This was the worst day of Tohsaka Rin's life.

No, wait. Scratch that, this was the second worst. The first was when she encountered that Finnish bitch on campus after being given the opportunity of uncountable lifetimes with an apprenticeship under the Wizard Marshall, only to end up in a fight worth a ridiculous amount of collateral damage, with the punishment being forced to work with that fucking Edelfelt (any satisfaction she'd have on the rich bitch having to pay for the damages would be unfortunately null given that insufferable ojou's pockets may as well be close to infinite for all that she cared to know), as well as using those even dumber (and perverted) Kaleidosticks, in order to recover those anomalous Class Cards back to the Clock Tower.

The irony of the Cards being located at her native city, of which she was the Second Owner, wasn't lost on her. In fact, it made things much easier and bearable for her (aside from how the hell did they end up there, that was still under investigation). Another bonus being that fake priest being relocated to somewhere else, last she remembered. She didn't care to know his legal guardian's status as long as he was far, far away from her.

Having two pains in the ass was enough, thank you very much. No need for a third one, which would probably end up feeding her with more mapo tofu and her house being sold because of an administrative accident.

Fuck Kotomine.

Who knows. Maybe the Church sent him on an impossible mission and he died. She wished!

Fortunate lack of sadistic priest aside; the plan was easy enough: enter the city; pass undercover as students in her old school; recover the Cards; prove her superiority against Edelfelt and PROFIT!

But noooooo, Edelfelt had the gall to initiate an over the top duel at the night of arrival, in the middle of the city's airspace, which ended up with Ruby abandoning her (well, Saphire did the same to Edelfelt, not that it was too much of a compensation) and leaving her to die from high altitude crash over the Mion river. No matter how much anyone would watch TV or movies, she would not have survived if she didn't apply both Reinforcement and Anti-gravity magecraft on herself on time! And waste a couple expensive gems for that feat alone!

And here she was, jet lag-tired, wet and stressed as all Hell, following that infernal stick. Not only was it an incredibly powerful artifact loaned by Zelretch himself, but it also came equipped with an annoyingly perverted personality obsessed with Magical Girls and mocking her!

Did she do something in a past life to deserve all this suffering and humiliation or what?!

And if that wasn't enough, with their contract broken, there's no way to know what would happen if Ruby were to find a victim, especially a civilian, to scam and torture for her sick entertainment!

So busy was she running to avert the most embarrassing apocalypse possible that she didn't take notice about where her feet were going. And ended up kicking a metallic item that made her trip and crash head first onto a wall.

CRACK!

The experience wasn't pleasant. At all.

"Who the Hell leaves their trash in the middle of the streets?! Anyone could get hurt!"

"And who the Hell kicks people when they're asleep?! It hurts, dammit!"

"Of course it frickin' hurts! Seriously, some people need to be more considera…ti…on"

Rin's anger and words dissipated in an instant when she turned towards her impromptu conversation partner. Instead of a man, some orange metallic cubic item resembling a face (including a red crystal of some kind on its "forehead") was floating there like it was nothing.

"What?" The floating artifact asked with some irritation. "Do I have something on the face? Woah!" The sapient artifact dodged the Gandr shot at it. "The Hell?! Don't open fire at anyone unless they've proven to be hostile!"

"Like I have a guarantee you're not." Seriously retorted Rin, fingers pointed at it, ready to shoot more curses. "Who or what are you? And why are you here in the open in my territory?"

"Kid, I have no idea what the fuck I am doing here. One moment I was caught in an explosion, the other, I awoke with not only my mind inside something that my systems call Biometal Model F, with some sort of M.E.G.A./R.O.C.K System or whatever installed, with a weird feeling like I was dreaming that I got my body and soul placed in two different places, only to end up being kicked with a trigger happy woman in the middle of-" The now known Biometal Model F began his/its rant until a glance to his surroundings made him suddenly shut up.

"… Just a dumb question, but what year is it?" The floating piece of metal asked in a confused tone.

Rin continued pointing her arm, though she tentatively answered the question. "2007. And in case you're going to ask the cliched where, this is Fuyuki City, Ōita Prefecture in Japan."

"2007? Japan?" Model F parroted. "It can't be… No, the data structure of these networks is too primitive, which fucking corroborates it." He tsked in frustration. "How the Hell did I end up from Neo Arcadia in 23XX to the goddamn past?"

"Hold on, you're telling me you're from the future?" Rin asked in disbelief, inadvertently lowering her magically prepped arm from the disbelief.

"Don't ask me. I'm a soldier, not a quantum physicist!"

Now that she thought about it, she didn't feel any kind of magical presence in the obviously sapient, flying metallic effigy, just a vague feeling of age (as well as some other strange feeling, she was not sure what was it), which meant that it was quite old, despite whatever sci-fi nonsense it was running on not existing a couple centuries ago, and have yet to be realized, until the 24th century, apparently.

The only way for this oxymoron to exist is if it were from like, the future, like it claims to be and the only ways to interfere with space and time to the point of time travel would be through the True Magics of either the Blue or the Kaleidoscope.

Kaleidoscope…

Kaleido… stick.

"OH CRAP, I FORGOT ABOUT RUBY!" The young magus remembered in pure panic. She was so distracted by this 'Biometal' that she forgot about the perverted gremlin stick!

"Hell you're talking about?" Model F asked before being yanked by Rin. "Hey!"

"No time for questions! I've gotta find that pink menace before she ruins a person's life, makes the whole city fall into chaos and totally annihilates my whole magus career and that of my descendaaaaaants!" She shouted while running fast enough to leave a dust trail, with Model F cursing to Heaven and Hell from being manhandled by a crazy woman.

Things cannot get worse for both of them, right?

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In a certain normal family household, a 10-year old albino-looking girl sighed during her bath, still feeling downcast due to very recent events.

"I hope Onii-chan is okay." Illyasviel von Einzbern, or just Illya for short, mused in worry.

To clarify her depression, let's just turn one hour back on time.

'Round half an hour back

"This is your end, Bushido Musashi!" Ronin Kojiro, Bushido Musashi's rival proclaimed. "The Darkness of Despair will remain eternal with my Tsubame Gaeshi."

"Ronin Sakaki… You're wrong, the Light of Hope will always prevail!" An injured Bushido Musashi answered in defiance. "Goddess Kurikara, lend me your power!".

An apparition of the four-armed warrior goddess appeared behind the Magical girl, showing a golden sword handle floating in the space between her hands.

"Tsk! That Light, don't tell me-!" Ronin Kojiro had to cover his eyes from the blinding divine glow.

"For everything good in this world." Bushido Musashi grabbed the handle, ready to unsheathe the literal power of Love and Piece at a moment's notice "Come hither, my roaring sword, Ishana, Daiten-"

*CRASH!*

"Gah!" Illya jumped in surprise at the sudden noise, Liz pausing the current episode of the Magical Girl show they were marathoning. "What was that?! Did something break or something?!"

"I think it came from upstairs." Sella, the ever dutiful maid, was already going through the stairs. "Shirou! Did you hear that? It sounded like broken glasses. Why are you not saying anything, you- AAAHHHH!"

"Sella?! What happened?! Did something happen with Onii-chan?!" Illya and Liz ran up the stairs towards Shirou's room, only to see her staring in terror at the redhead teenager's fallen form, blood surging from his forehead. The broken window and the red metallic trinket resting on the ground at the side of his head clearly telling what happened.

The poor child screamed.

At that moment, Liz ushered Illya out of the room and consoled her while Sella applied first aid to the older adoptive brother. Fortunately, Sella was able to stabilize him, and they put his bandaged form in Illya's bed while they cleaned up Shirou's room.

Sella and Liz advised Illya to take the bath in order to calm down, and while it did its job well enough, the hot water tub wasn't enough to erase all of her worries.

"Maybe if I had magic like a Magical Girl, I could have helped him." Illya said, the only thing she was able to do at that moment was to cry uncontrollably, which while understandable, didn't do wonders to her self-esteem.

"Silly me, magic doesn't exist." She squeezed the lion bath toy, letting out a squeak. "Though it would be cool if it did… Huh?" She looked towards the window: there were… stars moving in the sky? "Fireworks?"

To better see the night sky outside the window, she switched off the lights. "Huh? They're not there anymore… Wait."

She focused her eyes on a shooting star… which was suspiciously getting bigger and bigger.

As if it was coming close-

CRACK!

If this were a video, there would a slow-mo of a rather obnoxious red and pink winged wand flying at near-subsonic ammo bullet speeds (which are still goddamn fast), making contact with a ten-year old's forehead, provoking not only the rather typical sound a human cranium would have when hit with enough force with a blunt object, but also dramatically provoke the rather violent fall backwards of a kid in a bathroom (plus some pretty funny faces through the slow-motion), recreating one of the most tragic and stupid causes of hospital-inducing grave injuries and outright deaths in all of humankind's history.

Thankfully, cosmic playth- I mean, anime protagonists and gag characters are immune to that kind of trivial things. To an extent.

Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, though.

"WOOHOO!" Psycopathy in stick form proclaimed triumphantly,. "Free from that twintailed hag! Time to search for some suc- I mean, a new Magical Girl!"

A certain 10000+ years-old space witch would be proud… or just pissed off at yet another inexplicable headache.

"Now, where was she? I thought there was a candidate near…by." The Terror of The Stick looked downwards, only to see a [CENSORED] girl covered in darkness (blame Hiroyama and the animators, not us SFW fanfic writers!), with eyes making swirls and with the ground beneath her head suspiciously cracked and with a tiny pool of blood forming.

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"GAAAH! SHOUJO GA SHINDA!" You Bastard! "Don't worry! I am equipped with First Aid Code Casts for this kind of emergencies… But hey, on the bright side, I've got free blood for the contract~" The shameless stick-devil collected a bit of blood on one of her wings before casting her healing spell towards the (not) dying girl, undoing multiple external and internal hemorrhages, cranial fractures and any kind of brain damage that idiotic stunt unnecessary provoked, as expected of a creation of the Wizard Marshall himself!

We still have no idea why he created those sticks and/or never bothered to change their personalities or destroy them and we will never know. But we need a Mahou Shoujo story and those are the closest thing in hand, so we're stuck with those.

By the time this completely meta rant was over, the pink annoyance continued Part 2 of her Master Plan.

Slap her future charge (victim) in the face with her wings until she wakes up.

"Wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup-Gah!"

"I'm up! I'm up!" The albino woke up, accidentally manhandling the Mahou Cancer Stick as if one would an alarm clock. "... Wait, why am I on the bathroom's floor? And why do my cheeks hurt?"

"Direct contact… check." She heard a voice nearby. "I'm here, being crushed by your hand!" Indeed, there was something squirming on her hand.She slowly brought her hand to her face and… "Hiii~" "Bwah!" CLANK! "Ow!"

"Hey! What's the big idea?! You can't just throw away someone who just saved your life you know!"

"Sorry…" Illya winced in reflex. "Wait a minute, who, or what, are you? And most importantly, why am I on the floor?

"Ohoho~ Interested, I see~" The damnable stick made a fake cough, continued by the most fake cheery voice ever. "I am the magical Kaleidostick of Love and Justice, Magical Ruby-chan~! I am in search of a new Magical Girl in order to fight for Love, Peace and whatever else that I deem eeevil!"

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"Suspicious…" Thankfully, children these days are getting surprisingly well educated in not accepting obvious scams from obviously suspicious individuals! Hooray for humanity!

"I bet you're thinking this is way too fishy." "Of course it is…" "As for your other question… well, I just found you there, somehow bleeding there as the cause of a heavy hit on the head, no idea whatsoever of what caused it, no flying sticks involved, nope, nu-uh, that I guarantee!" Ruby turned while whistling innocently, increasing her suspicious aura.

"Wait a minute…" Illya racked her brain, remembering the shooting star from earlier… and what happened to her brother before that.

"YOU TRIED TO KILL ME!" "I wasn't trying to kill you~ Just wanted to catch you unaware in order to sca- I mean, surprise you to sign a completely innocent and trustful contract~."

"That's even worse in other ways!" Illya caught Ruby's handle while getting up. "I'm sorry, but I just had a really stressful day, so get. Out!" She was about to throw the Stick of Scamming… only to be unable to move. "Huh?"

"Fufufufu~." The stick-demon let out an evil laugh. "Master certification by blood. Contract activation through physical contact. All checked out! It would've been okay to have a pure maiden's love, too, but hey, beggars can't be choosers and there's probably a certain red she-demon searching for moi, so, time to skedaddle~!"

"Wha- NO!"

"Wow, yes! Now, would you kindly tell me your name? That's like, the final step in these kinda things, y'know."

"Il…" Her mouth was moving on her own. Illya's body was but a mere puppet for this pink sociopath. There was no way to resist the ensuing humiliation that would change her Fate forever. "Illya… ILLYASVIEL VON EINZBERN!"

[Raising Heart, Set Up! - Nanoha's Theme]

"Finally! Master registered! Magical Ruby-chan, at your service!" "NO!" "Compact full open! Maximizing Mirror World connections!

In a flash of light and kaleidoscopical True Magic, Illya's body was infused with (PINK~!) energy. Near unlimited miraculous power from across multiple realities converging on her very being to transform her into her perfect, ideal magical self. That same light on her body transformed into pink and frilly holy garments, worthy of a Magical Girl of Love and Justice like her.

She has become Kaleid Liner Ruby: Prisma Illya.

"W-WHAT THE HECK IS THIIIIIIIIIIS!" … Not that she appreciates it, going by her atomic-level blush. "This is so embarrassing! And did it really happen in real-time?!"

"Correctamundo, my dear Illya~!" Ruby swooned. "You're PERFECT! A Magical Girl among Magical Girls, never thought I'd find such a rare talent in this city. Truly, cute little girls make such good candidates~ Not unlike that old hag."

"I don't want this… I want to go back to normal…" Illya was on the verge of tears. Poor girl, she deserves a head pat… and psychiatric help.

"And who the hell are you calling a hag?!" A familiar (for Ruby) pissed off voice came from outside, followed by a hand furiously grabbing a surprised Ruby, bringing her, as well as Illya, due to Ruby's powerful superglue-like attachment to the former's hand.

That diabolical hand dropped Illya to the ground outside like a sack of potatoes, while Ruby reacted in (fake) surprise. "Oh my~ You survived, Rin!"

"No fucking thanks to you, damned stick of Hell." It didn't take Illya to be a genius, to see the aura (and veins) of sheer raw anger showing in the teenaged black haired girl that Ruby apparently knew.

… Wait, was she scammed, too?

"Wait a goddamn minute." A small orange metal head(?) floated by Rin's side. "Is this what got you so riled up? A costumed kid and her talking wand? Seriously?"

"Like your case is any better!" Rin snapped back. "You have no idea what that stick can potentially do to anyone unprepared for her perversions." She looked back to Illya, now with a face of pity. "And we were too late to prevent a victim…"

"Why do I feel like I'm being set up as a soon-to-be traumatized sexual harassment victim!?" Illya exploded in sheer disbelief. "And why are there more like you, Ruby!?"

"Beats me." Ruby shrugged. "There are only two of us Kaleidosticks in this World. And this metalhead here isn't one of us. Not to tell that he reeks of masculinity and rust…"

"Well, screw you too." Somehow, Illya imagined the orange head doing a very rude gesture with his hand, even though he didn't have hands. "At least I am not a perverted degenerate obsessed with little girls and all things pink."

Ruby gasped, offended. "How dare you! I am not some run of the mill pervert, I am a perverted woman of culture, you brute!"

"This "brute" has a name, and it's Fighting Fefnir!" Fefnir scoffed. "And the only culture a man or woman of worth should aspire to is of the steel-barreled explosive kind!" If he were American, that country would have launched a party (and a meme!) on his honor.

"Enough!" Rin grabbed both Biometal and Kaleidostick with such strength, both felt like being choked to death despite being near-virtually unbreakable to literal human hands. "I've yet to know what to do with you, F. And you, Ruby, return back to your legitimate Master, right now."

"You, my Master?" Ruby laughed mockingly. "And why should I go back with a hag, when my Master is right he-" "I'll give her back." "No hesitation at all?!"

"She knocked me out." Illya calmly explained. "And tricked me so I'd fall into her scam without my consent, forgive me if I caused you any problems." She bowed and presented Ruby to Rin like if she were a Japanese salarywoman presenting her resignation letter.

Rin sighed. "No, if there's someone who should be sorry, it's me. I should have been more responsible with her. Now, Ruby be a good stick and come back- huh?" Rin was unable to rip the stick out of Illya's hands.

"What the?! I can't open up my hands!" Illya shouted incredulously.

"Fufufu~" Ruby laughed in an arrogant manner. "Fortunately (for me), I have a no refunds policy! Only I can change Masters at will! No one else ca- Gyak!"

In a sheer display of gorilla fury, Rin stamped the feathered star demon's head(?) to a wall, making even a small crater on it.

Fefnir whistled, impressed.

"That's it?" The Red Devil laughed evilly. "Then I'll just have to convince you to change Masters or make you into kaleidoscopic pulp."

"Scary." Illya gulped in reasonable fear. You don't mess with Tohsaka Rin without suffering violent and/or painful consequences, after all.

"Tsk. As violent and headstrong as always Rin. Do you miss being a Magical Girl so much?"

"As if!" Rin retorted. "Aside from preventing a catastrophe of your own making, I need you and your stupid costume in order to collect the Cards and humiliate Edelfelt!"

"Of course it's about your beef with Luvia." Ruby sighed. "Illya-chan, please, do me a favour and wave me in front of Rin."

"Huh, like this?" Illya half-heartedly followed Ruby's seemingly innocuous request. Only for Ruby ending up shooting an electrical discharge towards Rin!

"Something came out?!" Illya shouted in response to being unwittingly complicit with attempted electrocution.

"This is Illya's answer: "I'm not giving this stick to anybody. Go back to where you came from, you ugly, unfashionable, twintailed hag!"."

"I never said anything like this!"

Unfortunately for Illya, Rin was not in the mood for more negotiations, answering with a barrage of Gandr shots towards the panicking Magical Girl.

CLANK!

Only to be interrupted by the orange Biometal clanking her in the head.

"What's the big idea, you numbskull?!"

"I should've said that, you trigger-happy idiot! You shot at a kid!"

"Oh please, she has Ruby. Nothing would have happened to her anyway. Look." Rin pointed towards the momentary smokescreen provoked by her Gandr while nursing her head.

And lo and behold, an astonished Illya was without a scratch, having being protected by a shimmering magical barrier surrounding her body.

"A force field?" Fefnir said in surprise.

"Did you forget already, Rin?" Ruby smugly taunted. "Kaleido Ruby comes with a powerful A-Rank magical barrier, physical protection, increased regeneration, enhanced reflexes and strength and more~! Illya is now on the level of a Heroic Spirit, so a twintailed hag cannot do anything to me!"

"Stop making her angry, please!"

"She cannot do anything, you say?" Fefnir said out of the blue, making everyone look at him with questioning looks.

"Of course I said that! Normal humans are completely powerless against Heroic Spirits and those in their league, even a weak one could completely break a genius first class magus or even an Executor in half with their bare hands as if they were Kit Kats!"

"Could you stop saying scary things, Ruby?" Illya shuddered. "Now I am more worried about killing someone by accident than my embarrassing costume…"

"I'd like to see you break this one then!" Fefnir challenged in a boisterous and eager tone, as if anticipating a fight… and wanting in.

"F, what are you planning?" Rin asked cautiously towards the battle-thirsty Biometal.

"Juuust a little something I found in my data that will make that stick eat her own words, beside, will you just continue letting her mock you down for eternity, hag?"

An angry mark reappeared on Rin's head "Suddenly, I feel very interested in what you're proposing. Do tell."

"You only need to shout "Megamerge!" and I'll start half of the work."

"W-wait a minute, Rin!" Ruby shouted out to her former Master, anticipating something bad (for her) was about to come. "You shouldn't listen to that brute! What if it's a scam!"

"Unfortunately, due to the actions of someone I am about to murder to Hell and back, I feel more inclined to listen to a crass metalheaded brute than a perverted, cheating, mad stick." Rin answered with an eerily calm tone and smile. "So yeah, I'm doing it." She took a deep breath.

"MEGAMERGE!"

[Symphogear - Makyuu Ichaival - Yukine Chris]

Biolink Established.

M.E.G.A. System Online.

"Ow, yeah baby!" Model F laughed before bursting into an intense light that engulfed Rin while blinding both Illya and Ruby.

Fefnir's own DNA Soul flowed into her body, electromagnetic data particles fusing into her own molecular structure, changing into a state between matter and information.

Nanomachines, made from the fallen Guardian's body, entered the half-digitized body, using its host's temporary 'programmable matter' to flawlessly and painlessly convert the organic cells into a biomechanical miracle at genetic level. Blueprints left in the DNA Data giving the instructions to further reconfigure Rin's body into one much closer to Fighting Fefnir's prime.

A black bodysuit materialized in place of Rin's clothes, followed by orange and white pieces of armor, culminating in a horned red-jeweled helmet that reminded someone of a fiery oni.

And to finish, two enormous orange cannon/knuckle hybrids: the Knuckle Busters Sodom and Gomorrah, magnetically coupled together on the orange armored vests back.

The Fire Megaman: Model F, was ready to explode.

In fact, she finished her transformation with a burst of flames.

"I don't even know what's going on anymore!" Illya shouted, still covered when she felt the heated expansive wave. It was impressive that no one from inside the house came over outside with all that chaos.

"What the?! This is supposed to be a Magical Girl story, not a tokusatsu show!" Ruby shouted in both surprise and indignation.

"Toku-what?" Illya stopped covering her eyes, gazing upon the now Literally Metal Megamerged form of Tohsaka Rin. "Woah, she looks like a Kamen Rider!" She said with (metaphorical) stars on her eyes.

"... What's with that tone of admiration all of a sudden?" Ruby deadpanned, feeling betrayed by a Man's Romance effect on a young maiden… Onore, Ishinomori!

Ironic, given a lot of Magical Girl Warrior tropes were inspired by Ishinomori-sensei's work.

"This power… doesn't feel like anything I've ever felt before!" Rin let out a wild grin which made Illya and Ruby worry though it quickly morphed into a frown. "Though it doesn't have any kind of magical enhancements whatsoever, unlike Ruby." She sighed. "I'll just have to trust my own Magic Circuits and jewels on that department."

"Well, excuse me princess, but I didn't even fucking knew magic was real 'till a while ago." Fefnir retorted.

"Pff. Seriously? You, a magus, are going to fight me with just an elaborate superhero costume instead of, at minimum, a high-class Mystic Code?" Ruby deadpanned. "I knew you're stingy but that is a new low, even for you."

"At least, wait until I try out this 'elaborate superhero costume', will you!?" Rin suddenly Dashed towards the Magical Girl & Stick at speeds no one expected the newly minted Megaman to have, one hand stretched over in order to grab Ruby.

No one else also expected Illya's experience in sprinting and Sonic games to have the reflexes needed to take advantage of her newfound Magical Girl agility to dodge the speeding Rin.

However, Rin was quick to turn back to try again with yet another dash, this time with a bear hug prepared, which Illya somersaulted, landing up on the neighboring house's roof.

"Did, did I do this?" A panting Illya noted, amazed at her impromptu first Pretty Cure.

"Of course you did! Like I said, as Kaleido Ruby you're basically like a Superman. No, wait, that isn't an accurate comparison. You're more like a-"

Ruby's rant was negated by a plasma projectile landing on Illya's chest, making her jump a few meters backwards on the roof, with only Ruby's body puppeteering skills being the only thing preventing a two-story fall.

"Illya, are you okay?!" Ruby shouted concernedly to Illya, who was grasping her chest and was on the verge of tears from the shot. "That attack would have burned a fist sized hole on a normal human body." She analyzed, while Rin jumped towards the roof, Knuckle Buster on one hand lightly smoking from the low-intensity plasma discharge. "What were you thinking, you idiots?!"

"Oh, come on. It shouldn't be that bad, given she's now tougher than before. At most, it would just be the equivalent of a nasty punch for her."

"Fefnir, my beef is only with Ruby, not a civilian. I don't want her to suffer needlessly, non-lethal or not." She pointed towards Ruby. "Sorry for this, but I seriously need you to give me that stick. Now." Her harsh tone was punctuated by the buster's muzzle emitting light, signifying the charging of yet another shot.

"Run, Illya, run!" Illya did as the panicking Ruby ordered and jumped away, dodging another (relative) stun plasma round, beginning a frantic pursuit between the runaway Magical Girl and the shooting Megaman.

What no one at the scene noticed was a presence observing them all the time from the second floor of the Einzbern residence.

"This is getting out of hand." The unknown sighed in resignation. "I'm sorry yet again, but I'm in need of your body to stop this."

The light of Megamerge shone yet again that night.

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"This is your fault, Ruby!" A comically crying Illya accused the frickin' stick while ninja hopping roof and avoiding buster shots like her life was genuinely at stake. "If you returned to her, we wouldn't be doing this!"

"My fault?! You willingly signed the contract!" "Liar!" "That and Rin isn't any better than me, especially when paired with that Luvia Edelfelt. Do you want to know how many material and personal damage costs those two provoke any time they gaze at each other!? And let's not talk about them misusing the invaluable tools (me and my sister) loaned to them by the Wizard Marshall in person to fuel their petty rivalry! Waaah! I couldn't take it anymore!"

"Couldn't you have, I don't know, filed a complaint or something!?"

Ruby spent a few seconds in silence. "Huh, yeah I could have done that. But where's the fun in that~?" A plasma shot grazed her. "Okay, this isn't fun anymore. We need a more appropriate location to defend ourselves, and pronto!"

"Appropriate location… appropriate location… where could we… I know!" There was an old Japanese mansion on the Northern end of Miyama that was bought by her parents before they moved to Fuyuki 10 years ago, though for some reason, they haven't done anything with it, much less reform it, at least based on her knowledge. The only reason she knew about its existence was when she passed by the area with her parents on a walk.

And at their current speed and direction, they were bound to end up on Northern Miyama, so, with a burst of speed and purpose, she set up course towards the unused Emiya state.

From up there, she could see that there was a very extensive unattended yard, which served her just fine. With one final jump, she landed on the yard, skidding at least a dozen meters due to her entry speed, leaving visible marks upon the ground a la Akira.

"Alright, Ruby. What can you do?" Illya asked Ruby, knowing that they only had a few seconds before the Orange Devil arrived to beat them senseless.

"My principal functions are to support magecraft through both drawing unlimited magic energy from innumerable worlds through the Second Magic as well as assisting on the reenactment of Mystery up to the point even a complete novice like yourself can do high-level magecraft with just your thoughts!"

"I haven't understood half of it, except the part of using my imagination for magic, right?!"

"Ding, ding, ding! My cutie savant. Now go and show that hag who's boss!"

Speaking of the Devil, she was right there!

"Shoot!" The pink Magical Girl waved Ruby in the Megaman's direction, releasing a huge pink beam of magical energy that exploded against a surprised Rin and Fefnir, provoking a huge smokescreen in the wake of the explosion!

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"Did that do it?" Illya asked after a few seconds of tense silence, only to be interrupted by a pair of fireballs directed towards her at ballistic speeds!

While she didn't have time to react, Ruby did, and made a pink shield to defend them both. Despite the unexpectedly incredible explosive power of the fire projectiles, the barrier held.

"Okay, that's it. What the heck?!" Ruby exploded (metaphorically). "These fireballs were as powerful as anti-tank rockets! And without any kind of magical energy used!" She turned towards a now visible Rin, who was stretching her shoulders, not that much affected by the magical beam. Granted, it wasn't that powerful (Ruby wasn't that heartless(?)) but it sure was surprising that an impromptu Reinforcement spell done by pure reflex on futuristic military high-grade robotics and weaponry closely derived from one of the greatest heroes and symbols of unlimited mechanical potential from a possible future, made with some of the best materials humanity and robotkind developed for the kind of warfare that was surprisingly much closer to that of the mythological past than anyone imagined, was able to shrug off something that could have knocked out a low-grade superhuman with average Magic Resistance. Right? "And let's not talk about the whole instantaneous power armor that actually works! That kind of technology shouldn't be possible in this World in the current era! What are you, Fighting Fefnir?"

"Just one of the Guardians of Neo Arcadia, that's all." Fafnir proclaimed as if it was obvious.

"That doesn't explain anything!"

"You can have all the time for interrogation when you return back with me." Rin sighed "Seriously, when will you stop being so stubborn? I don't want to make it even more difficult for the kid you tricked."

"Yes, Ruby!" Illya agreed, trembling in fear of the orange Terminator. "I don't want to make this anymore for me!"

"NEVAH!"

"Whyyy…?" Illya whimpered.

"So it comes to this, huh?" Rin dispassionately prepared a single Knuckle Buster, making it charge with flames. "Sorry, kid. I'll try to make it painless."

With ground shattering strength, Rin boosted towards the Magical Girl, who was frozen in fear, blazing weapon aiming towards the panicking stick. Simple, really. Just enough explosive strength to just make the Kaleidostick get separated from the Master enough to cancel the transformation and, hopefully, just make the goddamned stick easier to comply to her.

[Megaman Zero - Zero's Theme Remix - KokiRemix]

… That was the plan. Until a bladed green energy wave exploded on the Megaman's path.

"What the?!"

"Eeep!"

"The heck?!"

"Okay, who's the asshole that-?!" Fefnir was about to complain when he sensed something… familiar. His newfound enthusiasm manifested in a feral smirk on Rin's face, who now sported orange eyes."I can't believe you're also here." Fefnir/Rin joyously laughed at the sight of the figure that landed in the space between them and the Magical Girl/Stick duo. "ZERO!"

From what Illya could see, there was a person with red armor similar to Rin/Fefnir's though with very long blond hair flowing from behind his helmet. He turned, showing not only a green jewel in the helmet, as well as blue eyes and…

"Are you alright?" He asked to her with a tone of concern

"Why does that face remind me of my brother?" That thought was what brought Illya out of her reverie, even as she numbly nodded.

"Another one?! And this time a handsome man! Oh, my. I am smelling potential shoujo romance right now" Ruby flushed (? (How the hell can that thing blush without even a face)) at the potential steamy doujin plots that are passing through whatever acted as her brain.

"Way to ruin the moment, Ruby…" Deadpanned Illya with a sweatdropped. Just how easily can that perverted stick's mood change that easily in such a dangerous situation.

POW!

A loud punching noise brought their attention back to Rin who… just punched herself?

"What the fuck, Fefnir?" She gritted her teeth in both pain and anger. "You didn't say anything about possessing my body!" "Sorry, sorry! I didn't expect to do that! At least not intentionally… I guess I was just that excited to see his face again!"

"Of course you would, you battle maniac…" 'Zero' sighed.

"Now that I think about it: how the Hell are you here? I thought I was the only one who ended up here in the goddamned past as a, well, a superhero fanboy's weapons project!"

"No idea about the whole time travelling business right now, but I know who turned you into a Biometal and why." 'Zero' revealed.

"Wait, you know about the Biometal!?" Rin asked surprised. "So you're from the same future as Fefnir…"

'Zero' just nodded though he suddenly felt dizzy. 'He' felt like losing control of 'his' body, literally! "Don't tell me, he's waking up!" 'Zero' groaned while grabbing 'his' head in discomfort… until control returned to the body's legitimate owner.

"What the?" The, now hazel-eyed, teenager merged with Model Z showed obvious confusion after waking up somewhere else after having his unconscious body getting puppeteered. "Where am I"

"Wait, that voice…" Rin and Illya thought at the same time, the latter voicing her thoughts. "Onii-chan?"

"Huh, Illya? Wait I don't remember you having that costume! And why are you out here at night!? We're not even in Halloween! As for that matter, why I am wearing a costume myself!?" He checked himself out. "Though I can't deny the quality, I don't even remember having it, much less what hero it represents!"

That seemed like a somewhat good moment for a flabbergasted Rin to once again enter the scene. "Emiya, is that you?"

"Tohsaka? Is that you?" Emiya Shirou turned towards his school's previous idol in confusion. "You're wearing a costume too!?"

"... You've got a lot to explain Zero."

"That he does, my fellow, confused, transformation trinket."

"Give me a break…"

Illya's only response was just to weakly laugh.

"Just what did my life turn into?"

Yorokobe shoujo, your life just got more "interesting" but in the Chinese sense…

AN: I must thank Wyran cost for showing interest in this story and helping brainstorm a whole ass fusion setting with Nasuverse and Megaman, including Fate: Zero Order. I admit, the Class Card arc may not change much (given how short and conclusive it was on its own) outside of increased interactions and more elaborate fights BUT we've have planned plenty of original (and probably traumatizing) content for not only Illya, Miyu and Chloe but also for our Megamen to experience in spades.

And yeah, I chose to elaborate on the process of Megamerge… which will have interesting and nightmarish implications given how Ciel's Biometals were created from studying a Model W which is a cursed piece of scrap of Ragnarok fused with Weil's bionic body and digitized soul. This shares multiverse with Fate: Zero Order so expect similar physics and metaphysics interactions from both works.