Infinity Stratos Blades
An Infinite Stratos/Fate Stay night fanfic
Authors Notes: Aka No kishi means Red Knight, Archer is one of the 'Knight' classes... hence the name of the IS.
Chapter 3: Dark problems
IS Academy, morning
Shirou woke up at the crack of dawn... he left the dorm room and went into the arena.
"Aka no Kishi... come forth!" Shirou said as the armor materialized around him and suited up.
He used his time early in the morning to get more familiar with the controls of it. He went at it for a couple of hours until the sun rose up.
As soon as it did he went to his dorm-room to shower and change.
And now... to the kitchen
It has been a while since he made a home made meal (3 days in fact) and thus he felt he had to ALLOW himself to do some cooking to take off the edge.
And thus he prepared a simple meal, using jasmine rice, some bonito fish, and some steamed vegetables cooked in some miso sauce.
Houki woke up to a nearly divine scent in the air, as she woke up Shirou was making the sauce for the fish.
"Ah... good morning Houki-san, please do use the shower, I finished first so I thought to treat you to a breakfast, I couldn't on the first two days until I found in the manual that there was a pull-away kitchen, I didn't even knew kitchens could do that!" Shirou said amused at this tidbit.
Houki blinked owlishly.
"Hurry and get ready we got class early today, remember?" Shirou said
Houki blushed as she rushed to the bathroom.
Breakfast was a light affair, Houki was delighted with Shirou's culinary skills.
"Yeah... I cook a lot, since I have a lot of people in my house" Shirou said
"Oh... you have a large family?" Houki asked.
"Ah... no, the only family I have is my sister Ilya, the others are visitors, one is my guardian the other one is a kohai from the archery club, and her older sister, as well as my guardian" Shirou said.
"Wh... what happened to your father and mother?" Houki asked
"well... I don't remember... I was adopted after what happened in Fuyuki many years ago, the "Great Fuyuki Fire"... I lost my memories about who my parents was and my last name... I was adopted almost immediately by my foster father Emiya Kiritsugu... he took me in and I became Emiya Shirou... I didn't know but my fatehr had left his daughter behind, she found of me later on and we became a family, unfortunately, Kiritsugu... my father passed away when I was still young, when I was 8 years old if I remember correctly... he was... completely hopeless in the kitchen so it was up to me to make something that was edible for both of us, else we would be eating convenience store bought food" Shirou said.
"W... what about your Kohai and her sister?" Houki asked
"W... well... my kohai helped me out when I had an accident... I got a scar on my shoulder and I had to drop from the archery club do to my scar, she helped me out cleaning and cooking when I couldn't due to my injury, her sister... well we became close friends and then we became a family" Shirou said.
She blinked and smiled... a family uh...
She had a... difficult sister herself, she didn't know HOW to deal with her and her eccentricities after all.
"I hope you like the breakfast" Shirou said.
"Uhmm... I wouldn't mind eating your miso all the time" Houki said
Houki froze in place and then twisted around and wiggled, what she said could be taken wrong if someone else heard it.
After all 'eating you miso' was also an euphemism for 'getting married'.
"Sure I don't mind making you miso" Shirou said with a smile
Houki had a dreamy look as she blushed. Said look lasted all day.
Classroom
"Ah... yes, due to Orimura-sensei being called for business I will be taking over the class, so please turn to the manuals page on different tactics to use against a long range IS and Extreme close range ones" Yamada-sensei said with a dreamy look.
Shirou was bored as his specialty was to analyze during combat and adapting strategies as it went on... he was wondering what was going on until he caught a familiar set of eyes staring to him from the window.
He blinked and gasped...
"N... no way...w... what is she doing here?!" Shirou thought as he couldn't believe who had come to school.
The person on the window smiled as she made a 'come over' sign with her hands... she jumped up and astralized.
"Ah... Yamada-sensei... if I may be excused?" Shirou asked abruptly.
"Ah... er...s-sure?" Yamada said as Shirou rushed out of the classroom.
Rooftop, 5 minutes later
"Aahhh... R... rider... Come on out... I KNOW you are here" Shirou said.
Rider materialized next to him.
"Hello there Shirou-kun, I came for a visit... Sakura still can't leave the house until a few more weeks so she asked me to see you in her stead" Rider said with a smile uncharacteristically out of place for her.
"R... rider, there was not need for that... I am more concerned if someone sees us and get the wrong idea" Shirou said.
"oh? And what would be bad about that? After all if I remember correctly we had a tantr-" Rider said as Shirou shoved his hands on her mouth.
"That was to help get rid of Sakura's worms and you know it" Shirou said glaring at Rider
She giggled... it was fun to tease Shirou.
"Anyways, Rin also asked me to see how things are going with you so I am going to stay around for a while" Rider said.
Shirou sighed... he expected as much.
"Fine.. but keep quiet about sensitive materials... agreed?" Shirou said
Rider nodded.
With that Rider went into astral form and followed Shirou around.
To be honest he was immensely uncomfortable... having someone looking over him... invisible to all.
And so Rider joined in my classes while I had to endure that 'feeling someone was looking over my shoulder' for all day.
Rider leaned against the far wall on the right as she looked at the class, she had to admit, for mortals, a lot of the girls where rather attractive, one of them was particularly funny, the one she learn her name called Honne Nohotoke, a bubbly girl who whore her outfit with larger than necessary sleeves that hid her hands.
Nohohon, as the girl was known as... had an infectious personality, that and she liked to eat snacks a lot as she saw the girl eating during class.
"Everyone, come to the arena, all personal IS holders please go and help others by giving a demonstration" Yamada-sensei said.
The class left for the arena...
"Blue tears" Cecilia said
"Aka no Kishi" Shirou said
With that both IS formed around Cecilia and Shirou...
"Ok~ay, now you two do some aerial maneuvering... so the rest can see what to expect" Yamada-sensei said.
Both Cecilia and Shirou rose up in the air, Shirou a tad more clumsily as he was not used to the maneuverability in the air, he might have practiced a lot, but he still have not much time using the actual IS as Cecilia had.
Rider was looking at the machines the girl and Shirou where using, her riding skill would allow he to use one at par with veteran pilots and beyond.
Still Shirou did the maneuvers that he was asked to do along with Cecilia... while she looked graceful, Shirou looked more like a awkward bird that was just learning to fly.
"that's great, you are doing great, Shirou, you need to adjust more the right side...a bi~t more... there... that will let you fly less awkwardly" Yamada-sensei said.
The day before
"So what have you found out?" Orimura-sensei said over her phone.
"Is as Shirou-kun said, this IS is indeed unmanned, what's worst is that the core is unregistered" said one of the techs.
The cores of the IS are black boxes, they are only 467 cores created, all of them shared by the world's governments... 467 core of them 322 of them are used for actual combat and the rest are handed over research facilities and enterprises of various countries.
The cores function as the energy for the IS and has an AI that will grow to match the pilot's personality and skills.
"So there is no way to track whose IS is this uh?" Orimura said.
"Sorry about that" the tech apologized.
"No worry, this is just something else to do during my 'business' trip" Orimura-sensei said.
"Oh... so you are going to be investigating the little boy?" the tech said with a grin.
"Don't make it sound so dirty... but yes, I am going to investigate Emiya Shirou... there are some things that don't add up... and you know me, I don't like NOT knowing something" Orimura said.
Back to the IS academy (Present)
it was just another day as went to the dojo where he was sparing with Houki for a while.
It was fun sparing with the girl, she was very skilled, not to the level of my Saber, but she was close to Taiga's strength.
Still I was able to weather her attacks, she had light footwork and precise strikes.
Shirou was pragmatic in his attacks and was able to use her own her skills against her, Shirou's skills enabled him to judge her strength and thus fought her only at her level, but still fighting as he would.
"How about we stop now... we been at it for nearly 2 hours" Shirou said as he saw the holographic display of the time coming from his IS.
"You go ahead use the shower first I'll wait here" Shirou said.
Houki nodded as she left the dojo with a smile and a light blush on her.
"Oh... so you starting to do that again?" Rider said as she materialized into the physical plane.
"What are you talking about?" Shirou asked, honestly confused as usual.
"Haaa... you are so dense as usual... anyways, this place seems ok, male to female ratio notwithstanding... she said with a smirk, also the books in here are really interesting, I can't understand much of it, but still most where a nice read" Rider said.
"So... anyways... thanks for dropping by Rider, tell Sakura to not over-work herself and tell Rin to keep an eye on the house while I am not there." Shirou asked
"Sure... by the way, you seem to have a visitor" Rider said as she smirked.
Shirou turned around and saw Cecilia with her mouth agape.
Rider was leaning against the wall, well at least she was wearing her 'civilian' clothes rather than her skimpy outfit she used during the war.
"A Cecilia, please meet Rider, she is a friend of one of my friends and she is currently staying over my house..." Shirou presented Rider to Cecilia who was still agape.
Cecilia knew she was beautiful, she was even a model and was proud of her figure, however the woman before her... it put her to shame, she exuded an aura of 'worship' around her, she had to admit even she found her beautiful.
"Good evening Cecilia Alcott, I am Rider, I wish to thank you for taking care of our Shirou over there, he is... very dense in situations that don't have anything to do with combat" Rider said with a slight bow
"Hey... I am right here you know?" Shirou said as he pouted at the slight Rider had directed at him.
"A... ah , no there is no need to thanks, as a cadet representative it's my duty to help after all" Cecilia said.
"Nonetheless you have my thanks" Rider said.
Shirou was inwardly glad that it was Rider and not Rin who came. She would make a joke that could be misinterpreted and make the situation in here a ticking time bomb, just to get a few cheap laughs.
"Anyways, I am glad you are ok, I will go back and report to the rest" Rider said as she hugged Shirou.
"Be good and stop begin so dense, enjoy yourself a bit..." Rider said as she left the dojo.
"So... Shirou-kun, can you explain your relationship with this woman?" Cecilia asked.
"Oh boy...I think Rider did that on purpose... ok Shirou... you can do it...think fast" Shirou thought.
"Well, one of my friends came down with something nasty last year, she is still delicate, she is someone who came to help her out... she stayed with her and they became part of my family... she stays over at my house and takes care of my kohai... who is bedridden for a while longer, along with my step-sister and a old schoolmate whose house got damaged by an accident with a boiler" Shirou said explaining everything by twisting the truth.
Sakura was bedridden due to the extraction of the parasite worms her grandfather put in to create a worm crest, Rin's house was damage due to her imperfect summoning of Archer, and Rider was SUMMONED as a servant by Sakura.
"Ah... I see, and since they lived with you they became part of your family I see" Cecilia said as a small smile came over "good that means that they are not competition for me" she thought.
"Well as long as they are no misunderstandings, now I wish to apologize, but I need to return to my room, I am not in the best condition right now so I am going to freshen up" Shirou said as he apologized as he departed.
"At least... he has the characteristics I am looking for" Cecilia thought
Shirou went back to his room... he was tired and had a lot to think about.
The next morning
Shirou had a feeling in his stomach... there was something happening and THAT was going to involve him.
After all everything was going well so far.
"Alright everyone, please quite down and take your seats" Yamada-sensei said with her bubbly personality. "today I would like to introduce to everyone your new classmates, they are transfer students Charles Dunois-kun and Laura Bodewig-san" she said
Everyone was in shock... another boy, and a pretty looking one at that.
"My name is Charles Dunois, I'm from France, I'm quite inexperienced here, but I hope we'll all get along" he said with a sunny smile "I've heard that someone in this class is in the same situation as I am so I transferred to Japan"
Charles looked at Shirou, he had to admit, this boy was far too fair looking, but did not begrudge him, at least he was not a (wannabe) womanizer like a certain seaweed haired boy he had known.
He was a horrible human being... and thought he felt bad he was dead, he could not blame Sakura for killing him... as it was in self-defense.
Orimura-sensei was back, and looked angry "Tch, stop gushing over him" she said as she glared at the class.
"Uhh... Everyone, there is another transfer student here... let's be quite so she can speak" Yamada-sensei said.
Shirou was shocked... that girl...
She was an exact replica of Ilya, except that this girl didn't have her personality, if anything she looked serious, dead serious.
"Laura, your greeting" Orimura-sensei said
"At once... instructor" she said as she gave a military salute.
Shirou looked at Orimura, that meant that she was, at one point in time, a soldier of some kind.
He doubted it was NOT IS related.
"I am no longer your instructor... It's Chifuyu-sensei now" she said.
Seemed that they had a close history.
She did an about face, facing the classroom.
"I am Laura Bodewig" she declared
"Uhmm... anything else?" Yamada-sensei asked
"That is all" she said
She walked slowly to Shirous desk and looked right at him.
Shirou felt he was analyzing him, her face scrounged in what could be called anger, but her face immediately schooled itself.
She then moved her hand so fast, nearly no one would be able to catch it.
*Smack*
Shirou caught her hand a micro-inches away from his face.
He looked at the girl, while said girl just showed contempt and tried to retrive her hand.
Shirou's grip was stronger than her own and thus was trapped.
"I will not allow scum like you trouble my instructor" she said as she glared heatedly at Shirou.
Seems she had a big complex regarding Orimura-sensei, was it this girl that made Orimura leave for the day? No... it did not seem likely.
No... it seamed just like with Ilya, she had a wrong impression of the situation... and that this girl loved her teacher and wanted to get her praise.
She was a lonely girl, just like Ilya.
With a light shove the soldier girl recomposed herself.
"That's it for Home Room, We are having a mock battle class 2 today! get changed and meet me at ground 2 right away" Orimura-sensei said
"H... Hai!" the girls said
She then turned to Shirou "Emiya, I'll leave Dunois in your care since you are boys" she said
I nodded.
The young boy smiled "you are Emiya-kun right? Pleased to meet you" he said as he stretched his hand out.
Shirou took it and shook it.
"Now you should run as fast as you can... if you know what's good for you" Shirou said as he pulled on the young boy.
"Waaah" he yelled as he was pulled by Shirou.
The girls begun to chase them as they wanted to see them changing.
They reached the bathroom where they could change.
"Man, I have to say... I feel relieved to have another guy around, it will makes things less awkward in here... having an ally makes it easier to deal with it" Shirou said. "So let's do our best from now on... my name is Emiya Shirou... but you can call me Shirou if you'd like" he said as he shook Dunois's hand once more.
"yeah... pleased to meet you, Shirou... you may also call me Charles" the young boy said with a smile.
"Alright let's get changed" Shirou said as he started taking his clothes off.
The young boy blushed "C... can you turn around please?" he asked
"uh... sure... don't worry sorry about that" he said.
With that the other young boy got dressed in record time.
"Wow.. that's fast... is there a trick to it? It's hard to put on the piloting suit cause it's skin tight... so you need to be naked to put it on" Shirou.
"no is nothing like that" Charles said
"Yeah... also 'it' tends to get caught" Shirou said feeling discomfort on his nether regions due to the tight-ness of the suit.
"I see... get caught..." Charles said with a pinkish blush on his face.
"Uhmmm is something wrong? You are a bit red, are you running a fever?" Shirou asked worried.
"Ah.. n-no nothing like that..." Charles said moving his hands frantically.
Shirou then noticed Charles's suit "that suit... it looks like an easy to wear model, where did you get it?" Shirou asked, hopping he could get one like that, his own was a tad uncomfortable to put on.
"Eh? Oh... this is a Dunois custom suit, you can't order it yet..." Charles said.
"Dunois, eh..." Shirou then realized something.
"Yeah, my father is the president of that company in France, it's the largest IS-related company" Charles said.
"Ah, that makes sense then" Shirou said.
Charles looked at him questioningly
"Well, you give an aura of upper-class, you seem well mannered and seem even tempered, not to mention you seem a tad... shy around other people" Shirou said.
He blinked "Upper-class uh" he said, his demeanor changed, he looked... glum, depressed even.
"Charles?"
"No.. is nothing, let's hurry and go to the grounds" Charles said.
Once they got dressed they went to the arena... they did stretches and the like.
Cecilia was glaring at Shirou.
"Shirou-san... might I have a minute"
Shirou was feeling a tad uncomfortable and laughed uncomfortably...
"I... is something wrong Cecilia-san?" Shirou said.
"Well... about Bodewig-san earlier...how are you related?" Cecilia asked.
"That... that IS a good question... to be honest, for a second she looked like my sister, but then afterward... her personality is all wrong... but other than that, no, I do not know of her" Shirou answered honestly.
Rin then butted in... "What's this about? Let me in on it too" she said.
"Well" Cecilia said "It seems that the girl is somewhat familiar with him... or something like that"
*Smack Smack*
Orimura-sensei smacked the two girls on their heads with her clipbooard
"We'll start with you two" Orimura-sensei said directing to Cecilia and Rin.
"What?!" Cecilia said outraged
"Why us?" Rin asked.
Orimura-sensei knelled down to them and whispered to them "Tell you what... don't you want to show him your good side?"
With that the two girls immediately donned their IS.
"Well, let me show you the difference in skill between us! As personal IS users" Rin said
"Just leave it to me, England's cadet representative, Cecilia Alcott, the one and only" she said haughtily.
"So, who will be my foe, is it Rin-san?" Cecilia asked.
She sighed "I am gonna send you packing that's for sure" she said
"Settle down fools your opponent will be" Orimura-sensei said as she was interrupted.
Shirou turned around, "uhmmm what's that sound?"
"Aaaaah! Everyone please moooooo~oooove~!" Yamada-sensei yelled as she went out of control.
"Shit.." Shirou said as he moved to catch her, reinforcing his body.
He donned his IS as he caught Yamada-sensei in a princess carry.
However due to the speed she went down Shirou was touching Yamada-sensei in a VERY 'dangerous' zone.
Her boobs.
She blushed "Uhmm... Emiya-kun... well... this is... very troubling and this place is..." she said as she fidgeted.
Shirou's brain shut down momentarily as it rebooted.
"No! It's not just the place, and our relationship is teacher and student... ah, but if this is the case... I wouldn't mind" she continued to rant.
Shirou's instincts then told him to move as he narrowly avoided Cecilia's attack from her rifle.
"ohohohohoohoho... what I shame... I missed" Cecilia said with yandere looking eyes.
"EMIYA YOU PERV!" Rin yelled as she threw her giant scimitar.
"Shit" Shirou yelled, however he felt Yamada-sensei move and noticed something else.
He let go of Yamada-sensei and she swiftly called out a rifle that shot down Rin's weapon down.
Shirou whistled... she had good reaction speed and accuracy.
"I expect no less from a former cadet representative" Orimura said.
"That was WAY back then, and I was just a candidate representative" Yamada-sensei said.
"Well then, Yamada-sensei We'll conduct a mock battle between both Alcott and Fang as partners" Orimura said.
"Uhmm... I see... so Orimura-sensei set both of them up... both of them have horrible team-work, not to mention skill-wise Yamada-sensei has FAR more experience piloting her unit and usage of weapons, from what I can see her unit is old, so she is using a school issued one... but why did she do this?" Shirou thought.
He glared at Orimura-sensei who just smirked.
"Alright then... Dunois! Talk about the IS Yamada-sensei is piloting" Orimura commanded.
"Ah... yes... that would be the Dunois Corp's "Rafael Revive" IS unit, it was developed near the end of the second generation but it's versatility and stability rival those of the third generation units, and it can use a large arsenal of weapons, among the mass-produced IS units, it's currently has the third largest share of the world market with 7 countries bearing licenses and 12 more countries officially adapting it, of special note is the ease of operation... and also, rather than picking a specific type of pilot, the unit has a 'multi-role change' feature with this feature, the unit is capable of becoming either melee, snipping, or defensive type by just switching it's gear" Charles said.
"Wow... as expected of the company's president's son" Shirou though.
"Well that should be enough for the background... the match should be over soon" Orimura-sensei said.
Yamada-sensei shot Cecilia who dodged by flying to the right, however she collided with Rin, then she used that to throw a grenade at them.
The result was a foregone conclusion.
Both of them where splayed on the floor, battered and confused on what had just happened.
After the result the class begun to respect their teachers more.
"Ok... each of you pair... we are going by class numbers" Orimura-sensei said in order to alleviate a hoard of girls on both Shirou and Charles.
After a few cadets got helped by Shirou, as he heard them chattering, since it was just girls talking, however Houki was listening.
"Hey, did you hear about that rumor?" one said "I heard the winner of next month's single tournament get's to go out with Emiya-kun~?"
"Ah~, so class 2 know as well!" another said.
"Everyone in the academy knows!" another said.
"Why did it turn into something like that...?" Houki thought as she glared at the other girls.
"Houki... Houki-san!" Shirou called out.
"Eh?!" Houki turned around.
"Shirou..." she said as he was face to face to her.
"It's your turn right now... come here" Shirou called.
"didn't you hear what I said, everyone's practicing how to get into the IS!... but the person before you left the Uchigane in a standing pose... and the unit was left like that" a girl said.
"So... please let Emiya-kun carry you there, ok?" a girl said.
"Kyaah~!" she gasped as Shirou carried her in princess carry.
"I... it's nothing!" she said as she blushed furiously "Could... could this be what they call the legendary 'Ohime-sama dakko'...?"(princess carry)
"Hold on" Shirou said as he rose up carrying Houki.
"I... I can feel Shirou's muscles and warmth trough this thin cloth..." Houki thought. "It's as if he's touching me directly..." Houki thought as she blushed.
"We're here" Shirou announced.
"I am going to put you on the unit... start it up an try walking" Shirou said
"A...ah... that's right" she said as she got pulled out of her mussing.
"And... uhmmm, Shirou... are you... doing something during lunch time?" she asked as she got lowered into the IS.
"uh... n..nothign really" he said.
"I see... then how about, we go and have lunch together?!" Houki asked
"Uh, sounds good?" Shirou said as he was taken back by her forcefulness.
"Right! Let's go have lunch on the roof together!" she said
"Ah... dont' buy anything for lunch ok?" she said.
Shirou nodded, he had made some extra bentos.
"Ah... Shinonono-san... please start practicing already" Yamada-sensei said.
The class went off without a hitch...
Houki was skipping happily with a smile and a slight blush.
"Alright...! my 'secret plan' is all going perfectly, today, I'll be able to talk to Shirou a lot" Shirou.
"Shi...rou" Houki then stopped as she oppened the doro and saw other people besides Shirou.
There was Cecilia, Rin as well as, Charles.
"oh... you are here too" Cecilia said as she turned to look at the person coming in.
"My... Houki-san" Rin said.
"Houki-san, over here" Shirou said as he called her over.
Her eye twitched "Wh... What's with all this...?" Houki asked.
"Eh? Something wrong? I thought it'd be a lot more fun to eat with lots of people here..." Shirou said as.
"Plus, Charles here can't tell left from right around here yet" Shirou said
"Hello" Charles said.
"Well... that's not... really... the case..." she said.
"Eh... what's up with the bento boxes, Houki-san?" Shirou said.
"This is for you" she said
"Uh? For me... oh.. thanks..." Shirou said as he pulled out his own bento "But... I made some for all of us" Shirou said.
Houki blinked owlishly.
Moments later
"Wow... this is delicious, I never knew Japanese food would taste soo good" Cecilia said as she elegantly took a bite of some of the food of Shirou's bentos.
Cecilia had some troubles eating with chopsticks and thus Shirou had to volunteer (read forced by Cecilia) to feed her... the other girls asked him to do the same and Shirou accepted due to his good intentioned soul.
Charles looked at them forlorn "That being said... is it okay for me to be here?" he asked.
"Yeah... why wouldn't it be? There is way to many females, to male ratio so I am just happy I have a fellow man around" Shirou said.
Charles smiled "Yeah... us guy got to stick together right?" he said with an awkward smile.
Later that day, Charles and Shirou went to practice long range attacks, to be honest Shirou was not interested in guns and the like and thus decided to stick with his bow and arrow weapon.
Charles underestimated Shirou's skill with the bow, he was taken back that he had only hit the bulls eyes over and over from different positions, tough his aim was awkward when he was in the air.
"So.. how do you like the auto-aim correction? Charles asked.
"Auto-aim? I never use it... I preffer to just do it the old fashioned way" Shirou said "I find that it gets in my way, so I turned it off"
Charles recoiled, he had never heard of someone not using the assistance of the machine to aim and target.
"Th... that is impressive" Cecilia said, she obviously used it a lot since she used her rifle and drones.
"well... I was in the archery club back in Fuyuki, to be honest... I only missed the target once, and that was because I was looking to miss" Shirou said.
"Why would you do that?" Rin asked.
"Because... I was bored" Shirou said.
"Anyways... from what I can tell your unit is a variation of the Rafael Revive, or at least the model is based from it, it can change to any set you may need... however the similarities end there, the IS specs are higher on speed and stability... it's a nice custom job, it suits his skills from what I been able to see" Charles said.
"Your unit... it's also based on the Raphael Revive... but it's different isn't' it?" Shirou said as he analyzed his machine.
"Ah... you noticed? Yes, this is also the same, but I made some changes to it since it's my personal unit, I call it the "Rafael Revive custom II" I've purged all the systems presets and doubled it's bus slots" Charles said.
Shirou whistled... he didn't understand what he said or what it meant, but obviously it was important since the others girls gasped at it.
"Right now I believe I have 20 different arms installed on this unit" he added.
"wow... that's quite a number, it must play merry hell in your head trying to bring a weapon up and dismissing it without accidentally calling one you don't' need" Shirou said.
Then out of nowhere the little German soldier girl came on her unit.
"So you are also a personal IS user... good, no need for smalltalk then... come and fight me" she said
"I refuse... there is no reason to turn my blade against you" Shirou said.
"But I do... Emiya Shirou... I am to extract all your knowledge that my instructor seeks... you are an annoyance so I am gonna do what is needed to pry your secrets open" Laura said with a glare.
Oh boy... this girl was single minded.
"I have no time for this, if you wish to fight wait for the tournament" Shirou added.
"So you wish to run away... very well then... I'LL SPARE NO QUARTER, COWARD!" she yelled as she attacked with her high powered beam rifle.
Shirou turned and materialized a shield, however Charles had covered him from the attack with a shield he produced from his IS.
"Attacking during free time? You Germans sure are warmongers" Charles said.
"Stay out of my way, using that filthy french antique of a unit" Laura said as she glared the French boy.
"It might be mass-produced model, but is the pilot, not the unit that makes the difference... rookie" Charles said as he returned the glare.
"you students over there... what are you doing?" a teacher asked.
"hmp... lucky bastard... I'll let you off for today" Laura said as she recalled her IS.
"Are you ok Shirou?" Charles asked.
"Y-yeah... thanks for the cover" Shirou said as he was no longer used to being protected, he thought that would be over after the Grail War.
"No problem... though I guess it was not needed... you brought your own defensive shield out faster than I did, I only got before because you where about to turn, but I was already in front of you" Charles said.
"Is ok..." Shirou said.
"Anyways... Shirou your IS... demonstrate some melee attacks" Orimura-sensei ordered.
Shirou had no choice but to obey, a message popped up "Connect to secondary power source?"
"Uhmm... Orimura-sensei a messaged popped up... about connecting to secondary power source?" Shirou asked
Orimura-sensei arched an eyebrow...
"Go ahead" she said.
"Yes" Shirou clicked on the holo display.
BurningburningBurningburning
Lava... lava was flowing trough his veins, fire was spreading, pain
PainPainPainPainPainPainPainPainPainPainPainPainPainPainPain
Lack of oxygen... blood is on fire.
FireinveinsFireinveinsFireinveinsFireinveinsFireinveinsFireinveinsFireinveins
Shirou's body arched as pain overflowed his pain receptors. He screamed in an unearthly yell
Oxygenonthelungswasgonebloodonfirehavetoturntraceonhadtostopthepain
"SHIROU!" Orimura yelled, this was outside of whatever she ever seen... Shirou's bio signs showed he was in immense pain, enough to put a grown wrestler down, but he kept resisting it.
What seemed like circuit lines appeared on Shirou... his body glowed red...
all of his nerves where shooting off pain, his vocal cords where being stressed to the point of shredding due to his screaming.
"Connection to secondary energy source complete" the machine said.
Shirou woke up... he was surrounded by swords on the ground, there was some blood on the ground too.
His face was scrunched in pain, he was sweating like he had ran a marathon and his nerves hurt... his face and body where aching.
"Shirou... what happened?"
"Emiya-san... why did your IS tried to kill you?" Orimura-sensei said.
Damn... that woman was sharp... TOO sharp.
Shirou didn't know... he was going to investigate but to quite her down he decided to answer in a Tohsaka-like fashion.
"Because... you told me... to say 'yes' remember?" Shirou said as he looked at Orimura.
That did the trick... she shut up, she couldn't question him any more, she was the one who told him to do something that turned out to be dangerous, so even the 'I didn't know' excuse wouldn't fly, she had to be careful now.
"That was certainly my fault, I shall take full responsibility, now... tell me what happened" she said
"I... I am not sure... but, might I be excused? I am... not feeling so good" Shirou said.
"Dunois, please help Emiya to his room" she commanded "and don't worry Emiya, I will put all available resources to find out what happened"
This made Shirou cringe.
"Shirou-san... what happened... are you ok?" Cecilia asked, concern clearly showing on her beautiful features.
Rin was also there looking around, and Houki was also there.
"I'll take Shirou sempai to the room... don't worry" Charles said as he put an arm around Shirou and helped him walk about.
There was a lot to think about... what just happened... this was odd... but something familiar.
The pain he felt was that of his circuits overloading with power...
but... how did it happen?
Shirou mulled about it as he was helped to his room...
It wasn't like he did a ritual like he did with Sabe-
Back up... wasn't it similar as it is?
Aka no Kishi was somewhat sentient, due to the AI on the IS core, and apparently it formed a 'bond' with me, kinda like a magical contract, the next our energies had to be compatible... that was a big YES... Shirou could use his magecraft trough his IS, and now... he had been blasted by Aka no Kisih's energy via his circuits, that's why he had that 'episode' and then they had to form a bond, his bond with saber was with a tantric ritual to power her up and the one he had with the master/servant bond, Aka no Kishi was completely monitoring my bio signs... so it was a tad 'less' intrusive than with Saber...
Oh shit, Aka no Kishi was now a pseudo familiar...
He was way out of his depth here... so he had to rely on the only other person who could help him...
He rackled his head as to find out HOW this was possible, he came out blank, and also nearly hyperventilating.
He had to call her...
He hopped his Rin would not kill him much.
Chapter end.