Chapter 11: The Rescue

Roderich, Ludwig, Gilbert, and Dr. Sevarius arrived at Sevarius' place. Sevarius parked the car, got out, and motioned for the Beilschmidt brothers to get out as well. After the brothers exited the car, they followed Dr. Sevarius into his place.

Ludwig looked around at the place. "This is where you live?"

"Oh, no, no," Sevarius replied. "This is where I do my research."

"You mean we're staying here?" Roderich asked. He still cradled Gilbert in his arms.

"Well, I don't have enough room at my place for three more people," Sevarius explained. "So you guys can stay here for right now. It's better than living on the streets and eating out of dumpsters, which you won't have to do anymore, by the way. You'll have good food, warm beds, and, of course, television."

Ludwig brightened up, while Roderich looked wary still. "Can I have a Nintendo Wii in my room?" he eagerly asked the German scientist.

"Nein," Sevarius answered curtly. Ludwig looked disappointed. "That's up to your dorky playboy brother," he added, gesturing to an offended Roderich. Gilbert woke up and laughed weakly.

"Dorky?!" Roderich exclaimed in a whiny voice. "I may be a playboy, Herr Sevarius, but I assure you I'm no dork!"

"Says the guy who, back in Frankfurt, Germany, always expressed his anger through Chopin," Sevarius retorted rather immaturely.

"At least it's better than going to the shooting range," Roderich answered back. "My friend, Vash Zwingli—he lives in Geneva, by the way—does that all the time."

"Hey, to each his own, now STOP!" Ludwig hollered at Roderich and Sevarius. "Can't we just get to bed now? Little Prussia needs to rest." He took Gilbert from Roderich and started to go to one of the rooms. He then stopped and turned around. Gute Nacht, Herr Sevarius," he said to the doctor. "And thanks again for taking us in." With that, the young teen carried his baby brother to a room with a single bed and a TV in it. Roderich thanked Sevarius, followed his brothers, wished them both a good night, and went to another room for himself.

Ludwig gently set Gilbert down on the bed first before getting in himself; he decided, since Gilbert was sick, to let him sleep in his bed for at least a night. He gave Gilbert his bear.

"Gute Nacht, Kleine Preußen," Ludwig said softly and patted Gilbert on the head.

"Night, West," said Gilbert. Right after, Gilbert drifted off to sleep. Ludwig followed not long after.


A few days later, the Beilschmidt brothers were still staying in Dr. Sevarius' workplace, but as guests. Gilbert was feeling much better; Ludwig still wanted a Wii (but never got one); and Roderich got a part-time job, enrolled part-time in college, and was now debating on whether or not to enroll his brothers in school. He even let the boys go outside to play with other kids. Ludwig was reunited with his new best friends, Kiku and Feliciano; he even met a girl he took a liking to: Krystiana Łukasiewicz. The two started going out, much to Krystiana's younger twin brother, Feliks', chagrin. Gilbert got to play with Savio and Peter again, and met some new friends! Roderich, meanwhile, was happier due to rebuilding his harem; one of his girlfriends was an upper-class young lady (a very tomboyish young lady) named Elizabeta Hedervary. She kept Roddy the playboy in line and treated Lui and Gilbo as her little brothers. All in all, life seemed to be improving for the Beilschmidts.

Over the next week, the brothers noticed Dr. Sevarius had become very secretive and erratic. Once, he even attempted to give little Gilbert a shot of some strange liquid, claiming it was a normal vaccination. Roderich and Ludwig were starting to keep Gilbert in sight of them at all times. Ludwig moved Gilbert back into his room after that, so he could protect his baby brother twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This heightened security around Gilbert really got Sevarius' panties in a bunch, so to speak.


One day, when the sun went down, Ludwig and Gilbert were hanging out with their friends, while Roderich was on a date with Elizabeta. Ludwig, Gilbert, and their friends saw three creatures flying overhead, past them.

"Wow!" Gilbert exclaimed, pointing upwards at the creatures. "Those are big bats. But isn't it a little early for Halloween?"

"I don't think those were bats, Little Prussia," Ludwig told his little brother. He looked up at the sky. "They looked like pterodactyls."

"Pterodactyls?!" a freak-out Feliciano asked in a panicky voice.

"Oh, don't worry about them," Krystiana assured her friends and boyfriend.

"Like, yeah, those are just the gargoyles," Feliks added. "They protect the city."

"There are gargoyles here, too?" Kiku asked excitedly. "Cool!"

"Hell yeah!" said Krystiana's younger sister, Renata.

"You, like, know about gargoyles?" Marek, Renata's twin, asked his eldest sister's Japanese friend.

"Hai," Kiku replied. "There are gargoyles in Japan. I've even met them personally."

"Wow," Ludwig, Feliciano, Gilbert, Peter, Savio, Krystiana, Feliks, Renata, and Marek said in awe.

Just as the kids resumed their activities, Roderich and Elizabeta came running towards them.

"Lui! Little Prussia!" Roderich called to his brothers. He and Elizabeta stopped, out of breath from running a far distance. "Man, that's enough running to last me a lifetime!" Roderich whined.

"Oh, Roddy, don't be such a baby," Elizabeta scolded. "Running's good for you."

"Roddy?" Gilbert asked uneasily. "Lizzie?"

"What's going on?" asked Ludwig.

Roderich grabbed the boys and pulled them towards him. "We have to leave Sevarius' place right away! He's crazier!"

"Sevarius?" Feliciano inquired.

"This guy who took us in," Ludwig explained. "He's a scientist, and we've been staying in rooms in his lab. He was nice at first, but lately he's been behaving erratically, and has been really secretive about his work."

"Yeah, yeah, we've gotta go NOW!" Roderich urged. He picked Gilbert up and motioned for Ludwig to follow. "We'll stay with Lizzie and her parents." But just before Elizabeta and the brothers could even start for the girl's house, they were stopped by a crazed-looking Sevarius, who was holding a gun.

"Oh no!" Gilbert whimpered. He buried his face in Roderich's shoulder.

Sevarius grinned evilly. "Let's go, boys. Now!"

"No way in Hell!" said Ludwig. He winced in pain when Sevarius grabbed his arm.

"Let Lui go!" Krystiana yelled. She grabbed onto Ludwig and tried hard to hold on. She was devastated when forced to let go. "No! Lui!"

"Help!" Elizabeta called after seeing the Beilschmidt brothers being forced into Sevarius' car at gunpoint. "Help, somebody! Please!" The three gargoyles from earlier landed on the street.

"What happened?" Brooklyn, a red gargoyle with a beak, asked. "What's wrong?"

"It's our friends," Peter choked out. "This guy, Sevarius, took them at gunpoint!"

"He's doing it again?!" Broadway, a chubby, light blue gargoyle, exclaimed.

"Don't worry, we'll get Goliath and Angela, and we'll get them out," said Lexington, a tan, bald gargoyle. He, Brooklyn, and Broadway then took off and went to the rescue.

Krystiana sullenly sat down on the sidewalk. Her siblings followed. "I hope they're not too late."


Back at Sevarius' lab, Sevarius forced Roderich and his brothers in three separate display cases.

"Now I have a use for you boys," said Sevarius. He filled a syringe with the same strange liquid he tried to inject Gilbert with. Gilbert started crying and called for his brothers' help. Roderich tried in vain to assure Gilbert that everything was okay.

Ludwig banged on the glass of his prison. "Let us out! Why are you doing this?!"

"Hey, I needed test subjects," Sevarius said matter-of-factly and shrugged. He then opened Gilbert's case and took the boy out, getting ready to inject him. "And I have three."

"Help me!" Gilbert exclaimed again.

"Let Gilbo be!" Roderich shouted.

"Hold still, you little brat," Sevarius sneered. He held a struggling Gilbert down on the floor. Sevarius was interrupted by the sound of Brooklyn, Broadway, Lexington, and their comrades, Goliath and Angela, crashing through the roof. "Scheiße. Them again!"

"What are—?" Roderich asked. He started unbelievingly at the gargoyles. "Huge, two-legged bats?! This city's weird."

While Goliath—who has long, dark hair and lavender skin—threw Sevarius against the wall, knocking the guy out, Angela—who, like Goliath, had long, dark hair and lavender shin, except she wore a dress—and Broadway punched the glass of Roderich and Ludwig's prisons, and shattered it. Angels grabbed Roderich by the front of his shirt, pulled him out, and glared at the four-eyed playboy, scaring him.

"Listen, idiot," Angela said. "We're not bats. We're gargoyles!" She dropped Roderich on the floor.

"Ow!" Roderich whined. "Sorry."

Ludwig and Gilbert both ran up to Roderich, who hugged them.

"It's alright, we're okay," Roderich said gently.

"Come on, let's get out of here before he wakes up!" said Brooklyn.

"Right," everyone else responded. The gargoyles and the brothers exited the lab.

"Thank you for saving us," Gilbert said with a smile as he hugged his bear.

"You're welcome, kid," said Broadway. He and the others stopped in their path when they saw two detectives they knew: Elisa Maza and Matt Bluestone. "Hi, Elisa. Hi, Matt."

"Hey, Broadway," said Elisa. "What happened? And who are these kids?"

"I'm Roderich Edelstein, and I'm no kid. And these kids are my cute baby brothers: Ludwig and Gilbert Beilschmidt," Roderich introduced himself and his brothers.

"Hey, I'm not a baby!" Ludwig said to Roderich.

"We rescued these boys from Sevarius," Goliath explained to Elisa and Matt.

"Sevarius?" Elisa asked. "Again with that guy?"

"Yeah," Lexington answered. "He was about to inject the little oner when we stopped him."

"Goliath knocked him out, though," Angela put in.

Elizabeta, Krystiana, Feliks, Renata, Marek, Kiku, Feliciano, Savio, and Peter came running. They stopped when they saw Roderich, Ludwig, and Gilbert—now free of Sevarius—along with Elisa, Matt, and the gargoyles.

"Roddy, thank God!" Elizabeta exclaimed and hugged her boyfriend. "You and the kids are safe!"

"Yes, we are," Roderich said and hugged Elizabeta back, while Krystiana embraced Ludwig; Feliks made a gagging motion behind Krystiana's back, which Renata and Marek laughed at.

"Thank the gargoyles," Ludwig said to Krystiana.

Kiku turned to the gargoyles. "Arigatou gozaimasu."

"Kiku said, 'Thank you very much'," Feliciano translated for the gargoyles.

"You're welcome," said Goliath.

"We know Krystiana and her siblings, and Elizabeta, but we never got your names," Broadway said to Kiku, Savio, Peter, and Feliciano.

"Kiku Honda," Kiku introduced himself.

"I'm Feliciano Vargas," Feliciano replied cheerfully. He then gestured to his brother. "And this little guy is my fratellino, Savio."

"Ciao!" Savio greeted his best friend's saviors.

"Fratellino?" Brooklyn asked.

"That means 'little brother' in Italian," said Feliciano.

"And I'm Peter Kirkland, the almighty ruler of the Principality of Sealand!" said Peter.

"No, you're not," Renata and Marek said and rolled their eyes. Peter pouted.

"Nice to meet all of you," Lexington said.

"Roddykins, I have to go home now," Elizabeta told Roderich. "Sorry, but we still need to prepare rooms for you and your brothers at home. My folks are gonna freak if I get home late. See you soon." She and Roderich hugged before she hurried home. Krystiana and her siblings, Kiku, Feliciano, Savio, and Peter went home as well.

"We should find somewhere to stay," said Roderich. "Come on, guys." He picked Gilbert up, and he and Ludwig started walking off.

"Wait," Angela said. "Maybe you can stay with us, until you find a place."

"Really?" Roderich asked. "Thanks."

"No problem," said Brooklyn. "Come on, Matt and Elisa can show you where the entrance is." The gargoyles took off toward the clock tower above the police station. Matt and Elisa, along with the Beilschmidts, drove to the police station. Matt and Elisa showed the brothers where the entrance to the gargoyles' home was. Once Roderich, Ludwig, and Gilbert got settled in, they met an elderly gargoyle named Hudson, and a dog-like gargoyle named Bronx, who let Gilbert ride on his back. They were also notified by Goliath that they would be allowed to stay until they got on their feet, as long as they could help with one important task: Find Brooklyn a mate.

'Easier said than done,' Roderich thought.


After a few hours, and after getting something to eat, the Beilschmidts comfortably fell asleep.


Author's Note: Elisa Maza, Matt Bluestone, Goliath, Angela, Hudson, Bronx, Lexington, Brooklyn, and Broadway are all from Gargoyles. Elizabeta, Feliks, and Vash are from Hetalia Krystiana, Renata, and Marek are OCs of mine.

Herr- Mr. (German)

Gute Nacht- Good night (German)

Hai- Yes (Japanese)

Arigatou gozaimasu- Thank you very much (Japanese)