The Dream Warriors Alterations I: A Nightmare On Elm Street
Characters: Nancy Thompson, Rod Lane, Glen Lantz, Donald Thompson, Marge Thompson, Derek Garcia, Paul Willis, Fred Krueger
Time-line: After Nancy's dream test and in the bedroom.
Synopsis: After running a fast dream test, Nancy arrives in time to save Rod and Rod is proved innocent of the murder charges. Thinking fast after the truth comes between them, and even a more shocking secret now. As the adult Elm Street block hears that truth the adult block must work hard. Just to save their children before a secondary starts, and Fred Krueger returns a second time.
Disclaimers: A Nightmare on Elm Street does not belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to Wes Craven and the movie company.
Warnings: The story follows the same route, but instead of Rod being killed he survives as he and Nancy clear his name. As things change course for them, as they work at trying to save their block now as a result of this. However instead of thinking she lost it, after several dream tests to prove her theories now.
The trio's parents, not including Lantz himself, decide to run a trap in the house after Glen is taken by Freddy here. Of four deaths in the first movie, the only true ones are Tina and Glen as her parents get back together now. As she and Rod go to the same school and work hard at their drug testing of Hypnocil.
And Marge being one of the survivors of the attack, as they prepare to fight it out against Freddy. As this follows along the route of my other story on the dream warriors, but this one has Rod involved in it from beginning to end now. A few names are coincidental, but it's not going to match up to my other story.
As this one has the duo getting shoved out of leadership of the ward and transferred from Westin Hills to Fairview hospital. So instead of ending up in the hospital themselves now, they get transferred. And start working at removing all drugs and alcohol from their younger peers use right after the attacks.
Leaving Gordon in charge and with him, Nancy, as her own mentor at her university takes the full leadership position at the ward in the hospital now. Though Lorenzo is getting the very same penalty as my other story as this continues now, but the opening salvo starts with things in her first encounter.
Chapter 1: The Calvary Arrives
Arriving at the police station after a nightmare in which she saw her best friend's killer and her friend's framer, Nancy Thompson knew she what she was up against. And knew she had to alert her father, Lieutenant Donald Thompson, to this immediately. And before her brother, Rodney 'Rod' John Lane was hit next if he was at the station that night.
Arriving there, she heard her boyfriend and fellow gang member, Glen Lantz say it from behind her. "You want to tell me what this is about?!" he asked, but she was in a rush to get to her brother, hoping a friend of her father's was on duty, she had one chance. "Oh just come on." she said and he nodded. "Yeah." he said and as she walked in then.
Seeing who she wanted she greeted him. "Garcia, I need to talk to Rod Lane again." she said and he sighed. "You know I took the night shift so I could get some peace and quiet..." he started to say and she quickly said it. "Look it's urgent, right now, whatever you never told us about, just hit Tina last night, we don't do it now, we lose him next."
"I also heard a scream from Kristen, damn it, she saw everything through me." she said and he looked at her shock at that, hearing that Glen gave a nod. As their surrogate baby sister was the youngest of their 11 member gang, and the most emotional. Losing their sister, if she saw the murder the night before, he knew had to have traumatized her then.
"Look we have reason to believe there is something really strange going on in this town." he added, before they got a bemused response from her father at that. "I got no argument with that right now." he said to that, leaning against the door of his office and she sighed in relief. "What are you doing here?" she asked and he came over to them.
As he answered her at that question. 'Perfect, if I can convince him whoever just tried to kill me is who murdered Tina, we can check that switchblade and Rod's free to go. And that's not if we get even more evidence here, that the bastard is picking us off. And one by one, I got to protect Kris right now.' she thought to herself as she heard her father.
"There is an unsolved murder and I don't like unsolved murders, especially ones that my daughter is mixed up in, what are you doing here. At this hour, you should be home in bed right now." he said, none of them realizing that at the very moment their unseen murderer was creating a noose and looping it around Rod's neck right then.
"I just want to see if he's okay." she said in answer to his question, before Derek Garcia tried to take it down a notch then. "Nancy, he's sleeping like a baby, trust me, he's not going anywhere tonight." he said and she said it gently. "Just go and check on him, please." she said and they nodded. "Alright." Donald said and she nodded to him.
As Garcia checked his pocket and found the key, just as they heard a scream and they quickly charged in there. "Jeez!" Donald snapped as they unlocked the door and Paul Willis quickly cut him down. "No, Rod!" she heard through her connection to Kristen Parker as he collapsed in shaking. "Not me." he said, gasping for air and he nodded.
"I didn't do it, Uncle Donald, I get in trouble occasionally, but I would never cross the line like this, but we were just talking in Aunt Sarah's bedroom. Fell asleep and the next thing I know she is screaming for help, but I swear, I never touched her. And not like that you know this, I would never cross the line like this, I get in trouble once in a while."
"But I would never hurt her, ever, but there was a silluhoutte in the blanket, like a fully grown man, I tore the sheet off her and she's thrashing around. And in a way that looked like Adam was attacking her, but it was was like he was invisible. And just before the spot right over her heart ripped open, and then I saw 4 slashes cut across her chest."
"Before it was like a crazed poultergeist, it picked her up and was swinging her around, and like a baseball bat, knocking me into the wall. She was screaming at me to wake her up, before my screaming got the duo up there and then the ghost dropped her on the bed. Splattering the room in blood, I swear." he said and Donald nodded in shock to that.
"Whoever killed her attacked her in the way Rodriguez attacked Nattie, so you never laid a hand on her. But someone attacked her in the way, Adam nearly did your sister, that it kiddo?" Garcia repeated and he nodded as they exchanged looks to that news as it hit. The news that he told him just shocked him beyond belief at what he told them.
"She heard me shouting at whoever our attacker was and I told her this afternoon. But our attacker has targeted all of us and possibly the entire block. Reason, we're all dreaming about the same man, but did any of your killers, your perps. Since we arrested Adam ever have that pedophilia thing for girls." He asked and Donald nodded slowly.
And as he tried to process what Rod just told him. "Just one, and he did both girls and boys, when you kids were younger, but he was killed 6 to 7 years ago. And when your brothers and sisters were just barring four years old, but this lunatic. He targeted children and he was killed years ago." Donald said and he nodded as he answered him.
"But our jump rope song, is the indicator beat tacks, but three of the five lyrics to it, could point to your copy killer. But the first piece to it, Freddy's coming for you, that was the indicator. Because he, whoever he is, is stalking us in our dreams, whoever he is. Somehow gained the power to kill in there now." He finished and she added on to it.
And as she looked at her brother in relief, she got to him in time to prevent his loss right then. "Dad, we're telling you the truth, whatever caused the gang to split up, and whatever caused you and mother to divorce is now targeting us. Now that your guards are down and he, whoever he, is dead, if every adult in town knows about him."
"We all been dreaming about this bastard, whoever killed her, is targeting all of us, us being our block. And doing it in the one place you can't protect us, in our sleep and dreams now. I know this sounds strange, but your homicide is a ghost and killing us in our dreams." Nancy said and he nodded as she exposed her arm to him and he nodded.
"I take it that was the stimuli from this morning if you fell asleep in class?" he asked and she nodded. "Yeah I saw the bastard face to face, the man is a shapeshifter, and he morphed into the school hall monitor, Miss Taylor. And before I saw him in the school basement, whatever he is and this is the real sick part now dad, but the smirk."
"On his face was a like a deranged lunatic, as he cut his own chest and I saw a lime green pus, before coming at me then. Before the school morphed into a boiler room and I ran into a dead end as he got ready to attack. Seeing there was only one way out, I pressed my arm to the pipes, that pipe was scalding hot, but that woke me up."
"After it ended I decided to come here and talk to him, running a dream test tonight, I walked out the back gate and into the alley behind Tina's house. Before seeing him again and only my clock going off saved me." she said and he nodded. "She had a screaming awake panic attack in English class today too." Glen told him and he nodded to them.
"But whoever he is, has decided on something, but did any of us lose a sibling, if you all either divorced and hid your photo albums and only have photos of us?" Rod finished and Donald sighed, hearing the truth in his words he knew, somehow. That his daughter and her friends weren't suffering an exhaustion based emotional breakdown or grief.
"But even worse, I heard it once last night and twice tonight, I think she's seeing him through us, whoever the hell he is." Nancy told him and he closed his eyes in anger. "We haven't done our adoptive family bonding time in weeks, let alone six months right now, why?" he asked and she thought it over and her eyes widened as she said it to him.
At the question firmly. "I think I know why, we were raised together from infancy, whoever he is, he's targeting the block if he also lived on the block himself. Then we're his first target, before he hit's the kids at the moment, but her age group. The seven is in the 4th grade at the moment, but he is just targeting teenagers, but ever since now."
"He's preventing us from seeing her, we're barely 10 minutes into it and he shows up, the bastard, whoever it is, is preventing you from seeing her or Elaine. But she divorced Rick two years ago and to us, all of us since the arraignment. We all decided what he doesn't know won't hurt him now, I think it left a side effect." Glen said and she nodded firmly.
"I know it left a side effect, if her powers have any side effect it's that her soul is connected to ours now, by just calling out our names. She can bring us in to protect her, but that's the bad news now, she's been hearing everything through us. So we see him, she sees him, she's seeing everything going on in our nightmares through us, dad, guys."
"It just happened again, she saw it through us, she knows!" Nancy snapped and Donald nodded. "Take my knife to the lab Uncle Donald, simple biology, one chance to clear my namehere right now. But innocent till proudly and I don't have the strength to attack her or anyone like, the blood reached all the war the ceiling and was directly over the bed."
"And before he dropped her, the window had a crack in it, yes alright, no human can do this, if they're alive, but if you're dead. Then he's got all the makes of poltergeist right now, but the link damn it, it's having Kris see everything. And through us and Glen, but if she saw the murder last night...?!" Rod said and Garcia covered his eyes at the remark.
"God damn it, baby saw our last perp two years ago after you guys beat the crap out of him and she had the chance to see us at the arraignment. Elaine brought her for a training session in government and law, she was 8, 2 years. She is the only one with memories of us, all of us, Claire and Jane were at the arraignment, so was Marge."
"And as was me and your parents, and with us was Sarah and David, and even Damian was at the arraignment. But the sextet don't have any of us at the moment right now, damn itm but things were fine till you were going on 10. Rick what the hell did you do to trigger this, because he just targeted my daughter." Donald snapped as he realized it.
"Our connection, oh no, she was doing it every night for the last two years with us, what if our perp, whoever it is, has prevented her from seeing us all this time, and vice versa. The link is still active, and if it is she saw him do Tina." Glen asked and the duo nodded as Willis's gaze shifted down, and then saw blood on the floor and then looked at Rod.
"Oh my god, son, your arm!" Willis snapped and he looked down and saw blood all over his hand and tore his coat off so they could get a better look. "You got my knife and there is no jagged metal in here, but that just proved my point right now. You guys arrived just in time to stop it now." he said as they saw four slash marks across his arm in shock.
"That's what I saw last night guys, four razors all cutting at once, but the razors were invisible, but there is no broken metal in here. And I can't reach that high up to get to the bars over the toilet in the window. That's 10 feet up and I'm only 5ft 9'." he said and the trio nodded and they exchanged looks as Nancy checked it carefully at that.
"I saw those razors up in the attack position, but at our age, we can work at preventing him from attacking us now, as we're much stronger then we were then. But he was wrestling with her till she lost her balance and he pinned her to the bed. Or she fell and landed on something and until she was on the floor, pinning her down and slashing her."
"Well that just proves it, there is nothing in in this cell that can be able to cause a suicide and even if I did try it, you guys are watching the cameras. Just waiting for a crash or shout from me to prevent that or an escape or suicide, as you just did it now. But what a skeptic sees as crazy, I consider this rational now." he said and the trio nodded bemused.
"That is if he doesn't possess his skeleton next when I bury the bastard's remains and consecrate the grave site. His mother was a nun, and he's catholic, like we are, so with those words in mind it's using that against him in the end. But first off, if I know anything, it's the glove those came from was rusted in our reality, but fresh in there."
"We know only one knife that is capable of doing that all at once, and it was when you guys were 9 years old now, he died close to 8 years ago. You were nearing 10, and your baby brothers and sisters were going on 4, damn it. I thought he was gone, alright baby I need a description of your stalker." Donald said gently and she nodded to him then.
"We don't know who he is, but he's horribly burned, dressed in a red and green striped shirt and fedora hat, very dirty. Boots and a set of khaki work pants, the glove on his right hand, that looks like he built the damn thing himself. He knows our names, and our dreams are always at the plant." she told him and he nodded with a furious look then.
"He's back, but how the hell is he..., oh no." Donald said and the duo nodded as she closed her eyes and it hit her. "Freddy's coming for you, stay up late, never sleep again, Freddy, who is this Freddy exactly. How is he doing this and how are we supposed to stay awake long enough to protect ourselves?" Rod said to her and she nodded to that firmly.
"I don't know and frankly now, I don't care, but we got to get you to the hospital to get that checked out and check your switchblade, son. I got to make a call to Elaine and check on the others, but if he's targeting you, he could target the entire block. Baby, don't worry baby, I'll protect you girls." Donald said with a firm growl to this situation.
"Donald, we have to tell them, we nearly lost him next, what if he targets the entire town, even in death, his alias is still haunting us right now." Willis said as he grabbed the spare sheet and wrapped it around Rod's arm to staunch the bleeding. "Dad's going to kill Rick when he finds out, but you're right." he said, meaning his father and they nodded.
"His alias is the Springwood Slasher, but your Freddy, is Frederick Charles Krueger, kids, he was a filthy child killer, child molester. We spent 3 years looking for who killed your lost classmates and cousins, brothers and sisters. He drove us nuts when we couldn't find him, but it was even worse after Perry caught him." he told them and the trio nodded.
"Did they put him away?" she asked and he sighed. "A load of lawyers got fat and the judge, not your adopted grandfather, got famous. But someone forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place, and he was freed, just like that. For Rick, he lost it as the last kill was his nephew: Daniel Richard Parker." he said and they nodded as she said it then.
"Bad memories, this was why mom and you divorced, she was drinking all the time, he destroyed your marriage?" she asked and he nodded to her. "Yeah baby it was, I just never saw this coming that instead of targeting us, he could target you now. I spent the 7 years, since the murder looking for his stash, can't find it yet, he kept it somewhere."
"The block followed him to the old power plant, seeing he was asleep, we poured gasoline all around the building and did a trail of it out the door. But we were never the ones that killed him at all, every parent in town wanted him dead. But none of us wanted his death on our conscious." Donald explained and she nodded as the trio dropped the bomb.
"But you guessed correctly, all of you had a sibling once, but you blocked out their murders, Danny and Kimmy are part of your age group." he added and they nodded. "From us to Kris's age group, we were the murders that had him on the edge of the electric chair, before Perry blew it?" Glen asked and he nodded as the duo sighed then.
"It was never us or the other parents in the entire town baby, guys, Rick did it, but if this came in a king novel then the killer knows that private justice and murder. In his case is a one way ticket to turning himself into a monster and the group, the lynch mob. They were all drunk when they did, but Rick was drunk when he did, we were all straight."
"Looks like Fred found himself a way to remain alive in your dreams, but it took 7 years to gain enough power to come after you now. We had seven years of peace, but somehow this bastard just made his presence know to us now. Unless..., Pennywise, it has to be." Donald said and the trio nodded as they looked exchanged looks at that.
"He looks like a walking burned victim, but his vocal cords are scorched, he sounds like Vader, just without the respirator. But he just goes by his alias, of Freddy, I'd say he decided on the act of being a boogieman for teenagers. Only instead of him being in the closet or under the bed, he's haunting us, in there." Nancy said and he nodded sternly.
"But something he said to me the other night made sense now, but if Kris heard the remark he said to Tina. Then he's pretending he's immortal, though that's true, then he got possessed, but I hope to god I'm wrong about that theory." Glen added and she nodded. "Me too bro, me too." Rod said and that did it for the adult trio right then.
"Great, he got possessed by some demon that aims for god damn scare tactics, I just hope the clinic understands this better then I do right now. But pattern nightmares, nice name for dream theory as you can learn to fight back in there. But if that's true I can teach the seven this and we join together and protect the kids, with her powers."
"But if these demons gave him the power to cross the line between dreams and reality. Then he's..., that's it, what are the two spots that kill instantly, and one is us in there in there our voices echo in there anything happens and the stimuli cause us to lose control of our actions?" she asked and Donald nodded sternly at that theory and news.
"Though he's aiming for the vital organs, your heart and your brain, it stays active for another 7 to 10 minutes, which explains the screaming last night. He nailed her heart, but though she was dead as there is no saving her now. Her mind was still functioning until he dropped her." Rod said in response and the homicide detectives nodded angrily.
"Get killed in there and you die for real?" Donald repeated and he nodded to him. "Yeah and he's no longer human anymore but a demon, but if he got possessed. And by one the night they, whoever it was that killed him at the time did it, the fire now. Prevented you from seeing what the heck was going on there." she said and he nodded as that did it.
"Guys, Rick did it, he threw the cocktail that burned the plant to the ground." Garcia said and they nodded. "He killed this Freddy, and we're getting targeted for his sins, but why us, and why not you?" Rod said and Donald tried to figure it out at that. "Katherine, it has to be, we took his daughter and this is the payback." Willis said and the duo nodded.
"Prom night, why didn't I remember that, he's nearly used my homicide training against me and your sister, son, just made me see that. Come on, let's get you to the hospital, we're going to see Dan." Donald said and they nodded as the duo grabbed their brother and stood up as he phoned his best friend John Lane, Marge and Sarah Grey at that.
As the trio met him at the medical department of the psychiatric hospital and Dr. Daniel Jenkins took one look at him and nodded in shock. "First Tina and now you son, what in gods name happened up there tonight?" he asked and Donald pulled the switchblade. "Blood test, he said he never touched her, aside from a possible case of home base here."
"And we can discuss this later young man, but I wish you two waited till you were 22, before doing that last night." he said and the lab techncian nodded as the doctor took care of his arm and then wrapped it and the technician came back in then. "There is no trace of her blood on that blade, chemical or otherwise, he didn't do it John, Sarah."
"I just have to check her uterus if the stab wounds were above the uterus and the stomach and if he did what I think, and I mean our killer by that. Then he raped her and then shredded her heart and hit several blood vessels in the process. Which explains the mess they saw in the bedroom last night." he said and they nodded as he did it then.
After ten minutes he slammed his hand on the table, as Jenkins checked and nodded with a furious look and Dr. Jane Adam turned to her. "You had a right to be afraid last night baby, in whatever she told you, but as we said he was a child molestor. But he raped her, and then murdered her, Rod is innocent of all charges, John, as such, now here guys."
"But if he targeted them, he could go after the entire block and the rest of the town like this, but there is only one way to find out now. To prove this completely, Marge, I want you to take her to Katja dream clinic, we need to run a test now." she said and the trio nodded as Rod pulled her close to him as she felt her relief her brother was alive.
"Something doesn't make sense here, but that burn I took yesterday was so real, that my scream echoed in my head came out, for real. I know this doesn't make sense, but it's all there, mom, think about it, I wake up screaming. And you or Mrs. Anderson come running to wake me up, I thought this was just a dream, but he shattered my mirror."
"Only my clock saved me when I went in tonight, but I saw him walk right through the bars and grab the sheet." she said and the adult quartet nodded in shock to that news. "You see anything else?" Marge asked and she nodded. "Yeah he shredded a pillow, after you came to check I saw a single feather go flying out the window, looked down."
"And saw the feathers all over the floor and the pillow itself, check this out." she said removing the left overs of the destroyed pillow from her jacket then. "Fred what the hell did you do to yourself this time exactly, we take it back. Your origins, but we never meant to turn you into this, damn it." Donald said, looking at the destroyed pillow.
"So you know him by name, we just call him Freddy, but we got a fast indicator of when he's about to attack, I was singing it to myself tonight." She started to say and then smiled. "What if I could get a clear evidence it was him, if he's turned human, once in our world, I can rig the house as you know my traps are doing a lot of damage now."
"I can get you the evidence, bring his hat out for you to test or something, if everything in there that happens is real now. But I think he prays on our fears, we take away our fear, turn our backs on him in the last round and we send him straight back to hell." she said and the adult quartet nodded as Adams answered her at the remark gently.