Chapter 7: England
Part 7.1: streets of London
We landed at Heathrow airport I led everyone out, Amata closed the line driving the military truck we head changed into a armoured RV. We set up a perimeter and I gave the all clear meaning Armstrong could take the ship back up. We got in the RV and followed the M4 to the centre of London. When we drove into the St. James street a missile hit our side, due to the armour on the side no one was injured but there was a hole in the side. Amata stepped on the gas pedal and I checked if everyone was alright. There were no casualties. When we came around the corner to the Pall mall gunfire sounded from both sides of the street: An ambush! Everyone picked a side and started shooting at the building on both sides some more accurate than others. "Shit roadblock up ahead" Amata shouted above the gunfire. I turned to the front and saw heaps of junk too big to push aside. "turn here" I said pointing to a street to the right. Amata tossed the wheel to the right and we turned into the street. The gunfire stopped, The truck was heavily damaged, Amata told me: " We need to lose the truck we're going too slow." I looked around for a small side street. Then I saw a garage or what was left of it: "turn in there." She turned in. We got out, Isaac stumbled to the far end of the garage and puked. I got on the communicator trying to reach Armstrong: "Spaceship Zeta this is Darkhart do you read?" After trying a few times I got contact. "Darkhart, this is Spaceship Zeta what seems to be the problem?" " I need a pickup for the truck it's banged up pretty hard can you do that?" I explained. "That's a negative Darkhart the tractor beam is still broke we're trying to fix it as fast as we can, Tell you what wait till it's fixed and we'll pick it up." The man on the other side said. "Roger that we'll wait here." I said sitting down on a piece of rubbish. Amata came up to me and asked what our plan was next. "We'll go be foot I mean Waterloo isn't that far away." I told her. She just sat next to me and just looked outside at the falling darkness.
Part 7.2: underground
It was my turn to stand guard, the beam wasn't fixed yet so we had sat up camp in the garage. Amata came to me, standing next to me she said: "It's quit, maybe there gone?" "No there not, they're hiding in the buildings waiting for us to come out and show ourselves." I replied. "So how are we getting in Waterloo then?" Amata asked looking at the buildings now noticing the weak lights on the first and second floors. "Well, I think we could go underground through the sewers." I said pointing to the centre of the street where I could see a manhole to the sewers. "Hey Darkhart this is spaceship Zeta, the beams fixed, roll the truck up when we have to beam it up." came over the radio finally we could go one with our mission. "Roger that Spaceship Zeta, we're rolling it out at 12 o'clock." I told the man on the other side. I turned and walked back into the truck to explain my plan.
At 12 o'clock we pushed the truck back on the street, immediately the fighters in the buildings around us opened fire at it we kept behind till we reached the manhole. I opened it up and Amata was the first to jump in followed by Isaac, Sarah, Charon, Billy, Harkness, Red and Scott. Over the radio I gave the beam up signal and jumped down myself. Inside the sewers it was dark very dark. I turned my flashlight on and looked around. There were 2 pads on the sides and in the middle there was a stream of irradiated water. I told the rest of my crew to follow me and the last man had to cover our back but first I went back up to close the manhole. I took the lead turning and leading us to a metro door. I opened it and saw a set of tracks and on the wall there was an arrow pointing to the right saying Waterloo Station. I followed the tracks finally leading to waterloo station. I sneaked in and saw that there was no one inside. We got out at a small square it was still night I took everyone back in and told them to rest. Tomorrow we would go into Royal air force office.
Part 7.3: The royal air force office
When the sun got up I woke everyone up. It was raining something you don't see that a lot in the wasteland. The rain was irradiated so we put on our hoods and ran trough. It rained like cats and dogs. By the time we reached the royal air force office we were all socked. Taking a moment to dry up we looked around. I turned to Isaac: "Were are those plans?" Isaac said: "either in the CEO office or in the labs downstairs." I took everyone to the office first, along the road we didn't find any corpse. When we got to the office Isaac got to work on the console. We stood guard and after 5 minutes we heard Isaac call out: "It isn't here, it's downstairs." I took the lead again, In the basements we found an armoured door which led to the labs next to the door was a small console. Isaac immediately got to work on it, Billy and Harkness stood guard on the stairs Sarah and Charon looked at a suspicious looking tunnel and I and Amata waited for the door to open. When Isaac got it open we stormed in. Inside where numerous mutilated corpses. We heard a cry coming from the tunnel. Before anyone could respond I already ran into the tunnel. The cry came from a closed door, I kicked it in behind the door was a the body of a woman and 2 man standing above her their chins red with blood: cannibals! This scum was a real plague back in DC pretending to be hunters they crossed the wasteland killing whoever they find. There also was a small settlement named Andale, When I got there it was filled with cannibals. After clearing them out the village elder who was not a cannibal said he would raise the children proper, which he did. I started shooting my assault rifle, 2 bullets is all it took, 2 bullets both went through their heads. I heard another cry coming from deeper in the tunnels this one was more of a battle cry than a cry for help. I ran out of the room by this time everyone had gotten to the door I turned to the part of the tunnel the cry came from and lighted my flashlight. In front of me were about 50 cannibals all coming for us, I opened fire followed by everyone else. I gave the order to get back to the armoured door and get in. I was the last to enter the room Isaac closed it behind me.
I looked around the labs Isaac was already looking for a working console, Sarah, charon, Harkness, Billy and Scott were reloading, Red was checking if her medicine bag was fine and Amata sat down and held her hand to her leg she was hurt. I walked over her, she told me she was fine and took a stimpack, Isaac called out he had found the plans. Then as if it was a signal we heard a loud banging on the armoured door. "Isaac is there another way out of here because we aren't leaving through that door." I yelled from the other side of the room, Isaac just turned back to the console and yelled back: "There's an express elevator to the roof and it still works we can use that and ask for a pick up." "Open the elevator, everybody move in to the elevator." The doors opened and we rushed in, Isaac closed the door and we got up. We all relaxed for a moment, We had the plans and we were still alive. Then suddenly the elevator stopped and opened its doors. We hadn't reached the roof yet we were on the seventh floor. "Shit, the elevator broke now we have to climb the last 3 floors" Scott muttered. I looked at him and ran out, everyone followed me. When we got to a T split I turned right, then I saw more cannibals coming up the stairs. I cursed and ran in starting to shoot hoping that I could push them back until we were on the stairs. I kept shooting the rest passed me and ran up Isaac padded my shoulder to tell me he was the last. I turned and ran up the stairs. Eighth floor, ninth floor, tenth floor and finally the roof access. I ran through the door and hear it close behind me. I got on the radio with our ship in the sky: "Spaceship Zeta this is Darkhart, we need a pickup on the roof of the royal air force office." The response came quickly: "Roger that we're looking on to your signal." Then the cannibals broke through the door I drew my 2 smgs and joined in the line of fire but soon we were almost overrun by the cannibals. Then a relieving message came: "Darkhart this is spaceship Zeta we're beaming you up." One moment I was shooting cannibals the other I stood in the teleportation deck on spaceship Zeta. I looked around and saw everybody except for Amata.
Part 7.4: Rescue operation
"Send me back! Now!" I yelled at the guy sitting at the console, Armstrong came running: "What's happening?" he asked. I responded tears running from my eyes: "Amata is still down there I need to go back." Armstrong walked up to me and put his hand on my shoulder :"It's not possible the roofs to crowded." I fell to my knees, Amata, the only girl I ever loved was gone she was going to be eaten by a bunch of crazy cannibals. I heard Armstrong say: " We can track her through her pipboy ,that will tell us whether she's alive or not and if she is where she is." He took me to a room with 8 Computer screens. Above each2 screens a name was written: Darkhart, Amata, Butch and James. On each of the screens I could see heartbeat, breathing, Sinus rhythm, and a screen showing what they saw. On Amata's I say the sky she was looking up. I ran back to the teleporter room and shouted at the man that sat at the console: "Get my close to her, I'll get her back." "No wait, they haven't eaten her yet I think you better rest up first and then go and get her." Armstrong said, I understood what he meant and walked to my room. I lay down on the bed after a couple of minutes I dozed off and fell asleep.
I woke up and saw it was already dark. I ran to the armoury. Inside Sarah and Charon were gearing up. "We're coming along, You'll need some back up." They said, I just shrugged and grabbed as many weapons I could. Then I ran to the teleporter room. There Armstrong was waiting. "They're holded up in Saint Paul's church we'll drop as close we can without alerting anyone." He said, I walked up to the platform. Before Armstrong gave the order to teleport us he came to my and shoved a green potion in my hands: "Only when your life is at stake." He stepped back and give the order. In a matter a seconds I was back in the streets of London. I turned at Sarah and Charon handing them 2 sniper rifles: "Give me cover from a distance if I'm not back by morning get out of here." Before one of the could react I ran into the darkness of the streets of London.
Finding the church was easy but it was heavily guarded. I sneaked in trough a hole in the roof of the church. When I got in I took a moment to observe the church. The altar was now a dining table, there was a road of candles leading to some stairs in the back, in the right corner next to the door was a cage with inside Amata she was stripped of all weapons and armour she had. I pulled out 2 magnums and checked the barrels. But then I saw some cannibals head to the cage. They opened it up and dragged Amata to the stairs. I had to move fast, I counted the number of cannibals inside: 100 cannibals too much for me to handle alone without risking Amata's life. I decided to follow the group that went down the stairs. I let myself drop in a corner and crept to the stairs sticking to the shadows as much I could. The stairs led to some ancient catacombs. Amata was bound and hung above a hole in the ground. In front of her some sort of priest was holding a lecture I couldn't understand. I figured she was running out of time so I jumped up and opened fire shooting 2 guard in the corner trough the head. The rest reacted very quick the priest in the middle kicked a lever and Amata fell down the hole. I ignored everyone and I ran to the hole. I jumped in without hesitation. Last thing I thought before I hit the ground was: "This is one fucked up rescue mission." Then I hit the ground.
Part 7.5: What lies beneath
I woke up and saw Amata leaning over me. "Finally, You're awake. Listen we need to get out of here. There's something in here." She said I got up and looked around I didn't see much the array of our Pipboys gave of a small radius of light. I got on my knees and drew 2 SMG's Amata drew the 2 10 MM pistols on my back. I looked around my eyes had started to adapted to the darkness. I saw a figure moving he or she was dressed in red and was incredibly quick. Amata and I stood back to back. For 2 minutes that seemed like an eternity nothing happened. Then I was grabbed and flew across the room I saw Amata being grabbed from behind by a girl dressed in a yellow uniform. I was pressed to the floor above my I saw the face of a man but with long fangs he smiled sadistically. I tried to fight back but this one was to strong, Then I remembered the potion I had got from Armstrong I reached into my pocket took it out and wrestled so that I could drink it meanwhile the guy that had pinned me down was going for my neck. But before He could bit me there I felt a surge of energy, I felled my muscles swell and I could feel myself getting stronger. I managed to get up and push the man to the wall The man struggled to get out or bite me or something but I managed to hold him still. The girl in yellow had seen me grab the man and now held Amata like a hostage. "Let him go now!" She yelled at me, her voice was pure anger. "Release her first!" I shouted back. Then the man spoke: "Stop , Seras let the girl go and you you big ape let me go." The girl apparently named Seras released Amata and I dropped the man. "Now I see you can fight, so I have an offer for you, a way out of here." The man said getting up and dusting his cloths. I walked to Amata to make sure she was fine. "Come with me please." The man said opening a door. We walked in, inside were 2 coffins a open fireplace and a few couches. "Have a seat" the man said waiving at the couches . Amata and I sat down, the man in red took a seat on a throne and the girl named Seras sat down in a sofa on the side. "My name is Alucard and hers is Seras Victoria." The man in red told us. "You were talking about an offer?" I asked. "Ah yes my offer, Well you see those men that dropped you here are a disgrace for my race and I want them exterminated." Alucard explained to us. "Why do we have to do it I mean you are seem quite capable of doing it yourselves." I asked. "We could but, we can't take on 3000 freak vampires on ourselves. We could use some help." Seras said sipping from a glass with a red liquid in it presumably blood. "And if we help you, You'll let us go?" I asked still suspicious. "Yes, then you're free to go." Alucard said standing up and pouring another glass of blood for him and sitting back down. I looked at Amata and she looked at me, I turned back at Alucard and said: "Ok we're in. One question before we star exterminating those people upstairs: What time is it." Alucard pointed to an old clock on the wall it was 6 o'clock in the morning. "I think, those people up there are going to have a little company soon. We should wait." I said. Alucard smiled and got comfortable in his chair.
Part 7.6: The cavalry
At 8 o'clock I heard gunshots upstairs, the cavalry had arrived. I got up and waited in the dark hole till I saw Sarah's face appear: "Hey drop a rope for us to climb up there's 4 of us down here." I yelled up. 10 minutes later a rope fell down, I crawled up first followed by Amata. Alcuard and Seras simply jumped out of the hole. "Good to see both of you alive now let's get back to the ship." Sarah sighed. "Wait no, I promised Alucard something and were not abandoning that promise." I said. "Ok kid but what is that promise?" Charon asked while checking if everyone was dead. "We need to annihilate every cannibal around here." I explained. "Not every cannibal just the high priest you take him out they should flee in fear." Alucard interrupted me. "And where is the high priest?" Charon asked firing a round in the head of a survivor. "I have no idea but I'm sure someone around here knows." Alucard sat waving at the corpses. "Ok so let a few live." After going over the bodies we only found one survivor. We bound him to a chair and fixed him up. When he gained consciousness I sat in front of him: "Where is the high priest?" I asked he just looked at me. I got up from my seat and hit him in the face. The man started laughing and said: "Like that will help, you'll never get answer that way." After beating him up for an hour I had to take a break. I walked to the exit. Sarah and Charon had requested the bombing of the church. The only thing left standing outside was rubble. "He's still not talking." I said to Amata cleaning my hands from beating the man or creature whatever he was. Then I heard a cry coming from inside. I ran back in and saw Seras standing across our prisoner holding a knife. I ran to her and saw she had cut of one off his fingers. I yelled at her: " Why did you do that?" her response was simple: "To make him talk, don't worry I'll do it from now on." I walked back out and grabbed a chair. Outside I sat down and listened to the silence.
Part 7.7: Hidden past
After an hour or 2 Seras walked out: "I'm out of ideas and he's still not talking." She said. I got up and walked back in. The prisoner was still tied to his chairs but he was covered in blood and looked more like bloody pulp. I walked up to him and looked him in the eyes: "You still don't want to talk do you?" The man sat there quietly just looking at me. I sighed and got back up, Alucard walked over to me: "I heard Seras ran out of ideas you got any left?" He asked. "One but I'll need to know what hurts him the most and I'll need some stuff from my ship." I reacted. " Considering he's a freak vampire, I would say silver, But Seras already tried that by cutting off his fingers with a silver knife." I walked out and through the radio I asked for Isaac, after a few minutes of waiting I managed to get a hold of him: "Isaac do you know how to forge stuff?" I asked him. "No but we can do it on the ship what do you need?" He asked me. "A silver knuckle duster" Was my response the first thing he said was that we didn't have silver at the ship. I asked Alucard if I could get some of him, he just walked back in and came back with a box of silver forks and knives. "You can have these, We barely use them." He explained with a grin. I asked Isaac to come and pick up the silver and forge them into a knuckle duster. A minute later Isaac got down. I gave Isaac the box and told him to meld it to a knuckle duster. Isaac nodded, pushed a button on his arm and was beamed up to the ship.
2 hours later Isaac got back. "Here, I still have some silver left what do you want me to do with that?" He asked. When Alucard heard his voice he turned at him and kneeled down: "Welcome back to England sir Hellsing." "What are you talking about?" Isaac asked in disbelief. "I'm talking about your heritage young Hellsing at least I think so. " Alucard explained. "And how can you be sure I am this Hellsing person?" Isaac asked him. "By tasting your blood." Alucard said grinning wide. Shocked Isaac grabbed his own neck to protect it: "No way your biting me!" He yelled out. "O relax I'm not going to bite you, I only need a drop of your blood to be sure." Alucard said now smiling even wider. Isaac held his arm out in front of him. He was shacking like a leaf, Alucard stung him in his finger with a needle. A small drop of blood appeared on his finger, Alucard licked it. "Now I'm sure you're a Hellsing, you have my allegiance, Sir Hellsing." Alucard said kneeling again. "Get up I'm not who you think I am, I'm sorry but I'm not." Isaac said sitting down on a what had been a bench. "Well you are a member of the Hellsing family, you look a lot like your great great grandmother: Integra. She was the second of the your family to employ me the first was her father." Alucard said standing in front of Isaac. "And what happened to her?" "She died a natural death, she had a son who locked me and Seras up again and left for the US." Alucard said turning to the east: "The mansion where we were imprisoned was that way. Now it's completely destroyed." Alucard explained to Isaac. "So there isn't anything left here?" Isaac asked getting up. "There are a few more hideouts left throughout London, but nothing big." Alucard sat walking back in. "I think our prisoner had enough rest, go beat some answers out of him." Isaac said pounding me on the shoulder. I walked back in and walked to the tied guy in the back and shoved the knuckle duster over my fingers. Time for some answers.
