HEARTS OF STEEL
by Gunman
Disclaimer: I do not own Colossus, X-Men DoFP, Van Helsing or their characters.
Summary: Colossus is teleported to Transylvania where he aid Van Helsing and his allies against Dracula and his minions.
Inspired by 'Caught In The Web' by FrivolousThoughts, and 'Everyone Loves Spidey' by Maximus-Reborn.
I loved Van Helsing as a movie and the characters. And of all the characters there, I thought Verona was one of the best. So, she is the second choice to be paired up with Colossus.
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Chapter 2
Verona
Peter Rasputin just looked at the cold mountains of Transylvania as he rode alongside the two Knights of the Holy Order.
Gabriel Van Helsing, and Carl the friar.
The pair had been traveling for over a day from the Vatican, first traveling by ship over the Adriatic Sea, then taking horses towards Transylvania. It was when they were crossing over the mountains, that they saw a strange flash of light, and an athletic young man appear out of nowhere. When he had crash-landed in front of them, his skin was made of metal, which confused the pair. They saw him change from his steel-form into a more human state, even as they approached him.
Introductions were made and while Van Helsing could sense that this man was not evil in anyway, he was clearly not from around here.
While the pair didn't understand the concept of alternate universes and parallel dimensions, they both chose to accept that maybe God had something to do with this. So, they extended to him an offer to travel with them to their destination. The far side of Romania where their superiors wanted them to eliminate the deadly nightmarish creatures that plagued the land.
As they rode towards the town where the Valerious Family lived, Peter explained his situation to the pair.
He had come from a dystopian future where mutants, his kind, were hunted and killed by giant robots called Sentinels. Hundreds of thousands had been killed, simply because they possessed superhuman abilities. Peter himself had been literally ripped in half by a pair of Sentinels, which didn't explain how he got here, but he wasn't complaining about being alive.
Peter rode with Carl, the friar, who explained that he and Van Helsing had been sent by the Knights of the Holy Order to vanquish an evil known as Count Dracula, who had been terrorizing Transylvania for little more than 400 years. Their job was to help Princess Anna Valerious and her brother Velken, who had been leading the people against Dracula for years.
The trio arrived at the dark and cold town, where hundreds of villagers were just mulling about, and eyeing them with suspicion.
Considering they were strangers, it was understandable.
Peter was used to it, being a mutant and all.
Van Helsing was used to it since he was considered a wanted man across Europe.
Peter was carrying two of the bags that Carl and Van Helsing had with them.
"So what do you remember?" Carl asked.
"Not now, Carl." Van Helsing said.
"Well, there must be something." the friar said.
"I remember fighting the Romans at Masada." the monster hunter said.
"That was in 73 AD." Carol realized.
"You asked." he said.
"So, what are we doing here? Why's it so important to kill this Dracula anyway?" Carl asked.
"Because he's the son of the Devil." Van Helsing said.
"I mean besides that?" Carl asked.
"Because if we kill him anything bitten by him or created by him will also die." Van Helsing said.
"I mean besides that?" he asked again.
"Welcome... to Transylvania." a pale man in black with a top hat said.
The trio looked around and saw that they were being surrounded by hundreds of armed villagers. The man in the top hat was smirking.
"Is it always like this?" Carl asked.
"Pretty much." Van Helsing said.
"You! Turn around." a female voice said from behind them.
The trio did, and saw a beautiful woman in red and dark brown leather outfit. She had long curly brown hair and green eyes, and was standing on the edge of the town well, which put her slightly higher up than the rest of them.
The woman noticed that the largest of the trio didn't wear a hat or have a hood. He didn't even have a coat or a decent shirt as his arms were exposed to the elements. The shortest of them was dressed in brown robes, a hood covering his head. And the other man, dressed all in black with a trench coat and hat was the one that intrigued her the most.
"Let me see your faces." the woman said.
"Why?" Van Helsing asked.
"Because we don't trust strangers." she said.
"Strangers don't last long here. Hmm. Five foot, seven." the man in the top hat said as he took Carl's measurements.
"Gentleman, you will now be disarmed." the woman said.
"You can try!" Van Helsing snapped, snarling at the people as he went for his weapons.
"You refuse to obey our laws?" the woman asked as the man in the top hat was now taking Peters measurements.
"Oh. Going to need a lot of wood for this one." he said, making Peter smirk, realizing this man was the Undertaker.
"The laws of men mean little to me." Van Helsing said to the woman.
"Fine. Kill them!" the woman ordered.
Piotr and Carl were instantly on guard, even as Van Helsing stepped towards her.
"I'm here to help you." he said quickly.
"I don't need any help." the woman replied.
"Really?" he asked.
Van Helsing quickly ducked down and pulled out his mechanized crossbow from his sack, and pointed it at Anna Valerious. Anna ducked as Van Helsing opened fire, at the trio of female vampires swooping in behind her.
The pale-skinned female vampires hissed as they dodged the barrage.
"Everybody Inside!" Anna shouted, causing the villagers to scatter in a frenzy.
Looking down at the panicking population, the vampires sighted their prey.
"Marishka! Kill The Stranger In Black!" the raven-haired vampire woman snarled to the blond vampire, pulling one of Van Helsing's bolts from her shoulder.
"Love To!" the blond vampire said as she dove towards Van Helsing.
"I'll get the big one." she hissed and dove for him.
Marishka attacks Van Helsing while the red-haired vampire, Aleera, goes after Anna, and Verona attacks Peter.
Verona lunged at the large man, who suddenly transformed before her eyes. His muscular skin turned silver and gray, a harder steel than she had ever felt as she slammed into him. However, instead of him flying through the air, away from her like the peasants of the village always did, she bounced off his metal body and crumpled to the ground.
"Oooooohhh..." she groaned as the large man loomed over her. "Who... are you?"
"My name is Colossus." he said to her.
"Verona." she introduced herself before she got back to her feet and attacked him.
She punched and kicked at Colossus, only for her claws to tear his clothes, not his skin.
He's made of steel! But he moves like a man. She thought as Colossus grabbed her by her arms and tossed her through the air, and slamming her into a tree.
"Argh!" she groaned again. So strong!
Suddenly, the sun came out and caused the vampires to scatter.
Van Helsing and the others looked around, not seeing their antagonists.
"It's the sun." Anna said to them.
Colossus reverts back to his human form, which caught Anna's curiosity.
The group then hears splashing coming from the well.
Van Helsing and Anna approach the well, weapons in hand.
"Carl!" Peter said to the friar.
"Yes?" the friar asked.
"Do you have any holy water?" he asked.
"Uh, yes. Here." he said as he dug into his knapsack and produced a canteen with a cross on it.
Colossus then pours the holy water down the well, causing something to shriek in pain.
"Well, she's definitely down there." he said.
"Right." Van Helsing agreed.
It was then that Carl noticed that the clouds were beginning to block out the sun.
"Uh, Van Helsing?" Carl asked.
The second the sunlight had vanished from the town, the red-haired vampire, Aleera, exploded out of the well, knocking Anna and Van Helsing back.
Marishka suddenly appeared, attacking Van Helsing while Verona attacked Colossus.
Aleera, meanwhile, had gone to track down Anna after she had run into a nearby tavern.
Colossus looked around, his focus on Van Helsing and Marishka, only to be blind-sided by Verona. The brunette vampire grabbed him from behind, causing him to instinctively transform back into his metal form. The instant his skin became metallic his body became noticeably heavier. Verona almost dropped him, before flying into a barn.
The vampire and the mutant squared off, punching and kicking the other all over the barn.
Colossus had the strength, but Verona was quicker and could fly. But that would do her no good in a small enclosed space.
Verona leaped up behind Colossus and jumped on his back, smacking him in his face over and over. The only thing she got was sore hands, before he grabbed her and tossed her into a wooden support beam. She growled as she got back up and leapt at the man of steel, tackling Colossus to the ground, pounding and slashing at his face and chest, which was having very little effect on him.
Colossus grabbed Verona by her shoulders and flipped her over to where she was underneath him.
She reverted back to her human form, which stunned Colossus, seeing her as a beautiful and elegant looking woman.
"Let go of me!" she hissed at him.
"Why? So you can kill me?" he asked.
"It's obvious I cannot!" she said, struggling underneath him.
"Why are you doing this?" he asked her.
"The Master has commanded that Anna Valerious be killed!" she said.
"Why? For what reason?" he asked.
"So that she cannot stop us from carrying out our mission!" she spat.
"Mission?" he wondered. "What mission?"
"I've told you too much!" Verona shouted as she struggled in his grip.
Peter had to admit, that in her human form she was quite lovely.
Verona suddenly felt a pain in her heart, sensing that Marishka was dead. Shrieking and thrashing wildly in Colossus's grip, she threw him off and mad-scrambled out of the barn, fleeing with Aleera, who had also failed to kill Anna Valerious.
However, as she flew away, Verona's thoughts were on the large man made of metal. His strength, his invulnerability, his sheer size. She could only imagine what kind of vampire he would make.
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Authors Notes:
For a while I wanted to do a story about Van Helsing and X-Men, so I figured this was a good way to do it.
Hopefully, this will come back to a completion as I only intended for Verona and Colossus to meet in this chapter.
I always thought Verona was the best female vampire in this movie, so here's my contribution for that.
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