Happy Friday the 13th once again and we're back with the 9th chapter in which everyone in Springwood tries to stay alive under Freddy, Jason, and Michael's reign of terror. This chapter celebrates not only today in general but also the success of the Kickstarter Friday the 13th game which, as most of us all know by now, features the official return of Kane Hodder to the role of Jason for the first time in 14 years.

Though I sadly don't have a PS4 or Xbox unit to play the game, I'm just happy that Kane gets to be Jason again after he got unfairly shafted from the Freddy vs. Jason movie and that horror fans will have a promising new Friday the 13th for the first time in decades.

But enough rambling and let's get to some reading.
Disclaimer: I don't own Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, or Halloween.


"What the hell happened here?" Officer Talalay asked as she and her fellow officers observed the trashed police station and looked around the next morning. Steven walked through the building and found the smashed VCR before noticing the labeled tape of Jason inside.

"Who could have done this?" One officer asked.

"I'm not sure but whoever did it smashed our only evidence of Jason Voorhees." Steven said.

"Could Jason have come back and done this himself?" Officer Talalay asked.

"It's possible but for some reason, I can't see him doing such a thing." Steven said as he observed the VCR.

"Well, our only evidence of him is gone. What are we going to show to the state troopers today?" Officer Talalay asked.

"Since I'm the only eyewitness of either Michael Myers or Jason, I'll have to tell them myself." Steven sighed.

"Hopefully, your word for it will be enough." Another officer said.

"Has anyone seen Carpenter anywhere?" One police asked.

"I haven't seen or heard from him since last night." Steven said.

"He hasn't responded to any phone call all day." The officer said.

"Perhaps he's still at home." Steven said and he later drove through Springwood on patrol. Though it was morning, the streets were empty and he looked around at the place being the equivalent of a ghost town.

With roadblocks being set up throughout the area, Steven acknowledged that only Michael could have a town in such a state

He drove around and looked for any place Jason or Michael could be lurking. Steve later received a call from the SWAT team that watched over Lori and the Rollins as they reported that neither murderer arrived and that the hypnocil proved successful.

Once he left, Will and Lori were visited by Erika and Jeffrey to see how they were doing after Dana's death the previous night.

"Lori, how are you holding up so far?" Jeffrey asked.

"It'll take a while but I'm sure I'll be all right eventually. I just can't believe we've lost so many people in this town in a short span of time and Dana…" Lori sadly said before Erika placed her hand on her shoulder.

"It's all right, Lori. We all miss Dana and Danny too." Erika said.

"Speaking of Dana, I wonder how Stokely is holding up since we saw them together last night at the ice cream shop before all hell broke loose." Jeffrey said.

"Have you heard from her last night after the ice cream shop?" Will asked.

"I called her last night to see how she was doing after I heard about Dana and she said she lost sight of her during the attack last night." Erika said.

"With all that craziness happening last night, I ultimately can't blame her for that." Jeffrey said.

"Poor Stokely. After going through all that, maybe we should see how she's doing." Lori said,

"She'd do the same for us so I say let's see how she's doing." Will said before the four decided to visit Stokely and once they got to her house, they were informed she was elsewhere. As they walked down the street, they were unaware that Stokely and her new boyfriend, Dave Goyer, were currently being intimate in the now abandoned Campbell home.

As she had done with Todd, Stokely saw no actual romance with Dave and to show her disdain for Lori, the two were going at in her bedroom. Taking a break from the sex, Stokely looked out the window to see a police car drive by the house and she backed out of sight to avoid being seen.

"Hey, Stokely, you coming back to the sack or what?" Dave amorously asked.

"No problem with that, Dave." Stokely seductively said as she returned to Lori's bed.

Later that night

Steven had success proving to the State Troopers that Michael Myers was in town and now they drove through the streets looking for the fiend. At the local electrical substation, Michael appeared and ventured through it as he searched for high-voltage wires.

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He then found himself being lifted off the ground and didn't realize that Jason was holding him above his head. Michael was hurled onto a high-voltage power unit and was subsequently electrocuted from head to toe as Jason looked on.

The electrocution was so intense that every single light in Springwood went out and a fire erupted on the power unit Michael had landed on. Jason waited until the electrocution ended and his enemy's body was shrouded in flames before leaving the scene.

Though covered in flames, Michael arose from the charred power unit and walked as far away from the substation before walking into a stream. He emerged from the water and returned to his stolen police vehicle.

When he arrived to it, Michael found the vehicle had been brutalized with the tires being completely slashed, the rooftop had caved in, and the front of the car had several dents in it. He walked over to the vehicle and opened to the trunk where Carpenter's body still remained.

Meanwhile

Steven and the Springwood police force tried to make sense of the power outage that had just happened. With no type of rain or strong gusts of wind in the weather forecast, they all wondered what could be happening and later received a call about the substation's fire.

"Michael, just what are you up to?" Steven asked himself as he drove to the substation and witnessed the firefighters putting out the flaming building. He and another cop followed some foot prints and were led to the police car where they looked inside to see the bodies of Carpenter with his clothes missing and that of a partially eaten coyote.

"This was Michael's doing, wasn't it?" The officer asked and Steven nodded before getting a closer look at the driver's seat to see stains of blood on it. Since Carpenter's remains lacked any stab wounds, Steven came to the realization that the blood had to have come from Michael and couldn't believe his eyes.

"He's hurt." Steven said as he gathered Michael's finger prints and called for a coroner ambulance before looking at the coyote. From his readings about Michael over the years, he knew this had to do with apparent appetite for animals and he was more focused on his grand uncle's potential injuries.

Knowing that Michael could survive several rounds of bullets and falling from great heights, he wondered just how strong Jason was for him to have lost so much blood. At the same time, a state trooper scanned the forest with his flash light and came to the lake.

The trooper looked around and saw ripples in the lake before shining his flashlight through some nearby trees. As he shined the flashlight on the trees, they shined on Jason for a moment before the trooper realized he was there.

"Hey, you!" The trooper shouted at Jason before he responded by pulling a keyhole saw from his utility belt and hurled it at him. The saw flew across the lake and pierced his throat before he fell to his knees.

As he gagged and started to crawl away on the ground, Jason, despite being on the other side of the lake seconds earlier, appeared behind him and grabbed the scruff of his uniform before bringing him onto his feet.

Jason punched through the man's heart through his backside and it beat in his hands while the trooper vomited blood. He used his free hand to break the trooper's neck and gripped the saw before slowly slicing its way up his neck.

As the trooper's life slipped away, Jason finished him off by carving his throat until it reached the back of his head. Both the trooper's head and neck split apart before Jason shoved his corpse into the lake; contaminating it with blood.

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Jason kicked the trooper's body into the water and marched into the forest while following the sound of sirens blaring in the distance. Once the mongoloid-like being had vanished into the forest, Michael appeared from the other side of the lake and wore Carpenter's police uniform over his own clothes.

He looked at the trooper's body and walked over to the scene before dragging it from the water. Michael proceeded to switch his stolen police uniform for the trooper's clothes and patted through the pockets until he found the man's keys.

Elsewhere

The partner of the state trooper dug around in the car and didn't notice another coming her way. As she loaded her shotgun, she heard footsteps and slightly looked back at the trooper though not enough to see his head.

"That you, Hollister? Find anything?" The trooper asked and the other didn't answer her. Finally, she felt something tightly gripping the back of her neck and she looked back to see the officer was a large man though she was unable to get a good look at his facial features.

As she countered by clubbing him in the head with the back of her shotgun and he quickly reached inside before wrapping the cord of the car's radio around her neck. The trooper fought against her assailant as she swung the shotgun against his sides and he throttled her with the cord.

She managed to shoot the gun into the air in attempt to summon help from any nearby troopers or police officers. No help came as her assailant strangled her with the radio cord until she let out a final breath of air and succumbed to her injuries.

The man unwrapped the cord from around her neck and placed her in the trunk of the car before getting in the driver's seat. He reached into his jacket and looked at his mask before turning on the radio.

Michael listened to the radio for reports and heard Steven's voice talking on it. Though he was surprised he survived Jason's attack the previous night, he was satisfied he could renew his hunt for him even if it meant that finding Lori would have to wait and he started the engine.

With Lori

All of Lori, Will, Erika, and Jeffrey all sat outside of his house and chatted amongst themselves as Stokely and Dave walked by.

"Stokely, how have you been?" Lori asked and Stokely put her good girl act by appearing with depressed eyes. She falsely cried into Lori's chest as everyone else comforted her and though Stokely knew she had a hand in causing Dana's murder, she didn't feel the smallest sense of guilt.

"Everyone, this is my new friend Dave." Stokely said as she introduced him.

"Hi, you must be Lori and Will." Dave said to the young pair.

"Nice to meet you, Dave." Lori said and despite the loss of her friends in the last couple of days, being around all of her remaining ones kept her mind at ease. However, everyone was unaware that both Lori and Will carried imobatine on them in the event that either Jason or Michael showed themselves.

Even though Dave had just met Lori and Will, he couldn't see why Stokely badmouthed them every chance she got as he found them pleasant and began to wonder about her dislike of them. Will went back inside for a while and took some hypnocil before heading outside.

However, once he left his room, he felt to notice a carving sound from behind his headboard and four claw marks scratched the wall.

With Steven

He drove through the darkened town and continued his search for either one of the silent killers. With Carpenter dead, he wondered about Michael's motive for being in Springwood and started to think that he had been looking for him.

After all, he recognized Laurie as a teenaged girl despite having seen her as a young child and he knew that his grand uncle definitely recognized him. However, given he was in his twenties, he found himself with another question since if his hunch was right, why would Michael wait so long before trying to find him and how would he know he's in Springwood.

Since Steven had grown up in Russellville under the care of his adoptive parents Tommy and Kara until he moved out, his legal surname had been Doyle to prevent Michael from tracking him down. As he got older, the revelation that he was Michael's sole remaining relative was somehow learned and some who had previously lived in Haddonfield were frightened by this to the point of calling an heir of evil.

To this day, he hadn't known how the fact that he was related to Michael was learned by someone other than Tommy and Kara. Though he never held it against his adoptive parents for keeping his relation to him a secret, he thought it'd be best if the shunning he received didn't spread to them and moved to Haddonfield as he changed his surname to Lloyd in honor of his mother Jamie and his grandfather Jimmy.

It was in Haddonfield that he began studying Michael to better understand in him in the event that he ever met him again and Tommy had sent him some material from both him and that Dr. Loomis had written sometime before he had died.

Once he established himself as a police officer there, he had transferred to Springwood and start his career anew. Picking up on this, Steven stopped driving and picked up his police phone before dialing some numbers.

He remembered another sanitarium by the name of Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium where Michael was imprisoned back in 1988 after his intial rampage in Haddonfield was stopped. Compared to Smith's Grove Sanitarium, it was a high-security institution that was fit to hold someone as deadly as Michael a second time until a military prison could be decided for him to spend the remainder of his days at.

"Hello, Haddonfield Police Station. How may we help you?" a receptionist answered.

"Yes, this is Deputy Steven Lloyd of Springwood, Ohio. Is Officer Danny Strode present?" Steven asked.

"Yes, he is. I direct him to you know." The receptionist said before Danny appeared on the line.

"Steven?" Danny's voice answered from the phone.

"Hi, Danny. I'd love to catch up but this is urgent news." Steven said to his adoptive sibling.

"What's wrong?" Danny asked.

"Michael Myers is here in Springwood and I need you to send someone from Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium here." Steven said and Danny went pale at the thought of Michael still being alive after so many years.

"You saw him?" Danny asked after a while.

"I met him just last night and shot him multiple times but he just kept coming." Steven said.

"How'd you escape?" Danny asked.

"Jason Voorhees attacked me and possibly fought Michael while I escaped." Steven said.

"Jason Voorhees of Crystal Lake, New Jersey? Hasn't he been dead for decades?" Danny asked.

"We all thought the same with Michael and now he's here in Springwood." Steven said.

"Tell me more." Danny said and after Steven had explained that Springwood's police force had been drastically reduced in numbers, he agreed to have Ridgemont on standby for when Michael had been captured.

"Thank you, Danny." Steven said.

"Keep me up to speed when you can, Steven." Danny said.

"You can count on it." Steven said before they ended their phone call and he got a report of the state trooper being found at the lake with a SWAT team being sent into investigate. He continued his search for Michael and was not ready to give up.

In the forest

A total of 45 SWAT members all marched through the forest in pursuit of Jason or Michael. Their weapons were composed from CAR-15 to M4 carbine and they all cocked their guns in preparation.

So far, no sign of Jason had been found and they all heard a crash behind them. They all turned around and looked to see that it was a fallen tree branch.

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Just as everything seemed to be quiet as could be, Jason fell down from above and all the SWAT members turned around just in time to see he swing his machete as he decapitated six of the nearest ones. Their heads all hit the ground and all started shooting at him from every angle.

Though the FBI had blown Jason up once before, they had forgotten about Creighton Duke's warning that Jason got stronger each time he came back from a deathly state and this was proven as he marched through the wave of bullets striking him. They were careful to keep their distance and Jason pulled out his axe from inside his jacket.

He began to hack and slash his way through the SWAT members before some of yelled for their comrades to stand back. More than half of them hurled sting grenades at Jason and caused explosions that engulfed him.

Once the resulting smoke had cleared, Jason was nowhere to be seen and they looked scanned the area before believing they had blown him to bits. Unfortunately, they were literally dead wrong as Jason appeared behind the SWAT captain and slammed his axe through his helmet.

The captain cried out before Jason placed his hands on either side of his head and started crushing it as the SWAT team all shot at him. Jason had a sadistic idea as he lifted the captain into the air and the bullets tore through his body as his head was crushed to a size smaller than that of a walnut.

Jason dropped the captain's body and marched his way through the line of rapid gunfire before punching one SWAT member's head clean off her shoulders. He grabbed her body and launched it into the air as he slashed through another one's body from shoulder to waist.

He kicked the remains over and reached into his utility belt before hurling some paintball darts he had found earlier and hit a few of them in the chests. As one got close enough to shoot into his heart, Jason grabbed the SWAT member and pulled his torso off his body before slamming his knee into his back.

Jason slashed through the SWAT lieutenant's chest and pinned them against a tree while he revealed a scythe blade. Suddenly, a military-styled Lenco Bearcat came into the clearing and drove towards Jason as he stood his ground.

The vehicle barreled at Jason and right when it was about to run him down, he raised his foot before slamming it into the grille. It stopped dead in its tracks before Jason pulled it apart and he found five members inside of as they started shooting at him.

Jason lifted the vehicle over his head and hurled it at the SWAT units shooting at him nonstop. The vehicle landed on them and crushed them before removing a bowie knife that his mother used in her 1979 killing spree.

He backed one member against a tree and slit his throat with the knife before cleaving his head apart with his machete. Jason spun around to see two more SWAT police shooting at him and he stabbed them both in their lower intestines.

Jason raised them into the air and slammed their backsides into one another with the knife and machete alike tearing from their backsides to their fronts. He allowed them to fall before catching them by the back of their skulls and smashed them together.

Their skulls were completely crushed beyond recognition before Jason knocked them aside and grabbed the nearest SWAT teammate. He wrapped his arms around his neck and slowly started squeezing it as he fought against him until it loudly crunched.

"We're almost out of ammunition!" One of them said upon realizing that they were almost completely of ammo and they all retreated to safe distance before they threw every last remaining sting grenade at him as he threw his victim's body onto the ground. Another explosion took place and everyone awaited to see if their undead enemy was still alive.

This was answered when Jason suddenly appeared behind one unit police and punched through his ribcage before smashing it between his hands. Now holding his machete and knife in his possession once again, he gutted one SWAT member before slowly flattening his heart in his hand and smashed his chest.

Throwing him to the side, Jason sliced another SWAT police in half and swung their torso into another member still shooting at him. He raised his foot and slammed it down onto his throat while thrusting the machete into his skull until his brains oozed out.

Only one member remained and cowered in fear at the carnage hat had occurred before him. With his magazine being empty, he looked to see Jason put his machete into his sheath and stored Pamela's knife within an inner pocket of his jacket.

The SWAT officer threw his gun to the gun and took off running while shooting at Jason with his pistol. As he ran deeper into the forest, he trembled as Jason easily shrugged off the bullet and advanced towards with his axe in his hand.

The officer eventually stopped running and looked back to see Jason had vanished before sighing. He put his pistol back in its holster and turned around to find Jason before his walkie-talkie radio was slammed onto his head.

This stunned him for a while as it was shattered to pieces and Jason placed his hands on either side of his head before proceeding to slowly twist it to a full 180 degree angle. He then ripped the man's head off and tossed it into the distance.

Jason then picked up the headless body and placed on his shoulder before venturing into the forest. He passed by the remains of the SWAT team and took a while to observe his work before leaving.

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Later

Steven arrived at his house and looked through his files before hearing a crash. He turned around and looked to see Michael standing in the doorway with his butcher knife in his hand.

"Michael…" Steven said as he grabbed a nearby machine gun and Michael only cocked his head as it was pointed at him. Both grand uncle and grandnephew stared each other down; mutually awaiting the other to make the first move.


Well, Happy Friday the 13th for the third time this year and it'll be sometime before I can ever say that again. Since this sadly marks the first Friday the 13th with Mrs. Voorhees' actress, Betsy Palmer, being dead, I decided to give her a tribute by having Jason use her knife from the 1980 original film and I couldn't have done a more fitting way to do so.

Having Jason attack the SWAT team is what I'd imagine Kane Hodder is going to do in the upcoming game next year and if so, I hope anyone who plays it has a hell of a time with it.

This chapter provides some backstory on Steven and why he's in Springwood instead of living in Russellville and Michael killing the trooper without wearing his mask is a nod to his trickery seen in the original Halloween that even has him killing someone with a cord.

Some of you may wonder what the claw marks behind Will's headboard mean and you may find out very soon.

Now, that Michael knows where Steven lives, what will the outcome be? Tune in next time to find out and Happy Friday the 13th.