Chapter 38: It's Rush Hour in Hong Kong
-Xavier Institute-
Everyone was still trying to make sense of what the hell they had managed to witness the week before after seeing the national broadcast of what happened between Gavin and the Sever siblings against the SWAT unit and Dandyman. Especially Rogue, who just couldn't wrap her head around why Gavin had seemed to… Enjoy all of the bloodshed.
'It scares me.' She thought, not being used to seeing that side of Gavin at all.
Right now, Chelsea and Jean were doing one last training exercise with Amara before she left for her first day of high school. The blonde dragoness was still very pissed about the whole situation with Gavin, which in turn made her very difficult to deal with as of late.
"Now remember, the important thing is to not lose focus." Jean told the Brazilian girl as she held some rocks together for her to melt.
"Yeah because one mistake and we'll all be dead." Chelsea added.
"Not helping." The telepath told her.
Amara began harnessing her power over magma and sent out a wave to melt the rocks into a bridge. Upon finishing and seeing that it was firmly in place, Jean walked onto it and gave it a test.
"Hm, not bad. Just one crack." She noted.
"Then this was a failure." The girl sighed.
"God, stop being such a baby, not everything needs to be perfect. What did your parents raise you to be, a goddamn perfectionist? Just take the compliment!" Chelsea groaned in exasperation.
"Hey Jean, Chelsea? The professor wanted me to come down here and remind you two to not keep Amara for too long or she'll be late for her first day of high school." Scott's voice suddenly called from above.
"Keep your shirt on, we'll be right up!" The blonde called before a boulder suddenly started to come loose. "Ohh shit, Jean!" She yelled in alarm.
"On it!" She replied before she used her powers to catch the boulder. "Okay, we're good." She said before the large piece of earth was suddenly blasted to pieces.
"Gah! What the fuck, Summers?! We had that under control!" The dragoness called up as the dust cleared.
"Sorry, my bad! Acted on impulse!" Was the goggled teen's reply as the women went up. "Oh hey Chelsea, you got this in the mail today, it has a return address in Brazil." The boy told her as he handed her a letter.
Raising an eyebrow, she took the letter out of the envelope and looked at its contents. "Oh my GOD!" She nearly yelled as she saw several pictures of a beaten and battered Kuo inside and the final of said telepath chained in a car and dead by asphyxiation. "What the actual fuck happened to this little shit?!" She wondered in shock and glee at the sight of her former tormentor being beaten so badly and killed in such a way.
That was when she saw two more photos: One of the destroyed base and the other of the trio with the now fully recovered Romano and Marcus in an airport headed to Cairo, Egypt.
The dragoness teared up in happiness. Two of her friends, ones she thought couldn't be saved, were successfully liberated from HYDRA and were in good health again.
'Gavin… Be safe.' She thought as her tears flowed.
(Elsewhere)
-Hong Kong, China-
Gavin, Johan, Katerina, Romano and Marcus all departed from their flight from Cairo to Hong Kong after taking down the base in the region. Gavin tossed a golden object before catching it and looking at it again.
The object was a small Egyptian eye shaped artifact made of gold, barely bigger than a typical watch face. "So this is the legendary Eye of Anubis? This is definitely gonna come in handy." Gavin said as he put it in his pocket.
"Just gotta give it a test first before we assume it actually works." Katerina piped up.
"What would HYDRA want with an artifact like that, anyway?" Marcus asked, puffing on a weed cigarette. The former drug addict was trying to combat the lingering effects of his drug addiction with simply smoking and staying off the extremely addictive things. The weed was just to help ease the effects of withdrawal.
"No idea. Then again, we might find something that'll give us an answer sooner or later." Romano said. After he had woken up from being knocked out and realizing he was in control of himself again, he asked who had done it. When Katerina confessed that it was her and how she did it, he thanked her and actually hugged her… Though when he saw her other form, he reacted by hiding behind Johan in surprise, which said man didn't really blame him for.
"Well according to legend, it's supposed to be able to summon the souls of the dead from anywhere the user has previously touched." Johan stated.
"Again, useful. I mean can you imagine the power boost I'd get if I summoned all of the dead souls from all of the bases and ate them? I'd gain power on a cosmic level!" Gavin told them as they exited the airport.
"Don't let it go to your head, Alucard." Romano said jokingly, getting chuckles from everyone else.
"So, who's our first target?" Marcus asked.
"You guys won't be doing anything. Technically, this is a SHIELD sanctioned shadow op, so civilians like you two can't assist us for your own safety." Johan told them.
"Except we're not really civvies, though." The former drug addict said with a frown.
"In this case, we might as well be." Romano told his friend with a sigh. "What do we do in the meantime while you guys are busy?" He asked.
"We have a hotel room booked at a nearby hotel here that you guys can stay at for the time being." Katerina explained.
"And in the meantime, I'd suggest calling the Institute to check in on everything. Here's the number." Gavin added, handing Romano the number. "Ask for Bast or Chelsea, they'll fill you in."
"Yeah… About that, how have they been doing?" Marcus asked.
"They've been doing so much better after they arrived, same with Kai." Gavin replied. "The three of them spoke with a counselor I know, a woman named Emma Frost. She's a telepath, and she managed to help get rid of any unpleasant memories and lingering programming in their minds. If you ask them, they'll say that she did one hell of a job." He continued.
"Sounds like we'll need to get an appointment." Marcus stated.
"Agreed." The Latino man nodded.
"Oh, and Chelsea also started dating one of the other instructors there too, his name is Logan. The two make a really good couple, if I'm being honest." The boy added as they checked in the hotel.
"Wait, seriously? She found a man?" The recovering addict got out in surprise.
"Looks like we'll have to meet him. Who knows? We might be able to make friends with him." Romano said with a grin.
"Oh, sorry Marcus, I forgot that you two kinda had a complicated relationship." The pseudo vampire apologized.
"It's fine. We honestly never really acted on any romantic feelings, so I don't blame her for moving on." He shrugged. "I just hope we can clear all the leftover tension later."
With that, the two stayed in the room as the trio left, and Romano dialed the number of the Institute on the phone Johan lent him. After a few seconds, Bast picked up.
"Hello?" She asked.
"Miss me, Bast?" The light wave man greeted with a smirk, and was rewarded with a surprised gasp from the other end.
"... R-romano? Is that you?" She asked hopefully.
"The one and only. Marcus is here too." He replied.
"Seriously?!" The cat woman asked.
"Yep, hang on a sec. Yo, Marcus! Get over here, Bast is on the phone!" He called out to his friend, prompting him to come over and take the phone.
"Hey Bast. Miss me, you goofy cat?" He asked jokingly, getting a chuckle from Romano.
"Have I! Oh Kai and Chelsea are gonna flip their lids! Hey, when do you think you'll be getting back?" Bast questioned.
"According to your friend, Gavin? Two weeks at the most." Romano told her from over Marcus's shoulder.
"That is the best news I've heard all year! They'll scream in delight when they hear that!" The catwoman said excitedly.
"Yeah. We'll see you soon." Both men smiled.
Meanwhile with the trio, Gavin currently had a HYDRA informant by the collar and was dangling him over the edge of a building right above the rush hour freeway below.
"Alright, pal. Here's how this is gonna go: You're gonna tell us where the HYDRA base is here and maybe we'll let you live." The boy said while the Sever siblings stood off to the side.
"Behind bars of course." Johan interjected.
"I will tell you nothing you filth ridden swine! So you might as well let me go!" The man said in Chinese.
"Want me to remake his mind?" Katerina offered.
"No, just translate." The boy replied.
"He says he won't say anything so you might as well let him go." Johan translated.
Gavin turned back to the man in his grip before shaking his head. "Very poor choice of words." The pseudo vampire said before he released the man, causing him to scream as he fell to the street below and ended up getting creamed on the grill of a semi truck before he even hit the ground.
"Well that blows. How are we gonna find another informant?" The eldritch themed girl wondered.
The horror enthusiast then jabbed a thumb to a nearby corner. "Why not ask our friends there?" He asked, causing the two to see four soldiers behind an AC unit. Judging by how bumbling they were, they were obviously rookies to the whole 'HYDRA' thing.
"This should be easy enough." The green streaked man muttered to his little sister, who nodded in agreement.
(Later)
They now had the soldiers in a room in an abandoned apartment complex and had one on the couch, the other in a chair and the third was in a corner near the door.
"Hey, listen I know this looks bad, but- I- I never got your names." The one in the chair, a guy named Bob, stated before Gavin cut him off.
"My name's Vampyr, and you ain't talking yourself outta this shit." The boy snapped.
"What-What's this about? Is it because we were following you? I mean if that's it we can just leave you alo-" But he was stopped when Gavin used Devil's Scorn to shoot and kill the guy on the couch.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration? Please. Continue." He said, his voice carrying a mocking tone that was well hidden. Bob was silent for a few seconds before the boy continued. "Oh, you were finished. Well allow me to retort. We aren't after you because you followed us, we're here on business from the Dark Lord himself, Dracula. Now tell me, Bob, what does Dracula look like?" He asked.
"What?" Bob asked dumbly, causing Gavin to flip over the table in front of him violently.
"What country are you from?" Gavin asked.
"W-What?" Bob gasped as Johan and Katerina chuckled, knowing exactly where this was going.
"What ain't a country I ever heard of, do they speak English in what?" Gavin yelled, getting closer to the man.
"What?" The HYDRA rookie repeated again.
"English, motherfucker. Do you speak it?!" He yelled.
"Yes!" He confirmed nervously.
"Then you understand what I'm sayin'?" The pseudo vampire asked.
"Yes!" The man replied in fear.
"Then describe what Count Dracula looks like!" Gavin ordered.
"What?" The man asked before Gavin put Devil's Ruin in his face.
"Say What again. Say. What. Again! I dare you, I double dare you motherfucher, say what one more goddamn time!" The boy threatened.
"H-he's pale like a corpse." The poor sap began.
"Go on." The pseudo vampire prompted.
"H-h-he has fangs." The grunt continued fearfully.
"Does he look like a bitch?" Gavin asked suddenly.
"What?" Bob asked in confusion and got shot in the shoulder for it.
"Does. He. Look. Like a bitch?!" The boy yelled.
"No!" The rookie got out through the pain.
"So why are you and HYDRA trying to fuck him like a bitch, Bob?" The boy asked.
"We didn't." Bob managed to reply.
"Yes you did. Yes. You. Did, Bob. By HYDRA doing all their fucked up shit to Mutants, you guys are fucking his kinsmen, and him by proxy. And Lord Dracula don't like to be fucked by anyone except Mrs. Dracula." Gavin told him. "You read the Bible, Bob?"
"Yes!" The soon to be dead idiot replied.
"Well I got this passage memorized for just such an occasion. Ezekiel 25:17. 'The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers And you will know My name is the Lord! When I lay my vengeance upon thee!" Gavin said as he held his guns towards Bob and started firing as he screamed and Johan did the same to the guy in the corner.
"Did you get the info?" The horror fan asked Katerina.
"Yeah, they were pretty easy to break, so I got it and put their minds back together before they could notice." She nodded.
"Then let's go." He told them as they left the dead bodies behind. But unbeknownst to the Sever siblings, Gavin had intentionally mentioned the vampire ruse because of the body cams their victims had, and the people watching saw it all.
(Elsewhere)
Rogue, Amara, Jean, Tabitha, Kitty and Roxy had just recently formed a vigilante team together called the Bayville Sirens, and now they just roped Chelsea into it.
"Okay, when did you girls even get this idea, anyway?" The dragoness asked as she looked herself over. She was wearing some black clothes that were skintight and some light armor to protect herself from attacks. Hers did little to hide her cleavage and had no back to allow access for her wings. "Though this may be a pretty kinky get up for a date with Logan later…" She mused.
"Well I got the idea after stopping a car jacking with Amara." Tabitha shrugged.
"Ah thought it was a good idea because if Gavin can do it, why can't we?" Rogue added.
"Speaking of which, how are you handling what he did in Rio? That couldn't have been easy to watch." Kitty asked in concern.
"You saw what he put in his journal, he bottled up so much hatred and rage that it was bound to blow at some point. And with his different aspects of his personality?... Well let's just say Ah wasn't all that surprised. Ah'm just… Worried is all, that it may come back to haunt him later." The Southern Belle sighed.
"He's not alone, though. Remember that friend Bast mentioned, Johan Sever? He's helping him out. And he's got a little sister that's on the bandwagon, too. He'll survive with their help." Chelsea said reassuringly.
"So does that mean that his vendetta is now more like a sanctioned top secret mission?" Amara asked as they walked out of the garage of the Institute.
"That's pretty much the gist of it." The dragoness said with a shrug. "I also heard that Katerina, Johan's sister, is basically the female mutant version of Cthulhu." She added, much to the other girl's surprise.
"Now that's trippy." Tabitha said as they went to go stop some more crime.
(Elsewhere)
Gavin was now placing detonation devices on the reactor core of the base they just finished storming. "Johan, are the prisoners all evacuated yet?" He called into his comm.
"Yeah. I'm having my nanotech act as extra eyes to make sure no one's been left behind. So far, it looks like we've got 'em all outta here." The soldier replied.
"Good cuz I'm fixin to set this thing to blow in exactly three minutes." The boy said as he pulled the pin and exited through the main fan. "Fireball!" He yelled as the base blew up behind him as he came flying out.
As he tumbled to the ground, he then addressed the now free prisoners. "Alright people, we've disabled your trackers so you can all leave as soon as you find transportation. Go back to your homes and families, and be free!" He told them. The prisoners all cheered in gratitude for their saviors before they all began their long trek back to their families.
"So, where to now?" Katerina asked.
"You know what they say, when in Rome." He shrugged.
(Elsewhere)
The newly formed Bayville Sirens had just found the center of the chop shop ring and were now in a fight with the goons and the leader of the operation. Chelsea, of course, was able to subdue most of them by using her wings and claws to dive and attack, or slap them into walls with her tail.
Roxy, meanwhile, used her stingers and digging to her advantage. And every time she was in danger, she'd always be able to dodge for some reason.
"I thought you were legally blind?" Amara questioned as she watched the scorpion girl literally dodge a bullet.
"Scorpion sense! It's basically like ESP!" The adrenaline junky called back. She then somehow managed to deck a guy hard enough to knock them out.
Right at that moment, Chelsea was trying to pin down the boss, but her tail knocked a fuel drum into a fuse box in the struggle and caused it to explode, catching the whole building on fire.
"Crap!" Tabitha shouted in surprise as the fires spread.
Punching the guy unconscious, Chelsea hoisted him up and went full dragon, and with a swing of her tail she took down one of the walls and gave them an escape route. With that, the girl's climbed on her back and they flew off before anybody could see them.
The Sirens would live to fight another day.
(Elsewhere)
Gavin and Johan were now in Rome with their other three companions and while the two escaped HYDRA prisoners relaxed at their hotel room. The two men were currently busy watching Katerina interrogating another informant the same way she had the past seven others: by literally fucking the info out of them with her Cthulhu form.
"Why are we letting her do it this way again?" Gavin asked with a massive blush as he watched the eldritch girl 'work.'
"Because HYDRA is full of perverted degenerates with tentacle hentai fantasies, and my sister intends to exploit the hell out of that." Johan replied with a tired sigh, having long since grown used to this tactic his younger sibling developed.
Katerina moaned like a whore as she bounced on the cock of the man below her, her ass jiggling and her breasts slapping his face as her tentacles dug themselves into his nose, ears, mouth and his ass. The unnamed man screamed in sheer pleasure (which made Johan want to kill him), the vibrations traveling through the flexible appendages and generating even more pleasure to the one they were attached to.
Katerina removed the tentacles from his mouth and smiled. "Will you give us what we want now? If you do, I'll let you cum inside me." She purred, the tentacles moving towards the man's eyes.
"Alright, alright! I'll talk! Just let me finish!" He pleaded, making Johan's disgust grow.
"Good boy." She cooed as he spilled everything he knew. Once he did though, Katerina immediately forced two tentacles down his throat and then gouged out his eyes with the ones that were in his mouth right after the man came in her pussy.
After that she got off and turned to the other two. "Alright, I got what we need. Let me get dressed so we can kick ass." She told them as she turned back to normal and got dressed. Though she also swallowed her victims gouged out eyes.
"I have several different personalities, and all of them are disturbed by that." Gavin confessed with a shudder.
"Yeah, I know how you feel. No matter how many times I see her do it, I'll never be able to suppress a shudder." The man next to him agreed with a shudder of his own. "But you gotta admit, she makes a damn good Cthulhu." He added.
"Yeah." The boy nodded.
With that, they stormed the H-4 base and repeated the same process as before with the other bases, though when they were done, they did obtain one HVT: a clone proxy of one of the organization's higher ups, Madame HYDRA, named Sidewinder. And apparently the clone had a mental link to her progenitor.
"Can I screw her, please? I could probably end up scaring the shit out of their leaders if she's really linked to one of them!" The Cthulhu girl suggested. Johan actually considered it before turning to Gavin.
"What do you think? Should we let her?" He asked the pseudo vampire.
"If it'll drive one of them mad? I say screw her to death." He replied with a savage look on his face.
"You got it!" Katerina said with an evil look on her face, already planning out what horrors to make Madame HYDRA see.
With that, they went back to their hotel room for the night and Katerina shoved Sidewinder, who she stripped naked, onto her bed as she stood before her in her naked, titanic, Lovecraftian glory.
"Now… Let's scar that pretty little mind of yours, shall we?" She purred before her tentacles surged forward.
Johan, Gavin, Marcus and Romano didn't even react when they heard the screams of terror coming from the room they were in as they played cards.
"Did any of you hear something?" The former drug addict asked.
"Nope." The elder Sever sibling replied.
"Nada." Romano shrugged.
"Probably just someone's TV." Gavin shrugged.
(Elsewhere)
In HYDRA headquarters, the leaders of the organization watched as Madame HYDRA was being tormented by the mental links with Sidewinder's sharing capabilities. The images were all causing her to scream in horror.
"Zis is very much a vexing situation." Baron Zemo said to a man next to him, who's face wasn't a face at all, but the skull, and it was somehow colored red.
"It truly is. Vhat could possibly be doing this to her?" Red Skull wondered.
"If I were to guess, Hier Schmit, I would say it is the same monster woman who drove our forces mad in Brazil." A bald elderly man wearing a monocle suggested.
"That it could be, Hier Strucker, that it could be." A man whose face was on a TV screen which was planted in his torso mused.
"Do you think you can help her, Doctor?" Skull asked.
"I could sever the link she has with Sidewinder, but I do not think I can heal her mind of the mental trauma." He replied.
"Do vhat you must. For now though, ve must prepare. After all…" Skull said as he stood up. "Ve have a var to prepare for." He added as the Doctor got to work.
Dragon Emperor0: And with that guys, we finally get to see just what Katerina is capable of when she gives into her perverted urges. And Gavin let out his inner Samuel L. Jackson too.
ThermalsniperN7: Surprised that Katerina can use her abilities in such a way? Well don't be. This is normal for her, much to Johan's exasperation. Anyway, It's passed one in the morning on my end, so if y'all don't mind, I'mma gonna go crash.
Dragon Emperor0: Good night everyone!