The Dead Space King

Summary: Having lost his ability to recognize himself after absorbing Schrodinger, Alucard finds himself in a strange new world and has no idea how to get out. Now, the No-Life King must traverse through a ship where the only thing to be found is death.

Disclaimer: I am neither Kouta Hirano nor an EA exec, and I own neither Hellsing nor Dead Space.

So, I was watching some of Team Four Star's gaming videos where they have Vegeta and Krillin play games, and was really disappointed that they didn't have any of Alucard playing, so I decided to just write a story based on the concept myself. Worth noting before we get started, Alucard is going to be just as overpowered as always, so don't expect a whole lot of drama, this is mainly going to be a humor story. Also, I'm using chapter transcripts on the Dead Space wiki as a point of reference, so if I miss areas of the game or dialogue is wrong (though I will be paraphrasing or changing some things to fit the story) describe it and I'll do my best to fix it if it's significant enough. As far as Alucard's characterization goes, I did my best to get it as accurate as possible, but there are probably a few OOC moments, so I apologize for that in advance.

Darkness. Events from his and so many others lives flashed before him for what felt like an eternity, a mess of memories he couldn't make any sense of. Eventually, it had stopped, and there was nothing but darkness in his vision. He floated in nothingness, unable to feel anything, but soon he felt the touch of something on his pale skin. "Metal," Alucard noted. Slowly beginning to regain his senses, he opened his eyes slowly, and was greeted with the sight of a blonde haired woman on some sort of video display.

"Isaac, it's me. I wish I could talk to you."

"Isaac?" Alucard questioned himself. "Is that who I am? No… that doesn't sound right."

"I wish I could talk to you," The woman continued. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry about everything. I wish I could just talk to someone. It's all falling apart here. I can't believe what's happening... It's strange... such a little thing..."

Alucard didn't understand anything about what the woman was talking about, but watching the video had given him time to collect himself, and he was fairly lucid now. Scanning his surroundings, he found himself surprised for the first time in the last several centuries. "Now just how the hell," he thought in astonishment, "Did I get from London to a spaceship in the middle of goddamn outer space?"

He was distracted from any further thought, however, when another woman, evidently part of the crew of this futuristic ship, started speaking to him.

"How many times have you watched that thing?" She questioned. "Guess you really miss her." Feeling slightly irritated at this woman's almost mocking tone of voice, despite the fact that she was actually talking to whom she believed to be a man called Isaac; Alucard merely grunted and otherwise ignored her. While being subtle wasn't something he enjoyed doing, making enemies out of the first people he saw when he appeared to be in a different dimension he knew nothing about probably wasn't the wisest choice of action. Meanwhile, a dark skinned man was addressing the crew. "All right everyone, we're here. Synching our orbit now." The woman from before muttered dismissively, "All this trouble over that chunk of rock." Alucard snorted.

"Humans do tend to obsess over the most ridiculous of things. Not sure why they're surprised when they finally realize that."

The dark skinned man, who Alucard assumed was the captain of this ship or something similar, rebuked the woman. "Deep space mining is a lucrative business, Ms. Daniels. Aegis 7 is a gold mine, according to prospector's reports. Cobalt, Silicon, Osmium... Now, where is she? There she is. We have visual contact."

Alucard looked up in a mix of interest and amusement. "Deep space mining? I guess the humans finally exhausted the resources on Earth. Doesn't surprise me, though I'm surprised they actually found a solution to the issue."

The woman then said something non sarcastic for the first time thus far. "So that's the Ishimura? Impressive…" Taking a glance at the ship in question, Alucard had to admit that it was extraordinarily large, to the point that it was carrying a piece of the planet referred to as "Aegis 7."

It wasn't a small piece either.

The woman known as Ms. Daniels took a closer look at the ship. "Why is it all dark?" She questioned, "I don't see any running lights." The captain of the shuttle gave the order to contact the Ishimura, only to be responded with unintelligible scratching and growling noises. Alucard's eyes widened slightly, not that it was noticeable behind the helmet he was wearing. "I'd recognize that noise anywhere," He mused, "It's the sound of hungry, ravenous ghouls. There's something… off about it though."

The rest of the crew however, who were evidently not familiar with the sound of the undead, wrote the noise off as what Alucard surmised to be a busted communications device. Completely unaware of the danger that awaited them, they prepared to land the shuttle inside the larger ship. Alucard grinned. "Well, it seems they're in for quit the surprise. At least I'll be able to have a bit of fun here, wherever I am."

Suddenly, the ship shook as it crashed into something. "We're off track!" One of the crew members shouted, "We're going to hit the hull!" Alucard fought off the urge to swear. There weren't a lot of things that could kill him, but if the rest of these humans died and he was left without a guide to help direct him through this new world, things would be a lot more complicated. After a few tense moments of the crew scrambling to come out alive, the ship managed to dock inside the Ishimura, though it had obviously take serious damage.

After getting into a short argument with the captain, Daniels approached Alucard and apparently synched up something known as his RIG (Alucard assumed it was the suit he was wearing) with the ship. Getting ready to exit the shuttle, Alucard nearly stumbled back in shock when a message with a green background appeared in front of him. Realizing that no one else seemed to see the message, or simply didn't care, Alucard took a look at what it said. "Use run to move quickly," He read quietly. Not bothering to resist the urge to roll his eyes, he had to question the absurdity of breaking the laws of reality (as the message wasn't coming from anywhere but thin air as far as he could tell) to tell him something so blatantly obvious. Moving along, and ignoring the woman who was still bitching about something or other, Alucard followed the captain down the walkway until they reached a door. The man looked at him. "Isaac, I need you to hack to door pad for me,"

"Hack?" Alucard questioned. "I don't believe that's something I know how to do…" Then, noticing there seemed to be nothing on the door but a single glowing blue button, Alucard raised an eyebrow and pushed it. To his surprise and amusement, the door opened. "That was hacking?" He thought in disbelief. Regardless of the seeming absurdity of what just happened, the captain seemed satisfied with the door being opened, and the crew stepped into what Alucard believed someone had referred to as the flight lounge. The captain looked around quizzically. "There should be a security detail in here," he said questioningly.

"Yeah, well there's not," Daniels replied. "There's nobody here."

"Yes, that might have to do with the fact that their all most likely dead," Alucard thought, smirking at the crews obliviousness. Having finished their discussion, the captain ordered Alucard to go turn on a security console. Suddenly, there was a voice in his head. "Use the Locator System to find your objective." Additionally, another green box popped in front of him, detailing how to use this supposed locator system. Trying it out, Alucard followed the line that appeared through a door directly in front of him, made it to the security console, and… pushed another button on it. Rolling his eyes once more, Alucard questioned why everybody else was incapable of pushing buttons. "Do they lack fingers?" He considered. However, a quick glance at the crew revealed this was not the problem. However, his thoughts of the people in this world's appendages, or lack thereof, were quickly interrupted by the lights going off and a loud noise ringing out. The captain attempted to calm the crew by stating it was just the quarantine system going off, but his attempts were immediately rendered pointless by a gruesome creature breaking through an air vent and mutilating one of the crew members. In shock, the crew members fired upon it, and it fled through the air vent it came out of. However, while the crew was unable to see the creature properly in the dark, and even if they could have would have known it as nothing more than "a monster," Alucard's vampiric eyesight, on the other hand, picked up something rather significant:

Whatever it was, that creature was not a ghoul.

"Of course," Alucard noted, "It was oddly similar to a ghoul for not being one, but that thing was far different from the creatures created by vampires." He grinned. "I wonder how well it fights…" Unfortunately, his thoughts prevented him from noticing the crew yelling at him to run, and, slightly more significantly, the creature stalking up behind him. Realizing what was going on, and ducking his head just before the creature sliced it off, Alucard ran over to the unlocked door, opened it, and ran off down the narrow hallways. As he ran from the creatures that were now almost flooding the hallways, Alucard considered his actions. "I suppose it's for the best I don't reveal my powers to those idiots yet," He smirked, "I still need them to trust me for now, after all." Missing his favorite weapons of mass murder, The Jackal and The Casull, Alucard made his way over to the elevator at the end of the hall. As he stepped inside it and the doors began to close, a creature suddenly appeared and held them open, intent on skewering the elder vampire…

At which point Alucard promptly kicked it with extreme force, sending it flying down the hall with a brand new hole in its chest. At that moment, the elevator doors, which were old and not in the best condition, slammed shut and sliced Alucard's foot off. "Well that was rather embarrassing…"Alucard admitted, and, despite being alone and wearing a mask, fought to keep the sheepish look off his face as his foot regenerated.

A few moments later, the doors to the elevator opened and Alucard stepped out. The room he stepped into was smaller than the flight lounge, but a number of things caught his eye. Crouching down, he picked a glowing green box. Curious of its contents, he gripped it tightly and punched it open. A glowing object fell to the floor. After picking it up, a hologram lit up above it. Unlike the ones before, this one actually seemed to come from the object itself rather than thin air. Raising an eyebrow at the description of "credits; 700" Alucard pocketed the item into in one of the storage compartments of his suit. After smashing the rests of the boxes and picking up all the "credits," Alucard picked up a broken piece of glass from the floor. Taking off his helmet and using the mirror to view his reflection, Alucard was pleased to note that his reflection showed the face of a man he presumed to be "Isaac," and breathed a sigh of relief. "Now I can finally take this damnable stuffy helmet off without worrying about revealing myself." In the midst of doing so, something else caught his eye. Walking over to one side of the room, he stared wide eyed at a rather significant object lying on a bench. "Is that…" He grinned the mad grin he was known so well for as he picked up what perhaps his favorite object in the entire world (and any others there might be.)

His overpowered black gun, The Jackal.

Making sure it was still his gun, he fired an experimental shot at the wall and was satisfied to see that it made just as big a hole as his original gun would've. On the other side of the large door separating the room Alucard was in from the next, a man who would soon meet a rather unfortunate death-by-necromorphs felt a glimmer of hope as he heard a gunshot from the room behind him, and prayed that rescuer's were on their way. "Is someone there?" He called out, hoping they would get there before the necromorphs who also certainly heard him did. "Hello?" Back in the other room, Alucard, interested that there were still people alive on this ship, made his way over to the door and, at another pop up messages instruction, (he had mostly decided to just ignore them at this point) smashed the power strip keeping the door closed and pushed the button to open the door. At the same moment said door opened, a necromorph leapt up onto the soon to be victims body and began skewering him. It is perhaps worth noting that someone with Alucard's speed, given the proper heroic motivation, could have shot the creature assaulting the man before he suffered more than minor injuries.

Unfortunately for the man, Alucard was a monster who was neither heroic nor motivated to put effort into saving some idiot human who would tag along and only be dead weight that would slow him down.

Half a moment later, the necromorph had finished killing the man and turned its attention to Alucard, then promptly leapt towards him.

Alucard blew its head off before it got an inch off the ground.

Holding his gun down again, and silently bemoaning the lack of a holster in his suit, Alucard gave his trademark grin (though nobody was around to see it save for the corpses.) "Well, that was satisfying," He thought to himself. Walking forward into the hallway, he was rather surprised when the previously thought to be dead and certainly headless necromorph leapt up and grabbed onto him, and immediately ran it's bladed hand in a lucky strike straight through his armor and into his heart.

Shoving the creature away from him, Alucard raised the Jackal and blew a hole straight through the monsters chest, paused, then blew its legs off for good measure. Carefully stepping around the necromorph's corpse, Alucard's eye twitched as a rather belated message appeared in front of him.

Shoot the limbs off enemies to ensure their demise.

Alucard made his way down a few more hallways, with a handful of encounters with the creatures along the way, (through the various blood written messages on the wall, Alucard had surmised they were called "necromorphs,") though they were fairly easily dispatched. Honestly, it wasn't hard to tell that the ones lying on the floor completely uninjured were only playing dead, especially after seeing they could survive being beheaded. The only real issue was that while the Jackal held an absurd amount of rounds for a pistol, (up to twenty) Alucard was still beginning to run a bit low on ammo, and he hadn't found any more yet. What's more, it was not ammo efficient to kill "necromorphs." Typically, Alucard would simply fire a single shot in the head or chest of an enemy, before moving on to the next target. But as these creatures died primarily from limbs shots, it took at least two rounds before they went down for good, despite the heavy fire power of the Jackal. As it was, he only had about six bullets left by the time he made it to the room where the tram station was turned on from. Walking through the doorway, he was greeted by the ever pleasant sight of his supposed friends (coworkers? Teammates? Alucard wasn't entirely sure) beginning to argue immediately after greeting him. "Keep your voice down!" The captain warned her. "Whatever these things are, they're not friendly!"

"You don't say," Alucard muttered dryly. "After all, their murderous intent was ever so subtle." Not having heard him, Daniels continued arguing. "You're crazy Hammond. You're going to get us all killed!"

"So his name is Hammond then? Not that it really matters; I doubt these idiots will survive very long…"

Their conversation continued for a few moments before they decided that the best course of action was to send "Isaac" off to fix the tram, with Hammond offering to help him find someone named Nicole if he did so. Not entirely sure who that was, Alucard went off on his journey to do what he heavily suspected to involve pushing another button. Before leaving the room however, his eye caught on what appeared to be a wall mounted container with, surprise surprise, a button on it. Alucard shrugged and pushed the button, causing the container to open and a bullet filled clip for the Jackal to fall onto the floor. Picking it up with glee, Alucard proceeded to open the rest of the containers before walking off towards his objective, his mind happily filled with pleasant thoughts of murder and mutilation.

A few corridors and dead necromorphs later, Alucard was feeling annoyed. He had picked up several "audio logs," interested in learning more about the world he was in, only for nearly all of them to remind him that he had to shoot off the limbs of necromorphs in order to kill them. On top of that, he received a call from Hammond telling him the same, AND a repeat of the message-from-nowhere telling him to do so. If there was one thing he was good at, it was killing anything that moved, and he was feeling rather insulted at the universes seeming belief of him having an inability to pick up basic concepts. Deciding to just ignore the constant reminders, he stepped into a large open room that, upon inspection, appeared to be the area below the tram system. Blasting away a few necromorphs that jumped up from the vents in the ground, he followed his locator system to a door a ways back, which appeared to be broken as it was rapidly opening and closing at a speed that would crush a normal person. Preparing to simply use his strength to hold it open as he walked through, he received a call from Daniels (he still did not know her first name, not, as he mused, that it was any real loss) who, after stating the obvious that the door was malfunctioning, instructed him to pick up something called a "stasis module" and use it on the door. Looking down at ground revealed that there was indeed such an object, and Alucard picked it up and attached it to his suit. A message-from-nowhere revealed that the device was activated by pushing a button (Alucard's eye began to twitch at this) on his suit located on the inner part of his hand. Aiming at the door, he discovered that the device did indeed put things in a form of semi-stasis, and walked through the temporarily open doorway. "I might be able to have a lot of fun with this," Alucard thought. "I ought to have Walter try and make me one when I get ba-" He swore under his breath. "Right. Never mind." His pleasant mood at being able to slow down time ruined, he continued on his way towards his objective.

Walking into the room where the tram needed fixed from, Alucard followed his locator system to the middle of the room, where he pushed the button on the console, at which point an arm shaped device reached out and grabbed what he assumed to be the tram…only for it to move right back where it was. His frustration lasted only for a moment however, as a phone call from Daniels instructed him to stasis it once it was in place and then press the button on the console again. He was further mollified by the appearance of several necromorphs popping through the vents, which he gleefully slaughtered. Once again questioning why he was the one needed to do this, as he had picked up the stasis module on his way there, he listened to another phone call from Daniels instructing him to go and pick up something or other. Honestly, he couldn't really care less about the (supposedly) futuristic technology he was dealing with, he was more focused on the rather irritating fact that he was being continually sent out on menial errands far below his level of skill. Silently pitying the actual Isaac he seemed to have replaced, he turned to go off on his newest fetch quest.

Before leaving, however, his attention was caught by something he missed on his way in: a wall mounted blue container with a glowing white button. Having gathered that anything with a button on it was useful to him at this point, even if he was beginning to hate the damn things, he opened the container, revealing a tan, disk shaped object, with a hologram identifying it as a "power node." Having no idea what it was for, Alucard shrugged and shoved it in his inventory. Continuing on, he made his way down another few sets of corridors and into an elevator. Once outside the elevator, he found himself on what appeared to be a series of scaffolding ledges. Handily dispatching the few necromorphs that appeared, and questioning the oddity of the fact that they dropped various items despite having no discernable suit or storage space on them, he walked along the numerous pathways for quite some time before realizing he had gotten himself lost. Getting frustrated for a moment before remembering he had a locator system, he eventually made it to his objective. He pushed the button on the door to open it, only for it to flash red, beep, and fail to open. After re-pushing the button several times, a video screen appeared with Daniels on the other end. "Isaac, its Kendra."

"Well, now I know what this obnoxious women's name is. I suppose that's useful if I ever have to address, not that I've actually needed to say anything thus far."

"It looks like the door to the storage room is locked." Kendra continued. "There should be a key somewhere in the maintenance bay." As the video screen flashed away, Alucard came to a quick decision. Hoping they were only monitoring him in terms of knowing when he got stuck, as what he was about to do would be hard to explain, he pulled back his fist, swung forward, and punched a hole right through the door. Gripping the edges of the hole he made, the vampire pulled on the metal and stretched it further apart, then walked through the newly made entry way in the door.

Smirking at his new solution to pointless errands, he walked over to a desk where the Data Board he was looking for was on, and shoved it inside of his suit. However, he was more focused on the large, desk looking device on the opposite wall, and walked up to it in interest. A computer voice spoke up, stating, "Use power nodes to upgrade your weapons and RIG." Alucard turned on the device, which identified itself as a Bench, and looked at the popup menu with a list of options. Noting with disappointment that there was no upgrade option for his Jackal, (though it did reaffirm his belief that it was the single greatest weapon in the universe, and could not possibly be made better) he pushed the option listed "RIG," and looked over the new menu. Once again disappointed, as the only option were to upgrade his health and "air" which he certainly had no need of, he went back and opened up the menu for his stasis device. Shrugging, he used the power node he had collected to upgrade the duration of the effect, and closed Bench menu before walking away from the device.

A little while later, Alucard had made his way back to the tram system control room, and replaced the Data Board, thus fixing the tram. On his way there, he had decided he rather enjoyed the fact that this world had the thoughtfulness to liven up what would be a rather boring walk through the ship by giving him amusing little growling monsters to slaughter. He still hoped he would eventually run across something a bit more threatening and fun to fight, but for the moment he was content with these minor threats.

At the moment however, he was watching what appeared to be another argument between Kendra and Hammond, as the woman was rather upset at Hammonds insistence that they figure out what was going on before leaving. Fortunately for Alucard's patience, the argument was nipped in the bud by Kendra's begrudging acceptance of Hammonds plan, and Alucard was free to walk back towards the ship they came in (which, according to Hammond, was called the Kellion.) A while later, upon reaching the flight lounge, Alucard was contacted by Hammond (who, despite his earlier assessment of as another idiot, he had decided he actually liked considerably more than Kendra, and was even reminded ever so slightly of his Master Integra with the man's consistently professional attitude) who quickly informed him that there were no survivors and that the situation was awful. The elder vampire had already guessed as much, given that these necromorphs were actually stronger than ghouls, (unarmed ones, anyway) but he supposed confirmation was nice. Continuing on his way, he made it onto the Kellion, pushed the button to "check the ships diagnostics," and proceeded to watch as several necromorphs with spiked tails climbed onto the front of the ship, which promptly proceeded to start going up in flames. "Huh," Alucard thought. "That could be ba-"

Boom!

And that was as far as he got before the ship blew up in a fiery explosion.

Groaning as he finished regenerating, Alucard got to his feet. "Well, at least this suit seems to regenerate as well…somehow." The clothes he wore prior to getting killed by applied philosophic theory regenerated only because they weren't actually clothes, just more shape shifted shadow mass like his body itself, therefore there wasn't any reason for the suit to regenerate, "But," Alucard mused, "I suppose that's not a particularly big concern at the moment…" Turning his attention to the necromorphs lurking towards him, Alucard reached for his gun to dispatch them, only to discover the explosion had blown it away towards the other end of the hanger, near the flight lounge. "Well," he considered, grinning, "I suppose I wouldn't be opposed to a bit more hands on fight." Walking forward, he grabbed one of the spike tailed necromorphs by the throat as it leapt towards him, crushed its neck, and flung it towards the other creatures. Lunging forward, he shoved both hands into the chest of regular necromorph, and pulled outward, ripping it's stomach open, then grabbed it's arms and tore them off, before flinging it's corpse over the edge of the hanger bay. Laughing as he dispatched the remaining creatures, he strolled forward, using his abilities to summon his gun into his hand on the way.

Having to reach down to pick it up just wouldn't be fitting after that display after all.

A video screen then popped up, with Kendra and Hammond on the other end. "What the hell is happening down there?!" Hammond demanded. "What happened to the shuttle?" Looking at the wreckage of the ship, Kendra started panicking. After a quick discussion, it was decided (entirely without his input) that Alucard would take the tram station to the medical bay to take information off the RIG of the Ishimura captain's body. Sighing as he was once again forced to do everything, Alucard went off towards the tram.

A while later, right before stepping onto the tram, Alucard walked towards a lit up display on a nearby wall. Pushing the button to start the device, the computer voice told him that this was a store, and he could buy items there. Looking through his purchase options, he didn't see anything particularly interesting. He didn't need health packs of course, he had plenty of Jackal ammo, (not that the store would let him buy any anyway, for some reason) and he hadn't remembered to use stasis yet, so he didn't need stasis packs. Then, at the bottom of the list, he saw the final option: Power Nodes. "Might as well get one," he shrugged. It cost most of his credits, but that wasn't really an issue. Finally, he sold the few health packs he had picked up, and left the store. Walking onto the tram and starting it up, he stopped short as he could actually hear dramatic sounding music playing, and a message-from-nowhere appeared.

Chapter 1: New Arrivals

COMPLETED

And that's chapter one! Each chapter should consist of a single in-game chapter, but they won't come out very fast, I'll warn you now. For those of you upset that I gave Alucard the Jackal instead of the plasma cutter, I do actually have a few reasons. First, Alucard would be just as overpowered without it, so there's no reason not to give it to him, and the cutter itself, while useful, has nothing really special about it that makes it interesting for him to have. Believe me, Alucard WILL be using other Dead Space weapons (flamethrower, contact beam, ect.) if for no reason other than shits and giggles. And as mentioned in story, the game is not giving him upgrades purchasable ammo for the Jackal, so he have anything extra to spend power nodes and credits on the game weapons (aside from suits.) Also, I do plan on finishing this story, as I originally got inspiration for it from a mental picture of *Spoiler Alert* Alucard going level 0 against the Hive Mind (Dead Space 1 final boss.) So that's going to be a thing, eventually. Oh, and the thing about Alucard's clothes regenerating isn't actually stated in canon, but I heard it brought up somewhere and it makes sense, so I'm just going with that. Lastly, I was kinda worries Alucard's thoughts on Kendra go too close to being character bashing, but since she's a villain in the end anyway, I think it should be alright.