Fate/Alternative Nights
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Summary: Inspired by Fate Extra Nights. Emiya Shirou willingly participating in the Holy Grail War to heal his sister. Halfway through the war, he and his Servant were caught in a freak accident and sent to the beginning of war. Only, it wasn't their war.

Chapter 3

"So let me get this straight," Emiya said as he looked Shirou and the female Archer. "You two are from an alternate dimension, where everything was different. You were adopted by father, Emiya Kiritsugu, and his wife, Irisviel von Einzbern-Emiya, making you the big brother to their daughter, Illyasviel von Einzbern-Emiya, the alternate version of Berserker's Master that tried to kill me earlier, who is now sick after your parents disappeared six years ago and is the reason why you're competing in the Holy Grail War."

A nod from his counterpart was his response, who was otherwise busy with drinking his tea.

Emiya continued. "You were also childhood friend with the alternate version of Tohsaka and an alchemist after your mother taught you. You were sent here after a failed try-out of a recreated artifact from a blue print you picked up after the other Tohsaka threw out after she had an embarrassing accident with another artifact."

He got another nod for an answer, this time with a color of amusement lighting the other Shirou's face.

"Now you're trying to go back to your own war by winning this war and proposing an alliance with me and Tohsaka?"

"Yeah, pretty much like that," Shirou finally commented as he as he set down his tea. "Nice tea, by the way."

"Thank you," Emiya replied.

Saber on Emiya's side, dressed without her armor, was blushing hotly after she heard about her alternate self. Her body was trembling and her fists clenched on her lap. "…That another version of me…how…how…"

"It was quite a surprise to learn that she was King Arthur and it was an even bigger surprise when we learned that she was a lesbian too," Archer, who was now wearing a red buttoned blouse with a black tie and black trousers instead of her combat attire, shrugged before a blush adorned her cheek. "I don't mind that, though."

That snapped the attention of everyone present to her, save for her Master who was once again drinking his tea, and rolled his eyes.

"How many times do you think I found Archer and Saber playing tonsil hockey after 'sparring'?"

The reaction was instant. Emiya and the male Archer had blood gushing out from their nose, promptly knocking them out cold. Saber turned even redder and someone could swear there were smokes coming from her head. Rin was blushing and gaping and…

Was that a trickle of blood on her nose?

"Rin, is that blood on your nose?" Shirou pointed out.

Letting out a startled cry, Rin hurriedly wiped the blood using the sleeves of her coat.

"A tsundere, a closet pervert, and probably a bi…Who knew Rin was like that?" Archer giggled.

"You…you…!" Rin could say nothing else besides that, but she was still pointing a shaking finger to the silver haired Servant. No doubt she wanted to shoot Gand at her.

Shirou just sighed and drank his tea again. While Archer was indeed powerful, she also had her quirks. Being bisexual and a die hard fan of an expensive ice cream brand for example. The young alchemist didn't find Archer and Saber locking lips disgusting. After unfortunately discovering his mother and father making out by accident many times when he was younger and was given the 'talk' with very accurate details as a result—well, it made him able to tolerate Archer and Saber making out, at the very least.

"Can we get back to the topic, please?" Shirou suggested.

After Emiya and the male Archer returned to the land of living, with tissues stuffed on their nose, the discussion continued.

"The reason why I wanted to make an alliance with you because truth to be told, you won't survive long in this war even with Saber," the alchemist stated looking at his counterpart critically. "Your Saber, truth to be told is weaker than she should be. I've seen Rin's Saber fight against Berserker with little trouble, so your Saber should be too since she should be an alternate version of Saber back home or the other way round. But what I've seen is that she had a hard time against him and the one to blame is you."

"M-Me?" Emiya replied, pointing to himself.

"Saber's prana was used to sustain herself at the cost of lowering her stats," Rin supplied the undertrained Magus. "From the way I see it, the contract between Emiya-kun and Saber was incomplete for some reason and I suspect that there was no link between Emiya-kun and Saber, so Saber didn't receive prana from her Master."

"So, how we can fix this?" Saber asked, the redness still lingering on her face. She doubted she could forget mental image she got from earlier any time soon.

"There's always the prana passage ritual, if you want to know," Archer answered.

"Prana passage ritual?" Emiya asked.

"Basically, it's a ritual that allows someone to give prana to another person via a connection. It might be hurt a little and…either embarrassing or pleasant, depending on the way how you look at it," Archer once again provided the answer with an innocent smile.

Rin arched her eyebrow at that. "You know about modern magecraft?"

"I read from Shirou's books. What else do you think I do in my spare time?" the silver haired Servant answered dryly.

"Sparring with Saber, making out with Saber, reading Illya's magical girl manga, watching Illya's magical girl anime, pulling pranks on Rin, wasting my money on Hagen-Datz…" Shirou supplied the list.

"Oh come on, Shirou! I'm trying to build an image here!" Archer pouted at her Master.

Upon hearing the word 'make out', Saber's face promptly reddened again. Now she will never be the same again.

"Anyway," Rin coughed in order to get everyone's attention. "Emiya-kun, it's up to you to do the passage ritual or not. But if you want to, it will be advantageous to you and Saber."

Emiya looked at his Servant and their gaze met. There was no need of words; the look on Saber's eyes already told him what to do.

"How does the ritual work?" the undertrained magus asked as he looked at Archer.

"Kiss, with a lot of tongue," the silver haired Servant said off-handedly. "Lots and lots of tongue…"

"W-WHAT?-!-?-!" Emiya and Saber were caught off-guard by her answer.

"That, or you two have sex whenever Saber is about to run out of prana," Archer added, her tone still airy.

Emiya and Saber turned beet red and their confidence ebbed away slowly after hearing that. This was a very embarrassing situation. Shirou decided it was time to give his counterpart and his Servant a break. He was afraid that Saber's brain was going to combust soon if this continued.

"So, what do you say about the alliance?" he asked.

"Um, well, about that, I-I think I'm going to accept your offer. I'm still new here and I'm going to need every help I can get," Emiya answered, grateful for his counterpart's intervention. "I won't let what happened ten years ago to be repeated and more innocents die because of this war."

"Good," Shirou then turned to Rin. "What about you, Rin?"

The head of Tohsaka family seemed to think over it and she nodded to herself. "Well, I suppose it can't be helped. I'd rather to have you as ally because of your knowledge of this war. Have you defeated other Servants back at your universe?"

"Rider, Assassin, and Caster," Shirou supplied to Rin. "Lancer escaped when Archer was about to finish him off. I managed to kill only four of Berserker's live and Saber is out of the question since she is an ally."

"Good. Then, I guess this alliance is official now," Rin said to Shirou and Emiya. She then stood up and walked away. "It's getting very late now, so I'm going home. I'll see you two tomorrow then."

Emiya accompanied Rin to the exit and returned not a while later.

"Well, what about you two?" he asked to the dimension travelers.

"You have a spare room?" Shirou asked and his counterpart nodded. "Then, we'll take one of them. We'll going to stay here until the war ends."

"Eh? You're going to stay here?" Emiya asked bewildered. "What about Fuji-nee and Sakura?"

"We don't have a place to stay and we can create a convincing story later," Archer answered.

Emiya nodded in understanding and showed Shirou and Archer one of the many spare rooms of the Emiya residence.

"Well, I hope you two don't mind staying in this room," Shirou's counterpart said.

"Don't worry, we'll live," the alchemist replied. "Good night to you, and do the passage ritual quick, okay?"

Emiya blushed and muttered hasty 'good night' before he left. Archer giggled amusedly at his reaction. Shirou just sighed and shook his head before he went to sleep.

The next day…

"So, what do we do next?" Rin asked to the member of her—actually Shirou's—alliance.

Rin and her Archer had visited the Emiya residence after Taiga-sensei and Sakura left—Emiya already told them he couldn't go to school because he didn't feel good— on the same time when Shirou and his Archer woke up.

"Me and my Archer need to establish an identity," Shirou said. "We have two Emiya Shirou here and two Archers, so for the sake of convenience we need to settle on a new identity."

"That's not a bad plan," Rin's Archer commented. "What do you have in mind?"

"Oh, I know! How about calling me 'Archerko'?" Shirou's Archer said as she raised her hand.

"Archerko?" Saber inquired, dressed in white long sleeved buttoned shirt with blue bow tie and blue pleated skirt with black legging that Rin gave to her.

"I mean I'm an Archer and a girl, so it should be obvious what to call me right?" the silver haired Servant reasoned with a smile.

"You need to stop reading those doujins before they rot your brain," Shirou muttered.

"Why should I stop reading doujins when I came from one?" Archer or rather, the newly baptized Archerko fired the question back at her Master, unknowingly breaking the fourth wall. "That reminds me, that Himura guy should really work on the next chapter fast! I was just about to get into an epic fight with that girl abomination thingie and if he doesn't finish that he's gonna get it!" Archerko raised a shaking fist in righteous fury.

The room was silent at Archerko's random outburst.

Somewhere from beyond the fourth wall, Himura Kiseki suddenly felt a shiver in his spine as he suddenly had the urge to redouble his efforts in drawing the next chapter of his Archerko doujin and sensed that something bad was going to happen to him if he didn't finish soon.

And now, back to our heroes.

"Yeah, right…that's very creative of you," Shirou said sarcastically and his Servant sent a mock glare. "I think I'm going to need hair dye and a pair of contact lenses so that I will look different than my other self here."

"I guess that's reasonable," Emiya said, snapped out of his confusion and agreeing with his counterpart. "I don't mind lending some money to you."

"That won't be necessary," Shirou replied as he put his gloves and palmed some pebbles he took somewhere. The alchemist poured his prana to the transmutation circle on the back of his gloves, trying to transmute the pebbles into something else. After a while, he opened his palms and to everyone's surprise, except for Archerko, the pebbles in his hand now were pieces of gold.

"N-No way! I-Is t-that gold?-!" Rin asked, half shocked and half awed at the spectacle.

"Pure gold. I only use this as a last resort when I ran out of money. And since I am now in another dimension, I have no other way to get some money except using my alchemy. Working part time is out of the question since it will take a while to get the money," Shirou said, wiping the sweat on his brow. Contrary to popular belief, transmuting pebble into gold like he did was damn difficult and deeply drained his prana. "Archerko, damn it's hard to call you by that name now, I want you to sell this gold and use the money to get the supplies we're going to need."

"Oh, can I get some Hagen-Datz?" the silver haired Servant asked her Master, her red eyes were sparkling at the expectation of the frozen treat.

Letting out a sigh, the red haired Alchemist turned to now officially baptized Archer. "Archer, can you don me a favor? Please make sure Archerko doesn't spend all the money on that damned expensive ice cream."

Seeing the almost pleading look on his alternate past made Archer instantly nodded. To be honest, he respected this version of him more than his actual version of his past. "Very well, I'll keep an eye on Archerko while we're shopping."

"Be sure to keep your physical form just in case you need to keep her out of trouble. You might want to ask Rin to go along with you," Shirou added.

Archer shrugged."No need of my Master in this mundane task. How hard is it to keep her out of trouble?"

Oh, the famous last words…

Two hours later, Archerko smiled like a child that had been told Christmas came twice or even thrice this year with two shopping bags on each of her hands. Archer on her side, who was wearing a buttoned red shirt with the sleeves rolled to elbow and black trousers, lying face down on the ground, completely drained and exhausted to the point where even breathing was so damn hard. Another eight shopping bags were lying around near his hands. He struggled to see Shirou whom was carrying some of his necessity, like his hair dye, his contact lens, soap, a toothbrush, some clothes, and a towel.

"…You…have my respect…for being able….to withstand…her…in your time as…her Master…." Archer said, struggling between his words.

"Thank you, Archer," Shirou replied as he left for the bathroom.

Archer only groaned in response.

Rin approached her downed her Servant and poked him with her finger, only to have him twitching and groaning pitifully. She turned to Archerko who was happily humming a nameless tune as she rummaged the shopping bag.

"Is he going to be okay?"

"Don't worry about him. Now who wants to watch Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st? I have some Hagen-Datz with me, too."

A while later, Shirou walked out of the bathroom with his hair dyed black, his usual ochre eyes were now deep blue thanks to the contact lenses, and was wearing a fresh set of clothes, only to find Archerko, Rin, and Saber had their eyes glued to the TV and they each had a medium cup of Hagen-Datz in their hands. They were watching that Magical Girl anime Illya always watched back home. Archer was long forgotten, still lying face down, twitching and groaning randomly. Emiya was sleeping on the table, no doubt he getting bored enough to sleep.

"Hey, Shirou. You finished bathing?" Archerko called, her attention never leaving the TV screen.

Shirou's dyed eyebrow twitched at that. "Yeah, I'm done. Can we continue our discussion?"

"Later, I'm rather curious about this movie," Rin answered, waving her hand as a sign of dismissal. Her attention was similarly focused on the television screen.

A large vein mark popped in the back of Shirou's head. He had a terribly irresistible urge to use his alchemy to smash the TV. But he knew if he did so, then no doubt Archerko, Rin, and Saber will unleash their unholy wrath at him. Hell hath no fury like women scorned, especially these two Servants and one Magus. So for the sake of his health, Shirou sat on the tatami mat and had his elbow propped on the table, supporting his chin while his free hand was tapping the table.

"Hey, this is where the real good part starts!" Archerko called to her fellow female.

"Really?" Rin asked as she leaned closer to the TV. Saber, being a curious girl and knowing no better way to deal with technology followed Rin's example.

It came; the scene where the massive pink beam of destruction known as an S-Rank Area of Effect Spell called Starlight Breaker made it appearance. Archerko cheered loudly, awaking Emiya from his boredom induced sleep in process, while Rin and Saber gaped.

"Holy mother of…" Rin just said while eating her spooned ice cream.

"That spell is just as powerful as Excalibur, if not stronger," Saber murmured in awe.

The movie continued on until it reached its epilogue. After the credit rolls, Archerko turned to Rin and Saber.

"So, how was it?"

"It's something new to me. I never thought that technology and magic can result to something like that," Rin answered.

"Unreal. I hope there are no people like that Nanoha girl in real life. I shudder to think what kind of woman she will grow up to be," Saber commented while taking a spoon of her ice cream.

Somewhere in the multiverse, the White Devil of TSAB sneezed.

"Hey, are you three done yet?" Shirou called out. He looked bored and so did Emiya on his side.

"Yeah, we are," Rin replied to the alchemist. She then looked at her Servant whom was still the same as before. "What are we going to do with Archer?"

"He's going to be alright," Shirou answered. "Anyway, I've decided a new identity for me. It's going to be Kagami Shirou. So when you're going to refer me, it's Kagami. Okay?"

"That's not much of a change, isn't it?" Emiya commented.

Shirou, now Kagami shrugged. "It's rather simple to remember. I mean, 'mirror'? See how simple it is?"

"Very creative of you, Kagami," Archerko commented, half praising, half sarcastic.

Kagami shot her a glare. "You're getting me back for the earlier, don't you?"

Archerko just grinned at him.

He then turned to Emiya. "So, what kind of magic do you know?"

"Um, I only know reinforcing and projection because father only taught me the basics," Emiya answered.

Archerko perked up at that. "I know! I can become your teacher!" Everyone turned to her at that, save for Archer. "The basic of my Tracing is reinforcing and projection, so I can teach you how to Trace. How that sounds to you?"

"Well, I don't want to be a burden to Saber or to any of you in this war," Emiya answered as he looked at his guests. "I accept your offer, Archerko."

"Good, then we have an agreement," Archerko said as she traced a pair of glasses and put them on. "From now on, call me Archerko-sensei! I'm going to wipe you from a sorry excuse of a mage into a true mage! Now prepare yourself for your first lesson, my pupil!"

As Archerko finished her monologue and cackled like a mad scientist, Saber couldn't help but worried for her Master whom shuddered at his new tormentor—er, teacher.

"Is Shirou going to be okay?"

"Let's just hope for the best," Kagami answered with a sigh while Rin was trying to rouse her Servant.

The dinner on Emiya household was tense and awkward for that night. Why not? Fujimura Taiga and Matou Sakura eyed the four new residents of the house warily while Kagami, Archerko, Saber, and Rin ate their dinner calmly. Emiya as the master of the house, slouched on the dining table as he was completely drained from his training with Archerko and starting to feel headache was coming to him.

"Shirou! Who are these people?" Taiga demanded of the red head. "And why is Tohsaka here?" She pointed an accusing finger at Rin.

"My house is under renovation, Fujimura-sensei," Rin answered as she ate her meat stew. "I asked Emiya-kun for a place to stay and he offered a room here. Emiya-kun is really kind, isn't he?"

"Right…" the Tiger seemed like she didn't believe Rin's story, but she decided to buy it for now. The teacher-turned-kendo athlete then shifted her attention to the other three. "What about you three?"

"I'm a relative of Kiritsugu-san's wife, Irisviel von Einzbern," Archerko answered, Fujimura's and Sakura's eyes widened at that although for different reasons. "My name is Emillya von Einzbern and these two are my companions, Kagami Shirou and Arthellina Pendraig." She gestured to Kagami and Saber.

"And why are you here?" The self-appointed guardian of Emiya inquired further.

"We were asked to protect Shirou from his father's enemies if something happened to Kiritsugu," Saber, under the alias of 'Arthellina', answered and playing along with Archerko or 'Emillya'. "Granted we're too late to hear that Kiritsugu died, but we will do our best to protect him."

Fuji-nee looked at Saber critically before she stood up and pointed her finger at the blond. "Fine then, Arthellina or whoever you are! I challenge you to a duel! I'm going to test your worth as Shirou's guardian! If you win you can do anything you want, but if I win then I will be the one to protect Shirou!"

Saber placed her chopstick and rice bowl on the dining table as she looked up to the Tiger. "Very well. I accept your challenge."

"Good," Fuji-nee cracked her knuckles to put more emphasis to her reply. She then looked at Kagami and Archerko. "After I finished with her, it's your turn."

The Master and Servant looked at each other before they turned to the teacher. "Good luck, Fujimura-san."

The brown haired woman looked baffled at their reply. "Eh? Why did you two wish me luck?"

"You'll see," Archerko replied cryptically as she smirked.

Not less than fifteen minutes later, the once proud Fujimura Taiga was seen hugging her knees in the corner of the dining room with comical black haze of distress hanging around her.

"*sob*…I can't believe I lost…*sob*…I lost Shirou to weird girls…" the former kendo athlete sobbed loudly.

"There is an old saying 'there is a sky above the sky'," Archerko said, smiling brightly at Fuji-nee. "Sakura-chan, more please!"

"Me too, more please," Saber added as she gave Sakura her empty rice bowl.

The purple haired girl nodded as she refilled Emi and Lina's—nickname for Archerko and Saber's alias—bowl. She was so dumbfounded to see a kendo champion like Fuji-nee was defeated less in five minutes by these two girls! Sure there were something off about them, but she couldn't quite place it.

"Just wait, you two!" Fuji-nee turned around and dramatically pointed her finger at Archerko and Saber. "I'm going to get you back one of these days! I swear on my pride!"

"I'll be waiting, Taiga," Saber smirked as she received her bowl from Sakura.

"Don't call me with that name!" Taiga roared, doing the very impression of the animal she named after.

Kagami, Emiya, and Rin just sighed as they ate their postponed dinner

A/N: This is the edited version of chapter 3. Thanks for DawningShadows for proofreading this. I changed the fourth wall scene with his suggestion. So again, thanks a lot! So leave a review now! Thanks!