Fate/Clusterfuck (Fate/Stay Night)

[The Inferior Original and the Ballerina]

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Your hand moves to your mouth, feeling the solid skin there. You press in against it, not even feeling teeth through it. It goes back about a quarter inch, then has stretched to its limit, revealing nothing. You lower the hand a moment later, staring at the door with Sakura's face above it. Sakura was a magus, but her talents were unknown to you. Taiga wasn't, and they were both likely in danger.

But Sakura…

Something pulled you towards Sakura. Without a word, without another thought you were running, and then you were through the threshold. The world of cubes disappeared instantly, instead, you found yourself standing in… ruins. Grecian ruins, white pillars, and ruined temples surrounded you, cracked, destroyed. With… fish swimming about them. The 'air' was replaced by water, with bubbles rising from the sandy floor beneath you. But it neither slowed you down nor affected your breathing in any way. You take a moment to process that, looking around. Before you spot Sakura, just a few feet away from your front.

Or rather, there were two Sakuras. One was the one you had known now for years, and she was hurriedly moving to step in front of and block from view a second Sakura. You only saw her for a moment, but that was enough to see rather obvious differences. She was… wearing one hell of an outfit, completely open down from her breasts to her crotch, with nothing but a little metal plate covering that. While her coat barely covered her breasts, but was long enough in the sleeves to completely cover her hands. She looks emaciated, far, far skinnier than Sakura was, but is also a good deal taller because she was wearing stilts or… prosthetics or something roughly two feet long with large protruding spikes out of the knees.

She had been in the process of turning around, and… you should not be admiring Sakura's ass, much in the same vein, you should not have been admiring her bust. But you found it very, very hard not to when she was wearing that. The second Sakura looks down at the one you knew, head tilted. Even with Sakura standing in front of her, she was easily taller, just due to her odd legs. Her hair shifted in the 'water' going well down past her knees. "So, you're the original?"

"W-what?" Sakura asks, "Who are… you?"

Sakura then looks back at you, then… screams. "Your mouth!?"

Sakura, at least, wasn't injured. Though you had no way of actually speaking to her.

"Are you alrigh-"


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"Too noisy!" the second Sakura barks, then jerks a leg upwards. Sakura barely gets a step toward you before her question is interrupted by a large metal spike jutting out of her neck. Blood erupts from the wound, and the spike slides back out with a wet, horrific, shwup sound. Sakura stumbles, her eyes wide, her hands twitching. Before her eyes roll back in her head and she falls forward onto the ground, her body jerking.

You scream without sound, sprinting forward. The space between you and Sakura's attacker closes in an instant, and your fist, reinforced by mana, is flying towards her head. It isn't the wisest attack, but you weren't thinking straight either. The woman with prosthetics watches you approach with a growing grin on her face.

*Crack*

Your fist crashes into the side of her face, and pain shoots up your arm. The woman… doesn't even turn her head. She continues to stare at you, open mouth, grinning, unmoved.

"I don't know you." The woman says, her eyes narrowing as she does so. "That means you aren't important."

Then her leg shoots up, faster than you can tra-

You stumble, your vision flashing. Your left-hand moves to the stump of your right as blood pours out around the jutting bone of your forearm past where your right hand and fist used to be. You watch, tripping backward as the hand falls onto the ground with a wet plop. You collide with Sakura's corpse, looking up at the woman. The skin around what used to be your mouth stretches painfully, your body begging to scream in agony and pain but nothing comes out.

Then Assassin was there, behind the duplicate, blade drawn and stabbing into the attacker's neck. Only, the blade stops, the tip pressed against the flesh, indenting it slightly, but doing little else. Assassin's eyes have a moment to open in surprise before they are locked in that position forever. The woman spins around, leg raised, and the next thing you know, Assassin is tumbling to the right, while her head goes left, separated at the neck. She catches it then, spike impaling the Assasin through the eye, she lets it slide down, observing it as blood pours down the leg. Then she tosses it at you, Assassin's head bouncing off your chest.

"I was hoping this would be more exciting." The woman complains, then turns to look at you.

You were still clutching your stump, in too much pain to rise. Your eyes locked onto the wide open, unblinking, eyes of Assassin.

"What, not going to fight? You can't defeat me, human, but you could at least try." She walks towards you, metal legs sinking into the sand. She stops, standing over you, looking down. "Or are you trying to protect that thing?" she asks, raising a sleeve towards Sakura.

Tears sting your eyes, and you start to try and get to your feet. To do something.

A swing of her leg, and you were missing one of your own. Causing you to fall back to the ground, howling without a mouth. Your vision was taken up by her now, standing over you, grinning from ear to ear.

"Oooh? You want to scream, is that it?"

She kneels, and the spike pierces the flesh where your mouth used to be. A howl of pain tears forth, and she laughs, a sleeve moving to her head as she rears her head back. "Yes! Scream! That's right! You're just a human~"

Then she turns her head back down, and pushes the knee down, slowly, your one remaining hand moves to it, grabbing it. But it's no use, you have lost too much blood already, and all you can do is feebly grab and pull as she pushes more and more weight down until the spine is pressing against the back of your throat. She pauses there, tilting her head, grinning from ear to ear as blood drips off of her. "Now, tell me, your brain or your spine?"

"... Both." She says a second later. Then jerks her leg.

A flash of pain is all you feel before it all goes dark.

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Then you could see again, and you were screaming directly into the very bored face of the 'Sakura' who had brought you all here originally. She was leaning over you, a pointer held in her hand as she stared you down.

You jerk up, only to be halted by the pointer pressing itself against your chest and somehow holding you to the floor. You are slammed back into the ground, and then, and only then do you realize where you are. You are back in the room of blue cubes, an infinite sky above you, and just to your right is Sakura, but a jerky turn of your head shows no sign of Taiga.

"I expected more of my 'Master's' enemy," the woman says, saying the word 'master' with obvious distaste.

You ignore her, looking around for Taiga, but you see no sign of her, nor of the duplicate that had just killed you… and…

"Yes yes, do keep up." The woman above you chides. Then the point is pressed against your cheek and forcefully turns your head to look at her. "Now, if you want to keep your mouth, don't open it." She then smiles. "Okay? I was kind enough to give you your hand and leg back so at least behave."

You don't speak, you don't move. You didn't know what was going on, but you weren't in the mood to make this situation worse, either.

"Now, my 'Master' wishes to talk to you. Because she feels delightfully guilty." She continues. "And I, BB, saw fit to… help out." She draws the point across your face, then taps your mouth. "Oooh yes, I see those questions dancing around in your head, you want to ask who my master is? Ask, amuse me."

"Where's Taiga?" you ask.

BB blinks. Then grins. "Taiga? Oh, so she has that name here as well… Why do you care? You went running after Sakura, not Taiga. She doesn't matter in all of this. All that matters is you, and my master. Why she cares so much about your opinion I have no idea, but I'm such a kind 'servant', sorting all of this out."

"Where's Taiga?" you repeat.

"You're breathing her," BB replies, her face splitting open in a far too-wide grin. "She's data now, floating in the space between bits. All because you thought Sakura was more precious to you." She then looks over at Sakura, tilting her head and tapping the pointer against her cheek. "Is she spreading her legs for you?"

"What do you want!?" you shriek.

BB blinks, then looks back at you, the smile fading. "My. Master. Wants. To. Talk. To. You. Do try and keep up, you silly human."

"And who is that?"

She presses the pointer against her palm and collapses it, then keeps going, closing her hands together. Then she splits them apart again, revealing the point to be missing, instead, it is replaced by a yearbook photo of…

"Tohsaka?"

"Tohsaka Rin~," BB says. "Correct, and a hundred points to you. I came here as I only wished to meet Sakura. But Rin, silly little Rin feels so bad about her part in all of this, oh she stays up every night crying." BB moves a fist to the corner of her eye, twisting it to mimic wiping away a tear. "So, I thought I would complete two goals at once, aren't I kind?"

Then you felt it, a tickling at the back of your mind. A familiar presence, the link between you and Caster. You don't acknowledge it, continuing to stare at BB as she monologues. "I let my…" BB pauses. "Well, I let the others have some fun as well. Now, here's how this is going to work. You are going to follow my directions, meet my Master, and I juuuust might think about giving you Taiga back." BB says.

The tone of her face as she finishes her offer was sweet, the smile was anything but. It was cruel and mocking.

"Or, you can just stay here until I'm bored of playing~," BB says. "So, what will it be?"

Rin had two servants then, or BB was lying. Either was entirely possible, as you were either in an illusion or something more. You couldn't tell, frankly, it was rather hard to think straight at the moment in any case. All you knew was that Taiga was missing, this thing was claiming to represent Rin, and you had no idea where Assassin was.

Caster was here, at least, what that meant you didn't know. But you were at a disadvantage, that much you knew. But then, how was that different than any other day in this nightmare of a war?

BB leans down, her face a foot from your own. She searched your face for a few moments, looking you over as you lay on the ground. "Do try and think faster. I was kind enough to bring you back after Melt had her fun." She then stands up again. "Or don't, it doesn't matter. I got what I came here for. What my 'Master' wants, well." BB rolls her eyes. "After trapping me in that awful phone, after what she did to me, she should be counting her blessings."

You-

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[] [Call Medea]
Dear little Shirou was going to try and take control of the situation, or break out, how very desperate.

[] [Stall for Time]
Ah yes, the most patient man in the world waiting for someone else to do something. That would certainly be different at least.

[] [Agree]
Good boy, follow my commands and the pain stops~

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Did you think I was going to be a meme lord and Melt was going to be a waifu?


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This war, these people.

They are toys.

A broken doll, a shattered mirror looking offering a reflection that isn't there, and a burned toy soldier attempting to save the day. How very…

Pitiful.

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Thanks to @Armoury for the beta!