THIS IS AN OMAKE. It did not really happen in this fic's universe.

To Heika: It's speculated on TV Tropes that Maria and Alucard founded the Lecarde clan. In the WMG and Headscratchers sections. From what I've read, it says that the name 'Alucard' somehow became corrupted into 'Lecarde'. Maria is apparently a distant relative of the Belmonts, so any of her descendants is a branch family member. It's neither official nor canon, so I put that in the notes instead of the story proper.

I meant that Kazuya is over three times older than Soma. Soma does not consider Dracula's life to be his and so does not add Dracula's years to his. And even if he did, Dracula is around 1000 by this story (counting Soma's 20 years of life and not counting the years between 1999 and Soma's birth), and Kazuya is not yet one tenth of that. Besides, Kazuya would kick the habit of automatic politeness from talking to demons much older than him. On another note, SMT2 takes place over 50 years after SMT1. At the start of the game, there is an announcement that someone who worked at the Factory for 50 years donated his life savings, and at the end of SMT Tokyo Millennium hasn't been built yet (unless that's propaganda). Kazuya doesn't have to be alive for all that time. There are only a few Coliseum warriors, but it might be a recent tradition.

Kazuya's wife (let's call her Aoi) does remember the other timeline. She will appear soon, and when she does, I will justify her absence.

The Law Hero and Chaos Hero do not remember the other timeline. The Law Hero is studying to be a lawyer and the Chaos Hero is training to be a professional boxer. Kazuya knows that Law Hero forgot because they had a very one sided conversation when Law Hero was hanging around his girlfriend's house, who also happens to be Kazuya's next door neighbor.

To the guest: You're right, Arvis and Deirdre are named after the couple from Fire Emblem 4. Julius's uncle Azel and cousin Arthur are also named after the Fire Emblem characters (Tinny and Tailto exist as well). Arthur is named after Tailto's son, not Elise's retainer. Julius does not have a twin sister named Julia because Julia is already the name of a Castlevania character. Hector's grandson Roy was named after the hero of FE6.

I had a dream where I was Juste Belmont, but I didn't have the Vampire Killer and my sole power was to make a lot of water spew out of my index finger at the same pressure as a water fountain. I used my power to play a weird game of truth or dare that involved burying a kid with goggles into wet sand. I tried spraying water with both fingers and it worked. I tried it with all of my fingers and it didn't.

To everyone: Thank you for reading! Please don't hate me for this chapter. It does kind of ruin one of the characters. I have mixed feelings about this one. I like how it turned out in general, but it completely defiles one of the characters. I really hesitated in posting this, but I do like some of it. He'll be better in the next chapter, I promise.

This omake was requested by LuciferXIII Trollkaiger Green. I still take requests. Even if I haven't gotten to the two that I actually received. I'll get to them.

OMAKE

"It's all my fault," Julius muttered, watching Pascal gnaw on his chew toy with empty eyes. "I should have kept a closer watch on him."

"No, it's my fault," said Kazuya, absently cleaning his many guns. "I talked you into it. I was there with him the whole time, and what did I do? I sat there and played video games. I could have stopped him."

"Doesn't matter," said Naoki bitterly. "Just focus. Survive. Train. Pick off the weaker monsters he sends. Then take him down."

"Are you nuts!?" shouted Daisuke. "Every second we wait, he gets stronger! We have to strike n-"

Naoki grabbed Daisuke's arm and jerked him down. "Listen, Higawa. I bailed you and your teammates out of there. It wasn't easy. Don't make me regret saving you by throwing away your lives."

"You're lucky that your scientists thought to make your robots self repairing," said Mina, healing the shrapnel in Hikaru's leg. "Otherwise, you'd just be stuck on grunt work duty instead of saving the town. I can't just wave my hand and magically repair your robots. I can only do that with you."

"We're still stuck on grunt work, remember?" grumbled Rei Aoiyama, the pilot of the Azure Spectrum Lancer Custom mecha. "The enemy doesn't know our identities, so we can move around freely. At least, he only knows Daisuke because he jumped the gun and called his mecha right in front of him."

"Shush, Rei," said Haruka Kuroba, pilot of the Sable Starlight Raider Custom. "Just be grateful that we can go out at all."

"I still can't believe that you're a mecha pilot," grumbled Hikaru, testing his weight on the leg and finding it satisfactory. "All this time, I thought you were going to cram school."

Haruka looked up from her book. "All this time, I thought you were a salaryman or something. Nope, you've been stalking college students. I wish that were my job."

"You forget the ton of paperwork," said Hikaru. "And they wouldn't let you stalk hot guys. We're an all male team."

There was a pause. Midori put down her Final Fantasy game. "Kashima is right," said Midori Kamiya, pilot of the Verdant Luster Wizard Custom. "If we couldn't even beat the random encounters, how can we expect to beat the boss? We need to do some grinding."

"And what, fight more random encounters?" said Rei, standing up. "They decimated us last time! There's no way-"

Victoria 'Vicky/Becky' Wednesday, pilot of the Magenta Giga Meteor Custom and token non Japanese person, grabbed Rei by the shoulder. "Don't say we can't do it. We've fought Cyber Hell for years. We can take down some self proclaimed Dark Lord."

Her best friend's confidence soothed Rei. She sat down.

"Show of confidence aside, you really should leave this to us," said Kazuya.

Julius whistled. "Hit the wrong button there, kid."

Daisuke and Rei both tried to grab Kazuya by the shirt collar, but failed in their attempt at drama when they crashed into each other. Then they compromised by moving back and just yelling at him.

"We can't just-"

"Don't treat us like-"

"I can't help you get stronger," said Kazuya, head lowered. "You use robots as your weapons. I can give you a better sword or a better gun, or train you better in slashing or shooting. I can't upgrade your robots, and I can't make you better at using those robots."

"And if you lost against those monsters back there, there's not much you can do to help," said Naoki. "At most, you can take them by surprise or gang up on them. But since you're piloting giant robots, you'd only be able to sneak up on really stupid monsters."

Daisuke and Rei sat down again, still glaring. Then Mina said, "Can't you train them how to fight hand to hard from scratch? I mean, we're going to be here for a while anyways."

Kazuya blinked. "That is… the most obvious solution that I never would have thought of."

"But we can't waste time!" protested Daisuke. "We need to kill-"

"If you don't agree to be trained, then we'll stop bailing you out," said Naoki.

Midori gaped at Naoki. "You're a heartless demon."

"I don't recall losing my heart when I became a demon," said Naoki. "Then again, I've been stabbed where it should be a couple of times. Still kicking."

"It will take a long time for you to get strong enough to face the most powerful monsters he controls, yes," said Kazuya. "But leave those to us. Being able to take down medium level demons if you work together is good enough."

Julius broke out of his stupor. "If you choose to fight monsters, you should know that you're risking your life," he said. "We can't keep you safe and kill monsters at the same time. My way of protecting others is running from enemies and killing the boss, not guarding civilians or exterminating monsters."

All five members just stared at him. "You do realize that we've been fighting cyborgs for three years?" said Midori. "I was in middle school when I started. We've been risking our lives ever since."

"Yes, but you're not in your robots anymore," said Julius. "If you get hit once, you're very likely to die."

"So lesson number one should be on how to dodge or how to make your enemy miss," said Naoki. "Although, come to think of it, how the hell did we not notice giant robot battles for three years?"

"It's actually been going on for decades," corrected Midori. "We're just the latest batch of pilots."

"FALCON covers it up," said Rei. "Just take our word for it."

"We need a plan," said Mina. "We don't know where the enemy is hiding."

"He's actually thinking," said Julius. "Random attacks, obvious base of operations abandoned, bombing our base as his first act, cutting off communications, and no large symbol of power erected. Not what you would expect of an evil overlord."

"More like the act of a military group," said Kazuya. "And still not the worst experience I had with someone from the American military."

"You have a weird life," said Midori.

"You're not one to talk," retorted Kazuya casually.

Next to Kazuya, a small but bright light turned on. "Someone's coming," he said, picking up his trusty M134 Minigun and edging towards the door. Everyone else moved so that they could not be seen from the door.

The window to the Agency's bunker slid open, revealing Soma, Yoko, and Arikado.

"Halt," said Kazuya, pointing his gun though the slot. "Soma, how do you spell Dracula's real name? Yoko, who were the youngest people to fight against Dracula, and how old were they? Arikado… I don't know you. Back me up, Julius?"

Behind him, Julius asked Arikado, "Arikado, what was Trevor's favorite color?"

Soma spelled Mathias Cronqvist's name correctly, and Yoko stated that both Maria Renard and Carrie Fernandez were twelve. Arikado said that Trevor liked greenish brown.

"Kazuya, how old are you really?" asked Soma.

Kazuya opened his mouth to answer, but then said, "You don't know that. You're just trying to get the answer out of me, aren't you?"

"Fine," said Soma. "Kazuya, what were the first words you said to me when we met?"

"Hello, I'm Kazuya, don't touch my computer and we'll get along just fine," said Kazuya, lowering his gun. Yoko lowered her arms, and Soma and Arikado made their swords vanish. In a lower voice, he added while opening the metal door, "I'm sixty-seven, by the way."

"What was that?"

"Good hunting?" asked Naoki.

Yoko shrugged. "Killed plenty of them. But they just keep coming."

"They don't look like much at first, but they're not dumb and they use every dirty trick they can," said Naoki. "You should have seen all the times I thought I could thrash a horde of demons weaker than me, but we almost all died because they caught me off guard or blinded me or I just did something stupid."

"Any luck with finding the base?" asked Julius.

Soma shook his head. "None of the Innocent Devils let me Dominate them. They're all loyal to Hammer. We're going to have to do this the old fashioned way."

The spies nodded shakily. "It's not like they know what we look like, so it should be fine, right?" said Hikaru.

"Not to mention that we've gotten better at this," said Saitou.

"I'll send out my demons," said Kazuya.

"Soma, you can summon the monsters under your control, right?" said Mina.

Soma nodded. "I'll try the ones that look like animals. Student Witch, Witch, all the Bat ones."

"We have food," said Arikado, holding up a couple of pizzas and a bag of groceries.

"Pizza? Awesome!" said Kazuya. When everyone stared at him, he said, "Hey, the 'pizza loving hacker' stereotype is true. Even if stereotypical hackers don't hack by summoning demons to threaten people into giving them their passwords."

The remnants of the Agency, a witch, the FALCON pilots, and the most powerful demon summoner, vampire hunter, vampire lord, half vampire, and demon, and vampire lord's girlfriend all sat inside the Agency's basement and ate their fast food.

"Who would have thought that Hammer of all people would become drunk on the power the Innocent Devils gave him and declare himself the Dark Lord?" said Soma, drinking apple soda.

"He's the Dread Lord, remember?" said Mina. "I told him that he couldn't be the Dark Lord; we already established the requirements, and he didn't fit them."

"Whatever," said Soma.

"It doesn't matter," growled Rei. "We need to get stronger! We need to train!"

"All right, let's start tomorrow," said Kazuya.

X

Seventeen hours ago, the rest of the Agency was still standing. Hammer had called a meeting at his shop.

However, what they found there was a den of Innocent Devils and a cell phone.

"So you're finally here, eh?" said Hammer's voice from the phone. "Good. I would like to announce that I am going to take over the world."

There was a really long, awkward pause. "What?" said Julius.

"I am taking over the world with the Innocent Devils," said Hammer. "I have an entire legion of demons at my command. What did you think I was going to do?"

"I don't know, go to college and try to live a productive life like the rest of us?" said Kazuya.

Mina turned to him. "Why are you here, anyways?"

"I thought I was a part of the group," said Kazuya. "I brought snacks."

Hammer coughed. "So now I am the Dark L-"

"No you're not," said Mina. "We've already established that the Dark Lord needs to have Dracula's power, or at least power like it or greater. Having power over demons doesn't make you the Dark Lord."

"Is it copyrighted?" said Yoko. "Because I don't think you can copyright that name."

"It might as well be," said Julius.

"Fine then," said Hammer. "I declare myself King of Evil!"

"That's jumping the gun a little," said Julius. "I don't think you've done enough evil acts to take that name."

"How about Dread Lord?"

"A bit Discworld-y, but that works," said Soma.

Hammer coughed over the phone. "In that case… I declare myself the Dread Lord Malleus! Now, die!"

The Innocent Devils struck. Hammer's former friends (and Kazuya) managed to defeat them all, but Hammer had gotten away.

When Julius had called the Agency for backup, the line was dead. He then called Arikado, who informed them that the local headquarters were bombed. He had survived, but not everyone was as fortunate.

Across the city, they had found that the police stations were bombed as well. Banks were robbed, not only by demons but by opportunistic criminals.

Arikado had called them to the Agency's bunker to discuss what was to be done about Hammer. The consensus was that Hammer was a threat to be dealt with. No one was too happy about it, but Kazuya and Naoki were unusually adamant. Arikado wavered a little, in memory of Richter, but ultimately decided that it would be worse to let him go free.

They spent the night sleeping in the bunker fitfully.

X

Two days later, Saitou came back to base with a crate of ice cream and whiskey and a huge grin on his face. "Guess what? Hammer is dead!"

Kazuya, Yoko, Mina, Soma, and Julius stopped their poker game. "What did you say?" said Julius.

"Hammer is… dead," said Saitou, realizing that he was talking to the deceased's former friends. "I killed him today."

"What?!" said Daisuke and Rei.

"How?" said Mina, tears welling up despite herself.

"Let it out," said Kazuya. "Cry or laugh. He's a horrible person but also your old friend. If you don't know what to do, it just means that you're human. Don't feel bad about your own emotions."

"I caught him while he was eating a bowl of ramen," said Saitou. "I bought a baseball bat and bashed his head in on the way out."

There was an awkward pause. "I know that it's sad that a fellow human being died today, but WOW that was anticlimactic," said Becky.

"Shouldn't we have all gotten sick of Kazuya's training methods and struck out on our own, only to fail, and then learn the value of humility?" said Midori.

"Or I'd think that since I'm super strong that I'd be fine on my own, and since both me and Kazuya hate groups, we'd try to raid the base and somehow fail as well," said Naoki.

"Or all of us would think that we'd be fine against this enemy on our own, but then we all fail and then we learn the value of trust and teamwork," said Mina, still crying.

"If this were a movie, then I'd temporarily become Dracula early on, and I'd angst about it for half the run time before gaining control and freely using his power with my own love," said Soma, curled up in the fetal position. "And then I would come to terms with my power instead of hating it."

"Come on, if this were a movie, then we'd be the red shirts," said Hikaru.

"And I'd be the stupid guy who thinks that he can control demons when he really can't," said Kazuya. "I'd die in the opening sequence."

"And I'd die because I'm the mentor figure," said Julius, looking the happiest he had been in days.

"I guess I'd be the token competent female, but since the writers don't know how to write women, I'd just be pining and moaning all the time," said Yoko. "Or I'd die to motivate someone else."

"Does anyone else think that we should at least have gotten to the sequence where we tell each other about our pasts and our secrets because we won't survive otherwise?" said Naoki.

"Let's be realistic here," said Mina, sniffling. "Hammer is a normal human. One with military training, but human nonetheless. We have the world's strongest vampire hunter, the reincarnation of the vampire king, a powerful witch, a bunch of giant mecha pilots, and whatever you guys are. All Hammer has on his side is lots of guns and monsters. Do you really expect him to survive for long against us?"

There was a pause, interrupted by sobbing.

"So… can we skip to the sequence where we bare our hearts to each other?" said Naoki.

Kazuya looked at the vampire hunters with sympathy. "Be honest with yourselves. Do you really think Hammer was blameless in all this? He stabbed you in the back."

"HEY!" shouted Leon, heard only by Naoki, Soma, and Arikado. "Sorry I haven't said anything in a while. I've been trying to snoop out Hammer's location. Hello, Adrian, I haven't seen you since you and Maria left for the Americas. Did you dye your hair again? Or is black your natural color? You look very handsome, by the way. Yes, I am fussing over you. I know that you are several centuries old, but I'm not that much younger than your father. Relatively speaking. And even though Mathias and I were estranged, and so are you, I was still his best friend. Does that make me your honorary uncle? Or godfather? If, well, Mathias didn't renounce God. I really do wish I could have met you earlier."

Arikado just stared at Leon, for once completely taken aback.

"Leon's talking again," said Soma, choking a bit. "He's the ghost of Julius's ancestor. Only Naoki and I… and I guess Arikado can see him. Are you talking about Maria Renard the twelve year old girl?"

"Anyways, you do realize that just because Hammer is dead, it doesn't mean that the city is still safe. You still have to deal with the demons he created. Hector must be turning in his grave."

"Let's celebrate first," said Soma. "What kind of ice cream did you bring?"

Saitou distributed the ice cream. He paused when he passed a bowl to Arikado. "Also… um, sir?"

"Yes?" said Arikado.

"I kind of committed murder in broad daylight. Could you help me not go to jail?"

TO BE CONTINUED!

Yes, I know that Hammer becoming evil is very OOC. I'm sorry. I don't have to guts to make him really evil, but my solution of killing him is pretty harsh. He'll be better in the next chapter. I promise.

The idea for self repairing robots came from Bob and George. Either Roll or Proto Man said that Doctor Light was fed up with fixing his robots every time they got into a fight, so he made them so that they could repair themselves.

The five pilots have their names related to color. The Hi in Daisuke Higawa means crimson, the Aoi in Rei Aoiyama is blue, the Kuro in Haruka Kuroba means black, and Midori means green. Kamiya was the first Japanese surname I could think of, and came from Tai and Kari Kamiya of Digimon. Guess where I got Victoria Wednesday's name from. Hint: her color is pink.