Party! Party! Party!(9)

In the dark aether realm, a portal opens and out of it comes Rodeo, mutated Karl and Rip. They found themselves in some kind of a small damaged town and a massive grassland surrounding it with dark aether crystals covering or growing out from most of the town's buildings and enormous pink jellyfish hovering in the purple sky. There was no sun or moon. Just the purple glow of the sky giving them the only source of light.

"This town might have fallen to the dark aether long ago and made part of it." Karl remarked as he scanned around their surroundings.

"No doubt about it." Rodeo replied.

"But where do we start?" Rip asked.

"Look!" Rodeo points ahead, revealing fifteen massive dark aether crystals anchored to the ground in the center of the town and positioned near to one another.

Right above them in the sky, they saw a massive portal, the same one they had seen in the skies above the city of London. The crystals appeared to be sending currents of purple electricity to the portal no doubt for the merging process of pulling the hellsing universe into the dark aether realm.

"So those crystals are powering the portal as a conduit for the merging process and that portal is a gateway to the hellsing universe so that they can pull it here."

"Yes, and we must destroy the crystals to stop the merging process and close the portal in order to prevent future invasions."

"The crystals I get, but... how do you suggest we close that portal?"

"Same way Donna and Angie's little stunt did: Throw an unstable dark aether crystal to cause the portal to become unstable and if we're lucky use it to get back home."

"Let's do it then."

The trio approached the crystals when suddenly the earth around the crystals began lifting off the ground and sailed across the grasslands, taking the crystals along with it.

"No!"

"Do you really think I was gonna make it that easy, cat?"

Everyone gazed up at the sound of a dark, ominous voice that caught their attention, only to see the Forsaken, now in his monster form, hovering in the air with his arms crossed.

"Forsaken!"

"The universe of Hellsing is at an end. You cannot stop it. Your only trump cards are dead and you have no army on your side. You are finished. Phase 2. The universe merging process has begun. It is too late. Victory is in our grasp."

"Speaking of victory, what were you talking about the deviations for an easy victory?" Karl wondered.

"Anderson figured out you were trying to force us to do a time paradox," Rodeo claimed, "You can't do that unless it's an event from the past."

"Indeed. So I altered this universe's laws of time and space in my days of preparation for invasion of this universe with my cosmic powers and it was successful. I changed the law such that the paradox would trigger only on major events, such as the battle between Alucard and Anderson, Millennium's massacre on London, or Schrodinger's consumption by Alucard were to be prevented, but I could not trigger it myself manually since I set it myself. It needed to be triggered by one person. Can you guess who that one person is?"

Staring at Rodeo for so long, the latter understood he was referring to him.

"Of course, it's you. I knew from your fear of the death of others you would change some events but alas the paradox never happened because of your conflictions and mind. You are no hero. Nor a soldier. Nor a man. You're just a scared child not wanting to see more of the cruel world. But now it's time I end you all."

Karl steps towards Rip's direction and hands her both of his electro-uber backpack and Rodeo's phone right away. "Take these and chase after those crystals," he said as he shifted his gaze towards Forsaken with a determined look, "He's mine."

Rodeo and Rip both nodded and set out after the crystals while Karl drew thousands of metallic objects from his surroundings into his metal frame and made himself grow and expand in size until he is now a hundred-feet-tall metal behemoth.

The Forsaken teleports to the ground and stands tens of meters away from the now giant mutated Karl.

"Now we're of equal height!" Karl laughed as he smashed the surrounding buildings and trees to paste beneath his iron foot, "Ohhhhh, I'm so gonna enjoy bashing your skull in, Forsaken, for all the trouble you've given us until now!"

"Team Requiem could not destroy me. Samantha Maxis could not as well. Peck's machine could not contain me and YOU all will not see the end of this day!" Forsaken declared as he ignited his hands in purple flames, "I WILL HAVE MY VICTORY!"

"Then let's go! My heart is already BLAZING!"

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"Now I'll show you who's the boss of this battlefield."

As soon as Lina finishes her sentence, she activates the first system of her suit and immediately vanishes out of sight.

Bela widens her eyes as she scans around," Where did she go-"

~ Guilty Gear Strive - Smell of the Game ~

She was interrupted when Lina appears next to her and Cassandra and drops kicks both of them, launching the two in the air and crashing into Miranda. Lina backs away and avoids a claw swipe from Alcina as she immediately lunges at her. Alcina immediately delivered a faint uppercut, and gripped her leg before slamming her twice on the ground until Lina caught her leg and they both wrestled each other for a moment.

🎶I KNOW WHO I AM. THE MOONLIGHT LAKE TOLD ME. "THIS IS WHO YOU ARE".🎶

As the vampiric dragon and a female Nazi in advanced technological armor wrestled to death, Lina punched Alcina in the face twice before jabbing her eyes.

"AHHHHHHHHH!"

Alcina throws her aside, covering her eyes and wincing. As Lina landed on the ground safely, she didn't notice when Miranda came from behind, swept her legs and forced her tumbling on the ground. Bela and Cassandra quickly grab her arms and make sure she stays pinned to the ground, giving Alcina a perfect opening to leap over the pinned Lina and slashed her body with enough force to cleave a modern tank into two. Much to their shock, though, the armor didn't appear to sustain any damage.

"What?!"

Seeing their surprise expressions, Lina smirked beneath her suit.

"My turn."

From the shoulder pads of her suit, two micro rocket launchers popped out and unleashed a swarm of rockets, which struck them all and sent them flying in four different directions before crashing into seperate buildings.

Alcina coughed, "This is going to be tougher than we thought."

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Inside a damaged library, a Reich soldier was seen reading a book while listening to "Mond, Mond, Ja, Ja" on his 1960-style headphones. Out of nowhere, Seras came crashing into the library through a window as she quickly got up to see Fischer come bursting into the library through a wall.

🎶Till my heart is BLAZING!🎶

"I'll bathe in your blood!" Fischer roared as he pounced toward Seras and tried to trample her under his iron foot. Seras instinctively retreated, attempting to slit her opponent's chest vertically with her dark matter tendril, but her attack didn't penetrate through the chest's armor.

"Damn it! Too armored!"

[Of course it won't be that easy, Seras.]

To Seras's surprise, the eighteen-foot Zerstorer known as Fischer propelled himself towards her with a fast 360-degree spin kick to her chest, sending her flying through multiple bookshelves and crashing on top of a burned desk. Fischer begins powering up his arm cannons, but before he can use it, Seras instantly uses her shadow tendril to take hold of the ceiling above him and tears the entire thing apart as it falls on top of Fischer before she dashed at the robot who was pinned underneath the ceiling rubble with a demonic roar.

"RAHHHHHH!"

Without wasting even a split second, Fischer came flying out of the rubble with his jetpack active and shot toward Seras' direction at astonishing speed.

"Oh shi-"

Seras was silenced when Fischer gave her a hard kick that knocked her out of the library through a window. Fischer follows as he leaps out of the window and leaves the library.

While all of this happened, the Reich soldier, who was completely oblivious to the intense fight unfolding behind him, turned around only to see the library had sustained more damage than it should have.

"Was zum Teufel? (What the fuck?)"

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Stroheim was trying to get Heinkel, who had wrapped her coat around his face keeping him blinded and Daniela held him in a rear naked choke along with Heinkel as the infamous German man struggle to get them off of him and was flailing around while Integra kept on shooting her revolver into his chest but the bullets didn't appear to cause him to bleed. Rather, they were bouncing off of him.

"Something ain't right," Integra said as she reloaded her weapon, "He's not bleeding. Is he also some sort of monster or machine?"

All of a sudden, Stroheim slips and rolls down a downhill road along with Heinkel and Daniela as Integra runs after the three. As Stroheim, Heinkel and Daniela finally land at the end of the street, the masculine blonde immediately grabs both Heinkel and Daniela before tossing them off of him and the two crash into a mailbox.

Stroheim removed the coat off his face, only to see Daniela charged at him and dodged a right hook from him before sweeping his legs and kicking him into the air. Two tiny jet thrusters that were hidden beneath Stroheim's boots suddenly protruded and activated as he was in the air, enabling him to soar above Daniela and grab her head before slamming it down hard enough to cause the ground to crack.

Heinkel appeared behind him without warning, brandishing a broadsword and swung it at the back of his head at the speed that could be described as lightning. But to her utter shock…

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Stroheim bites down on the sword's blade with his teeth and shatters it like it was nothing. Heinkel appeared horrified and quickly retreated while keeping her eyes on Stroheim with a look of disbelief on her face.

"That sword was entirely made of titanium, and yet he just shattered it with a single chomp?!"

Without giving her a chance to react, Stroheim closes his distance between Heinkel and immediately grabs the back of her head before tossing her at Integra and causing them to collide.

"And where were you?" Heinkel questioned Integra with a groan.

"Oh you know, trying to catch up with you while you were rolling down the road like fools. He's not human, that's for sure."

"I noticed."

As Daniela stood up to her feet, she kept her eyes on Stroheim while speaking to the two.

"I'll show you how it's done."

Stroheim smirked, "Look I admire your bravery and will to fight, but I'm still giving you an option to stand down."

Ignoring his suggestion, Daniela swings her sickle at Stroheim with all her might, but the Colonel effortlessly catches the weapon between his index and middle finger.

"Nice gardening tool."

Letting out a wicked grin, Stroheim snapped the blade of the sickle in two with a single motion. Daniela retreated right away, realizing she was left with only the sickle's handle. Then Stroheim went for a right uppercut on Daniela, but she retreated fast, allowing the blow to miss its target. Daniela smirks and pulls her tongue out to mock his effort, but that moment was cut short when Stroheim punched her in the face at lightning-fast speed, sending her flying and crashing next to Integra and Heinkel.

"Nice demonstration, Daniela." Heinkel said in a deadpan tone.

"Oh shut up!" Daniela shouted as she immediately sprang up to her feet and threw her sickle handle at Stroheim, who simply swatted it aside before it could hit his face. Daniela gives a furious snort and immediately flies in Stroheim's direction.

"Wait!" Integra cried out. But her words fell on deaf's ears when Daniela closed the space between her and Stroheim and rained fist on his chest. Stroheim merely remained where he was, taking all the hits without moving, all the while Daniela was chanting "Die" nonstop.

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"Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!"

And with that, she reeled her right hand and shrieked.

"GO TO HELL!"

With all her might, she punched his chest so hard it may have torn a concrete wall apart or bent a few inches of steel before retreating from Stroheim. Even after he received a hundred blows on the chest, he appeared unmoved as he simply brushed the dirt off his shirt and straightened his glasses, as if he was mocking her effort.

Feeling such humiliation and adding with her fists being in great pain from the punches she administered, it boils Daniela to her core in pure rage.

"WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!"

Then, to their surprise, Stroheim tore apart his own clothes, showing his muscular body filled with scars from small to larger ones all over his pale body, as though he had fought in numerous battles over his entire life.

But it's not the only thing they've witnessed.

Aside from the scars in the flesh part of his body, his chest and arms were completely covered in steel, and I mean a lot of steel. In fact, 70 percent of his body is made up of steel and cybernetics.

Heinkel widened her eyes and gasped, "He's a cyborg?!"

"Da'at yichud steel, little girl. They protect me from physical attacks and are durable enough to withstand most conventional weapons," Stroheim bragged, delivering a forceful punch to the concrete floor under him that left a small crater in its wake, "You can't hurt me at all."

At that moment, Heinkel appeared in front of him and whacked his chest with a stop sign, only for the stop sign to bend into a "U" shape.

"...Oh boy."

Stroheim tilted his head, "What did I just say?" and uppercuts her into the air and crashes on top of a mangled automobile.

Within a fraction of a second, Stroheim's cybernetic eyes flickered to his side, just in time to see Daniela went for a right hook on him, but he effortlessly caught her fist and activated one of his cybernetic enhancements.

Noticing this, Daniela attempts to retreat, but Stroheim's grip is too strong for her to break free, and all she could do is watch helplessly as his arm erupted in a shower of lightning, electrocuting her. Reeling his other arm, Stroheim violently punched her head to the ground and knocked her out.

After dealing with the two ladies, Stroheim shifted his gaze at Integra who froze in her spot.

"You're next." Stroheim grinned as he began approaching Integra and cracking his knuckles when...

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

…Gunfire erupted behind his back and felt a hundred rounds of silver and lead hammering into his body, yet he appeared unaffected and didn't seem to care.

Turning around, Stroheim was met with Moreau and the remaining dozen Iscariot paladins charging towards him at surprising speed while firing their guns from pistols, assault rifles, and snipers. But instead of being alarmed by them, he simply couches down and touches the ground. This causes an unnatural electrical current to flow through the earth and, as soon as it comes into contact with their feet, every single paladin is electrocuted and collapses to the ground.

Watching the entire thing, Integra sighed and began reloading her weapon and brandishing her sword.

"This is going to be a long start to a new morning."