Chapter Two – Gathering the Agents, the New Recruit
Zell watched the dream carefully and noticed that Dante had begun to take on Alex's looks during the beginning of the dream battle against Vergil. Having seen this Zell quickly pulled up another visual of Alex, asleep in the chamber, the only difference was that she had white hair and seemed to be staggering as the battle went on. During the climax of the battle, when Dante and Vergil began the stare down, things seemed to fade out into another location. It was all white and Alex and Dante stood before each other in a stagnant space, where all was white. Zell watched this sequence very closely in an attempt to determine if his theory was correct at all.
"So, you're the one that was chosen, huh?" Dante asked with his arms crossed.
"I guess, but I really would rather not have to go through this at this moment." Alex stated sounding very annoyed.
"It wasn't like I could choose who it was it just happened. Listen, I want you to take care of my brother. He was the one who did this to you, uh me, er… whatever. Anyway in order for you to be able to kill my brother we must join as one soul." Dante explained as simply as he could.
"Wait, what? I don't like cleaning up other people's messes. Why do I have to do this? What'll happen if I don't?" Alex asked defiantly and crossed her arms.
"If you don't then you will know what Hell is truly like, and believe me, it ain't pretty." Dante retorted and turned his back to Alex.
"Okay, fine. How do we merge souls, or whatever you said?" Alex sighed realizing what could possibly happen to her and her best friends.
"Do you accept my help whenever I may decide to give it?" Dante asked
"Yes." Alex stated as if in deep thought.
"Okay, the first off… take these babies." Dante said then handed Alex two twin handguns.
"What're these for?" Alex asked while taking the two guns.
"The silver's Ivory, and the bronze's Ebony. Treat 'em with care." Dante began.
"What next?" Alex asked smart mouthy.
"This….. is my father's sword. The Rebellion. This blade has the power to banish demons back to wherever the hell they came from. Handle with care." Dante continued slowly as he handed the weapon over to Alex.
"Wow… kinda heavy.." Alex gasped as she nearly dropped the hefty blade.
"Good. Now listen, when you wake a giant building will appear in the heart of downtown Beverly Hills, so take these with you. They are the weapons I used against these bastards. Good luck. You'll need it." Dante finished as he walked into Alex's body, causing her to slowly wake up.
"So what was the matter Zell?" Jerry asked swiftly as he wiped his head with a clean white handkerchief.
"The son of Sparda that died was sent inside Alex, the other son that survived wishes to kill him again. We can't let that happen or it'll spell the end of the human race as we know it." Zell stated darkly as he wiped his hands on the end of his lab coat.
"Then I'll gather the others. Come now Alex. You have a new mission to complete." Jerry stated then departed to his own office to make a call to 'The Center'.
"Alex, can you stand? We need you to get up." Zell stated while trying to help Alex come to her senses.
"How? Why'd it have to be me? I doubt that Sam and Clover will look at me the same way anymore…" Alex mumbled to her, and then tried to stand, only to fall back onto Zell.
"Get me some of the smelling salts. Pronto!" Zell barked then sat the groggy Alex on a nearby seat.
Just after a minute that seemed to drag on for hours, the other scientists had come with the item requested. Zell gave an acknowledging nod to each scientist then he began to wave the salts under Alex's nose. Shortly after, Jerry called for Zell to go into his office and bring Alex along as well. After about five minutes Zell was able to drag Alex into the office, and just as Zell sat down he heard screams from three different voices coming from a vent above a fancy red couch. Then, almost immediately after, there appeared three girls falling atop each other. Upon seeing this, Zell let out a stifled laugh. Jerry addressed the girls as Sam, Clover, and Britney. The three were obviously steaming mad when they saw Jerry but he didn't let it affect him.
"Now, now girls I am quite sorry; however, this is a very important mission." Jerry began.
"Ugnh? Ow my head…. Hey Jerry, what happened?" Alex asked groggily, as if she had forgot what she had came to do at WOOHP.
"Alex? Where were you? We were so worried." Sam and Clover stormed around Alex nearly instantly.
"Wait a sec Sammy. I don't this is Alex." Clover said slowly observing her friend's new appearance.
"Huh? Clover it is me! I'm Alex!" Alex blared in shock of seeing her friends as she was changed, complete with silver white hair and icy blue eyes that resembled Clover's eyes.
"Yes, this is why I've summoned you three. This is how Alex should appear if you five don't complete this mission." Jerry began quickly.
"Uh, five Jerry? But there are four of us including 'Alex' over there" Britney Added.
"I'll explain in a moment, now as predicted there is a large tower swarming with entities only known as demons." Jerry continued, and pulled up a visual of a tower that was twenty times the size and width of that of the WOOHP building.
"You are to infiltrate the tower and subdue the one known as Vergil, he is the cause of what may come should you all fail..." Jerry resumed then displayed a picture of Vergil.
"Alex's starting to look like this guy. Why's that Jerry?" Sam asked
"… Allow me to explain, sir." Zell interrupted.
"Who are you, if you don't mind me asking." Britney asked staring at Zell indignantly.
"My name is Zell. I'll be on this mission with you all." Zell began.
"Uh, are you a new agent?" Sam asked trying not to look at the scarlet boy's face.
"No, I've been in the science department of WOOHP. I even took the liberty of making several new gadgets for you all. I even took the liberty of field testing them all." Zell explained.
"Wow. I wonder what we've got now." Britney said under her breath.
"You all will have lightsaber lipstick, anti gravity go-go boots the traditional extendable cable cord bungee belt with three times as much rope, jetpack backpacks, hyper acceleration earrings, and individual aero-powered motorcycles that can go up to 500 mph." Jerry interjected.
"The lipstick is also known as the known as the S saber. Now back to the subject at hand – we need to find and kill, yes KILL, that man you see on the monitor. I must warn you girls that this is not your average mission. These demons will stop at nothing to see you all dead on the ground. Just beware; I'd rather we hadn't met on such strenuous circumstances, though." Zell explained.
"So he's responsible for turning Alex into this….. new person?" Clover asked
"…More or less, yes. Now you all make sure you have your equipment ready." Zell stated, then just as he picked up his red jagged gunblade several miniature grim reapers appeared and burst through the desk, shattering it into pieces.
The four spies somersaulted backwards and each pulled out the lightsaber lipsticks; however, Alex's lipstick took the form of a sword – the same sword that Dante had given her, the Rebellion. Jerry was so shaken up that the force of the entrance of the demons blew him into a nearby closet, something that never would happen in a normal case of assault on the HQ. The reapers swung their scythes at Sam, who was the closest at that time, having no room to dodge, she parried two slashes and was grazed by a third slice and was thumped backward by a fourth reaper. Britney was second to receive an attack; two reapers delivered a jump kick to her chest and she skidded back two feet, then another reaper came behind her a sent her airborne with an upward kick using it's scythe, then a fourth was coming down to deliver a punishing blow to her stomach when a smaller reaper collided with it just seconds before it made contact with her. Britney looked to see who had thrown it and was greeted by Zell's weapon, followed by two simultaneous gunshots and beam swipes to the opposing reapers. Alex had in her hands now, the Ebony and Ivory Handguns, then without a thought she swiftly deflected two scythe blades by sliding the two guns over the blades and twisting her body like a screw and firing several shots at the reapers that surrounded the downed Sam. Sam quickly recovered and jumped on top of a reaper and shot it toward Britney for a killer combo. Britney delivered several punches to the incoming reaper then kicked the reaper, causing it to burst into sand. Clover ran three steps then hopped over a flying reaper, slid underneath another reaper, and thrust her lightsaber lipstick through the final opposing reaper that stood in front of her and twirled it around three times and threw it into a wall. She was immediately surrounded by five reapers. She let out a yelp, then jumped into the air hopping from one reaper to another and using the S saber she slashed an entire row of reapers in two. Britney slid past Clover and bumped into Sam, knocking her off balance and into a group of reapers. Zell, being the closest in location to Sam, fired off several rounds to trim the attacking reapers down to size then Sam kicked a large office chair into an incoming reaper. Britney launched several reapers in the air and Zell took over from there, but Sam was being overwhelmed by the reapers again.
Zell jumped into the air and bounced off of three reapers catapulting them to the ground, bursting into sand upon impact, and hastily made his way over to Sam who was being bombarded with reapers and using her agility to narrowly evade all of the incoming attacks and just at the last second, when one of the reapers was about to slash Sam in two Zell kicked it, causing it to rotate severely then he delivered twenty slashes, with a second sword that no one saw him take out, into its rotating body, then it burst in midair. Clover was caught off guard and received a hard slash into her back, then she staggered into another reaper and got slashed in her stomach, then almost by instinct, she drove her ligghtsaber lipstick into several fast approaching reapers. Clover was covered by Alex, who was making great use of the twin handguns that she had inherited. Alex ran toward a mob of reapers with the Rebellion in hand and slashed the reapers shinobi style, just as she placed the blade down the entire row of reapers fell. Britney and Clover were cornered, but thanks to the quick wits of both girls, they fought out of the mound by using the rotary technique. Sam and Zell pounded the remaining reapers into a corner and stacked them atop each other, and Alex approached the pile of reapers with an air of smugness. Alex, who was showing off amazing speed, was quickly slashing any reapers that came her way. The reapers charged left and right at Alex, who seemed tired of dealing with the small fry, kicked a reaper onto a pile of immobilized reapers, then stepped toward the pile smoothly and grinned at the pile of reapers and said "Sweet dreams." Then Alex took a shotgun and blew all of the reapers away at point blank range and the sands of the fallen reapers.
"Oh, my! That was quite unexpected." Jerry said as he fell to the debris ridden floor.
"Sir, are you okay?" Zell crouched down near Jerry to help him stand.
"Ahem, I'll be right as rain after a trip to mum's." Jerry replied while he straightened his suit and tie.
"Alright. Now, shall we go?" Zell asked as he led the spies out of the destroyed office.
"This is turning out to be quite a troublesome day girls. Zell, I'm counting on you to protect them." Jerry mumbled with his head down, afraid to look at the damage any longer, then headed out and booked a flight to his mother's home in England.
When the five, Zell, Sam, Clover, Alex, and Britney got down to the outer level of WOOHP they looked up to find a giant black tower with swirling clouds and thunder and black lightening striking. Alex gave a grim look toward the top of the tower to see a white haired figure standing over the edge of the tower.
"Now we're getting serious. Vergil!" Alex called out as loud as possible.
The group then stared in the same direction as Alex and knew that the real battle was yet to begin.