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Chapter 1: Past to Present
The Moon, 2020's.
Griffin Station
Shortly after the beginning of the end of the world
"Damn you, Richtofen!" Dempsey yelled, watching the planet of their origins split into pieces and burn.
"I… I do not think I can top that. 9th Wife was killed when I destroyed the world." Nikolai said drunkenly, not yet comprehending what he had done.
"I will destroy you, Richtofen, and all of Group 935!" Takeo exclaimed, his usual calm demeanor pierced by anger.
Samantha stood by as her father said a farewell through the electronics of the moon station and left them on their own.
"MAXIS!" Richtofen rang out as the AI man sat silent, no longer paying attention to the Moon or the man who had taken his daughter from him. They were useless to him now. He needed survivors who had to trust him, listen to him so that he could use them to stop all of this from happening.
"NO! YOU CANNOT DO ZIS!" Richtofen continued, talking to himself. "I WON! I WON!"
"Uh, I think he did, Dicktofen." Dempsey replied, his eyes still fixated on the burning world.
"SHUT UP DEMPSEY! I HATE YOU! I HATE ALL OF YOU! ESPECIALLY YOU, LITTLE GIRL!" he yelled, his hate now moving to the girl trapped in his body.
She stayed silent as she realized her father had left them. No, he wouldn't do that, would he? He couldn't.
"You know Richtofen, I realized something," Nikolai muttered through his space suit. "I always kind of hated you… but now… I think we should find separate drinking buddies. Tank?"
"Not now, Nikolai." Tank said, focusing on the zombies that were now jumping towards them.
"What? Those things are still here? Was blowing up the earth not enough?" Nikolai asked, pumping his Spas 12.
"Russian, there is no correlation between the moon and the earth in this situation!" Takeo replied, firing at the horde as he retreated through Tunnel 6.
"Ah, no matter… I still have all of you to torture und play vith!" Richtofen cackled and watched as the four retreated through the station.
"What is this, a game to you?" Samantha asked as she watched a head explode and the excrement float away slowly.
"Vell child, I do. Remember how you always thought zis was a game to us? WELCOME TO YOUR OWN
PERSONAL HELL!" Richtofen spoke with such for as to shake the Moon, jostling the survivors around.
"Do I at least get my 16 virgins? Or was it 16?" Dempsey asked, smiling to himself.
"You know Dempsey, I think you were always mein favorite. Even though I hated you, you vere always entertaining. Oh, zer I go lying again!" Richtofen answered, as a zombie came up under Nikolai as they neared the MPD.
"Ow zombie, trying to get some Nikolai?" Nikolai asked before crushing the zombie's skull with his foot.
"Okay, how about zis… I will give you until three to die. Okay?" Richtofen spoke to them as they ran through the Double Tap room.
"One…" Richtofen mentally held up one finger.
"Two…" He held up another as air pressure was lost in the labs.
"Damnit Nikolai, can you not pull the fucking pin so early next time?" Dempsey asked the Russian, who was in the motion of throwing another grenade down the stairs.
"Rude, Dempshey… and so vulgar." Richtofen shook his head mentally and was reminded once more why he hated the American.
"Floating green box thingy!" Nikolai yelled, reaching for it.
"MAX AMMO!" Richtofen exclaimed. Oh, that felt good to say.
"More ammo, more honor!" Takeo yelled, another magazine pushed into his RPK as he spoke.
"Oh see, now you made me lose mein train of thought." Richtofen sighed.
"QEDs!" Sam exclaimed, her belt now full of them. She threw one as the exited out onto the moon's surface.
It opened up and a ray gun came out and began firing in a circle, effectively annihilating the group of zombies, which were quickly replaced by more.
"Box, I missed you as much as I miss third wife! Okay, maybe more." Nikolai said opening the mysterious box.
"Really Russian!? Now!?" Takeo considered puncturing the Russian's space suit but remembered that he had PhD Flopper, so it would be useless.
"Fuck you Takeo, I can do what I want!" Nikolai replied as he pulled out a familiar device from a Russian Cosmodrone.
He wound it and tossed it towards the station door and watched as the zombies were sucked into the Aether, becoming energy for Richtofen.
"Thank you, Gersch!" Samantha exclaimed, remembering the man she had once held captive for company.
"Mini black holes? Oh, I remember you." Tank grinned as he watched the zombies shred. This was even more entertaining than watching them effectively become balloons from his Wave Gun.
"Oh, I remember now! THREE!" Richtofen yelled, a fresh wave of zombies rising from the ground.
"Shit!" Nikolai exclaimed, backing up to the edge of the teleporter.
"DIE!" Richtofen yelled, cackling madly afterwards.
"Not before I kill you, German!" Takeo backed into the teleporter, shortly followed by the others.
The teleporter sparked and powered up, sending the others down to Earth, which was now a hazy red, covered in dust.
"You cannot escape me!" Richtofen exclaimed as the cage locked down on the teleporter as it recharges. Speed Cola slammed down into the Hangar as they took their PES helmets off.
"So Tank… How fucked are we?" Nikolai asked casually, tossing another Gersch device.
"Very."
"Oh." The Russian frowned and took a sip of vodka while he could.
Tank held the Zap Guns tightly and looked up at the teleporter. Maybe… well if it worked in Der Riese, it should work here.
The cage lifted slowly and the group gathered on it, and then Dempsey emptied his Zap Gun clips into it.
"Tank, what the hell are you doing!?" Nikolai yelled.
"American, are you trying to get us killed?" Takeo exclaimed as the cage shook, falling over them, keeping the undead outside of the bars.
"He knows what he's doing." Samantha had seen him accidentally do it back at The Giant. Had he actually remembered it?
"Thank you! At least you think I'm smart." Tank nodded at the girl.
The mainframe above them sparked red, then blue, and then orange. What looked like electrical trap bolts landed around them in varying colors.
"NO! Vhat are you doing?!" Richtofen asked, rage building inside him.
"Think, Bitchtofen!" Dempsey replied.
And the German did, his mind almost immediately remembering their time in Der Riese, and then how it had ended…
"NEIN! YOU CAN'T DO ZAT! THIS IS CHEATING!" Edward realized what would happen now. And he couldn't stop it.
"Oh, one more thing, Eddie." Dempsey watched as a final bolt struck the middle of the pad.
"VHAT?"
"Fuck you." Dempsey lifted his middle finger as the four disappeared into time.
The cage latches broke as the cage rose, slamming it down into the floor. The pad shorted put and shut down. Then the mainframe let out a thundering groan before dropping into the pad, electric bolts flying everywhere.
"NO!" Richtofen was left alone in his world. For now.
20+ years later
Paris
After Maxis takes control
A flash of lightning struck the Eiffel Tower, lightning up the area for a brief second before an even brighter one struck a narrow former street in front of it, collapsing it.
A thundering boom rang throughout the city. But there was no one around to hear it.
Falling underneath where the street formerly was, was a Russian, a Japanese man, an American, and a German.
"Fuck you Tank!" Nikolai yelled, dropping his Spas.
"Screw you Nikolai! It's not my fault!" Dempsey yelled back.
"Idiots! Can we pay more attention to the hell under us?" Takeo interrupted the squabbling, the Rift gaping at them from beneath.
"Fuck you too, Takeo!" Nikolai persisted.
Samantha facepalmed at the men. They were the ones who had helped Richtofen all the way? Really?
Tank blinked as he seemed to stop falling, and Nikolai reached for a vodka bottle in what looked like slo-mo.
He tried to move but couldn't, and then, in front of his eyes, he watched as the Earth seemed to close around them, enveloping the group.
And then, as he felt like he was being crushed, an orange flash blinded him. He felt like he was falling again. And then he hit the ground.
He looked around and saw Sam opening her eyes, Nikolai lying on his back, a broken vodka bottle next to him, and Takeo on his knees puking onto the grass. Wait, grass?
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!" Tank bluntly yelled, looking up to see what looked like dirt.
He got no response, so instead moved onto another question.
"WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE!?"
"Agartha!" A voice exclaimed.
"What?" Tank replied. Wait a second. That voice…
"Daddy?" Samantha asked.
"Samantha?" The voice replied.
"Nikolai!" The Russian yelled.
"Shut up with the stupid American cartoon puns!" Tank yelled at the Russian.
"Daddy…" Samantha fell to her knees and looked up, as if expecting to see her father float down.
"Wait… you left us to die, Maxis!" Dempsey felt rage enter his mind.
"Not this time."