Chapter 5- The Parachute
Anderson woke up lying on the ground in the basement of the apartment complex. It was dimly lit down there and the halls were empty. She was confused as to how she got there, or why Elaine had spared her life. But she realized the answer to that question once she heard some growling coming from down the hall. The shadows appeared on the wall at the end of the hallway; it was a person with something that looked like a dog on a leash, but it wasn't at all. The shadowy figures turned the corner to reveal it was Elaine walking Jerry's Hokdons-two slimy one-eyed creatures that looked like mutant pitbulls.
"Dinnertime, boys!" said Elaine with a laugh.
Anderson pointed her gun at Elaine as she unhooked their leashes. The two beasts charged down the hall towards Anderson. She fired her gun. One Hokdon instantly hit the floor with a bullet through its skull. She fired again. The other Hokdon hit the floor inches away from her with the bullet through its one eye. Elaine simply looked shocked.
"What did you do?" she gasped "Those were Jerry's babies!"
Anderson stood up and pointed her gun at Elaine "Destruction of public property, attempted murder of two judges- your sentence: death."
Anderson fired her gun and shot Elaine square between the eyes. Elaine simply laughed in response as blood drizzled down from the wound.
"You can't stop me that easily!" she said as she activated her stretchy neck again.
Elaine's head grew larger as her neck stretched further down the hallway closer to Anderson. She shot a few more holes in Elaine's face, but nothing happened. Anderson panicked and fidgeted around with the settings on her gun- something she wasn't too familiar with. Elaine shot out a blast of fire towards Anderson, but she managed to jump out of the way. The blast hit the wall behind her and caught fire close to the two dead Hokdons.
"Careful," said the monster Elaine with a laugh "The Hokdons have explosive blood!"
Anderson eventually got her gun to freeze-ray setting. She confidently aimed at Elaine and fired. A vicious blue mist sprayed out of the gun and coated Elaine's head in a block of ice as she instantly fell over. The fire began covering the Hokdons and Anderson ran for it. An explosion set out behind her, covering that end of the hallway in flames. The force of the explosion had enough of an impact to shatter Elaine's head into hundreds of shards of ice. Anderson kept running down the hallway until she reached a stairwell. Before she could even step on it, she heard something walking down- something loud and heavy. It was a heavy robot suit going down step by step. George was inside of the robot with his upper torso sticking out at the top.
"I don't have time for this!" said Anderson "I have to find Dredd."
She ran between the robots legs and continued up the stairs.
"Are you trying to run away from me?" yelled George "I seriously hope you guys don't do this!"
Dredd was on the same floor as Jerry's apartment. He walked cautiously with his gun in his hand.
"Jerry Seinfeld. I know you're here," he announced "Surrender now and I'll consider giving you life in an IsoCube rather than the death sentence."
There was no response, so he continued walking. The silence was disrupted by the sound of electric saw blades starting up. Kramer's apartment flung open and he stepped out with his circular saw arms spinning dangerously fast.
"Drop the weapons," said Dredd.
"You drop yours first," Kramer replied.
Without waiting for a response, Kramer ran towards Dredd. Dredd fired some bullets, but they just bounced off Kramer's metallic saws. Dredd ducked from Kramer's attack and his saw sliced into the wall and got wedged in. Kramer tried pulling his arm free, but had no luck. Dredd simply smirked and stuck his gun back in his holster.
"Attempted murder of a judge," said Dredd as he grabbed onto Kramer's free arm "Sentence: death."
Dredd plunged Kramer's saw arm into his neck and kept slicing it deeper until Kramer's head dropped to the floor. Both of Kramer's saw arms shut down and stopped rotating. A slow clap came from behind him. Dredd turned to see Jerry in a leopard print bathrobe smoking a Cuban cigar.
"Nice work, Dredd. I bet you're wondering where the three kidnapped judges are."
"You better set them free, Seinfeld."
"Come into my apartment, I'll show you them."
Jerry turned around and walked back into his apartment and Dredd followed. Dredd was angered to see the three judges tied up, half naked and filled with bullet wounds sitting in the bottom of Jerry's coat closet.
"I hate judges. I had to kill them," said Jerry as he picked up his assault rifle off the kitchen table.
Dredd was just about to pull his gun out of his holster when Jerry pointed the rifle at him.
"Don't even think about it, Dredd. The second you pull that gun out, I'll shoot you dead."
George then came into the apartment, still in his giant robot suit. He had trouble squeezing through the door from how wide the suit was, but he managed.
"Did you get the girl judge, Georgie?" asked Jerry.
"Yep, I smushed her head like a grape."
"Haha, nice!" said Jerry.
Dredd placed his hand on his gun holster. Jerry held his assault rifle close to Dredd as a threat to shoot him if he pulled it out.
"My armour is bullet proof," Dredd said "Yours isn't."
"I'm not wearing amour," replied Jerry.
"Exactly."
Before Jerry could even react, Dredd pulled out his pistol, set it to fire blast and shot at George- setting him and his robot suit on fire. Jerry fired his assault rifle at Dredd, but the bullets did nothing against his thick armour. George's robot fell to the floor and he got out and ran around the apartment while on fire. The flames from George caught onto the furniture and the curtains as well. Dredd grabbed the rifle out of Jerry's hand and fired at George, killing him in seconds. Jerry looked terrified and backed up against the window.
"This whole entire apartment building is on fire from the floor up, Dredd. What're you gonna do after you kill me? Nothing, because you're gonna burn to death. If you let me live I can show you the secret exits."
"Jerry Seinfeld- for the murder of three or more judges, selling and manufacturing drugs, destruction of public property, and attempted murder of a judge- your sentence..."
"Dredd, no! Come on!" begged Jerry.
Dredd pulled out a sharp hunting knife from a secret compartment on his leg armour "Death."
Anderson made her way out of the apartment complex after pushing through hallways filled with smoke and fire. She was safely outdoors and looked up to see that half of the building was on fire. The only fire from the top half of the building was the one coming from inside Jerry's apartment.
"Dredd!" she yelled out.
There was no response though. She continued yelling it out until she saw Dredd- standing on the ledge of the burning apartment. He was holding something, but she couldn't tell what it was from all the way at the bottom. It was the skin of Jerry Seinfeld and Judge Dredd was about to use it as a parachute to flee from the burning apartment. He held the skin above him and jumped to his safety. Jerry's skin inflated in the shape of a parachute and Dredd slowly floated down.
"I'll get you for this, Dredd!" yelled a skinless Jerry from his apartment window.
The fire got so intense in Jerry's apartment, that the ceiling came down and crushed him under the fiery boards. Dredd landed on the ground next to Anderson and tossed Jerry's skin into a trashcan. The two of them looked up at the burning building.
"We're done here," said Dredd "Justice has been served."
