Puppet Master 2139
Ch. 4: Hotel Re-opened!
Within one of the rooms in Bodega Bay Hotel left for Ash's friends…
BAM! Ash fell to the ground, with a huge punch mark on his left cheek!
For two weeks since the school blew up, Ash's friends have been training him for future battles at night!
Joey said to him, "COME ON, ASH! GET UP!"
Ash sighs as he gets up, "I don't like to fight. It was never my choice to be the new Puppet Master in the first place, it just came to me."
Six-Shooter says to his new master, "Come on, master, dance." He held up his guns at Ash and fired!
Ash was quickly dodging every bullet from Six-Shooter flying at him!
Joey had to agree with the cowboy, "You don't have a choice anymore, Ash! The old magic has chosen you for some reason!"
Millie came up with an ice pack for Ash, and a few towels, "You know when I was a child, I always believed in times of unhappiness and despair, a warrior, who's inexperienced, but is pure of heart will light the way and bring victory and a time of peace for all."
Ash says, "I'm not pure of heart and I'm not a warrior!" as he placed the ice pack over his cheek.
Joey said, "With our training you will be!" Benny said in the background, "Don't get your hands dirty, Dragon Ears; you have a buffet to whip up; our hotel is opening soon." Joey looked back at him and asked, "Since when was this our hotel? It is Ash's after all."
As they turned to face Ash, he wasn't there anymore. He was resting on his back in his bedroom… "I hate my guts."
As he dozed on… in his field of unconscious vision, all went white and a large black shadow stepped forward toward him. Ash asked, "Sutec?" The shadow answered, "No." then kneeled to Ash upon his knee, "I am your service, my master." The figure looked up at him with glowing red eyes, "Give me an order." Ash didn't respond. "Ashton, your orders?"
Ash woke up from that vision, to see Benny getting ready to pound another stomp to his stomach!
Suddenly, Ash found the shadow's voice in his head say to him, "Dodge, rollover, then leap as far as you can." Ash followed that voice's words to the tiniest syllable; he sat upwards as quickly as possible to successfully dodge Benny's kick, then he rolled over off the couch he was resting on (just when Benny was about to punch him), and leaped backwards (out of Benny's reach)!
Benny was impressed, "How did you do that? You've predicted my every move!" Ash answered, "Actually a voice in my head told me to move. I didn't actually predict your moves, and he called me his master."
Benny was infuriated, "Puppets!" The latter said in unison, "Don't look at us."
Ash heard the voice again; "Focus on anyone of the puppets' powers, known or original, then use it in your own body." Ash felt his body suddenly twitch as he complied with the voice, he focused on Jester's agility, dashed towards Benny, and flipped right over him like an acrobat! Benny was surprised, "What the?" Ash then focused on Pinhead's strength and used a palm thrust to Benny's gut, sending him flying right into a wall!
Benny was confused (and in pain), "What happened?"
Ash wondered that himself, "How did I do that? All I did was focus on the agility of Jester and the strength of Pinhead, suddenly I landed a haymaker to your gut."
Pinhead said, "We felt it, your magic must have become so strong that you can now focus on our abilities and use them as your own, master."
Ash remembered; so he sat on the empty floor, crossed his legs together, clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, started to breath slowly, and closed his mind… beginning to meditate.
As Benny recovered, he schemed he could foil with Ash's 'meditation'…
First he tried to pinch him… nothing.
Then he played cymbals… nothing.
Then he played music real loud… still nothing.
Joey entered the room and shuts off the stereo. Benny furiously asked Joey "What are you, a wise guy?" Joey said, "He's not there." Benny asked, "What do you mean, he's right here!" Joey said, "Benny, he's not here! His mind is now traveling other dimensions." Benny said, "That's what he wants you to think!"
Benny took the frying pan from Joey and lightly tapped Ash on the head… still nothing at all. Not even an 'ouch.'
Before he lost his temper and went to bash Ash's head in with the frying pan, Pinhead plucked the pan from Benny's hand and struck him in the butt like a baseball player hitting a homerun; sending Benny flying into the wall again!
Benny realized that Ash is in FULL meditation.
Benny decided to follow Ash's mind by use of the Egyptian Ouija board that Toulon's Puppets came with! He concentrated and focused as hard as he could, sooner he knows not what he's done!
The glowing golden pyramid in the center of the board cracked and flew apart! From where the pyramid originally was laid a glowing portal, out from that portal were not one but two Totem beasts, a red box, a brown Teddy Bear with sharp teeth and a red scarf, and a silvery robotic tank!
Blade sighs, "Here we go again."
Ash opened his eyes as soon as he heard the growls of the Totems; but this time his eyes are glowing a blood-red glow like a pair of bloodstained headlights!
Benny opened his eyes to see what happened, "THIS WASN'T MY IDEA!"
Millie, scared out of her wits at the sight of the terror, responded, "Then who was it?" Frankie asked, "Why is Ash's eyes glowing red?"
Ash got up and said to the beings that came out of the portal, as the pyramid pulled itself together and mended itself, in a voice that could make demons crawl to their graves, "You should never have used my master's friend's anger as your way in, he wisely upgraded his magical powers have increased through advanced meditation."
Joey smirked at Benny, "Told ya."
One of the two Totems said, "Our lords and masters' have united forces against your pathetic little world. You need to do more than talk through your new Puppet Master before your birth, otherwise, you're only half as strong as you should be."
Ash's voice was heard, "Not quite." Then both voices (of Ash and the mighty being) came from Ash's body as it spoke, "Working with the Puppets of Andre Toulon, our army will arise and protect all innocent lives that you're after."
Ash's right hand glowed like fire and so did Decapitron's, from their right hands to both their entire bodies they both glowed like the sun and merged together! Now Ash and Decapitron have become a human-sized Decapitron!
Benny asks, "Did they… united into a… super-puppet or something?" Joey said, "You're asking the wrong master, my profession is cooking."
"Arsenal Head." The new Decapitron's silvery head shape-shifted into a metallic block-shaped robot head with blaster turrets on both sides, a flat-lined visor, five electrode/generators on top of his head, and a barrel on the back of it.
The two Totems leaped at the girls, but as a flash of lightning, bolts of electricity shocked the twin beasts to death and Kaboom! Those monsters never even got to touch them!
Decapitron said to Joey, "Joseph Cook, and Blade… you are one." He snapped his fingers and both Blade and Joey have merged together into a human-sized Blade with black leather gloved humanoid hands!
The new Blade felt his skull-like face and removed it, like a mask, to reveal a handsome human face. In his mind, the new Blade heard the minds of Joey and Blade talking, "I can feel it, all the techniques, all the powers, all your memories, Blade." Blade said 'Yes, now we must help our friend and master."
The Teddy Bear growled and removed his scarf, making him bigger and bigger until he's the size of a full-grown human, with teeth literally fatter than a pencil!
The new Blade placed his skull mask back on and a large glistening bowie knife popped out of his right arm trench coat sleeve and into his hand! Blade's left hand balled into a fist, then between the knuckles popped out a strong piercing hook!
Blade had his hands full with Grizzly, while Decapitron took on the small robot toy. The little robot fired its lasers at Decapitron, but electrical pulsated from his head and generated a force field to protect himself from the attack.
As the toy robot moves away on its wheels to try a surprise attack, Decapitron was too quick to fall for such a trick and launched a barrage of missiles from the barrel on the back of his head at the small toy, utterly destroying it!
Blade splits Grizzly right down the middle, killing it completely!
Blade then asks, "What's in that box, Decapitron?" Decapitron said to his partner, "Jack Attack."
Mechanical sounds of 'Pop Goes the Weasel' was heard from that box, the top popped open and out popped the laughing, sharp-toothed, clown-faced Jack! He slithered right out of his box, he's got a red snake-like cloth body with white polka dots, gleaming green hair and razor sharp teeth! Another bad part about him is that he's laughing, even in the face of his own doom.
Decapitron's visor shot a red laser disk at the box the Jack came out of and blew it up! Blade hooked the head down before Jack could leap up and bite own of them and cut his laughing head off as the green blood oozed away!
Jester joked, "Off with his head!"
Still laughing, Jack said to the Puppet Master/Decapitron, "Ace will be the ruler of the universe!" and laughed on malevolently and maniacally!
Frankie wondered, "Who's Ace?"
Frustrated, Decapitron's side turrets fired and blew up Jack's head once and for all.
Decapitron and Jester tapped their own other shoulders unison and said, "Pop goes the weasel."
Then the green blood dehydrated and turned to dust as the last of Jack's body burned to ashes!
Benny asks Blade, "Where's the baking soda or fire extinguisher?"
As the fire was gone, Jester sighed, "Now he's stained the carpet, so much for all the work in shampooing it."
Decapitron and Blade defused into a normal Decapitron, Blade, Joey, and Ash…
Evie asks Ash, "Ash, do you know who Ace is?"
Ash said, "I do."
He turns to everyone and said, "He was my firstborn brother."
(Next Chapter: Ash tells the story of Ace.)
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