This story was always going to be a little unusual, but it hasn't gotten much negative feedback despite me basically daring people to fire off their flack, so I'm feeling really good about it. Last chapter covered the basic objectives for this version of Minato as a character, beat the monsters and recover the crystals.

A Guest Reviewer made a guess about the nature of the crystals. To clear this up- The Guardian Crystals won't bond to someone who's already bonded to one.

The reason Minato is hellbent on recovering them personally is because the situation is a mystical equivalent of an Empty Quiver, a powerful weapon is in the hands of those who would turn it upon the innocent and that cannot be allowed to stand. He's also paranoid that the mistake the old guard made will happen again, which is why he'll be keeping the crystals close until which time as he selects new wielders. (Not Sekirei though)

This chapter will see Takami and Yukari responding to Minato getting himself emancipated, as well as the arrival of Kiritsugu and Illya from their previous reality (Refer to Chapter five of Fate/Castle Potter if confused).

Beyond that this is AU to Sekirei in one more major way besides the timeline being screwed with- that only two of the ships that brought the Sekirei to earth have awoken their payloads.

Takami Sahashi was a busy woman. She knew that she hadn't been a very good mother, and she wished she could have been surprised when the notification of Minato's emancipation came to her. As it was she wasn't surprised at all. Minato was a bright kid and apparently that bright mind had decided it was better off without her. When the server asked if she had a message for him she just said "Tell him I'm sorry." she said in a dull tone and signed the box saying that she was not contesting it.

After that day she had resolved not to fail her daughter as well. Yukari tried to blame Minato for abandoning the family but Takami insisted otherwise. Minato hadn't abandoned them Takami had simply failed him, and the price of failure here turned out to be the loss of her son. "All we can do is hope he'll be alright on his own, and I can pretend he might forgive me eventually." she had said to her daughter.

Yukari was still enraged "The next time that idiot shows his face around here I'm kicking him in it!" she said. Mother and daughter were heedless of the dangers that Minato was trying to shield them from. "First he runs off to Denmark to study, then he just vanishes. He's part of our family! What gives that stupid Minato the right to abandon us like this?!"

"My failure to be there for him, and your refusal to act like a normal little sister I'd guess." Takami said, then her phone started ringing. Answering the call "What is it Minaka?! I'm dealing with a family emergency here."

"Well so am I Takami." Spoke her current employer and former lover, Hiroto Minaka, on the other end of the line. His voice was unusually firm "Some guy I don't recognize just hopped off of a plane from germany at Narita International. He's packing a genome that according to our sensors looks like he's my brother or something. I need you to take Karasuba and grill him to find out what the hell is going on, we can't have anyone messing with my long term plans for the game of gods."

The psychotic bastard she had allowed to father her children hung up on her. Yukari was still raging. Takami sighed and interrupted her rant. "Okay, there has been major emergency at work, I will deal with it and hopefully you will calm down. Freaking Brocon." Yukari just pouted at that. Even so, this emergency would distract Takami from the strike to her pride that this incident represented, and possibly provide a certain alien with some entertainment…

Kiritsugu Emiya was running into difficulties. He hadn't even been in his new reality for twenty four hours yet, despite this he had something supernatural on his case already. And possibly someone else from this reality's version of the moonlit world, but when you're facing down something that definitely isn't human which is packing a big sword, you tend not to notice the human that she apparently works for.

Probably a joke in there somewhere, but back to the situation. He walked through the airport with his daughter having (to the outside world) gotten off a rather lengthy plane trip from Berlin via Helsinki. He walked through the second set of scanner only to trigger some sort of alarm. Then the tactical teams from something called MBI showed up followed shortly by a prematurely grey haired woman who identified herself as Takami Sahashi.

That wasn't the difficult part though- no the problem was her companion who identified herself as Karasuba. A pretty looking woman with steel colored hair and eyes who reminded Kiritsugu of a certain Cambion he once knew. His comfortable attitude around the clearly in-human woman caught Takami's attention in a big bad way though.

"I'd advise against flirting with Karasuba here, she'd take your balls off in an instant." Takami deadpanned. This guy was already getting on her nerves, but she had work to do "Who the hell are you? Our DNA scanners picked you up as a close match to someone on MBI's payroll, like he could be your brother." okay technically true, he was the one who signed the payroll but his name was still there.

Kiritsugu frowned "It's possible. I don't remember my mom, and she might have had a twin sister running around, or maybe my parents had to give up a child early on due to family traditions which are thankfully no longer relevant." After the 'It's possible' bit, all true. "Regarding how comfy I am around your friend, let's call it the legacy of a misspent youth(1). Spent from my fourteenth birthday to my nineteenth rolling with a woman who gave off a similar aura."

Takami sighed "So general information Mister … Emiya?" Time for a routine interrogation she told the other MBI workers to go and get some food for them. Kiritsugu then told her her a sanitized version of his life story. All verifiable courtesy of a certain Wizard Marshall.

How he had kept doing the work that Natalia had taught him, until a wealthy family had roped him in with an exclusive contract. Time went by and he married a daughter of that family with the permission of their head honcho. Baby made three, and while more children were planned there was an unacceptable medical risk to further births, so he and his wife were looking to adopt a fourth member to their little family.

"RIght after we signed the adoption papers, tragedy stuck. Iris died in a fire, and her family refused to allow me custody of Illya. The ensuing legal battles got out of hand until my adoptive son was murdered. Then the authorities decided that enough was enough, and came down on them."

Takami did a spit take of her strawberry soda "You're saying that they killed your son in the middle of a custody dispute over your daughter?" This was ridiculous! Custody battle is supposed to be a metaphor.

Kiritsugu scratched his head and got a little teary eyed, his son's death was fresh in his mind "The authorities couldn't prove it but they couldn't disprove it either. A murdered kid near such a major case forced their hand, because if they hadn't done something the public would have. Maybe my wife's family ordered Shirou's death, maybe they didn't. EIther way, my children were kept from meeting each other and that's gonna hurt until the day I die, My daughter deserved to meet her little brother.."

Takami was sad as well "Well I can relate to never being able to talk to your son again, mine just emancipated himself."

Karasuba was laughing though "Pathetic monkeys, crying your eyes out just because you lost some brat-"

Kiritsugu lost his temper and before Karasuba could blink she was up against wall with Kiritsugu's fist aimed directly at her nose. "Now you listen here in-human bitch!" Kiritsugu's guess that Karasuba wasn't human caught her and Takami off guard. "I don't know who or what you are, but you are similarly blind about me. I'd rather not find out which of us is stronger but if you insult parenthood again I'll make you wish your parents never looked twice at each other!"

Karasuba somehow managed to avoid losing her composure. How could such a pathetic monkey make her react? And why did this guy reek of death?! "Listen monkey, it's entirely possible that you do have the power to put me in my place, but I doubt it. I know of only one person who has that kind of power and your gender is wrong to start with."

Kiritsugu replied with a grin and a snort "Then I'll steer clear of her, powerful beings tend to get in arguments with me." Okay that was a little testosterone fueled for him. The hormones in his new body must be a bit off, otherwise he would have been much more subtle but it got the point across "I'm not here to spy on anyone. I just want a new start back in the country I was born in." he said with a sincerity that no one doubted.

A few polygraphs later the situation was resolved and Kiritsugu had quickly found a house for sale in the south of the city. The owner was shocked when he handed over the asking price in cash but told them they could move in immediately. Shinto Teito was looking like a fine place to settle down, though he was still understandably ambivalent about the fact that if they stayed, Illya's eventual boyfriend would most likely be the same sort of being as that Karasuba woman…

Just under six months after defeating Lancer, Minato Sahashi was fresh off of hunting Jiang-shi, the chinese variety of vampire when what would become known as the Kamikura incident kicked off. Right after he woke from his medically ordered post hunt nap, the order confirmed that the bearer of the Archer Crystal boarded a customized vessel bound for an island that wasn't supposed to be inhabited.

Following the money determined that Archer had been hired by a certain group for a job that was shady at best and outright immoral at worst. This much secrecy was only used when you were doing something that the world demand your head for after all.

A very fast amphibious aircraft allowed Minato to reach the island less than an hour after Archer did. Reinforcements from the order would arrive in a little over three, with any luck none of these scum would escape. Order interrogators would have at any survivors.

During the brief flight Minato checked over the information available to him. The Order's intelligence division had done a bit of research and came to the conclusion that someone was hiding something big on that island. Minato scowled when he saw that his mother was on the team that first charted the place.

Takami was a geneticist, not a cartographer. That alone raised red flags, another suspicious thing was the fact the MBI only showed up after her and her companions, Takehito Asama, and Hiroto Minaka discovered it. Shortly after the discovery a marriage license was registered between Takehito Asama and a woman named "Miya Rien"(2*) who didn't seem to exist before they found that island.

These three facts, while alone a little strange, collectively burned a certainty into Minato's mind. Something paranormal was happening on Kamikura Island and Minato would be in dereliction of duty if he didn't find out what. Arriving on the island Minato saw the vessel that Archer had arrived aboard and took action.

Calling prana from his circuits, he flooded Gram with the mystical energies. Swinging the blade in an uppercut he used the beam attack and sunk the offending cargo ship. "That should limit Archer's options for escape. Divert water element spellcasters to prevent an oil spill or anything of that nature." Minato barked into the comm link.

The attack he'd fired off had been charged with about half his prana for the day, he'd still have enough if what he'd been told about Archer was accurate. While gunfire would be troublesome, particularly enhanced by a Guardian Crystal, this Archer's top speed was about equivalent with his.

Other reports indicated that he spoke with an southern United States type accent, despite the crystal holder being from eastern Germany. His weapon had been noted as a large black and red revolver that had yet to be fired in the presence of an Order agent. The True Name of the Spirit had yet to be confirmed, however the fact remained that Minato needed to react to this. A crystal was located and waiting to be reclaimed, so he needed to jump at it.

Setting out for the compound at a jogging pace, Minato checked his surroundings. Approximately sixty hostiles. Admittedly the order would be outnumbered as assets in the region were spread thinly, but Archer couldn't possibly have known he was coming. The traitor didn't have his own intelligence network, and Minato had never told Archer his real name.

Reaching the compound and walking through the doors he barked orders at his arriving forces over the radio "Guardian Saber to all Moonlit Enforcers. Presence of Traitor Archer confirmed! Prioritize, the minimization of collateral damage, that means avoiding environmental damage and preventing casualties among noncombatants. After that defeat the enemy, capturing as many of them as possible. MBI is hiding something on Kamikura and we are not leaving until I know what!"

After this he gave a brief warning to the attackers "I am here to eliminate one man among you and him only. Stand aside, lay down your weapons, and be spared!" rapidly taking cover from the spray of gunfire unleashed towards him. 'Blazes! Why can't I summon Sigurd's true armor yet?!' Minato wondered to himself, before growling through his teeth "Looks we will be doing this the hard way."

Calling upon his superhuman speed he dashed to the point where the invaders were pinned by the defenders, though still free to fire upon him. With his foes in reach of Gram's blade, Minato slashed the head from the one who seemed the lowest ranking, and punched the one closest to him as well.

The third member of that fireteam was marginally more intelligent then his allies and proceeded to surrender. Giving the defender's he'd just aided a once over he realized that they were just researchers who'd taken up arms "I don't suppose you'd willing direct me towards the strongest concentration of hostile forces? My target will most likely be there as well."

One of the two chose that moment to find his courage "T-the main laboratory Asama-san might be there as well. Please save him, it's down that hall!" Minato gave a nod in thanks and affirmation before proceeding in the direction the scientist had indicated.

'Takehito Asama… Definitely an individual whom the order needs to have a nice long conversation with' The Guardian mused as he carefully stalked down the hallway. He met no resistance though the battle was apparently going well for his comrades. Judging by the reports coming over the radio, when he arrived at the main lab the seventeen enemies there were the only ones who hadn't been captured or killed.

Archer had just left from the far side of the room, but there were a number of lab coat clad bodies on the floor. Minato sent his shards flying, killing six of the mercenaries before they noticed his presence. When he saw that one of the scientists was still breathing Minato decided that he needed to end this latest confrontation quickly.

He'd spent too much of his prana destroying the ship earlier and frankly he didn't like the idea of unleashing the beam ability of his sword in a confined space. A blitz attack was his only option. MInato charged forward and impaled the first of the remaining ten to notice his presence. However he had chosen that particular foe for a specific reason.

Now the surviving scientist would not be in either side's line of fire. Minato seized the soon to be deceased mercenary's weapon and opened fire from behind the dying enemy, whom was still impaled upon Gram.

Ordinary a soldier would have advised strongly against such tactics. However in this case the benefits outweighed the risks heavily. While he still wasn't certain how his gambeson would hold up against gunfire the sheer unusualness of this particular tactic worked almost perfectly. Minato still took two rounds center mass, and thanked his skill with enchanting for saving his life.

With his foes slain Minato turned his attention to wounded researcher. Pulling some first aid supplied from his backpack he started his attempts to save the man's life. "Don't talk, you'll need your strength, where as I might need to apply some bruise salve after a nap later." Pulling the two bullets from his gambeson to demonstrate.

"It's hopeless. Save Musubi!" The dying scientist replied. "That Yankee bastard carried her off!" The man was frantic. A bloody cough followed the dying man's words.

Minato recognized the person he was trying in vain to save as Takehito Asama "What the hell is MBI doing on this island and why would someone want to kidnap the girl?" Minato then shifted his efforts to making the man comfortable.

"Long ago-" labored breathing on Asama's part "Eight ships landed on earth, each loaded with hundreds of alien beings." another bloody cough spattered Minato's vision "But something went wrong and seven of them crashed never awakening their cargo. The one that did activate, something worse happened. An external force corrupted the beautiful creatures within, creating the progenitors of the beings that now haunt our mythology. Please don't let it happen again!"

Finishing the last of his efforts to make the man's passing more comfortable Minato said "My duty is to protect all from monsters. I won't let another Progenitor monster be forged." he then went after Archer." Soon he was caught up to by a woman with light brown hair who wore a rather tight black dress and rather high boots under a grey haori.

"You trying to get yourself killed? That guy was able to put numbers four and five out of commission!" The woman said "Let the discipline squad handle this!"

Keeping himself in motion "Like they've handled it so far? I don't think so. The moment Archer got involved this became a matter for the Moonlit Order, and frankly while I'm not sure how powerful number four and five are, I know that I'm tough enough to bring the bastard down!"

They were not in time to prevent Archer's escape however as a helicopter had arrived and was out of Minato's jumping range by the time they reached the pad. Thinking quickly the Saber Class Guardian pulled a certain device from his belt and threw it with enough force and accuracy to stick it to Archer's outfit without him noticing.

"Yeah that's right bastard there's nowhere on earth you can hide from me now." Minato muttered under his breath. He noticed that Yume was freaking out over Musubi's kidnapping "Calm down! I've got a tracker on them."

"That won't bring Musubi back!" she replied.

MInato nodded "That's our job. I help you get the girl back, safe and sound, if you help me eliminate Archer. Sound fair?"

"I suppose we should know each other's names if we are to work together. I'm Yume, Sekirei number eight." The woman, Yume introduced herself with a frown.

"Minato Sahashi, Saber Class Guardian. Not that the title will mean much to you." he responded. The duo had a mission to prepare for, and not even the throne of heroes would stop them.

Okay so the Kamikura incident is in full swing, the other six ships are still in play and there are quite a few more little birdies flapping around.

while I realize this may count as a cliffhanger or even a partial chapter, three to four thousand words or so is all I'm comfortable with posting at once.

Numbered annotations:

1. I couldn't help myself, I had to put that joke in here somewhere.

2. Miyarien is Miya's full name in "Unlimited" by King Of Plot Bunnies, basically an AU where Minato and Hikari were the ones who found the ship instead of Takami and Minaka, with predictable results. It's decent read, even if it's incomplete and apparently on hiatus.