Super Science

Ch 54: A Hunting We Will Go

The next day, Genus, Egon, and Izuku had set off their three individual assassin droids to the three primary locations where the vampire could lair. The three of them were sitting at individual computers that were directly connected to each of their robots. On the screen was live video footage of what each droid could see. The three men piloted them by keyboard, almost like a first-person shooter. Each droid is outfitted with all sorts of vampire killing equipment ranging from UV light cannons, blades, buzzsaws, reinforced armor, more flexible and deleterious joints, bombs filled with silver powder and herbs the vampire was deathly allergic to, and a slew of other devices and weapons. Once the droids were finished they quickly went through a test run by each scientist and then sent out the very next night to not waste any time. Each scientist had an earpiece to not have to yell over one another and the sound was picked up by the monster's super hearing.

"Anything on your end, Genus?", Egon asked over his earpiece.

Genus took a moment to scan the chemical plant he was investigating and then reported, "Nope, empty. You?"

Egon also scanned the nuclear plant he was searching and after getting the reading back he replied, "Dead end on my end. How about you, Izuku?", after getting no response from the boy for over a minute he called again, "Izuku."

"I think I found it.", Izuku said out of the blue.

Hearing this, Egon immediately told him, "Share your feed.", Izuku tapped a few keys on his board and shared his live video over to the other two. On the shared screen it showed the inside of a hydropower plant. One room in particular seemed to be filled with cocoon-like structures that suspended what looked to be humans. "What the?", Egon said in disgust as he watched the robot's head look around and scan the area made into a living meat locker.

"Yep, this is its nest. Open, dark, warm, and full of food.", Genus confirmed.

"Are those people bound in webs?", Izuku asked.

"Genus.", Egon growled.

Genus swiftly and feverishly protested, "I didn't add spider DNA I swear! Though I might've added a pinch of Swiftlet. So it's spite."

"Gross.", Izuku complained,

"Where's the vamp?", Egon asked as he put his face to the screener to find it.

"Probably out of getting more food, I added some packrat to it.", Genus explained to him.

"Of course you did.", Egon sighed as he flopped back into his seat while rubbing his eyes.

Just then Izuku picked something up on the droid's hearing sensors and tuned it in. Once doing that, heard something strange and clear, sharing it with the others he asked, "Wait, you hear that?"

The other two went quiet and listened in as Egon said in confusion, "Singing?"

The assassin droid turned around and standing in a spot that had previously been unoccupied was what looked to be a woman with bright red hair, made up into a bun, pale white skin, green eyes, and wearing nothing but a sleek and slim sheet that covered her like a cloak. There he heard the woman sing clearly as she walked about the dark power pants room filled with human victims.

"Wolves asleep amidst the trees, bats all swaying in the breeze. But one soul lies anxious wide away. Fear in all manner of ghouls, hags, and wraiths.", she sang as she picked up a stuffed animal that no doubt belonged to a child victim.

He had his chance to try and see what she was about, whether their target or some crazy woman, and if it was the target, whether it was intelligent and could be reasoned with. So he turned on the dorid's speaker system and said, "Nice tune, never heard it before."

The woman looked displaced at the toy and threw it off to the side as she replied in a horse tone as if she wasn't used to speaking at all, "Folk has forgotten it."

"Got other things on their mind.", Izuku said back as he made the droid prime its weapons and defenses.

"Things like me?", She asked coyly while turning her hand as she unbound her hair, allowing it to fall like streams of blood around her head and face.

Izuku couldn't help but be enamored by her beauty but shook himself out of the thought as he said in a serious tone, "You know I've come for you."

She chuckles at the statement and walks to the side while undoing the first few buttons on her outfit and saying, "Time passes and no amount of duty could convince any human to hunt me down.", She said the last few words in an increasingly demonic tone while pulling the white sheet past her shoulders.

With one little pull, allowing the cloth to come just to her nipple line, she suddenly vanishes like the wind, disappearing from view as her clothing falls to the ground. Izuku quickly looked around and saw how the water on the ground broke and a nearby door was slammed open.

Although Izuku quickly figured out what had happened, Egon didn't and he exclaimed in shock and fear, "She's gone!"

But Genus assured him and said, "No, just invisible. Let's get our droids to help out. Doctor, keep her busy till we get there. Don't let her escape."

Izuku nods and begins to prime the other defenses in the droid. First, he activated the forcefield Splinter made from the remains of one of the Yakuza Eight Bullets, he had the blade protruding from the right hand and allowed the left hand to produce the silver bombs, finally, he released a blood agent through clear tubes in its body and simulated a false heartbeat. The blood circulating throughout the false vascular system was made from human blood but drugged with things extremely toxic to the monster.

Once the robot was ready it began to walk straight to the idly swinging door, where Egon asked, "What did you call this thing again?"

Genus scratched the back of his neck and answered, "An Alp."

The robot walked into the new room, seeing it was one of the storage areas for spare parts for repair on the many machines. Once in it used its scanner to look around but found nothing at all. Just some rats. That's when Izuku realized that the creature could no doubt control its body heat and become invisible to heat sensors. Then the movement sensor picked up something on one of the metal rafters above him and without turning the machine's head he made it throw the bomb in the direction. The bomb broke and thousands of tiny little fragments of silver exploded everywhere like a confetti cannon!

Thus allowing the invisible monster to become visible, at least in its outline. It jumped down from the rafters and roared at the machine as they both engaged in a battle of claws and blades! Using its hardened skin, the Alp easily blocked the blade! However, once it realized the weapon was made of silver, it changed strategy and used its unnatural flexibility to dodge. Eventually, the robot managed to grab the Alp and throw it to the ground where it tried to pierce its heart, unfortunately, the creature seemed to turn into the wind itself and slipped straight through!

The robot looked around for the creature but found nothing. That is until a huge metal box was thrown at it and the forcefield Splinter was used to block the attack! The Alp tried to come in from behind with an attack, but the machine picked up its movement and whirled around to blast it with a beam of pure sunlight! The Alp screamed and backed off while trying to cover its face only to get slashed across the arms and face by the blade! Although the blade cut through, the wounds healed almost instantly! That's when the Alp got back its sight, screamed, and charged at the machine, pinning it to the wall!

Just before it could pierce the robot, it dropped a new bomb filled with the toxins and with a huge cloud enveloping the two of them, the Alp ran out of the cloud coughing violently! Only for it to be pinned to the wall adjacent by giant staples! The droid walked out of the cloud and walked toward the Alp with its UV light directly on it and its blade at the ready! The Alp's skin burned like paper in the fire and as it tried to break free it stopped, took a deep breath, and suddenly released a power scream so strong that not only did it send the robot flying, it broke the UV light and cause dIzuku to rip off his earpiece from the sod being filtered into his own!

"That's new.", Genus commented, after turning his head into a cicada to suppress the scream.

"That's new!?", Egeon yelled after nearly having his hearing knocked out by the scream. But getting back to the topic at hand, he exclaimed, "Izuku, how's your droid!?"

Getting his senses back, Izuku pulled up a diagnostic on his droid and saw it had only minor damage. Sighing in relief he answered back, "Still in one piece."

The robot got up from the ground while the Alp broke free of its restraints and the two engaged once more! After clashing once again, the Alp grabbed the metal box and threw it at the machine to which it blasted the box apart with a fireball from a Fire Splinter! In the ensuing explosion, the Alp kicked the robot in its stomach and clawed its face, causing it to fall! It managed to get back up but the Alp snuck up behind it, grabbed its head, and sunk its teeth into the clear tube filled with blood! Once it got more than enough it threw the robot aside and looking down on the machine, now fully visible, it screeched at it in a semi-victory! As it stalked towards it, it quickly noticed something was wrong.

It looked down at its naked body and noticed that its natural armor was fading and its blood was boiling! After realizing what the machine had done, it screeched at it and went in for an attack, only for it to be forced back into the concrete wall by an air force Splinter! The droid fixed its broken sword arm and adjusted its neck before going in for a counterattack. The Apl hastily got up and tried to attack as well but quickly found itself on the losing end as the blade cleanly sliced off its arm, a gash across its stomach, and one more across its neck! Only this time the injuries did not heal.

The Alp fell to the floor and began to rapidly crawl away while screaming in fear! Only for the droid to unleash a sliver net on its body, trapping it under the weight as a new UV light shined on it, keeping it still as it approached while readying its blade for the final strike! White trapped the Alp managed to turn around, retake its human form, and put on a pathic expression that made izuku stop its movement.

Incentivized even more when it said in its hoarse voice, "No no! Please, please! Don't kill me! I want to live."

Izuku stopped his final blow on the dying creature and felt his sense of morality and bleeding heart begin to fight with him as he stared back at the pleading face of the Alp.

Noticing Izuku's lack of incentive, Genus exclaimed, "Izuku, what are you doing? She's right there!"

"But-.", Izuku tried to argue.

Only for Egon to yell in haste, "But nothing! Take her down!"

"Why are you doing this? I just want to live. Oh please, please.", the Alp begged pathetically, striking deeper into Izuku's heartstrings.

Izuku ripped off his glasses as he shook his head to clear his mind and tried to negotiate with the other two men, "She thinks and feels! She's like Otto and Cluck. Can't we-?"

But Genus cut him off and stated firmly, "Izuku I know what you're thinking but take it from the person who created that thing, she's a mimic. She's not intelligent, she's just trying to misdirect you. She's an animal!"

Izuku looked back at the screen, still conflicted between his mind and feelings until the Alp made her move. Seeing the lack of movement in the machine, she smiled evilly as she broke free from the net and charged at it despite the UV light burning her flesh! But izuku reacted fast and made the robot bring up its arm, staking the creature straight through its chest! The creature halted one pierced on the blade and appeared to die right three. But that was another ruse as it tried to lash out with its claws, only from Izuku to make the blade turn into a chainsaw and cut the Alp straight in half! When the buzzsaw broke through the flesh the two halves of the surprised Alp fell to the ground and bled out, finally killing the creature.

Izuku was shocked scared, and sad at the same time as he breathed heavily and his eyes streamed with tears as his inner mind and emotions battled like a raging storm. His hands shook and he leaned his head down to the floor where he pushed his chair out and began to weep into his hands. At this point, Genus and Egon came to the boy seeing his state of being.

Genus came up to him, wrapped him in a hug, and praised him in a soothing voice, taking the form of a cat, "You did good, kid. You did well."

Egeon rustled his hair, a proud expression on his face as he told him, "Let's call the heroes and police."


Later

"I'm so glad you were able to handle this. But why didn't you tell us? We would have dealt with it.", a hero told the three scientists as they all converged at the hydro-electrical plant with law enforcement and other heroes alike assessing the scene.

"No offense but even we didn't know what we were fully up against. We only found its nest on a guess.", Izuku told the hero.

"We also didn't want you getting hurt because of our mistake.", genus said with an awkward laugh and rubbing his head.

"And if she fled, we would've been back to square one.", Egon stressed with a sigh.

Before their conversation could continue, an officer went up to the Chief of police and informed him, "Sir, we've found all the missing people, and they're all alive."

"That's a relief.", Izuku, Genus, and Egon all said at the same time with the police chief, getting weird stares from the law enforcement and heroes.

But the other officer takes the attention away from them as he continues, "Seems like she was keeping them as a constant food source. Also there's one other thing.", he said while addressing the scientist. "That creature, you called it a vampire, right?", the men look at one another, back to the officer where they all nod. The officer pushed back his hat, eyes wide as he shook his head and told them in an uncomfortable, "Well…you may want to see this."

Everyone was curious about how vague he was and followed him into a different room. A much larger room that was far larger and housed over a dozen different strange, large, nearly human-sized structures. Glossy, translucent, glowing, slimy, and soft to the touch in appearance with an off-white grayish color to them.

Blinking in confusion before the strange things, Izuku asked, "Are-Are those eggs?"

Genus took the stage and did a once over of the things before confirming, "Yep, there eggs.", Genus rubbed his chin and said in self-satisfaction with solving some kind of mystery, "No wonder she was keeping all these people here, she was going to feed them to her kids."

This thought made everyone shiver in a mixture of fear and disgust, making Genus sweat drop as he realized he said it with a sense of excitement and out loud.

"What kind of vampire lays giant eggs?", a hero asked.

"One that has several species of amphibian, reptile, and bird including Kiwi in its genome.", Genus answered plainly, making the hero stare at him suspiciously.

Egon quickly interjected and told the law enforcement and heroes, "We'll take it back to our laboratory. We'll see what hatches, and if it's a threat we'll eliminate them."

"The laboratory that just got destroyed?", the chief of police asked back rhetorically,

This time it was Izuku who stepped up and explained to the suspicious and concerned people, "We have a few testing chambers that survived. It'll be more than enough to house these things and figure out what to do with them."

With that, he clapped his hands and a bunch of very large and strong-looking robots waddled in and picked up each soft-shelled egg before taking them out of the plant and into a large truck to be transported and placed into one of the remaining reinforced testing chambres at NIP. What was inside of the eggs, time could only tell. And all could only hope they weren't half as bad as most expected them to be.


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