Happy Halloween and welcome back to the 11th chapter of Freddy vs. Jason vs. Michael: Slashdown. In celebration of this day, we'll see the aftermath of Freddy's murder of Will in the previous chapter and Michael's condition after being knocked out with the ending being a very welcome surprise.
As usual, enjoy reading this heart-stopping story and hopefully you'll love the end-result.
Disclaimer: I don't own Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, or Halloween.
Outside of Will's house, Erika held the mourning Lori to her and patted her shoulders with the Rollins standing outside of their house with detectives and coroners going into the house by the minute. Tears continue to stream down Lori's face and Erika's parents were talking to the Rollins.
The thought of Will's murder played over and over in her mind and the message that Freddy carved into the wall both saddened and infuriated her. A moment later, Steven pulled up and began walking towards the scene with Officer Talalay approaching.
"Officer Lloyd, shouldn't you be resting?" She asked.
"I'll do that on my own time." Steven answered as he put a blanket on Lori's shoulders as he did with Stokely with Todd's death and she looked back at him. He would normally offer his condolences but given how many loved ones she had lost in such a short amount of time, she wasn't in the mood to hear that at the moment and she solemnly nodded at him as he sympathetically patted her shoulder before pressing on.
"Lori…" Mr. Craven said as he approached her and Erika.
"Mr. Craven…" Lori said.
"We have a retreat in another state that we're going to until this madness ends and we'd be honored if you joined us there." Mrs. Craven said and Lori looked down at the ground as she considered turning them down from having lost Dana and Will. While she knew she could fall asleep and go after Freddy herself, his near-rape of her the previous year still greatly scarred her and she knew there was nothing she could do to him.
Given his revival, Lori knew that escaping him would be to leave town and she looked to Mr. Craven before agreeing. Meanwhile, Steven looked in Will's room and surveyed the carnage before sighing to himself at the night's events.
"Christ…even with Michael chained up, there's no telling how this town is gonna be at the end of all with this Freddy thing and Jason still on the loose." Steven thought while shaking his head at the gory carnage and a disgusted looked appeared on his face as he read the message left behind on the wall.
Outside
"Mr. Rollins…I…." Lori began to say as he and wife patted her shoulder before giving her soft expressions.
"It's alright with us, Lori, and we're sure it's what your father would have wanted, too." Mrs. Rollins said before Lori embraced either of them and they patted her back in return. Once Lori had her suitcase, she went with the Cravens and the Rollins were driven to the hospital after collapsing from the shock of Will's death.
Overnight, the town of Springwood found itself up in arms over Will's death happening and the fact that the hypnocil had failed to protect him. In fact, many of the residents had gotten rid of their respective hypnocil bottles and many would die that very night in result.
Lori and Erika, on the other hand, had taken their hypnocil and they sat in the hospital room while the latter comforted her friend. She tried her best to keep her eyes open and Erika looked to her upon noticing this.
"Lori, I don't know the whole story with this Freddy guy but we'll be leaving first thing tomorrow." Erika said.
"Erika, I need you to do me one favor tonight." Lori said upon looking at her.
"Tell me." Erika said.
"Stay awake with me until we leave for that retreat of yours." Lori said and Erika, from the shock of Jeffrey and Will's murders, knew that they chances of her sleeping for the night were now small.
"I'll go get some coffee then." Erika said before getting two cups of coffee from her parents and handing it to Lori.
"All right, with this much, we should be caffeinated enough for when we leave." Lori said.
"In that case, we'll be safe from him, right?" Erika said.
"Given what we've been through tonight and this coffee, I don't think Freddy will be showing up tonight." Lori said.
"Let's hope not." Erika said.
Next day
Steven looked at Michael in his solitary confinement cell and noticed he apparently hadn't moved since the previous night. Knowing that the fiend was not truly dead, he could only speculate that he was only playing possum for some unknown purpose and he heard footsteps.
"Deputy Lloyd?" A voice said and he turned to see a Ridgemont Sanitarium security guard approach.
"My name is Lynda Soles, Head of security at Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium." Said guard said as she shook his hand.
"I'm glad you could make here in time." Steven answered.
"There's something we need to discuss with you first about Michael Myers." Lynda said before she and another guard walked him to another room where they explained that the sanitarium felt it they weren't sufficient enough in keeping the masked murderer in custody. In place of their sanitarium, they were sending him to one in a maximum security in a nearby state at their own recommendation and requested Steven's firsthand testimony.
In response, Steven began to think back to Dr. Loomis ' manuscript and how he had explained to the administrative doctor of Smith Grove's just how dangerous Michael was firsthand when he was trying to get them to send him to Litchfield's higher-level security but they mistaken believed his comatose-like natural rendered him harmless. Given how his escape could have been avoided by them listening to Loomis, Steven decided at that exact moment to accompany them to the sanitarium and giving his testimony in person.
"Meet us back here tonight for extraction." Lynda said.
"Count on it." Steven said before he and the two security guards left the room with him returning to Michael's room.
"Well, Michael; looks like we're going on a road-trip together and see each other for the last time." Steven said to him before leaving for home and failed to notice his granduncle's hands curling into tight fists once he was out of sight.
Elsewhere
Lori and Erika helped Mr. and Mrs. Craven packed the car in order to stay awake and despite successfully having stayed awake the whole night, they still stuck to their plan of not getting any sleep until they were outside of Springwood. Though Lori and Erika were still shook up by the night's events and were in no mood to sleep, they knew they had to keep this way long enough for them to leave town.
"How are you holding up, Erika?" Lori asked.
"I'm doing okay but I'll feel better once we're out of here." Erika said.
"Well, girls, we should be done very soon so hang in there, alright?" Mr. Craven said as they continue to pack and Lori looked around once they were done with packing snacks for the trip. As Erika and Lori stood outside, they noticed Stokely nearby and waved her down.
"Lori, I'd say I'm sorry about Jeffrey and Will but at this point, I'm at a complete loss of words." Stokely said.
"No one can blame you after all of this chaos, Stokely." Lori said.
"Well, Lori, all I can say now is to get over Will and go find yourself a new fuck-buddy." Stokely bluntly said and neither Lori or Erika could believe their ears at that statement.
"Stokely!" Lori said in disbelief.
"How in the hell could you say something like that?!" Erika demanded with Stokely expression remaining unfazed.
"What? All the people in this town are dropping like fleas off a dog's ass, so you might as well find yourself someone new to fuck." Stokely coldly said and even though Lori wished that the girl she was talking to was being caused by a micro-nap Freddy was attempting to bring on to mess with her head, it was painfully true this wasn't the case.
"Stokely, I know people have been dying left and right in this town but I never thought it'd turn you into this kind of person." Erika said with narrowed eyes and she only chuckled in response.
"This kind of person, huh? Erika, none of this shit with Todd getting his head crushed like a grape to Will being splattered all over the place is bothering me an inch. With you two gone on your little mental vacation, there'll be less blood spilled in this small town." Stokely said with both of their gaze becoming filled with disappointment and shock at her.
"If that's how it's gonna be, then leave." Lori bitterly said to Stokely, who began to leave.
"Bye-bye, you two and one more thing, Lori; hope you find a new fuck-buddy before you wind up Freddy's bitch in bed like Will did." Stokely cruelly said and Lori snapped before Erika held her back.
"Stokely, you…!" The provoked Lori said with Erika struggling to hold her back.
"Get the hell out of here!" Erika snapped at Stokely, who mockingly waved at them and left with Lori still fighting to break free.
"Calm down, Lori! She's not worth it!" Erika said before her words reached Lori sometime later and she began to calm down. They looked after the departing Stokely with disdain and betrayed looks before Lori was freed.
They looked to each until they decided to walk around to cool off and Stokely walked back to her home before hearing a sound behind her. Thinking it was a vengeful Lori, she turned around with a smug look and saw no one was there before continuing on her way.
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Steven bid his remaining police officers farewell and with the news of them hiring a handful of police academy graduates, he found it beneficial to Springwood's forces. He drove to where Michael was being held and met Lynda there to see one medic preparing a dose of Thorazine to give him for later.
"Is everything set?" Steven asked.
"Yes, he'll be moved out tonight and the convoys are set for transfer." Lynda said.
"That's a relief. After all this chaos, it'll be a relief to see him gone." Steven said.
Later
"Here, Lori." Erika said as she handed Lori a blue sweater.
"Thanks, Erika. Where we're going, I'll definitely need it." Lori said as she donned the sweater and Erika's parents came out of the house.
"All ready?" Mr. Craven asked.
"Ready!" Erika and Lori said before they opened the car doors and unbeknownst to them, Jason watched them from a nearby house while hiding behind a tall bush. As he stared at Lori, he began to leave the bush before noticing her sweater bore a striking resemblance to Pamela's and he cocked his head to the side.
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As he listened to Lori speak to Erika, he then heard what sounded like Pamela's voice saying his name from her mouth and entered a trance-like-state before holding his hand out to her while moving forward. Suddenly, Jason found himself standing on the beach of Camp Crystal Lake and looked around in bewilderment at being back at his home.
His attention returned to Lori, who became Pamela, and Erika had become Alice in what Jason realized was her the night of her death. As the two wrestled on the beach for control of her machete, Jason, still not understanding what was going on but wanting to stop Alice nonetheless, hurried over to them and appeared behind the young counselor.
Though he stabbed her through the back, her head spun around in a 180 degree angle and laughed in Jason's face as she swung the machete through Pamela's neck. As Pamela's head hit the sand, Jason ripped the machete out of her back and stabbed her through the head as he had done years ago.
Alice fell to the ground and Jason found himself shorter before feeling something missing as he felt his face; not noticing he had somehow become the 11-year old boy he was at the time of his near-drowning in 1957. He found that both his hockey mask and machete were gone before picking up Pamela's head.
As he had done years ago, he held Pamela's head and stared at it as tears started to form in his eyes as he cradled it while miserably crying. He then felt a powerful kick to his face and Jason flew back into a tree before looking up to see Alice's head reform as she picked up Pamela's head.
"Jason, my special, special boy…you worthless piece of shit! I knew trusting you to do this again would be a stupid choice! It's no wonder I got my head cut off from you being to fucking stupid to stop that bitch in time!" Pamela scolded Jason and the boy began lowering his head in shame as his mother continued to shout in at him before getting kicked in the face again by Alice.
"Now, now, Jason, you know to look at your bitch of a Mommy when's she talking to you." Alice said in Freddy's voice and Jason looked up in surprise to see her morph into said dream-demon with a demonic sneer. He held Pamela's head to him and began tongue kissing it while Jason looked on with unmatched anger before rising to his feet as he realized he had been tricked by him again.
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"Even dead, the bitch knows her to use her tongue." Freddy said before tossing Pamela's head aside and the camp transformed into his boiler room with Jason's breathing becoming heavier as his fists tightened with his eye becoming wild with fury. Suddenly, the boy grew into his adult self as Freddy launched a horde of machetes into him and pinned him against the tree turning into a boiler as they cut into him.
Jason swung his arms out and the machetes flew out of him before he hurled his own blade at Freddy's head with an unusual growl. Freddy only laughed as the machete split his head apart and he reformed it with a sinister grin at his silent foe once again being in the dream world.
With Jason's mind being in a trance-like state from hallucinating that Lori was Pamela due their similar sweaters, this has left him vulnerable enough for Freddy to bring him into the dream world and exact his revenge on him.
When he looked back at the boiler, he saw that Jason was gone and looked around in confusion as he looked around. Next thing that he knew was the hockey-masked fiend was behind him with his hands squeezing his head and Freddy cried out as he felt his fingers crushing into his skull.
"Not my head!" Freddy cried out mocking as Jason continued to crush it in his hands and a mix of blood and slimy green pus started leaking from his skull. The blood poured excessively from his mouth and leaked onto the floor with only Jason's angry breathing being the only sound he heard as he strained against his towering foe.
Within a few moments, Freddy's head was smaller than a walnut in Jason's clutches before he let him drop and kicked his body away. The dream demon sprang to his feet and laughed as his head reformed to its natural state as he wagged his blades at Jason.
"What's the matter, hockey puck? Did all the water in that head of yours drown your brain at birth?" Freddy sneered as Jason returned his machete to its sheath and reared his fist back before slamming it through his foe's heart.
He continue to sneer as blood poured out his mouth and his heart beat in Jason's palm before his head was knocked off with one punch. Jason then lifted his body overhead and started bashing it against the railing until it was battered to his satisfaction.
Jason hurled Freddy's body over the railing before he appeared next to him and punched him in the face. He lifted his boot and pressed it against his heart before giving it a small push.
Despite the small amount of energy put into the push, Jason flew through the room and landed hard on the floor before he was lifted into the air. Freddy wiggled his fingers and Jason began spinning in a quick burst of speed with a series of blades cutting into every inch of him like a kebab.
"Little refresher, hockey puss; I am eternal." Freddy said with his wiggling finger blades before stopping all of a sudden and Jason hung upside-down in the air. The burnt man smiled before water starting filling the room on the floor below and Jason looked down as he was lowered into it.
He began shivering as Freddy dropped him into the water and madly laughed as the water rose over Jason as it poured nonstop.
"How's this for a wet dream?" Freddy chuckled to the seemingly drowning Jason.
Meanwhile
Steven watched as Michael's mask was silently lifted by a medic named Lonnie to where his mouth was uncovered and the Thorazine was applied. Once this was done, he looked to see some burn marks on his face and he began to curiously lift the mask to a higher level.
"Hey, Lonnie, get your ass away from there." Another medic instructed.
"Sorry, curiosity got the better of me, is all." Lonnie said before the shackles on Michael's wrists and ankles were checked. Once they were confirmed to be secure enough, the medics left the room and Steven walked near his grand uncle.
"I swear on Great Aunt Judith's grave that you will go down one way or another." Steven said with determination before Michael was strapped to a gurney as he still didn't move and he was loaded into the back of the Prisoner Transport Bus driven by Lynda where he was the sole prisoner. With Steven sitting in the passenger seat of one of the convoy cars, she began to drive with the convoy moving out into the night and he kept his police pistol at his side.
Back in the dream world
Freddy started boiling the water to scalding temperatures to where steam flew into the air and he stared at the submerged Jason as he appeared to be drowning. Though they weren't seen in the boiling water, Freddy knew that bubbles were coming from the hockey-masked monster's mouth as his head violently bobbed around and he attempted to fight the current.
He watched as Jason struggling before he stopped moving altogether and went completely limp in the thrashing water. As Freddy began to cackle, he lifted him out of the water and dropped him in his direction.
With a snap of his fingers, he made Jason's body stand and water showered down from a pipe on the monster's body as he stood in place in complete silence. While he gloated over his victory and approached him, he failed to notice Jason's eye wasn't blinking or that his hands were slowly curling into fists.
"Now you die, Voorhees." Freddy hissed in Jason's face before rearing his gloved hand and lashed the blades into Jason's chest. The moment the claws were embedded in his chest, Jason's breathing resumed before he whipped out Pamela's knife and slit Freddy's throat with a quick swing.
As Freddy mockingly gripped his throat with blood profusely beginning to pour out his neck, Jason wasted no time in stabbing the knife into his head and grabbing it once again. He began twisting it around slowly and savored the loud cracking sounds that followed.
Then, Freddy's head snapped back into place as he materialized away from Jason with Pamela's knife dropping to the floor and kept filling the boiler room with water as he endlessly marched his way. At a loss for an explanation as to why Jason wasn't frightened by the water when their last match in the dream world scared him, Freddy formed the children he used to push him into the lake and they all began shoving the oncoming man.
"Freakshow!" The children all chanted and Jason ignored them as they continued to taunt him. Given that Jason's fellow campers, all of whom were afraid of Pamela as she had warned them not to mess with him, never pushed him into the lake since he had fallen into it by accident on his own accord of not being watched by the counselors, Freddy based his previous nightmare of drowning of the fear of his near-death from it decades earlier and used it against him.
With the children failing to deter Jason this time, Freddy turned them into imps that pounced onto him and beat him. He swung his arms outward and knocked them back before Freddy's appearance turned demonic at Jason being unstoppable.
"We've got unfinished business, Voorhees." Freddy dangerously hissed as fire filled the boiler room and both he and Jason stood in place; either murderer staring each other down with unmatched hatred and fury. Finally, he roared with flying at Jason and his breathing grew heavier to where his growling became louder as he took out his machete before quickly walking towards his oncoming foe.
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Happy Halloween, everyone, and I hope everyone got a kick out of the appetizer of Freddy and Jason's rematch for the next chapter. To assuage the fans like myself who weren't fond Jason's fear of water or Freddy's fear of fire in their crossover film, I easily retconned either fear along the idea of him being pushed into the lake as a child.
Unlike the movie, you'll be pleasantly surprised to see that Jason apparently fears nothing in the Dream World this time but that doesn't mean that Freddy won't have some more tricks up his sleeve and you can already see that he'll put up a much better fight than he did in the movie.
As for Michael, we'll find out where he's going very soon and we see that he's not down for the count just yet. I made Erika's parents what I pictured Wes Craven himself to have been like; resourceful and very kind, and speaking of which, we'll find out where their resort is not long from now.
For those who didn't get how Jason wound up in the dream world, let's rewind for a bit; in Friday the 13th Part 2 and the Final Chapter, Jason always goes into a trance with he sees something that reminds him of his past like with seeing Ginny wearing his mom's sweater or Tommy's shaved head reminding him of himself. The idea of having him go into a trance is where he'd be vulnerable enough for Freddy to pull him into the dream world and no, Jason going into the dream has nothing to do with him being tranquilized last chapter.
So, stayed tuned for Freddy and Jason's full-fledged rematch next and more surprises to come. Happy Halloween and goodbye for now.