Here we are! The next chapter of this story, and the one in which the toons will try and face down Freddy to see him subdued! As well as the one in which we'll actually see Freddy Krueger for the first time in this story! They have those who confront the bastard in dreamland, those who stay awake to either awaken them when they've got him or when they need to be saved and those who are keeping an eye on what's going on outside chosen. They have their plan at the ready, as well as their alternate plans, if needed, and they know that this is the best bet as well as the best hope they've got! Can they do it? Will they all survive this? Are any of them going to die? Is it going to be figured out who exactly it was who brought Freddy into this world through Plucky Duck's Freddy costume and why? Will whoever the culprit is be punished in the perfect way if in fact it is found out who caused all of this? Read on if you wish to know! This is going to be a substantially longer chapter than the first two, by the way, but then again, what would you expect given what the other two chapters led up to and who's being dealt with by the toons here?

I own none of the characters. They all belong to TTA. With the exception of Freddy Krueger, who belongs to the "A Nightmare On Elm Street" saga.

A Nightmare On Acme Acres

Chapter 3

Dizzy, Gogo, Furrball, Fifi, Babs, Ruby, Plucky, Shirley and Hamton had no trouble as far as falling asleep was concerned. Not after a day like this. And while Sneezer, Byron, Margot, Danforth and Fowlmouth kept their eyes and ears open while looking out the windows to as much of the rest of Acme Acres as they could, Buster, Mary, Beeper, Roddy, Monty and Sweetie along with, quite predictably, Calamity and Bookworm, were keeping ready and alert for the first sign that the sleeping ones would need to woken up, whether it was because they'd gotten a hold of Freddy or because Freddy had them all but killed. The device they had was ready to sound off the signal and everything.

Now, let's first look into dreamland, where the nine chosen for doing that part were looking this way and that. "Okay, everyone, we all know how sneaky and sudden in showing up Freddy can be, since we heard a lot about him even before now." Babs said. "So let's spread out to cover more ground and to reduce the chances of any of us being surprised, but especially all of us being taken unawares at once." Ruby put across.

The others nodded, and the group split up, but as it would turn out, Hamton was the first to be attacked by Freddy. Because just as he'd gotten far from the group as much as everybody else who was a part of the group had, albeit in different directions, he saw that he was in what, to him, looked like a slaughterhouse. "Huh?" he exclaimed. "How did I just end up in some sort of slaughterhouse here? I was in dreamland, wasn't I?" Suddenly, he saw a figure in a dark corner, and said figure spoke: "You still are. But now this place is a part of it, piggy. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" Hamton didn't need three guesses on to who this could be. He cried out loud: "FREDDY KRUEGER!" The next words from Freddy were: "That's my name, porker boy. Don't go wearing it out now." And after that, Freddy emerged from the shadows.

He was currently wearing, along with his usual shit, a slaughterhouse butcher's apron. Not to mention how said apron was naturally covered in blood all over, along with how, in the hand that didn't have his trademark glove on it, Freddy was holding a cleaver. He said: "You got here just in time. I was out of pigs to butcher into pork, bacon, ham, sausages and/or spareribs. It seemed like I had to call it a night. But now you've spared me having to do that. This little piggy went to market…AS CHOPPED PORK!" Suddenly, Hamton saw a guillotine form right in front of him and Freddy teleported behind him while saying: "The blade of this thing will do the part of severing your head, while my cleaver will hack up the rest of you! Don'tcha just love hacking around?"

Hamton, however, fought back by means of spinning around while pulling out a vacuum and then beating upon Freddy with it, telling him: "Not if I clean up your act first, Krueger!" He called out at the top of his lungs: "GUYS! IT'S FREDDY! HE'S HERE! I'M FIGHTING HIM! HELP ME!" Just then, Hamton saw his vacuum, just as he'd turned it on to suck Freddy in and put him in an unfavorable position, be slashed to pieces and thus totaled and ruined by the blades on the monster slasher's glove. "Sorry, bacon bastard, but that vacuum cleaner is off limits as of this moment! You wanna clean up my act? Sorry, but I'm WAY too dirty for that! Especially if in a fight!" However, Hamton's friends had all heard him, and the other eight came running on towards where he was, Freddy seeing them and Plucky going: "Nice job finding him, Hamton!" "Now let's bash this bastard!" Babs let loose.

"Ah, you brought your other friends along for the ride, I see!" Freddy said, jumping back as he turned the slaughterhouse in a multi-environment kind of dreamworld. "Well, won't this be a shitload of fun? It'll be a killer good time, in fact! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" He then said: "I'm in the mood for rabbit stew just about now, so you'll do nicely, bitch!" to Babs, but Babs took out a big mallet and said: "Not even in your nightmares, ugly!" She bashed Freddy over the head with the mallet, but Freddy then made a move which knocked Babs back while teleporting him and her out of sight, and it knocked the others back in the opposite direction while teleporting them out of sight, too. No one was dead yet, but Freddy had clearly done this as a way of picking them off one by one despite their having attempted to work together against him. Babs suddenly found she was in what looked like a giant carrot patch. "Huh? Where did Krueger go?" Babs asked, then in addition, she said: "And for that matter, where did I go?"

She looked about and said: "A huge carrot patch? This must be Freddy's doing. I'd best keep watch…" She looked about, but suddenly saw a carrot which was incredibly large even for a carrot in a humongous carrot patch with high stalks such as this. "Huh? Man, that one sure is a whopper. Tempting, too, since I haven't had a thing to eat since lunch, but as much as it looks so delicious, it looks even more suspicious." Suddenly, the eyes, nose and mouth of Freddy were made to appear on the carrot, and he said: "Oh, it's well beyond suspicious, bitch! It's your very nicely signed death warrant!" Suddenly, his arm and claw gloved hand came out of the back end of the carrot where the leaves were, and Babs gasped as he raised it to try and slash open her low belly. "Since you eat carrots all the time, it's only proper that one would gut you!" Freddy let out before taking a swipe at Babs, but she managed to dive forward just in time to dodge it.

Just as she got back up after landing, she saw Freddy in the form of a farmer version of himself, saying: "What's this? A rabbit in my carrot patch? This won't do at all! Time to make stew out of you for poking about in my crops!" He turned his glove hand into a large hoe and a second later swung it at Babs, who almost ran out of the way in time, but got nailed by it and in the next instant pulled over. "AAAAAAAAAAA!" she screamed, and Freddy laughed: "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I'm gonna enjoy roasting you in my stew pot tonight, Barbara Anne Bunny!" Babs all of a sudden got furious, took out a bomb, chucked it at Freddy and exploded out: "DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME THAT! NOBODY EVER CALLS ME THAT, ESPECIALLY A FUCKER LIKE YOU, KRUEGER! IT MAKES ME EXPLODE!" The bomb nailed Freddy and Babs then got free of the hoe and began taking off, saying: "That won't hold him off for long, even if it did give me the chance I needed to get free! I've got to think up a plan to escape him, find my pals and make it so we can…BUSTER?!"

She stopped running when she saw Buster standing in front of her, and then exclaimed: "What the hell are you doing here? You're supposed to be watching to make sure we get woken up if we either catch Freddy or are in critical danger by him!" "What do you mean, Babs?" asked Buster. "That's what I'm doing right…say, what's with the supersized carrot patch…?" All of a sudden, the realization hit him and he said: "Oh, no…I must have been more tired after such a day as we had than I thought…DAMMIT!" "Nice going, blue boy!" Babs said with sarcasm all over her sentence. "Whatever, that doesn't matter right now! We need to evade this guy and find our friends!" As they ran, Buster asked: "What happened to them?" Babs answered: "Freddy got them knocked back in the opposite direction I was knocked back and teleported them to God knows where. They aren't dead, but knowing Freddy, they won't last long unless we find them first!" Suddenly, they saw some kind of hawk in the sky.

But, the moment it spoke, they could tell who it was. "Ah, rabbits in the carrot patch! My favorite kind of prey!" Its feather colors and voice made it clear this was another form taken on by Freddy. He then looked down and said: "So, another rabbit to go with the one of before, eh? What a deal! We hawks eat rabbits all the time, didn't ya know?" "That's Krueger, isn't it?" let out Buster in the form of a question. "It sure is!" Babs replied. "Babsy, when I toss this stick of dynamite…" Buster said, producing a long, lit stick of dynamite, "…we both run like hell to see to it we have maximum chance of eluding this monster and finding a way to locate our friends. Am I clear?" "You certainly are." Babs replied. "Act fast, though!" "Will do!" Buster said, and he shouted out: "Hey, birdbrain!" Freddy turned to him and Buster hurled the dynamite at him, with him and Babs running as fast as their legs would carry them.

However, despite being hit by the explosion, Freddy didn't take long to see what the two rabbits were doing and swoop down after them. "Nice try, long eared losers, but you damn well fucking failed miserably! And now I'm going to take my time picking you apart as you become my new order of fried rabbit!" He opened up his talons when he was close enough and said: "Oh, and you will be fried, by the way! I'm intending to light you both aflame and THEN kill you! It's gonna be music to my ears to hear your screams!" Just as his hawk toes wrapped around them, in addition to how he tightened his grip enough so they were cut by the aforementioned talons, both Buster and Babs found themselves awakened. It turned out that Calamity had done so, and when the two rabbits saw where they were, Buster said: "Huh? What happened to the carrot patch we were in?" Babs then saw Calamity and said: "Calamity? Is that you? Where are we now?" Then Calamity held up a sign that said: "You're back in the real world."

Then he held up another sign that said: "I could tell you were in danger from the cuts that were forming on your bodies, so I shook you both awake." Following this, he held up a sign that said: "And Buster…you were supposed to keep awake along with the rest of us serving this part of the mission against Freddy." "I know. I can't believe I fell asleep, either. I'm sorry…" Buster sighed. Back in dreamland, Freddy yelled: "Ah, dammit! I came so close, too! Ah, well…" After turning back to his standard form, he said: "Since the rabbits have escaped me for the moment, I think I'll go after the furry devil, plus I'll make it so it leads to the dodo joining him to add to the fun and for good measure!" He vanished from the carrot patch, and now we see where the hell one Dizzy Devil had ended up.

Dizzy was looking around to where he was by now, going: "Huh? Me no with my group anymore? Where did me get taken to?" He looked around himself and saw he was in what, from the look of it, was some kind of buffet. "OOOOOOH, me in a buffet! Can't fight Freddy on an empty stomach! This do perfectly!" But just then, he saw shackles on chains fly out of the floor in addition to said shackles latching themselves onto his wrists and ankles. Freddy then showed up after a tornado spinning towards Dizzy revealed himself as the dream demon. He said: "Well, hi there, Dizzy-boy! How's it spinning? Ha, ha, ha! Yeah, this is my buffet! And all the food's for you, but you know what? There's a limitless supply of it all, and I can make it reproduce itself every time you have any of it! Quite an amount of food, to be sure! As your friends say in that game they play with you…WILL DIZZY EAT IT?!"

He forced his mouth open with manipulation, and suddenly Dizzy saw that the place he was in became both a buffet and a party house. Not to mention how, after Freddy said: "Oh, and by the way! Since you also like to party so much, I thought I'd make it a buffet AND a place to throw a party! With the addition of a friend of yours who also likes a good party…" Suddenly, Gogo was teleported into the place, and Dizzy said, albeit in a muffled way, since his mouth was forced wide open and stuck like that by Freddy's powers: "Gogo?" "Where did I just wind up?" Gogo asked, but then he gasped upon seeing Dizzy in the state he was in: "Dizzy! What has just happened to you…" But he saw Freddy, then was able to tell what this was. "Krueger! You did this, didn't you?!" "Most assuredly." Freddy smiled. He then said to Gogo: "And while I have Dizzy here well-fed, you, Gogo, are going to do what you do best…act wacky! It'll be all too perfect for my party! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"

While he made the various foods fly right into Dizzy's mouth, he made it so party lights and plenty of colored spotlights got shone upon Gogo, right before making it so one tile on the floor or another became a hole containing a lethal weapon or object. This forced Gogo to dance like he'd never danced in his life, and that was saying a lot. He barely managed to avoid them all with the full effort he put into it, and Dizzy attempted to say something threatening to Freddy, but was unable to due to being forced to chew repeatedly as endless food entered his massive maw. Freddy quipped: "You said a mouthful! And man, Dizzy, are you full of it! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" After that, he looked to Gogo and said: "My, you've done quite well in this dance of death, dodo brain! You've avoided all of my killer devices, even if only narrowly! But I can be wacky, too…" He made it so a giant disco ball formed on the ceiling, then he made it drop towards an all of a sudden started and screeching in fright Gogo, who he made the feet of be stuck to the floor so he couldn't move anymore.

Freddy then cackled: "And in just a moment, you're gonna be deader than disco!" But as he could tell, only his shoes were glued to the floor, so Gogo made his feet come out of his shoes and leapt forward so he'd land out of the way of the disco ball, which shattered as it hit where he had previously been stuck by his shoes, and also on the floor near Dizzy, who Freddy had just at this moment spoken to. "And you, Dizzy…time for a little death by chocolate for dessert after all this dinner! LITERALLY!" He was about to shove a humongous chocolate bar down his throat, a move meant to choke him to death, but Dizzy, due to Freddy suddenly laughing and thus not as concentrated as he was before, saw a chance to fight back. He started spinning like crazy, easily making it so he threw up the endless food he'd been stuffed with and it splattered right onto his dream demon foe, right before he spun so Freddy was sucked in, took numerous hits from him and flung out towards Gogo, who got out a mallet to beat on Freddy this way and that.

But, though they'd gained the advantage, Freddy made it so he turned the tables on them by going: "Heh, nice comeback, bozos! Too bad it ain't gonna do either of you any good worth shit!" and making a devil's pitchfork that he stabbed Dizzy through the right shoulder with, as well as a roller coaster ride slide with the cars of that slide ride behind Gogo, making it so he'd be unable to move as the cars came right at him! Gogo's eyes opened wide in terror, and Freddy focused on Dizzy, who he now had his claw glove raised over: "All right, devil boy…while your dodo friend hitches a ride on Freddy's new roller coaster slide, it's time for me to send you back to your hometown! Tell 'em Freddy sent ya there, will ya?" Before either was dead, though, both Dizzy and Gogo were awoken. Dizzy let out: "What the? Where we go now?" "Are we dead?" a question from Gogo came out as. "Not at all, though you both almost were." Mary told them. "I am just glad we managed to wake you two up in time."

"Dizzy looks like his shoulder could use some treatment, though." a sign Calamity held up said. "Yeah, me get stabbed in shoulder by Freddy's pitchfork and almost slashed dead and Gogo almost hit by roller coaster ride cars!" Dizzy let out. "Me could use stomach pumped, too, with Krueger force-feeding me! Me feel sick from me throwing up so much food, too." "Dizzy needing his stomach pumped and being upset about a feeding?" Monty mocked. "Now I've seen everything!" Mary punched him in the face, though, and said: "Shut the fuck up, Max! This is serious! And I do not take kindly to people insulting my friends to begin with, so don't try that kind of smack talking again!" "Can't we just get back to focusing on who we need to wake up?" Monty asked, rubbing his jaw. "You were the one who made there be a lapse in it in the first place." Mary replied.

And, back in his nightmare realm, Freddy shouted out: "Dammit! That's four victims I had dead to rights, but failed to deal the fatal blow to at the last moment! Well, if I failed to kill four targets, who have now, for the time being, evaded me, what better way to compensate for that than to go after four new targets and kill those ones instead? And I know just which four I want now, too…" The four new targets in question, as Freddy revealed after teleporting away and reappearing in another region of dreamland which he turned into a place that was four things in one area, were Ruby, Shirley, Plucky and Hamton. He teleported all four of them to where he was currently and said: "Greetings, my four fine, funeral-bound fools! You have all just entered a place which is a single place, but four things at once! A butcher shop, a pond, a fortuneteller's room and an old, abandoned home! Each one his behind a different door, with this being what's just the main room and entrance of this place! Guess who's going in where?" "We're not going in any of those places, Krueger!" shouted out Ruby.

"And you can't force us to!" Plucky added. "We're taking you down right here and now, too!" "Like, you're done for, or some junk, douchebag!" Shirley added in. "Let's see how well you deal with us when we all take you on simultaneously!" Hamton said. "Don't think we'll be falling for your trick of knocking us back and teleporting us away, either!" Plucky shouted. "Oh, I'm through with that shit. This time I'm getting down and dirty." Freddy grinned. All four of his foes attacked him, landing numerous punches and kicks onto the dream demon of a sinister and sadistic slasher, along with bites and, in Ruby's case, claw cuts, as well as, in Shirley's case, lots of mental attacks, psychic bolts and the like. However, while all scored some good damage with this, it didn't last and Freddy asked: "Seriously, that's the best you've got?"

He then swung his glove blades at them, and while they managed to evade it enough so none of them would be killed or put out of action, they still got a few nasty cuts on each of their bodies. After they'd jumped back, Ruby saw there were some bleeding marks on her belly and in addition to that there were a couple of others on her arms and thighs. Plucky could see he had a few bloody marks on his sides, shoulders and frontal torso. Shirley had some on her hands, legs and stomach, with her short having been torn, much like Ruby's was along with Plucky's vest, and Hamton had his share on his belly, arms and one of his sides. They could easily tell that, if they hadn't jumped back, Freddy's swipe would have turned them into slices of corpse meat. In addition, Freddy sneered: "Felt that, didn't you? Even jumping back, you still got some wounds. And you're gonna feel what happens next even more, I might add!"

He knocked each one of them back into a different room, and we start with the butcher shop that Hamton had been knocked into. He said: "Oh, no…I'm in a butcher shop…" His eyes flew wide open when he saw that all of the meats in there were something or other from a pig, in addition to how pig corpses were hanging from the ceiling, too. Suddenly, he saw Freddy show up in an even more disgusting butcher's outfit than he'd worn previously, and he then said: "I see you've gotten a look at my store, little piggy. Sensing a trend, by any chance?" He pushed one of the hanging pigs so it swayed back and forth for emphasis. "Guess who I was next gonna add to my collection of freshly killed pork products?" He took hold of a butcher's knife and tried to stab Hamton, but Hamton ran out of the way just in time. "By the way," Freddy commented, "it has been said by many that you can use every part of a pig but its squeal. Let's see if I can go one up on this, by making it so that I use every other part of you after I put your squeal to use as perfect pleasure and entertainment! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Suddenly, Hamton found himself teleported onto a conveyer belt and strapped down, then it started moving towards a spinning saw blade. He was told by Freddy: "Now I believe you just SAW exactly how I'm gonna kill you! Won't you be a cut above the rest after you've been killed off? Whatever, I'll just kill time while I wait for you to be halved by picking on your pals! After all, I did make this so it would operate at a slow rate, since you're going nowhere and your fear of what will happen after a while and you can't do anything about is ecstasy to me! Squeal, little piggy! Squeal for me when your time finally comes!" Freddy teleported away while cackling, in addition to making it so he now appeared in the fortuneteller's room, where Shirley had ended up in. She saw him and said: "Like, holy shit, or some junk! It's you, Krueger!" "It sure is me, loon lady bird bitch!" Freddy leered. "And since you're so involved with astral crap and things like fortunetelling, I thought I'd give you a dose of my own!"

Freddy, while levitating Shirley into the air, made it so he now was dressed in gypsy clothes, and he also made the crystal ball on the table in this room start to glow. He told her after this: "As a gypsy who's never mistaken or wrong, I now predict your fortune to be that you're going to die, feathers! To be precise, this crystal ball upon the table you see in this fortuneteller house is going to unleash a giant laser at you, which is why it's glowing!" Then the laser shot out of it and hit Shirley's lower belly, with Freddy going: "At first, it will merely feel funny as it hits your belly and keeps blasting against it. Then, it will hurt. After that, first degree burns. Then it'll give you second degree burns. Following that, third degree burns. Finally, it'll blast a hole right on through your belly. A fatal one. And you will die. Painfully. Since this process is slow and I know what it'll lead to, I think I'll add to the pleasure of knowing what'll happen to you by, as I wait, taking out your boyfriend and making a duck dinner out of him!"

He made it so Shirley was kept stuck where she was in the air, then teleported away to the next room, the one where the pond was and where Plucky had ended up in. Just as Plucky was able to see where he was, he said: "Hey! If this is a nightmare, then how come I'm in a pond of all places? I love ponds!" "Because this ain't just any pond, quacker boy." Freddy said as he showed up in front of Plucky, who naturally screamed in fright. Freddy then chuckled at Plucky being so afraid and startled and added in: "This is FREDDY'S POND OF DOOM!" Plucky all of a sudden felt himself snared by underwater vines which wrapped around his ankles and wrists, in addition to pulling them down so that he was stuck and couldn't move. "And let me tell you, kid, it's a VINE time for you to die!" Freddy added.

"I'll get out of this somehow and kill you!" Plucky exploded, but Freddy said: "Oh, give me a fucking break. As if you have a prayer of getting free. And you've got even less chance of surviving this. Especially given how hungry my new friends are just now…" Plucky suddenly, to his horror, saw a humongous shoal of piranhas, obviously created by Freddy, swimming towards him, and Freddy told him: "These piranhas will make short work of you, Plucky-boy. They ain't even gonna leave behind any bones or scraps of vest. And your loon lady love is being subject to a lethal laser as we speak!" "WHAT?!" Plucky exploded, fear from his cowardly side mixing up with anger upon knowing the girl he of his dreams was in peril like he was. "You heard." Freddy grinned. "But since I've got one more victim to attend to, I think I'll leave now, and return after I get done with her to see you again, especially since, by then, my pet piranhas will be in halfway through making Jorg Buttgereit proud!"

Freddy then vanished, and he showed up in the last of the alternate places of the place he had made. It was the old abandoned home, along with the current location of Ruby. The she-rat, as she looked this way and that, commented: "Damn, what a dump! Hardly the sort of place that I'm accustomed to! Wait a second…" She suddenly remembered what happened, and said: "I got knocked in here by Krueger. Which means he could show up at any second, so I'd best stay on the lookout for the son of a bitch…" Just as she was walking about carefully, she felt a burning pain in her ass. "AAAAAAAAGGGHHH!" she cried out. After falling on her side from this, it was revealed that the burning pain had come from the butt of a giant cigarette, and one which of course had been made by Freddy. In fact, it was made from the glove blade on his index finger, and Freddy was seen by Ruby just then, as he was standing over her.

"Well, it looks like someone just ran into a RAT-astrophe!" Freddy cackled. "Tell me, bitch, do you like living the old days of before? 'Cause I gave you a nice dose of them when I burned your butt with a butt! Of a cigarette, that is!" Freddy started smoking the cigarette after that, and added: "Aren't I just an ass for doing that and bringing up an old, dropped habit you had once in the process? Whatever, your impeding fate is going to be quite RAT-acylismic! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" "Don't try it, Krueger! I swear to God I'll find a way to destroy you even when at a disadvantage like this!" Ruby shouted out. "Please, bitch." Freddy told her while he rolled his eyes. "You're in no position to do anything but be my plaything until I'm dead tired of you." He made a giant can of rat poison spray out of his glove, then he sprayed Ruby with it, in the process causing her to scream in pain as she was severely damaged and weakened by it.

Worse yet, not only was she only not killed because Freddy manipulated things that way in order to prolong his fun of torturing her, but Freddy went further than this after going: "Man, the way you used to be such a snob and are now scared shitless outta your skull! To say nothing of utterly in my power and a pincushion of a punching back for me! Truly, bitch, I've given you a RAT-ittude adjustment! Ironic all of your being so CLAW-dacious would go down the drain in one fell swoop and be replaced by cowardice like has happened! But surely you'll FUR-give me for how much pleasure I take in your pain and how much fun I have at your expense!" Because a second after he said these words, he made it so Ruby was on a giant rat trap and both her wrists and ankles were shackled to it, while the rest of her body was stuck on it despite her struggles to get free. "Dammit, no!" Ruby cried out, and then Freddy said: "OOOOOH, I've got to say, bitch, you looked TRAPPED LIKE A RAT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Freddy then made it so that the spring was pulled back, and he said: "It's only a matter of time before that thing slams down and halves you, but I'm holding that off so I can have more fun with ya. And not even RAT-apuncture could save you from the kind of pain I'm about to be inflicting on you, bitch! Nor could a trait such as being a RAT-ochist. You and me are gonna be having a hell of a time here…" He made numerous demonic cats and equally demonic owls and manipulated them all to attack Ruby, picking her apart bit by bit, but in a way so she'd stay alive and feel everything, every time she was eaten and/or shredded at. "Boy, will you ever be a great late-night dinner for my new pets! As well as for me!" Freddy snickered as Ruby's eyes opened wide in terror upon seeing the lot who was coming for her, as well as knowing it would be just a matter of time before the spring whacked her in half.

Suddenly, though, Danforth appeared, going: "Huh? Where am I? This isn't the window of the Perfecto Prep building, and it doesn't even look like any of that building!" He then saw his friend, Ruby, on the trap, and yelled: "Oh, my God!" He ran over and landed a punch as well as a kick on Freddy, knocking him back and wrecking his concentration long enough to be able to get the otherwise trapped like the rat she was Ruby free. Then, after she was standing up again, she said: "Thanks, Danforth. You saved my skin. But how did you get here, though? Weren't you on the watch out the window with Byron, Fowlmouth, Margo and Sneezer?" "Yeah…" Danforth let out, "then I felt sort of drowsy and weary all of a sudden, felt myself drifting, my eyes dropped shut, I saw I was here and…" He opened his eyes wide: "DAMMIT! I can't believe I fell asleep just now! Though it's good it made it so I was able to save you, but now we're both in trouble!"

"Oh, you've got that right, you drake dickhead!" Freddy snarled as he got back up. "But at least now I get two kills for the price of one!" "Stay close, Danforth." Ruby said. "We can see to it he's beaten together." Suddenly, though, Ruby felt a nasty pain in her ass, the cigarette burn she got before having reared its ugly head again. "AAAAGGGHHH…!" she screeched, and not only did it turn out that Freddy had made her cigarette butt spawned burn do what it just did, but when Danforth exclaimed: "Ruby!" and turned to her, Freddy capitalized on the opportunity he'd made for himself by distracting them both this way when he charged forward and yelled: "HEY, ASSHOLE!" to Danforth, who turned, only to not even have time to blink or scream as Freddy's glove, which Freddy turned the blades of into buzzsaws, came down on him and sliced him right into strips of literally dead meat. Freddy then finished: "Here's the buzz, bitch-ass…I saw how ya saved your friend, and I've gotta say, when it comes to showing that no good deed will ever go unpunished, you really MADE THE CUT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Just as Ruby wasn't in a haze from the burning pain in her ass anymore, she turned, but saw what Freddy had done and the bloody pieces of Danforth resulting from it. "Danforth! NO!" she cried out, but Freddy told her: "Oh, yes. And guess who's next, bitch?!" He made his demon cats and devil owls charge her, plus he turned his glove into a drill, intending to bore Ruby right through her abdomen, but Ruby was luckier than Danforth. Because just then, she found herself in the real world, the waking world, back in the Perfecto Prep building. She said: "Huh? Where am I now? What happened to Krueger? GUYS?!" She saw the other toons in front of her, which included the equally awake Plucky, Shirley and Hamton, and she got more confused than ever. In the next instant, Mary said: "Ruby! You've been woken up by Roddy! I woke up Shirley, while Plucky and Hamton were awoken by, respectively, Beeper and Buster! You're lucky we saw the way you four were thrashing like mad!"

"Mary is quite correct, you know!" Buster told them. "Especially given the way you're all so wounded and banged up!" "I think it's safe to say you had almost been killed by the time we awoke you!" a sign Little Beeper held up said. "Were we ever!" cried out Plucky. "Believe me, you have no idea. It's not like me to say this, but thank you three billion times!" "Freddy's various rooms had us dead to rights, almost literally!" Hamton cried out. "I nearly got sawed in two!" "I almost got devoured by piranhas!" Plucky added. "I, like, damn near got a laser beam burned through my belly, or some junk!" Shirley spoke. Then Ruby told them: "And I was both in a trap made by Freddy, attacked by demonic owls and devil cats and then he tried to slash me after Danforth saved me…OH, MY GOD! DANFORTH!" The others looked surprised, so Ruby then explained what had happened, and they all turned to see that Fowlmouth, Lil' Sneezer and Byron were currently trying to console a sobbing Margot who was holding the pieces of the dead body of her boyfriend in her hands close to her chest and crying into them.

"Danforth…please don't leave me…I love you…" Margot wept. "Fuck you, Krueger…I want to kill you…worse than ever…you bastard son of a bitch motherfucker…" Roddy then let out: "Danforth is dead? Ruby, what happened? You said he saved you?" "Yes!" Ruby told him. "And shortly thereafter, Freddy made the burn he put in my ass hurt enough to make me lose all focus, right before he diced up Danforth into what form you see him in now! This is all my damn fault…" "No, Rube…" Margot said, having heard her despite her sobs. She shed more tears right before going: "It's Krueger's fault…" "Danforth fell asleep pretty suddenly, though!" spoke out Fowlmouth. "He might have been tired, but so were the rest of us! Why did he fall asleep but not us?" Sneezer asked. "Your guess is as good as mine," Babs replied, "but Margot, although I feel like a cunt for saying this, you have to stop grieving. I know he meant a lot to you and vice versa, and if there were time for you to mourn him, we'd let you, the way your school and ours, under normal circumstances, are rivals notwithstanding. But there isn't time, and we still have a dream demon sleep slasher to undo."

Realizing the truth and correctness of the words Babs had spoken, Margot gave the dead strips of meat that were once Danforth one last hug, let out one final wave of tears and wiped all of them away and stood up. She then said: "All right, let's double our efforts to find a way to get this motherfucking murderer shut the fuck down, huh?" Much ire was in her voice, clearly a case of sadness being turned to anger. Babs nodded and said: "Currently, though, the only two left in dreamland trying to do that bastard motherfucker in are Fifi and Furrball. Since none of us who fell asleep and were woken up are in any shape to try again, nor can we fall asleep again after all of this anyway, it's up to them now." "Well, I hope they have better luck than any of us others in dreamland did," Gogo commented, "because otherwise, we're all fucked." The others nodded, in addition to resuming their respective positions and functions in what was being done here.

And, back in dreamland, Fifi and Furrball turned out to have been teleported into the same place, but in different rooms of it. We first look to Furrball, who was in the living room. While confused about how he'd ended up here, he looked this way and that. He concluded he was in a living room of someone's house, but then saw two cats who were the last ones who he ever expected to see. Namely, his parents! "Mother? Father?" Furrball exclaimed. "Son, you've got to help us!" cried out his father. Furrball looked confused again. His parents had, when he was just a kitten, died of a lethal sickness they contracted one day, the fact they were loving and caring parents to him who he loved and vice versa notwithstanding. One of the many reasons he had been living on his own in an alley for so long, since they'd lived in that alley before they got terminally ill. It was baffling enough as to how they could possibly be alive again all of a sudden, but especially in apparent need of help of some sort from him. "I…I…don't understand…" an all around startled, shocked and bewildered Furrball managed to squeeze out. Then his mother let on out: "He's after us! He's going to find us! Please save us from…"

Suddenly, both cats morphed into and combined with each other, subsequently growing into the form of who they really were, who shouted out his own name once in his true look and form. "FREDDY!" Furrball almost jumped out of his furry skin, and Freddy then cackled: "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Surprise, fraidy cat! I pulled a similar stunt like this with that bitch who is Nancy Thompson twice, killing her the second time when I impersonated her dad, and before that, wearing a mask of one of her friends I killed, another bitch named Tina! Been a while since I last did this sort of shit, but it'd fit perfectly with you, especially in a place where, if it were real and not part of my world, you'd feel RIGHT AT HOME! HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!" "I won't let you win or yield to you, Krueger! In fact, I don't fear you!" Furrball spat. "You're not real!" But Freddy snarled: "I'm more real than you could possibly imagine, Furrball!" and turned himself a second later into a giant devil dog. This frightened Furrball enough so that Freddy, once back in his normal form, knew he'd deconstructed Furrball's attempt to weaken him with a lack of fear.

He then told him: "Hey, you've always wanted a house to live in! Now you've got one, although your time of living in it sure will be short!" and swung his glove blades at Furrball. It was dodged by the blue cat, though, albeit only by a whisker(pun intended)and Furrball then an instant later pounced on Freddy, slashing at him with his claws, biting at him with his fangs and punching and kicking away at him, as well as whipping and/or strangling him with his tail. "No! You're not doing shit to me or to any of my friends! And I'm furious as hell after the way you so disrespectfully and shamelessly impersonated my parents to try and throw me off guard! Both of them meant the world to me, and I lost them at an early age! And for a monster like you to take on their guise in order to try and confuse me so you can get the upper hand? I didn't think even a creep such as yourself would sink that low! Fuck you! I'm tearing you limb from limb!" Freddy replied to Furrball: "OOOOOH, big talk, especially for a scrawny scaredy cat who usually is just a mute! And you sure can fight well for someone who always gets the raw deal and short end of the stick, due to luck never being on his side! But none of that matters! Because it's all about to be in vain, just like you're about to be in pain!"

Freddy grabbed Furrball by the tail and slammed him to the floor, then he said: "I don't care how brave and tough you become when given the proper motivation! Nor about any of your other assets, mentioned or otherwise! None of them are going to do blow for you against me, and frankly, your time has come, fleabag!" He slung Furrball into a wall and Furrball hit it hard, then Freddy ran up, glove raised in the air and said as he bounded towards him: "Time to get yourself to your cat bed and take a deep sleep of a catnap! FOR GOOD!" Furrball got up in time to jump aside, but Freddy made it so that a sudden dumping of kitty litter poured down from the ceiling's central light and onto Furrball's feet, making it so he was stuck in place. In addition, two of the ceiling's other lights, on opposite ends of the central one, fired out a long string of yarn each, and one snared and tied around each of Furrball's wrists, right before his arms were pulled right back in opposite directions.

This was to be followed by Freddy making a wall that produced a huge hook, which the one who made it then described: "This wall's moving closer and closer to you by the second, cat, and your life will end after the hook, which will be swinging back and forth nonstop, reaches you closely enough to first gut you and then see you vivisected! While I wait to hear you mewl of all out pain and blood loss as all nine of your lives are eliminated and you're turned into catgut, I do believe I'll see how Miss LaFume is doing!" Furrball's eyes opened wide, knowing this couldn't mean anything good whatsoever. Freddy disappeared via teleportation, and we now go to which of the rooms of the house Fifi was in, which just happened to be the biggest of its bedrooms. The way she was teleported there and saw herself on a supersized bed made her naturally confused. It led to her going: "Hmmm? Where have I been taken to? Zis looks like some kind of vast bed of sorts, no? But waseent I previously helpeeing my friends battle Krueger? What has happeened?"

Suddenly, Freddy, after he reappeared behind the door of this room following his move of teleporting, pushed open the door dressed in the outfit of a stereotypical Frenchman and said: "Bonjour, mademoiselle! Time for a little romantic rapture, or should I say RUPTURE, on the part of moi, after which you'll be histoire! Oui, indeed! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" Fifi gasped: "Sacre bleu! Vous weel do no such zing, Krueger!" She blasted him with her spray incessantly, not missing once as it nailed him all over his body, but after the musk cleared, he was still standing, going: "Well, what do you know? Your trademark weapon has no effect upon me whatsoever! Doesn't that just STINK?!" He dove at Fifi, going: "Time to make it so that you cut it out as far as spreading that odor of yours is concerned, bitch!" while raising his glove in the air, but Fifi rolled aside so that the blades of that glove only embedded themselves in the bed, in addition to how she landed on the floor and, after Freddy pulled his glove out, got ready to fight in a different way, since her spray proved futile against her dream demon adversary.

She said: "I'm warning vous, you bastard! Come anywhere near me and I'll beat ze ass out of vous!" "You can try, bitch!" Freddy snarled as he ran at her, but Fifi ducked under his cut attempt by his glove blades and got in multiple punches and kicks onto him, along with using the claws on her fingers and toes, which she seldom put to use, to slash at him, going: "How about a taste of your own medeeceene, motherfucker?!" To say nothing of how she beat on him, grabbed and constricted him and slammed him to the ground with her tail several times, in addition to the way she tossed him into a corner with that same tail. "Zat should hold heem unteel I zink up one way or ze other to keep fendeeng him off unteel I find mon a mis and we can all get heem out of hees dreamworld element!" Fifi thought to herself as she took off down the stairs.

Just then, she saw Furrball running towards those same stairs and exclaimed: "Furrball! Ees zat vous?" Furrball then replied: "It sure is, Fifi! Freddy, after teleporting away to attack you like he did, wasn't focusing on the yarn strings on my wrists or the kitty litter over my feet. This made it so I was able to bite through the string on my right wrist and get it free, then slash in two the string on my left wrist with my claws. Finally, with some digging and moving of my feet, I was able to get the heavy amount of kitty litter on them destroyed just enough so I could leap to the side as so to avoid the hook that was coming for me. I knew you could be in trouble, though, so I took off for the stairs at the instant that I was able to run again after getting more kitty litter off of my feet!" "Well, vous came up just as I was comeeng down!" Fifi told Furrball. "I was just barely able to fend off Krueger enough to run and try and zink up a deefferent plan of takeeing on ze bastard, since I surely won't be able to fight him ze way I did before a second time!"

Furrball nodded and said: "Then let's both run and think it up together!" "Good plan, mon a mi!" Fifi replied, and she ran to catch up to Furrball as he started running away from the stairs along with her. While they did so, they made their way into the garage through the door in the house that led to it, both reasoning that, if they stayed in any part of the main house itself, it was certain Freddy would catch them before they thought up the ideal plan to combat him and in addition grab hold of him so he'd be brought into the real world. Once they were in there, they'd get the surprise of their lives, and it wasn't Freddy. Just after the door that led from the house on into the garage was closed and locked, and they were about to start discussing their strategy, they caught sight of none other than Sweetie. "Huh? Where have I gone to?" Sweetie asked, then she noticed the cat and the skunk who'd just entered this garage and said: "Furrball? Fifi? What are you two doing here? I thought you were supposed to be in dreamland finding a way to yank that rotten fucking bastard Freddy Krueger out of there and into the real world!"

"Zis ees dreamland, Sweetie!" Fifi told the canary. "What?" Sweetie asked, confused. In addition, Furrball said: "And if I recall correctly, you were supposed to be one of the ones in the waking world who would wake anyone who needed to woken for one reason or another, just like Roderick, Buster, Mary, Monty and Little Beeper were! What happened here?" "What the hell do you mean, what happened here?" Sweetie asked. "Dammit, Furrball, I was doing exactly what you just described! Of course, suddenly my eyes fell shut for some reason a moment or two ago, but I opened them just fine, only after I did, I was here for some reason and…" Now her eyes did a REALLY wide opening, as the discovery of what had happened hit her like a fist. "Oh, no…I did NOT pass out. I. DID. NOT." "Well, vous did at least fall asleep when Furrball here and moi had gotten eento zis garage to zink up a plan of how next to attack Freddy and see to eet he's got a hold of and brought eento ze real world." "But we all have a part in it." Furrball said. "Me and Fifi, and now you as well. So we all have to try and think something up, and fast, knowing both Freddy and what Freddy will do if he finds out where we are."

"Okay, but don't think I'm accepting any responsibility for anything that happens!" said Sweetie. "After all, that just wouldn't be me." All of a sudden, Freddy's voice was heard saying the words: "But it most definitely would be you to die, you little birdbrain bitch!" All three of the toons gasped, and looked this way and that for where Freddy could possibly be. Just then, a cage with striped colors of red and green formed around Sweetie, and she exclaimed: "Hey, what the? What gives?" "This is what gives, bitch!" said the ceiling of this cage, which was, in fact, made of the face of Freddy. "You're the first one of the three in this garage I am going to butcher here! Mark my words and make no mistake…neither Fifi nor Furrball stood a chance of escaping me, in the garage or otherwise, and you don't, either. I've found all three of you easily in here, and I will now be killing all three of you just as easily! You'll notice that Furrball and Fifi aren't at all moving, Sweetie. That's 'cause they can't. I'm manipulating things so they're standing up but in utter paralysis!" "But I can still move!" Sweetie shouted.

"Not a whole lot." Freddy told her. "And Furrball isn't going to beat upon me like he did before, nor is Fifi like she did before, I might add." "But I am!" Sweetie replied. "Especially due to how, if Furrball and then Fifi could each give you an impressive beatdown, then I sure as hell can!" "So who the hell says you'll get the fucking chance, might I ask?" Freddy asked as he then made his glove and the arm it was attached to emerge from the bottom of the cage. He then made it so he shot it up in front of Sweetie suddenly, startling her in the process. After that, he made it so he drove the knife on the index finger right through Sweetie's chest and out her back, making it so he destroyed her heart and ruptured several other organs as a result. This killed her right on the spot, and Freddy, as he pulled the now bloody finger knife out, said: "After all, you'll be too busy dying! I take it I've made my POINT, bitch?"

Freddy turned back to his regular look and form and Sweetie's corpse fell onto the floor hard, where whatever bones of hers hadn't been broken now most definitely were, albeit, in her case, posthumously. Then Freddy made it so Furrball and Fifi could move again, going: "Time to finish what we fucking started now that little miss birdbrain is out of the way, fuzzy fuckholes! I think you're gonna find this to be a killer time we're gonna be having together!" "No way in hell will that ever be, Krueger!" Furrball told him. "I hated Sweetie's guts, but what caused that I'd otherwise be ecstatic about, namely her death, is far too serious for me to feel good about it at all, especially since I hate you even more, which is saying a lot!" "Oui, and vous won't kill anyone at all evair again when once me and Furrball are zrough weeth vous!" Fifi added. "OOOOOH, real goddamn defiant there!" Freddy chuckled. "Let's see how much spunk you two got when I serve you up as cubes galore of diced meat!"

He ran right up to them and tried to slash them both into corpse meat with his glove blade weapons. Though Furrball and Fifi dodged him enough to both survive and be able to keep up in terms of fighting him, both of them still got a nasty injury from him. As in, the swipes Freddy at this moment was taking at them, despite the way they were partially dodged, still managed to see to it that Furrball would have bleeding cut wounds on his sides, belly, back and chest, and that at the same time, Fifi would have these same kinds of bloody slash injuries on her sides, legs, arms, tail and midriff. But the cat and the skunk continued to prevail, and not only did they get in many a kick, punch, tail whack and claw slash onto Freddy, but they quickly saw this was the perfect in addition to ideal time to pounce on him and shout to be awoken, so they swiftly tackled him as Freddy yelled out: "Huh? What the fuck goddamn gives?! What the fuck is this shit?!"

As they wrestled Freddy to the ground, capitalizing on how he had been taken by surprise by the suddenly tackling, Furrball was yelling: "WE HAVE HIM! WE HAVE HIM! HE'S NOW IN OUR CLUTCHES!" And Fifi screamed out: "WAKE US UP! SOMEONE WAKE US UP!" And both of them were woken up. By Monty, ironically enough. As it happened, he said inside of his mind: "I can't believe I just helped two of my countless enemies. Well, I sure wouldn't be even thinking about lending any sort of helping hand to any one of them at all, especially Buster and/or Babs, if there wasn't so damn much on the line, that's for sure!" Just after that, Furrball and Fifi threw Freddy off of the bed they were on and into the middle of the floor of this room in the Perfecto Prep building, making sure he landed hard on it. "Holy crap! They did it!" Babs let on out. "I normally don't congratulate anyone but myself, but kudos to the both of you!" Plucky said to Furrball and Fifi. "You did a fabulous job getting Freddy out of dreamland and here into the real world after the rest of us weren't able to!"

"Thank you, Plucky!" Furrball said as he and Fifi hopped off of the bed and landed right on the floor. "Merci, monsieur duck." Fifi added in. "And merci, Monty, for wakeeng us up like vous did!" "Yeah, sure. Remember I only helped you two 'cause there's so much at stake." said Monty in reply. "Whatever, we've got Krueger right where we want him!" a sign Beeper held up said. "Fowlmouth! Sneezer! Margot! Byron! Come over here!" Buster called. "Freddy's now in the real world, and we can finally deal with him in our element!" So the four he called came over and, just then, Freddy sprung up from being tackled, strong-armed and thrown hard right onto the floor by Furrball and Fifi. Every one of the toons who now surrounded him saw it in time to leap back and avoid the swipe he took at them, but Freddy then saw where he was and said: "Huh? Is this some new place I'm not aware I created? Where the hell am I?" "You're in the real world in addition to our element, Krueger!" Mary shouted. "Me and Furrball brought vous into it and zere ees nozing you can do to control zis environment!" Fifi proclaimed.

"And we all just formed a dad gum circle around you!" Fowlmouth put in. "You're damn well surrounded, Krueger!" Buster told him. "We're not playing on your ground anymore! You got that?" Babs added in. It was true…by this point, all the toons had formed a circular formation as a group around Freddy so that he'd be as trapped as possible. "HA! You must think there's no escape for me now!" Freddy scoffed. Calamity held up a sign that said: "We don't think it! We know it, you bastard!" "Bullshit!" Freddy spat. "Even if I gotta play the game in your world as you all see me surrounded with that stupid circle formation of yours, I'll kill you just the way I killed Sweetie, only even nastier and more anatomically invasive, which is saying a lot on both counts!" "You killed Sweetie?!" cried out Sneezer. "I sure did!" Freddy said. "Made it so, in this world, she'd fall behind a fucking bureau, too, so you'd never see her again both figuratively and literally! Anyway, I see how it is now. You all wanted to lure me out here so that you could fight me on your turf, where you'd have the fucking advantage! Thought that'd enable you to stop me. But I'm still plenty strong, durably, fast, skilled and with a healing factor in the real world, all on superhuman levels! That, and I've still got my goddamn glove, knives and all, as well as my wits and cunning! So you all got your wish, but you're about to learn that even when I don't have my nightmare powers, I can still easily butcher you all! Especially since this is a world where pretty much anything can be made to happen by anyone, and there's no way in hell I'm exempt from a bit of that! And you can be certain that, where I killed Sweetie in dreamland but made sure that no one in the real world would see it or hear it at all, the way I manipulated things to be in right in that world through my nightmare world and how the two were linked by the bird I was seeing to the butchering of, I'll kill you all in the waking world and make sure of it that all of everyone who I'm killing will most definitely see, hear and of course feel themselves and each other die! So you wanna try and fucking face me in your own land? THEN BRING IT ON!"

TO BE CONTINUED…

Quite a chapter, wasn't it? Can Freddy possibly be put a stop to now that he's on to the tricks of the toons who are trying to do him in? Will any other toons join Sweetie and Danforth in being one of Freddy's kills? Have the others in Acme Acres found out of the cloning thing and what is going on with the real McCoys? If not, can the clones possibly keep up what they're doing long enough to make it so their real counterparts can defeat Freddy and make it back in time to make it look as though nothing ever happened? Find out in the chapter which will succeed this one! Oh, and please rate and review, everybody!