Behind the Mask
BANG! BANG! Fired shots spook the living day lights out of the mysterious professor, backing away at the thundering bullets of Rio's gun. "AH stop what are you doing?" Prof. Karnack screamed, waving his hands in the air for Rio to stop. Eduardo gasped "Hey look lady, just put the gun down, we don't need any more bodies around here so just put the gun down". An enraged Rio growled as she fired again, "Shut the hell up I'm trying to aim".
A second pistol click was heard right beside Rio's blonde head; Kylie was now aiming her ghost blaster right at the warrior agent. "You heard Eduardo Rio, now put the gun RIGHT now" Kylie demanded. Rio slowly turned her head to Kylie and then her gun, the young woman laughed "What are you gonna do bust me? I'm not some stupid spook here I'm a living human being, and I'm not going to let this prick go until he starts coughing up info.
Every single person working in this building has been killed, EXCEPT him. He's the only one able to tell us about Jason and why he's in here. So unless you got any better ideas Elvira, I'd love to hear em". Kylie growled and blasted a stream of nuclear energy right by Rio's hair. Sweat trickled down Rio's head as she looked at Kylie, "They may not be bullets but nuclear energy still stings like a bitch" Kylie said. Slowly Rio lowered her pistol.
BAM! Everyone screamed and turned their terrified attention towards the steel sealed door, an angry female voice shouted "Who locked the dam door?". Taba sighed "Don't worry It's Maki I mean Shooting Star, she's a friend". Quickly the Kagura agent went to the steel door and punched in the access codes, the door whizzed up and Shooting star clicked her white heels into the room. Behind Star was Rio's team mate Maya, Rio sighed happily.
"Hey Taba, have you heard any news from the others?" Star asked, Taba sighed sadly "Not yet but I'm afraid......Tikami's dead". Blonde hair wavered as Star gasped, her light green eyes literally flashing with anger and fear. Maya blinked her pink eyes regretfully as she added, "I also found some lady with long purple hair, she's uh dead too". Rio silently broke the bad news about Yuji's death, and both were worried about Nanvel as well.
"If you haven't heard any news from your comrades then their surely dead" Karnack uttered coldly. Powerful knuckles dug into Karnack's cheek as Taba punched him right across the face, the man snarled "SHUT UP, heartless bastard. Those are our friends you're talking about. Just because we lost contact with Himagami and our boss, doesn't mean their both dead". Suddenly Kylie stood up with confusion, she didn't realize this until now.
"Are you? Are you Prof. Karnack?" Kylie asked. The doctor nodded his head sighing, "Yes I'm the one who made the distress call to all of you. We received word that there was an intruder inside our facility, so naturally we dispatched our security teams to take him out. But somehow this monster, this......thing it killed not only them, but everyone else in the entire building. I managed to hide myself inside a secure vault to make the call.
The call went through all right but Jason quickly found us......(sweats) I mean me, so I managed to escape and have been running ever since". Maya reloaded her rifle as she spoke, "Running is all you can do, that bastard's tougher then the terminator. No matter how many times I shot him or how hard I blasted him, he just kept on coming and coming". Karnack wiped his glasses, replying "I thought the 3 of you combined could surely kill him".
"I'd say you fucked up on the math there doc" Eduardo said. Kylie silently elbowed his gut as she turned to Karnack, "Back to what Rio said I think we should all know more about this Jason guy". Maki stared oddly at Kylie "What's there to know? He's a dead guy with a mask and a big knife, that's it". Rio quickly interrupted "What the hell are you talking about? The reports didn't say jack shit about him being a freaking cyborg Einstein".
"All the more reason to start spilling the beans, wouldn't you say so doc?" Eduardo added. Eyes started to surround and enclose Karnack in the corner of the weapons room, the doctor knew he was cornered and had zero options left. Jason was coming, they all knew it, and if they were going to survive this they would need all the help they could get. Maya and Maki began to stock up and load up the armory's weapons as Karnack prepares to speak.
The doctor began "I'm afraid your ahem......data files on Jason aren't 100% complete, there was a prior incident quite recently involving Jason Voorhees. There was a space academy class investigating ruins on Earth 1, their teacher Prof. Lowe and his students had discovered 2 frozen humans. One was a female scientist, and the other was......Jason Voorhees. Believed to be dead for good, Lowe's crew headed back home with their findings.
However somehow Jason awoke from the cold sleep and started slaughtering the crew aboard Grendel, including Prof. Lowe himself. Jason was miraculously though was destroyed by the ships' stationary android. The crew sent out a distress signal, and eventually left onboard space ship T- Emette. But not before learning that Jason was revived by their cybernetic regeneration labs. The ship was eventually destroyed due to a ruptured hull.
According to the only 2 survivors aboard the Grendel, Jason and their ship's sergeant were both vaporized when entering the atmosphere. Obviously you can see that was not the case. Jason entered this lab because it is the same site where the old Camp Crystal Lake was on Earth 1, in his mind he's home. But he will never stop, Jason Voorhees will never stop until each and every last one of us is dead", Karnack finished with a heavy deepening sigh.
Meanwhile......
The weakened groans of the living come to life inside a trashed, glass covered laboratory. Red pigtails rise up as Boss Lady's cute face wrinkled with confusion, "Oh my aching head......and my ass" Boss Lady squeaked. Many hours had passed since the young ghost hunter had been knocked unconscious by Jason; she had fallen behind a lab desk after being struck. Slowly the red head wandered her bare ankles among the shattered glass.
"Uh AHHHHHH" a blood curdling scream erupted from her as she saw the snapped corpse of her former employer Ako. Boss Lady bolted out of the lab and ran down the halls, her tear jerking eyes searching frantically for a door, a window, any way to escape this blood soaked nightmare. The girl eventually found the stairs and opened the grey doors, she screamed as she found a gun aimed at her face. "NO, please don't kill me" Boss lady said.
"Holy hell lady I almost blew your freaking face off, next time try knocking" Garrett said as he lowered his ghost blaster. Boss lady blinked baffled blue eyes, just who the hell was this guy she thought. Garrett's wheel chair rolled towards the girl as he spoke, "I'm Garrett Miller, one of the ghost busters, and you are?". Red pig tails shook as she laughed a bit "Sorry about that, you can call me Boss lady, owner and manager of Team Kagura".
Confused at even what Team Kagura was, Garrett rolled his eyes up and down the girl. Boss lady growled "What the hell are you looking at?". Garrett replied "Just what kind of business is Kagura, a day care? You look like you should still be in diapers". Boiling steam and red rage painted Boss Lady's face; she raised her hand to slap Garrett when a scream stopped her. Spine chilling screams race down the two's spines at sound of the shriek.
The source of the scream was coming from the beautiful and brainy Nanvel, mechanic for Team Warrior and now witness to its destruction. The poor sweet girl's eyes dropped tears of horror at sight of security control room. Maki and Lilica lay dead on the floor with their blood splattered all over the room. "Lilica? Maki? Mommy? I think I want to go home now" Nanvel helplessly squeaked. Thundering metallic steps quickly approached Nanvel.
The dark girl turned to see Jason's bulging blood red eyes of insufferable evil, behind a cold soulless face of steel and metal. Jason was planning to attack the others in the armory but got distracted by Nanvel's screaming. Gulping swallows traveled down Nanvel's trembling neck as she backed away, "Silly me......this isn't where I parked my car......I'll just be going then" Nanvel said. Jason's machete slammed down towards Nanvel's head.
The girl screamed and dropped onto her butt, long legs spreading to dodge the bloody blade Jason so hatefully swung at her. Faster and closer Jason sliced his machete at Nanvel, and each time the frightened girl barely managed to avoid injury. "Come on; come on, where is it? Where is it?" Nanvel said to herself, light brown finger tips fumbling over her black shorts pockets. Angrily Jason swung his blade right towards her Nanvel's head.
"WAHHH" the girl screamed and quickly rolled away, her hair and clothes getting sliced by the slamming blade. A small pink mechanical mouse was now sitting in Nanvel's trembling finger tips. "You're my only hope Pinky S9- X71, please help me, do your best" Nanvel said to the tiny machine. Baffled by this action, Jason simply stared in confusion as Nanvel placed the robot mouse onto the steel floor. The mouse whirred its wheels into Jason.
Black boots and wavering legs sprang to life as Nanvel bolted out of there as quickly as she could. The masked murderer Jason seemed memorized by the small pink rolling mouse, the toy rodent continued to drive into his dead leg. Eventually the cat was tired with playing with the fake mouse; Jason longed to taste the blood of the real mouse. Jason's foot raised up then slammed it down and crunched the robot mouse. KABOOM! A huge blast erupted forth.
The metal mouse's powerful explosive shook the entire complex with tremendous force. Rio, Taba, Maya, and the others screamed as the whole building shook like it was being slammed with a nuclear attack. Garrett and Boss Lady screamed, holding their hands above their heads as debris collapsed from the ceiling. The explosion destroyed the floor and dropped Jason down through the levels of the building, he fell deeper and deeper.
Crunching metal framed the outline of Jason's body on basement's ceiling. The very same basement that Garrett and Boss Lady were hiding in, they held their red haired heads in dreadful fear of being squashed. Reluctantly and slowly, the two opened their eyes to see Jason's smashed outline. "Whew, thank god, wasn't for those steel boards we'd all be pancakes right now" Garrett said. Curiously Boss lady looked up "But what the hell is it?".
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To be continued......