Nightmare Warriors

### Mighty Max vs. Jason

At 10-years-old, Max Madison's father died and left him to be raised by his best friend's family, but not before being given a hat that he was told had magical powers.

6 years later, Max's friends drag him to a lake house to unwind. While his friends engage in drinking and sex, Max gets closer to the handsome caretaker Will, who is able to get through the walls Max has around him. Meanwhile, a lightning strike has raised Jason Voorhees from the waters of Camp Crystal Lake.

Jason wastes no time resuming his killing spree and soon turns his sights on Max's friends. Will saves Max's life but not before Jason kills him much to Max's horror. The trauma is enough to activate the powers of Max's cap, which he uses to send Jason back into the water where he kills Jason with his own machete, but ends up losing his cap in the process.

In the middle of a lake with no boat and no way back to shore, Max is sure to die. Luckily he's rescued by Tommy Jarvis and Jacob Johnson, but another plot deep under the Earth is starting to take place, looking to kill Max for his newfound power...

## Nightmare Warriors: The Gathering

Fearing the return of Jason Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis decides it's time to assemble a team to help him fight not only Jason, but other monsters. Attempting to recruit Alice Johnson, Tommy finds his arrival in Springwood is the final thing Freddy Krueger needs to escape banishment, having used Tommy's fear of Jason to free himself. Alice, knowing that years of keeping Freddy at bay has weakened her, sends her son Jacob with Tommy to flee town before Freddy can kill them.

Tommy and Jacob soon end up recruiting John Strode, who has a score to settle with Michael Myers. Soon, Andy Barclay joins up with them, having been a prisoner of The Cult of Thorn for over a year where they tortured and brainwashed him. Andy, having used his friendship with his new friend Danny Strode to stay strong, broke free of the Cult but lost his best friend in the process.

Meanwhile, Freddy Krueger, awaiting Jacob's return assembled a team of villains to face the newly assembled team, using their own mothers as bait. Jacob faced Freddy, but Alice died protecting him, but not before passing her powers to Jacob and making him the new Dream Master. Andy defeated Chucky with his mother's help and Laurie faced off with Michael Myers. After the fight, Laurie took Karen Barclay, intending to track down the Cult of Thorn to keep them from reaching Andy again, leaving him in the care of Tommy.

Jacob, knowing Freddy is only defeated for the moment, vows to return to finish him off and avenge his mother as the team heads off into the sunset.

## John Connor: No Fate But What We Make

Several years ago, 12-year-old John Connor thought Judgement Day was averted until he found out Skynet had sent back four additional T-850s to kill him. The first seemingly killed John, separating him from his mother, who now believes John to be dead.

Fearing for his mother's safety, John didn't tell Sarah he was alive, only vowing to tell her once the future was indeed safe. For years John tracked and killed two more Terminators, gaining the partnership of Eric Tanner as his tech guy. John soon discovered the fourth and final T-850 had been pre-programmed to wake up on a certain date with a new mission in case the others failed: Kill Kyle Reese as a boy. John wasted no time to go and rescue him, but the T-850 got one good shot off before being shut down and causing an explosion that blinded Kyle permanently.

Sarah Connor soon arrived to deliver the finishing blow to the Terminator to avenge her son, still not realizing he was alive before taking off. John, knowing he was responsible, vowed to raise and protect Kyle until he could determine whether or not Skynet was truly gone for good.

## The Scaring of the Green

The team learns of a young man who lived through a Leprechaun attack. As they head to L.A., Jacob learns of another person that's about to go up against Jason Voorhees, to Tommy takes Jacob to head toward Camp Crystal Lake. Meanwhile, the team saves Cody from another Leprechaun, with the coin he'd held to protect him now in the possession of Andy.

The Leprechaun kidnaps Cody's girlfriend Bridget after killing her father and John, Andy and Cody go to rescue her. Cody spikes the bottle of absinthe Andy was saving with wrought iron shavings and Andy tricks him into drinking it. As he's about to explode, Lubdan curses Cody to forever be hunted by other Leprechauns. As they left, Bridget breaks up with Cody over the death of her father, breaking Cody's heart.

After rescuing Max after defeating Jason, they bring him back to their base where Cody instantly bonds with Max, claiming him as his new best friend.

## Put Up Your Dukes

Bounty Hunter Creighton Duke is hired by Jacob's grandparents to return him to Springwood. Duke accepts the job as he has a score to settle with Tommy Jarvis. Duke tracks down John and Andy at a grocery store and confronts them, but they escape and report back to the others, quickly reasoning why Duke is there.

They sent John back into town to trail Duke, but John is captured as a note is left to surrender Jacob before someone gets hurt. The team finds Duke's hideout and try to ambush him, but everyone but Tommy is captured quickly. As Jacob uses his dream powers to wake up, the others escape one my one as Tommy confronts Duke and finds out Duke blames him for the death of his cousin, an act of Jason Voorhees. Tommy tries to reason with Duke but is unsuccessful as Max opens a portal and sends Duke to Alaska, vowing revenge. Jacob fears more people being sent to find him, knowing he'll have to confront Freddy sooner or later.

Meanwhile, in Springwood, it's revealed that Freddy has taken possession of Jacob's grandfather and intends to have Jacob returned to Springwood for a final confrontation.

## Poltergeist Who's Coming to Dinner?

While on a job, Jacob is contacted by the psychic Tangina telling him to take the team to Connecticut to help a family in trouble. When they arrive, they learn the Freeling family once again is being hunted by dangerous spirits who have already kidnapped a neighborhood boy.

Max and Cody bond with the Freeling's son Robbie who feels he's being ignored by his family because he has nothing special going for him. Meanwhile, Andy starts falling for the Freeling's daughter Carol Anne, who promptly rejects Andy when she realizes he has a drinking problem.

After running away, Max and Andy find Robbie to bring him home as the Reverend Kane starts dispatching the Nightmare Warriors and the Freelings to remove them from Carol Anne's life. It's revealed that Kane has a new partner, The Kid, a demon that has other plans for Carol Anne's pregnant sister.

Returning home, Max, Andy, Robbie and his sisters travel to the Other Side to face Kane and the Kid where everyone is quickly taken down before The Kid brutally murders Robbie in front of Carol Anne. Will, Max's dead boyfriend, returns to reveal he's really an angel and fights The Kid before Robbie's spirit shows up and offers to lead Kane and his followers into the light to save his sister. Will defeats his half-brother and kisses Max goodbye, promising that'll find a way to return so they can be together.

Later, Max finds Cody's spirit broken from seeing Robbie die while Carol Anne agrees to go on a date with Andy if he stops drinking by the time she's old enough to date. The Kid escaped The Other Side by taking over the neighbor boy Aurie's body at the cost of his powers.