We're back, and still going strong! When last we left off, Freddy had made an attempt on the lives of Nitara and Frost when he intruded their dreams/dream in the Mortal Kombat universe, and although he managed to end the life of the former, the latter survived to tell her comrades about the brand new problem that they had and would now have to find some way to combat(or is that kombat? Wink, wink!). Anyhow, as glad as he is to have finally made a kill after the gap he'd had in his success streak of before, and as especially glad as he is that it was a female victim, the way that those are the sorts of quarries that he favors most and, on top of that, the last ones he successfully killed prior to taking out Nitara were male, Freddy is still thirsty for more pain, mayhem and death, especially since Frost survived and he wanted her dead as much as he wanted Nitara dead during his visit to the MK universe. So now he's gone into the universe of "The Brave Little Toaster" trilogy, and his target this time is none other than the beautiful and lovable white Persian cat who is also a mother of three kittens, namely, Maisie. Back in the universe of "The Aristocats", Freddy went after the three kittens while their parents were left alone. This time, it's the other way around. It's the parent, the mother, who he means to kill while the kittens are left alone, although if they get sucked into Maisie's dream, he'll have no problem making an attempt on their lives, too. Will that happen? Will Maisie stay alive for long enough to wake up and see another morning? And what about everyone else who lives in the place they're now a mascot to and therefore part of? You'll only know if you read this chapter, so without further ado, I present it to you right here and now!

THINGS TO NOTE:

The following story takes place half a year after the events of "The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue".

I own none of the characters. They all belong to their respective franchises.

Freddy Krueger's Otherworldly Trips

Chapter 30-Cat, White And Red All Over

Life sure was wonderful for Maisie and her three kittens now that they were mascots at Sigma Chi. They were safe, well treated/cared for/loved and happy, and the people there were of course quite nice, and it was a beautiful, fun place to be, too.

What's more, everyone else they knew was also safe and doing well, and never again was any one of those individuals, nor Maisie and her kittens themselves, ever going to see Mack McCro or his partner in crime Jim Bob again. Not with how they'd been put behind bars for one hell of a long, long time and, even if they got out, wouldn't dare try something like they once did again.

It had been a lovely six months since Maisie and her kittens first were adopted and put in their new home, but on this night, where this chapter begins, something that neither Maisie nor her three kittens nor, quite frankly, anyone else had any expectations, much less readiness, for by all means was to happen. You see, just after Maisie had warmly smiled at her kittens, who were all snuggled into their mother's belly side happily and fast asleep, then fallen asleep herself, she, to her surprise and confusion, saw herself in some kind of dark laboratory.

She said after seeing that her kittens weren't by her side anymore: "My kittens! Where on earth did they go? And, for that matter, where on earth did I go?" She looked this way and that for any possible clues and/or explanations, but wasn't able to see shit. She did, however, hear an instant after her failed attempt to spot anything resembling an accounting for of why she was in this place all of a sudden bone-chilling words being said.

"One, Two, Freddy's Coming For You!" She got startled and turned around, saying: "Eh? Who said that?" She soon discovered, albeit only barely, since it was so dark, that a contorted and disfigured rabbit who was also a zombie was the one who'd uttered that rhyme, and her eyes opened widely. Maisie was brave, selfless, sweet and smart, but she wasn't without her limits, and this was understandably threatening to push her to those limits.

Just then, she saw a fucked-up and badly mutilated zombie dog, who, by the way, was on the same dissection table as the aforementioned zombie rabbit, and it said: "Three, Four, Better Lock Your Door!" Maisie was thinking to herself: "This is getting frightening, but I cannot blow my composure! Especially since I need to know who this Freddy is, and what he's got to do with this!" Suddenly, she heard the words: "Five, Six, Grab Your Crucifix!" be spoken, and she took a look over to where she'd heard it from, which was a cage containing a deformed and askew mouse. She couldn't help but back away a little bit.

After all, she was doing everything in her power not to lose her cool, but this was foreign to her, and not in a good way. Ironic, really, that a cat such as herself would back off from a mouse, of all things, and doubly so in that she never needed to kill mice, being fed by humans all her life and all, plus triply so in that she was justified in this particular instance in backing up as she had, the way it was an off-putting, hideous zombie mouse and one which was part of a very new and very courage-testing, seemingly arbitrary danger situation she was suddenly in which, I think you can tell, was creepy enough to scare almost anyone and/or anything.

But I digress, for I must continue with this part of the story. Maisie was now treated to the sight of a messed-up and horribly distorted zombie ferret, who said from its own cage as it prompted her to look its way for that reason: "Seven, Eight, Gonna Stay Up Late!" And, to see the rhyme concluded, Maisie heard, and turned to, a voice which belonged to, wouldn't you know it, a maimed and hacked up zombie cat, with that voice going out: "Nine, Ten, Never Sleep Again!" Maisie's jaw dropped as she gasped.

She was a very pacifistic, friendly and amiable cat, but she'd been pushed more to the brink than ever here. Seeing all those other tortured and severely damaged zombie versions of various animals was way more than bad enough, but now she was seeing one of her own who was of that status! But she didn't have much time to dwell on it. Why? Because she was very quickly snapped out of her current state of mind when she heard another voice speaking.

That voice was saying: "Welcome to my laboratory, Maisie, my dear. I do hope you'll enjoy your stay, especially since it's where you'll be spending the rest of your life, along with the whole of the other eight! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" Maisie spun around, seeing the one who was the cause of all of this in and also the one who had just spoken to her in front of her. It was none other than Freddy Krueger, and while he was still wearing the hat and glove full of razor sharp knives that he was well known for sporting on, respectively, his head and right hand, he was also wearing a long, white lab coat.

In addition to that, he wore shoes that were very dark black along with pants that were just as black, plus he had a pair of scientists glasses on. To say nothing of how his left hand had a long laboratory glove over it. But his face was just as burned and ugly and bald as it always was. In any case, here's the thing. Freddy was subsequently told by Maisie: "Oh, dear! You have to be that Freddy who was mentioned in the rhyme those zombie animals made!"

"I sure am!" Freddy leered proudly. "Freddy Krueger, that is! And I am indeed the one who has motherfucking made this fucking place you now fucking see yourself in, bitch! Much the same goddamn goes for everything that's fucking happened in it and everything that is in it, too! I'm also the one who'll be seeing to it that you take a permanent catnap!" Maisie knew full well she was in danger and could easily tell how evil Freddy was.

But she also was put off and aghast at his use of foul language, the way it was one of her top dislikes. She showed this by going: "This must be a nightmare, because you remind me a lot of that awful man, Mack McCro, and I am appalled by your grammatical choice of so much bad and offensive language!" "Oh, it's a fucking nightmare, all right, bitch, but your death will be all too real after I'm fucking finished with your ass! Especially since I'm going to be tearing that the fuck open right after I do the same fucking thing to your belly, throat and cunt!" Freddy laughed.

He ran at her to try and slash her with his glove blade swipe, saying to her: "From what I have learned about you on my way here, you once slashed your tormentor Mack McCro, who was in very similar clothing to what I'm wearing, atop the hand! Well, time for your newer and more powerful tormentor in that sort of fucking attire to motherfucking make it vice versa as I also motherfucking make you my victim, only on your back instead of your paw!" But Maisie at once leapt into the air to dodge it.

As she did so, she said: "No, Krueger! And you need to watch that filthy mouth of yours! I cannot stand foul language!" "What the hell makes you fucking think I goddamn give a shit, you stupid thundercunt bitch fleabag?!" Freddy barked. He then used his powers to pull her over to him and slash her belly open with his glove blades, making her caterwaul out in pain as it was done, blood flying out from the wounds. Although she did manage to see what he was doing to her in time to twist her body so that the wounds would neither kill nor incapacitate her.

Even so, they hurt like hell and she had to ignore the pain from the damage caused to her underside in order to try and continue to protect herself against Freddy. As she made sure that she was able to land on her feet as was the case with any cat, Freddy went on: "I make my own set of rules here and I couldn't fucking care less what my victims like or dislike for shit! So stop bellyaching about my fucking choice of words, especially since you're now much too busy with the other kind of bellyaching thanks to my second claw cut being more successful than my first!" But when he walked over to her, Maisie knew she had to fight back fast.

After all, if she didn't, he'd surely inflict further harm on her, and she couldn't chance anything like that after he'd literally left his mark on her stomach. So she took drastic action in the form of running forward, ignoring the excruciating agony that was flooding across, around and about her underbelly, and then slashing at Freddy's legs while also darting about and, when not using her claws for the aforementioned slashing, using her teeth for biting at those same legs. Freddy went: "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH!"

He also, after Maisie got behind his legs and lunged forward to nail him in the backs of them with her entire body, went out: "OOOOOWWWWWGGGHH! OOOOOOOOOOF!" while falling over and hitting the floor face-first. But just after Maisie landed on her feet for the second time in this nightmare, Freddy disappeared all of a sudden. "What the?" Maisie let out an instant before going: "Krueger? Where did you just go?" But then he reappeared behind her in a standing position, right before he slashed her up the back.

"YEEEOOOOWWWWWWWWGGGHHHH!" Maisie yowled, and Freddy cackled: "I have to fucking hand it to you, bitch, you definitely make the cut when it comes to landing on your feet as a fucking cat should, as well as really putting a whole hell of a lot of effort into self-defense! You do pretty damn well with being an effective fighter, too! But I make the cut even better, literally as much as metaphorically, as far as forcing you to back off, out and down is fucking concerned! Sorry, you mewing minx, but I don't care how adept, smart and brave you are! You aren't surviving my scary science session!"

As Maisie bled, Freddy also kicked her in the side and sent her flying up onto one of the tables while going: "UUUUUUUHHHH!" She landed on the side that she hadn't been kicked in, and Freddy saw to it that she wouldn't be able to get back up via making nails go through all four of her paws, one through the center of each. Maisie howled in pain, and given all that had been done to her and how much that sort of shit fucking hurts like a bitch in general, who the hell could possibly fucking fault her for it?

Anyway, Freddy walked over and told her: "By the way, whiskers, I should tell you, the way I've motherfucking made this fucking nightmare for you reminds me…back when I was a little lad, I tortured, dissected and murdered a lot of animals, with cats being no exception. Not only this, but I barely fucking knew my motherfucking mother, and what little I did know of her was less than pleasant. It only got worse as the years went on, before and after I became what I am now. Because of this, and because I'm feeling a lot of nostalgia about how I started out my nice, long career as an infamous monster and serial killer, you know what?"

Maisie gasped as Freddy turned the four blades on his glove into a scalpel, a hand taser, a pair of scissors and a hypodermic syringe needle filled with AIDS, TTX(a very potent, deadly and fast acting venom), tar and sludge, all four of them mixed together. Maisie was no fraidy cat, but since she was immobilized, hurt bad and quite excruciated, plus she knew what Freddy was doubtlessly intent on doing to her next, she'd been pushed well past her breaking point. The very fact that it took her this long to reach it is impressive, all things considered.

But on with the chapter, with Maisie feeling as trapped as she was, and with Freddy all too ready to perform the cruel coup de grace on her, the latter told his trapped target: "I'm now going to cut this fucking nightmare short along with your life as I make it so that all three of your kittens become even more motherless than I was before and won't have anyone to help, wake up and/or protect them worth shit when I go after them in their nightmares one of their days by such motherfucking means as the ones of seeing you cut up, poisoned and electrocuted all at once! My God, will you ever scream and die here, to say nothing of feel everything! I'll also give you audio torture before that via the swearing you fucking loathe so motherfucking much!"

Maisie started to go berserk instead of feel trapped due to being provoked to do so by the way that Freddy was threatening her kittens, being as selfless and motherly as she was, and went out furiously: "DON'T YOU DARE EVEN THINK ABOUT GOING ANYWHERE NEAR MY KITTENS, YOU MONSTER! I DON'T CARE HOW IMMOBILIZED YOU'VE GOT ME! I WILL FIND A WAY OUT OF THIS AND I WILL BRING YOU DOWN!" Freddy just said to her disdainfully: "Oh, please. You are in no position to do anything but scream for me after I wrack your ears with my curse barrage and get to the part where I literally take you apart!"

Then he went out: "Fuck fuckitty fuck fuck fuck fuckaroonie fuckareno fucking fuck-up fuck-off fuck-all fuck you, you fucking thundercunt fuckhole piece of shit bitch! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" Following that, he was just about to dig into Maisie with his glove's new set of killer tools, but Maisie was fortunate in that she regained awareness suddenly and was back in the place she'd fallen asleep in along with her kittens. She took a bit to realize it, but then saw it was indeed the case, especially when she saw all three of her kittens looking at her worriedly.

"I'm…awake…my kittens!" she said, then she was told by one of them: "Yes, mommy! We were woken up by how much you were thrashing about and making so much noise!" Then a second later, the second one of them added: "When we saw how badly you were hurt and bleeding, we did all that we could to shake you awake!" The third put in: "We didn't know what was going on, but it was the only thing that we could think of, since you seemed to be asleep while it all happened and we guessed you must be dreaming! But how can a dream hurt you so much? Dreams aren't real!"

Maisie then said: "Thank you so much, all three of you, for waking me up from that horrid nightmare of mine! Especially since you actually did so just in time! I don't know why, but I would have been killed in reality if I were killed while dreaming! I know this sounds very insane, especially coming from me, but my injuries make it clear that it's an undeniable reality! Needless to say, you saved my life!" "Oh, thank God!" one of her kittens said, and another one of them put across: "And I think I hear one of our human owners coming this way! Your lots of thrashing and all that noise you were making must have woken him up and spurred him to see what's going on in here after he could tell what the source of the sound was!"

The third kitten put in: "Which is good! We'll need him to treat your wounds!" Maisie an instant later nodded, and, with how she and her kittens knew this was the only chance they'd get to do this, they hugged one another tightly and lovingly, completely relieved that Maisie had, in the end, survived and was not beyond treatment. Still, she'd require a lot of it to recover, but the thankful thing was that their owners would be able to provide it one way or the other. After their hug was done, Maisie told her kittens: "I hear the owner you mentioned about to enter. When he has finished seeing to it my injuries are doctored and returned me to you, I will explain to you all that happened while I was asleep and what kind of problem we've got on our paws here. I only wish we could communicate with our owners as we can with each other, since they've got to know about this, too!"

Her kittens nodded, and one of them spoke for all three when that kitten said: "By the way, I'm guessing, mommy, that it would be a good idea for us to do everything we can to stay awake." "I'm afraid so." Maisie confirmed. "It's the only way to be sure you won't encounter the same near death situation that I did." "Understood." her kittens all said in unison. Just after that, the owner on his way to the room the cats had been sleeping in entered, and said: "Maisie? I heard a lot from this room, and…HOLY CRAP! I don't know how you got hurt so bad, but we need to get you doctored fast!"

He looked to the kittens and said: "Little kitties, you're going to have to stay where you are until I get back. It's our best bet here, since your mother is going to be need to be taken to a vet. I can see that she isn't a goner and her wounds are treatable, but it's got to be done sooner rather than later. This was probably quite a shock for you, but be strong like I know she will be, okay?" Then he said: "Come on, girl, let's get you to the nearest veterinary clinic. I know it must be jarring to do this sort of thing at this sort of time, but we have to get you treated as soon as possible." He walked out the door to do what needed to be done to aid Maisie.

Although Maisie would indeed live and inform her kittens of what they needed to know following her late night trip to the vet, we look into more of that some other time. After all, it's now high time to see how things were going with Freddy now that his failed attempt on Maisie's life was over and he had gone back into the universe he originated from, the boiler room that he'd made into his throne room a while back, specifically.

Freddy was steamed and fuming: "Dammit! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! I should have just fucking finished her without the additional mouthing mockery! But NO, I had to get that last fucking part in! Ironically, she no doubt would have still been asleep when I delivered the killing blow had her kittens not awoken from all she was doing thanks to me and woken her up! They just had to fucking ruin everything! Whatever, I'm peeved, livid and pissed well beyond the fuck off, but I can't fucking dwell on that shit too much! After all, I only didn't succeed because I got cheated of the fucking kill that was rightfully mine, and frankly, there will be many more targets for me, plus at least my recent slump was made a gap in with my nailing Nitara!"

He took a seat into his throne to calm himself down and cool off enough to get back on track with his journeys, then, when he was certain he could do so, he got out of that chair and a second later went to where his orb was kept. He took hold of it and commanded: "Orb, it's now the latest of instances in which you need to fucking show me where I'm next headed and help me to goddamn get there." The orb was quick to respond to his order, and after he found out his next of stops, he said: "So, I'm going to be entering the Tekken universe, and into the dream of Steve Fox, am I? Well, looks like he'll go the final rounds of his boxing career with me as I book him one hell of a killer match! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! All right, let's see that passage, orb!"

While putting it back in its spot for when it wasn't being used, Freddy saw that the orb had made it snappy in terms of generating a portal to the Tekken universe and the dream of the sleeping Steve Fox. He nodded in satisfaction before going through said portal, and the newest of questions was this. Was Steve Fox going to be able to win his upcoming and unexpected boxing match with Freddy in the ring of fright rather than fire and thus maintain his life? Or was Freddy going to make it so that it was permanent lights out for the buff, blonde British boxer? You'll know only by reading the next chapter, especially since this one's done now!

END OF CHAPTER 30

Yep, you got it. Neither Maisie nor any of her kittens lost their lives. After all, Maisie is my favorite character in the entire trilogy of "The Brave Little Toaster" movies, and furthermore, Freddy's already killed one kitten(Marie)back when he was invading the universe of "The Aristocats". So I wasn't going to kill Maisie, and, unlike poor Duchess and O'Malley, she would keep all three of her kittens, instead of just two of them. Anyhow, Maisie and her kittens, as well as the ones who look after them as their owners at the place they're mascots of, still have a lot on their plates and a great deal in front of them for obvious reasons, and for equally obvious reasons, not in a good way. Meanwhile, while they do whatever they can about this new crisis of theirs, Freddy is focused upon his trip to the Tekken universe, where he is intent on attacking Steve Fox and punching his lights out permanently as he proves himself to be the one boxer who Steve Fox can't match up to. First of all, will he prove successful in this, or will Steve neither lose the fight against Freddy nor his life? And more than this, what about the other heroes in the Tekken universe? Will they be helping Steve while simultaneously fighting for their own lives against the sleep slasher and dream demon who is Freddy Krueger? And if so, which ones will be killed, if any, and which ones will survive, if any? Only by reading the next chapter can you know the truth, and please do rate and review this one, as well!