The Arrival of Another

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I do not own any of the heroes, villains, or characters from the Marvel Universe Earth-982.

Chapter 1 A New Threat Out There

The day began about as normal as it could for the Fantastic Five up until they got a call. They heard of some strange creatures attacking people. The creatures had the appearance of being made out of stained glass with some animal like characteristics; they began attacking people. Some of them made some spider like fangs appear which they used to absorb their life energy which turned the people into transparent husks. Not long after the Fantastic Five arrived to defeat them but found themselves having a hard time since these creatures were a helluva lot stronger than any other villains they ever fought before. As the Human Torch attempted to scorch one of the creatures they saw some people walking towards them as similar glass stained marks appeared on their faces and they transformed.

"Great just what we needed, more of these things to fight." Johnny said firing at two more of them.

"You're telling me!" the Thing yelled back. "This one is starting to remind of the time the Hulk and I had those fights," he said trying to push back one that had a resemblance to a rhino but with steam being expelled from its body.

"Perhaps we could collect a sample of one of them for analysis," suggested Psi-Lord. "That way we can see what they're weak against."

"How might you suggest we do that?" asked Ms. Fantastic. "We're knocking them down but it seems that they're refusing to stay that way."

"Dad! Mom!" they heard a voice yell out as they saw a red blur fly and throw one of the creatures towards the others.

"Torus," Ms. Fantastic said seeing her son.

"Hey what are you doing here?" asked Johnny.

"I thought you might need a hand," Super-Storm said.

"About time!" Grimm said as he threw some of the creatures back.

"I don't understand though. What are these things?" asked Psi-Lord throwing some steel stakes at them which hit but did no damage. Suddenly they saw another of those creatures fly right past them and hit a wall which caused it to shatter. Then two more followed with the same reaction. The six turned to see a teenager whose hair covered his eyes and looked no older than 15 or 16 walking towards them.

"Who's that?" asked Johnny. As they looked at the kid suddenly a ring a fire erupted at his feet which seemed to swallow him as he walked. Then he waved his right arm which caused the fire to dissipate which revealed the teen's hair, eyes, and clothes had become red. Rather than the jeans, black t shirt, skull belt, and green shoes he now wore a red long sleeve shirt under red vest, a pair of red fingerless gloves, red pants on the left side of which he had a sheathed sword, and red shoes. The six heroes looked at this teen in awe as he lifted his head revealing that his eyes were also red but almost cat like, in a sense that made him look evil as his body gave off a red aura with an evil sense to it. The six became uncertain of what to expect so they got in defensive stances. Then the teen ran towards them before jumping above them as he unsheathed his sword and slashed one of the creatures down the middle causing it to shatter.

Then a much younger girl with short blond hair who wore a pink sleeveless shirt and a pair of small blue shorts ran towards them as well before jumping over and then using the teenager's shoulders to jump a bit further. She then proceeded to kick two of the glass-monsters before landing on her hands and spinning which caused blue sparks to emerge from her feet as she kicked a third creature several times which caused it to become stiff and shatter after another kick. The two continued until there were only about twenty or so left. Then both of them jumped on two of the creatures to push them back as they jumped landing a few feet from where the Fantastic Five were watching in shock.

"Hey who are you?" Johnny asked.

"Nii Nii?" the blond girl asked looking at the teen. He simply nodded as he placed his right hand on to the blade of his sword which caused it to turn into pure fire as the girl pulled out a pair of kunai from her back pocket as the blades became blue electricity. Then the teen raised his hand before turning it to have the back of his hand facing the enemy as the girl moved her right arm down which caused a dark aura to emerge from the two which suddenly caused the day to turn to night with a blood red moon. All of them started looking around in shock.

"Hey look." Johnny said pointing at their right forearms which began glowing blue with a strange mark they couldn't make out. All of a sudden the two vanished only to appear behind the remaining creatures within nine seconds of having disappeared. The two then walked to the front as they each put their weapons away which caused all the remaining creatures to shatter simultaneously which also caused the sky to return to normal. As the Fantastic Five looked in awe of what they had just witnessed as they began approaching them.

"Are you all okay?" asked the teen.

"Yeah we're fine but what are you?" asked Johnny.

"As much as I'd like to answer your question I'm afraid I can't," the teen replied.

"Why not?" asked Ben kind of angered.

"Because I'm about to pass out," he replied as he suddenly started falling as several wounds opened throughout his body causing him to return to his previous appearance.

"Nii Nii!" the girl said shaking him as blood started to flow.

"Quickly let's take him back to base," suggested Psi-Lord.


Two Hours-Forty Nine Minutes Later

Franklin (Psi-Lord) had been observing the teenager since they took both the teen and the young girl, who seemed very attached to him, to their base. The girl hadn't said anything and had been unwilling to leave the teen's side.

"You should eat something," Lyja (Ms. Fantastic) said handing the young girl a sandwich. She didn't reply.

"She seems to be really worried about that guy," Johnny said.

"Hey she's right, you need to eat," they heard a voice say.

"Nii Nii!" the girl said hugging him tightly.

"Easy. Some of those are still bruised," the teen said clutching his ribs.

"Gomen." she said sheepishly.

"No harm done," he replied patting her head.

"Well looks like you're feeling better," Johnny said.

"Yes. Where are we?" he asked.

"This is the base of the Fantastic Five," replied Franklin.

"Alright now we need some answers," Ben said entering the room.

"Yes of course," the teen said. "My name is Shawn Garrett by the way."

"And I'm Satoko," the girl introduced herself.

"I'm Johnny Storm."

"My name's Lyja Storm."

"The name's Ben Grimm."

"I'm Franklin Richards."

"Since that's out of the way what do you want to know?" Shawn asked.

"First off, what the hell were those things?" asked Ben.

"Fangire," Shawn replied. "They are creatures which feed on the life energy of other beings."

"Then why didn't any of our attacks work on them?" asked Johnny.

"The only real way to destroy them is by hitting them with a high concentration of energy. I've been teaching Satoko how to do so and she chose to use knives as her medium," Shawn explained.

"So what was it that you two did back there?" asked Johnny.

"It's an ability daywalkers only learn through a lot of speed and stealth training called assassination," Shawn replied.

"Daywalkers?" asked Franklin.

"Sorry I'm getting ahead of myself," Shawn said sheepishly. "First off neither of us are denizens of this world."

"So are you aliens?" asked Ben.

"I believe he means that he is from an alternate earth," Franklin said.

"Right," Shawn said. "Back in my world there was a meeting of several powerful vampire clans. During that time there was an explosion caused by some machines which caused a reaction in the genetic code of several of them. This caused them to gain several abilities."

"Hang on," Ben said. "Are you saying you're a vampire?"

"In essence, yes," Shawn replied. "I probably should have started with that." he realized.

"But I thought vampires couldn't be out in the day," Johnny said.

"Well that's actually dependent on the world. There are some worlds where vampire have some of the cliché weaknesses such crucifixes and such. But that's also kind of why we refer to ourselves as Daywalkers," Shawn said. "The reaction had caused them to be split into two new kinds of vampires. Daywalkers, who are much more human, and Nightstalkers, who are extremely dangerous and beastlike," he began explaining. "Daywalkers don't have the need to drink blood but we still can."

"Hang on. If you don't need to drink blood then why would you?" asked Johnny.

"That's complicated to explain," Shawn said. "If we drink a person's blood it's gives us open access to person's mind and thus allows us to learn everything they know as well as any skills and/or abilities they might have. This ranges from something as simple as observing to something as complex as any super powers."

"So you can even copy the abilities of a mutant?" Franklin asked.

"I don't know, maybe," Shawn replied. "Now then us aside the other kind of vampire is known as nightstalkers. They have a greater hunger than any kind of vampire and are much more beast-like. Although they appear human they can be recognized because their eyes become black whenever they have extreme emotional distress or at nightfall."

"Excuse me, where's the bathroom?" Satoko asked.

"Down the hall to the right," Johnny replied. Satoko nodded and ran out before stopping at the door.

"How do you open this?" Satoko asked confused.

"Just push the button on that pad." instructed Johnny. Satoko did and the door slid open surprising her before she left.

"Is she okay?" asked Ben.

"Nightstalkers are a pretty sore subject for her." Shawn said. "As I said neither of us is a denizen of this world. We're actually from two different worlds but I adopted her as my little sister after three of her friends were turned. Well two and her real brother."

"So she does that mean you turned her?" asked Lyja.

"Yes. You see her uncle would abuse her and her older brother, so he did something which most would have told him he'd regret," Shawn began, "but I doubt he did." He paused. "What I haven't told her is that to finish the job, her brother made a deal with a nightstalker to be turned into one." Upon hearing this everyone's eyes widened.

"Wait, so what happened to him?" asked Johnny.

"After he realized that he couldn't control himself at night he committed suicide. I found him when he was about to do it. His first and last words to me were, 'I've been seeing you take care of her. Please promise me you'll take of her,'" Shawn said sadly. "Unfortunately the infection had already fully turned him so when he tried to kill himself he regenerated with almost no control over himself and he infected two other friends of Satoko's, Keichi Maebara and Mion Sonozaki."

"I see," Johnny said with a sad gaze. "So why tell us the names?"

"I feel it's a way to honor the deceased." Shawn replied. "After we set them free I had her and her other friend, Shion who is Mion's twin, make a choice of what they wanted to do. Satoko chose to travel with me afterwards since she felt nothing really held her in her world anymore." Shawn said. "That's actually one of my greatest regrets."

"Shouldn't you tell Satoko about her brother?" asked Lyja.

"You think there's an easy way of telling a kid that her older brother made a deal with a devil in order to save her?" Shawn asked.

"Well, when you put that way I guess you're right," Johnny said.

"However you had another motive for doing what you did, didn't you?" asked Franklin.

"To be honest, yes I did," Shawn replied. "She doesn't know it, but she had something they called Hinamizawa syndrome," he said sadly. "Her brother had it too but never got any of the major symptoms. I found out she had it and tried to figure something out but I didn't have anything to work with. I looked up all the information on it but everything was nothing but speculation." After about five minutes of talking Shawn simply stood up and no longer felt any pain.

"Nii Nii, I think we should find a place to stay," Satoko said entering the room.

"Don't worry," Shawn replied with a smile. "The company already knows we're here."

"Company?" asked Ben. "Sounds like a government thing."

"I know," Shawn said. "One thing about daywalkers is that we can travel from world to world, so a few centuries ago various companies run by daywalkers were started in various worlds. They keep track of any disturbances having to do with vampires," he said as they were escorted to the garage.

"Well then, why don't I give you a ride," Johnny said as they approached his sports car. "and I'm not taking no for an answer," he said with a smile.

"Thanks," Shawn said.

"So what's your hero name?" Johnny asked once they were already on the road.


Okay that's chapter one. I'd like to say thanks for th editing and tip to my beta reader BMTandSuperMoose. Also I'm making this with the little information I have of Marvel Earth-982 so I think a lot of people might get mad for things I either put or didn't put so any help on this world would be appreciated. Thanks for reading and later.