Gwenpool had been on the lookout for her next plot arc for the better part of a week before she caught a lead for… something. KSU was centuries old and had dozens of boarded up and hidden passageways, so she wasn't surprised to find an old library filled with hundreds of books written in dozens of languages she didn't understand. What she was surprised to find was about fifty professors- a few from her own classes as well as others she didn't recognize- all huddled around a group of about ten students, mostly naked, bound and gagged with rags as they whimpered in a pile on the floor. Hidden in an old, dusty vent she quietly watched the group set up their weird cult meeting.

"Small group this month," her computer science professor hissed, pulling back the hood of her robe.

"It's still early in the semester. The more students start underperforming, the more we'll be able to snack on," a teacher she didn't recognize explained, baring his fangs as he waited for whatever cue they were waiting for to start eating.

"Vampires," she whispered, her face pressed against the grating of the vent as she watched the proceedings. The urge to jump in and stop them was strong, but she'd faced vampires before- she'd need backup if she wanted to get out of this alive.

"Let's welcome our recent additions. Mister Winchester and Miss Redfield. How are you two enjoying your new lives?" Gwen narrowed her eyes, pretty sure that that had been the dean introducing the two students.

"It's been great," Redfield laughed, eyeing the pile of bodies at her feet.

"I'm s-so hungry. I gotta eat. Please." Winchester was tall but hunched over, holding his stomach as he practically slobbered over himself.

"Of course, of course. Hail HYDRA," the dean shouted, arm up in a Roman salute.

"Hail HYDRA," the group shouted in unison, and descended upon their screaming, writhing blood meal.

"Nazi vampires," Gwen whispered. She'd seen enough, and silently crawled through the vent shaft into the main body of the building, quickly making her way back to her dorm.

"I knew you weren't gonna believe me, that's why I brought proof!" Gwen quickly scrolled through her phone and showed Andi a picture of clothes that seemed to be standing up on their own. At first glance, it looked like a bad photoshop. "That's the guidance counselor! But look, he didn't show up on camera because-"

"Because he's a vampire." Andi rolled her eyes, seriously considering getting a room reassignment. Alien symbiotes and demons were one thing, but vampires? She wasn't a child, and that wasn't something she was ready to believe in.

"Exactly!" Gwen looked around the cafeteria to make sure no one was looking at them after her outburst before quickly stuffing her face with another bite of her fish taco. "I've been scoping them out for three weeks. They take students that're underperforming- students that would've dropped out anyway- and then they file the paperwork like they did drop out. But they didn't, they were eaten instead! Every semester they take one of the highest performing students and a member of Greek life that's already super into the HYDRA thing and they turn them. They're gonna meet up for another meal tomorrow night. I had a friend look through the records of all drop-outs from KSU and cross reference them with missing persons' reports with the same names to see how many people go missing this time of year. Andi, at least a dozen people are gonna die tomorrow if we don't stop them." Gwen was proud of herself for getting so much information. She was really starting to think like a superhero!

"If they're vampires then why can they walk around during the daytime?" Andi crossed her arms over her chest. She hadn't even touched her cheeseburger as she listened to Gwen's story. There was just something about the idea of cannibalism that made her lose her appetite.

"They're working with HYDRA. They created some kind of lotion that blocks out the sun's UVB rays and lets them walk around during the day in exchange for a fresh supply of young supporters to the HYDRA cause. Haven't you noticed that almost every professor that has classes during the day has a bottle on them?" Gwen had put in a lot of time to get every possible detail of the story together. She didn't want to be stumped on a single question when she told Andi, which was part of the reason she'd been forced to wait so long.

"That's for the promotion the school is doing with that skincare brand-"

"That's the cover, Andi! They dump the bottles and fill them with their own special lotion. Remember when I asked our literature professor for some of his? I took it over to the science lab. I have all the test results right here," she dug through her shark backpack and handed Andi a stack of papers covered in graphs and charts. Andi didn't even bother to look through any of it. Gwen might be easily excitable, but she wasn't stupid.

"Okay. Say I believe you. Why are you even telling me all of this? What do you want me to do about it?" She wasn't at all versed in hunting vampires. Calling in someone who was seemed like a way smarter option here.

"We're superheroes! We have to stop this. Come on, I know you've been itching for something like this. I've seen you in the gym, you've been training." Gwen teased. She'd walked in on Andi and Himawari sparring in the gym- their roommate was surprisingly good at it- and knew she'd backed her into a corner. Once a hero, it was impossible to become an extra again.

"You are frustratingly persistent," Andi sighed, leaning back in her seat.

"I know, it's part of my charm. Now, look, I've got a plan."

Andi had been stuffed in the cramped vent for almost two hours now and was quickly growing impatient.

"I can't believe I let her trick me into this, ugh! Wait until I get my hands on her," she grumbled, considering the myriad of ways she could get back at her roommate. She'd just begun crawling back out through the vent when she heard the door to the library open, a group of professors dragging dazed students along with them.

"Gwen!" Her roommate was clad in only her underwear, senselessly being led to sit in the pile of bodies at the center of the room.

"This one is pretty fit. Good catch." Their literature professor nodded smugly at the compliment, ruffling Gwen's hair.

"Not all too bright, I'm afraid. Scored a zero on a multiple choice exam." He laughed softly, shaking his head. They waited until Redfield and Winchester finished tying the group to one another before beginning their meeting. Snapped out of their trances, all of the students on the floor began to scream and writhe, desperately trying to escape. Gwen looked to the vent, unable to see Andi through the grating, but seriously hoping her partner hadn't abandoned her.

Andi had seen enough. Pressing her boots against the grated panel, she pushed as hard as she could, tearing it out of the wall. The group of surprised vampires turned and hissed at the intruder.

"Eliminate the hero now," the dean hissed, pointing a finger at her as the professors rushed towards her.

"Fucking vampires," Andi sighed, taking a deep breath as the Hell-Mark burned itself onto her chest. Hellfire raced towards the group of students and encircled them, cutting them off from their would-be predators. The protection would only last for as long as she was alive, but she wasn't planning on dying tonight.

Gwen apparently had ties to a costume maker in NYC who'd rushed to custom make a suit for Andi as a favor. They'd decided on a dark purple bodysuit complete with a mask that covered her whole face, finished with white eye lenses that uncannily resembled those of her symbiote's. She'd finished the design with a black and gold leather jacket, kneepads and her favorite pair of combat boots. Still no name yet, but they'd save that for later. Gwen had also decided on some protective measures to help against the vampires. Andi was used to wearing crosses- upside-down still counted- but she couldn't wait to get rid of the necklace of garlic cloves and wolfsbane from around her neck. She wasn't sure what the silver jewelry would do, and she felt kind of vulnerable knowing that she wouldn't be able to dip anything she touched in holy water thanks to her Hell-Mark, but she was certain she'd be able to hold her own all the same.

She sent a wave of Hellfire at the two closest vampires, pushing them away from her before tossing Gwen's shark backpack into the ring of fire that protected the students. She couldn't spare a second to think about how Gwen could possibly escape her bindings, get dressed and grab her weapons in all the chaos. She was too busy flipping over a vampire that'd charged her and sending it slamming into the brick wall behind her while she shot another spout of Hellfire at the dean.

Andi never could've prepared herself for how fast vampires could be for a bunch of undead guys. They weaved and dodged around her Hellfire, encircling her as they fought to take her down. Unholy claws tore at her jacket, fangs sinking into the leather and she snarled, summoning flames that quickly engulfed her psychology professor. There'd been nearly fifty vampires when she'd started, and while she'd counted that she'd put down at least eight of them, she was quickly tiring. A hard punch to the gut made her stumble and the football coach roughly slammed her against the cracking brick wall. Andi struggled against his grip, but for all the strength the Hell-Mark granted her, it was an even match for that of a vampire. The coach laughed cruelly, moving to take a bite of her neck.

"Yo, mosquito breath! Suck on this!" A hole appeared in the coach's head and he crumbled to the floor in a pool of his own blood and gray matter. Gwenpool walked through the fire, katana in one hand, smoking pistol in the other.

"Mosquito breath," Andi repeated confusedly, immolating three vampires that'd turned their backs to her with one breath. "You make it really hard to be thankful for backup, you know that?"

"We'd like to thank you personally, for the admirable bravery you two have displayed engaging HYDRA like this." Captain America shook Gwen's hand, then Andi's, his huge palms practically swallowing the girls' whole.

"N- no problem, C-Captain America, sir." Andi was doing her absolute best to keep calm, but it's not every day one got to meet Captain America.

"You two did a damn number on these vamps. You sure you guys haven't done this before?" Blade had also been called in- not that the vampire hunter needed much of a reason to appear whenever someone alerted him to a new nest.

"First time vampire hunters, I promise," Gwenpool answered, somehow less excited about this than Andi was.

"You two make sure to be careful next time you do something like this again. HYDRA are no pushovers and I've gone at it with my fair share of vampires before. If you ladies ever need help for something like this, don't hesitate to ask." Just being in the same room as Captain America made Andi want to be better. His optimism and spirit were infectious. It was like standing next to the sun.

"We're definitely missing a couple of those vampires though. You said there were two students?" Blade had a one-track mind; killing vampires was everything to him and he needed to make sure another sect of them wouldn't rise up in Philadelphia.

"Yeah, Winchester and Redfield? I never got their first names. I think they got away during the fight," Gwenpool explained.

"They could be anywhere now thanks to this new sunblock." Blade snarled, crushing the empty bottle in his hands.

"Sunblock? Why didn't I think of calling it that," Gwenpool wondered aloud.

"I'm sure you'll find them soon enough. And you have fellow vampire hunters here if they ever return," Captain America nodded towards the two women before shaking their hands once again and finally taking his leave. Blade had already disappeared without either of them noticing- vampire hunting never stopped for long.

"That was Captain America," Andi hissed, tightly grabbing Gwen's forearm.

"Yeah, it was," Gwen answered confusedly.

"I just shook Captain America's hand! Captain America shook my hand!"

"Yeah, he did. Andi, are you gonna be okay," she asked cautiously. She'd never seen Andi so… energetic.

"In a week, maybe. I should've asked for an autograph. Coach is gonna be so jealous."