The Marines Journey
Chapter 00: Prologue
By: Arcanomancer.
This story is a rewrite of my ancient story of the same name, but this one will have more of a plot, more of a storyline and Much less characters.
This story is a crossover combination fic of the following franchises: Sonic the Hedgehog, The Doom Series, System Shock 2 and Star Trek. The fic is placed in the Sonic Category because subsequent chapters will be upon Mobius itself
This prologue is in three parts detailing the intro of each respective storyline into the main plot which matters, subsequent chapters will be written normally.
Timewise this story is set after the events of Sonic Adventure 2 (The last major sonic game I played), Doom 64 (Because I don't count Doom 3 as an official ending to the franchise) and the events after Book 7 of the Voyager series titled 'Unworthy'
So with that, lets get to the story, and I hope people out there like it, it's been ages since I did a full on story like this!
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Disclaimer: All games and characters portrayed are copyright of their respective owners, there are to many to list and to be frank I cant quite keep track myself anymore…
The only characters I own are those whom people don't recognise… and with that, lets get to writing!
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[Doom Prologue]
A blood curdling yell echoed across the ruined canyon, followed by several balls of refracted energy that glistened as it shot through the rain of blood impacting with the landscape.
Following this, a loud explosion rang out as the sphere impacted with a cliff. Which the debris and rubble fell down into the deep recesses of the pit below, a quick blur of green and blue vaulted off the edge to strafe the narrow path leading around the cliff face.
Ceasing his motions, the blur formed into a man clad in a green combat vest which bore many bullet holes, armoured leggings splattered in a variety of hellish substances and a helmet which completely concealed his head. Heavy Breathing rang out as he never lost eye contact with the creature opposite him, a behemothic demon whose pink skin glistened in the fel downpour which his clawed hands cracked with dark energy.
Seeing another barrage start to fly, the Marine began to move again, up and around the path as more bolts cascaded into the cliff face between him and his foe, and as he reached the top he nodded his head and crouched behind a rock.
The Demon growled, waiting for the moment to strike…
A Loud slotting and cocking sound filled the air, a grunt from the demon indicated he knew that combat was about to be joined.
Suddenly, like a bolt of light the Marine darted out from his cover and along the top of the cliffs, away from the foul creature to a place where the cliff edges were nearly connected as he leapt and span, Sensing this human had misjudged the gap, the demon growled happily and nodded, but this complacency was to become anger as the human twisted in midair and bought his armament to bear, pointing it downwards as gravity started to take effect.
A Rocket shot out, and the momentum carried him upwards towards the other edge, which he grabbed with a strong, leather gloved hand and managed to quickly haul himself upwards onto the ledge, dropping his launcher his hands reached in different directions. One pulled a Shotgun from his backpack, the other a pistol from his waist as he charged towards the demon, strafing and unloading pistol round after pistol round towards the creature, hoping to throw it off.
"Come Baron," The Marine Yelled, "I've been here for years… Show me that Hell still has SOME fight left!"
Unbeknownst to him, the rocket he had fired was to have disastrous consequences below, striking an unstable rift of energy and causing a collapse of the nearby terrain, revealing something that if the Marine had known it to be there, he would have worked to close down…
A Dimensional Rift…
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[Star Trek Prologue]
Admirals Log, Star-date 68445.9
"Many centuries have passed since the original expedition to return to the Delta Quadrant was performed by the now-legendary starship Voyager and her crew. The Fleet equipped with the now-perfected Quantum Slipstream Drives provided valuable research potential and after mapping out the Galaxy, research outposts were constructed to fully explore methods of space travel with no ill effects.
My station has been placed in orbit of a Planet called Mobius due to it's extreme distance from Earth and amounts of unstable energy sensed on and off the planet, making our mission of discovering safe methods of creating personalised transportation rifts in a manner similar to Wormholes a more likely possibility.
Previous Missions to harness a power source strong enough to kick start the reactions have proven unsuccessful, But I am hoping something soon will change this… End Log."
The Admiral placed his PADD back down upon his desk and pushed his dark glasses further up his nose, the man was in his late fourties with a short crop of red hair neatly trimmed upon his head. Making sure his uniform was on, he reached for a white stick from beside his bedstead and slowly made his way out of the door.
The Admiral made no secret of his blindness, and most of the station had learnt that even though their CO lacked sight, his tactical prowess more than made up for it, although as soon as he left his quarters he heard a coughing and an irate tapping of feet, whom he instantly recognised.
"Shouldn't you be down in the Engineering Core, Lieutenant?" The Admiral asked, smirking to himself as he felt a hand running through his hair, as if to straighten out the parts he missed.
"And You should be waiting for me…" Came the response, the Lieutenant looked the same as the Admiral, only twenty years younger, and his green eyes cast disdain over the older man as he made sure his own long ginger locks of hair weren't brushing over his face. "I told you, we had important documents to attend to in Command Control…"
"That can wait, I had a revelation last night, Jon…" The older man said, "Take me to the Rift Room…"
"No Tom… We're heading to Control… the Rift Area has been locked down, A Power Surge was reported and we don't know what to make of it…"
Without further question, the Admiral gestured to his left, knowing full well this was the direction of his seat of power, and as the Technician linked arms with him and led him off, a grin couldn't help but pass his lips.
"Ya gotta admit… we might run into some new life-forms, wouldn't first contact be fun, Dad?"
"More than likely, and stop calling me that on active duty…"
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[Sonic Prologue]
Racing at the speed of sound around the streets of Station Square, a blue blur was happily bouncing between buildings on a typical run of the city. Bouncing from left to right, the blur immediately catapaulted upwards on top of a skyscraper and looked out over the city before him, smiling to himself and taking a deep breath.
"Sonic…"
He looked down to see an orange fox with two tails raising towards him, a chuckle escaping it's lips as it panted upon touching down atop the building.
"The lengths you go to to escape Amy…"
"Can you blame me, little buddy? Her grip puts Eggmans robots to shame!"
The two shared a laugh, and once the fox had caught his breath, they began to charge through the city again. A few minutes later they stopped atop another high rise block and looked upwards, Sonic straining as he made out a large, grey shape through the afternoon sky, curious as to why flashes were appearing over it.
"Isnt that the ARK Sonic? I thought we closed it down…"
"No Little Buddy, that stations without power now… I wonder if Doctor Eggman is up to some new experiment we should know about…"
"Lets go check Sonic!"
Sonic grinned and gave his friend a thumbs up before they blasted across town again towards the Doctors Lab, hoping to get to the bottom of what was happening through the clouds…
Little did they know, this was about to get Very uncomfortable…
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[Doom Prologue, Part 2]
Standing over the Barons slumped body, the Marine shook his head and sheathed his Chainsaw deep within his backpack. Returning to where he had vaulted he swiftly scooped up his Rocket Launcher and pressed a button on his pistol, ejecting the spent ammo cartridge and loading it up with a fresh one.
Hearing the loud roar of demons below him in the Canyon, he slowly walked to the edge. Sheathing his Pistol into his holder and loading a rocket into his launcher, he was unprepared for the sight that greeted him.
Hordes of Demons, more than he had seen since the original invasions of Earth, were pouring down the canyon, yelling battlecries as they completely ignored him and focused fully upon charging towards something glowing and shimmering slightly in the distance.
Cataloguing the many species of demons hurtling through the canyon, the Humans eyes turned to the rift, and his armoured form did a double take as he realised exactly what he had discovered. Quickly making the decision that something must be done, he sat down and unloaded his backpack, removing all the spent ammunition cartridges and cases and reloading all of his weapons as fast as he could possibly manage whilst he watched orange energy beams shooting out of the rift, although these were silenced shortly after they began.
"It ends here…"
He slung his backpack over one shoulder and held his Shotgun firmly to his side. Eyes wandering over the cliff face and trying to work out the best path to jump down. However, his plans were cut short as he heard a yell and saw a grouping of large, spherical red demons rising towards him from out of the canyon, the lead creature opened it's mouth and a sparking purple sphere shot towards him, crackling with the power of lightning as it soared over his shoulder following a quick dodge.
Running the side of the cliff, more demons arose to greet him, the Marine dodging shots right and center as he followed the cliff along towards the rift when before he knew it, he was falling. The demons ahead had focused solely on disrupting the integrity of the cliff itself and the Marine was sent tumbling down in a landslide.
Closing in for a look, the lead Demon chuckled to itself as it turned to rejoin the rest, but instantly found it's life force extinguished. The Marine had somehow vaulted up the rocks and had unloaded his Double Barreled shotgun into the top of it's spherical form.
Using the demon as a platform, he shot down the cliff towards the rift, glaring as he held onto one of the demons horns firmly with a gloved hand, his other replacing the Shotgun in his pack and pulling out a fat, six barrelled weapon with an ammo feed linked directly to the lower portion of his pack.
Unleashing fury from the Gatling Gun, the demons leading the next wave of the charge towards the rift were torn asunder, and those behind them felled which caused the entire wave of creatures to stall as the mountain of bodies grew between them and the portal, the Marine using everything he had to halt them before he vaulted through the portal, grunting as he leapt off the now deceased demons back.
"I don't know where you lead… but once again, the forces of this domain must be stopped!"
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[Star Trek Prologue, Part 2]
"Red Alert, All Hands to Battle Stations!"
Alarm klaxons blared through the speakers as the Admiral and his Chief Technician entered into the Control Center of the Space Station.
"Report Commander!"
A short-ish man with gelled black hair turned from one of the stations, seeing the Admiral Stand there he turned back to the screen and continued to press buttons.
"The Rift grew in intensity whilst we tried to stabilise it… before we knew what was happening strange life forms poured through the rift and slaughtered our technicians… Hazard Team Epsilon managed to hold them in check for a while with phaser fire and a few reserves were slain as they emerged by firing through the portal, but they were overwhelmed and we've lost the lower section of the station…"
"Mobilise Hazard Teams Alpha through Sigma and fortify the remaining positions, Have anyone with a Combat Grade of Four or Higher instruct the lesser ranking Ensigns and Lieutenants in the basics of Combat… we need all the manpower we can get…" the Admiral ordered, easing into his command chair as he tapped Jon's arm, the Technician leaning over him.
"Jon Andrews… do me a favour would you and locked out the Computer Core?"
"Sure thing Daddy-o… Uhh… I mean, Admiral Brown sir!"
Throwing himself at a nearby empty station, the Chief Technician began to rapidly tap buttons, isolating the main computer from the rest of the systems with a layer of coding which rapidly grew in size and complexity whilst the Admiral tuned out the commotion of the Bridge and pressed a button the side of his Shades, tapping him into the com-network of the officers in combat with the foe when suddenly a loud sound rang out over the alert klaxon.
"Intruder Alert, Unidentified Human Lifesign Emerged from the Rift and is headed for the Shuttle Bay."
The Admiral leapt from his seat and his technician got to his side quickly to help him.
"The Hazard Teams for falling, Everyone retreat to the Escape Pods, Set the Slipstream Drives to return to Earth and send warning of what happened here… I will head to the Outpost on the Planet's deserts below and try to keep the situation together, This is an Order…"
"On whose authorisation, Sir?" The Commander piped up, and the Technician felt his eye twitch.
"The Five Pips on his neck, thats whose!" He muttered under his breath as he dragged the Admiral to a nearby pod, watching the rest of the Command crew wishing each other luck and filing out into nearby pods.
"Admiral, the Intruder is accessing a Shuttle Bay… according to Internal Sensors he's destroyed more demons en route than any of our Hazard Teams Managed…"
He was interrupted by the Admiral activating the com.
"All Hands, This is Command. Evacuate the station, Set Slipstream to Earth and bring help to reclaim the Station. Engineering Core, Lock Down the Area and Data Freeze the Slipstream Technology, They cannot be allowed to access it…"
"You heard the Admiral, MOVE!" Jon yelled, dragging the older man into a pod and blasting off towards the planet below, Orange Explosions ringing out over the station as a Shuttle blasted out of the main bay, it's sleek white design a stark contrast to the station as it peppered key areas with laser fire to disable power.
"Who does he think he is?"
"I don't know Jon, but one things for sure, I think he's going to land too…"
"Don't tell me you're a psychic now…" Jon laughed as the two hurtled through space towards the waiting planet below…
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[Sonic Prologue, Part 2]
"Eggman!" Sonic yelled, banging on the door as he shrugged to his two tailed buddy. "Guess he's not home…"
Almost Instantly, the door burst open and a small orange robot greeted the two, ushering them inside as before them was a frantic and chaotic scene of Robots running around with data, weapons and various designs as before them the great Eggy one could be seen fiddling with his desk and computer screen, barking commands as his fingers were a blur.
"Explore the Desert in Full, it cant be too well hidden… No, Aerial Reports show strange things happening in Orbit… I don't know, Ask someone who cares… No, for the last time I want TEA!"
"Umm, Eggman?"
He turned and rubbed his hands together, eyebrow raised as he was genuinely surprised by whom was before him.
"Well Well Well… If it isn't Sonic and Tails… Did you two come to surrender yourselves to me?"
"Fat change Eggy…" Sonic Scoffed, gesturing to the screen that showed the object which had caught their attention outside in the first place. "We wanna know what your doing with that… whatever it is… in Orbit."
Rolling his eyes and straightening his specs, the Doctor sat down and the two swore the chair creaked under his weight.
"Oh GEE WHIZ… " He began to moan, "Something goes wrong with this planet and it's 'Ooo, Doctor Eggman this' or 'Ahh, Doctor Eggy-Weggy That!' Well let me tell you both something, THIS time it's not me, and I'm as confused as you two are…"
He heard a beeping and gasped, his moustache bristling.
"You see, I never noticed this thing in orbit before, it was quite well hidden until only a short while ago… It seems very advanced but once I started to scan it I discovered a lot of strange energy that seems almost like tears in space…"
"So what Eggman?" Sonic yawned, obviously bored.
"I'm detecting the same coming in from over Mobius right now, you spiky blue troublemaker!"
Sonic and Tailed looked up as Doctor Eggman stood up, rubbing his chin softly.
"I don't know Who or What we are dealing with here, but they are clearly very powerful beings… They must be Crushed and then, I will build my Dream Empire and…"
"Get Real Doc!" Sonic yelled. "Do you REALLY wanna antagonise these people?"
Slumping back down, Eggman began to moan as Sonic grabbed Tails and dashed out, both waving Bye to Doctor Eggman.
"Lets gather the others Tails, We might need backup on this one…"
"Sure thing Sonic…"
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None of them knew… None of them could have any idea of what was to happen…
The Blue Hedgehog and his Orange Fox friend, speeding through a city to find and rally their Anthropomorphic friends…
The Federation Admiral and Chief Technician, In an Escape Pod roaring through the planets Atmosphere at that moment towards the city…
The Armour-Clad Marine, Disabling the Station to the best of his limited knowledge and setting the Shuttle to land on the planet below…
None of them knew that the horrors they were to face would push them all to the limits of their knowledge, their bravery… and their fears…
And for the Marine, whom thought his journeys through hell after the Invasion of Earth were intense, he had no clue that what was about to come would push him to his limits…
Welcome, To the Marines Journey!
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My first full on paragraph story in well over four years… I hope that was alright for a Prologue and left people wanting more… As you can tell from reading I'm abit rustic… future chapters wont be split into series, they will all be as one ^^
Hope y'all like it, see ya around!
Arcanomancer, Signing Off!