RWOL here with a new project concerning the popular series Fate. After reading several interesting Fate/Stay Night stories, I decided to make my own stories for this series. I got this idea in my head after watching a few episodes of Unlimited Blades Work and doing more research on the various characters that I could add to my other Evangelion-HSDxD crossovers. So after finding all I could about the Nasuverse, I began to wonder how certain events would play out if certain things were changed in the characters' backgrounds.

This especially went for my favorite in the Fate series; Fate/Stay Night. What would happen if it was Rin who was sent to the Matous? What if Zouken was unable to gain the Grail Fragments, and thus unable turn Sakura into his Black Grail? What if Tokiomi refused Zouken's request, and thus kept both daughters in the Tohsaka?What would happen if Kiritsugu actually trained Shirou and not half-ass said training? What if it was someone else that found Shirou that night? What if you crossed over Fate/Stay Night with other Nasuverse series?

And it was these questions that led me to make the Project Fate; a series of stories where these questions and more are answered.

This one-shot here will form the basis for my project.

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Chapter 0: That meddlesome Zelretch

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To describe the idea of parallel worlds – also known as the Multiverse Theory by mundanes – was to describe everything. Literally, as the acceptance of the idea of parallel worlds meant that everything was possible, just not in the same world/universe. This meant that there was a world that embodied a specific possibility, either known or unknown. This further meant that while the worlds were somewhat similar to a degree, they were vastly different with their histories diverging at specific points creating new exciting stories for the history books in those dimensions.

To many, it was enthralling to see how varied each world was compared to another. In one world you could be born a guy, in another be born a girl. Hell you could even be a transgender. In one world you could be the leader of a country, in another you could be the manager of a simple store.

Infinite possibilities. Infinite worlds for those possibilities to play themselves out in.

Truly, it was incredible to be able to witness all these marvels. However, as with many of his alternates, Zelretch the Wizard Marshal found himself bored of it all. Yes, he had seen many of the worlds (not all of them as that was nearly impossible given how the multiverse was infinite in size), but he had never really intervened. Mostly because he could not be bothered to do so, and yet, he found himself longing for something. Something WORTH witnessing.

One would have to understand the innate curiosity that Zelretch possessed in order to even attain usage of the Second Magic. True, it was a magic literally transcendent in nature, but that wasn't the reason why he had access to it. It was his curiosity; his ability to look at a situation and question what if and then question the what-ifs that decided which True Magic accepted him. This curiosity, strong as it was, brought him to search for something interesting.

That was how he found the small, seemingly 'innocent' city of Fuyuki. Well, found would be an inaccurate word for this situation as he had been there before due to helping to set up the silly Holy Grail War a little over two hundred years ago. During his multiversal treks he had seen various parallel worlds involving said wars. His favorite was definitely the Fifth Holy Grail War along with some of its variations behind it. Part of his love for the fifth developed due to how much one man contributed to the differences between worlds.

In one world, the man lived a happy life; living his dream until the end and falling in love with his servant who somehow managed to fully incarnate in the physical world after the war's end where they soon married and had children (their first born was a reincarnated Mordred). In another, the man learned how broken he truly was, saw the hell that his life would become if he pursued his dream, and went to do so anyway but he entrusted himself to the Tohsaka heiress who he fell in love with and who kept him grounded. In one of the darker versions of the war, the very same man cast aside his dream to save the woman he loved the adoptive Matou heiress Sakura.

Yet each of them were truly fragmented. A better way to phrase it would be to say that they were all limited in varying degrees. The first was limited in terms of power, being the weakest amongst the three, yet the most skilled with a sword due to having learned directly from Artoria Pendragon aka the legendary King Arthur. The second was limited in terms of power, his magic circuits being weakened by disuse yet he was also the most blatantly powerful in terms of magecraft thanks to his absolute control over his reality marble by the end of the war (and Zelretch would admit that no many how many times he saw Unlimited Blade Works, it was cool as shit). The final one was perhaps the most broken of all (spiritually broken, the worst kind of broken), a Counter Guardian desperately trying to end his hellish life by going back to the Primeverse and killing his past Primeverse-self in the hopes that it would create a paradox to wipe him out.

The differences between those three worlds were so insignificant that Zelretch almost missed them, at first. Only after really looking at each world, comparing and contrasting them did he begin to see the differences. Despite their limits, Shirou Emiya and his dimensional counterparts always overcame those limits, gaining power surpassing most and in doing so sent ripples throughout their worlds that caused irrevocable changes. It was as if the world changed to suit Shirou Emiya.

Truly, if one wanted to see change incarnate, they need look no further than Shirou Emiya. Zelretch was bored, and Shirou Emiya proved interesting. Always overcoming the odds, even with his limits, just to fulfill simple goals...

Zelretch paused in his musings. There was that word again. Limit. Slowly, a grin began to form on his face, frightening the person he had been walking past. "Shirou Emiya I have seen you at your weakest, yet gaining the strength to overcome insurmountable odds like the legends of old. Even with your limitations, you gained immense power... I wonder what you would do without those same limits holding you down..."

Yet Zelretch's mind continued on with a new thought. Why stop at merely removing Shirou Emiya's limitations when he could also change specific events in the young man's life and see where those changes took the world. One simple change was all he needed to do to cause a domino effect and bring forth numerous new worlds for him to visit. Yes that would be exciting as hell to see. To watch as altered versions of Shirou Emiya affected their world and those within said world. Zelretch shivered in pleasure as this would be the most entertaining and interesting experiment he'd conducted in centuries. After all, when dealing with someone that distorted, change was inevitable. With that thought, Zelretch knew where to begin.

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Zelretch's smile was shark-like as he returned to his home world – the prime universe of the Nasuverse. Thanks to the Second True Magic known simply as Kaleidoscope, the Dead Apostle Ancestor had an intimate knowledge of the multiverse he lived in and traversed daily. The Nasuverse (and no he didn't name it that, it already had the name when he gained Kaleidoscope) was composed of two verses: the Megaverse and the Multiverse.

To understand the Nasuverse, one needed to picture a jar of marbles. The jar represented the Megaverse that contained the worlds of the Nasuverse proper. The marbles inside the jar (the Megaverse) represented the infinite worlds within the Nasuverse proper with one of those 'marbles' representing the Primeverse. The Primeverse, also known as the Origin Point and Progenitor Universe, is the basis of the Nasuverse in its entirety. Every world in the Nasuverse came into being from every choice made and every action taken by those in the Primeverse. He had laughed long and hard when he first found out how the dimensions were spawned; to think that the simple choice of what to have for breakfast could create a new dimension.

Anyway, Zelretch was here so he could manipulate the events of Primeverse-Shirou Emiya's life which would in turn create new worlds for him to traverse. After all, Kaleidoscope is the ultimate in Space-Time manipulation, allowing him to not only travel to different worlds but also traverse their timelines. As such it was a simple matter for Zelretch to find the right moment in time of Primeverse-Shirou Emiya and make the needed changes; not only in removing the boy's limits and but also altering a specific event in his life.

After making the needed changes, Zelretch felt a tingle in the back of his mind, which was due to his Kaleidoscope magic detecting new worlds in the Nasuverse. Thanks to Kaleidoscope, whenever Zelretch traveled to a world, he would gain all the information he needed to know about that specific world so he wouldn't be lost on what was happening.

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The first of the newest worlds Zelretch traversed, dubbed Antilegomena, was the world in which Shirou was found by Kiritsugu Emiya in a Subspecies Holy Grail War who was able to save the boy, and like many of his alternates adopted the boy soon after. In this world, Shirou is a devout Christian and so Kiritsugu let his son join the Church forces and become an Executor, being taken under the tutelage of Ciel. Shirou then had one of the best careers as an Executor, killing TWO Dead Apostle Ancestors: Rank 7 Jester Karture – Six Hearted Revolver and Rank 13 Zepia Eltnam Oberon – the Night of Wallachia. This Shirou also developed his own Reality Marble, though not as cool as Unlimited Blades Works, was still massively powerful given the boy's godlike control over the lightning element.

The Holy Grail War in that dimension was extremely interesting. During the Third Holy Grail War, the True Grail (also known as the Greater Grail) was stolen by Darnic Prestone of the Yggdmillennia clan with the help of the German Nazis. He then released the Holy Grail's blueprints worldwide, creating the Subspecies Holy Grail Wars that would scar the world for the next sixty years. Then in the early 2000s, the Yggdmillennia then openly declare their secession from the Mage's Association and that they are in possession of the Grail. The Association dispatched fifty magi to retrieve it, but all but one are instantly slaughtered by Lancer of Black. The one remaining manages to activate the reserve system of the Greater Grail, allowing for the summoning of fourteen Servants in total.

The Black Faction of the Yggdramillennia against the Red Faction whose members are part of the Mage's Association and the Church. Unknown to all, the Grail itself had summoned its own servant, Ruler, who is the Saint Jeanne D'Arc who contracts with Shirou after the latter drove off the Lancer of Red who had been sent to kill Jeanne. With Jeanne by his side, Shirou creates his own faction – the White Faction – composed of his own Servants thanks to Jeanne's abilities as a Ruler.

Leaving that world, Zelretch headed to the next new world.

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Zelretch landed in the new world Völuspá. In this one the Einzberns managed to win the Third Holy Grail War and reclaim their lost magic Heaven's Feel and ending the grail wars for good. Supposedly. The Church decided to conduct their own version of the Holy Grail War and set up the ritual in Tokyo, which surprisingly is Shirou's (Luca) birth city before he would either dies from an illness (in a few of the worlds within the Tokyo Grail War cluster) or when he is sent to his grandmother's in Fuyuki where the Great Fire would happen and he would be 'reborn' as Shirou Emiya (in the Fuyuki Grail War cluster). Thankfully for Zelretch this world was one of many where Luca (Shirou) didn't contract that illness and die. In this one, Shirou is a Rune magic specialist and to Zelretch's pleasant surprise a honest-to-god demigod. He is also friends with that cute little yandere Manaka Sajyou (who is consequently connected to the Root itself, making Zelretch himself wary of her), her younger sister Ayaka and another Rune magic specialist Misaya Reiroukan. Manaka and Shirou would fight in both the First and Second Tokyo Holy Grail Wars with both being more intense than some variations of the Fifth Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars.

Leaving the Völuspá world behind him, Zelretch wondered about the next dimension on his journey.

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Zelretch landed in the new world dubbed Blue Entropy. In this one a fateful meeting between two destroyers happened as Aoko Aozaki met Shirou Emiya and Aoko made Shirou her apprentice. Zelretch had to laugh at the training methods Aoko used to train Shirou, with Alice (who is Shirou's sister-figure and legal guardian) merely shaking her head at her friend's methods. The two eventually became more than student and teacher, becoming lovers and later husband and wife. When the fifth war happened, Shirou ended up summoning interestingly enough Altera aka Attlia the Hun under the Saber-class, who would later join Shirou's little harem.

Zelretch once again left this new world for another new adventure.

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Zelretch visited the final world he created due to his actions. Known as Blutmond, where instead of Michael Roa Valdamjong being born into the Tohno clan, he was born into the Tohsaka clan and instead of Shiki Tohno meeting Arcueid Brunestud its Shirou Emiya. Though Shirou's meeting with Arcuied would happen sooner than Shiki's as Shirou met the White Princess only a few years after the botched Fourth Holy Grail War and after pulling off quite the feat the survive; summoning Nero Claudius as a servant! Man the adventures Shirou, Arcuied, Nero and later Ciel would have definitely classified as misadventures.

The Fifth Holy Grail was utterly crazy as one of the chosen Masters was the current reincarnation of dreaded Michael Roa Valdamjong who somehow managed to recreate his original Dead Apostle body and left her body while taking her command seals. But Roa wasn't the only Dead Apostle Ancestor in Fuyuki as the Rank 10 Nrvnqsr Chaos was there looking for Arcueid Brunestud the White Princess. Fuyuki City quickly became a vampire hot spot when due to Roa's actions in turning hapless people into the Dead, DDA Rank 13 Night of Wallachia (TATARI/Zepia Eltnam Oberon) appeared taking form from the Vampire of the Night rumors spreading. This led to Shirou meeting and gaining Sion Eltnam Atlasia as his latest ally, and another woman for his harem.

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Well folks, this is the foundational chapter that will bring forth my most challenging project to date; Fate Project. As I said earlier in the preface this project is meant to bring something new Fate/Stay by changing things up. You want a story where Rin was given to the Matous instead of Sakura. Done! You want a story where neither Rin nor Sakura are in the Matous. Done! You want a story with a competent and skilled Shirou. Done! You just want something different in a Fate/Stay story. Done! Project Fate is here for you.

Here is the list of upcoming stories for Project Fate:

Fate Antilegomena – Summary: Shirou Emiya, the Lightning of God and Executor of the Church, finds himself in the Greater Holy Grail War aiding the Ruler-class Jeanne D'Arc. Pairing: ShirouxJeanne.

Fate Völuspá – Summary: Luca "Shirou" Emiya survived the First Tokyo Holy Grail War, and finds himself in the Second. With old friends and new allies, he fights to prevent the rise of the 666. Pairing: Shirou harem

Fate Blue Entropy – Summary: Miss Blue meets the future Mister Blue in Shirou Emiya. Taking him as her apprentice and later lover, the Blue Entropy Duo is born. Pairing: ShirouxAoko

Fate Blutmond – Summary: Fate is altered when Michael Roa Valdamjong is born into the Tohsaka instead of the Tohno and its Shirou Emiya who encounters Arcueid Brunestud. The events of Fate/Stay Night, Melty Blood and Tsukihime collide in the most epic adventure ever. Pairing; Shirou Harem.

Alright lady and gents this is my Project Fate and I hope you like the four main stories that make up the project. I'm sure you're questioning why I made such changes, like removing some of the stories and changing the titles of the ones that remain. The reason is that with how my life is right now, being in the process of moving as well as changes at my job, I needed to make Project Fate a bit more manageable. So the four stories above are the stories that I will focus on. Now there is a 'fifth' story that is part of Project Fate but its not really a story. Its going to be my own version of the Typemoon wikia that will explain the mechanics of the shared universe that the stories of Project Fate takes place in so be on the look out for that.