Artoria Pendragon (Alter)
Generations of Alter
Dr. Roman: A Rayshift into the heart of the Fuyuki Greater Grail? It's not impossible, but why?
Mash: I'm told it's a urgent request from Saber. Right, Senpai?
Dr. Roman: Haha, we can't turn down a request from the corrupted Saber, can we? That King of Knights is merciless.
Dr. Roman: But the space inside the Greater Grail isn't stable. If you do a Rayshift, you'll likely get punted back out.
Dr. Roman: Well, I'm sure Saber has something in mind. Let's get started.
Dr. Roman: Mash, take care of Fujimaru. If things get dangerous, let me know right away.
Mash: That's the plan. Let's start the Rayshift, Senpai.
Mash: Are we in...France? I thought we shifted into the Greater Grail...
Mash: Doctor? Doctor? Come in... Doctor?
Fujimaru 1: We can't contact him?
Mash: ...So it seems. He said it was spatially unstable, but where are we—
Fujimaru 2: I think Roman's slacking off?
Fou: Fou!
Mash: Fou agrees, but...I can't be sure. I can't even establish a connection.
Mash: The inside of the Greater Grail is like a singularity, and the connection won't be stable, he said. But where are we—
Saber Alter: We're inside Greater Grail in a fragment that doesn't exist. Think of it as a place that recreates beings that became the singularities.
Mash: Saber? You arrived first?
Saber Alter: So you came too, Kyrielight? ...Alright, I suppose. Thank you for answering my wish, Fujimaru.
Saber Alter: I'm amazed you believed in me enough to Rayshift inside the Greater Grail.
Fujimaru 1: I want an explanation.
Saber Alter: There's no need for one. What you need are strong Servants.
Saber Alter: I'm simply granting you that wish.
Fujimaru 2: If it's what you want, Saber.
Saber Alter: ...I see. If that's how you feel, then I won't hold back.
Fou: Fou, fou!
Mash: Master, Saber, footsteps on the road ahead! It appears to be enemies!
Saber Alter: Let's start with a warm-up. We'll wipe them out, Fujimaru.
--BATTLE--:
Mash: That Shadow Servant... Um, Saber, is this place—
Saber Alter: Good guess Mash. This is one of the endings you passed by.
Saber Alter: It's only a temporary recreation, "but for the purpose of combat," this is not an illusion.
Fou: Fou, fooou!
Mash: More enemies! So this next Servant is—
Saber Alter: Fear not. You defeated them once, and this time the fate of the world isn't at stake. Enjoy the dance of death.
Mash: I-I can't see it that simply! Death is really scary!
Saber Alter: Of course, enjoy the fear I'm saying. The Heroic Spirit who entrusted himself to you would have.
Mash: Huh?
Saber Alter: Fujimaru, conserve your energy because the next one's the big one. Defeat this one with 60% of your strength.
--BATTLE--:
Mash: Master, we've arrived at the throne room. ...Oh, I knew it—
Jeanne Alter: —Tsk, I wondered why "I was here" suddenly. So this is why.
Jeanne Alter: How truly upsetting. What is this? More of that nightmare?
Jeanne Alter: Whose idea was it to drag out a fake who's already been defeated once?
Jeanne Alter: Was it that Master there? Or that girl? No, that's not right.
Jeanne Alter: Only a Heroic Spirit as tainted as me could come up with a bad idea like this.
Jeanne Alter: Am I wrong? You, Britain's tainted King of Knights?
Saber Alter: —You're talkative. Did Jeanne d'Arc talk a lot as well?
Saber Alter: No, I'm sure she did. She was happy to be called the Maiden of Orleans.
Saber Alter: I'm sure she liked to talk. What can I say, she had the mind of a peasant.
Jeanne Alter: —Huh? What's your problem? Are all Britons idiots?
Mash: (Senpai, the air is choking with danger! There was no room for talking, anyway!)
Saber Alter: Of course. We're here to defeat this woman.
Saber Alter: Fujimaru, you are an inexperienced Master. Fight stronger, more terrifying foes and polish your skills.
Jeanne Alter: Oh, so that's it. The kind King of Knights has prepared a trial for that Master.
Jeanne Alter: Very well, I accept. But be careful, I'm vulgar and very violent—
Jeanne Alter: And after what you did to me last time, I'm ready to rip your head from your neck!
Mash: Master, she's serious! Be extremely careful!
Saber Alter: A splendid yell, flag-bearer. I'm glad I chose you as an opponent.
Jeanne Alter: What? Trying to be a friendly? Disgusting! You think we can be best friends just because we're both evil?
Saber Alter: No, I simply chose a worthy opponent to crush. I've no emotional attachments towards you.
Saber Alter: But I will say one thing...
Saber Alter: Shadow of Jeanne d'Arc, born of the Grail, you said we were both tainted beyond measure—
Saber Alter: But from where I stand, you are far more tainted than me.
Jeanne Alter: Hehe—That's my line, mere clone of that coward King Vortigern!
--BATTLE--:
Jeanne Alter: ...Okay, okay, I lost, I lost.
Jeanne Alter: I don't have a grudge against your Master, so I'll be a good girl and disappear.
Mash: Enemy Servant annihilation confirmed... Whew. That was a tough fight...
Saber Alter: ...Sympathy for two people who fell to evil, huh? I can't deny that.
Saber Alter: I chose to rule by violence and instinct, and you chose to rule by fear and reason.
Saber Alter: The more a Heroic Spirit was bound by ideals in their former life, the more they possess a twisted side like us.
Fujimaru 1: Saber...
Fujimaru 2: You and that Jeanne are different.
Saber Alter: That's just what you believe. But—a Servant obeys their Master.
Saber Alter: As long as you believe that, I won't be a fool and believe otherwise.
Saber Alter: Also, your skills have improved a bit Fujimaru.
Fujimaru 1: Of course!
Fujimaru 2: A little, but yeah.
Saber Alter: Glad to hear it. Let's return to Chaldea.
Saber Alter: Women like Jeanne and I are only useful like this. If there's a next time, I'll find you another strong foe.
Dr. Roman: You're back! What happened to you two?
Dr. Roman: Communications went dead, and for a moment the Humanity Foundation value for Fuyuki and France reverted to negative!
Fujimaru 1: A lot happened.
Mash: ...It's as Senpai says. So much has happened and it's hard to explain.
Fujimaru 2: I'm tired and going to my room.
Fou: Fou, fooouu...
Dr. Roman: I-Is that so? Sure, I guess. You two look exhausted, and things are okay for now.
Dr. Roman: Okay, I'll call an end to this Rayshift for now... But something seems strange.
Dr. Roman: You guys didn't go to an amusement park or something without me, right? ...Nah, no way!
Dr. Roman: There's no way you could just Rayshift to the Greater Grail, and fight a bonus stage with powerful opponents you've already encountered!
Fou: Fou, fooouu...
Two Sides of a Coin
Saber Alter: Another chance has come, Fujimaru. Rayshift into the Greater Grail.
Mash: A-Again? Last time it was evil Jeanne, so this time...
Fujimaru 1: Thug Emperor Nero?
Fujimaru 2: Good-goody Lancelot?
Fou: Mm, kyukyu, kyui!
Saber Alter: You'll see when you get there... Though to tell the truth, I don't know myself.
Mash: You don't? You mean you can't pinpoint who it is we'll be fighting?
Saber Alter: No, I have chosen the opponent. What I'm saying is—
Saber Alter: I don't know who that person is. It seems like that one is fundamentally different than the other Heroic Spirits.
Mash: Fundamentally different... Was there someone like that? Oh, I feel like Elisabeth might be different.
Saber Alter: That one is just a weird. ...Well, you'll sense it when we arrive.
Mash: These are the Roman plains? I was sure it would be another throne room...
Fou: Fooouu!
Mash: Th-This rumble...a giant? No, it's an army of giant golems!
Mash: What is that? They're burying the horizon! It's like the Great Wall of China is advancing on us...
Mash: They're heading right for us! Saber, is that our opponent?
Saber Alter: ...I think not, but I don't know. That golem army might be the same as that one.
Saber Alter: Either way, we're busting through the wall Fujimaru. They don't see us as enemies.
Saber Alter: They're just like a massive steamroller that crushes everything before it.
Saber Alter: There's nothing to be gained by fighting them, and there are too many to defeat.
Saber Alter: Concentrate on a few and open a gap in the wall!
--BATTLE--:
Mash: Wow... It's like a tsunami.
Mash: Those giants have no will of their own, but there seems to be a will guiding them.
Mash: "End all civilization on this planet." I'm not sure, but that's what their command sounds like...
Fujimaru 1: That's an exaggeration...
Fujimaru 2: I feel it...
Saber Alter: They certainly won't halt. —Do not be afraid. Fujimaru, we shall pierce through the second wave as well.
Saber Alter: Our real target lies beyond this wall of giants. We shall see if Mash's instincts were correct!
--BATTLE--:
Mash: We made it past the giants! That's the Heroic Spirit Altera, the one we saw in Rome!
Altera: ...So a lifeform besides me appears in my dream? Answer me. Who are you?
Saber Alter: That's what I want to know, white Heroic Spirit. Mash called you Altera, but—
Saber Alter: Are you really Altera? You don't seem like the conqueror they called the Scourge of God.
Altera: ...You disturb my dream, and then insult me? You are...Britain's King of Knights, yes?
Altera: I am Altera. My appearance and this blade are proof of that.
Altera: —Answer me. What makes you doubt the truth that I speak?
Altera: If your answer displeases me, I'll show no mercy. I'll incinerate you and this world.
Mash: (Senpai, she seems to understand us more, but she sounds a lot more angry!)
Mash: (But I understand that feeling.)
Mash: (If this is Altera's dream, it would be embarrassing for others to see it!)
Fujimaru 1: Sorry, we didn't mean to pry into your dreams...
Altera: ...It doesn't matter if you intended to or not. The fact is, you're humiliating me.
Fujimaru 2: You've got some crazy dreams.
Altera: ...I know. Even I don't know why I have these dreams.
Altera: But—that's why I can't forgive you. You have peeked into my inexplicable dreams.
Altera: Answer me. Why do you mock me so?
Saber Alter: ...Why, you ask? I finally understand now after coming here.
Saber Alter: Oh great conqueror and Heroic Spirit Altera. You have become a paradox.
Saber Alter: Some kings conquer to satisfy their people. Some kings rule to satisfy their own greed.
Saber Alter: Each definition of kingship varies. Everyone has their own ideology, and justifiable goals.
Saber Alter: But—you are different. You are a conqueror and a destroyer.
Saber Alter: Some kings bring destruction in their conquest, but no king brings destruction after a conquest.
Saber Alter: That is not a king who rules man. That is a Demon God who denies the world of man.
Saber Alter: I ask again, Heroic Spirit Altera. Are you really—a Heroic Spirit like us?
Altera: —I have no answer for that. As the head of the Huns, I simply fought and slew our enemy.
Altera: It was you people who called me a king, a hero, a God of War.
Altera: Or would you, a fellow Heroic Spirit, deny me? Just like me, you can only destroy.
Altera: —I don't like you. I don't like you at all.
Altera: Begone from my dream. This plain of destruction is mine alone. I don't want to see any humans!
Mash: Wow... All the Mana in the atmosphere is being drawn into her blade!
Mash: So that is the Sword of Mars, the Noble Phantasm that can incinerate the world!
Saber Alter: Excellent. Altera herself was a disappointment, but that Noble Phantasm is a worthy foe.
Saber Alter: If it's going to swallow all the Mana in the world, it will be an excellent opponent.
Saber Alter: My heart is that of a dragon. The Od in my body shall resist the breath of the World.
Saber Alter: Let's go, Master! It's time to see whose Noble Phantasm is the strongest!
--BATTLE--:
Altera: That...sword...was tempered inside the planet itself... It's a true Divine Weapon?
Altera: I know it...I know this pain... That's...What era was that—
Mash: Heroic Spirit Altera annihilation confirmed. Did we...win?
Saber Alter: So it seems. I thought she was like Jeanne, another Heroic Spirit twisted by the Grail, but—
Saber Alter: It seems she was twisted from before. Enough that she herself didn't know who she was.
Fujimaru 1: What are we going to do about this?
Fujimaru 2: Saber, the world's collapsing!
Saber Alter: Don't worry, this is Altera's dream. Since she disappeared, the dream will wake up.
Saber Alter: Our minds will return as the world ends. It may leave a small aftertaste, but do not fret.
Mash: S-So we're experiencing a simulation of the end of the world... This is the kind of bad feeling I don't want to know...
Saber Alter: Forgive me. I tried to be of use to my Master, but this time I failed.
Saber Alter: Once this world ends, let us meet again. Don't worry Fujimaru, it wasn't a complete waste.
Saber Alter: Battling Altera increased my own power. I shall show you an even more powerful slash in our next battle.
Mash: Oh, Saber just left without us! Senpai, we, um...
Fujimaru 1: We'll wait until it's completely white.
Mash: I-I knew it—!
Fujimaru 2: Mash, close your eyes if you're scared.
Mash: I-I can't! Closing my eyes just makes me more scared!
Mash: I'm done doing favors for Alter! Senpai, next time, think more about your actions, okay!