Trapped inside the worst place no one would ever want to go to, two powerful hyper-lethal Spartans are trapped here in hell with trillions of demons all across this world, different types of demons and rare demons that thirst for blood, it has been a long time since the demons have fed on live humans however it will take more than just a horde of imps to kill these two Spartans.
As the two walk down this hellish hallway, discovering that there haven't been any signs of any demons around, this could feel like this is becoming a trap soon. While they keep walking, Chief and Reaper did want to know about what has been happening before they go running into action.
"You have been looking for me for that long?" Chief asks while walking behind Reaper.
"I was, but then I got some orders and I was force to abandon you." Reaper said turning his head to the side then to the door in front of him, seeing it opening up by itself "I knew you would survive, others believe it too but…. They still wanted me to become the next…"
"The next?"
Reaper would turn back when he walked through the doorway. "The next Master Chief, the first Spartan five."
"There planning on making Spartan fives?" Cortana asks
"Not really." He looks forward "This training is much tougher than a Spartan four." He keeps walking "I heard that they are only choosing one person to become the next Spartan five, to become the next Master Chief like you."
"I heard the UAC was planning on making the next Spartan."
"Yeah well… A lot has changed when you were gone."
"So tell me… How come you're not the Master Chief?" Chief stops while Reaper kept going for a bit but eventually he turns back to him.
"John…"
They both would hear this screeching sound coming in the distance, causing them to look back and quickly run forward to get in position. They both appear in this large but small area with stairway in front of them, there are two more stairways on the left and right at the top, it will take them through two doors and both Reaper and Chief runs up the first steps and both looks at the two doors while watching each other's backs.
"What do you think that is?" Chief said taking out his assault rifle
"One way to find out." He said while taking out two SMGs "You ready to go again brother?"
"Yeah…"
As the two wait for whatever is coming through one of the doors. A baron will come walking through on the left side of the doorway, standing at the top of the stairway looking down at Reaper and getting Chief's attention when he looked towards it, both aim their guns at it as it lets off a screech at the two.
"That demon…" Reaper mumbles "I have seen it before…"
"You have?"
"Yeah… Long ago, before I came here…"
As the two look towards this baron of hell, another one will come through the other door and does the same thing to the other. Both the two looks back then Chief ends up going back in position before, standing behind his brother while aiming his assault rifle at the baron and holding a grenade at the ready.
"Here we go….."
Both the barons would jump down across the stairway to stomp on the two, both of the Spartans quickly jumped out of the way by jumping down on both sides of the bottom stairway before the barons could stomp the ground on where they were before, when the two Spartans hit the ground, Chief would leave behind a grenade with the pin removed and that explosion damages the two barons but it only slowed them down.
This just got them madder and the two turns towards them, both the Spartans aimed their weapons and started firing a couple of rounds through them before they are force to move away as the two barons throws these green fireballs at them before they could jump down. Reaper would roll out of the way when his baron lands in front of him, he kept moving away while firing off rounds at it through the face and the chest but that only slowed them down, once he ran out of ammo he jumps up on the stairway before the baron could grab him then quickly runs up a few steps to get higher than the baron for him to jump down, drawing out this energy blade out of his right wrist of his arm and ends up stabbing it right through the back of the baron, getting that energy blade through the mouth then tried to swing the energy blade upwards just to send this large cut through the top of the head if it had a brain he could have killed it. When it went on its knees, Reaper jumps off and looks back seeing it fall to the ground and soon it would just disintegrate itself.
On Master Chief's side, Chief was still firing rounds at his baron when he moves back firing the last of his rounds before that baron tries to claw his body, missing twice while he fired but when he ran out of ammo the baron finally got him by sending his gun through the wall then lays a strike across his chest, deflecting most of the damage with his shield then tries to attack it by drawing out a combat knife and ends up slicing through the knee of it, getting behind it and was about to stab it in the back however the baron turns back and sends a green fireball at him, blasting his chest and sending him smacking against the wall and collapsing on the bloodied floor while the baron comes walking over to him.
His chest plate manages to block that blast as his shield didn't have time to recharge, that blast did damage him well and was hard for him getting back up but it's probably because of what that demon did to him before, hurting him more and this baron is going to finish it off.
"John… John get up now!" Cortana shouts at him while he looks up at the baron.
Reaper would quickly come to save his older brother by running on the stairway then jumps down at the baron to get its attention, stabbing his energy blade through the chest of that baron and getting that baron to fall back on the ground. Reaper quickly kept punch-stabbing the baron a few times to the chest then wraps this up with a stab through the head, finishing it off before it could grab him.
Reaper gets up off the baron and walks over to help his brother up, he gets him sitting against the side of the wall while the baron disintegrates. "John… You going to be alright?" he asks while whispering.
"Yeah… I'm fine, I've been through worse than this…" He tries to get up but Reaper helps him in the end.
"I think the covenant and the flood are far worse than demons."
"I guess so…"
"Can you walk?" He moves away from him when Chief got up.
"Yeah… I'm ok."
Reaper gives him a hit on the side of his arm "Don't you dare die on me now brother, we still got work to do." He turns back and started walking back to the stairway.
"It's going to be a problem without guns…" Chief started walking after him then started jogging up the stairs to try and catch up to Reaper.
"We'll think of something… But first we should deal with this." Reaper stops at the top of the stairway, looking at the two stairways that leads to two different locations. "Which one should we take?"
"Cortana… There a way to find out which way we can take?" He asks when he made it up there with Reaper.
"I have no idea, it's up to you guys."
"Well then, let's go right then, right?"
"Right."
"Right." Reaper takes point and started walking up the stairway on the right, getting Chief to follow him up there.
"So you said you seen that demon before." Chief said when he made it up the stairs
"I have… During my failed mission before I went on board the Infinity." He keeps walking "You're not the only one fighting monsters from a dimensional world."
"You fought these demons?"
"No, I fought something else in another dimensional world. I saw this demon before once, let's just say that where I fought…" He stops "I really don't want to talk about what happen on my mission."
"Sorry brother… But you looked like you seen this before other than that mission of yours."
"I saw a terminal inside a Forerunner structure before I got pulled into a dimensional world. I saw a war that was unknown to me." He looks out this small opening on the wall. "I saw a war between these demons and a race that I have never seen before…"
"You think these demons fought the Forerunners?"
"Maybe…" He turns to Chief "The Flood couldn't be the only ones fighting them, maybe these demons attacked first or after."
"What do you think Cortana?"
"Hard to say really, but what I don't understand is that this demon escaped hell, got captured by these 'Prometheans' and used the Covenant to get back into hell. Why?"
"Maybe he needed something in the galaxy before returning to hell." Chief said looking at Reaper as he started walking off. "We probably have to see in order to understand, but if these 'Prometheans' captured him, then there's a way to defeat him."
"Maybe… But maybe there's a –"
A sudden gunshot went off, echoing the place and causing them to stop and look around, hearing that gunshot was close by to them, if there was someone out here then there's a chance to get some help. Both of them would double time to find out where that gunshot came from, where they will find a marine that is fighting like hell against the demons.
Outside of the rooms where the two Spartans finally got out, they will finally be able to see this large open field, seeing the skies burning in orange flames. The large open view can be stretched thousands of miles, a large hellish wasteland where thousands of demons and maybe more of them that lurks in the flaming cracks of hell but out there, someone who isn't a demon is fighting off against these demons, fighting off against these demon warriors with purple skin and covered in different types of plated armour and faces, all look different from one another but they are all the same, all smarter than regular demons and uses hellish weaponry instead of doing melee fatalities. Carrying these strange looking rifles that shoots off little red projectiles, firing off like a marksman rifle just without the scope, firing off rounds towards this small area where this human is making a stand against them.
The human who is making a stand against the demon warriors, wearing this orange heavy plated armour set, advanced and similar to a Spartan class however he looks more muscular than a Spartan but his height isn't closer to a Spartan either. The man was hiding behind this stone cube against some stone ruins, carrying a shotgun which only had a few shells left. He would finally come out of cover and started firing off some rounds, shooting at the closest one and sending him flying back, turning his gun to another warrior and sends that shell through the hell then two more shells through another one, one to the chest and the other through the left shoulder. He was about to shoot another one however he ran out of shells then got into cover however he took four hits to the chest and head before he ducks down, they didn't pierce through his armour but they did go deep, one even showed a crack on his helmet.
With him out of ammo he would grab this blade that is advanced, this titanium made sword with this small orange flaming rod where the sharp end was supposed to be, it could cut through things quickly than a chainsaw. Just as he was about to come out and charge at the last demon warriors, Reaper will come over to join this marine by jumping in the air then does a boost jump in the air towards them, blasting the ground and sending three demon warriors flying back on the ground. Chief would be nearby carrying the Spartan laser while Reaper goes and strikes the demons down with his energy blade, Chief will be watching over him when he discovered a Mancubus coming over towards them, quickly charging the Spartan laser, blasting through the belly and sending that Mancubus' gut blasting to bits. One more shot was left and he discovered another baron of hell that just spawned nearby, he quickly fired at it and manage to obliterate the whole right arm of it, causing it to take a few steps before collapsing dead on the ground.
Once the demons are down, Reaper takes one of the demon weapons off the ground and Chief walks down towards them while still carrying the Spartan laser, the two comes together while the orange marine stood where he was looking at the two. He soon got his eyes locked to the Master Chief, walking towards the two while leaning his blade on his shoulder.
"Who the hell are you people?" The man said standing in front of him.
"They call me Reaper."
"They call me the Master Chief."
"Huh…" He looks back to Chief "I thought you were someone else…"
"The Doom Slayer?"
"Yeah…. How do you know him?"
"Long story…"
"Just who are you?" Reaper asks when he turned his head to the side to the open view then back to him.
"My name is Phobos, I'm a Night Sentinel."
"And… Why the hell is a Night Sentinel living here in hell?"
"Long story… But I can tell you two are not from around here aren't you… How did you get into hell?"
"We got teleported." Chief said
"Teleported…" He slightly laughs under his helmet "Well you picked a perfect place." He turns back "Well then… We shouldn't be out here for long." He turns his head to the side "Come with me if you want to live." He then walks off.
Both the two looks to him then decided to follow him since they got no choice. Both the Spartans will follow a Night Sentinel to his hideout, this small little place where he kept it under his control. They will have to go underground where they will appear in this place where the interior looks like a medieval gothic interior of a castle however it's all in ruins, the outside was completely destroyed in ruins and consumed by corpses, flames and blood.
"So is it just you here?" Reaper asks as they follow him underground looking at the interior of the place.
"There used to be more than just me." Phobos said while he keeps walking "I had a woman with me a while back but… She didn't make it." He walks up to this stone throne where he will sit down on it, leaning his sword on the side of it. "Welcome to my place."
"How long have you been down here?" Chief asks when looking to the left, through another room that lies in rubble.
"Too long… Me and the others with me came into hell to survive…"
"Survive?"
"Before I go right into the details…" He leans forward "I want to know about your stories, how did you get in here and why?"
Reaper looks to Chief. "Should we tell him?"
"Yeah…" Chief looks to him "We need your help, Phobos."
"Hmn?"
-Half an hour later-
Phobos was thinking for a while when the two discuss mostly everything they know about what's been happening, Cortana also got involved and introduced herself to Phobos and all Phobos would do is listen and understand the situation however there was some parts that he didn't believe, the rest he would but some he believed it could be fictional.
Phobos would also tell them about his story for being here, telling them that he too is a human like them but his race is different than theirs, far advanced than theirs and lives somewhere very far away. They have never faced the Covenant before but they know about the demons, the Forerunners and the Prometheans, it is possible that during that time when the Forerunners repopulated worlds, they manage to send two human species to two planets and not one, one on Earth and the other elsewhere.
"So… The UAC, the hell gate, the Balgar Demon, Covenant, the Prometheans, this strange demon controlling this operation, your human culture and the Doom Slayer…"
"Do you believe us?" Reaper asks
"Yeah I do, some of that stuff is already know. I know about the Prometheans and the hell gates, and that demon that you fought to get here, I seen it before. But…" He leans back "I don't believe this demon you say, it's just a story, it's just some regular demon that we fought before. The Doom Slayer doesn't exist anymore, if he was real he died long ago."
"Seriously?"
"You know about the Prometheans and the hell gates?" Chief asks
"Yes… where I am, the Prometheans live on our planet. Long ago we went to war against them when we discovered them, that was a time i wasn't even born because it happened thousands of years ago."
"And the hell gate?"
"Oh yeah... Well thousands of years later we found that gate and we thought of using it."
"You really use a hell gate?"
"Of course we do, we contain it and thanks to the Prometheans and their advanced weaponry, we use them as sentinels to protect us if we fail to contain it. We did get an accident and caused the demons to spread but we ended up containing it."
"So what do you know of the Doom Slayer?" Cortana asks
"Some stories that we heard from the Prometheans and their terminals, date back to an ancient war that happened long ago. A war against a human race and the Prometheans fighting against the demons, it ended when the Doom Slayer that time closed the rifts and ended the apocalypse. Some stories tell that he fought some giant Titan of hell." He slightly laughs "Yeah right."
"And what do you mean the Doom Slayer in that time?" Cortana asks "Was there another one?"
"Well we believed there was a Doom Slayer in that time, he was killed after the war finally ended. Another Doom Slayer was reborn and joined the war against the Prometheans, after that was dealt with we all dealt with the demons when we couldn't contain the portal. Doom Slayer went through it and took care of it but that was the last time we saw him."
"I saw a vision telling that he was sealed away by the demon we mention; could he still be alive?"
"Maybe." He shrugs "It's possible that he's still alive in stasis but I have never seen him, I have only travelled around many places and cleared those places for a bit until they overrun it again. I have never found any trace of the Doom Slayer."
"Maybe you're in the wrong area." Cortana asks "This is a big place isn't it?"
"Of course it is… It's a giant planet full of trillions of demons..."
"I saw that demon send the Doom Slayer into a sarcophagus." Chief said "Some type of structure, he's probably still keeping him there."
"Maybe… Although… I did notice that the more I get close to something important around here, the more I get attacked by more demons, the more I'm force to retreat."
"So you got anything about what this demon was mention could really be?"
"There is a theory about the demon your mentioning. They say that the Doom Slayer in that time had a son, he ended up getting corrupted and twisted by the hell priests. They turned him into something, he has a name but that name has been forgotten. He calls himself 'The Icon of Sins'."
"The Icon of Sins?"
"Some big shot… I don't know."
"Well this has been an interesting story but…" Cortana said "Shouldn't we be finding a way to get the hell out of here?"
"We need to get out of hell right now… Back to the UAC before the demons overrun the whole facility." Chief said
"A hell gate will create a portal here while the gate stays active on your planet." Phobos gets up "If you have a way to get out of here then I'm coming with you."
"Could always return to where you're from." Reaper said "If your people open your hell gate."
"Yes well… Good luck waiting for the portal to reopen again."
"Well then… We should go, but do you have any weapons?" Chief asks
"Well… I do have one weapon left, It's a weapon like I got here." He taps on the handle of his sword.
"Chief will take it." Reaper said "I still got this." He raises his arm out, showing the energy blade in front of Phobos.
"It will take more than just an energy dagger to take down a baron of hell."
Chief turns back "We better get the hell out of here then."
