Happy Friday the 13th and welcome to the 6th chapter of Freddy vs. Jason vs. Michael: Slashdown. By now, you guys know that the upcoming Friday the 13th movie has been postponed again until next year and while that's annoying; this chapter might cheer you up.
Disclaimer: I don't own Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, or Halloween.
Lori sat on Dana's room couch and stared out the window as she curled her legs to her chest. She managed to calm down but the thought of holding her father's head in her hands hadn't left her thoughts and she kept staring out the window.
"Hey, Lori?" Dana said as she came into the room and Lori looked at her holding two glasses of water in her hands.
"Here." Dana said as she handed the glass to Lori and she drank it once she noticed that both glasses had pills of Hynocil at the bottom.
"Thanks, Dana." Lori said before Dana hugged her friend.
"Just try to get as much sleep as you can." Dana said.
"Thanks, Dana, I will." Lori said before Dana walked over to her bed and sat across from her.
"Remember, if you need anything, I'm right here." Dana said.
"Thanks, Dana." Lori said before Dana lie back and went to sleep. As she slept, Lori looked out the window again and took her mind off the possibility that Freddy was behind her father's death.
She lie back on the couch and continuing staring out the window until she succumbed to slumber; the Hypnocil pill being the only reason she could sleep.
Elsewhere
Charlie hyperventilated in the back of an ambulance as it rushed to the hospital and the medics in the back attended to him on a stretcher. Donnie's death had sent him into a state of severe shock and the same was true for Rennie, who was in another ambulance behind them.
"Blood…blood…blood." Charlie muttered repeatedly as he twitched on the stretcher and the medics kept him strapped to it.
"He's losing it!" the first medic exclaimed.
"Keep him steady!" the second medic exclaimed as the ambulance stopped once it reached the hospital and they unloaded him before they rolled his gurney into the hospital. Rennie was rolled into the hospital and she shivered in her state of shock.
"He blew up…he blew up….he blew up…" Rennie said over and over as her stretcher was wheeled into the hospital. They were rolled into separate rooms and in Rennie's room, a doctor, Ron Yu, entered.
"What's her situation?" Ron asked.
"Witness to murder and state of severe shock." One of the nurses explained.
"All right, Rennie, I'm Dr. Ron Yu." Ron said.
"He blew up…he blew up…he blew up…" Rennie said and Ron sighed as talking to her wasn't going to be easy. He nodded at the first nurse and she brought in a sedative syringe needle before handing it to him.
"All right, Rennie, we're going to give you something to relax." Ron said as the second nurse held Rennie's arm and he injected her arm with the syringe. Her shock faded away as the sedative took its effect and she slowly lost consciousness.
"I'll call the police and tell them she won't be able to answer any questions until tomorrow." Ron said to the nurse.
"Yes, sir." The second nurse said before leaving and Ron entered Charlie's room to give him a lighter sedative. He felt bad for the young stoners and couldn't help but wonder what kind of murder would scare them that badly since working with witnesses were far from new to him.
After giving him his sedative, he left the room and went to his office to call the police. As he walked by an empty room with a closed door, he failed to notice Michael peering through the glass and staring at him.
Meanwhile
Steven and Officer Carpenter looked at the scene of Donnie's murder and couldn't believe their eyes at the carnage.
"How is this possible; no ordinary man could have done this." Officer Carpenter said.
"Michael is not a man." Steven said as he started to leave the room.
"What is he then?" Officer Carpenter asked.
"Evil." Steven answered before leaving the room and Officer Carpenter didn't know what think of that comment.
"Where are the witnesses now?" Steven asked.
"They're at the hospital and under sedation from severe shock." Officer Carpenter explained.
"Right, we'll question them tomorrow then." Steven said before he and Officer Carpenter left the coroners to do their work. Meanwhile, they returned to the police station to set up curfews and keep the schools closed until the threat of Michael had subsided.
Hours later
The dark hospital hallways were filled by the nurses as their shifts came to an end and the night shift replacements slowly arrived. Meanwhile, Ron was on the third floor and headed into the elevator to check on Donnie and Rennie.
As he arrived on the first floor, he stepped out of the elevator and headed towards their rooms; not noticing Michael's shadow behind at the far end of the hallway. He walked into Rennie's room first and looked to see her still unconscious.
However, she was in the dream world being chased by Freddy and screamed for her life. He was making her run into many exploding Donnie clones and the blood splattering everywhere was driving her nuts.
"What's wrong, Rennie, this too much of a blast for you?" a clone of Donnie asked before exploding and Freddy loudly cackling from above. As a replacement for Lori taking Hypnocil, he instead found Rennie an easy target due to her sedation and thus making her torment all the more satisfying as she couldn't awaken.
As Ron watched over her, he grunted as something tore through his back and he looked down to see a blade sticking out the front of his chest. Coughing, he slowly looked back to see Jason standing behind him before ripping the machete out of his chest and turned him around as he began coughing up blood.
Ki-Ki-Ki-Ma-Ma-Ma
Jason revealed an electrical surgical bone saw before activating it and cutting into Ron's chest. As he started screaming, the hockey-masked murderer covered his mouth and slowly put pressure on his jaw.
Blood splattered on the wall behind them as Jason sawed through his chest with the remnants of his heart on the tool. Ron's screams went unheard as Jason continued to crush his jaw while backing him into a corner and started bashing the back of his head into the wall.
Ron choked up more blood as the surgical chainsaw finally cut through him and with one final bash against the wall, his blood splattered across it. The doctor's eyes closed before Jason snapped his jaw and let him drop to the floor before checking for any signs of remaining life by tapping his body with his foot while turning his attention to Rennie's unconscious form.
Meanwhile in the dream world, Rennie found herself covered in blood and lie curled up in a fetal position while Freddy's finger blades reached from behind. He kneeled over her and deviously chuckled as he reared his glove back for the kill.
Suddenly, a syringe needle burst through Rennie's forehead and a mixture of her blood and sedation liquid flew into Freddy's face. Back in the real world, Jason had lifted Rennie and stabbed her through the head with the syringe needle as he pinned her to the ceiling with it.
Realizing what this meant as Rennie's corpse vanished, Freddy angrily hissed.
"Voorhees, you damn dog! I told you to go home!" Freddy said to Jason in Pamela's voice and he looked at the bodies before taking his leave.
"Jason!" Freddy shouted in Pamela's voice and said killer didn't stop in his tracks in the least. Then, the burnt killer realized why the towering zombie wasn't listening; due to his powers being completely returned to him and now being free from his mind, Jason couldn't hear a word he told him.
"Fine, then, I'll drown you for good this time!" Freddy shouted and in Charlie's room, he started to stir awake before seeing a doctor above him.
"I'm afraid you can't leave just yet, Charlie." The doctor said.
"Why?" Charlie nervously asked.
"Because we haven't checked you yet!" The doctor cackled as the table straps came to life and wrapped around it like miniature pythons. He wheezed for air as the straps suffocated him and away his air as he doctor turned into Freddy.
"You're…!" Charlie started to say before one of the straps covered his mouth and gagged him as he shivered in terror. Freddy sinisterly chuckled before the table arose and he set fire to the room while Charlie tried escaping.
The stoner sweated in fear as the flames surrounded him and he noticed them growing closer to his trouble as Freddy stood by cackling. Charlie tried to break free from his bonds and his tormentor watched as the flames eventually reached the table; making the metal of it hot.
Before the fire spread to Charlie's form, Michael placed his hands on either side of the young man's head and started crushing it. In the dream world, Charlie yelled as his skull was smashed and Freddy couldn't believe his eyes.
"What the hell?" Freddy said before realizing it had to be Michael doing something to him and he lunged at Charlie to finish him off as his eyes started to bleed from the pressure. Before his claws were able to land a mark on his chest, he disappeared and Freddy's claws went through the table.
Michael took his hands off Charlie's smashed head and left the room. As he walked, he noticed Ron and Rennie's bodies in the nearby room before cocking his head while inspecting them.
Impressed by both the position of their bodies and remains alike, Michael looked down the hallway and saw Jason's shadow marching away from sight from around the corner. He started after the shadow until he lost sight of it and decided to take his leave.
Meanwhile, Freddy steamed in anger in the dream world as his appearance grew more demonic with his glove fusing into his hand and the flames meant for Charlie spread around the room.
"I should have known better! I'll slaughter both those hounds for good!" Freddy thought to himself before roaring in anger as the flames built up behind him and symbolically reflected his anger against the silent murderers. This time, he would do everything to stop his foes once and for all.
The next day
Dana watched the morning news on the murders done in the hospital and couldn't believe such crimes had been committed with no one noticing the perpetrators before changing the channel since it reminded her of seeing Dirk and Danny's bodies the previous night. With the events that occurred the previous night, she was actually surprised they were about to sleep so soundly despite their traumatic sights.
"Hey, Lori, how'd you sleep?" Dana asked upon seeing Lori come downstairs.
"I slept just fine, to tell you the truth." Lori said.
"Well, that's good to hear." Dana said before getting up and sympathetically placing her hands on Lori's shoulder.
"Let's get you some food and then I'll take you over to see Will." Dana said and Lori smiled before patting her friend's shoulder.
"Thank you, Dana." Lori smiled.
Elsewhere
"Christ, what's going on here?" Will said to himself as the news showed the staff of the local hospital as they removed the bodies of the stoners and Ron. He sat back in awe before turning off the channel and staring out the window while thinking of the carnage that had occurred in the past two days.
As much as he didn't want think about it, he was starting to wonder if Freddy really had returned and had something to do with the recent murders. Setting the thought aside, he decided to see how Lori was and headed out the door after giving it some more thought.
At the hospital
Steven shook his head after seeing the remains of all the victims and Officer Carpenter wasn't sure what to make of the murders himself. While he suspected Freddy to be behind Charlie and Rennie's deaths, he wondered what happened to Ron as he was still awake at the time of his murder.
"Could Michael Myers have done all this?" One of the officers asked Steven.
"Yes." Steven said and unbeknownst to him, many of them were thinking about Freddy's potential involvement.
"One thing I still can't wrap my head around is what Michael Myers would be doing here in the first place." Officer Carpenter said and Steven nodded in agreement. With all the years Michael had been reported missing, Steven couldn't wrap his finger around why he'd suddenly reappear and come to Springwood of all places.
The only possible explanation he could think of was Michael had somehow found out that he was living in Springwood and had come after him as his only remaining family member. Nonetheless, he resolved to find his homicidal grand-uncle and capture him before turning him over the Smith's Grove Institution.
Back with Lori
She sat on Dana's couch with Will next to her and he had his arms around her lovingly. Dana was in another room while the young couple chatted.
"Don't worry, Lori, I'll help you get through this." Will reassured Lori and she smiled at him before nodding. Dana returned with three mugs of coffee on a tray meant for them and as she came into the living room, she looked out the living room window to see Michael standing there looking inside.
Seeing him standing there, she dropped the tray and let out a loud scream of terror as the mugs splattered on the floor. Will and Lori looked at their friend before getting up.
"Dana, what's wrong?" Lori asked.
"It's him!" Dana shrieked as she pointed outside where Michael was and by the time her friends looked out the window, he disappeared.
"Who are you talking about?" Will asked.
"The man with the white mask who killed Danny last night was just out there less than a second ago!" Dana trembled and Will looked out the window to see no one fitting the description.
"Dana, there's no out there with a white mask." Will said and Dana stopped trembling before seeing Michael has vanished. She caught her breath and Lori comforted her friend.
"Do you want to sit down?" Lori asked and Dana slowly sat down on the couch before Will went to get a broom to sweep up the mess.
"I'm really sorry about this." Dana said with her head buried in her hands as Lori patted her shoulders.
"Don't worry about it, Dana." Will said.
"Yeah, we'll get through this somehow." Lori said and Dana assumed the stress of losing Danny was causing her to hallucinate about his killer. Will dusted up the shattered mugs and disposed of them before returning to the living room.
Days later
Dana heard a knock at her door and opened it to see Stokely.
"Hey, Dana, I've two coupons for some ice cream specials, care to come with?" Stokely asked.
"I don't know…" Dana sighed.
"It'll get you out of the house and some friends might be there." Stokely smiled and after giving it some thought, Dana smiled.
"All right though it's a shame Lori and Will won't be able to come." Dana said since the couple was elsewhere at the moment.
"Thank goodness, they won't." Stokely thought before Dana and she walked to the car before being on their way.
Meanwhile at the ice cream shop
"All right, guys, closing time is gonna be earlier than usual thanks to this curfew." The boss, Paul, said.
"Sir, yes, sir." One of the employees, Erika, answered.
"Good, carry on then." Paul said before stepping outside for a smoke and he noticed a shape standing in front of a nearby tree while his employees all stepped outside the shop through the front door.
"Who's there?" Paul asked and he looked to see Michael standing there. The killer stood there and eyed him with his blank stare.
"Aren't you dressed for Halloween a bit early?" Paul asked Michael and he started walking towards him.
"Well, if you want to buy some ice cream, take off that mask of yours and come inside." Paul said before turning around and Michael grabbed the back of his neck. He covered Paul's mouth as he yelled and he lifted him off the ground before slamming his head on the door a single time.
Paul's squirmed as Michael crushed his neck until he took his hand off his mouth and twisted it. The young man's body went limp as Michael held him and he tilted his head at both angles while inspecting his bloody handiwork.
Back inside the restaurant sometime onwards, the place had a small amount teenagers that weren't as disturbed from the recent murders and the newly arrived Stokely and Dana sat in a booth with Jeffrey and Erika, who was on break.
"Say, Erika, how's Paul?" Jeffrey asked.
"He's fine, though I haven't seen him in a while since my shift began." Erika said.
"I'm sure he's around somewhere." Stokely answered.
"So, Dana, how are you and Lori doing?" Erika asked.
"We're slowly getting buy though not easily." Dana said.
"Don't worry; Dana, you and Lori just have to take the road to recovery a day at a time. It'll be painful but eventually, you get better before you know it." Erika said.
"Yeah, at the end of the day, all you can do is simply take it a step at a time when recovering." Jeffrey said.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Dana said.
"That aside, I sure hope the fuzz can find whoever is causing all this madness." Jeffrey said as a creaking sound filled the air and some looked around at the noise. Just then, the creaking sound grew louder as Paul's body came falling down from the lights above with ropes attaching him to them.
All the customers and workers all screamed alike at Paul's body before they fled from the restaurant in different directions. Stokely and Dana fled for the kitchen doors and found the bodies of many other employees strewn across the kitchen.
"The other way!" Dana said as she and Stokely spun around to head to the front doors. However, the latter spun around too quick and slipped on some blood from one of the employees before she wound up falling down.
As she struggled to her feet, she heard breathing behind her and looked to see Michael standing behind her. Dana loudly screamed at Michael before getting up and running through the kitchen doors after Stokely.
However, her friend had armed herself with a broom and ran outside the restaurant. She looked back to see Dana running towards the door with Michael behind her and saw his blood knife.
Stokely panicked and quickly shoved the broom through the door handles to keep it from behind opened. Dana reached the door and pounded on the glass with Michael approaching her.
"Stokely, help me!" Dana cried from inside the building as Stokely fled to her car and by now, everyone else had departed. Without looking back a single time at Dana, Stokely got into her car and started it.
"Stokely, please!" Dana said as she tried to open the doors and before she could pound on them anymore, Michael's knife stabbed her through the throat. Dana gasped before falling over against the door and her blood trailed down it as she slid onto the floor.
As she lie dying and choking up blood, Michael began to thrust his knife into her chest and silenced her by strangling her throat. Dana choked up more blood before Michael stabbed her in the heart a final time and slit her throat.
With one last wheeze, Dana felt her life slip away and her head settled on the floor while Michael stood over her; cocking his head on both sides. He kneeled down and opened her purse before pulling out a picture of her and Lori with Erika.
He stared at Lori in the picture before digging around her purse some more and pulling out her home address. Michael stood back up and left out the back door.
Elsewhere
Lori and Will sat in his van looking over Springwood while talking before noticing it was getting to curfew time. They drove back to Dana's house and knocked on the door as it slid open.
"I wonder where she could be?" Lori said.
"She must be around somewhere." Will said before they walked through the house and found the slain bodies of Dana's parents. Lori covered her mouth in horror as Will guided her away from the bodies slowly and tried his best to keep from screaming.
Suddenly, a door loudly slammed open and the couple fled through the house before hiding in the living room closet. They kept silent and remained still as they heard someone coming.
Ki-Ki-Ki-Ma-Ma-Ma
Lori and Will trembled in fear as the footsteps grew closer and they heard breathing nearby. Then, Jason stepped into the living room and their eyes grew wide in fear while their heartbeats quickened in fear.
"Oh, God, no." Lori thought as Jason walked around the room and both she and Will tried to remain still within the closet to keep from alerting him to their presence. Just when it appeared Jason was going to leave, his head snapped in the direction of the closet before his body moved in the exact direction of where he looked and he began marching towards it.
Will and Lori continued to tremble in fear as Jason headed to the closet and stopped in front of it while breathing deeply. Their heartbeats beat faster as the hockey-masked killer reached for the closet door and had his hand hovered over his machete's sheath.
Well, Happy Friday the 13th and I hope this chapter put a smile on your face now that the tables have once again turned on Freddy; who's out for more than just teenager blood this time around. I bring more good news since there's another Friday the 13th next month: a chapter featuring a fight between two of three of the icons is drawing near.
As for Freddy and Jason, we know that the latter can't hear what he's telling him anymore so now he's the homicidal maniac on the loose in Springwood as he was the previous time and Michael's on the loose too adding to the bloodshed.
The doctor named Ron is named after Freddy vs. Jason director Ronny Yu but as you can probably guess from how I killed him in a single chapter, I'm not too fond of his namesake. Having Stokely abandon Dana like that is my plan of rising how much readers want her to die since we all know that self-centered bitches like her are bound to die sooner or later in horror-type stories/films.
Anyway, it doesn't look good for Will and Lori at the moment. Will they get out of the closet alive or will their blood be added to Jason's machete? Find out next Friday the 13th in March and see you until then.