Trio
Chapter 12
Guess who is coming to dinner?

"That is Jason Voorhees?" Shego asked in shock as she backed away from the screen. She then looked over at Dr. Director. "Well good luck with dealing with that."

Shego grabbing Kim's arm started to pull her away.

"Come on Princess, let's grab Ronnie and get out of here!"

"Shego! We can't just leave Dr. Director to face that thing alone. And who is Jason Voorhees anyway?" Kim asked as she tried to shake Shego's grip from her arm.

"Yeah, that is what I would like to know as well." Ash said.

Shego continued to hold on to Kim's arm and reaching out with other hand she grabbed a hold of Ron's shoulder. "I'm sure Dr. Director can fill you in." She said to Ash. Turning her attention back to Kim, Shego said. "Kimmie, I'm sure Dr. Director can handle this with all the agents she has. She doesn't need our help. Ron is exhausted and nearly starving. Now let's go!"

Ron shook off Shego's hand and rose to stand next to Dr. Director. "I agree with Kim. We can't just leave them facing that thing; I don't care how tired or hungry I am."

"Ronnie you don't understand! Drakken told me about Jason yesterday when he was bragging about getting his machete from Crystal Lake Research Center. Jason isn't human! He's a walking corpse animated by a demon. He was a little boy that got killed at a sleep away camp and his mother summoned a demon and placed it in the boy's body to kill those responsible. The demon made the body grow up so it would be more effective killer! Now let's get out of here!"

"No Shego." Ron sighed. "You can leave if you want to. I'm staying."

"Me too." Kim stated as she pulled free of Shego and went to stand beside Ron and Dr. Director.

"Don't do this Ronnie! Kimmie! Please I'm begging you. Dr. Director has hundreds of agents. Let her handle this one. I can't lose you and Kimmie now after what we have recently been through." Shego seeing that Kim and Ron's face remained firmed fired up the plasma in her hands. The green flames flickering across her fists.

"I can knock you both out you know. I can carry you out of here while you are unconscious."

Ron shook his head. "You won't do that Shego. You know if you did that neither me or Kim would ever trust you again. Our relationship would be over before it could even officially begin."

"I would agree with Shego and order you three to leave except for one thing." Dr. Director interjected. "I don't have hundreds of agents in Global Justice Headquarters at the moment. I ordered an evacuation and lockdown. Remember? The only agents in the complex with us at the moment are the ones in this room, the few on the other floors that had been transformed into Deadite creatures and now are free and a few essential agents and the perimeter guards who have orders to not let anyone out or in until I call off the lockdown."

"Then call off the lockdown and get your agents back here to help fight that thing!" Shego shouted.

"Um, not sure if anyone is interested but Jason is on the move again." The woman at the computer keyboard stated drawing everyone's attention.

"Where is he?" Dr. Director asked as she moved to the woman's side.

"Just entering the Power and Distribution section." The woman said nodding at the computer screen. On the screen could be seen Jason walking through a doorway into a room with a row of control consoles with glowing dials.

"Is there anyone in there?" Dr. Director asked.

"Two technicians." The woman at the computer console replied. "One of them is my fiancée." She added quietly.

Dr. Director placed a hand on the woman's shoulder. "Don't worry Lorie, I'm sure Jack and whoever is assigned to work with him today are smart enough to find a place to hide and not challenge Jason."

Lorie looked up in surprise. "I didn't know that you knew about me and Jack."

"Nothing goes on under my command that I don't know about." Dr. Director assured her.

Jason stalked through the room and was about to exit the opposite door when he stopped. Slowly he turned his whole body as if he had heard something. Rapidly typing Lorie switched camera angles till they could see two men wearing lab coats were huddled between two of the monstrous computer consoles that controlled the ebb and flow of energy throughout the entire complex.

Jason slowly moved towards the nearest console.

"No. No. Jack run." Lorie cried knowing that her fiancée couldn't possibly hear her.

Jason placed his hands on the console and shoved.

The two men sitting with their backs to the console could feel as it started to shift and tried to leap up and run but Jason's strength was too much and they only managed to rise to their feet when the heavy computer console with much sparks slid across the floor and crushed them against the other console.

Lights started flickering in the room Ron and the group were in and the last image they saw on the computer screen were the two men, their faces twisted in agony as blood began to flow over the consoles and on to the floor as everything below their waist was now nothing but mangled flesh.

The lights in the room suddenly failed pitching everything into total darkness. The only sounds in the room was the sobbing of the woman named Lorie as she faced the fact she was now a widow before she even had a chance to be married first.

The lights remained out for a few moments before eerie red emergency lighting came on casting everything in the room in a hellish glow.

Ron found Shego staring at him. "Remember your promise to me Ron. I don't want to end up like that poor girl and end up crying over your or Kim's dead body." She then turned and walked a few paces off.

Dr. Racle appeared at Lorie's side and speaking quietly he helped her away from the now useless computer console. A few moments later he came back alone. "I have Lorie resting. Some of her co-workers are watching over her. I would give her a sedative but I of course don't have any with me and there isn't much of a chance I can get to my office or the infirmary to get any at the moment."

"What is this Jason thing wanting here? Was he drawn by the Necronomicon?" Ash asked.

Oracle frowned. "Doubtful."

Shego turned and glared at him. "That's right; you are Dr. Mindbender so tell us what is motivating Jason to attack?"

Oracle glared right back at Shego. "My specialty is psychology of living humans. How am I suppose to know what goes through a corpse's mind?"

"Well you better figure it out quickly or you may find out first hand what goes through a corpse's mind, if you get my drift." Shego said folding her arms across her chest angrily.

Ash pointed at Shego with his metal hand. "I think she had a better personality when she was a Deadite." He stated.

Shego looked at the metallic hand pointing at her and replied sarcastically. "Ooh what's up with the metal hand? Your mommy catch you touching yourself in an inappropriate place and punished you a little too hard?"

Ash clenched his fist and started to walk in Shego's direction but once again was stopped by Ron stepping in front of him. "This is getting us no where! I think it is pretty obvious that Jason is here for his machete. The question is what do we do about it?"

Kim shot Ron a confused look. "Why the machete? Jason obviously can kill quite well without it and surely he could find another weapon anywhere if that is what he is looking for."

Oracle began to pace rapidly back and forth. "Yes. Yes. That would make sense. Of course." He muttered to himself.

Dr. Director eyed him. "What have you deduced?" She finally asked as the man continued to feverishly pace back and forth.

"Jason was a mere child when he died and his mother summoned the demon, yes? And I think it is pretty obvious that the mother summoned a Vengeance Demon to put in the boy's body. So the boy's mind the demon moved into saw everything the way a child would see it. A desire to do what mommy tells him to do and a desire to protect what is his. That's why Jason usually stays near Crystal Lake. As far as he is concerned that is his home and just like a child will form a connection to a beloved toy that is how Jason views his machete. It is his. When Dr. Drakken took his machete, the demon demanded that someone had to pay for it and the child part of Jason wants his favorite 'toy' back."

"So why doesn't Jason hunt down this Drakken character and punish him for taking his machete?" Ash asked.

Shego shook her head. "Jason doesn't know that Drakken took the weapon. Dr. D. told me that he found the research center in shambles with everyone inside dead with the machete stuck in a woman at a desk at the front entrance. He didn't see anyone living so he stole some files and then pulled the machete out of the woman and took it with him." Shego replied.

Oracle paused in his pacing. "The center must have been doing some research on Jason and he got free. He started killing everyone in the complex till he made his way to the front entrance. There he killed the woman at the front desk, probably by hurling his machete at her. Before he could pull it out someone else must have run out the exit behind him so Jason went after them without retrieving his machete." Oracle looked over at Shego. "Your Dr. Drakken is one lucky person. A few moments earlier and he would have run directly into Jason and if he had taken any longer inside the complex he might have ran into Jason coming back to retrieve his machete."

"Yeah, I'll send him a card congratulating him on his luck… If any of us survive that is." Shego replied sarcastically. "Wait." Shego said dropping her arms from her angry stance. "If Jason just wants back his machete, why don't we just clear out of here and let him get his stupid knife and then he'll turn around and go back to this Crystal Lake?"

Oracle shook his head. "The child part of Jason will be pleased to get his favorite weapon back but the vengeance demon part will demand that all who were involved in its taking be destroyed. Since Jason has no way to know exactly who did it, chances are he'll kill everyone. He may not even stop at this complex but may take his temper tantrum out on Middletown above us."

"Well…Isn't that special?" Shego said in disgust. "So what do we do?"

A voice in the gloom called out. "I can't believe how easily you amateurs overlook the obvious solutions" Will Du said stepped into the dim light. "We will just use the Pan-dimensional Vortex Inducer and send this Jason creature into another dimension."

"Only one problem with that Du." Kim replied. "The Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer was swallowed by the Necronomicon and is gone. You wouldn't know that because you were unconscious after the book pulled its evil out of you."

"Oh." Du said deflating.

"I thought you left anyway. Something about having to write a detailed report on how you screwed up and almost ended up killing us all." Shego said.

"When the lights went out I of course returned to see if I could be of service." Du replied glaring at Shego.

"Now there's an idea. We'll send Du boy out with the machete. Maybe Jason will be happy with just slaughtering him?" Shego offered.

Du continued to glare at Shego and started to open his mouth to verbally spar with her when they were stopped by Ron calmly asking.

"How was Jason contained at the research center he was at?"

Dr. Director answered him. "He was kept wrapped up in chains and kept in the lake. Something about the lake puts Jason into a kind of stupor. They would only fish him out of the lake when they wanted to do experiments on him."

"Gee and they can't figure out why Jason is cranky." Shego muttered to herself.

"The research center was about to try a new method of containment for him but this incident happened before they could bring it online." Dr. Director said.

"What method?" Kim asked.

"Cryogenic freezing."

"Do you have any of those cryogenic freezers here on this level?" Kim asked.

Dr. Director blinked a few times. "Why yes we do. Global Justice uses them for specimens we capture of D.N.Amy's warped genetic experiments. And considering that geneticist usually makes oversized monsters with her tampering, the ones we have are large ones big enough to hold Jason."

"So the problem is solved. We wait for Jason to come down here for his machete. We stuff him in the ice box and freeze his dead ass. Simple." Ash stated with a smile.

"Yeah. Simple." Shego muttered. "You know your enthusiasm reminds me of Dr. D.'s . You should have Kim or Ron tell you how his plans always go."

"Look we just put the machete into one of these big freezer things and when Jason goes inside to get it we slam the door and turn the sucker on." Ash said.

Oracle shaking his head replied. "While whatever is left of Jason's human mind is that of a child, the Vengeance Demon isn't stupid. It would never do something as dumb as stepping into an unknown contraption. It would just have Jason destroy the device and retrieve the machete from the wreckage."

"So we are going to have to wait till Jason gets here and then somehow physically force Jason into the Cryno, er crying… Um, the big freezer thing?" Ron asked.

Oracle nodded.

"Great." Shego muttered to herself. Loudly she added. "Okay, first thing. Does anyone here have any food squirreled away? Candy bars, cookies, etc?"

Everyone in the room looked at her oddly.

"Come on people. I know someone must have some snacks hidden away to tide you over till your meal breaks." Shego shouted.

A few of the people in the background stepped forth.

"I have a candy bar in my desk."

"I've got some cupcakes."

Shego nodded at them. "Go get them."

She then reached over and grabbed Ron by the arm and forced him down into an office chair. "Sit. And when they bring the food you are to eat."

"Shego…" Ron started.

"No Ron, you listen to me. I know about power burnouts." She said holding up her hands and letting them glow a little. "If we are going to stay and try to stop this Jason thing then we are going to need everyone at as full strength or as close as they can get and that means you need to rest and eat to help stoke your furnace. I've got this really bad feeling that when it comes down to it, it is just going to be you, me and Kimmie that are going to have any chance of stopping that thing."

She looked Ron over. "Back upstairs I saw you meditating?"

Ron nodded.

"Excellent. As soon as you have eaten everything they bring you, you are to meditate. That will help to get your energy levels up faster than anything else we can do at the moment." Shego then walked over to talk to Kim. Leaning over she put her head next to Kim's.

"Well Princess how do you want to handle this? Where can we stash all the people so they won't be in our way when we fight?"

"There aren't helpless Shego. They are trained Global Justice agents."

Shego raised an eyebrow and then over exaggerating her motions she turned and slowly looked around the room at the group of people who were huddled in miserable groups in the dark. "Come on Kimime. They may have had some combat training but they are basically office workers. And they are almost out of their minds with fear."

Kim more subtly examined the people stuck with them and frowned as she realized that Shego was right. Most of the individuals down there with them were women wearing lab coats and more than a few were out of shape. She didn't expect much help from Dr. Racle and the few other men either. After what Will Du had pulled this day she wasn't sure if she would trust him to watch her back.

In a fight for survival, Ash might be of help and she would take Dr. Director at her back without any qualms at all but the others? They were more likely to panic and get in their way.

Kim nodded her head at Shego and walked over to Dr. Director.

"Is there anywhere we can get these people to so they won't be in the way when Jason arrives?" She asked the older woman.

Will Du sneered at her. "To do that we would have to know which direction Jason will enter from now wouldn't we? There is no guarantee that Jason will make a straight line from the Power and Distribution and with power out there is no way to monitor Jason."

Ron sitting in the office chair without opening his eyes raised his hand and pointed to the East and slightly upwards. "Jason is there." He stated. "He is coming in a straight line and going down whenever he finds stairs."

"You can see him?" Kim asked kneeling next to Ron.

Ron nodded his head. "In my mind I can see an image of a tall figure on fire as if straight from Hell. He's coming this way." He said with complete confidence.

Many floors above them walking down a deserted corridor Jason paused and slowly his hockey mask covered face turned left and then right as if he could sense something but wasn't sure where it was coming from, finally he continued on his way to where he could sense his machete waited for him.