Chapter 4

I do not own 'Hellboy'. I only own Amelia, Levi, Felix, the twins, Drake, and any other characters you don't recognize from the movies as I am not all that familiar with the comics.

After a few moments of searching, Drake and Amelia finally found the twins and they were, in fact, latched tightly onto Manning's legs with their arms and legs wrapped around his legs laughing and smiling while Manning was struggling to keep his footing as he tried to move his legs. Oak was also nearby as he wagged his tail happily at the twins latched onto Manning's legs. Manning was obviously not impressed as he mumbled a few curses but kept them quiet enough so as not to let the twins hear him. A few passing agents looked at the odd sight and they tried to hold back a smile or a laugh as they passed not even bothering to help. Drake and Amelia stayed hidden around the corner with their hands over their mouths as they tried to keep quiet as they watched the funny scene play out.

"Ugh! Onyx! Coal! This isn't funny, you gotta let go!" Manning demanded but the twins didn't give in as they stayed latched onto his legs. "How am I supposed to do my work with you two dragging me down?"

Amelia pressed her back against the wall and slid down to the floor as she couldn't keep herself standing anymore as she laughed with her hand over her mouth and her other arm wrapped around her stomach as it began to hurt from laughing so hard. Drake remained standing as he too was laughing hard enough he had to hold his stomach. Manning almost stumbled to the floor as he waved his arms around trying to remain standing and Drake and Amelia burst out laughing and Manning heard them.

"Damn it, Amelia! Drake! You two had better have a good explanation for this!"

Drake and Amelia came out from around the corner as Amelia stood and the two were still snickering at Manning and the twins.

"Sorry Manning" Amelia said, "We don't."

"Well can you at least get these two little demons off of me? I have important work to do."

"But we haven't won yet!" Onyx said and Coal laughed.

"I can stay on the longest!" Coal teased.

"No, I can!"

"I can!"

"Enough!" Manning bellowed, "Can you please get them off? NOW!"

Amelia and Drake laughed once more before Amelia looked around and spotted one of the plants sitting on a side table and Amelia concentrated. Within moments, two luscious green vines grew from the plant and each one reached out and wrapped around one of the twins. Onyx and Coal whined/groaned as they reluctantly let go of Manning's legs and Amelia's vines lifted the twins up off of the floor. The twins weren't sad for long as Coal spread his arms out as if he was an airplane and Onyx laughed. Amelia set the twins down and the vines shrunk back into the plant and Manning sighed in relief as he straightened his clothes.

"Now that I don't have little demons latched onto me" Manning said, "I have some work I need to attend to."

As Manning walked off, Amelia and Drake glanced at each other and they quietly laughed. After all that time, it was now time for lunch and everyone headed down the halls towards the kitchen for something to eat. When they reached the kitchen, Drake and the twins sat down at the table while Amelia began pulling out ingredients from the fridge to make sandwiches for them all. Oak yawned as he moved over to an empty corner and curled up for a short nap and it was then that Liz walked in looking slightly tired but relieved.

"Hey guys." Liz said as she moved to kiss the top of the twins' heads.

"Hey, Liz" Amelia greeted, "Finished the paperwork?"

"It's all done. I can finally sit down and relax without having to look at those documents ever again."

Liz headed over to the counter to help Amelia with lunch and it was then that the two heard the twins squeal in delight and then laugh. Liz and Amelia turned to see that Drake had conjured up an image of a flock of birds as they flew around the twins' heads which made the two smile as they resumed to making lunch. The phone in the kitchen rang and Amelia moved to answer it as she picked up the phone and pressed it to her ear.

"Hello?" Amelia said.

"Amelia? Is that you?" Abe's voice replied through the phone.

"Uncle Abe! Are you alright? I heard things on the news about the mission."

"Amelia, I'm perfectly alright and so is everyone else. I wanted to call and check in on you and the others after our situation earlier. How is everything over there? I heard from Myers that there is a new agent, are you getting along?"

"Uh, yeah we're… getting along." Sort of.

"Amelia, I can hear in your voice that something isn't quite right. Are you sure nothing is wrong? You can tell me."

"I know. Nothing's wrong, uncle Abe, it's just a matter of adjusting is all."

"Well alright then… Would you mind handing the phone off to Liz? And tell the twins I said 'hi'."

"Sure."

Amelia took the phone away from her ear and handed the phone to Liz who took it and pressed the phone to her own ear as Amelia grabbed the plate of sandwiches and placed them on the table as she sat down. Amelia handed Onyx and Coal a sandwich and then took one for herself and Drake also took one. Liz soon hung up the phone a few minutes later and she sat down at the table to eat. It was only after the plates were being cleared when the loud siren went off and the light on the wall flashed red. The twins whined as they covered their ears with their hands and Drake was utterly confused while Liz and Amelia sighed in annoyance. The loud siren jolted Oak from his sleep as his head jerked up and when he realized that it was just the siren, he stood and made his way over to Amelia and nudged her hand as Amelia stroked his head.

"What's going on?" Drake asked.

"It's a mission" Liz replied, "C'mon, you might as well learn about what we do."

Everyone stood from their seats as Onyx and Coal each reached up to be carried. Amelia took Coal up into her arms while Liz picked up Onyx and they were soon on their way down the halls towards the board room. When they made it to the board room, they found that Manning and a few other agents were already there as well as agent Myers as they all walked in.

"About time" Manning said in slight annoyance, "we need to get down to business."

"What is it today, Manning?" Liz asked as they all sat down around the table.

"An entity is causing some disturbance down in a subway station. The station is shut down until further notice which means that we need to get down there and get rid of that entity."

"By 'we' he means just us alone" Amelia said to Drake, "not him teamed up with us whatsoever."

Manning just quietly groaned as Drake stifled a laugh.

"Oh, and by the way" Manning said, "Drake is going too."

"But he isn't even trained yet!" Amelia argued.

"We are already too short of agents and we need all the help we can get! Drake's going and that's that."

Amelia sat back in her chair as she shook her head in disbelief and Manning dismissed them to get ready for the mission. Amelia and Liz handed Onyx and Coal off into Myers' care as he was the only other human agent that the twins would trust to take care of them whilst Liz and Amelia were gone. Drake followed Amelia, Oak, and Liz through the halls towards the garage where there were a few cars that would take them to the subway station. Liz headed over to a large cabinet and pulled out her and Amelia's locator belts, guns, and their black leather jackets. Amelia put on her leather jacket and took her locator belt from Liz as she strapped it to her waist and Drake spoke.

"So, how are we supposed to-" Drake stopped when he suddenly saw Amelia pull out her gun, loaded it, and held it in her hand as she turned to Drake.

"Supposed to what?" she asked and Drake just stared wide eyed at Amelia, or rather the gun in her hand, and he silently gulped.

"Uh… never mind."

Amelia shrugged as she placed her gun in its holder and headed over to the cars with Oak right beside her. Drake made a mental note that he probably shouldn't piss Amelia off so long as he was living in the same building as her. Especially when she had a gun in her hand. Drake shook his head as he followed Amelia to the cars and they were all soon on their way.

When they finally reached the subway station, the whole street had been blocked off as police officers and other agents stood at each end of the street making sure that nobody but the BPRD agents came through. The police officers had blocked off the streets with police line tape and orange cones and they moved them out of the way as the BPRD cars drove through. The cars soon came to a stop and Amelia got out of the backseat of one car followed by Oak and Drake got out from the other side while Liz climbed out of the driver's seat as she had driven them here with other human agents following them in the other car.

"So who wants to go down first? Drake?" Amelia asked as they stood at the top of the subway station stairs.

"Ladies first." Drake offered obviously not wanting to be the first to come in contact with the entity.

"Why thank you, Drake."

Amelia smiled as she stepped forward down the subway station steps with Oak following her as she pulled out her gun and Liz silently snickered as she followed as well, gun raised in her hand. Drake silently gulped as he followed the others down the stairs into the subway station.

"Just stick close to one of us and you'll be fine." Liz said to Drake and Drake nodded as he followed Liz while Amelia and Oak dispersed away from them as they searched for the entity. Liz and Drake searched on one side of the station while Amelia and Oak searched on the other side.

"See anything suspicious?" Liz asked Amelia through their communicators.

"Not quite" Amelia answered, "I'm running out of platform, I'm gonna look on the tracks."

"Alright, we're going to stick to the platforms. Let us know if you find anything."

Amelia jumped down from the platform and landed successfully on the railroad tracks and Oak jumped down beside her and walked slightly ahead of her as he sniffed the air. Amelia walked cautiously behind Oak with her gun raised as she scanned the tunnel for any sign of the entity. Oak suddenly stopped and Amelia stopped as well as Oak sniffed the air for a short moment before quietly growling and Amelia became even more cautious as she stepped up to Oak's side.

"What is it, boy?" Amelia asked, "Is it down here?"

Oak began to growl a little louder and it was then that Amelia faintly heard the growling reply from the entity down in the dark tunnel. It was too dark to really see what the entity looked like but Amelia kept her eyes locked on the dark tunnel as she called Liz through her communicator.

"Liz" Amelia said and her voice was ever so slightly shaky, "It's here."