A/N: PLEASE DON'T HURT ME! Yes I am well aware of the fact that I should be working on Meet Your Match but this got stuck in my head and it won't leave me the hell alone. My first time writing for Hellboy, so please be nice. Set 3 months after the Golden Army Abe/OC, HB/Liz, Johan/No one.

Summary: the team is back working for the B.P.R.D. and gets called in to deal with a series of troll attacks on civilians, but when they arrive at the scene they are met with unconscious trolls and a frightened young woman. Who is Roxanne Stryker and what does she have to do with the trolls? 3 months post-movie

(Pointless) Disclaimer: I obviously don't own anything; if I did Nuala wouldn't have died.

Chapter 1: The Situation

B.P.R.D. 2:00pm

It was a typical and (fairly) quite June day at the B.P.R.D. for the freaks who resided there. Dr. Johan Krauss was in his lab buried deep in his latest ectoplasmic breakthrough, Hellboy and Liz were in their room arguing over baby names, and Abraham Sapien was in his tank working out the design for a spray that would allow him to remain above water for extended periods of time without his respirator, on water-proof blueprints. Yes all was well until the mission alarm cut through the air.

The team had gathered in the meeting room and taken their seats when the doors burst open and Manning walked in. He handed each of the four agents a file, pulled up a map of the east coast on the monitors and began to speak.

"In the past month there have been eight attacks by trolls on civilians. The trolls are attacking at night in groups of three, on civilians who are alone and killing them. There is no specific pattern in the attacks-"

"Actually, there is." Abe said cutting off Manning. "All of the victims are females between the ages of twenty and twenty five, have short brown hair, and green eyes. They all appear to be around the same height too. I think the trolls are looking for someone." Everyone looked at the pictures of the victims in their files and saw Abe was right, as always.

"Yes thank you for pointing that out agent Sapien but we believe the appearances of the victims are only a coincidence." Said Manning irritated at being interrupted. "Now, the attacks-"

"Like Hell they are!" interrupted Hellboy. "Honestly Manning I know yer an idiot but I didn't know yer this stupid!"

"Hey-!" Manning started to say but was cut off again this time by Liz.

"I think Abe's right. Eight killings of girls that all look the same and each attack is done by a group of three trolls, they're obvious looking for someone."

"Now just wait a min-" Manning began but was cut off by Abe once again.

"I also have another concern, trolls are not known for being smart and this is all very organized. I don't think they are looking for the girl, I think they are working for someone who wants to find and or kill the girl."

"So not only do we need to find this girl, but we gotta find the guy who the trolls are workin' for?" Hellboy asked. "Well this outta be fun."

"Vell it's goving to be a bit more complicated zan zat Agent Hellboy." Said Johan. He began to continue when Manning slammed his hand down on the table.

"I am in charge here!" He shouted. "So the four of you need to listen to me. This is all speculation, you have no way to prove anything that you're saying so let's stick what we know shall we?" He cleared his throat and began again.

"Now, the attacks are moving. The first was in Buffalo New York, the second in Rochester, and they have been continuing in an Eastward direction with the most recent yesterday in Springfield Massachusetts." He said gesturing to the eight red dots on the map.

"As the attacks have been moving east they have become more frequent, there have been three attacks in the past three days. We don't know what's going on but were expecting another attack either later today or early tomorrow. We're currently monitoring a two hundred mile radius from the attack in Springfield yesterday. If we see any trolls moving in groups of three or anything else suspicious we're going to mobilize and send you four to check it out. You all need to be ready to leave at a moment's notice when it happens. Dismissed." He then turned off the map, picked up his file and walked out leaving the four agents behind.

"Manning's an idiot." Liz said getting to her feet and walking towards the door.

"You're just realizing this now?" Hellboy asked his voice full of sarcasm as he followed his girlfriend.

"Yes, Yes. Ve all agree zat Manning is not very bright, but I do zink zat zer vill be another attack soon. Ve should all go and get ready for ze mission." Johan said.

"I agree with Dr. Krauss." Said Abe. "If any of you need me I'll be in the library getting ready." He then turned and walked toward the library. Hellboy and Liz then walked toward their room and Johan went to his.

B.P.R.D. 8:00pm

The Mission alarm cut through the silence for the second time that day at the B.P.R.D. and Agents; Hellboy, Sherman, Sapien and Krauss had been waiting for it to go off for six hours. The four quickly made their way from their various rooms and met up in the garage where Manning was waiting by the truck while several Agents went about making sure everything was ready for departure.

"We've spotted three trolls skulking around in Danbury so were sending you four down to find out what they're up to." The four agents piled into the truck and settled down for the ride. The car ride was short and within forty five minutes they pulled into the town. The truck pulled into an abandoned parking lot and the four occupants in the back were let out. An agent by the name of Hawthorn came up them and handed Abe a satellite image of three trolls walking through the parking lot they were now standing in.

"This was taken a few minutes ago." He said. "The trolls then walked through the lot and down that side street." He gestured to a small street off to the right of the truck. "They can't have gotten far so you four go down there and see what you can find. The rest of us will be patrolling the area within a mile and running satellite sweeps. Everyone ready?" He asked. The four nodded their heads. "Alright then let's sync communicators and get underway." After syncing Agent Hawthorn spoke into the mike on his jacket cuff.

"Hawthorn to command, sending in Red, Blue, Doc, and Sparky." He then nodded and Red, Liz, Abe, and Johan began to walk down the side street. Abe led the group moving his bare hand back in forth through the air.

"What'da ya got Blue?" Hellboy asked around a cigar butt.

"The trolls continued down this street, and they picked up speed here, and then turned into the alley ahead not one minute ago." Said Abe gesturing to an alley fifteen yards away. Just then a series of loud crashes and a scream came from the alley Abe pointed to. Hellboy drew his Samaritan at the same time Liz drew her 9mm. Sig Sauer, while Abe took out the handgun Liz had convinced-forced-him to carry a moment later, and Johan tightened his hold on the canary cage in his hand. The four ran to the alley and moved aside quickly as a troll was thrown from the shadows and collided with the brick wall behind them and the sounds of fighting continued.

"Another day on the job." Said Hellboy as the four cautiously entered the alley.

AN: so what do you guys think? I'll try to update as often as I can but I have finals next week and my teachers are piling on projects, plus I have another ongoing story that DESPERATELY needs un update. My first Hellboy story so don't be too mean and I hope no one was to OOC. REVIEW PLEASE! IT MAKES MY DAY!