Fate/Off the Rails (and onto hiatus again)

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-[X] The three girls patrolling

I thoguht it was a good time to join up with the girls on guard patrol. I floated over to them, finding them huddled around the maid's Humvee. The top part had opened up to show a mounted gun with the maid at the helm. Lancer was the farthest from the group looking around the trees while Archer was closer to the maid, sitting the hood of the Humvee. "Are you sure you saw something Lancer?" The maid called out.

"I'm sure I saw something out there." Lancer responded as she checked behind the trees.

"I knew I should've stayed behind to set up fortifications and traps." Archer said out loud. "My danger signals are screaming at me right now. Assassin! Great timing! We could use your help."

Tilting my head, I floated over to Archer. "I was intending to have some little chit chat but I believe that's out of the question. Is something up?"

"No time to explain, I need you to scan the area now!"

Sensing the urgency in her voice, I spoke a small incantation. "Ψάξιμο!" I sent out a small wave of prana across the forest, from there I could see the huge amount of... things... that had surrounded us. Crap.

"Well isn't this great." I said to myself.

"Assassin. What's the situation?"

"No time!" I said out loud. I could feel the prana inside me gather as I spoke another incantation. "Αποκαλύπτω!" I sent another wave, this time revealing the army of dead hiding behind the trees.

"Dead apostles! No, just their thralls." The maid said as she cocked her gun and opened fire on the dead. They took that as their cue to start their attack, shuffling forth in a full on assault en masse. I couldn't tell how many there were but they might've counted in the few thousand.

"Hah! Running towards their death huh? Mindless beast such as you are nothing but canon fodder!" She took our her muskets and started opening fire as well. Her bullets sliced through them like a hand through a fog but there were always more to take last one's place. "So, quantity over quality? That's a dead simple strategy."

In response to the sound of gun fire, Luvia stormed out of her tent only see to the walking dead coming onto our camp. "Hmph, looks like an Edelfelt's work is never done." Taking out some gems, she threw them towards a group that was charging straight at her. "Räjähtää," the gems blew up in a cone of power, obliterating the Dead from her sight.

"I better get over to my Master, hope she and Shirou are okay." I floated at top speed back to the campfire. A few dead tried to get in my path but I stopped them in their tracks with a simple spell that shut down all function in her legs, thank you reading.

I found the two back to back. Shirou held the white blade in his good hand while his other hand was sort of hanging at his side, barely holding the black blade in its grip, seems like Rin healed his arm up but not enough for him to properly use it yet. Rin was firing off her Gandr shots at any dead that came near them. "Tohsaka, what's wrong with these people? Why are they attacking?"

"They're dead Emiya. They're just mindless husks controlled by a Dead Apostle."

"Dead Apostle?"

"A vampire basically." She explained right after she kicked one of the dead away with a reinforced leg.

"Vampires?! You mean they're real?" He tried to swipe away one of the dead. The blade sliced cleanly through him. Shirou fought back against his stomach and won but he still didn't look good.

"I'll explain later!" She threw some gems into the air at a group that was charge at the both of them. "Platzen!" The gems blew up in an explosion of energy, blowing them into pieces. "Assassin! What's going on?"

"I don't know Rin, but I think they were gathering around our camp for this moment."

"Then how did they hide themselves for so long?" She scaned across the woods, looking at all the dead at have been appearing. "I don't recognize any of them form our city, were they spawned from another city?"

"I don't know, but we'll have to keep them off the human members of our team, you're the ones who're most valuable right now." I said as I gather energy within myself as runes appeared around me. "I hope this works. Βροχή του φωτός!" Purple light shot out form the runes as they obliterated about four dozen of the dead as well as a good several trees. An explosion rocked across the forest, by all bets it was going to attract some people.
In a castle deep in the forest. The little fairy woke and she was smiling.
"But man, doesn't feel like it's too easy. I mean, we got three servants here as well a two expert maguses and a damn warmaid." I said as I looked around. "Actually where's Lancer?"
In a hotel. A girl near her end and a doll sensed a battle from afar.
My answer came in the form of a sudden spike of prana that I felt out of the corner of my eyes as Lancer flew across my vision. She skidded across the ground tumbling but she managed to get on her feet. I looked at the one who threw her so far away... Well crap. "Rin, I think we just found Berserker."
In a bar. The man gave a smile as he looked at his friend who gave a nod.
He was a hulking man. Standing at 195 cm tall, his skin tanned, dark long hair and a rugged beard. His body was well toned and his muscles bulged in ways even I didn't know as possible. He only wore a simple loincloth and nothing else. His eyes are bloodshot, the sclera an eerie black. "Man, kinda looks simple doesn't he?" I remarked.
Elsewhere. A killer heard of a battle by her servant. She was bored so this would be fun for her.
The failure woke up. Ready to prove himself.
"Simplicity is a strength all to its own child." An echoing voice called out. The dead stopped their attack, the battlefield was all silent but the tension was still there.
The king watched the battle. He was disappointed.
"Where are you? Show yourself!" Rin called out.
The knight nodded to her lord as they rushed into the forest
"Oh no, sorry about that miss but that would greatly inconvenience me. It would be better if you don't see me at all." The voice sounded both male and female, child to adult to elderly, all in unison the voices sounded more like a group than a single person.

"Man you really got your base covered huh?" Rin responded. "Pretty simple strategy, using the smaller but more numerous dead to distract us while your Berserker picks us all off."

"Well, I did say that simplicity was a strength all to it own." I could almost feel him(her?) shrug their shoulders. "But in any case. I want to apologize for your grisly demise but something tells me that none of you approve of my... methods."

"Methods?! Your killed these people!" Shirou bursted out. "Why did you do this to all these people! They're all innocent!"

"Nothing but necessary sacrifices for my cause." The union of voices said.

"Cause?! What would make you kill so many for this!"

"It is for personal reasons. I'll give that much." The voices said simply. "I sorry if you're very distressed. I'll cure your neurosis by means of a hopefully quick death. Berserker, my dead, you may start your assault anew."

Power swirled around the hulking man as he roared out loud. "______" I'm not sure how I could describe the roar. It was less a roar and more something so beastial and mindless that no animal currently alive can hope to match it, that and it popped my eardrums.

Faster then he had any right to, he jumped towards Lancer at sonic speed. Lancer could barely dodge him as he punched where she once stood. The ground before him obliterating into a dust filled crater. "What a monsterous servant." Rin commented. "Where's Archer when you need her?"

"Very busy!" Archer shouted as she fought back to back with Luvia.

"Damn it. This guy must've studied us well. We can't activate her Demon King skill without making Edelfelt useless." She looked towards Lancer who was still trying her best to dodge Berserker's punches.

She weaved around the blows, punches so wide that you could see them miles away, if they weren't on anyone but Berserker. Even his widest punches had come upon her with the speed of jet planes. The only reason she was still alive at was her status as a servant and her classification as the Lancer of this war but even that was only buying her time if she doesn't do anything else but dodging.

"Lancer!" Shirou tried running over to her but Rin grabbed him by the waist to stop him.

"You idiot! What the hell are you doing?"

Shirou tried his best to claw his way out of Rin's grip. "Lancer's in danger! She'll die if I don't do anything!"

"You'll die too you moron!"

It was all so confusing. The dead seem to come from everywhere. Sounds of roaring, tree beings splintered to peices, the ground shaking, gunshots and spells being casted, smells of flesh and the shouts of people long dead. I was stand floating there, wondering what in the world was going on. "Assassin! Snap out of it and help me out here." She now holding Shirou in a grapple, holding both good and bad arm behind him.

"Oh, crap what was I doing!" Shaking my head I floated over to Shirou. "Time out kid. Υπνος."

With some struggling, he slowly fell into a slumber. "Thanks." She picked him up, carryring him over her shoulder.

"You gonna be fine?"

"I'll be when I get to that maid's oversized car of her's. She seems to be holding them well enough despite having no magic circuits of her own. A former enforcer perhaps?" She shook her head. "Assassin, I need you to help out Lancer against Berseker."

I gave a nod. Getting her answer, she made a sprint for the Humvee. The sounds of the machine gun roaring was still nice and clear. "Okay, time to support Lancer."

I floated above the fight between the two servants. Lancer was stil trying to dodge Berserker's punches and she doesn't look good right now. Her armor was now forming cracks simply from the sheer force in the winds caused by Berserker's punches. She her body language is telling me she's nearing her prana reserves fast. Running with only half-

No, not half. She's running on half a quarter of gas. She's been in danger of running out the entire time. "Lancer... You're not going to... Huh?" There I saw it, if only for a millisecond. In her hand she had tried to summon something. A small flash of darkness in her hand that appeared for a brief moment until it was interrupted by the lightning fast punches of Berserker. Is she trying to get her spear out but can't because she keeps getting interrupted? I know what to do.

[] Shoot down Rains of Light down on Berserker to distract him
[] Trying to bind his legs to slow him down
[] Create illusionary clones of Lancer to confuse him
[] Write in