***SPOILERS! SPOILERS!***
“Ok Abe, what do you have on stinky here?” Gun shots could be heard from a room. A large, red man with horns and a tail was shooting at a… larger thing that stank of sulfur.
“Well… it seems to be a run of the mill swamp beast, Red. Wounds excrete sulfur to detour the predator from attacking it. Eats almost anything that moves.” The fish like humanoid called Abe read off the information from a room nearby.
“Why the hell was it in a zoo?!” Hellboy yelled, gun still firing at the thing. It was slow, but didn’t die easily. Every time he shot it, the room smelled more and more of rotten eggs.
“Hmm… I don’t know. Why is Liz mad at you is the more important question.” Abe shrugged and continued to look for more information on the creature.
“She is just hormonal. I did nothing!” When Hellboy was arguing with Abe, the creature took its chance and spit at him. Seeing it, Hellboy dodged out of the way just in time.
“Oh, it says here it can spit acid…” Abe spoke through the com-link.
Hellboy looked to the spit he narrowly missed and saw it was burning through a cement wall. “Ah, crap.” He quickly turned and saw it was gone. “Huh?” Little did he know, the creature was above him. It started to drool, it hitting Hellboy’s ‘hand of doom’. It sizzled a bit before Hellboy noticed. Looking up, he took a quick shot and hit the thing square between the eyes. That killed it instantly and it fell to the ground right next to him. “Yuck… can we get a cleaning crew out here, Abe?”
“We lost the cleaning crew when we quit the Bureau, Red.” Abe sighed and packed up his books.
“Right… then just call the zoo janitors.” Hellboy tried to wipe away the smell, but it didn’t work out. As he enter the room where Abe was, Abe looked him over.
“I’m so glad I don’t have a nose.” Nodding, Abe but his books back into his backpack. He headed for the door.
“Lucky you.” Hellboy said sarcastically as he followed after him. “Why did you have to mention Liz?”
Looking back, Abe shrugged. “You would have asked me later anyway. I wanted to get it out of the way.”
Once they got paid for killing the thing, both Abe and Hellboy headed to the car. Well… it was more of an old van.
“Ugh, that is worse than the garbage truck!” Hellboy sighed as he got in the passenger’s seat.
“Again, that is what happens when we quit the Bureau.” Getting into the driver’s seat, Abe set off for home.
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A scream was heard from an office. They were yelling for help, but no one dare enter that room. When the screams subsided, a man with blood on his chin came out of the room. His dark, pinstripe suit was clean as a whistle and he was completely bald. He snapped his fingers and a creature of unspeakable ugly hobbled over to him. “Have you found anything?” The man’s voice was deep and had an eerie undertone to it.
Shaking its head, the creature shielded its face. “N-No sir.”
A sigh was heard from the man. “I see…” With a swift kick, the creature was all the way at the other end of the long hallway. “Unless creatures. That is why humans are superior in intellect.” With a huff, the bald man returned to his office
