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Chapter Twenty-Three: Escape
Freddy opened his eyes to find himself in Sam's room and rolled off the bed to his feet. It surprisingly didn't feel any different than being in his world. He was definitely stronger than he thought he was.
"It worked!" Sam said triumphantly standing beside him before recomposing herself. Freddy stared at her in awe. He was even more surprised it worked than she was. She smiled at him quickly took the hair tie she had on her wrist and put her messy dirty blonde hair up in a pony tail. So this was finally it, the day he had been waiting for longer than he'd like to remember. Now he wasn't just saving his daughter, but also the girl he was undeniably falling for.
"We need to get Kali. Stay behind me." He instructed as he heard them getting closer. Sam stood behind him as Durgt and James burst into the room.
"Samantha…" James stopped in his tracks when his eyes set on Freddy making Durgt run into him. Freddy tilted the brim of his hat up.
"Hello James… Remember me?" He chuckled darkly.
"How…" James responded in shock.
"Get him!" Durgt yelled pushing James out of his way as he advanced on Freddy with a syringe in hand. He grabbed Durgt by the throat and snapped his neck making James take a step back. As Durgt's body hit the floor his soul went into him. He could practically smell James' fear.
"You did this." James pointed at Sam.
"No you did this." Freddy rasped angrily his eyes glowing a demonic red. "Your asshole parents took away my life, you took away my daughter, then your idiot son got Kali taken away from me. I've already taken your son, now it's time to take away your life and then Helen's as well." He explained his blades clinking together in anticipation.
"Wesley… No... No!" James became angry and charged at him only to be met with Freddy's sharp blades in his stomach.
"Say hello to Wesley for me." He rasped in his ear as he dug his blades deeper into him and dropped his lifeless body to the floor. His soul floated into him and he turned to Sam afraid of what her reaction would be to him killing in front of her. She looked calm and stared at the door.
"Dad I'm fine. Let's go get Kali!" She nudged him towards the door partially annoyed that he was treating her as if she was a child. She walked a few feet behind him as he slashed anyone that they ran into.
Kali sat against the wall of the padded room staring at the wall opposite to her. Her teeth hurt and her lips were sore from attempting to chew through her strait jacket. It had been awhile since she saw him and was expecting him to appear at the door any second like he always did. She stretched her legs out and using her feet she scooted herself to the other wall so she could have a better view of the door.
"Where are you?" She asked out loud glaring at the door. She wished she could get to her feet and throw herself at the door until it opened, but with the restraints on her ankles as tight and close together as they were it was impossible to even walk. After so many weeks of dreamless sleep and barley any outside contact she welcomed her hallucinations. The door swung open and she stared at it wondering who was coming in to drag her away or drug her again. He slowly stepped into her cell and stared at her in awe.
"Since when can hallucinations open doors?" She stared at him questioningly. He rushed over to her and dropped to his knees beside her.
Her lips were raw and chapped. The dark circles under her eyes looked almost black against her pale skin. Her unkempt hair was a mess about her face and her eyes almost penetrated right though him as if she wasn't really seeing him. She looked like a completely different person than the girl he met all those months ago. He noticed the large bruises on her ankles around her restraints.
"Kali…" He tucked her hair behind her ear and she looked into his eyes. He knew she thought that he was a hallucination. "We're getting you out of here."
"We? Who the hell is we?" She asked leaning away from him. "Last time I listened to you I got royally fucked over." She replied coldly and wiggled her legs in their restraints and used her feet to push her back flush against the wall to lean further away from him.
Sam stepped into the room and when Kali saw her she knew. She breathed in and could smell him. Tears welled in her eyes and she leaned towards him and he wrapped his arms around her slicing the straps off her jacket. Once her arms were free she wrapped them around him and buried her face in his chest.
"You came for me." She sobbed and he tilted her face up by her chin with his unbladed hand and kissed her passionately and the contact from the kiss made him able to hear her thoughts again and see everything she had seen and felt over the past few months. She didn't think he would come for her, she thought that he'd just get Sam and destroy the place. For as bad as she seemed from watching her the past few months she wasn't as far gone as Sam had thought she'd be. He knew that once she was out of there and had her dreaming back she'd be fine. As he pulled away from her she worked her way out of her jacket and stared into his eyes. He ran his hand down her leg and sliced her ankle restraints off.
"Dad I hate to interrupt but we need to go." Sam said and Kali smiled up at her and Freddy nodded getting to his feet and pulled Kali to her feet. "Can you walk?" Sam looked worried as Kali held onto Freddy for support.
"I'll be fine." She lied making Freddy grab her by the shoulders and he gave her some of his strength.
"Put this on." He handed her the extra glove he had brought out with him. She smiled devilishly up at him as he slid it onto her hand tightening the wrist strap. He could feel how much she wanted to help him destroy that place and kill everyone in it. She put her un-gloved hand in his bladed one and he pulled her behind him. "Stay behind me." He commanded and the three of them headed out into the hallway.
They were greeted by several scared patients who screamed and ran in the opposite direction as soon as they caught sight of Freddy. A wall appeared behind them and all the doors lining the hall closed and locked themselves trapping them. Among them was Trevor, the boy who stabbed Kali.
"Trevor…" Freddy beckoned to him calling him forward with his blades. Trevor sunk into the corner and the other kids parted away from him as Freddy advanced on him. He wanted to make him pay for what he had done to Kali regardless of how much Kali had tortured him in his dreams. Before he could get to him Kali lunged at him.
"You asshole because of you they took away my dreams!" She screamed digging her blades through his throat cutting his head off.
"Kali?" Freddy said in surprise at her sudden outburst.
Sam took a few steps back from the bloody scene a little bit afraid of Kali. She had been kept away from everyone for months and began to wonder just how much her isolation and dreamlessness had affected her. Everyone huddled in the corner opposite to Kali and one tried to run past Freddy resulting in her arm getting cut off. She fell to the floor a few feet away from Sam screaming in agony. The girl reached out to her for help with a bloody stump of an arm only to let out another blood curdling scream as Freddy dug his blades into her leg and dragged her back to him.
Freddy grabbed Kali and said something that Sam couldn't hear and she nodded and headed in her direction. Kali stopped a few feet away from him and turned back around. He looked over his shoulder as he threw one of the kids to the ground.
"Dammit Kali go!" He screamed and she turned back around and grabbed Sam by the hand and led her down the hallway in the opposite direction.
"Where are we going? What about my Dad?" She asked confused.
"He'll catch up with us. We need to get out of here." Kali explained and Sam yanked her hand out of Kali's and stopped in her tracks.
"No, we'll get out of here after we destroy their lab and all the Hypnocil." Sam stood her ground and Kali stared up at her.
"Ok." Kali agreed. "Where's the lab?" Sam took off down the hall with Kali close behind her.
Freddy finished killing the last of the group he had trapped and with their souls he felt even stronger than before. The hallway returned to normal and all the doors unlocked. There were several patients cowering in their rooms and he made his way towards them.
They made it to the elevator and Kali watched in amusement as Sam entered the code for the elevator and they waited for it to come down.
"From what I've heard all of the lower level is run by computer. It's where they put the Hypnocil in the towns water supply and where they store all the Hypnocil that gets put into their food and other drugs." Sam explained as the elevator dinged.
"I just hope there isn't any doctors or security guards down there. I'm so sick of doctors." Kali said as the elevator doors opened and she looked up to see Freddy waiting in the elevator looking rather pleased. "Well that was fast."
"What was fast?" Sam looked at her oddly as she stepped into the elevator and he stepped to the side as she stood right where he was previously standing. Kali realized that Sam couldn't see him making a wave of panic wash over her. Freddy was back but she was still seeing him.
She quickly stepped into the elevator standing on the opposite side that he was on. He laughed as the doors closed and they began their descent. Kali did her best to not look at him but it was so hard not to.
"What? Mad at me for not being the real one?" He laughed. "Face it you never thought he'd really come for you so settled for me instead. I bet he doesn't even care about you. He just wants you for the power you have in his world and he knows you'll do anything to please him." Kali shut her eyes and concentrated trying to shut him out and make him disappear. It was silent for a moment and all she could hear was the whirring of slow moving gears taking them down.
Just when she thought he was gone his voice rasped in her ear making her jump. "He doesn't love you. I do. And that's as real as it's ever going to be. So you better start paying attention to me not him!"
Sam was watching Kali as she stood in the corner opposite to her. She closed her eyes tightly and seemed like she was concentrating on something. Her expression went from fear to anger and she screamed out making Sam jump and back into the corner.
"Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up! You're not real! Go away!" She shrieked making her voice crack and swiped her blades at the air beside her scratching the metal wall of the elevator making an ear-piercing screech. Sam stared at her with worry in her eyes. She took a deep breath and put her hand on Kali's shoulder. Kali was trembling.
"Are you ok? Who did you see?" She asked and Kali looked up at her with tears in her eyes.
"Freddy…" She sobbed. "He's not real… I didn't think I'd see him anymore now that he came for us. But he won't go away." Sam was unsure of what to do. She knew that Kali had to of been seeing him all this time and put a comforting arm around her. "Does he even care about me?" Kali asked solemnly making Sam's heart sink.
"He cares about you more than you know." Sam reassured her.
"I really hope you're right." Kali wiped the tears from her eyes as the elevator came to a stop and the doors opened. Stepping out of the elevator together they both looked around.
The room was huge and had one large and one small pipe trailing across the ceiling. Their eyes followed the pipes to a large water tank. The larger pipe was labeled liquid Hypnocil and the other water. Kali walked beneath the pipes over to the tank looking up at them for a way to shut the Hypnocil off. Sam walked up to the tank and looked in through the glass as Kali turned around and followed the Hypnocil pipe on the ceiling around the corner. The water pipe branched off and went into the ground.
Sam looked into the tank and watched as the spinning device in the center mixed the Hypnocil into the water. She then realized that the Hypnocil they used was clear making it impossible for anyone to know that it was in the water in the first place. There was a large drain on the bottom of the tank but she wasn't sure where it led to.
"Sam…" She heard Kali call and followed the pipe around the corner to where she was. Five large tanks lined the wall all with pipes that came together into the Hypnocil pipe. Each had different labels. "These are the ingredients to the Hypnocil. Look…" Kali pointed to the five individual pipes where they met with the one large one. They all had a small piece that had wires going into them that trailed across the ceiling and through the top of a door. Sam stood at the door hesitantly.
Kali reached in front of her and swung the door open. The room had one computer in it and a table and a mini fridge. It was an office and break room all in one. The large computer screen lit up the room displaying how many parts of each ingredient was put into the mixture.
"I've never used a computer in my entire life. You shut it down and I'll go find where they keep all the Hypnocil." She said and Kali nodded setting her glove on the desk and sat in the desk chair in front of the computer.
"Good luck." She called after Sam as she disappeared around the corner.
Kali couldn't find a way to shut it off so she changed the number of parts mixed into the Hypnocil all to the lowest it would allow '0.01'. She could hear the pipes all reconfigure themselves and began searching through the computer for the instructions to make all the different Hypnocils.
Sam entered a room just around the corner from where she left Kali. The harsh smell of chemicals hit her nostrils making her cough as she took in her first few breaths. There were all kinds of large barrels filled with different labeled chemicals lining the wall closest to her and the center of the room had a few large tanks and filtering systems. It was the room where they took the Hypnocil and made it colorless, odorless, and tasteless. The only sound to be heard was rushing water and the loud filtration machines. She made her way around all the pipes and tanks and came upon a computer desk with a cup of half finished tea sitting beside the mouse. Someone else was down there.
Freddy had finished off the kids that had fled to hide in their rooms and concentrated appearing next to Kali. She sat at a computer screen with her bloodied glove beside her. She stared back at him looking rather scared and closed her eyes tightly shaking nervously. He reached out and stroked her cheek with his bare hand and read her thoughts of what had happened in the elevator. It pained him to hear how much she doubted his feelings for her, but then again he couldn't blame her after everything he'd put her through.
"It's me Kali." He rasped and she slowly opened her eyes. All Kali wanted to do was leap into his arms but she knew that she'd have all the time in the world to do that once they got out of there. "What're you doing?" He asked looking to the computer screen.
"I changed all the ingredients for the Hypnocil so it won't work for the water treatment, but the computer won't let me delete any of their Hypnocil formulas." Kali looked to Freddy and he stood in front of the computer stabbing a blade into the keyboard making red little bolts of electricity run over the entire computer and spider its way through all the cables that led into the wall and the ceiling.
"That should take care of it. Where did Sam go?" He looked around the small room.
"She went to find all the Hypnocil that they keep stored down here so we can destroy it." She explained slipping her glove back on and heading out of the small computer room.
"I thought I told you two to get out of here." He said following Kali around the corner.
"It was her idea." She explained and the two of them stopped in their tracks when they heard voices behind a nearby door. Freddy walked to the door and it swung open to reveal Helen standing a few feet away from Sam threatening her with a syringe. Helen turned to them as they entered and slowly backed away from Sam.
"Kali? You did this didn't you? You knew about Sam this whole time!" Helen screamed as her eyes filled with fear when she saw Freddy.
"Hi Helen." Freddy smiled at her waving his blades as he pulled Kali behind him by the hand and she held onto him wrapping her cold pale fingers around his wrist and had a hand on his. Helen held out the Syringe threatening them.
"Why are you protecting her?" She asked confused and her eyes followed Sam as she made her way over to them. Freddy felt Helen's sudden panic and sensed someone behind him. Turning around he saw Zerset standing in the doorway with a Taser in hand looking extremely frightened. He wanted to kill them both and get the girls out of there but he sensed how much they both wanted to know about him and Kali. Zerset held the Taser out defensively and Freddy stood in front of Sam and Kali as he ran around to Helen.
"More than half the patients are dead and Durgt and… James." He explained and a look of horror contorted on her face.
"You're going to kill us aren't you? You finally came back for Sam… and Kali." Zerset looked to Kali with question in his eyes. He looked to Freddy. "Why Kali?" His question made Freddy smile and he pulled Kali beside him.
"She is the most powerful person I've ever encountered in my world besides myself." He explained and held her face between his hands and looked her in the eyes making her extremely nervous. Sam watched guessing at what he was about to do smiling to herself. "And I love her." He said with meaning making a silent tear stream down Kali's face. The two doctors watched in complete shock as Kali embraced him and they kissed.
"And I love you." She whispered into his ear as they pulled away from each other.
"There does that satisfy your damn curiosity?" Sam said making Kali and Freddy turn to her in surprise from her sudden outburst.
"This doesn't bother you?" Helen asked taking a step towards Sam making Freddy take a step closer to her. "She's half your age!"
"Who cares how old she is? She gave me hope when I had given up, told me what really happened to my father and if he's happy I'm happy for him. I don't care how many people he kills he's still my father and I love him no matter what. You all deserve to suffer for killing him and robbing me of my childhood. You had no right to take me away from my Mother and use me as a lab rat. There will be nothing left of this place once we're done with it." She threatened and stood behind Freddy with Kali as the two doctors stood there speechless and in shock as if they had never heard her speak before. Freddy turned to Kali and Sam.
"Sam you and Kali get out of here, I'll take care of this mess." He motioned to all the chemicals in the room. Kali saw Helen advancing towards Freddy with a loaded syringe in each hand.
"No!" Kali screamed and threw herself at Helen knocking her to the ground. One of the syringes rolled out of her hand the other was already in Kali's side. She ignored Freddy's angry growls behind her and shoved a blade into Helen's wrist making it stick out the other side. Helen screamed in pain and Kali dug the blade in deeper before pulling it out. She could already feel her eyes getting heavy and the room swirled around her. Rolling onto her back off of Helen she pulled the empty syringe out of her side. Helen screamed again and Kali turned her head to see Freddy pick her up by the throat before blacking out.
"You stupid little bitch!" He squeezed her throat tighter. "Just be happy that I already killed your asshole husband and your idiot son. Mommy is the only brat left." He laughed as she struggled to breathe and claw his hand off of her throat. Throwing her to the wall she let out a sob. Sam grabbed the fire extinguisher and ran at Zerset as he took a few steps towards Kali. She hit him hard in the head making him fall to the ground unconscious. Freddy watched Sam in awe for a moment before kneeling down beside Kali.
"What are we going to do?" Sam asked in a panic. "How are we going to get her out of here?"
"I'll have to take control of her." He said as he stroked Kali's face.
"But what about all the Hypnocil? It'll weaken you." Sam looked down at him not wanting him to risk weakening himself. She'd carry Kali the whole way if she had to.
"I'll be fine. If I'm with her she can't get hurt and I can still protect you until you get out. I can still use my powers with her. She's a lot stronger than she knows." He explained and put a hand on her head. Focusing all his energy on getting rid of the Hypnocil all the heat in his body went into Kali.
Sam watched not knowing what to expect. Her father was beside Kali with his hand on her forehead and the other on her chest he had his eyes closed and he suddenly began to fade. She took a step closer to him to shake him out of whatever he was doing afraid of losing him, but before she could he disappeared.
She knelt down beside Kali and reached to touch her but stopped herself when she could feel the heat coming off of her skin. Sam wished she could do something to help and watched Kali lay there motionless. Looking around the room she eyed all the large containers lining the wall filled with the ingredients for the Hypnocil and harsh purifying chemicals.
Helen moaned and cried out in the corner as she sat in the growing pool of her own blood. She didn't look like she was going anywhere anytime soon and Zerset was knocked out cold. Sam started to dump over the large containers starting with the ones furthest from Kali and worked her way down. Suddenly there was a noise and she looked to see Kali on her feet with glowing red eyes and her clothes burned away being replaced with a longer almost dress like version of her father's sweater. Her fingers flexed making her blades clink together.
"Mmm this is where I belong." Kali rasped in her father's voice.
"Is Kali going to be ok?" Sam asked slowly making her way towards him.
"She'll be out for a few days, but she'll be fine." He rasped flexing Kali's scarred hand in front of her face.
"Are you ok?" She asked eyeing Kali's body as it took a step towards her.
"I've never felt more complete than I do right now. I have you here and I'm back with Kali again. Let's get you two out of here now." He held his hand out to her and she took it.
As much power as he used to get the Hypnocil out Kali's system he still felt stronger than he ever did before. Maybe it was just being with Kali that made him stronger, either way it felt good to be with her again. He'd have to wait a few days before he could even get her to wake up in the dream world but getting all of that dreamless poison out of her system was worth it.
"Go hold the elevator, I'll be right behind you." He instructed and she ran out the door looking back at the two doctors one last time before disappearing around the corner.
He grabbed one of the larger containers and dumped it on top of Zerset and Helen. Looking around the room the remaining chemicals spilled out onto the floor on their own. Helen screamed out at him and began to pull herself to her feet. Holding his hand out to her she flew to him and he held her up by the throat.
"Your turn to burn bitch." He rasped and she lit ablaze. He threw her into the river of chemicals and slowly walked out of the room enjoying her agonizing screams. The room became an inferno behind him and he quickly made his way around the corner to join Sam in the elevator. Sam stuck her head out the doors to see a trail of flames follow him around the corner. He quickly pulled her into the elevator and the doors shut. The elevator slowly ascended its way up to the first floor towards the unsuspecting doctors above.