Dracula died last
issue, impaled on a silver stake by Juno, Doctor’s Sun’s henchman, then burned
into ash and placed in an urn…. Aurora Rabinowitz is having nightmares at the
memory. She and the vampire hunters, Quincy Harker, Rachel van Helsing, and
Frank Drake are staying in the apartment of Harold H. Harold. Rachel shoos the
men out and confesses to Aurora that she too was hypnotized on her sixteenth
birthday by Dracula and believed herself in love with him. Fortunately, Quincy
arrived and drove him off. But Aurora insists she wasn’t hypnotized by the
Count, her attraction to him is natural….
The following day,
the group heads to the local army installation: Quincy has been supplied with a
small platoon of soldiers to raid Doctor Sun’s headquarters, though General
Coder is against the idea of mounting a war in the center of Boston. The
soldiers roll out but when they get within range of Sun’s building, Sun sends
out hypnotic waves, the power having been stolen from Dracula, and the soldiers
are brought under Sun’s control. The vampire hunters are barely able to escape
their new enemies before Harold speeds onto the scene and drives off with
them….
Back at Harold’s
apartment, the vampire hunters debate their next move, centering on the
question of whether Dracula is the only person who can defeat Doctor Sun.
Quincy, who has spent his long life battling the vampire lord, agonizes over
the decision to revive him. Rachel, with a similar dark history, strongly
opposes bringing him back. Quincy prays for wisdom and Frank volunteers to
retrieve Dracula’s ashes from Sun’s HQ. Rachel chooses to go with him and
Aurora shames Harold into joining the group. Soon they are approaching the
building over the rooftops to evade the hypnotized soldiers. They are spotted
by Doctor Sun entering the lab; Frank fights off the guards. Juno enters and
Rachel kills him with a crossbow bolt while Harold seizes the urn of ashes and
they flee….
Back at the
apartment, Quincy has come to a decision. “Dracula must live again!”