They were surrounded, that they were sure of. After opening the door and reaching the empty, silent and dark dance floor, they soon realized that the area was only silent and dark, but not as empty as they had assumed; standing right in the middle of the room were three different people: a woman with pink hair, a young man with spiky blond hair and a boy around Hope's age with shoulder length, violet hair. Dahlia Pinnata, the pink-haired woman, had one hand on the boy's shoulder and another in her pocket. The spiky haired vampire was holding a sword with his left arm - the only arm he had - and pressing it to the young one's neck.

"I'm sorry, Twilight..." the youngster muttered. "She was interrogating me when you..."

Dahlia removed her hand from her pocket, showing the little vampire's cellphone and the message Twilight sent him the previous night. "Talk about bad timing, Twily! But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't surprised." Dahlia said, squeezing the boy's shoulder. "You kill three of my best men, escape in one piece and plot against me with help from the inside? Well done, Twily. Well done! And, for impressing me like that, I will give you one last chance to repent:

"Help us get rid of this filth then pick up their entrails with your mouth and wipe the floors with your tongue before the club's opening time. Then, after a week or two in the torture chamber, we can just pretend none of this ever happened and you'll be part of the family once again. It's a fair deal, don't you think?"

There was no way in heaven or hell that Twilight Sparkle would accept those terms, but they were holding her ally hostage, if she refused he would most likely die.

"So, what's it gonna be, Twi?" Twilight's former and armless partner, Troy Thunderclap, asked. He slowly moved his sword along the young vampire's neck, cutting it a little. Vampires couldn't cry but, judging by the young one's expression, he really wanted to.

"I'll grant you some time to think about it. How about... Fifteen? No, ten seconds should be enough."

Twilight Sparkle bit her lip.

"Nine..."

She glared at Troy Thunderclap and his stupid shit-eating grin.

"Eight..."

She looked at Dahlia, who looked just as calm and composed as ever, and her lips covered in expensive pink lipstick as they slowly moved to speak the next number on the countdown:

"Seven..."

She looked at her young partner and the desperation in his eyes.

"Six..."

She thought about everything she had to do in order to gain the trust of the Hunters (or, at least, the benefit of the doubt).

"Five..."

She thought of all the trouble she caused them, but despite everything they still allowed her to live.

"Four..."

She immediately regretted thinking about her chances of survival if she betrayed the small trust she had just earned.

"Three..."

While thinking about everything around her, Twilight tried to come up with a plan inside her head in which she saved the little vampire and killed his two captors, but all of them would result in either her death, his death or the death of her allies.

"Two..."

Finally, she thought about Moondancer and Hopewell.

"One..." Dahlia smirked.

Growing desperate, all she could do was shout:

"WAIT!"

"TOO LATE!" Troy shouted back before cutting his head clean off.

Before her unnamed ally's head even hit the floor she had already rushed toward Troy and clashed swords with him.

"You are nothing but a sad little traitor." he taunted but she kept quiet; she wasn't going to waste precious fighting time with pointless name-calling.

"Shoot to kill!" Shimmer ordered, but Dahlia was no longer on the spot she previously was. "What the--"

"Let me tell you why that's a bad idea." Dahlia whispered in Shimmer's ear. The girl tried to point her Gib Gun over her shoulder to shoot at the woman but another vampire quickly jumped out of the shadows, slapped the gun away from her hand then disappeared once again in the darkness of the room. Dahlia then touched the caps of her suit located on Shimmer's cheekbones and chin.

"You know what will happen if I apply some pressure into these very special places, right? That's one reason. Another reason is, every single one of my underlings is hidden somewhere in this room, watching us. No matter what you try to do, one of them will realize what you're up to and stop you before you can do it." she turned her head to look at the other Hunters pointing their weapons at her.

"Same goes to all of you. You'll lose your fingers before you even think about squeezing those triggers, so you better point those weapons somewhere else."

"Shit." Adagio cursed before pointing her Dual Gib Guns upwards.

"Smart move. Now, would you kindly--" Adagio chuckled. "What's so funny?"

"You just said your vampires were watching us and ready to move when they see us doing anything suspicious. What a load of shit!" Adagio pulled both triggers several times, causing the blacked-out windows to shatter and let sunlight in. Ashes rained down on the dance floor, meaning that several vampires that were hanging from the ceiling were now dead.

The ceiling was relatively tall, the windows weren't very close to the floor and, due to the position of the sun, the sunrays were shining on the other wall - this wouldn't affect the vampires on the ground but now they couldn't jump too high to avoid their attacks. The extra light also helped them see better, so now they could see where all of their foes were hidden.

Dahlia clicked her tongue; a single woman had just wiped out a big chunk of her underlings in just a couple of seconds; they were not the majority, but it was still a big number.

"N-No matter." her calm and collected façade was faltering. "Numbers is not what matters, it's the skill. And that, we still have plenty left!"

Noticing that she was distracted, Shimmer managed to slap Dahlia's hands away from the weakness of her suits. Now free, Shimmer did a cartwheel, picking her gun up from the floor in the process. While still upside down Shimmer disposed of two vampires with two well-aimed shots, then three more once she was back on her feet.

"Don't just stand there, you dumbasses, attack!" Shimmer ordered. Her teammates started fighting the vampires in the room. She pointed her Gib Gun at where Dahlia once was but, like before, she was already gone.

Vampires who were aware that someone was pointing a gun at them were hard to hit, so most of the Hunters favored their Katanas during the fight - Flash decided to keep using his Gib Gun so he could shoot the Vampires engaging the Hunters in sword fighting who were not paying attention to their surroundings.

Despite not having his right arm, Troy was a formidable fighter. Twilight could easily dispose of him, but she had a reason not to. He suddenly ducked, avoiding being decapitated by Nolan.

"You go after the boss!" he ordered. "I have unfinished business with this one." Twilight nodded and left Nolan to take care of Troy. "Remember me?"

"You got lucky last time." Troy said. "But no knight in black armor is going to save you now!"

"I can take care of myself, thank you very much."

Dahlia was overseeing the battle from a distance. Twilight tried to attack her from above but she blocked her attack, drawing her sword from within her body in a split second.

"Biting the hand that feeds you. That takes guts, Twily." Pinnata said.

"And I'm gonna tear the entire arm off, too!" she replied.

"Feisty!"

Adagio was worried. She always pretended to not care about her teammates, but every once in a while she would watch them from the shadows, to make sure they were doing alright. But right now she couldn't see anybody; no matter where she looked she would see only Vampires. Suddenly she caught a glimpse of red and yellow hair and immediately dashed toward the person it belonged to. She couldn't tell from that angle if that person was her official girlfriend or just their fuck-buddy, but she could tell that a Vampire was about to ambush her.

She intercepted the attacker, slicing his head clean off but, by catching that vampire off guard, she was also caught off guard - a vampire wrapped her fingers around Adagio's neck and ruptured the caps located on her chin and cheekbones, rendering her suit completely useless. She tried to slice that one in half, but without the suit she only had enough strength to do half the job, incapable of cutting the vampire's spine. Luckily for her Sunset was there to help her - she kicked the sword with enough strength to finish the job Adagio started.

"Thanks, babe!" Adagio was sure this one was her official girlfriend due to the breast size.

"Your suit is broken." Sunset pointed out, noticing the liquid oozing out of the caps. "Want me to escort you out?"

"Hell no! This is the fight of our lives, nothing you can possibly say or do will convince me to back off!"

"Promise me you'll be careful?"

"I pr--" they heard a gunshot. One of the vampires noticed the two of them were distracted and decided not to waste the opportunity and shot at them. Flash Sentry noticed him and shot at him with his Gib Gun, reducing his upper half to a pile of bloodstained limbs.

"Bastard can't even aim right." Sunset said. "But that's our cue to go back to fighting. Prepare yourself, Adagio." but there was no response. "Adagio?"

Adagio was lying on the ground, a pool of blood forming under her - turns out the vampire was good at aiming and the bullet pierced the siren's neck. She could see her girlfriend panicking, but she couldn't focus on what she was saying. All she could hear was the distant sound of sword fighting that was slowly fading, just like her vision.

"Dying because of a throat wound." she thought. "What an ironic way for a siren to go."

At first Sunset didn't know how to react. She thought she was going to cry, but the tears wouldn't come out. Her sadness morphed into rage; she picked up Adagio's Katana and used both weapons to slice and dice anything that crossed her path. Blinded by hatred, Sunset almost attacked Shimmer and Norman, but they managed to avoid her. She disappeared in a corridor, killing anything unfortunate enough to stand in front of her. But something made her stop:

She heard the sobs of a little girl coming from behind a closed door. Memories of the times she spent with Hope cleared her vision. Looking back, she saw the bodies of dead and dying vampires on the ground, almost unable to believe she was the one responsible.

"Hello?" she called while slowly opening the door. The room was mostly empty, save for a little girl with blond pigtails wearing a red dress sitting on one corner of the room, hugging her knees.

"N-Not anymore... P-Please, no... I don't wanna..." she managed to mutter between sobs. Feeling sorry for her, Sunset entered the room and kneeled in front of her. The little girl raised her face covered in dirt. "Y-Y-You're not Dahlia..."

"No, I'm not. I'm here with my friends and we're going to make sure she will never hurt you again."

"For... For real?"

"Yes, for real." Sunset smiled. The girl smiled back. The older girl stood up and turned around. "Now you stay here, ok? When everything is over I'll come back for you."

The little girl's cute smile turned into a wicked one. She jumped on Sunset's back and pierced the caps with her tiny fingers, disabling Sunset's suit.

* * *

"That... Was for... Pearl..." Nolan said, clearly exhausted, before kicking Troy's disembodied head. He looked around, noticing that there were not many vampires left. "Good, because I don't think I would be able to hang on much longer." he looked at the blue slime leaving the caps of his badly damaged suit. He then saw his friend Norman was in trouble, fighting two vampires at the same time, and ran toward them with his sword ready for some more action.

"Not bad, Twily." Dahlia said, panting. "You took everything I taught you and morphed it into a style of your own, prefect for blocking and countering me."

"Your biggest mistake was teaching me everything you know. I just had to reverse-engineer and study everything. You tried to make a perfect underling but ended up creating the tool of your demise."

"Heheheheh... In hindsight, I should have kept an Ace up my sleeve, just in case someone went rogue." Dahlia slowly walked away from Twilight, who followed her at the same pace. "My overconfidence betrayed me, just like you!"

"Speak your final words."

"Hey, hey, hey, let's not do anything extreme. Can't we, you know, talk about this, maybe reach an agreem--" a small arm suddenly burst out of her chest, holding Dahlia's still beating heart. After dropping it to the floor, another arm appeared from the same hole the first one did. The arms started pushing in different directions until Dahlia Pinnata's torso was split in half, revealing her killer: a little girl with blond pigtails, wearing a red dress. She was coated in blood, especially around her mouth.

"Worthless." the little girl said. "She stopped being useful the moment she started begging for her life. A shame, too. I really thought she was better than the usual trash I have to deal with." the Hunters failed to notice, but the little girl entered the room dragging Sunset's corpse by the hair.

"Who... Who the fuck is that?" Shimmer asked.

The little girl smiled. "Hello! My name is Eva! It's so nice to meet all of you!"

"It's you." Twilight said. "Dahlia once mentioned that she was just the middleman. You're the one calling the shots, right?"

"Meeeeeeeee? But I'm only seven!"

"For how long have you been seven?"

"Ummmm... Ninety-four years?"

Twilight swung her sword, but her target was no longer there. That's when she noticed a hole on her stomach. She turned her head and saw Eva holding what appeared to be a rope. Upon closer inspection, though, she realized that what the girl was holding was actually an intestine - her intestine. She fell flat on her face.

"GET AWAT FROM HER!" Nolan ordered. All the Hunters left alive heed his warning and stepped back.

"Where are you going? I thought you were here to play! Don't you want to play with me?"

"You are a m--" before Flash Sentry could finish that sentence Eva had already picked up the sword that once belonged to Dahlia and threw it at him. Flash coughed blood and lost consciousness due to the sword lodged in his stomach.

"I must be getting rusty." Eva muttered while flexing her arm. "I wanted to pierce the heart."

"Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, SHOOT!" Norman yelled and that's what they did. But faster than their eyes could see, Eva picked up corpses of vampires from the ground and used them as a shield. The corpses exploded and, after the cloud of red mist dissipated, little Eva was gone once again. "Am I the only one who thinks we're fighting a losing battle here?"

"I think we should retreat." Nolan said while looking around, trying to locate Eva.

"Sunset is dead. Adagio is dead. Flash and Twilight are dying and you want to retreat?" Shimmer asked. "Fine. Go. Leave. Be a bitch! But I'm staying and killing that little demon."

"Or die trying..." she thought.

Shimmer closed her eyes. When fighting vampires, trusting your senses was not the smartest option. Vision, hearing, smell, they were all essentially useless. All she could trust was her Hunter instinct. She swung her sword, but Eva dodged it by leaning backwards slightly.

"Not bad, not bad."

"Wh-When did she get there?" Norman asked.

Shimmer kept swinging her Katana, but Eva easily evaded every move - she even yawned just to taunt the Hunter. Eva then frowned and grabbed her wrist.

"Bored now!" with a twist and a snap, little Eva broke Shimmer's forearm then tossed her aside. Directing her attention to Normal Norman and Nolan North, she smiled. "Who wants to play now?"

Every step she took toward them, they took a step away from her. She only stopped when arms were wrapped around her upper arms and torso. Eva rolled her eyes.

"I thought you were dead. What gives?"

"I... Did something I'm not proud of." Twilight Sparkle said. In order to heal herself, the lavender-skinned vampire girl licked the pool of blood on the floor underneath Adagio.

"You should've played dead. Maybe I wouldn't have figured out you were still alive so you could run away. Then I would hunt you down and everything would be so much more fun, wouldn't you agree? You just wasted an opportunity, and now you're gonna die."

"If I live or if I die, that does not concern me. I came here to exterminate you all, even if I have to exterminate myself in the process. You're all that's left!"

"Even if you weren't completely exhausted, what makes you think you have enough strength to beat me? I was around since long before your human self was born, I have way more experience than you."

"That's true, but you still have the body of a child. Experienced or not, you still have less physical strength than an average vampire, so you rely on your speed. Or are you gonna tell me that I'm still holding you because you're letting me?"

Eva rolled her eyes. "But you need to let go of me if you want to finish me. And the moment you do that I'll rip your head off."

"Who says I'm planning on letting you go?" Twilight looked up.

Eva looked up as well. "Sunlight? Don't be foolish. You'd die as well!"

"Not necessarily. Remember the sunscreen?"

"Idiot, you're sweating bullets. The sunscreen was probably washed off by it already."

"I said it moments ago and I'll say it again: life or death is meaningless to me right now. It's just you, me and that burning star in the sky!"

"Cease this foolishness immediately!"

"Boys, take Flash Sentry and Shimmer to the hospital, they need help." they nodded. Norman helped Sunset up while Nolan carried Flash Sentry on his arms. "It was a pleasure working alongside you. Again, I am truly sorry about Black Pearl."

"Likewise." Nolan said. Twilight then jumped.

"DON'T--" Eva burst into a cloud of dust when the morning sunlight touched her pale skin.

Author's Note

First of all, I'm sorry for taking this long. We were cleaning up the house and I misplaced the script of TBBR, but finally found it (it was in a box behind the bookshelf - don't ask me how it got there, I have no answers).
Second, I still don't like this chapter. But it had to happen! No one in the room lives forever!

Also the reference in the title sums up my feelings about this chapter perfectly. I'm going to break the rules here and explain this one:

In this situation I am Shinji, my computer is EVA-01, Adagio is Asuka, Sunset is EVA-03, the script is the Dummy System, the vampires are Bardiel and you, reader, are either Maya or Rei.
To this day, Evangelion is the only anime featuring giant robots that I could stomach.