//------------------------------// // Heretics And Protestant Scum // Story: Animation Corps: Entropy // by Peridork //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash sat on a cloud. The fluffiest, most comfortable cloud ever. It hugged her body while she napped and she dreamed. She dreamed of the greatest trick she could perform: the Sonic Rainboom- but she dreamed of a better trick- the Double Rainboom. She smiled as she thought of the physically demanding trick. She could almost feel the Wonderbolt uniform that would hug her body once she completed the trick. She smelled somepony coming towards her, and as she opened her eyes she saw who it was. ‘Is it that day already?’ she thought as she saw the yellow pegasus poke her with a hoof. “What?” Dash rolled over to meet her attacked as she grabbed her in with her hooves. She knew that Fluttershy was ticklish and so she retaliated with her own tickle bomb. Rainbow Dash smirked as she saw her marefriend giggling. She always thought the yellow pegasus was the cutest when she was in this kind of state. 'I could just take a bite out of her. I am so hungry...' Dash shook her head as she tried to get back into the mood. That thought was unnatural. Her fur stood on end as she smelled her meek friend. She could smell the barest hints of Want from her, a smell that she liked. She could also smell the faintest hint of frosting. This meant that she had just recently come from Sugarcube Corner. A rhythm began to invade her mind. It was a sound that was both distant and close; a sound that beat with the rising and fall of Fluttershy’s chest. ‘Thump. Thump. Thump.’ Rainbow leaned into kiss her marefriend. She felt happy because she loved the days where she could be alone with Fluttershy. A strange itch began to spread through her mouth, but she forgot about it as the two pegasi locked lips. Her mind floated off into the stratosphere. Dash's wings flapped in time with the strange thumping that filled her mind more and more as she made out with Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash was suddenly blinded by extreme pain. Her vision blurred as she saw blood mar the yellow coat of her friend. A metallic taste flooded her mouth as blood filled it. She liked the taste. It sated her hunger a bit and a new Want entered her mind. She looked into the eyes of her terrified friend. Fluttershy’s eyes were wet from crying. The tears left streaks of wetness on her yellow coat. The blood had dripped into her friend’s mane and Rainbow Dash bent down to lick her marefriend’s face. Rainbow opened her mouth to speak. And her voice held power for her kind friend looked into her eyes with a blank stare. “Offer yourself.” Rainbow ordered her friend and Fluttershy was forced to comply. Dash tried to stop her friend from following the voice by trying to scream but nothing happened. The yellow pegasus pushed her pink mane out of the way and turned her head so her neck was exposed. The prize was in her grasp and the prey had given herself completely to her. Rainbow predatorily grinned. Dash's mind was fighting to stop it. She didn't want this. She just wanted to be with her friends. She bit down on the yellow mare’s jugular and cries of ecstasy came from the quiet mare. Rainbow drained her prey of its blood and dropped its husk to the ground to wait for its rebirth. Rainbow looked down at her hooves stained a dark maroon with the lifeblood of Fluttershy. She stared down into the pool of blood and saw a grim face stare back. It was a monstrous face with blood red eyes and sharp canines that grinned back. She noticed that it was staring back at her. Rainbow could hear a deep chuckle escape from a nearby cloud. She looked over to see that man from her dream calmly sitting on a throne of blood. “Why, Acid Trip, if it isn’t the most idyllic place ever. I thought I had seen it all. Talking magical horses though, now that's something. Interesting. I see that you have the passion, but do you have the drive?” Alucard looked away, his glasses glinted orange in the light. Rainbow Dash felt a tug and looked back. She held in a scream as she saw Fluttershy open her eyes and stare back at the blue pegasus. Her voice dripped with desire and Rainbow lost all restraint. “Oh Dashie, you have been such a bad mare. I think you deserve some sort of punishment. Don’t you agree?” Rainbow felt her neck muscles involuntarily move up and down in a nod. She wondered where her special powers had gone. It was if she was helpless. Fluttershy pulled Rainbow’s head towards her to kiss it gently on the lips. The speedster couldn’t help but find this incredibly sexy and involuntarily had a wingboner. Fluttershy pulled away from the kiss and bit hard on Dash’s neck. The pain was immediate. Burning pain shot through her and she screamed in fear as her surroundings became dark. A laugh echoed through her brain as she blacked out. “Welcome Draculina to a new life.” *** Rainbow’s eyes snapped wide open and she tried to breathe as slowly as possible. She blinked as she realized that her dream of being a human wasn’t such a dream. Her eyes widened as she couldn’t feel her wings. She reached back with a hand and felt bandages wrapping her wings tightly. “Great. Just great. I have no idea where I am and I have no Daring Do books to keep me entertained.” The door creaked and Dash turned to see what had opened it. She was surprised to see that it was a young woman that stood at the door.Her most notable feature was her chest. 'She definitely isn’t an athlete not with that build.’ The visitor laughed once she saw Dash. Dash frowned until the girl stopped laughing at her. “Sorry, but when Walter told me that Alucard had found a helpless angel I thought he was kidding.” Dash took offense at that. “Hey. Its not my fault I got thrown into this crazy world and something like this happened. Where I come from, there aren't any zombies or anything like that.” “Oh so you’re a newcomer to our fair land. Well then I welcome you to the Hellsing Headquarters in England on the planet of Noctus.” With a flourish, the girl curtsied and looked back at Dash, “And from what I can tell Alucard must have found you while on one of his walks that he does every once in awhile.” “Yeah, what makes you so sure of that?” “Because I had the same thing happen to me.” Suddenly the girl’s eye color shifted from blue to red and Dash backed away. The girl appeared by Dash’s side without seemingly moving. “Oh, I never gave you my name. Seras Victoria at your service.” Dash readied herself to get attacked but Seras just poked her nose. And then Seras’s eyes changed back and she smiled at Dash. “If you could just follow me, our services are required.” With a skip, Seras bounced out the door. Rainbow Dash lept out of bed and ran to catch up with her crazy visitor. ‘I hope Fluttershy is okay.’ *** “Sir Integra? If I may ask, what is on your mind?” A older man in a butler uniform tried to calmly ask his noble mistress a question. He waited patiently as he was wont to do since he had nothing better to do except serving the Hellsing foundation in their quest to wipe out the vampires. “Mostly the usual, Walter. The budget is giving me a headache, the Queen wants to see me about allegations about a new vampire on our payroll, and I have to make sure those hacks in America don’t try and take our business from us.” The woman speaking was dressed in a dark suit and glasses and was the head of the Hellsing foundation. Walter laughed. “You mean those Miskatonic professors are worrying you? You do realize that they run a school. We run a business that is backed by Her Majesty. And we have a vampire. They might have reason to believe that a cult is romping around in the hills of Devonshire but I believe we have jurisdiction in those matters. Now what is a more pressing matter is the Vatican and their lapdogs.” Walter filled a cup on Integra’s desk with tea and waited for his next order. But before she could answer, the doors were opened by two very hot headed girls. “You know Dash that I am an athlete. I was a police officer before becoming a vampire.” Dash scoffed. “Not with those things you weren’t.” Seras crossed her arms in front of her chest and blushed. “Yeah well you are flat chested.” Seras called to attention the pony girl’s almost rail thin frame. “You might be just jealous...” Dash’s eye twitched. “Okay it is on!” Dash was ready to brawl and she got into a lowered position that shifted her center of gravity towards the ground. Walter cleared his throat and the two girls stopped their bickering. “Well if you two are done talking about your assets, Sir Integra has a mission for you two and Alucard- wherever he might be.” “Right here, old man.” Alucard phased through the wall. His coat billowed out and Dash noticed that he was holding some very large weapons. She felt intimidated by the man as he felt older than he looked. Alucard noticed her looking and he grinned. “Hey, Acid Trip, did you have a nice nap?” Dash turned away in shame when he said that. “Well then, I shall explain the situation. We have a problem in Ireland. The thing is that our troops dealt with the vampire but the ghouls are still moving around.” Dash was lost. She slowly raised her hand and Walter noticed. “Yes, miss?” “I- well- I don’t know what you are talking about.” Walter chuckled. “Ah, yes, I had forgotten that you are a new vampire. Even Seras has a few months on you. A ghoul is created by a vampire. It is a monster that used to be human but because the vampire sucked out the blood of it- it has become a zombie.” Dash took deep breaths as her mind tried to come to terms with vampires and zombies and other dark creatures that had only been legends. *** The Vatican The priest slowly walked towards his target. The Pope had told him to search for the greatest operative of the Iscariots. He just hoped the stories of the man were partial fabrications because from the stories, he could stand up to the Protestant vampires. The priest stood in front of the last known whereabouts of Alexander Anderson. An orphanage- how fitting of him to use the money the church gave the warrior to help the less fortunate. “And what do we have here? Enrico, is that you? I believe you haven’t been here in years. I see that you wear the vestments of priesthood well, Enrico. What does His Holiness expect of me this time?” Enrico smiled at his old friend- the man who had led him on the path of righteousness and let him into the orphanage to live while his family left him to die. His facial tic began acting up and his left eye couldn’t stop twitching as the memories flooded back. “The Hellsing organization is on the move. We know that they are hunting a vampire and you know our stance on vampires.” Anderson began to grin. “As well as I know the Beatitudes. Kill all vampires because of what they represent. For they are part of the legions of Satan that shall never inherit the earth as long as the Catholic Church stands firm.” “Good, good. Now go to Ireland and use your special talents on the heathens.” *** Ireland “So Dash why did you choose your weapons?” Seras waited for the pony girl’s answer since what she had chosen as weapons was a little odd in the times they lived in. Two swords were on Dash’s back. Her wings were extended enough so they fit neatly underneath. They were of some dark metal that the organization had found and crafted into the swords. They hadn’t been used in almost a century, yet they had stayed as sharp as the day they were first made. Dash flapped her quickly healed wings. They had healed on the way to Ireland since vampiric healing was much quicker than normal. “They just seemed to call out to me. You mean that swords aren’t used that much?” Seras shook her head no. “Well ladies- we’re here.” Alucard readied his large gun and kicked open the doors of the monastery. “Police Girl, you shoot the ghouls. Acid Trip, you learn how to fight these things. I sense a different opponent for me.” Before Dash could object, Alucard disappeared. Seras and Dash grinned. “Competition?” With a nod, both vampires began their rout of the ghouls. Dash grinned as ghouls fell by her hand and she felt more and more in control of the swords. They acted as extensions of her arms and they aided her in the dance of death that she performed with ease. She dodged Seras’s bullets with ease as her eyes shifted into red. Dash growled as a ghoul latched onto her arm and she grabbed its head with a claw and squeezed. With a snapping sound the ghoul fell dead to the ground. Dash sliced and diced as she ran towards the stairs to the top of the monastery. Dash soon was overpowered by her want of blood and she stopped and she had begun to lean down. Suddenly, a bayonet came out of nowhere and hit Dash in the throat. Seras could only watch as Dash was impaled by bayonets. The pony girl slumped as blood gurgled from her mouth. Seras turned and tried to see where the attack had come from. Even though she had a few months of experience, she couldn’t help but shake just a bit since she hadn’t felt an intruder. Echoing steps made her turn her head and shoot towards the sound. A body hit the ground and Seras took a breath of relief. She waited a while and she waited for Alucard to come back. Dash was trying to pull out the swords, but whenever she touched one it burned her skin. ‘So the blades are laced with holy water.’ Seras flipped as a bayonet almost stabbed her in the neck. “Exodus 22:18. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” A priest slowly walked down the stairs. His hair was a spiky blonde and his face was tanned. He had a large scar on his cheek. He pulled out a few knives and he placed them in between his gloved fingers like claws. “Now girly I hope you have made your peace because you are going to die just like the vampire upstairs died.” Seras charged but the priest tossed his knives into her arm and she stopped and clutched her arm in pain. Dash screamed as she pulled out the blades that had almost killed her. She was running on pure adrenaline as her wounds tried to heal as quickly as possible. They were smoking as her body tried to get out the holy water. “Seras! Go now. I’ll take care of this freak. Find Alucard now!” Seras looked at the new vampire but she saw that the pony girl was resolute in her ability to stop this man. Dash glanced over and Seras nodded and she picked herself up and ran off towards the upstairs. Dash spread her wings and pulled out her black blades. “I don’t know who you are but I will stop you if i have to.” She flapped her wings and flew towards the crazy priest. He just started to laugh evilly. “God’s in his heaven and this can not do. This pains me since our Iscariots would love to research the first angel that came to earth since the birth of Our Lord. But you are a false angel since you are poisoned with the blood of the vampire. I shall enjoy this, demon!” The man charged and crossed swords with Dash. *** Seras looked through the halls of the monastery. She walked around the mounds of dead bodies that used to be ghouls and looked for a sign of Alucard. Usually she just had to follow the trail of dead bodies and search for the most destroyed room. Finally she found what she was looking for. What she walked into surprised her as Alucard’s body was limp and his head was staring at her from across the room. She had to chuckle a bit as she realized what the priest thought he did. Usually decapitation was enough to kill a vampire, but Alucard was no ordinary vampire for she had seen him seemingly die more times than she could count. She grabbed his head and ran back down towards the battle. *** Dash and the priest stood even. Or as even as thy could be. Whenever she cut off his arms, they just grew back. This man was strange. She couldn't feel a magical aura coming from him yet he was performing spells that only Twilight could do. She wiped blood away from her face and spit out a few teeth that she automatically grew back. (Not without a great deal of pain.) “Girly, I have to ask your name. I haven’t had this much fun in a while.” Dash took a breath as the priest stopped attacking to wait for her answer. “Rainbow Dash at your service. Who are you?” The priest chuckled as he sheathed his bayonets. “Alexander Anderson.” Dash charged for a surprise attack, but was stopped bare handed by the priest. “Now Miss Dash, that wasn’t fair. Let me show you what a fair fight might be.” He then proceeded to punch Dash in the stomach and toss her against the wall. Dash couldn’t breathe. Lances of pain shot through her chest as she heard a few of her ribs snap in protest. She wanted to scream in pain but nothing could come. ‘This hurts. . .’ Anderson pulled a vial of holy water. “You know what this is? Its what gave you so much pain. Now what do you think will happen when I splash it in your face?” With a toss, the vial broke and hit Dash in the face. She couldn’t see out of one eye and the other was blurred. It was torture as she never knew that water could burn her skin. She blacked out once the pain became unbearable. Anderson readied a blade so he could kill the Draculina . The blood of the alpha vampire shouldn’t spread. The church wanted to find wherever he was hiding because with his death, a demon of unimaginable power would be purified. He plunged the knife towards Dash but it was shot out of his hand. He turned and looked up at the Protestants. “Mr. Anderson, your presence violates the treaty that the Hellsing Organization set up with the Vatican. I hope that you stop killing my men.” Integra cocked her pistol and pointed it at the priest. “Oh if it isn’t the Hellsing matriarch. I wish I could stop but I am on a mission to kill all vampires for what they do goes against all the teachings of the true Church. Your little Anglican sect does not scare a paladin of the Iscariot order.” Integra waved a hand and ordered her troops to shoot the priest. They fired their weapons and Anderson ran through the bullets and cut down the small army that Integra had brought. Integra crossed swords with him. “I wish you had remembered the problems of fighting me. Your vampire, Alucard, forgot and I killed him.” The blonde priest laughed as he remembered how easy the fight had been. “Oh so you decapitated our weapon. Did you then destroy every bit of his body?” “What are you talking about?” Anderson was confused. He had killed the vampire. Decapitation usually was the way to kill a vampire. But if that didn't work that meant. . . Seras appeared and threw Alucard’s head down at the floor. The light that had streamed in from the moon was darkened by a mass of bats that flew into the room and began to form around Alucard’s head. His head twitched and jumped as his body reformed. Alucard opened his mouth to let his teeth spring out of his mouth as blood ran down in rivulets. He flexed his arms as his trenchcoat formed around him and he laughed darkly as he looked at Anderson. “A Regenerator. I heard that the Vatican tried making holy warriors but you made my day.” “I thought I killed you!” “Yes, you incapacitated me. I wanted see how you fared when I wasn’t trying. You passed. Now it’s my turn!” Alucard pulled out his gun and pulled the trigger. With an explosion the gun shot its bullets into the body of the paladin. The vampire didn’t stop shooting until he ran out of bullets.The spent cartridge clattered onto the ground as Alucard turned away. Anderson’s body reformed as his healing powers ejected the bullets from his body and his limbs were regrown. “You know what Alucard? When we see each other again it will be the last time. I think I’ve had enough fun for today.” The priest pulled out a bible and sheets of the Book flew around the room. Before anybody could react the priest disappeared in a flash. Integra rubbed her temple. “And now we have a Church on our hands.” *** Hellsing Headquarters Dash could only hear she couldn’t see anything. The machines beeped as her vital signs were tracked and the nurses tried to stop the pain. It was the reaction of her vampiric blood to the holy water and it caused her face to break out it scars that marred her natural beauty. She heard the whispers of nurses that passed: ‘The patient has no ability to see...’ and it crushed the mare. Her dreams of flight, of being an athlete, of being anything was tied directly to two things; her wings and her eyes. And now she wasn’t able to see. Her sense of time broke down. Seconds felt like hours and hours felt like a lifetime. She heard the door open and close repeatedly but if there were people entering her room...she couldn’t tell. Finally she just lay her head upon the pillow and dreamed. *** Dash woke up in the dream and she saw that she was in a chamber. It was an ancient chamber that reeked of incense and mildew. Sconces that burned bluish light adorned the walls. Her eyes could see for it wa a dream and she saw a pool filled with black water. It was as close to a void that she knew. Swirling ripples broke the stillness of the water as a being rose out from the water. Its size was massive- a good twenty feet tall- and its features were aquatic, as if it was the connecting link between the fishes of the sea and humanity. It saw her and it grinned, its mouth full of shark teeth that could devour her in an instant. Before she could object, it spoke. Its voice sounded as if it was under the water and it echoed to her ears. “You hold the blood of vampires and yet you are much more than that. You hold a skill that will help you later. I give you a gift that you will like just because you are the first to see my inner chambers...though I am confused how you did it.” The fish-creature waved his hand in front of Dash’s eyes and smiled. “A blind one. I see...you stumbled upon my lair. Well, I still enjoy company so I will allow you a gift. You won’t be able to see as you once did but it will be a good substitute.” Dash was going to ask what the creature meant when her head snapped back to let a previously hidden skill to surface. Her head felt dizzy and as she breathed, she felt ever-closer to the surface of the dream as if she was a diver and she was coming up for air. “DAGON” the creature boomed. “my name is DAGON!” Dash zoomed away from the large being and saw pinpricks of light enter her vision... *** “No!” Dash screamed. As she heard the echo around the room, she realized that she could see. Not in the sense that she knew before, but an echoing that gave her world color. She stopped her deep breaths and the world went dark again. “So Acid Trip, what did you see?” Dash knew Alucard when she heard the nickname. She turned and flinched as his shadow was larger than him as if he held a secret greater than being a vampire. “I felt an Elder Being’s presence. And I found you sitting here having a seizure-” Dash held up a finger to stop the vampire and breathed deeply. Colors out of space and time entered her sight and she smiled as the feelings entered her conscious mind. “I can see...” Alucard chuckled. “Well? And how should I care? We are vampires, so what if you can- wait Walter told me that your healing couldn’t heal your eyes!” Alucard had another laughing fit. “Bats! You have a sight that rivals even mine. So you saw him?” “Him who?” “Dagon- the fish god of many cultures and one of the Elder Gods. So you saw him.” “Yes.” “This changes everything. That means that the Elder Gods are on the move.” Alucard calmly walked out and Dash was confused. The name felt familiar and she tried to think back to where in Equestria she heard that name before. She felt like it had to do with the seaponies. Shoo Bee Doo. Sleep was hard to come by as she replayed the day. Her natural dislike of losing made her resolute. She needed to train more. A lot more. She finally fell asleep after she dreamed about her friends. And a little outside help didn’t hurt either. Alucard waited outside and heard the visitor enter. He knew it was time to talk to the Elder God. Alucard quietly opened the door and cleared his throat. “Why hello there, Dagon lets have a talk about Acid Trip. Nice clothes. What? Thought the world couldn’t take your true form?” Dagon smiled and turned. His bearing was of a king and his mantle of power was dressed around his body. His hair was flecked with barnacles and Alucard could see fish swimming through his blood. He was made out of water. Alucard still found the Elder God strange. What do you expect when you’re talking to the Man of the Sea. “I wanted to see how the girl slept. Do you want information?” “No, let’s just go for a walk and talk about the good old days. . .” *** Nyarlathotep walked down the lair of one of his acquaintances. He knew that his father would hate involving the demon because of what he stood for. His father was in it for the evil plot to kill all mortals. The feminine man that Nyarlathotep was trying to contact wanted to crush a few little girls. Those three had bested Him in all his plans. Except for a few times where he did win and Nyarlathotep had to hear about it in his weekly sessions with evil entities in the Inferno Bar on Angelus. And that cross dressing demon was his closest friend. . .even though the two beings did try to kill each other on a yearly basis for the hell of it. Him’s voice echoed through the silent halls. “Oh, Mr.Quackers, isn’t it fantastic that those Powerpuffs are somewhere far away from my plans?” A squeak. “Now that is unfair. You are saying that something else had to cause this?” Squeak.”I have an idea what to do.” Yes that infernal squeaky toy. The Messenger had almost forgot about that crazy character. Him had this idea that it talked to him. then to test out the stupid idea the Elder God had squeaked that little squeaky toy. Nyarlathotep though it was almost musical in hearing the screams of the damned; their choir sung the best songs on any of the planets. And that demon carried it with him everywhere. Its form had changed through the eons but its purpose stayed the same. That little yellow toy was his confidant. Nyarlathotep missed the original form of the duck. Now that struck fear into the fleshbags. He was surprised when the doors opened and Him waived him in. “So nice to see you again. It feels as if its been years.since we last met. How’s your father?” The Messenger grunted. “I see that’s still a sore subject. Now what brought you into my territory in your human form?” The man just sighed and began to speak. “You know of my father’s war with the gods. He wants the universe to be reborn in his own image.” “Well, we can’t have that. I wouldn’t be able to get back at the Powerpuff Girls.” The Powerpuff Girls. They were one of the magical girl teams spread across the star system. Him still was furious about his last defeat at the hands of the Utonium children. Maybe this was his chance to finally get back at the girls for beating his schemes. “Is that a yes?” Him nodded. “Well then, I guess we are off. Ready to get the old team back together?” Him didn’t answer and Nyarlathotep snapped his fingers and the duo disappeared on their planetary journey. *** Magistrum “Girls? Did you just feel something?” Blossom asked her sisters. The redhead was wearing her red bow and a red dress.Her ponytail was hastily done up and was a little messy. She had just woken up and was quickly getting ready for her first day. It had been a few years since they had been created by Professor Utonium. As such they were no longer kindergarten students but they were old enough to enter the Academy where all sorts of children mingled. And Blossom was excited to enter the halls of learning. Her sisters were not. “Blossom, what are you talking about?” Buttercup was angrily rubbing her eyes as she trudged into the room. Her pajamas were the same color as her typical uniform. Green, green, and more green. Buttercup had got into a phase where she liked her hair being spiky and it had caused some debates in the Utonium household. “I don’t hear a thing.” “Silly.” Bubbles bounced into the room wearing bunny pajamas. Her blonde hair was done up in buns after some movie character that Bubbles liked. “Blossom, you’re just nervous about school. Be like me.” Blossom remembered her sister’s plan about being calm. It had to do with something like a few hundred flowers, a petting zoo, and talking to animals. Oh and a couple gallons of ice cream as the blonde cried about the end of summer vacation. “Nah, I’m fine. Must have just been something I forgot.” Blossom’s sisters found that to be totally acceptable and they quickly finished their morning routine in silence.