Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4

Chapter 3: Looks Like You Had Yourself A Little Mishap

Brandon was clutching the pink slip tightly in his hand. He had searched the shopping district high and low, not finding a trace of Kathryn anywhere. He then went to the school, asking if Kathryn had given them a permission slip for the trip. What he found was that not only did she turn in the slip with his signature but she had done so with a straight face.

Still he wasn't exactly mad at his adopted child more so he was at himself. He really should have expected it since she was never use to missing out on school activities. He really should have been more firm with the girl like Benny suggested years ago then maybe this wouldn't have happened.

He drove to his house with borderline illegal speed, nearly crashing into the garage when he parked. Hurriedly, he went into the house and found his nearly frantic wife and two friends in his living room.

"Did you find her?" Melissa asked hopefully, Brandon could tell that Benny and Michelle were already entertaining the truth.

Struggling to really bring the words he should say out he handed Melissa the paper. "She's not...here." he said.

The hopeful smile faded and she read the slip in panic, "H-how...Why?!"

"She went?" Benny asked, both he and Michelle placed their arms around Melissa. "We should find out where they are, at least make sure they don't head toward the Sawyers."

"Texas is a big state." Brandon tried to reason. "They could have gone passed them or not even.."

"Brandon," Michelle placed her hands on Brandon's shoulder, "even if they missed it, we need to know for sure that they never go over there. It shouldn't be that hard."

Brandon still was unsure but for the sake of his adopted little angel, he would dare to venture to what was the equivalent of hell."What do we need?"

Kathryn awoke when Karen realized she had been abandoned; not exactly an awesome way to wake up. Karen had almost literally tried to drag Kathryn over the bus seat when she found that she was alone.

"Jeez Karen." Kathryn groaned as she leaned forward to see her best friend.

The blonde grumbled something about what lousy friend Kathryn was, earning herself a whack from a sleep deprived Nick, "Cut the horse shit Karen, you'd ditch Kathryn for Ricky any day."

Kathryn giggled at what her defense stated and tried to return to sleep. She found herself pretty lucky that Leo hadn't pressed for why Karen was acting so weird but then again, the blonde was notorious for her odd behavior. Leaning back into the lean teen's chest, Kathryn started to doze off again when they heard loud screams coming from where the second bus was.

"What was that?!" a girl cried as they were jolted awake by the noise.

The bus driver quickly grabbed the radio and called to the other driver. "Robert this is Bobby, what the hell is going on over there?"

All they got was static, greatly worrying them as the screams became increasingly louder. "Omigod, what's happening?!"

"Are they okay?" a boy asked over the panicked teens.

The teachers and bus driver continued trying to contact the other bus but to no avail. This put them all in a panic when the screams finally died down after five minutes.

"Are..they dead?" someone asked fearfully.

"Now, now," Mr. Ferris said over the commotion created from the screams. He was lucky to actually get their attention this time, normal the students would ignore the elderly man but since this was a truly emergency situation, they obeyed without hesitation. "Let's just calm down and try to call for help, until help arrives I want everyone to hid as best as you can."

The teenagers agreed and returned to their seats to try to from the window's sights. Kathryn returned to her with Karen, seeing as how the blonde was truly beyond freaked out. All her serial killer references were now really getting to her and Kathryn was beginning to think that the woman, Baby, had purposefully sent them on this back road for this reason.

"Breathe Karen." Kathryn soothed softly, "We're gonna be okay."

Karen silently sobbed into Kathryn's arms while Leo joined them. "You girls alright?"

Kathryn shook her head, "Not really."

Nick poked his head out from under his seat and added, "Karen, we'll be okay. I promise."

Karen sniffled a bit, giving Kathryn some hope that the blonde had finally calmed down some. "A little better?"

"Yeah." Karen nodded, "You don't think they're dead do you?"

Kathryn bit her lip, with the screams they heard that was enough to know that someone was attacking the other bus and if anyone survived, they were most likely being hunted. Still, she couldn't tell Karen that. "I don't know Karen, I just hope we get some help over here soon."

Karen knew her best friend was lying through her teeth but went against questioning her about it. It might be true that their other classmates were dead but it was probably best to pretend they were still alive until they found help.

Brandon and Melissa sat in the back of their friends' jeep, waiting for them to finish packing extra tires, gas, and what ever supplies they'd need for the trip. The two found the duo's precaution to be a bit sulfurous but then again, they never went against the notorious Sawyers so they suppose that Benny and Michelle were only taking the proper precautions needed. Besides, surely whoever survived their last visit had taken up new techniques for capturing people.

"Are you guys finally done?" Melissa asked, they were taking too long and for all they knew, her baby what hanging on a meat hook.

Michelle sighed, knowing why Melissa was so antsy. "Mel, you realize that they're not going to hurt her."

"How do they know that she's their missing kid?!" Melissa cried, they had been waiting for her to break down. "It's been how long since they last saw her? And also, she was a baby back then!"

"I saw her real mother." Michelle said sternly, "It may have been a long time since I saw that woman's face but I remember it and you know what, they are the exact slitting image of each other!"

"Besides," Benny added, "even if they attack the kids Kathryn knows how to hide. She'll probably be able to save a few kids if we're lucky."

"Now, let's get going and pray that we're just losing our minds." Brandon placed his arm over his wife's shoulder in a comforting gesture. "Don't worry Mel, Kathryn will be okay. I promise."

Melissa nodded her head slowly, "Alright, just so long she doesn't get hurt."

A small tapping came from the front of the bus, they had heard a large truck pull up and had seen the headlights but none moved so much as an inch. For all they knew, this person was the killer. The tapping grew louder as the teachers refused to even open the door just to check what was going on. Suddenly, a large man came up to the bus door and somehow broke it open.

Everyone screamed loudly, huddling toward the back of the bus. Kathryn and Karen weren't exactly able to move from their spots seeing as they were blocked off by other students but luckily Kathryn knew what to do.

"Nick?" she whispered under the seat, "You still there?"

"Yeah."

Kathryn glanced over at Leo and whispered, "You there too Leo?"

"Yeah."

She smiled and decided she could help them out at least. "We're gonna crawl to the back okay?"

"How?" Karen asked, "Everyone's crowded together."

"Under the chairs" Kathryn answered simply, "That last seat in the back has a little bunker, we'd be squished together but it's better than nothing."

They all nodded and slowly, they crawled their way through the small pathway under the seats. Not many students noticed them but those who did helped them stay out of sight. They knew that if those four weren't harmed or taken hostage, they could get help for them.

As they crawled to what safety they could find, a thinner man walked into the bus. He had black, greasy looking hair, brown skin, a hook for a hand, and was missing two fingers and a ear. His smile was anything but comforting as he said, "Looks like you had a little mishap."

Tinker glanced around the bus, scanning the face of teenagers he could see. None looked remotely like Lacie but surely there were others who were just hiding from sight. Still, he didn't quit smiling.

"Now I want ya'll to listen to me very carefully." he said slowly, as if they were all mentally impair or just plain stupid. "Ya'll are gonna come with me and ya'll ain't gonna argue about it. If ya do as I say, we shouldn't have any problems, okay?"

Mr. Ferris shook his head, "We're not going with you."

Tinker's smile grew, "Oh, yer not huh?"

The older man shook his head, followed by the other four teachers and the bus driver. The students however, said nothing and backed away even more. Leo and Karen had already crawled into the little cargo area but Kathryn and Nick had stopped and watched Tinker be challenged by the only adults obviously left on this field-trip turned nightmare.

"Well, I respect your valiant efforts here but," Tinker looked outside and nudged his head. "it's not gonna be enough." Stepping back, Tinker let Junior in the bus with his growling chainsaw.

The students screamed as Junior brought the chainsaw into the bus driver's head. It was like watching someone smashing a watermelon with a hammer, only with brains and blood. Lots of blood.

Junior turned and started hacking away at the teachers, earning ear-piercing screams from the teenagers. He always enjoyed the sounds of of his victims screams, they brought a wonderful sensation that he hadn't felt since he raped Baby's mother. It was weird that he took such enjoyment out of murdering others but Mama had told him it didn't matter. After all, the job got done so it wasn't like he had let his pleasure get the best of him.

Kathryn and Nick watched in utter fear, it had taken all of Kathryn's will not to join the shrilling screams. Instead, she covered her mouth and looked away as nick cover her head in an attempt to prevent her from hearing the bloodbath. When the chainsaw died down with the sounds of large feet exiting the vehicle, Nick urged Kathryn into the small bunk with himself and the other two.

"Oh my god." she whispered, her voice quivered pathetically as they finally were safely hidden in the small compartment. "Who are these people?"

Tinker happily looked over his younger brother's carnage. If that didn't persuade the kids to obey then he was just going to have to kill them while looking for the little miss Baby had described to him. "Now then, do we have an understandin'?"

All the students nodded their heads, they were afraid of defying the already proven insane man. "Good." Tinker smiled, "Now, get yer asses in the cage." He pointed out the bus door at the moving horse stable he had hooked up the back of his truck for them. He didn't expect them all to fit but he'd shove them all in there anyways.

Kathryn and her friends waited in the small bunker, they heard the other students shuffle their way out of the bus. They waited until they heard the truck's doors open, close, and trunk drive away before emerging from their hiding spot. Nick and Kathryn poked their heads out and the first thing they saw was all the blood and small remnants of body parts of the floor.

Kathryn gasped in horror as she now could see the remains of the adults. Nick groaned in disgust as he climbed out. "God damn."

Karen let out a short scream which was quickly covered by Kathryn. "What the fuck..?!"

"Calm down Karen." Kathryn tried to sooth the blonde, "They might come back."

Karen nodded her head and slowly followed Nick and Leo toward the carnage. Kathryn immediately started rummaging around the bags that were left behind, looking for a cell phone. Her own had died during the early evening so she tried to find another. "You guys got a phone?"

Nick checked his pockets while Leo went over to his backpack to check if his was alive still. "Mine's alive." Leo stated, "And I have some bars too!"

"Thank god." Nick sighed in relief, "Call for help."

Before Leo could dial a number, Kathryn stopped him. "Wait." she said, placing her hand over the phone. "We don't know who we're dealing with, If anything I'm certain that woman at the gas station works with those two so who can we trust?"

"What should we do then?" Leo asked softly, "The only people we can call are too far away."

Kathryn thought about it and shook her head, "No, there is someone we can call."

Brandon continued to try to call Kathryn's cell, but Benny had assumed there was probably no signal wherever she was. Or that her phone had died.

"Are you guys sure you remember the way?" Melissa asked worriedly, "In daylight I'd believe you but at night?"

"All we'd need to find is a gas station," Michelle stated, "then we'll know where we are."

Brandon heaved a heavy sighed of frustration as he hung up for the fifteenth time. He was trying so hard to be optimistic but it was starting to get harder and harder each time he tried to contact his daughter. His phone rang and, without seeing the caller I.D, answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"Daddy!" He sighed in relief as he heard the sounds of Kathryn's voice flood his ears.

"Kathryn, are you okay?" he asked immediately, he didn't care that she lied to him so long as she wasn't in the Sawyers' territory. "Where are you?"

"Daddy they killed the teachers!" she cried into the receiver, "They took everyone away."

Brandon felt his heart lurched into his throat, "Wh-what do you mean? Kathryn please calm down."

Benny reached his hand out Brandon and said, "Give me the phone."

Brandon handed the phone over to Benny, "Kathryn, it's me Benny."

"Benny we need you!" he heard her cry, "This man with a chainsaw killed the teachers and this other guy took my classmates away to somewhere."

"Shit." Benny cursed, "Alright, listen to me carefully."

"Okay,"

"Those roads are probably being watched by someone so what you need to do is find your way to a gas station called Last Chance. You still with me?"

"Yeah but what about the woman?"

While he never had visited Last Chance, he remembered that it was run by that man Michelle had killed years ago. Maybe they replaced him with the little girl. "Kathryn, it's night no one will be there I promise you that okay?"

"Okay."

Benny glanced over at Michelle and said, "We'll head over the the gas station and wait for you, if you're not there in five minutes we'll come looking for you."

"Alright. We'll see you soon I guess." the phone started beeping and Benny knew it meant that the phone she was using died.

"The phone died." He said, handing Brandon his cellular.

"Where are they?" Michelle asked, "Did she say?"

Benny shook his head, "No but she sounded like they hid on the bus while someone took the other students. She's gonna try to reach the gas station so let's hurry over there."

Kathryn growled as the phone cut out but was also thankful it allowed her to talk to them long enough to get some important details. "We need to get to that gas station we came from."

"What?!" Karen asked, almost believing her friend had hit her head. "Did you forget? That blonde bitch is over there."

Nick shook his head, "It's night, she'd have to have left by now."

Leo nodded in agreement, "Even if she's still there, she'd surely leave before we get there."

"We also need to stay off the road." Kathryn added, "Benny said they would have the roads monitored so we really need to be careful about this."

Nick nodded, "Alright, so we gotta be on stealth mode. Blend with our surroundings." he gave a weird move and two thumbs up, "I can do that."

Karen slapped his head, "First of all, that was so incredibly stupid and secondly, I'm not walking through that!" she pointed at the pool of blood in the front of the bus.

Kathryn sneered at crime scene herself, "I don't want to either but we have to get off the bus quietly."

"Well," Leo asked, "why not use the emergency doors?"

"The back one makes a lot of noise." Nick said, " and the one on the roof is asking for us to break a leg."

"Then the side door." Leo stated walking over the the side emergency door, "It's only a small jump."

Nick and the girls had actually forgotten about the third emergency door. "Wow." Nick said as Leo opened the smaller door. "It's right there and I missed it."

Kathryn shook her head and let Karen go after Leo, "I need to grab something first." Hurrying over to where she had sat with Karen and fetched her small drawstring bag. When the teachers had gather emergency gear earlier she had requested for Mr. Ferris to retrieve her bag. Even though she had never anticipated the recent events, she had packed away a hunting knife Benny had given her for her last birthday, about twelve flares given to her by Michelle, and a small booklet on Morse Code. She figure that if something happened to them she could leave a signal of some sort.

"I'm ready." She hopped out of the bus with Leo's help and they made their way toward Last Chance.

Tinker kept the stable he had the remaining teens in locked as he and Junior returned inside the Sawyer house. He had carefully surveyed the female teenagers' faces and none fit Baby's description. Baby would never lie so that made him uneasy as it meant the girl was missing.

"Welcome back." Mama greeted from the kitchen, "Did you get her?"

Tinker leaned against the small island and shook his head, "I think she gave us the slip."

"You've got to be kidding me." Baby had entered the room, having just checked on Tex. The grown man was still carrying his dead wife's body around in their room but news that they possible found his little girl had more happy that he had been in years.

Tinker shook his head, "I checked every girl there, none of look like the girl you saw. She had to have hid from us somehow."

"Shit." Mama cursed softly, "Where could she go?"

Baby thought about it and figured that the girl would go to the gas station, probably to call for help. "Maybe to Last Chance."

Junior grunted in agreement as a young boy, around his early teens, eagerly ran over to him. "Daddy!"

Zeke was Junior's second child, again by rape, and unlike his fair haired sister, he was a fairly splitting image of his father. He was an excitable child and while Mama was glad to have another grandbaby, he had brought some sorrow toward their loss of Lacie and Hunter. Still, they loved him nonetheless.

"Zeke." Baby called to her younger half brother. "Do me a big favor."

"What?" he turned around to face his sister. The two got along but he liked poking at her hot button before doing things for her.

"We need you and Uncle Tex to go to the gas station and see if some stowaways are over there."

He looked at her funny, like she had spoken to him in some dead language, "Why can't you go?"

Baby sighed, she truly hated it when he got this way. "Because, they might recognize me and we're trying to make Uncle Tex happy again."

He gave a huff but nodded, "Only for Uncle Tex."

Tex had sat besides Lacie's corpse, contemplating on how he should greet his now grown up little girl. It had been seventeen, almost eighteen years since he saw his little angel and now, he was quite nervous. She had been raised to a society that didn't know they existed. Raised against cannibalism which they so happily embraced. She wasn't raised a killer like they were.

Since Hunter's kidnapping, Tex had become vicious in his attacks. Before, he had taken his time with teasing his victims but now, it was like all the fun he enjoyed was gone. Now he was almost as vicious as Junior.

"Tex." the sandy haired man looked away from his deceased lover toward the bedroom door to greet his brother Tinker. "We got some news."

"What?" he asked, normally when they said this to him, it meant they hadn't found his daughter and to him, now was no different.

"It seems we got at least one runaway probably heading to the gas station. We need you to get 'em." the raven haired man said, "Take Zeke with you over there to get them will ya?"

Tex nodded, "Alright."

Kathryn and Karen hurried into the gas station while Leo and Nick check for anyone around the place. When they deemed it clear, they joined the girls inside.

"Okay, what do we do here?" Karen asked.

"Benny said to wait here till they get here." Kathryn reminded the blonde. "But, just in case something happens..." Kathryn went outside and strategically placed her flares in a distress signal. She knew better than to light them so she merely placed them accordingly and reentered the shack.

"What'd you do?" Nick asked.

"I have some flares the Michelle gave me." she stated, "I used them to make an SOS."

How are they gonna see them if you don't light them?" Karen asked rudely.

Kathryn whacked her friend's head, "If I lit them then we might draw unwanted attention from those murderers. I put them out there just in case something happens to us before they come for us."

"How will they knew where we are if something happens to us?" Leo asked, sure Kathryn was the smartest girl in school but that didn't mean she didn't possibly have her dumb moments.

Kathryn sighed and explained, "To be honest, we don't know anything about these killers. We are helpless so it's best to do all we can for now."

Nick sighed and propped himself against a counter. He was really afraid of what was going on though his manly status kept him from honestly displaying it. The same was said for Leo, who too was wondering what would be the impending fate of his friends.

"I hope they find a way to get free." Karen sighed softly, "They don't deserve to die."

Kathryn placed her arm around her friend, "No one deserves to die, not even the teachers. We need to get help to them and we'll do that when Benny comes okay?"

The blonde nodded her head a bit, "Alright."

"What kind of sick people are they?" Leo asked, mainly to himself. "Who preys on people like that?"

Nick sat there for a minute, he had heard some tall tales about people in Texas. It was mainly stereotypical stuff but his mother had mentioned to him that his aunt was attacked by cannibals in Texas. But they died in the explosion...

Hey everyone! I finally got my internet back so now I can update whenever I want! Isn't that awesome! If anyone reading this has seen all the original TCMs, then you know who Nick's aunt is. To be honest, the only TCM I saw was Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning and that was when I was in elementary or just starting middle school. But I did research all the other TMCs so I know what I'm doing to a degree. Also, I would like to thank Wolfie4life for following and favoriting this story!