Dracula and Blade
fight together against hypnotized American soldiers in the lair of Doctor Sun,
while Deacon Frost quietly waits on the rooftop. Sun triggers a trap door and
Blade plummets toward a floor set with wooden spikes; he manages to press his
hands and feet against the stone walls and halts his fall but also scrapes the
skin off his hands. Upstairs, Dracula and Sun trade threats and insults.
Dracula glories in his full power so Sun draws on the city’s power lines and
blasts his opponent with energy that breaks him up into his misty form.
Meanwhile, Blade slowly and painfully climbs up the shaft….
Having given Blade
enough time to infiltrate Sun’s headquarters, Frank Drake and Rachel van Helsing
enter the building, accompanied by Harold H. Harold, shamed into coming
by Aurora Rabinowitz. They stumble across the body of Juno, killed earlier
(issue #40) by Rachel but now his head is missing….
Blade climbs up the
shaft and takes a detour which brings him onto the street where he is attacked
by soldiers under Sun’s hypnotic command. He puts up a fight but is distracted
when he spies Deacon Frost on the rooftop and is overpowered….
In his mist form,
Dracula seeps into the plastic shell housing Dr. Sun’s brain and applies
pressure and Sun is forced to marshal all of his strength to force him back
out. Sun shines a huge cross of light on Dracula who, moving against severe
pain, seeps once more into Sun’s shell….
Outside, the soldiers
are recovering from their shared trance as Sun is too preoccupied to maintain
his control over them. Blade awakens, does not see Frost, and hurries back
inside where Frank, Rachel, and Harold are watching the final moments of the
battle between the two villains. Sun’s shell casing explodes, hurling his brain
onto the floor. But he isn’t out as he fires a laser beam at Harold, who is
pulled out of the way by Dracula and the beam strikes the computer which
explodes in flames—which are drawn into Sun’s brain and it crumbles into ash.
And with Sun gone, Blade tells Dracula to help him find Deacon Frost or they
fight right now….