Hardcore Henry: The Recharged Cut
A Hardcore Henry Fanfiction Story
Side Notes: If you haven't seen or read about the movie Hardcore Henry, please do before reading this fanfiction. It'll make more sense this way...since this is a alternate take of both the deleted scene Akan's First Death and the ending.
For reading about it? I recommend the main wiki.
There are some spoilers for the movie prequel comic Hardcore Akan. But, reading about it is not required.
Author Note: For fully recapturing the POV sense of Hardcore Henry without getting in the way of fanfiction dot net rules and guidelines?
I've included a collection of alternate endings spun off of the central alternate ending(right after Part 2). Hopefully, this special feature is worth the effort.
Part 1:
Akan telekinetically and violently slams Henry down.
Henry's vision is blurring. But...he's still conscious.
He coughs violently over the ground.
A brief splatter of dark red liquid fires out of his mouth.
Henry kind of slowly looks up.
Akan creepily smiles.
He mutters, "that's bloody disgusting, Henry."
Henry starts to pull himself up.
Akan laughs some.
Akan adds, "no, no. Don't bother getting up."
He violently kicks Henry back down.
Henry groans violently, clutching his side.
He coughs up some more dark red liquid.
Akan gloats, "who do you think really made you, Henry? Laugh! My super power can restructure people from the inside out. Plant cyber chargers in people. My cyber soldiers couldn't even take a shit without me! And, your way down? Laugh! It's going to be much quicker."
All the while... He's dragging Henry across the roof by the cybernetic leg.
He's dragging him over by one of the rifle dispensing machines.
Henry is starting to lose consciousness fast.
But... He manages to reach out for a buried grenade in the wreckage.
Akan quickly telekinetically brings over a rifle...from one of the wrecked rifle display cases in the wreckage.
Akan figures, "well, Henry... Laugh. I'm sure even you would like the irony of..."
He's about to shoot Henry right in the head with the rifle.
But... In the time Akan has been gloating?
Henry has moved the grenade over to his teeth: With a mostly clenched fist.
He groans violently from the grind of metal on his teeth.
But... He's pulled out the trigger for the grenade without Akan realizing it.
In seconds... Henry throws the grenade right at Akan.
Akan goes wide eyed.
He cries out, "no! !"
He reactively tries to shield himself with telekinesis by pulling Henry's body toward him.
But... There's a big explosion.
The rifle burns up in a flying column of fire and metal.
Henry and Akan are both sent flying.
Some loud crashes.
More violent coughing.
And... Henry falls unconscious.
After who knows how long...
Everything is dark for a few seconds more.
Estelle calls out, "Henry?! Akan?! Akan! Baby...are you okay?"
Akan says, "I love how protective you are of me."
Henry fully wakes up...to find Estelle and Akan making out.
Akan has some deep dark red cuts along his chest. But, he's telekinetically patched them up quite a bit.
Only the dark red liquid around the cuts remain.
After a bit... Estelle and Akan pull away.
Glitches of data run across Henry's vision.
Akan coughs violently some.
With a somber tone... Estelle tells him, "you owe me a apology."
Akan asks in confusion, "for?"
Estelle sniffles hard.
She says, "doubting me."
She sits down in front of Henry.
Her face is surprisingly nervous.
Some tears fall from Estelle's face.
Henry tries hard to hold back some tears. Akan's broadcast to him earlier of the truth of Henry's "wife" was already hard to take.
In Henry's mind...
Some blurs of a familiar looking cybernetics lab go by.
They're slowly but surely becoming clear. But...it's clear already it's not from a airship.
It's a cybernetics lab from inside a concrete bunker.
Estelle adds, "thank you Henry."
She continues talking, "most of all your tests have exceeded our expectations. Now... Would you like another test? From me?"
Out in the physical...
Henry has a violent coughing fit.
Glitches of data run across his vision.
Estelle almost reaches out to Henry's face.
But... She stops herself just as fast.
Akan points out, "I did have certain apprehensions."
Estelle asks, "why'd you let me do it?"
She turns to Akan for a bit as she does.
Akan insists, "I was just entertaining my woman and losing all of my men."
Estelle annoyedly rolls her eyes some.
In Henry's mind... A memory is vividly coming back.
Two weeks ago, in a certain military bunker...
Henry was lying in a white sheeted bed. But...it was Estelle's cybernetics lab.
A familiar looking water tank and glass arm rest lab tables were nearby.
So is a bathroom and Estelle's bedroom. They were past two dark tinted metal doors.
The whole cybernetics lab was barely lit by a few ceiling lights.
Estelle was in her lab coat. Her hair was mostly tied back.
Estelle said, "we're alone now. Faint laugh. Can you keep a secret?"
Henry nodded.
Estelle smiled some.
She added, "thank you, Henry."
She was finishing typing out something on her red lined silver cell phone.
Estelle let her hair down.
She sat on the edge of the bed by Henry.
Estelle suggested, "your tests have exceeded most of our expectations. Now... Would you like a test of my own?"
Estelle looked right at Henry on the last part.
Henry kind of slowly nodded.
Estelle was going, "good! Good, Henry. I can't wait."
She kissed Henry's hand.
He didn't even move his hand away.
Estelle kept her free hand on his.
Then... Estelle checked the time on her cell phone.
Teary eyed... Estelle muttered, "shit."
She gave Henry a nervous look.
Henry offered his other hand to her.
With mixed feelings... Estelle said, "ohh. I love you Henry. But...we can't get naked now. Akan is coming back. And, I still have to explain everything like I promised you. Okay, Henry?"
Henry quickly nodded.
Estelle smiled wide for a bit.
Estelle figured, "thank you, Henry. I'm sending you a e-mail now."
Around then, out in the physical...
Estelle points out, "we still have the airship out in the forest."
Akan concludes, "fine! Fine. Be rude to your man. Laugh. Is everybody dead here?"
At the same time... The two of them say, "yes."
Yet... Estelle sounds shaken.
Some tears escape from Henry's eyes.
Glitches of data run across Henry's vision.
Two weeks ago...
Estelle used her cell phone to send a e-mail to Henry's cell phone.
His cell phone was modeled a lot like Jimmy's.
There was a metal cart with wheels to the side of Henry.
Henry quickly picked up his cell phone from the table.
Estelle laid down by Henry's side.
She cuddled up to him.
Henry ran his free hand along her face.
Estelle smiled wide some.
Henry opened up his inbox to find Estelle's e-mail.
This is what Estelle's e-mail says:
Akan has picked someone to play test for us. But...I'm not like Akan, Henry.
Moderate sigh. Sniffle.
Akan plans to offer me as "his wife" for each of them to try to motivate all the soldiers. But...I don't really love Edward.
Moderate sigh. Sniffle.
He's not strong and caring like you. But, Akan gave all of you the final touches: Restructuring your organs and brains around Jimmy's cybernetics.
Do you love me enough to try to kill Akan? To win me?
Do you love me enough to try to escape...even if you know you'll be caught?
He'd have you play test for us instead. But, only if you do this for me.
Faint laugh.
If we're lucky? He might let me give you your voice back before the play test.
After all this time? I'd love to really hear you say you love me.
Moderate sigh. Hard sniffle.
I'd put another small memory block in to protect this memory of us from being lobotomized. But, I'm afraid Henry.
I'm afraid that's as good as I can do without Akan catching me.
I know it's crazy for me to ask you to do this for me. But...
I love you, Henry.
I'll still love you if you don't want to do this. But, I wanted to ask.
Some tears fell from Estelle's face.
She sniffled hard.
She seemed really nervous then.
After a bit... Henry motioned for Estelle to come closer.
Estelle started to.
Henry sat back up. So did Estelle.
Estelle laughed some.
She was smiling.
She sat on top of Henry's lap.
She leaned in.
She kissed him on the lips.
They started to make out.
But... Loud footsteps and some sounds of choking were heard outside the lab door.
Estelle and Henry quickly pulled away.
Estelle glared in the direction of the lab door.
She muttered under her breath, "Akan."
Out in the physical...
Akan questions, "what's wrong, Estelle? Sniffle. It isn't cybernetic frog fighting. I've given that up for you."
Estelle heavily sighs.
She says, "I know baby. I...I know. Sniffle. But..."
Akan feels up her side some.
Akan reveals, "Estelle: They're just walking dead men. Sniffle. Sniffle. They were already dead soldiers overseas before we reconstituted them. I...did that for you!"
He wrings his hand around like he's pointing to her.
Estelle very faintly and creepily smiles his way.
Akan creepily smiles back.
Estelle whispers, "thank you. He just... Hard sniffle. We both see how special he is."
Two weeks ago...
She kind of assured, "I'll take care of that for you, baby. But..."
She quickly put Henry's cell phone and her own cell phone away in her lab coat.
She quickly moved off of Henry's lap.
Estelle asked, "do you want to win me?"
She was really nervously looking to Henry.
Estelle was quickly tying most of her hair back again as she did.
And... Henry quickly nodded.
Estelle very bittersweetly smiled.
Estelle whispered, "ohh. I believe you can. I love you, baby!"
She bent down.
She quickly kissed him on the lips.
After a bit... There was a knock on the door.
In a sing song way... Akan called out, "oh, Estelle! Estelle! The best wife in the land-d-d."
Estelle couldn't help but smile a little to herself.
Henry pretended to sleep. Estelle opened the door for Akan.
Estelle pretended to run more medical tests on Henry: Like many times before.
Out in the physical...
Estelle somberly sighs.
She tells Akan, "part of me is really going to miss him, Akan."
Akan comments, "not in the same way, Estelle. But... Faint laugh. It'll be close enough."
He seems completely unphased.
He feels Estelle up some between her legs.
Estelle sexually groans some.
But... She nervously laughs some.
Some tears fall from her face.
But... She's made sure to face away from Akan as she did.
Akan, unknowingly, explains everything a third time to Henry.
Akan violently kicks Henry in the head.
He and Estelle leave Henry to die.
Henry is falling unconscious fast.
But... Estelle stays a second longer than Akan.
She sniffles hard.
Henry's and Estelle's teary eyes are reflected on some glass on the roof.
After Henry recalls a certain memory from when he was a boy...
Henry kind of quickly regains consciousness.
He picks up some barbed wire on the roof.
He gets up.
He quickly winds up the barbed wire around one of his hands.
There's brief flashes of dark red liquid splatter around his hands as he does.
He quickly pulls himself up some bars around the helicopter pad.
He jumps down.
All too happily... Estelle goes, "whoo! Now it's really a fight for me."
She creepily smiles wide.
Akan laughs hard.
He calls out, "not for long, Estelle! I'll show you who's your man!"
He gestures out confidently with one arm. He points to himself with his other arm.
And... Henry stabs his outstretched hand with his barbed hand.
Akan cries out in excruciating pain. Brief splatters of dark red liquid.
He starts to telekinetically throw Henry.
But... Henry stabs him in the shoulder before he could.
Akan cries out in excruciating pain. Brief splatters of dark red liquid.
They crash tumble land onto the roof.
They kind of quickly kind of get to their feet.
Soon... Henry and Akan are having their final fight.
All the while... Estelle is cheering and whooing them on.
Henry has Akan lose his head over beginning to lose.
And... Akan falls dead.
Soon after...
Henry has landed violently some against the roof.
He groans violently from all of his injuries.
But... There's very little sign left of Akan.
The helicopter still is on the helicopter pad.
But... There's many a drip of dark red liquid around the helicopter.
Henry gets himself up.
In the dark of night? He grabs up more than a eyeful of Akan.
Estelle creepily smiles.
She says, "oh my. Faint sniffle. For me, Henry?"
She puts her hands over her heart as she does.
Suddenly... Henry aims a pistol at her with his other hand.
Estelle gasps really nervously.
She puts her arms up.
Estelle brings up, "Henry? Henry. You... Hard sniffle. You're really confused now. Aren't you, Henry?"
Henry very briefly nods.
Estelle nervously sighs. She puts her arms down.
Tears fall from both of their faces. They sniffle hard.
But... Henry doesn't put down the pistol.
With mixed feelings... Estelle pleads, "Henry...please. Hard sniffle! Don't you dare hurt me! Please. Hard sniffle! Hard sniffle! You're bleeding. I'm the only one left breathing that can get you more chargers for years. Don't you want to live for years like everyone else, Henry?"
Henry glances some toward the ninety or so dead bodies of cyber soldiers on the roof.
He frustratedly violently kicks one of their bodies away.
Estelle gulps nervously.
Some tears fall from both of their faces.
Estelle offers, "I...I'm definitely the only one that knows how to give you your voice back. I'll take you to the airship. Henry?! Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. Please, baby. Hard sniffle. Please trust me that far. Please!"
She bends over. She starts to cry.
Henry is shakily holding the pistol right at her.
After a bit... Estelle shakily walks up closer.
Somberly... She murmurs, "you...you still don't trust me with a hole in your chest? Hard sniffle! I really don't want to live without you, Henry. Hard sniffle! Hard sniffle! If you want to kill me? Hard sniffle! Go ahead. Do it! Do it, Henry! Kill me! !"
She breaks down crying, standing there.
There's a nerve wracking silence.
Then... Henry shakily puts away the pistol.
Estelle nervously sighs in mixed relief.
She says, "thank you, Henry."
Suddenly... Glitches and black spots start to run across Henry's vision.
Henry reactively drops what he grabbed from Akan.
Henry motions over his eyes and chest.
Estelle nervously gasps.
She realizes, "you're running out of power. Hard sniffle. There's spare chargers in the offices. What...what's left of the offices on this roof. Hard sniffle. I'd offer you a spare charger in my helicopter. But, you don't trust me that far. Hard sniffle. But, I don't blame you for anything. Hard sniffle. Signal me when you're ready, and we'll go to the airship. Okay, Henry?"
Henry nervously nods.
Estelle nervously nods back.
Henry quickly starts searching the roof.
He's searching around the wrecked rifle display cases on the roof.
More glitches and black spots run across Henry's vision.
But... It's not long before he finds a still intact spare cyber charger in the wreckage.
He turns it on.
And... The little green indicator light lights up for the cyber charger.