Happy Friday the 13th, everyone, and welcome to the beginning of the long-awaited final battle between Jason, Michael, and Freddy as they tear their way through the other in this 17th chapter that also celebrates the 34th anniversary of the beloved Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter with Jason being revealed as having become human again in the previous chapter being icing on the cake for some. As the final fight at the end of Freddy vs. Jason is normally agreed to be cartoonish by a good number of folks, this one will be more grounded as can be specifically for the likes of these homicidal madmen and let's see how they handle carving the other.
With no further words, let's dive into some slashing!
Disclaimer: I don't own Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, or Halloween.
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As Jason and Michael loomed over Freddy, he shot to his feet and dug his claws into the latter's chest before both of them were lunged at. Grabbing Freddy, he launched him onto the couch only for him to get back up and swing his claws at Jason's heart with the masked brute swinging his machete at his head.
Freddy blitzed to Jason's side and prepared to swing his claws again before he was grabbed by the throat to his surprise; having easily outmaneuvered him in their previous real world bout in Crystal Lake. Jason throttled the fiend as he angrily roared and slashed at both his arms and abdomen before Michael placed his hands on Freddy's head.
Roaring in agony, he felt Michael's palms squishing his skull and the two silent killers looked to the other for a moment before looking at the fireplace until their gaze reunited. Jason nodded before Michael starting moving towards the fireplace and they swung him back before chucking him into the fire.
Freddy howled as the flames spread across him and he found Jason's boot against his shoulder to keep him in place with his claws tearing into his leg. Booting him, he stared defiantly at the two masked beings and Jason angrily huffed before grabbing Freddy with his next move being tossing him to Michael again.
Michael knocked Freddy into Jason before he head-butted him and tossed him out the window where he stopped screaming. It was then the two noticed Lori and Erika hold on to the other as they hobbled out the kitchen and he started after them before Michael slashed his backside.
Grunting at this, he spun around as Michael prepared to attack again and dropped his machete to lift his hockey mask to display his face. Despite his features not as deformed as they were in his zombified state, Michael froze in place upon seeing his foe's true face once again and Jason's misshapen lower jaw swiveled as if meaning to smile before slashing his enemy's abdomen.
Michael reeled back as he dug the knife into Jason's clavicle and he tackled him to where they tumbled out of the window. Careening over the porch's supports, Jason and Michael were helpless to escape as the roof crashed down on the both of them and all went silent as the rubble settled.
Jason's hand burst through the wreckage with the rest of him following suit and thrusting his hand into the scattered mess to dig out Michael. Suddenly recovering, he punched Jason in the side of the head and lifted him into the air before slamming him down onto the muddy earth.
He clutched Michael's leg and yanked him onto the ground before getting on top of his foe. Pressing his palm against Michael's head, he began to crush it against the earth before getting struck in the back of the head with a piece of wreckage and then Freddy, burned but still recognizable, reappeared to tackle Jason as they rolled around on the ground.
Clawing Jason's chest to where it bled from the cuts, he was surprised to see human blood running from his chest and he charged him before he could be captured. Slamming his elbow into Jason's backside, he sent him tumbling off the dock into the flooding lake and spun around to see Michael fish both the machete and his new knife out of the wreckage right as he stared down Freddy.
"Come on, dick-or-treat." Freddy sneered while wiggling his both sets of his claws as Michael came onto the dock and lashed the machete at him. He managed to graze Freddy's side before coming at him again with the knife this time only to get gutted by the organic claws.
Even with the rain washing away the blood running down his abdomen, Michael grabbed Freddy's throat before hoisting him into the air and beginning to choke him before Jason's hand lashed out of the water to seize his ankle. The masked fiend and Freddy tumbled into the lake with Jason climbing out of the water holding the spear gun from his previous time at Higgins Havens and Michael's head arose from the water to look to his fellow mute attacker.
As rain drizzled down Jason, he aimed at Michael's mask and fired the spear into his left eye with enough of an impact to make his head reel just as he fell back into the water. As he reclaimed his machete, Jason looked to the side to see Freddy climbing out of the lake and he huffed as his foe tauntingly stomped the sandbar as he did with Pamela's head until he did something unexpected the next minute.
To Freddy's disbelief, Jason dashed towards him and knocked him to the ground before he sprang to his feet to deliver an uppercut to his chin with his retaliation being a swift punch that sent him sprawling back. He charged once more with Freddy's claws cutting into his chest and he impaled his enemy before Michael's knife slashed against his spinal column.
Jason spun around and slashed Michael where he had wounded him in their previous battle to where he staggered back. As he did this, he noticed Michael holding his free hand to his mask where his eye was still bleeding and lashed his knife at Jason again.
Landing a clean gash on him the first time with his blindness, his next strike connected against Jason's machete with the knife falling out of his hand and he opted for grabbing his throat. Freddy rejoined the fray as he took advantage of Michael's wounds and tore into him until he found himself being throttled.
As he strangled his enemies for a time, Jason dropped his machete to retrieve a keyhole saw from his tool belt and drove it into Michael's eye with more blood running down his mask eyehole. He and Freddy were freed by the latter sprinted behind Michael and sprung onto his backside before clawing away at him.
Jason swung his axe into Michael's abdomen with enough force to make him lurch forward and he grabbed the back of his head before slamming his face into the ground with Freddy falling off. Grabbing his knife, he lashed it at Freddy and slashed his back before punching Jason in the face.
He was knocked back with the axe being ripped by Freddy as he swung his glove at his neck and put a gash on the side of the papier-mâché mask that Jason followed up with another swing from the axe. This landed on Michael's heart as he only stepped back until he swung at the dream demon and he ducked before kicking his back.
"I'm gonna split you two in half." Freddy said before attacking both his enemies and lashed his blades down Jason's chest before he slashed him across the midsection. This sent him stumping away before swinging the axe at Michael, who grabbed the handle and yanked it from his hands.
He slammed the blade into Jason's chest to where he grunted and furiously tore the axe out before seizing Michael's throat. Holding him against the ground, he hacked and tore his way into Michael in the exact area where Chris hit his head many years before.
Michael again seized Jason's throat and began throttling him to where blood began to spill from his deformed lips out the holes in his mask before he was dealt a monstrous punch to the face. With a loud crack sounding from his neck, Jason tore the axe out to hoist a nearby pitchfork and lifted Michael onto his feet.
He reared the pitchfork ultimately slamming it into Michael's chest and pinning him against a stall akin to what he had done to Fox. It was then he spun around and realized Freddy was nowhere to be seen before looking to see footprints leading to the trees with two more sets dead ahead.
Not giving Michael the look of spite he preferred, Jason reclaimed his machete and tossed the knife into his stomach wound before taking off. It was only after he had left that Michael began to stir and reach for the pitch fork.
Meanwhile
Lori and Erika limped their way through the woods as they leaned on the other for support and headed to the nearby blaring siren noises until they finally came to an ambulance that remained with another leaving was with two police cars. Once most of what was going on, some of the officers gave the others skeptical looks from recognizing Lori from her previous time in Crystal Lake and loaded both her and Erika into the back of the ambulance.
"Now, just sit tight. Everything's going to be alright." One of the paramedics said to the girls and Michael suddenly appeared before stabbing the man in the head with the pitch fork. Lori and Erika jumped in surprise from this before the police officers began shooting Michael's wounds with the former getting to her feet.
Michael strolled over to the police officers and stabbed the first one's Adams Apple before cutting down the nearest one with the ambulance starting but then began sputtering. The masked fiend approached with his knife in hand and raised it as he approached the girls.
"That does it." Erika hissed before sending her stretcher at Michael with it hitting him and he stared her down as this only annoyed him.
"Erika, wait." Lori said before Erika stood tall.
"I take back every last energy of fear wasted on you." Erika began to say to Michael and Lori looked on at her friend's resolve before Freddy's glove claw swung down through the front to cut her upper back.
"Wrong one, bitch." Freddy cackled before swinging at Lori, who dived at Erika and both of them fell out of the ambulance into the path of the oncoming Michael. As Lori wrapped her arm around Erika and both looked around in fear at their attackers closing in, a paintball dart sailed overhead and hit Freddy in the upper chest with the result being his fall from the ambulance.
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Michael spun around to have Jason slash him across the chest with his machete before lifting him and shoving him against the closest car engine before Erika helped Lori to her feet. Freddy snarled at the hockey masked brute as his eyes fell on the girls and began to reach for Lori until he was slashed down the middle of his hand.
As blood ran from the cuts, Jason stared at his hand and gave it a quizzical stare as Freddy broke him out of his stupor by charging him. They rolled on the ground before Jason got the upper hand and planted his boot on Freddy's head before beginning to smash it on the road as he planted his machete in his chest.
Erika helped Lori into the back of the ambulance and slammed the doors shut before she used her adrenaline to get her to the driver's seat. Pushing both of the slain drivers out of the car, she started the engine and Jason looked back at the ambulance to see Lori staring out at him while it sped away.
Now furious, he raised his foot to begin stomping on Freddy's head before Michael plunged the pitchfork in his back and slugging his mask with his next move being grabbing the sides of his head. The Dream Demon attacked Jason's backside before being thrown back into the woods before Michael was gripped in a bear-hug and his back was tightly squeezed until his feet were off the ground.
Loud cracks sounded from either of them before Jason hurled Michael next to Freddy and followed up by throwing his machete into his wounds. Despite lurching, he punched Freddy in the ribs before knocking him back and noticed Jason charging at him holding his knife.
Tearing the machete out, he held it upright and thrust the blade into Jason as he fought back by slashing him in a massive frenzy with either of them ignoring their wound as Freddy reentered the fray. The three endlessly slashed and tore their way into the other to where it took them through the woods.
With another slash at the other, both machete and chef knife collided before flying in the air and leaving Freddy to attack Jason again as he sprang onto his back. He began clawing and slicing his way into Jason's wounds before Michael uppercut the hulking fiend as he elbowed Freddy's side.
Swiftly reversing himself, he grabbed Freddy's leg and tackled Michael to where all three of them landed in a snare with Jason dangling upside down. Michael used this to his advantage and began bashing the back of his head against the tree with Freddy going after him.
"If anyone's killin' Mama's Boy, it's me!" Freddy hissed with Michael punching him and he ducked before getting stabbed in the side with his next attack puncturing his already damaged eye with his organic claw. The Haddonfield Boogeyman shoved Freddy back while swinging his knife and though he cut his enemy again, his partial blindness caused him to unwittingly cut the snare.
Jason growled as he grabbed both of them and knocked them back while grabbing his machete to return it to its sheath for the time being with Freddy charging at him. With a low snarl coming from him, Jason bolted towards Freddy and grabbed him by the neck before flinging him into the air like a beanbag.
As Freddy's screams faded into the air, Michael attacked Jason by a flurry of both stabs and punches that knocked him back as he endured the blows to his own amusement as he done before. Michael's breathing grew raspier as his onslaught continued before he threw another punch at Jason and missed his lower jaw with Jason's own heavy breathe remaining stable and he grabbed his collar.
Lifting him into the air, Jason punched him so hard that he flew into a nearby sign and Michael eventually got back to his feet to storm over to his rival. Squaring off against the other, Jason and Michael lunged at the other with the latter stabbing his foe in the neck with his head snapping back until furiously head-butting him.
This stunned Michael enough for Jason to tear the knife out and stab into him before an arrow flew over them into the nearby archery range. Both looked to see Freddy now holding a bow and arrow before he fired at them again with Jason ripping out Michael's knife a second time to hurl it at his foe.
The blade stabbed into Freddy's kneecap as Jason broke away from Michael only to be lifted him overhead and slammed him headfirst into the mud. Ripping the knife out before tossing it to the mud, Freddy charged the masked murderer only to be strangled by him to where he fell onto his knees while clawing into his arms and Jason got back up to place his hands on his skull with blood running from both his eye sockets from the pressure.
Michael released Freddy to wound back his fist as Jason did the same right before they clocked each other as both their heads flew back and either mask came off. With Freddy now free and Jason's grip on Michael ruined, both stood still as the equally unmasked fiend looked back at them with his eternal blank expression as his fist tightened as Jason cocked his head in wonderment in response.
While Jason knew his features were startling to all but his mother, he couldn't help but wonder about Michael since he had never witness an expression so blank on anyone that it could called inhumane and Freddy only sneered at this.
"Huh. A face almost as fucked up as yours. What's next; you go into space?" Freddy asked and Jason's head remained tilted at the question before Michael approached the two but at a faster pace with his knife reclaimed. Jason's eyes narrowed as he withdrew his machete and bolted to Michael while holding his weapon just above the ground.
A loud thunderclap sounded as Michael slashed Jason across his chest while he simultaneously cut his foe's torso and they stopped dead in their past to clash again. Machete and knife exchanged several lacerations and thrusts alike as Freddy looked at their wounds present before thinking to himself.
*Last One Standing by Silent Civilian plays*
"They're as good as mine!" Freddy thought in regards to taking advantage of their wounds to weaken them and slashed his jawline. Michael furiously grabbed Jason's throat and hacked into Freddy to where he gurgled on blood arising in his throat.
Rearing his hydrocephalic head back, he head-butted Michael before hacking into his wounds and his blank expression never broke with the blood running down his lip. Jason spun around and ran Michael through the chest with the machete sticking out his backside.
Lurching forward, Michael's damaged eye twitch as Jason ripped the machete out and swung too high with his weapon sailing over his head as Freddy ducked with the Haddonfield murderer moving away. Slashing Freddy again, he moved back and cut both Jason and Freddy across the torsos before the deformed man booted his leg.
Michael dropped to one knee and grabbed Jason's collar before yanking him down to the ground to stab him in the shoulder while simultaneously knifing Freddy. He sprang onto the silent pair and they tore through the mud before he slashed at their necks with Jason retaliating by slashing at the dream demon.
Blood trailed down his wounds before he came back again with his claws slashing the side of Jason's face and Michael gutted him. Continuing to spit out blood as he was wounded, Jason grabbed Freddy's head, his fedora falling to the ground, and started crushing it with his roars of ongoing pain from feeling his long black nails just above his brain.
As pus appeared on Jason's fingers, Michael got him in a headlock and put enough pressure on him to release Freddy before he strangled his foe with the organic claws piercing his shoulder. Jason grabbed his attacker and swung around before knocking him to the ground.
Jason broke Michael's arm with a single yank while his blank expression remaining on his face as he lashed his blade into his side before Freddy raked him across the face. With his blind eye scarred, Michael's blurry vision made it difficult to tell where he was as Jason grabbed his coveralls and slammed him against the mud before he got back up.
Slashing at Jason but missing, he staggered to the side before facing them in time for Freddy to gash his stomach wound before the machete sliced into him and he managed to punch the brute in the face. The dream demon shot into the air and landed on Michael's shoulders before raking his way into them.
Jason jumped at Michael and Freddy with the result knocking all of them down as he pounded the back of his head until he was shoved off. Freddy cut into both Jason and Michael as his hands and sneering face before they both grabbed his ankles.
Though they had zero intent at this, they hurled Freddy onto the nearby beach with Michael driving his elbow into Jason's chest and the hulking killer grabbed the back of his neck. Holding onto him, he drove him headfirst into a tree before slamming his front onto a tree stump and wielded his machete upright.
As Michael started to rise, Jason viciously thrust the blade into his upper spine with enough force to tear into the stump and blood oozed from his mouth as he took the excessive stabbings with his foe's boot pressed into the back of his head. More of his blood spattered on Jason as he tore into him and Freddy looked on as he raised the machete one more time before it plummeted down into Michael's back.
With the final strike, the hilt of the machete stuck out of Michael's backside as he lie still with Jason ripping it out as the stump fell apart in the process and Freddy wiggled both sets of claw blades.
"Not bad for a mindless mutt, Voorhees, but we got shit to finish!" Freddy snarled and Jason's head snapped at him before he threateningly advanced on him with his machete preparing to strike. Just then, he froze and tauntingly pointed behind him to see Michael, holding onto the stump's remnant with his working hand, slam it onto his skull and he turned around to face his opponent.
As he, Freddy, and Jason all were bleeding profusely, they were determined to settle this once and for all with each of practically charging at the other.
How's that for the beginning of a final battle? I had Jason and Michael team up against Freddy for a team before they ultimately get into a fight over who gets his head and of course, he's fighting them whoever is most wounded like the bastard he is.
As I teased back in chapter 10, Jason indeed runs to further hammer in that he's human and how pissed off he is at this point with both Freddy and Michael. Regarding Lori and Erika, I had them leave the three behind so they don't interfere in their fight like Lori and Will did in Freddy vs. Jason.
Speaking of which, Erika's line to Michael was actually what Kia was supposed to say to Jason in that film before the final battle happens in a direct nod to Nancy's final line against Freddy in the first Nightmare movie before she gets killed by our favorite dream demon for confusing one movie mythology for another. But, as we all know, New Line got rid of such a great line in place of having her use that disgusting homophobic crap against Freddy and I figured it'd be a great spot to include with this chapter.
One of my favorite nods in this chapter is how Jason willingly shows his face to Michael to daze him long enough to hit him in reference to Jason Takes Manhattan and this only lasts until he gets angry enough to ignore his deformities.
Though I can't believe it, I managed to take the fight all the way from Higgins Haven to Crystal Lake and chances are the next chapter will be the last if I can't think of any other ways to lengthen the fight. So, until next time, have fun reading and Happy Friday the 13th to both the readers and anniversary of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.