Chapter 4 : the counter guardian

Hey coming at you guys with another chapter. I'm going to admit i'm not the biggest fate series fan so i don't know a lot about the world or the lore behind it. What I do know is that there is the holy grail war that several 'mages' and their servants fight for some prize. I can recognize some of the characters from the show because of some friends. But I myself never got that far into it.

Moving on though as for those of you still putting in requests. I am going to tell you I have already decided the next few chapters and roles. What are they? You will see. That's all for now on to the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. But i really wish I did.


Slayer is still tinkering with the screen as it begins to aline to the next world once more. The audience begins to talk amongst themselves.

"I wonder what this world will be like?" the ever lovable nora asks her friends.

"Maybe this world will have some cool weapons for us to see." Ruby chips in excited at the prospect of seeing some new weapons.

"Hopefully, i will be something more intellectually pleasing, instead of just another fight scene." the ice queen grumbles out.

"Hey! It starting!" Yang calls out so they can quiet down.

The screen showing a lovely grand hallway of a mansion.

"Well that's a good start I was beginning to think that all will be getting nothing fight after fight." Weiss snidely remarks with a smirk.

Before anyone could argue with her, they hear a clash of blades as they look at the screen the heiress loses that smirk in an instant.

They are seeing a young man with red hair and amber eyes swinging a pair of black and white dual blades at someone. The strike is blocked by a similar set of blades that are held by a man looking to be in his mid twenties with blond hair, slightly tanned skin, blue eyes, wearing an odd red and black outfit made of what looks like leather.

"Well there's jaune!" ren sighs out wondering what happened to start this fight.

"Yeah but is it me , or does that red headed kid look alot like jaune?" Yang asked noticing some small similarities between the two. The other take notice some casting glances at the only redheads in their group. While one was examining the blades both people on screen were wielding. The other was in lala land over seeing jaune in a tight leather outfit.

Jaune kicks the boy away before charging at with several follow up slashes which the boy barely block. Jaune send another more powerful dual slash at him which sends the boy back a couple feet. The boy began to be covered in a series of neon blue line for a fraction of a second before they disappear and he then mimics the same move to try and keep jaune away from him.

"Geez i don't know what that kid did to make jaune this angry but it looks like he isn't holding back on him at all" yang said with a little concern.

"True, it seem mister arc will have the edge in experience. But don't count that boy out yet he seems to be a prodigy as he was able to mimic mister arcs move just by seeing it once." ozpin tells his students hoping to teach them to not underestimate their opponents.

"Hey did anyone else see those weird lines or was it just me?" Ruby asked to which she just got strange looks before everyone just turned back to screen.

"Now I see why your so persistent." jaune speaking in a deep but slightly rage filled tone. "I had heard of a magecraft that allows one the ability the pull on old skills from a previous life and letting them possess you. Your skill keeps improving everytime we cross sword in a fight"

"Okay that would be pretty cool." Blake said thinking all of the abilities she might have learned in a past life that could help her now. The other save for one nodded.

Ozpin how ever grimace at the thought of such a skill. ' such an ability could also bring forth the terrible fates of those previous lives. could someone re live such a thing and remain sane.'

"Is that what you think i guess that makes both of us copycats" the red headed boy say before pointing sword at jaune "you keep acting cool. It will give me more time to catch up to you"

"Catch up to me. Your an optimistic fool! You have no idea how wrong you are!" jaune says in the same tone as before but with more anger slipping in to it.

"Than explain it to me," the boy gets out before jaune charge him with a clash of blades once more.

"No matter what skills you gain or how strong you get. You'll never beat me!" jaune say in a tone of finality. As jaune says this the boy and the audience begin to have visions of jaunes life leading up to his death and a vision of him repenting for the countless deaths on his hands by walking around in a barren world stabbing swords into the earth with several blades sticking out of his back another piercing him, after each one he stabs into the ground.

Those that knew the boy looked on in sorrow trying to figure out what set him on this path to ruin.

The Boy looks at the man thinking "so thats it thats how his life ended. I don't pity him, I don't pity him, I don't pity him." the boy clenched his teeth before pausing and looking on the man in front of him. "still if this is really the path I'm heading down. My hearts going to shatter. Everything you believed in, that you still believe in. I see now are nothing but a dream covered in lies" the screen shows the boy amongst a field of endless blades looking straight at jaune.

The scene snaps back to reality where we one set of blades crack then shatter as jaune flings the young boy away from him. From off screen a voice is heard "jaune!" the screen pans out to show a blond haired and green eyed woman wearing a heavy armored blue dress.

"Is that miss goodwitch?" Ruby asks confused as to why she was there.

"Is it me? And why am I calling for mister arc if the young man was hurt?" glynda asks totally confused as to what's going on as was everyone else

"Ah, I knew there was something I forgot." Slayer says out of nowhere. scratching his head with a groan, he continues with "ok so i don't know a lot about this world except for a few key things. So listen up youngins. The world that we are watching has a tournament called the holy grail war. There are only 7 teams of two allowed at all times. The two members are the 'master' and the 'servant'. The master is a mage or magic user of some kind and the servant is an important figure of history or with me so far?" he was given some confused nods. "Right then, Glynda of this world is called saber, a class of servants. She was once a great king from history who wielded a sword that could win every battle Her master is the red headed guy who is called jaune arc! "

"Wait a minute! how he be jaune if the other guy is jaune?" Pyrrha ask even more confused than before.

Getting looks from everyone Slayer sighs and then says "their both jaune. The one in leather is a counter guardian named archer, from another timeline where things went wrong. After he died, he was approached by the will of the world itself and asked to serve it to win and use the grail to restore balance to the world or some shit like that. The redhead is the juane of this timeline who wants to use the wish to achieve justice for his world. That's all I know as I never really got into this kinda stuff. Now go back to watching please."

The audience still processing that tidal wave of info just nodded and turned back to the screen.

jaune then begins scooting away from archer. The older man looks at him and says "feeling ill judging by your face I'd your about to vomit." his cold tone leaving many shocked at how he was acting.

"You saw it didn't you?" Archer asked but he didn't wait for an answer as he could already tell what it was, so he spoke again " that simplifies things. Everything you saw is true, Jaune arc. that's what catching up to me means. See it again for yourself!"

soon a blue light came off the servant as some kind of flame like energy flow around him as he spoke once more "the world i ended up in! I am the bone of my sword. Unknown to death nor known to life. Unlimited Blade Works!"

there was a bright flash of light before the area change to match the world they saw in the vision.

"What's happening? Where are they now?" qrow asks confused as to how they teleported.

"Right right. That little poem he said before, was the only spell given to jaune arc. The Unlimited blade works. A pocket dimension that only those two have access to filled to the brim with a near infinite amount of swords waiting to be wielded." he paused to allow an over happy ruby squee in weapon overload "That spell allows the user to drag someone into the dimension for as long as they have magic to keep them there. While there the user has complete control over all weapons there and is able to launch them telepathically at his or her target, even summoning a sword to their hand at any time so they can keep fighting even after the last weapon breaks. Once the spell ends they go back to where they were before the spell was cast." he then looks at an unimpressed ozpin with a smirk and says "this world version of you loses to him. Because he's exactly like you but without a massive ego. He admits that against any one else he would lose as they have mastered their one weapon. Where as, he is only okay at many weapons " {an 1}

The group looked dumbfounded at the idea of such an overpowered but ultimately weak ability. Before they just looked back at the screen.

The two jaunes clash once more. Blades clashing and clanging against one another before the young mage is sent flying back. He gets back up stabbing a dented and chipped white curved sword into the ground to help him stand as archer speak again "a fool who knows his dream is unattainable, but come anyway. A fraud without a will of his own, who wasted his life on a ridiculous ideal. Can you finally admit that's who you are. Saving people just because you want to is both selfish and misguided."

his cold logic and tone causing tears and outrage in the few who chose to become huntsmen because that ideal.

It especially hurt the two girls,ruby and pyrrha, who were close to the blond in their world and knew why he wanted to be a hero.

Ozpin gritted his teeth thinking of all the people he has seen become great huntsmen and heroes because they wanted to help people. "What happened to make you this way mister arc? What cruelty does one have to face to become this cold to someone's dream?"

Archer's glare showing no emotion other than disgust continues "your a defect of humanity. You shouldn't have existed in the first place. There's not point in a life like yours." the mage's head shoots up to glare back at the man before him. " you know i'm your ideal. And you should know your dream never comes true".

The boy gives a primal scream before summon another curved sword and charging the servant.

Archer only lazily block with one sword and says "I see, I suppose it's only natural that you deny me. As the ideal of jaune arc. I'm the only person you could never bring yourself to accept ". He then knock him away effortlessly. The mage moves to attack him once again only for archer to dodge and hook his blade behind the mages. "Now tell me. Knowing what you know do honestly want to be a hero of justice?"

The young mage glare at the man before growling out "I already told you. It's not that I want to become one. It's that I will become one!" before he goes to strike at the man again only to be caught in some kind of weird back to back hold.

"You're right you must become one. You are jaune arc right? It's the only thing you have been passionate about.`` Archer speaks in a softer tone "even though y'know that the heart of a hero of justice simply isn't in you."

"What the hell does that mean?!" Yang asks with her eyes turning a deep crimson before her father and sister try to calm her down, Her mother just watches on boredly.

The boy weakly struggles against his hold before giving up. Archer speak again "There you see that reaction tell me you thought the same. My memories faded long ago but there is one that still sticks with me. The flames, the death, my wish for help from that hell, and most of all, the look of relief on montesquieu arc's face when he saved me. That is where your dream began. You adored him for saving you. And because you saw how happy he was when he saved you, you decided that you would try to gain that same happiness as well." as he spoke flashes of their past shot across the screen showing a wild fire destroying their home and killing hundred leaving jaune the sole survivor

The young mage began to think this was right remembering his past and the man who saved him. Archer speaks up once more "children will often idolize their parents. But a curse was your inheritance. when he died, you had to live up to his dreams and ideals. The ideals you cling to are second hand. Ideals he, himself couldn't live up to. In the end all your doing is imitating what he believed was right" the blades that were stuck against each other, Began sparking as the young mage denied the words archer was saying.

"hero of justice. Don't make me laugh. It is nothing but a borrowed dream. Someone like you thinking you can be a force for good. It is the height of hubris!" Archer shouts as he snaps the young mages' swords and stabs him in the leg.

"AAAHH!" the boy screams in pain before jumping away from archer.

"That right" the blond man snarls looking at the boy with a dead look filled with nothing but hate."you couldn't help but admire the beauty in your father's dream of helping people. That's why! you never developed passions of your own!" Archer finishes before charging at the young man once more. The boy summons his sword to defend himself. But it is clear jaune is pulling ahead by experience and strength alone.

"If that isn't hypocrisy then what is? Your driven with this ridiculous obsession to sacrifice yourself for the sake of others. blind to your own arrogance" archer shouts at the boy as he stabs him in the gut as (g)saber cries out to the red haired boy.

Archer with maddened eyes, continues as the boy's blood spills to the dirt "But in the end you're a fraud. And your hypocrisy can't save anyone. How could you when didn't know who you should save in the first place! And look this is the result. You could never be a savour. You never had anybody to save in the first place. You became the embodiment of justice." Archer rips his white sword away from the boy "and justice can be cruel!" Archer says as he swings his black sword downwards shattering another one of the boys blades and sending him falling backwards a few feet.

The silence in the room was deafening. No-one said a word out of being too angry to think straight or from the sheer shock of how this jaune was acting to what was basically himself.

"Note to self. Sit down with mister arc and try to give him some tips" glynda thought to herself in hopes to avoid her worlds jaune from ending up like this.

(g)saber begin clenching her fists as archer speaks to the boy again "you're ideals are falling apart. Maybe other people aren't more important than you are. It's dawning on you that a world where everyone is happy is just a fairytale." we see (j)archer glaring down at the boy as his sword fade away as blue sparks of mana "and if you can't live without that dream, then let it drag you down and drown you!"

"So what if its a fairytale!" Ruby screams too angry to care anymore "it the heroes job to make everyone happy in the end. To make a fairytale come true!"

"Miss rose is correct! We are here to make people's lives a happier place as huntsmen, as heroes!" Prof. Port boisterously exclaims in agreement. The other joining in and nodding along with them.

"Yeah! why do you get to say his dream isn't worth it or that it's impossible to achieve?" Yang yell at the screen.

Slayer just looked on with a smile thinking "this is why I love my job. These people are just fun to mess with!"

"It's true. What he said was mostly right" the boy thought as he laid there bleeding out. "But I can't help thinking that he missed something." the boy fell combed through the hellish points in the man's life, the bodies of his comrades, the point that left him as what he was. This got the boy thinking that this hell may become his life one day.

"You were right," the boy says to the image of the man, archer; in a mindscape he created.

The man turns his head to look at him before saying " but I didn't live wisely."

"It seems to me you've lost a lot of things" th boy gives back to the man

"You got it all wrong." the man says "I'm here because I didn't want to lose anything. And i didn't. not one thing."

"So he was trying to not lose everyone when he went back?" Nora asks glumly

"Well isn't that just peachy, maybe he could go back and not be an assho-" yang begins before being cut off by both her father smacking her upside the head and the screen continuing.

"No come to think of it, there is one thing something I forgot" as the man says these words. The boy turns around to see a wild fire raging out of control inside a small town and a small child walking through it as he called to the child, the kid just kept moving; trying to find somewhere safe to stay. Then more memories started to flowed forward showing the day jaune was rescued from his hell. The red haired jaune took steps forwards towards the scene. "Hey! Ya know that hell your walking into?" the archer asks.

The young man just smiles and says "this is the one thing you forgotten. At first it was admiration. But it was admiration built on a dream. The dream that this hell can be undone. The unfulfilled dream of a man who was incapable of helping anyone no matter how hard he tried and it cost him everything." the young man then walks forward towards the memory before reaching a sword on the other hill across from the archer.

"Is that the life you want? A hollow life of a machine?" Archer asks sadly at his choice.

"Yeah i do. Even it is just a life dripping with hypocrisy. I'll strive to be the hero of justice the world needs!" the red haired jaune said gripping a broad sword, his hand ignite in flames as he pulls it free.

In the real world archers eyes widened as jaune stands once more, his wounds began to heal. Archer realized that the pact between (g)saber and jaune would still save his life even when it was severed. Jaune shocked him with his next words "I am" the boy whispered.
"You wouldn't" archer shout at him

"The bone of my sword" the boy finishes the spell as the air becomes charged with his mana. Archer threw his swords at jaune only for them to be knocked away with a swing of sword shaped mana blades, as the boy says "I can't lose...Not to you. I'm not afraid of losing but there's no way I'm going to lose to myself!" as he finishes his blades fully form into the same swords as before only coated in large layer of mana.

Archer looks at him tiredly and says "your finally standing on the fresh hold but what good will it do you? I'm certain you notice; Your skill and mine are still worlds apart"

Jaune just stares defiantly at him "you may have defeat my dream but my arms and legs still work. I honestly believed you were right. But now i know that isn't true."

Archer eye twitches just slightly as he growls out "what?"

"I see that being right is the only thing you care about. But none of that matters to me." jaune says glaring straight ahead. "I'll become a hero of justice. Just as you can't accept me. I'll use every ounce of my strength to defeat the part of me thats you." jaune finishes point his black sword at archer. then the young man charged at his older self to finally end this battle. They clashed over and over again as jaune is tossed away constantly, but archer never left his spot on top the hill.

"pathetic!pathetic!PATHETIC! I can't even stand to look at you! Do you realise how stupid this is? DO YOU?" Archer yells at his younger self in an anger laced tone. "You a hero of justice? Is that what you really want? You know how absurd that is. so can't you admit you're wrong! True justice is the result of order. Salvation for all is totally different than your own salvation. Not only that, their completely incompatible."

"God does he ever stop talking? Sheesh!" Yang groans out wanting to see more action.

"Though you have to admit he has some great lines in this one" blake says writing down in a notebook.

"Yeah if he wasn't just a depressed, talkative asshole version of our jaune" yang grumble back at her partner, who only nodded along with everyone else who were also tired of hearing his depressing speeches by now.

Archer grip his blades tighter as continues to say "the more you strive for the total salvation of all, the more you'll be consumed by your own contradiction. You'll end up a mere murderer. If you can't see that, than die. Be crushed along side your precious ideals. Burnt out without ever achieving them!" as flashes of dead bodies, corpses of people he cared for or enemies he had to kill go across the screen archer then send his most vicious glare at the boy before saying. "If you die, then a mistake such as myself will vanish into the mist . I'll wipe out every trace of your life with my own two hands. This I swear!"

Jaune then readies his blades and charges forward to attack once more as glynda watches from the distance "they are beginning to mesh. If this keeps up jaune is certain to catch up with him. however" the two continue clash in a dance of spark and swings.

As the fight continues archer is clearly showing the edge in skill with jaune slowly catching up behind him. " why am I bothering with a fair fight. I could have defeated him easily. But if i were to do that i feel as though i would have been defeated in something crucial and i can't accept that! NO i'll finish this! He's already dead on his feet. This is it. " Archer thinks mid clash before kicking the young jaune away. He watches the young man lay on the ground before he begins to stand once more. " how can I be so foolish? How many times do I have to see it end like this. He'll never give up. He'll never reached his limit. In fact he has long since surpassed them. He's completely obsessed with taking down his opponent. But it's not me he wants to kill anymore. I know it. That ragged look of his it's all too familiar. I recognize the man as well. One who's spirit has never been broken, who has never been beaten, and never succumbed. Though the weight of it threatened to crush him, he never lost his dream to save everyone. Insisting to bear this burden alone. I know this man." the giant gears above them turned and clicked as the two glared at each other. "If only there was a way. If only he could find something to save everyone. He might have a purpose to his miserable life." Archer thought sadly remembering more of his life, where he helped people and wanted nothing in return. When he held the same dream as jaune.

"By the gods! Even his thoughts are long winded speeches!" Yang whined out gaining a couple chuckles from some of the audience.

"So archer was crushed under the weight of his sins to achieve his dream." ozpin mumbles to himself recognising some similar issue in his lives.

(g)saber watches on understanding that jaune is trying kill the part of himself that stops him from achieving his dream. Where as archer is trying to erase his past self so he change his future but is doomed to repeat his mistakes over again. Thinking about how her own choice led her down a bloody and death filled path. But she refused to regret it.

"He knows he can't win, he knows this fight is meaningless. Yet he remains defiant. The very mistake i made myself. Still he fights,why?" Archer questions himself as he begins to form swords sword out of mana pointing at jaune " in the end it doesn't matter your hope will someday betray you as mine did!" he shouts as he launches the blades at jaune. Jaune tries to deflect the swords away from himself able to knock three of them away before the fourth one slammed into the side of his white sword cracking it and breaking his arm.

"That's too bad your spirit outlasted your mana! In any event, the battle of jaune arc is about to end!" Archer says as he summons even more swords than last time.

"Yeah your right" jaune says struggling to stand but still managing.

"Are you serious? No he isn't right!"Ruby shouts at her 'friend' gaining nods from the other impatient types {you know who they are}

"I wonder how this will go." Raven asks finally saying something instead of just scoffing the entire time.

"I get it my wish really is fake. But there's something beautiful about it." these words shocked archer a little so he didn't attack right away as jaune continued. "Putting other people before myself is hypocritical, I understand that. Still I couldn't help but admire the idea, I thought how great it would be if I could live like that. Even if my life was a sham, there was still beauty in that wish and doing whatever I could to make others happy. I won't let that go. Even if it is foolish, I won't give it up. I don't care what you say! I Don't care if i'm a fraud or a hypocrite because I know my dreams not a mistake." as he said those words to sky behind him changed from a reddish, heavily clouded to a bright-blue,cloudy sky. Jaune rushed forward as archer shot his blades at him. Jaune dodge or deflected the swords getting closer with each step. Archer summoned four swords the width of a truck launched them at jaune who deflected two of them repeating word last word over again with a yell and continuing forward.

"Kick his ass red jaune!" Ruby cheered for him with the others joining in.

As jaune got within distance of archer he lunged with a stab to the chest. Archer swung his arm up to reverse grip his sword to it down on his counterpart thinking "this is cruel. Forcing me to look into an old mirror. There really such a man once?"

"What a poetic way of looking at things" ozpin thought pondering on what it would mean to fight someone like the old him as archer just did.

there is another flash of light before it fades and the three people are back at the mansion. The fading light also revealed the end of the fight as jaune stabbed archer through his chest.

Jaune watches as blood drips from the wound and says "it's over archer. I've won." and the screen turns black.

"What it's over already?" nora asks wanting to see the rest.

"Fraid so. Quenny" slayer says as he move to mess with the alignment once more "why don't all go take a break and wonder about for a while" as soon as those words left slayers mouth. The room shifted once more creating a doorway for them to go through.

"Whats through that door?" Raven asks,suspicious of the entity.

The door in question was dark red with black flames licking the bottom and an obsidian black door knob. Slayer sighed, before walking over and opens the door for them."the amount of my realm your allowed to move about in." what they see is a long corridor of wooden doors; some chained up , others unchained with labels on them, and finally at the end of the hall was a dark blue door with white icicles licking the top and a bright gold door knob. "You enter all the labeled rooms but steer clear of the blue door right now." Slayer tells them.

"Why? What's in it?" Nora asks curios of the reason for that rule.

"Because that room is my brothers room and he is quite busy{an2}. He was the one who ask me to do the pirate world. So please don't disturb him. And before you ask the ones that are chained are development rooms so they aren't ready yet. Have fun you lot!" Slayer says before return to screen for realignment.

The group split off some going to the bathroom. Others heading off to the door labeled game room. Blake and Ozpin walked off towards the library. Where Nora, Ren, and Ruby went off to the kitchen for some real food.


Hey so I'm sure this isn't how some of you guys wanted the fate series to show up but again i'm not that much of a fan so don't flame me if i got some of it wrong. But hey hopefully some of you enjoyed it.

AN1: for why oz is gil because it's funny. Can you imagine oz being that arrogant against cinder. The thought had me laughing for a bit.

AN2: for those who want to know yes i am planning to bring an oc of my brother in just have to finish the idea on when he comes in

And finally to anyone who noticed yeah i kinda changed midway through from referring to archer as jaune to referring to shirou as jaune. The reason I did that was because I thought that the rwby cast would slowly change from viewing the one that looks like him as jaune to viewing the one who acts like him as jaune. Does that make sense. Also the next chapter will probably be an intermission or break period but the chapter after wards will be for this spoiler bye for now.

Next time: "now say: amazing headband of justice in place amazing armor of justice protect me now. Go on say it!"