A sigh escaped into the air of a large chamber, bizarre in color and shape. Concrete walls striped in darker and lighter colors were caught under a blue glow. Emitting the blue glow in the center of the room, was a massive structure, bizarre and high tech. Several metal rings floated freely, surrounding a blue holographic model of the earth like an astrolabe. Underneath the, most of the floor was taken up by large glass paneling, a walkway leading to a platform underneath the orb. Arrayed around the outside edge of the platform were a series of coffin like pods, each one with a person standing in front of it. Standing at one end of the platform, was a young woman.

Clad in an elegant outfit consisting of a black and orange overcoat over top a white dress, it was paired with pinkish red leggings and black high heels. Her refined german features carried a serious expression as she observed everything. Reaching a hand up to swipe a loose lock of white hair from out in front of an amber eye, she took stock of everything. A small grumble grew in her throat as she looked around the room, eventually turning to look at the girl next to her.

Lavender hair cut short framed her japanese features and glasses, even as they grew slightly nervous. An unzipped white hoodie covered her black dress, a bright red tie standing out against the dark material. Black leggings and small brown boots completed the outfit, even as her feet shifted a bit. The white haired woman spoke, making a small gesture with her hand. "Mashu, where is Doctor Roman?"

"I-I'm not sure Director. I figured he'd be here by now… If you want, I will go look for him." Mashu quickly got out in response, eliciting a sigh from the Director. She gave a quick shake of her head and raised her right arm in front of her chest, tapping at a small device on her wrist.

"If he doesn't respond to this, then yes. If he does, he's going to get an earful. Damn irresponsible doctor, out of all days he chooses to do this…" Her eyebrow twitched as it started to make a ringing sound. It happened once, twice, three times before Roman answered it.

"You better have a good excuse for why you're not down here. Or better yet, save it and just get down here already." Reaching up and rubbing the bridge of her nose, she bit back the growl that was growing in her throat. Out of all the staff, only he could get away with such laziness.

"O-Olga, I actually have a reason for being down there! Well, I do now… I was resting a hit before the test, and I got woken up by an… extremely important and unexpected guest… wish I was joking, but the Wizard Marshal is sitting across from me, asking for you to come to the room we're in. Please listen, I'm kind of scared. We're in residential room M48." Olga could only stare at the communicator, dumb struck by what she had heard. Mashu looked confused, tilting her head at her as she stayed frozen on the spot.

"...Roman, if this turns out to be some kind of practical joke, you'll wish you were never born. I'll be there in a minute." She cut the call off before he could respond, turning to look at the gathered people. "Be ready to rayshift as soon as I get back! Something has come to my attention that requires me personally dealing with it. Mashu, you stay here as well. This hopefully won't take long."

She turned on a dime and started marching out of the chamber, her mind already whirling as she stepped into the elevator and started her ascent. Why in the world had Wizard Marshall Zelretch shown up now of all times? If his reputation was anything to go off of, it'd be because this is the point where he would cause the most trouble. Still didn't explain his overall reasoning for coming… Was it because he had information to share? Because he wanted to see the first use of something that breached into the territory of true magic?

These questions continued to whirl around in her head as she walked down the hallway. Eventually she reached the door go the room she was seeking. Taking a deep breath, she opened the door and was met with a bizarre sight. Doctor Roman, with his wild peach colored hair and lazy looking face, sat across from an old paper skinned man with white hair, clad in a black robe. They both had tea cups in their hands, though only Zelretch was drinking, Roman struggling slightly to keep from dropping his, do to his hand shaking slightly. Putting the tea aside, they both got up from their seats, Roman rubbing the back of his head nervously as they all looked at each other.

"Ah, you must be the Director. It is a pleasure to meet you, Olga, far more than your father. He didn't interest me much, despite his efforts here. You on the other hand, have caught my interest." Zelretch offered her a hand, a sly smile coming across his face. Keeping her face a carefully constructed mask, she offered him a polite smile and took the hand, even though she was internally screaming. Catching his eye on one hand was a great honor, on the other hand it usually left you physically and mentally scarred.

"It is a great honor to have caught the eye of you, Zelretch. I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass on tea though, as you came at a bit of a bad time. We were just about to launch our first rayshift. If you'd like to come watch, I am sure we can talk aftaaaaaah!" The mask, and her composure, broke as she felt foreign prana start to flood her system.

She tore her hand from his grasp, hissing in pain as she grabbed her right wrist. The pain was all over, but it was its strongest on the back of her right hand. Her eyes went wide and she heard Roman gasps as slowly, a red glowing sigil spread across the back of her hand. It was three distinct parts, which all came together to make a stylized spear with wings. As it finished forming, the glow fades away along with the pain, leaving only a dull ache behind. Zelretch laughed a laugh even as they both turned to stare at him. "Wasn't one of the biggest issues the Clocktower have with you, was the fact that you had no master potential? Well, that issue is now nullified in its entirety, you've got Command Seals!"

Olga looked slack-jawed at seals on the back of her hand, any thoughts she might have had completely blown away by just how… ridiculous this was. Zelretch must have, in one fell swoop, completely rewritten a large part if her biology and even influenced her magic to make this happen. On one hand, it was a completely and utterly wrong to just… do it without asking her. On the other hand, the fact it wasn't that painful compared to a lot of magical surgeries, took that little time, and he was confident enough to just do it implied he put a lot of time and effort into this. She looked up at him, curling one hand into a fist as she grit her teeth. "I… thank you for your kindness. I must ask however, why are you doing this now, on the eve of Chaldea's most important moment?"

"Oh, the reasons quite simple my dear. Normally, I'd have pawned this off onto my apprentice, but there'd be issues down the line with her. Her sometimes boyfriend would work fine for a while, but I get tired of seeing him attract every woman to him like a magnet. So I need someone else to be the fourth eighth master in this world, and well I haven't gotten to observe a world where you're that master yet." Calmly explaining everything like it made any sense at all, Zelretch reaches over for his cup of tea and took a sip. Olga took a deep breath through her nose, ignoring Roman as he nervously wrung his hands.

"Marshal, I mean no disrespect, but that doesn't answer the question fully. As far as I know, the actual forty eighth master got stopped by bad weather, and is do in a week or two. Why are you trying to give that position to me instead?" Zelretch tilted his head for a moment, seeming to think as Olga sat there impatiently. She had already wasted enough time with this man, most of the staff were waiting on her and Roman.

"Oh, yes. You see, there has to be a forty eighth master in Chaldea on this day. Because the forty eighth master is the only one which truly matters." As he finished the sentence, a massive series explosion could be hear and felt rippling through the facility. Roman's tea split as both he and Olga struggled to stay on their feet, grabbing onto nearby furniture to keep upright. Zelretch stood completely fine, still sipping his tea and offering Olga a sad look. "I'm deeply sorry for not being able to do anything about the bombs. Too much influence on my part will attract his attention, and I rather not spend the amount of energy it'd take to fight him ever again. Even now, I'm getting the feeling that I have probably overstayed my welcome."

He set his tea cup down and offered a bow, his form quickly becoming engulfing in a rainbow of prana. It overpowered even the red emergency lights that started flashing, the warning message starting to blare over the comms. "I bid you two adieu. I suggest you get to the rayshift chamber my dear, a lot of damage has been done. Good luck, this world is relying on you two now.'

With those last words, the light reached its peak before suddenly vanishing. When they looked back to where he stood, nothing was there beyond the tea cup sitting on the table. A few moments passed while they processed the information that had been presented to them, before they both sprung into motion. Olga reached the door first, Roman on her heels as the two sprinted down the hallway. Gritting her teeth in anger, she shouted over her shoulder. "ROMAN! You go to the generators, we have get them going! I'm going into the rayshift chamber to see if I can find survivors!"

He nodded as the two quickly hit the entrance to the Raysyift chamber. It was hell, large chunks of rubble strewn about, fires burning, and the pods in the middle either tilted or laying on their side. Roman sucked in his breath as he saw its state, even as Olga kept on sprinting directly into the room. Cupping his hands, he shouted after her before turning and running into another corridor. "Be careful!"

Olga focused internally and let her prana flow, reinforcing her legs, the concrete under her feet cracking as she leaped across piles of rubble. She came to a stop at the first of the pods, brushing the layer of dust off the glass to look inside. The man inside was bleeding heavily from a cut in his head, and unconscious. A curse flew from her lips before she looked around, realizing there was no way she could get to them all in time. "Where is everyone? Medics! Lev! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

"I'm… over here… Director." Mashu's weak voice somehow managed to catch Olga's ear over the fire and collapses. She reinforced her legs again, springing over piles of rubble until she came to a dead stop upon finding her. An expression of horror etched itself onto her face as she saw the state she was in. A large chunk of concrete had fallen and crushed her lower half, a worryingly large pool of blood already having formed under her. "You… need to run… Director."

"SYSTEM SWITCHING TO THE FINAL PHASE OF OF RAYSHIFT COORDINATES , AD 2004, JANUARY 30TH, FUYUKI, JAPAN."

Neither the announcement nor Mashu's words connected in her head as she moved. If she got the block off her, she could stop the bleeding. Some vital organs had been lost, but not anything that would kill her instantly. She just had to get her out and stop the bleeding. Darting over to the rock and crouching down, she opened her magic circuits as far as she could and started enforcing every useful muscle she could manage. Punching her fingers into the concrete at the base, she started trying to heave it off of her, ignoring the rising pain in her fingers.

"LAPLACE SHIFTING PROTECTION AVAILABLE, SINGULARITY'S ADDITIONAL FACTOR SLOT SECURED. UNSUMMON PROGRAM SET. PLEASE MAKE FINAL PREPARATIONS!"

The grinding of the chambers doors overpowered the sound of fire and collapse for a moment as they slowly started to close. Feeling a panic rise in her chest, Olga poured more prana into her reinforcement, gritting her teeth against the pain as she threw herself against the block. She could feel her muscles starting to break down from both the reinforcement and the strain of what she was doing, but she wasn't stopping now. Everything wasn't lost yet, and dammit she wasn't going let everything be lost! Mashu's soft, almost desperate voice barely managed to register to her. "Director… leave me behind… I'm going to die… You can't stop that.."

"CENTRAL AREA SEALED. 90 SECONDS UNTIL INTERNAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURE."

"Mashu, I'd appreciate it if you would shut up!" The doors thudded shut with the announcement, trapping the two of them in the chamber together. Olga felt tears start to flow as the pain and frustration started to build. She was actively tearing herself apart, and this damn rock wouldn't move! A scream of anger and desperation tore from her throat as she poured everything she had in, a wave of pain following after the prana as it surged. The rock slowly started to rise, millimeter by millimeter from the ground."I'm gonna do this, I WON'T LET THIS BE A COMPLETE FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

"COFFIN VITALS: MASTERS BASELINE NOT REACHED. RAYSHIFT REQUIREMENT NOT MET. SEARCHING FOR QUALIFYING MASTER… FOUND. UNREGISTERED CANDIDATE RESET AS MASTER."

Her scream of anger morphed into a cry of pain as she felt something inside of herself snap. Her arms became as limp as noodles, the block sliding out of her grasp and thudding back down onto Mashu's crushed lower half, drawing a gasp of pain from her. She teetered where she stood for a few moments, her vision growing blurry and dark before she fell onto her side. The last thing she saw before her sight faded completely was Mashu reaching out to grab a hold of one of her hands, saying something that she couldn't hear. All she had managed to do was get them both killed, it seems. How much of a failure was she…

"Unsummon program, start. Spiritron conversion, start."

"Rayshift starting in three… two… one… All procedures clear. First Order, commencing operation."

So, let's talk about Olga Marie Animusphere. A tragic character who met her at the end of Fate/Grand Order's first singularity. She served the purpose they wanted out of her, showing that Lev is both someone not to underestimate and to help build our hatred of him. It did leave me kind of… unsatisfied in a way though. To see her killed off, when it seemed almost like they were building up a to a complete character arc. They reveal more details about her as the story progresses, but it feels almost hollow without her actually there to progress.

I've seen a few writers try to tackle her staying alive. But they're rare, and almost always put her as a secondary character. Which is fair, since she is a secondary character in the game itself. I however, also think it's fair to give her own chance in the spotlight. This, will be one of the first stories where she is the true main character that I've seen. So… yeah. Hope you enjoy.