Infinity Stratos Blades
An Infinite Stratos/Fate Stay night fanfic
Chapter 7: Looming threats
It has been 3 days since the whole affair on the training camp and they went back to the academy...
Shirou's control of his IS unit was now on par with professional ones, even Orimura-sensei admitted that he would be a good contender on the next Mondo Grosso, his chances looked good.
However he was a first year, he had to wait till his 2nd year for that, at the very least.
Orimura had to admit, as much as she did not trust Shirou, for all his secrets and the like, he was a hard worker and dedicated to his idea, he always made sure he was available to help anyone who asked and never turned anyone down anyone.
He was just so damn nice and likeable she could not find something to latch at to get mad at him, well save for his secrets.
However, she had a nagging feeling something was coming up.
Shirou's training was also increasing, so she was concerned, he also was feeling it.
Or rather, he had a 'prophetic dream'...
However that was strange, he did not have that ability, and that would go with one of the True Magics that dealt with time travel.
Still to be forewarned is to be forearmed.
Shirou now had his own room, so any 'funny business', much to Charlotte's sadness, she rather enjoyed having Shirou around, but he did promise that all of the girls could come over for breakfast and dinner.
It was a tranquil day.
The halcyon days would soon be over.
Shirou visited his home in Fuyuki every weekend, so far everything seemed right.
Unknown location
"The promised day is upon us, rejoice... for the Holy Grail shall be ours! Our wish... our fondest wish will be achieved" the leader shouted
"Holy Grail Holy Grail Holy Grail Holy Grail!" the group chanted.
"We need to prepare, our target is selected, all we need is to grab that heretic technology to achieve our plans?!" The leader asked
"YEEES!" they yelled
The whole group was nothing more than Philosophers, magus that had given all moral codes and continued with reckless abandon their craft, they acted without restrain to reach new heights, they where dangerous, but now this group had their sight on the holy grail, as well as something else.
The IS core.
They LOATHED technology,due to it making magic slowly disappear, but they did not care as long as they could reach the prize.
A single wish.
Akasha, the root...
The rest of the world be dammed.
The leader smiled, everything was going to plan.
All he needed was to take those cores to the Leylines in Fuyuki and his plan will start, everything was perfect, nothing could go wrong, no one would be able to stop him, not even the 'second owner'.
IS Academy, Sunday
Shirou, once more, left the campus as per usual on every Sunday, he went to his state early in the morning, he was given the surprize that Sakura was now out and about (Rider told him that Sakura had the Dark Sakura under control now).
Shirou was glad that she had it under control.
So Shirou did a small feast for all the girls at hime, while taking a look at his sister's health and getting updates from Tohsaka.
Ilya was doing fine, though she had to sleep under a mystic array that Rin helped draw up.
Shirou had something else in mind too... he remembered the place where his Saber was summoned his little 'workshop'.
Moving the boxes from inside the shed he had found it... at first he just ignored it but now he knew what it was.
With his IS gauntlet he scanned the magic circle in the shed.
You never knew when something like that could be needed.
He sat down on the porch at night, he was going back in the morning, sure it was an abuse of his IS but he wanted to spend as much time with Ilya as possible.
Shirou said that in a few more days he should have more than enough for the ritual, however he was going to continue doing more, just in case more would be needed, and to supplement Rin's lack of magic since it had to be done soon.
Rin was surprised by Shirou's inventiveness, sure, he was using the IS's subspace to store the cores, taking them out so they can recharge and storing them back, while also making new ones.
Shirou went to his shed to practice his magecraft in the shed.
It was a long night. But the time he spend here was worth it, he knew he would have to deal with Orimura-sensei in the morning.
Monday, 5:30 AM
Shirou woke up rather early and made some omurice for all of the people in the house and after having some himself left for classes using Aka no Kishi.
He arrived a little before 6:30 due to him flying slow as to not cause shockwaves.
He attended classes, but not before being scolded by Orimura-sensei, however no disciplinary action would be taken due to him just using it in this regard.
After classes, it was boring, most of the girls accompanied him to the workshop and watch him type away on his IS as he made the finishing touches of the IS's OS protocol into elder and younger futhark.
"I have... no idea what it says here" Cecilia said as she could not make heads or tails of it at all.
Laura nodded approvingly "Yes, that is a good idea to prevent anyone from accessing and hacking your unit, not to mention stealing data and the like... it's a simple yet powerful way of protection"
Charlotte flinched at the stealing data part.
"But why use that old forgotten language tough? Why not just encrypt it?" Lin asked
Shirou did not think that would be enough, specially when he found out just WHO was worming into his IS.
Flashback
"Ahhh... Shiii~-kun, might I have a moment of your time? Please?" Tabane asked.
Shirou didn't want to talk to her, but agreed if only to keep appearances.
"So... tell me..." she said as she typed something on her holo screen... Shirou's IS showed 'all recording devices offline', Shirou did a quick structural analysis to check what had changed. "Just how did you do all that in your fight against the unmanned IS? I noticed something ve~eeery interesting... and I know it was not your IS's one shot ability... I should knoooo~ow after all I am the one who made it... so, tell me ? I noticed as well you have something like a mini core in you? How did you do that? You must be a super spy... ooooh or maybe a suepr hero" Tabane said with a smile.
However it was not a real smile... it was cold calculating, it only showed a semblance of happiness to hide her real intentions.
Shirou had a small dagger's blue-print at the ready.
"I will answer if you do the same to one of mine" Shirou asked.
"oooh? Sure? What is it?" Tabane said while tilting her head to the side.
"Was it you who made that IS go rouge?" Shirou asked, he narrowed his eyes.
"Ooh... why do you think that? Do you think little old me could do something like that?" she asked with a smile.
Shirou pulsed his magic, reinforcing his body.
"Oooh... scary... you are being really scary Shi-chan... is it wrong for a sister to set up something to make her sister shine?" Tabane asked her rhetorical question.
Shirou rushed as her with the dagger he recreated and went to stab her, she would put so many people at risk for such a thing.
However she was rather good, she jumped over Shirou and delivered a round-house kick, Shirou used his arm to block, but the kick was rather strong, too strong for a regular human.
He did not feel any weird scents coming from her, meaning that her strength was not due to magecraft.
Shirou twisted himself, grabbing her by the neck, however she made appear a pair of automatic guns, Shirou had to kick her away as she shot at him.
"hahahaha~! You are soo good, no wonder my sister's piloting skills had increased... but you know... you were not supposed to be here, your place was to be filled by someone else" Tabane said as she smiled.
"You mean Orimura-sensei's brother?" Shirou quessed.
"Ohh... nice guess... yes that was the plan, however somehow you got to the IS first... saay... did you know of the story about the core in your IS?" Tabane asked as she launched a knife towards Shirou, who blocked it with his own. He was unable to call the IS's weapon systems, he had not finished with his security measures.
"You are a crazy woman... like I care for such a thing" Shirou replied as he tried to continue to attack, however Tabane just pulled out more and more weapon's from a sub-space. Shirou analyzed her, her outfit was a low-profile IS apparently.
That was... rather smart.
"The core was reacting to you... this core was the original core for Shirokishi" Tabane said.
Shirou's mind stopped.
"yes, apparently your personality, your being was so close to the Shirokishi that it wholly accepted you, no one has ever been so much in synch for an IS... for all purposes it should be impossible, but... you synchronization ratio is at 100%, not to mention the ways you been changing your IS... you gave me a lot of grieve you know ? When I tried going trough my regular backdoor in your system I was assaulted by an explosion from my own computer system, not to mention electric shocks and the like, things that should not be possible, just what are you ?" Tabane asked
Shirou gritted his teeth.
"Weee~ll it seems you are not too keen on answering my question... it should be expected as you still did not say anything to Chi-chan or the old man... how about we let it be for now?" She said with a smile.
This person's personality was akin to Kotomine mixed with the curiosity of a child... whoever could design such a thing must be a Dead Apostle of the highest order of cruelty.
"Anyways... I hope to see more of your skills soon" She said.
End Flashback.
Shirou was unsure about Tabane, he had revamped the runic security on his IS and changed a LOT of parameters on it, not only that but looked at any back-doors and anything that could be used to penetrate the security of the IS... he partially wished he was a better magus, being able to summon spirits to help protect the IS from within and the like.
Still a regular human would be unable to penetrate it now, all the security where in place no one, save a techno-savvy magus would be able to get in.
Clock Tower
Lord El-Melloi II sneezed, he had just finished playing a remake game of "The Admiral's Great Tactics" a game his Rider used to play during the 4th Grail War, he had a nagging feeling someone was talking about him.
IS Academy
Shirou's classes became tedious, time went by... and it was now a month to deadline.
Shirou was ready.
But... the group of philosophers where also ready to enact their plan.
One month to promised day
Shirou was angsty, and it showed. He had too much energy and was doing his work around school rather fast.
Shirou's IS security had been the talk around the Academy and where rather impressed by it, everything, including the codding was done in runic alphabet, making it harder to understand and break in order to penetrate it.
The day was bright, it was sunny... there was nothing that could go wrong.
Shirou now had 80 IS cores, making sure his sub-space in his IS was heavily protected by his e-runes...
there had been some attempts to get into the 'IS Weapon's cache' file from his IS, but his runic defense made such attempts desist.
He woke up one morning... he felt something warm in his arm.
He pulled out the covers, his face paled, it was Laura... and she was as naked as she came to the world.
Shirou blinked, probably due to his hormones he was having a lucid dream.
Nope, the 'thing' called Laura was still latched on him, he could only hope...
"Shirou...I came over to ask..."
Nope... that hope was broken with the coming of Houki, it was so much wrong in it that if possible he would prefer to dive into the 'mud' of the 'all the worlds evil'.
She took a deep breath.
"Oh? Aren't you being rather bold, interrupting a couple in their private time" Laura said as she rose an eyebrow.
"W-wait... couple? What in the root?!" Shirou thought.
"HENTAI!" Houki yelled as she hit Shirou with a bouken.
He was laid out, as he couldn't move without hurting Laura.
A few minutes later
"I see... so that how it was, I should have suspected something like that from that albino cat" Houki muttered.
Shirou, now sporting a goose egg, was cooking to control his bad mood he was thrown in so early in the morning.
"I am so sorry" Houki apologized.
"How about you help me with the Karage then?" Shirou asked.
"Ah... sure" Houki said as she put on an apron.
The two of them then begun to cook for the people who would soon be coming in... Laura had gone to the bathroom to change into more sensible clothing (that is to say to put some in the first place) Ceclia, Lin and Charlotte come by.
"Uhmm... what's this atmosphere?" Cecilia said while glaring at Houki.
Charlotte was also feeling a bit, jealous of the situation, she used to do this with Shirou not so long ago.
Halcyon days are over
Shirou begun to cut the vegetables and the chicken... when suddenly he felt a burn in his hand...
"Ach..." he muttered.
"Shirou-san, are you ok?" Cecilia asked.
His hand was lightly bleeding.
"Oh dear, are you ok? Here, use this" Cecilia said as she pulled her handkerchief.
"Why was this so familiar" Shirou thought.
"I should be fine, it was just a light wound" Shirou said comforting his friends.
After eating he went over to the nurses office when suddenly he was thrown down due to a feeling of nausea.
Rot, death, decay, scents that could be only found on a battlefield.
Worst of it all, it was not a normal scent, this was picked up by his magical senses.
His head begun to split in half due to the pain he was feeling, his sense of smell couldn't interpret it and was affecting him this badly.
"Foolish son of the heretic Kiritsugu Emiya... you thought you could stop the will of many magi by simply declaring the ritual unsafe due to what it would do to the world? How Arrogant! Do you think we would sit idly by as we saw our hopes, our dreams and goal shattered by your arrogance?! no... You shall feel our wrath... you are but an insect to us... the Philosopher Association" A voice called out from everywhere, from nowhere.
This was bad, really REALLY bad, if they where Philosophers... that would mean that they where powerful Magus, not to mention they would not care about harming any innocent bystanders.
Like the Student Council President.
She looked around as she saw a blue light rush up to her
"Eh?" a burst of blood from her neck, then her head exploded.
"NO!" Shirou rushed over... screw secrecy, he was boiling mad now.
She fell down only to splash at contact the ground... water flooded the ground.
"T... Tatenashi...san?" Shirou said in shock as he looked around, red leggings could be seen as she stepped out of a pillar the one who attacked her was down on the ground. He was blown away by some sort of explosion.
"Ara ara... It seems that my instincts where right... that would have been a rather nasty way of dying" Tatenashi said as she appeared from a dark corner, she held a fan that said "Close-one" written on it.
"Tatonashi-san... w... what's going on?" Shirou asked.
"Uhmm... It seems a group of people are attacking the academy... so far they targeted all the Ichigane in the repair hangar and tried to attack some of the 2nd to 3rd years Personal IS pilots... they seemed rather adamant in getting the cores, thing is... I can barely use any of my IS... they had somehow managed to block the IS core's power function so it only works in limited mode, that is how I managed to survive at any rate" Tatenashi said as she re-opened her fan the word "worry" written on it now.
Shirou traced a spear on his hand... this weapon would work very well considering the type of enemy.
"Ohh... fancy spear... Managed to get it on your IS's limited mode?" she asked.
"Now is not the time, we need to stop those people before they get any funny ideas" Shirou said.
"Eliminate any living being here, there is no need to have people looking for us... you can take them for experiments and the like if you wish... as long as not a single being in here leaves this place alive" the voice said.
"My... it seems you have bad luck" Tatenashi said as she closed her fan.
Shirou rushed out.
"Master, the insolent one is rushing towards us!" one said.
"Then show him his incompetence" Said the leader.
"Queime en cinzas , ruxir chamas do inferno" yelled the man in heavy robes.
A large ball of fire that covered the whole hall rushed towards them.
"HAAA~" Tatenashi yelled as a wall of fire erupted from her fan.
Shirou's eyes then detected the small machines in the water, this... this was certainly in a level similar to what magic could do, she could use the water as a defense...
"and now... boom" she said as she closed her fan.
The person exploded suddenly being thrown to a wall due to the explosions.
The ability she had used was perfect for both offense and defense.
"Try to conserve your Shield Energy, no need to waste it all so fast" Shirou said as he dodged a strike by another magus and stabbed his stomach and piercing him to the roof.
"Uhmm, not bad... with skills like that you would make Japan's IS representative in no time at all" Tatenashi said.
Shirou then moved his spear to hit her face, only to hit the guy behind her.
"And you need to pay more attention" Shirou chastised.
"Ah... sorry about that... this is new, how are they doing those things?" Tatenashi asked as Shirou stretched his arm to stop her from moving.
Shirou's scene of smell could detect the hint of 'void' or rather that there was no 'scent'.
In other words it was a trap made by magic.
Shirou then pierced the hallway with his crimson spear, fracturing it like it was a glass pane, there where many mana generators and evil spirits but as long as his spear was touching it the would be ok, the spear canceled the prana around the top.
"You need to run behind me as fast as you can, don't stop... and be careful, if you lag behind... you might die" Shirou said.
Tatenashi was taken back by the serious look on him but nodded, no need to distrust him as he also was in danger.
The spear begun to shine lightly and they both dashed in.
She could hear moans and some screams but Shirou's presence was calming her down.
They managed to get to the outside of the classes, the communal areas, like the outside gardens and inside roads of the academy.
"Shirou... what is going on?" Tatenashi asked.
"I don't know... but it seems that they won't rest until they killed everyone here, hence why we need to get them first" Shirou said as he took a wif in the air.
Lightning came crashing down... Shirou shoved Tatenashi out of the way, seconds before she became a victim of the high voltage of electricity rained down on them.
"Blitz kommen und regen Tod Zu meiner Ignorieren" the voice shouted once more as he used his focus, a staff with a crimson gem to rain lightning down.
They hide behind a wall, the lightning was eating away at the concrete.
"Tatenashi... you think you could make that water shield to surround me till I get a shot at him?" Shirou asked.
"I think so... I have at least charge for 3 more and those duplicates, question is... how will go get at him?" she asked.
"Trace... on" he muttered as Archer's bow materialized in his hand, a single mundane arrow at the ready.
Tatenashi looked at him impassibly.
"Ready? I need a second to line the shot... just cover me for that single second" Shirou said.
Tatenashi nodded.
"DIE!" the magus yelled as he pushed more prana into his attack, making a thunderstorm hit on a single particular area.
"NOW!" Shirou yelled.
He stepped out, the shield held, dissipating the lightning's electricity due to it being ultra-purified water.
He let go of the bow string.
The arrow whistled through the air, piercing the magus chest, right in his heart.
"GAH!" the magus shouted.
"THEY ARE HERE! CAPTURE THEM... KILL EM! WE MUST NOT LET THEM STOP HIM!" the magus shouted.
Shirou rushed in... "trace... on!" he shouted.
Kanshou and Bakuya (his and Archer's) appeared on his hands, he sliced trough the first one as another one used a blast of wind to try and cut him, he barely dodged it as he threw the white sword towards another magus further down, and used the flat of the black sword to block yet another blast of flames.
"Behind you!" Tatenashi said as she pierced one with a lance she made appear.
"IS weapon?" Shirou asked.
"Yes... but it's the only thing I can use in limited mode unfortunately... still, how about we work together and clear this area?" Tatenashi offered.
Shirou nodded.
They rushed as they pierced and cut left and right, Shirou's face was stern rage and anger could be seen in his eyes, and it was to be expected, innocent people where at risk.
They managed to get out of the academy... Shirou was taken back with what he saw.
"No... no... NONONONONONONONO!" Shirou yelled as the man's body was filled to the brim with magical circuits that lighted up with the power he was currently using.
There was a rip in the air. It looked like 'something that did not belong'.
"Behold, son of Emiya... the fruition of us Philosophers... we who were shunned by the Association and persecuted as vermin! LOOK AT OUR POWER AND TREMBLE! THE HOLY GRAIL IS OURS!" the man yelled.
"Wh.. what have you done?" Shirou was arrested by all of this.
"You little fool, you thought just because you and 2 of the 3 founding families of the Heaven's Feel Ritual could stop it from coming back? You might have dismantled the ritual... but the way it was done... it gave us the chance to get it, if we could not get this one... then, a suitable replacement could be found elsewhere" the man said with a evil smirk... on his hand was the jeweled sword 'Zelretch'.
"You..." Shirou growled, he wanted to move, but was unable to do so, he was trapped in a bounded field that prevented movements and Tatenashi's.
"The sword... it would be tantamount to suicide to try and get the one from the old Wizard Marshal, however, the little Tohsaka Heiress... well, her bounded fields on her home where strong... very well placed and had interesting effects...but when you have 30 people working non-stop... it was bound to collapse, finding the sword took a while, but we managed... thanks to it we now going to get the grail, making use of the second magic on the sword, by enhancing my muscles and nerves with ether-lite and reinforcing it as well as replacing them to some more durable material... I am able to use the blade far more effectively than that spoiled brat... with it I will winded the 'wound' between the worlds... searching, and now... I found it... the prize, not even the Einsberns where smart enough to do this... no, is not that they where smart or not, they could not conceive on using magic this way!" he said in a manic glee.
Shirou glared at the man in front of him... his age while advanced made no significant amount of loss of power, if anything he was strong, stronger than a man his age should.
He also was 'off his rocker' if his insane look on his eyes where anything to go by.
"It seems like my alternate has been able to make his come true" a voice called out from the other side.
A copy of the old man came out, his looks where haggard but he had a smile on him.
A third came out.
"Are you ready to use the rule of 3?" He asked his 2 other alternates.
"R... rule of 3?" Shirou said as he continued to struggle, flashing his prana to break away from this bounded field that held him in place.
"Yes... the rule of 3... you see if you ever heard of numerology, the spells that are used bounce back to the caster... as energy, good or bad it returns back 3 fold... it also speaks of the trinity on judeo christian lore, that helps increase the output of the power, as well as kaballah... in this case we are gonna bring the Grail from other worlds and make one single 'super-grail' to make all our wishes come true... sure... there might be some... collateral damage, but it will be acceptable... even the death of a whole continent would be acceptable in exchange for it... a 'second age of the GOD'S' the man said with a crazed glee in his voice.
"Touei, kaishi Hyoui keiken kyoukan shuryou Koutei kanryou. Zen touei taiki Teishi kaitou . Zen touei renzoku sousha!*" Shirou yelled as he had prepared in his mind blueprints of the crimson lance to shoot out and hidden in them was Rule Breaker.
All of the weapons shot out like a machine gun firing them.
"Do you think your weapons will do any good against our combined power of magecraft?!" They shouted as they made a bounded field over a bounded field that separated the inside from the outside with the inside of somewhere else, in other words once you enter you can't advance more than 3 feet until you start back at the beginning, doomed to stay trapped there forever.
However the crimson spears soared and pierced the bounded field as it was flowing trough nothing, as the blade of betrayal soared just behind the shadow of the spears.
Gae Dearg, the crimson rose of exorcism... he made multiple copies of it and used it to tear holes on the bounded field so the REAL threat would penetrate without too much trouble.
Rule Breaker 'All Spells Must Be Broken'
The ritual they where performing by using 3 alternates of one person, plus 3 other persons, over 3 other ones and so on for 27 times to make it stronger... however the ritual was cut due to Gae Dearg and Rule Breaker's effects jumbled the ritual, making it unstable.
Magecraft by itself was dangerous, deadly even, and now that this had happened in this ritual.
"NO! YOU FOOL! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" they yelled as the ritual was reacting violently, that, was something to expect as the number 3 meant power... force.
That force was enhanced times 3... and now that it was out of control, close to a dimensional 'wound'
Well... it was not good.
There was a shock-wave and it shattered the bounded field and Shirou's and Tatenashi's IS rebooted.
However, Shirou's IS acted odd, the core begun to shine bright.
"That... that's"
Shirou's summoning sigil was being engraved into the IS core and begun to glow blue on the inside, red on the middle and pink on the outer-part of the sigil.
His arm begun to bleed more profusely the command spells in his arm begun to expand and take a more convoluted or rather, larger shape, this time a large sword in 9 parts.
His circuits where burning, his body was glowing red, "GAAA!" Shirou yelled in pain as his body was burning itself inside out, then his IS core reacted, taking the excess of Shirou's power and redirecting it elsewhere.
Shirou's arm was burning in pain.
"Shirou, what's wrong? Are you ok?!" Tatenashi asked in worry as she saw how much blood Shirou was currently bleeding from his arm.
The crazed man's arm begun to glow as his hand was covered in a command spells as well.
3 sets of 3 command spells.
Shirou was sure that more people would appear with command spells, this was bad, this was seriously bad.
He knew that what transpired... by some cruel twist of fate, one of the most vile rituals had restarted once more.
A bloody ritual that only brought with it pain and death, a wishing machine that would make any wish come true... however, he and his companions had managed to find a cruel truth to this.
The grail had become something akin to a 'monkey's paw', meaning that it could only grant wishes by destruction.
"Damn it... retreat... this was... a partial failure, we could not attain the grail in the way we wanted but we still have a shot... disperse... find catalysts... the Heaven's Feel is once more upon us!" he called out as the 'wound' vanished.
The 'world' then closed the enlarged 'wound' as it was an affront to the rules of Gaia... however it could not stop the newly re-started Heaven's Feel.
The crazed man looked at his own arm... he smirked as he glared at Shirou.
"Behold, scion of Emiya... for the Heaven's Feel has returned... they shall feel the pain of the wish we carry in our hearts" the man yelled as he vanished with a mad cackle.
"Shirou... please, explain what had just happened, I am at a lost of what just transpired" Tatenashi asked.
And so, for the first time, he explained what had just happened and why.
"I see... so magic is real... not only that but what had just happened is something you where hopping would never happen again... a ritual... for a single wish that involves fighting to the death, why have you not told us this before?" Tatenashi asked.
"Because, if I revealed magic and it became wide-spread there is the distinct possibility that the association that deals on magecraft would come down on anyone with that knowledge... and kill them" Shirou said solemnly.
"And those weapons?"
"Product of my ability with magecraft... I hope you understand the reason I can't tell anyone about it... that's why I told you now, because you now been dragged into it, but the IS's audio and video recording devices are not operational yet... I trust that you won't spread a word about this?" Shirou asked.
"After seeing their power and strength and ability to affect the IS to this degree, I should report this, however you said something of an association... where those people in it?" she asked.
Shirou answered her "No... if they where they would know that the ritual was shut down due to the inherent danger of obtaining the wish" he then went in on great lengths explaining the why.
"So... that is the reason why you had to go to another school"
"Yes..."
"and that... being... servant... the one with the long purple hair is... was one of those?"
"Yes, she is fine now... she no longer has to obey her temporary master and now is with her true master"
"And what happened a month ago..."
"Yeah... that was my bad, I didn't think she would react that way"
"My... how callous, it is ungentlemanly to play with a woman's heart you know?" she said with a mirthful laughter as her fan opened up, the word 'Playboy' was written on it.
She was a bit sore, but thanks to her training and her being a cadet representative of Russia she was used to rigors of battle.
However her outfit did not get out unscathed, her red leggins where thorn at certain places, her hair was a mess compared to her usual style and her shirt also sported some rips.
It did not stop her from teasing the young man in front of her.
"You might want to deploy your IS, that way we can get back to the academy, the space displacement magecraft is over and the students should be (relatively) safe... the ones that got away should have covered their tracks, the girls will be fine... I will need you to contact someone for me tough" Shirou said.
"Oh? Why can't you do it?" Tatenashi asked.
"Because she will hit me first and ask explanations later?" he said.
"Ah... I see" she laughed at him due to the explanation.
And so Shirou told her exactly how to contact a very soon to be irritated, angry and possibly enraged Tohsaka Rin.
They arrived to the Academy, and true to Shirou's word's all of the damaged parts of the academy had been restored, possibly a return time curse to put something back to it's previous original state.
It was like it never happened.
And so they waited for the morning to come.
The next day
Tatenashi had to admit, she was VERY amused by Rin's reaction, not to mention the slight tick on her eye and the murderous tick on her hands that wanted to strangle a person who was currently not there.
She was amused that Shirou dodged a metaphorical and quite literal bullet (made of magic possibly) from Rin.
After explaining the situation to her she sighed... she was a participant for the Holy Grail war before, but now...
Her command spells where still as usual... non-active.
Sakura's however where active but where not attuned to the current Grail War... it seemed that the magus had used the IS cores they had stolen as well as he Zleretch blade they gotten from her house (She asked to have first dibs at the guy to... 'educate him on why is it wrong to steal something from a lady', however Tatenashi was amused at this cause she could see her true intentions... but she agreed to it nonetheless).
After being told what she should expect and why she now MUST keep on eye on Shirou (for those surviving magi would not doubt try to hunt Shirou down due to him having command spells... AGAIN) and keep him safe, as well as try to keep him out of trouble at school.
Tatenashi promised she would do her best, but she said it seemed to be an impossible task, as Shirou attracted troubles like honey did to bears.
Rin had no choice but to laugh at the analogy.
Still she made Tatenashi sign a geas contract to ensure that she would not talk about it, in return Rin would provide her with protection and cover in case something happened with magi and Shiriou was not there to protect her.
Still it also had the added benefit that it would physically force itself on her by stopping her from talking and enforcing a 'punishment' on her person, and due to Rin being Rin, would be most horribly embarrassing punishment one could think of.
In other words Tatenashi would be coerced to forcibly do something humiliating should she speak, something so bad that would blemish her name and had her drop out as a cadet representative and ruin her family.
Tatenashi had to give it to her, she was as evil as she was thorough... she now understood the reason Shirou had used her as a proxy.
Back on IS Academy
"I now have a better opinion on your fear... it seems it was not unwarranted... I shall repay your kindness on making me meet that woman" Tatenashi said as she opened her fan "Vengance" written on it.
Shirou shivered, while she was pleasant to talk to... and fight alongside with... she might have a bit of a vindictive strike on her, further riled up due to her dealing with Rin.
Shirou now had a problem, Rin was a previous master and new the ritual involved in summoning heroic spirits... however she had no idea what this make-shift accidental multidimensional Heaven's feel would work, however she decided to write the instructions on paper for him to read.
"Uhmm... I.. I can't understand this, I think... this is German?" Shirou said in frustrated anger.
Trust Rin to make things more complicated in her desire to help.
He was glad there was a German representative in his class.
Laura Bodewig's room
*Knock Knock Knock*
"Ja, who is it?" a female voice called out.
"Ah... yes, Laura-san it's me, Shirou... I would like to ask you for your help... I have a text written in German, and I was hopping you could help me translate it to Japanese, I would like to understand what it says" Shirou said.
There was some tumbling and scrapping sounds.
Laura and Charlotte where inside.
Both Laura and Charlotte where wearing cat themed Pijamas with hoodies with cat ears.
"Rin would probably love em... Ilya would hate it tough" Shirou though to himself.
"Ah, yes... how may I help you Emiya-san?" Laura said with a straight laced, but slightly blushing.
He handed her the text...
She begun to read it... it went like this:
"Das Material ist aus Silber und Eisen. Der Grundstein ist aus Stein und dem Großherzog des Vertrag. Der Ahn ist mein großer Meister Schweinorg.
Schutz gegen einen heftigen Wind. Schließ alle Tore, geh aus der Krone, zirkulier die Gabelung nach dem König.
Füll, füll, füll, füll, füll.
Es wird fünfmal wiederholt.
Nur ist es die volle Zeit gebrochen.
－Satz.
Du überläßt alles mir, mein Schicksal überläßt alles deinem Schwert.
Das basiert auf dem Gral, antwort wenn du diesem Willen und diesem Vernunftgrund folgst.
Liegt das Gelübde hier. Ich bin die Güte der ganzen Welt. Ich bin das Böse der ganzen Welt.
Du bist der Himmel mit dreien Wortseelen. Komm, aus dem Kreis der Unterdrückung, der Schutzgeist der Balkenwaage－!"
She read it twice more to make sure she was right.
"Uhmm... are you into the occult or something? This seems like a incantation" Laura asked as she looked at Shirou.
"Yeah, I find them to be... fun" Shirou said as he tried to lie to her.
"Well I see no problem with this... would you mind waiting?" Laura asked.
And so Shirou caught up with Charlotte and had a drink of tea.
"Emiya-san... here you go, I managed to translate it as close to the original as possible" Laura said.
Shirou looked at the translated text
"Silver and iron to the origin. Gem and the archduke of contracts to the cornerstone. The ancestor is my great master Schweinorg.
The alighted wind becomes a wall. The gates in the four directions close, coming from the crown, the three-forked road that leads to the kingdom circulate.
Shut (fill). Shut (fill). Shut (fill). Shut (fill). Shut (fill).
Repeat every five times.
Simply, shatter once filled.
――――I announce.
Your self is under me, my fate(doom) is in your sword.
In accordance with the approach of the Holy Grail, if you abide by this feeling, this reason, then answer.
Here is my oath. I am the one who becomes all the good of the world of the dead, I am the one who lays out all the evil of the world of the dead.
You, seven heavens clad in three words of power, arrive from the ring of deterrence, O keeper of the balance ―――!"
"Why on earth couldn't she just do it this way?!" Shirou thought.
"Thank you very much Laura-san" Shirou said with a smile.
She blushed profusely as Charlotte nudged her at the ribs playfully.
After thanking her and Charlotte's hospitality and help.
Still Laura was sure she had heard that name before...
Schweinorg...
It sounded... familiar.
Still it was nothing to worry about.
Shirou was glad to had the help, the German to Japanese dictionary was a pain in the ass to read trough and try to translate, at least Luara was better due to her understanding the basics on Japanese culture and the like, making translation MUCH easier and smoother.
He was concerned about his core... it has modified itself, the sigil for the summoning ritual on the core now.
He was concerned due to the 3 colors on the lines, outer, middle and external ones.
As far as he was concerned he didn't know what it would entail, but he was weirded out by the command spells quantity in his arm, there was no way he could hide them in class.
Tatenashi came out with a cover story.
Tattos.
True Shirou would NEVER had them made, ever.
However this was the best excuse he could give and he would receive an earful from Fuji-nee at a lalter date, possibly at his next visit.
However he now had to contact Rin to set the OTHER ritual in place.
Tatenashi did not know... could not know, else she would move against them due to Shirou's tracing the IS cores for this, that was a complete violation of the Alaska Treaty.
Never mind that they would only last at the very least 2 days.
So now they where pressed for time and also they had a variable in the equation.
Shirou wished he could be forthcoming with the girls, he really did...
However he could not, he would not burden them unnecessarily with this.
They problem of magi should be dealt by magi.
Still, Shirou was, if he was honest, not lacking in catalysts in any way shape or form... he knew who he would go for, the only servant for him.
He would call her back... to give her another chance at life that she deserved.
And so he prepared himself as he asked Tatenashi for help on finding a place to do the ritual (for the Heaven's Feel) that was both outside the security feeds and isolated, so no one would bother him.
He begun to think what did his dream meant when he pictured those 2 other swords as well.
Only now... it was different, he could actually trace them, he didn't know why this was happening, but h was glad on having new weapons on inventory.
He was however concerned, who would be the regulator?
He was sure it wouldn't be easy, those magi would not like someone to regulate them.
Not only that but they would be gunning for Shirou, so his concerns only doubled.
They would no doubt attack others to get to him.
Rin managed to retrieve back her Zelretch Blade that was discarded, it was no small feat that it was not found before and pawned off.
So now Shirou was waiting for the time to be perfect... it should be at night.
But not this day... he needed to wait.
What he was about to do, he wanted it to go without a hitch.
Fate had other plans.
Chapter end.