"The things we can't obtain are the most beautiful." -Gilgamesh

They then feel like they were falling off the world so they did the only thing they could and hug each other until the light disappears. They then find themselves within the midst of a castle surrounded by a group of ten robed men.

"T-there shouldn't be anymore heroes right?" says one of them with another person replying "Y-yes, there was the sword, the spear, the bow and shield and that's it. I don't know how there are two more?"

When Shirou and Rin finally recovered, Rin begins with "Where are we? Why is there is such a massive amount of ambient prana?" confusing everyone in the room. "P-prana?"

The eldest of them then clears their throat and says "I-in any case, we should have you have an audience w-with the king."

Both of them absentmindedly nod as they follow the men into the throne room, taking note of the gothic-medieval design of the palace. They then arrive a slight bit later in a somewhat grandiose throne room wherein a king, with slightly hurriedly placed on clothes, was sitting on the throne. I mean, can you blame him? Sudden news of two extra heroes coming in is not something you see often if at all.

Shirou then whispers to Rin "So... sh-should we bow or-"

"Of course we bow you moron." as Rin pushes his head down as she says "P-pleased to meet your acquaintance your majesty" making the king stroke his beard as he sizes them both up. He then replies with "No, the pleasure is all mine, heroes of another world. Now, I am the king of this fair kingdom, the kingdom of Melromarc and I am Aultcray Melromarc the 32nd."

"I am Rin Tohsaka, a seventh generation mage of the Tohsaka bloodline, a renowned and accomplished line of mages from our world."

"I am Shirou Emiya, a mere third rate mage I guess.. ."

That intro earns an elbow to Shirou's rib courtesy of Rin, to which the king says "Not to worry Sir Emiya. Surely you must have noticed a weapon of sorts appearing in your hand or anything."

Shirou shook his head in confusion. Finding an easier way to explain it, the king then points at the jewel encrusted card pouch that newly appeared and stuck onto Rin's belt area.

"Sir Emiya, an example would be like Miss Tohsaka's pouch of cards. That makes her the hero of the cards? I guess?"

Rin then looks confused as she tries to pry the thing off her but to no avail.

"Do not bother Miss Tohsaka, that artifact, like the other four legendary weapons is one that is firmly stuck to you."

"E-eh?!"

"Now, you sir Shirou... What might yours be? If one cannot find their legendary artifact, it's probably best to consult the menu."

Shirou looks at him confusedly and says "The... what?"

After a short explanation of the legendary weapons system, Shirou and Rin nod as they try it out. After Rin focuses on her menu, her card pouch's gem glowed as a game-like interface appears in front of her. "E-eh...  Shirou help... I already struggle with Blu Rays, this is too much... Help me..."

"Your so helpless Rin..."

This immediately nearly made a vessel pop in her forehead, since those were the very words Archer once said to her as she tried to operate a blu ray, well before she kicked him until he begged for forgiveness.

"Then maybe I don't want your help!"

Shirou then hugs her from behind and says "Look, I'm sorry okay? Forgive me?"

"Fine but you'll have to cook omurice later."

"Deal. Now... Let's see."

Shirou then does the same with Rin looking at his screen attentively. Shirou then starts talking, saying "Now... Normally a mage would not know a damn about this things but thanks to a little thing known as being friends with Shinji, he made me fix his console when I was still twelve. And I have to say, I've played enough Final Fantasy to know how to do these. F*** you Sepiroth."

"What are you getting at Shirou? Besides Shinji being not completely useless and videogames not being anything but brain rot?"

"It means, I understand some bits of this game-like world. And... Aha!"

After a bit of fiddling around, Shirou gets to his interface and sees his title.

"Name: Shirou Emiya
Title: False Hero?

False hero huh? Guess that's what entails for being a faker."

"A false hero? Faker? What do those mean?" said the confused king to Shirou.

Shirou replies with "You see your majesty, in my world, the one thing I'm good at is the exact replication of anything with the concept of a weapon with few exceptions. However they are what my title claim them to be."

The king then immediately connects the dots and says "Fakes... Interesting."

The king then went on to explain about the waves and their need of saviours. Shirou immediately agreed and Rin as well... after a bit of convincing from Shirou that is.

Later on they were told to rest in the living quarters alongside the four other heroes.

When they entered they immediately find four boys, a blonde one with a pony tail, wielding a spear and with a physical look resembling a male Mordred which he saw within Artoria's dream at some point, another blonde hair kid with green eyes who seemed like a feminine-looking Gawain with a bow, a black haired, presumably Japanese kid with blue eyes wielding a sword and a boy who was definitely a japanese, weilding a shield with him.

The spearmen then goes in front of Rin and says "Hey there cutie, the name's Kitamura Motoyasu. Legendary hero of the spear, and absolute badass. What's yours?"

Shirou pulls her away from him and then says "Whose girlfriend do you think you're flirting with?" while glaring into the eyes of Motoyasu who doesn't even seem to flinch at what he says and looks at him uninterestedly with a "Oh I see..." he then puts his hands on his hips and proudly says "Then I'll just show her whose truly the better man!"

Rin looks at him weirdly before stopping herself from laughing. She then outright chokes on her saliva, saying "Sorry, sorry, I thought you were joking. But that's NEVER gonna happen. I don't think you could pull off half the stuff he does on an almost daily basis." Motoyasu smirks and then goes into a battle stance before saying "Then I'd just have to beat him in a fight to prove it?"

This statement made Rin outright howl in laughter confusing everyone, as she says "Yeah, like that's gonna end well." as she wipes away a tear from her eye.

The black swordsman then forcefully lowers Motoyasu's spear with his sword and says "Besides, it would be quite stupid if we fought against each other when we should be busy getting stronger to save this world." to which the blonde bowman joins him and says "Ren here is right. Oh, I am Kawasumi Itsuki by the way. Now... who's the prime minister of your Japan?"

That question confuses both Rin and Shirou. Rin then answers, making the last guy, the shielder, stand up and says "Wait, are you from my world then?" making Shirou let out a "huh?" sound.

"My name's Naofumi Iwatani, shield hero, I guess. And by what Ren and I said, heh, you see all four of us come from different alternate Japans." This made Rin and Shirou look at each other and then Shirou says "That can't be right, both of us come from the same Japan?"

Naofumi then asks Shirou and Rin a couple questions before all three arrived at the same conclusion. "We're from the same Japan." making Ren say "Good for you Naofumi. Looks like you're not alone." without a speck of sarcasm in his voice.

Rin then says "So wait, YOU'RE the person we were told to get?" to which Naofumi says "Gosh really? I thought noone saw me get sucked into this world?"

Shirou nods and says "Well yeah, a magus to-ack!"

Rin then elbows him in the rib once more whispering into his ear "Oi, dum dum! Maguses are supposed to be secret from the normies remember?" to which Shirou snarkily remarks with "Having a magic shield on par with a noble phantasm attached to his arm doesn't exactly classify him as normal now doesn't it?"

"Alright wise guy, you take responsibility for what they'll know then. I am NOT taking part in your shenanigans." Rin says, making Shirou huff in defeat. He then turns around to explain to Naofumi but then the shieldsman then says "Don't bother, I heard about everything. Not sure about everyone else, but I did. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

Itsuki then claps both hands together, saying "Well! Since tomorrow is a big day, why don't we take a rest first?"

Everyone nodded before Motoyasu interjects with "Hey wait, what even is your weapon? I know that I have a spear, Ren has a sword, Itsuki has a bow, Naofumi has a shield, and I'm guessing ms... um..." to which Rin smugly looks at him saying "You don't even know my name. Call me Tohsaka, Rin Tohsaka, you scumbag. Oh yeah, and I'm the hero of the Cards or whatever."

Motoyasu smiles at her with a twitchy eye before shaking his head. Naofumi looks at her with slightly widened eyes, since he had a classmate back then that talked about a Tohsaka in their sister school.

Shirou then raises a hand and says "I am Shirou Emiya, and I am the False Hero I guess." which makes Motoyasu beam with confidence as he loudly laughs, saying "False? So what does that mean? You lie to people to death or something?"

Shirou then looks at him and with a spark of lightning, forms a very beautiful nameless sword and says "It means I can create false copies of most weapons. But there is no rule that says a fake cannot surpass the original." making Motoyasu grumble out "Show off..." and Rin whispers under her breath "Mongrel..." besides Shirou while looking smugly at Motoyasu, earning a chuckle from the red head.

They then go to bed and fall asleep. The dream... It was that same night. That same fire... Yet, this time Rin was with him. They both walk forward and, after seeing the same old vision of Kiritsugu saving Shirou, something Tohsaka felt gut wrenched about, they suddenly see a familiar blonde swordsman walking towards them, saying "Greetings, Shirou Emiya, Rin Tohsaka. It's a pleasure to see you both again after so long. And my how you both have grown my masters."

Both of them then smile at Saber as the trio went into a group hug. They then broke off and Saber then tells them "Now, I don't have long. Shirou I trust that you still have Avalon?"

"Yes? Why do you ask Saber?"

"That's because as of now, we are able to talk within this little mental pocket all three of us share, but when you two wake up in a bit, our connection will be severed. Now, leet us move somewhere else. This dreary memory is not one I wish to dwell in."

She then snaps her finger as athe fiery debris suddenly turns into a golden throne room filled with various portraits of various heroic spirits. She then says "With the fact that you two are now within a different world, the reaches of Alaya and Gaia now include this place as well, albeit with a bit of friction and a lot of limitations. As such, heroic spirits are allowed to travel here. However, here's the catch, we are only allowed to do so through the employment of those cards you hold and only for a brief amounts of time. In some way, you are one of the vassal weapon wielder of our world. You are able to use these like quick summoning circles or, alternatively, as Heroic Class Cards."

Rin then perks up and says "I've heard about those from a once given about Sir Zeltretch. Speaking of which, where is he?"

"I... Do not know... I'm sure that Alaya has already informed him of your purpose in this new world."

Shirou then interjects, saying "But, what IS our purpose in this world? Why are we placed here?"

Artoria nods and says "You two are sent here as honorary counter guardians to combat a threat the real counter guardians are currently unable to get to due to Alaya's limited access to this place." to which Rin sums up as "Basically I am basically a gate?"

Artoria politely shakes her head and said "That is partially true, but due to the fact that most counter guardians are unable to fight for long periods of time here, the skills you two have and will acquire will also be important as well. This new threat is still unknown but you were placed at a time calculated to be enough so that you could prepare against the new threat. Having said that..."

She then touches the card pouch, and smiles as she disappears into it as motes of light, saying "Please use me well, my master."

They then awaken to a new day. Suddenly knocking could be heard on the other side of the door with Shirou groggily asking to himself "Who could that be at such an early time."

To or continued....

P. S. Thank you RedAVBlue for the cover page.