Fate/Kyon's Order: The Return

A Haruhi Suzumiya & Fate/Grand Order Crossover

by Derald Snyder

Part 19: Attack Program Ambush

"Hyah!" Shiki cried as she cut through the shadow servant's death line, causing it to split apart and fade away. "Yare, yare, how many more of these..."

"We must be getting close!" Haruhi grunted as she impaled another shadow with a black key.

"Well, we should get there in time, barring any unforeseen complications. Which I'm all too familiar with," Andersen grumbled.

"Aren't you just a bundle of joy," Shiki sighed, looking around for more enemies. "Looks like that's all of them..."

But then Haruhi felt the hair on the back of her neck stand up. "Wait. There's something else..."

"Are you sure? I don't sense anything," the assassin looked about, seeing nothing but the glitched temple walls that made up their current location.

"They're hiding..." Haruhi deduced. Moving forward carefully, she scanned the area from one side to the other... Shiki was also on guard, standing nearby a statue of gladiator... (Wait, that's it!) "Shiki! The statue!"

"Whoa!" Shiki gasped as said statue suddenly came to life and swung at her, the woman barely dodging! Fortunately the gladiator was not armed, but... "Another attack program?!"

"Must be!" Haruhi concurred, running and leaping, tagging the statue with a flying kick and knocking it on it's back side! (But why couldn't we sense it until just now...?) Hearing a strange noise, she looked down, watching as the statue suddenly began to change it's shape! "What the...?"

(Music- 'Reptile Theme', Mortal Kombat: The Movie (1995))

Long black hair grew from it's scalp as it's body shifted to a female form, taking on a pale skin tone, a brown business suit and skirt appearing on her body! The girl then stood up, and flip-kicked Haruhi before she could react, knocking her through the stone wall into the interior of the temple!

"Argh!" Haruhi grunted in pain, climbing to her feet, seeing the woman leap through the hole in the wall... "Kuyou Suou?!" That was all she managed to get out as Kuyou hit her with a leaping double kick to the face, the force causing Haruhi to twirl in midair before falling to the ground!

Shiki then jumped in after them, attempting to slice at Kuyou with her knife, only cutting off some hair! Kuyou then grabbed her knife arm, pulling the woman into a reverse headlock and elbowing her in the back, before hurling her against a nearby stalagmite! By this time, Haruhi had recovered, lashing out at Kuyou with a roundhouse kick which was ducked under, the alien then grabbing her opponent's head and giving her a couple of knees to the face, then kicking her in the ribcage, sending her flying back onto a raised platform with stone steps! She then leapt up to finish Haruhi off with another kick-

-but Haruhi rolled aside at the last moment, thrusting up with her legs and hitting Kuyou in the face, sending her down the steps to the floor below! The two women then righted themselves, Kuyou leaping back up to engage Haruhi in a close-quarters fist fight! Shiki ran up the steps to help, but Kuyou just grabbed her arm and tossed her head over heels! Haruhi took advantage of the distraction to sweep Kuyou's legs from under her, knocking her on her butt! Shiki managed to hit the alien in the face with a rising kick, then standing and taking position beside Haruhi.

Kuyou Suou rose back into a fighting stance, ready for more, her opponents charging at her, the alien easily fending off their strikes! She hit Shiki with a roundhouse kick, but Haruhi managed to grab the assassin by the arm, whirling around and using telekinesis to pull her into a horizontal stance, resulting in Kuyou getting hit with a double-footed kick to the chest! Letting Shiki fall to the floor, Haruhi rushed in as the alien stumbled back from the blow jumping and wrapping her legs around her neck, her hands bracing against the floor as she used the momentum to hurl Kuyou away, the alien flipping a few times before crashing on her front side at the bottom of the steps!

The alien interface growled as she got back to her feet, rushing back up the steps, easily intercepting Shiki's knife thrust, striking her in the elbow before tossing her head over heels again! Kuyou then blocked Haruhi's kick, nailing her with a blow to the groin, then hitting her with a kick to the chest that sent the brunette crashing against the far wall! The alien then leapt after her...

But Haruhi recovered faster than she expected, jumping and grabbing Kuyou around the waist, hurling her into a rock outcropping! Kuyou tumbled to the ground, the awkward landing having broken her focus. Haruhi quickly took advantage, kicking Kuyou in the ribcage before she recovered! Kuyou swung at Haruhi and missed, getting hit with a an uppercut! The brunette then briefly ran up a wall to hit Kuyou with another kick that slammed the alien against a short wall! Haruhi then gave her a kick to the chin, sending her into the air, her back hitting the top of said wall before crashing to the floor on the other side!

"My turn!" Shiki yelled, jumping over Kuyou's attempted sweep and finally slashing her in the face! She then blocked Kuyou's fist before punching her in the cheek with her other hand! Haruhi rejoined the fight, grabbing Kuyou by the hair and slamming her with a hard right hook! The alien stumbled back, hunched over and in clear pain.

"Let's end this!" "Right!" Shiki twirled her knife before throwing it, the blade finding purchase in Kuyou's neck! Haruhi then struck with several midair kicks to the face, before finishing with a double-footed strike to the chest that sent Kuyou flipping backwards through the air, right back out the hole in the temple wall! Kuyou's form reverted to that of the stone gladiator, the statue promptly breaking into several pieces upon hitting the floor!

The two women jogged up to the hole, looking down and seeing the statue's remnants dissolve into 1s and 0s, leaving only Shiki's knife behind. "Looks like we got her. Nice work, Suzumiya."

"You too," Haruhi smiled and nodded as they climbed through the hole, Shiki retrieving her knife.

"Well done," Andersen complimented the duo. "But who was that? I've never seen a servant like her before..."

"She's not a servant," Haruhi shook her head. "Kuyou Suou is an interface for an extraterrestrial entity known as the Sky Canopy Domain..."

"An alien?!" Shiki gasped in disbelief. "But why would she come here?!"

"Probably thought she could kill me while I was isolated from everyone else," Haruhi sighed as she rubbed her neck. "Not that I couldn't have taken her on my own, though... anyway, that wasn't the real Kuyou. She didn't even use any of her alien powers that I could see..."

"It's clear that this alien just modified the statue into her own form to attack you," Hans agreed. "Perhaps she was the one that sent you here to begin wi-" He was cut off as a sudden rumbling occurred. "What the... No! It can't be! It's too soon! She shouldn't be awake yet!"

"The Alter Ego?!" Haruhi guessed... then it hit her. "Shit! Kuyou must've sped up her awakening after we kicked her ass!"

"What is this Alter Ego, anyway?!" Shiki inquired urgently.

"The youngest and strongest of BB's Alter Egos, Kingprotea!" Andersen exclaimed. "She's coming!" he gasped as the shaking increased, before the floor suddenly burst apart between them, showing a massive female hand!

"Holy shit!" Haruhi cried in terror...

*To be continued...*