After falling an unknown amount of time, Paperinik landed on what looked like a hallway. As Seras and Pip went on a walk around the Hellsing mansion, she suddenly heard a noise a few hallways away. To Seras's vampire hearing, the noise seemed to sound like "One".
"Pip, grab your gun. We have an intruder." She whispered to him, who quickly complied. After tracking the source of the noise to the same hallway where Jan Valentine had recited the Konami Code, they were both shocked at what they found.
It was Donald Duck. Wearing a strange shield of some kind.
"We have to tell Sir Integra about this..." Seras whispered, confused beyond all reason.
"Yeah..." Pip agreed, dumbstruck at seeing a Disney character in the heart of the Hellsing mansion.
"So which way is this 'Integra's' office?" Paperinik asked, calmly and clearly, unlike the coarse gurgles Seras had heard as young.
"Follow us." Seras and Pip said, Pip still bewildered at his presence, and Seras bewildered at her own surprise. "Seriously, crazy things happened at the Hellsing mansion. Why should something like this be an exception?" She thought to herself, and after a short walk, they arrived at her office.
"Is this intended as some sort of joke, Seras?" Integra inquired icily, upon noticing Donald.
"No, Sir Integra. We found him in a hallway." She answered, earning a disbelieving snort from the woman.
"Miss, we're telling you, I really am Donald Duck." He interjected.
"I don't believe you. Donald Duck. Is. Fictional." Integra punctuated. "So no, you're not. And regardless, you're leaving my mansion. Immediately..." She spoke, annoyance and disbelief present in her voice.
"Whether you believe me is irrelevant. What we should be focusing on is returning me and Xadhoom to our universe. You want us out of here, and we want to go back."
"Xadhoom?" The group repeated, confused.
"Yeah, that woman who arrived with me." Paperinik muttered.
"What did she look like?" Integra asked. "He's insane."
"Blonde mohawk... Red and black skin-tight suit... Emerald-green eyes. And no, not just the iris. The eyes themselves are green as well." He listed.
"Seras, Pip... did you see anyone matching that description?" Integra asked, concerned for her unseen visitor's safety.
"No, Sir Integra..." Seras replied nervously.
"Then... Mister duck, provided that is your real name, I am afraid there's a chance that your friend, if she's here, has ended up in Alucard's dungeon."
"I don't like that name..." Paperinik muttered.
"Indeed, you shouldn't." Integra spoke, earning nods of agreements from Seras and Pip. "If this 'Xadhoom' is indeed there, we have to face facts: she is most likely already dead... And you don't seem that concerned about that." She noted.
"First off, I have no idea who this 'Alucard' is. And secondly, Xadhoom is, to my understanding, a disembodied mass of solar energy, that assumes physical form, not something this 'Alucard' can kill or injure, if it is at all possible." Paperinik explained.
"I wouldn't sell Alucard short. He is an immortal and unkillable vampire, wielding immeasurable power. He can kill anything." Integra countered, somewhat annoyed by his dismissive attitude. "A disembodied mass of energy, you say?... Interesting, for like this 'Xadhoom', Alucard is a disembodied mass of amorphous darkness."
"Really?" Paperinik asked, intrigued. "Perhaps, this 'Alucard' is the local parallel universe counterpart to Xadhoom." He suggested. "From what little I've heard of him, there seem to be some similarities; both were otherwise normal members of their races, before being transformed and given incredible powers. From how you describe him, I'll hazard a guess that they are both nearly immortal and invincible. Seven-letter word names..." Then, something seemed to click in his mind. "Alucard... Is that his true name? Or one that he assumed?"
"One that he assumed." Integra replied. "Why do you ask?"
"Is his true name a four-letter word?" Paperinik asked, unnerving Integra with just how much knowledge he seemed to have about Alucard.
"It is." She replied, confusing Seras and Pip.
"Master's name isn't Alucard?"
"It both is and isn't, Seras." Integra replied.
"But how're we gonna find this 'Xadhoom' person?" Pip grumbled. "God, it's gonna be like finding a needle in a haystack."
"Actually, Xadhoom answered that one." Paperinik commented.
"She did?" Integra and Seras asked, surprised.
"Yeah. You just lit the haystack on fire."
"She sounds more and more like Alucard by the second." Integra muttered.
"So master's not the only one who prefers overkill..." Seras sweatdropped.
Then, a tremor shook the room, causing several shelf items to fall to the floor. "I think they've met." Paperinik muttered.
"Indeed." Integra replied dryly, while also smoking a cigar. She then pressed a button on the speaker system. "Alucard: stop whatever you're doing, and come up here immediately." She shouted, her order echoing through the dungeon where he and Xadhoom were fighting.
"It seems we will have to end this fight prematurely." He snarled.
"Yes... It wasn't leading anywhere." Xadhoom agreed.
After a short while, Alucard and Xadhoom phased in through the office floor. Paperinik took a moment to inspect the vampire. Red trenchcoat... Orange-tinted sunglasses... Crimson, wide-brimmed fedora-hat... The man had style, that much was obvious... "So this is the famous vampire Alucard..." Paperinik muttered.
"Indeed." He answered.
"And people never work out the blindingly obvious?" He muttered, earning smirks from Integra and Alucard, and looks of confusion from Xadhoom, Seras and Pip.
"Because they do not wish to, I suspect..." Alucard replied, smirking wildly, exposing his inhuman maw.
"What're you talking about?" The other three exclaimed, perplexed, causing Paperinik to facepalm, and Integra to groan. Alucard, on the other hand, was laughing maniacally.
"Isn't it obvious?... A centuries-old vampire... Named alucarD..." He said, emphasizing the D. "Working for the Hellsing family, of all things... How much more do you need to work it out?..." Paperinik sighed, exasperated with the blonde and Frenchman. He couldn't fault Xadhoom for not knowing, as she was an alien, after all.
"Call me stupid, and just tell me." Pip shouted.
"Avenger. Let's go back to our universe." Xadhoom interjected impatiently, preventing him from replying, opening a portal similar to the one that had brought them here.
"You can open interdimensional portals?" Integra exclaimed, disbelieving at the sight.
"Of course. This is not like the Avenger's comicbooks, which I have rather come to find entertaining, where events conspire to keep the characters trapped." Xadhoom replied smirking. "Oh, and Red-Eyes?" She smirked at Alucard. "I'll be back to settle this fight."
"You'll try." He grinned.
The two then went into the portal.
In the seconds before it sealed, Pip could swear that he heard, "I'll find Dracula for you, when we get back."
"Alucard... Seras... Pip..." Integra muttered, slowly. "Let us never speak of this again."
Resolves too easy, I know, but if it didn't, I'll have to think of some convoluted and counter-intuitive explanation for why such enormously powerful individuals as Xadhoom and Alucard can't figure out a way to send them home. Early-series Alucard gets a pass, because his powers are supernatural, but end-series Alucard's aren't, and appearing in mental realms is a helluva a lot more difficult than crossing between universes.
