[quote=@thewizardguy]
Images flash past, blurring still frames, a moment taken from time and distilled through the senses. Smiling faces, memories not from this reality. Mithias and Bug fought together, blades flashing, as they faced down the Vampire Lord Dresden. Mithias and Bug joined SOLDIER, Bug expressing his distaste for the organization, Mithias seeking both purpose and order. Moments of happiness and sadness, although not quite right, as if something were missing, or changed. It was as if the frame had been tilted slightly sideways, and couldn't be tilted back, setting the entire world askew.

As the train of time passed, time, ironically, became meaningless. It was impossible to say how long it had been since reality had moved along the linear paths it was so used to, or how long it had taken for the two passengers to realize they were riding an elevator. All these moments occurred at once, simultaneously, and yet were ordered chronologically afterwards. The reconstruction of the mind, an interpretation of that which it cannot truly perceive. Inquisitor Stein had fought back with an army of robots, leading to the near extermination of vampires as a whole. Dresden had created a Vampiric Empire, followed loyally by Magnus, as Rhyss Blackblade organized the opposition. Swords clashed and guns fired, but it had all come to an end eventually, the world had calmed down.

With a soft ding, the elevator doors opened, the background music fading away.

Bug and Mithias stood in a street, dark figures in a darker night. They were at home in the night, however, beings of primal nature. And yet, this city was stalked by something far darker than them, a being often renowned as the oldest among vampires. Gabriel, the Fallen, a being of such power SOLDIER had never succeeded at capturing him, either eluding his pursuers or eliminating them. It was said that when it came to psychic power, no being could hope to match Gabriel. And yet, this night, the greatest duo the world had ever seen would hunt the beast responsible for it all.

Tonight, they would hunt the God of Vampires.
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Mithias lowered his railgun stakethrower and looked off into the horizon. "Bug, we've been through a lot together, and if it weren't for you, I know I wouldn't be here tonight. But this is the point at which we must part ways. Gabriel has overwhelming mind-control power, and he would just turn you against me, against your will."Mithias sighed heavily. "And there's something else I haven't told you. This fight is personal for me. Gabriel is my father. This should be between us."