Quote:Thanks. My coffee demanded it.
This is brilliant, and perfectly Shirou.
Consider - this one has an actual reason to seek the Grail. He doesn't want Illya to die. That's a considerable change of attitude, and a heapload of problems, even if he does have Kiritsugu's old journals as reference material. His backup plan, if he can't manage that for some reason, is to kidnap an Association mage and threaten/blackmail/bribe them to rip Avalon from him and implant it into Illya.
Now, an FSN challenge for the people here, and what I was going to do as skit about before Gunman!Shirou ambushed me:
Issei invites Shirou over to the temple - maybe it's because he needs to get something repaired but doesn't want his Gramps to find out, maybe just because they're friends, etc. Regardless, Shirou ends up going back home in the evening, and there's a storm brewing. He cuts through the woods as a shortcut. Everything is pretty much as expected until he wrecks his bike and a bolt of lightning strikes somewhere nearby, lights up the otherwise gloomy forest path, and Shirou spots and unconscious woman a ways off to the side.
It's Caster, before she was found by BadassTeacherDude.
Where you go from there is up to you, people. It can be as short or as long as you want to, and as Dark! or WAFF! as you want it to be. Just make it interesting, yanno?
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm