Alucard licked his lips as he walked over to Rip Van's shivering body. 'I wonder how her blood tastes…' He thought as he reached down and grabbed Rip Van by chin.
"Master!" Seras yelled as she staggered over to where he stood, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"Getting a drink," Alucard replied in a deadpan tone as his tongue slid across Rip Van's neck. The werewolf/vampire hybrid moaned feebly and a weak hand rose up from her side and tried to break free of his grip. A sadistic grin crossed Alucard's face as he prepared to sink his fangs into Rip Van's neck.
"But you can't!" Seras shouted as she stood up. "She…saved my life back there."
"…." Alucard stopped seconds away from draining Rip Van's blood and glared at Seras. "So what? Unless you know the way out of this castle, this is the only way we can get information!" He snapped, irritated with Seras for interrupting his meal for the second time.
"She's also part werewolf," Seras pointed out, returning her master's deadpan look. Alucard instantly dropped Rip Van and backed up until he was at Sera's side. His face looked like he'd just touched something disgusting. "How do you plan on getting out now?" Seras asked Alucard, looking rather smug. He just gave her a death-glare in reply.
"You could just ask," Schrödinger suggested. The catboy sat atop the wrecked Messerschmitt, fully clothed and in a cheerful mood.
"Schrödinger?!" Seras and Rip shouted in shock. Rip instinctively covered herself while Seras just stood there with her mouth open.
"ALUCARD!!" The voice of Anderson was unmistakable, as were the barrage of bayonets that impaled Alucard. Alucard slowly turned around and saw Zorin and the Captain standing in front of Rip Van. The Captain lifted Rip Van up and cradled her in his arms protectively as Zorin pulled off her glove. The Paladin of Iscariot was standing in the doorway, two more bayonets in his hands.
"This is where things get interesting," Alucard sneered and struck the pose for his release, "Control art restriction system." He stated as he began to revert to the red-eyed, shapeless mass o' darkness. "Level 3, Level 2, Level 1. Released." Baskerville sprung out of his right shoulder
Suddenly Malice was blasted through the hangar ceiling and landed on top of Schrödinger, roasting the catboy alive with his fiery body. "Ugh…" The flame homunculus didn't have a chance to get up as a 150 mm depleted uranium anti-tank round slammed into his chest.
"We're sorry," Metal cackled as they rose out of the shadows of the now completely demolished Messerschmitt, the Crucifix resting on their right shoulder. "We're We interrupting something?" In terms of appearance, Metal had extensively altered Fumasu's body. They had cast aside the trenchcoat and fedora and their torso and legs were now completely made of the same shapeless darkness as Alucard. However, their darkness had no eyes in it. Their left arm was now completely encased in black flames and their belt-covered left hand clutched a MGM even as it was burning. The right arm was completely covered in ancient bandages and was heavily leaking dark red miasma from that arm, which held the Crucifix as if it were the size of the MGM. Their eyes had gone from bloodred with skyblue pupils to pupil-less glowing red eyes that fixed Baskerville with an evil stare as it turned and immediately charged them.
"Time to die mutt." They cackled and in one fluid motion, leveled their MGM at the hellhound, and fired off a round into Baskerville's open maw. The round exploded inside Baskerville and a large hole appeared on its underbelly. The hellhound collapsed mere feet from Metal and ceased began twitching.
Two seconds later Metal's jaw was blown off from a shot by Alucard, who stood a few yards away with the Jackal drawn and aimed at Iscariot's demon hunter. "What fun!" Alucard laughed as he watched Metal's head reform. "You're even more fun than Anderson!!" He laughed even more as Metal took aim with the Crucifix and blasted Alucard to pieces. The Hellsing vampire reformed and began blasting Metal with both his Casull and Jackal.
Seras was so focused on the battle between her master and Metal that she failed to notice the eyeless shadow detach from Baskerville and slide into her shadow. Rip Van, the Captain, a recently regenerated Schrödinger, and Zorin didn't notice the shadow either. The 'shadow' slid up Seras' legs and underneath her skirt. Without warning, Avarice's tentacles shredded Seras' uniform in three seconds flat and pinned her to the ground, coiling around her body. "Heeello again sexy girl!" Avarice laughed as he rose out of Seras' shadow, "Did you miss me?"
"YOU!!" Alucard and Metal shouted at the same time and leveled their weapons at Avarice. There were two flashes of sickly green energy and Hubris appeared standing between the two combatants seconds before their forearms were sliced off in a bloody mess. "Hubris…" Metal snarled as their arms began to regenerate, but the fourteen foot tall homunculus paid no attention to Metal's threats and kept its six-eyed gaze on Avarice and his captive. He turned toward Alucard, whose arms had just regenerated. The flaps of Hubris' cloak parted for a split second and three flashes of sickly green energy crossed Alucard's chest, which fell apart as if something had sliced him up like a block of cheese. "Move it Avarice," Hubris ordered the sex-maniac homunculus with a glare.
Avarice didn't need any encouragement. He clutched Seras and the two of them vanished into his shadow.
"SERAS VICTORIA!!" Alucard's voice roared in anguish.