Summary: This Buffyverse is about fifty years or less into the future compared to the norm. Xander is a miner on Mars during the Red Faction rebellion.
Crossover: Red Faction (the PC game), Hellsing (the anime series, also the manga)
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Previously, on Faction Xander:
Xander pointed the pistol at the vampire's head, making sure that the safety was off. "I serve no one! I am not submitting to a vampire!"
"Are you well, Hellsing?," the vampire asked Xander. "I am at your service and await your command."
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The Red Faction miner reached for the shotgun with his free hand.
"Sorry, but I don't trust vampires that easily. And my name is Harris, not Hellsing."
The vampire grinned. "Your grandmother, the one your family doesn't talk about? She was Integra Wingates Hellsing. I serve the Hellsing family as the garbage disposal facility."
Xander cranked a round into the shotgun. The vampire's lassitude was either a very good sign, or a very bad one. Either he was very stupid, or very sure that the guns couldn't hurt him.
"Grandma... Integra?" Xander vaguely remembered her, the same way as he remembered Capek. "Okay, so my name is Hellsing, too, but I still don't trust you. Why have you decided to serve me, and not Capek? What's your name, anyway?"
The tall vampire sneered. "His blood is rotten. I am Alucard, No Life King."
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Parker reloaded the assault rifle, sacrificing the two rounds left in the current magazine in favour of 64 fresh rounds. He burst through the final door, diving behind a pillar to pick off the men in the large, two storey room.
To his relief, the door opened again to show the Vampire, with a stranger behind him. Parker figured him for a mercenary changed sides. It was weird, though -- the guy looked familiar for some reason.
"Vampire! Gimme a hand!," he yelled. Both men looked up at this.
"Don't call me that!," Xander yelled.
Alucard just strode over, picked up an assault rifle dropped by a dead guard, and started blasting away, completely ignoring the numerous shots going through his flesh.
By the time they had killed all the guards, Eos had arrived through the back door to the laboratory complex. Alucard was covered in his own blood like a man who had gone swimming in his clothes.
A panel in the ceiling revealed Capek. The short scientist had his forceshield activated, and was levitating above the group.
"Ah, together again. This time, I shall not be so merciful," Capek spat.
"Capek! Give us the antidote for the Plague and we'll let you live!," Eos shouted from the door.
"Alas, my dear, you have no say in who lives or dies here," Capek said.
"Hey, Uncle! Good to see you too!," Xander shouted at the figure, hate staining his voice.
The group opened fire. As bullets and shot spanged off the purplish shield, Capek started throwing fireballs at the group, trying to weaken them.
After a while, it became painfully obvious that the aging man was starting to weaken.
"Fools! You cannot begin to understand the forces I control!," Capek shrieked.
They poured on the firepower, Alucard grinning like mad.
Eventually, of course, the shield broke. Capek fell to the floor, a line of blood descending from a corner of his mouth. Eos and Parker rushed to him.
"Parker, stop. Don't kill him," Eos commanded as the miner drew his pistol.
"Don't kill him? He's killed hundreds of miners!"
The hardsuited miner was in no mood for mercy.
"And hundreds more will die unless we find a cure for the Plague, we can't save the miners who are dead already but we might save those who are dying. He's their only hope," Eos sighed.
"Hope? Who has hope? If you have hope, you just don't understand yet. All my work... all gone...," Capek snarled. He coughed, a spray of blood lightly painting his robes.
"Capek, the Plague! There has to be a cure!"
"It's simple, really. Stop the replicators."
"But how? How do you stop the replicators?," Xander asked, walking up to the fallen researcher.
"Antidote, of course."
"C'mon, Eos. Let's finish him off and get out of here," Parker growled. He had seen too many friends die of Plague.
"We need that antidote, Parker. If you're not going to help, shut up!"
The tension, and Parker's demands were starting to weigh down on the Red Faction leader.
"Where is the antidote?," Xander demanded.
"Why... help you? I hope you all die!," Capek said, gaining strength with the last phrase only to lose it almost immediately afterwards.
"Damn! The formula has got to be in his computer files," Eos thought out loud. "Maybe Hendrix can help. Parker, Vampire, whoever you are, get out of here. One of us has got to survive!"
"No! I'm not going to leave!," Parker said, Xander nodding with him.
"There's no time to argue. Go out the way I came in," Eos instructed. "Someone's waiting outside for you. There's something you guys need to do for me. He'll explain -- I don't have the time!"
The three men made a break for the door, Xander grabbing a hardsuit for the vampire Alucard on the way. He didn't trust him, but he also didn't want him away from where he could keep an eye on him.