Party! Party! Party!(6)

Hearing those words from Rodeo, Walter returns his gaze at Alucard, "You heard him, now stand up and face me Alucard before this world meets its end."

There is no answer from Alucard yet as the wind whipped through the sky and dust spread across the barren wasteland. But then, he began chuckling, demeaning his once arguably best friend like he would any other enemy of Millennium.

"The Angel of Death. Weren't you the very man who said that Englishmen look forward to growing old? It seems in your childish desire to battle me, you've lost the maturity you gained through your many years of aging. This is quite a shame. You were such a lovely old man, your old body was ten times more beautiful than what you have become and I thought you would die an honorable death of old age, but it pains me to see how truly ugly you've become. Your very body and soul has been corrupted, and whatever honorable traits you once had have now vanished into the wind, never to be seen again. A dark rebirth to the very core."

"You're correct, Alucard. After all, this world is merely a violent, fleeting dream in the end. And as the dawn breaks, I, Walter C. Dornez, will stand, ready to reap the Earth. Now STAND AND FACE ME, ALUCARD!"

"Calm yourself, boy. You know full well we're both dogs, following the orders of our master." Alucard turned to his lord and master, bowing his head and bending to the ground on all fours. "Your orders! Give me my orders, master! I can kill him without the slightest of hesitations and regret! So what are your orders, Sir Fairbook Integra Wingates Hellsing?!"

Walter, Rodeo, and Seras all watched, each wondering when and if Integra would allow a battle between two of the four members of her Hellsing Organization to pass.

"Say the words!" shouted Walter.

The tip of Integra's cigar fell onto the ground as she swept her arm across the air. "Search and Destroy! You have your orders! Nothing changed! Annihilate all forces that dare oppose us! Crush all obstacles that stand in your way and keep pushing forward, regardless of what it is! Regardless of WHO it is! Destroy... anyone in your way..." Integra's unreadable face slipped, and her servants could see the sadness in her eyes as she ordered her butler and her practical father figure to his death.

Alucard rose from the ground, his blood-red symbols on him glowing once again.

"Very well, master."

Walter stared at Integra with sick pride in his eyes. "Outstanding! Just perfect! You were a master worthy of my years of service!"

Integra gave her former butler a cold stare with her teeth bared in response. "How you became this I no longer care anymore. You are nothing to me now but my enemy. Hellsing's enemy! You're a traitor to your master and to your country, and I find ecstasy in watching your demi-"

"Geez-lo-weez, people!" Rodeo groaned irritably, "Enough with the long monologue, we had something coming our way!"

True to Rodeo's words, everyone looked up in the sky to witness the Deus ex Machina zeppelin descend to the ground on the streets, flattening all of the remaining stone statues and buildings into paper. From the front of the Zeppelin, the opening panel extended out and onto the ground, inviting whomever desired to enter the formidable fortress of Millennium.

Standing on the door was none other than Schrodinger.

[Oh. How's it going?] Karl greeted him.

"Good."

[...Also, go fuck yourself.]

"Rude."

Integra approached the zeppelin as Alucard urged her, "Go ahead. Put an end to this and kill that Major."

"Yes, it's about time," Integra said as she turned to face Rodeo, "Sir Rodeo, good luck on your end as well. Don't let that cosmic monster win."

"Good luck to you as well."

Alucard turned to face the female vampire, "Seras, go with our master. Help her bring an end to this madman's dream. This fifty year nightmare. Dawn approaches and the world perhaps might meet its end. I still have my own bad dream to deal with."

Seras nodded before she turned to face Walter hesitantly, "Walter... I know this is odd to say under these circumstances, but... thank you for everything you've done for me. Take care."

Surprised by her kind words, Walter closed his eyes and let out a small smile.

"Take care of yourself as well."

Giving one final look at Hellsing's now-former butler one last time, Seras catches up with Integra, who brings out her sword and adds.

"Farewell, Walter. Farewell and may we never meet again."

Soon afterwards, Seras and Integra ascend the ramp and make their way to the door where Schrodinger was waiting, in order to board the zeppelin.

"Welcome ladies to the Deus ex-"

Bang!

Schrodinger immediately got his head blown off by Integra's revolver before he could finish his sentence and went limp. However, since he is everywhere and nowhere, he'll just come back in a different location when the two board the zeppelin.

[Oh no, he's dead... Again.] Karl remarked in a deadpan tone, laying his eyes on the cat boy's corpse.

"Rodeo! All of you leave! This fight is mine and Walters alone!" Alucard shouted at the rest.

[We get it. We get it. Sheesh.] Karl murmured as he, Rodeo and the rest started moving out to do their respective tasks that Rodeo told them to do.

Rodeo gives Walter one last glance before leaving with Karl and says, "Thanks for treating me and my allies with kindness in our days being here. Really appreciate it."

Walter slightly nodded, "...No, I thank you for accepting my and Hellsing's kindness. Now go. The Forsaken might have already begun its merging process." he said indifferently, but Rodeo could easily sense the hint of humanity within him.

Nodding back at the butler, Rodeo and Karl set out to locate a portal and reach the Forsaken. Since Alcina's task was to keep any enemies away from Walter and Alucard's battle, she decided to stand far away from them to watch their fight from afar and scout for enemies.

"Please survive this, Alucard."

As Alucard and Walter gazed down at one other, a swarm of bats began circling around the area they were in. Within a split second, Walter draws his razor wires and sliced all of the bats into two before charging towards Alucard, who follows suit.

"Let's end this foolish dance!" Alucard sprinted with unbelievable speed and outstretched his arm to strike Walter with a right hook. But the butler effortlessly stops Alucard's attack by wrapping his wires around his arm and ripping the offending arm into pieces.

Alucard grunts as blood spews out his arm which later turns into a shroud of eyes and begins regenerating, but Walter had already wrapped his wires around one of his legs and pulled the wires to throw him through the air impacted against the side of the building. Walter then proceeds to drag him all over the floors before hauling him outside and flung him into the next building

"You once said that true immortals don't exist. You might be onto something so let's put it to the test. Let's keep killing until you stay dead."

Walter used his wires to force Alucard out of the building and crash back on the ground. The corners of Alucard's lips widened ever further, and he fired a consecutive stream of bullets from his Jackal at Walter, who used his wires to deflect every shot with ease. Alucard calls out his familiar, Baskerville, the black hound lunged at Walter with a ferocious roar, only to get bisected by Walter's wires as both of his body halves fall on the ground.

Alucard was going to fire another round from his Jackal when a portal opens and a Panzerhund jumps out of it and snatched the Jackal from his hands with his jaws along with Alucard's entire hand, and before it could escape into the portal Walter sliced the Panzerhund into two but the Jackal falls into the portal as it closes.

"Damn mutt."

Over at the corpse of one of the hellhounds, a familiar being rises out, revealing to be Luke Valentine as he looks around in shock and confusion.

"Ah! Where amI?!" Luke blinked in disbelief and looked around, "Seems like things are Luke-ing up for this Valentine."

As if responding to Luke's bad pun, he and the Baskerville corpse got twisted and attached by Walter's wires, digging deep and worming his way throughout the body.

Walter grinned as he used his puppet-master skills to manipulate Luke Valentine, who was writhing in pain and agony, and Baskerville to attack Alucard by biting off his left arm and dragging him across the field.

It was at that moment that Walter suddenly collapsed on one knee and coughed out blood from his mouth.

"No! Not yet! Not until Alucard is dead!"

Walter's vampire body was actually unstable due to the Doctor creating it too quickly and was only intended primarily to destroy Alucard. Nothing more than that. Upon rising to his feet, Walter launches the Baskerville once more on Alucard, biting down on his torso and carrying him into the air, only for Alucard to pull out Casull and load it with his mouth.

"Checkmate."

Alucard points Casull at Luke since he was attached to Baskerville and by killing him he would kill Baskerville in the process. Pulling the trigger, he blasts Luke's head off, killing him, causing the hellhound corpse to fall back on the ground as Alucard stands back up to his feet.

"It's over Alucard. This is it!"

"Yes, let us end this!"

With a swift motion, Walter dismembers Alucard's limbs with his garrote wires before slicing his body from the waist below and wraps them around his torso and neck to immobilize him in one place. At some point, Walters' body lost stability and began to age backwards, causing him to relapse into his early adult years and collapsing on one knee again. With little vitality remaining, he stood up, picked up a random metal pipe on the floor and went up to the subdued Alucard.

"Just need to hit his heart."

Mustering all his will power, Walter pierced Alucard in the heart with the pipe when all of a sudden, the Alucard in front of him fades away and morphs back into Luke Valentine. It was an illusion that Alucard somehow conjured to make Walter think he stabbed him but in reality he had actually stabbed Luke.

"What?! Where did he go?!"

"Right behind you."

Walter spun around and was punched in the face and fell on the ground. At last Walter's body reverted back to his teenage self as he glanced at Alucard who had again taken a different form. The form was more girlish in nature with long smooth black hair, dressed in a white gentlemen suit but still had the same red-blood eyes and pale skin. Alucard has the ability to shift into any form he wants, especially those forms that depict his previous appearance in the past or of those people he knew personally in the past.

This form he took is called "Girlycard"

"Come on then. Stand up. You're not going to let this all end with just one punch? Whatever you did to change yourself into it doesn't seem to handle well with your regenerative abilities. You're just reducing that body down to nothing. So what's the plan then? I mean you have burned through the height of your power. You won't be able to hold that body much long. But it's good to see you back as little Walter. I haven't seen that face in sixty years."

"What sort of game are you playing!?"

"Game? No, I'm just playing, foolish child. You being trapped in your mortal form means nothing to me. Just like I said sixty years ago and still you thought your betrayal had the slightest chance of succeeding? You're a really hard listener, but it doesn't matter, this is nothing more than a childish squabble. Hence why I took this form, It's the nature of battle, to defeat what cowers you and truly become yourself, but to do that you must break the shackles that hold you back. Just as I, Anderson and the Major did. All of us have gone through the metamorphosis you are experiencing. From the moment we met you wanted to fight me, otherwise you couldn't move forward. Would you even know how? Were you afraid of becoming useless or old? Or were you afraid of being forgotten? Don't make me laugh, you're the one playing games. Sixty years and you're still just the same. A scrawny brat. Now come on, show me what you got."

Alcina, who heard the entire thing from a distance, now understood the motive behind Walter's betrayal. That fear of being forgotten and not moving forward by defeating Alucard is what drove him to this point. Having outlived his prime after joining Hellsing, he undoubtedly worked as a double agent for Millennium to get this opportunity, but it now appears to have been in vain.

"The dots finally connect now. Walter... you damn fool. Fear got the best of you and now this world is gonna collapse on us in any moment now by the Forsaken."

Alucard gave her a knowing smile and said, "I know you heard us."

"Yes, I did. That form of yours, though, does it have a name?"

"Not exactly."

"I'll call it Girlycard."

Alucard narrowed his eyes and shot out, "...No-life king. King of Vampires. The Impaler. Those are worthy names. What you're saying is utterly ridiculous."

Alcina retorted, "You know your name Alucard is just Dracula spelled backwards, right? I'm pretty sure the average person with a brain can figure it out. It's too obvious."

"Your... not technically wrong, even though it's a secret code name meant to hide my true name."

"Which is way too obvious. Seriously, Integra needs to come up with something better for a secret name."

"Don't push it, Alcina."

Walter stepped in and snapped, "Are you two serious right now?! At this moment? Arguing about names?!"

"Maybe." Alucard and Alcina both said.

"No wonder you two get along so well."

Until that point on, they all noticed the Deus ex Machina zeppelin had begun to catch fire and that some of its sections were bursting in a fiery explosion.

"!?"

"Sounds like they're really going at it, my master and servant," Alucard smiled, "The carnage is reaching its end. It's time for hellsing to take center stage with Millenium and once that is done the killer queen will be the one to put a close to this final chapter."

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Standing in the desolate streets of London, Rodeo and Karl were gazing up at the massive portal in the sky and as they did, they watched as an infinite number of dark aether zombies descended from the purple sky and roaming the streets.

[What do you know? It's raining zombies.]

"This is just the beginning," Rodeo stated as he cast a glance at Karl, "Now look, we can't fly into the portal since the Ausmerzer is still in the sky and we could get shot down easily. Instead, we take a portal that brings in infantry and possibly reach the Forsaken."

[That's easier said than done given how those portals can pop up at random.]

"We meet again."

The two immediately spun around at the sound of a familiar voice to find Rip Van Winkle in a gray robe and hood over her head to shield herself from the sunlight.

"Rip."

"Herr Rodeo."

"...Why are you here?"

"No. I'll ask the questions. Why save me back at The Eagle?"

"...Because more firepower."

"Because your kind hearted soul believed it was the right thing to do even though you know very well that I work for an enemy that tore this city apart and we were destined to meet the great death knowing full well that was our fate?"

"...I'm gonna blame my old instinct. But still… perhaps?"

Rip sighed, "You really are a buffoon. Look, the Major is at an end and the curtains of the final act for Millenium are finally ending, but I cannot find peace knowing full well you saved me from great death and not being even with you so this is what I will do. I will assist you in your fight against the Forsaken and get even with you and if I'm lucky, see the spectacular death take me away."

[Sheesh, you guys really are mentally ill.] Karl remarked silently enough to not get heard.

"So will you allow me to join you?"

"Fine."

[You sure about this kid?] Karl questioned warily.

"Like I said, we need the extra firepower we can muster and besides "The enemy of my enemy is my friend.""

[Alright but we still need to find a damn portal that sends out zombies or infantry.]

As if their words were answered, a portal popped right in front of them and a lone dark aether zombie stepped out before noticing the three.

"..."

"..."

"...Huh? You say the words, the universe will provide."

As Karl grabs the zombie and launches him into the sky, all three of them touch the portal to get pulled into it before it closes.