Chapter 33

Marco Vaskez, "Bud" to his American friends, sipped his coffee thumbing through Car and Driver. He sat in the ride operator station alone and not minding it. My next car, he told himself, will be something with some cojones. Something that will, what do they say here? Eat the road.

The buzzer sounded, he hadn't been watching the screens, nothing ever happened there. And he was sick of looking at coaster carts squeal by. He reached up and shut off the loud alarm. He checked the dead from cam 10z to 10c. There were people running through the ride, a boy and a girl. God dammit! These couples and their stupid date adventures. Hey babe let's jump off the cart and run around the dangerous track. That's fun right? And there they go making my life so difficult again!

He began to stand up when he felt a hand tap his shoulder.

"Scuse me?" A voice said.

"Huh?" He turned around and was met by the sharp end of a drill carving into his face. Twisting and knifing its way through his skull and turning his features lopsided.

"Your nose is bleeding!" His face fell dead on the desk. Dead as a door knob. Chucky wiped his hands together.

"God I love power tools!"

Andy heard more screams from the riders as he entered the next room, it was all around and there were evil looking faces painted on the wall. There were rocks and fake flames shooting up out of pits. Hissing and steam came from all around. This is hell, Andy thought. This is supposed to be hell. There was a statue animatronic of a grim reaper standing tall above the tracks. Andy heard it roar as it swung a large pendulum blade down that looked too sharp to be a prop!

Some of the goblins with wings flying by laughed wickedly. A scary reminder of why he was running. He climbed up the small hill to the tracks but as he got to the tracks he felt the white hot pain of a knife slice his calf. He slid over and saw blood leaking out of his leg and Chucky on the tracks holding his knife. Chucky raised the gun in his other hand and pointed it at Andy.

"Don't you fucking move!"

But then he heard the rumbling of another cart, close now nearly next to them. Andy knew what would happen next, he heard the demon roar and when he looked up he saw the pendulum swing down, right at Chucky! Then Chucky heard it, the woosh. He looked up just as the pendulum sliced through his head, slicing off the left side of his face as if it were sharpening a pencil. The half of his face flipped down to the ground. And Chucky howled a horrible scream louder than any of the creepy monsters in Here!

He just kept screaming. Andy looked and he saw the inside of Chucky's face. It looked like a machine but there was also blood and arteries, bits of bone and wires. Part machine or part human. Andy only looked for a moment, he stood up and darted away as Chucky's just kept screaming.