Baron Strucker emerged from the void, with three expressionless men standing beside him.
One of them, a fierce-looking bald man, crouched with one hand pressed against the ground and the other gripping Earl Dracula's left hand.
Gray-black stone spread from the hand touching the ground to Earl Dracula, leaving this last surviving elder of the vampire progenitors in dire straits...
Earl Dracula glared at Baron Strucker with blood-red eyes. In a venomous voice, he said, "Hydra drove the vampires to this point. You will suffer our eternal Curse...
"You can't kill me, but I'll follow you everywhere you go. I'll turn every human connected to Hydra into the lowest kind of blood slave...
"Your wives, children, and friends will all be my targets..."
Baron Strucker, who had looked rather pleased just moments ago, seemed even angrier than Earl Dracula. He pulled out his Gun and emptied a magazine into him, then shouted in even greater fury, "We didn't do it..."
As he spoke, Baron Strucker grabbed Earl Dracula's greasy hair and yanked at it like a fishwife, screaming hysterically, "That one-eyed bastard Nick Fury isn't one of us, for fuck's sake...
"You idiot Vampires ruined more than a decade of my work..."
The stone had spread up Earl Dracula's body to his neck. As the plague-like stone infection advanced, Earl Dracula sneered. "You think I'll believe you?
"S.H.I.E.L.D. belongs to you. Destroying the vampires means one less opponent for you."
As the stone spread across half of Earl Dracula's face, he glanced sideways at the bald man with the strange ability and sneered. "You can control me, but you can't kill me. I'll—"
"Kill him..." Baron Strucker roared furiously at the long-haired man beside him.
The thought of that damned press conference Nick Fury had held made his heart feel