Chapter 4 – Introductions, A Cannibal, And A Problem Or What The Hell Is Going On?
6th January
A/N In case anyone wondered, all my fan-fics will be third person POV, and I use Quartermain, or another character acting OOC to answer questions that the audience may have, the POV will follow characters, normally follows Mina, and Quartermain. It should be easy to guess whom it is following, think of the POV as a TV program, with you, the audience watching the screen, and it moves between people, normally staying in the same groups. Next author's note, writing past tense has become a bit problematic (as I tend to forget, so then have to go back, and manually redo the chapter, like I did to the first chapters), so I will change to present tense.
I own not a sausage, beyond Zakary Zentane.
Aztec: In response to your question of using Cole McGrath or Delsin Rowe, whilst I am sure they would be good, I am not using any character that I know nothing about. I am not going to use video game characters, as they tend to be hard to write for, also I have not played inFamous, so have no idea who they are, and cannot write for them. I appreciate the suggestions, I will look into all suggestions, this will go on my list, until I get time to do research, I currently am writing pretty much all the time, and doing GCSEs.
Haddock walks into the room, the room is about ten metres long, and eight wide, the walls are wood panelled, a dark coloured wood of some kind, probably walnut, up to waist height on him, higher than that the walls are blank, with dark burgundy wall paper above that, the floor is bare oak planks, highly polished, and smooth. Half the room is taken up by a long old-fashioned oak bar, with lots of bottles in a rack behind, and multiple stools, which instantly draws Haddock's eyes, behind the bar is a non-descript man, he has short black hair, and brown eyes, he looks like any average Joe, which coincidentally is his name judging by his nametag. The only person on the barstools is a tall man in a grey suit, he has piercing, light blue eyes, his face is worn, scarred, wrinkled, and tanned, and he has brown hair he is nursing a drink of some kind. The captain has changed his clothes since Mrs Harker had invited him to the League, he is now wearing a cleanly pressed black jacket, black trousers, a clean blue shirt, with the anchor below the collar, and the same black, and gold hat. He walks up to the bar counter, and sits down on the stool next to the man.
"What you got there"? Haddock asks the man, looking at the dark red liquid, hoping it is alcoholic.
"Cranberry juice, they wouldn't let me have alcohol, apparently we have been banned from alcohol, because we have to be ready for duty at any point", the man replies not looking up from staring at the cranberry juice.
"Ah well, my name is Haddock, Archibald Haddock", the captain says holding out his hand for the man to shake.
The man takes his hand, and shakes it, "The name's Bond, James Bond, I think we are going to be teammates Mr Haddock".
"Captain Haddock", Haddock corrects.
"Oh, you must be the one who's piloting the Nautilus Two, I take it".
"That's what I have been told".
"What are you going to be doing on the team", just after Haddock said this a lady walks into the room, and walks into the other half of the room, which Haddock has not looked at yet, it has seven chairs, and a screen which covers half the back wall. The lady takes a seat; she is short, in a green pinstripe suit, a green pinstripe fedora, green glasses, and white gloves with symbols in languages that Haddock does not know. Except for one phrase in Sanskrit, which he thought was definitely the wrong translation (or was it) it was भोउन्द् अफ़्तेर् देअथ्, सेर्वन्त फ़ोरेवेर्, 'bound after death, servant forever'. She is carrying two gun cases, which she puts on the floor in front of her. She has short blond hair, her eyes are hidden behind her glasses, but she is very pretty.
"Hello there", Haddock shouts over at her, "if you don't mind me asking, but who are you"?
She looks over at Haddock, she proceeds to look him up, and down, "Seras Victoria", her voice is quiet, but echoes, and reverberates inside his head, "and who're you, what do you do on the team"?
"Captain Archibald Haddock, I am going to be the ship's captain this is…"
"I'm a spy from MI6, the name's Bond, James Bond", Bond says cutting in, and giving her a flirtatious wink, which causes Seras to smile, a toothy grin, revealing large fangs, which causes Haddock, and Bond to start. Seras starts laughing at their response to her.
"You're a vampire too"? Asked Bond after trying (and failing) to regaining his composure.
"Yeah, hence the fangs", Seras says pointing at the two fangs.
"Ok, so, what're you doing on the team then, surely Mrs Harker can cover whatever you're doing on the team", Bond says, still not regaining his composure.
"Aw, just a minute you were ready to flirt with me, now you're scared of me, I am offended", to this another women walked in, she is tall, with long platinum blond hair, and icy blue eyes. She is very pretty, and she is wearing a blue gown, that appears to be made of ice.
"Hello, my name is Princess Elsa of Arendelle", she says, she speaks with a slight Norwegian accent, "who would you three be"?
"Captain Archibald Haddock, at your service your highness", Haddock says doffing his cap.
"Bond, James Bond", James inclines his head at her slightly.
"Seras Victoria", she says flashing her fangs.
"A vampire, interesting", Elsa walks over, and sits two seats away from Seras, "born, FREAK or changed"?
"Pardon"? asked Seras
"Are you a born vampire, a FREAK vampire, or a changed vampire"? Elsa asked again, not sounding a bit distracted.
"Oh, changed, by Alucard", Seras says smiling again.
"When did they reverse his name"?
"After the second world war, Sir Integra's father didn't like him much".
"Where has he been? I haven't seen him for years".
"He vanished after Millennium's invasion, the whole purpose of the invasion was to kill him, but I think we will be back".
"I don't think that anything will ever kill Alucard, he is probably be on vacation".
"Indeed, out of curiosity, what are you doing on the team"?
"I'll show you", Elsa waves a hand, and the temperature of the room falls, to freezing, then she waves her hand again, and a pile of snow appears, she waves her hand again, and the snow forms into a person, made of ice, finally, she waves a hand one last time, and the snow person vanishes.
"Ah, Cryokinetic, that would make you the Snow Queen of Arendelle", as Seras says this the door opens, and a girl, who is maybe twelve years old, she has white hair, green eyes, and is wearing a black jumpsuit, with white boots, and gloves enters.
"Well, at least I'm not the last one, where are Mina, and Quartermain"?
"Not here yet".
"Good", she levitates over, and sits between Elsa, and Seras, "I'm Dani".
"I thought that was a boy's name", says Elsa.
"Not with an I, it is short for Danielle".
"Oh, next question, how did you fly"?
"I'm half ghost", to this Haddock starts, spitting the orange juice he ordered over the counter and starts coughing, Bond raised an eyebrow, and Seras' only response is to mutter, "at least I'm not the weirdest thing in the team now, maybe".
Elsa looks at Dani with great curiosity, "so how did you become a half ghost"?
"I'm a clone of a different half ghost, the ghost boy of Amity Park".
"Ah, next question, who cloned you? I thought human cloning was impossible", Elsa asked leaning forwards slightly.
"I dunno, it's not like I was there, I wasn't born yet", after that, the room went silent, for a few minute. Bond is staring at his drink deep in thought, Haddock is rather nervously looking around the room, Seras appears to have dozed off, with her fedora tilted over her eyes, Elsa is reading a book in Norwegian, titled 'Hvordan være en spion', and Dani is listening to music on a music player.
"Why are we all here"? Haddock asked finally breaking the silence, which was getting on his nerves.
"Mr Haddock, it is too early to get philosophical", Bond replied, smiling at his own joke.
"I mean, why has Mrs Harker summoned us here"? Haddock rephrased, speaking slowly as though Bond was a small child, or an idiot.
"I summoned you here", Mina says entering the room, "because I need a new league, and this is what we are up against", Mina walks past them all to stand next to the screen, "please take your seats gentlemen". Quartermain, (who STILL has not read the reports) sat in one of the empty seat, to Seras' right, Bond sat to Elsa's left, and Haddock sat next to Bond.
"What we are up against, is someone, who has gathered together some of the worst villains who are currently alive, the reports which some of you have read, and in Bond, and Seras' cases your superiors have read, detail one of the villains that we believe to be working with them. We do not have a name; all we have is details of his victims, and one witness, who later became a victim. What we have to go on, was a man between twenty-five, and fifty was seen leaving an alleyway, which contained a partially devoured man, the murderer himself, had thinning, black hair, and brown eyes, also he was wearing a mask that covered the lower half of his face. All his victims have been partially devoured, we believe him to be a cannibal, the murders seem random, but there is a pattern, they are all paedophiles, murders, rapist etc. who have never been convicted. The killer also has been seen stealing technology, advanced technology, in a variety of high security laboratories around the world, as well as technology from a variety of other criminals. We believe him to be working for a boss, and is just killing, and eating possible felons on the side".
"So how are we supposed to catch him"? Asked Bond, just before Seras, "why have you summoned all of us here for this, surely Bond alone would be enough.
"Under normal circumstances, yes he would be. It is the kind of technology he has been pilfering, that has us worried, FREAK chips from research laboratories, Ectoplasmic weaponry, and blood samples from various ghost from the Guys in White, plans for some of the advanced ships in the world. As well as, information on some of America's most top-secret soldiers, the monsters of Area fifty-something, straight from the Pentagon, and a machine that allows control of the weather, but can only cause destructive weather. We do have a plan to catch him; he is predictable. His targets have all been in European capital cities, and have been in alphabetical order, so far he has had twenty-five victims, in Paris, Madrid, Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Rome, Bern, Berlin, Vienna, Istanbul, Moscow, Kiev, Budapest, Bucharest, Brussels, Amsterdam, Athens, Belgrade, Helsinki, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Luxembourg, and Oslo, with the latest in Dublin. We believe London to be next, for the main reason, it is the only place with a person with a name beginning with the letter Z, and fits his usual targets. We believe him to be Zakary Zentane, head of the Zentane corporation, was charged, but not convicted, of paedophilia", the screen turns on to show a fat man in a suit, shaking hands with the Major of London, we was bald, and looked like a potato, he had heavily lidded eyes, with brown iris just showing under his dropping brow.
"He has agreed to act as bait, when we pointed out that he would probably be a target, so we will meet him in Hyde Park, at seven o'clock, we are have a plan as follows we are going to try to get the murderer to attack in the park, this will be to hopefully lure him out. James you will be pretending to be a caretaker for the park, Seras will be hiding in the trees with a tranquiliser gun, Haddock will be on the street outside looking for when he arrives, if he does get away Haddock you are to put this tracking device". Mina chucks a small gun to Haddock who turns it over in his hands, "the device is fired from the gun on, you are to put the device on his car, Dani will be hovering near to him invisibly, and Elsa will be walking through the park, pretending to be pedestrian. Are there any questions"?
Everyone simultaneously shake their heads, except Elsa who asks, "where is the last member of our team"?
"Ah, Doctor Herbert Cockroach, he is down in his laboratory, he has communication devices ready for everyone, and a new rifle for Seras, specifically for this one, the Harkonnen is a bit large for using in the centre of London".
"Very well Sir, if you think it is best", Seras says, inclining her head slightly, "can we meet this Doctor Cockroach now"?
"Yes, follow me, he has read your files, so he knows about you, I should warn you he has a cockroach head", a picture of the Doctor's head appears on the screen.
"Ok, that is almost as weird as some of the ghosts in the Ghost Zone", says Dani
"I've seen weirder", Seras, and Elsa say simultaneously, they look at each other, and smile, Haddock looks ill, Bond just shrugs, and returns to his drink, Mina walks out the room, and everyone else file out after her.
They arrived in the Doctor's lab, the room is large, and metal lined, with machines covering one wall, and a pile of metal, and electronic components in two corners of the room, in the centre of the room, hunched over a table, hitting something with a plastic mallet is Doctor Cockroach, with his cockroach head.
"Good day Cockroach", Quartermain says as he enters the room, the Doctor spins around.
"Ah, everyone's here, as you know my name's Doctor Herbert Cockroach, I'm the science officer so the new league, I have some gizmos for some of you, first off", the Doctor reaches behind him, and picks up a gun. "This is a high end sniper rifle, accurate to eight hundred metres, normally, now closer to one and a half kilometres, it has been modified to work with tranquilisers", he hands it to Seras, next he picks up a box, he opens it, inside are eight ear pieces. "These earpieces cannot be blocked or scrambled by any device I have ever encountered", he hands one to each of them, finally he picks up another box, opens it, inside is a Walther PPK, several tranquiliser cartridges, a grappling hook, that runs on compressed air, several more cartridges for the grappling hook, and a watch. "You know the drill Bond, the watch is a little special, it is a scanner, that can detect, any forms of radiation, including the entire electromagnetic spectrum, as well as being able to hack into just about any device, as well as acting in with the same functions, and abilities as any smartphone, including Angry Birds, and 4G. I almost forgot to mention, the gun is encoded to only work for you, thanks to Q for that".
"Excellent", Bond puts the gun into a holster under his jacket, the grappling hook, and several of the cartridges into an inside pocket, and puts the watch on, "let's go get into costume, the go to the park".
A/N The plot thickens, no prizes guessing who the murderer is.
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