Hello all! I'm a huge fan of the Hellsing universe so I decided to write a story that's been on my mind for a very long time. As I stated in the description, this story is set in an alternate universe. Here's the basic idea I'm going with: Integra is 33, since the majority of the story is meant to take place 10 years after the Nazi attack. Walter is back! He did betray Hellsing but Alucard was able to get through to him. He is still stuck in the body of his younger self- to serve as a reminder of his transgression. Alucard is present in this time period. That's all I can really think of as far as the general setting goes unless I decide to change the storyline (again) due to indecisiveness or lack of flow. (If this occurs I will update all stories and give a heads up so as to not confuse you.) This is my first fanfic and is unbeta'd, so please be gentle and comment. Thanks for viewing! :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Hellsing. Pyro/Blaze, Terrance, and all other original characters not of the Hellsing universe are my own creations and should not be used without permission.
"Simple snatch and grab, he said. Easy money, he said." Troy complained as his fingers flew over the surface of the worse for wear mini laptop. He was trying desperately to unlock the heavy security door while his companions tried to fight off the last of the ghouls.
"Less bitchin', more hackin', Troy!" Terrance said over his shoulder as he pulled his hatchet from the former scientist's head as it fell lifelessly before him.
"What the hell do you think I'm trying to do, oh fearless leader?! G-Man behind you!" The teen warned his other group member as another ghoul rushed to replace his fallen cohort. Come on, come on, Troy pleaded with his hacking system as incoherent numbers flashed quickly across the screen, attempting to crack the security code. The groans of the mindless horde began to grow louder as more came toward the sound of the ongoing battle.
Five teenagers- all orphans from the Nazi onslaught that occurred five years ago, broke into a supposedly abandoned research facility near the edge of London in an attempt to steal anything their boss Dominic might find of value. It was supposed to be a simple run in run out mission for the group, nothing they hadn't done before. However, everything went straight to hell when one of the boys, Jason, freaked out when he felt a rat run across his foot, resulting in him falling backwards into a table laden with test tubes and beakers. The sounds of five voices swearing and the breaking of glass caused nearby Stiffs, as they called them, to come running.
"Troy, we're going to be fucked in the next minute if you don't get that door open NOW!" Terrance sounded as he and Jerry stood back to back to take out three more Stiffs.
"It's going as fast as it can!" Troy responded gripping the laptop even harder. Finally, after what seemed like a lifetime, the laptop screen flashed with the decrypted code as the door unlocked and opened smoothly. "IT'S OPEN!"
"Everyone haul arse! Move, move, MOVE!" The leader shouted as he took up the rear to strike down a broad as she charged the fleeing group. Once everyone got through, Terrance ran down the hall to the solid doors with even more ghouls on his tail.
"The door automatically closes in thirty seconds, T. Move!" Troy warned as he tried to stall the door's closing. After hearing this, the boy put everything into his approach to avoid a horrible death. Just as he was within a few meters of the door, he reached into his pocket for the last grenade he had and lifted it to his mouth. Clenching and pulling the pin with his teeth, he turned and threw it into the horde just as he passed through the door. As soon as he fell through the doorway, Troy hit a key on the laptop to seal the door.
"Made it!" Terrance exclaimed breathlessly after his friends moved to catch him from his stunt fall. Seconds later they heard the grenade explode and the moans of the ghouls ceased.
Looking toward each other in shock, the boys soon broke into nervous laughter as they realized how close they were to dying. "Sound off and status report." Terrance called as he stood up to collect himself.
"Troy."
"Alive." The red haired, green eyed 15 year old replied as he pushed up his glasses.
"Jerry."
"Still kicking, but my shoulder might be dislocated," called the 16 year old gentle giant.
"G-Man."
"I'll make it. I think I need a new pair of pants though," responded the black, curly haired 13 year old.
"Jason."
"Made it." The 16 year old blonde called from his place in the grass.
"Okay, we're all accounted for more or less. Let's move back to the cars so we can see what we have." The black 18 year old ordered as he moved through the group to lead them back down the road to the hidden vehicles. The gang obediently followed.
"That's it!?" Terrance asked in disbelief.
"This is all we could grab on short notice after Jason basically rang the dinner bell." G-Man told his brother while glaring at Jason.
"That sucker was huge!" Jason replied from the open backseat of the black car. He was busy chugging a bottle of water.
"My arse!" G-Man snapped. "You almost got us killed back there!"
"Enough!"
"But he-"
"Enough." Terrance said stoutly. His light brown eyes bore into his brother's. With the light of the full moon, the younger brother knew from his brother's tone and that look, he meant business. He quickly bit his lip and turned away to kick a rock.
"He is right though." Terrance began as he turned his attention to Jason. "You know loud noises attract the poor bastards. You almost cost Jerry his neck when you brought the wrath of the undead on us." He pointed out as he crossed his arms over his broad chest. Jerry bowed his head under the gaze of his leader. He turned to look at Jerry as he heard him grunt loudly as Troy helped him pop his shoulder back into place.
"I know. I'm sorry." Jason replied quietly.
"We're all we have left." Terrance replied. "We're family. We can't afford to make any mistakes, not with what we do."
"I know." Jason repeated. He knew he was right. As an 11 year old near starvation and exhaustion from scavenging on the streets after the hellish nightmare five years ago, he had been rescued by the rough group of boys when he had just about given up on life. Without them to get him out of so many tight spots throughout the years, he knew he would have been lying in a ditch somewhere years ago. Jason saw these guys as family. Everyone did. He couldn't live with himself if he had lost someone due to his carelessness.
"Just be careful next time, okay?" Terrance asked as he placed a hand on Jason's shoulder. He nodded.
Turning away from Jason, Terrance moved toward the tree Jerry and Troy were under. "How's that shoulder, Jerry?"
"Stiff, but I'll manage." The 6'7" teen replied slowly rotating his joint.
"That was really cutting it close, Troy. Is that piece of shit finally crapping out on you?" The handsome teen teased.
"Forget you, T. It takes time to hack a security panel for a place like that." Troy replied as he sat against the truck of the tree to, as usual, fiddle with the piece of technology.
"You built the damn thing from scratch and you mean to tell me that big brain of yours didn't think to make that piece of shit run any faster?"
"Go to hell. You and that damn case you wouldn't let us leave without." The red head replied carelessly kicking the large case beside Jerry with his ratty sneakers.
"Hey, careful! We don't know what's in here. It could be our big grab for Dominic." Terrance said quickly lowering himself to protect the case from another kick.
"It better be worth something after the crap we hauled and time wasted." G-Man said quickly, never missing a beat.
All of the teens gathered around as Terrence looked at the huge case for a better idea of what it could hold.
"What do you think's in there?" G-Man asked impatiently as his brother tried to open the lock.
"A million pounds! How the hell could we know?" Jason replied sarcastically.
"I know that, smart arse. I was just building suspense." The young boy replied punching Jason in the arm jokingly.
"Whatever it is must be expensive and heavy." Terrance stated as he picked the lock. Within a few seconds the case popped open under the teen's experienced lock picking skills.
"Here it is gents, our chance at good livin'." He said as he pulled back the lid to reveal their treasure.
"The hell?"
Their eyes widened with shocked at what they found. Positioned neatly in the case, snuggled comfortably between soft black foam padding was a small girl. She lay in the fetal position, naked. As they looked at her face, she appeared to be sleeping peaceful from the calm expression on her face. Her head was shaved and from what they could tell, it looked like she had two thin wires running from the back of her head into the suitcase.
"Is she alive?" Someone stated after collecting his thoughts.
"I don't know. I don't see how after staying in the case for God knows how long." Terrence replied stretching his hand out to touch the girl.
"Are you crazy?" Jason asked grabbing Terrance's wrist. "You don't know what that is. It was in a lab- it could be a new breed of ghoul." All of the guys except Terrence jumped back at the thought of this.
"Don't be ridiculous. Does she look like a rotting pile of flesh? Besides, if she is dead we at least need to bury her. Keepin' her in this thing wouldn't be right." He moved to touch her face with an extended finger.
He found her warm, if not slightly hot to the touch. Her smooth tan skin echoed life underneath it as he felt blood pump through her veins. "She's alive."
"What?!"
He moved to place his hand softly on her cheek. As he looked at the strange girl closely, he found that she was an attractive girl as he took in her strangely colored, long eyelashes and soft, small doll like mouth. She couldn't have been more than 16 as he noticed her figure, delicate with soft curves and long limbs. He heard her take a deep breath and felt her stir under his touch.
"Did she just move?" G-Man asked as he freaked out behind him while the others looked on intently. The girl's eyelids began to flutter open causing Terrance to call to her softly.
"Hey, are you okay, love?" He asked softly as her lids parted to revealed human eyes, big orange doe-like eyes at that. The girl turned into the boy's warm touch and found his face above hers. She was instantly drawn to his soft, comforting eyes and rose from the case slowly. Pushing up with her arms, the wires in the base of her neck grew taut and eventually fell away as she rose higher. "You're safe now; we got you out of that lab." He continued as she sat up completely, never looking away from his eyes. "What's your name, do you remember?" He asked the strange girl, his hand still cupping her cheek softly. He received no reply from the girl as she moved to raise her own hand to his. He was completely fascinated with her as he continued to take in her face and the beautiful smile she had managed to place on it as she lightly gripped his hand.
Cough. "Get a room." Cough. Terrence heard over his shoulder from Troy.
"I don't know. She's pretty much ready to go since she's already bare. I've always wanted to shag outdoors." Sounded Jason sarcastically, pulling Terrance back to reality. The leader's face grew warm after he remembered the girl's nakedness and realized what they were saying. He quickly scolded them for not having proper manners to turn away and peeled off his leather jacket to cover her. After zipping up the jacket on her, Terrance silently thanked God that the jacket was way too big for her as it fell just a few inches under her bum. As she tried to pull her hand through the sleeve, the leader noticed a silver ID bracelet around her delicate wrist. Taking her wrist lightly, he found the lab's logo on the front, a strange Asian character engraved in red, with the number 23 on the back with another strange character under it.
Why is there an Asian lab in England? The teen pondered as he looked toward the girl as if to find an answer. He only received another full smile from her.
"What are we going to do?" Jerry asked.
"Well, we can't just leave her here to let the Stiffs get her." Terrance stated as he stood and helped the girl to her feet shakily. As he moved to allow her to step out of the case, she lost her balance and tumbled into his arms. He laughed nervously as he saw the slight fear in her eyes at her blunder and picked her up bridal style in one fluid motion. She quickly, trustingly wrapped her arms around his neck as she looked to him with those gorgeous orange eyes.
"We can't take her to the Boss. You see what he does with his women. He'd eat her alive or drug her up and pimp her out." G-Man pointed out as he was the last to join the group as they closed in tightly around the two.
"I know. We can't give her to the shelter either. They'd quickly cast her out in the state she's in." They all noticed the childlike wonder in her eyes as she looked from each member of the group as if memorizing their every detail.
"That only leaves one choice." Troy observed. The group nodded in agreement.
"How do we hide her then? You know Dominic doesn't like secrets and as soon as those snitches see we're hiding merchandise from him, the boss will show up to kick all of our arses- or worse." The group grunted in agreement. Everyone looked toward Terrance for the answer.
"Well, we five guys have survived pretty decently over the years. Why not make her into one of the guys?" Terrance offered.
"Dominic would still want her- or rather him- to work for his keep." Jason quickly interjected.
"That's fine. We could just through some baggy clothes on her, wrap her chest, and teach her to act like a guy. We should be able to get away with it if she remains silent. Besides, we're pretty good at what we do. She can just learn from us." Terrance countered.
"Oh boy. You know they'll have to jump her in right?" G-Man replied.
"It beats what he does to the girls." Jerry pointed out.
"Well, it looks like we've decided," Terrance said looking down at the orange eyes that looked up toward him.
"Welcome to the family."
AN: Thanks for reading! I know that this chapter was sort of slow but the next chapter will have more background into Pyro and the gang. I should have the longer second chapter up within a day or two, so please stay with me! It should get better within the next few chapters. Don't forget to comment. :)