Fate/Kyon's Order: The Return
A Haruhi Suzumiya & Fate/Grand Order Crossover
by Derald Snyder
Part 20: Kingprotea
The floor crumbled beneath the trio, Haruhi and Shiki crying out as they fell down... hitting the ground, they groaned as they slowly pulled themselves up, beholding their foe... "Wh-what the-?!" Shiki gasped.
"THAT'S Kingprotea?! She's HUGE!" Haruhi cried. Indeed, the Alter Ego stood about thirty meters tall, wrapped in bandages, patches of green moss growing on her exposed skin. Like the other Alter Egos, she had lilac-colored hair and matching eyes, though one eye was also covered with a bandage. The two women quickly scrambled to their feet as Kingprotea looked down at them...
"Oh, hello there," the giant spoke, before stretching and yawning. "Mmm, it's been so long since I had visitors... Oh! Are you, um... Haruhi Suzumiya, by any chance?"
"You know me?!" Haruhi tensed up.
"Uh-huh... this nice lady woke me up, she said I have to kill you no matter what. So just stay still so I can squish you, okay~? This won't take long." Kingprotea then lifted her foot...
(Music- 'spinal sg coaster')
"Oh, hell no!" Haruhi cried as she and Shiki ran away, barely dodging the stomp!
"What do we do?! I can't fight something like that!" Shiki yelled in distress.
"Nor can I!" Hans asserted as the two ran over to him. "In this closed-off space, we're sitting ducks!"
(Closed off... wait, closed space!) "That's it! You're brilliant, Andersen!" Haruhi said aloud.
"What do you mean? Did I inspire you somehow?" the author asked.
"Right, but first... we gotta get outta here!" Grabbing Hans and Shiki around the waist, Haruhi closed her eyes and abruptly ascended, flying over Kingprotea's head and out the hole they'd fallen through!
"Hey! Come back here! I need to squish you!" Kingprotea protested, climbing up after them...
*Cage of the Fallen- Entrance*
"Idiot, why did you come all the way back up here?!" Andersen protested as the trio set down. "We're supposed to STOP the Alter Ego from entering SERAPH!"
"You said it yourself, we need room to maneuver!" Haruhi shot back. "Don't worry, I have a plan!"
"It had better be a good one!" Hans growled, watching as Kingprotea rose out of the whirlpool.
"Oh there you are!" the giant woman exclaimed upon seeing Haruhi. "Stop running away, so I can stomp you flat!"
"Sorry, but I have some companions who might take issue with that," Haruhi said in defiance, closing her eyes again... suddenly, their surroundings turned greyscale as several white giants materialized around the Alter Ego!
"What the hell?! What are those things?!" Shiki cried.
"We call then 'Shinjin' or 'Celestials'," Haruhi explained. "They're embodiments of my negative emotions. But they can only exist in this pocket dimension that we call 'closed space'."
"P-pocket dimension?!" Andersen stuttered in disbelief. "You- are you even human?! Only a god could have this kind of power!"
"...I was born human, I know that much for sure," Haruhi said uncertainly. "I still like to think of myself as one... if only to keep this power from going to my head. But, that's not important right now! You two, stay close to me! The Celestials won't target you if you're near me!"
"I hope you're right...!" Shiki grunted, watching as the white giants turned to focus on Kingprotea.
"Ahhh! W-where did you all come from?!" the Alter Ego cried in fear. "You're all as big as me!" The Celestials simply roared in response, the closest one slugging her in the face! "OW! That hurts!" She swung back, knocking the giant away, only for two more to come in swinging their limbs wildly!
"They don't seem much for strategy," Hans observed.
"Well, usually they're just destroying buildings and the like," Haruhi shrugged. "I don't usually take control of them directly... but I'm telling that one to stay back," she pointed to one giant standing apart from the others.
"How come?" Shiki asked.
"If all the celestials are destroyed, the closed space collapses," Haruhi replied. "I subconsciously imbued several people with esper powers to take of these monsters way back when... Although, I'm a lot better at controlling my emotions nowadays, so I thought Koizumi and maybe Yuki would be enough to handle any closed space that popped up... as far as rayshifting here, I figured the closed space would just collapse when I left, since I was no longer there to sustain it... but now I'll use it to keep Kingprotea trapped!"
"Get away!" Kingprotea screamed as she tried to fend off the Celestials, grabbing one giant's arm and tearing it off! She then used said arm to smack the others away, but the limb dissipated after a few swings, the Celestials attempting to dogpile her once more!
"Looks like the giant will win by numbers alone," Shiki observed. "Unless that thing has another trick up her sleeve..."
Hans then spoke, "Well, I don't normally mind being a killjoy, but..."
"What?! Seriously?!" Haruhi grunted.
"That's it! I'm gonna squash you all!" Kingprotea cried as she began to glow, growing bigger, bigger, and bigger! "Airavata, King Sized!"
"Holy shit!" Shiki screamed, completely losing her composure as the Alter Ego brought her massive hand down on the gathered Celestials, who screamed as they were crushed by the unstoppable force! Only the giant that Haruhi had kept away survived the attack.
"Fortunately, she can't seem to maintain that size for long," Andersen stated. Sure enough, Kingprotea shrank back down to her 'normal' thirty-meter height soon afterward.
"If you know so much about her, then tell me why she's so powerful to begin with?!" Haruhi demanded.
"Simple, she's an amalgamation of several Earth Mother goddesses, such as Titania, Airavata and Tiamat!" Hans replied. The trio were then forced to flee as Kingprotea tried to stomp them out of existence again!
"Hold still! Don't make me do to you what I did to those glowy white people!" Kingprotea yelled.
"...Did you say Tiamat?" Haruhi grunted as she grabbed her two companions and flew to the other end of the closed space.
"Yes! Tiamat, the primordial mother of life from Mesopotamian mythology!" Hans confirmed. "Why are you asking about that?!"
(That explains it... she's made up partially from Beast II... but that means...) Coming to a decision, Haruhi raised her hand, a glass container appearing which held a glowing black lump. "Andersen, Shiki, you might wanna step back a little..."
"What are you planning to do...?" Shiki pondered, even as she and the author did as ordered.
"Whatever it is, make it fast! Here she comes!" Andersen pointed at the approaching Kingprotea.
"...Sorry, Gilgamesh. I have to break my promise." The jar shattered, the glowing lump rising into the air... "By my will, I summon you forth into this world! Come forth, Mother of Life, Tiamat!" Several orbs of light surrounded the lump, spinning around it rapidly, before converging on said lump, a beam of light shooting into the sky!
(Music- 'Childhood's End')
"Huh?!" Kingprotea stopped upon seeing the light show... something then took shape, the light dissipating to reveal a vaguely humanoid female figure with long silver hair and double-curved horns, possessing pink eyes with X-shaped pupils, standing as tall as the Alter Ego herself!
"OooooOOOOOOOOHHHHH!" the reborn Tiamat cried in a feral voice that sounded like female singing!
"It can't be! You had a catalyst to summon the actual Tiamat?!" Andersen cried in disbelief.
"Well, you know what they say, fight fire with fire!" Haruhi retorted with a grin.
"Can you even control that thing?!" Shiki asked.
"I should be able to!" Raising up her right hand, Haruhi intoned, "Tiamat, by my Command Spell, defeat the Alter Ego standing before you!" One of the marks faded from her hand, only one now remaining.
"OoooAAAAAHHHH!" Tiamat roared, stomping forward and lashing out at Kingprotea with her hand!
"Hey! Stop that!" the Alter Ego cried in dismay, swinging back at the new arrival! "Lemme squish Haruhi Suzumiya!"
(Not like that!) Haruhi called to the Beast telepathically. (Curl your fingers, then your thumb, then swing!) Tiamat's hand curled into a fist, hitting her opponent with a right hook that knocked her off-balance, the Alter Ego crashing to the ground! (That's it! Now try using that tail of yours!) The Beast's tail whipped from behind her, catching Kingprotea in the face and drawing blood!
"She hurt her!" Shiki gasped. "Maybe we can win after all!"
"Owie! Get away, you monster!" Kingprotea screamed, pulling up a boulder from the ground and hurling it! The boulder crashed against Tiamat's chest, staggering her and forcing her back a little!
"Whoa!" Haruhi ducked as Tiamat's tail swung just above their heads! "Okay, we're too close to the action!" Grabbing her companion's hands, Haruhi teleported them a few hundred feet away, now observing from the left at a safe distance. "That's better!"
"Yes, much better," Shiki nodded, heaving a sigh of relief. She and the others then watched as Kingprotea stood back up and grappled with her opponent...
(Tiamat, use your head!) Haruhi ordered. The Earth Mother obeyed, slamming her horned head into Kingprotea's face, blood spurting from the Alter Ego's nose as a result! Tiamat also recoiled from the blow, holding her head in pain.
"Well, she's doing better than those giants were," Andersen muttered. "I'd say she's got a 50/50 chance of victory, at best..."
"That's the most optimistic thing I've heard you say," Shiki snarked.
"Oww! That hurt, you meanie!" Kingprotea yelled, charging at Tiamat and tackling her around the waist, sending the Beast crashing to the ground! Standing back up, she kicked her again in anger, before looking around... "Oh! There you are, Haruhi Suzumiya! Okay, I'm coming to squish you!" She began running at the trio...
"Shit! I forgot she was focused on me!" Haruhi grimaced.
"You idiot! Couldn't you have at least separated us from yourself?!" Hans critiqued, quaking in mortal fear. Fortunately for them Tiamat had recovered, literally flying through the air and grabbing Kingprotea around the waist from behind, halting her forward advance!
"Ahh! Leggo of me!" Kingprotea cried in distress as she was lifted off the ground, her legs kicking wildly!
"NoooOOOOOOOOH!" was Tiamat's response, the Beast turning and hurling the Alter Ego through the air-
-who crashed down on the last Celestial, crushing it out of existence! "Crap! I forgot to monitor it's location!" Haruhi cried as cracks began to appear in the sky. "The closed space is gonna collapse! We're get dumped back into reality!"
"You fool! Now nothing will stop this fight from spilling over into SERAPH proper!" Andersen chastised.
"Nothing we can do now! Hold on!" Haruhi said as she grabbed Shiki and Hans around the waist-
*Flank Separator*
"Ughh..." Gawain grunted, bleeding badly from a head wound, his left eye swollen shut as he faced down Passionlip. (I've about reached my limit... forgive me my liege- I mean, Artesia...) But before the Sentinel could strike a fatal blow, the area began shaking! "What...?"
"Ahh...?" Passionlip stopped, looking about... Just then, right behind her, two giants suddenly winked into existence, Tiamat on top as she wrestled with Kingprotea!
"What in the world...?!" Gawain gasped in disbelief.
*To be continued...*
