Fate/Suburbia External

Chapter 8: Smile

"Adam! Adam!" Shou calls out.

Master Adam, coming to grips with Larry the dog carrying a head, turns to see Shou coming from across the street with his servants.

"Oh.." Shou begins to stumble a bit approaching the talking head, his servants keep going.

"Another Master, with capable enough servants... very well, I'll begin to explain the situation.." the head says.

Nero," Umu! A talking head! This is very interesting!"

Heracles roars, "Grooooooooooar!"

A continuous surge of lightning strikes down not too far from the Masters, thunder rumbling the whole city, the fog begins to swirl and form into a huge mass. A large octopus arm comes out from the fog and then another, followed by a hunched pale blubbered body slowly unfolding itself into the sky. Ushiwakamaru goes to shield her Master sword drawn at the sight.

"Krahahahahahagh!"

A piercing laughter sounds over the lightning as it starts to dissipate, the clouds pelting its bullets onto all beneath them. A wave of the octopus demons come pouring out from the corners of the nearby buildings. Musashi jumps down from the adjacent building cutting a handful of monsters targeting Master Adam into pieces.

"Hopefully I didn't miss too much!" Musashi exclaims.

"Musashi!" Adam shouts happily.

"Heracles! Go wild!" Shou shouts.

As ordered, Heracles grunts and jumps forth crashing down onto a plethora of monsters, and tosses the surrounding ones into oblivion. Caster starts puffing out clouds with her little summons to help Heracles once more. Ushiwakamaru runs forth slicing open as many as she can muster at a given time.

"Let's talk inside!" Adam shouts, and Shou nods. The two Masters with their servants barring Heracles, Caster of Midrash and Ushiwakamaru enter the cafe alongside Larry the dog with the head.

"Now onto what I was sayin—"

"So who are you?" Shou asks.

"You fool! Now is... sigh, if I must so you can understand this wonderfully crafted story. I am Christian Hans Anderson," The head says still in Larry's mouth. The other Servants look at each other as do the Masters," when I was being summoned via the grail, some man by the name of Nicholas R. Sanders had interrupted the process by finding himself absorbed into its mana projection phase."

"Sanders?" Adam says to himself.

"The fellow was rather spiteful at the time of this incident and had begun to corrupt my summons. The question is how did he have a suitable catalyst to connect with me, or rather..."

"It wasn't a coincidence!" Nero interjects.

"...Uh, yes."

"You see Ozymandias!" Nero puffs out her chest with a smile.

"I had made such a distinction long before he even spoke." Ozymandias retorts.

Archer steps forward, "We need to hurry, I can sense the danger growing."

Adam looks back to Anderson, "So how do we stop whatever that is?"

"I was getting there... Sanders and my body are most likely at the center of this storm. If those two can be separated then, we most likely can stop this madness. I have deadlines to meet after all."

Shou looks out one of the rain stained windows beside the arcade in the back. Despite the image being all but clear, one can tell from its massive eyes aligned with the roofs of the city's buildings where it's gaze lies. It's massive humanoid arms flailing around, while tendrils waved every which way.