by Danny, T5, The Eurostar and thedoctor
Danny Hearn was running down Main Street along with Blackwulf, Chance, and Dirk Bell. Ameristar had just appeared above them. A horde of quite literally hundreds of vampires was behind them. Danny was glad they had a plan.
"Wings!" he shouted, and leaped up into the air.
"What's the plan?" Ameristar asked as he met her.
"Royal Crown Tower. We lead the vamps there. Cram as many in there as we can. Trap them inside. The building falls down on top of them. The people of the island celebrate with vampire pancakes," Danny said.
"And the people in the tower?"
"M'xy, Grimm, Grissom, and Phil should be there now, evacuating."
"Right."
Danny stopped in mid-air and dropped to the ground. Running alongside Chance, he said, "We'll fly on ahead, see how the evacuation's going. You guys meet us there. Try not to get eaten."
Chance just nodded in reply. Danny ran for a few moments, then used his momentum to launch himself back into the air. He and Ameristar flew on ahead, taking shortcuts over buildings.
Back on the ground, Dirk ran alongside Blackwulf.
"We're not going to be able to outrun them forever," Dirk said.
"How do you mean?" Wulf replied.
"We may be fit, but they're superstrong. Increased leg strength means increased running speed."
"Da, we are only needing to be keeping ahead until we reach the building."
"Right."
In the air, Danny was fumbling around in his pockets for his mobile phone. "Come on... come on... give me a signal..."
He turned it off and on again. He tried dialing. No luck. "Damn..." he said.
"There's the building!" Ameristar said to him, pointing ahead of them. The Royal Crown Tower towered before them, and they would be there in mere moments.
"Let's hope they've got the place evacuated..." Danny said.
Back on the beach, Priest had just been thrown to the ground by the swipe of a massive tail.
"Damn... PHIL!" He said. Phil Smith ran toward him, taking a break from trying to dislodge an outcrop of boulders high up on the cliff face by thinking hard at them.
"What?" Phil said.
"Hit me with as much TK as you can muster..."
"For how long?"
"Until I say stop. Or until I pass out. Whichever comes first," Priest answered.
"Right..."
Phil stared at Priest for a moment, focusing, concentrating. Priest was thrown hard off his feet, landing in a sand embankment nearly eighty feet away. He stood up, looking groggy for a second. Then he regained his composure and seemed to grow in size as Phil watched. Priest winced in pain, but did his best to grit his teeth and keep going.
"Right. You and me, beastie from hell..." Priest charged at it, screaming.
"He's never going to take it out by himself... where the hell are the others?" Phil exclaimed.
Elsewhere, Edulcore Cicciotto was busy guiding people to the caves when a small girl that seemed to have been lost by her parents walked up to him and looked at him with her round eyes.
"Hello, mister hero. Can you find my parents?"
He looked around in desperation but found no one that seemed to be looking for a lost child. So he sat down and reassured her. "It's okay, little one. I will help you. Just stick with me until I'm finished here, and we will find your parents." He took the girl in his arms, and she relaxed a little.
After making sure the people could find the way on their own, he set out searching for someone who might claim responsibility for her. He walked the now-empty streets, nervous if the vampires would suddenly take this opportunity to attack.
Some commotion could be heard in a side alley, and he glanced around the corner. Two vampires were having a feast on a poor lonely dog. He decided to risk it and slowly sneaked past them, hoping that they wouldn't sense him.
But they turned around and gave him a long, hideous hiss, and ran out of the alley after them. Not knowing what to do, Ed carried the helpless child in his arms he ran, legs pumping like pistons. And the vampires were hot on his tail. He wished that he had some of his old superspeed back.
Suddenly around the corner, a couple stepped in front of him. He managed not to crash right into them and yelled, "Get out of here now! The creatures behind me are very dangerous! Run!"
They looked behind him and smiled. "Thank you for rescuing our girl." He scowled at the girl, who looked down on the ground. "C'mon, baby. You know you have to do it sooner or later." He took the girl from the stressed Edulcore's arms.
"I don't want to!" she yelled.
"You have to, or this man might get hurt." He made her look at Edulcore.
The vampires came up to them and hissed, preparing to attack, but as they jumped they suddenly went limp and didn't move. Their dead bodies lay on the ground.
Edulcore turned to the couple and began to ask, "How...?"
"No matter. Please ignore this incident and help the ones that need it. And... don't forget your duty. The green must emerge from the red." And with that, they walked off into the night.
Edulcore tried to remember where he had heard a similar phrase. It was some time ago. The green... it was the "future Eurostar" that told me that. The green must emerge from the red. In the time of need, put this disk on Naecken's forehead.
"Hey, sir... sir...?" They were gone. The vampire lay dead, his neck broken. It was amazing, he marveled, how he fought so easily. The training he'd had in the EPS had actually been useful, at least.
Those people knew something about Naecken. Ed thought he should look for them and ask them if they knew where he was, but there was no time. Nor could he keep flying from one place to the other with the UFO. His friends needed him to fight the vampires.
Dirk Bell dropped two grenades behind him. It wouldn't stop the vampires, but he figured it should slow them down. He finally caught up with Danny and Ameristar as they were ducking into the soon-to-be ex-Royal Crown Tower.
The three stood in the lobby, waiting. Each was ready to make a mad dash to the back and out. The vampires ran up to the door and stopped in a gathering mass. "Why aren't they coming in?" Danny asked again. He was full of questions today.
"Gee, I don't know," Dirk said in his trademark sarcasm. "Maybe they're too smart to run into a building on the verge of collapsing."
"How did they know it was getting ready to collapse?" the futuristic Aussie asked again. A large portion of the ceiling landed several feet behind him. "I guess that answers it."
The mass of vampires outside the door began to thin out. Danny wanted to ask where they were going, but felt that he had asked enough questions for the day.
"They're going around to the back," Ameristar answered, as though she was reading his mind, but she was just thinking out loud.
After a few odd minutes of silence and inactivity, a loud rumbling noise was heard. The vampires were using their superior strength to knock the walls down with their fists. "We're trapped, and they're knocking the walls down on us," Ameristar said out loud again. "If we try and fight, we're outnumbered. If we stand here, we get squashed."
"Well, Stanley," Dirk said to Danny, "this is another fine mess you've gotten us into."
Danny picked up his cell phone and tried to call for help. There was still no signal. "Damn! It still won't work."
"That's because this hurricane is probably using the cell tower as a toothpick right now," the gunslinger said while pulling out his own cell phone. "Personally, I've never liked the damn things. Wish you would never have given me one." He tossed his phone away.
"Hey!" Danny yelled. "We signed up for a year plan on that."
"The rates sucked, anyway." Adjusting a strap that ran across his chest, Dirk swung out an odd-looking rifle from underneath his coat. Danny once again wondered what that was but again refrained from asking. "The way I see it," Dirk continued, "we've only got two options: stay in here or go out there. Neither are very pretty, but at least out there I've got a fighting chance."
"I don't think bullets do too much to them," Danny said.
"This doesn't fire bullets. It's a concussion rifle. It uses compressed air and sound waves to knock the holy hell out of anything in front of it. It won't kill them, but it'll give them a hell of a headache in the morning."
"Sounds good to me." Danny didn't like the idea of fighting those vampires one on one, but he liked the idea of getting squashed by an office building even less. "Let's go."
Ameristar smiled at the panicked heroes. "Don't worry, guys. I can teleport us anywhere you like. Just name it, and we're there."
That gave Dirk an idea. "Let's use that gun of yours from an adjacent building and knock down the front supporting wall. The structure will then fall toward them and squash the vermin for sure."
"Okay... let's try it," Danny said. "Ameristar, can you get us to the next building?"
"Sure... your wish..." And they were there on the rooftop. "...is my command." She grinned.
With the combined firepower from the three heroes, the Royal Crown Tower quickly collapsed forward over the trapped vampires. Satisfying sounds of screams and crushing stones reached the ears of the rejoicing heroes.