Update: Seems my word pad wonked out and erased some of Reimu's speech and I fixed it. that was embarrassing, wireless Keyboards are a special kinda evil.

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The chill of the wind on his face, this was what he needed after the news he was just hit with. And the news of his opponent who was waiting for him at the Park, seeing the male standing across from him in that trademark black and white casual outfit. " Heh, so you made it, mongrel."

The sound of his footsteps clanged down on the stone road he was standing on, as he stood across from the man who sucker punched and killed him previously. A grimace was on his face as he could feel it alot more clearly now. This man was strong and that overconfidence of his, was not unfounded. " Yeah I did, sorry I took so long, had to make sure I got you a proper Casket, on account of being Humanity's First Hero. Oh, sorry, Second hero." That smirk on his face slowly left his face.

" Don't get ahead of yourself, Mongrel. I know well of your circumstances, born of this era but thrown back through time and using the past to strengthen yourself. You would still be a hero born after my era." His arms crossed and the air became more tense. " But to have the audacity to be a savior before I was born, protecting life and humanity. You are bold, even before your crimes against me."

This caused his brow to raise, his crimes against him? Has he met this person before? No...that face looked familiar, even with fragmented memories.

" But I am aware of why you probably don't remember it. It was countless years ago, and your memories snatched and destroyed by enemies of Humanity. But that does not excuse you from your crimes, this execution will let you know what you have done, and why you will be executed by a king, so take honor fool!" And his arms stretched out, as Ziden saw them, countless golden gates opening around Gilgamesh, those same gates that appeared back after his battle with Mara.

Ziden doesn't say much after that, only slowly unsheathing his blade. " Don't think this is gonna be a repeat of last time. This time, I'm at full charge and ready to brawl So prepare yourself, your highness. This time its gonna be you ending up dead in the streets!"


Few Hours earlier...

His home was, full to say the least, alot of them crowded under the Kotatsu, with Ziden and Keine looking at Alice who seemed to be, melancholic right now with the death of her uncle. "Ah, So Uncle Red is gone...I owe...him alot honestly. When I died originally, he took care of me and made sure I was well taken care of with Uncle B. Now that he's gone and unable to hurt people anymore...I am not sure how to feel."

" Well, ya can be relieved now, you got a good influence in Sora and Igor looking out for you. You don't need to do those cruel things anymore to people. This is your second chance to do good by not only you but to those you want to help." Ziden said while placing his hands into his pockets while watching her slowly beginning to glow.

" Hmm, that is true, well then that means I should get back to him. Thanks for taking care of Belial I'll tell Sora, ya said hi." And the duo watched Alice give a soft smile before watching her fade away and returning back to the Velvet Room.

" To think that was the same girl who attacked Eientei, would end up having such a nice smile and becoming a better person...well demon anyways. Though, we have a more, pressing matter." Keine was turning towards the dining room area, where a Priest was sitting down, enjoying Curry that Ziden had made recently, truly enjoying the heat and spices added to it. Honestly, it looked like he was gonna melt.

But Ziden was more focused on the blue screen of Chaldea on the table of the Kotatsu, with everyone in a form of silence, minus the Priest who enjoyed his meal. Gordolf was on the screen and told the story of what happened in the future, leaving out few time altering details.

Lostbelts, Ziden and Yukari has heard of them, a phenomenon when a failed or bad timeline comes into existence and remains existing, typically overwriting the proper timeline with a vastly wrong history compared to the world and Chaldea's battle against them. Gordolf spoke of them all with papers produced from his jacket.

A Land where Russia fused with Beasts, a land where Ragnarok consumed the entire world, a land where a Chinese Emperor became the Ruler of the world, a land where an Indian Hero became the strongest god in the world, a land where the Olympians defeated the Titan Sefer, a land where the fairies never forged Excalibur, leading to Sefer destroying the world, leaving only the fae behind, and a land where the legendary Ort resides with the info on this one being redacted.

Their struggles ended with the Olga of that world being saved and humanity being brought back to a non bleached world. But then, something cruel occurred. A God that hailed from this world crossed over and punished that world for no reason, but that it went against what it deemed right.

" After all of that fighting, all of the worlds we had to destroy just to save our own skin. What I've witnessed, will stay with me for my life. But that God, he destroyed the world for no reason. All our struggles, rendered meaningless by one cruel being." the loud sound of his fist slamming into the wall, his white gloves bleeding from the impact as Romani and Da Vinci remained silent.

"...Xenovia...the God of Timely Destruction. That's the God who attacked your world." Ziden crossed his arms when he spoke as everyone looked to him. " A God that was banished from this world and left in the folds between dimensions because he was getting, a bit much."

" A Bit much?" Rin raised her brow at this as Ziden lets out a sigh, as Yukari happened to walk into the room.

" He was originally a methodical deity that did his job based on his Logic Engine. Was a world too dangerous to continue moving on? If it was, he would destroy it and move on. But as time went on."

" He got a bit too curious, like a young AI, it got curious about things, instead of just destroying, it would interfere with worlds by using his powers over Time to cause changes to sate its curiosity, creating worse and worse scenarios for that world. The original causer of Distortions before they began naturally occurring. He didn't view what he did as Cruel, to him, it was experiments until he did crueler things to the world." Ziden sighed out while looking to Yukari.

" Could life survive in extreme circumstances that come out of nowhere? This is what drove his AI, and it led to too many worlds suffering for it, worlds of Pacifists being besieged by Warmongering beasts that continued to torture them for no reason but sheer joy and when he was bored, he simply aged a world into Dust. The Gods, were afraid at first, but decided enough was enough." Yukari opened her fan and covered her mouth with it. " And they banished him."

" Yeah and it seems that their actions, led to Xenovia finding your world due to its straining Space time. He must have watched your struggles and wasn't happy that you won, so he destroyed your world to spite your battles." Ziden said as he saw Shirou slamming his hands on the table.

" But why!? They fought so hard just to be able to get their friends and families back! Why would this God do this!?" Shirou felt, heated, and Archer wouldn't lie, he felt the same way from outside on the porch in Spirit form.

" Because evil can be and is like that, can never truly be explained." To the surprise of everyone, Gordolf was the one who said that. " Seeing him hover over my world and reaching his hand out. I felt that cold chilling wind wash over me and found myself here."

" Honestly, sounds like another major hassle to deal with." And Reimu was as callous as ever, with Mash remaining silent through all of it, this Ritsuka fellow who she was a servant to in this other world. He sounded nice.

" Yeah and if Xenovia attacked the future of Romani's world-"

" then Sanae, by sticking with them, we'll get that machine God and beat its ass for taking their future away." Ziden slammed his fist into his hand, as Illya finally asked the question that had been plaguing her.

" you, Icrim, when we first met, you told us the Grail was corrupted. How can we truly believe you that it is?" Illya looked at him with a simple stare and Artoria herself, had her hands gripping into her skirt.

" Because I have seen it firsthand.' And everyone looked towards Artoria who sat there, as the screen on the table floated away, as a clock appeared on it, Ziden's hands glowing with a silver light as a window into the past, into a famous battle above and below ground and Kotomine only smiled in sweaty silence.

" When I said I researched the scene, this is what I saw." The screen was focused on the floating golden Grail but with a sight that made everyone but Artoria and Kotomine flinch. A black, bubbling liquid that was flowing out of it, that seemed to burn the very land around it. And the scene showed something that Ziden did not see before. A Bleeding Artoria standing across from Gilgamesh who was relishing in his victory.

" W-what is that floating out of the Grail. It feels..." Rin couldn't even find the words to describe the sensation that the ooze gave her but Meta Knight answered it instantly.

" Evil, pure, unbending evil. And it is something I have felt before, we have felt before." Those golden eyes now turning blue, like smoldering flames under that mask.

" Yeah, that sludge dere is bringing back all sorts of bad memories! And I ain't that fond of those memories either!" And King Dedede sure wasn't fond of the sensation either

" The Sludge is...familiar to them? How? Is the thing in the Grail related to something they fought in the past?" Ziden rubbed his jaw in deep thought while soon opening his mouth. " The Corruption inside of that thing is beyond absurd. If this truly was a Wish granting device, then whatever corrupted it, has turned it into a Monkey's Paw that fancies gold. Cruel wishes born from even the best intents."

Artoria bit onto her lip, she was so laser focused on using the wish to go back and save Camelot, that getting her wish might have ended in a far worse fate than what it had. Even her current wish would probably taken and Corrupted to be unleashed against the world. Illya seemed more whiplashed by it.

" But...when did this...when could the grail have been corrupted by whatever that evil is!? The Hopes and dreams of the 3 founders, how did it become corrupted!?" Illya was rightfully upset while Ziden crosses his arms.

" No clue, but what I do know, is that if a wish is made on that Grail, we could have devastation unheard of on this planet again."ziden does cross his arms. " The thought to magically seal it did come to my head but the absurd amount of Mystics on this planet makes that a failed plan. People like Dr Doom, Dormammu, or any cult worth a damn can unseal it and use it like a Mystic Engine and cause untold destruction."

" So that's why you're going to destroy the Grail?" Artoria asked while looking up at her.

" Yeah. Too many wild cards are on this world and others that could come for the grail, not counting the Dark Masters. Sides, I don't like the idea of something this dangerous being fought over and people having to suffer for it. So sorry if it ruins the dreams of the Great Mage families. But I'm here to destroy the grail."

Rin and Illya remained quiet on this while sighing. " Doesn't matter to me in the long run, considering you are gonna grant our wishes anyways for our partnerships. and I will be taking any and all Jewels we find along this partnership as mine." Rin seemed to grin at that while Ziden sighed.

" Done deal. Just have to survive the end of this war. The Dreamstalk is its own issue I didn't even think to account for." Ziden stated while looking at Reimu and Kirby.

"Honestly, we heard you were coming down here to break up a magic artifact, so Alice and Patchouli made us come along to make sure you don't go all overboard on it. though judging by things, seems your plan was disrupted pretty badly by these outside factors." Reimu pointed out while taking a French fry from the table.

" Yeah, thought the Holy Grail was just, hidden in the town, waiting to be found, but no, gotta kill Servants to make it appear. And these Dark servants are something else. Ah well." Ziden sighed out once more while heading over to the door to hang on the banister, while Yukari knew why he was grumpy.

" Oho is the local dad still upset about discovering he had a daughter in another world?" Yukari asked while prodding his side while he scoffed.

" A lil bit yeah, to think in these memories, I had a full grown ass kid, a year or 3 behind Sakuya in age and she lives with me now, with the intent of giving me Grandkids, so, yeah, lil grumpy, I don't want to be a grandpa yet." Ziden sighed while all of this information was grating. He wanted to come in, beat up Gilgamesh, destroy the Grail and leave, and now its so much more tedious with these Dark masters, Fawful being here and the dreamstalk.

" Ah, if only Sonic were here to help us out. Those Emeralds he uses are really handy." Meiling answered while Reimu sighed.

" Yeah but after the party, he said he had to go deal with Eggman, apparently he had to go find him and the Emeralds at something called the Lost Square or something. Sounds like he is going to space." Reimu answered while Dedede laughed.

" That loser is going off into space!? Sounds like he's trying to match how great Mario's Space adventure was, now that was an adventure! Sonic's probably gonna have another awful Journey where he gets nothing done and gets by with that weird luck he has!" Dedede, was not a fan of Sonic it seems

" Yeah, Sonic's adventures...have not been good since he dealt with that Werehog Mess, his adventures have been weird but he is doing his own thing with tails, so here is hoping he makes it out alive." Ziden sighed. " wish we can say the same here, this mission is gonna be damn annoying. And now I need to track down that golden armored freak."

" Ah, but you need not worry about that, young man." The time portal soon showed Artoria Hesitantly raising her blade and unleashing a massive blade of light that consumed the grail and covered the area in a brutal blaze which shocked everyone but Shirou, who remembered those flames well. "After all, I come bearing a message from the one you wish to defeat."

And Ziden's eyes soon focused on this new male in the room, Kotomine soon smiling as he was began to relay the news to him.


Back in the Present...

Boss Battle ( Shin Megami Tensei 4 Apocalypse)

Four glints that formed in the air and the blade missiles that followed shot right towards Ziden and he responded in kind, with his blade shining forth with flames that swing in beautiful arcs to repel the blades that came to him, causing massive explosions along the soil and ground around them as he switched to Nosada and Murakumo, twin katanas ready to cut down his opponent, as he dashed right towards his foe.

That blade was repelled by a large shield that appeared before Gilgamesh, causing his guard to be wide open, to the many blades now raining down onto him, prompting Ziden to leap back to avoid the explosion of blades that tore the very earth apart. He has shields? Well this is gonna be a problem of sorts.

Ziden stomped the ground and soon began to vanish, using flash steps to appear around Gilgamesh, swinging his blade at him from countless angles, the King of Heroes using those shields to block against the strikes, feeling the vibrations from the impacts as he kept his eye on the speedy foe.

" Hmph, is all you are capable of doing is dancing around like hummingbird, barely tickling my defenses, mongrel?" Another bombardment of blades as Ziden leapt away from the massive blasts of the blades exploding into the Earth as he was getting the rhythm of his attack style.

' I see now, so he is using weapons and stuff from that portal to form defenses to protect and attack at the same time, but with how destructive the weapons are from that portal, he doesn't even need to aim that well. Hmm, time to swing harder then.' Ziden spins around Nosada, allowing fire to spin out like a ring around the blade, before Ziden dashed right at Gilgamesh, letting his weapons scratch past him, tiny wounds opening from the weapons scraping past his fast, as he sees that Shield appear before him again.

His arm now dotted in veins from sending energy through it, adding force behind the swing, and swings up with a powerful diagonal slice, causing a loud boom to ring through the air, Gilgamesh unimpressed, until he saw that weapon cleaving clean through his shield the wind from the blade slicing into his shoulder, drawing second blood in the fight. " Tch! So you do have force in those arms of yours, punk!"

" Yeah I do! Wanna see em!?" And his hands gripped onto those swords tighter, the elements burning and clashing through them while twisting his body back. " Hellfrost! Whirlwind!" A powerful spinning strike, that created a massive tornado of fire and ice that tore through the area and racing towards Gilgamesh, who merely grit his teeth. and opened up more gates.

A volley of blades made sure to aim directly into the base of the twister to destabilize it, causing it to explode outwards, causing it to burst outwards and reveal Ziden dashing through it and right before Gilgamesh, those blades crossed together and the King of Heroes' widening his eyes. Quickly moving to the side, the blades cut into his chest, leaving a cross shaped gash in his chest, instead of brutally removing his arm as Ziden soared past him, blood caking along his blade while sliding along the ground and turning to Gilgamesh.

Blood pouring down onto the ground, while he grimaced at this. " Fine. So it seems this hero has fangs. Very well then!" And then Ziden felt that burst of magic coming off of him as he witnessed golden lights form around him, as that famed Golden armor formed around him and soon his arms went up in the air, as countless golden gates formed in the air around Ziden. " I will give you my full attention, fool!"

Barely a second to react or move when the spears, blades and axes came down onto him, and he didn't bother to dodge. He simply swings those blades and proceeds to fight off the entire blade onslaught, even as stray weapons tore through his body, countless weapons were cleaved and cut through many more, causing his golden covered weapons to be stabbed into the earth, before dashing out of the ring at the earliest chance he got.

" Flame Dragon Rampage!" A surge of Eastern style dragons exploded from the air where Ziden struck, with 10 of them roaring right towards Gilgamesh, who once more summoned a shield to block the attack, heat and flames blasting out around him like a cone, burning the air around the King of Heroes who merely stood there unfazed from the heat pouring around him.

Once the flames ended, Ziden was standing across from him, his wounds healing shut while his clothes looked like he walked through a warzone. "Using your additional weapons as missiles to fire at your opponent with purely overwhelming fire power. No doubt you're an Archer, then King of Heroes." Ziden rubs the back of his hand along his mouth, cleaning it of blood as the King continued to look down at him. " Though, alot of special weapons are in there, you're not using them by hand, which gives me the idea, you can't truly use the weapons as well as hand weapons, am I correct?"

Gilgamesh simply smirked at this while his crossed arms didn't even move from his chest. " Sharp eyes, for a fool. Indeed, only a few weapons in my arsenal do I care enough to use by hand, but each of these weapons fired are still powerful enough that not using them by hand isn't failing. Not that it aids you in this battle, you stand against an endless wave of my personal treasures, take solace Phoenix. In knowing that compared to the other mongrels in this war, you will be filled with more weapons than their corpses could hope to hold!" And he sees more gates opening behind him, only for Ziden to smile back, as a glowing purple aura formed along his arm. " So take pride, Legendary Hero of the Eternal Flames, for your death will be by far the most visceral in this war!"

" Heh, legendary Hero huh? That title's stuck with me since my younger years. All those adventures I have had since I was crowned that by the 4 Holy Ones, I've gathered many weapons from traveling with others Legendary heroes like Mario, Sonic, Kirby, Cloud, Terra, forged even more. So if you're gonna be using your weapons to fight me, then its only right, that I use mine to fight you!" A large expanse of portals opened up behind him as Gilgamesh gritted his teeth.

" You dare!? Do not think whatever paltry treasures you might have found, compares to my own, fool!" and soon, his Gate fired his weapons and Ziden's portals fired his own weapons at the portals, causing explosions in the air from the countless numbers of weapons coming out from the portals. With Ziden dashing right at Gilgamesh with his swords skidding along the ground, with the King taking out a massive Golden axe, intent on clashing with him.

The sheer impact of the katanas against that Axe tore the very earth apart under their clash, lightning crackling from their impacts, each swing clashed with each other, while weapons rained down around them and vanished back into their respective collections. His jacket was the pocket space where all of his weapons and items were held, so they returned from whence they came and soon fired once more.

Gilgamesh was getting frustrated, his weapons were of the highest quality, how were they being matched by these mysterious weapons he had never seen before. Ziden ended up leaping away from the clash, only to find his arms and legs bound by those chains from before. Chains meant to bind the Divine, which unfortunately, Ziden was not. His weapons fired right down and cleaved through the chains, freeing him, the 4 spears wedged into the earth around them. Spears he didn't recognize, but Ziden did.

His swords being sheathed and his hand soon grabbing a yellow spear with a light green blade that seemed to cackled with lightning, spinning it in his hand before tossing it like a lightning bolt, Gilgamesh quick to use a shield to block the brutal spear throw, feeling the shockwaves of it against his shield, as he was actually being pushed back again. " Geh! You mongrel!"

And then, Ziden was caught off guard himself, when he saw through the storm of weapons above him him, two massive gates that had massive weapons coming out of them, sky scraping blades meant to kill giants as Romani and the others watched through the screen their battle.

" T-The King of Heroes has weapons that big inside of his Gate! Get out of there Icrim!" Romani was certain such weapons would oblitorate any human they come into contact with, while Gordy was left in shock, seeing the Chaldean Master of this timeline actually fighting a Servant like he was one.

He had already been given files on him that Romani compiled with Yukari's help, a world where superhumans natively exist and Ziden was but one of their number. Would he be able to win against the King of Heroes though is what is in his mind.

Seeing those blades coming down towards him, he could see Gilgamesh waving his hand and sending them smashing down towards him, a blade firing out of a portal to slam into the ground near Ziden as he witnessed the blades coming closer. " Your weapons are numerous fool, but they match nowhere near the amount of what I hold nor their power!"

His hand soon gripped onto that blade, and allowing fire to rip free from the blade. " That is so honestly foolish to believe, Gilgamesh!" And the flames of the blade only grew wilder, what was once a simple long sword, soon turned into a massive broadsword of flame. its brown and gold hilt as he gripped it with two hands. " You think because your Treasury hasn't been match in power or size that it never would!?" A slam of his foot and a kick to the skies, with that blade being held behind his back. " You fool! No matter how high the precipe you stand on, you should never rest on your laurels because you believe you are invincible! Solarian Flame: Sunbreak!"

The flames that can sear the world, erupted from that blade and a massive line of fire came from where he swings, the air turning pure white before a hellish explosion erupted against the blades in the sky, the cops and swat outside of the park watching sat there in horror from the battle happening in the park, or rather, whatever remained of the park.

Gilgamesh watched his weapons in the sky break against his sword before clicking his teeth and aiming countless gates around him, which were fought off by the weapons fired through his own portal smashed down the weapons he fired, as Ziden appeared right before Gilgamesh, causing him to flinch when Laevateinn swing upwards against his armor, feeling himself being tossed into the air. " What!?"

Countless weapons soon flew out of portals around Ziden as he took flight into the air after Gilgamesh, gripping an Axe and cleaving through a shield his gate summoned, leaving a gash in his armor with that one strike. Causing Gilgamesh to Grimace, as he came back around with a Bright red sword this time, cleaving through another shield with his absurd strength. " On this world, in this reality, you should never rest on your laurels no matter who you are. if you seek the path of hero, harden your heart and always train and improve your skills!" Another powerful slash across his armor as the folks back at the house, watching through Chaldea's equipment listened to Ziden's words. " In this world, monsters, beasts, even humans can grow strong without fear. There is no limit to strength, so training yourself is always wonderful. With my cursed life born of my foolishness, I trained myself beyond my limits and even then, countless beings, be they stronger than me or weaker, I could lose to."

Another powerful slash, with a sword of Ice cleaving right past him and causing his armor to crack and him to growl.

" To view yourself as the supreme, but never do anything to improve upon that to hold your thrown, is foolish, king of Heroes! Because people like me, who put in Hard work or are monsters, can come and snatch you right down from that throne because you hide behind that Gate of yours and call yourself the strongest and the King of Heroes!" At this point, Ziden became a blur, countless weapons slashing through and around that armor before Ziden appeared right above Gilgamesh, weapon shining as he held a large Greatsword over him. "So Let this be your lesson! Defeat can come at you, from anywhere, if you don't put in the effort to continue gaining strength! Hero Sign: Ragnarok's Dance!" An explosion of light came from Ziden's blade as it cleaved down into the shoulder armor of Gilgamesh and soon took him down with Ziden into the ground, causing a massive green explosion that rocked the park, causing dust and debris to be blasted every where.

Ziden letting out a long, tired sigh after that attack and watching the Gate of Babylon fading away, with the male soon slowly getting his own weapons desummoned and his swords onto his person. " Been so long, since I used those weapons, felt great. Might use them alot more."

" Fu...ha...FUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" And Ziden heard that laughter coming through the smoke and dirt, soon seeing it blasted away as he watched Gilgamesh standing across from him, his hair disheveled, and the right side of his armor destroyed, with his chest and arm visible to him and covered in gashes and cuts, but most importantly, in his hand, was a large key. " All this time, I thought you a mere mongrel with a bark louder than his bite! But I was wrong about you, fool! To fight like this and actually harm me when I decimated you a while ago! To train your body to face upcoming foes, either to succeed or fail. I see now!" Ziden almost wrote this off as hystericalness at having his pride shattered but no, his pride was still as strong as ever.

"...What is this bad feeling my Haki is giving me? Like my entire body is freaking out over that key of his, why? What does it unlock?" Ziden soon unsheathed Crimson Edge and held it tight in his hand.

" Legendary Hero of the Eternal Flames, the title given to you thanks to you stopping that Goddess of Death from Consuming Earth and Heaven, it was given to you well. To think that I, would be witnessing the birth of a Messiah in this altered world! Truly amazing! To face against a fool whose endless prattle about ceaseless training, would give me this damaged form! You are worthy Mongrel! To die at the hands of my Greatest treasure!" A portal opened up when the key's parts began to rotate and spin as the key seemed to vanish into the air, soon seeing a blade handle coming out of the portal.

Ziden remained on guard until he saw the weapon that came out of the portal, a drill like blade of black and red coloring and Ziden's eyes couldn't believe what he was seeing. An odd blade that radiated power and destruction, a power he had seen in many absurdly powerful weapons but this one seemed to be frightening in its own ways.

Holding the blade above in the sky and letting the parts of the blade rotate and seeing the red lightning winds soon coiling around him. " Judgement is upon you. Behold the crushing might of my Sword of Rupture." The lightning and winds only kicked up harder, as Ziden was so focused on trying to figure out what this sword was doing that he didn't notice the golden Lights that were coming off of the ground. " Hmm?"

But Gilgamesh noticed it and from the corner of his eyes, he saw her, the token of his affection, the treasure he seeks most in this world and that caused a grin to form on his face. There stood Artoria, with her blade shining bright and the invisible air that shrouded it, now gone and revealing its golden splendor, as holy Light poured from it.


Earlier...

"Against a monster like that golden King, you'd say Ziden may lose?" Reimu raised a brow at this while rubbing under her jaw. " Yeah I can see it, i only saw the feed of him but those weapons he fired, something tells me he has a Ace in the hole that might change the tide of the entire battle."

" Without a proper Magic flow, you would be more a detriment than anything, You can't even use your Noble Phantasm with how low your magic is right now, Saber." Rin answered, waving off the idea before Sanae slapped down a large blue cube onto the table. "EH!?"

" This is an Ether! A Mystic Power restoring item that we have used alot in our adventure! We dunno if it will work for Servants but we can certainly try! Eat it Arty! Its just like jello but a tad bit sweeter!" Sanae was excited to see if this would work, as Artoria stares at the item, before gently picking it up and soon eating it right down.

" Oh come now! There is no way this healing item I have ever heard of, is gonna instantly recharge spent magic energy!" illya, was of course, incredulous, and she seemed sure about that when Artoria seemed to have no change about her. Until one could see her muscles quite literally bulging out of her clothes from the mana restoration and her muscles flexing out. Her magic resources almost bursting. To the more advanced Mana systems of the mages of this world, a Ether is a good sized charge to get mana power back, but to Magic Circuit users, a single Ether could super charge a Servant or Master back to full and then some. " Holy-"

" Hell! She's fully restored! That was faster than the usual way of restoring mystic energy with your servants." Rin stated while looking at Artoria who was looking at her hands, before standing up.

" Hmm? What is the usual way you restore magic energy to Servants?" Shirou asked as Rin raised a brow.

" How? Why, its through body fluids, typically through, procreation with the servant." And everyone stares at Rin for a moment, before staring at Illya and the resting Berserker who sat in the back of the room, which caused Illya to turn red.

" N-no! I do not! Berserker does not run out of magic energy due to how much I have so that is never an issue!" Illya was quick to reaffirm this while Artoria was quick to leap over the table and to the front door.

" Saber! Make sure to help him out in that fight!" Those were Shirou's orders and she nodded at them, a blast of wind as her armor formed as Keine watched Medusa slinking out of the house after her. She has been quiet for a while.


Back to the Present...

" Behold, hero! Enima!'

Artoria's sword soon reached an apex of light, becoming a shining pillar of light in her hands. " EX!"

" Elish!"

" CALIBER!"

From Gilgamesh, came a massive spiraling vortex of red energy that tore the earth apart and raced towards Ziden and that was when Ziden realized, he was too focused on what the sword can do, that he wasn't noticing the attack coming from it. A wave of power that did more than destroy what was before it. It was a weapon that can tear apart Reason and Ziden was learning this now. A blast of light washed over the field and formed a cross with the attack.

Which lessened the attack power of the Phantasm when it crashed into Ziden, feeling his body utterly being torn apart faster than it could heal and forced into that cycle as the attack quite literally carried him across the sky itself. Blood pouring out of the wounds and covering everything below in his gore as the attack ended with him vanishing beyond the skyline.

" No! I was too late!" Artoria clicked her teeth and ran over to where Ziden was, a literal crevasse where he was and a path that raged outwards towards the large river of Fuyuki that every town seems to have in Japan. Her own attack seemed to have continued onwards and ended up diverting /something/ towards the Fuyuki Bridge.

" Fuhahahahahah! All that talk and he was too enamored with my treasure that he didn't even attempt to dodge it! Truly a Mongrel to the end!" And Gilgamesh was now looking at Artoria, before coughing up blood onto his armor. " And you, my most precious Saber! I apologize that you must see me like this. It seems that the fool put up as much as a fight as the terribleness of his speech.' He was quite messed up from that battle but still, he mostly stood tall. " But, as much as I would love to claim my most beloved treasure, I must recuperate after that battle."

"Archer! Wait! How is it that you are still around even to this day, how?!" Her grip on her blade only tightened while she was staring down at the King.

" Because I won the war, Saber. The Grail blessed me with a body that allows me to stay in this world. Blessed by the powers that lie within." Gilgamesh simply smiled at this. " giving me a Physical form to watch this era. Compared to others I have been birthed in, Humanity is far more worthy of being my thralls! To think that they have reached the stars and are conquering it with these Colonies and planet conquering! This world is worthy of my affections!"

" You were the winner of the last war...then that means, you saw what was in the Grail as well." Artoria gripped her blade as he simply grinned.

" Pure, unending corruption that hails not from this world that did nothing but give me a second lease on life. To allow me to stay in this world for 10 years and many more to come and you Saber. Shall join me as my bride, if you can survive this war with that meager master of yours." Gilgamesh gave a wide smirk, before blue orbs began to float off of his body and soon returned to spirit form and leaving the area, with Artoria standing there alone. An enemy from the old war was truly here and it seems that this Chaldea place was right.

The Holy Grail was corrupted, meaning its wishes were gone, left with naught but destructive force. one that the dark masters fully wanted for their vile purposes. She knew now what her purpose was in this war, as a King, as a Knight. As a hero. Holding up her blade, she began to swear an oath to this world.

" No matter what vile foes wait ahead of me, the darkest evils, I swear upon this Holy Blade, that I will smite all evils and protect this world."


Elsewhere...

A long pair of legs was seen walking around the bank near the river and a body was washed up onto the beach, a badly battered and torn apart body of Ziden. " i have you, Master." And those arms wrapped around him, and vanished into the air, white feathers leaving behind, leaving the scene in silence.


On the Fuyuki Bridge...

" The News report mentioned that a massive snake monster was on the bridge and Kirby took off! We can't just leave him behind, Archer!" Rin was fusing with her servant as she was riding shotgun in a sidecar motorcycle.

" Personally, Rin, I think we should be staying home and not just follow after an Alien creature and whatever set it off." Archer argued back while Illya was on Berserker's shoulder and keeping pace.

" Oh hush, fussy Servant! If Kirby is running off, it must be something strong and that means my Berserker has to prove himself and show he is the strongest warrior in Japan right now!" And the local girl in purple was having a time before they arrived on the bridge and saw Kirby standing there, before a massive statue of a snake looking down at him.

All until its eyes began to glow...


In the Abode of the Master of Dark Rider...

" So the Light Archer and Light Berserker are together, hmm. Come, Rider of Darkness, I believe its time I make myself known to the others. The technological genius and the rage I feel." The Dark Master simply grinned in the darkness as the Rider of Darkness grabbed onto his lance and got up.

"Finally, I get to throw down with a familiar face. And I get to score a kill in this war.' Rider of darkness was certainly excited for this.


In the abode of the Master of Dark Saber...

" There, found out where the Outsider, and where the Saber of Light and Archer of Light's master is staying at." Sisigou lets out a soft sigh after his familiar got back to him with their location.

" At the same Place? So they all did make a fancy alliance. Heh, brings back memories, don't it?" And Mordred was sitting on the hotel bed in her casual clothes with that wild grin.

" Indeed, though this time, hopefully no Priest will complicate things. Come on, lets go ahead and wipe out two Masters in one go." Sisigou made sure to get up off of his bed and soon headed to the door with his equipment in tow.

This time, Mordred was gonna have a true fight with her father and this time, she would come out on top and take her place as true King of Camelot.


Trivia:

1. Xenovia will be a massively important figure going ahead and you will be learning why soon.

2. Every weapon pulled out of Ziden's hammerspace that was used during the long battle against Gilgamesh, came from the Ivalice series of Final Fantasy games that he collected when traveling through those worlds. And yes, going forward, you will see said weapons alot more.

3. Gilgamesh is considered by far and above /the/ strongest Servant in the Stay Nightverse and the Extraverse, he is that busted, and EA is pretty gross...if we ignore FGO which kinda, made him alot lower on the Power scale by a massive margin.

4. Gilgamesh is also driven by pride to a fault, so Ziden's speech about always training to keep up with the countless stronger foes that heroes face until their stories end, will not stick.

5. Messiah is the term for SMT Protags, as stated ages back, Ziden is acting as a replacement to 4A's protag due to that protag being, uh. Wet cardboard shoved a fire pit. Though this was foreshadowed all the way back in Kalos invasion.

6. Gilgamesh is immune to the corruption of the Grail, which is like, yeah, its clear that Nasu really, really loved Gilgamesh to give him well, all of this nonsense.

Author's Note: I know, you're not dreaming, a chapter came out this fast! Gotta say, I kinda got a major story writing drive and I took a minor break from gaming and gacha so, badabing badaboom. And yes, going forward, I will be looking at Guest reviews before they are posted, due to that one guest desperately wanting to pitch his story, he did review again and only one point of his that I will talk about at the bottom of this. But the next chapter, will be a Kirby Battle! That is done out of order in the games because I actually forgot that this boss is actually the 4th one and uh. yeah! Dumb me! Anyways, leave a review and let me know what ya think so far. As a bonus, here is a Story Preview to the story that comes directly after this story

Story Preview: Pokemon Doomed

Ziden and Dante stood next to the train that was traveling a massive distance through Kalos, standing in what remains of Lumiose City after the demon Invasion, staring down a peculiar sight. A humanoid demon with horns, that wore a mockery of the Doom Slayer's armor.

" So...this the guy who messed up Big Green huh?" Dante raised a brow at this while Ruby and Blake stood behind them, blood caking their hands and weapons as they seemed nervous to see this creature again.

" Foolish ones, the lot of you, your champion is down, your convey is surrounded by my forces, you have lost, surrender, and your lives will be snuffed out quickly. Or be converted into our fold." The Marauder is what he was called according to what Vega called it, outclassed the Doom Slayer in abilities due to being a new foe made to fight him entirely.

" C rank at most, ah well, we'll make a good mark killing em." And now Ziden was about to move forward, before Dante tugged him back, signaling for Rock, Paper, Scissors, of which they instantly got into it.

" u-uh, guys, is this really the time for this?!" Ruby was watching this, as the horde of demons beyond the Marauders looked restless.

" Fools that believe that they can stand a chance against me. Overconfidence shall be their downfall. Mere humans against one who has triumphed against their champion, take heart children, they will die brutally against me." Confidence rolled off of the Marauder and onto the demons behind him, as Dante threw down paper against Ziden's rock, who kicked the ground in his loss.

The train traveled throughout this region to grab survivors and take them onto the ship to evacuate the world while they find the Pokemon behind the Limiter Removal Incident, damaged from an Onslaught of Talenflames but repairing itself. Dante himself was looking at the damage of the ship and the Nero who rested anxiously inside.

Dante doesn't seen say much when he sees the Marauder staring him down, nor did he say anything else but his famous words. " Stinger!" Like a missile he shot forward, with that blade outstretched and the Marauder summoned that shield of his, expecting to see the Demon Hunter bounce off and be left wide open to have his head removed by his axe.

What he truly got, was Dante's blade tearing clean through that Argent shield and straight through his chest in a single blow that caused a bloody shockwave to explode out of the back of the Marauder, spraying the Imps behind him in an obscene amount of blood. The impact of the attack outright exploded the demon's back, leaving not but bloody flesh chunks of back left and what remained of his ribcage.

The demons who once had sadistic smirks on their face, just witnessed their strongest fighter having been one shot by what seemed to be a powerless human, his blade tugging out of the now Dead Marauder and that blade being hefted up onto his shoulder, Blake and Ruby slack jawed at the sight.

" So, who is next to step up onto the plate? My Plumbing's been turned off and papa needs the cash." A soft smirk and an uncaring nature, the demons only had one thing to say to this.

" Dark Lord below. we are screwed."


A Note of Interest: Shin Megami Tensei is a series that works on a vastly different system than most hierarchies in that its Gods and heroes have been violently dragged down from their thrones of Divinity. Because of this, the Gods have their mostly familiar structures but with one key Demons do not give much of a shit if you kill members of their family. Hell, the Guest gave his heated disagreement over Ziden killing that Alternate Thor and nothing happening to him for it is funny, because that is canonically what happens to ./every/ time you kill a God in SMT. You kill a God and move on. No vengeance, no nada. You kill and move on. The Thor that died, was the SMT 1 Thor, who, also dies with nothing coming out of it aside from him killing the world with Nukes. Which Ziden stopped prior to fighting him. SMT Demons come from the Expanse which is like, the place where all human legends, Gods and Myths come to life, Thor died, but can easily reform many numbers of times like any demon that is not like, a main story boss. Hell, you can fuse him now technically. Your complaints of Ziden not being punished, is absurdly silly because, who would care to punish him for killing SMT Thor, who would eventually come back in another form and Design? Odin? The same SMT demon who has never once cared for Thor or Loki being slaughtered by the MCs. SMT demons mostly look out for themselves man. Learn SMT, its fun.