H)MECOMING
Part 1 Leon's Incineration party.
Shoom!
Thud!
Something hit Death in the arm. He screamed and stepped past Leon, spraying him with cooling blue blood. Leon looked over at the beast and saw the blood doused the fire, then looked in the direction of the shot.
"TIM! TONY! " He screamed.
Tim was standing there along with Tony and some soldier guy holding a smoking silenced pistol. Death saw them and roared loudly, so loud that the coliseum started shaking and the Burning Children ran out of the room, crawling through holes in the wall to escape.
The soldier fired at Death again. Leon, sure that these good folks would save him allowed himself to pass out from the pain.
John fired at the demon form of his brother, who was stalking towards them, the chainsaw screaming as much as Robert was.
The blue blood was spraying everywhere.
Tim could only look on as Shankman fired five, ten, twenty rounds at his demonic brother without reloading.
A gun with infinite ammo? I suppose here anything could happen.
After about twenty-five shots, Robert finally fell to his knees, splattered from head to toe in his own blood.
A shapeless hole opened up in his gory, messed up face and he managed to spray out three last words.
"John…I'm sorry.."
The demon fell forward with a squish!
Tim looked over at John, who seemed shaken for a second, and then smiled back at Tim.
"Job well done!" He said. "Now lets get your friend down from there."
Tony, now free of his trance like state stepped over to his fallen (well, hanging) compadre and tried to get him down.
"That was a hell of a battle wasn't it?" He said, laying Leon on the floor and treating his wounds with the med kit.
" Lets rest here until Leon comes to!" said John, sitting down.
Tim looked over at a newly-appeared exit (a mesh gate) and pointed to it.
"we'll go through there next" He said, and sat down on a coliseum
seat to try to get some half-sleep.
Leon woke up about twenty minutes later, feeling better than ever and ready to kick some ass. Deaths corpse was lying on the ground in a shimmering pool of its own blood.
"Anybody there?" He asked.
Tony looked at him from across the room.
"Lets go. TIM! SHANKMAN!" he yelled.
Shankman woke up, so did Tim (no they weren't sleeping together you pervert!).
Tim nodded over to a mesh gate at the end of the room. It was the same one from back before he fought the Warriors.
The death door!
"You guys follow me! I know exactly were to go!" he said.
Leon almost tripped over his shotgun which was now lying on the ground. He picked it up. Somehow it still had seven shells in it.
"Were are we going, Shankman?" Tony asked.
Shankman motioned for them to stop. They did and stood looking at him, listening.
"Well… We killed my brother, Robert-"
"Hold on!" said Leon. " That thing was your brother?"
" Don't interrupt, Leon." Said Tony.
"Thanks Tony. We have to now kill the demon representing my son, Steven. Then no demons will be left to take vengeance on me for harbouring Roberts secret and I can pass on to wherever we go when we die."
" That's a cause bloody well worth fighting for" Said Leon.
" I guess we have the Shankman case solved, eh McGee?" Grinned Tony.
"Just about…" said Tim.
John smiled and turned to Leon.
" Now the, lead us to were need to go, my friend."
Part 2 Homecoming
The Death door swung open into a long dark green corridor. Very long. Mind-blowingly long. SH2 forest bit long. It was also foggy. Very foggy. Mind blowingly- Oh you get the picture.
"Were the hell are we?" whispered Tony.
" Some corridor. Duh." said Tim.
They started down the corridor when a voice sounded from speakers in the ceiling. A cheesy, melodramatic voice.
"Welcome, My friends! I'm oh so sorry you had to fight that awful
Man, Leon."
They stopped.
"How do you know my name?" Leon asked.
" I know all your names! And aaaalllll your secrets. All your hopes. All your fears."
The voice took on a cruel and taunting tone.
"You're dead, JOHN! Accept it! Robert failed me… I gave him all that power and he said SORRY! That wasn't quite the magnificent deaths he promised."
"Who are you!" Asked Shankman.
"A representative. Now, let me quicken your exit by introducing you to a friend of mine. Goodbye!"
The speakers crackled and switched off. Leon pumped the shotgun.
"What did he mean by 'friend of his?" He asked.
As if on cue, the hall door swung open a woman in a tattered red dress with long hair covering her face and freakishly long fingernails stepped into view.
Leon fired the shotgun at her and she screamed in protest, melting into the floor and causing thread -like fungus to shoot out from where she was across the floor.
"RUN!" Shouted Tony.
They turned and ran. Leon looked back and saw that were the fungus touched the ground, I turned black and shrivelled. Also, the threads seemed to be absorbing the fog, because they could see clearly behind them, but fog obscured the path ahead.
A siren sounded in the distance. The fog dissipated and the green wallpaper was mutating into pink flesh and brown rust. Floors became metal grilles with monsters crawling around under them. The fungus was still chasing them, snaking into the grilles and engulfing the monsters.
Tim was nearly out of breath, Tony could barely run and Leon was panting along behind them, but John was running faster then all of them, not even breaking a sweat.
Guess it pays to be dead…
The siren faded and their exit appeared before them. A wall with a door with a red EXIT sign above it. Shankman kicked the door open and launched through it. Tony and Tim followed but when Leon was almost to the door, it disappeared.
"NNNOOOO!"
Tim heard Leon and spun around. It was just a brick wall. No door.
He could hear Leon banging and shouting on the other side.
" Damnit! Leon!"
The banging and shouting stopped.
"Goddamnit.." Tim said and smacked his fist against the wall.
Shankman put a hand on Tim's shoulder.
"Come on man, were at our final destination." Shankman said.
Tim turned around. They were on some street. To their left and right the road had collapsed. In front of them was a normal suburban house. Well, it would have been normal if it hadn't had broken police tape lying around it.
"My house." Said Shankman.
Tony walked towards the front door. As soon as he touched it there was a rumble from the abyss on the left of the road. A blue stained hand grasped the edge. Something was pulling itself out of the pit.
Another hand grabbed the edge. They heard the humming of a chainsaw.
"IN THE HOUSE! NOW!" Shankman screamed at the two Agents.
"But-" Tim started.
"Its me he wants! GO! I'll catch up!" He motioned towards the door.
Tony and Tim entered into a cramped hall and shut the door behind them.
Robert fully came up out of the pit. This time there was something definitely different about him. Instead of a human head, Robert had a rusted red metal Pyramid helmet sewn to his flesh.
" Welcome home brother" John hissed.
Pyramid Headed Robert screamed silently into the air and came at him with the chainsaw.
Hurry up you bastards…