Saber has just returned from a very conspicuous absence, bearing bad news. "So, I was using my Book of Five Rings Noble Phantasm to check out Whataburger Night over there, and it's not looking good. Basically, it has no weak points that I could see. Best we can do is snap the doll part off of the gear part, but that'll do us more harm than good."
"Then how do we defeat it?" Nagatsuki Miyuki asks her servant.
"We just have to keep hitting it until we've worn it down," Saber says. "If I put this thing into terms you girls would understand, then it's got, like, eight billion hit points... Er, well, a lot, at any rate. Not really sure of the exact amount, but we're gonna be here for awhile. We should also be on the lookout for any buildings being thrown at us, since that's Whataburger's primary means of attacking us. At least while it's upside-down."
Just as the words leave Saber's mouth, the ground gives a ferocious tremble, and with a sickening sound a nearby skyscraper is torn from its foundations. Broken concrete, steel beams, and shattered panes of glass rain down as the building floats in the air above you for a moment, before being sent rocketing down in your direction. "Yeah," Saber says as she looks up at the rapidly-descending building. "Just like that, actually."
The world is already grey on this dreary Sunday morning, so aside from the building now suddenly frozen in midair it becomes almost impossible for your allies to tell that you've stopped time.
But you can tell. You can
feel the strain from the toll stopping time is taking on your mana. It's not much greater than normal, but it is greater, and you can feel it mounting with each passing second.
Is it the presence of Walpurgisnact's corruption? "Everybody move!" you cry out, scattering yourself and your allies away from the falling building. When time resumes, the building crashes not-so-harmlessly into the already-ruined concrete pier, but you and your allies are safely out of harm's way.
For now.
"So, it can throw buildings at us," Archer says, stepping down from the rubble to greet you and the others. "That's fun."
"I take it the ride down was less than pleasant."
"As always."
"Did you see anything else while you were up there?"
"It's listing," Archer says. His fingers direct you to the angle at which
Walpurgisnacht hangs in the sky. "Not by much, I figure one 'tick' of its body every so often, but it's definitely listing clockwise to us. Something will probably happen when it's all the way upright."
"So, what're we supposed ta do about these things, then?" Kyouko asks, prodding with her spear one of the stray puddles of corruption formed when
Walpurgisnacht's familiars were eradicated. "Just keep poking'em until we're sure they won't come back fer good?"
"You would be wise to save your idle chatter for later," Caster says, as the wrenching sound of another skyscraper being torn from its foundations fills the air. But just before the floating skyscraper can be thrown down on you, Caster's golden portals open wide, and from them two giant blades emerge, each one the size of the skyscraper as they rout its fall, rising high enough to even pierce
Walpurgisnacht.
Caster's blades hold
Walpurgisnacht in place for only a few seconds; from the devil's laughing maw comes a stream of fire. The blades are melted, but in the time it took
Walpurgisnacht to melt through Caster's weapons he has drawn something else from his golden portals. Thin golden fetters emerge from portals on either side of
Walpurgisnacht, wrapping tightly around it and holding it in place such that its fire cannot melt them. "Now! While the witch is entangled!"
While Caster has been at work immobilising
Walpurgisnacht, you have been preparing. Flanking you on either side are Tomoe-san and Mikuni Oriko, each with their own ultimate weapons at the ready, and you ready to Reinforce them at a moment's notice. "Phase one, ready?"
"Tiro..."
"-fulmine!"
Alongside the twin golden blasts from Tomoe-san and Mikuni Oriko, Berserker joins you in firing another barrage from your missile pods. "Phase two, ready?"
Another pair of tendrils break from Berserker's back, connecting him to the weapons of Tomoe-san and Mikuni Oriko as they step aside. Leaving her barrier railgun in good hands, Mikuni Oriko rolls back her sleeve, muttering a quick "I'm sorry, Lancer," before unleashing her commands. "Lancer, by my first Command Seal, I order you to see
Walpurgisnacht as Sigurd when you unleash your Noble Phantasm; and by my second Command Seal, Lancer, I order you, use your Noble Phantasm on
Walpurgisnacht and destroy it!"
Archer quickly wraps a strange sash around Lancer's waist as her master's Command Seals take effect. What it does, you can only guess, but Lancer doesn't seem to mind its presence as she brings up her spear. Her voice, normally an icy monotone, rises with anger and passion you've only before heard Archer warn you of, as she mutters a chant in her native language whose words you cannot make out. The head of her spear grows with each verse spoken, until the flat of the head is wider than Lancer is tall, at which points she rockets forward on wings of blue flame, screaming
"Brynhildr Romantia!"
Joining Lancer in her onslaught are Archer and Berserker. Archer, standing beside you, has been muttering his chant under his breath, until in tandem with Lancer's Noble Phantasm and Berserker opening fire with another barrage from the
Tiro Fulmine under his control he releases his arrow with a cry of
"Durindana! Fly away!"
Before the smoke from phase two has the chance to clear, you've already called for "Phase three, ready?"
"Whenever you are!" Rider calls out, beckoning for McRemitz-san's Lancer to join him in his chariot. As soon as the blue-clad Lancer has joined him, the pair are off, racing forward on a peal of emerald lightning.
"Troias Tragōidia!"
"Gáe Bolg!"
Laughter rings out as a burst of flame obliterates the smoke obscuring
Walpurgisnacht. The flames engulf the emerald lightning on which Rider's chariot rides, but do nothing to stop the attack from meeting its destination.
Caster's golden fetters, for all their worth, have done nothing to stop
Walpurgisnacht from listing another "tick;" despite their constant poking, Kyouko and Assassin have been ineffective at preventing the fallen familiars from reconstituting their cursed forms; and the shadows of several buildings loom over your head.
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