A/N: Alright guys so I did something a little bit differently here. Instead of a full remake I decided to remake parts of the story while keeping some of the original content, to satisfy myself (Because I wrote some pretty cool scenes in here that I don't want to get rid of.) and hopefully those of you who wanted both a remake and a continuation (That mean's the poll was meaningless yay!). I'm posting this in chapter 6 as a way to see what you guys think and hopefully, by the end of this week or the next I'll have this chapter in first and have the rest done and posted and be working on chapter 5.

The Einzbern's Hero

Prologue

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I am the bone of my sword

And with that, the gears of his world began to turn.

Steel is my body and fire is my blood

Words that strengthen every nook and cranny of his imperfect reality.

I have created over a thousand blades

They spoke the power of his conviction.

Unknown to death

The weight of his victories.

Nor known to life

The weight of his failures.

Have withstood great pain to create many weapons

They told the legend of an ally of justice.

Yet those hands will never hold anything

And his descent into despair.

so as I pray

But don't give up yet, hero-

UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS

You still have people to save.

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There he stands, alone again atop the hill of swords, in the middle of his world. Even the man himself doesn't know for how long he has been alone, but he still stands there looking as another sword is added to his collection and the memories have been added to his mind, and a single thought enters his head.

'Another mission complete.'

Now he waits, waits for his master to pull on his leash again.

Next to him is a single sword, just like any other sword added to his collection yet so different. This one was embedded in stone, the first sword to enter his collection through not actually seeing it, but by dreaming it. This was a sword that he cherished deeply and was more a memento than a weapon given to him by his savior and partner.

Just like the jeweled amulet which was given to him by his best friend.

Just like the ribbon which was given to him by his poor childhood friend.

Just like the small bow which had been given to him by his family, his first regret. The day she gave him the bow was also the day she told him who she really was. She told him it was a gift to her mother from her father, which she found at home after she died and now was giving it to him. When he asked who her father was her answer shocked him. He didn't understand why he wasn't told this; why did she have to tell him and not his old man? Why didn't he say anything, why didn't he ever even try to? She told him all about her life with them, how her mother was always so gentle with her, how her father never broke a promise to her.

He understood now why she had been so angry with him, he had stolen something very precious from her. He attempted to apologize to her, but she said there was no need because she was no longer angry, she understood now and she was so happy to have a little brother, she said that the old man had given her the best present he ever gave her: him, her hero. He was so happy he hugged her, hugged her like if he let go she would disappear forever.

...

She died in his arms that night, in 'his' arms. He remembers just holding onto her tightly, never making a sound. He stayed like that until his sobbing guardian pulled him away so that someone could collect the body. He remembers not going to the funeral, and how everyone else did. A week after that marked the end of his civilian life as he then began his travels, honing his skills on the world before him and eventually unlocking his greatest power.

Then the end of his journey came to mind as thoughts of deals, betrayal, and then death flashed across it.

As if a siren had blared, he was snapped out of his thoughts quickly. He knew this sound, the sound of royal trumpets in the air as if announcing to his world that legends had arrived.

This was the sound of The Holy Grail War summoning him.

Suddenly seven big round buttons appeared in front of him, each having a title stamped on it. The buttons were all yellow with the titles being blue.

Saber

Archer

Lancer

Rider

Caster

Assassin

Berserker

He waited for six of the buttons to gray out for him to select the class he was most suited for.

All seven of the buttons were grayed out.

He was confused. What did this mean, why summon him to this war if he wasn't suited for any of the classes? Wait, that didn't make sense since there were only seven participants and he was one of them. There were only seven participants...right?

Suddenly as if answering his thoughts an eighth button appeared, popping into existence right next to the Archer class.

He took one look at the word and felt even more confused.

Archer

Why were there two of the same class? It didn't make sense- the grail was only supposed to summon seven servants, and yet it seems he was the eighth; nor was it supposed to summon 2 servants of the same class, and yet it did.

It truly did seem that this grail no longer follows the rules that were made for it.

He looked at the button and sighed. He pressed it and immediately felt the grail begin to copy his story to send to the summoning master.

He looked up at gears of his world and sighed.

'When will this finally end?' He thought bitterly.

As the grail finished its work he felt it drag a small piece of him with it. Then all traces of the grail left his world, taking the copy of him with it and leaving the original alone once more on the hill of the world of swords.

The man once known as Shirou Emiya sighed once again as he hoped that this time that things would end just a bit more in his favor.

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(Unknown Location)

In a church, there were a man and his wife. They stood near the altar of the church while the man, who had dark hair, a long black trench coat over what seemed to be a black suit with a matching color tie, a small patch of facial hair on his chin, and eyes like that of a corpse, stands before a summoning circle with what seemed to be a blue and golden colored scabbard placed on the altar. Behind him was his wife who had snow white hair and red eyes, and wore a white dress with yellow strips going from going from shoulder to shoulder going along the collar.

She looked to her husband and asked: "Are you ready?"

The dark haired man looked at her and nodded, and then begins to chant.

"Shut(fill), Shut(fill), Shut(fill), Shut(fill), Shut(fill)."

"Repeat five times."

"But destroy each when filled."

"I hereby swear."

"I will be all that is good in the eternal world."

"I will be the disposer of all the evil in the eternal world ."

"Thou shall come under my command."

"So let thy sword be my fate."

"Abiding by the summons of the Holy Grail."

"If thou dost accede to this will and reason, answer me."

And with that the summoning circle glowed bright blue, followed by a blinding light. When the light disappeared standing in the middle of the circle was a blond haired and green eyed woman wearing a blue formal dress with silver armor over top of it.

"Servant Saber has answered your summons. I have only one question: are you my master?" She said.

The man confusedly looked at the woman but nodded after they cleared up a misunderstanding about who she was. They then turned to leave... that is until the circle began to glow once more.

Saber raises her sword to strike, the man and his partner both ready themselves to flee with the man's wife. Suddenly the wife holds her left hand as if she is in a lot of pain as everyone in the room notices the glowing stigma forming on her left hand.

"K-Kiritsugu, what's..." The wife mutters.

"I don't know Iri, this wasn't supposed to happen." Kiritsugu said.

A figure appeared in the light, a tanned man with snow white hair similar to the woman known as Iri, his eyes shut. He wore red shroud over black and white body armor, his lower half was also covered by the red shroud, and he was wearing dark pants and black steel toed boots.

"Master, orders!" Saber yelled to her master as she raises her sword to strike down the mysterious servant. Kiritsugu thought for a second, from the fact that his wife had what seems to be a pair of command seals and the reactivation of the summoning circle that grail had chosen his wife to be a master. However, this servant was an unknown and was possibly hostile. That was a chance he was not willing to take.

Kiritsugu looks to Saber and commanded:

"Attack."

Saber took off in mere second at the mysterious servant, the invisible sword raised high in the air prepared to strike the intruder down. Her sword falls towards him, intent on cleaving him in two.

A pair of dark eyes snapped open.

CLANG!

Steel met steel in an instant as her sword had met the blade of two others that had not existed a moment before. They were married swords by the looks of them- one was black and the other was white, and they were the same shape and had the same details, just different colors.

With a strong thrust, the servant threw off Saber and kicked her in the gut sending her spiraling to the floor.

The Servant whistled, "Whew, that was close huh, a few more seconds and I would've been cut in two."

Kiritsugu points his gun towards him, an origin bullet cocked into place. He knew what it did to magi, but not to servants, but hopefully this could buy them enough time should things go sour. Saber began to slowly pick herself off the floor. The servant slowly raised his hands, the married swords disappearing into thin air.

"Now, now I didn't come for a fight." He said as he began to look around the large room to find his connection.

Looking around the room the mysterious red servant was a bit stunned, though his face didn't show it, to see the current occupants of the church.

'Well, well. Isn't this interesting, to think I'd be summoned back this far. That would be just my luck, ' He thought. His eyes roaming over everyone in the room until he felt the person who was giving him a serious amount of prana. He looked towards the source and was...so surprised to see that it was coming from someone who looked very familiar.

The servant walked up, albeit hastily, to the white haired woman and was slightly let down by the noticeable difference between this woman and...her. He didn't back away when he heard Kiritsugu cock his gun and Saber tighten her grip on her sword. Instead, he addressed the woman.

"I guess by the connection I feel between us, that you are my master?" He said smirking at her before. "I was hoping for a less violent welcome, but at least this time I have a master who summoned me properly."

Irisviel made a small protest.

"But I didn't summon you."

"Huh?" The look on the servant's face was of utter confusion. Why was nothing working properly today? Was something wrong with the Grail system? Well, besides being from filled to the brim with all the world's evils.

"Well, be that as it may, by our contract, I will be your servant for the duration of this war." He said looking down at her.

"W-what's your class?" His master stammered.

"I am Servant Archer." He answered.

At this point in time, Kiritsugu had put down his gun and had looked the servant up and down. Various possibilities ran through his mind on what to do with him, but for now, he needed answers.

"Archer." He said drawing the red servant's attention.

"What is your true name?" He more demanded than asked. If Kiritsugu was going use him to his full advantage, he was going to need to know how the heroic spirit ticked.

Archer looked at the man for a good minute...

Then turned his head back to Irisviel completely ignoring Kiritsugu, much to the man's surprise and irritation.

"Archer, what is your true name." Kiritsugu repeated, more forcefully this time.

This time Archer looked at the magus killer with a raised eyebrow.

"Why should I tell you, as far as I know you're an enemy master," Archer said turning his entire body towards Kiritsugu. This caused Saber to jump in front of the man and get into a battle ready stance. As Archer was about to step forward a small hand stopped him. He looked at the person whose hand it was and raised both his eyebrows when he saw that it was his master's.

"Stop Archer, please tell us your true name?" she asked.

All the red servant could do was sigh.

"It's not really that important." He told, but her eyes told him that answer wasn't acceptable.

"Fine it's..." He hesitated for a brief second at the of risking them finding out who he really was and of speaking a name he had long since abandon. They didn't need to know the whole truth, just enough to trust him.

"It's Shirou." He said.

"Shirou, hmm yes that's a fine name." Irisviel said with a gentle smile. Archer turned away from her abit outta embarrassment.

Kiritsugu looked at him before asking: "Which mythology are you from? Greek, Norse?"

Archer scratched the back of his head.

"Ahh, well, you won't really find me in textbooks," He told Kiritsugu.

"What do you mean?" Irisviel asked, confused.

Archer looked at them for a short while before answering.

"Well you see, I come from the future."

Needless to say, the shock on everyone's face was priceless.

A/N: Yep that's right 2 ANs count it 2! This one is a bit different though as I was gone and now all the sudden Uftoable's Fate/Stay nights UBW came and left, not to mention Fate/Grand Order a mobile game that came out like almost a year ago and has it's own Movie-like OVA with a sequel coming out soon. A 'mobile' game has it's own OVA...wow. Not mention Heaven's feel , the only route I have yet to see, one of it's three movie are coming out this year. Not to mention Fate/Apocrypha (MORDRED!) and Fate/Extella.

Huh?...Oh and yeah Kaleid liner prisma Illya getting another season I think...woopie.

Man, it's a good year to be a Fate fan, now if only they could remake the Fate route or at least an OVA of the last episode. My life would be complete.

Anywho this AN is for me to ask you all stuff like who's your character, what's your favorite route, and/or what's your favorite Fate story.

Wether you have questions about the story or just wanna chat about PM me or leave in a review along with your criticism.

Since this AN is getting too long I will just say that so far Shirou is my favorite Fate character.

Seeya

Update (2/6/17): So I have a new Beta for this story, his name is Laukhi. Everything grammar should be fixed and you have him(or her? I haven't really asked.) to thank for that. However i do have an announcement to make, So unlike with the prologue I couldn't just take some ideas out and new ones in Chapter 1. As chapter 1 is directly linked to EMIYA being Avenger and how he kept most things about him hidden from everyone. So i'm basically re-writing the chapter and that it will be more original and it won't screw with 2 and 3 too much. Also do look forward to a huge surprise coming hopefully soon. Also note that by Friday chapter 1-4 plus the update will be taken down and the redone prologue will be on chapter 1.