"Although I might look like this now, I'm still an enforcer with more then 15 years of experience under my belt. I'd like to be of assistance, even for something this small." He had told her, as they prepared to board the Time Garden. She had not been able to refuse the man, as he had been their only source on the local magi institutes so far. She only hoped that he wouldn't get hurt, as she had no way to explain her choice to his son.
As they tracked th signal of the stolen jewel seeds the first platoon, along with Emiya-san, beamed aboard as they set course for the throne room. She briefly diverted her attention from the status reports, as Nanoha, Shirou and Yuno brought the detained Fate Testerossa aboard along with her familiar.
"good job, and nice to meet you Testerossa-san" she told the group, as Fate continued to stare at her hands.
"Nanoha-san" She contacted the girl telepathically " watching her mother getting arrested is probably not the best thing for her now. Can you get her to another room?"
" Fate-chan. Why don' t you come with me to my roo-----"
"All hands have successfully infiltrated the throne room. Standing bye to detain the subject!" precia Testerossa looked up as several dozens of soldiers entered her throne room.
"Precia Testerossa. You are under arrest for attacking an bureau's Warship. Drop any weapons you have and step over here" A young soldier spoke, before they surrounded the throne were she sat, disinterested in their existence.
"There's something over here!" one of the soldies who had walked past the troneroom shouted, as another set op doors opened, revealing a corridor basked in green light. Both the soldiers and those on the bridge let out a gasp of shock as the contents of the hallway was contained.
In the middle of the rubble stood a stasis jar, containing the body of Fate testerossa.
In a single move precia transported herself next to the jar, before taking out all the soldiers in the hallway with a single strike.
"Don't you dare come near my Alicia!"
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Fate could only tremble as her whole world was torn apart, as she was told that she was not Alica, that she was a simple failed copy of that girl. She felt her legs go weak as her mother told her she was just a simple tool.
"I'll tell you something good fate. Even since i made you I..."
Precia was cut short as the sound of a gun's hammer being cocked echoed trough the empty corridor. On reflex she was able to erect a shield.....
Providing the condition for her own downfall, as the origin bullet from Emiya Kiritsugu's mystic code tore her linker core apart before crudely binding it again, destroying it's function to regulate magic. The bullet, although passing trough her chest, had not left a wound on her, but she could feel that the flesh where it had passed trough had become even more twisted then before. She let out a gasp of pain as she tried to cast an attack, noticing that all power had left her.
"Emiya-san!?"
"Dad!?"
"Kiritsugu-san!?"
"When did he....!?"
The bridge was filled with shouts, as they had assumed that all men had been shot down by the area spell Precia had unleashed.
"For him to be still standing after enduring that. What kind of person..." Lyndy wondered, as they followed the interaction between the two mages down in the garden.
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"It's no use Precia Testerossa," the man calmly spoke as he walked towards her, wobbling on his legs as exhaustion took it's toll. "That single shot has completely destroyed your capacity for magecraft. I don't care if your intentions were good to begin with or not, but you are powerless ether way."
"How dare you!" She screamed at him. " How dare you come between my and Alicia's journey to Alhazred. How dare you inter........!
"I don't really care. All I know is that you are an danger, and that's enough for me. To me it makes no difference if I bring you in alive or not, unlike those idealistic men you just shot down." He coldly shut her off as he once again held his Thompson Contender towards her, as he cocks the hammer.
A sudden burst from the 9 jewel seeds, having lost the controlling powers of precia's spells, shakes down the garden as it trows both Precia and Kiritsugu off balance. Seeing a chance, Precia strikes at Kiritsugu using her staff as an blunt weapon. Kiritsugu screams as the unexpected attack hits his arm, forcing him to drop the gun. Precia smirks, only to yelp in response as the man throws a punch into her face.
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Chaos ruled the Arthra's bridge for a moment as all stations erupted in alarms.
"Dimensional reaction detected in the Garden!"
"Unknown magical signals detected, a part of the gardens defenses has gone rogue!"
"We can't transport troops into the garden anymore!"
Amids all this Fate fell to her knees, as her mind tried to shut everything out.
"I'm a fake, nothing, a failure." She muttered as her eyes stared blankly in front of her.
"Fate-chan!" Nanoha and Arf gently tried to shake her shoulders, as Fate continued to mutter, not noticing anything around her.
"I'm worthless...."
Her speech was stopped as her cheek suddenly burned up. Nanoha, Arf, Yuno and even Lindy could only look in shock as Shirou delivered a full blown slap to the girl's face, before pulling her up at her uniform.
"SHUT UP!" he bellowed at her. "Don't you--- Don't you dare say you're worthless!" he continued as he shook her with every word he yelled at her.
"SHIROU!" Nanoha yelled in shock as she saw her friend explode at the girl, who looked at him with an mixed expression of loss and curiosity.
"I wont allow you to say it!" He continued as he ignored his friend. " someone who cries and laughs, with hope and fears. Someone who is loved and cared about by those close to her..."
Fate absentmindedly noted that both Arf and Nanoha still held on to her, even while the boy was shaking her around.
"I won't allow it. I wont allow anyone to say such an existance is a fake!"
She looked up to him, as no sound came from her mouth. As she remained silent he pulled her towards his face, as he stared into her eyes.
"SAY SOMETHING!" He yelled at her. She simply stared at him, as her face burned.....
Cool drops of water suddenly hit her burning skin. Her mind was filled with countless thoughts, but only one sentence escaped her throat.
"Why are you crying?" She asked the boy, his tears raining down his face.........
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This was not a fight between two mages. This was a fight between two half-dead persons who tried to hit the other hard enough so they would stop hitting them.
"Someone like you would never understand!" She yelled as she attempt to knock his head in with her staff. " I promised her that we'd be together, after she waited for so long!"
Kiritsugu dodged the sweep, only for him to stumble as he fell to the ground.
"I've had nothing ever since she died. Why does everyone try to stop me to regain what I lost!. Once I reach the lost City all my wishes will be..."
He rolled aside as precia slammed her staff into the ground where his head had been a few seconds ago, before kicking her feet away from under her legs. As she fell he awkwardly managed to get back onto his feet.
"Wishes? Miracles? There are no such things in this world." He coldly spoke to her, as he walked towards where he had dropped his gun. " I almost pity you, lonely woman with nothing left."
"Why you!"
"We were once the same, you and me. I sacrificed everything to obtain my sole wish, only for it all to be in vain in the end. I too was empty back then. But unlike me ,you rejected that which you found as you wallowed in your past.
"How dare you, don't act all might just because you saved yourself a boy to act as......"
"That day it was not just Shirou who was saved" He interrupted her again, as he grabbed the Contender with his unbroken hand.
"He was the one reaching out to me, saving me from my hell. And all this time your daughter has done the same for you, only for you to turn her down."
"That fake is only............"
"How sad, even if the daugher could be revived, her true mother has probably died a long time ago."
Precia was speechless for the first time.
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"We penetrated the shields. We can start sending people in!"
"The jewel seeds are going out of control, at this rate the entire complex will be destroyed in less then ten minutes!"
"Lets go." Nanoha stated, as she grabbed both the wrist of Shirou and Fate. " We all have something we have to do right?"
They all nodded at her as she smiled at them.
No words were said after that, as the rushed towards the nearest teleporter.
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"There's no way I can lose to such a person like you." He stated, as he leaded against the wall, using his good hand to once again point his mystic code in the direction of the woman." I still have promises to keep, unlike you"
He looked her straight into her eyes, as all emotions left his own.
"You've lost Precia. "
"No, No No! I can still reach it. Alicia and my past and future, I can still reach them!"
An explosion cracked open the ceiling, as a blue beam pierced the wall.
"Don't act like you don't know this!" Chrono shouted, as he aimed his staff at the woman. " No matter what spell you cast, you can't regain the past!" In his wake Fate and arf flew toward's Precia, as Nanoha dropped Shirou off next to his father. As the adrenaline faded from his body, and his limited reinforcement weakened he fell down, only for Shirou co catch him on his shoulder.
"Thats quite a big shoulder you got there" Kiritsugi joked, as he rested against his son.
"Shut up dad, You're heavy." Shirou hissed at him.
"Mother!" Precia looked up as the blond girl ran towards her.
"What did you come for here?" She asked not even looking the girl in the eyes."I have no more use for you. Begone"
For a moment the girl hesitated, but as her familiar laid her hand on her shoulder she continued.
"I came here because I wanted to tell you something."
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There was no need to interfere in their conversation, the first true conversation between the girl and her mother.
".....These are my feelings, The feelings of Fate Testerossa" The girl concluded, as she once again raised her hands toward the woman who she called mother.
For a moment Precia hesitated. She saw the content smile on her opponent's face as he rested on the boy's shoulder, unaware of what was going on around him. For a moment she saw Alicia standing in front of her...
Alicia.....
She squashed those thought as her determination returned as she once again raised her staff.
"Pathetic" She murmured, both to herself and the girl, before an even stronger tremor collapsed part of the hallway.
"Mother! Alicia!" Fate reached out as the ground under their feet slowly collapsed.
"Lets go Alicia. This time, I' ll stay with you, like I promised"
"Mother!"
"Begone! I told you I no longer have a need for you!" She shouted, as the capsule slowly started to descent.
"This is your win, Emiya" She spoke, as she watched the man as she fell towards her oblivion
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The girl watched her mother and sister fall. Her mother was smiling in the end, while cradling the container of her sister.
She had left her behind...........
"Fate-chan!" Nanoha yelled, as she held out her hand towards the girl................................
"Ah"
Soon the Garden Collapsed, devoid of any people as the Arthra retrieved the last people aboard.
The Jewel seed Incident had come to an end.
Originally Posted by TheSpy
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