Chapter twelve-The Final Battle
Most of the helicopter was destroyed upon impact but thanks in part to the window crashed through the building and crashed again into a wall inside the building. The four emerged from the wreckage and looked around. To Ash's horror they where surrounded by at least a hundred kung fu clown zombies both skinny and fat armed with various sharp weapons. "Gee…I NEVER saw this coming," said Ash looking around to see they had crashed into a giant rec. room type area. Directly in front of them was an elevator that Ash knew would take him to Butterfly. Ash's arm was growing more numb by the minute but managed to pull out his shotgun, spin it around and hold it at his side. He turned to Violent J, "I'm going to get to that elevator because I know it'll get me to Butterfly…how do you kill him?"
"Ya gotta destroy his heart," replied J raising his fists due to the fact he was too weak to produce the finger knives. "Least that's what I been told."
"I'll go for that…you three are gonna have to hold these guys down while I get up to face Butterfly. Can you handle these primitive screw heads?"
"Sure yo…we got yer back…"
Ash turned on his chain saw and got into a battle stance trying to mentally shake off the pain that was coursing through him. "Groovy." Ash raised his chain saw arm and charged blindly swinging his chain saw arm round and firing in every direction taking out at least two dozen of the zombies by the time he reached the elevator door. Ash turned to the battle and saw that ICP and Sarah where already being overwhelmed and despite trying to reason otherwise he couldn't let them die like that. He looked at his shotgun and sighed "I can't believe I'm doing this," he lifted the shotgun into the air, holding it like a javelin. "J!" When Ash saw that he had J's attention he threw the shotgun which sailed through the air and landed in J's hands. Violent J put it to good use and began opening fire on everything that came near him, Shaggy 2 Dope and Sarah who held her own by smashing an oncoming clown zombie in the head with a piece of the helicopter rubble. His situation now worse then before Ash saw that the elevator had only one button, up. Ash hit the button and in seconds, the door opened and Ash stepped inside. Once again there was only one button inside and it only said B on it. Ash hit the button and the moment he did the door opened and Ash stepped out to find himself in a large office like area.
"Well…well..well…you've finally made it. I have to admit I didn't think you'd make it here." The sleek leather chair behind the desk in front of Ash spun around and from it emerged the Butterfly looking the same way Ash had seen him during the first time the two had fought. "I have to admit I'm shocked you have slain every member of the Jokers Cards and made it through this carnival. Though your situation is pretty bleak at the moment I can tell the venom inside you is tearing you apart and you should be dead within the hour. I don't see you with your trusty shotgun anymore and," he sniffed the air, "Your chain saw has a good three minutes left in it."
"Three minutes is all I'm gonna need to send you back to Ringling Brothers clown boy," replied Ash who knew everything Butterfly had said was true but still forced a smile.
Butterfly simply shook his head, "I almost feel guilty for how easy it's going to be to kill you." Before Ash could reply Butterfly disappeared and then reappeared behind Ash giving him a single vicious punch that sent him flying into the table across the office. As groaned and saw Butterfly leaning down to grab him but Ash was able to react quickly and reached to his left grabbing a sharp edged old fashioned pen and jamming it into Butterfly's right eye. Ash then kicked Butterfly away and leapt to his feet turning on his chain saw and swinging with all his might at Butterfly. In mid air however a pain hit Ash in the pit of his stomach that was so great his swing died long before it hit Butterfly. Butterfly sneered, "See what I mean? The venom is quite amazing isn't it? It's my own design!" with that he reached back and punched Ash into the wall and shot his arm out like a stretched clutching the chain saw and tearing it off of Ash.
"Ahhhhh!!" Ash cried at the sudden pain and clutched the stump on where his hand used to be. The arm went back to Butterfly who tossed the chain saw to his other hand and drove the blunt end of it into Ash's stomach then came back up to hit him in the jaw. Butterfly wound back to do again but Ash sprung out and head but Butterfly causing him to drop the chain saw. Ash was now fighting off the sinking pain in his body and began punching Butterfly with everything he had then giving him a good uppercut which knocked Butterfly to the ground. Ash reached over to the table and grabbed a chunk of the table and swung as Butterfly who pointed at the piece of wood and stopped it in Ash's hands. He clenched his fist and it burst into flames. Ash dropped it abruptly and looked up but it was too late as Butterfly blasted Ash to the ground with a ball of energy then appeared in front of him and kicked him in the ribs three times as he tried to get up causing Ash to spit out several large globs of thick dark red blood. "Fucking pathetic," snarled Butterfly lifting up Ash by the throat and driving a knee into his gut.
I can't keep this up for much longer… thought Ash. This damn virus is gonna kill me if this damn nut doesn't first. Ash saw Butterfly trying to throw a fireball at him and dove out of the way. Butterfly appeared in front of him to try and get in a cheap shot but Ash saw it coming and uppercut Butterfly then stomped on his head and picked him up by the hair smashing his head into the wall. Ash seized the chance and went for his chain saw but stopped as it hovered up and went for him like a heat-seeking rocket. Ash ducked and turned around to see Butterfly holding the chain saw in his hand. Butterfly laughed and tossed the chain saw aside.
Meanwhile…
"I don't fuckin believe it," remarked Shaggy.
"I know…we actually won," agreed J. He looked over at Sarah who was looking worse for wear. "You fought pretty good yerself… I mean for a bitch an all."
Sarah looked at J with a look of utter disdain, "Gee…thanks a lot."
J looked down at the shotgun Ash had given him and knew what he had to do, "We gotta go up there no matter how fucked up it's gotta be and get this to Ash."
"Yeah…he did save out life with it an all," agreed Shaggy.
"Then let's go," snapped Sarah running towards the elevator. Shaggy watched her go the turned to Violent K who shrugged and ran after her.
Back to the main event…
Ash was now holding on by a thread and knew he couldn't fight Butterfly much longer. Ash saw Butterfly form an energy sword and swing it as Ash who ducked and punched Butterfly in the jaw then spun around and knocked Butterfly into the tv monitors with a roundhouse kick. Butterfly regained his composure and chuckled, "Let's see how you like THIS!" Butterfly raised his hands and as he did all the TV monitors removed themselves from their original spots and soon where all floating behind Butterfly who smiled and brought his hands down. Sending all of the TVs at Ash who managed to avoid most of them but one hit him in the chest and another in the side of the head. "Time to end this."
"Not yet ya ugly son of a bitch!"
Butterfly's eyes widened, "What?! It can't be!" he bolted around and stared at ICP and Sarah.
"You better believe it," grinned Shaggy.
"Yo Ash! Catch!" J wound back and just as Ash had down threw the shotgun in the air. The moment he did Butterfly blasted the three of them with a laser that sent them smashing into the wall and unable to move. "I'll deal with you three later," he turned back to Ash and gasped as he saw himself staring down the shotgun which was aimed right at his heart.
"Guess the jokes on you," remarked Ash. Not giving Butterfly even a second to respond Ash opened fire a single time blasting several things out of Butterfly's spine but most notably, his heart which fell to the ground with a sickening splat. Ash knew he had it and aimed his shotgun but once again just as he was about to pull the trigger the venom hit him again. Only this time it was like a tidal wave and Ash fell to his knees.
"The venom is taking it's final stages…you have less then a couple minutes to live!" cackled Butterfly weakly. "Good try with the heart…" Ash bit down on his lower lip and aimed his shotgun at the heart which Butterfly was getting closer and closer to. Ash closed his eyes pulled the trigger once and dropped the shotgun and let his head fall to the floor. Ash forced his eyes open and saw that the heart was in a million little pieces. Ash moved his eyes up and saw Butterfly staring down at the destroyed heart in disbelief. He looked down at Ash in open-mouthed shock. "But I'm a fucking demon," the moment this reference to Dogma left his lips he burst into flames and fell back exploding as he hit the ground. The paralysis affect on ICP and Sarah was released and the three where at Ash's side helping him up. Ash began to feel little bits of his strength returning but still felt as if he was on deaths door. As soon as they lifted him up an earthquake rocked everything around them and explosions began to burst from all around them.
"Only one way outta here," said J pulling Ash along with Shaggy and Sarah to the nearest window and leaping through it. Ash saw that they where plummeting to earth and turned his head to J.
"Any reason why you did that?"
"The only way to get away from the explosions. Hopefully the Carnival will disappear and we'll end up right back where we where before we hit the ground."
"And if it doesn't?"
"Well…I didn't really think that far."
"Typical."
"Fuck you ho! I saved yer damn life!"
"More of that lack of respect shit," observed Shaggy as they continued to fall. "Just when we had something good goin too."
"I hope we hit the ground," muttered Sarah. At that moment they saw a white light over the horizon that was was spreading in every direction causing everything it touched to disappear. It soon came to them and they found themselves surrounded by a white light."