It's time for the first update of the year for this story and this celebrates not only the Friday the 13th of the year but the 36th anniversary of the Friday franchise itself. Continuing from where we last off, Steven is having an unexpected family reunion with Michael and just how will he get out of such a bad spot? Let's find out.
Disclaimer: I don't own Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, or Halloween.
Steven stood with his gun aimed at Michael and his granduncle held onto his blade as they stared each other down. His heartbeat slowed down as Michael took the first step and he fired at the hole he received from his fight with Jason.
"That must be from Jason. It won't kill him but it might give me an advantage." Steven thought as he shot Michael and he slightly staggered back while holding onto his knife the whole time. The masked fiend eventually moved back enough to stumble off the front step and land on his back.
Quickly grabbing a nearby shotgun, Steven ran to the doorway and slammed it shut before leaping over his downed granduncle. He continued shooting at Michael as he ran past him and he recovered before grabbing at his leg once the machine gun ran out of bullets.
Steven slammed the butt of his weapon onto Michael's head and fled to his police cruiser before starting the engine while watching his monstrous relative get back up. Ignoring his bleeding wound, he stood and walked over to Steven's cruiser before he drove away.
As he drove from his home, Steven knew that Michael was sure to follow him and that staying in his house would give him no shelter from him. He looked to see another car speeding after him in the rear mirror and he nodded to himself.
"That's right, Michael; follow me." Steven thought as he drove as fast as his car could go and Michael did the same; determined not to let his grandnephew escape from him a second time. After driving for some time, Steven was nearing the Graeme farm and stopped upon reaching it.
With the now-widowed Mrs. Graeme with relatives away from Springwood, Steven got out the car and scanned around before thunder was heard. Rain started to fall from the sky and he cocked the shotgun before proceeding to search the area upon realizing that Michael's car had yet to show up.
Steven carefully walked through the area and listened for any scene of Michael while it rained. He walked into the barn and stayed alert while keeping his hand on the trigger.
Just then, lightning flashed outside the barn and Steven spotted Michael in the corner of the barn staring back at him before aiming his shotgun at him. However, when the lightning ceased, Michael was nowhere to be seen and Steven tried to maintain his cool.
"Michael, I know you're in here." Steven said before hearing his granduncle's raspy breathing fill the air and the problem was that he couldn't pinpoint its location. Not giving up, he steadily backed away from the noise and the breathing grew heavier without giving him away.
Steven looked down at the hay and notice stains of blood nearby before he began following them while his ears stayed alert to Michael's breathing. The young deputy followed the blood to a ladder and spun around to point at the rafters above.
Instead, he found Michael standing behind him just as his knife lunged for his throat and he reacted by quickly shooting his chest. He stumbled back and gave him enough time begin climbing the ladder as he aimed at his head.
*Halloween theme plays*
Steven shot Michael's cranium and he didn't fall back as expected before he was shot again. He jumped off the ladder and rolled past the murderer before cocking his gun once more.
"Tell me, Mike, are you that interested in killing me or are you mad at Jason?" Steven smirked before Michael stabbed the ground in response before leaving his knife planted there as he resolved to kill him with his own hands. He advanced on Steven as he continue to fire at him until he ran out of bullets and nervously looked at his granduncle's hands reaching for him.
"No!" Steven hurled with fury before swinging the shotgun at Michael's head and clocking him with the butt of it. The only response from him was his head reeling back and Steven lashed the shotgun at him again.
With all his might, he began beating Michael back until the shotgun was yanked out of his hands and the masked fiend whacked the nozzle against his ribcage; holding back enough not to send it flying through him. The winded officer fell to his knees as Michael tossed the weapon to the side and grabbed Steven by the back of his neck before tossing him forward.
He landed near a pitchfork and hit his head against the wall with Michael approaching. As he struggled to get his bearings, he felt around for anything he could use to defend himself and felt the pitchfork.
Despite the pain his ribs carried, Steven wasted no time in grabbing the pitchfork and holding the prongs at Michael. Undeterred, he continued walking and Steven lashed the prongs into his wound the moment his eyesight returned.
Michael lurched forward and Steven moved out of the way as he reached for him again only to fail. He limped out the barn while the unstoppable man yanked the pitchfork out of his wound and dropped it before walking to the entrance.
He then spotted Steven in his police cruiser and he revved the engines while staring at Michael. Ever fearless, he stood in place and Steven revved his engines before driving towards him at full speed.
"Die, you son of a bitch!" Steven said at the top of his lungs before the car slammed into Michael and he went flying back onto some corn thresher blades. Due to the force he had been struck with, the blades were impaled him and the middle one stuck out of his wound; mirroring what he had done to Jamie years ago.
Steven got out of the police cruiser and walked over to his granduncle before observing his situation. Unfazed by the blades sticking out of him, he looked down at Steven and the two shared hardened stares.
"Michael, why after all this time are you after me? We both knew that Curse of Thorn thing is bullshit, so just what are you doing here?" Steven asked and Michael's response to his question was his scarred hand reaching in the direction of his throat. Knowing he'd never truly discover Michael's obsession with him, he activated the machine and the blades began whirling around.
"No one will ever understand you like Dr. Loomis did, will they?" Steven said as Michael's eyes locked on him as the blades began to shred himself from the inside and they stayed focused on him the entire time as the machine loudly whirled.
"Never thought you'd hear that name again, did you? After you killed him, didn't you?" Steven rhetorically said to Michael in reference to the fact Loomis had been found dead in Smith's Grove Sanitarium and the only evidence that the fiend had been there was his discarded mask.
Michael made no sound as his insides were ripped by the blades and blood trickled down his neck from the inside of his mask with Steven looking on. After a few more minutes, he went completely limp and his breathing came to an end as Steven turned off the machine.
He stood with his reloaded machine gun and waited for Michael to spring back to life before his head began to move. Steven grabbed a nearby 2x4 and began beating Michael's skull with all his might.
"Die, die, die, Michael!" Steven shouted over and over and with one final move, he reared the 2x4 over his head before slamming down onto the killer's cranium where it broke on impact. Again, he went limp and Steven panted before backing to his car; not taking his eyes off his enemy for a second.
He spoke into the police radio and a SWAT team arrived fifteen minutes later.
"Deputy Lloyd, are you alright?" Officer Talalay asked.
"Yes but we need to get him to a secure location." Steven said as Michael's body was lowered off the corn thresher.
"He'll be in the morgue soon." Officer Talalay ensured him.
"Morgue? He's isn't dead. Michael needs to be taken to the most secure facility that's available." Steven said.
"Lloyd, he's not breathing and there's chance he could have survived being on an active corn thresher for so long." Talalay said and Steven tried his best to keep a cool head.
"See that wound in the center going through his back? Last night, when I met him, he didn't have it and when I found the police he'd stolen from Carpenter earlier, the blood stains were there." Steven explained and Talalay looked to the downed murderer's wounds before realizing that he had to have carried his central wound longer than the average person could.
"Change of plans; load him into the van." Talalay answered before Michael was handcuffed and carried to the back of the SWAT van as Steven looked to see the dead trooper being removed from the trunk of the car. As she was placed in a body bag, Steven started to walk to his cruiser before gripping his ribcage and groaning in pain before Talalay helped him stand.
"Before you think of going home, let's get you to the hospital first." She advised.
"Thanks." Steven said; figuring that the hospital would be best for the time being since staying at his house would be unwise with Michael now aware of where he lived. Arrested or not, Michael's presence was still a threat to him and he had to stay vigilante at all times.
Later
Live action news of Michael's arrest had spread though Springwood and despite being imprisoned, officials had yet to remove his mask for reasons unknown. Lori and Will watched from his home before looking to each other with the news being bittersweet.
Though Michael was in custody and Freddy's influence was blocked by the hypnocil, Jason was still on the loose and they knew their only chance of subduing him was tranquilizing him with the imobatine as Freeburg had done. The issue was tranquilizing him in a safe manner and deciding what to do with him since they were still wondering about why he had returned to Springwood in the first place.
"Will, do you remember what I told you happened in my last dream?" Lori asked.
"What was it again?" Will responded.
"The little girls were singing a different tune that I hadn't thought about until now; nine, ten, there's an old and new friend. I'm starting to think they might have meant Jason and Michael." Lori said.
"Could Freddy have sent both of them here?" Will said.
"I don't know what to say. Jason couldn't have dead since he's already undead so Freddy couldn't have spoken to him if he's awake and how he could talk to Michael all the way in Haddonfield is beyond me." Lori said.
"We stopped Jason before so I know he can be stopped again." Will said and Lori nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile
Steven winced as he held a pack of ice to his injured ribs and looked to see Michael in solitary confinement wearing handcuffs. The killer remained still and didn't make a sound as Steven looked through the bars at him.
With Michael imprisoned and seemingly immobile, Steven had called Haddonfield and had its Police Chief Akkad send someone from Ridgemont Sanitarium to pick him up. With that in mind, he only hoped that Michael would stay unconscious long enough for them to take him into custody and he glared at his uncle.
"Stay asleep, you bastard." Steven growled under his breath before walking away from the cell and heading to his cruiser. He began wondering what do to about Jason and why no one had heard from the SWAT team sent to capture him.
As he got into his cruiser, he began to drive home and gather his supplies; opting not to stay in his house as long as Michael was in Springwood and knew of where he lived. He began thinking about tranquilizing Jason upon remember Lori and Will telling him it was possible that he could be tranquilized and then began to think about something.
"How in the hell can someone be tranquillized when shooting them doesn't hurt a bit." Steven thought as he continued to drive.
The next day
Lori walked through Springwood with Erika and both noted how the streets were beginning to fill with life compared to the previous amount of days.
"Well, Lori, I don't know about that Freddy but that Michael Myers guy being locked up has brought some life back into this town." Erika said.
"I'm guessing this is what Haddonfield must be like after Michael's done prowling around the place." Lori answered.
"Thank goodness, too. With half the police gone and that Jason guy still on the loose, all we can do is hope for it to be all over with soon." Erika said.
"Let's hope so, Erika." Lori said before looking to the police station and wondered how their forces could be cut down so fast along with the fact that all schools had been closed until Jason was caught. She walked into the police station and found Steven waiting for her with Will alongside him.
"How are you today, Lori?" Steven asked.
"I'm okay, thank you." Lori said before being led to his office where they presented the imobatine they were holding onto in case.
"Do you have any idea where Jason might be at the moment?" Steven said.
"We've never seen Jason in broad daylight before so we wouldn't know where he would be hiding." Will said.
"That aside, this is the sedative your friend gave Jason?" Steven asked before both Lori and Will nodded in affirmation.
"We'll do the best we can to find him but with our forces the way they are now, it'll be a while." Steven admitted.
"If we can ask, how did you capture Michael?" Lori asked.
"You're not thinking of setting a trap for Jason, are you?" Steven asked.
"No, just curious to find out how Michael Myers of all people could be captured alive." Will said and Steven explained to them that he had only incapacitated him enough to capture him. Once his story was over, Will and Lori left the police station before gathering Erika and Jeffrey with Stokely declining to join them.
"Are you sure, Stokely?" Erika asked from Will's van.
"It's alright, guys. I'm eating lunch in a while." Stokely said.
"If that's what you want at the end of the day, all right." Jeffrey said before the van started.
"Have a good time." Stokely smiled as Will began to drive.
"See you around, Stokely." Lori said before the van drove away and disappeared around a corner as Stokely's annoyed face appeared as she walked back home.
"Sheesh, people drop dead in the past few days and they're all over me like fleas on a dog." Stokely thought.
Later at the lake
All of Will, Lori, Erika, and Jeffrey toasted their ice-cream together in remembrance of Dana and the rest of their recently deceased friends. Though Erika and Jeffrey had told Lori and Will that Dana had been with Stokely on the night she had been murdered, they had all decided not to question her on how she managed to get away and she hadn't since it always seemed to upset her; not of them knowing the act was just a façade.
"Yeah, since the Ice Cream shop temporarily closed, I've been cooling my heels this whole time." Erika said.
"Well, given what happened, it ultimately can't be helped." Jeffrey answered.
"Still, it is nice to see things slowly getting back to normal.' Will said.
"All that remains is to stop that Jason nutcase." Jeffrey said.
"Now that the police have another way to stop him, hopefully he'll be down for the count soon." Lori said.
"Maniacs aside, you two sure have become chummy with that Lloyd guy." Erika smiled.
"You have to admit, he's easier to talk to than the Sheriff was." Will said.
"Not to mention less sketchy at the end of the day." Jeffrey added.
"That Michael Myers knowledge has made him a pretty clever survivor since he's the first person we've met that's survived meeting him twice." Lori said.
"From what he told us, Michael got into a fight with Jason the same night was met him." Will said.
"A fight? I've never met Jason or anything but he must be something to take on Michael Myers and still be in one piece." Jeffrey said.
"I'm not sure if he's in one piece but it's possible." Lori said and the friends continue to talk over ice cream; a shadow stood nearby before vanishing. It later began to rain and the teens headed to Will's van before he started to head back.
"I don't remember it supposed to rain this hard." Erika chuckled.
"Yeah, the weather is unpredictable this time of year." Lori smiled.
"Well, as long as it doesn't hail, we'll be just fine." Will said and no sooner than he said that, something large went flying through the windshield and everyone screamed at the top of their lungs in surprise to see it was a SWAT officer's headless body.
Will tried to stop the van and it swerved on the wet road before tipping over while it rolled off the road. The pack of friends all groaned and slowly staggered to their feet as they tried to get their bearings before taking note of the dead officer.
Despite their sore states, they managed to push the back doors apart and crawl out before helping each other up. Lori helped Will to his feet and they all backed away from the van as they looked away from the SWAT officer's body.
"What the hell is going on here?" Will uttered the only thing going through his mind.
"I have a pretty bad feeling we're better off not knowing." Erika said before hearing a creaking noise above and everyone looked up to see Jason standing on top of the van glaring down at them. Their faces went pale with horror while screaming again and taking off as fast as their legs could carry them.
Ki-Ki-Ki-Ma-Ma-Ma
"Run!" Lori said as they headed deeper into the forest in hopes of finding a way out and she looked back to see Jason marching after them. Her focus returned to the path in front of her and surely enough, they lost the hockey-masked man a while later.
Shortly afterwards, they stopped running and looked in the direction where they had last seen him while backing up all the way. Will felt something behind him and turned to see the dead bodies of the SWAT officers scattered all over the place as they slowly looked around in complete fright at the carnage.
Lori covered her mouth in horror to stop herself from screaming and moved back only to bump into the SWAT lieutenant's corpse hanging upside down from a tree branch. She screamed behind her hands and Jason reappeared in front of them before they began back pacing as he slowly walked towards them.
"Jason…" Lori said as said killer kept his eye solely fixated on her as she backed away and Will stood in front of her with his arm fanned out with Jeffrey and Erika taking their time in moving back. Then, he noticed an officer's discarded tranquilizer gun laying on the forest floor and grabbed it before aiming it at Jason's chest.
"Freeze!" Jeffrey said to Jason as he continued to advance to them unfazed and he cocked the tranquilizer before shooting him in the chest. The hockey-masked zombie froze for a minute and looked down at the dart in his chest as this distracted him for a moment.
He looked back at the teens and resumed walking after them with Jeffrey continuing to fire as many tranquilizer darts as possible. Will and Lori hoped this would have the same effect as the imobatine did and instead, Jason still pursued them with his walking becoming faster to the point of where he reached running speed.
"Damn!" Jeffrey said upon running out of tranquilizer darts and continuing to carry the gun as they all yelled from Jason chasing after them. With him not slowing down, they focused on running away from him and eventually came to an indoor hockey rink.
Jeffrey managed to bust the lock open with the gun and they all hurried inside before slamming the door shut. Once locking it, they moved back and kept their eyes on every window before they heard pounding on the door.
Will and Lori removed their imobatine tranquilizers while Erika armed herself with a nearby hockey stick and Jeffrey's grip on the gun remained steady. The doors looked ready to fall apart and the pounding came to a stop before everything fell silent.
The friends looked to each other and began to calm down before Jason smashed through the backdoor while his victims fled into the ice rink. Jason removed a dart from his utility belt and flung it into the back of Will's leg before he collapsed onto one knee as he dropped his imobatine tranquilizer.
"Hang on, Will." Lori said as he kept him balanced the best she could while discarding her tranquilizer and Jason stepped onto the ice before attempting to make his way towards them again only to stumble on the slippery surface. Erika managed to move to the goal and still made her way to try climbing out of the rink.
Jeffrey, on the other hand, noticed Jason's unsteadiness on the ice and moved to Will and Lori by crawling on the ice before taking the tranquilizers himself.
"Jeffrey, wait!" Will said before he crawled towards the rink lines and dragged himself to his feet before charging at Jason. The undead monster looked at Jeffrey stick the tranquilizers in either side of his neck and emptied the imobatine into both sides of it.
Dropping to the floor the minute the tranquilizers were empty, he rolled back as Jason kicked at him before falling back and landing on the floor as he stopped his breathing. Erika, Lori, and Will all let out a breath of relief at Jason being unconscious and looked to Jeffrey.
"Good work, Jeffrey." Lori said before Jeffrey climbed to his feet and stepped over Jason before kicking his head. He didn't move and Jeffrey began chuckling before looking to his friends.
"How long did you say he'd stay unconscious for?" Erika asked.
"The last time he got tranquilized, it was for several days when we were getting back to Crystal Lake. So, I think we should be fine for now." Lori answered.
"Man, with all you told us about him, I didn't think he'd be such a pussy at the end of the day." Jeffrey said upon kicking Jason again to no response and Will picked up his cellphone before calling the police. After they heard about the dead SWAT team, they said they'd be there as quick as possible and keep their distance from Jason.
"All right, maybe there's tape to bind him with somewhere." Will said as he noticed Jeffrey crouching next to Jason.
"Jeffrey, he's out. No need to keep messing with him." Erika said and Jeffrey laughed while flicking Jason's hockey mask.
"Out, indeed and ultimately…" Jeffrey began to say before the unexpected thing happened when Jason's hand suddenly flew up and grabbed the young man's tongue before ripping it out of his mouth. Will and the girls all screamed again before Jason quickly got to his feet and grabbed Jeffrey as he began to wildly choke.
Ki-Ki-Ki-Ma-Ma-Ma
Jason slammed Jeffrey's head against the ice repeatedly and slammed his boot onto the back of his leg with a loud crunch being heard. Jeffrey tried to hold his hand out to his friends as it trying to tell them to run as blood dribbled from his mouth and Jason yanked him to his feet before placing his left hand on the back of his head.
Jeffrey felt Jason's fingers slowly pushing into the back of his skull and the undead monster viciously ripped out his upper spinal column out before smashing it against the railing. As the young man went limp in his killer's hands, his body was slammed onto the floor before Jason raised his boot and crushed his head underfoot enough for it to make a hole into the ice with cracks forming.
Despite their horrified states at the slasher not being affected by the tranquilizers, Lori and Erika managed to help the wounded Will out of the ice rink with Jason still following them as Jeffrey's body fell into the cracking ice. Heading outside, they made their way to the road and flagged down an oncoming set of police squad cars driving their way with Steven being the first one to get out of his cruiser.
"Come on, I'll get you to the hospital." Steven said before driving the three friends to said place while his fellow officers swarmed the arena in search of Jason; only to find Jeffrey's body within the damaged ice rink with most of it red from his blood. After Lori, Will, and Erika's injuries were treated, they were picked up by their respective parents and returned home for the night.
Lori sat in the Rollin's guest room and Will entered before sitting next to her as he tenderly held her in comfort of the night's events. With Jason now being immune to the imobatine, neither had any idea on how to subdue him and sat in silence for a time.
"Hypnocil or not, I'll stay here the whole night." Will said before Lori kissed his lips in gratitude.
"Thanks." Lori managed to smile before it was returned to her and Will nodded before she rested against him. Around midnight, Lori managed to fall asleep and Will looked at her before lying her down before tucking her in.
Feeling drowsy, he yawned and lie next to her before looking at her one to see Freddy in her place. The burned dream-demon maliciously grinned as the horrified Will tried to jump out of the bed and he lashed his blades at his wrists and ankles; slicing each one on impact.
"What the hell…?!" Will said before Freddy's claws had his tendons stretched out from his and he felt searing pain while he was lifted into the air with his attacker sinisterly chuckling. What was most shocking about it was that he remembered taking his hypnocil pill earlier and Freddy grinned before using his tendons to swing him about as he flung him forward.
Similar to what he had done to Tina years ago, Freddy slammed Will into the walls enough for his blood to stain them and he yelled in pain from being bashed all around the room with his tormentor cackling all the while.
Once half the room was coated red by Will's blood, Lori, who was getting a glass of water, entered the room and looked to see her boyfriend's body in the air. Frozen with horror, she dropped the glass and Will looked at her before grinning.
"Nice to see you again, bitch." Will said in Freddy's voice before lustfully rolling his tongue and Lori screamed before Will's tendons were further pulled until his whole body was inside out. Next, Freddy began pulling Will's tendons in multiple direction with him screaming in pain as he felt his body beginning to rip apart and the paralyzed Lori could do nothing but watch.
A moment later, Will's body exploded in the air and blood splattered all over the room while some of it landed on Lori. Mr. and Mrs. Rollins came out in response to the commotion and screamed in equal horror at their son's body exploding into unrecognizable pieces.
As Lori and Will's parents yelled in equal terror, Will's blood began to leak down the wall and then it began to form letters. The letters in turn formed a gruesome message which was eventually read as:
"I'm your boyfriend now, Lori. See you in bed soon, bitch!"
Happy Friday the 13th and what a way to start off the year, huh? I hope you enjoyed Steven's symbolic revenge on Michael for killing Jamie after he was born and of course, we know Myers isn't dead but he'll be out of it for a while.
Some may ask how is Jason not bothered by being tranquilized if it worked on him in FvJ and the answers easy: all the things he's survived over the years, it'd be mighty stupid if a tranquilizer could floor him. So, I had him play possum and wait for someone to get too close to him before he takes them down.
Also, you're probably wondering if Jason can't be tranquilized, how he will meet Freddy in the Dream World and find out he's been fooled again and my only response is that you'll find out very soon.
Though Jason in this story is based off how Kane Hodder played him, his speed walking is a nod to his portrayers CJ Graham and Dan Bradley in Friday the 13th: Jason Lives and I think it works for him to walk faster when annoyed. Will he be running like Ted White did in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter? We'll have to wait and see.
Will's death may come as a shocker to some but I say he's luckily I let him get this far in the story since other horror sequels would have him die at the start and for the Nightmare fans who guessed right, yes, Will's murder is a combined nod to Tina from the original and Phillip's death in the Dream Warriors.
I'll also bet you're wondering on how Freddy got to Will if he took his hypnocil earlier and again, you'll find out some other time.
Hope you had a good time reading and see you next time.