Vampires

Part III

After Martin vomited violently for what seemed to him like an eternity, he finished of the work he had left to get his machine working again. He had been listening to the radio for the last five hours. Then they brought the news: 'The police just revealed they found another victim of the so-called 'Drainer'. This brings the total now to 10 people. The lady was found at her house, the police urges anyone with information about the going on's at No. 45 Sandwich Street to contact them a s a p.'

Martin then thought that the address somehow rang a bell, but he couldn't figure out why? Then they revealed the identity of the latest victim, it was Mrs. Susanna Fisher, a retired science teacher. When martin heard that, his face went white again.

'Fuck, our former science teacher. She just lives round the corner.' Martin then says.

Suddenly the door opens, and scarlet comes in:

'Anything wrong darling?'

'They just announced the latest victim, it's Mrs. Fisher, you know our former Science teacher, and she just lives round the corner.' Martin then says

'Well then it is good that you haven't destroyed that yet.' And she pointed at the machine.

'Yes you are right it is rather good that I didn't destroy it. Can you stay here and watch out? I go and get some help, be back soon.' And Martin gave Scarlet a kiss, and then went back to Sunnydale. Fortunately, the pc was able to store everything that happened, so he didn't have to come up with some weird story. When he is back in there, he heads straight for the library, and he is then greeted by Willow:

'Hi martin, what you doing here, didn't you say you wanted to destroy your machine?'

Buffy then said: 'Wait a second? If you are here, you probably need our help again, what has gone wrong this time?'

'Well I received a parcel from UPS the other day, that on its own wouldn't have been so bad but it was the contents which made me put my machine back together.' Martin says.

'What was in it?' Xander asks.

'A human heart, with the message: You are next. You see it didn't think that would be just a joke. So I decided to get my machine working again, and now I heard in the news that they got a serial killer on the loose the papers call 'The drainer' and you know what that means, don't you' Martin then says.

Martin then asks them (Buffy, Giles, Willow, and Xander) to hold hands, and a few moments later, they are back in Martin's basement. He then does the same as last time, goes into another episode of Buffy and gets Angel. When he is back Martin looks at Scarlet, and says:

'Well we are going now to look for Markus and Kathy. Would you stay here and guard the machine, just in case they come round. I don't want to imagine what they might get up to if they get to play with my machine! Here Scarlet, if they do come press Alt, ESC and DEL together and this will set a lethal computer virus free, and everything will be destroyed.'

'Sure darling no problem at all, I'll see you later, take care.' And Scarlet gives Martin a kiss.

Martin, Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander and Angel then leave, obviously through the main door. When they got out of sight, Scarlet goes to the backdoor, and opens it.

'They are gone, you can come in now!' Scarlet then says.

'Well I thought they would never leave.' Kathy then says, as she appears at the backdoor.

When Markus appears as well, he says: 'Scarlet you are one incredible actress. How you fooled them, that is worth an Oscar nomination, I think!'

'Well their fault, that they didn't realize that once you two got rid of these pestering souls, you got hold of Lis' spell!' Scarlet then says.

They go down the basement, and Markus starts searching for a cupboard with a lock on it. When he finds it, he smashes the lock, and opens it.

'Have a look at this. It is paradise. 'Nightmare on Elm street' 'Hell raiser' 'The Omen' 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' and loads of Steven King films. Who shall we get?' markus said with an evil smile on his face.

'Well that all sounds very interesting, but you know who we should get first? Spike and 'the master' what you think of that?' Scarlet then says.

'Brilliant idea.' Markus then says. So he takes one of the Buffy tapes, puts in, and presses a key on the keyboard, and suddenly the screen come up, and it says on there: Please press ALT+ESC+DEL

'Don't press those Keys.' Scarlet screams.

'Why not, what's wrong?' Kathy then says.

'This combination will release a booby trap martin created, it will erase absolutely everything. Instead just try to press enter.' Scarlet then says.

Markus does that, and the normal screen appears. Markus then tells the computer to put Spike and the master together into one storyline. The computer does that, and markus puts that watch on, and goes in there.

'Hello there, how's it going? Not too good I assume? You know why it doesn't work, because you are doomed, the good will always will over the bad. At least here, but I can show you a world where anything is possible.' Markus then says.

'Well why should we believe you, and who are you anyway?' Spike then says.

'If you don't believe me, I know you got the power to read my mind Master, please feel free.' Markus then says towards the Master. He does as Markus suggested, and finds out there is just a slight little problem.

'Yes but what you haven't told us is that you friend already got Buffy, and the others to help him.' The Master then says.

'But you also know that what I said is true, anything is possible. And if you come with me, I show you something that will even out the odds in our favor. Unfortunately we will have to hold hands to do that.' Markus then says.

So they do, they hold hands, and suddenly they are back in martin's basement. The master looks around, and sees that there are two vampires looking at them.

'I can get a lot of creatures you would probably enjoy seeing at work.' Markus then says, and goes over to that cupboard, get a tape out, and puts it in, and presses play. 'This is one of my favorites.' He then says.

On the screen suddenly appears Robert Englund acting his best character he ever been casted for: Freddy Krueger.

'You see this guy lives in the dreams of teenagers, and kills them in this dream world, but once they die in the dream world, they die in the real world too.' Markus then tells the Master.

'Well that would certainly be nice to have him around.' Kathy then said.

'Why don't we two go in there, and convince him to come with us?' Markus then said looking at the master.

When Markus and 'the Master' then appeared in the Movie, they disturbed Freddy, as he was just about to kill his next victim. A young boy frighten to the hilt, the master grabs him, and sinks his teeth in that frightened boys neck.

'Hey get your own boy, that was mine! Get the fuck out of my nightmare!' Freddy then hisses towards the master.

'Hold your horses. We come to over you a perfect opportunity. A place where nobody believes you exist, not even those flipping teenagers! Would you like that?' Markus then says.

'You got to be kidding me, please stop that nonsense talk.' Freddy then replied.

'Well Master would you care to show him?' markus then said.

The master then built up a link between the three of them, and Freddy actually started to believe it. He said:

'Ok can't be much worse then around here?'

When we are back at Martin's basement Markus introduces them.

'Freddy may I introduce Spike the blonde guy over to your right. The gorgeous red head over there is my Kathy, and this lovely brunette is Scarlet. Well people meet Freddy Krueger.'

'I think we better get a move on, they might come back any time soon!' Scarlet then said.

'Well Scarlet is right, we don't want to ruin the surprise now do we?' the master then says.

'Let's go back to our place?' Kathy then says.

So they make their way to Markus and Kathy's place. Just when they leave Martin's house, they are being watched from a safe distance.

'Oh fuck, they got Scarlet, and what are they doing here?' Xander then said.

'Well I'm sure we could probably handle all of them, but it might be a bit difficult to get rid of that guy?' Martin then said referring to Freddy.

'Who is that guy?' Angel and Giles said at the same time.

'Well people that is Freddy Krueger. His specialty is slipping inside teenagers' dreams, and killing them there. Obviously once they are dead in the dream, they die in real life too.' Martin then says.

'How you kill something like that?' Xander then asks.

'Well I'm not that sure, but I think it has something to do with those razor sharp blades he got instead of fingers on his right hand. You need to somehow cut his head off with his blades.' Martin then replies.

When Freddy and the others are out of ranger, Martin, Buffy and co. go back inside, straight to the basement.

When they get to the machine, on the monitor it says 'Hard-drive formatting complete'.

'What does that mean?' Giles then says pointing at the screen.

Martin looks at it, sinks to the ground, and says: 'Oh my god! They deleted everything. It's completely useless now.'

'Don't you have a backup lying around somewhere?' Willow then said.

'Remember I was about to destroy that machine, so the first thing I did was to destroy the backup, unfortunately!' Martin then admitted.

'Well that does it, now you done it. Does that mean we'll have to stay here forever?' Xander then says.

'Well if we wont survive this it doesn't really matter. If we do, I can always try and re program the damn thing, will take months but I am sure I can do it!' Martin then says.

'Don't think so negative Martin, we'll get through this!' Angel then says.

'Well the Sun is about to rise, so lets get some rest. We going to have to fight soon, so lets get some rest!' Giles then says. They all are pretty tired, so they don't have any objections.

At Kath and Markus's place

'Well the Sun is rising, and they are probably pretty tired, so they will go and get some rest, and with his help, we could get rid of a few of them, couldn't we?' Markus then says.

'Good idea Markus.' Scarlet then says.

'Would you be so kind and do us the favor and look for them, and kill them Mr. Krueger?' Markus then says.

'I don't take orders from anybody, and I sure am not going to start that now.' Freddy then said.

'Well look at it this way: If you do this, we won't be asking you for a favor again, you can do what ever you want!' Kathy then said.

'Ok we got a deal then, but you stay the hell away from me after this is all over, is that clear!' Freddy then said, and disappeared into the dream world.

Giles starts dreaming first.

He is back in Sunnydale, at the High school library. Suddenly Miss Calendar appears. He wants to go over to give her a hug, but then she suddenly shows fangs and says: 'Come give me a kiss my darling!' He starts screaming, and suddenly Buffy appears, and says: 'What's wrong Giles?'

'Don't you see Jenny is a vampire!' he answers.

Buffy then answers to that: 'Well and your point is?' and suddenly she looks like a vampire too. Giles' worst nightmare seems to surface, losing Buffy to the vamps. Then he thinks: 'Well I have to die here and now, I won't go without a fight!' So he tries to start fighting the two people he loved most in his life. Suddenly Jenny's right hand turns into Freddy's razorblade hand, and the creature, which looked like Jenny, chops Giles head off.

Next to start dreaming is Xander. He is sitting in the High school cafeteria, suddenly Willow comes in, sits down besides him and tells him: 'I love you' and gives him a kiss. Then the door opens again, and Buffy, Angelus and Willow come in, all showing their fangs. Xander is shocked he turns around to look at willow, who was sitting besides him, but she is gone. So he tries to run away, but there where the door was, is now a long corridor, which ends in a 'dead end'. When those three catch up with him, he tries to fight them off, but it doesn't work. They are obviously much stronger, and Angelus and Buffy hold Xander, and Willow caresses his face, and tells him she loves him, but after she said that she slams her fingers against his chest, and digs deep into his flesh, and manages to rip his heart out.

After that those three disappear and Freddy suddenly stands there, and says: 'Well that was fun, let's see who's next?'

Willow is sitting in the high school library, when Xander comes in. He comes over to her, and takes her hands and says: 'I love you, I always loved you.' Which surprises her, and then suddenly he tries to choke her. She gets away from him, and then says:

'You are not Xander. He would never do something like this. Who are you, show yourself!'

Then Xander turns into Freddy, and he says: 'You are going to die young lady'

Willow fortunately read countless books on a subject called 'lucid dreaming' and now that she had seen Freddy she knew that she was dreaming. Because of the fact that she still had the knowledge Martin's machine once gave her, she was even able to work magic while dreaming. Suddenly 4 people had the same dream. As Angel, Buffy and Martin came through the door.

'Here lets see how you handle this' Freddy said, and suddenly Willow, Angel, Buffy and Martin doubled. Which meant they now had to fight the evil inside them.

Angelus looked at Angel and said: 'You disgust me, still being the lapdog of the slayer, and trying to save the world? I cannot believe that this is supposed to be me, this coward.'

Then they all started fighting each other. Even Freddy couldn't tell anymore which one was which. After a while there was only one issue of the gang alive, and suddenly they all started to disappear.

'Better luck next time Asshole!' Willow then said.

They slowly woke up, and looked around, it did seem odd that Giles and Xander were still asleep, so Buffy went over to check on Giles. When she checked his pulse, her face went white.

'He is dead.' Buffy then shouted. After she said that, Willow went over to Xander and check him, and the same there, he was dead too. Buffy and Willow started crying, and then simultaneously said:

'They are going to pay for this!'

Angel then said: 'Well I know how you must feel right now, but Vengeance isn't a very good choice right now, it can be very dangerous! They are as clever as they are evil, so we better come up with a damn good plan!'

'Angel is right you know, as harsh as it might sound. We don't have time for vengeance right now!' martin then said.

Buffy then calmed down, went over to Willow, and tried to calm her down as well, and then said:

'Yes I know what you mean Angel. Anyone got an idea what we do next?'

'Well how about something to eat, we need to be at full strength when we face them!' Martin then said.

'Good idea, but what about angel?' Buffy then said.

Martin then reached out for his cell phone, and dialed a number:

'Hey Justin how you doing? I need you to do me a favor, can you get me some blood, and bring it to my address as soon as possible?'

'Come on Martin, you know I cant do that, I'll lose my job!' you were just able to hear from the phone.

'Oh come on Justin, you know you owe me one. I swear that is the last ever favor I'll ask you!'

From the phone you could hear then: 'Well I see what I can do, how much you need?'

'As much as you feel comfortable with taking, but at least about 4 of those little bags, thanks Justin, see you soon.' And Martin terminated the call.

Willow then said: 'Well as that is sorted what are we going to have?'

'I was thinking of Pasta with Prawns, and loads of different spices?' Martin then said.

'Sounds interesting, I'd like to try that very much.' Buffy then said.

Martin is in the kitchen, preparing dinner, when the doorbell goes. It is Justin with the blood. Angel answers the door.

'Who are you? I need to talk to Martin.' Justin then says.

'You're the guy Martin phoned earlier, aren't you?' Angel then asked, and called for Martin.

Martin came from the kitchen, and said hi to Justin and thanked him a few times for the prompt delivery.

'What you need that blood for anyway?' Justin then asked.

'If I told you, you wouldn't believe it, so don't ask. Thanks a lot.' And Martin shut the door.

Martin then returned to the kitchen.

'So what you putting into the pasta then?' Willow wanted to know.

'Well I was thinking of using Onions, Garlic, peppers, parsley, basil, and of course freshly ground black pepper and rock salt for the pasta, and some tiger prawns.' Martin then said.

'Uh that sounds delicious.' Willow then said.

Later on they all sat down for dinner; obviously Angel didn't think it would be a good idea to sit at the table with them. Who wants to smell blood while eating Pasta?

When it got dark outside in the end, they all hoped for the best, and went out. The two parties finally meet up in the park.

'Well hello there Angelus, and who we got here the slayer, well it is nice to see you again.' The master said with an evil grin upon his face.

'Isn't Scarlet a brilliant actress? We found the spell Lis used on me in her apartment, and thought of you. She does deserve an award for her performance, doesn't she?' Markus then told Martin.

Then the battle begins Spike takes on Angel, Kathy goes for Willow, she didn't really want to use her magic on Kathy, as she used to like her, so she tries to stand against her by just fighting her. When Willow realizes that it is not going to work like that, she uses magic to throw Kathy away from her.

In the Meantime Markus starts battling Buffy. They both seem to be very fast, very concentrated, and very agile. One moment it seems like Buffy has the upper hand, as she can score a hit against his jaw, and he tumbles back a few inches. The next moment it seems like Markus is beginning to get the upper hand, when he scores a kick against Buffy and send her down to the ground.

The Master, Freddy and Scarlet are standing there just watching what was going on. Then suddenly the Master spots Martin, and tells Scarlet to go and kill him. She still loves him, and actually turns around, and says no to the master. He is boiling with rage, as she dares to say no to him, so he wants to kill her, as an example to everyone that you don't say no to the master. Kathy wants to stop the fight from escalating, and gets in between the Master and Scarlet. Suddenly the Master hits Kathy instead of Scarlet, real hard, and Kathy falls to the ground, and shouts out:

'Markus, darling, help me.'

Markus then throws Buffy across the park, and runs over to Kathy. He kneels down, hold her in his arms, and she says: 'Markus, darling he did that' and she pointed at the master. Markus wants to go after the master, but she holds him back, and says:

'I can feel that I'm not going to make it. I love you, I will always love you.' Those are the last words before she turns to dust. Markus grabs some of that dust and starts to scream really loud. Then suddenly something strange happens, a white light appears from within Markus' heart, and he starts to realize what he has done and shouts out:

'What have I done? I've let pure evil into this world, and look where it got me, I lost the only thing that I really loved in this world.' Then he turns around to look at the master, and says: 'You fucking asshole, you are so going to pay for this. I'll kill you!'

Angel was distracted for a moment with all was going on around him, and Spike saw his opportunity to finish him. When Buffy saw that she ran over to Spike, and started punching and kicking him, so hard that he couldn't defend himself anymore, and she turned him into a bloody pulp, before she finally put a stake through his heart.

Willow then tries to do a little magic to weaken the master, but it doesn't work, he seems to know just how to neutralize what she throws at him.

Martin then comes over to Markus, and says: 'I am so sorry for your loss, but if you really going to take on the master, you best be very careful.'

Markus then looks at Martin, grabs him by the throat, and yells at him: 'Shut the fuck up. You are mostly responsible for all that happened. There wouldn't be any vampires around here now, if you never invented that damn machine.' Markus then throws him away. Scarlet then crosses his way, and he looks at her, and says: 'Get out of my sight, while you still can. You're basically the reason why my Kathy is no longer here, so if you want to live a little longer, get the fuck away from me!' So she pisses off, not without calling Markus several not very ladylike words.

In the middle of all this Freddy wants to escape into the dream world. Markus then sees that, and runs over to him, and holds him off from doing that.

' No you are not going to get away that easily. You should never have come here in the first place.' Markus then says.

'And who's going to stop me, you?' Freddy then says.

After Freddy said that Markus started to use him as a punching ball. Freddy then pushed him away, and started to defend himself. He scored a couple of hits against Markus; he ripped his shirt, and t-shirt. Markus then went to full frontal attack, and started kicking and punching him, until Freddy got so pissed off, that he pushed Markus away once more, and just as he moved his hand in position to try to cut Markus' head off, Markus then took hold of his arm, and with a lot of effort managed to guide it towards Freddy's throat, and succeeded in cutting his head off. The headless Freddy then fell to the ground, and stopped moving. Then markus decided to burn the remains.

After he set the remains of Freddy on Fire, he turned to the Master and went over to him. On his way to him, Buffy came in his way, and she said that she wanted to give him a hand tackling the Master.

Markus then threw Buffy across the park, and said: 'Stay the fuck away from me Slayer, he is mine, and mine alone.' When he got to the Master Markus then said, while looking into his eyes: 'Why did you kill my Kathy you bastard. I wouldn't have cared one bit if you killed Scarlet, but no you had to kill Kathy, and for that you will suffer the consequences!'

'Are you finished talking nonsense. If you want me then just try to take me.' The Master then said, and an almighty punch hit Markus throwing him down to the ground. Markus then gets back up, and runs towards the Master, and throws one punch after another, and he puts all his anger and hatred in the strength of his punches. The Master starts tumbling backwards. Then he can score a couple of hits himself, but it is no use Markus doesn't care about anything anymore, not about pain, and obviously not about anyone else. He continues to fight light an animal. Somehow the Master mobilizes the last resources of strength he has left after all these hits he has taken from Markus, and scores a couple of punches, and actually gets Markus to fall to the ground, and just as it looks to Markus as he was going to lose and die right here and now, he suddenly sees Kathy, and she says:

' Never surrender, never give up, you can beat him. I love you so very much.' And then she disappears again. This is enough for Markus to push the Master away and get up from the ground, and he grabs the Master by the throat and throws him against the ground, he picks him up again, and throws him back down. He then stands over him, and punches him as fast as he can. Finally Markus slashes his fingers against the masters' chest, and manages to crack his rib cage, and tears his heart out. Just before the Master slowly starts to turn to dust he sees how Markus throws his heart over to the remainders of the burnt Freddy.

That is it the battle is over. Buffy, Scarlet, Martin and Markus are the only survivors. Markus then gets up, and starts walking away.

' What are you going to do now Markus? Where are off to?' Martin then shouts after him.

Markus then stops, and turns towards them, and says: 'I'm so sick and tired of all this. I know that I can't stay here; I might want to kill you, for all that has happened! So you see I have to leave. I don't have a clue what I'll do and where I will go?' And he turns around and walks off.

THE END