Chapter eleven-Seizure
"Did I tell ya? Did I fuckin tell ya?"
"You told us," said Sarah rolling her eyes. "We don't need to be reminded every time you're right."
"But it don't happen very often."
"I know. Thank god."
Ash stopped as they came to the store and his jaw dropped, "S-Mart?! There's an S-mart here?!"
"Yeah so?"
"What the hell is it doing here? What's the need for a superstore in the middle of a demonic carnival anyway?"
"See…we bought this chain of lame ass stores-"
"YOU BOUGHT S-MART?! I'M WORKING FOR YOU NOW?!"
"You work there?"
"Yeah…"
"Not anymore!" J threw his head back and laughed. Shaggy joined in the laughter and Sarah only shook her head.
"I can't believe this…"
"Anyway…we bought the chain for like forty bucks cause no one ever went there and the bitch-boys who owned it where like really desperate to sell it so it was a steal. It was gonna be like just a place for the people the Dark Carnival where gonna recruit. We stocked it with all this weird shit too.
"Like the antidote?"
"Yeah…"
Ash sighed, the pain in his arm made it almost impossible to move that arm and his eyes where growing heavier by the moment. "Let's just get in there and find it so we can go."
"Sounds good to me."
"Do you know where it is?" he asked as they walked inside. They stopped walking when they saw that there where clown zombies behind every counter wearing S-Mart shirts and black pants. They all reacted immediately, Ash pulled out his shotgun and turned to J. "Go find the antidote! I've got these guys."
"Gotcha yo," J turned and disappeared down an aisle. Ash felt everything sharpen into focus as he tried to reach up and grab his shotgun but a horrible numbing pain shot through his body. Ash clenched his eyes shut and fell to his knee's. Ash finally managed to put everything he had in and pull out his shotgun but every time he pulled the trigger it felt as if he was being struck with 1000 needles in every place of his body.
Ash managed to shot nearly everyone in the head while Shaggy took care of the rest. When he gunned down the last of them he nearly fell to the ground. His head was pounding and he was finding it harder and harder to breathe. "Where…the hell-"
"I'm back…I'm back damn man…here. Drink up," J handed Ash a small bottle and Ash managed to hold it in his hand and tip the entire contents into his mouth. Some of it dribbled down his chin. Ash tossed the bottle aside immediately feeling his strength and the feeling in his arm returning. He stood up and took several deep breaths and turned to the others. "Okay, let's get out of-"
"Here? I wouldn't hold my breath," came a twisted voice.
"What now?" Ash, Sarah, and ICP looked to the entrance to see Jake and Jack Jeckel slowly walking towards them. Jack grinned a cherishe cat like smile and raised his hands the fingers turning into knives.
"Shit! It's the Jeckel Brothers!" exclaimed Shaggy pulling out his magic hatchet.
"I was wonderin when the Butterfly was gonna send you guys after us!" growled J making smaller knives with his fingers. "Remember teachin me how to use THESE!"
Jake snickered, "Nice knives…I don't think we have a chance against you guys now. Well…we've been ordered to take you in. The Butterfly had decided to give you an audience."
"Lucky us," muttered Ash spinning his shotgun around in his finger. "Let's get it on."
"Feeling better are we? Well that wont last for long."
"We'll see," Ash said nothing more and charged at the Jeckel Brothers. He swung his chain saw arm and watched as Jake leaped over and landed in front of ICP punching Shaggy in the jaw, driving his knee into his throat and giving him one final punch which sent him flying into aisle five. J clicked his finger knives and leapt at Jack trading blows. Ash took advantage and fired off several rounds at Jake who smacked every single bullet away and jumped up and drop kicked Ash in the face. Jake picked Ash up bench pressed him with no effort and threw him across the store into the bike aisle.
J was managing to hold his own against Jack but was weakening more by the moment and knew he couldn't hold up much longer. Jack drove his finger knives across J's chest then grabbed his head and kneed him in the face and gave him one final punch which sent J falling to the ground. J tried to pull himself up but promptly collapsed and lay unmoving.
"Gotta hide…gotta hide…gotta hide." Sarah ran down an aisle which had nothing but video games which where encased behind a thick glass case.
Jack appeared in front of her and smiled. "You must be Sarah…"
"So what if I am?" growled Sarah.
Jack looked her up and down then stared into her eyes. "You're a little on the young side foe my tastes. Jake likes em about your age though. What are you? 18 19?"
"What the hell are you talking about you ugly bastard?"
Jack sneered, "You'll see." In the blink of an eye Jack grabbed Sarah and threw her with little strength into the glass casing shattering it all around her as she fell to the ground. Jack said nothing more only picking up Sarah throwing her onto his back and disappearing,
Shaggy tried to regain his footing but Jake came out of nowhere, shot straight down and finished Shaggy 2 Dope off by driving the edge of his knee into Shaggy's spine. Jake picked up Shaggy and leaped over to where Violent J's body lay and dropped it down on top of him. A moment later Jack Jeckel appeared and dropped Sarah onto the pile. "I see you took the easy prey," observed Jake.
"They where all easy prey," replied Jack.
"True enough…where's Ash?"
"Right here assholes!" Jack and Jake turned and saw Ash pop out of nowhere and begin firing off shotgun round after shotgun round. To Ash's horror every shot seemed to miss.
Jake yawned and turned to his brother, "You want to take this one?"
"May as well…why don't we work together. Aim above him and fire hard." Jake nodded and both of the Jeckel Brothers raised their left hands and unleashed a ball of fire towards the ceiling. Ash looked up but it was too late and the burning chunk of ceiling crashed onto him.
Jake turned to Jack and feigned a look of shock; "It appears we have accidentally killed Ash."
"Oh no…Butterfly will be most displeased," replied Jack in a sarcastic tone.
"Don't worry…he was scared of him anyway though I can't see why. He'll thank us."
"Whatever…let's take these three and get back to the helicopter." Jack reached down and picked up Shaggy and Sarah.
"Helicopter?"
Jack rolled his eyes, "Yes Jake…a HELICOPTER… we can't teleport from here to Butterfly's place."
"Oh yeah….that's right." Jake grabbed Violent J and lifted his up by his hair.
"No more trying to do four eight balls at once for you." Jack shook his head and walked towards the entrance with Jake in tow.
The flames where quickly spreading from the pile of rubble that lay where Ash had been standing. The laughter of the Jeckel Brothers as they left the store was just now fading. The rubble looked as if it would remain there for years to come but instead it began to move. After a moment a hand emerged from the rubble, grabbed onto a shelf that was staring to catch fire and pull itself up. Ash threw a chunk of ceiling off his back and began coughing violently. Ash knew he had to move quickly and despite his whole body aching with pain he reached into the pile pulled out his shotgun and slid it into the holster on his back. "Not so fast clowns," growled Ash running towards the entrance and outside the store where the helicopter being piloted by a clown zombie was just taking off. Ash managed to leap up and grab the edge of the door. By then it was now well into the sky and heading west.
Jake saw this first and his eyes widened. He turned to his brother who was staring out the front. "We have a slight problem."
"What?" Jake pointed towards Ash who was pulling himself up but with great difficulty because of his chain saw. Jack's expression turned to that of intense anger, "I'll handle this," Jack reached up to blast Ash with another fireball. Ash held his chain saw arm against the wall and with his legs still dangling outside the helicopter, pulled out his shotgun and shot Jack several times, sending him crashing out the front window. As Jack went flying out the window he grabbed the clown zombie by the back of his head pulling him out with him but not before the clown zombie's hand hit the control causing it to aim slightly downwards causing the helicopter to slowly descend. The clown zombie fell straight off with little more then a gurgle but Jack grabbed the bottom of the helicopter and tried to pull himself back up. Ash finally made his way in and before Jake could react shot him several times in the chest stunning him long enough for Ash to slice him in half with his chain saw. The upper half went flying out of the helicopter. Ash knew they where dropping fast and threw his shotgun aside and grabbed the controls bringing them back up. Ash turned around and saw that Sarah and ICP still had not moved. Ash knew the helicopter was heading for Butterfly's place and decided to keep the copters path on the same route. "Looks like it'll be smooth sailing from here to Butterfly's," said Ash breathing hard. At that moment he felt a sharp pain in his chest and good arm. "I feel…like I did when that damn Riddlebox thing bit me…is that antidote wearing off already?"
"Fraid so?"
"Huh?" Ash pushed the pain into the back of his mind to see Jack now holding onto the frame of the windshield. Before Ash knew what hit him Jacks other arm shot out and clutched his throat. "You're going to see Butterfly all right. Only it's gonna be in a fucking body bag!" suddenly out of nowhere a hatchet flew past Ash and found a home permanently in the forehead of Jack Jeckel. Ash knew who the hatchet came from and reached up slicing Jack's arm off from the elbow to the fingertips. Ash threw the dismembered arm aside and watched as Jack disappeared and fell straight down into a tent marked Warning bitchboys! Nine Inch Nails inside!
"I've always wanted to fucking do that!" grinned Shaggy. As noticed Violent J was wounded but was getting to his feet, as was Sarah who had several small cuts on her face and arms. "You guys okay?"
"Peachy," muttered Sarah.
Ash returned to the controls and continued to steer for a couple minutes before the pain began to return and this time it felt like his insides where turning into liquid shit. J was holding the place on his chest where the cuts where and saw Ash with his eye's clenched tight in pain. "You okay?"
Ash opened his mouth to respond but all that came out was a violent series of coughs that caused blood to trickle out of his mouth. "The antidote is wearing off…" replied Ash finally.
"What are we gonna do?" asked Sarah.
"We're gonna head to the Butterfly's place and kick his ass all over this carnival!" growled Ash.
"But you're in no condition to fight him! He'll kill you!" pleaded Sarah.
"Let me worry about that," Ash turned back to the front of the helicopter and nearly gasped at the immense tower that lay before them. A combination of modern architecture and the gothic style of many centuries ago. The building looked out of place in the field that had several trees surrounding it and little else. Ash had noticed this early on, that there where no circus tents within a hundred yards of the tower. "You guys know a way to land?" asked Ash glancing over at ICP.
"Yeah ya go-"
"What's that?" interrupted Ash as if ICP hadn't said anything. "The only way to land is to go straight through the building? Well okay if you say so. Not sure if that's safe but oh well." Ash pulled the controllers up and everyone behind him fell back as the helicopter shot straight up and stopped when it was nearly at the top. Ash pulled the helicopter back and took a deep breath blasting towards the tower aiming for one of the large windows. The moment before the helicopter made contact with the tower. Ash surveyed the situation in his mind. He was slowly dying, his backup consisted of a girl and two severely injured rapping clowns, his chain saw was dangerously low on gas, and he had a slight headache. Other than that Ash was more than ready for the last battle with the master of the Dark Carnival, the Butterfly.