Chapter 36: V is for Vendetta

About three weeks had passed since Gavin had given Captain America a life saving bone marrow transfusion and Bast getting a job from Sampson Marks to help him with his practice as a mutant physician, while simultaneously getting needed experience for her medical degree. After everything that happened, everyone had finally gotten a chance to settle down and get back to life as usual at the institute.

Bast had taken up most of her free time spending time with Kai and Chelsea, and talking with both Beast and Ororo. (The woman had taken a strong liking to the two ever since they met.) And had been spending quite a bit of time sitting in on talks about humanity and cultures with them, the professor and Jean. While Gavin was still doing his odd training regimen after recovering from his surgery.

At the current moment, though, the catwoman and Chelsea were quietly talking in one of the living rooms in the mansion late at night, Bast with a cup of tea, and Chelsea with her usual beer.

"And then, the bitch says to me 'You should really cut back on your alcohol intake. it's a sign of dependence'." said Chelsea mocking a British accent.

"Hm, she could be right you know." Bast countered, sipping her tea.

"No, no no. Me indulging in booze is me making use of my freedom. I deserve to be spoiled." The blonde retorted.

"You should really find a better hobby. Get a job or something." Her cat-like friend stated. "I mean I did, and I didn't have to pimp myself out to earn a quick buck."

"Watch it Kitty Cat. You might be my friend, but that won't stop me from kicking ya." Chelsea warned.

"I'd like to see you try." Bast sneered playfully.

"Speaking of work, how were you able to avert getting caught by HYDRA all that time?" She asked.

"Well, I got into the loop of different shelters. I gave my colleagues the lie that my abuser found me and I needed to go to another branch. It worked pretty well but..." She stopped her cat-like ears twitching as she got up and walked towards the doorway as she called up towards the stairs. "Gavin? What are you doing up?"

The boy jumped down from the banister right in front of her, landing in a silent crouch. "Super hearing, I forgot you also have that."

"Yes, well, you have a very specific footstep." Bast shrugged.

"I was hoping you ladies could tell me a few things." The boy told them, adjusting the duffel bag he currently had on his person, which brought the two women's attention to what he was wearing. Which was the same outfit he used as a second costume, which was: a pair of grey pants, black ninja sandals, and a grey shirt that was all covered over by a long-flappy sleeved black cloak with a high collar that stretched around his entire neck area and covered his mouth. The cloak itself had several red bats on it which were outlined in white.

"About what?" Bast asked.

"Where the HYDRA base where you were held is." The boy answered.

"Why do you want to know?" Chelsea asked.

"I wanna pay them a visit." He told the two women.

This caused them to look at him as if he were crazy. "WHAT?!" They nearly yelled.

"You heard me, I'm gonna go to where they are, hunt everyone who was responsible down, and give them the justice they so richly deserve, and maybe destroy the bases while releasing all the subjects while I'm at it." Gavin told them. "Then I'm gonna go after that Rowner guy and drag him back here so you and the rest of your friends can exact the revenge you so rightly deserve."

"You're one kid. How the HELL are you planning on doing this?" Chelsea snapped.

Gavin looked at her coldly. "Don't underestimate me, Marks."

"Underestimate you? Gavin, we're being realistic. There's no way you can do that all on your own." Bast said vexedly. "They've been around since the 40's and still haven't been taken down by any government or special forces."

"Yeah, well maybe I'm different." He scoffed. "I'm a mutant who has god level powers after all."

Chelsea, turning her arms draconic, suddenly lifting him up by the hem of the shirt, claws puncturing the fabric. "Listen up, punk. I don't care how powerful you think you are. You are not, I repeat, not going after them." She slammed his back into the wall. "Have I made myself clear?!"

"Put. Me. Down." Gavin hissed, showing off his fangs in a snarl.

"AM I CLEAR GAVIN?!" She nearly yelled eyes full of a mix of anger and concern. "Listen to people who know what they are capable of. You can't do this on your own! And I will do everything in my power to make sure you don't fucking leave to pursue this suicide mission."

Gavin simply made his eyes flash red as he made his sword separate her from him. Taking a deep breath he called the sword back and sheathed it.

"You're wrong. Need I remind you that it took you, Logan, Rogue, and both the Professor and Jean to take me down?" He stated. "If it took five powerful mutants to take me down, how can a group of Nazi remnants beat me?" He then sighed. "Besides, I've been training for this ever since I overheard your conversation about your 'tattoo'."

Chelsea looked at him angrily, but she was kept from protesting when Gavin put the tip of his sword in her face.

"If you really knew me you'd know that I don't let anyone hurt the ones I love. And when they do, I don't let it go unpunished. I don't let go of grudges, and I'm a proactive thinker." He told her.

"What do you mean?" Bast asked.

"If I don't do something they may come after us sooner or later and we'll all have to go through this again, all this work, wasted. Is that what you want? To just sit in complacency and have them come for us? Or do you want to stop them before it happens?" He asked, before turning to Chelsea. "Besides, Don't you wanna see your friends again? Don't you want to see HYDRA burn? Don't you want to get revenge on you-know-who?"

"Our friends are dead, and if not, might as well be." The dragoness snarled.

"She's right. We know Marcus died last time he faced them. After he escaped, there's no way they would have let him live. He was too dangerous, too much of a liability." Bast said quietly, looking up with her yellow cat-like eyes at Gavin, holding a steady gaze. "And Roman... he might as well be dead. Once they brainwash a subject they're merely a husk of a person."

"You don't know that." Gavin countered. "We could save him. Get him help."

"You don't get it, kid." Chelsea chastised, her eyes narrowing. "We aren't getting them back. Ever. Even if by some miracle you are able to find Roman, it won't be him anymore. He'll just be another soldier."

"Marks have some faith." The pseudo vampire told her.

"Don't talk to be about fucking faith and hope!" She roared.

"Why don't you believe in me?! Why do you keep treating me like a child?!" Gavin hissed.

She gripped him by the shoulders, shaking him. "Because you are one! And we can't lose you! … I can't lose you!"

Gavin just looked at her coldly. "So that's it? You're just going to give up? Psh, I knew it. You're faithless. I should have never come to you." He said, forcing himself from her grip.

"Gavin, you can't do this, you'll probably be killed and if you don't you might-" Chelsea tried to protest further.

"Shut up." He hissed. "You don't get it, I don't plan on taking down the whole goddamn organization, I plan on starting a chain of events that will lead to their demise."

"What do you mean?" Bast asked.

"I'm gonna focus my strikes on their mutant weapon sections exclusively, cripple it, make them have to drop their resources there and focus on other things. Then I'm gonna hunt down two or three of their higher ups, kill them, and make it look like they were killed by vampires."

"Wait, why?" Chelsea questioned.

"Because according to Logan and Captain America, HYDRA has an old grudge against the actual Count Dracula, and if I can make them start a war with the vampires..." The pseudo vampire stated.

"They'd tear themselves apart from the resulting carnage and power vacuum..." Bast finished.

"Exactly." Gavin nodded before turning to them. "Do you see now? I have a plan, I can DO this, I can bring your friends back, I can help you guys try and find peace!" He then walked over to Chelsea and hugged her tightly. "Chelsea, please, let me do this for you, I'm begging you... Please."

The dragoness glared at him, arms crossed. "Gavin. No."

"You talk about how much you hate them. What you'd do when you get revenge. So why not?" Gavin asked incredulously. "They deserve to fall, to feel nothing but unending pain."

"I told you. We can't lose you, especially me." She looked down at her feet. "Gav, I've lost so many people. I can't lose you too. You're like another brother to me. I can't condone anything that gets you hurt. This discussion is over." She said sternly as she began to walk away.

The boy watched her, anger showing on his face. "Bast? Could you help me?"

"... It's against my better judgement, but if you think you can do it." She sighed.

"Thank you." Gavin said, hugging her happily.

"Just be careful kid." The cat woman told him. "But.. how do you plan on saving Marcus and Romano if you can find them?"

"You know Scott? He and his brother were brainwashed by one of our enemies, Magneto, and I was able to beat it out of them. So I'll just do that." Gavin shrugged.

"... I'm not even going to ask." Bast said, shaking her head.

"So where was the base?" The boy questioned.

"The alps, way up there." She told him. "It was called department H-11."

"Great, now I can ask around." Gavin smirked.

"But just know, if you do this, you're on your own." The catwoman told him.

"Fine by me, having anyone else with me would just slow me down anyway." The pseudo vampire shrugged. With that, he shouldered his duffel bag and left the Institute for his first destination: the SHIELD aerial stronghold known as the Helicarrier.

(Later)

-SHIELD Helicarrier, hours later-

After finally being able to track down the flying ship's whereabouts, Gavin was able to get on it by using his smoke transformation to ride several updrafts to the main deck. Though once on the Helicarrier, Gavin ended up standing face to eyepatch in front of Nick Fury, who glared at him. The boy had just boarded the ship to try and get info he needed.

"What are you doing here, kid?" Fury asked.

"I'm here to get info on a specific sect of HYDRA. One that I intend to destroy." Gavin told him.

"By yourself?" The man questioned.

"Yep." The boy nodded.

"... I hesitate to ask, but why are you doing this kid? This doesn't make any sense to me." Fury asked again and he rubbed his forehead.

"Why does anyone do anything? Sheer absolute boredom!" The boy said as he raised his arms.

The cycloptic man just sighed. "Because you're bored, you plan to destroy a HYDRA base?" Fury asked, trying to make sense of what the mutant was asking him. "One hell of a way to spend an afternoon I'll tell you that. Should I also throw in our entire alien catalogue as well?"

"I mean if you'd like to." Gavin shrugged.

Fury shook his head at the boy. "Listen kid, there's no way I'm giving you such sensitive material. I don't care who you are or what you say your business is, you're not getting our intel."

Gavin just sighed. "I was hoping we could end this peacefully, but it seems that I'm just going to have to do this the hard way." He said this as his hand slowly went down to his sword.

"If you think fighting your way through here is going to work, it won't." Fury told him as he reached for his gun.

"Who said anything about fighting?" The boy asked before he threw his hat at Fury's face to distract him and before the man could react Gavin rushed in and elbowed him in the stomach. Then he moved behind him and got him in a headlock.

"Sorry Fury, but for the sake of my friends, my family and all the other mutants HYDRA hasn't gotten to yet, I have to do this. Just know it's nothing personal." The boy told the man as he slowly started to go unconscious.

Once fury was unconscious, Gavin threw him over his shoulder and then started walking towards the Helicarrier main bay, only to be stopped by the appearance of eight people.

One was a man in some sort of high tech red and gold armor, who he recognized as Iron Man. Another was a man in some sort of combat getup with a bow and arrow, who Gavin assumed was Hawkeye. A woman with red hair who was in a tight black leather body suit that had a red hourglass as a belt buckle, and looked a lot like Scarlett Johansson the Black Widow. One was a man in some sort of Viking armor wielding a hammer, and looked like Chris Hemingswoth, Thor. The other was a robot of some sort with a red and green paint job, Vision. A giant mass of angry green muscle, and kinda looked like Mark Ruffalo, the Hulk. A tiny man who rested on Hulks shoulder, Ant Man (Scott Lang). And finally Captain America.

"What the-?" The pseudo vampire said in surprise. "What are the Avengers doing here?"

"We practically live here, pipsqueak," Tony (who sounded oddly like Robert Downey Jr.) said, stepping forward and raising his hand. "Aaaand you didn't get an invitation from the looks of things." He charges up his thermal shooters, aiming directly at the boy, only for him to vanish in a cloud of smoke.

"What the hell?" Hawkeye questioned in confusion.

"This is the doing of my brother Loki!" Thor barked, raising his hammer. "That scoundrel he-"

"That isn't Loki, your brother is too smart to run away." Natasha said, pulling his hammer hand down. "He'd try to blend in."

"Then what did he just do?" Tony asked as he scanned his surroundings. Right at that moment, Gavin appeared behind him.

"Bazinga." The boy said before he did a powerful palm strike to the man's back. The jarheaded scientist grunted as he was sent flying into a wall. Black Widow threw a punch at him but the boy just blocked it before he kicked her back.

Thor was next, who struck with his hammer, only to be blocked by Bloodfallen as Gavin pulled it out of its sheath using his smoke-telekinesis move.

"How can a blade like this be strong enough to block my hammer?!" The Norse Avenger asked in disbelief.

"Because it's made out of Adamantium, false god." The boy hissed before he slashed at the god of thunder and jumped back. "Not that this hasn't been fun guys, but I gotta Vendetta to settle so, later." With that he turned to smoke and snuck into the helicarrier's air vents, it was time to get what he came for.

As soon as he arrived at the ship's mainframe, he immediately pulled out a disc from his duffel bag. "Let's do dis like Buddhist." He smirked as he inserted the disc into the main slot and started downloading all the needed data. "Oooh snap, yeah!" He smiled as the disc Arcade gave him did its thing. "Awww yeah, come to papa." He smiled as the info finished downloading and allowed him to take the disc.

After that he started to head back to the exit, but he was seemingly cut off by Hawkeye and Black Widow.

"Oh for the love of- Will you guys knock it off?" The pseudo vampire groaned as Hawkeye pointed his bow at him.

"Make this easy on yourself and surrender." The archer ordered.

"First off: Fuck you. And second off: You do realize that if you stop me from taking HYDRA down, you're basically letting them do whatever they want to mutants like me, right?" The boy asked. "Things that are but are not limited to: Torture, butchery, being forced to live in cages, rape, psychological torment, brainwashing, being forced to fight fellow mutants to the death, and being turned into breeding stock. Oh, and I also heard that they use the corpses to feed the prisoners."

As he listed off what HYDRA had done, the two Avengers in front of him began looking more disturbed with each one. The one about corpses being used to feed the prisoners was the one that really hit home, and reminded them of HYDRA's Nazi heritage.

"And how exactly do you plan on taking them down?" Widow questioned.

"Well I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." Gavin told her.

"You say that like you'd actually go through with it." Hawkeye noted, his bow lowered.

"Guess you'll never know." The boy shrugged before he whipped out his pistols and shot at them, not aiming to hit, but distract, luckily it worked and he was able to disappear into the air vents again. The two Avengers cursed before they darted off to try and find him again.

Once he exited the vents, he found that he was in the cargo hold, and that the two Avengers waiting for him were Hulk and Thor.

"... I don't suppose I could politely ask you to let me leave, could I?" He asked.

Hulk cracked his knuckles and popped his neck from side to side, grinning. Thor twirled his hammer and developed a smirk of his own.

"No, I don't think so. Hulk?" The god of thunder asked his large green friend, causing Gavin to note that he didn't just look like Chris Hemingsworth, he actually talked like him too.

"Hulk smash smokey bat!" The green beast growled before he charged forward.

"Alright, you wanna play with a real god? Fine, let's play!" Gavin yelled as he charged and caught both of Hulk's fists, causing a pair of shockwaves to occur as the two men's arms shook as they pushed against each other.

The two muscle freaks growled as they tried to overpower one another while they glared into each other's eyes. Suddenly, Gavin turned into smoke, causing the gamma giant to stumble from the sudden lack of support.

Next, the pseudo vampire jumped on the giant man's back and with a loud hiss, he sunk his fangs into the back of Hulk's neck, slowly draining his vitality. Hulk groaned as he tried to stay upright, but couldn't thanks to his vitality being stolen. Slowly, but surely, he began to revert back to Bruce Banner. Once the pseudo vampire's work was done, he released the unconscious scientist from his maw and turned to Thor, who had a shocked look on his face.

"And before you ask, no I'm not an actual vampire. I'm just a mutant." The boy said as he straightened up and turned back to the unconscious Bruce. "Wow, Bobby was right. He really does look like Mark Ruffalo."

"What do you intend to do with that disc in your hand, boy?" Thor questioned, hammer at the ready.

"Simple: Kill HYDRA." Gavin said as he dodged Mjolnir as it flew by him, but was knocked into a wall as a tiny man turned big again after jumping off the hammer and punching him in the jaw.

The sword using teenager grunted as he staggered slightly before he regained his bearings and glared at Ant Man. "Seriously? That's the attack method you're going with?" He questioned.

"Eh, just something I came up with on the fly." Scott Lang shrugged as he hopped in place in a manner similar to a boxer.

Gavin sighed as he got Bloodfallen in the air with his smoke-telekinesis. Raising a finger up he started moving it around like a mistro would, making the sword attack on its own.

Ant Man was able to dodge most of the attacks, but due to how proficient Gavin was at this technique due to him constantly training with it for countless hours, he wasn't able to dodge all of them and ended up getting cut twice, once on his left arm and once on his side.

Thor was the next to attack, and just like before, Gavin stopped the god's legendary hammer with his sword, causing sparks to fly from the clash.

"An Omega level mutant vs an Actual Norse god, this should be interesting." Gavin smirked.

"Then let's see what the outcome will be." Thor agreed before recalling Mjolnir and charging forward.

As the two clashed, Thor got in a solid blow to the boy's head, causing it to spin completely around and make him stumble before falling over, presumably dead.

But what little worry the man had was dashed when the pseudo vampire got up and snapped his head back into place before shaking his head to clear it and blinking several times. "Well… That was different." He mused.

"What in the name of Asgard are you?" The blonde asked in shock.

Gavin smirked as he moved quickly and got behind him while reeling his arm back. "Your worst nightmare." He said before punching the man between the eyes and sending him crashing through a wall and disappearing into the vents again.

Once he was out he was finally on the main deck again, but now he had Captain America, Iron Man and Fury in his way.

"Gavin, look, I want HYDRA to burn and be nothing more than an immensely unpleasant memory as much as the next guy, but do you really believe that this is the way to go about it?" Nick asked with a sigh.

"Without a doubt." The boy said while stepping forward before Iron Man rose his hand, his repulser igniting. "That didn't exactly work before. What makes you think it will now?" He questioned the CEO.

"Mainly because I reconfigured it to track the molecular structure of your smoke ability." The man stated. His answer caused Gavin to blink owlishly for a moment.

"... Okay, I'll give you that one." The sword user conceded. He was actually a little impressed at how fast Tony was able to adapt.

Captain America then decided to step in. "Hold it, Tony. This kid saved my life, and I don't think we should be spitting in his face by pointing lasers at him." The super soldier said.

"Speaking of Cap." Gavin piped up. "I do believe that would mean you owe me a few favors, wouldn't it? See, I'm new to that kinda thing, it's not really my style." He added.

The First Avenger looked at him before he sighed. "Yeah, I guess it really does mean I owe you for that." He replied.

"Well then how about this? You guys let me go, and in exchange I'll let you take all the credit after I destroy HYDRA. And then we'll call it even… For now at least." The boy offered.

The trio looked at each other silently, having a mental discussion. They remained like this for just under a minute before they turned back to him.

"Alright, fine. Just make sure you stay safe out there, okay?" The SHIELD director finally replied. "Your mom will chew my head off if I let you get yourself hurt."

"Oh please, like they'd be able to hurt me." The boy laughed as he walked towards the edge of the ship. "Well, it was fun guys, but I got a schedule to keep so, later!" He said before he leaned backwards and dropped off the helicarrier. "BONZAIIIII!" He yelled as he dropped.

Fury, Steve and Tony collectively sighed tiredly. They knew the kid would be something else, but he freaking planned it out from the beginning! The eyepatch wearing man silently hoped Amanda didn't find out about this somehow.

"Now what?" Steve asked.

"I'm going to make a call." Fury said as he dialed his phone. "Deputy Director Maria Hill, this is Director Fury. I need you to get me Agents Omni and Cthulhu, now."

"Roger that, Director Fury. I'll send them your way." The Deputy Director replied.

(Elsewhere)

Back at the Institute, everyone woke up the next morning to find Gavin was missing, which prompted everyone to immediately start going into panic mode.

"Where the hell did he go?!" Lance shouted amongst the panic.

"Ah don't know!" Rogue replied frantically.

"Gavin? Are you in here?" Kurt called as he peered into the boy's coffin. "No, he's not here."

"Uh, guys?" Kitty called nervously. "I think you better take a look at this." She was holding a large cardboard billboard with pictures, pins and strings all over it.

"Why does he have a forensics board?" Jean wondered. "Wait… It's not a forensics board, it's a hit list of targets and connections!" She said in realization and alarm.

"Who are the people he's targeting?" Scott questioned.

"If I had to guess, they're members of HYDRA." Devin said. The kids then brought their findings to the instructors, including a small journal Gavin kept to track his training progress, and also mentioned that there was a second one that had his plan written down in detail hidden somewhere in his room.

Xavier looked at everything in surprise. "He's… Planned this thoroughly. From these notes I can conclude that he's been working on this 'Vampyr's Vendetta' for weeks, if not months, right under our noses."

"Should we go after him?" Evan asked, only for the headmaster to shake his head.

"No. Not only do we not know where he is at the moment, we would more than likely be subdued before he makes his getaway." He replied before he sighed. "As much as I hate to say it, he's out of our reach for the time being." He added tiredly.

"... At least try to keep track of his movements through Cerebro." Devin sighed in defeat.

Chelsea, meanwhile, was absolutely furious. Her nostrils flared as smoke billowed out while she tore one of the many notebooks they found in half, her eyes turning draconic and her scales and teeth started to show.

"I told him not to fucking go, and what does he do?! The exact fucking opposite!" She growled angrily.

"Wait, you knew?! Why didn't you say anything?!" Rogue snapped at her angrily.

"I tried to dissuade him from going, but he would not listen! He just wouldn't let it fucking go!" She snapped back before she punched the wall. She then sighed as her dragon features receded and tears started to flow. "My biggest regret right now is not putting up more of a fight." She said quietly.

Logan and her two friends started to comfort her as Devin sighed. "True to form, Gavin truly can't let go of a grudge." He then looked at the journal marking the progression of his brother's power boost. "And judging by how much his power has increased? I'd say it's safe to wager that all hell is going to break loose."

"Just how much has his power increased?" Ororo asked.

"Based on his estimates? Well over a thousand fold." The metal mutant explained. "He's increased every level to where they're as strong as the previous higher level. And level zero… He left it ambiguous."

Everyone sat or stood where they were in silence as they digested the information. Every one of his power levels was as strong as the previous one, and the final one is ambiguous? That sent a slight chill down their spines.

(Elsewhere)

Back in Fury's office, he sat in his chair and across from him were two agents dressed in typical SHIELD attire. One was a man, the other a young woman.

The man was twenty years old. He stood at 6'4" and had an angular face with forest green eyes and black hair with green streaks (from using too much hair gel). His body was extremely well toned from years of constant training from his parents, with a six pack and a runner's build to prove it. His uniform did nothing to hide his physique. This is Johan Sever, or Agent Omni, as he's called in SHIELD.

The woman was around eighteen and she was slightly shorter than the man at 5'9". She had brown hair and had silver-blue eyes, and had a hourglass figure with a heart shaped ass, a slim waist and semi wide hips, toned legs and thighs as well as slender and well built arms, and lastly a set of DD-cup breasts underneath her uniform, which hugged her body like a second skin. She got her figure from training alongside the man next to her under their parents. This is Katerina Sever, or Agent Cthulhu, as she goes by among her SHIELD peers and Johan's little sister.

"Alright you two, I called you here because I have a top priority mission for you." Fury stated.

"What's the mission?" Johan asked, his voice a deep baritone.

The man then pulled out a picture of Gavin in his current costume from the security footage. "This is Gavin Shirakumo, his code name is Vampyr, he's an Omega Level Mutant who is currently engaged in a one man war against our enemy No. 1 HYDRA."

"I'm sorry, did you just say that a kid who looks younger than me is fighting Hitler's dark legacy on his own?" Katerina asked, her voice deep, yet had a silky smoothness to it.

"I did." Their superior nodded. "He infiltrated the helicarrier, fought the Avengers, and managed to get away with information of where HYDRA'S bases are located along with several HVTs (high value targets) in the process." He explained.

"Do you want us to bring him in?" The green streaked man asked, only for Fury to shake his head.

"No, that'll only get you two killed. I'm sending you two to support him. I don't have complete faith in him, so I'd feel a bit more at ease if you two were helping him out." He replied.

The two siblings chuckled a bit. They were getting a shot at helping take HYDRA down? There was no way they were going to reject this opportunity.

"So we finally get to take a shot at those fucks? About time." Katerina said with a smirk.

"He was last seen heading towards an airport near DC." The man told them. "You should try heading him off there."

"Right." The two nodded.

(Later)

Gavin was walking down the streets of Washington DC towards its local airport, when he suddenly heard a woman scream several meters away. He immediately slipped on a black half mask over his mouth and rushed in its direction and found three men who had a woman cornered.

"Don't worry, we'll take good care of you." One of the degenerates said with a leer.

"No, please, don't." The woman croaked 'nervously'.

"I do believe that's enough, you three." Gavin spoke up, causing the men to turn to him.

"Who the hell are-" The first said before he was cut off by Gavin stabbing him in the stomach.

"I don't think I permitted you to speak." He growled before he cleaned his blade of the man's blood before turning to the other two.

The two men tried to shoot at him with their guns, but Gavin was too fast, moving like a blur he took off the second one's hand and then cut the others pants off. Grasping the third by the throat he looked him in the eye.

"W-What are you gonna do?" The degenerate asked fearfully.

"Spare the rod." Gavin said be knocking him out with the butt of his sword. He then turned to the last one, who was clutching his stump in pain. Picking him up in a similar fashion, he then sank his fangs into the man's neck and clamped down, which suddenly forced the man's soul to fly out. He then inhaled and caused the soul to fly down his awaiting maw. When he swallowed the man's soul, he shuddered in disgust.

"Okay, note to self: Rapist souls taste like shit." He said to himself. The woman he just saved, meanwhile, looked at him in shock and sligh amazement. Though when he mentioned the flavor of souls, she became a bit weirded out.

'This is a bit weirder than I would've liked.' Katerina thought.

Gavin then turned to her and sheathed his sword. "I can assure you, I mean you no harm." He told her reassuringly.

"I can tell by the way you took out those degenerates. Did you have to take what I assume was the soul of one of them, though?" She replied before asking a question.

The boy just shrugged. "Who are you anyway?" The woman asked.

"Who. Who is but the form, following the function of what. And what I am is a man in a mask." The boy told her, smirking under his mask.

"Well I can see that." Katerina said.

"Of course you can. I'm not doubting your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man, who he is." Gavin told her.

"Oh. Right." She nodded, getting up.

"But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lou of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatist persona?" He stated. After a moment of silence he opened his arms. "Viola! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by vicissitudes of fate." He stated while gesturing to himself. "But this visage, no veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi now vacant, vanished. Now this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vilified and has vowed to vanquish these venial and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the vicious voracious violation of volition!"

He yelled this as he drew his sword and slashed a V into a poster of the newest blockbuster 'Jurassic Park' that was hanging on the wall before sheathing it again, panting. "The only verdict is vengeance, a Vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such will soon one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous." He then turned to Katerina who seemed utterly gobsmacked by his use of vocabulary in his monologue. He then let out a giggle before continuing. "Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

"... Right." Katerina said dumbly 'I've never heard the letter V get used in rapid succession like that in my entire life.' She thought, feeling a little amazed. "Are you like a crazy person?" She asked.

"I'm sure they will say so." He told her before the sound of footsteps could be heard. Gavin turned around and saw a man in SHIELD attire standing there.

"Good work sis, we found him." The man said to Katerina before turning back to Gavin. "You must be Vampyr, I'm agent Omni of SHIELD, and that's my sister Agent Cthulhu."

Gavin raised an eyebrow before he turned back to the woman, who had discarded her trench coat, revealing her SHIELD uniform underneath. "As much as I'd rather leave right now, I must ask: Why is your codename Cthulhu?" He asked curiously.

"I can induce insanity and reform a person's mind from said insanity, as well as turn into this." She said before she transformed into a green skinned form with tentacles for hair, silver iris and pupiless eyes, a pair of wings, plump green lips, and now her figure was even sexier than before and gave her a H-cup rack as well as a bubble shaped ass. It also made her six foot four inch height increase to an impossible ten feet seven inch tall stature.

Gavin looked at her with wide, amazed eyes. "I am a fan of all things horror, and the fact that you're a genderbent version of HP Lovecraft's most notorious creature makes me very happy." He said, his voice carrying a touch of happiness in it, making her smile at his words. He then looked at Johan. "What can you do?" He asked.

"I have an adamantium skeleton, which I got by choice, I've got nanotech flowing throughout my body, and I have a chip in my brain that let's me shut down my pain receptors. Other than that, I'm the normal one out of the two of us." The green eyed man explained with a shrug as his sister turned back to normal.

'Okay this guy could be useful, her too…' The pseudo vampire thought. "Okay, but why are you guys here?" He asked.

"Fury wants us to help you out with the destruction of HYDRA. Since we don't like Hitler or his butt buddies either, we couldn't say no." Katerina replied with a shrug.

"The other reason is probably because he's scared of your mom wringing his neck." Johan joked with a smirk. "Oh, and by the way, our real names are Johan and Katerina Sever, it's nice to meet you."

"Gavin shirakumo." Gavin said, shaking his hand. "Say, you wouldn't happen to be the same Johan who my friend Bast was telling me about, would you?" He asked curiously.

"She told you about me?" The man asked in surprise, confirming Gavin's thoughts.

"Yeah, did she tell you that she was a mutant with cat powers who was captured by HYDRA?" Gavin asked.

"She's a cat mutant? … She was captured by HYDRA?!" He asked, the second question having an angry, protective growl in it. "One more reason to slaughter those pigs!" He growled.

"Good, now." Gavin then got his duffel bag and pulled out his laptop. After looking through the files, he found the base he was looking for: Department H-1, Mutant weapon's branch, Rio de janeiro, Brazil. "Alright you two, pack your bags, we're going to Brazil."

"Aw yeah, I've been itching to go to Brazil for ages!" Katerina cheered with a smile.

"Any HVTs there?" Johan asked.

"Just one, and that's this little shit stain." The pseudo vampire said as an image of a Chinese boy with orange eyes that looked like embers and his hair styled like Ivan Drago from Rocky popped up. "His name is Kuo Shang-Tsun, codename Mindfrayer, and he's number two on my top priority kill list."

"Who's number one?" The sole girl of the trio asked.

Gavin typed and then an image of Rowner appeared. "Victor Rowner, the head scientist of the Mutant Weapon's division. I have a very specific punishment for him before I bring him to my friends alive so they can kill him themselves."

"Well then, let's get moving, shall we?" Johan said, getting a nod from the others as they went to the airport.

(Elsewhere)

At the Institute, Xavier was at Cerebro and had just picked up Gavin's signature, as well as an unknown one.

"There you are, Gavin, and you've found a new friend it would seem." He said to himself. "Though, why are you going to Brazil, I wonder?"

With the three man army, they were currently lifting off in a private jet that Johan helped rent. They were headed south, straight for Rio, the first stop, on Vampyr's Vendetta…

Dragon Emperor0: And with that, the first chapter of the arc is done. Anyone recognize any of the references we put in?

ThermalsniperN7: If you guys don't get them, I will be confused. Anyway, let's give a warm welcome to Johan and Katerina Sever!

Dragon Emperor0: All credit of their creation goes to ThermalsniperN7, they are his glorious creations after all. Also guys be on the lookout for two more characters from Dragon X next chapter. They're very important.

ThermalsniperN7: Anyway, with all this said and done, be sure to join us next chapter for a huge bout of fighting and the complete, utter destruction of the sanity of various people.

Dragon Emperor0: Later! Also from here on out, this story will be rated M for mature audiences.