The year is 1996; the Cold War has just ended not too long ago, and capitalism now reigns supreme. Countries opening their markets all around the world. The world is in a very different place than it was a decade ago. Depending on the country, this decade is either a golden age or hell on earth. However global politics will not be the focus of this story as it focused on a single city on the coast of Thailand; Roanapur. A highly infamous city where all the world's most degenerate criminals hang out. Everything from mercenaries to drug dealers to human traffickers, you name it. Normally, nothing major other than gang disputes happens in Roanapur since the gangs who run it go out of their way to make sure Roanapur stays out of the news. That's why no organization has done anything to stop the city's operations. Hardly anyone knows about it. However, little do these gangs of criminals know that something beyond their wild imagination will come to visit their city and rock their entire world. I present to you….
Fate/Zero Hope
Somewhere off the coast of Thailand
On the Gulf of Thailand, a World War 2 era PT boat is seen traveling across the ocean. The crew members of this boat are known as the Lagoon Crew, a group of pirates known for smuggling goods into Southeast Asia through their vessel The Black Lagoon. Today was just like any other day on the high seas for the Lagoon Crew, cruising on the ocean to fulfill their assigned task. The crew had just been assigned a task by their main client to investigate a certain yacht that had been visiting Roanapur for the past few days. The crew members were rather confused about why a yacht would worry their client, but they couldn't say no since it sounded like an easy paycheck.
In command room of the Black Lagoon sits the captain of the Lagoon Crew, a tall African American male wearing dark green pants, a military jacket, combat boots, and a pair of black sunglasses. He is currently driving the boat, but he is tempted to stop as he is bored out of his mind as he and his crew have been on the ocean for about an hour now.
"Have you picked up anything on the radar Benny?" the captain shouted.
"Nope!" a male voice coming from the lower deck responded. "I got nothing on the radar!"
"Damn it." the captain cursed. "Looks like we're going to be here for a very long time."
"You sure Balalaika didn't send us on a wild goose hunt for shits and giggles Dutch?" asked a female voice.
The captain now known as Dutch turns his head to face his one of his subordinates.
The subordinate is a female in her 20s wearing nothing but short shorts, military boots, and a black tank top. She displays both Asian and White racial characteristics as she is of mixed-race origin. Her hair is dark purple and has tribal tattoos on her body.
"Balalaika would never do something like that Revy." Dutch responded in a professional tone. "She would never go this far for a joke."
The woman now known as Revy groaned in response as she was tired of doing nothing all but drink cheap ass beer and look at outdated magazines for the past hour.
"I'm so fucking bored." Revy complained as she took a swig of beer. "I swear, if we don't find our target soon, I might end up drinking up all the beer on the ship."
"You better not get drunk on this mission." Dutch commanded. "If your drunk ass costs us this mission you can kiss our paycheck goodbye."
"Oh, piss off." Revy responded as she took another swig from her can of beer. "As if we can even find the damn target."
Dutch didn't bother responding to Revy's comment as he put his attention back on driving the boat.
"Hey Revy, can you check on Rock?" Dutch asked. "See if he managed to get anything on his end."
"Fine." Revy answered as she got off her seat to do her task.
On the edge of the deck there is an average looking Japanese man looking at the ocean with a pair of binoculars. He is in his mid-twenties and has the look of a salary man. He was focused on his task until Revy showed up behind him.
"Hey Rock." Revy announced.
"AHH." the man now known as Rock screamed as he was surprised by the sudden appearance of Revy. He was so surprised that he almost dropped the binoculars into the ocean.
"Hey don't lose those." Revy commented. "We already lost a pair of those last week."
"Yeah, I know." Rock responded as he remembered the last job they did.
"Anyway, did you spot anything looking like a yacht?" Revy asked. "I'm tired of sitting on my ass all day."
"Unfortunately, no." Rock answered in a disappointed tone. "I don't know why Balalaika would be so worked over a yacht. Does she even know whose even on that yacht?"
"I'm with you." Revy agreed. "Balalaika normally isn't this paranoid."
Revy took another swig from the can of beer that she was drinking in the command room.
"Maybe she just got a really bad dream about it?" Revy suggested.
"After all the shit we been through I doubt she fears anything." Rock responded as he reminisced about the previous adventures he went through with the crew.
Things like Latina Terminator maids, killer Romanian children, and a bullet timing Yakuza swordsman aren't things that normal people encounter in their lifetimes. Rock thought those encounters would be the most insane (and most terrifying) things that he would ever experience.
Little did he know that after today everything that he experienced at this point would pale in comparison to what will come after.
"Wait a minute. I think see something in the distance!" Revy announced as she pointed her hand out in a certain direction.
Rock looked through the pair of binoculars in the direction of where Revy was pointing at. Through the binoculars he could see a …. white …. yacht.
"Holy shit it's a yacht!" Rock announced to the whole world.
"FINALLY!" Revy screamed in excitement. "I'M TIRED OF DOING JACK SHIT ALL DAY! EASY PAYCHECK HERE I COME!"
Revy dropped her beer can as she ran back to the command room to get some weapons to prepare for hostilities. Rock also went back to the command room so he could avoid getting shot in case things went south.
As the Black Lagoon got closer to the yacht, Dutch was able to get to a better view of it. He could tell that it was a pretty big yacht. It had four floors which meant there were potentially a lot of enemies on board. Normally taking down an entire boat worth of enemies would be a daunting task for anyone but for Dutch it was Tuesday. He and his crew (mostly Revy) are used to robbing boats filled with armed hostiles. They have never botched a boat robbery and today will be the same.
Dutch gave a wicked smile as the Black Lagoon approached the yacht as he was finally ready to let loose after searching for the damn thing for the past hour.
"Kept us waiting, haven't you?" Dutch said to himself with a grin.
Meanwhile on the yacht.
A blonde man in a white business suit sees the approaching PT boat through a pair of binoculars and he isn't happy.
"Shit!" he curses. "Somebody tracked us!"
He puts down his binoculars then turns around to face his subordinates which consists of both male and female soldiers with suspiciously pale skin, brown hair, and crimson red eyes who are wearing vague white military uniforms that weren't indicative of any nation in origin.
"Whatever you do protect the catalyst with your lives!" the blonde man commanded. "Don't let the intruders get in here at all costs!"
"Sir yes sir!" the soldiers responded as they got into battles positions. As for the blonde man he decided that he will hide somewhere to avoid getting killed in the upcoming chaos.
The PT boat is almost near the yacht. A confrontation between the crew members of each boat is imminent. As the PT boat was approaching the yacht, Revy came back on deck now armed with a M79 grenade launcher and her trusty berettas. She prepared to go on the enemy boat and take down everyone there.
"Okay you fuckers, show me what you got!" Revy loudly proclaimed as she loaded the grenade launcher.
On each of the four decks of the yacht a row of pale soldiers came out into the open armed with a choice of weapon that is considered so mind boggling in this modern day and age, it broke Revy out of her concentration.
"Are those … arrows?" Revy thought to herself. "Why the hell are they using bow and arrows?! Don't they know that firearms exist?!"
Thanks to Revy's confused state, the pale solders were able to fire a volley of arrows at the advancing PT boat.
"SHIT!" Dutch cursed as he noticed the arrows heading towards his boat. He stirred the boat's wheel all the way to the left which made the boat take a sudden hard turn to the left so the boat can avoid being hit by the arrows.
SWOOSH!
The boat managed to avoid being hit and the arrows uselessly flew into the ocean. However, due to the sudden evasive action, the Black Lagoon was now far from the yacht. Not only that, the property of one of the crew members was now all over the floor of his quarters. And he does not like that.
A blonde man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and glasses came from the lower deck to voice his complaints.
"What the hell was that for!? My technology is all over the floor now!"
"You can blame that on Revy not doing her job!" Dutch responded loudly. "Now get your ass back down there Benny because we're not done yet. I ain't botching this mission!"
Meanwhile Rock was holding on to dear life as that sudden turn terrified the hell out of him. Despite all the previous adventures with the crew, he is still not used to chaotic battles on the sea.
Dutch turned the boat around and headed back towards the yacht hoping that Revy would do her job properly this time. Revy repositioned herself since the sudden turn made her lose her footing earlier. This time she won't be taken by surprise.
The pale soldiers see the PT boat heading towards them again and prepare their second volley of arrows. However, unlike last time, they won't get a chance to fire as Revy is now mentally prepared for them.
Once the PT boat got close enough to the yacht Revy pulled the trigger on the grenade launcher and fired a round at the archers before they could release their arrows.
BOOM!
The grenade hits the second row of archers and wipes them out completely. The shockwave from the grenade disoriented the rest of the archers as their eardrums are now ruptured with many of them screaming in pain. Some of even fell into the ocean by accident as they are overwhelmed with pain to the point that they can't even focus on standing still. This gives the Lagoon Crew a chance to board the yacht and unleash hell.
The Black Lagoon parked close to the yacht and Revy leaped from its deck and onto the first floor of the yacht ready for action. Some of the pale soldiers noticed Revy but they were powerless to do anything as Revy pulled out her dual berettas and shot them in the head.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
They dropped dead like flies. Revy proceeded to go deeper inside the deck to find more targets to shoot at. More carnage ensues.
Meanwhile on the Black Lagoon, Dutch is seen loading a 12-gauge shotgun as he is preparing to raid the yacht along with Revy. Rock notices this and asks him a question.
"What are you doing Dutch?"
"What does it look like?" Dutch retorted. "I'm going to take out some anger on these fools for making me be on the ocean for longer than it needs to be."
"Then who's going to protect us?!" Rock asked in a concerned tone.
Rock got his answer when Dutch tossed him a M16 riffle. Rock barely managed to catch it.
"Yourself." Dutch answered. "Don't throw it in the ocean."
Dutch proceeded to leave the command room to help Revy. Rock was left speechless. The blonde man from earlier now known as Benny came back from the lower deck since he overheard everything.
"Did Dutch just leave us?"
Dutch was on the deck of the Black Lagoon as he was heading towards the yacht but right before he could board the yacht one of the pale soldiers from one of the upper decks noticed him and tried to aim her bow at Dutch.
Unfortunately for her, Dutch pulled out his revolver and shot her in the stomach before she even had a chance to shoot an arrow at him. The pain from the gunshot made the pale soldier lose her footing which caused her to fall over the railing and into the ocean.
Dutch boarded the yacht with his shotgun in tow, ready to shoot down anyone who dare opposes him. However, upon further inspection of the deck, Dutch notices the large number of dead bodies across the deck. It was clear that Revy made short work of them.
"Looks like this is going to be easier than I thought." Dutch said with chuckle.
Revy was already on the second floor of the yacht, running and gunning at all enemies that came in her way. As Revy continues her rampage across the yacht, she couldn't help but think about the soldiers on this ship as their existence confused her to no end.
She couldn't recognize their military uniforms and the lack of firearms was mind boggling to her. Not only that, upon getting a closer look at these soldiers she noticed that they all look identical to each other. This creeped out Revy as she thought about the ramifications of this discovery.
"Did I stumble upon some government experiment?" Revy thought to herself. However, before she could further contemplate the situation two more pale soldiers came charging at her with spears.
They both gave out a war cry as a form an intimidation, hoping it would make their enemy slip up. Unfortunately for them it just made them look stupid in the eyes of Revy.
"These guys are really idiots." Revy thought.
Revy stopped running and emptied the rest of the clips of her berettas upon the two pale soldiers.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Just like the rest of their comrades, they also dropped dead.
As Revy reloaded her guns, she checked to see how much ammo clips she had left. She opened the sachet where she kept her ammo, and she wasn't too happy.
"Damn it!" Revy cursed. "I only got four ammo clips left. And there are still two more floors of these motherfuckers left!"
Revy continued her mission by heading towards the stairs that lead to the third floor of the yacht. As she went up the stairs, she thought how she would deal with the rest of the soldiers with the little amount of ammo she had left. She then remembers she still has the grenade launcher with her. There she decided that she was going to use the grenade launcher to deal with the enemies on the third floor so she could reserve her remaining beretta ammo for whoever is going to be on the fourth floor.
Revy almost made it to the top of the stairs and was going to enter the third floor until an arrow came her way. Lucky for Revy she managed to sidestep it in time to avoid being hit. Revy then took a sneak peek while doing her best to not be noticed to see what's going on.
She sees that there are 10-15 pale soldiers in the room. They were all in a Roman legion-like position where there was a row of archers on their knees and above them a row of archers standing, waiting for their target to come out.
"Perfect." Revy said to herself with a grin since the archers were all grouped together.
Revy loaded up the grenade launcher then aimed it at the group of archers. The grenade launcher fired its load and hit its target.
BOOM!
The archers were all blown away with many of them being reduced to red chunky bits. Revy then finally got onto the third floor and made a run for the stairs that led to the fourth and final floor. Revy put the grenade launcher around her back and took out her berettas. Any surviving soldiers that survived the grenade blast couldn't follow her now because they now had missing limbs.
Revy went up the stairs and made it to the fourth floor. She notices that there was only one pale soldier in the room. The soldier was a male and he was wearing a beret.
"Judging by that beret, you must be the captain of this ship." Revy asked as she pointed her berettas at him.
The pale soldier said nothing while maintaining a stern facial expression.
"Oooh I see. You must be shitting your pants right now." Revy taunted in a cocky tone. "You're scared because you are about to die."
The pale soldier still said nothing. All what he did was raise his left hand and position it like a gun with his pointer and index finger pointing at Revy.
"Really? You're going to pretend that you have a gun?" Revy asked. "What kind of joke is this? Who the hell-"
Before Revy could finish her sentence, something actually shot out of the soldier's finger and blasted the beretta out of Revy's right hand.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Revy cursed out loud as she was completely taken by surprise.
While Revy was trying to comprehend what just happened, the pale solider took the opportunity and charged straight at her. He then proceeded to tackle Revy which made them both fall down the stairs.
Once they both made it back down to the third floor, the pale soldier had Revy in a headlock. Revy was struggling to breathe but luckily for her she still had one of her guns in her left hand. She managed to aim her gun at the left thigh of the pale soldier and shoot at it.
BAM!
The pale soldier didn't scream but he had to release Revy from his grip because of the pain. The soldier then barrel rolled away from Revy and got back up to establish a combat position.
Revy also got back up with both of her hands on her remaining gun and aimed at the pale soldier.
"Enough…. HAH … of this … HAH…. bullshit!" Revy threated while breathing heavily. "This ends now!"
The pale soldier wasn't intimidated at all. All what he did in response was taunt her with a hand motion. This infuriated Revy to no end.
"How the hell am I supposed to beat this guy?" Revy thought to herself. "I don't have much ammo left and if he gets close to me, I might as well be dead."
Luckily for Revy, she didn't have to think for long as suddenly…
SPLAT!
The pale soldier's head exploded with blood spewing everywhere! As the body fell down to the ground, Revy saw the person who saved her. It was Dutch with the 12-gauge shotgun.
"What took you so long!?" Revy demanded. "This pale ass motherfucker almost killed me!"
"There were some stragglers you forgot to take care of." Dutch answered as he pumped the shotgun to get rid of the empty shell.
"Really? I thought I got everyone on board." Revy responded.
"You would not believe the tenacity of these guys." Dutch explained. "They were doing everything in their power to stop me despite having horrific injuries. I've never seen soldiers this determined before."
"Yeah, I with you on that." Revy agreed. "Who the hell are these people anyway?"
"That doesn't matter now." Dutch announced while ignoring Revy's question. "There's something you should see. Follow me!"
Revy followed Dutch down the stairs to the second floor. Once they got there, they then went to what looked like the bar of the yacht. Dutch went behind the table and kneeled down as if he was looking for something.
"Why are we here?" Revy asked in a confused tone. "There's some secret booze I don't know about you want me to try?"
"No." Dutch responded as he struggled to lift something. "I want you to look …. at …. this!"
Dutch dropped the thing onto the table of the bar. It was a very heavy (and long) case that made a loud thud.
At first Revy was confused why Dutch would want her to look inside the case. What could be so special about this case? But eventually her curiosity got the best of her, and she decided to open the case. She looked inside the case and as she did that her eye widened in shock.
"Goddamn." Revy announced with surprise.
Revy paused to take in the sight.
"IT'S A HUGE ASS SWORD!" Revy announced to the whole world.
The sword in particular looked like a European broadsword that was mostly silver in color with some red areas which are mainly the hilt and the base of the blade. On the blade itself there seems to be an inscription but it was written in a script that both Dutch and Revy could not understand.
But that didn't matter because they had one thing on their minds.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Dutch asked.
"Hell yeah!" Revy answered ecstatically. "We could sell this for money!"
"I bet if we show this to Balalaika, we could see a pay raise." Dutch theorized with a smile. "It looks authentic enough to me."
"THEN LET'S HAUL THIS THING OUT OF HERE ALREADY!" Revy demanded loudly.
They wasted no time carrying the thing. Due to how heavy it is, Dutch needed Revy's help to carry the sword. Revy carried her end of weapon, and she already felt the sheer weight of it on her arms.
"Holy shit its heavy!" Revy complained. "My arms are going to tear off!"
"Quit complaining and get this back to the ship as soon as possible." Dutch commanded.
They managed to carry the sword down the stairs without dropping it and made it to the first floor. They then went outside on deck to get it to the Black Lagoon. While Dutch and Revy were on their way, Rock came outside on the deck of the Black Lagoon to see what's going on.
"What the hell is that?!" Rock asked as he saw the case that Dutch and Revy were carrying. "And more importantly what the hell happened in there?!"
"I'll tell you later!" Revy answered out loud. "Get us a cable because we just struck gold!"
"Uuuuh…. On it!" Rock responded albeit in a confused tone. He then ran back to get the cable.
Through the help of Rock, Dutch and Revy were able to get the sword onto the Black Lagoon and they drove off to head back to headquarters.
Meanwhile on the yacht.
The blonde man in the white business suit came out of the bathroom on the second floor, scared out of his mind since he overheard the mayhem that happened earlier. He sees the dead bodies of the soldiers scattered across the room. He could not believe that two people were able to take out an entire boat worth of homunculi. Since the boat was now compromised, it could no longer bring in supplies. He knew the head of the family was not going to like this at all.
He walks over to the bar where the "catalyst" was hidden. He checks the spot where it was supposed to be.
His facial expression says it all as his worst fear came true.
The catalyst was stolen.
"Darnic is going to kill me for this."
Hello everyone, its me Hige the Bearded who will soon change the name to MovieDudeXD in order to be more in line with the rest of my socials. This is a fanfic I have been writting since last year with as of the time right now with 20 chapters ready to be uploaded on weekly basis. Unlike my previous fics here this time I actually have a plan for how the story will go which means this is story that I plan on completing. I hope you guys enjoy the story!