The next one of the universes which Freddy will be visiting following his partially successful trip to the Road Rovers universe(namely, his killing of Shag and Muzzle and his badly injuring Blitz and Colleen during that nightmare he created for first Blitz, but then for the rest of them)is going to be the one that is the universe of The Fox And The Hound. In the mood for vulpicide all of a sudden, Freddy enters into Tod's dream when both the latter and his mate/wife Vixey are sound and fast asleep one night in their den of residence in the forest wherein they live. But beyond how one must wonder whether or not Tod will be the second fox to survive Freddy(the first one being Renamon back in the Digimon universe, of course), there are other things to wonder, as well. Like whether anyone else will be in the same predicament as Tod unexpectedly or not, the way that Freddy's chosen to strike at a time where not just Tod and Vixey, but everyone are fully asleep, namely, at nighttime in the universe he's now entering. As well as, if so, whether they'll live through the nightmare along with Tod or be added to Freddy's ever growing list of kills. We will only know for sure if we read on, so let's see y'all do just that, okay?
THINGS TO NOTE:
This story takes place about a month and three quarters after the events of "The Fox And The Hound".
I own none of the characters. They all belong to their respective franchises.
Freddy Krueger's Otherworldly Trips
Chapter 26-The Foxes, The Hound And The Fierce Horror
A lot had occurred ever since Tod had both made it through his ordeal with Amos Slade and, for a time, Copper(who ironically was a good friend to him and vice versa and only stopped being that for a while, then became it once more, only more than ever)and made it so that Vixey was his happy, eternal mate.
First of all, life was peaceful and safe for both of them and for everything else in the forest, since not only did Amos Slade, on his most recent hunt, fail miserably, but even though Widow Tweed was able to doctor him enough so he'd survive after he, during that failed hunt, broke both of his legs even worse than he'd broken one of them previously, the fact of the matter was that the way he'd broken them, and the things Widow Tweed had to do in order to ensure his survival and ability to heal up from the injury, saw to it that he was forever more fully paralyzed from the waist down.
Needless to say, he would never be able to hunt again and needed Widow Tweed to look after him just so that he could stay alive and keep his two dogs, Copper and Chief, alive, as well. So no wild animal, Tod, Vixey or otherwise, in the forest had anything to fear from him anymore and never would again, either. Anyhow, this was all before this particular night, where both the aforementioned Widow Tweed and Amos Slade and the equally aforementioned Copper and Chief were sound asleep, and Tod and Vixey alike were about to go into that same state.
Having said good night to each other, they didn't take long to nod off in their den just as much as Widow Tweed, Amos Slade, Chief and Copper had done so in the place where they now all lived together. But it also wasn't long before Tod found himself in some kind of dark, leafless wood of a foreboding forest. He was rather shaky, spooked, bewildered and baffled all of a sudden, and after a few long moments of silence, he went out: "Where did I go? Where am I? Where have I been taken to?" in a very low, barely audible tone of voice which signified how undeniably and utterly unsafe he suddenly fucking felt.
Instantly thereafter, though, he saw a bunch of bats fly on over to where he was and all of them screeched in unison: "One, Two, Freddy's Coming For You! Three, Four, Better Lock Your Door! Five, Six, Grab Your Crucifix! Seven, Eight, Gonna Stay Up Late! Nine, Ten, Never Sleep Again!" It was eerie enough for him to begin with, and that was before you threw on the way that they did it well above him in the dark, pitch-black air.
Tod went even whiter than he was invariably on the white regions of his fur. He didn't know who the hell Freddy was, but he wasn't stupid, and he could tell very clearly that, whoever he was, there was no way in hell that he was anything other than or short of a considerable threat and menace of a potentially deadly and undoubtedly frightening danger to him. This was further confirmed when Freddy appeared on a hellspawn of a dark, demonic horse dressed in the kind of clothes you would expect a stereotypical fox hunter(especially in 19th century England)to wear.
Mind you, they were predictably possessing of the same color scheme as his signature and most well known clothes, and his hat, while not the same shape as usual, was still the same color it always was, plus he had his omnipresent claw glove on his right hand, but it was clear as shit what he was trying to present himself to Tod as here, and equally clear why. Not to mention how he even had a bunch of dark, vicious, nasty, demonic, ghoulish hellhounds flanking his devil horse, removing any and all doubt as to what theme for what target he was going for here.
Freddy looked down at Tod with a cruel leer and then said: "Well, tally ho! I do believe I've found my fucking target! How you doing there, Tod, my boy? Been a while since you were this afraid, hasn't it? Like the last time this was the fucking case back when you were a kit and had just lost your poor, dear old mommy! Well, you're about to join the bitch, and especially since I made an attempt on the life of a different fox before, and failed to kill that one! You will be nowhere near so lucky, however!"
Despite how terrified he was, Tod felt a sudden surge of anger and fury flood into him at the mention of his mother in an unfavorable and disrespectful light. Especially since hearing from the one in front of him that he'd tried and failed to kill a fox before added to such livid and incensed rage. He leapt onto Freddy and knocked him off of his hell horse, starting both said hell horse and all of the devil dogs flanking it.
To say nothing of how he startled Freddy himself, too, and just after Freddy hit the ground with Tod on top of him, having pounced on and tackled him right up to this moment, that same Tod quickly started biting, clawing, paw smacking, tail whacking and muzzle striking his dream demon adversary nonstop, zealously and without holding back in the least bit. While this all happened and Freddy let out a loud cry of: "AAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHAAAAAARRGH!" Tod was unleashing numerous words at the same time as he unloaded into his sleep slasher foe.
Said words consisted of: "Jackass! Douchebag! Bastard! Son of a bitch! Asshole! Fucker! Motherfucker! You wanna try and be a villainous performer of vulpicide?! You think that you can fucking insult my mother and not have me go berserk and medieval on your ass?! I'm a nice guy, but you've just brought out the worst and most brutal in me, especially since something tells me you're someone who'd kill plenty of other individuals outside of foxes such as myself, too! Well, I won't let that shit fucking happen! I'm taking your ass the fuck out right here and now!"
Suddenly, Freddy smacked Tod with a backhand punch from a fist made by his left hand. It knocked Tod both off of him and down onto the ground, and Freddy then stood up and told the dazed fox: "Only that shit isn't fucking possible, dipshit dickhead! Here are the fucking facts, furball!" He turned his trademark glove into a long, powerful shotgun and then said: "First of all, you can't die in this dream-turned-nightmare we're in without knowing my fucking name. And it's Freddy. Freddy Krueger. Got that?"
"Yeah, I got it…" Tod replied, suddenly recovering from the dazed and pained state that Freddy's punch had put him in and standing back up again. "But I won't fucking die here. And by the way, Krueger, what the fuck do you fucking mean that this is a dream-turned-nightmare?" "I mean that the instant this dark-ass wood was fucking shown to you to the instant we're in now all occurred after you fell asleep and were dreaming. DUH." Freddy replied in a deriding tone of voice as he flipped Tod off with the middle finger on his left hand.
Tod opened his eyes widely, but quickly snapped back to reality when he saw that Freddy was pointing his gun at him, obviously meaning to shoot him dead. Even if he hadn't had those near-death experiences with Amos Slade in the past, Tod was plenty more than smart enough to know that a gun being pointed at him was never a good thing and, in fact, invariably a sign that his life was in danger.
So he swiftly started running and jumping about, and it proved just sufficient to dodge the gunshots and bullets thereof that Freddy fired at him. Even so, he was far from out of danger, especially when he suddenly saw Freddy teleport himself back onto his hellspawn horse and have it run forward so that he could use the gun itself to clock Tod. "UNNNNNNNNHHH!" Tod yelped, and Freddy cackled: "Nice dodging, dumbass! Too bad it ain't gonna mean shit by the time I'm fucking finished with your ass, the way I'm sticking to my guns!"
He also changed his shotgun back to his signature glove and slashed Tod down the back and then across the belly just as he was getting up again. "E-RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Tod yowled, and Freddy let out in insidious, villainous laughter: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I rest my fucking case! Just like you're about to rest in your grave! Must cut you to no end to know that this is your end, and even your best, most valiant efforts weren't enough to save you! BWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Freddy turned to his hellhounds and said: "All right, brimstone barkers, you know how it is with a fucking fox hunt! He's sufficiently worn down and injured, so go forth and rip him apart!" But a second after he said this, and before the devil dogs could act on Freddy's fiendish command, voices were heard speaking. First, there was Vixey's voice, which uttered: "Say, why am I in this dark wood all of a sudden? Wasn't I just sleeping in my usual den along with my mate, Tod?"
Secondly, Copper's voice was talking, and his words were: "I was in the same spot I always sleep at night in the same home as always, and yet I'm now in a pitch black wood outside? That doesn't add up at all!" Finally, Amos Slade's voice spoke, and this consisted of the words: "And I was in my bed in that very same home before, so how did I end up in this dark, eerie and spooky wood with no leaves?" After hearing one another, the three all turned to each other, seeing that they were all in the same place.
"Copper? Slade? You got taken here, too? But…I was sleeping…and I'm guessing you guys were, too?" Vixey asked, and Copper and Amos Slade then went in unison: "Vixey?" with Copper adding: "Yeah…we were…but now we're here and so are you?" Amos Slade went out: "We're in our respective sleeping spots for a time, and we get taken to a wood you'd expect to hear about in a ghost story?" "It's…it's a dream…a nightmare…this guy's controlling it…" Tod squeezed out.
They looked to where his voice was coming from, and Vixey and Copper both exclaimed in shock: "TOD!" They ran over to him and Vixey said: "What happened, dear?" Copper went out: "You look like someone's tried to kill you!" Then Freddy's voice boomed: "Someone has! It was me! I'm what happened! And wouldn't you fucking know it! I come here for a single fox kill, and I get a second one AND a hound dog AND an old man to go along with it! Talk about hitting the jackpot! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Vixey and Copper turned around to see Freddy on his hell horse, which was still flanked by his hellhounds, too, and Amos Slade also looked to see that same Freddy after hearing what he had just heard. Copper asked: "Tod? Is that the guy you said was controlling this nightmare?" Tod replied: "Yes…he said that his name was Freddy Krueger…" Amos Slade all of a sudden said: "Freddy Krueger, huh? Well, I thought there was something odd about the lower half of my body suddenly working again! That happened because this is a dream, or a nightmare, really! But as much as I'm glad to have my legs back, I've heard all that I've fucking needed to hear to know that we gotta take this fucker out before he kills us all!"
"How very realistic, Slade!" Freddy cackled sarcastically as Amos pointed his gun right at him. "Beforehand, you wanted to kill Tod for things that were your fault entirely! Now, you're trying to make sure that I don't kill him or Vixey as much as you mean to save your own sorry life and Copper's alike!" "Shut your mouth, monster!" Amos snapped as he fired his gun right at Freddy multiple times over. Although every shot found its mark, Freddy took no damage whatsoever. Additionally, he said: "Wow, you're even stupider than I thought you were before, bitch-ass, and that's saying something!"
Subsequently, Freddy said to his hellhounds: "Get him, bowsers!" As the hellhounds ran right for Slade, who suddenly became terrified beyond words and dropped his gun as a result of that sudden fear, Freddy talked on: "First of all, bullets don't motherfucking mean shit to me. Second of all, you only fucking lasted this long because I allowed it to be so on account of how I wanted to have some fun before killing you! And third of all, your time has come now, for this is where the hunter becomes the hunted! Guess you could say I'm the new, improved hunter who gives the old one a fucking taste of his own motherfucking medicine!"
The hellhounds wasted no time in ripping Slade to pieces and lacerating him completely, and Freddy keeping Tod, Vixey and Copper completely still via force by the use of his nightmare controlling powers further ensured that nothing could be done as Slade was torn to shreds. Just a second after he was a pile of torn flesh chunks and broken bones in a tremendous pool of blood, Freddy added in: "God, has your reputation gone to the dogs just now! Such a horrible fact of reality must make you feel all torn up! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Freddy then released his nightmare manipulation paralysis grip on Tod, Vixey and Copper, right before he jumped off of his horse and grinned: "One down, three to go! Who's next?" Copper barked in a deep and terrible rage of vindictive hatred towards Freddy: "YOU FUCKING KILLED MY OWNER, YOU BASTARD! FUCK YOU! I'M GOING TO TURN YOU INTO CREEP CORPSE CASSEROLE RIGHT HERE AND FUCKING NOW!" Then a second thereafter, Tod added: "And me and Vixey are going to fucking help him! Don't know how many you've murdered along with Slade in total, but that murdering stops now!"
Tod, Vixey and Copper stood side by side, but Freddy was less than daunted. He said: "So, you decided you'd all attack me at once, did you, dipshits? Fine by me! The more, the merrier! All three of Freddy's furry foes ran right at him, Tod ignoring his wounds so that he would be able to keep up with the other two and focus enough to have a chance of ignoring any further damage by Freddy, and they leapt right upon him and made it so that he was knocked off his devil horse for the second time in this nightmare.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF!" Freddy said as his back hit the ground, and then he put across to his animal assailants: "Well, I guess you guys knocked me the fuck off of my high horse…NOT!" Despite how all three of his attackers used their claws, teeth, snouts, paws and tails to deal damage to their terrifying tormenter any which way they could, and even though all of their attacks connected and were neither blocked nor dodged, it ultimately proved insufficient in a land where Freddy controlled everything and was impossible to even defeat, let alone destroy.
And Freddy's act of knocking all three of them off of him by force impact and causing Vixey to fall into an iron trap of his making that slammed on the middle of her body, along with making Copper land in front of his demonic horse's hooves and having that demon horse kick at him with the forefeet those hooves were a part of and seeing to it that Tod flew and hit hard against a tree, was of course a testament to such a fact as that. Freddy got up and said: "Bet you thought you had me dead to rights, didn't you, dumbass dolts? Well, not so, and no such luck! Oh, and I should also fucking add that luck is something you've all just ran fresh the fuck out of by now! After all…"
He looked to the struggling Vixey and quipped: "…you, Vixey, can't get out of being trapped in the fucking knowledge that you're a goddamn goner even with your iron determination, bitch!" Then he turned to Copper, who was howling out in horrible pain as the hell horse's front feet kicked him with their sharp hooves over and over, saying: "And you, Copper, are learning the hard way that I get my kicks by not holding by horses, but definitely by horsing around!" At last, he shifted his gaze to Tod and punned: "Finally, as for you, Tod, with how the hell things fucking happened here, I think you can fucking tell by this point that, in your attempts to defend yourself against yours truly and prove that you fucking had what it fucking takes to bring me down, you were definitely barking up the wrong fucking tree!"
It would be followed by Freddy letting loose incredibly wicked and arrogant laughter, but before he could finish off his three badly hurt but still alive targets, all three of them woke up and Tod and Vixey saw that they were back in their den. "Huh? What happened? Where did we go now?" Vixey asked, and Tod said: "Wait…from the look and smell of things…we're in our den again?" "Oh, thank God…what a terrible dream that was…" Vixey began, but then she smelled Tod's blood along with her own and said: "Tod? Are we bleeding?" Tod then saw that both of them were and exclaimed: "Holy shit! We are!"
"It has to have been that nightmare we had! The wounds in my middle body from that iron trap that Krueger made are still present!" "And the injuries he inflicted on me are still intact, too!" Tod added in. "Wait! That means that Copper…if he's still asleep…could die any second now!" "Yeah, and that also has to motherfucking mean that Slade really has been killed the fuck off, the way it happened like we all saw it in the nightmare!" Vixey added. She and Tod could all too clearly tell that they had one hell of a big problem in front of and ahead of them just now after a horrifying night such as this.
Back in the house where Widow Tweed, Copper, Chief and, until now, Amos Slade lived, Widow Tweed was in the room where Copper woke up in with the light on, and both she and Chief were standing over Copper and aghast at not only his considerable injuries, but also what looked like the pieces of Amos Slade that were scattered everywhere throughout the room. Widow Tweed said: "Copper…what has happened here? How did you get so badly hurt? And I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but those look like pieces of Amos Slade all over the place in here!" Copper's eyes opened widely. He realized that he'd just woken up from what would have been the death of him if he'd stayed asleep.
Additionally, he could tell that, despite happening in his dream, it had been only too real, and this also meant that not only did he maintain the damages which Freddy had made his demon horse afflict him with, but his owner Amos Slade was also just as dead in the real world as he'd been made to become in dreamland. He could even smell the blood and see the pieces of his remains, and he was now just as aghast as Widow Tweed and Chief were. He sighed and said: "I am sorry to say that it is Amos Slade's remains you're seeing here, and that he got killed during the same time I got injured." after doing all he could to block out how saddened he was at his master's death and how shocked he was at just how much of a reality this all indeed was.
Furthermore, after Chief and Widow Tweed gasped in shock at the confirmation of what they feared was the case, they were ready to grieve and become furious at what happened to Amos Slade, too. Chief, in particular. But Copper quickly said: "I can tell what feelings are about to come on, and I started to have those myself. But I had to keep them contained due to how dire a situation this is, and so do you with your own! It's too serious a time for that sort of thing right now!" Realizing that Copper was right, even as there was still a lot of this they were in the dark about, Widow Tweed and Chief took a few moments to suppress their sudden surge of rage and sadness enough so that they'd be able to focus on the current matter at hand.
Following this, Widow Tweed said: "Okay, Copper. We need you to tell us everything that happened from beginning to end. Only then can we start trying to find a way to do something about this, if indeed there is something we can do about it." Copper nodded and said: "Understood. To be honest, the first one who had this nightmare was Tod, and…OH, MY GOD! TOD! VIXEY!" The realization that Tod and Vixey obviously had taken just what they did in the nightmare the same way he, and, to an even greater extent, Amos Slade, had taken what was dished out to them, made him realize he was no longer with them and that he didn't know they were still alive(and, ironically, they didn't know he was still alive, either).
We'll look at what now goes on in the universe of "The Fox And The Hound" another time, though. We now switch back to what was going on with Freddy, who was currently on the way to his throne after reentering his original universe's dreamland. He was also going out: "I'm pretty goddamn disappointed, to say nothing of pretty fucking pissed the fuck off, at the way that things turned out in this latest of my new world nightmares! Well, semi-that, actually. I am glad I was able to make a kill out of Amos Slade, but the problem is that it was the only kill I managed, even though my original target was Tod and I thought I was going to kill four for the price of one in this newest dream demonizing of mine! Which, ironically, would have undoubtedly been the fucking case if they only hadn't been lucky enough to awaken before I was able to finish them! I had them fucking whipped, dammit!"
He then sat back down into his throne and sighed, then he let out: "But it's admittedly better than not motherfucking making any fucking kills at all. That much I feel good about. But said good feeling is just as admittedly helped by how there are still plenty of new quarries to go after. So let's see who the next and newest one of them will be, hmmm?" He walked over to his orb and picked it up, right before saying: "Hello, orb! Look who's back! And, as always, I want a fucking presentation of where I'm next going and whose dream I'm invading in that somewhere!"
The orb did as it was told, and after Freddy was shown what he'd ordered, he struck a long smile from ear to ear, saying: "So, I guess it's from canines to felines now, the way that I'm next going to the Kung Fu Panda universe and having one Master Tigress as my quarry! Better not stall! It's time for my fighting skills to trump hers and for me to STRIPE her out! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" He put the orb back in place right after a passageway to where he'd next enter was formed for him, then he walked through it and was on his way to the dream of Tigress.
Was she going to live through her villainous, vile and vicious visit from one Freddy Krueger? Or were even her powers, skills, smarts, talents and assets not going to prove to be adequate to save her from becoming the newest one of the Freddy victim status? Only way to know is to read the next chapter, and since I've just said that, I think that you can tell that this chapter has now come to an end!
END OF CHAPTER 26
Yep, I saw to it that, while the foxes lived and so did Copper, Amos Slade met a most horrible end. After all, let's be honest here. Besides how Amos Slade, the way that the movie "The Fox And The Hound" tried to make him seem like he wasn't a true villain and just a bit of a jerk and an avid hunter notwithstanding, is a very nasty, unlikable man, let's not forget the following things. It was his fault that Tod couldn't live with Widow Tweed anymore. Let's not forget that this same Tod was accused by Slade of going after his chicken coop, when, in reality, he was innocent of what the presumptuous hunter assumed. Furthermore, it was Slade's fault that Copper and Tod stopped being friends and could never see each other again even after they reconciled. It was Slade's fault that his other dog, Chief, nearly got killed despite how he blamed Tod for it, the way that Tod was just trying to get away from danger that SLADE HIMSELF was putting the poor fox in. Don't even get me started on how he tried to drive Tod out via setting his den on fire, plus remained oblivious to Copper's previous feelings for Tod resurfacing when Tod was injured and Copper protected him by standing between him and his master's gun. He only wanted Copper to get out of the way so that he could shoot an injured, unable to run or defend himself Tod. And that's before you throw on how he set so many traps for one fox(and, ironically, got a broken leg by one of them later on)and was also rude to Widow Tweed at times. All these problems for an orphaned fox and all these changes of the mind to a once nice and sweet puppy for things he either thought happened but didn't(like the chicken coop thing)or selfishly wanted or believed should happen. And suddenly he changes at the end and stops hating foxes while becoming a nicer guy? It was phony and forced at best. So, since I'm one guy who really hates Slade and wishes he'd died at the end of the movie, I made this chapter both to be part of this story and to cater to all of the others who feel that sort of way about Slade and/or any similar way. I hope it successfully catered to them as I intended it to, and I hope that it was a good, enjoyable read for all of you like I also intended. Now, then, Freddy's next stop is going to be the Kung Fu Panda universe, and specifically into the dream of Master Tigress! Will her talents, power, bravery and intelligence be sufficient to fend Freddy off long enough so that she survives the nightmare in which she meets him? Or will she become as dead as her parents were on the day she became an orphan? You'll only know by reading the next of chapters, and as for this now finished one? Ratings and reviews please, everyone!