[Round 1] Dane Regan & Handsome Jack vs Pepsi-Man & Aero

[Karl Jak]

Face to Face
#09 Handsome Jack & #42 Dane Regan vs #X Jason Voorhees

“How’s it going over there, crew?” Karl inquired as he glanced to the screen.  “You plan on getting that stuff operational anytime soon?”

The workers crowded around the complex machine paused to look over at their boss.  Most of them went back to tinkering a beat later, but one of them raise a hand to protest.  “S’not easy, boss.  Those barriers are calibrated very specifically… we have to undo our own majesty.”

The executive producer chortled before taking another sip of wine.  “Do hurry,” he muttered back as he crossed his arms over his chest.  On the screen, the ‘handsome’ man in the mask had tried to reinject himself into the fight only to receive a solid punch to the face.

***

Handsome Jack lifted his stomped and broken face off the ground as the smell of fresh blood overwhelmed him.  Beneath his mask, his nose had been utterly shattered by the blow, and perhaps worse than that, the false face he wore had been splintered by the strike. Jack reached up to touch the mask, and just like that, it broke apart.

“Oh, just lovely,” Handsome Jack remarked as the approaching Jason came to a stop.  The titan tilted its head at the site of the smaller man’s real face.  Lifting up one of his hands, Jason slid the hockey mask up onto the top of his face to reveal a hideous, malformed image that even Handsome Jack would have nightmares about.  “You win!”  The wounded Jack groaned as he looked away.  A moment later, a machete sliced through his left arm, which promptly fell to the ground and started to spurt blood like a gouged fish.

Behind Jason, Dane had drawn to a stop.  The swordsman fell backwards—too slow. Far too slow. The machete tore up through the side of his chest and out his back. Blood sputtered from the wound as the man stumbled backwards and dropped to his knees. A shadow fell over him, but before the darkness came, there was a swirl of lights around Dane.  He blinked, and then he was sitting in the preshow facility.  Around him, a group of medical staff rushed forward as Handsome Jack likewise thumped to the ground after a flash of white particles.

“Welcome back!”  One of the doctor’s muttered nervously as someone scooped up Jack’s arm.  “We’ll get you both ready to go in no time – on the house!”

Backstage, Karl shook his head as he looked back to the screen.

Jason was already gone.

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Jack (2.4) & Dane (2.6) survive

Jack & Dane advance to Round 2

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