, only for the other to impale her. She spat up blood as sharp spears began to explode from her body. 'Every time, I stand between people like you and everyone you want to hurt.' Her remaining eye went alight, the power of her Servant container. 'To kill.' She flexed, all the spears impaling her body shattering into dust as Cu Alter was thrown backwards from the explosion of magical power.'This shonen lifestyle is what I live for… what I die doing…' The power this Loop had given her. Her Noble Phantasm, to forever be 『 The Undying 』.

"I LOVE BEING A LOOPER!" she cried out in joy, charging into battle once more.

"UNDYNE!" Just as her spear clashed with Cu Alter's gauntlet, shattering it, she turned to face Ritsuka.

"I'm-" she started, before she froze in shock at what lay before her, everyone, even her grand opponent, looking toward Ritsuka.

His body impaled upon a demon king's fist, still struggling, even warping off of it, a gaping wound in his chest. Goetia holding a human's heart, crushing it before using his other hand to obliterate the still somehow alive Master.

"No…" Undyne froze, all sound becoming muted, even Mash's screams. In the back of her mind, she knew that Ritsuka was the Anchor… they'd just died. The Loop hadn't crashed yet… There was another Anchor somewhere! 'GOOD.'

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU! GOETIA!" She roared, charging towards the Beast looking towards her with only a casual glance.

"You can't stop this genocide, whoever you are, visitor from another star," the demon king taunted. She threw her spear at him, and he vanished. Only a moment later she was kicked in the chest by Beast I, speeding face first into the White House with a crack of the sound barrier.

"Maybe," Undyne admitted, spitting out a tooth. "But you'll have to kill me first!"

"Why stop with just you?" he said, before vanishing again.

And as she pulled herself out of the wall, she looked up to the stars, a gigantic laser forming in the sky from the ring of light that circled the world. "I should have kept my damn mouth shut…" she muttered. Before long all she knew was pain, as the Loop Crashed from the world, and whoever the hell the other Anchor was, being blown to hell along with her… and everyone else.

[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]

Billy (yet again)

Ritsuka blinked in surprise as Mash screamed in shock, alarms blaring all around them. The moment the light of the summoning chamber had died down, she'd only gotten a split second view of what appeared to be a little kid wearing a baseball cap and a striped shirt.

She hadn't been able to get anymore than that, like last time, since Goetia's fist came through the ceiling and splattered the little child into red paste and golden dust. Whipping her head up to see Goetia, in all his glory, looking down from the hole he'd made in the building. This time she sighed.

"Ending this timeline is a mercy," She mouthed along with him. He actually did pause from that.

"Get it over with, whatever it is," she muttered, accepting her oncoming doom.

"He is right you know," Vader noted after Ritsuka explained the most recent of the Crashes by other Loopers. "I know Loopers who will Crash a Loop with Billy in it, just to avoid him."

"I have zero clue who that kid is, or why Goetia, empowered by the damn Counter Force more often than not, always wants him dead that badly!" Ritsuka complained.

Vader sighed, pinching the bridge of the nose-like portion of his helmet. "Let me tell you the story… of Hurricane Billy."

13.3

[Fate Grand Order]

Why no Grail?

"Senpai… a thought just occurred to me," Mash started, looking at Ritsuka who was currently playing chess with Altria.

"What's that?" Ritsuka asked, the currently male 'puppet' Master moving a bishop. Altria hummed, rubbing her chin as Mash took a deep breath.

"Did… we ever think of actually using the Grails in Baseline. It just occurred to me that we get so many of them but never use them. I mean, almost every singularity we visit has one," Mash pointed out.

Ritsuka began to raise a finger, as Altria moved a pawn. "She has a point… why didn't we use the Grails in Baseline?"

"I'm… actually not sure," Ritsuka mumbled, turning back towards the chess game and moving his knight, taking one of Altria's pawns. "Thought never crossed my mind."

"Foolish," Altira muttered, "but then we are all fools. I didn't even think of using one in the first Loop," she admitted, moving a rook to take Ritsuka's pawn.

"I thought there was a reason we didn't use them normally?" Ritsuka questioned as Mash pulled out a Grail from her Pocket, examining the magic cup.

"I'm… not sure? Maybe Da Vinci knows why?" Mash asked, Altria and Ritsuka looking between each other, before shrugging.

Maybe she'd have an answer for why they didn't use the Grails?

Answer 1

"Simple, we don't use the Grails because they represent a security risk," the unAwake Da Vinci explained, the trio of Loopers digesting the answer as Da Vinci turned to walk back to her Workshop.

"...That explains the Time Temple Grails, but not the other ones," Altira pointed out after Da Vinci left.

"I'll ask next Loop then I guess?" Ritsuka offered.

"Please do, I'm curious about this," Mash said with a smile. There was a mystery afoot

Answer 2

"Da Vinci? Why don't we use the Holy Grails we recover?" Ritsuka asked, as Da Vinci was examining one of the golden goblets.

"Oh, we don't use them because they're too drained. You know, all the stuff the Servants do with them, and even the Servants being summoned by the Grail. It's not that we can't, it's just not worth it,' Da Vinci offered, Ritsuka nodding slowly… that did make sense.

But the answer was different.

Answer 3

"Hey Da Vinci?" Medea asked, the Looping witch grabbing the brunette's attention. "You mind telling me why we don't just use the Holy Grails. They would make things much easier."

Da Vinci thought about that for a moment, before shaking her head. "Protocol I suppose. I mean, Chaldea's mission is to recover and study the Grails, not use them. They cause enough problems as is," she offered.

"Huh… I suppose that's something…" Medea muttered before beginning to walk off, rejoining Ritsuka and Shirou after her question to the unAwake genius.

Answer 4

"Miss Da Vinci, may I ask why we don't use the Holy Grails?" Sakura asked politely as the scientist looked at the girl.

"We do use them Parvati, we plug them into the reactor to keep our power running,"

"Really?" Sakura questioned.

"What, did you think we use them to make coffee?" Da Vinci joked.

Answer 5

"Roman, why do you have that Holy Grail?" Shirou questioned, crossing his arms as Roman was sheepishly holding a Holy Grail.

"Oh, the one in the coffee machine ran out of power, so I'm putting in a new one," he admitted. The visiting Anchor blinked in surprise as he watched Roman walk over to the large coffee machine, the one that connected to every drink dispenser in Chaldea, and pulled out a Holy Grail from it, dim and dark before putting the other one into it and closing the lid.

"You use… Holy Grails… to make coffee?" Shirou asked, dumbfounded.

"Yep!" the good doctor admitted with a smile. "Chaldea runs on caffeine!"

Answer 6

"What are you doing with that Holy Grail?" Iskandar asked as the unAwake Artoria was holding up said golden cup… and a pack of udon noodles.

"Da Vinci let me take one from the vault. I wanted to test how Grail Udon tasted after Musashi suggested it during her previous visit," the King of Knights offered. "You want to join me?"

The Rider hummed, and smirked. "Let me grab Waver and Goldie, if this is what we use Holy Grails for, I'm gonna need to ask for a few myself. It'll be a new feast!" Iskandar declared.

Answer 7

"Isn't that a security risk?" Altria questioned as Mash was staring in shock at this mess.

"Kinda, but we can handle it, besides, not like we use them for anything else. Letting the other Servants mess with them certainly livens things up no?" the unAwake Da Vinci asked as Altria facepalmed.

"But… Nobu?" Mash questioned like Da Vinci was inside, watching the Archer in question grab a Grail off the counter and run off with it, who only knew what she was going to do with it. 'Probably a bomb,' Mash thought.

"Hey, first come first serve," Da Vinci said with a shrug.

Answer 8

"Uh… Da Vinci?" Ritsuka questioned as the Caster hummed.

"Yes Ritsuka?" she answered.

"Where did you put all the Holy Grails we recovered?" the female Master asked in confusion as Da Vinci smiled.

"Oh, I put them in the vault with everything else. To be pulled out like any other Reagents we need when we need them," she admitted. "Saint Graph Ascension, you know?"

"Okay, that makes sense… but only for Servants?" Ritsuka questioned.

"Like we'd use them for anything else."

Answer 9

"Doctor, what are you doing with that Holy Grail!?" Mash shouted in confusion as Roman was holding up not one, but two Holy Grails. "I mean- Grails!?"

"I'm offering them to Magi-Mari!" The doctor proclaimed, Mash looking on his computer and seeing the virtual idol… the one she knew was Merlin.

"HE'S A SIMP!" Cu shouted from down the hall. "Abandon hope for him!"

"I am aware he is a Simp! But we need those grails!" Mash shouted back.

"No! Magi Mari needs the grails!"

"ROMAN WHY DID YOU TAKE TWO GRAILS OUT OF THE REACTOR!?" Da Vinci's voice echoed throughout Chaldea's halls, the Doctor freezing as Mash sighed.

Answer 10

"Da Vinci, I require a Holy Grail," Altria proclaimed, only for one to get chucked at her.

"Knock yourself out, damn things are worthless anyway," the scientist proclaimed. "Those Servants in the Singularities keep finding new and inventive ways to empty the Holy Grails of their power I swear."

"...Wait, that's why we don't use them?" Altria questioned, looking at the golden cup.

"They've still got energy, but not nearly enough to do anything crazy with'em, so knock yourself out," the scientist explained, returning to her project as Altria walked off.

"...Useless. I needed a full one," Altria complained, shoving the Grail in her Pocket anyway. She'd probably prank someone with it later.

13.4

[Fate Grand Order]

The Real Why no Grail? (ChangingStation)

Answer 11

"So, Dr Roman, what do we actually use the Holy Grails for?" Ritsuka, male for this iteration of the Incineration, asked the acting Director one morning, as he watched the man yawn, while he tried to look over a damage report from the last time Jason had organised an arm wrestling tournament, ending with accidently breaking the cafeteria when Herakles and Asterios had a impromptu rematch.

"Hmm?" Romani looked up in slight surprise, his bleary eyes making Ritsuka silently glad that he'd made sure to find and destroy all of the stimulants that Romani had stashed away for an emergency, and infinitely more glad that he seemed to lack Holmes' incomprehensible ability to produce more of them with just a potted plant and a used tea bag. "Why not just ask Da Vinci? She knows more about them than me."

That was quite obviously a lie, even discounting Dr Roman's true identity, but for the sake of both keeping the peace, and not setting off another Goetia-Crash, Ritsuka let it slide, "I've asked her before, but she keeps on giving me different answers. I was hoping you might tell me why."

Dr Roman tilted his head as he shifted more attention to the idea, "Well, that is odd. Now why would she do that, unless..." Romani abruptly slammed his head violently against his desk, causing Ritsuka to jerk back as he let out a large groan, "Magi Mari give me strength." The Chief Medical Officer muttered to himself, before he stood up and marched out of the room.

Ritsuka made to follow him, but quickly thought better of it, a feeling in his gut telling that he'd end up regretting it, a hunch that was soon proven true as Romani's voice shook the entirety of Chaldea, "Da Vinci, you'd better not be eating the Grails we gathered again! I keep telling that we need them for emergencies!"

"And I'm telling you, Romani that if I eat enough of them, my perfection will be able to reach the platinum ratio!"

"Hey, that's not what the Platinum Ratio means and you know it. Don't force us to hold another intervention for you! Meuniere still hasn't forgiven us for his, after the fiasco last Halloween!"

That had been after the Frenchman had tried to force his way onto a Rayshift to Castle Csejte after learning that Elizabeth had started employing D'Eon and Astolfo as maids. Ritsuka wouldn't have minded as much if he hadn't forced him to go in his place and bring back pictures, once it became clear that the man lacked Rayshift compatibility. Not only had he been enforced to endure Elizabeth's singing, but they'd been attacked by Foreigner Elizabeth or as Tamamo Cat had dubbed her, 'Elizathulu', and Rituska was still shaking off the sanity shredding effects. Suffice to say, Ritsuka and the others had given Meuniere a very long talk about his obsession with those who challenge Gender Norms, a position, that barring Romani, they'd all been uniquely qualified to take.

Ritsuka sighed as a mad cackle rang out through the hallways of Chaldea , "An Intervention would only weaken my greatness, I'm a genius after all, we happen to be born mad!"

"That's not as good an argument as you seem to think it is!"

At this point, Ritsuka was no longer listening, having long since decided to go into his pocket to see if he could come up with ideas on how to redecorate it. After all, it would have to be less of a hassle than whatever going on in this loop.

13.5

[Fate Grand Order]

Heck of a Skill

The Grand Orders played host to some truly… strange things. But in Ritsuka's opinion, this had to be one of the strangest, but also most fun things she'd experienced yet... Mostly because this time she was partaking in the madness.

"Senpai why…" Mash complained from the judge's table, where she was sitting alongside Da Vinci, Edward Teach, Shirou, Altria and, for some reason, Goredolf.

"Why am I a part of this?" the future director of Chaldea asked, unaware of said future as Da Vinci nodded.

"Because we needed an actual impartial judge, mister Musik," the Awake Caster said with a smile, hiding her identity from him with a pair of shades and a summer dress. "Now then! Let the beauty contest begin!"

Backstage, Ritsuka was in one of the changing rooms, humming as she looked in the mirror with a smirk. She was in her Kouhime Identity right now, and was legitimately debating just outright going out there as a Kitsune, but Goredolf's presence meant she couldn't do that.

"Hey Ma-chan, are you doing alright in there?" Osakabe asked from outside.

"Yeah, just thinking about the appearance I want," Ritsuka said back as a cackle joined the conversation.

"Oh I know exactly what I wanna do!" Nobunaga boasted as another person chimed in.

"Please, you know this is going to be won only by the best. Get that shitty A rank out of here," Jeanne Alter complained, the Avenger turned Berserker was in her own stall making her own modifications.

"If anyone's gonna be victorious here, it shall be me…" Shuten Douji said with a giggle from her own stall.

"I wanna win! I'm gonna do it too, ooh this is gonna knock their faces off!" Ibaraki similarly declared with a mad cackle.

Looking back to her own mirror, Ritsuka made her choice with a grin. Good thing unlike some of the other girls, her shapeshifting ability technically could make clothing...

Medb waved, the petite Saber blowing a kiss to the crowd, even as the judges were unimpressed, even Goredolf. Francis Drake, Boudica, Okita, Rin, Artoria all glaring at the Celtic queen as she walked over to join them.

"Next, Ibaraki Douji," Da Vinci read off the list, Mash taking a sip of water. The competition had been heated so far, and they'd drawn a heck of a crowd… including most of the Knights of the round. Currently Artoria was in the lead, surprisingly (Altria had actually been willing to vote for her highly, surprisingly), but now came the next Servant.

Mash spat out her water the moment the bombshell walked out from behind the curtains. Goredolf short circuited, blood running down his nose. Altria merely raised an eyebrow while Teach was blinking in similar surprise. "AH! I should have expected this!" Da Vinci laughed as water continued to dribble down Mash's chin.

"Stunned, are you humans!" Ibaraki declared. Instead of the short pipsqueak of an Oni she was normally, on stage was a 5'4" bombshell. Mash… really couldn't tear her eyes away from her abs, the oni grinning as she continued to pose in her one piece, which was straining to actually contain her only slightly above average assets. Her hair was still in the utterly massive pair of twintails, but they actually looked slightly more normal on her much taller frame.

"What the fuck!?" Drake's words echoed practically everyone's thoughts as Shirou smacked Mash on the shoulder.

"Scores," he started, scribbling on his whiteboard as the object judges began to do the same. She… just drew a number on there.

"Praise me humans! Fuwahaha!" Ibaraki boasted as she stepped off to the empty right side of the stage, the other contestants eyeing her wearily… for reasons everyone understood. If the normally pipsqueak had done something like this… what had her more intelligent, and usually far more devious remaining contestants done?

The answer of the next one made much of the crowd either cheer or gasp, depending on the individual. "SHUTEN WHAT THE GOLD!?" Kintoki shouted from… somewhere in the crowd, near the back.

Shuten blew a kiss towards him, a grin on her face. The normally very short girl had turned into a total bombshell. Unlike Ibaraki's more muscled look, she was still petite, if tall, having put more effort into her assets and hips. She was still both 'cute' and beautiful. The seductress as it were. "I'll be seeing you later Kintoki~"

"We're gonna die." Shirou muttered in deadpan.

"Oh yeah, Raikou's gonna kill us later," Da Vinci said with a smile still plastered across her face, slowly wiping away a bit of blood from Goredolf's nose. All of them elected not to bring attention to the fact Shuten was basically wearing the least of literally anyone. 'Barely' decent didn't even begin to cover it. After throwing up their scores, Shuten walked over to join Ibaraki, who was already miffed Shuten's score was higher than hers.

Nobunaga was the next to walk out. And unlike the two who had only made changes to their height, the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven was not one for minor changes. Her hair was not just longer, but done up in a ponytail, turned pure red like flames. She easily was the tallest individual on the stage at the moment, towering at seven feet tall without heels. She was wearing an extremely loose kimono on top of her bikini, and similar to Ibaraki had gone for the muscular look… while also having assets that were near Raikou levels of big, and holding them up like a champion.

"We should have banned Skills…" Okita mumbled as Nobunaga laughed.

"Oh really now Okita, that blood trailing down your face tells me otherwise?" Nobunaga asked in a very provocative voice. Okita yelping and going beat red as she whipped the blood away in the curtains.

"Hey those are… private property?" Goredolf finally managed to work up the will to say something.

"Your scores, people! I can't hold this forever!" Nobunaga shouted, complaining as she whipped her massive ponytail around, still striking a pose showing off her toned legs. Mash… grabbed her own tissue as she held up her score.

Nobunaga, after the scores were given, quickly ducked behind the curtain, and the normal (for a given value of it), Nobunaga appeared moments latter, her kimono wrapped around her as she went to join Ibaraki and Shuten, a smug grin on her face as the next Servant came out.

Jeanne Alter strutted out onto the stage, and Mash was glad she hadn't made any major changes. Aside from the larger rack and a few extra inches, she'd put all of her effort into just making herself look even more mature than normal… which was contrasted by her dorky summer getup. Mash found it endearing in a way. "Come now, what do you all think? Certainly better than that saint?"

Someone in the crowd whistled as Altria shook her head. "At least she tried," she noted, putting up her score for Jeanne Alter, a fairly low one, which wasn't unexpected. The Berserker shot her a glare, but otherwise with high scores all around she went to join the others from her half of the contest.

Osakabehime came out next, the princess wearing a fancy blue bikini and had gone the complete opposite direction of her peers. She'd made herself shorter, more petite, and was clearly riding on a cute but still beautiful factor… of course the cat ears and tail probably helped. "And here I thought we were gonna get nothing but head turners," Shirou mused.

"Ugh!" Rin crossed her arms… more annoyed she hadn't thought to cheat in such a manner herself. "I swear Fujimaru better not win this…"

"Relax, we're still high up," Artoria noted as the youkai princess posed for the crowd, including making cute cat poses, which was completely out of character for her. How she was doing this without panicking was astounding. They watched her go over to join the rest of the shapeshifters as the final contestant was about to come out.

Mash could feel the blood running down her nose when her brain actually managed to process her Senpai on the stage. Da Vinci hummed as Shirou pulled down his shades. Altira certainly wasn't complaining if her soft chuckle was anything to go by.

"What? Can't speak?" Ritsuka asked as she brushed her orange hair with her hands, flaring it out. 5'8" by Mash's estimate, and just the right shade of skin tone to make her more tanned than normal. A larger than normal, but clearly firm bust was held captive by a tight bikini top, giving a generous, but not overly provocative view. She had more defined muscle, and a clearly generous figure. A proud beauty among the others, with hints to her more exotic nature hidden among the strange 'tattoos' running up and down her arms and legs. Unlike Ibaraki's red extremities, they didn't clash with her tanned skin, being only slightly darker than the tan while still making an intriguing design, with a different animal on each limb. Her right leg had the design of a wrapped around monkey, on her left, a bunny landing from a leap. Ritsuka's left arm held the design of a fox running from elbow to shoulder, while her right had a fake tattoo of Fou on it, probably just to be cute.

Her form was more a work of art than of beauty, but it was still beautiful. Mash was still very, very annoyed she'd yet to come close to getting with Senpai. She didn't want to be in the friendzone!

"Hey, stop daydreaming, there is blood running down your boob," Shirou tapped her, knocking her out of her dreams.

"R-right!" Mash grabbed her scorecard. Easy ten, yes, all the yes. Overall, Ritsuka's score was high… but it wasn't the highest. Altria hadn't rated her as well as one would have assumed, going for the honest approach, Shirou had only given her a three, and Teach had given her a halfway score.

"Impressive designs, and you certainly look quite stunning and exotic. However those qualities alone don't make a good showing. The swimsuit is too plain in comparison, and while you certainly look good, most of the other girls have a better figure. Still great though!" Teach decided to point out with two thumbs up.

"Aw…" Ritsuka pouted, before going over to join the other shapeshifters as the judges began to bring up the total scores to rank the contestants. To find their winner. Third place to Ritsuka, second to Nobunaga, and first to Drake of all people. The pirate had scored high by everyone's standards, with her flat ten from Blackbeard having put her in the lead for most of the contest.

"Ya know… Shapeshift is a hell of a skill," Da Vinci brought up as Goredolf was allowed to go on his way for the rest of this round of the week at Luluhawa.

"Agreed," Shirou said with a sagely nod.

"Cheating is what it is," Rin complained as she rejoined them.

"Ain't nothing in the rules against it~" Ritsuka, still in her guise, offered, Mash doing her best to avoid looking at her Senpai for fear of another nosebleed.

"What's with the animals?" Da Vinci asked out of curiosity.

"Secret," Ritsuka said with a wink.

"Senpai please change back…" Mash asked softly, trying to get all the fantasies out of her head right now. Roman had corrupted her… she felt so ashamed.

"Nah, not right now, gonna keep this for the rest of the week," Ritsuka decided, putting her hands behind her head with a smile as Mash looked at her Senpai's chest… which was currently eye level with her.

Never before had Mash felt so… frustrated.

AN: That's yet another set compiled for your viewing pleasure. A little bit shorter on the word could this time around, but that should make for an easier read.

13.1: Get your guns out, it be ghost pirates!

13.2: Goetia does not like things that can thwart his plans.

13.3: You know... why don't they use those things for more than Palingenisis?

13.4: Insanity already, tasty grails.

13.5: What more needs to be said about high ranking Shapeshifters

With that said, I hope you've enjoyed, please follow along and continue to wait warmly. There's always more fun to come.