Chapter 37: A Card Game in Rio.
Gavin and Johan were currently in the seat room of a private jet that the latter managed to snag by pulling some strings. They were headed to Brazil, and Gavin was relaxing in his seat with his legs crossed and a glass of grape sparkler which had been set in a wine barrel to give it the taste of a really good Pinot Noir. All the while Johan was reading the newspaper and 'I Know You Want Me' by Pitbull was playing.
"So, where's my lil' sis?" The older man asked as he flipped a page.
"Oh, you know, she's downstairs." Gavin replied casually sipping his drink.
"Isn't that the cargo hold?" Johan asked with a raised eyebrow.
In the cargo hold, Katerina had somehow been stuffed in a box that, thankfully, had air holes in it.
"I have a fear of flying, coffins and tight places!" She whined as they flew.
Once they reached Rio, the plane flew past the famous Christ's Embrace statue. "Jesus wants a huuuug!" Gavin called as they flew by it.
After a while, they reached their intended hotel, the Sever siblings having changed into civilian clothing to avoid drawing attention. Gavin, meanwhile, seemingly preferred to keep his cloak on. Right now, they were busy checking in.
"We have a three bedroom, three bath room on the fifth floor available if you'd like to check in there." The receptionist said, who was a boy barely into his twenties.
"No, we'd like the penthouse." Gavin stated.
"But, Mr. Chevy Chase has that room reserved for his trip in two weeks." The man said.
"Heh, that's cute." Katerina smirked before she broke his mind down and rebuilt it to make him do and agree with whatever she says. "You want to give us the penthouse." She said hypnotically.
"I want to give you the penthouse." The receptionist said in a trance-like voice.
"You want to kick Chevy Chase out because he's an asshole." She continued.
"I want to kick Chevy Chase out because he's an asshole." He repeated.
"See, Gavin, this is the beauty of being me: I can make people into my slaves if I wish it and make them agree with anything I say if I want." The eldritch themed girl boasted.
"Like what? Give him the subconscious desire to want to sleep with you and be your obedient pet the whole time?" Gavin questioned.
"She did that once… I punished her for it." Johan inputted as he sent his sister a 'look'.
"It was worth it. Five men at once. Best. Fuck. Ever!" The woman sighed blissfully as they were led to their room. Johan just sighed at his sister's occasional perverted tendencies. Once they got there, they decided to chill for a bit.
Unbeknownst to them, someone was spying on them from behind some pillars. "This is alpha team captain, tell Alhambra that the Three Monsters have checked in, I repeat, the three monsters have checked in! Also, I'm picking the goddamn nicknames next time!" He hissed before he heard the door open and retreated behind the pillars.
"So, wanna go bar hopping with me so we can go scouting for intel?" Johan asked as he stood outside the room with Gavin at the other side of the door.
"No. Last time I did that, I ended up finding out I had a secret son nine months later." The boy told him.
"... Should I have my sister drive the mother insane?" He offered after a moment.
"Nah, I already got something in mind for her." Gavin said before closing the door. A moment later, he opened it again. "And before I forget, tell that douche behind the pillars to quit spying on me. It's awkward." He added, causing the spy to curse before running away.
"Will do." He nodded.
(Later)
At the Institute and a bar in Brazil, both the X-men and other residents, as well as Johan were watching a News report of a shooting that was happening at the hotel Gavin and Katerina were in right now.
"Shots have been fired at this hotel, currently the police are trying to detain the terrorists inside, which is a German-American girl and some Japanese Ozzy Osborn looking motherfucker doing a cosplay of Pain from Naruto." The reporter at the scene stated.
At the bar Johan was drinking at, he immediately spat out his drink at the TV in shock, getting everyone in the bar to look at him. Meanwhile, Chelsea was currently trying to get Gavin on the phone.
"Get him on the phone, I want him on the fucking phone!" She ordered Devin, who was scrambling to get his brother on the line.
Gavin suddenly heard his phone ring as he was talking to Katerina. "Hold on, I gotta take this." He said as he picked It up. "Yeh-llo?" He asked.
"What did you do?" The agitated dragoness questioned.
"Alright." He confessed. "But you can't be mad at me." He added after a beat passed.
"What. Did you do?" She snapped again.
"Alright. First off: I was minding my own business." He told his older sister figure simply.
"BULLSHIT!" The blondie yelled as she slammed her hand on the table.
"I WAS!" The pseudo vampire whined.
"And what exactly were you doing whilst you were, 'minding your own business'?" Chelsea asked sarcastically.
"Well, first off I was chillaxing in my room like a baller. And then these schmucks kicked down my door." Gavin began as he recalled how things got to where they are now. "Then one of them said-"
(Flashback)
"Get on your knees!" A SWAT officer ordered.
(Flashback switch)
"And I responded with-"
(Flashback)
"I'M NOT YOUR MOTHER LAST NIGHT!" Gavin yelled at them.
(Flashback switch)
"Aaaand they took exception to that." He said casually with a grin.
(Flashback)
The SWAT team gunned down Gavin to the point he's swiss cheese.
"But you know how that song and dance goes." He added.
Gavin heals from his wounds and decimates the majority of the SWAT team.
(Flashback switch)
"And I killed all but one of 'em." He finished with a grin.
"What happened to the last one?" The blonde asked after a moment of hesitation.
(Flashback)
The last SWAT officer whimpered pathetically before he aimed his pistol at his head and took his own life, Gavin's grin not even wavering.
(Flashback end)
"Pussed out like a bitch!" He replied in an amused tone.
"It's true ma'am, I was there the entire time. The SWAT team didn't exactly give us much of a choice." Katerina piped up.
"... Gavin, who is that?" Chelsea asked after a moment, having expected her little brother figure to be alone.
"That's Katerina Sever, she's the little sister of Bast's friend Johan. They're both SHIELD agents and are helping me with this." Gavin explained. "Her code name is Cthulhu, she's… Basically a female mutant version of Cthulhu." He added.
"Seriously? Well... Shit. I actually didn't expect any of that." Chelsea managed to say, feeling a little surprised that Bast's friend was not only helping Gavin, but his mutant little sister was on the bandwagon, too. "Would you mind putting her on the phone, please?" She asked.
"Really? You're just gonna-Okay, alright, fine. I know when I'm not wanted." The pseudo vampire huffed indignantly before he handed the phone to Katerina before walking out the room while singing an opera tune.
"Katerina, listen. Whatever you do, do not let Gavin leave that room under any circumstances." She ordered the insanity inducer.
"Um… Too late for that, he just left and I think I heard him say something about going for a walk." The girl said awkwardly, much to Chelsea's comical horror.
"NOOOOO!" Chelsea yelled as she shot up.
Meanwhile, Gavin was walking down the hallway as several SWAT officers were standing there nervously as the tune of 'A Foot Caught in a Sensual Seduction' played over the hotel speakers.
"Hey guys, how's your health plan?" He asked the SWAT team casually. They then started yelling and firing, prompting the boy to retaliate by pulling out his guns and started shooting. "APPARENTLY IT'S GREAT!" He yelled enthusiastically as bullets and laser rounds flew. As soon as they were all dead, the boy made his way toward the elevator, where a bunch of SWAT officers looked at him in fear.
Immediately he started shooting back at them and tore them to pieces with his sword and fangs as they formed a bloody pile at the back as he went to the first floor.
Meanwhile, at the Institute, everyone was trying to sort out their reactions to the situation. Chelsea had her hands on her forehead in irritation.
"Devin, be honest with me: How much are we looking at in terms of collateral?" She asked tiredly.
"In short…" He trailed off as he looked at the TV before turning back to her. "... The Vampyr amount." He replied gravely, causing her to slump over.
Gavin stepped out to the front of the hotel as two men flew up onto flagpoles, getting skewered in the process. That was when a portchegues man in a brown suit and fedora came stepping up.
"Well, if I'd known you would've done this, I would have gotten some union jacks for you." The man said, making Gavin notice that he had HYDRA styled metal playing cards on his person.
"You set all this up for me? You shouldn't have!" Gavin said in a 'flattered' tone.
"Yes, I am Tubalcain Alhambra, or The Dandyman." He introduced himself with a bow. "I may or may not have fed a lie to the local Policia that in exchange for your capture, I would give them immortality."
"And they fuckin' bought that shit?!" The pseudo vampire asked incredulously.
"Like discount bargain." The card man replied with a grin.
"You cheeky dick waffle!" Gavin said with a grin of his own. "So what's all this about? HYDRA not happy we're here?"
"Oh no, I simply wish to play a card game with you, Vampiro." Dandyman told him, holding up a card.
"What game are we talkin' here, 52 pickup?" The younger boy questioned.
"No, more like 52 CUTUP!" He replied before sending some cards at Gavin.
"Yoink!" The pseudo vampire yelped as he jumped away and turned over in midair.
"We'll at least he's just dodging, this time." Jean said nervously as the X-men watched the broadcast. Then they watched as he willed Bloodfallen to slice up people who got in the way.
"Oi, that was on purpose!" Chelsea exclaimed as she watched the feed.
Then Gavin landed in a crouch before Alahambra snapped his fingers. "You activated my trap card!" He said as a circle of the metal cards appeared around him.
"Oh boy!" Was all Gavin said before the cards exploded. Dandyman chuckled at his handiwork with a smirk before…
"Hey Dandy Dick!" A familiar voice called, causing his smirk to disappear as he turned around and saw Gavin somehow standing on the side of the hotel. "... You missed!" He said cheekily before running up the side of the building while making the curly 'woop woop woop'.
At the police encampment, a few officials were going over what to do with their immortality that they wouldn't get.
"So, what are you going to do with your immortality?" One asked.
"Not much." Another shrugged.
"Do you think Alhumbra can take this kid?" A third asked.
"Calm down man, all I'm focused on is what I'm gonna do with my immortality." The second shrugged, none of them noticing someone in a Policia uniform entering the tent.
"Jokes on you, I'm getting double immortality." The third shot back before he was literally shot in the head, causing the second guy to whirl around and get shot for his troubles.
The man with the gun kept shooting while counting, then he placed a grenade in it and walked out while humming the American national anthem. He then took off his mask and, surprise surprise, it was Johan dealing with the pawns. He then took out a flask of Irish coffee and took a small swig, not even reacting as his grenade finally went off, causing the other officers to panic as they rushed to contain the fire.
The SHIELD Agent smirked as he decided his next move. "Now, let's deal with those cameras so my sister can come out and play." He said as he sent his nanotech to disrupt the cameras.
Meanwhile with Dandyman and Gavin, the pseudo vampire now laid on the ground, bleeding. "I'm not used to seeing so much of my own blood anymore… He's got some Carbonadium cards, and some magic hands." He said while looking back at Dandyman.
"So, Vampyr, are you a betting man?" Alahambra asked.
"Nah, that's not my schtick. I'm pretty sure that's your's." He replied.
"I'd like to make a bet with you vagabondo. I'll end your life, with one hand." The man said, holding up a ten of spades.
"I'll take that bet." Gavin decided as he got up and took a stance. "Now hit me with your best shot!" He shouted at him. Smoke flowing from him.
Dandyman started throwing his cards and they seemed not to affect the boy as he released his first level seal. "Oh what a shame for you, you activated my Alucard." He smirked.
That's when Katerina appeared and started shooting at Dandyman with a rifle… While holding it with one hand.
"GET SOOOOOOOOOOOME!" She yelled fiercely as the card thrower somehow managed to deflect the shots before she decided to take a different approach. Discarding the rifle, she concentrated her eldritch energy in her right hand.
"Trump this!" She yelled as she opened up a portal above him and a blast of energy shot towards him. Acting fast, he threw a card at the blast and made it split in two, making it splash on either side of him harmlessly while kicking up some dust.
"I'm getting real tired of this shit!" Alhambra growled.
"You and me both!" Gavin growled as he appeared behind him and stabbed him in the right shoulder with Bloodfallen before reeling his arm back. "Now show me your hand, DANDYMAN!" The pseudo vampire yelled as his arm bulged and his muscles tensed as he struck down with a knife hand strike and Dandyman retaliated with thrusting his arm forward with a card, but after the two clashed for five seconds, Gavin's hand sliced through the card and the gambler's arm like it was nothing.
The man screamed in pain from having his arm split right down the middle before Gavin grabbed his head and looked him in the eyes.
"Dandyman, you lost the bet." The boy said as he held him by the face. He got a mumbled yes from the man. "And now I have to read your mind." A confused sound. "By drinking all of your soul." He added. "Om nom nom!" He said as he sunk his fangs into the man's neck, sucking out his soul. Then his eyes widened as odd images appeared. "The fuck is this? The fuck is that? THE FUCK ARE THOSE?!" The boy said before he saw it, images of all the people he was after, and where they were.
He then exited the image before he started laughing and clapping over what he had learned while his target's body fell to the ground, lifeless..
"Um… Gavin?" Katerina inquired in a weirded out tone.
"She said my plan wouldn't work, but lo and behold. It. Is. Working!" He laughed as he looked at her. "I know exactly where Mindfrayer is, and the location of the H-1 base."
"Alright. One step closer to giving HYDRA more than a black eye." The younger Sever sibling smirked.
"Sis, it's Omni." Johan called over their comms.
"Cthulhu here, go ahead bro." She replied as she held a finger to her earpiece.
"I just sabotaged all the cameras and destroyed the footage. I need you to drive every witness here insane to cover our tracks." He requested.
"Got it." She nodded. With that, she assumed her Cthulhu form and grew to a truly massive size before she used her powers to drive everyone (save Johan and Gavin) insane.
(Later)
The trio was now in the Amazon Jungle in a jeep heading for the HYDRA base located within it. Their target: The Mindflayer.
"Now remember guys, what we want is to destroy the base, kill everyone who gets in our way, release every captured mutant, and capture a couple people to interrogate and download any other info." Gavin listed off.
"Not in that particular order?" Johan asked as he drove them to their destination.
"Yeah. But leave Mindfrayer for me. I planned out his demise very thoroughly." The pseudo vampire said as they came up on the base.
"Mind if I add some extra insanity, if that's what you have planned?" Katerina offered.
"Oh it is." He nodded. As they got out of the Jeep, Johan took out his gun (a SCAR rifle) and Gavin drew Bloodfallen while Katerina turned into her Cthulhu form. "Ready?" The boy asked, getting nods in reply. "Alright, go!"
With that, they charged, killing the guards and busting down the door as soldiers and scientists looked at them in shock and confusion.
"What the-" One of the soldiers tried to say before Johan shot him in the head.
"DIE NAZIS, DIE!" Gavin yelled as he started charging at them, killing everyone within reach and eating soul after soul.
Johan shot three soldiers in their manhoods, causing them to squeal in agonizing pain as they fell to their knees. The green streaked man just looked at them coldly. "May god have mercy on your souls." He said before killing them.
Katerina, meanwhile, created pools of icky bile which caused the soldiers and scientists in them to go rabid and attack their comrades. "Fall into the abyss." She said coldly as she watched them tear each other apart.
After the first level was clear, they then split up and slaughtered everyone on each level, released the imprisoned mutants and stole critical info. As they led the now free escapees, they were suddenly blocked by three people. One was Mindfrayer, the second was a Latin American boy with tan skin and longish wavy dark brown hair just coming down to his shoulders. He once had brown eyes, but they became a murky light grey (kinda like Mystique's in S1) after his powers developed. He's tall, about 5' 11" and but like a long-distance runner. And the third was a Italian American, having tan olive skin and dark brown hair, he had eyes the color of fourteen karat gold and were like a Dragon's.
"That's Mindfrayer." Gavin growled. "And those other two are without a doubt Marcus and Romano, Chelsea and Bast's friends." He then took note that their eyes were glazed, and Marcus had several vials all over his body pumping some sort of chemical into him. "Oh great, Marcus is being fed his addiction 24/7." He groaned sarcastically.
"I'll deal with him. You just worry about that deranged little telepathic brat." Johan said as he brought out his combat knife.
"I'll handle Romano. I might be able to undo his brainwashing." Katerina chimed as eldritch energy started crackling around her hands.
Gavin smirked as he cracked his knuckles. "Hey Mindfrayer!" He called as the telepath looked at him. "You like going into people's heads, right? Well let's see if you can handle mine!" He growled as the six of them charged.
"With pleasure." Kuo replied as both clashed as the Chinese telepath immediately started going into Gavin's mind, but instead of fighting it, the pseudo vampire instead intentionally let him in. That was when hell began for the half pint telepath.
(Gavin's Mind)
Kuo stood in front of the four leveled gates and as he tried to access Gavin's experiences to torture him, he was instead met by all the gates opening and smoke tendrils lashing out and grabbing his arms, legs and neck before pulling him inwards.
"No, no no no no no! You aren't supposed to be able to resist! NOOOO!" He yelled desperately as he clung to Level 3's gate desperately before he was finally dragged into the abyss of the boy's mind. There… He would experience hell.
(Back in reality)
Gavin and Kuo stood still for a few minutes, even as the battle raged around them. Johan was fighting Marcus on even ground while Katerina had long since incapacitated Romano and undid his brainwashing. He was just unconscious right now.
"This guy had a chip in the back of his neck and a tracker, think you can disable it bro?" She called as Johan blocked a wave of Marcus's energy pulses with a nanotech shield.
"Gimme a sec!" He called back before he charged at Marcus and dodged an energy pulse before punching him in the face and giving him a strong chop to the neck, knocking him unconscious. After this, he let his nanotech destroy the viles and his tracker before going into his body and started to detoxify him. As the technology did its thing, he rushed over to the other two.
"Marcus is still gonna need to go to rehab. Even with my nanotech's help, his addiction will still be a problem." The man said as he got to work on Romano, all the while the escapees were getting their trackers removed by the remaining nanotech.
As he worked, his little sister looked at Gavin and Kuo before frowning. 'They've been like that for the past several minutes. Did that little bastard actually manage to break him? If he did, I'm going to break him!' She thought angrily, already planning a few Lovecraftian things for Kuo to see.
Right at that moment, Kuo was sent flying back into a wall as Gavin's Level 0 part of his personality hurled his mental self back into his body. The telepath's hair was now turned pure white as he shook madly, mumbling incoherent speech as he trembled like a baby.
"So… How does it feel to be the one on the receiving end, you little shit?" Gavin asked, his tone smug and condescending.
"You-you aren't a human, you're a monster!" The boy yelled.
"Well there's the pot calling the kettle black." Katerina scoffed.
"Too damn true." Johan nodded.
The Cthulhu-like woman sashayed over to the trembling telepath and took his face in her hands as she forced him to look into her eyes, devoid of everything but their blue-silver cuticles.
"Here 'baby', let me give your mind a break." She said before her tentacle hair suddenly started going into his nose, ears, and mouth, and her eyes glowed as she cranked up her insanity powers to the max. Kuo tried to scream, but he was muffled by the tentacles blocking his airways as he saw numerous things that were straight out of the Lovecraftian horror mythos.
Katerina moaned in bliss as she felt the vibrations from his screams send pleasure through her body, it honestly started to make her very wet.
"Oh jeez… Sorry, Gavin. It looks like you won't be able to go through with those plans of yours." Johan groaned as he facepalmed, knowing exactly what was going on.
"As long as she leaves him alive long enough for me to interrogate him before I kill him? I'm fine with whatever she does to him." He shrugged.
"Assuming she doesn't turn him into a vegetable." The green eyed man added.
"So does she get off on that thing she does?" The boy asked as she released Kuo and started squeezing her own breasts out of arousal.
"Yep… Being a Lovecraftian horror monster has made her into a bit of a sadist. She practically preys on the fear of her victims and it arouses her to no end." The older Sever sibling explained. "I… Was unintentionally on the receiving end of that. Thankfully, she regretted it." He added with a blush.
"Makes me wonder what she'd do to a boyfriend if they got in bed with her." Gavin said with a shudder as the two walked over to them while Gavin grabbed Kuo and the siblings grabbed Marcus and Romano.
"I'd show him just how useful in bed my tentacles can be." The Cthulhu woman purred.
"Get your head out of the gutter, Ms. Hentai Fantasy." Johan deadpanned as he carried Marcus.
"Party pooper." The woman pouted as she carried Romano before turning back to normal as they got in the Jeep. "Ya know, he is kinda cute… You think your friends will let me nurse him back to health?" She asked, looking at Romano as she buckled up.
"They'd have to trust you for that to actually happen." Gavin replied as they drove off. "With what you're helping out with, they just might let you." He added thoughtfully.
(Later)
Kuo slowly woke up to find that he was in a rusty old car in an abandoned warehouse, his hands chained to the ceiling of the car as he sat in the driver's seat. He looked up from the car he was on and he saw Gavin and the Sever siblings standing in front of it, the pseudo vampire having a hose in his hands.
"Welcome back, you little shit." Katerina sneered disdainfully at him.
"What are you going to do to me?" The boy asked tiredly, unable to really do anything because of the mental fatigue he was feeling.
"Depends on if you give us the information we want." Johan said. "If you tell us the locations of your bosses, HYDRA's informants, and their 'Mutant Scouters', we'll turn you over to SHIELD where you'll live out the rest of your days behind bars. If you don't…" He trailed off as Gavin put the hose in the car's exhaust pipe.
"We'll use this to kill you." Gavin finished.
Kuo's face turned pale, immediately his self preservation instincts overrode any of HYDRA's training as he frantically tried to get free. "Alright! Alright! I'll tell you what you want!" He told them.
"Good answer." Johan nodded in satisfaction. The telepath then went into great detail about the locations and names they needed, even spilled the beans on the location of his 'mentor' Victor Rowner without a moment's hesitation.
"Now that I've given you what you want, will you let me go?" He asked hopefully. The two siblings looked at Gavin who just slipped the hose into the car's window, trapping the exhaust fumes inside.
"No." The pseudo vampire stated coldly. "You remember Chelsea Marks? The woman you tortured so gleefully for years? This is for her." He said as the little brat tried frantically to escape to no avail. His screams and pleads for mercy fell on deaf ears and slowly silenced as the telepath suffocated and went limp inside the car.
"... Want the evidence to be burned?" Johan asked.
"No, dump it in the ocean." He told them as he started writing things down. "Okay guys, next few stops: Hong Kong, Paris, Baghdad, Rome…" He listed off about five more places before he finished with… "And finally Moscow." He finished.
"Oh, I know exactly what song to listen to when we head to Moscow." Katerina chirped with a grin.
"Oh jeez…" Johan said as he rolled his eyes with a smile, knowing full well which song she was referring to.
"Well then, let's get moving." Gavin said as they dumped the car in the ocean and then got on their jet and flew towards their next stop.
Dragon Emperor0: Now that is you do a transition from T to M.
ThermalsniperN7: Yeah, no kidding. We even had three literal nut shots present!
Dragon Emperor0: Next chapter we'll be handing Hong Kong and Rome next. Then after that we'll do the ones in Africa near Wakanda and Australia, and then finally Canada and Moscow.
ThermalsniperN7: I know what song they'll be listening to when they head to Moscow. He he he…
Dragon Emperor0: Also expect a Hellsing Ultimate: Abridged reference and a Pulp Fiction reference next chapter as well. And also the appearance of a character commonly associated with Deadpool, HYDRA Bob! And of course let's give a warm welcome to Marcus Mussolini (no relation to the actual Mussolini) and Romano Sanchez.
ThermalsniperN7: Anyway, see you guys in the next chapter!