Marcus was sitting at his desk and closely watching the feed from his drones.

"Holy s***…" he muttered.

"Is something wrong, Master?" Archer inquired.

"I found Caster of Omega's base." Marcus answered.

Archer walked over to the desk and looked at the computer. The screen displayed an image of a large, ominous castle in the middle of an ominous fortress.

"No wonder she went AWOL on Omega. There's no way she could hide this in a city." Marcus input some commands for the drone to take a photo of it before maneuvering the drones back. "We'll have to call a meeting in. There's no way that just one or two Servants could take this place."

"But don't forget, we've lost Lancer just a few days ago." Archer reminded.

"Yes, yes. But we need all hands-on deck for this."


Fate/new dawn
Chapter 14: Planning


Ian woke up to the buzzing alarm clock, shut it off, and then lightly shook Assassin awake. Assassin woke up and the two got out of bed before going to the kitchen. As was routine, Ian prepared breakfast. As he served the food, he noticed the uneasy look on Assassin's face.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Ian asked.

"…It's nothing, Daddy." the small girl responded.

Ian was slightly concerned. Assassin was deceptively psychotic for a young child, Servant or not. But trying to make her answer unwillingly would only make the problem worse. He'd still have to try and figure what was wrong with Assassin and resolve it before somebody gets killed.


"So, that's where Caster of Omega is…" Serena said as she looked at the picture of the castle.

"Seems to be a mighty adversary." Rider stated.

"Yeah. We'll be having a meeting tonight to plan an assault on Caster's castle."

"I get the feeling that at least one Servant isn't going to get out of this alive." Serena said grimly.

"Unfortunately, that has a very high likelihood of being correct. But sacrifices must be made sometimes."


That night, the Alpha faction had gathered at Caster of Alpha's base, which was considered the most secure area in the city. They arrived discretely, lest a Master of Omega find that they are gathering in one spot and alert their comrades to their location.

Caster of Alpha had used her Territory Creation to close up the pools of water inside the shrine and summoned a table for them to gather around. Marcus laid out a map of the area with a red X on one spot.

"Last night, I was able to find Caster of Omega's base. It's a rather out of the way place and seems to be heavily guarded."

Marcus then took the photos his drones had taken and laid them out on the table.

"The forest around the castle is crawling with Monstrous Beasts. I wasn't able to get the drones into the castle, but there seems to be several guards in that area too."

"Is that what happened to those kidnapped people?" Abraham asked.

"Possibly." Ian said. "Mages aren't above brainwashing, but apparently those types of spells are difficult to use."

"I'd put my money on them being homunculi, artificial humans."

Berserker sat up and began to try to leave.

"Quickly! We must defeat the oppressor!" he shouted.

"Wait! You idiot, we have almost no idea how we're supposed to defeat Caster!" Wesley shouted after Berserker.

Marcus facepalmed at the insane gladiator's actions. He wasn't the most cooperative of people and would rather charge in recklessly like Leeroy Jenkins.

"Anyway, tomorrow night, we will meet again at the entrance to the forest. We'll begin our assault then." Marcus said.

"I have a question." Wesley asked, having managed to convince Berserker to stay. "What do you think the odds of success are?"

"I don't know." Marcus said. "But it's better to strike now while we have a mostly full team."

"Fair enough." Wesley shrugged.

The meeting was adjourned shortly afterwards and the group went their separate ways.


Lily was walking home, discussing the siege of Caster of Omega's base with Caster, who was in spirit form.

'Do you think we'll be able to do well? There doesn't seem to be any water in that forest.'

"We'll have to bring some. Regardless, I can use my Ryujin Noble Phantasm to defend myself."

"We want to talk to you." a voice said.

Lily turned around and saw Assassin walking up to her.

"Did Ian send you?" Lily asked.

"No. Daddy didn't send us. We just want to talk with you." Assassin replied.

"Oh. Okay."

Assassin was now standing in front of Lily and glared up at her.

"IF you try to take Daddy from us, we'll kill you." the small Servant threatened.

"W-What?" Lily backed away.

"If you take Daddy from us, we'll be alone again. We don't want to be alone again. If we're alone, we'll be cold. We want to be warm and Daddy keeps us warm." Assassin drew two of her knives. "So, if you try to take Daddy from us, we'll-"

"That's enough." Caster said as she materialized. "If you threaten my Master, I will take action."

Assassin holstered the knives. "We'll kill you if you take Daddy from us. We mean it."

The small girl began to walk away before dematerializing.


Ada hummed to herself, sitting on Caster's throne like she normally would. Then, she heard two sets of footsteps. One of which was unusual, for it sounding like metal boots clanking on the ground. She turned her head to see Caster walking towards her with an armored figure behind her.

The armored figure had a small stature and their armor wrapped entirely around their small frame. Their red designs on parts of the armor and the helmet had horns on the sides. Ada couldn't tell whether or not they were male or female.

"You're finished, huh." Ada said before looking directly at the armored figure. "Who's that?"

"This is the result of my second Noble Phantasm." Caster said proudly. "The creation of a being on level with a Servant and the recreation of my greatest achievement; that which caused the downfall of my 'brother'."

"Project Mordred."


Like i said before, Jackie is yandere for Ian. She does not like the idea of a girl who isn't a family member getting close with him. And Caster of Omega's identity has pretty much been revealed now. So, next chapter will be the start of the siege.

This one's a smaller chapter, but the ones covering the attack on Caster of Omega's castle will be bigger than usual because of how major the arc is.

Now for the reviews.

ZenoZen: A little bit of both.

LunaRose2468: Looking back, that was actually a little funny.

KnightOfZaku: Yeah, even though Lily doesn't hate Assassin, Assassin hates Lily. This will reach a boiling point eventually.

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