Order 18: Bloodbath

By: SleepyNinja

Disclaimer: Don't own Hellsing and not making a dime, pennies however, are another story.

A/N: Review or I'll cry and stuff.

Jack felt the hot water hit his body as he bathed himself. His new room was much like his old flat. It had more or less the same things in it, a lousy view, and it was usually messy. However the one thing that was different from his old flat: the hot water never ran out!

He washed the last of his shampoo out of his hair and turned the water off. Several drips fell from the showerhead before it stopped completely. Jack opened the shower door, closing it behind him as he set his feet down on the soft white cotton mat. He grabbed the towel off the rack and dried himself off. He threw the towel on the sink and grabbed his clothes and dressed himself. Walking out into his room he grabbed his blood bag, tearing open the top and sucked down the contents greedily. He threw the empty bag into the garbage and grabbed his sword. Time to practice.

He walked out of the room and went into the storage room. He had cleaned it out and had turned it into a practice room where he could practice and improve on his fighting and sword techniques. He was going to make damn sure he would make Anderson beg for his life the next time they met.

Henry Porter was not by any means composed man. He was constantly frazzled and jittery, and the current situation he was in was not a good one. He was in charge of FREAK chip manufacturing in West London, and the evidence at the captured lab wasn't making anything better.

He paced back and forth in his small dark office. Cigarette butts were strewn on the dull red carpet, and all over the cluttered desk. The phone rang, and Henry jumped. He cleared off the papers off his phone and the area of the desk. "Hello…?" He squeaked into the phone.

The voice on the other side boomed. "Yes sir…" Henry said. "Yes we did get what you sent. They're working on it right now." Henry listened to the other voice. "Tonight? Can it be done by then…? Well yes of course I want revenge. It's just its making everyone here uneasy. No I'm not arguing… Yes sir." Henry hung up the phone and slumped into his chair. The stress was going to kill him, if what was to happen tonight didn't.

Jack's closed his eyes and concentrated. He had five bricks lined up in a row and was intent on crushing them with a punch. He formed a loose fist at his waist and opened his eyes. With a shout and a twist, his hand went through the bricks. His pulled his hand out of the rubble and rubbed his hand. "Dammit," he thought, "It's not supposed to hurt if you do it right." He looked at the pile of bricks behind him and sighed. "Better give it another shot."

""Impressive." Alucard had appeared behind him.

"Not really Master Alucard. My form was off. I could have broken my hand."

"That's not a big problem."

"I know, but I would rather not be inconvenienced by it." Jack said as he set up more bricks.

Alucard gave him a smug grin. "I'm afraid you don't have time for another try. We're leaving."

Seras leaned on an armored transport with her Halconnen cannon. She gazed at the warehouse, it was a supposedly another FREAK chip lab. What made it worse is that the building ownership had been traced back to an organized crime family.

"Ready to go in Master?"

Seras pushed herself off the armored vehicle, placed her cannon on her back, and readied her pistol. "Of course." She waved to the unit behind her to follow her and walked in the front door.

The door led to a dark hallway, though a large metal door could be seen about 10 meters in front of them. Seras lead the unit down the hallway with Jack tailing behind. Seras opened the door and went into the room with gun drawn. The room was a bright white and well lit. Alucard was standing in the middle of the room, light reflecting from his sunglasses.

"Going to shoot me again police girl?"

Seras lowered her gun and motioned the unit to come in. She looked around the room and didn't see another door to go through. "Master, how do we get out of here?"

Alucard pulled his Jackal out of his coat and blew a hole in the wall behind him. The hole made by the 13mm bullet revealed a passage behind the wall. "This way Police Girl."

"I can handle this Master." Jack walked toward the whole and kicked another hole in the wall. As he was about to kick another hole in the wall, large strips of drywall fell off. They fell in a strait line all around the room 1.5 meters up. Shiny black metal was behind the dry wall, lined with holes.

Seras looked at this for a second. "GET DOWN!" Seras, Jack, and several of the more responsive troops hit the ground as bullets started to fly out of the holes. Many of the troops didn't manage to get down fast enough and were cut down in the gunfire, their blood gushing from their shredded bodies as they fell to the ground.

The shooting stopped after another several seconds of intense gunfire. Alucard had apparently decided not to move, he lay in several pieces on the ground. As Seras rose he reattached all his parts where they should be, and stood exactly where he did before the shooting started. Seras looked in horror at the scene around her. Mangled bodies lay strewn on the floor, which was covered in blood. Jack and the few soldiers who got down fast enough rose to the floor, their clothing stained with blood.

"They've been expecting us." Jack tried to open the door from which they came from to no avail. "We've been locked in," Jack started as he raised his Hellcat at the doorknob. "But this should fix that." Jack pulled the trigger and the 15mm bullet smashed into the metal door. Much to Jack's chagrin the door was only slightly dented. "Holy shit…" he muttered.

"Move aside." Seras hoisted the Halconnen off her back and loaded a depleted uranium shell in the chamber, aimed, and fired. Seras recoiled a bit and grinned as the smoke cleared. The grin quickly disappeared; this time the door had a very large dent in it, rather than Jack's smaller one. "I don't think we're leaving that way."

"Well then," Jack turned to the hole he had been making, "looks like this is our way out." He kicked the remaining drywall out of the way and walked in towards the darkness. "This place is probably booby trapped, so watch your- Wha?" The floor under him collapsed, sending Jack down a metal tube.

"Guess he wasn't kidding." One of the soldiers said.

Jack hit the concrete floor with a thud. "Me and my big mouth," he said to himself. He groaned as he stood up and rubbed his head. He was in a large beige room, at least 7 meters tall. There was a simple door on the far left side from where he was, the door opened and in stepped seven figures, each clad in black.

"It's time for you to die, Hellsing whelp." One of them said.

"Oh really?" Jack raised his Hellcat and stared at them. "I have a problem with this."

"Time to die." They all rushed towards him, moving at unnatural speeds.

"Freaks I see," Jack said as he shot the figure farthest to the right. "Entertain me!" He yelled, holstering his gun and charging towards them. As they were about to clash Jack launched a flying sidekick at the lead vampire, hitting him directly in the chest with a cracking sound. He was knocked back into the wall, several meters away. Jack turned his attention to his other five attackers who were closing in. The first to attack tried to land a haymaker on the side of Jack's head. Jack turned into a side kick, avoiding the attack and crushing the vampire's ribs. The other vampire's backed away slightly. "Unfortunately I have little time to play." Jack drew his sword from the sheath latched to his back. "So forgive me for cutting this short." He put an extra emphasis on the word 'cutting' and scolded himself for using such a horrible pun.

"Fool, you can never hope to defeat us!" The head vampire said as he got up from the ground.

"You know I'm really starting to get annoyed by your attitude." Jack turned and took of the head of the vampire behind him, who was apparently trying to stab him with a switchblade knife. "Two down" he thought. He twisted around and stabbed another vampire in the heart, turning him into dust. One of the vampires tried to take advantage of Jack's off balance posture by trying to kick out his legs. Jack moved his back leg around and used the twist to cut the attacker in two. Jack jumped into the air as the four remaining vampires tried to attack him at the same time. He jumped backwards a bit to land behind one of them, and before he landed, he cut him clean in half. The three remaining attackers were quick to surround him. The vampire facing him threw a punch at his chest. Jack leaned to the right and leaned back, swinging his sword behind him, decapitating the two vampires behind him in one smooth motion.

"It…It is impossible!" The remaining vampire backed away from Jack.

"Get used to it," he said, before stabbing him in the heart. Jack looked surveyed his work with satisfaction and walked through the door in the corner of the room.

Seras walked down the hallway slowly. She and several of the troops following her had fallen into a trap and they didn't quite know where they were. She opened the door slowly, peeking inside making sure it wasn't rigged to explode or anything of that nature. When she walked into the room 10 men with shotguns stood in its middle.

"'Bout time you showed up." One of the men said in an Irish accent as he raised his gun.

Seras slammed the door shut as the men fired at her. "Ten armed human hostiles." She said to the troops behind her as she readied her pistol. "Go in on my mark." She stood directly in front of the door. "Mark." She kicked the door down and both sides opened fire. In a few seconds the fire stopped and all the men in the room were on the ground dead. Seras had taken a shell to the chest, but it didn't matter; the pellets were forced out of her body as her advanced regeneration took effect.

She walked to the next door and opened it slowly, only to be greeted by the business end of a shotgun barrel.

"Time to die little lady" The man holding the gun said.

"Nothing personal." Jack said as he fired the Hellcat point-blank into the side of his head. The headless corpse fell to the ground, forming a pool of blood beneath it. "Hello Master."

"Jack! Where have you been?"

He shrugged. "This place is a maze. They knew we were coming, everything is gone." He motioned to the room behind him. It had an uncanny layout to the last FREAK chip lab, but all of the equipment was gone. "They even took the light bulbs out of some of the rooms."

"I know. Have you seen Master around?"
"No I haven't. Of course when do we know what Alucard does?"

"Very rarely."

"Well," Jack said looking at the door to Seras' right. "There's only one way outta here."

"Alright. I'll go in first." Seras crept toward the door and kicked it open. The room was dark with a desk with Alucard sitting behind it, his feet propped up next to the phone. "Master!"

"I've been talking to my good friend Henry here." Alucard motioned to the squirming man pinned to the wall. "He has a few interesting things to say."

"Oh does he?" She said as she walked into the room, avoiding the bodies that littered the floor. She pressed the end of her pistol to his throat. "Think you can repeat what you told him?"

"N-never!" he protested.

"Master that's not how you treat someone." Jack pulled his sword out and placed the blade about a centimeter from his pinky finger. "You have to work up. Now," he said, staring into Henry's terrified eyes. "How do we get out of here?"

"T-there's a button on the bottom of the desk! It unlocks everything!"

"See, that was easy." Jack said as he strolled over to the desk and pressed the button. "Now who do you work for?"

"I-I can't! They'll kill me!"

"What makes you think that we won't?" Seras said, trying to sound threatening. "Who do you work for?"

"N-no!"

Jack walked back over and pointed his gun at the man's hand. "This shoots a 15mm explosive bullet, what do you think will happen if I shoot?"

The man squealed in horror; that was a REALLY big gun. "Okay! Don't shoot! I'll tell you everything! I work for –" He was cut short by several men with Uzis barging room. They opened fire, shooting Henry in the head several times, shattering his skull, spewing blood and brains around the immediate area. With Henry dead they turned their attention to the Hellsing personnel, spraying bullets in every direction.

Jack swore. This was the last thing they needed. He dashed between the troops and the attackers. He took several bullets to the chest and stomach in the process but it didn't matter. He raised his gun and started shooting. Alucard was still sitting squeezing off headshots and regular intervals and Seras was already reloading her pistol. Jack aimed for the center of the group and emptied his clip, shredding five men's torsos and in the process creating several large holes in the wall.

The troops behind Jack soon opened fire. In a few seconds it was over, the attackers all lay on the ground dead, or dying; their blood seeping into the carpet, mixing with the blood already there. One of the men crawled toward the Uzi he had dropped when he was shot. Jack walked over toward him slowly. The man grabbed his gun and opened fire at Jack, sending hot lead into his stomach and chest.

Jack looked down at his chest. "Try silver bullets next time." He slammed another clip into the Hellcat and fired. The bullets squeezed themselves out as Jack turned around. "You guys okay?" Jack asked the troops.

"Yes sir, no casualties."

"Good." Jack looked at Henry's headless corpse. "I don't suppose he's going to be any use now. Of course he was talking to Alucard," Jack looked over at the chair behind the desk. It was empty. "Who has disappeared. I hate it when he does that."

"Alright." Seras said as she took command. "Go secure the building and make sure the exit is unlocked. Jack you stay here with me."

"Roger. Alright, let's go!" The troops left the room in formation, and weapons ready.

"What is it Master?" Jack said as he holstered his gun.

"Jack," she said in a serious tone. "I want you to drink my blood." She pulled out one of the knives that held what was left of Henry to the wall.

"What?"

"I," she spoke slowly, "want you to drink my blood. Then I will no longer be your master, and you will become true undead." She took the knife in her hand and dragged the tip across her forearm. She winced slightly as the blade cut her flesh, but achieved the desired result of warm flowing blood. She held out her forearm to him. "Here." She said.

Jack was a little taken aback at his master's request. It wasn't as much as the nature of the request as it was the sudden timing. Was he ready? Sort of. He was strong, no doubt about that. Fueled by anger and hatred of Anderson he had actually been drinking more blood than he probably needed, and had been relentless in his training, but was he ready for this? Self doubt filled his mind. If he did kill Anderson what else was there to do? Kill vampires for the Hellsing family for the rest of eternity? Turn into the very thing he hunted? He pushed all of those thoughts out of his mind; he'd figure that out when he got there. His master must have had a reason for offering her blood to him, and that was good enough for him, but what the hell was it?

Jack decided to finish his internal conflict at a later time. Seras probably had her reasons. He stared at the open wound and looked at the flowing blood. He moved his head towards the wound and stuck out his tongue. After a moment of hesitation his licked the blood off Seras' arm slowly and swallowed.

He looked around. "That's it?" he asked in a puzzled tone.

"Pretty much" she chirped.

"Whatever."

They left the room a few moments later, a puzzled look still on Jack's face. Alucard stepped out from the shadows and took his sunglasses off. "Very interesting Police Girl."

"Well what were you expecting?" Seras asked as they walked down the hall toward their room.

"I dunno. Something."

Seras stretched her arms out and yawned. "I don't know about you but I'm going straight to bed."

"I'm still gonna be up for a while."

"Well," she said as she reached for her doorknob, "just don't stay up to late."

"You mean early."

Seras laughed. "Goodnight Jack." She opened her door and gave Jack a smile before stepping inside.

"Goodnight Seras." Her door closed and Jack walked off. "Can regenerate any part of my body but still don't have a fucking spine." He though to himself as he opened his door. He was going to change out of his bloody uniform and then go break more bricks. "Dammit." He though to himself again.

Preview:

Seras: We haven't done one of these things lately.

Jack: Nope.

Seras: Wonder why.

Jack: They're stupid and random.

Seras: I though everyone loved that stuff?

Walter: Cheesecake?

Seras & Jack: What?

Walter: The next episode, Stuff Alucard Does When He's Alone!

Seras: That's not the name!

A/N: Forgive me for the preview, I just had to. I love those things.

A/N: Once again, thanks to my editor.

Chagrin is a real word - A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event.