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Fate/Stay Night x Kamen Rider
Journey through the Kaleidoscope
Fate/Stay Night x Kamen Rider
Fate/Compilation 2
Fate/Stay Night x Kamen Rider W
Fate/Maximum Drive
Chapter ?: L on the Lips/The Liar Is You
As usual a large crowd was gathered outside the building where Sonozaki Wakana broadcasted her radio show, Fuyuki Healing Princess gazing out the window and waving to her fans who were gathered below. All of whom were blissfully unaware of just how much she truly despised them all.
From his hiding spot Sawada Sachiro glared menacingly at the large crowd composed of Wakana-hime's adoring fans, all of them hoping to catch even the briefest glimpse of Fukyuki's Healing Princess.
"Hey, did you hear," He heard someone amongst the crowd say aloud to the others around them, their head covered by a fur lined hood, "Apparently Wakana is meeting the Radio Tower Clown?"
Insignificant rabble, the sight of them made Sachiro's blood boil, believing that they were worthy of even sharing the same space as his Wakana-hime. Worse still, someone amongst this gathering of trash had used his alias to lure her out. The question being which one?
"Hey, look, isn't that Wakana coming out right now!" The fan in the blue hood called out, pointing towards the door to the building's entrance where a car was waiting, towards which a figure clad in smart yet expensive looking clothing was led by a pair of bodyguards.
Without a moment's hesitation the group of fans rushed towards their idol as she approached the vehicle, the pair of guards doing their best to hold them back while she entered the car before moving to get in themselves and drove away.
All the while Sachiro hung back, watching from his hiding spot, bringing out his Gaia Memory, pressing the button on it before inserting it into the Memory Port located on his neck.
LIAR…
In the blink of an eye, the sleazy looking man transformed himself into the Liar Dopant, letting out a low sounding moan before setting off to flow after the car in which his precious Wakana had departed.
After some time the car arrived at its destination, the side entrance of the large building that served as the city's grandest theatre, the site where Wakana would meet with the supposed Radio Tower Clown.
Obscuring himself from view, the Liar Dopant watched as Wakana exited the vehicle and entered through a set out glass double doors while her two guards walked towards a different entrance.
Sure that he wouldn't be spotted, the Dopant emerged from his hiding spot and moved to follow after his beloved Wakana-hime, doing so as quickly and quietly as he could, slipping through the same doors that she'd entered through.
Entering the auditorium, Liar scanned the area and quickly spotted Wakana with her back turned towards him, standing in the aisle a short distance away from the stage.
No sooner had he snuck in a spotlight suddenly popped into existence on the left hand side as a clown dressed in a costume akin to Pagliacci emerged and ran towards the center of the stage, the spotlight tracking their movement.
"Lady Wakana, welcome welcome. It is I, the Radio Tower Clown." The clown announced as skipped across the stage, "Have you come to have your fondest wish granted? What could it be, what could it be, just thinking about it has me all excited."
"Wha…what!" The Liar Dopant muttered to himself, anger creeping into his voice, "This…this buffoon, he's the one who pretended to be me to lure Wakana-hime here?"
"Could it be that you have come for me?" The white clad clown continued, a dopey looking smile spreading across their face as they squeed in happiness, "Oh Lady Wakana, I shall compose such a lovely poem about our meeting. But alas, my past writings have been pretty bad. The people, they hated them all so bad that I'm that no one likes me."
Hearing this, the Liar Dopant couldn't take this anymore, not only had this imposter used his alias to trick his precious Wakana-hime into coming here but to make a mockery of his work, this couldn't be allowed to stand.
"Enough of this. Wakana-hime, this buffon is a fraud." The Liar Dopant snapped angrily as he emerged from his hiding spot and descended the stairs towards his Wakana who still had her back turned towards him. "And, I'll have you know that I put my heart and soul into writing those poems."
He had not gotten far when all of a sudden they felt a sharp pain in their back, the force making him stumble forward and was sent tumbling several of the stairs before he came to a stop, moments later a bright spot light illuminated them as they lay there.
Stunned, the Liar Dopant glanced over to one side where he caught sight of both of Wakana's bodyguards, removing their rayben's and revealing themselves as Tohsaka Rin and Terui Ryu, both of them fixing the fallen Dopant with a stern look.
Hearing a sinister sounding chuckle coming from behind him, the Liar Dopant glanced over where he was met by the smirking face of the same hooded fan gathered outside the radio station, pulling back their hood to reveal Jeanne ALTER.
"Forgive me but I'm afraid that you have fallen for our deception." The Pagliacci styled clown said, their buffoonish tone voice vanishing. Removing their hat and wiping away her makeup to reveal Jeanne d'Arc.
"Damnit," The Liar Dopant exclaimed. "This whole thing was a trap."
"That's right!" Ryu said as he and Rin walked on the stage to join Jeanne, the young officer glaring sternly at the stunned Dopant, "You made a big mistake outing yourself as an avid listener of Sonozaki Wakana, Liar Dopant. No…Sawada Sachio!"
"We figured that, since you like lying so much, we thought that we'll give you a test of your own medicine." Rin added before saying in a mocking tone, "Who would have thought a professional liar would be duped so easily."
"You…you tricked me," The Liar Dopant exclaimed, "This whole thing was just a trick to get me to reveal myself."
"That is correct." A new voice was heard and Shinji stepped out on stage, his book tucked under one arm, as he, along with both Rin and Ryu, took his place alongside Jeanne. "Discovering that you were a fan of Sonozaki Wakana was crucial to all of this, learning that it was a simple matter of luring you here."
"You…you convinced Wakana-hime into helping you set this up." The Liar Dopant growled, glaring hatefully at Wakana who still had her back turned towards him, "You…you bitch!"
Letting out a cry, the Liar Dopant lunged at Wakana, side stepped out of the way, easily avoiding his attempt to attack her, ramming an elbow into his face, knocking the Kaijin off balance. Not done yet, Wakana followed this up by delivering a vicious kick to the Liar Dopant's chest, the force of the blow sending him sprawling across the floor of the aisle.
"W…Wakana-hime…" The Liar Dopant gasped, looking up at his idol from his place on the floor.
Turning her hear in the fallen Dopants direction, Fuyuki's famed idol fixed the fallen Dopant with a cold glare with her gold eyes, reached up and grabbed ahold of her hair, and in one quick movement removed it from the top of her head, revealing herself to be … Emiya Shirou in disguise.
"Wha…what!" The Dopant exclaimed, shocked by what he had just witnessed,"Wakana-hime…Wakana-hime is…is really a man?"
"Of course we'd never risk the real Wakana's safety." Shinji continued, "All we needed was for her to make the announcement, afterwards Shirou here took her place."
"Gotta say kiddo, nice job on the makeup, really tastefully done." Jeanne ALTER smirked, resting an elbow on Shirou's shoulder, "I especially like the eyeliner, it really makes your eyes pop. You do that yourself?"
"No." Shirou retorted sharply, his stern look faltering for just a moment. "I asked Sakura to do it."
"Wait…wait a second, I didn't hear anything about this, why is Emiya the bait?" Rin demanded. "Shouldn't I or Saber have been the one to dress up as Wakana since, y'know, we're both girls?"
"Please calm yourself Lady Rin, I understand your point but Shirou insisted that he be one to do it." Jeanne told her, trying to sound reassuring, "My Master, he didn't feel comfortable putting either of us or both Lady Sakura and Rider in harm's way."
"I have to agree." Ryu said firmly. "This role was far beyond you if this operation was to succeed."
"That's the funniest shit I've heard." Jeanne ALTER howled with laughter. "You hear that little girl; Shirou here thinks that you aren't woman enough for this."
Letting out a loud cry, Rin sank to her knees, a spotlight from above illuminating her.
"Emiya…Emiya is a boy dressed like a girl and I'm a girl dressed like a boy…" She muttered, sounding despondent. "I'm…I'm a girl but I'm dressed like a boy and Emiya, he's dressed like a girl. If Emiya's a girl and I'm a boy does that make me a boy, or if Emiya is a boy then I'm a boy…"
"Can we hurry this up please," Shirou spoke up, sounding nonplussed, as he and Jeanne ALTER took their place on stage alongside both Shinji and Ryu, "I'd like to change out of this get up as soon as possible."
Although he was nowhere to be seen, Shirou could tell that somewhere, that bastard Archer Servant was laughing his ass off.
The Liar Dopant angrily glares and growls at the people on the stage. "You…you've made a fool out of me." He growled, slamming his fist on the floor before quickly getting back to his feet. "I'll make you pay for this."
"Tsk, like you've got any right to be upset." Shirou retorted in a harsh tone. "How many people's lives have you ruined with your schemes? Far as I'm concerned this is karma catching up to you. Shinji, Ryu, let's put an end to this."
"Sound's good to me." Philip said, reaching into his coat, Shinji pulled out Shirou's W Driver which he handed off to his partner
"This time we'll settle things." Ryu said as he produced his own Driver before he and Shirou attached them around their waists while Shinji's own W Driver taking form in a flash.
That done, all three of them pulled out their respective Gaia Memories.
CYCLONE…/JOKER…/ACCEL…
"Henshin…"/"Henshin…/"Hen..shin…" They all declared, Shinji inserting his green Memory into his Driver and sent it over to Shirou who pressed down on it before inserting his own Memory and slid the two Memory Chamber apart to activate his Driver.
Meanwhile Ryu inserted his Memory into the slot on the Accel Driver and revved its handlebar several times.
ACCEL… (Sports motorcycle revving)
CYCLONE/JOKER… (Technical guitar to orchestral hit)
In a swirl of black and green energy accompanied by six rotating mufflers, both Shirou and Ryu were clad in their respective Rider armors while at the same moment both Jeanne's bodies began to emit a bright light before, in a flash both of them were donned in their respective battle gear.
His consciousness now housed inside of W, Shinji's now mindless body fell toward the stage below him. Snapping out of her funk, Rin acted quickly, managing to wrap her arms around the unconscious teen before he hit the ground.
Now ready for battle, the two Riders and the pair of near identical Servants fixed their gaze upon the Liar Dopant who quickly bolted towards the nearest exit in an attempt to flee from the quartet.
"Saa, omae no tsumi o kazoero!" W said as he pointed his finger at the Liar Dopant before he, Accel and the Jeanne duo gave chase, leaving Rin with the unconscious body of Matou Shinji.
Alone now, Rin glared down at the unconscious boy that she held in her arms, a frown etching itself into her face. "Why couldn't you be the one in the dress?" She grumbled.
Giving chase, both W, Accel and the Jeanne duo pursued the Liar Dopant up to the roof of the building, between the four of them he quickly found himself overwhelmed, both Riders landing a double kick that knocked him backward.
Still, despite being outnumbered, the Kajin wasn't going down without a fight, unleashing a barrage of needles from his mouth at them the Rider/Servant pairs, both Riders managed dodge out of the way while Saber deflected them with her sword and Avenger incinerated them with a blast of hellfire.
Having successfully avoided the Liar Dopant's projectiles, Accel moved into engage the Liar Dopant again, accompanied by both Jeanne's, all the three of them with their respective swords at the ready as they took turns slashing at the lying Kaijin.
Meanwhile, W hung back, producing his Metal Memory, swapping out his Joker Memory and inserting it into his Driver.
CYCLONE/METAL… (Technical guitar to metallic synth)
In a flash, the black left side of W shifted into gunmetal grey, accompanied by the Metal Shaft that appeared on his back, the green and grey Rider reaching behind him to grab a hold of it.
As Accel the pair of Servants continued to a barrage of powerful sword slashes at their opponent, W produced the Spider Shock, attaching the gadget to the Metal Shaft.
SPIDER…
Having configured his weapon, the green and grey Rider and grasped it in both hands before swinging it in a horizontal arc, the spider themed gadget creating producing a weave of thin metallic wires that wrapped themselves around the Liar Dopant's mouth, rendering his unable to speak.
"Thank fuck," Jeanne ALTER let out a sigh of relief, "the less I have to hear this guy talk the better."
"Indeed," Jeanne, reluctantly, agreed, fixing Liar Dopant with a stern look. "Les mensonges sont un affront à Dieu."
With the opponent partially incapacitated, W rushed into assist both Jeanne's and Accel, swinging his staff at the Liar Dopant as, between the four of them they knocked him aside and send him crashing into the railings that surrounded the rooftop.
"Heh, seems that you're not much of a threat when you're not making us fight each other." W commented as he and Accel gazed upon the fallen Dopant.
Picking himself up, the Liar Dopant glared at the pair of Kamen Rider's, letting out a low sounding a snarl. "Your…you're mocking me?" He snarled, "Fine then, you can have a taste of my invincible attack!"
Seeing him quickly getting back up to his feet, both W and Accel tensed as they readied themselves for whatever was about to happen next.
The Liar Dopant letting out an ominous sounding chuckle before saying, "It's a lie!" He chuckled before bringing out a staff with a large speaker shape like a mouth with its tongue sticking out, from which he fired a barrage of glowing energy blasts at W, Accel and the Jeanne's.
Diving to the ground, both Accel and Saber were able to didge out of the was while Avenger conjured another blast of hellish fire to intercept the shots flying towards her. W however wasn't so lucky, several of the glowing projectiles striking in the chest, knocking hi off of his feet and sent him flying towards the edge of the building.
"MASTER!" Jeanne cried out as she watched as W flew over the railing before he plummeted towards the ground.
"Tsk, what a pain…" Accel growled in frustration, detaching his Driver before jumping over the side and fell towards W, shifting into his bike mode as he did so, racing alongside the side of the building opposite.
As the red bike Rider screeched past him, W reached out and hold of the handlebars attached to Accel's back, pulling himself over and mounted him before he spun around and sped up the side of the building.
"Phew, that could have ended poorly…" W sighed in relief, "Ryu, thanks for the save."
No sooner had he said this the Liar Dopant unleashed another barrage of energy bolts from his mouth mounted staff, striking in the opposite building in an attempt to knock both Rider's off.
"If you really want to thank me, you can do something about this annoying guy." Accel told the green and grey Rider on his back as he swerved to avoid the incoming shots.
"Well, since you asked so nicely…" W replied, bringing out his Trigger Memory, inserting it into his Driver.
As Accel continued to race along the buildings surface, small burst of energy erupting off of its surface, W's form shifted again, his left grey side turning bright blue.
CYCLONE-TRIGGER… (Technical guitar to rock guitar riffs)
Accelerating forward, Accel shot past the building's roof and upwards into the air, spinning around to allow W to aim his TriggerMagnum at the Liar Dopant, the green and blue Rider firing off several shots at the lying Kaijin, forcing him to stumble back where he quickly found himself seized by both Jeanne's who wrapped their arms around his, restraining him.
Seeing this, W switched Memories again, producing the Joker Memory once and inserted it into his Driver.
CYCLONE/JOKER…(Technical guitar to orchestral hit)
Once more on his Cyclone Joker form, W removed the black Memory and quickly inserts it into the Maximum Drive Slot located on the side of his belt before jumping off of Accel's back.
JOKER, MAXIMUM DRIVE…
Hearing this, the red bike themed Rider spun around, W landing on Accel's back wheel that then propelled him high into the air where he performed a back flip before launching himself towards the restrained Dopant.
W roared before he aimed both of his feet at the Liar Dopant as his body split down the middle and separated.
"JOKER EXTREME!" W cried out, the left and right both halves of his body splitting off from one another and launched themselves at the Liar Dopant, the two Jeanne's shoving their captive forward and the both haves collided with him, sending him hurtling off of the roof and a large explosion ringing out as he plummeted towards the ground.
Moments later the Liar Memory hit the concrete, shattering upon impact.
Fate/Stay Night x Kamen Rider Build
Fate/Best Match
Chapter 1: Sins of Another World
"Ten years have passed since the Pandora Box was discovered on Mars and caused the infamous Skywall incident. Our city was divided into three districts known as Touto, Seito and Hokuto, resulting in utter chaos."
Sakura shivered as she followed behind Shirou as he led her towards the shed that was connected to the estate, whether it was due to the cold weather or because of the events that she'd found herself an unwitting participant of she wasn't exactly sure of.
She glanced over towards the other member of the party that was accompanying, Isurugi Misora, the short haired teen shooting her looks of disapproval, making it no secret that she didn't like Sakura being here.
Before she knew it the trio entered her Senpai's work shed, a space that she was more than familiar with given all the times she'd come out here to find sleeping after a long night of tinkering with various pieces. Still, she had to wonder what they were doing out here, Senpai had said that he'd introduce her to the one who supposedly had all the answers, someone named Kiryu Sento.
So why exactly were they headed out here?
No sooner had he entered the building Shirou headed straight towards the area beneath the stairs that led to the upper level and began moving junk out of the way to reveal a trapdoor that was located on the floor.
Sakura couldn't believe it. Never had she known that such a thing existed inside Senpai's work shed.
"So, Senpai," Sakura spoke up as she watched him work, as well as hoping to distract herself from the looks that Misora was giving her. "Erm, Kiryu Sento, what kind of person is he?"
"Depends on when you ask." Shirou replied as took hold of the brass ring and pulled the door open, revealing a staircase that led downwards.
"H…huh?" Sakura exclaimed, unsure of how to process the rust haired boy's words, "I…I'm not sure I understand."
"What he means is that Sento is prone to pretty drastic mood swings." Misora told her, from her tone it was pretty evident that she still wasn't happy about Sakura's presence. "Most of the time he's fine."
"And…and the other times?" Sakura inquired.
"He's a self absorbed, self aggrandizing, egotistical asshole." Shirou told her before he headed down the staircase, Misora following behind him leaving Sakura standing there watching them as they descended before following after them.
At the bottom of the stairs, to Sakura's surprise, she found herself in a fair sized room, several work tables set up around the area with various tools and odd looking items lying on them.
Above one of these tables, upon which sat a second Build Driver, were mostly empty shelves upon which several small bottles similar to the ones that she'd seen Shirou used earlier that evening.
On one of the tables located at the far end of the room was a table with a widescreen monitor.
"W…whoa…" The purple haired girl stammered, surprised at what she was seeing. Never would she ever have guessed that such a place existed beneath her Senpai's home.
All of a sudden the monitor suddenly flared into life and the image of someone wearing a hazmat suit and a gas mask appeared on it. Taking hold of the mask on their face the figure on the screen pulled up to reveal the face of a dark haired man with a bowl haircut.
While not one for being ill mannered, Sakura had to admit that this man looked incredibly dorky.
"Yo, Shirou, Misora." The man on screen greeted them. "It's been a while since I last saw the two of you."
"Good evening Sento-san." Shirou replied, Misora merely nodding her head. "Sorry about that, things have been busy lately."
"Ahhh, I get that. School was like that for me too." Sento said, just then he paused a moment as he noticed Sakura standing at Shirou's side. "Ohh, I see a new face. Hey Shirou, who's the new cute girl you've brought with you?"
A tinge of pink spread itself across Sakura's cheeks at the older man's comment.
"This is Matou Sakura, she's a friend of mine. I was walking her home earlier when we got jumped by a Smash." Shirou explained, "I know that I'm not supposed to become Cross-Z in front of anyone but given the circumstances I didn't have much of a choice."
"H…hello," Sakura said, bowing her head politely, "it's nice to meet you Kiriyu Sento-san."
"Well of course it is," Sento replied. "Your life was incomplete before this moment, when it was graced by the presence of Genius physicist Kiryu Sento. Also known as Kamen Rider Build, the brave hero that defeats his foes with the power of b̶u̶l̶l̶s̶h̶i̶t̶ science."
Sakura stared at the screen, a stunned look on her face, taken aback by what she'd just witnessed. Misora on the other hand just shook her head while Shirou rolling his eyes.
"See, self absorbed, self aggrandizing, egotistical asshole." Shirou muttered into the purple haired girl's ear, before reaching into his pocket and produced the Fullbottle he'd collected earlier, holding it up for Sento to see. "Got a new one for you."
"Ahh, from the looks of things you've recovered the Spike Fullbottle." Sento said, leaning closer to the camera as if to get a better look at the item that Shirou was holding. "Have Misora drop it off at the usual place, I'll inspect it later."
"Usual place?" Sakura asked, not knowing what they were talking about.
"She's talking about one of the spots we've got dotted about Totou where we can hand off Fullbottles for Sento to collect." Shirou informed her.
"No one knows where Sento is hiding, not even us." Misora added, "We figured it was for the best if the worst case were to occur and either myself or Shirou were compromised by the enemy, this way we can't blab about where he's hold up.
"I…I see,all of you have put a lot of thought into this." Sakura replied, still unsure of what to think of what was going on. "Anyway, I realize Senpai broke the rules for me, I promise that I won't tell anyone about what happened and about what's going on here."
"You better not." Misora replied darkly, fixing Sakura with a narrowed eyed glare.
"Hey, hey no need for that Misora," Sento told the short haired teenage girl. "Still, seeing you being all dramatic, it really takes me back."
Shifting awkwardly in her seat, Sakura did her best to keep her attention on Sento as to avoid eye contact with Misora.
"Umm, Sento-san, I'm still confused by a lot of what's going on, if you don't could someone explain things to me." She addressed the man on screen, "What are those monsters that have been lurking around town? Why is Senpai out there fighting them all by himself? What exactly are these Fullbottles and why is Senpai collecting them for you?"
"Heh, that Mrs. Matou is a long, long story." Sento told her, "And it all starts with this…"
Grabbing a hold of the camera, Sento moved it so it showed an off grey vaguely boxed shaped object sitting on a table. "I give to you what started it all…Pandora's Box."
"P…Pandora's Box?" Sakura exclaimed. "The same one from Greek Mythology?"
"That I do not know, they could be one and the same for all I know. What I do know is that this one was discovered by a group of astronauts while on an expedition to Mars roughly ten years ago."
"Mars?" Sakura said, sounding confused. "Forgive me, but I never heard about a manned expedition to another planet, if it had I'm pretty sure it would have been all over the news."
"Perhaps I should clarify. The reason that you've never heard of a manned expedition to Mars is because it never happened in this world." Sento sighed, "Rather it happened in the old world which existed before one's creation."
"Old world?" Sakura replied, unsure as to what Sento was referring to.
"I told you, it's a long story. Y'see on my world we came under attack by a being of immense power called Evolt, from what he told me his hobby was essentially traveling around space and destroying planets and Pandora's Box was his method of doing so. That was until he got to Mars and he had a run in with the Martian Queen, Vernage."
'V…Vernage…' Sakura thought to herself, absentmindedly playing with her golden bracelet. That name, something about it, seemed familiar to her, although she couldn't explain why.
"The Martian Queen managed to stop Evolt at the cost of her own life but sadly not before he transformed Mars into a desolate wasteland. Cut to millennia later a team of Astronauts set foot on the red planet and come across the ruins of their civilisation in which they discovered Pandora's Box. But, unbeknownst to everyone, Evolt had survived, transforming himself into a liquid like state and possessing one of the Astronauts. Under his direction he brought the box back to Earth where he then activated it, creating a massive structure that split Japan into three separate territories."
"Three territories…" Sakura exclaimed, her eyes suddenly widening. "You…you can't mean the Skywall do you?"
"Bingo. Activating the box created the Skywall, carving up the country, secreting the substance known as Nebular Gas from its surface." Sento replied. "In the years that followed an organisation called Faust came into existence, conducting various experiments using Nebular Gas. One such experiment was using it as a means of evolving humanity which in turn led to the creation of Smash."
"One of these scientists, Katsuragi Takumi, saw the potential of weaponizing Nebular Gas using it he created the Build Driver along with Fullbottles to be used in it along with drawing up blueprints for a supposedly more advanced version called the Sklash Driver. Using the tools that Katsuragi created, myself and several others, Banjou Ryuga, Sawatari Kazumi and Himerou Gentokou, became Kamen Riders. "
"At first Kazumi and Gentokou were originally our enemies, the authorities of our respective territories used us as tools of defence and invasion all the while being unaware that we were actually being manipulated by Evolt so he could use us to complete his own schemes. However eventually we learned the truth and, after some reconciliations, we banded together in effort to confront and defeat Evolt."
"The fight was tough, we threw everything we had at Evolt but no matter what we tried he always seemed to be too much for us, too strong and always a step ahead. That was until my late father concocted a plan to finally defeat Evolt, to merge my world with another one, using Evolt as a catalyst. Even then the battles were fierce, Evolt throwing everything he had at us, and not all of us made it to the end. Eventually I and Banjou were the only ones left, Banjou sacrificing himself to finally put an end to it all and allow for the creation of this new world."
Sento paused, the expression on his face becoming grim. "Unfortunately, something went wrong, Evolt, somehow he managed to survive and, from the looks of things, he's manipulating events so the history of my world repeat itself on this one." He continued, "Since arriving here Evolt has reestablished Faust and is creating new Smash."
"That…that's terrible." Sakura exclaimed, "Still, why do you need Senpai's help? You mentioned that you had allies on your old world, why didn't you get them to help you?"
"That's a good question. After learning that Evolt had survived and was on this world, my initial plan was to seek them out and in doing so I made a terrible discovery. Katsuragi Takumi. Banjou Ryuga. Isurugi Sōichi. Himerou Gentokou and Sawatari Kazumi, all of them are dead, each one killed under mysterious circumstances. Seems Evolt got to them first." Sento informed her. "With no one left to turn to, I needed to find someone who could use the Build Driver. Fortunately, Misora found Shirou here and brought him to meet with me and it turned out he happened to have a high enough Hazard Level for him to be compatible with the Build Driver."
"Hazard Level?" Sakura spoke up, "Sorry if I sound ignorant Sento-san but I don't know what that is."
"I wouldn't expect you to be. Basically, it's a term to describe a person's resistance to the negative effects of Nebula Gas. To use the Build Driver, you need a Hazard Level of at least 3, any lower you're unable to use it." The egotistical physicist explained, "Initially the plan was for Shirou here to become the new Build, but for whatever reason he was incompatible with the few FullBottles that I'd been able to recover. Actually it was Misora's idea that we use Cross-Z instead, I'll admit was hesitant to do so at first, it felt like I was betraying Banjou by having someone else become Cross-Z, but with given the lack of options I relented and we tried it and, low and behold, Shirou here was fully compatible with Cross-Z."
"Isurugi-san suggested it…" Sakura said, sounding surprised, she then turned to look at the short haired girl, "Uhm Isurugi-san, if you don't mind me asking, how do you fit into all of this?"
Misora sighed. "That's quite the story in of itself." She replied. "Back on the old world I had the ability to purify Nebular Gas, Faust somehow found out about it and straight up forced me to create Fullbottles for them. Seems that Evolt hadn't forgotten as he sent his goons after me to do the whole thing over again, but as it turns out I don't have that ability anymore. The only good thing, if you can call it that, to come from the whole ordeal was thanks to New Faust's experiments I was able to recover my memories of the old world."
"Fortunately I managed to make a break for it and in doing so I just so happened to run into Sento here, he'd learned of the bases location and was on his way to take it out. finding out that we both remembered what happened on the old world we agreed to work together again." She continued. "Things seemed to be working fine for a little while but I guess I got a little overconfident and got caught by Faust who sicked a bunch of Smash after me, that is when I met into Shirou who helped me evade them."
"You make it sound more dramatic than it actually was." Shirou said, shrugging his shoulders, "I saw someone that needed help and I stepped in, that's all there is to it."
Sakura couldn't help but chuckle a little at the rust haired boy's comment, the way that he so casually brushed off something like stepping in to help someone being chased by monsters as no big deal. Typical Senpai
"Anyway, after seeing how capable he was, I figured why not see if Shirou could use Sento's gear but, like he said, it didn't seem like it was gonna work at first, we tried all sorts of combinations but Shirou here just couldn't use them effectively." Misora said, bring the attention back on her, "It was only after we exhausted all the available options that I remembered also had all of Cross-Z's equipment and, given we didn't seem to have too many options available to us, I figured that we had nothing to lose letting him try it, gotta admit I didn't think it would work but low and behold turns out Shirou here was 100% compatible with the Dragon Fullbottle."
"I…I see, you've all been through so much already." "But there's still so much about what you're saying that I don't understand."
She then turned her attention towards the monitor. "Sento-san, you said that you've had dealing with this Faust group before, if so then why does Senpai have to go out and face fight these Smash by himself?" Sakura frowned, "If you can become one of these Kamen Rider's, then why aren't you out there helping?"
All of a sudden, the cocky look on Sento's face vanished and was replaced by a look of shame. "I…I can't, I understand what you're saying but I…I just can't." He replied solemnly.
"S…Sento-san…" Sakura stammered, taken aback by his sudden shift in mood.
"Back on my world I acted like the big hero, treating my allies like they were nothing more than my sidekicks, but I'm no hero. Truth is my actions caused just as many problems as Evolts did. This world was created simply as a means of defeating Evolt once and for all but I failed and as a result you all have to suffer the results of my failure." The dark haired scientist said, sounding downcast, "No, the hero of this world cannot be me. All I can do is to stay here, watching over Pandora's Box, to make sure that no one else can abuse its power, this is my penance for my arrogance and for not finishing off Evolt properly the first time."
Sento's piece said, an uneasy quiet fell over the group, Sakura mulling over his words while both Shirou and Misora sported a serious look on their faces.
"So there you have it Matou, you've heard our story and have been clued in as to what's going on here." Misora said, fixing Sakura with a stern look, cracking her knuckles in a threatening manner. "Now the question becomes what do you do now and are we gonna have to worry about you potentially squealing on us? Cos if you even think about it…well let's just say I can make things very unpleasant for you."
"I…I…" Sakura stammered, she couldn't help but recoil under the look that Misora was giving her, the dark haired girl's body all of a sudden seeming to radiate a demonic aura before Shirou suddenly stepped in front of her.
"You don't have to worry, Sakura won't tell anyone about us." Shirou said firmly, unphased by the look that Misora was giving before glancing back at the purple haired girl standing behind him. "Right, Sakura?"
"Not to doubt you Shirou, but Misora does raise a good point." Sento said offhandedly, "Ms. Matou, we were kind enough to include you on our operations here, so the question becomes what are you going to do now?"
Sakura didn't say anything right away, averting her gaze away from Shirou and turned it towards the floor. What should she do?
She realised that Senpai had taken a pretty big risk in bringing her here as well as entrusting her with the information that had he'd been keeping secret all this time.
Her Senpai was going out and fighting monsters every night, protecting the people of this city from the horrors that lurked in the shadows. And he was doing this pretty much all alone.
She had to do something, after all he'd done so much for her, taken her into his home and taught her so much. She may not be strong enough to help him fight nor was she exactly good when it came to science but she could ease his burden, even if it was just by a little, then…
"I…I want to help." She said, trying her best to sound determined, "I'm…I'm not sure how I can be useful, I'm not all that strong and I'm not exactly good at science or anything, but if I can be of any help to all of you then I'll do so to the best of my abilities."
Fate/Stay Night x Kamen Rider Geats
Fate/Dual On
Chapter?: Encounter III: Victory Conditions
"This game – The Winner in the end is me…"
Sakura could feel her insides churn as she walked the halls of the Desire Grand Prix HQ, the sound of both the footsteps of herself as well as Rider's who was following after her echoing off the walls as their destination, the door that led to the training room, came into view.
Seeing it, Sakura could feel the sense of dread inside of her churn even harder than before, every instinct that she had was screaming at her to turn tail and get as far away from this place as possible.
No, no she couldn't run away, not now. Regardless of what she was about to endure, if she had any hope of achieving her wish, she needed to do this.
Taking a moment, Sakura looked over towards her Servant, the silent and stoic form of Rider standing there behind her. The lavender haired woman gave no response, not even the slightest twitching of her muscles, however the metal bond Sakura could tell Rider did not approve of this course of action.
But still, Sakura was her Master, as such she was honor bound to comply with whatever order and decision that she saw fit. knowing that she had little say in the matter,
Taking a deep breath Sakura pushed back on her fears and doubts, reaching out to turn the doors handle and pushed it open before stepping inside, finding themselves in a sizable space, in the center of which stood Tohsaka Rin, the ebony haired teen had her back turned towards the doorway.
Meanwhile, off to one side was her Servant Archer, the tanned skinned man leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, side eyeing Sakura and Rider as they entered the room.
"So, you actually decided to go through with this," Rin said, turning around to face the younger teen, a strict expression in her face, "For a moment there I was beginning to think you'd try and back out."
"I'm…I'm here aren't I." Sakura replied, her voice shaking slightly despite her best efforts to sound confident.
"Are you sure about this Sakura?" Rin asked, her expression softening slightly, "If you have any thoughts about backing out, this is your last chance."
Sakura shook her head. "No, I'm sure." She insisted, "I need to do this."
Rin let out a sigh before quickly regaining her composure. "Ok then, just so we're clear you asked me to do this…" The ebony haired teen said is a teacher like fashion, clenching her fist as she did so, and punched the younger girl square in the gut, Sakura's eyes widening as the force of Rin's punch sent her sprawling to the ground.
"Tsk, pathetic. Do you even have a sense of self preservation?" Rin snorted as she glared at Sakura, the purple haired teen coughing as she shakily pushed herself up off of the floor. "Come on, quit wasting my time and get up."
Gritting her teeth and her eyes watering, Sakura managed to get back up, her legs shaking beneath her as she fixed her gaze upon Rin, doing her best to return to normal breathing.
"What, you just gonna stand there, a fight not a fight if only one person is doing all the work." Rin said strictly, "Come on, hit me."
"H…hit…you…" Sakura muttered, her eyes widening slightly as if surprised by the older teens' demands.
"You want to fight don't you, that means being able to throw a punch at the other guy." Rin retorted, "Now come on, punch me, put everything you've got into it."
Sakura stared at Rin, breathing heavily as she did. She…she had to do this. Curling her fingers into a fist, Sakura took a swing at Rin who simply stood there with a stern look on her face, putting everything she had behind it.
Moments later the sound of flesh striking flesh was heard, Rin's outstretched hand clutched around fist, the dark haired teen looking back at the younger, seemingly unphased by Sakura's attempt to strike her.
"Tsk, don't tell me that's really the best you can do?" Rin said, her tone a mixture of both sternness as well as a touch of disappointment.
Tightening her grip on the purple haired girl's hand, Rin pulled Sakura closer towards, before delivering a punch that struck her across her cheek, the force of the blow causing Sakura to stumble backwards before she was able to catch herself.
Letting out a low sounding sigh, Rin pulled out her Desire Driver, placing the device to her waist, its strap appearing and securing itself to her.
"Henshin…" She announced, moments later her body was clad in the all black under armor of her Rider form, the old splash of colour being the green and silver tanuki half mask attached to the top of her helmet.
Seeing this, Sakura produced her own Desire Driver, like Rin she attached it to herself before announcing, "Hen…Henshin…"
The sound of multiple things clattering across the floor was heard, glancing downwards Na-Go saw multiple items, all of them consisting of different shapes along with being brightly coloured. "R…Rise Buckles…?"
"I convinced Tsurumi to lend me some for this little session." Tycoon said as she scooped one of the buckles off of the ground, "And don't go thinking about keeping them, I have to give them back once we're done."
As she said this, the tanuki Rider attached it to the right side of her Desire Driver.
SET!
The bright pink trinket now in place, Tycoon pressed down on the hammer like switch to activate it.
ARMED HAMMER!
Beside her in bold pink letters appeared before suddenly dissolving into particles that wrapped themselves around the tanuki Rider's right arm which took the form of a bright pink hammer along with a piece of chest armor attached with pink straps and a single shoulder pad.
READY, FIGHT!
Glancing at the array of buckles spread out beneath her, Na-Go quickly selected a dark blue buckle from amongst the pile and attached it to her Driver.
SET!
She pressed on the shield shaped button on the front, activating it.
ARMED SHIELD!
Like Tycoon beforehand, blind blue letters spelling out SHIELD appeared in the air next to her, dissolving and forming a vaguely diamond blue shield on her right arm along with the same chest piece and shoulder pad.
READY, FIGHT!
"Really, that's what you picked." Tycoon scoffed, "Alright then, let's see how you handle this…"
Tycoon swung her weapon at Na-Go who quickly raised her shield to block it, the force of the blow forcing the cat themed Rider back a few steps.
Barely giving the cat Rider a chance to recover was quickly on the offensive again, aiming her hammer at Na-Go who again managed to raise her shield to block, both armed weapons colliding with one another again.
As their respective weapons collided, Tycoon glared at Na-Go who stood across from her, her eyes narrowing into and her face twisted into a cold look beneath her helmet.
The tanuki Rider aimed her foot at her opponents leg, striking her in the shin, the suddenness of it catching Na-Go by surprise, momentarily losing on the teenage girl across from her. Seizing her chance, Tycoon swung her hammer again, striking Na-Go in the chest and knocking her to the ground.
"T…Tohsaka-senpai," Na-Go gasped as she gazed up at the tanuki Rider, "That…that was…"
"...a low blow. Regardless of how the Desire Grand Prix presents itself, this is war Sakura and the only rule in war is to win by whatever means necessary." Tycoon retorted, "You really think that your opponent won't hesitate to try something similar if they can get away with it."
Na-Go said nothing, turning her gaze towards the floor. As much as she didn't want to admit it, Tohsaka-senpai was right.
The Holy Grail War, the Desire Grand Prix, regardless of what you called it, this was a competition where people were competing to have their wishes granted, it only made sense that they would fight tooth and nail to achieve them,
Not only that, it only made sense that there would be those who would go to any length necessary to get what they wanted, the last round had pretty much proved as much.
"Now come on, pick another buckle and get back on your feet." Tycoon continued, sounding impatient, "We're nowhere close to done."
Gingerly, Na-Go picked herself up off of the ground, grabbing a new Armed Buckle as she did so, detaching the Shield Buckle from her Driver and attaching the new one in its place.
SET!
Taking a deep breath, the Cat Rider pulled on the spiked ball attachment, sliding it forward and activated her new attachment.
ARMED CHAIN ARRAY!
Again, the weapons logo appeared in the air before dissolving before transforming into Na-Go's chosen armament.
READY, FIGHT!
"Heh, at least you picked an actual weapon this time." Tycoon scoffed, resting her hammer against the shoulder as she readied herself, "Come on, let's see if you can do better this time…"
The second she finished saying this, Tycoon lunged towards Na-Go who gasped in response before swinging her spiked at her incoming opponent, only for Tycoon top smack it out of the way with her hammer before aiming it at Na-Go who barely managed to dodge out of the way.
As the two Rider's engaged each other, their Servants stood off to one side in silence, a stoic look on Archer's face as he leaned against the wall, despite his efforts to come off as unphased by what was going on he couldn't help but wince slightly each time Sakura gasped in pain each time she was hit.
Meanwhile Rider stood there, unmoving as if she were a statue, her face unreadable as she watched on despite the blindfold covering her eyes.
Meanwhile, outside Shirou was passing by the training room on his way to meet up with Saber when noise from inside caught his attention. At first he paid it no mind, clearly one or more DGP participants were inside in preparation for the next round, that was until a familiar sounding voice was heard from within crying out in pain.
"H…huh…" Shirou exclaimed, the noise stopping him in his tracks and his head snapping in the door's direction. "Sakura…?"
Immediately the rust haired teen turned on his heel, moving toward the training room, wrenching the door open where he was met by the sight of Tycoon standing tall above Na-Go who was sprawled out across the floor, the pink hammer clutched tightly in her grip, everyone gathered inside turning to look in his direction.
"S…Senpai!" Na-Go gasped at seeing Shirou standing there in the doorway.
"Emiya," Tycoon muttered, just as surprised to see him as Na-Go was, "What's he doing here?"
"What the hell is going on in here?" Shirou cried out, immediately running over to Na-Go's side, a concerned look on his face as he dropped down onto one knee. "Sakura, are you alright?"
"I…I…" Na-Go replied, turning her head away as if not to meet his gaze.
"Sakura…" Shirou muttered, a frown spreading across his face before he turned his attention towards Tycoon.
"Tohsaka, why did you attack Sakura?" He demanded as he got to his feet, "You know damn well It's against the rules for DesaGran competitors to attack each other, that goes for between rounds too."
"For your information Emiya, I didn't attack anyone." Tycoon snapped in retort. "Fact of the matter is Sakura here asked me to do it."
"What!" Shirou exclaimed, shocked at what he was hearing.
"It…it's true Senpai, I asked Tohsaka-Senpai to do it." Na-Go spoke up. "I asked her to show me how to fight."
Shirou felt his head spin as he absorbed this information stared, trying to comprehend what was going on, having walked in on Tohsaka beating Sakura and Sakura apparently having asked to do it.
"You…you want to learn to fight?" He said, sounding slightly dazed, Na-Go nodding her head in response.
"Why, why didn't you come to me, you could have easily asked me for help," He asked her, a note of hurt in his voice, "If you wanted someone to train with that badly I'd gladly have helped you."
"Because…because you'd go easy on me." Na-Go half yelled, her tone catching Shirou by surprise. "You've seen the rankings, I'm at the bottom, the only reason I've lasted this long is because you and Rider cover for me. If things stay the way they are I'll be eliminated and I'll never get my wish. My wish, I want it so bad, I want to grasp it with me own two hands and to do that I need to become strong enough to do it."
Breathing heavily as he tried to figure out what to say next, Shirou he turned his head in Rider's direction, hoping to that she'd help him make Sakura see sense, the long haired Servant staring back at him with her usual unreadable expression on her face.
"And you're alright with this?" He demanded, "You'll just stand back and watch as your Master is beaten to a bloody pulp?"
"Sakura is my Master, this is what she has decided upon." Rider replied, her bland sounding tone "As per the contract between us I will comply with her wishes."
Seeing that he'd get no help from Rider, Shirou turned his attention back towards Na-Go. "Sakura, you don't need to do this." He told her, hoping to make her see sense. "Going about it this way won't help."
"Yes, yes I do." Na-Go retorted forcefully. "I need to get strong; I need to be able to fight my own battles and this…this the only way I can get strong in a short amount of time." As she grabbed a yellow Armed Buckle from off of the ground and attaching it to her Driver before activating it.
SET! ARMED CLAW!
Like before the Armed Buckles logo appeared in the air besides Na-Go before taking the form of a pair of long dual blades attached to a yellow handle mounted to each of her hands.
READY, FIGHT!
Seeing this Shirou's frown deepened, knowing that there was nothing he could do to talk Sakura out of this. Sakura wanting to fight, honestly such an idea was completely alien to him. Sakura…Sakura didn't fight, she was too kind and passive for such things.
And yet, Sakura wanted to improve herself, he didn't have a problem with that in fact he was happy that she'd come to this decision for herself, and apparently she though this way was the best way to go about. Getting Tohsaka to viciously beat the crap out of her, that just didn't sit right with him.
But, it seemed that she'd made up her mind on this and wasn't budging, if this is what Sakura really wanted…
"Alright, if this is really what you want, I trust you. Just promise me that this doesn't get out of hand." He told her warmly before shooting Tycoon a stern glare, "If I find out that you did Tohsaka, I'll personally kick you out of the DesaGran myself."
AN And with that another is fini and we've got another compilation chapter, the first one seemed to go over pretty well so I figured why not put out another, this one we've got segments featuring W, Build and Geats.
Yeah, I get that W's portion is the trap set up to catch the Liar Dopant from W episode 24, I hope you all got a good laugh out of it, while Build's segment is is largely an info dump/heavily abridged if somewhat inaccurate retelling of Build's story, almost intentionally so . As for the Geats part, yeah its mostly Sakura getting the shit beat out of her, still I hope it tides everyone until the next proper Geats chapter.
Since the last update the first 2 episodes of Gavv have aired. I gotta say Gavv's first episode was actually pretty good, certainly better than Gotchard's first episode, might be just me but I was kinda reminded of Zero-One's first episode while watching it. Obviously its still early days, and the show's still that toy commercial phase that pretty much dominates toku shows first quarter, but I've enjoyed the show thus far and hope that it can keep it up.
Also the armored parts of Gavv's suit is made from candy. Now I can't shake the image of Saber chasing Shouma around because she wants to eat his armor. "Come back candy man, come back so I can eat you.". Plus the theme song, Got Boost, is pretty catchy.
I'm sure there's more I could talk about but its late here and I got work in the morning so I need to sign off. As always feel free to drop a review and let me know what you all though of this chapter and I'll catch you all next time for whatever I post next.
So until nest time, peace out y'all.