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The door was heavily guarded; the food… the best and the wine… even better, but she hated this place. She hated being kept in captivity for only doing what she was taught, for only doing what she believed in. Many nights she had upset herself thinking about these things and on those nights, her voice fell away from her along with any connection to the world surrounding her. Her blonde hair was falling over her shoulders with her blue eyes forcing a shield of non-chalant emotion but that shield was slowly cracking, slowly dissipating into nothingness. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes for a moment.

Oni had spent time by preparing everything, he had with his recourses, they had a temporary secondary base and they were still taking out the remaining freaks ghouls and vampires, it appeared that the chip designers had made a stockpile, and they were using them. He phased through the wall of Integra's cell, "Hello Integra, I'm sorry I haven't been able to come see you but I've been carrying out your mission." He looked to her and saw the defeat and the doubt in them, "Integra, remember what we promised each other that night, that we would fight and we would never give up? Well I'm still fighting, and I've found the Judas, give me the word and ill kill him, or haul him before the queen. Give me the word and ill free you from this place to your rightful position. Give me the order"

Integra looked up to him and slowly pushed herself up. She walked over to him and gently wrapped her arms around him. "I remember what we said." She whispered. "The Judas does deserve to be punished, but I doubt the Queen will believe a word we say." She closed her eyes. "I hate this place... It could never be the same; just as it was."

Oni nodded, "no, the one thing that is constant in this universe and all others, is change, the only thing that matters is how we deal with it, and no things wont be the same... they'll be better, I know you cant see that right now but I promise ill make them better, and as for the queen, she'll believe us I think she was just out maneuvered, but hard evidence from my friend in the convention of 12 has given me the ability to out maneuver them, you have friends in the convention of twelve, you can kill the truth its been 3 months dead, I think its time to bring it back to haunt them."

She looked up into his eyes and blinked. "Why is it that no matter how I feel... you always make me feel better?" She gave a small smile. "Why is it that the only thing that ever helps me sleep since I was a child, was that song that you hummed on that night of my father's funeral...? Why is it that you have stuck with me…? Even for all these years..?"

Oni smiled, "because, I am that which sees both the light and the dark, in me, in you, in the universe, and can make it grey, can restore the balance, because that is what it means to become grey, I have always known things you may not understand, I may see beyond what you can but I have and will always light the way for you and for all who walk the path. Because I walked it before, I am walking it now and I will always walk it for as long as I am within this world."

She smiled and placed her head to his chest. "I am glad you are here. I would surely be dead... many times, if it weren't for you. And maybe not even from the hands of Evil." She closed her eyes. "Thank you..." She smiled. "I can remember the first day we met… I was just 10 and we were both angry for our own reasons, but yet you still agreed to help me."

Oni smiled, "come on time to stop living in the past, let's get you out of here and give the queen the power she needs." He stood snapping the restraints as if they were paper; he pulled out a cell phone, and poked at it until it rang, "damn 21st century technology." "Yeah are you ready, right clearance omega 2 10 break alpha, confirm, 10 minuets," he snapped the phone closed, "that would be backup." He smiled and they teleported to a small café just outside Buckingham palace. "Tea time I believe." he smiled as a set of tea and scones, "I have good and bad news about Walter, good news, he's alive and well... bad news, he's in a government run facility, and they're drugging him, heavily, tranquilizers, anti-psychotic medicine, and worse stuff, its altering his mental state he's had a visit by the good old friends of the 12 and they've convinced him to stay, just until you're re instated, which they figured would be 2 - 3 years, but I'm going to have to break him out, as soon as we get you reinstated. Other than that, were taking out the leftovers of our latest war, casualty's have been low, civilian and ours, we believe were all but done." None of his words would tip off any civilian but it was good enough to inform Integra, the head of section two arrived and set down about 10 folders, thick with incriminating information, on almost all of the council. "I can't do much more, and thank you oni for the help yesterday." Oni nodded and the man walked off.

Integra looked towards Oni, and then back towards the man that had walked off. "I agree. We must get Walter out as soon as possible, but I don't think it will be a very easy job to get me reinstated. Not only have they judged me as a traitor, but as a terrorist. And to tell the truth, I am not sure if I would like to be. All the treacherous bastards deserve to rot in a burning purgatory." That fire had started to return to Integra's eyes, but it would be awhile before it was there fully. "I thought we had lost Walter, and I'm very glad we didn't. The numbers of casualties are good, but I hope it will stay that way." She looked back down to the folders. "I think we have more than enough information…"

Oni laughed, "well lets put it this way, with the contents of these folders the true traitors, will earn their own little private executions, as for the rest, it'll be your problem soon enough." he smiled, "Shall we go see the queen? She has an opening in 3... 2 ... 1... Now"

Integra gave a soft smile and nodded. "...Yes. Let's go." She bit her lip, silently wondering how exactly they would get there. Oni always had his little ways of seeping through security but she wondered as well... would it be a good thing or a bad thing to meet with the Queen?

Oni smiled, "good thing." And they disappeared reappearing just outside the audience chamber, "we have an audience with the queen under Hellsing." The woman nodded and they opened the doors, "I had a talk with her majesty last night, I just wanted to make sure you were still in the fight."

She turned to him and looked into his eyes. "...Always." She turned her head and started to walk up towards the throne. She could see the look on the Queen's face which gave her a bit of a feeling of uneasiness and uncomforted, but as soon as she approached, she kneeled, bowing her head with much respect.

The Queen looked to Oni, then to Integra. "You said you wished to speak with me of something of great importance, and I am anxious to know what this is. I have gotten reports of many things," she looked over to Integra. "Many things I believe to be falsified," she looked back to Oni. "But other things, I have no choice but to investigate."

Oni looked to her after bowing he approached with the paperwork, "I am sorry to say majesty but we have some Judas in our midst, many of the convention of twelve in fact, I have evidence here that those collaborating with the freak chip manufacturers met, on the eve of the battle in the tower of London, they held a meeting with the true members those not willing to betray you and the hole of England, they held those people in obstinacy, and cast orders as the entire council, of course the military willingly obeyed the council members have for the last year worked with supplied and aided the chip manufacturers as well as with the Vatican's special section 13's Iscariot division, playing both sides of the field in trying to undermine the Hellsing organization, there is more than enough evidence to have them hung."

The Queen reached up for the folders, grabbed them and placed them on her lap as she started to read over them. Silence ran through the room for a moment as her eyes shot up and down some of the many papers. There was an angry flash in her eyes as she closed the manila folder. "I see. I thank you, Oni, for bringing me this to my attention. Unfortunately, my investigators are a part of the Convention of the Twelve, so I know nothing other than what they tell me." The Queen's blue eyes fell upon Integra, whose eyes were downcast and her lips closed so tight, they could have been sewn shut. "I will ask you this," she turned back to Oni. "I want your honesty to the fullest… Do you believe they should get executed, or live out the rest of their lives in a cell that you have personally picked?"

Oni looked to her, "Ma'am I can only tell you this, darkness can only be seen because of the light, and the light can only be seen because of the darkness, I am become grey, I stand between the two, and I understand the balance, I can say, that darkness has been in power for far too long, it is time to reveal the light, they have had many choices, made many chances, taken they have had many times to turn away from the darkness, and in truth any people that would stab Integra in the back, should meet their fate and take what they have given, I think they're crimes, are beyond forgiveness, I opened your eyes, it is your hands your words that shape and move this country and if anyone is to make the decision weather they live or die, is Integra, she has served you well and truthfully for these many years, and she will continue to do so until the day she passes beyond the veil."

The Queen nodded and looked towards Integra. "Then, I ask you the same question." She stepped closer and looked into Integra's eyes as she placed her finger beneath her chin to raise it up. "Do you believe they deserve to die?"

Integra had so many things she wanted to say, so many ways she wanted to say it. She took a deep breath. "They have not only betrayed me, but they have betrayed this country, the Church of England, and most of all, you... You're Majesty. Yes, I believe they should pay for their crimes seven-fold. But in all truth, it is your decision. I am merely a servant to this country and to you."

The Queen backed away. "I see." She grabbed the folders and stood before her throne. "In less than twenty minutes, they will be arrested and taken to a place where not even God shall see. You will have no problems from them any longer..." She looked back to Integra. "I know that you have gone through a lot, even when you were a child. I am proud of you, and you're Father would be as well." Integra smiled softly as the Queen turned and walked from the Throne room without another word. Integra rose and smiled softly.

"They will surely get what they deserve."

Oni nodded, "of that I am certain." He looked to her, "let's go, home." With that they teleported to the Hellsing mansion, "welcome home."