Welcome to the second match of The Stats! Now today we feature "Captain Sparkles" vs "The Undead King", now I'd like to reiterate that I will try to remain as unbiased as possible in my assessment of the characters as possible. My sources will be the Hellsing and Twilight wikis, a good friend who is a fan of the Twilight book series (as I refuse to read that garbage), the Hellsing manga of which I own every issue, and their movies/anime. So let us begin!

(Note to hrg2damax sorry I couldn't do Natsu vs. Ed this time, but the poll pointed at this, I promise it will be next.)


Chapter 2: Alucard (Hellsing) vs. Edward Cullen

ALUCARD

The main character of the Hellsing manga and animes, he is also the legendary Count Vlad Tepes Dracul, Son of the Dragon/Devil, the famed Impaling King of Romania, and perhaps the most famous vampire in all history. Few other vampires in fiction can compare to his powers and none can match his name. In the Hellsing story Japanese mangaka Kouta Hirano tells portrays him as a being of both terrible power and bloodlust as well as one capable of terrifying mental control and seduction, the essence of the vampires of European mythology. Alucard is quite simply put, a tragic monster who sold out his own soul for revenge against those who wronged him, his family, and his people. Though truly a tragic figure it is very difficult to feel any real sympathy for him because of his truly monstrous nature which he seems to revel in. There is no hesitation and rarely any sympathy in his violent and bloody attacking, even against former allies such as Walter. Though he has at least some level of hatred for what he has become he does not wallow in self-hate and embraces his powers and finds joy in the battles which they garner, constantly searching for an opponent who may send him to the other side…

EDWARD CULLEN

Edward Cullen is a telepathic vampire and a founding member of the Olympic coven , as well as a protagonist of the Twilight Saga. He is usually described as brooding and stubborn, but also very kind and compassionate. He easily dazzles human females with his beauty, scent and body, and persuades them to do his bidding. Edward is also a bit of a romantic at heart. He often over analyzes situations and has a tendency to overreact. The development of Edward Cullen's character was influenced by Gilbert Blythe, Fitzwilliam Darcy, and Edward Rochester―particularly the latter, who, like him, sees himself as a "monster". Edward appears convinced of his own soulless status, and his obsession over that seems, to me at least, to be his definitive character trait, and can get quite eloquent/brooding over his feelings on the matter. Writer/creator Stephenie Meyer explains that Edward started out as a pessimistic character. He always thought of himself as an abomination of nature, not deserving happiness nor believing that his relationship with Bella would last, until he gave her a daughter and brought Bella more happiness than he could have ever imagined.

PHYSICAL STRENGTH

Now neither Hellsing nor Twilight are vary forthcoming in the sheer physical power of their respective vampires, just that both far surpass that of humans. It is said that the vampires of Twilight can crush bolder, metals, and supposedly jump to great heights and distances. Hellsing states that vampires can "rip humans apart like wet tissue paper" and not once has Alucard been seen to strain himself in a physical act easily tearing apart steel, concrete, and other supernatural beings with the same casual ease. So for this I was forced to use the few fight scenes of the Twilight Saga movies to measure the vampires' physical feats; how easily they destroyed trucks, how far things they hit flew, damage inflicted to the surrounding area, and so forth. What I came up with his that they are roughly in the Class 80 area (using the Marvel Comics comparison system), several of them had some trouble lifting and throwing around the huge werewolves and when they hit with the intent to kill the wolves only flew a few dozen meters, same with heads that were knocked off. Unfortunately the same holds true for Alucard so I'm force to place them on a relatively even par with both vampires being in roughly the Class 80 range. But seeing as Alucard is the strongest vampire of his universe and Edward is openly stated as not being even close to the physically strongest this match goes to Alucard. Alucard can slice through Tubalcain's cards (which are sharp and strong enough to easily cut through a uranium shell moving at high speed, without the slightest damage done to the cards themselves) using his bare hands.

SPEED

It was said the vampires of Twilight could run at beyond 100mph, but judging by travel times for various characters in the series I would say that none of them pass the 200mph or even the 170mph marker. Edward was moving at speeds that he was blurring to the eyes and can react and move to the speed of cars and even outpace the massive werewolves of the series almost casually. However, Alucard can also move faster than the eye can see, such as when he seemingly appeared to be a glint of light like artificial vampires have shown in his fight with Tubalcain. He's fast enough to keep up with a vampirized Walter Dornez, who was shown to be able to outpace bullets from machine guns when he was human. He has demonstrated the ability to catch bullets (both Rip Van Winkle's and ordinary ones). He easily caught Rip Van Winkle's magic bullet with his teeth (the same bullet which punctured an SR-71 moving at Mach 3.2 speed several times in rapid succession and intercepted multiple missiles). Seeing as he has shown to move and react at multi-Mach speeds this is another point in Alucard's favor.

DURABILITY

The Twilight wiki states that; during the transformation process, a vampire's cells become extremely hard, durable, and refractive, rendering their bodies nearly impenetrable. Vampires are noted to be exponentially more durable than "soft" humans. The strength of a vampires skin is described as harder than granite, and even diamond-hard. Their bodies are so hard that they are unable to be harmed by human weapons, and the only creatures capable of killing them are other vampires, or werewolves. Their teeth are also noted to be one of the few things strong enough to be able to cut through their skin, as are werewolf teeth. Now I have my own questions about this supposed "diamond hardness" cause from what I know of carbon (which makes up the majority of our non-water body chemistry and I can only assume where the writer got this idea from) to reach the state that she describes would stiffen the body to levels were movements would either be slowed exponentially or stopped completely. But I'll throw that out as "magic" for the sake of this comparison. The class of strength the Twilight vampires have shown even multiplied by their speed would not be able to break a hardened carbon lattice such as when they show the vampires punching each other hard enough to cause injury, let alone pull body parts off. So I would actually have to say that they have durability similar to that of hardened titanium or reinforced tungsten able to easily survive impacts with steel at over 100mph. But this still puts them above Alucard who has been shredded by low caliber bullets. So to my great disappointment the winner of this round is Eddy-Boy.

REGENERATION

Their isn't even a contest here, Alucard has been reduced to pools of blood and still revived. When damaged to an extreme extent, his body simply turns into a shadow-like substance and reconstitutes. Exceedingly holy weapons have been shown to incapacitate him for a time, but even Father Anderson, augmented with Helena's Nail, could do no lasting harm to him. In comparison the vampires of Twilight can't even take a beheading and regenerate. Beyond that Alucard cannot be killed till every life within him is killed and he is stated to have three million plus souls within himself. Winner indisputably, Alucard!

ARMAMENTS

Alucard has a number of formidable armaments including a pair of the most iconiclly badass hand guns ever conceived, a Thompson Sub-Machine Gun, a powerful longsword, and of course his hands and fangs. Let's start with his guns;

First up we have the Hellsing ARMS .454 Casull Auto, sometimes shortened to Casull, is a semi-automatic handgun that is one of Alucard's favorite weapons of choice. The Casull is a classic semi-automatic handgun, based on pre-WWI handgun designs by Colt, most notably Colt's popular handguns, the M1911 and the M1903. It weighs approximately 6 kg unloaded and has a magazine capacity of six (plus one in the chamber) .454 Casull cartridges. It has a single-stack magazine as seen in other .45-caliber handguns like the M1911 and SIG P220. The overall design of the Casull is simple, using the Browning short recoil mechanism. Its most recognizable feature is its long slide, counteracting the weapon's heavy recoil with its weight. The barrel is 10 inches long (specified on the slide) and finished with titanium nitride which gives it a characteristic gold color. The Casull is too heavy and unwieldy for a human to use, yet a perfect match for Alucard's strength. The gun fires custom-made explosive .454 Casull rounds, with the steel bullets bearing a core made from the melted silver Christian cross from Manchester Cathedral. However, when Alucard first introduces the gun in Volume 1 while dealing with the vampire in Cheddar, he says that it fires 13mm rounds. A possible explanation would be that the gun was originally chambered in .454 Casull, but now fires a custom round necked up to 13mm, as the casings shown ejected by the pistol are bottle-necked and rimless, while the real Casull round uses a straight walled rimmed case. Even though Alucard has stated that the round uses explosive silver bullets, the traits exhibited by the bullet wounds show that it displays characteristics similar to that of a full metal jacketed pistol round, when it punches through the lung of two people without having the round explode.

Next we have his second iconic weapon the Hellsing ARMS 13 mm Auto Anti-Freak Combat Pistol, Jackal (usually referred to as simply "The Jackal") a specialized firearm made specifically to kill Alucard's rival "Paladin" Alexander Anderson. The Jackal is a massive pistol made especially for Alucard. With a length of 39cm (16 in), a weight of 16kg (35lbs), and a black gunmetal construction, it is one of the most powerful hand weapons featured in the series. Its unique design makes it seem as if it doesn't have a pistol slide; however, the entire upper assembly is the slide, and moves only a minimal distance compared to other guns', making it appear as if there is no pistol slide. The Jackal has its silver ejector port on the left side, implying that it is meant to be used in conjunction with the Casull (sending the shells to the left prevents them from obscuring the wielder's view), and in the manga and anime, Alucard is usually shown wielding both guns at once. The Jackal fires a huge, armor-piercing, thirteen-millimeter bullet. The rounds are jacketed with a "casing" of blessed Macedonian silver and tipped with a hollow point, which contains an explosive charge of pre-blessed mercury. The rounds use "Marvell's Chemical Cartridge N.N.A.9", and are suggested to be very short by the minimal movement of the Jackal's slide. This could be due to the cartridge being powerful enough to require only minimal propellant. However, the high caliber-bullets also have a downside; their great size limits the Jackal's magazine capacity to six rounds. The power of Jackal is much greater than Casull's. It was made specially for fighting Anderson who was stubborn enough to survive bullets from Casull. During Alucard and Anderson's duel in London, the Jackal was able to nearly sever his arm. Later on, a single shot was able to blow Anderson's head completely off from the lower jaw up, despite the bullet striking him on only the left side of the face. However, the Paladin's head regenerated due to the Nail of Helena. When Alucard fought with Luke Valentine, he easily dodged all of Alucard's shots, but when Alucard used the Jackal he barely dodged its bullet. The wall that the bullet hit was totally destroyed.

Finally we come to his hands and fangs. Alucard has shown various impressive feats with his natural weapons. Biting and shattering a bullet that cleaved though ships, missiles, and planes; and his bare hand was able to split a card that easily cleaved depleted uranium shell. He was also able to use his bare hands to rip apart the "holy monster" that Anderson had become when even the Jackal could not break his defenses. In addition to his superhuman abilities, Alucard also possesses centuries of combat experience against various other supernatural beings. While he usually relies on crushing his opponents with sheer power and force, he does at times use strategy. When he fought Alhambra, Alucard used shadow duplicates to distract him, allowing Alucard to close the distance between them and deliver the death blow.

By comparison Edward Cullen pretty much has his hands and fangs which are also dangerous and lethal weapons. He can physically rend weaker vampires and has at least a basic knowledge of hand-to-hand combat. Born in 1901 he has roughly a century of life under his belt with at least a decade of fighting somewhere in there against other vampires.

I'll let you dear readers conclude who wins this round.

MISCELLANEOUS POWERS

Both sets of vampires have powers outside of their physical stats and weapons.

Edward is a powerful telepath who can read the thoughts of those around him. Edward can read people's thoughts from a distance and what is going through their mind at that moment.

Edward's power seemingly comes from his dormant ability to read people as a human, which became a supernatural talent when he became a vampire. He can hear all "voices" in close proximity with him, but has learned to block out the ones he is uninterested in by focusing on one voice or something in particular. Edward mentions that his ability is like being in a room where everyone is talking at once. He can tune out the "voices" so that it's just a low buzzing in the background.

The closer and more familiar he is to a person, the farther away he can reach that person's mind when he wants to, but can only keep track of them within a few miles. He mentions in Twilight that he can use it to dismiss people who feel attraction toward him and his family. He can also telepathically experience Alice's visions and keep track of a shape-shifter's telepathic link to his pack when he is within range. However, Bella Swan is the first exception to his gift as she is shielded from psychic powers, which is part of what made him curious about her when they first met.

Alucard has a whole host of supernatural powers famously possessed by vampires of myth, legend, and fiction. His abilities include;

Intangibility: The ability to pass through solid objects.

Shadow Manipulation: Manipulation of shadows into physical form, which he can then use however he wishes.

Blood Manipulation: The ability to control blood with the mind, as demonstrated when he absorbed the blood of London's dead in volume 10.

Shapeshifting: Alucard can transform himself or parts of himself into bats, insects, snakes, hellhounds, other human forms including a little girl, an amorphous mass of darkness, and various other forms. Alucard has four known human forms, each with different characteristics and weapons. He also states that his form means nothing and that he can take any form that he chooses.

Weather Control: The ability to control the weather to an unknown limit, as demonstrated by the fog created when he returned to London aboard the H.M.S Eagle.

Teleportation: The ability to disappear and reappear somewhere else.

Telekinesis: In the manga, Alucard uses telekinesis to close a door on a fleeing SWAT officer. He also launched six SWAT officers into the air and guided them to flag poles where they were impaled. Alucard is later seen moving a broken down air-craft carrier from the Gulf of Italy to the Dover of London all in a little less than 40 minutes.

Telepathy: Alucard can speak telepathically to his fledgling, Seras Victoria. It is possible that he can communicate telepathically to others as well.

Mind Reading: He is able to hear the thoughts of others when he chooses.

Hypnosis: Alucard was able to hypnotize a hotel receptionist who objected to the size of his luggage (his coffin), when he traveled to Brazil in order to investigate leads on Millennium.

Precognition: The ability to see into the immediate future, which allows him to predict the movements of the opponents he fights. According to Pip, a vampire can easily dodge a bullet with their ability to predict human movements.

Familiar Summoning: The ability to summon familiars, the souls of those whose blood he has drank in a variety of forms that either emerge from his body or swarm around him as an army numbering in the thousands. These familiars can also include animals such as horses and the weapons and abilities that the familiars possessed in life, but Alucard can only use this ability when Control Art Restriction System Level Zero is released. The familiars can come in two ways, one is similar to a ghoul, mindless and constantly moaning in pain, while the other is the soul manifesting exactly how it was when it was alive, personality, powers, and all. It's unknown if vampires have control of how they want their familiars to manifest, or if the soul loses its personality traits (although the former seems more likely).

Blood Drinking: The ability to drink a person's blood, absorbing their soul and, consequently, their knowledge and memories. (He learns more about Millennium after absorbing Tubalcain). He can also absorb blood through his clothes and skin, as he does with Luke Valentine's blood after his hellhound had eaten Luke's body. Alucard can also draw in blood from thousands of people over vast distances (at least throughout the city of London).

Hibernation: Alucard is able to survive long periods of time without consuming blood, but is able to fight at a usual level of strength after drinking even the smallest amount of blood.

Immunity to Vampiric Weaknesses: His abilities and health are not in any way compromised by such things as sunlight or silver. In fact, it appears that the only weapons capable of harming him to any real extent are the most holy of Christian artifacts, such as Father Anderson after augmenting his abilities with Helena's Nail (a nail, which was from the True Cross, which crucified Jesus Christ, and was blessed by his blood) but even that did no permanent, or even lasting, damage.

CONCLUSION

It was a bit of an unusual night for Alucard, for one thing instead of some country town or small city in country of England he was walking through the pine barrens of Washington in the United States. He was also supposedly hunting a new sub-species of vampire that he had never heard of; it was quite exciting for him. The American government had sought out the help of the Hellsing Organization when they had failed to exterminate the infestation themselves; and apparently they weren't able to get a hold of those Winchester brothers who had put away Lucifer a few years ago. Well they were probably in Hell or some such dealing with some other apocalyptic threat or another he supposed. They were also unable to reach anyone form the Devil May Cry offices, but then again Sparda's younger son and his associates were always in some sort of situation. Ah, he remembered fondly the day he gave the boy his first red coat and his now iconic guns, Dante had been so happy to receive a gift from "Uncle Al". The No-Life-King was broken from his musings when he detected the distinct sent of wet dogs. Or specifically wet werewolves. Grinning his bloodthirsty grin the "pet" of Hellsing turned from his path, it seemed that he would be giving the Yanks a freebie on this job.

In a large well-made home within the dense forest a small family sat contently in their living room enjoying each other's company, when a panicked young woman rushed in completely naked fallowed by several other people.

"Mr. Cullen, the Black and Uley Packs need help desperately!" exclaimed the young woman breathlessly.

"It seems that some strange man in a red coat and fedora appeared and suddenly began killing off the wolves." Said Rosalie as she threw a coat over the terrified woman. "She says he smells vaguely like a vampire but with more blood and death."

This was a rather disturbing revelation. Was the Volturi after them all again using some new unnamed agent? Regardless they would have to handle this if only to aid their shape-shifter allies from this unknown menace

Back out in the forest Alucard was finding a great deal of amusement from these werewolf wannabes. Now that he got a better feel for them he realized that they were actually what most Native American tribes called Skin-Walkers. Though they were pathetically weak their pack fighting style had actually had him releasing to level 2 and he had already added two of their number to his collection of souls a large russet furred male he learned was one of their leaders and a small silver one who was his beta. Letting out more of his dark laughter the ancient vampire fired another round from his Casull into the head of another wolf, it really was too easy. But just as he was about to walk over and kill the other pack leader a tall dark haired young vampire of the breed he was to hunt rushed by and tor his right arm off.

"Now, we can't just let you go around killing these wolves old timer." Said the man in a cocky tone… just before the arm in his and bent upward and shot him in the eye and blew the top of his head off.

"Really now, how do you intend to protect the mutts… when you can't even protect yourselves?" Asked the former King of Romania as he turned his dark grin on the other members of the newly arrived Cullen Family.

"BASTARD! How dare you!" Yelled another member of the Cullen Clan as he charged before Edward could even attempt to hold him back. Before the other vampire could even get halfway to him Alucard had already drawn out his Jackal and taken out his head with the weapons massive blessed round.

"That's the spirit! Charge, fight, come at me, regenerate your limbs, show me your powers!" Yelled the crimson clad monster as his blood reconnected his arm to his body. In that moment Edward and the other Cullens knew that this thing was unlike any vampire they had ever encountered before. The vampires and the reminder of the la Push packs circled the grinning No-Life-King and prepared to attack him.

In an attempt to get a better edge on this strange and powerful entity Edward attempted to read his mind. Oh? It seems that you are the most interesting one here.

Alucard then gladly showed the telepathic younger vampire any and all of his memories he wished to see. Before he could warn his family and allies not to attack the monster that was the Dracul they ponced. Alucard grinned wider, "Release Control Restriction to level 1. The Cromwell Initiative is in effect. Hold control release till all targets are silenced!"

The shape-shifters and vampires tore Alucard's body to bloody bits chewing ripping and even shooting, in the case of two of the Cullens who'd picked up his guns, to bloody smears. But before they could celebrate Edward screamed out a warning, "Run! Hurry before he regenerates!"

"To late." Came a disembodied voice that echoed around them.

Then all Hell broke loose. The blood and body parts of their seemingly felled foe began to turn into shadowy mass and pool back together and surround them in flame like tendrils that sprouted countless crimson eyes! From the center rose the mostly reformed Alucard, clothed in his bloody shadows with a massive red eye in his chest, and an even more maniacal grin on his face.

"What's wrong? Are you scared? REALLY!?" Yelled the incomparable monster before them. "But we haven't even started yet!"

From one of the tendrils sprouted a massive many eyes canine head that proceeded to rend and consume the Cullens who had taken his guns. Appearing in his hands once again he let lose a barrage of bullets that left most of the vampires missing limbs and the remaining shape-shifters dead. "Come on, come on, COME ON! Heal yourselves, regenerate your limbs, summon your familiars, show me that you deserve to be called vampires!"

"YOU'RE A MONSTER!" Screamed Edward Cullen as he attempted to protect Alice. Alucard's eyes suddenly changed, they lost their manic gleam, they ceased to be madly wide, and his face took on a look of what could only be described as utter contempt.

"So that's it." His voice was calm and controlled a far cry from what it had been. "You call yourself a monster, and yet you live your happy little life with your family and friends, and bemoan your existence as terrible." The elder vampire's visage suddenly lit into a snarl. "Well allow me to show you the price of a true monster."

Several minutes later at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, a beautiful young woman with light strawberry blond hair in a skimpy blue military uniform sat atop a pair of massive pieces of luggage whistling a tune. The sudden familiar feeling of her sire's power alerted her to his approach and caused a bright smile to break across her face.

"Master! I'm surprised you're back so early. You seemed like you wanted to have some 'fun' with these new vampires?" Said the happy-go-lucky Seras Victoria.

Chuckling lightly at his daughter-like fledging's antics Alucard calmly walked past her into the cargo bay of the Boeing B-52, "They didn't meet up with my expectations."

Back in the secluded forest Bella Swan Cullen searched for her husband and family when she suddenly came upon a clearing… and she screamed, her daughter cried. There before them was the entire Cullen Family and la Push packs, dead, staked out on massive pikes, in a manner well known in to only one man…


Now I already know that I will be literally deluged by the rabid Twilight fangirls (and boys *shutter*) about the outcome here and all I have to say to them is, SHUT THE SMEG UP! Alucard simply has far to many and to much power for any of the supernatural beings in the Twilight series to overcome. Feel lucky that I felt sympathy enough to leave Stephenie Meyer greatest injustice to female equality (Bella Swan) since the invention of the sandwich and her daughter alive. Now as I have promised my next battle will be Natsu Dragneel vs. Edward Elrick, but after that I will be looking at you dear readers to provide me with more ideas for The Stats, so PM me or leave your ideas in the reviews. Till next time this is Prof. Talonsen signing off!