DISCLAIMER: I do not own DC Comics, Dragon Ball Z, God of War, Devil May Cry, Hellsing, Prototype, Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta or Asura's Wrath. I do however own this story and the OC characters such as Void and his menagerie, along with the government agents.
In the depths of Purgatory, Void stood with his generals, standing before his great army.
"These insects think they are powerful! They possess artefacts far more valuable than a plebeian race such as them deserves! They are insipid, worthless creatures waiting to be stepped on! Warriors, the planet Earth is ours to take, and the pathetic Earthlings are powerless to stop us! We, the almighty, will rule the living universe, and they, the weak, will burn like dried grass in our wake!"
Void smirked sadistically as his soldiers roared their approval like the monsters they were.
General Cross stood over the monitor in front of him.
"Why is the computer system picking up interference? It would take nuclear radiation to disrupt it this much."
Corporal Karr turned to him. "I don't know, sir. There's something very powerful giving of electric signals and waves."
"Nothing short of a nuclear strike or a direct bolt of lightning could interfere with our network! What is it?"
Cross looked up as the interference suddenly spiked, causing sparks to burst from the monitor. As that happened, Karr's radio suddenly emitted a scream, and a man outside started screaming for help. Just as that happened, a series of explosions happened outside, and Cross and Karr gasped as the wall exploded, leaving them watching a battle outside the Pentagon, which was surrounded by monsters, some flying, some walking, some human sized, some much larger. The one that bothered them the most was the swarm of giant flying reptiles large enough that they reminded Cross of an aircraft carrier.
Cross rapidly radioed in, telling the White House what had happened, while Karr quickly raised a camera and filmed the fight outside.
"Command, this is General Larry Cross, reporting that an army of monsters has attacked the Pentagon! We are under attack!"
Command responded, but Cross couldn't hear them. Beside him, Karr finished filming and started pressing buttons on the camera.
"Karr, what are you doing?"
"I'm sending the video footage to several command centres, including the White House, all the individual posts, everywhere. They need to see this."
"The computer's down, so why's that camera working?"
It's only down 'cause the interference worked like a jamming signal. I'm using the camera's network, which wasn't on when the pulse hit, so it still works. The camera can connect to the internet and send messages. I doubt we're getting out of this, sir, but the higher-ups need to know what they're dealing with, and we can make that happen."
Cross nodded, before looking out through the hole in the wall to see that the large creatures were still outside, but the smaller ones had vanished.
"They've gone inside, Karr, send it now!"
"Sorry, sir. The camera's not the strongest device. This'll take a few minutes to send."
Cross heard the sounds of gunshots just outside, and his trained ears told him the creatures were less than 100 metres away. The gunshots stopped, telling Cross that the soldiers that had tried to stop the monsters were dead.
"Keep working, Karr. I'll see if I can buy you the few minutes you need."
Cross readied a pistol, and stepped outside the door, rapidly closing it behind him and ripping the doorknob off so the creatures would have to break the door open. Cross quickly ran to the wall he had often thought would make good cover, and snatched up a pen that lay on the floor, having been dropped. The creatures came around the corner. Now that he saw them up close, he knew they had a completely human shape except that they had scales, fangs and claws. They weren't carrying guns, but rather short swords with sparks arcing across them. A larger creature of the same structure except with bat-like wings stepped in behind them, and picked one of them up by the neck.
"Search the area, you retard! Make sure none of these insects survived!"
The creature stumbled as he dropped it, and it stammered, "Of course! So sorry, General Murk!"
Murk slapped it in the back of the head, knocking it straight to the floor, before casually shoving through the other creatures, bowling over two who hadn't gotten out of his way fast enough.
As Murk left, a smaller man entered, and Cross thought man because that's what he was. He looked human, with short blond hair, a smooth face and blue eyes, and he wore a heavy black robe and shining black metal gloves. He seemed very ordinary, and yet carried himself with an air of absolute confidence, and his mere presence seemed to intimidate his soldiers. The one Murk had bullied approached him, stammering, "Lord Void…"
Void turned to it, smiling at it in a deceptively warm way.
"There's no need to be afraid, sergeant. Just correct the mistake. I believe you'll find a General Cross hiding behind that wall, and a Corporal Karr hiding in the operations room down the hall, sending a video of our conquest of their defences to their government. There's no need to hurry with the enemies being humans, but making this mistake if they were more threatening…"
Cross had left the instant Void had identified him, but he heard the rest of it even after he entered the operations room. As smooth and quietly spoken as Void was, Cross recognised him as being far more threatening than Murk had been. Cross knew people, and this Void was evil.
Karr had sent the footage to everyone, and Cross quickly picked up the radio. He couldn't hear them, but he hoped they could hear him.
"Command, this is General Cross, I am here with Corporal Karr. The footage you have received is their attacking force, and they will soon have killed us. I have found out their nature and the names and abilities of some of their leaders. These creatures are reptilian in structure except their leader, whose name is Void. He looks human, but he knew exactly where we were and our names as if he could read minds. He is about six feet tall, of fairly slim stature, and has blond hair and blue eyes. He…"
As Cross was about to speak, the door blew apart and a creature dashed in and stabbed him. The creature then rapidly stabbed Karr.
As the two soldiers died, Cross dropped a grenade he had found on a dead soldier outside, and blew up the room. The creature was blasted from the room and out into the hall, and rapidly stood, ignoring the laughs it heard from its fellows.
United States President Arthur Williams heard the broadcast and watched video footage. He watched in horror as a group of the human sized creatures downed a helicopter, as one of the skyscraper-sized monsters snatched a jet out of the air and used it as a javelin to throw into a tank, destroying both. Beside Arthur sat the Vice President and the Secretary of Defence. Arthur turned to his assistants, and said, "Contact all the world's governments, and we are cleared for all forms of warfare. These things must be stopped."
Arthur then picked up the phone, calling the head of the intelligence division.
"As of last night, we are at war with an inhuman enemy that plans to destroy us. I have sent you the details we know, and I'm sure you've heard some of it already. This is a doomsday threat. Assemble the doomsday response team."
