It was done. Gilgamesh was dead, and with the Grail gone, Saber would soon fade from existence. All Archer was willing to do at the moment was watch the sunrise one last time before he would get whisked back into the hell of being a Counter Guardian.

"ARCHER!" And there she was. His former master. He could hear her heavy breathing as she ran up to him. "Archer…"

"It's a shame, but it is what it is. Give up on the Grail, Rin." He joked with her, but she didn't laugh. Still, he let out a small chuckle. That got her attention.

"What's with that!" She yelled at him. "This is hardly the time to be laughing!"

He turned towards her. "My apologies. I couldn't help it, given your sorry state. I was amused that you and I cut such sorry figures." He fell into the familiar playful tone he had back when he was still her Servant.

"Archer," Rin's voice was serious and almost pleading. "Pact with me again."

Archer scoffed at that. "I can't do that." He turned away from her. "I doubt I have that right. Besides," He looked towards the rising sun. "I don't have a goal anymore. My battle ends here."

"But… But this means you'll…" With only the sound of her voice, he could tell Rin began to tear up. "No matter how much time passes, you'll never be saved." That caught his attention. He turned around and saw her bent over trying not to cry.

"Oh brother." He began to scratch the back of his head. "Rin." She looked up to him, with tears at edge of her eyes. "Look after me. As you know, I'm a bit hopeless." He joked. "Give me a shoulder to lean on."

"Archer…" Rin wiped the tears from her eyes. "Okay, I understand. I'll do my best." She mustered up a smile for her former Servant. "I'll try my hardest to make sure he doesn't turn into a twisted jerk like you." That made Archer smile. "I'm pretty sure that he'll try to learn to like himself. So you do the same!"

Archer closed his eyes. "I have my answer." He opened them and responded to her. "Don't you worry Tohsaka, I'll try my best from now on too." And with that, Archer faded from existence.


When he awoke to Unlimited Blade Works, he was greeted with a surprising yet familiar presence. In the middle of his hill of swords, in the barren wasteland with gears in the sky, was his older sister. "Illya?" There she was, clad in the Dress of Heaven, her ruby eyes staring at him.

"I'm sorry, but I am not her." On second glance, her body was too… old to be Illya's, who was trapped in a permanently young body. She was more developed and mature compared to his sister.

"You're a homunculus though?" He asked rhetorically. Only an Einzbern homunculus would have such a crafted look of beauty upon their face. Still, her's seemed more.. Natural.

"I am Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, the administrator of the Grail." He widened his eyes at that.

"The administrator of the Holy Grail? But I thought it was destroyed, or at the very least corrupted!" Archer distinctly remembered seeing a golden flash of light erupt out of the forest towards the mass of curses that was the Holy Grail.

"It was." She answered him. He only stared at her and waited until she further explained herself. "The Grail was indeed corrupted with the essence of Angra Mainyu, and that was what burst forth from the Matou heir when he had the core transplanted into him. And it was that part that was blown away by this war's Saber when she unleashed her Noble Phantasm." Archer nodded along as it matched up with the events he had witnessed. "However, I had isolated myself from the rest of the Grail when he first tainted it, although I could not say the same for my successors." She frowned at that, causing Archer to do the same. It was then that Archer recalled one of his previous iterations where Illya had mentioned a dark shadow of her mother following her, causing him to scowl as he realized Angra Mainyu had been harassing his sister. "And so, with this war's Saber nearly killing him, it left him weak enough for me to purge him from the Grail."

"I see… but that still doesn't tell me why you're here." He looked her, waiting for an answer.

"Well, Angra Mainyu decided to try one last shot at unleashing himself upon the world using Gilgamesh's power." She began.

"And that's why the hole from the Grail sucked him up after his fight with… Shirou." Archer grimaced as he said his former name, trying to follow through on his promise to Rin to like himself better.

"Indeed, but it was too late. By the time Gilgamesh had been sucked inside, I had purged the last bits of him from the Grail. They appeared to go to an injured woman outside of the church, but the rest of that is irrelevant to why I am here." However, Archer wasn't done with that part.

"You mean Avenger's still alive?" The panic on his face could easily be heard through his voice.

"He is inconsequential. Even in his current state, the Shirou Emiya of this world could beat him." Justeaze decided to keep quiet about Avenger's new master however.

"Fine… if you say so… But that still doesn't tell me why you're here." Archer was starting to get a little irritated, not that he'd let it show.

"I was getting to that part." She gave him a glare that reminded him of when Illya. "Even though I had purged Angra Mainyu, Gilgamesh was still absorbed into the Grail. And since he is such a strong spirit, combined with the remnants of the other Servants still left in the Grail, I had enough power to grant one wish. And so I came to the winner of the 5th Holy Grail War."

He waited for her to continue until he realized she had finished. "You mean… me?" He asked, surprised evident in his voice as it was on his face.

"Indeed. All the other Master and Servant pairs had either been eliminated or incapacitated, leaving you as the victor." She stated.

"But… Rin and Saber-"

"Saber had faded from existence long before you did." She interrupted. "Your Independent Action Skill won you the War. And since you have no Master, the wish is yours alone. So, as the Administrator of the Holy Grail, I ask you, Counter Guardian EMIYA, what is your wish?"

Archer paused a moment to soak it all in before chuckling to himself. "I don't know if you heard that last conversation between me and Rin, but I have no wish, no goal, nothing grand like that." His tone turned serious. "Guys like me, we've got nothing to wish for anyway."

Justeaze narrowed her eyes in annoyance. "So you say." Her expression then turned neutral. "Very well, I'll let your heart decide then."

"Wait what?" Archer snapped his head up towards her.

Justeaze began to glow… no, the entirety of Unlimited Blade Works began to glow. "It is as I said, I will grant the wish that lies within your heart."

"What do you mean? What wish?" Archer asked, but it was too late. A bright light enveloped Unlimited Blade Works before Archer felt like he was falling into darkness.


Archer awoke to the sounds of nature around him. He shot up, instantly aware of his surroundings. He was in a forest, and appeared to have been resting beneath a tree. "What did that cursed cup do? Or rather, where did she send me?" He pondered to himself. The trees were a deep shade of red, and were of an unfamiliar species. All the birds calls sounded… off, compared to the ones he was used to. There's no immediate danger… that I can sense. In any case, I should check to make sure she didn't mess with my body. Archer thought to himself.

"Trace On!" Archer envisioned firing the hammer of a gun and called forth Kanshou and Bakuya while going over the eight steps in his mind. Judging the concept of creation… Hypothesizing the basic structure… Duplicating the composition material… Imitating the skill of its making… Sympathizing with the experience of its growth… Reproducing the accumulated years… Excelling every manufacturing process… Projection Complete. Stangely enough, when he called them forth, he felt no resistance from Gaia. That was odd. He looked at the married blades in his pale hands to see if he was imagining things. Wait… Pale? Archer dismissed his blades and looked down to seem himself still wearing his armor and the holy shroud he had taken from the Church all that time ago, although they felt a little loose. However, his hands, and when he rolled up his sleeves to follow up, and arms were the same pale they were before he had taken the contract with Alaya. No… Please don't tell me… Archer ran a hand through his hair to catch a stray to observe. Lo and behold, in his hand sat a red hair. Archer felt a massive surge of annoyance run through him as he swore to take revenge on Justeaze. "If you're gonna turn me younger, at least make sure my clothes fit!" He yelled to no one in particular. "Oh great, my voice is the same as his." Archer groaned in a far more lighter voice then he was used to. And that was when he heard a growl in response.

Archer whipped around to the source of the sound and came face to face with a pitch black bipedal wolf with a white carapace covering its skull with red accents and white bone like spikes protruding from its body. He then noticed that a whole pack had followed.

"Well then, I guess you're the welcoming committee?" He traced Kanshou and Bakuya in his hands. The black wolves howled in response "I have to say, the last dog I fought could bark better than you." Archer liked to imagine that wherever Lancer was, he'd heard his little quip and was cursing at the bowman. He snapped back to attention as the first wolf launched himself at him.

Archer took a step to the side to avoid the tackle while driving Bakuya into the wolf's throat… at least that was supposed to happen. Instead, the wolf scratched his side while Bakuya left a gash on the right side of its throat instead of puncturing the center. "Don't tell me, my reach is off." Archer swore under his breath. At least his first attacker had bounced off his armor and retreated as black blood began to gush out of its throat wound. The rest of the pack began to circle around him warily. "Well, let's see if Kanshou and Bakuya are still truly the same!" With that, Archer threw the married blades forward and watched as they tore through two wolves before coming back through the chest of a third that was in between the two. "Good to see that they are." He then noticed that the corpses dissolved into a black mud that uncannily reminded him of the corrupted grail. "It seems that I'll actually get some use out of Kanshou and Bakuya's anti-monster capabilities this time around." Archer said to no one in particular. He wasn't particularly concerned with the wolves as it seemed they only had the basics of hunting in packs for their tactics, but the disconnect between his mind and his body could prove to be fatal if he wasn't careful. Still, with the superb craftsmanship of Kanshou and Bakuya, he was certain he could defeat the whole pack. "Looks like I'll have to learn, or rather relearn, the limits of this body the hard way." With that, Archer charged into the pack of black wolves.


A/N: And welcome to the Beginnning of Fate/Remnant, a Crossover between Fate/Stay Night and RWBY. Warning, this series expects that you have watched/read Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works in some kind of fashion, and a basic understanding of RWBY. Now, here I hope to answer some questions people will have on their mind when they first read this (hopefully). Why didn't I send Shirou instead of his cynical future Servant Self? Well, because I like Archer a lot more. Plus he's my favorite Servant period. As for Justeaze and the Grail and why it didn't go to say Rin who was technically the last Master and winner? Well, you need an actual Servant to retrieve the Grail for its wish function if what I read was correct, and since Saber had disappeared, the Grail went to the last Servant who could take it, in this case Archer. As for why it manifested in Unlimited Blade Works instead of in front of Archer in the real world? It was easier that way, with no Rin to get in the way. Everything else should be answered or will be answered soon (I hope). Chapter 2 and 3 should be coming out the Thursday and Friday after this is posted, with weekly updates (That's tomorrow and the day after for those reading this the day of). I hope you've enjoyed the first chapter of Fate/Remnant. Here's to a series I can hopefully finish!