[2-8] The Campground

[Karl Jak]

Face to Face
Hiro Protagonist vs Jason Voorhees

Hiro turned his attention to where the monster had stood.

Nothing.

“What?”  The hacker muttered as he started to glance at his surroundings.  After a split-second of stupidly scanning the area around him, he turned around and ducked as the machete sliced through the air over his head, claiming another of his dreadlocks in the process.

Although his armor was marred and his blood was oozing down his waist and legs, Hiro lashed out with a rapid succession of jabs and surgical strikes with the blades.  Chunks of decomposing flesh flew from the huge bulk of the massive zombie as it mindlessly absorbed the samurai’s onslaught.  Taking a step back, Hiro grunted as he thrust the tanto up through Jason’s chin, burying the blade up into the mute man’s mouth and skull.  Hiro backed up, leaving his tanto wedged into his opponent’s skull as the behemoth wobbled back and forth before dropping to his knees with a wet thud.

“That’s for Barry, you motherfucker.”

Instead of falling face down onto the floor of the clearing, Jason lashed out with the machete.  Quick reflexes allowed Hiro to sheer off the zombie’s fingers mid-swing, and the oversized knife spiraled from Jason’s grasp and sank into a nearby tree.

“Die!”  Hiro bellowed as he jammed the other tanto through the hockey mask and right between Jason’s eyes.  A gurgling rasp escaped the waterlogged zombie’s toothless maw as it drooped sideways to the ground, leaving a victorious Hiro to collapse backwards onto his haunches.  With Jason gone, the samurai looked down at the wound that had nearly disemboweled him.  He could feel the blood dripping down his legs and collecting in his boots.  He pressed a hand against his slashed gut, but the pressure did little to staunch the flow of blood.

Need the medigel… or a surgeon.  Or maybe a nice, busty nurse…

Clenching his teeth so he didn’t cry out in pain, Hiro pushed off the ground and made it to his feet.  Although they shook like he was forty years older than he was, the samurai found his footing and tried to clear out the haze in his thoughts.  He had to backtrack to the camp... perhaps there were medical supplies in one of the cabins.  Before heading back, he would have to collect his weapons from his opponent’s skull—the last thing he wanted was to have to fight unarmed.  

Only, when Hiro looked over to the corpse, he realized that it was gone.

“The fuck?”

Ten yards back, Jason stood near a flattened path that entered the clearing on one side and exited it through another.  As Hiro watched, the revenant pulled the first tanto from the underside of his skull with what remained of his fingers, freeing a liberal spurt of blood in the process.

Before the creature could work on the other, Hiro saw a pair of lights from outside the clearing.  A moment later, he heard a mechanical roar as a truck came barreling down the path and crashed right into the towering zombie.  Jason vanished beneath the old jalopy, which burped black smoke as it swerve alongside Hiro.  A door swung open to reveal that the driver was Karl Jak in his camp uniform.

“Hop aboard, Mr. Protagonist.”  Hiro furrowed his brow and stood his ground, despite the fact that his legs were ready to collapse beneath him.  “This isn’t your death scene.  Come on!”

Hiro didn’t have time to debate.  The samurai limped forward and grabbed the outreached hand that tugged him into the cabin of the truck with little effort.  Karl reached over and slammed the passenger side door and started the old vehicle in the other direction.  Before exiting the clearing, he made a quick stop to lean out the window and grab something.  As they drove off, Karl dropped the machete on the floor in front of Hiro.

“Sorry about your jap knives.  That’ll have to do for now.  There’s a medkit underneath your seat.  Take the morphine, and we’ll bandage you up once we’re clear of this silly little camp.”

End of Round 7
Hiro takes 8 points of damage.

Hiro loses his tantos but gains Jason’s Machete, which effectively replaces his tanto move for the remainder of his time on the island.  Hiro gains 2 SP that he may only use for a Tier 1 Super Attack – Machete.

The medkit down below will heal you for 2 damage.  If you let Karl heal you, it will be twice as effective.  Either way, you’ll have to write out either scenario before you move on.

The call is yours, as I know you also have medigel on your person.

When all is said and done, Karl will state that he's en route to 'one of the bunkers.'  It's your call what Hiro does next.