Over the next week, Xander heard nothing about his excursion into the city. Seres said nothing to him about it and eventually he guessed that Alucard had kept everything their little secret. That was both a good and bad thing. He wanted Seres to trust him but there was a nagging worry, Xander now owed Alucard a big favour. When would that favour be called in?

The sudden fall of the Wyrd Sisters and their operations got the police wanting to check out every thing involved with the sisters businesses including a factory near the river. They sent in an ops team to flush out the bad guys. They had met resistance, heavy resistance. Xander had to listen to Integra chewing out the head of London's version of SWAT. The man had blustered and pontificated. When He was done, Integra had verbally cut him a new ass with surgical precision. Xander vowed not be on the receiving end of an Integra rant.

After that, it was obvious that Hellsing would deal with the situation. The operations team had deployed with Xander and Seres huddled in the truck. As they trundled out to the site. Xander looked at an old building that was practically across the street. "What's that?" he asked Reeves one of the guys he had meet his first week.

"Orphanage, St Judith's Foundling Home, knew a few blokes from there. Not to be messed with."

"No indeed," Chorused Hudson, He and Reeves had been on Kitchen duty during Xander's first week and had shown him every trick in the book for making himself love by the kitchen staff.

"Sa catholic orphanage, did anyone think to clear the place out. I mean we don't want any Nuns getting a look at Alucard in action." Harris muttered

"I don't know about that. I've seen him do 'is thing, 'ad me singing Nearer My God, I'll tell you that for free." Hudson shivered

Reeves laughed " Not that it would be such a huge thing, Judith boys are some of the toughest I've met. They really work you when you end up there."

"Well they should do something, cordon off the block, establish a perimeter, toss up some caution tape…something."

They arrived at the factory and headed inside. The Field Commander sent Seres and Xander to do a floor by floor sweep. Everyone else was supposed to wait but Reeves and Hudson got bored and loud so the Field Commander sent them into the basement levels. .

The policeman was running. He had been with the team that had stormed the warehouse the day before. During the attack he had been knocked out the next thing he knew he was trapped inside the building. He had been too scared to move lest the beasts he heard roaming the halls discover him. Now he hurried through the halls. He heard movement on the lower floors. Maybe command had sent in another team to take down the …things. He arrived at a t-junction. Moving down the hall toward him was crowd of uniformed ghouls. He saw Johnson, and Morton and, Dear god, Patrick. His entire battalion was now zombies. He ran toward the end of the hall. If he could make the elevator maybe, maybe he could get away. As he neared the cargo elevator, the door was wrenched open. A dark figure stood there brandishing a huge weapon. He stumbled and fell. He looked back and saw the sea of undead sweeping toward him. He cringed on the floor. Then a boom sounded. He looked up, the one-eyed man, working something that looked like a shotgun, racked another round and fired into the crowd of beasts tearing them to shreds. Xander fired repeatedly, moving forward and pointing the Marx-rifle where it would do the most damage. As the zombies fell away from him he looked ahead and saw a red-eyed middle age looking man urging the zombies forward. The Vampire started running toward Xander almost too fast to track. Xander switched modes and strafed the hallway, stitching a line of needles across the chipped vampire's path causing the proto-vampire to stop and hiss angrily at him. Xander stepped forward and fired. The needles ripped the vampire, spinning him in the air before crashing him to a wall where Xander's shots pinned his corpse like a mounted butterfly. Xander watched as the beast dissolved. He put his hand to the communicator fixed in his ear. "Got a survivor on Four, I'm going to finish my sweep and head upstairs. "

"Be careful Xander." Seres voice carried her worry right though the channel." I'm done with my sweep I'll join you on Five."

"Oh, sounds romantic, should we have flowers and sweeties sent up for you both." Reeves and Hudson were obviously bored.

"Shut up you two or I'll feed you to her one pint at a time." Xander snapped

"Are you kidding me?" Seres sneered, disgustedly "I've seen what Hudson eats, all those calories and carbs, I have a girlish figure to maintain."

"You could do worse then my blood sweetheart" Hudson whined

"I'd rather someone who takes care of themselves, has a good diet…."

"Looks fetching in an eye patch." Reeves said sarcastically

"Could we go on a real date before we talk about blood suck-age." Xander said jokingly

The officer looked up at his rescuer, "Who the hell are you people."

"I'm Xander Harris -- Intern."

Reeves closed the circuit. "You really think Harris and Kitten are…. You know."

Hudson looked at him annoyed, "What are you a seven year old…Anyway Harris may only have one eye but he ain't blind. Their probably just dancing around it."

"I wonder what that'd be like. You think vamps do it like the rest of us."

"I take that back mate…Seven is freaking mature compared to you. "

"You're a lot of fun."

"Besides everyone knows that Seres is tied to Big Red. All them freaky powers of his no doubt she properly don't know if she's going or coming by the time he's don with her."

"Their conversation stopped when Reeves heard a cooing. "who's there then"

"I didn't hear anything."

"Coming from over there" Reeves pointed toward a pumping unit. It cast shadows throughout the basement area.

Hudson opened the channel. "Hudson and Reeves here, We have movement in the basement area. Something's down here, Reeves is just trying to figure out if its another survivor or what."

Upstairs, Seres and Xander nodded at the news. "Leave the channel open boys, Xander and I are just starting our sweep of the fifth floor."

"You think there is anything down there." Xander asked as he checked his weapon.

Seres shrugged, "who can say, I'll feel better after we've finished sweeping the building."

Over the channel, Reeves was talking to someone. Hudson was saying it looked like something had dug huge gouges in the walls. When there was a crash and screams. Reeves voice came though loud over the open line. "Get back danm you arrk" there was a gurgle and a thud of a body hitting the floor. "You killed him you just…" Hudson's final curse was cut off as the line went dead.

Seres and Xander looked at each other and scrambled for the stairs. They flew down them. with Xander jumping down the steps three and four at a time. Seres abandoned all pretenses and just hurtled over the railing. She dropped four stories to the basement level. The concrete cracked where she landed. She brought up her weapon and kicked in the door that led to the basement.

In the cavernous lower basement, shadows crept across the floor. Xander slid a pair of goggles into the place that enhanced his vision. Seres just looked around, her vision already better then any enhancing goggles could make it. She pointed. "There, I can see them…or what's left of them."

Reeves and Hudson were dead. Gutted or cut to ribbons according to the whims of a frighteningly brutal killer.

"Who did this." Xander said looking around the basement

"I'll let you know as soon as I put a few shots into it"

"OK you've been hanging out with me too much.. You're starting to pick up my bad habits"

Seres was startled when she heard the voice of Alucard in her mind "the boy is right Police Girl"

"I was just…"

"I mean you are looking at the world though only one set of eyes.. You can find those responsible for this massacre easily."

"But I'm not bloodhound I can't track by scent

"Actually yes you can, but you will need other powers this time. Concentrate, will the room and the objects within to show you all that occurred here. You will see the face of your killer."

She was about to follow Alucard's orders when Xander grabbed her arm. "I hear something." He pointed "over there, let's move"

They headed toward the darkness and around the pumping unit. Two vampires were holding A young child and nun captive. IT was their struggles that Xander had heard.

"Danm it I told you to shut up you little brat." One of the creatures cursed shaking the child even as he shielded himself from Seres and Xander.

"Guess we know what Reeves and Hudson stumbled over." Xander muttered. He targeted the foursome and hoped for the best. The Nun was dark haired with big spectacles that made her look alarmingly like Willow. The waif was a red headed boy with freckles and attitude. Obviously the kid had slipped into the building to see what was going on and the Little Sister had come after him.

"Please let us go, you've been caught," the Nun simpered

"Shut up God-Girl no one's going to save you.. These nice people are going to let us pass."

"Let us go before she wakes up, Please don't wake her." the Nun simpered as the vamp holding her clutched her tightly and huddled behind her.

Seres was wondering what she should do when she heard Alucard's quiet laughter in her mind. "The Fools have no idea how close to death they are. Your usual high yield weapons are no good for this situation Police Girl."

He then told Seres what to do, she was amazed but relayed the instructions to Xander.

"Are you nuts." Xander asked incredulously "shoot the Nun?"

"You had better back off Fleshie or the kid and Nun are toast" the vampires started backing toward a door in the wall.

"Xander, believe me it sounds weird to me, but you have to do this. Shoot the Nun."

Integra's voice came over the com-link. "What going on down there."

"Hostage situation. Some Nun and a kid are trapped down here and Seres wants me to shoot the Nun."

She paused, apparently talking to Walter on a separate line, then she came back on. "Shoot her Xander, non lethal shot but shoot her nevertheless."

"What has everyone lost their…"

"Xander Harris this is a direct order, now shoot the danmed Nun. "

Xander squeezed the trigger, the Nun screamed as a Marx-needle lanced into her thigh. She reared backward stomping down with full force on the foot of the vampire holding her. She screamed high and loud. The nun turned and in one smooth motion tore the needle from her thigh and used its point to rip open the throat of her captor. The other vampire startled at the sudden movement backed away the Nun screamed in rage and hurled the needle in her hand. It speared through the vampire's eye. Reflexively he released the boy whom the nun grabbed and hurled toward Seres who reached out and snagged him out of the air. The Nun grabbed the Vampire whirling him around to slam the creature repeatedly against every available surface. Xander stopped looking at the punishment long before the vampire's cries of pain ended with final brutal thud and groan of its body dissolving. She then stomped toward the remaining vamp, its hands clasped to its own throat trying to hold its head on its body. The nun picked up the creature like it was a scarecrow and shook it in the air. "How dare you lay your hands on agents of God. Unholy fiend, were you not so pathetically easy to kill I'd give you the slow torturous death your kind deserves." She reached up and slammed the vampire's head backwards ending its struggles. The body was dissolving even as she dropped it to the ground.

"OK that was just about the wrong-est thing I've seen today." Xander said amusedly

The Nun turned toward Seres and Xander and started moving across the floor toward them. Xander was no fool, the psycho nun was about to turn her fearsome killing skills on them. When Integra's voice cut the scene to a halt. "Yummie, that's enough."

The Nun stopped. The two women stared at each other, the air crackling. "So The Hellsing's Head Witch is here too."

"Indeed Yummie, and The Witch is curious as to why The Iscariot Section is operating a training facility in the middle of my city."

"St Judith's has been here since before your father was in charge of Hellsing. OF course we wouldn't shut it down just to salve your fragile ego."

"I see, well at the very least I think you owe Officers Victoria and Harris thanks for their assistance or do you regularly hurl children around and let them get into danger."

"Had you kept us informed the child might not have been allowed to roam into the line of fire."

"And deprive the Vatican of an opportunity to run amok with no official repercussions, please. Besides I would have thought the presence of armed personal across the street might serve as notice enough for most people."

"Section Thirteen are not most people and we will leave it at that." The Yummie snapped

Xander threw up his hands "Ok this officially too weird for me and I come from the demon infested town." He turned to the nun. " Weren't you like totally Julie Andrews a few seconds ago and now you're like Sister Mary Bloodbath. What's the deal?"

Integra answered for her. "Sister Mary Yumiko Takagi is a part of an established order of Carmelite nuns, a sister in good standing and from all reports excellent with the children if a tad indulgent.. Yummie, on the other hand, is a brazen kill crazed psycho inhumanly strong and viciously dangerous, A Berserker. That they happen to share bodies is one of the many reasons the Vatican can keep the secret of one of their elite killers. "

"You mean She has?"

"Multiple personality whatchamacallit" Yummie sneered. "Ms Goodie-Good Pants asks for duties as far away from the action as she can get. She'd prefer that I stay all sleepy inside her, but The Vatican knows a good thing when they have it. So, I get to play from time to time."

"You just took apart two vampires as fast as any Slayer I've seen. Didn't it occur to you to do your thing when they were killing our guys." Xander asked angrily

"The vampires didn't touch your men. They were holding the boy and Yumiko when your men died. Something entirely different killed them. There was nothing Yumiko or I could have done."

"What?"

"I think I can find out what happened." Seres sighed "Master says there is a kind of trick were…"

Integra cut her off. "if you can do it faster then it takes to explain it then do so."

Seres knelt by the bodies of the men and concentrated. The room convulsed and then rewound itself like a tape in a VCR soon she saw the moment she was looking for. Reeves and Hudson had indeed seen Yumiko and boy and had been moving to try to rescue them. Something had come out of the darkness. Swift and brutal it had shown no mercy and less pity. Reeves and Hudson had been dead almost before they know it was there. Seres saw the thing raise from its kill and move to a wall and smear its hands across it as though writing .she snapped herself free of the vision "The wall over near the door, it wrote something."

Integra walked over and examined the wall "Well it seems you have a fan Mr. Harris

"Huh?"

Someone had used Reeves and Hudson's Blood to scrawl on the wall

Antipathy meet Xander, Xander meet Death.

Yummie smiled evilly, "If you'd like to confess anything before the end Mr. Harris I'm sure Sister Yumiko would love to help."

"Don't worry I'll figure out a way to stop her."

"How do you know it's a her

"Kill crazed psychopath wants revenge and says so in a note written in blood on a wall. Of course it will be female, maybe an ex-girlfriend."