The moment Integra and the Major witnessed Alucard disappear, the screens in the room shatter and the room bursts into flames.
"What have you done?!"
"I called heads!"
"You won't leave this place alive!"
"Then the final meal that I will have... shall be victory."
At that very moment, Seras came bursting out of the floor, dissipating the flames with a single stomp of her foot.
"Finally both of you are now here! So come on then my arch enemies! Come at me!"
"Seras, shoot!"
Following her master's command, Seras sends her dark matter tendrils to seize an artillery cannon through the floor where she fought the captain. As soon as she took it out and aimed it directly at the Major. The moment she fired it at once, the shell tore through the glass like paper and struck the Major, obliterating half of his body. Immediately after, the shell continued flying as it shot out of the zeppelin and struck a bell in the distance, causing it to loudly ring.
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Somewhere within the zeppelin, the doctor's lab was filled with research and notes related to developing artificial vampires were scattered around the place. Within this mess, the doctor was seen packing his things and preparing to flee.
"All these years of research and I refuse to let it go to waste! I'm a genius and I will not let this end!"
"Going somewhere doctor?"
Then the doctor saw Walter sitting on a floor with his back against a desk along with Alcina standing in a corner, staring at him with a cold, yet malicious look.
"Your research is farce."
"How dare you!"
The doctor pulls out a remote to detonate the chip within Walter, but before he can do so, Alcina chops his arm off and drops the remote, cutting before slicin both of Walter's legs as the doctor collapses on the floor. Just as Alcina was about to finish him off, she noticed a curtain behind her and immediately opened to reveal...
"A skeleton?"
"This doctor had been attempting to utilize the skeleton of Hina, Alucard's previous lover, who got her blood taken by him and this doctor tried to make a perfect imitation of Alucard but it only resulted in him making copies that were me and the artificial vampires." Walter stated, "You can never truly create a perfect imitation, and since all performers need to be gone, we bid you-"
Before Walter could finish his sentence, Alcina slashed the doctor into two, brutally killing him as a result.
"...I wasn't finished."
"I don't care, you people in this universe love to make long philosophical monologues, which starts to irritate me."
Walter sighed, "Fair enough," he said with a light chuckle, "It's a damn shame really, I wanted to give Alucard a proper send off, but I think your lovely moment with him was proper sendoff enough I guess."
"Yes. And I'm sorry for-"
"No, lady Dimitrescu. I deserved the punch and a traitor like me should deserve it. Even if you didn't, my body was going to kill me anyway so either way my fate was sealed and please leave me here," Walter closed his eyes and smiled, "Farewell Lady Dimitrescu and Sir Integra, and to you as well Rodeo, may you stop the end of times."
With his last dying breath, Walter went limp yet his face had a bright smile. A death that is tranquil.
"...What a tragic universe this is. A place of death, guns and vampires. Farewell to you as well, Walter."
In the next instant, the lab started burning down along with everything that was in it. Unfazed by the intense heat emanating from the flames surrounding her, Alcina proceeds to punch a wall open and leaves the zeppelin.
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"It can't be... the shell hit you."
What Integra and Seras saw in front of was the Major, alive but seated on the floor with half of his body entirely destroyed by the artillery shell. What made the two feel shocked and caught their attention was him bleeding oil with metal cogs and gears exposed.
"A machine?!" Seras exclaimed in disbelief.
"What a crude thing for you to say," The Major said with a mechanical voice, "I am a human being and within this apparatus of gears and metal, I have that one thing that embodies the will of a human being. My very soul is fundamentally human and that will is still within me."
"You're just a clockwork monster."
"Do not compare me to a monster, Integra. Alucard, the one who can shapeshift into any form he pleases, steals the face of others, and depends on blood is a true monster. That is why I despised him because he was no human and never had the soul of a human to begin with. So I used my will to defeat him and it takes a human will to vanquish a monster. He was a casualty to my will. So Integra, let us end this war."
Agreeing with the last part, Integra tossed away her green coat to reveal a gun holster belt wrapped around her waist that held a standard revolver loaded with normal lead bullets. Standing in front of him, Integra drew out her revolver and the Major pulled his own as they looked each other dead in the eye.
With their last stand, they both fired their revolver at the same time. The Major's bullet hit her left eye while Integra's hit his forehead, causing him to collapse on the floor while Integra was now blinded from her left side as a result of the bullet hitting one of her eyes, yet she still lives.
"Ah....yes....This is nice," The Major whispered with a satisfied look. With his last moments, his lips curled upwards and closed his eyes, "This was exactly the war I wanted... and it was a great one."
After getting what he wanted and meeting the great death he dreamed of, he finally took his last breath and met his inevitable end.
"This was no war, Major. it was merely an exchange of words. You were already dead sixty years ago and you just had to be put down. For all your talks of being human, you had no shred of humanity in you. Never had to begin with. You were just a monster and only a human can beat a monster like Alucard. He will return, I'm sure of it."
After that long monologue she and everyone usually did, Integra felt a feeling like someone close to her had passed away. She was, in fact, correct.
"Walter.....he's…"
"Gone... I know." Seras finished the sentence with a saddened look.
At that moment, the walls around them erupted in flames and more explosions could be heard all over the place as the zeppelin was being bombarded more by the Ausmerzer.
"Seras, get us out of here."
"Right away," Seras nodded and followed Integra's command without delay. Grabbing her by the waist, she flew out of the Deus ex Machina zeppelin as the entire airship burns down and explodes.
The Major, along with almost every member were dead, and Millennium was finally gone at long last.
But this war was far from over.
While Seras was holding Integra and soaring over the skies, the Ausmerzer caught sight of them in the air and opened fire on them with shells and missiles. Seras maneuvered around and avoided the gunfire. But one of the missiles managed to strike Seras' back, knocking her off balance and forcing Integra to fall.
Luckily for Integra, Daniela came flying towards Integra and caught her before she could meet her demise and made a safe landing on the ground.
Daniela glanced over to Seras, "Seras! I got her! Fly now! We'll meet up later! Lose sight of the ship!" she shouted.
Seras reluctantly nods and flies down the streets while avoiding the constant gunfire from the Ausmerzer. Before long, Seras retreats into an alleyway, where she hides for a moment and spots the Ausmerzer moving toward the city's northern edge.
[Huh? It lost sight of us… Also, it's raining zombies.] Pip remarked, after noticing the sky is indeed literally filled with an endless number of zombies, falling down onto the earth like raindrops.
"I noticed. We still need to meet up with Integra."
[Oui.]
Once Seras exited the alleyway, she was about to fly when she heard metal footsteps coming from down the street and saw what it was.
With a jetpack on its back and two uber gewehr cannons on its arms, the machine stood eighteen feet tall. One of the many machines of war belonging to the Wolfenstein Reich's army.
The Zerstorer
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"That's a big one." Seras remarked.
[With big friggin 'guns for arms.] Pip added.
And to their surprise, the robot spoke out in a mechanical, German-accented voice.
"I am Zerstorer no. 4789, but you can refer to me as Fischer. I am an advanced Artificial Intelligence surreptitiously implanted by General Lina. You are my enemy, and I will defeat you in the name of the Reich. So let us fight and determine who is superior. Vampire or machine."
[A brawl is surely brewing.]
"Yeah," Seras responded, assuming a combat stance.
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Integra expressed gratitude to Daniela by asking, "Thanks for the save, but what are you doing here?"
"Me and the rest got separated when both the Monitor and the ship started attacking us at the same time, so we had to split up when I saw you and ended up here."
"Great."
"Hey!"
Looking behind themselves to the source of the voice, the two saw Heinkel heading in their direction.
"What are you doing here?!"
"We got ambushed. Yumie, Moreau and our paladins got separated as a result. The paladins are with Moreau but Yumie is on her own," Heinkel explained as she turned to gaze at the raining zombies, "Then there is that problem as well. The dead are raining from the sky."
"Yeah they could be a problem for you if one of them falls on you."
"Yeah," the three ladies responded to the new voice with a nod of agreement, but soon realized something was off.
The tone of the voice had a masculine quality.
"!"
Immediately, they brought out their weapons and spun around to face none other than Stroheim.
"Listen, I suggest you all surrender. You know my people can be merciless when it comes to those who resist capture. So drop your weapons and stand down. I am neither good nor bad," Stroheim said as he cracks his knuckles, "But I suggest you appeal to my better nature. So what will it be?"
Integra snarled at him, "Like we will ever surrender to you!"
Stroheim sighs at her response, "Very well then. Don't say I didn't warn you."
Knowing a fight is inevitable, the three took their battle stances.
Seeing their actions, Stroheim calmly smirks.
After a brief moment of silence between three ladies and one man, it was until the silence broke when simultaneously, Daniela and Integra blurred into motion and shot across the space, moving faster than any human could. Their weapons flashed out at the same moment right as they passed on either side of Stroheim, slicing across the sides of his neck and sending twin arcs of light from the two blades skidding to a halt behind him.
Standing there motionlessly, Stroheim would've been decapitated by the twin blows. But instead, he laughed and straightened up.
"Very good!" he remarked as he turned to face them, clapping slowly. "Impressive speed, and flawless teamwork. Against any other opponent, that would have served you well."
Within a split second, Stroheim was upon the two women, his long military coat swirling out behind him as he moved faster than their eyes could follow. His hand moved in a blur and swatted Integra, sending her to the side and crashing against Heinkel while his fingers wrapped around Daniela's throats as he lifted her off her feet, slamming her back into the nearest wall and holding her up with ease.
"But..." he continued as one of his eyes gleamed with amusement behind his spectacle, "I am not any other opponent. And you'll have to do better than that against me, little fledglings."
Choking and gasping, Daniela suddenly dissolved into a roiling cloud of flies, melting out of Stroheim's grip. He swung around as the swarms rushed back across the field, swirling back into its humanoid form as she stood between Integra and Heinkal, this time noticeably more cautious.
"What are you?" Integra demanded, her eyes flashing as she massaged her cheek from the strong slap she received. "No human could have done that!"
Stroheim chuckled, his smile growing as his eyes shone with crimson light behind his glasses. These weren't the usual blazing red eyes you see mostly from monsters and vampires in the Hellsing universe, but rather something else entirely, something... synthetic.
"I assure you, ladies, I am no human."
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Near the southern edge of the city, Miranda, Donna, Angie, Bela, and Cassandra were standing on a street and searching for Daniela who they got separated from but no luck. They soon meet with Alcina, who is flying towards their direction and landing in front of them in her half-dragon form.
"What happened, mother Miranda?"
"We got separated from Daniela when that ship and Monitor attacked us, where's Alucard?"
Alcina lowered her gaze with a shadow clouding her face, "...He's gone."
"Oh no." Donna and Angie mumbled sadly.
"Which means victory is finally in our hands."
A new voice entered the conversation, everyone turned around to see Lina approaching them in her re-engineered da'at yichud power suit.
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Also Otto was with her.
"Morning."
"A lot of my soldiers died at your and the vampire's hands and I will avenge them," Lina muttered in a voice filled with hate and venom, "This suit I wear will be the guillotine that will execute you and is my men's vengeance."
Donna, Angie and Otto sit on the sidelines while Lina, Alcina, Miranda, Bela and Cassandra take their battle stances.
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Yumie was on the street cutting down zombies that were still raining from the sky.
"Filthy creatures," Yumie hissed in disgust as she cut one last zombie in half before sheathing her katana.
"How pleased are you to chop away at our undead allies, Iscariot?"
With an indifferent expression on her face, Yumie looked up to see Fritz, the robot soldat staring at her while sitting on the rooftop of a building with his Zweihander sword sheathed on his back. Fritz soon stood up to his feet and sprang off the roof before landing on the ground unharmed as the two were twenty meters apart from each other.
"Soulless machine. Out of my way."
"I'm afraid I can't do that," Fritz says and clutches the handle of his sword in response, "The end is near for your universe, and the general herself has given me orders to eliminate any opposition, that being you and the rest."
With a sharp gaze, Yumie gripped the handle of her katana and replied, "Then so be it, but remember this, only one of us will walk out of this alive."
"Ja, you're correct."
Concurrently, the two pairs simultaneously unsheathed their swords and took a swordsman stance.
"Now let us dance."