Dark Side of the Moon

Consciousness returned to Bazett slowly, the world swimming in and out of her blurry vision. With a groan, she put her hand to her face, she hurt all over, especially her arm…

Her arm!

“Ah, it seems you’re awake, good, I was starting to get worried.”

“Wha-?!”

“Easy, you’re still recovering, don’t sit up just yet,” her body acted without her intent and went limp, falling back to the bed. She was in a bed… where…? The ceiling was definitely old time Japanese style, lit by moonlight… “Relax, you’re safe, I don’t want you putting too much strain on yourself is all.” Her body came back under her control gradually, and Bazett turned her head to the soft, scratchy croak of a voice.

It had come from a shadow in the corner of the room, the rough sillouette of a man sprawled out, propped up against the corner, a mismatched pair of glowing eyes stared out from the darkness.

Sickly yellow and vibrant purple stared out at her from the darkness, she felt no fear from that gaze but she certainly felt unease. Slowly this time, Bazett pushed herself up and the eyes went half-lidded in disapproval, “Determined aren’t we? Hmph…” there was the rustle of fabric and a soft whirr of machines as a hand was raised and Bazett froze, her instincts kicking into high gear-

Her prana was dangerously low-

She wasn’t in her suit, just her shirt and underwear-

The figure was four meters away-

Her vision was still blurry-

Only for a pleasant, intense heat to flood through her from the center of her chest outwards…? Strength was returning to her limbs faster now and her vision cleared… though the heat quickly became nearly painful before it was cut off, the hand lower once more, “There, that should help.”

Finishing her attempt to sit up, Bazett stared at the figure in the corner, “Who-“ her voice was even more of a croak than his had been, she swallowed futiley for a moment before a cup of tea levitated in front of her.

“I am Servant Caster, at your service, Master,” her eyes adjusting to the darkness, Bazett could see the man place a hand on his chest and give a small bow.

Suddenly very wary, she reached out to take the levitating cup, “Master…?” she croaked, holding off drinking just yet.

“Yes. I had a rather serious disagreement with my initial Master over morality, I removed his Command Seals and accompanying arm. It turned out rather useful that I kept the arm as I used it to replace your own,” there was a flash of teeth in an amused smile, “And don’t worry, it’s just Chai.”

Flushing slightly at his amusement, Bazett sipped the tea, it was overly sweet and spicey for her tastes to be honest, but it soothed her parched throat as the Servant continued, “I sensed you and your Servant arrive, I’d hoped to meet with you to discuss a possible alliance, but I only was able to arrive in time to save your life. I took the opportunity to use my previous Masters arm to forge a contract with you while replacing yours.”

By now, Bazett could actually see the Servant… her Servant through the darkness, he was wearing a dark, loose overcoat over a set of heavy black armor plating. He shifted, folding his arms against his propped up knee and setting his chin atop them. With his silence, Bazett asked, “What happened to Lancer…?”

The man’s head cocked to the side, his mismatched eyes blinking, “Kirei stole Lancer’s command seals and has taken him as his own. The Hound wasn’t particularly happy about that, but they likely assume you are dead now. I believe Kirei used a Command Seal to enforce obedience.”

Bazett was quiet, absorbing that information for a moment before she turned to her Servant, she could feel the connection to him, prana was flowing from her to the armored man… Caster it seemed… “Who are you?”

“Servant Caster. I have no legend and I’m fairly certain that I never existed in this world even. I’m admittedly rather weak for a Servant, so we’re going to have to work around that unfortunately. I do have the advantage of knowledge due to my scrying skills though.”

“At least there’s that…” she said softly, staring at the tea in her hands as her Servant made a noncommittal noise.

Slowly turning the cup, she asked, “What’s the plan?”

With the whirr of machines, Caster stood, “Right now? You get healed up. The sooner you’re up and moving the sooner we can get to work. Unfortunately, I have nothing to accelerate your healing any more than it already is without risking compromising your magecraft.”

A brief scowl crossed her face as she looked at the servant, noting that were she standing rather than laying on the bed, she’d likely be taller than him, “What did you do?”

“Aside from transferring my former masters arm? I’ve temporarily altered the flow of your Od to accelerate your healing, and you’ve got a bit of an alchemical cocktail in your veins to ease the adaptation to the new arm,” he extended a hand and a cup lifted from the ground to his hand as he walked forward into the starlight, “I could try fleshcrafting, but I’m hesitant to do so as it can be rather… unpleasant,” his understated smile was visible in the low light.

Bazett blinked in surprise at the sheer mangling of her Servant’s face. She’d seen some pretty bad scars during her time as an Enforcer, but the fact that he was still alive after that was… surprising to say the least, “I’m guessing all of… that…” she gestured at his face with a hand, “Is because of it?”

Casters’ gaze became distant for a moment as his armored fingers traced the three large, jagged scars that overlapped his purple eye; the skin around them discolored and rough, “A failed attempt to fix up damage or scars, made it a fair bit worse in addition to the pain…” His hand fell away and he smiled at her, “I’d rather not inflict that upon you without necessity.”

A burned throat and jaw, a missing chunk of his right ear, the mangled upper left side of his face, his sunken and unnaturally colored eyes… Bazett came to the conclusion that unlike Lancer, her new Servant was not a prime physical specimen, “Thank you… I appreciate it.”

Strangely, while Caster made her uneasy and uncomfortable, it also made her feel safe. He unsettled her, but she knew without a shadow of a doubt that he would let no harm come to her. Turning back to the tea, she sipped it again, considering her next question for her new Servant…

“Master.”

Her eyes flicked back to him, finding an amused smile on Caster’s face, “Servant?”

“You should rest, Master.”

“I’ve been out for days haven’t I?” she asked with a scowl.

The smile faded into a more somber look, “Yes, but the only thing allowing you to stay upright at the moment is my power. You lost a lot of blood Master, and there is little I can do to help that other than get you food and rest. Were I able, I would get you food now before letting you sleep more, but I cannot do so without breaking my cover. So for now, you should rest.”

“You expect me to be able to sleep?” Bazett raised an eyebrow at her Servant.

His smile returned as he reached out, “Yes Master, I do,” the warmth that had been supporting her limbs was suddenly gone, leaving Bazett feeling cold and weak. Caster took the cup from her hand as she was gently eased back into the bed by a force, “Rest easy, Master, no harm shall come to you while I draw breath.”

Bazett was exhausted, but she wasn’t sleepy damnit!

The black armor of his hand gently touched her forehead, his fingers moved subtly a few time as he murmured words she could not understand or hope to produce, “Sleep.” The world suddenly swam as a fuzz settled over her mind, her eyes closing against her will.

Bastard Caster, doing this without… her… approval…

F/SN
Because of a broken and twisted Grail and Caster’s overwhelming power, a living being from the depths of the Kaleidoscope is pulled as a Servant, using the Second Magic rather than the Third, summoning OCdoriol as (False) Assassin. As he is still truly alive, he doesn't need prana from Caster, nor is he bound to the arch, so he hauls ass once he can and tries to get into contact with Rin or Shirou.

It's on the UBW route and he's able to get into contact with Shirou. It takes some convincing, but the group is at least willing to give him consideration. He tries to convince Archer that his plan won't work and that the group (and Sakura) needs him (Archer), but it's not much later that Caster kills him horribly for his betrayal, using her pseudo-command-seal to make him quite literally suffer to death... and OCdoriol doesn't want to die, he wants to get away… it's all he can think about at those last moments-... and the Grail, twisted as it is, grants his wish. It renders him unable to truly die, but sends him cascading through the kaleidoscope.





Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Replaces Revan’s artificial personality. He dies on Talos from a blaster bolt to the face that he didn’t dodge.





Baldur’s Gate
For the people who haven’t heard of it, which shame on you, it’s a revolutionary RPG:Summoned by a Tsundere Elf Wizard protagonist as a Familiar.

He can’t communicate with anyone except his master empathically.

She’s irritated with him, though confused as well, but she does her best to take care of him since he’s just as confused as she is and obviously scared. She’s simply too much of a good guy to do otherwise. She gets him equipped with basic armor and a sword and taught basic not-dying skills, especially since he takes a portion of her power to maintain. He takes up using a shortbow as he’s a natural with it and it’s a way to help out without getting up close and personal with stabby things.

Sasaki and his master try to teach each other some basic language skills to make it easier to communicate. In doing this, Sasaki realizes he doesn’t have a name anymore, the only thing coming to mind being Kojirou Sasaki which he knows isn’t right… still, he has to give her something to call him other than Familiar, and goes with Sasaki.
 
A targeted Dispel Magic hits him and his master in the back of the fight and he dissipates.





Xcom: Enemy Within
He wakes up in a tube of gel on an alien ship that's landed, and is freed by the Xcom ground team as well as several others. While the other captives were gifted psionics, he himself is not... he struggles to give them a name, just going with Sasaki as he isn't willing to steal someone else's name completely.

Xcom is hesitant to let him go again just in case the aliens come for him again, and to be honest, 'Sasaki' doesn't really mind that much. He mostly just hangs out around the base, in awe of what he sees and generally trying to adjust to what's going on. He ends up helping out at both the engineering and science departments as best he can for lack of things to do.

He has to wonder… are the memories of his adventures so far just hallucenations from being kidnapped by the aliens…?

He starts to pick up tricks for engineering as well as expanding his already mediocre knowledge of engineering and physics.

Over the course of several months, he learns a lot and interacts with the various team members, but never goes onto the field himself. Then the aliens attack the main base directly and he's killed in the crossfire.

F/SN[/b]
Summoned as (False) Assassin again, though this time with his leather armor, sword, shield, spear and bow. He avoids pissing off Caster as much as he initially did due to his shitty status since he at least has weapons of his own this time.

Still runs though, having an easier time of finding Shirou and Rin, though this time it seems like the Fate route instead. Shirou believes him easily, it’s Rin that’s hard to convince, not that ‘Sasaki’ is surprised by this. He begs for her to A). help hide him from Caster and B). Teach him magic as well. Anything he can learn to help him survive.

His magic circuits are activated (all 8 of the shit-tier circuits), though this quite literally lights him on fire which scars him. Staying in the Boundary field that Rin erects, he’s hidden enough from Caster that she doesn’t bother looking for him, acting as an info-dump for her to try and manipulate the war. ‘Sasaki’ has a fair amount of knowledge about the Fate and UBW routes, but only the most basic info on the HF route. But it’s enough that Rin ends up saving Sakura though Rider is killed in the process.

Caster arrives at the home while the team is away, intending to hold Taiga hostage to get Saber… and finding (False) Assassin… and once again ordering him to suffer to death for his betrayal.





SW: KotOR
Replaces Revan once more, this time he’s a lot more careful than he was last time and is able to clear the ‘Talos level’, escaping with Bastilla and the others, using his previous limited training in the sword combined with more advanced technology as well. That and he’s a natural with a blaster as he is with most ranged weapons.

He starts to show his talent for creating items with the ease of modifying and upgrading his equipment. Entirely with upgrade kits at this early point, but he learns quickly.

They escape to Dantooine and, as per canon, they train Sasaki in the ways of the Jedi over several months, which he picks up at an astounding speed. He realizes that he’s tapping into the residual knowledge of his host body. Something he is fascinated with is how to use the Force to create items, combining his decent knowledge of engineering with the training as well as Revan's residual knowledge to create his own basic lightsaber, surprising the Jedi Masters.

Moving on in the quest to find the Star Maps and, through them, the source of the enemies power.

He lacks the innate charisma that Revan truly possessed, but Sasaki is easy to like. He’s nice, honest, and concerned about people. Only Bastilla really doesn’t get along with him, which weirds him out since he normally gets along with hard-asses.
 
Sasaki leads his small team to the Wookie homeworld, helping free them from the corporation that’s taken control… but during the process his team has to fight what amounts to a force resistant land bound dragon. Sasaki loses his left eye to the mauling he receives, but survives. He replaces it with a purple one quite literally just because he wants a purple one. He actually can’t see using it initially, though he got a version with infrared vision.

On Korriban, the Sith Academy, he sneaks his way in and learns from them over the course of a month or two. Mostly they’re teaching Dark Side techniques, but Sasaki is fascinated with Sith Alchemy. He learns very little in the time constraints and between playing the Academy against itself. He’s surprisingly good at this because despite seeming and being brutally honest, he’s capable of lying quite well.

After getting the headmaster and his assistant, the two most powerful Sith there to kill one another, he accesses the star map and is exhilarated by the power and skill he just showed, feeling the strength from the environment surging in him… and he suddenly feels himself slipping away as something dark and powerful rises up from within him.

The remnants of Revan’s personality surge up, empowered by the Dark Side to shunt Sasaki out of existence.

Sasaki keeps his self-created lightsaber as a 'phantasm'.





Baldur’s Gate
He’s re-summoned by the same mage. It’s not long before she’s able to cast a translation spell on him, at which point they have a long talk. He explains all of his limited knowledge of the first game and its plot/developments/quests. He shocks her with the truth of her heritage and is all for her choosing what she wants to do with it rather than telling anyone else. She ends up deciding to tell her friends the truth.

It doesn’t really click, but he keeps his cybernetic left eye.

At his request, she helps him learn arcane magic.

He can’t really use the Force here worth a damn, though the instinct works slightly, at least when facing sentient opponents. He’s able to figure out how to perform basic Reinforcement and Structural Analysis. Lots of broken little things.

One of the party members is a manipulative dark elf and Sasaki admittedly likes her quite a bit. After his master, she’s the one he listens to the most for relatively little reward. Two of the more mature party members pull him aside at one point and try to convince him that she’s manipulating him…

“… duh?”

“I know it’s hard to bel-… wait, what?”

“Of course she’s manipulating me? She asks me to take her watch at night so she can go flirt with, I’m assuming, Dorn due to her given preferences. Her words are calculated to make it seem like she is attracted to me while encouraging me to do just that little bit more to please her as if it would be enough to get her to truly love me. And this is ignoring the calculated touches, glances, and general attitude she has. It’s obvious that she’s manipulating me.”

“If you know that, they why do you go along with it?”

“Why not? I don’t expect her to love me, I just enjoy her presence.”

The half elf blinked in a cross between surprise and confusion.

I rolled my eyes and gave her a small smile, “Jaheira, I don’t dance because I am a puppet on her strings, but because I enjoy the tune. Nothing more, nothing less.”

They get further in the series but he’s killed in battle by a wyvern when it swoops down and snatches him up, biting off his face before he can orient himself enough to fight back.




Xcom: Enemy Within
Once more, Sasaki awakens within the alien’s ship as he is rescued. Brought into the Xcom program once more, he’s determined to try and help. He has is instinct works here as well, and he’s a good shot, though not great. The Commander allows him to go on some missions as a rookie, assuming that he, like the others rescued with him, is a psionic. And the Commander isn’t entirely wrong.

They realize that his left eye is artificial and with his permission, study it. It doesn’t match the rest of the tech the aliens have, but then again, they barely understand the alien tech in the first place.

Sasaki works with the science and engineering departments, trying to bring up the things he learned before to speed up the advancement and understanding of the tech. He’s given a suit of Skeleton Armor which has a grappling hook and is surprisingly light as well as a laser rifle. He prefers to have two laser pistols in addition to the rifle just for backup. He also happily wears a nanofiber vest under his armor as well as carrying a grenade.

He gets caught by a plasma bolt to the side which nearly puts him down, but he’s saved and returned to the base. During his recovery time, he undergoes psionic testing and fails, which confuses the hell out of everybody, but the Support combatant is decently skilled and is kept on the secondary ground team.

While he’s recovering, they also apply a pair of gene mods, hyper-dense musculature and a secondary heart to compensate for his flaws. The musculature allows him to make impressive leaps and bursts of power to take advantage of his precognition and the secondary heart to compensate for his comparatively poor stamina.

He becomes friends with his team, most of them being more boisterous than him. He’s surprised to realize that he retains his knowledge of Japanese from the Holy Grail War, helpful as it is.

When sent on a mission to stop a terror attack, a Berserker alien goes totally Kool Aid Man on him, moving faster than his precognition is able to warn him and crushing Sasaki’s head against the wall like a grape.

F/SN[/b]
He gets summoned as-… Saber…? What the fu- … Oh fuck.

His Force-granted Instinct is at least partially functional, but he only helps Shirou avoid getting stabbed by Lancer by-… relying on the rules of hospitality? It was a complete guess on Sasaki’s part, but it works! Well, at the very least long enough for Archer/Rin to arrive.

He has absolutely piddly magic resistance and stats for a Saber, though he has his lightsaber which cuts damn near anything, even Berserker. He’s able to assist Archer enough to force a retreat from Berserker when encountered after getting Sasaki registered. He insists on going by Saber as there really is a Sasaki in this world.

‘Saber’ takes the time to use his magics to ‘discover’ a lot about the situation. Information that Rin accepts with only a bit of trepidation as Saber has been only helpful so far, and while he admits to having a wish, her Archer doesn’t have one, so this might work out…

It takes pretty much no time at all for Rin to decide to head to the Matou mansion and break Sakura free. Saber has the idea to push his Od outwards in a bubble around him and then use that to enact a draining field which absorbs the life-force of things around him. This enables him to absorb the entire life-force of the worms in the Matou mansion that approach too close. The field is weak and hard to maintain, but it kills all of the worms within almost ten meters of him while also recharging his Od.

It takes some effort, but Sasaki can exclude Shirou from the effect. Rin and Archer are willing to have the mild drain on their reserves in return for the protection.

Sakura is utterly stunned that her sempai and sister have come to save her and still care for her even after learning how ‘filthy’ she is. Rin tries to play off her concerns, but Sasaki confides (not so quietly) to Sakura that Rin is just putting up a front and is really worried and happy that Sakura is safe. Cue very unhappy Rin.

Rin moves to talk to Caster with ‘Saber’ and Archer as her support, leaving Rider with Shirou/Sakura at the Emiya place. Archer considers turning on them to get the command seals removed, but decides against it, acknowledging that ‘Saber’ is useless. Sasaki takes offense to that! Archer shouldn’t have even considered turning on them with how super useless he is as a Saber. It’s like a damn comedy skit. Until Sasaki’s magically hidden (and hidden magically) lightsaber hilt gets close enough to Caster for him to activate it and cut her in two when negotiations fail.

Later, they end up fighting Berserker, and while Rider and Sasaki try to buy enough time for Archer to put up his Reality Marble, Sasaki taps deeply into the Dark Side of the Force to even stay alive since Berserker’s already been killed by his lightsaber and is thus immune to being killed by it again. By leaping onto Berserkers back and putting him into a draining headlock, Sasaki is actually able to reduce Berserker’s stats by a full rank before Berserker grabs him and slams him down into the ground and cleaves Sasaki in half. That wound sticks with Sasaki as a massive scar through him.



SW: KotOR[/b]
Once more replaces Revan, though this time it’s hard to keep everything under wraps. He still has his artificial left eye, but definitely no second heartbeat so… he has his eye but not his other implants…?

A bit more accustomed to wearing armor due to his time in Xcom, he wears some moderate armor that he upgrades over time. While he replaces the gauntlets, one with an integrated datapad and the other with a grappling hook. Over the course of this universe he modifies the armor even further, swapping out the helmet for a more advanced one, adding a fusion-pack backpack generator as well as powerful shields in somewhat oversized shoulderpads.

The energy shields compensates for his (comparative) lack of skill with the lightsaber and the Force when pitted against the outright better combatants.

On Tattoine he gets HK-47 and is able to negotiate peacefully with the sand people, though there’s much exasperation here at people just being obstinate, the first time it was okay, but the second time is just hard. He knows it’s the first time for them but still it feels like he’s telling them stuff all over again.

On the Wookie homeworld he’s actually ready for it this time. He convinces the corporate headquarters to turn over the planet back to the Wookies for an increased profit… and legitimately means it. Money is something he is very good at and after having time to think about how to convince them of it between tries he’s able to pull it off.

On Korriban, Sasaki actually tries to learn as much Sith Alchemy and Sorcery as he can to supplement his magic, but once again he plays most of them for fools. It’s something he’s surprisingly good at, his apparent honesty and earnest nature make it easy to convince his superiors and ‘classmates’ that he really just wants to do the best he can for them… until he pulls the rug out from under them or stops supporting them and lets them fall on their own. He gains a few markers of the Dark Side here, veins along the right side of his face, even paler skin, his right eye slowly yellowing, but he’s been in control of his own darkness for a long time, it’s Revan’s and the surroundings that he has to learn how to control. It just feels so good to give in. Still he manages it and turns the Sith Academy inside out before he leaves, stealing most of their records and a fair amount of expensive equipment with none the wiser.

His companions call him out on his appearance, but that appearance fades over time amongst them and away from the ambient dark side energy. Just as he said it would. Still, Bastilla is very wary of him and the other Jedi are concerned.

On the water planet they have to deal with the trial and obstinate bureaucracy, things that Sasaki is actually good at. It’s when he’s got to go on his own into combat that he struggles.

The group sticks with him after learning his ‘secret’ (Oh noes! You’re really Revan?!). But when he has to fight the Dark Side Bastilla, he really has to work his ass off to talk her down as she obviously doesn’t love him as she would have the canon Revan.

When he finally fights Malak, Sasaki is willing to drain the mindless stored Jedi and attempts to puppeteer one of the bodies against Malak though this doesn’t work.  He finally beats Malak by using magic to literally make Malak slip and then take Malak’s arm. Despite having armor that essentially renders him immune to lightsabers and conventional attacks, despite this body’s strength in the Force, Sasaki simply lacks the skill to use it to its full potential, especially against someone like Malak… in a location so saturated with the Darkside that Sasaki has to struggle with going berserk, which would be an instant ticket to death.

Once defeating Malak, Sasaki stops the assault, taking control of the massive facility, his curiosity and desire to learn getting the best of him and clouding his judgement.

The Republic that he saved demands the Star Forge, and ‘Revan’ denies them, pointing out how dangerous it is. They almost threaten to attack, but he points out that the losses would be horrendous. Sasaki just wants to study the place some and tells the republic as such, but the Republic makes demands. He has no interest in war, but he also fully believes that this station is too dangerous to be used. He attempts to negotiate peacefully, and this is the only reason that things don't disolve into another war within a few days.

It’s over the course of a few weeks before he decides he’s pushed the Republics temper enough and decides to blow the place and run. Between using Structural Analysis as well as his own computers, Sasaki learns a number of principles and takes massive numbers of notes on the operation of the station and how it uses the Force to do things. How it draws on so much power in of itself boggles his mind, but he picks up bits and pieces and takes 3D pictures of everything.

While most of his companions go their separate ways, a few stick with him.

”Mission, you shouldn’t stay with me…”

“You can’t tell me otherwise Sasaki! You’re not leaving without me.”

“Mission… I’m probably going to die under a hail of blaster fire or someone’s lightsaber… there’ll be no happiness at the end of my story. Just sorrow and death, and if I’m lucky, the satisfaction that I’d done the best I could …”

“I-… No. I’m not abandoning you! Not just because it’s convenient. You didn’t do that to us and I’m not going to do it to you.”

After blowing up the Star Forge he runs into the galaxy with his few companions and hides.

He learns more about his own equipment to maintain it while they’re on the run, years passing as they avoid the bounty-hunters searching for ‘Revan’. If he could just settle in and hide he could do so, but he's unable to just stand by whenever he sees cruelty or things he can fix, so he occasionally pops up on the radar and the Republic follows.

Over nearly four years, Sasaki develops his armor as well as his lightsaber. He makes sure to memorize as much as possible about the creation of these items so that he can take that information to Xcom universe as he suspects he’ll be going there again.

His lightsaber is unusual in that he normally uses it as a single, but it’s truly a double that can split into two. One blade is longer and green while the other is short and a constant cascade of different colors. The short blade is mostly meant as a surprise weapon, and it’s color (rainbow) was something he did in memory of his girlfriend in his home reality who wanted one… it’s a reminder to himself that he’s not of this world and that he also has a home elsewhere.

One relatively normal day of hiding from the Republic, something different happens.

Cue assassins.

While he's dealt with bounty hunters plenty of times, these are force sensitive assassins. What a mess. And then the Lord of Pain, Darth Scion, appears to try and kill him. Sasaki holds the near-corpse off long enough for his companions to escape before he himself runs. Scion isn't as powerful as Malak, nor as skilled, but he's effectively immortal and still strictly better than Sasaki. Still, after seeing his skill it in action, Sasaki thinks he might be able to emulate it given some time, to use the Dark Side and the power of his pain to hold himself together...

But still, this is a problem. If Scion is about… then so are the more terrifying Sith.

Sasaki tries to get into contact with the Jedi and warn them, but it’s mostly fruitless. While he’s able to talk freely with some Jedi, most just try to bring ‘Revan’ in and/or down. One of the Jedi Masters believes him though and takes the time to work with him, teaching him some before telling him to meet them at the Jedi Council that’s been called. He’ll defend Sasaki, if he does.

This whole time, Scion hounds Sasaki and his companions off and on, Sasaki killing more and more of Scion's assassins but Scion and his assassins killing a number of the Jedi that Sasaki was going to meet, deaths that are attributed to ‘Revan’. Damnit.

Frustrated, he doesn’t go to the council that’s called… and thus avoids dying with the rest of the planet at the hands of Darth Nihilus.

Horrified, he really doesn’t know what to do now…

He needs time to think and just hide for a while… but his companions are able to convince him to try and gather allies to fight this force of darkness.

Sasaki seeks out Jedi and Sith to take down Darth Nihilus. He starts to gather up allies, a small fleet even of mixed Jedi and Sith, and it is only the threat of Darth Nihilus that keeps them in line initially, but later, that of Darth Scion when the semi-immortal attacks the entire group. Sasaki proves himself the most effective combatant and holds Darth Scion off long enough for the others to flee before he himself runs. While some try to betray him for Scion, that doesn’t last long, and most agree to work together with him.

Not much later though, while they’re stopped at a planet… everyone around Sasaki dies and collapses into ash.

Darth Nihilus has come, and Sasaki is the only one left. He doesn’t know how, he doesn’t know why… but damnit he’s going to stand up to the bastard and try to bring him down.

(He’s immune to Darth Nihilus insta-death hunger not due to strength in the Force or special technique, but because if he wasn’t, his soul would be consumed and permanently killed, and that literally can’t happen because of his accidental wish those that Sasaki had a Force Bond with, who Sasaki himself absorbed/consumed unknown to him at the time, this will come back to haunt him when he remembers things only they would know)

Horrified and stricken, Sasaki sends the only survivors, his droids, off to find the Jedi Exile and help them; if the multi-dimensional warrior can’t take down either of them, then they’re the only one that can threaten them. He doesn’t expect to survive, but he’s going to try to take out at least one damnit.

So he waits.

In the middle of a pavilion on a dead planet, deliberately setting up dozens of camera’s and recordings so that people will know about these damn bastards, Sasaki waits for the two Sith Lords to arrive. They appear, pre-empted by dozens of assassins… which do nothing to Sasaki as he just turns the very same power Nihilus has against them, consuming them whole.

And so he stands to meet his death.

He can’t beat both of them, hell, he can’t even beat Scion on his own. But damnit, he’ll take at least one of them down. Sasaki does surprisingly well, mostly by whipping out a completely different style every other move and his armor allowing him to use a completely unconventional style, letting him just tank several consecutive blows from their lightsabers before he needed to block.

He removes one of Scions arms… but the Lord of Pain re-attaches it mid combat. Sasaki cleaves Nihilus in two… which doesn’t kill the force of nature. Damnit, this is ridiculous. He taps further into the Dark Side of the Force, he loses an arm but reattaches it mid-combat and cleaves them both in half using the moment of surprise. This doesn’t stop either of them, but it slows them down long enough that he can try to drain Scion.

Sasaki is cut apart piece by piece, slowly broken down in the duel until he collapses and falls apart, unable to maintain the Dark Side sustaining effect, fading from this existence.

He gains both his lightsaber and his armor as ‘phantasms’ from this travel.




Baldur’s Gate[/b]
He’s summoned… by the same master as before. This surprises him a bit since he expected to reset upon death but he’s not complaining! And this time he even has his powerful armor! It’s been a little bit since he was last here since his master couldn’t bring herself to summon again due to mourning for him. She smacks the crap out of him for making her worry and cry like that, but he just hugs her, happy to be back and be amongst friends he hasn’t seen in almost five years of relative time.

Annoyingly, while he still has all of his skill that he developed, all of the conditioning he put his body through is gone as it wasn’t his body, not to mention that his Force Abilities are considerably weaker outside of his body. However, he does have his hyper-dense musculature and secondary heart once more, and has to rebuild his combat style around possessing the sudden bursts of power he can provide with his musculature.

Since he has no way of refueling its generator (which can also recharge his other equipment like his lightsaber), he has to figure out a way to ghetto-rig the generator to run off of atmosphere rather than the purer fuel cells. Functional? Yes. Efficient? Fuck no.

The cost of maintaining him has gone up noticeably, even though she is more powerful. Sasaki tries Force Bonding to her, which actually makes it a bit easier since they can share power, and by Force Bonding with other Party Members he reduces the strain on his master. He also works on his draining field, practicing maintaining it in combat without affecting those he’s Force Bonded to.

The group pushes on until they fight the final boss of the first game, the demigod of murder. The fight is intense and difficult, pushing the party to their limits against the powerful demigod and his cronies, but in the end they’re victorious. But when Saerevok dissolves into golden motes of light, instead of dispersing and fading, they surge into Sasaki as his own soul desperately tries to patch itself up by consuming it. Sasaki absorbs both the soul and divine spark on complete accident.

However, this also includes a sudden spike in his maintenance cost, which his master can’t provide for in her exhausted state, and what little power Sasaki had left failing him rather quickly. And so he fades from existence.



Xcom: Enemy Within[/b]
This time when he awakens in the tube, Sasaki tries to break himself out. He succeeds but then has to hide and struggle to avoid getting re-captured, hiding and scurrying about.

By using the Force to enhance his body, he takes out several aliens to help the ground team. He, with the other rescued people, are brought into Xcom. Once again, while the others are powerful psionics, Sasaki himself isn’t though he retains the implants of a secondary heart and musculature.

As they ransack the ship, they find a suit of armor for humans damaged in the fight… and Sasaki realizes it’s his own. While he tells the Commander the full truth as he understands it, the others are told it’s something the aliens shoved into his head. But he helps the science team rebuild his armor as well as how to transfer its tech to others.

They can’t replicate the fusion pack, but with Sasaki’s knowledge of their research in his previous time here their progress towards Elerium generators is heavily jumpstarted. He uses his armor as a testbed for tech, swapping out the plating and adding in servos to help with the weight of the considerably larger plating in a prototype version of the Titan armor. It has a sealed internal air supply as well as cooling systems. He adds a back-up Elerium generator in addition to the fusion generator backpack to help power both the servos in it as well as the energy shields.

The research department develops an armor using the Elerium power and the shielding tech to create a weaker version of Sasaki’s own armor.

Sasaki splits his time between the research department and ground team. His considerable instinct combined with Force enhancement and his implants make him a very useful team member. During one mission he’s badly injured by a Chrysallid as the bug-like aliens swarm at his team and he taps into the Dark Side heavily, ripping all the power he can from his surroundings to unleash a brief burst of Force Lightning upon them.

The Commander makes a decision. While Sasaki is recovering, he’s given a full suite of modifications to enhance his effectiveness. Mimetic skin that allows him to go chameleon, his organic eye given a hyper-reactive pupil, adaptive bone marrow placed into his long bones to enhance his healing rate considerably, and an organ placed into his mind to allow him to provide dangerous feedback for anyone attempting mental attacks on him.

The reason for this? He’s being sent on covert missions on his own to investigate EXALT cells. Due to his instincts and physical prowess he’s at the least risk of any other team member.

He does surprisingly well. Even with limited equipment, his new gene-mods combined with his Force abilities make him superhuman even compared to the gene-mod enhanced EXALT teams.

When they attack the primary EXALT base, Sasaki comes along since he’s been so invested in it now. He gets separated from the rest of his team and laser-fire pounds down on him. His instincts had been screaming at him that this was bad, but he couldn’t avoid it. His shields fall quickly under the combined firepower and his armor fails him, the power pack breeching and exploding, killing him almost instantly.

Name: Sasaki
Race: Human (Servant?)
Class: Caster
Master:
Age: 31
Height: 5' 6''
Weight: 168 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown
Appearance: A lean, relatively fit young man, he has an unassuming and average appearance. His eyes are deep-set, his left eye a vibrant purple beneath the scars that cover the upper left of his face
Alignment: Lawful Good

Stats
Strength: E+
Agility: E+
Endurance: E
Mana: E
Luck: C
Noble Phantasm: A



Class Skills:[/b]
Item Creation: D+
Caster has moderate skill in the creation of items, enhanced by his class. In particular, he is adept at creating technological items or those dealing with Sith Alchemy, in which case his skill is Rank Up.


Territory Creation: C
Enables the creation of a “Workshop”.


Skills:[/b]
Incarnate: A
Servants possessing this skill are not truly spirits or wraiths. Higher ranks representing a Servant closer to life and possessing a living body. This skill reduces the strain of maintaining the Servant, and higher ranks also allow the Servant to respire Prana on their own. However even a minimal rank in this Skill forbids a Servant from entering Astral Form. At this rank, Gaia acknowledges Caster as a human out of place and puts very little pressure to remove him from the world. This means that Caster only respires a small amount of prana per day.

Kaleidoscopic Knowledge: C
Caster possesses a breadth of knowledge in a large variety of subjects as well as knowledge from beyond this universe. He posseses knowledge about universes which were fictional in his home universe.

Exposure to the Kaleidoscope: E
A rare skill, it represents the Servants nature from beyond this universe. Servants possessing this skill operate on their own laws of physics. Higher ranks in this skill mean that the Servant operates on more wildly different laws of physics.

Possessing this skill increases the pressure that Gaia places upon the Servant due to their greater status as an anomaly. Additionally, it is nearly always coupled with a level of Mental Pollution one rank lower than its own, representing a viewpoint distorted by the altered physics or the circumstances that caused them.

Caster possesses this skill due to his exposure to the undiluted Kaleidoscope and his souls ability to “understand” laws of physics it is exposed to, allowing his internal reality to change based on the reality it is exposed to. His Mental Pollution is due to the damage and degradation his soul has gone through from its contact with 「　」  as well as the souls he has improperly consumed.

E – The Servant's laws of physics are only subtly different from that of Gaia's.


Divinity: D
Having stolen the Divinity of a powerful Demigod of Murder, Caster has the spark of divinity within him.


The Force: A-
Caster has been trained to use his Od directly without converting it to prana, to affect the world around him.

Caster has a moderate amount of talent with this Skill, but he learned it in a far stronger form and in a universe far better suited to its use. As such, it’s main use is on his internal reality. While it may be used externally by infusing the item or environment with his Od, doing so is draining and reduces the power of the effects by three ranks.

This skill allows Caster to enhance himself by drawing on the external life force of the world and grants him the following skills: Instinct A+, Sith Alchemy B, Presence Detection D, and Life Force Drain B.


Divine Words: E
Caster has training in the Arcane, a school of magic using a combination of the Divine Language, Formalcraft, and Runes to enact the users will on the world. While he is truly a sorcerer, and as such his selection of spells on command is very limited, he has been trained as a wizard and is able to use his spellbook to cast a far larger selection of spells, though these are oftentimes 4 or 5 line processes. This contributes to his Territory Creation and Item Creation skills.






Noble Phantasms:
Lightsaber: A-rank Anti-Personnel
A weapon from either a far flung future or a distant past, when unactivated it is merely a simple metal tube. But when it activated, a beam of intense energy extends from it, acting as an omnidirectional blade of plasma. It is a sword which cuts anything physical, even Noble Phantasms given time. However, the blade cannot cut energy or magic.

Phantasms of A rank or higher cannot be cut as their mystery is simply too great, but lesser phantasms can be damaged or even destroyed provided sufficient time, but this is impractical for anything greater than D rank in combat.
 
As the weapon has no mass, it is difficult to block with the weapon, though it possesses the unique property of being able to be turned on and off.


Traveler’s Armor: D+ Rank Defense, Support
An armor built from alien alloys, it is far lighter and stronger than any comparable modern armor. Infused with his Od at every step of the way, it contributes to his A-rank Force skill. Additionally, it possesses a grappling hook.

The armor may project a barrier of crystalized plasma that reduces the power of any attack by one rank.



Laser Weaponry: D-Rank Anti-Personnel
Futuristic weapons, they fire beams of intense light that can blow off limbs with a single shot.