Carl's Brilliant But Dangerous Inventions
Or aka B.B.D.I

After the incidents of werewolves and vampires, Carl had taken upon himself to find more ways of avoiding getting mauled, bitten, and or torn into pieces. His luck so far? Zero, thanks to Van Helsing whom presently kept using the friar as a 'field man' which Carl wasn't fond of being used as. Even though he had helped in defeating Dracula, and not to mention all of his bravery acts that involved unmentionable acts. But that was beside the point at the moment as the friar was busy once more in a new invention that he was sure to go over well with everyone, especially the new field agents.

Van Helsing sat promptly on one of the wooden chairs with his feet on top of a table in the invention room which was deserted with life. He thought that perhaps Carl had done something again that either obliterated everyone else or it was vacation time. The trash collector as he liked to call himself let out a tired yawn. Van Helsing had returned from a trip in Italy where the vampire population had grown considerably. That had been a fun ordeal fighting off vampires with chopsticks and tomato sauce. Sighing deeply and heavily at the remembrance he called out for Carl in the deserted room. "Carl can you come out now?" he asked through his heavy yawn.

Shortly after his grunted out call, Van Helsing heard the friar in his excitable voice from somewhere in the room. This made him feel uneasy. Whenever Carl was this excited it could only mean trouble for everyone, and at the present 'everyone' meant just him. Apparently the others knew and hadn't gotten around to telling Van Helsing. Settling his worn and dirty boots back on the floor when he had heard the distinct sounds of heels clicking on the stone floor. Curiously arching a brow, Van Helsing turned around in his chair to catch sight of whom was clicking their heels. Stifling back a chuckle, Van Helsing tired to cover it up with a cough at the sight before him.

"Carl, why are you reliving the London assignment?" he asked with a raised brow of curiosity. It wasn't everyday you saw a man wear a dress for the second time. Also one would wonder what this London assignment was? Well to put simply and shortly on their mission to stop Mr. Hyde with his killings, Carl had dressed as a woman in lure him out. The friar had shown disgust in wearing such an attire but seemed to be knowledge about what went with what for a woman.

The friar looked crossly towards Van Helsing whom now started to chuckle at this. Carl huff as he grasped the dress material in tight fist for easier movement. The dress itself was of Victorian with frills, bows, and extremely wide. Also, the friar was wearing a tall powder wig that seemed to reach the ceiling. Van Helsing had almost joking wanted to raise his hands up in defense as if the dress would smack him. "I'm not reliving that assignment, this is called experimenting." He retorted with refined dignity in his voice.

Van Helsing nodded his head as if understanding his friend's choice of experimenting, "Of Course Carl, experimenting is good…Just, what type of experimenting are you doing?" he asked smirking rather smugly towards the friar.

"Well, as we are gaining more recruits for the holy purpose, some of them being of the other gender," Carl cleared his throat, preparing himself for a fine explanation made easy for Van Helsing to understand. He had been told numerous times to make it short and simple, "This is no ordinary dress, its pack full of surprises."

The Hunter coughed, beating his chest lightly, "Yes, I can already see surprises hiding underneath that dress Carl, but how can this help someone?" he asked with true interest. Van Helsing thought to himself that this should be good, or any in case, a good laugh.

"True, well this will help our female agents go under cover and also to be able to defend themselves if need be. See this wig, its no ordinary wig," Carl reached up and seemed to push something, and in that instant a small mechanical noise could be heard. Then nothing at all. The friar laughed nervously as he pressed it again, still nothing happened. "Ah well, that needs work. But this, this…will work." He said assuring his friend as he bent down and grasped one of the bows off. It came off with ease and promptly, Carl tossed it to a clear space. Upon impact a small explosion erupted and spewing smoke into the room.

Van Helsing had to admit mildly that this wasn't so bad at first. Though his thoughts were interrupted as he coughed trying to breath through the smoke, it was become thicker. "Carl, when does the smoke disappear?" he asked through his gasped coughs. Van Helsing heard nothing from the friar except for a meek laughter which was all the answer he needed. Carl had no idea when it would go away, just like his werewolf treats and that weird doll of his.

A few moments later with doors and windows opened through out the underground work station and Church above, the smoke had finally cleared, but to Van Helsing, the view hadn't changed a bit. Carl was still sporting the Victorian gown.

"Now, that was just a minor set back which leads me to…" Carl paused as he patted on the dress as if trying to remember what he was doing. Though finding it, the friar smiled nervously. "This one will stop anyone in their tracks…" he nodded his head in confirmation as he tugged at the edge of the sleeve in a casual fashion when suddenly out of nowhere a wooden size stake shot out from the sleeve and nearly struck Van Helsing in the middle of his chest. Lucky for the hunter and his reflexives had caught it. "Oh dear…ah another minor set back, but it would really-"

"Carl."

"Yes?"

"Next time, please warn me of your….experiments, because I think next time I'll have a mission lined up…."

"Oh, so then you don't want to see the 'Wrangler Snake Shooter'? Its useful, though has its minor flaws…But nothing you should worry about, they aren't poisons…Van Helsing?" Carl asked glancing about the room. The hunter had left him all alone in the invention room, "oh….I'll show it to him later then…I know, I'll put it in his room, won't that be a nice surprise?"

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Author's Thank Yous

For those Who Reviewed Chapter 2!

Kaitylyn: I'm glad you found it funny! and yes..there will be updating...this chapter here! I just haven't had any ideas of late, but this came out, and if I think of more, I'll be sure to post more Carl stories.

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