Chapter 15: Like Father Like Son
At the very same time that Stephen's heart stopped, Michael Myers' heart had stopped. The second ambulance drove. Medics were also caring for Michael. The head medic shouted to her partners, "Get the pads!" A second medic came over with the shock pads as they prepped Michael. His heart monitor also was blank. The third medic was apprehensive as he tried finding a suitable vein to inject some medicine into. He was shaking as he turned Michael's wrist around. He saw a strange black triangle tattooed on the Shape's wrist. The head medic yelled at him, "Give him the shot!" The medic with the needle placed a shaky hand on the Shape's wrist and inserted the needle. He pushed the medicine into Michael's body and the Shape began to convulse. The medic with the shock pads turned the electronic defibrillator on. The head medic picked up a scalpel and prepared to cut open Michaels blue jumpsuit to give them access to his chest.
Stephen convulsed on the table as the medics shocked his open chest with a defibrillator. Lindsay herself took over, "Clear!" They stood back and she shocked the pale boy. He convulsed and the heart monitor continued to go blank. One medic tried to get her to call it but she pushed him away, "Raise it to 150! Clear!" Lindsay shocked him again, "Damn it Stephen! Clear!" she shocked him again and his heart monitor began to pulse slightly. A medic called out, "We got a heart beat!" Lindsay wiped off the sweat which had accumulated on her brow, "He's stabilizing…thank god." Stephen took a deep breath suddenly which started Lindsay. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at her. She brushed his bangs aside and smiled.
Michael was still convulsing as the head medic prepared to cut his overalls open. Suddenly he stopped and fell limp. The medics stood in silence worriedly looking at each other. The medic with the now empty needle looked down at Myers' hand and stopped breathing. He turned sickly pale and looked to the other two paramedics, "His hand is moving…" Michael's hand was slowly forming a fist. His heart monitor changed from a steady line to a sharp beep. His heart had restarted. The three paramedics jumped at the sound of the beep. All of a sudden Michael sat up on the table, he caught all of the medics by surprise as he quickly grabbed the empty needle from the first medic's hand. He fiercely jammed the needle into the medic's neck and pushed down. Air was injected into the man's brain and he instantly dropped to the ambulance ground. The head medic screamed and the driver looked in his rear-view mirror and gasped.
Lindsay was patting Stephen's head, "It's ok baby, you're going to be fine." The driver shouted, "What the hell are they doing!?" Lindsay looked forward along with the other three paramedics. They watched in confusion through the windshield as the ambulance in front of them started to swerve.
Back in the other ambulance…
Michael grabbed the scalpel out of the head medic's hand and swiftly slashed her throat with it. She fell back over some medical equipment. The medic near the defibrillator stood frozen in fear and Michael quickly seized the opportunity. The shape yanked the shock pads from the medic's hands and turned them on him, he pushed the pads onto the man's chest and an electric shock sent the medic flying up to the drivers seat.
Michael got up off the stretcher and lumbered forward where he grabbed the medic by the shoulders and yanked him back. The driver was screaming and trying to regain control of the ambulance. Michael grabbed the driver from behind and broke his neck. He pulled the driver right out of his seat and tossed him into the back of the bus.
Lindsay stood up and looked at the paramedics. They were all watching through windshield along with the driver. The ambulance in front of them was swerving madly on the road. The two vehicles were about half a mile from the Old Mill's Creek Bridge. The front ambulance swerved into oncoming traffic before quickly turning and going back into the right lane. Lindsay looked down at Stephen and said, "It's ok, everything's ok." Stephen's eyes told her that he knew she was lying.
Lindsay looked up suddenly when she heard the paramedics screaming. The driver shouted, "Oh my god!" Lindsay watched from the back of the ambulance. The back doors of the front ambulance broke open and a body came hurtling out of it. It flew at the second ambulance, straight towards the windshield. Lindsay and the paramedics screamed as the body hit the windshield and flew over the roof of the vehicle.
Lindsay ran to the back of the ambulance and looked outside where she saw the body of one of the other medics hit the road. She looked back forward and gasped as the front ambulance swerved to the right and stopped. The driver shouted to Lindsay and the medics, "Hold on!" He drove past the other ambulance and quickly pulled over to the side of the road.
The driver put the ambulance in park and jumped out of the vehicle. Lindsay shouted to him and ran over to the back of the ambulance. She pounded on the window and yelled to him, "No! It's not safe!" The three medics came up behind her and watched through the back door window while Stephen lay on the stretched behind them.
The ambulance driver walked over to the second ambulance slowly, he called for anyone, "Is everybody ok? Are you guys alright?" The vehicle sat idling on the road, blue smoke slowly rising from the exhaust pipe. It was dark in the vehicle. The driver walked around back and saw the two doors were slightly open. He opened one and looked in. It was black in the bus, a few sparks flew around from the blown defibrillator. The driver covered his mouth, "Jesus…" he quietly said to himself. The dim light from the sparks aloud him to see the smeared blood, the bodies…the white mask coming towards him.
Lindsay and the three medics with her watched intently but lost sight of the driver when he went behind the ambulance. Suddenly the dark vehicle revved up. The headlights came on brightly and Lindsay started backing up. She looked at Stephen and said, "Go…go,go,go!" She looked at the medics, one; a thin man with blonde hair; ran to the front drivers seat and shifted gears. Lindsay turned around and saw the ambulance behind them started moving forward. It came rushing at them and harshly rammed into the vehicle's backside. Lindsay and the other two medics fell forward and Lindsay got up quickly and took Stephen by the hand. She yelled up to the blonde medic, "Let's go!!" He hit the gas and the ambulance took off.
Lindsay raced back to Stephen's side and wrapped an arm over him to hold him steady, "It's gonna get bumpy kid." The blonde paramedic drove at a steady speed and the other two medics stood in the back watching out the back door windows. One looked at Lindsay, "They're coming faster!" Lindsay yelled to the blonde medic, "Faster!" The medic nodded and pushed down on the accelerator.
Lindsay could hear the other ambulance roaring behind them. She left Stephen's side and peered through the back windows from behind the two medics. Her eyes widened when she saw the ambulance behind them racing closer and closer. Suddenly it rammed into the ambulance again and they all shook. The vehicle swerved and the blonde medic had to twist the steering wheel as far as it would go to keep them from going off the road.
Lindsay felt her pulse quicken and a shot of adrenaline coarse through her. Her legs tightened and she braced herself against Stephen's stretcher. The ambulance behind them came forward again and rammed into the back of them, much harder this time. Lindsay grabbed Stephen and held him as the back end of the vehicle was actually lifted off the ground from the force of the impact. One of the medics shouted, "We're gonna go off the road!" The second medic yelled, "He's coming again, brace yourselves!"
The dark ambulance came racing towards them again just as they reached Old Mill Creek Bridge. It's headlights shone brightly and blinded the blonde medic's view from behind. He shouted, "I can't see anything!" Lindsay looked at Stephen who was worriedly glancing all over the place. She gently touched the tube in his neck, "Don't try to talk, I have to take this out." He closed his eyes as she quickly pulled the needle from his throat. He gasped and gagged. Lindsay took some gauze from nearby and wrapped it around the boys neck. "It's ok, we have to get this stuff off of you." She pulled the heart monitor stickers off from his chest. She smiled and said, "Sorry we had to cut your costume open." She looked for something to close his outfit with and found some medical tape, "Here." She said as she taped up his costume, "Good as new?"
The blonde driver yelled, "We're gonna crash!" Lindsay picked Stephen up and set him down in a corner behind the front passenger seat. She kneeled down and wrapped her arms around him to protect him from the crash. The two medics in back braced themselves as the dark ambulance crashed into the side of them.
The ambulance veered off to the right. The blonde medic screamed as the right side of the vehicle screeched along the side of the bridge. Metal on metal crashing, sparks flew from the ambulance as it slid along side of the metal bridge railing. The dark ambulance behind them rammed into them one final time. It was the hardest impact yet. Both vehicles went careening up against the right bridge railing. The medics screamed as their vehicle went hurling over the edge. Lindsay held Stephen close, praying they survived the crash.
The ambulance went over the railing and flew into a nearby tree. The six passengers screamed as leaves and branches broke against the ambulance. They were all hurled into the air as the bus flipped over. Lindsay held Stephen close as they went flying into the ceiling. The bus flew over onto it's roof and stopped as it nestled into the thick tree branches.
The second ambulance flew over the side of the bridge as well, but it was a bit further behind the first vehicle. It fell front first into the cold lake beneath. It was just ten feet away from the shore line. The bus hit the water and fell onto it's back where it slowly started to sink.
Lindsay was lying on the ceiling which had now become the ground. She slowly regained consciousness and opened her eyes. She saw the inside of the ambulance from the opposite side. She her right side aching from the violent collision. Lindsay looked down and saw Stephen in her arms, he was also unconscious. "Stephen?" She whispered. She gently shook him and her moaned groggily. His eyes slowly opened and he looked up at her. Lindsay got up onto her knees and used her hands to feel around the ground. After she got her bearings straight she looked at the boy, "Are you hurt?" He looked himself up and down and shook his head, "I don't think so," His voice was raspy and quiet from his throat."
Stephen started to sit up and the ambulance creaked. Lindsay held her hands up and said, "Don't make any sudden movements, I don't think it's stable." Stephen crawled on his hands and knees and started looking for the other medics. Lindsay looked downwards and found the drivers seat. Lindsay saw the blonde paramedic lying against the dashboard, blood flowing from his forehead. She looked behind her and saw the stretcher on it's side, a paramedic lying unconscious underneath it. She crawled over to the man and shook him. He groaned and woke up, "What the hell happened…" She helped him out from under the stretcher and said, "We're stuck." The freckled man looked past her and saw the third paramedic sitting next to the back doors, her head had a deep cut in it. He got up and tried walking forward but the van creaked louder. They could feel the vehicle swaying gently in the branches, back and forth.
Lindsay slowly got up and Helped Stephen to his feet. The three of them slowly stood and tried to balance the vehicle. The freckled paramedic slowly walked over to the medic on the floor and helped her to her feet. Her eyes open and she reached a shaky hand to her forehead, "I think I have a concussion." Lindsay half walked, half crawled over to the blonde paramedic and felt his neck for any signs of a pulse. She turned to the others, "He's dead." Stephen looked around and saw the back doors, he went over to them and was about to open them when the freckled medic ran to him and said, "Wait! Take a look out that window, see below? The doors are helping those branches brace the weight of the van. If we open it, we might tip over." Stephen backed away and looked to Lindsay, "How are we going to get out of here?"
Meanwhile
Thom sat in the passenger seat of Sheriff Grayson's car as they drove to Smith's Grove. Mark was on his radio, "I want all units at the Doyle house immediately. I want Kara, Dan and Jesse put under twenty four hour watch. Somebody get a chopper out to Haddonfield Memorial hospital to meet Stephen Doyle and Myers."
Thom listened to this and thought about Stephen, he looked pretty bad after that fall. If anything happens to him, he'd make Myers pay…and Wynn. "How much longer till we get there Mark?" Thom asked, Mark looked out his window and saw a road sign, "Should be there in about twenty minutes." Thom looked at his watch, it was quarter to nine already, "Where'd the time go." Mark smiled to himself, "Yeah, tell me about it. Been one hell of a night." Thom looked out into the blackness of the woods by the road, "Night's not over yet."
John stared at Wynn as he realized what the madman planned, "You're going to use Stephen, pass the evil on to him…" Dr. Wynn burst out laughing and John got angry, "You think this is funny!? Playing with people's lives, you sick fuck." Wynn regained his composure and lightly replied, "No, no dear boy. We're not going to pass Michael's legacy on to his son…we're going to make him Michael's final sacrifice. After you of course." John went pale, "Stephen is…Michael's son?" Wynn got a gleam in his eye, "Oh yes…you didn't know that did you Mr. Tate. My, my, what dirty secrets your family does have. What other skeletons are hiding in the Myers' closet?"
John looked down at his feet and quietly spoke, "What else do you know about my family." 'family' John choked at the word, his family was dead, his family was sick. Terrence answered, "Your family has been plagued by evil since the early sixties. Evil never dies young man, it only rests and grows stronger. How many people had Michael slaughtered over the years? I wonder if he's met his quota this year." John stood up and surprised Wynn, "You son of a bitch. You've destroyed an entire family lineage because of this sick shit. I'm not gonna let you kill me or Stephen, do you hear me you mother fu-" One of the men in suites came up behind John and knocked him out. Wynn smiled as he continued to run his finger along the knife in his lap, "Soon, the harvest will begin and the evil will be passed on."
Dan sat down on the couch with Jesse. They watched as a few more police cars arrived on the scene. Cops were all over the house, all over the block. They were talking to neighbors, dusting for prints around the house. They had sealed off the attic with yellow tape and even confiscated the cars for evidence. Jesse was beyond tired, she was beyond shock. She was at her limit, all she could do was hold her boyfriend's hand and give him strength.
Kara walked up to the kids with an officer, "Jesse, this officer is going to take you home. Your parents are worried sick, you need to be with them." Jesse nodded without looking up. She stood up and walked off with the police man, she turned back and gave a vacant look to Dan. Dan stood up and collapsed back onto the couch. Kara ran over to his side and started patting his head, "Baby, your exhausted, just try and sit still. You've been through so much tonight." Dan felt strange, he felt a spark of anger ignite in his heart. A darkness was growing inside of him and he was frightened of it.
Old Mill Creek Bridge 8:50 pm
"We're going to have to climb down." Lindsay spoke to the two medics and Stephen as she looked out the back windows. She saw the other ambulance in the lake, not too far from the lake's shore. She peered out and noticed movement coming from the back end facing them. "Hey, over here." She signaled, and the two paramedics came over behind her and looked out, "It's George!" George, the driver was trying to claw his way out from the back of the bus. The female medic tried to open the door but the freckled medic held her back, "No, wait." Lindsay's eyes widened, "Oh shit…" they watched while Stephen tried to get a look, "What's going on?" Lindsay spoke, "Stephen get back, don't look." Stephen frowned and took a step back, he felt his head getting light and realized his head was still badly injured. Lindsay and the medics watched with concern as George finally pulled himself half way out of the ambulance. The vehicle was sinking into the lake and George was trying to climb out of the increasingly steep exit. Suddenly he was pulled back. He screamed as a shadow of a man came behind him. Lindsay realized who it was, "We cant save him…" The two medics watched in horror as George was pulled back by the shape. Michael started slashing George up with a scalpel and the driver cried in pain. His head had several deep cuts on it and finally he fell back into the bus just as it sank beneath the surface.
Lindsay looked back, "We need to find something to use as a rope." The freckled medic spoke up, "We have a winch and cable on the front of the ambulance. We use it when we need to pull a person or vehicle from a ditch or wreck. The cable should be strong enough to hold us but it's outside under the base of the hood." Lindsay thought a moment and said, "Can you get to it?" The freckled medic looked at the passenger door and nodded, "I think so, I can climb out there and back." Lindsay nodded, "Ok, do it but be careful, one wrong move and we all go down." The medic complied, "Thank god for all those EMT training scenarios." The female medic called to him, "Be careful." He smiled, "I got it."
The male paramedic slowly opened the passenger door just enough to get out. He looked down and took a breath, they were high. He climbed between several branches and landed on solid footing. He balanced himself on a branch and slowly started to climb around to the front of the ambulance. He saw the winch on top of the flipped over vehicle. He unhooked the cable and started to pull. Once he had enough slack, he re-hooked it and started back. He slipped on a branch and grabbed the ambulance door for balance but that only made the whole vehicle tilt and shake a bit. Lindsay and the female medic felt the ambulance tilt and readjusted their positions. Stephen lost his balance and started to fall but Lindsay caught him, "Easy kiddo, can we get some ice for his head?" The female medic nodded and went to a tipped over cooler where she got two bags of ice out, "He and I could both use it." She sat down on the ceiling of the van and put the ice on the back of her head. Lindsay took the other bag and put it on Stephen's head.
The other paramedic finally returned from outside with a long cable, "Got it, ready?" Lindsay helped Stephen and the medic up, "Yes." She turned to Stephen, "You'll go down first ok?" Stephen looked at her afraid, "I've already had to climb across a high wire tonight. Don't make me do it again." Lindsay looked at the male medic who was tying the cable into a lasso, "It's the only way. You don't have to climb, I'll tie it around you and we'll lower you down ok?" Stephen nodded but was still afraid. The freckled medic helped Lindsay wrap the cable around Stephen's waist. He adjusted the cable and tightened it until Stephen was secure, "Ok kid, you're going to have to climb out and we'll lower you." Stephen gave Lindsay his hand and she squeezed it for support. Then he began his journey down the tree.
Stephen climbed out of the ambulance and looked up, he saw the van's front wheels facing the sky. He found a steady branch and climbed on it. Stephen looked around and saw the ambulance was wedged between several large branches, they were all that kept the vehicle steady. Stephen looked down and felt dizzy, it was tedious déjà vu feeling. He lost his balance and fell of the branch but the cable kept him safe, he was hanging from the tree now. Lindsay looked out, "It's ok Stephen, we'll lower you now." She looked at the medic, "Do it slowly." He nodded and slowly started releasing more slack. Stephen started moving. He felt the leaves brushing past him as he was lowered. Eventually he reached the bottom and untied the cable around him, "Ok! I'm down."
Lindsay helped the medic pull the cable back up, the freckled medic turned to her, "Your turn." Lindsay looked at the female paramedic and saw the blood in her hair, "She's injured, shouldn't she go next?" The medics both nodded, "We need to get you out of here safely first now go." Lindsay sighed and took the cable from him. She wrapped it around her waist and the medic helped her tie it, "Nice and easy." She looked at the two of them and at the dead medic hanging limp in his seat above them, "I'm sorry about your partner." The two medics frowned, "Don't worry about it, just get down safely." She nodded and climbed out of the ambulance.
Lindsay looked down and saw Stephen on the ground below looking up at her. He waved his arms at her and shouted, "It's ok!" Lindsay smiled at the boy's attempt to encourage her. She slowly climbed off of the branch she was on and let the medics lower her. When she reached the bottom she untied the cable from her waist and tugged on it as a signal for the paramedic to pull it back up. She ran over to Stephen and brushed a hand in his hair, the blood in his hair had dried and the deep cut seemed to have stopped bleeding. Stephen winced and said, "It still hurts, I want mommy. When can I go home?" Lindsay forced a smile and said, "Soon." She looked up and saw the female medic coming out from the ambulance. She smiled and turned to look back at Stephen. She saw movement behind him and her smile quickly turned into a grim frown.
Michael Myers' head had just emerged from the lake's surface. He was walking towards them, emerging from the lake. Lindsay looked up at the medic hanging from the cable, "Hurry! He's coming! Get her down from there!" The female medic looked out onto the lake and saw Michael slowly rising from it, "Oh god, hurry please." She started to struggle to get down and ended up slipping and falling off the branch. It happened suddenly and the freckled medic didn't expect it. The cable slipped from his hand and the medic outside to fall further. She screamed as she fell and the male medic jumped forward to grab the cable. It burned his hands but he held tight and she stopped falling. She was hanging about eight feet from the ground.
Lindsay ran to her and jumped up to try and grab her feet, "Just jump!" The woman looked past them and screamed again. Lindsay turned around and saw Michael now out of the lake walking towards them. Stephen started to tremble, "Not again…make him go away…" He backed up and Lindsay pulled him behind her, "Stay with me." They started backing up and Lindsay yelled up to the female medic, "Hurry up! Untie the cable and jump!" The woman struggled to untie the cable but her fingers were trembling too much. She whined in frustration and started to cry. She looked forward and saw the Shape coming towards them. He walked slowly and steadily. Lindsay took Stephen by the hand and ran to a nearby tree. She looked to Stephen and said, "Stay here and don't make a sound." She ran back to the female medic and started jumping. She tried to reach the woman's feet so she could pull her down. The freckled medic above looked down and saw Michael coming, he shouted, "No!" and jumped out of the vehicle. He went hurtling downwards and landed on Myers just as he was about to grab Lindsay.
Lindsay and the female medic screamed as the freckled medic stood up groggily. Michael rose quickly and picked the man up by the throat. He threw the young medic head first into a nearby tree. Michael looked at Lindsay and saw Stephen peeking out from a tree behind her. He started walking towards him but Lindsay jumped in his way and started running. She ran back to Stephen and wrapped her arms around him. Michael looked up at the squirming medic and reached down for a large branch on the ground.
He started swinging it at the woman who screamed in fear. He whacked her leg hard and it went limp, the woman howling in pain as her leg was broken. Michael whacked her again like a boy trying to break a piñata. He whacked her over and over again until she was almost completely motionless. Then he delivered the fatal blow which sent her neck cracking back, killing her.
Lindsay put her hands around Stephen's eyes, "Don't look." She grabbed him by the arm and started running. She didn't know where they'd go but she knew they had to get away from the madman. Michael turned and saw them running away. He started to walk after them when the freckled medic ran and plowed into his side, sending him crashing into the tree. Michael stood up and the medic backed up until he was right underneath the ambulance. Michael looked up and saw the body hanging above him. He grabbed the woman's legs and yanked them down violently. The woman was pulled down harshly and the fierce motion sent the ambulance tilting forward. The branches holding the vehicle steady were bent just enough to send it over. The vehicle came crashing down on to the freckled medic, crushing him under it. Michael tilted his head and watched as the mans arm sat on the ground beneath the vehicle, blood slowly oozing out.
Lindsay was running as fast as she could, yanking the boy with her. Stephen was running out of breath and couldn't go on any further, "I…can't…" He fell over and lost her arm. She stopped and turned back, the boy was exhausted how could she expect him to run like this. Lindsay went back and scooped the pale boy up in her arms. She stood up and started to go as fast as she could while carrying the boy. Stephen was unconscious now and Lindsay felt the weight of him slowing her down. She looked behind her. No sign of Myers, only an endless array of trees and fog. She went forward and reached an empty country road. She fell to her knees and was catching her breath when a large white light made her cover her eyes. She looked up and saw a large black helicopter, its' propellers blowing wind and water around the misty sky. It lowered itself downwards and Lindsay slowly got up, "Wynn…no." She turned around and started running the other way but two men in black suites came out of the helicopter and ran after her. They caught her and grabbed the boy. She shouted at them but one of them shocked her with a tazer. She fell unconscious in the man's arms and they dragged her and the boy back to the helicopter. Once inside, the doors closed and the helicopter took off into the night.
~TBC
At the very same time that Stephen's heart stopped, Michael Myers' heart had stopped. The second ambulance drove. Medics were also caring for Michael. The head medic shouted to her partners, "Get the pads!" A second medic came over with the shock pads as they prepped Michael. His heart monitor also was blank. The third medic was apprehensive as he tried finding a suitable vein to inject some medicine into. He was shaking as he turned Michael's wrist around. He saw a strange black triangle tattooed on the Shape's wrist. The head medic yelled at him, "Give him the shot!" The medic with the needle placed a shaky hand on the Shape's wrist and inserted the needle. He pushed the medicine into Michael's body and the Shape began to convulse. The medic with the shock pads turned the electronic defibrillator on. The head medic picked up a scalpel and prepared to cut open Michaels blue jumpsuit to give them access to his chest.
Stephen convulsed on the table as the medics shocked his open chest with a defibrillator. Lindsay herself took over, "Clear!" They stood back and she shocked the pale boy. He convulsed and the heart monitor continued to go blank. One medic tried to get her to call it but she pushed him away, "Raise it to 150! Clear!" Lindsay shocked him again, "Damn it Stephen! Clear!" she shocked him again and his heart monitor began to pulse slightly. A medic called out, "We got a heart beat!" Lindsay wiped off the sweat which had accumulated on her brow, "He's stabilizing…thank god." Stephen took a deep breath suddenly which started Lindsay. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at her. She brushed his bangs aside and smiled.
Michael was still convulsing as the head medic prepared to cut his overalls open. Suddenly he stopped and fell limp. The medics stood in silence worriedly looking at each other. The medic with the now empty needle looked down at Myers' hand and stopped breathing. He turned sickly pale and looked to the other two paramedics, "His hand is moving…" Michael's hand was slowly forming a fist. His heart monitor changed from a steady line to a sharp beep. His heart had restarted. The three paramedics jumped at the sound of the beep. All of a sudden Michael sat up on the table, he caught all of the medics by surprise as he quickly grabbed the empty needle from the first medic's hand. He fiercely jammed the needle into the medic's neck and pushed down. Air was injected into the man's brain and he instantly dropped to the ambulance ground. The head medic screamed and the driver looked in his rear-view mirror and gasped.
Lindsay was patting Stephen's head, "It's ok baby, you're going to be fine." The driver shouted, "What the hell are they doing!?" Lindsay looked forward along with the other three paramedics. They watched in confusion through the windshield as the ambulance in front of them started to swerve.
Back in the other ambulance…
Michael grabbed the scalpel out of the head medic's hand and swiftly slashed her throat with it. She fell back over some medical equipment. The medic near the defibrillator stood frozen in fear and Michael quickly seized the opportunity. The shape yanked the shock pads from the medic's hands and turned them on him, he pushed the pads onto the man's chest and an electric shock sent the medic flying up to the drivers seat.
Michael got up off the stretcher and lumbered forward where he grabbed the medic by the shoulders and yanked him back. The driver was screaming and trying to regain control of the ambulance. Michael grabbed the driver from behind and broke his neck. He pulled the driver right out of his seat and tossed him into the back of the bus.
Lindsay stood up and looked at the paramedics. They were all watching through windshield along with the driver. The ambulance in front of them was swerving madly on the road. The two vehicles were about half a mile from the Old Mill's Creek Bridge. The front ambulance swerved into oncoming traffic before quickly turning and going back into the right lane. Lindsay looked down at Stephen and said, "It's ok, everything's ok." Stephen's eyes told her that he knew she was lying.
Lindsay looked up suddenly when she heard the paramedics screaming. The driver shouted, "Oh my god!" Lindsay watched from the back of the ambulance. The back doors of the front ambulance broke open and a body came hurtling out of it. It flew at the second ambulance, straight towards the windshield. Lindsay and the paramedics screamed as the body hit the windshield and flew over the roof of the vehicle.
Lindsay ran to the back of the ambulance and looked outside where she saw the body of one of the other medics hit the road. She looked back forward and gasped as the front ambulance swerved to the right and stopped. The driver shouted to Lindsay and the medics, "Hold on!" He drove past the other ambulance and quickly pulled over to the side of the road.
The driver put the ambulance in park and jumped out of the vehicle. Lindsay shouted to him and ran over to the back of the ambulance. She pounded on the window and yelled to him, "No! It's not safe!" The three medics came up behind her and watched through the back door window while Stephen lay on the stretched behind them.
The ambulance driver walked over to the second ambulance slowly, he called for anyone, "Is everybody ok? Are you guys alright?" The vehicle sat idling on the road, blue smoke slowly rising from the exhaust pipe. It was dark in the vehicle. The driver walked around back and saw the two doors were slightly open. He opened one and looked in. It was black in the bus, a few sparks flew around from the blown defibrillator. The driver covered his mouth, "Jesus…" he quietly said to himself. The dim light from the sparks aloud him to see the smeared blood, the bodies…the white mask coming towards him.
Lindsay and the three medics with her watched intently but lost sight of the driver when he went behind the ambulance. Suddenly the dark vehicle revved up. The headlights came on brightly and Lindsay started backing up. She looked at Stephen and said, "Go…go,go,go!" She looked at the medics, one; a thin man with blonde hair; ran to the front drivers seat and shifted gears. Lindsay turned around and saw the ambulance behind them started moving forward. It came rushing at them and harshly rammed into the vehicle's backside. Lindsay and the other two medics fell forward and Lindsay got up quickly and took Stephen by the hand. She yelled up to the blonde medic, "Let's go!!" He hit the gas and the ambulance took off.
Lindsay raced back to Stephen's side and wrapped an arm over him to hold him steady, "It's gonna get bumpy kid." The blonde paramedic drove at a steady speed and the other two medics stood in the back watching out the back door windows. One looked at Lindsay, "They're coming faster!" Lindsay yelled to the blonde medic, "Faster!" The medic nodded and pushed down on the accelerator.
Lindsay could hear the other ambulance roaring behind them. She left Stephen's side and peered through the back windows from behind the two medics. Her eyes widened when she saw the ambulance behind them racing closer and closer. Suddenly it rammed into the ambulance again and they all shook. The vehicle swerved and the blonde medic had to twist the steering wheel as far as it would go to keep them from going off the road.
Lindsay felt her pulse quicken and a shot of adrenaline coarse through her. Her legs tightened and she braced herself against Stephen's stretcher. The ambulance behind them came forward again and rammed into the back of them, much harder this time. Lindsay grabbed Stephen and held him as the back end of the vehicle was actually lifted off the ground from the force of the impact. One of the medics shouted, "We're gonna go off the road!" The second medic yelled, "He's coming again, brace yourselves!"
The dark ambulance came racing towards them again just as they reached Old Mill Creek Bridge. It's headlights shone brightly and blinded the blonde medic's view from behind. He shouted, "I can't see anything!" Lindsay looked at Stephen who was worriedly glancing all over the place. She gently touched the tube in his neck, "Don't try to talk, I have to take this out." He closed his eyes as she quickly pulled the needle from his throat. He gasped and gagged. Lindsay took some gauze from nearby and wrapped it around the boys neck. "It's ok, we have to get this stuff off of you." She pulled the heart monitor stickers off from his chest. She smiled and said, "Sorry we had to cut your costume open." She looked for something to close his outfit with and found some medical tape, "Here." She said as she taped up his costume, "Good as new?"
The blonde driver yelled, "We're gonna crash!" Lindsay picked Stephen up and set him down in a corner behind the front passenger seat. She kneeled down and wrapped her arms around him to protect him from the crash. The two medics in back braced themselves as the dark ambulance crashed into the side of them.
The ambulance veered off to the right. The blonde medic screamed as the right side of the vehicle screeched along the side of the bridge. Metal on metal crashing, sparks flew from the ambulance as it slid along side of the metal bridge railing. The dark ambulance behind them rammed into them one final time. It was the hardest impact yet. Both vehicles went careening up against the right bridge railing. The medics screamed as their vehicle went hurling over the edge. Lindsay held Stephen close, praying they survived the crash.
The ambulance went over the railing and flew into a nearby tree. The six passengers screamed as leaves and branches broke against the ambulance. They were all hurled into the air as the bus flipped over. Lindsay held Stephen close as they went flying into the ceiling. The bus flew over onto it's roof and stopped as it nestled into the thick tree branches.
The second ambulance flew over the side of the bridge as well, but it was a bit further behind the first vehicle. It fell front first into the cold lake beneath. It was just ten feet away from the shore line. The bus hit the water and fell onto it's back where it slowly started to sink.
Lindsay was lying on the ceiling which had now become the ground. She slowly regained consciousness and opened her eyes. She saw the inside of the ambulance from the opposite side. She her right side aching from the violent collision. Lindsay looked down and saw Stephen in her arms, he was also unconscious. "Stephen?" She whispered. She gently shook him and her moaned groggily. His eyes slowly opened and he looked up at her. Lindsay got up onto her knees and used her hands to feel around the ground. After she got her bearings straight she looked at the boy, "Are you hurt?" He looked himself up and down and shook his head, "I don't think so," His voice was raspy and quiet from his throat."
Stephen started to sit up and the ambulance creaked. Lindsay held her hands up and said, "Don't make any sudden movements, I don't think it's stable." Stephen crawled on his hands and knees and started looking for the other medics. Lindsay looked downwards and found the drivers seat. Lindsay saw the blonde paramedic lying against the dashboard, blood flowing from his forehead. She looked behind her and saw the stretcher on it's side, a paramedic lying unconscious underneath it. She crawled over to the man and shook him. He groaned and woke up, "What the hell happened…" She helped him out from under the stretcher and said, "We're stuck." The freckled man looked past her and saw the third paramedic sitting next to the back doors, her head had a deep cut in it. He got up and tried walking forward but the van creaked louder. They could feel the vehicle swaying gently in the branches, back and forth.
Lindsay slowly got up and Helped Stephen to his feet. The three of them slowly stood and tried to balance the vehicle. The freckled paramedic slowly walked over to the medic on the floor and helped her to her feet. Her eyes open and she reached a shaky hand to her forehead, "I think I have a concussion." Lindsay half walked, half crawled over to the blonde paramedic and felt his neck for any signs of a pulse. She turned to the others, "He's dead." Stephen looked around and saw the back doors, he went over to them and was about to open them when the freckled medic ran to him and said, "Wait! Take a look out that window, see below? The doors are helping those branches brace the weight of the van. If we open it, we might tip over." Stephen backed away and looked to Lindsay, "How are we going to get out of here?"
Meanwhile
Thom sat in the passenger seat of Sheriff Grayson's car as they drove to Smith's Grove. Mark was on his radio, "I want all units at the Doyle house immediately. I want Kara, Dan and Jesse put under twenty four hour watch. Somebody get a chopper out to Haddonfield Memorial hospital to meet Stephen Doyle and Myers."
Thom listened to this and thought about Stephen, he looked pretty bad after that fall. If anything happens to him, he'd make Myers pay…and Wynn. "How much longer till we get there Mark?" Thom asked, Mark looked out his window and saw a road sign, "Should be there in about twenty minutes." Thom looked at his watch, it was quarter to nine already, "Where'd the time go." Mark smiled to himself, "Yeah, tell me about it. Been one hell of a night." Thom looked out into the blackness of the woods by the road, "Night's not over yet."
John stared at Wynn as he realized what the madman planned, "You're going to use Stephen, pass the evil on to him…" Dr. Wynn burst out laughing and John got angry, "You think this is funny!? Playing with people's lives, you sick fuck." Wynn regained his composure and lightly replied, "No, no dear boy. We're not going to pass Michael's legacy on to his son…we're going to make him Michael's final sacrifice. After you of course." John went pale, "Stephen is…Michael's son?" Wynn got a gleam in his eye, "Oh yes…you didn't know that did you Mr. Tate. My, my, what dirty secrets your family does have. What other skeletons are hiding in the Myers' closet?"
John looked down at his feet and quietly spoke, "What else do you know about my family." 'family' John choked at the word, his family was dead, his family was sick. Terrence answered, "Your family has been plagued by evil since the early sixties. Evil never dies young man, it only rests and grows stronger. How many people had Michael slaughtered over the years? I wonder if he's met his quota this year." John stood up and surprised Wynn, "You son of a bitch. You've destroyed an entire family lineage because of this sick shit. I'm not gonna let you kill me or Stephen, do you hear me you mother fu-" One of the men in suites came up behind John and knocked him out. Wynn smiled as he continued to run his finger along the knife in his lap, "Soon, the harvest will begin and the evil will be passed on."
Dan sat down on the couch with Jesse. They watched as a few more police cars arrived on the scene. Cops were all over the house, all over the block. They were talking to neighbors, dusting for prints around the house. They had sealed off the attic with yellow tape and even confiscated the cars for evidence. Jesse was beyond tired, she was beyond shock. She was at her limit, all she could do was hold her boyfriend's hand and give him strength.
Kara walked up to the kids with an officer, "Jesse, this officer is going to take you home. Your parents are worried sick, you need to be with them." Jesse nodded without looking up. She stood up and walked off with the police man, she turned back and gave a vacant look to Dan. Dan stood up and collapsed back onto the couch. Kara ran over to his side and started patting his head, "Baby, your exhausted, just try and sit still. You've been through so much tonight." Dan felt strange, he felt a spark of anger ignite in his heart. A darkness was growing inside of him and he was frightened of it.
Old Mill Creek Bridge 8:50 pm
"We're going to have to climb down." Lindsay spoke to the two medics and Stephen as she looked out the back windows. She saw the other ambulance in the lake, not too far from the lake's shore. She peered out and noticed movement coming from the back end facing them. "Hey, over here." She signaled, and the two paramedics came over behind her and looked out, "It's George!" George, the driver was trying to claw his way out from the back of the bus. The female medic tried to open the door but the freckled medic held her back, "No, wait." Lindsay's eyes widened, "Oh shit…" they watched while Stephen tried to get a look, "What's going on?" Lindsay spoke, "Stephen get back, don't look." Stephen frowned and took a step back, he felt his head getting light and realized his head was still badly injured. Lindsay and the medics watched with concern as George finally pulled himself half way out of the ambulance. The vehicle was sinking into the lake and George was trying to climb out of the increasingly steep exit. Suddenly he was pulled back. He screamed as a shadow of a man came behind him. Lindsay realized who it was, "We cant save him…" The two medics watched in horror as George was pulled back by the shape. Michael started slashing George up with a scalpel and the driver cried in pain. His head had several deep cuts on it and finally he fell back into the bus just as it sank beneath the surface.
Lindsay looked back, "We need to find something to use as a rope." The freckled medic spoke up, "We have a winch and cable on the front of the ambulance. We use it when we need to pull a person or vehicle from a ditch or wreck. The cable should be strong enough to hold us but it's outside under the base of the hood." Lindsay thought a moment and said, "Can you get to it?" The freckled medic looked at the passenger door and nodded, "I think so, I can climb out there and back." Lindsay nodded, "Ok, do it but be careful, one wrong move and we all go down." The medic complied, "Thank god for all those EMT training scenarios." The female medic called to him, "Be careful." He smiled, "I got it."
The male paramedic slowly opened the passenger door just enough to get out. He looked down and took a breath, they were high. He climbed between several branches and landed on solid footing. He balanced himself on a branch and slowly started to climb around to the front of the ambulance. He saw the winch on top of the flipped over vehicle. He unhooked the cable and started to pull. Once he had enough slack, he re-hooked it and started back. He slipped on a branch and grabbed the ambulance door for balance but that only made the whole vehicle tilt and shake a bit. Lindsay and the female medic felt the ambulance tilt and readjusted their positions. Stephen lost his balance and started to fall but Lindsay caught him, "Easy kiddo, can we get some ice for his head?" The female medic nodded and went to a tipped over cooler where she got two bags of ice out, "He and I could both use it." She sat down on the ceiling of the van and put the ice on the back of her head. Lindsay took the other bag and put it on Stephen's head.
The other paramedic finally returned from outside with a long cable, "Got it, ready?" Lindsay helped Stephen and the medic up, "Yes." She turned to Stephen, "You'll go down first ok?" Stephen looked at her afraid, "I've already had to climb across a high wire tonight. Don't make me do it again." Lindsay looked at the male medic who was tying the cable into a lasso, "It's the only way. You don't have to climb, I'll tie it around you and we'll lower you down ok?" Stephen nodded but was still afraid. The freckled medic helped Lindsay wrap the cable around Stephen's waist. He adjusted the cable and tightened it until Stephen was secure, "Ok kid, you're going to have to climb out and we'll lower you." Stephen gave Lindsay his hand and she squeezed it for support. Then he began his journey down the tree.
Stephen climbed out of the ambulance and looked up, he saw the van's front wheels facing the sky. He found a steady branch and climbed on it. Stephen looked around and saw the ambulance was wedged between several large branches, they were all that kept the vehicle steady. Stephen looked down and felt dizzy, it was tedious déjà vu feeling. He lost his balance and fell of the branch but the cable kept him safe, he was hanging from the tree now. Lindsay looked out, "It's ok Stephen, we'll lower you now." She looked at the medic, "Do it slowly." He nodded and slowly started releasing more slack. Stephen started moving. He felt the leaves brushing past him as he was lowered. Eventually he reached the bottom and untied the cable around him, "Ok! I'm down."
Lindsay helped the medic pull the cable back up, the freckled medic turned to her, "Your turn." Lindsay looked at the female paramedic and saw the blood in her hair, "She's injured, shouldn't she go next?" The medics both nodded, "We need to get you out of here safely first now go." Lindsay sighed and took the cable from him. She wrapped it around her waist and the medic helped her tie it, "Nice and easy." She looked at the two of them and at the dead medic hanging limp in his seat above them, "I'm sorry about your partner." The two medics frowned, "Don't worry about it, just get down safely." She nodded and climbed out of the ambulance.
Lindsay looked down and saw Stephen on the ground below looking up at her. He waved his arms at her and shouted, "It's ok!" Lindsay smiled at the boy's attempt to encourage her. She slowly climbed off of the branch she was on and let the medics lower her. When she reached the bottom she untied the cable from her waist and tugged on it as a signal for the paramedic to pull it back up. She ran over to Stephen and brushed a hand in his hair, the blood in his hair had dried and the deep cut seemed to have stopped bleeding. Stephen winced and said, "It still hurts, I want mommy. When can I go home?" Lindsay forced a smile and said, "Soon." She looked up and saw the female medic coming out from the ambulance. She smiled and turned to look back at Stephen. She saw movement behind him and her smile quickly turned into a grim frown.
Michael Myers' head had just emerged from the lake's surface. He was walking towards them, emerging from the lake. Lindsay looked up at the medic hanging from the cable, "Hurry! He's coming! Get her down from there!" The female medic looked out onto the lake and saw Michael slowly rising from it, "Oh god, hurry please." She started to struggle to get down and ended up slipping and falling off the branch. It happened suddenly and the freckled medic didn't expect it. The cable slipped from his hand and the medic outside to fall further. She screamed as she fell and the male medic jumped forward to grab the cable. It burned his hands but he held tight and she stopped falling. She was hanging about eight feet from the ground.
Lindsay ran to her and jumped up to try and grab her feet, "Just jump!" The woman looked past them and screamed again. Lindsay turned around and saw Michael now out of the lake walking towards them. Stephen started to tremble, "Not again…make him go away…" He backed up and Lindsay pulled him behind her, "Stay with me." They started backing up and Lindsay yelled up to the female medic, "Hurry up! Untie the cable and jump!" The woman struggled to untie the cable but her fingers were trembling too much. She whined in frustration and started to cry. She looked forward and saw the Shape coming towards them. He walked slowly and steadily. Lindsay took Stephen by the hand and ran to a nearby tree. She looked to Stephen and said, "Stay here and don't make a sound." She ran back to the female medic and started jumping. She tried to reach the woman's feet so she could pull her down. The freckled medic above looked down and saw Michael coming, he shouted, "No!" and jumped out of the vehicle. He went hurtling downwards and landed on Myers just as he was about to grab Lindsay.
Lindsay and the female medic screamed as the freckled medic stood up groggily. Michael rose quickly and picked the man up by the throat. He threw the young medic head first into a nearby tree. Michael looked at Lindsay and saw Stephen peeking out from a tree behind her. He started walking towards him but Lindsay jumped in his way and started running. She ran back to Stephen and wrapped her arms around him. Michael looked up at the squirming medic and reached down for a large branch on the ground.
He started swinging it at the woman who screamed in fear. He whacked her leg hard and it went limp, the woman howling in pain as her leg was broken. Michael whacked her again like a boy trying to break a piñata. He whacked her over and over again until she was almost completely motionless. Then he delivered the fatal blow which sent her neck cracking back, killing her.
Lindsay put her hands around Stephen's eyes, "Don't look." She grabbed him by the arm and started running. She didn't know where they'd go but she knew they had to get away from the madman. Michael turned and saw them running away. He started to walk after them when the freckled medic ran and plowed into his side, sending him crashing into the tree. Michael stood up and the medic backed up until he was right underneath the ambulance. Michael looked up and saw the body hanging above him. He grabbed the woman's legs and yanked them down violently. The woman was pulled down harshly and the fierce motion sent the ambulance tilting forward. The branches holding the vehicle steady were bent just enough to send it over. The vehicle came crashing down on to the freckled medic, crushing him under it. Michael tilted his head and watched as the mans arm sat on the ground beneath the vehicle, blood slowly oozing out.
Lindsay was running as fast as she could, yanking the boy with her. Stephen was running out of breath and couldn't go on any further, "I…can't…" He fell over and lost her arm. She stopped and turned back, the boy was exhausted how could she expect him to run like this. Lindsay went back and scooped the pale boy up in her arms. She stood up and started to go as fast as she could while carrying the boy. Stephen was unconscious now and Lindsay felt the weight of him slowing her down. She looked behind her. No sign of Myers, only an endless array of trees and fog. She went forward and reached an empty country road. She fell to her knees and was catching her breath when a large white light made her cover her eyes. She looked up and saw a large black helicopter, its' propellers blowing wind and water around the misty sky. It lowered itself downwards and Lindsay slowly got up, "Wynn…no." She turned around and started running the other way but two men in black suites came out of the helicopter and ran after her. They caught her and grabbed the boy. She shouted at them but one of them shocked her with a tazer. She fell unconscious in the man's arms and they dragged her and the boy back to the helicopter. Once inside, the doors closed and the helicopter took off into the night.
~TBC