Fate/strange fake

Fate/Strange Fake is an approved Fate/stay night fanfiction intended to be the introduction for a role playing style game by, author of. Not canon to the Nasuverse, the full text was originally posted to Narita's homepage under the title of "Fake/states night", presented as a prologue to a game as an April Fool's joke. The text was taken down after April Fool's, but was later rereleased in the form of a novel included as an extra with the magazine Type Moon Ace 2, with illustrations by Morii Shizuki and an afterword by the author. The plot centers around a Grail War faultily copied from the third Grail War in Snowfield, a small town in California, ten years after Fate/Hollow Ataraxia.

Plot
After the end of the third Grail War, an organization from the United States that has magi separate from the London based Mage Association as members took data from Fuyuki's Grail War and planned their own ritual. After seventy years, they used the city Snowfield, California, north of Las Vegas, which is surrounded by a forest, swamp, valley, and a desert in the respective cardinal directions to act as the Sacred Land for their own Grail War. They were unable to successfully copy every aspect of the ritual, which lead to it acting only as an imitation that has lost the Saber class and allowed for the summoning of strange Servants due to the definition of a "hero" being blurred.

The Mage's Association has sent Langel and his pupil, Fardius, to investigate the city and the status of the war. Fardius, a spy from the US organization, has Langel sniped upon arrival, despite knowing that Langel was simply a puppet. He announces that their Holy Grail War has been in development and that it is real, which causes an uproar at the Clock Tower, and wishes to "advertise" the project to the Association.

Servants
Due to the nature of the War, there is no Saber class Servant, but instead the seventh Master, the Player has the ability to summon different Servants for a brief time.

Archer
Archer is once again Gilgamesh, though this is a new copy produced from the Throne of Heroes. Though without memories of the Fourth and Fifth Grail Wars and unpolluted by the Grail, he still displays his generally haughty attitude. He is summoned by a magus wishing to restore his family's honor, but he is killed by another magus right as the summoning is complete. Gilgamesh is initially not interested in participating, but he decides to stay after learning that his best friend, Enkidu, was also summoned. He becomes the Servant of the girl who killed his original Master, Teene Cherke. She is the head of a Native American clan wishing to create a prosperous free nation for her people by recovering the land taken from them by the Americans.

Rider
Rider's master, Kuruoka Tsubaki, is the child of magi who are part of the US organization. In addition to studying the Grail War, they looked upon Zouken Matou's work on magical worms and attempted to improve upon it. They infected Tsubaki with a magic-based Bacteria as an experiment to better circulate magical power, and though it put her into a coma, it created an exceptionally powerful Master out of her. They only cared about their experiment and placed her into a hospital, while planning to use her as a puppet Master. They summoned the First Emperor of China as a Servant, though it was instantly devoured from the inside by Tsubaki's true Servant, Pale Rider (ペイルライダー), the The Horseman of Plague and sickness which represents the concept of the calamity called Disease (病) in the Book of Revelations, such as the Black Death and Spanish influenza. Without human form, it "rides" people by killing their minds, manipulates them by bringing them to it's master's residence, and places them into a coma. They are placed into Tsubaki's lonely dream world, where they are forced to obey her will. The first people taken were Tsubaki's parents, and the first thing that they had to do upon entering was to buy her a birthday cake.

Caster
Caster (キャスター) is a "tamed magus" used solely as part of the Police Chief's plan to win the Holy Grail War rather than a direct participant. His identity is not stated within the story, but he bears the most resemblance to due to his reaction to rumors of plagiarizing stories and having rewritten them to his own taste. He is an extremely boisterous man who likes to indulge in pleasure and speaks with vigor while segueing from one topic to another without pause. He likes to make extravagantly blatant lies, such as having slept with and  in his resting place and the ability to produce one thousand babies from one hundred women. The Police Chief pays them no heed, and simply tries to get him back to work. He doesn't like having his power compared to rearranging and rewriting old stories. He thinks that his forgeries cause a commotion, so to say something like "compared to the Original, my creations are more interesting" is a bad joke to him. He goes on a tirade, telling his Master to go die in a ditch, write a script of his hollow praise, read it to his wife, who will be in Caster's bed, and to give him the script beforehand because he is better at editing bad scripts than legends.

While he doesn't consider himself to be a Hero, he doesn't mind being worshipped as one, and instead states that it is his job to create Heroes. He has no interest in the Holy Grail because he doesn't have a wish that would require its power. He doesn't care how the War will develop, what kind of conclusion will result, or anything about it. He simply wants to act as an observer there to spectate, and he will be content with his role in the Police Chief's plan while enjoying good food and beautiful women. He doesn't like the constant work forced upon him, causing him to complain to his Master over the phone to get him a woman from a TV advertisement. He is quite taken with both the internet and television, and he likes to tell the Police Chief about what he has seen during his ramblings. He likes to call his his Master "Bro" because he says they vowed to be brothers over a ‘bonding drink’ due to seeing that Asians love using word on the Internet.

He is extremely weak compared to those who far surpass humanity, and his Master states even he could easily defeat Caster. He was not chosen for his strength, but rather for his special ability, Sublimation (昇華). The skill involves somehow rearranging and rewriting the legends of Noble Phantasms and bringing them into existence. He compares it creating pure forgeries of the weapons, saying that it is outside of his forte and instead recommending as someone he believes capable of producing an infinite number of forgeries with powerful magecraft. Their actual nature is quite different, as he is capable of giving birth to legends that are even greater than the Originals and making them real. He has created at least thirty weapons with powers that are greater than what were told in legends, and the process is seemingly time consuming because he thinks he'll be driven crazy from overwork. His Master sees this as vital in defeating Gilgamesh due to mere forgeries not being enough to overpower the King of Heroes

Berserker
Berserker is Jack the Ripper, though it is a flawed copy. Jack was already bloodthirsty in life, so his Master believes that attempting to grant him Mad Enhancement in turn made him a relaxed and calm individual. He has the ability shapeshift into any incarnation of the legend of Jack The Ripper he wants to be, as his real identity was never discovered.

His master is Flat Eskardos, a pupil of Lord Elmelloi II, who wishes to join the war because it seems cool. He is a powerful individual, but he is an airhead who used a toy knife as a catalyst to summon his Servant.

Player
There is a hole in the ritual, the lack of the Saber class, but there is a seventh Master to replace it. They were originally a resident of Fuyuki, but moved to Snow Field for an unknown reason. The Master has no Servant, but carries five Command Spells on their body. This allows for the ability to draw upon the power of any Servant by temporarily summoning them up to five times with a limited duration depending on how much power is expended.

Teene Cherke
Teene is the head of a Native American clan wishing to create a prosperous free nation for her people by recovering the land taken from them by the Americans. She is the Master of Archer, although not the true master who summoned him. Archer was originally summoned by a magus wishing to restore his family's honor, but he was killed (more correctly murdered) by Teene after she fakes supporting him. Even though Archer may not have liked his original master who is only interested in regainning his family's honour, Archer does not really have any respect or care for Teene. He even hints that he might had killed his original master himself and that he won't have a problem with killing Teene who is now his current master

Wolf
The silver Wolf (狼) familiar of the magus originally planning to participate in the Holy Grail War is the Master of Lancer. The magus created him and expanded his magic circuits to the limit for the purpose of using him as a catalyst to summon his Servant. He believes that he needs to summon a being more ancient than the Origin of Heroes, something that transcends Heroes who were "kings." He wishes to summon an existence Egyptians called "God", but his plan is ruined when the Wolf obtains Command Spells instead of him.

The wolf is a chimera with no more intelligence than an average wolf. His every thought is based on instinct, and it is not possible for him to have any interest in Command Spells or the Holy Grail War. The magus attempts to slay him for the Command Spells by using an ornate gun that fires bullets infused with magical energy, which leads to the wolf running for his life. He is not capable of thinking in terms of “I do not want to die.” or “I want to live.”, but rather his most basic instincts allow only for him to think "Survive!" Upon letting out a bellow for survival, the scream which no one else could mimic acts as both his magecraft and summoning spell to summon Lancer, which finally lets him be at peace after running for his life. Lancer is able to communicate with him, and tells the magus that his Master holds no malice even after his actions and wishes to leave him in peace. The magus lets out a squeal before running away.

Police Chief
The Police Chief (警察署長) of Snowfield is a magus who is the Master of Caster. He is a very serious and solemn man with a commanding voice, and he does not mix well with the boisterous Caster. He responds to Caster's rambling in a serious tone, but simply hearing Caster's blatant words causes him to frown and twitch while trying to keep his cool. They don't interact face to face, but instead use a phone line that evokes a rather strange sense of distance between them. He responds to Caster's exaggerated lies calmly, and simply tries to urge him back to work with promises of women and other delicacies. He resides in a high elevation building inside a modern office that does not seem like it would be part of the battleground of the Holy Grail War. He has taken great care into his strategy for winning the war, and he has involved the entire police force as well. They plan to take a path that will shake the War's very foundation: to defeat Heroic Spirits with the power of humans (人間による英霊の打倒). He had planned to ally with the Tsubaki family, but the emergence of Rider has caused them to lose contact.

He has used the Police Department to open a physical “web” over the city. While he wished to rely on both personal informants and a monitoring system that watches the entire city to identify the other Servants and Masters, he is disappointed that it has been almost useless. The only confirmed Master and Servant are Teene Cherke and Gilgamesh, while the status of rest of them is mostly unknown. The government making the existence of the ritual public to outside magi has also angered him due to the inclusion of other unknown factors. Due to Caster's ability to produce forged Noble Phantasms with greater power than the originals, he has formed a group of close to thirty men and women that he has decided to codename as Clan Calatin - The Twenty-eight Monsters after a group of warriors who fought against Cú Chulainn in Celtic legends. They all remain alert and expressionless, and respond to their Master in flawless unison. He believes that they are a force of justice, and vows such to them as both the Chief of the Snowfield Police Department and a magus.

They are not regular police officers, but rather a force which had undergone some special type of training. While they are dressed in black, prim, and intimidating police uniforms that symbol authority with handcuffs and pistols at their waists rather than clothing that would normally be worn by magi, each carries a different non-standard weapon that include a sword, bow, shield, spear, chain, scythe, staff, and musket. That makes the sight of them seem like a ridiculous group of police officers who might be going to the local Renaissance Fair, but any magi looking upon the scene would likely faint due to the power of magic and heroism radiating from the items. Due to the fact that the summoning of Servant could be considered the “summoning of Noble Phantasms”, he thinks the presence of Noble Phantasms can dictate the direction of battles to such a degree. He believes that Gilgamesh will be their biggest obstacle, and wishes to slay him however by overwhelming him with the number of people he has at his disposal. He wishes to find an opening by all means, be it honorable or underhanded, before he is able to draw his Ea.

Jester Calture
Jester Calture is a Dead Apostle called the "Six Hearted Revolver", with a body that is like the cylinder of a revolver, with six red crest arranged in a circular pattern. However, one of them, the crest on his left thorax, had turned pitch black after Assassin used her Noble Phantasm to crush his heart. His conceptual core as a magus, which was shielded by several layers of magical defense, has died. He now decided to use a new face and put his fingers on the black crest, and the tips sunk under his skin. It was as if his hand sunk into a flesh-coloured swamp. He began to stir his insides noisily. The crests seemed to be slowly moving, turning like a cylinder of a revolver. The black crest moved to his left abdomen, and a new red crest filled his left thorax. Then, somehow, with the change of the crest, his face and body began to pulse, morphing into a shape different from the man just a moment ago. Should all crests turn black, he will return to his original form, which is supposedly a girl.

He can also lengthen the shadow between his feet with his powerful pulse. His shadow has the same colour as the tattoo on his body, which is completely red. The red shadow entangle's its victims, separates itself from the floor and then swallow its victims, like a red tide. It devours the flesh within seconds and turns the victims into bones and then, in an instant, returns to his body and its colour brightens.

He would summon Assassin along with his 10 disciples in the basement of a mansion near a lake in the eastern snow field region. After he established a Path for transmitting prana with Assassin and finds out about her nature, he forgets about his original goal to wake up the Spider with the power of the Holy Grail, and then die with this boring World. because he now begins to stalk her in order to wait for the pleasuring moment when she is brought into despair after her beliefs are broken.