#7 Aircano

Cast
Tori Jacobs
Miracle
Legion
Armando
Madeira Roberts
Solomon
Jehanne
June Greenaway
Shinta Greenaway
Lily Mayweather
Nex Aaron
Mary Thompson

The scene fades into a temple. We see Miracle praying by the altar with Jehanne watching from the doorway. A knight approaches Jehanne and tells her something before leaving. Jehanne push off the doorway and walks over to Miracle.

Jehanne: Miracle? I'm sorry to disturb your prayers, but I just been informed that a Vulture helicopter was spotted coming this way.

Miracle: Finishes her prayers and stands up. Turning around to face Jehanne.

Cut to: City Gate

Miracle and Jehanne join up with Solomon and Aircano troops as they wait for the helicopter to land. The helicopter's door opens making way for June and co., pulling Tori on a stretcher.

June: Are you Miracle?

Miracle: I am.

Jehanne: High Priestess Miracle.

Miracle: Jehanne, please. What brings you to Aircano?

June: We have a friend who needs healing.

Miracle: Looks Tori over.

Jehanne: What happened to her?

Lily: Long story.

Solomon: What are you doing with an Isafaro helicopter?

Armando: We're not Vulture, if that's what you mean.

June: Are you going to help us or not?

Miracle: Follow me.

Cut to: Healing Room

The group helps Tori onto the bed as Miracle continues to look her over.

June: Every single bone in her body is broken, and she's been shot in the head. Takes off the blindfold. And her eyes have been gouged out.

Jehanne: How is that possible?

Miracle: The Lord has kept her alive so that you may all bare witness. Pours oil on Tori's head, healing the bullet wound. Brings her hands over Tori's body, white light shines from her hands healing Tori's skeleton.

Tori: Cries out in pain.

June: Tori!

Shinta: Holds June back. Let her work.

The light from Miracle's hands fade and she lowers her arms.

Miracle: Sit up.

Tori: Starts to rise.

Miracle: Slowly.

Tori: Slowly gets up to a sit.

June: How do you feel?

Tori: Moves around a bit. They aren't broken anymore.

June: You're sure?

Tori: Trust me, when they're broken you know.

June: Hugs Tori and looks at Miracle. Thank you!

Lily: Wait, what about her eyes?

Miracle: I can't reconstruct them from air. I need that part of the body stable in order to repair it.

Lily: I thought God was supposed to be capable of anything?

Miracle: I'm not God. I'm just his instrument.

Tori: Knock it off, Lily. It's my own fault they're like this, anyway. Puts her blindfold back on.

Miracle: You're all welcomed to stay here for as long as you need.

Solomon: Miracle, we're already overstocked with the refugees.

Miracle: We'll find a way, Solomon. Have faith.

Armando: Refugees?

Solomon: Ever since that tower came out of the ground in the Crystal Expanse more and more people from different worlds have been showing up here. We've been giving them shelter until we figure out a way to send them home.

Tori: Tower?

FLASHBACK

Legion: The gate is prepared.

END FLASHBACK

Solomon: They're calling it the Downward Spiral. Everyday more and more people come out of the tower and either find their way to Aircano or Hallowton if the ice monsters don't find them first.

Shinta: I still remember the earthquake when that thing came out of the ground.

Nex: He was scared, but I took care of it.

Shinta: That's not how I remember it.

Mary: What was that about ice monsters, again?

Miracle: The Crystal Expanse is home to many creatures that have adapted to the environment. They prey on anything with body heat.

Solomon: If the cold don't get you the ice monsters will.

Nex: Thank Allah we flew here.

Miracle, Solomon, and Jehanne look at Nex.

Nex: I'm not taking it back.

Tori: We won't take up space here for long. We need to get back to Isafaro as soon as possible.

June: Could you guys give us some time alone.

Miracle: Of course.

Miracle, Solomon, and Jehanne lead the others out of the room. June pulls up a seat and sit across from Tori's bed.

Tori: Why do I get the feeling I'm in the doghouse?

June: Made told me what happened back in Sector Twelve. What those things did to you.

Tori: Says nothing.

June: Takes Tori's hand. Just tell me what happened.

Tori: I don't want to talk about it.

June: Tell me why you don't have any eyes, at least! You owe me that much.

Tori: There was this child. A Vulture's experiment. She attacked us. I started seeing nightmares all around me. My skin pealing off straight down to the bone. Everything dying. I just wanted it to stop.

June: A hallucination?

Tori: It felt real, June. I could even feel the pain.

June: There has to be some explanation for this. Maybe if we knew more about this child we could find out what it is.

Tori: I need to talk to Miracle. Gets up.

June: Rises and catches Tori as she stumbles. What's for?

Tori: See what she knows.

June: What makes you think she knows anything?

Tori: Just take me to her!

June: All right, jeez! Take my hand.

Tori and June enter the temple's sanctuary and finds Miracle with Jehanne talking to one of the refugees. The refugee smiles and bows his head at Miracle before leaving and Miracle turns to face Tori and June.

Miracle: I'm glad to see you up and walking around.

Tori: I wanted to thank you. I wasn't sure I was going to make it.

Miracle: It's nothing short of a miracle that you survived as long as you did. Surely, the Lord is watching over you.

June: Looks at Jehanne. So, what's your story?

Miracle: Jehanne is my bodyguard. She's been by my side since I became a priestess.

Tori: And the man?

Miracle: Solomon is in charge of the city's defenses. He doesn't like strangers all that much.

Jehanne: And with good reason.

Tori: I'm Tori. This is my girlfriend June. Is that going to be a problem?

Miracle: It's not my place to judge. Do you require something of me?

Tori: I do have a question.

Miracle: What is it?

Tori: I don't know a whole lot about your religion, but you guys seem to have a handle on prophecies and stuff. Have you ever heard these words? “The gate is prepared. The evil that was vanquished shall rise anew. Wrapped in the guise of man shall She walk amongst the innocent, and terror shall consume they that dwell upon Genesis. The skies shall rain fire, and the seas will become as blood. The righteous shall fall before the wicked, and all of creation shall tremble before the burning standard of hell.”

Miracle: Where have you heard this?

Tori: From a child back in Isafaro. A Vulture experiment to be precise. Not much younger than you, I imagine.

Miracle: That is the prophecy of the Ancients.

June: Ancients?

Miracle: The Ancients were a force prayed to long ago. Only remnants remain of their followers.

Tori: What does it mean?

Miracle: There are many interpretations. The most common one is that it's a telling of the end of days.

Tori: Do you think the tower might be the gate the prophecy is referring to?

Miracle: It's possible. I really can't say.

Tori:What would be the evil, then?

Miracle: I don't know.

Tori: There has to be some way to figure out what this all means!

June: Tori, calm down.

Miracle: If you really wish to decipher it for yourself, then the Jherrazad Desert may very well have the answers you seek.

June: The Jherrazad Desert?

Tori: Where?

Miracle: In the Jherrazad Desert there are many caves. These caves used to be use by a cult that worshiped the first Ancient many years ago. It was the first Ancient that cited the prophecy as a word of warning to humanity. You may be able to find something from their text, but be careful. The first Ancient was known to be capable of bending the fabrics of reality itself to release terrible terrors on Genesis. The cult embraced the dark arts for this very reason.

June: How did something like this even come into existence?

Miracle: I'm afraid I can't answer that either.

Tori: Thank you, Miracle. I appreciate the help.

Miracle: I hope you will find what weighs heavy on your heart. You'll be in my prayers.

Tori: Hopefully the next time we meet I won't be on a stretcher. Come on, June.

Tori and June heads for the temple's exit.

June: You can't be serious about going back into the desert. You should be resting.

Tori: I don't have time to rest. Whatever that child was she knew about the Ancients Prophecy and something was keeping me alive back there. Don't you want to know why?

June: For goodness sakes, Tori! You're blind!

The two leave the temple to the outside.

Tori: I wasn't planning on going alone. Unless you're saying I have to.

June: No. Of course not. I just think we should learn more about the child before doing anything else. Or at least stock up back at the base before going cave hunting in the desert.

Tori: I want to hear what the others have to say.

Cut to: Vulture Helicopter.

Tori: So, that's the long and short of it. If we want to learn what happened to me back in Sector Twelve and what all of this means I need to find those caves. What do you guys think?

Shinta: It's a lead. A lead is worth checking out.

Armando: You know I'm with you.

Mary: I don't like it.

Lily: No one does.

Madeira: We don't know what we're dealing with. We could be walking into a trap.

June: I agree.

Nex: Is there a chance I get to shoot some cultists?

Tori: Not unless they're resurrected from the dead, which given my luck could happen.

Nex: Then I am in.

Tori: That's four in favor and three opposed. Lily?

Lily: You have to ask?

Tori: Okay, five in favor. Do the rest of you want to return to base?

Madeira: If Armando is going, I'm going.

Mary: I'll go.

June: I know you're not asking me that question.

Tori: Armando, how are we doing on weapons?

Armando: The chopper comes equipped with assault rifles, pistols, a couple of grenades. More than enough weapons for everyone in case we run into any trouble.

Lily: Shinta and I bought a cane while we were in Aircano. Hands it to Tori.

Shinta: We figure you could use it.

Lily: It's retractable so you can make it as long or short as you need.

Tori: Takes the cane. Thanks. Armando, get us to the desert.

Armando: Yes, ma'am!

Armando enter the cockpit with Madeira and starts up the helicopter. The propeller above starts to spin around as the chopper takes off into the air with Miracle and Jehanne watching them from below We see a closeup of Miracle looking up into the sky before the scene fades to black.

FIN

#6 Angel of Death

Cast
Tori Jacobs
Garrus Vakarian
Kragen
Armando
Melinda Fray
Madeira Roberts
Carl Sun
Legion
General Vulture
Alexander Kross
Walter C. Dornez
Revolver Ocelot
Sergei Dragunov
Peter Fargason
Imai Katayo
Logan S. Gunn
June Greenaway
Shinta Greenaway
Lily Mayweather
Nex Aaron
Mary Thompson

The scene fades in on Tori screaming, her eyes crushed inside her hands.

Madeira: Tori, what the fuck?!

Tori: Make it stop! We see from Tori's perspective that she can still see her surroundings decaying and coming back to life in her mind.

Armando: We don't have time for this. Picks Tori up over his shoulder.

Madeira: You're hurting her!

Armando: You have a better idea? Move!

Cut to: Office Building Top Floor

Carl: Fires a couple more shots from his long rifle into Walter before slowly approaching where he sat against the wall. Poking him with the barrel of the gun and turning away to catch up to the others.

Walter: You shouldn't waste ammunition.

Carl: Turns around to be impaled by Walter's wires and then split apart piece by piece until there's nothing left.

Cut to: Office Hallway

Armando and Madeira stop at a staircase which leads down to the flooded levels and then look out the window to see Vulture's helicopters circling the area.

Madeira: What are we going to do?

Armando: We're going to commandeer that helicopter.

Madeira: Are you crazy!?

Armando: You need to ask? Here. Puts down Tori for Madeira to take and then climb out the window and up the wall to the roof. He stays hidden from the helicopter lights as he tries to get closer.

Madeira: Helps Tori to a sit and keeps an eye out for Carl. Please be okay.

Armando: Performs a running jump to the next building, grabbing the ledge and pulling himself up. He rolls away just in time to avoid the searchlight of the helicopter above.

Madeira: Rips off a part of her sleeve and wrap it around Tori's eyes, tying it up tight to stop the bleeding. Talk to me, Tori. Let me know you're all right.

Tori: Silence.

Madeira: Hears footsteps approaching and stands up to look towards the corner.

Carl: Comes around the corner.

Madeira: Carl!

Made moves to embrace Carl only to stop when she got a closer look at his body. It appeared to be held together by wiring as he walked like a puppet. Joining his side was Melinda who looked exactly the same. Both of them raising their weapons and the puppeteer, Walter, appearing out of the darkness. Madeira looks on horrified.

Armando: Waits for the helicopter to flies over again and then makes a run for it. Leaps up through the air and grab onto the helicopter's skids. Climbs up the side of it and forces open the door punching the Vulture troop on the other side and tossing him out of the helicopter. Walks up to the cockpit holding a pistol at the pilot's head. Fly!

Pilot: Fuck you! You shoot me and the autopilot will–!

Armando: Shoots the pilot in the head and push his corpse aside to take control of the helicopter.

Cut to: Office Building

Madeira: What did you do to them?

Walter: I made them more useful in death than they were in life. Surrender Captain Jacobs and I might let you live.

Madeira: You bastard!

Walter: Forces Carl and Melinda's corpse to open fire on Madeira's position.

Madeira: Jumps out of the way. Swipes her hands across the strings of her guitar to sends an electric charge towards Walter.

Walter: Uses Carl and Melinda as shields while having them continue to fire on Madeira's position.

Madeira: Pinned down by Tori's side, unsure of what to do.

Tori: Do you still have that bullet?

Madeira: Looks to Tori, taking out the bullet from her pocket to look at it. Yes.

Tori: Am I right in assuming once it's been touched by you you can channel your powers through it?

Madeira: What are you suggesting?

Tori: Jam it in his head and fry his ass!

Madeira: But he has all these wires. He'll just stop the bullet.

Tori: That's okay. It's from Garrus' gun. The bullet is small enough to maneuver through all that. You just have to steer it.

Madeira: Looks at the bullet.

Tori: He did something terrible to your friends, didn't he?

Madeira: Yes.

Tori: Make him regret it.

Madeira: Looks at the bullet one more time before sending it flying through the air. The bullet passes Carl and Melinda's corpses and heads straight for Walter. A barrage of wires swing through the air to block its path, but Made manages to maneuver it through them and hits Walter in the head.

Walter: Staggers back on the floor, dropping his grip on the corpses allowing them to fall back to pieces.

Madeira: Snaps her fingers and causes the electricity surging through the bullet to spread out to the electricity in his brain and overcharges it.

Walter: Screams in pain, his whole body shaking at the electrocution from inside his head before it stops, body falling limb to the floor.

Madeira: Walks over to where Carl and Melinda's remains are and look at them quietly. The sound of the chopper closing in gaining her attention. Turns to her right to see Armando outside the window.

Armando: Get in!

Madeira: Runs back to Tori and helps her up and into the chopper.

Armando: Flies away from the building and heads out of the sector.

We move down to the city below to see Legion walking atop the surface of the sea of blood, unmoved by the surrounding chaos. The scene suddenly transform into a monitor, the camera panning away to show us Alexander, Revolver Ocelot, Sergei Dragunov, and Vulture watching the footage.

Alexander: Freezes the footage. Reports say an explosion at the research facility released her from her confinement. She flooded an entire sector because she bled.

Ocelot: What of Captain Jacobs and her little command squad?

Alexander: Dead. That alien saw to it himself when he put a bullet in her head.

Sergei: Cracks knuckles.

Ocelot: It would seem you have one less nuisance to worry about, General.

General Vulture: Raises up his glass to the screen. Gentlemen, to an astounding success! Project Legion.

Cut to: Resistance H.Q.
Garrus, Kragen, and Fargason enter the base to be greeted by Imai and Logan.

Imai: Commander Fargason. I'm Imai Katayo and this is my right hand, Logan. It's an honor to meet you.

Fargason: Nods head in greeting. Her Majesty, Queen Lori, and Sir Integra send their greeting as well.

Imai: You seem to be short one.

Garrus: Lowers his head in sadness.

Imai: Looks shocked.

Logan: What happened?

Fargason: I would allow them time to grieve. They'll be more good to you later, trust me.

Imai: Agreed. Commander, if you'll come with us, we have a lot to discuss.

Fargason follows Imai and Logan upstairs. Garrus and Kragen doesn't make it two steps before June arrives on the scene.

June: You made it back. Realizes Tori isn't with them. Where's Tori?

Garrus and Kragen look at each other.

June: Unsettled by the silence. Garrus, where's Tori?

Garrus: I'm sorry, June. We–

Resistance Soldier: Vulture chopper inbound!

The three look at each other and then run out to the front of the base to see the helicopter approaching.

Resistance Soldier: I'm going to shoot it down!

Kragen: Gets a closer look through the scope of his rifle to see Armando at the helm. Hold your fire! It's Armando!

Garrus: What? How? We saw them crash back at Sector Twelve.

Kragen: Dumb luck.

The helicopter touches down and the three approach in time to see Madeira come out of the chopper helping Tori to walk. Garrus looks shocked at what he sees as June runs towards them.

Madeira: We need a medic!

June: Tori! What's wrong with her eyes?

Madeira: Just get her to a medic.

June: Follow me.

June leads Tori and Madeira back inside as Garrus and Kragen meets Armando coming out of the chopper.

Garrus: Where's the rest of your squad?

Armando: They didn't make it.

Garrus: Damn! Looks back to where Tori and the others were in the distance. This is going to make one hell of a field report.

Cut to: Medic room.

June: Lay her down on the table.

Madeira helps June lay Tori down on the operating table. Junes removes the piece of cloth from Tori's eyes to see the damage that was done.

June: W-what happened to her eyes!?

Madeira: She gouged them out. Kept saying “Make it stop! Make it stop!”

June: Make what stop?

Madeira: I don't know.

Tori: June?

June: Tori! Grabs her hand tightly.

Tori: Groans in pain.

June: Lets go of her hand. Don't worry, Sweetie. We're going to fix you right up. Sees the bullet wound in Tori's forehead and feels it up. What is this?

Madeira: She was shot.

June: She was shot?! By who?

Madeira: Stays quiet.

June: That's a shot to the brain. She should be dead.

Madeira: But she isn't. If it wasn't for her, there'd be none of us left instead of two.

June: She's good at that.

Madeira: There's one more thing you should know before you examine her.

June: Looks towards Madeira.

Cut to: Outside Medic Room
June and Madeira leaves Tori's room to find Imai, Garrus, Kragen, Shinta, Lily, Nex, Mary, and Armando waiting outside.

Shinta: How is she?

Mary: Is she going to be all right?

June: Her skeleton is severely fractured, she's been shot in the head and raped. She shouldn't even be alive right now.

Imai: How is that possible?

June: It isn't.

Shinta: You said rape. Who raped her?

Kragen: The undead.

Garrus: Sector Twelve were crawling with them by the time we got out of there.

Shinta: She was raped by zombies?

Nex: That's possible?

Lily: But you will be able to fix her, right?

June: The damage to the skeleton is irreversible. There's nothing I can do.

Lily: There has to be something!

June: One thing. There are healers in Aircano said to be capable of impossible feats, maybe one of them can help her.

Imai: You can't be serious. You want to put her fate in the hands of some religious fanatics?

June: What else can we do!?

Garrus: If they can help her then they're at least worth checking out. We owe Tori that much.

Armando: You need a pilot? Because I have a spare chopper.

Lily: I'm going too.

Shinta: So am I.

Nex: Third.

Mary: Then you know I'm going.

Imai: Fine. Take half the fucking base for all I care! Storms off.

Madeira: What crawled up her ass?

Garrus: I'll talk to her. As much as we want to come, Kragen and I better stay here to help secure the base. Who knows what the Vulture might try now that we have a Hellsing operative.

June: I understand. Looks to the others. Thank you. All of you.

Cut to: Isafaro Helicopter
 
The group helps Tori into the helicopter and take off for Aircano. June looks at everyone who is with her and offers them a smile. She turns back to where Tori lay and gently held onto her hand as the chopper disappears into the sky.


FIN

#5 River of Blood

Cast
Tori Jacobs
Garrus Vakarian
Kragen
Armando
Melinda Fray
Madeira Roberts
Carl Sun
Ghost (voice only)
Walter C. Dornez
Peter Fargason

The scene fades into a flooded Sector Twelve. We see the blood running through the street like a current, people stranded on the rooftops as the undead growl from beneath the river of blood. Garrus, Kragen, and Fargason remain in their spot. Kragen shoots up a flare to get the others attention while Garrus stays by Tori's body.

Fargason: Walks up to Garrus. My condolences. I did not get to know her for long, but I can tell she meant a great deal to you.

Garrus: She meant a great deal to all of us.

Fargason: What will you be doing with the body?

Garrus: Take it back to the base. Tori always said if something happened she'd want to be shipped back home to Moon Valley to be buried.

Fargason: She's a long way from home.

Garrus: Yeah, she is.

Kragen: Approaches the others. Hear a ripple in the air and immediately jumps in front of Fargason grabbing razor sharp wires with his bare hands and holding them in place as blood flowed from his hands from where the wires cut him.

Walter: Is on the building across from them shocked to see Kragen had caught his wires.

Fargason: It can't be.

Kragen: Fire!

Garrus and Fargason open fire on Walter. Walter abandoned the wires on Kragen's hands and leaps back, creating shields with the wire to defend against the bullets before launching a new strain to slice through the building they were on cutting it in half. Kragen and Garrus used their grappling hooks to make it to the next building away from Walter, Kragen grabbing Fargason with his free hand. But Tori's body was lost in the river of blood.

Garrus: Tori!

Kragen and Fargason fires more shots at Walter to keep him busy.

Fargason: Tell your people to get out of here. If he sees them he'll slice up their jet to pieces.

Garrus: Who is this man?

Fargason: Walter C. Dornez. The Angel of Death. A former member of Hellsing, at least in our world.

Kragen: Your world?

Fargason: There's no time to explain. Move!

The three continue to run, going from rooftop to rooftop to get away from Walter. Walter bit down his teeth against the wires and launched more through the air impaling the bullets they sent his way and firing them back twice as fast, hitting Fargason in the back. Garrus caught him before he could fall of the ledge of the roof and they kept running, Garrus contacting his comrades in the air.

Garrus: Armando, get out of here! You're in danger up there!

Armando: We can still get you.

Garrus: Just go!

Armando: We're not leaving without you. Carl! Get a lock on that bastard.

Garrus: Armando!

Carl fires a missile towards Walter. Walter just stands there, catching the missile in his wires and looking at the nose of it before flinging it back into the jet. The explosion from impact taking the jet out of the sky and crashing into the city below.

Garrus: Goddammit! We have to swim, it's our only way out of here.

Fargason: My back is shot. Leave me behind.

Garrus: No one else is getting left behind. Grab onto my back.

Garrus helps Fargason onto his back and the group dives into the sea of blood. Walter dives in after them and the chase continue.

Cut to: Closeup of Tori.

Ghost: Time to wake up, Tori Jacobs.

Tori: Eyes open up and a breath of fresh air is taken as she looks around shocked.

Ghost: Stand up.

Tori: I can't. My bones are broken.

Ghost: Irrelevant. Get up!

Tori: Pulls herself up to her feet while going through immense pain and screaming. I-I'm standing! I can breathe! How am I breathing?

Ghost: Reality is relative, Tori Jacobs.

Tori: Who are you? How do you know my name?

Ghost: We are Ghost.

Tori: We? Are you with that child?

Ghost: No.

Tori: I don't suppose you'd know who or what the child was, then, would you?

Ghost: She is an anomaly. A being that was never meant to be. A remnant of the Ancients. Created by a madman who thought himself more powerful than God.

Tori: General Vulture. That bastard!

Ghost: Walk. Your friends need you.

Tori walks until she could see the jet that crashed and the bodies of Armando, Melinda, Madeira, and Carl floating in the blood. Tori swims up and grabs Made, helping her back up to the surface and to a fire escape.

Tori: My entire skeleton is broken and I still have to save everyone's ass.

Tori dives back in for the others. Helping them up to the rooftop of the nearby building. She gives Made CPR helping her come to.

Madeira: Coughs out blood. Tori?

Tori: Hey. You're going to be all right.

Madeira: There's a bullet lodged into your skull!

Tori: A “thank you” would have sufficed.

Madeira: Magnetizes the bullet and pulls it out of Tori's head showing it to her.

Tori: Feels the bullet hole in her forehead. Son of a bitch!

Madeira: Puts it in her shirt pocket.

Tori: You're keeping it?

Madeira: I don't like to waste. Sees the bite marks on Tori. You've been bitten.

Tori: Don't worry about it. Points to her forehead. If this couldn't kill me a couple of bite marks isn't going to do anything. Help me with me the others.

Madeira went over to Carl while Tori moved to Melinda. After Carl came to, Melinda became conscious soon after.

Melinda: Sees the hole in Tori's head. What happened to you?

Tori: Long story.

Tori helped Melinda up to her feet and turned to see Armando being revived by Carl.

Armando: Good morning, Sugar Lips.

Carl: Turns to Madeira. He'll be fine.

Armando: Gets up and look at Tori. Captain. What the hell happened to you?

Tori: What, I just got shot in the head. No big deal.

Armando: Agree to disagree.

Tori: What happened here?

Carl: We got shot down by one of Vulture's men.

Tori: Where's Garrus and the others?

Armando: Lost contact after we went down.

Tori: Tries her radio. Dammit! Radio's busted. How about you guys?

Armando: Checks his radio. Mine's broken too.

Carl: I guess something had to break in that crash.

Madeira: What do we do?

Tori: Garrus and Kragen will find a way back to the base. They'll send help. We just need to– Ahh! Tori falls down to her knees and screams in pain.

Armando: Rushes to her side. Captain! Are you all right? Also sees the bite marks.

Tori: Do I fucking look all right? There's a bullet hole in my head!

Silence befalls the group.

Tori: I can't move.

Armando: Here. Gets down with his back facing her. Helps her up and then stands. We can't stay here, we're too open. We need to find someplace secure and sit tight.

The group begins to move away from the crashed helicopter.

Cut to: The Sewers

Kragen: Opens up the sewer entrance allowing Garrus and Fargason to enter and then closing the entrance behind them. Sets up an explosive programed to blow if the cover is touched.

Garrus: That should keep us from being followed. Let's see about getting you patched up.

The group get clear of the manhole and Garrus puts Fargason down to work on his back.

Garrus: Perhaps now you'd like to explain what you were talking about earlier?

Fargason: Do you really not know? The tower that stretches up to the sky, the Downward Spiral, it's been bringing people from other worlds to here for some time now.

Garrus: So, you're one of the outworlders?

Fargason: We come from a place similar to Hallowton, but closer to Moon Valley in technology. We were in a war with a group called Millennium who used vampire experiments to attack our home. Walter was the Hellsing Organization's butler at the time, and he betrayed us to join with Millennium. He died in the conflict and not long after all hell broke loose we were brought here just in time for the Vulture's attack on Hallowton. We assisted the Queen in fighting back the Vulture's forces and won ourselves a place of residence as part of the nation's defense. That was when Sir Integra sent me to make contact with you.

Kragen: And hell came again.

Fargason: So it would seem.

Garrus: Finishes and stands. That should do until we get back to the base.

Fargason: Stands up after Garrus.

Garrus: Keep your guard up. It's going to be a long walk back to the base.

The three are seen walking down the sewers.

Cut to: an abandoned office building.

Armando puts Tori down near the desk with Melinda and Madeira.

Armando: Carl and I are going to secure the rest of the building. You ladies stay and look after the captain.

Melinda: Righto, Boss.

Armando smiles and then departs with Carl. Melinda and Madeira sits on either side from Tori.

Melinda: How are you feeling?

Tori: Like shit.

Melinda: I hear ya. What I wouldn't give for some booze right about now.

Madeira: What happened back there?

Tori: There was this girl. She couldn't have been much older than eight. She came out of the lab and killed the Vulture troops that arrived at the scene. Blew off their heads. I tried speaking to her. She said something about a gate being prepared and evil rising anew disguised as a person. None of it made any sense. Kragen thought I was in danger so he shot him and the blood caused all of this.

Melinda: Man!

Madeira: How is that possible?

Tori: I don't know, but whatever Vulture is meddling with it's not good.

A moment of silence befalls the three.

Tori: I was raped. I was paralyzed and those things out there raped me.

Melinda and Madeira are unsure of what to say.

Tori: I shouldn't even be alive.

Melinda: The important thing is that you are. We're going to make it through this.

Tori smiled and turned her head to see Melinda's face begin to peal off.

Melinda: Tori? What's wrong?

Tori: Your face.

Melinda. What about it?

Tori: You don't feel that?

Melinda starts feeling her face as Tori turns to see the same thing happening to Madeira. Skin pealing off making way for the muscle underneath.

Madeira: There's nothing wrong with her face, Tori.

Tori: Screams. Looks down at her hand to see the skin on the back of it start to peal off. Holds onto the hand in pain trying to stop the skin to no prevail. She rises to her feet, hurting herself in the process due to the bones barely holding on inside as everything around her started to crumble into ash.

Melinda and Madeira stand up.

Madeira: Dammit, Tori! What's wrong?

The glass in the office building breaks, and Walter jumps onto the desk the three were sitting by, the razor sharp wires behind his back and monocle glowing in the light as he towered over the three, bringing his attention to Tori.

Walter: There you are.

Walter swing his arms, using his wires to keep Melinda and Madeira at bay while stringing Tori up and bringing her to him. Melinda cuts the wires with her mind and fires several shots into the side of his chest causing him to drop Tori. Madeira grabs Tori and runs off while Melinda continues to shoot more bullets into Walter's body. The bullet wounds regenerate and Walter sends several wires into her body and slices her to pieces just in time for Madeira to see.

Madeira: MELINDA!

Walter stomps on the remains of Melinda and turns his head over to Made. Made continues to run with Tori at her side while Armando and Carl returns.

Armando: What's going on?

Madeira: Melinda is dead!

Walter: Stalks the group.

Carl: Go. I'll hold him off.

Madeira: No! I'm not losing you too!

Carl: I said go!

Armando and Madeira take off with Tori. Carl takes out his long rifle and starts firing explosive rounds at Walter who blocks them again and again with ease while entering the next room. Carl jumps out of the path of Walter's wires and move from one desk to another once they were sliced apart by the wires, firing more shots and managing to pass the Angel of Death's defenses sending him crashing into the wall.

Cut to: Office hallway

Armando and Madeira continue down the hallway as fast as they can. Tori drops down to her knees holding onto her head.

Madeira: Tori!

Armando: What's wrong with her?

Madeira: We don't know. It happened just before that man attacked us.

Cut to: Tori's point of view

Everything is continuing to crumble into dust. Her hands now showing the broken bones inside only to reform and begin pealing off again.

Tori: Make it stop!

Armando and Madeira move to her side.

Madeira: Make what stop?

Tori: MAKE IT STOP!

Tori starts digging her hands into her eyes, clawing at them. She grabs a hold and gouges out her eyes, crying out in pain as blood pour down her cheeks and the scene fades to black.


FIN

#4 Legion

Warning: The following contains mild graphic violence and gore, reader's discretion is advised.

Cast
Tori Jacobs
Garrus Vakarian
Kragen
Legion
Armando
Melinda Fray
Madeira Roberts
Carl Sun
Peter Fargason

The scene fades into the sky as the Resistance jet flash through the sky.
The inside shows Kragen, Garrus, Armando, Melinda, and Madeira in the back while Carl and Tori are in the cockpit.

Tori: Where did you learn to fly?

Carl: Moon Valley Air Force.

Tori: You're from Moon Valley?

Carl: Yes, ma'am.

Tori: Same here.

Carl: Where at?

Tori: Over on the country side where the ranches are.

Carl: I'm a city boy myself.

Tori: I can tell.

Carl: How?

Tori: You can always tell.

Carl: How'd you end up in Isafaro?

Tori: Didn't want to live on a ranch the rest of my life. Got a little more than what I bargain for.

Carl: The draft. Makes sense, I suppose. No one in their right mind would work for that man willingly.

Tori: Not a lot of people in their right mind. I'm going to go check on the others.

Tori enters the back and stops by Madeira.

Tori: You planning on killing Vulture troops with an electric guitar?

Madeira: Manipulates the electricity across the guitar's strings Yes.

Tori: As you were. Walks over to Melinda. And what do you do?

Melinda: I dazzle the boys with my charming smile.

Tori: Is that right?

Melinda: I can “separate” people's body parts and objects with my mind. Think of it like an invisible sword that cuts through people from afar. Or crossing a pair of scissors through someone. I always have perfect haircuts.

Tori: So, you're a psychic?

Melinda: I can't read minds. I wouldn't want to, anyway. Being able to know what everyone was thinking? That'd be boring. That trick is as far as my abilities go. I was created to be the perfect assassin.

Tori: You're an experiment, then? You and the girl?

Melinda: We weren't grown in a test tube, if that's what you're driving at. We were turned into weapons by the Vulture. Armando and Carl got us out of it. We've been together ever since.

Tori: I didn't mean to offend.

Melinda: Trust me, I've been asked a lot more offensive questions than that. We're good.

Tori: Goes over to Garrus. What's your take on the new guys?

Garrus: They seem sincere enough. Don't know how I feel about having a kid coming along on a dangerous mission.

Tori: I think she can take care of herself.

Garrus: I don't doubt she can, but that doesn't make me anymore comfortable. A girl that age should be hanging out with friends, or practicing music in her garage, not being turned into a weapon to fight a war.

Tori: That's the world we live in now, Garrus. You either grow up fast or die young.

Garrus: I'll just feel better when we take down General Vulture once and for all.

Tori: You and me both.

Carl: We have company.

Two Vulture jets close in from behind the Resistance's.

Tori: Why can't we ever have a nice flight around town? Runs back up to the cockpit with the others. Can you lose them?

Carl: Not with them right on our asses.

Armando: Lower the ramp. Holds up his gun arm. I got this.

Garrus: You're going to shoot right through their armor?

Armando: What else are A.P. rounds for?

Tori: Do it.

Carl opens the jet's ramp. Armando walks down the ramp seeing the two fighter jets closing in. He lifts up his gun arm with his other hand and charges it, yelling at the top of his lungs while firing off several A.P. rounds at the jets causing a dent in their armor forcing the first one to fly off. The second jet locks onto the back of the Resistance's plane, and launches a missile at it. Armando shoots the missile right on the nose causing an explosion midair covering them from the enemy jets.

Armando: Now!

Carl flies towards Sector Twelve, using the various skyscrapers as cover. By the time the explosion clears up the Vulture pilots don't know where to look for them and fly off in a different direction while Armando rejoins the others.

Garrus: I'm sorry I doubted you.

Armando: Don't sweat it.

Tori: At least now we know what that thing is packing.

Carl: We're reaching the rondevu point.

Tori: Everyone keep your guard up. The Vulture aren't known for giving up easily.

The jet lands on a roof and opens up the ramp allowing the team to get off.

Tori: We'll go on ahead. The rest of you guard the jet. If you know you can't hold the area get the hell out of here, that's an order.

Armando: Yes, ma'am.

Tori: Kragen, you see anything?

Kragen: Looks through the scope of his rifle to see Fargason and his men four blocks out. There.

Tori: Looks through Kragen's scope before readjusting. Let's move out!

Cut to: Alleyway

Tori, Garrus, and Kragen meet up with Fargason's group. The Hellsing soldiers are quick to aim their weapons at them as the three raised their hands in surrender.

Tori: Don't shoot, we're Resistance.

Fargason: Holds up his hand to the others making them lower their weapons. I am Commander Fargason, member of the Hellsing Organization in Hallowton.

Tori: Captain Jacobs. This is Garrus, and Kragen.

Fargason: Acknowledges them with a nod. Is this all your men?

Tori: The rest are by the jet.

Fargason: It was my understanding that the Vulture had the air under heavy surveillance.

Tori: We were in a hurry.

Fargason: I see.

Tori: So, Hallowton is looking for some payback against the Vulture?

Fargason: Her Majesty wishes to establish a working relationship with Isafaro. That is not possible with its current administration.

Tori: Her Majesty? I thought the Queen was dead?

Fargason: Her daughter, Princess Lori, is Queen now.

Tori: Well, our boss is eager to meet with you. We'll lead you back to the–

A nearby explosion erupts. The group looks around for the source and Tori contacts the others through her radio.

Tori: Armando, where the hell did that explosion come from?

Armando: The research facility. Vulture troops are on their way there now.

Garrus: If one of Vulture's experiments got loose it could spell trouble for the entire sector.

Kragen: We'll be surrounded.

Fargason: Your alien friend is right. If you wish to win over the people, I suggest you not leave them behind.

Tori: We'll check it out. If the Vulture troops can't contain it then we move in.

Fargason: My team and I will cover you.

The group heads towards the research facility and remains hidden. Smoke rises from the roof of the building as Vulture troops line up outside the entrance. Helicopters flying over head and shining their lights on the building.

Speakers: Attention, Isafaro Citizens. Please remain in your homes until instructed otherwise.

The main doors swing open and the Vulture soldiers fire without hesitation. A swarm of bullets hit a small child who stepped outside the facility, the bullets appearing to evaporate as soon as they make contact with her flesh. She looks at the soldiers and they suddenly drop their weapons and clasp their hands to their heads screaming in agony.

Tori: What is she doing?

The soldiers' heads explode. Headless corpses falling to the ground as the helicopters start firing missiles at the child. She remains unmoved from her position after the explosion and glares up at the choppers, causing the helicopters to collapse into themselves and fall to the ground. The child looks out ahead to where the Resistance and Hellsing are hiding and begins to walk forward.

Tori: I get the feeling our guns aren't going to work.

Legion: Lifts the cars they were using as cover into the air with her mind and flings them into the buildings behind them.

Garrus: We need to think of something fast!

Tori: Drops her weapon and raises her hands up. Don't attack us, we're not Vulture! Turns to the others. Drop your weapons now!

The others drop their weapons as Tori slowly approaches child who stops in her tracks.

Tori: We're not going to hurt you. I cannot fathom what you must be going through, but I want to help. If I can.

Legion: Are we alive?

Tori: I'm sorry?

Legion: Are we alive?

Tori: You're breathing, aren't you?

Legion: The gate is prepared.

Tori: What?

Legion: The evil that was vanquished shall rise anew. Wrapped in the guise of man shall She walk amongst the innocent, and terror shall consume they that dwell upon Genesis. The skies shall rain fire, and the seas will become as blood. The righteous shall fall before the wicked, and all of creation shall tremble before the burning standard of hell.

Tori: What are you talking about?

Legion: It begins again.

Tori: What begins again?

Legion stares into Tori's eyes, images of a woman putting on a mask and screaming flashes across the screen as the words “We have been partners in what has been a very long dance” could be heard, like that of a ghost. Tori started to hold onto her head in pain, prompting Kragen to raise his rifle and fire a .50 BGM into Legion's chest blasting a large hole into her and knocking her back into the wall.

Tori: Kragen, stop!

Blood bursts out of the wound like a great flood and drowns the group, smashing through the buildings in the sector and washing away innocents as it consumes the area. We switch back to where Armando and the others are at the chopper seeing the blood come their way.

Madeira: What the hell is that?

Armando: Everyone get inside. Now!

The four got inside the jet and Carl lifts up the ramp. Back in the sea of blood, Tori desperately tries to swim through the current.

Tori: GARRUS! KRAGEN!

Nobody responds. Tori felt a hand grab her ankle and pull her down into the blood. She looks down to see several zombies clawing at her as she struggled to shake them off. Tori turns and starts swimming only to find Legion staring at her from under the blood. Tori tries to get away, but is blocked by a mirror. As soon as she turns back she found herself surrounded by mirrors everywhere with no means of escape.

Legion: Herald.

Tori: Let me go!

Legion: Herald.

Tori: LET ME GO!

Tori smashes the mirror in anger, and every single bone in her body shatters along with it. She screams, sinking to the bottom of the sea. Her eyes wide open and unable to move. Legion standing over her with a blank expression on her face while the undead closes in. The sound of clothes being torn could be heard, their teeth biting into her flesh drawing more blood as all Tori could do is scream. Tears drip down her cheeks. We see a zombie crawl over her and start to descend, teeth bare, before everything went black.

Cut to: Garrus, Kragen, and Fargason, making it to high ground to look down at the flood and the people who have turned into zombies. Among them were Fargason's team.

Garrus: I don't understand, the heads of those troops were destroyed. There's no way they could have turned and spread the infection.

Kragen: The child.

Garrus: You think she–? Fargason?

Fargason: Eyes closed and head bowed. In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished to eternal damnation. Amen. Shoots his teammates in the head.

Garrus: I'm sorry.

Fargason: They served their Queen and country. Their families will be well provided for. Sees the Resistance's jet overhead. If those are your people circling up there we best get their attention before the Vulture does.

Garrus: Right. Wait, Tori is still down there.

Kragen: We have to go.

Garrus: I'm not leaving her.

Fargason: Look around you. An entire sector is flooded with blood and people are becoming the undead. We don't know what that blood can do if you enter it. Are you willing to throw your life away?

Garrus: Garrus dives into the blood.

Fargason: I guess so.

Garrus swims deeper into the sea. A zombie blocks his path and he plunges a knife into the zombie's skull, kicking him away. He continues to swim deeper to the bottom, hacking and slashing the undead who got in his way until he saw Tori's body surrounded by a swarm of them, like insects feasting off her remains. Garrus took out his rifle and started to fire at the herd, forcing them off her long enough to grab Tori and begin swimming upward. Garrus reaches the surface and is helped back up to the high ground by Kragen and Fargason, gently laying Tori down to examine her with the omni tool.

Garrus: Her bones are broken.

Kragen: How many?

Garrus: All of them. Her entire skeleton is shattered.

Fargason: How in God's name is she still alive?

Kragen: She won't be for long. Kragen directs their attention to the bites.

Garrus: Damn! If we get her back to the base June may be able to help her.

Fargason: There's no time. You saw how fast those people turned. Would she really want to become one of those things?

Kragen: Draws his pistol.

Garrus: No. Let me.

Kragen: You sure?

Garrus: Rise to a stand. Yeah, I'm sure.

Garrus pulls out his pistol and the three are seen standing over Tori as Garrus aims the pistol at her head and fires.


FIN