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Angel dropped into the hole, smirking as the Captain leapt at Seras. She'd taken a beating, but the darkness in place of her left arm had formed into a silhouette of her arm, except for a few tendrils near the amputation point, and she looked as calm as she had when they'd first found Integra. Of course, her part in the fight was basically over now. As both of them pulled their arms back to punch, the Captain suddenly stopped short as Walter entangled his entire body in wires. The Captain looked around in surprise as Walter stepped out of the shadows, smiling.

"We're here again, Captain," Walter said. "We seem to have a knack for meeting like this."

Seras shot forward, driving her left arm into the Captain's chest in a spray of blood before leaping backward, more blood spraying out of the hole.

"You brought Walter back?" Seras asked as the Captain sagged in his wire bonds.

"Yes and no," Angel said, walking over to her. "I made him my one and only Familiar."

"I'm glad to see you're alright, Miss Victoria," Walter smiled.

Angel raised an eyebrow as the Captain's face curled into a relieved smile just before he burst into a ball of blue flames. Walter dropped him, pulling back his wires as Angel wrapped his arms around Seras.

"You would have beaten him anyway," Angel smiled. "I'm so proud of you."

"I couldn't have if he hadn't led me here," Seras said. "He gave me the silver tooth I just shoved into his heart."

Angel nodded. "He wanted to be free."

Seras nodded, then kissed him. "I'm so glad you're alright."

"I got lucky," Angel said. "Walter was so fixated on killing Alucard that he didn't pay enough attention to me."

"In hind sight, I should have known that you'd grown strong enough to warrant my full attention as well," Walter said. "I was mistaken to believe I could kill you both at the same time."

"You were foolish to believe you could kill Alucard at all," Angel said. "Me, yes, if you'd focused on me. But Alucard was never going to lose to you."

Walter merely shrugged. "Shall we go and reinforce Sir Integra now?"

"Yes," Seras nodded. "We should finish freeing the rest of these Nazis."

"Walter, you can take point," Angel said. "I'm sure you'd like the chance to test your new body on more than a surprise trap."

"Very much so," Walter nodded.

Angel nodded and they all began to run through the zeppelin. As they ran, the metal beneath their feet shook more and more violently as explosions quickly spread through it. A section of the roof fell at them from above, but Walter's wires shredded it into tiny, insignificant pieces in a split second, allowing them to not even slow down. Then, finally, Walter easily ripped his way through three sets of double doors that filled the hallway like the layered door of a vault. Inside, the room was in flames, Integra and the Major each occupying the two safe areas, separated by a thick wall of nearly-indestructible glass. Glass which Walter shredded in an instant.

"Ah, Valter!" the Major smiled. "You just missed Alucard being bested!"

"Apologies, Major, but I have other matters to attend to," Walter said politely, even as his wires bound and hoisted the Major into the air.

Seras crashed down beside Integra and Walter, the force of her landing blowing all of the fire out. As Angel joined them, Seras stood, raising an MG42.

"Vell, it is a pleasure to finally meet you in person, child," the Major smiled at Seras, completely unconcerned with being at Walter's, and by extension Angel's, mercy. "You joined us at ze absolute perfect moment. I am at somesing of a crossroads, it seems. Alucard has been my arch enemy for many decades, but now, ze position of arch enemy has fallen vacant."

All four of them stared at him in silence, so the Major stood.

"Seeing as how you're his closest compatriots, I sink ze title of arch enemy should fall upon your shoulders," the Major said.

"Dead men don't have arch enemies," Angel said.

"Come now, don't be shy," the Major grinned. "Your nemesis is here! Right in front of you! Don't squander zis moment! Wreak delicious revenge upon me!" His grin grew. "Or am I too much for you? Do you not have ze vill to shred me, Valter? Or you, Angel, not have the vill to give ze command? Or you, Integra Hellsing? Has your borrowed veapon run out of bullets, Seras Victoria?"

"Do it, Walter," Integra ordered.

"Of course, Sir Integra," Walter bowed slightly, just before his wires constricted, ripping the Major's arms and lower body below his stomach to bits.

Except, it wasn't blood and meat and bone that fell out. It was oil and bits of metal. Mangled and unrecognizable machinery. The Major was a robot.

All four stared in utter shock and disbelief. Angel's mind reeled, unable to fully comprehend what he was seeing at first.

"I'm sorry," Integra finally said. "What the fuck am I looking at?"

"He's a machine!" Seras breathed.

"When the fuck did we start fighting Pinochio's fat uncle?" Angel asked.

The Major laughed. "My humanity is not in question. I still have zat one trait-"

"No!" Integra interrupted. "A man is a homosapien made of meat and blood, not cogs and coolant!"

Again the Major laughed. "I still possess a human vill! Zose Vampires you choose to keep in your company, wizout ze lifeblood of ozer people, zey would shamble to a halt. If it's a monster you vant, look no furzer zan Alucard and zese little vuns, playing at immortality. Don't mention me in ze same bress as zat fraud. So long as I am propelled forvard by my own unadulterated vill, I am heir to somesing Alucard can only steal. Even if I were reduced to nosing more zan a brain-"

"Is there a rest stop between now and the fucking point?" Integra asked as the floor trembled with an explosion somewhere inside the zeppelin. "Ever since you sent that child to interrupt our meeting, you've done nothing but prattle on endlessly about nothing. I'm tired, I've got a headache from hearing your men screaming in pain and fear as they die, and I would like to go and see what's become of my house."

The Major sighed, still grinning. "Very vell. I can see ze soughts of var and revenge turning in your head almost as literally as zey are in mine. I planted ze seeds of zis var half a century ago. Now, show me vat has blossomed."

"Seras, shoot him," Integra said. "Walter, we're leaving."

"Yes, Sir Integra," Walter bowed, turning and following her out of the room and into the hallway.

Seras raised her machine gun, only for Angel to set a hand on it.

"No remains left," Angel said. "Nothing to be rebuilt or keep talking."

Seras nodded, tossing the gun aside before kneeling and driving her fist into the floor. The tendrils of darkness at her shoulder stabbed downward into the floor before ripping back upward, tearing an eighty-eight millimeter cannon up from the floor, a tendril cycling a single round into it as the rest aimed the cannon.

"Oh, she is beautiful!" the Major smiled. "Fire when-"

The cannon fired with an explosion of sound, and the round exploded completely through the Major's chest and out through the side of the zeppelin, Angel hearing a bell ring outside. As the smoke cleared, all that remained of the Major were scattered bits of scrap metal.

Angel nodded. "Let's go."

Seras nodded, and they both sent tendrils of darkness upward, smashing through the top of the zeppelin and hurling themselves out before forming wings and launching themselves to the side, avoiding the explosion that chased them out of the hole. As they did, they looked down, seeing Walter pulling Integra out a window near the ground using his wires. They landed beside them and watched as fires rapidly consumed the zeppelin.

"I'm tired," Integra said. "Let's go home...to what's left of it."

"Seras, take Sir Integra," Angel said. "Walter and I will be along shortly."

Seras nodded and picked up Integra in her right arm before forming a wing from her darkness and taking off. Angel turned, walking to Walter's body, where he'd left Alucard, before looking around. After a moment, he found the same sigil as Alucard had worn on his glove drawn on the ground in blood. He used blood playing cards to cut a block around thw sigil and lift it to himself before reabsorbing his blood, Walter included, and picked up Walter's body before forming himself a set of darkness wings and taking off, heading back to the mansion as well. He reformed Walter once he'd landed and the pair of them headed inside, finding Integra and Seras in the foyer where the Wild Geese members who'd survived had gathered the dead. Except, Pip was also there, standing beside Seras.

"Welcome back, Pip," Angel said.

"It is good to see you, mon amie," Pip said.

"You all are free from your contracts, if you would like to be," Integra said. "You've done more than enough. You will be paid extra compensation for your hardships, and compensation will be sent to the families of the deceased."

"Thank you, Sir Integra," one of the mercenaries said before they returned to getting their dead friends ready to be moved out of the building.

"Walter, help them with the bodies," Integra said. "You have a lot of work to do in order to make up for your part in all of this."

Walter merely bowed and set to work. As he did, Integra turned to Angel and Seras.

"You two, get some rest," Integra said. "You've both earned it."

Angel nodded. "I could use a nap. And a snack. I had to burn through a lot of energy fighting a certain somebody."

Walter smirked but said nothing.

"Stop by the pantry, both of you," Integra said. "Tomorrow, you'll be helping clean this place up."

Both nodded and headed to the pantry, Seras drinking some of the blood they kept on-hand for Angel and Alucard without complaint, then headed to the basement where their coffins were since Angel thought to move them before the fight.

"I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight," Seras said, eyes distant. "Now that things have calmed down, I keep seeing the city on fire, all those people lying dead in the streets, that werewolf's smile as he died. I probably won't be able to sleep for weeks without nightmares."

Angel nodded, wrapping his arms around her. "I'm sorry. I wish I could have kept you away from all of this."

Seras shook her head. "Even if you'd tried to send me away, I'd have been right by your side anyway. I'd never let you go through all of that alone. I love you."

"I love you, too," Angel smiled, kissing her. "Tomorrow, I'll make arrangements to make it a little easier for you to sleep."

Seras nodded, and Angel gently guided her to lie down in her coffin.

"Keep the lid off," Seras requested. "Please."

Angel nodded, kissing her again. "I'll be right beside you, so if you have a nightmare, I can wake you up."

Seras nodded and closed her eyes, her face immediately scrunching up slightly, but she kept them closed and remained silent. Angel nodded to himself and used a tendril of darkness to move his coffin beside hers before getting in and closing his eyes, drifting off to sleep in seconds.

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