"Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take peace away from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And he was given a huge sword." -Revelation 7:4
Charlie and the Doom Slayer opened their eyes and let go of each other, looking around and seeing they were at Megiddo. The place didn't like much like a city, as it was merely a hill with dirt and sand at the top, with several outlines of formations made of rocks that were lined up. The only other feature were several trees on the edges.
"Why are we supposed to fight here?" Charlie asked, curious. "This area doesn't look like much."
"Because Megiddo is what connects all realms!"
Charlie looked up, seeing the Khan Maykr teleport in a flash of silver energy.
"You think you can stop us?" the rogue angel asked. "It is humanity's time to repent! Once we take Megiddo, the time for penance will be upon you!"
"Not if we have anything to say about it!" Charlie said defiantly, and she and William charged towards their angelic foe. The Khan Maykr's eyes shined brightly, as she narrowed and formed two lengthy swords made of pure light. The Maykr proceeded to extend her giant wings and flew towards them at a speed that rivalled the Praetor suit.
The Doom Slayer reached into his quantum pouch and pulled out his newly created Argent sword. Having merged the Crucible with the Exterminator's light blade, he was able to purify the corrupted Argent energy, and the blade became the color of pure silver, and was dubbed the Argent Blade. Charlie followed his lead, and took out her own sword.
The Slayer and the princess of Hell ran full speeds at the rogue angel, and they all swung their swords. The resulting contact shook the Earth, and temporarily blinded everyone. The minute Charlie regained her vision, she realized that all three of them had locked blades. Or rather, the Khan Maykr was attempting to use her height to force her swords of light down on them, but the Praetor suits gave them ample amounts of strength to fend her off.
The Khan Maykr broke the lock, and attempted to swipe downward at the Slayer, who rolled to the side and jabbed at her right leg. Though the blade connected, it did little damage, if any at all. Charlie fared no better, as she struck the other leg with her own light sword, but it merely glanced off the angelic being. The Slayer tried jumping up and stabbing the Maykr in the shoulder, but she raised her arms, causing him to stab at nothing but air.
"Enough!" the Khan Maykr yelled, kicking Charlie away and sending her careening into a nearby tree. The force of the impact was enough to snap the tree in half, and Charlie didn't get back up.
William's eyes burned with white hot rage, and he attacked the Maykr with a ferocity he had never demonstrated before. Unfortunately, especially against this opponent, that proved to be a mistake. As he swung the Argent Blade, the Khan Maykr easily blocked, and reached down and backhanded the Slayer, sending him tumbling across the ground, and landing near Charlie.
Charlie, the Doom Slayer realized, trying to wake the princess of Hell up. Even though she was still clearly breathing, it took awhile for her to open her eyes, and she looked around groggily through a cracked visor.
"Throughout the millennia… all the sacrifices… it was never personal." the Khan Maykr said out loud, almost to herself as she flew back towards the other side of the Tel. "But now, seeing you two as a thorn in our side, for so long, I will enjoy consuming the Earth."
A massive portal opened, ringed red with Argent energy, and hordes of demons crawled out of the darkness. Imps, mancubi, cacodemons, Hell knights, barons of Hell, revenants, even pinkies and lost souls scurried forward. Following them were the Hell barges, also called the titans, as well as several Hell tyrants. Next to them were zombified versions of some of the most evil souls in history, with their eyes glowing red from Argent energy. Leading them were several resurrected Nazis, who in turn were led by a returned Hitler in a mechanized suit.
On the far side of this Hellish army, stood a legion of souls in black armor, with glowing green eyes. They were led by an angelic being in golden armor and a purple cape, while wielding a flaming sword. Next to them were more zombies and skeletons, and in front of them was a being of pure nightmare, wearing a darkened cape and gated helmet, with the sides adorned with bat wings. On its chest was a rectangular badge that said "Fear".
Behind all the demons, near the Khan Mayker, the Mayker drones appeared, flanked by the Night Sentinels, as they were mechanically marching with the spawns of Hell. Next to the drones were the Exterminators of Charlie's world, brandishing their spears and ready to permanently destroy the Doom Slayer's soul.
The Slayer was barely fazed by any of this, until he heard a familiar demonic voice.
For thousands of years I have waited. At last, this world will be mine!
A large goat-like head emerged from the portal, revealing gigantic teeth and pale white eyes. There was a hole in its forehead, revealing the brain, and its pale, hulking body was colossal in stature, and was towering above even the Khan Maykr and the titans themselves. The Doom Slayer's blood boiled, as the Icon of Sin, seemingly fully healed from their previous battle, roared at him with pure hatred.
"Once this world is consumed, we will turn towards all the other dimensions." the Khan Maykr declared. "All realms will fall to us."
The Doom Slayer helped Charlie up, and stared certain death in the eye, temporarily putting the Argent Blade back into the quantum pouch. The Slayer exchanged the sword for his super shotgun, and clenched his fist, activating the wrist blade. Charlie pulled out her combat shotgun, cranking the pump and holding it steady. The Doom Slayer nodded once in her direction, then turned back to the armies of both Heaven and Hell, preparing to fight his final battle to the last breath.
The Slayer and Charlie began slowly walking towards the army, when they saw bright flashes of light in their peripheral vision.
"There are multiple life signals appearing behind you." Hayden announced, and William and Charlie turned around, seeing BJ Blazkowicz, Judge Dredd, and the Punisher walking towards them. Their firearms all glowed green, indicating that they all had Hellfire rounds, and were ready to join the fight.
Behind Blazkowicz were Hellboy, Spawn, Lady Death, and the Ghost Rider, all having their angelic or demonic weapons out. The Doom Slayer, having never seen Red, Death, or Spawn before, was about to aim his shotgun at them, but Charlie intervened.
"Wait." Charlotte told William. "They're here to help us."
William looked at her, confused, but his expression softened when BJ nodded. Next to the Terror Billy were Ash Williams, Johnny Blaze, and John Constantine, who was holding a single barrelled shotgun in his hands.
"Will that do anything?" Charlie inquired, noticing the lack of green energy emanating from the rifle.
"The Ace of Winchester was forged by a mystic in the Old West." Constantine explained, cranking the pump. "Never misses a shot, and it can kill demons."
Charlie nodded, and looked behind the group, seeing that the white flashes were not done. Behind all of them, people that neither Charlie nor William had ever seen began appearing, but their allies knew them well.
Judge Dredd saw that apparently, this Seraphim character decided to pick up most of the Justice Department, if not all them, and they were led by Judges Anderson, Giant, and Chief Judge Hershey. He supposed it wasn't that surprising, as they were going to need all the help they could get against a foe that was deadlier than the Dark Judges…
Frank Castle didn't expect anyone he knew to appear out of thin air. So he was fairly surprised when he saw Amy Bendix, the girl he protected two years ago, step out of the light, carrying an M16, a Desert Eagle, and a sawed off shotgun on her hip, while wearing a bulletproof vest. Bendix gave a small nod in Castle's direction, then stared straight ahead.
Ghost Rider reverted back to Robbie Reyes for a moment, as he stared in awe when a group of soldiers wearing riot gear showed up, wearing a familiar eagle symbol on their shoulders. Leading them were three individuals, a man and two women, who Reyes came to know as Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Melinda May, and Daisy Johnson, also known as Quake.
Johnson's wrists wore the usual silver gauntlets, but she also held twin pistols in her hands, which glowed bright green from the Hellfire it would spit out.
Hellboy noticed that several members of the BPRD had come, aided by a man in a trenchcoat and wide hat. In his hands was a sword that glowed bright green.
Constantine looked up, seeing the Waverider time ship land in front of him, and Sara Lance walked out in her White Canary suit. Behind her was Ray Palmer in his Atom suit, Mick Rory with his heat gun, and Nate Heywood, having turned his organic skin to steel.
Johnny Blaze smiled, seeing an old man in a cowboy hat ride a jet black horse towards him. The moment the horse halted, both it and its rider caught on flame, leaving the cowboy's face a fiery skull.
Ash Williams looked around, at first not seeing anyone he knew, then stopped, locking eyes on three individuals in the distance, who were quickly walking towards him. One of them, a male, had a thin mustache and an afro, whom he recognized as Pablo. Right next to him was Kelly, wearing her usual leather jacket, and on Pablo's other side was…
Ash's own daughter, Brandy Barr.
Charlie was about to turn back towards the ever looming demon army, when out of her blind spot, she thought she saw her father, and turned to her left. It wasn't her father, but Vaggie, Angel Dust, and Cherri Bomb appeared, all holding the Exterminator's spears.
"Looks like we're just in time for the party." Angel Dust smirked, as Vaggie rolled her eyes.
William nodded, and turned back to face the Khan Maykr, the Icon of Sin, and her army, as she glared with angelic rage. The Doom Slayer smirked, and popped two shells into the super shotgun, before snapping it closed, as if daring the Maykr to attack.
The Khan Maykr pointed one of her swords at the Slayer, and the horde of demons rushed forward, screaming loudly. William and Charlie responded by charging to meet them, and they were quickly followed by their own army. The second both sides clashed, one thing became clear in William's eyes:
The final battle of Armageddon had begun.
The Doom Slayer jumped up, using the meat hook on the super shotgun to attach to a cacodemon and pull him into the air, before blasting the one eyed monster to bits. On his way back to the ground, he planted his feet into the chest of a revenant, sending them both crashing into the Earth, and stomped onto the skeleton's head, smashing it into a gooey red paste. William looked up, just in time to catch a Night Sentinel's fist, and headbutted the warrior, cracking the helmet and sending the knight to the ground. Before the Sentinel got up, the Slayer pointed his shotgun at his chest and pulled the trigger, blowing the torso apart and leaving the limbs behind.
While shooting at an imp that tried to sneak up on the Slayer, Charlie was blindsided and tackled by a Hell knight, who snarled at her viciously. The princess of Hell was unfazed, and pulled out the chainsaw, revving it up and sawing diagonally through his body. The Praetor armor, the saw, and the ground became covered in the demon's blood, and he screamed in agony from the mortal wound.
Just then, a baron of Hell roared at Charlie, running full speed towards her. Before she could do anything, it stopped, as bullets started smashing into its body. Given that it was Hellfire rounds that connected with the demonic skin, the baron disintegrated almost immediately. Confused, Charlie turned around, seeing BJ Blazkowicz, his gun smoking, as he nodded towards her, then turned his attention back to killing more demons.
Across the battlefield, Hellboy and Spawn stood back to back, fighting off the legions of Hell that Spawn was accustomed with. Right beside them for backup was the man in the trenchcoat and wide hat, accompanied by agents of the BPRD.
"Who's the new guy?" Red asked, as he blew a mancubus apart with the Good Samaritan's holy water bullets.
"Cogliostro." Spawn answered for him, using his chains to ensnare a Hellspawn and tear it apart, before turning and shooting a pinky with his machine guns. "It's good to see you, old friend, but I thought you were dead."
"And you, Spawn." Cogliostro replied, slashing his sword into the neck of a resurrected Nazi, before punching a lost soul away from him. "The Seraphim brought me back just this once."
Spawn nodded, and locked eyes on an angelic knight in shining golden armor, wearing a purple cape and holding a flaming sword.
"Miss me, Al?" the knight asked, charging towards Simmons.
"Wynn?" Spawn asked, seemingly in disbelief. "What happened to you?"
"After you killed me, the Khan Maykr gave me one more chance to kill you!" Jason Wynn yelled. "Jason Wynn is gone, in his place is the Redeemer!"
Spawn conjured a sword as black as midnight, and he and Cogliostro fought the knight. Their blades clashed against one another, creating sparks of orange and green fire. The Redeemer attempted to decapitate Spawn, but the warrior from Hell ducked, before stabbing his former boss in the chest.
"You fool." the Redeemer sneered. "Your blade of the damned has no effect on me!"
"Then maybe this does." Spawn retorted, pulling out his machine gun and peppering the angel's armor with Hellfire bullets. The Redeemer growled in pain, and fell to his knees, before looking up.
"You may have destroyed me, but the Khan Maykr will succeed!" Wynn snarled, as he began to become ashes. "This world will fall, with all the others!"
With that, the Redeemer became dust, leaving Spawn and Cogliostro to continue fighting the demon horde.
In another area of the Tel, Constantine and the Legends fought against resurrected Nazis as well as one of the Hell tyrants.
"Fancy seeing you here." John smirked, taking aim at a black clad Hellspawn and shooting it between the eyes, grinning even wider when it crumbled to dust. As another tried to kill John, he placed a protective spell over himself, bringing up his hand to produce a magical shield.
"The fate of all life is at stake." Sara shrugged, while smacking an Exterminator in the face, before disarming the angel of its spear and plunging it through the chest. In the distance, Nate Heywood punched and bashed his way through several demons, while Ray Palmer flew around to try and shake off a cacodemon that had chased him, before turning around and shooting it with a plasma blast of his own. "Besides, this isn't the first time we've killed demons."
"Look at my new gun!" Rory grinned wickedly, firing the heat gun at the Hell tyrant, and watched as it sprouted green flames. Constantine smirked, and noticed to the right of Lance was his long ago friend, Chas Chandler.
"Chas?" John asked, shocked. "You're alive?"
"I've still got a few more souls in me." Chas nodded, tossing a magically enchanted grenade at the tyrant, covering his ears as the massive demon blew up. "Your friends picked me up."
As the Legends battled history's greatest monsters, Frank Castle and Amy Bendix found themselves fighting side by side once more, with Judges Dredd and Anderson watching their back.
"Never thought I'd see you again." Frank noted, as they all fired at a Hell Titan.
"Some guy in a hood transported me here." Amy shrugged, crouching behind a short stone wall and firing her M16. "Apparently, he also made it so the bullets coming out of this can kill these things."
"Same as our Lawgivers." Judge Anderson added, switching to rapid fire and shooting at the titan's hands. "Who is this guy?"
"Someone calling himself the Seraphim." Dredd reported, stomping on an imp's skull, before elbowing a zombie. "Never seen one like him before. Not even those Dark Judge creeps have the power he does."
"Speaking of the Dark Judges…" Anderson nodded towards the right of the group. As the Punisher and Amy finally brought down the titan with several well placed shots to the heart and head, Dredd followed her gaze, setting his sights on their old enemy, Judge Fear, who was striding towards them with supernatural speed.
Judge Fear tossed one of his infamous man trap devices at Frank, who brought his arm up instinctively, and growled loudly.
"Frank!" Amy yelled, frantically shooting at the chain, while Anderson fired a Hi-Ex Hellfire round at the Dark Judge. Fear quickly let go of the mantrap, and as Frank ripped the device out of his arm, the terrifying foe rushed towards them, opening the gate of his helmet.
"Gaze into the face of fear!" the Dark Judge cackled, and Frank could see his family, mowed down in Central Park all over again. Amy, on the other hand, saw herself being chased down by John Pilgrim, culminating in her being brutally tortured, and murdered.
Before Judge Fear could completely kill Frank or Bendix, Judge Dredd stepped in front of them, glaring defiantly.
"GAZE INTO THE FIST OF DREDD, CREEP!"
Dredd's fist tore through Fear's helmet and out the back of his head, before he fired a Double Whammy that blew the Dark Judge's body apart. Just like when the Doom Slayer killed Judge Death, his spirit did not leave the body, and it crumbled to ash.
"Wait, where's Fear's soul?" Anderson asked, confused.
"Those new bullets we got?" Dredd reminded the Psi-Judge. "They permanently kill demons. The Dark Judges qualify."
Anderson nodded, and the four of them ducked behind a rock wall and continued shooting down demons.
Ash Williams and his daughter Brandy stood back to back, with Ash hacking and slashing away at demons, deadites, and Nazi zombies alike, while Brandy put the boomstick to good use, shooting down anyone that got too close. Right next to them, also back to back, were Kelly and Pablo. Kelly used her assault rifle that she kept from the Knights of Sumeria, while Pablo made do with his pistol.
"Hell yeah, Ghost Beaters are back!" Pablo shouted triumphantly, before killing a cacodemon with a single shot to its eye.
"Fuck yeah we are!" Kelly grinned, peppering a mancubus with Hellfire rounds and watching it disintegrate into dust.
"Dad, what happened to you after Elk Grove?" Brandy asked, bashing a Nazi in the face with the boomstick's stock, then blowing a baron of Hell's head clean off.
"Long story short, I came back from the future." Ash quickly explained, slashing his chainsaw through several demons and coating himself in their demonic blood. "But I'm back with you guys, that's all that matters."
Suddenly, the Ghost Beaters heard a mighty roar and looked up, seeing a Hell Titan slowly walking towards them. The beast screamed with rage, setting his sights on the group of four.
"Holy shit, Jefe." Pablo murmured. "What do we do?"
"What I did with Kandar." Ash suggested. "Did someone pick up that Kandarian Dagger?"
"Actually, we did." Brandy smiled, pulling out a knife with the hilt chiselled in bone. "We went back into town when you killed that demon, but we couldn't find you. All we found was this, duct taped to a tank shell."
"Guilty." Ash said smugly, as he took the dagger. "Pablo, Kelly, distract big tall and ugly for me. Brandy, with me."
The Ghost Beaters nodded, and Kelly and Pablo began shooting at the titan's legs, directing its attention towards them. Meanwhile, Ash and brandy shot and slashed their way through hordes of demons, until reaching the backside of the massive titan. Ash started to climb up the titan's rough back, with Brandy following behind, until they reached the top of his head.
"Okay, Brandy, get his attention."
Brandy smirked, aiming the boomstick at the crown of the titan's head, and pulling the trigger. Just as they hoped, the titan looked up in confusion, into the grinning face of Ash.
"Hey buddy. You got a little something right… there!"
Ash plunged the kandarian dagger into the titan's forehead, causing it to scream in agony, flailing its arms around and forcing Ash and Brandy to hold on for dear life. The titan slumped forward, and collapsed into the ground before crumbling to dust, leaving Ash and Brandy coughing and sputtering.
"How's that for 'take your daughter to work day'?" Ash asked, grinning.
Robbie Reyes, Johnny Blaze, and Carter Slade all stood together with the agents of Shield, killing resurrected members of Hydra, as well as demons that Blaze and Slade were familiar with.
"Didn't think I'd see you again." Robbie commented, using his Hellfire chain to rip through a Hell knight. Beside him, Daisy used her powers to send several imps flying into the air, with Mack finishing them off with a shotgun blast.
"The feeling's mutual." Quake replied, ducking down as May fired rapidly at some Hellspawn that were running towards them. "Who are the other two?"
"Johnny Blaze." Johnny answered, firing his own Hellfire shotgun at an Exterminator. "I gave Robbie his power. And the other guy with the flaming skull is Carter Slade."
The Phantom Rider nodded, as he grappled with a Maykr Drone and began incinerating it by grabbing it by the throat.
"Who brought you here?" Robbie asked, turning towards the Shield agents. "Was it the Seraphim?"
"You mean the guy in the cloak and hood?" Mack eplied, chopping an imp's head off with the axe part of his gun. "Yeah, he just said that we were needed, and then we came here out of nowhere."
Robbie nodded, and he, the other Ghost Riders, and Shield turned their attention back towards the battle, where they continued killing demons and rogue angels alike.
On the opposite end of the Tel, BJ Blazkowicz shot at Exterminators and demons alike with his machine pistol, as he was guarded by the combined efforts of Angel Dust, Vaggie, and Cherri Bomb, who all held onto their angelic spears.
"Are you sure you don't suck dicks?" Angel asked, grinning wildly as he plunged his spear through an Arch Vile's head.
"You try anything, I'll send you back to Double Hell." BJ growled, as Vaggie smirked.
"Finally, someone speaks my language!" Vaggie shouted, while impaling a Whiplash demon, before jumping over Cherri Bomb stabbing a Maykr drone through the chest.
Suddenly, BJ heard a guttural growl, as a Hell Tyrant came lumbering towards them. Funny thing was, it looked awfully like the Harbinger of Doom he once fought.
"Vaggie, I need to borrow your spear." BJ ordered, and the moth demon and the Terror Billy swapped weapons. The tyrant roared, and aimed his arm cannon at BJ, who dodged just in the nick of time. Blazkowicz didn't hesitate, and picked up a dead sprint towards the beast, before jumping up and sinking the spear through the place that its heart should be.
The tyrant roared in excruciating pain, collapsing on top of an imp behind him and slowly fading to ash. BJ promptly got up, and after wiping the dust off himself, handed the spear back to Vaggie.
"Thanks." Blazkowicz smiled, taking his machine pistol back. Vaggie nodded, and the two continued fighting, hoping that they'd all survive this nightmare. Just as BJ thought they'd be fine, he felt a familiar mechanical stomping behind him, and dove to the ground, saving himself from being shredded by twin machine guns. BJ followed those guns, which were connected to the metal arms a mech suit. And in that mech suit…
"Adolf Hitler." BJ growled. "Didn't think they'd bring you back."
Hitler began ranting, but the Terror Billy had no idea what he was saying. He just knew it was something in German.
BJ rapidly fired his machine pistol at the mech, peppering the metal with Hellfire bullets and continuously denting the armor, before it was completely shredded, revealing the Fuhrer of the Nazi army. Before he could fire attack, Hitler was bombarded with bullets, completely bursting his body open like a pinata, and the Terror Billy watched as his soul was erased from existence, the Nazi leader's screams were music to his ears.
Blazkowicz smiled to himself, glad that Adolf Hitler was no more, then turned back to his allies from the Happy Hotel, and continued their fight against the forces of Heaven and Hell.
The Doom Slayer and Charlie stood side by side, shooting down demons, Exterminators, and the Khan Maykr's drones, when all of a sudden, the Marauder, clad in his corrupted Praetor armor, appeared in William's line of sight, kicking the princess of Hell away from him. Before Charlie could get up, she became swarmed in the sea of demons, leaving William alone to face his demonic reflection.
Charlie put away her shotgun and got out her light sword, cutting down demons and angels alike, but for every foe she destroyed, it seemed like twenty more took its place. Even when she attempted to channel her powers through the blade, it was not enough, and she began to be overwhelmed. Just as the horde of demons started to cloud her visor, Charlie saw blue lightning strike the demons surrounding her, giving her breathing room to slice them to pieces.
Once the demons around her were destroyed, Charlie looked up, seeing Lady Death herself levitating above the battlefield.
"Glad you could make it." Charlie smirked beneath her helmet. Lady Death curtly nodded, and lowered herself to the ground, brandishing Nightmare and wiping out scores of demons. "So how did you go around your curse?"
"The Seraphim found a 'loophole', as you call it." Lady Death revealed, uppercutting a baron of Hell with the strength to send it flying several yards. "I cannot walk the Earth as long as Lucifer's allies are still alive. However, they have all left my realm, and have joined the Khan Maykr."
"So that's how you're here." Charlie guessed, as she took off her gauntlets for a moment and blasted a steady stream of fire from her fingertips. The raging inferno burned through several zombies, as well as melted Maykr drones.
"I see you are remembering the lessons I taught you." Lady Death added, while kicking a Hell knight so hard, its entire body exploded in a gory mess. Charlie simply grinned, and spotted the Doom Slayer amidst the chaos, who was in a bare knuckle brawl with the Marauder leagues away. Lady Death noticed this, and began cutting down demons all around them to clear a path.
"Go." the queen of Hell instructed. "I will deal with the demons in your way."
Charlie nodded in appreciation, and focused on her powers. In an instant, flames shot out of her palms, and she directed her arms downward. The stream of flames carried her up into the sky, and she directed herself forward, seemingly flying towards the Doom Slayer.
"Hello brother." the Marauder said coldly, as he activated his Argent axe and pulled out his own super shotgun. "You will not escape me this time."
"Stan. Please." William begged, not wanting to fight his own brother.
"That is not my name!" the Marauder shouted. "Stan Blazkowicz is gone! In his place is the Marauder!"
The Doom Slayer looked at his fallen brother with great sorrow, before extending his wrist blade and engaging. The Marauder swung his axe, attempting to cut off the Slayer's head, but he ducked, and fired his shotgun at the demon's midsection. Unfortunately, the shot didn't hit, as the Marauder quickly activated his Argent shield to take the brunt of damage. The Doom Slayer followed with a jab from the wrist blade, but it was caught by the Marauder, who delivered a powerful punch to the Doom Slayer's face, cracking his visor and causing the HUD to glitch out.
"You are nothing without that armor." the Marauder taunted, attempting to rip off the Slayer's suit. William attempted to throw a left hook, but it was caught by the Marauder. Even when he extended the wrist blade, his brother pulled back slightly, just out of reach of the deadly steel.
"Please." William begged, remembering what Charlie said about redemption. "Don't make me do this."
"It is far too late for that, 'brother'." the Marauder sneered. The Doom Slayer wore a pained expression beneath his helmet, seeing that his former kin was too far gone, and kicked out, tripping his demonic brother and forcing him on one knee. Before the Marauder could recover, the Slayer forced his arm down, stabbing his wrist blade through Stan's eye, before lifting up the shotgun and shooting the second shell right at his face, resulting in his horned head completely exploding.
"I'm sorry." the Doom Slayer said sadly, watching as the Marauder, his fallen brother, slowly crumbled into dust. Charlie, having slashed her way through the demon horde with her chainsaw, approached the Slayer and rested her hand on his shoulder, trying to comfort him.
Slayer!
The Doom Slayer and Charlie looked up, seeing the Icon of Sin in the distance. It was engaging several judges, killing them easily by merely stomping on them.
At last, the Earth will be mine!
The Doom Slayer narrowed his eyes in pure hatred, and ran at full speed towards the Icon of Sin, who was still busy stepping on the judges. Just as the Icon finished killing the last of the holy knights, the Slayer jumped up, pulling out his Argent Blade, and embedded the sword into the colossal demon's knee, causing it to roar with a world shattering scream. The Icon of Sin attempted to bat the Slayer off of him, but he quickly evaded its gigantic hands, with some help from Charlie shooting rockets at it.
The Doom Slayer continued climbing up the Icon of Sin's body, using the Argent Blade as a pick, until he finally reached the goat skull, and held onto one of the horns. With his blood boiling, the Slayer prepared the Argent Blade, angling down at the Icon of Sin's exposed brain.
No! Nooo!
The Icon of Sin screamed, raising his hands in a vain attempt to pull the Doom Slayer off of him, but it was too late. The Argent Blade was pluged right into the Icon's brain, with enough power to explode the entire head in a burst of light, throwing the Slayer towards the ground. The massive demon's body jerked forward, and began falling towards the ground. Realizing this, the Doom Slayer twisted his body around and landed on the ground, forming a crater from the impact. Without wasting any time, the Slayer ran over to Charlie, picked her up, and dashed to safety, just as the Icon of Sin's body collapsed on top of a Hell tyrant and a mancubus, completely flattening them. It took time for the Icon's body to completely turn to dust, but when it did, nearly the entire battlefield went silent.
The Khan Maykr watched all of this, while she impaled a judge with one of her swords, then cut a BPRD agent in half. As the Icon of Sin's body became nothing but a pile of ash, the Maykr began to feel a strange, unfamiliar emotion:
Fear.
"No!" the Khan Maykr screamed. "It is time for humanity's penance! I will not allow you to stand against me!"
With that, the rogue angel flew into the blackened portal, and the demons continued their attack.
"Where's she going?" Charlie asked, taking out her combat shotgun.
"It can't be good. But if we can shut down this portal from the other side, we can end this." BJ guessed, having cleared a path to get to her and the Doom Slayer. "I got your six, William."
The Doom Slayer nodded, and together, the three of them shot and cut their way through the swarm of demons and angels, before finally reaching the giant portal. With one last nod of affirmation towards each other, the trio jumped in, feeling a cold, yet hot sensation surrounding them, as they traveled through the darkness.
Once the darkness faded, Charlie looked around, seeing them back in Hell, and in front of a gigantic tower that was colored gray, as well as shooting a beam of crimson Argent energy upwards. BJ looked behind them, seeing that the portal back to Megiddo was now closed. The Doom Slayer looked up, seeing the beam going through several portals. Some of them showed dimensions that he and Charlie had already visited, like Mega City One or Pentagram City, but others appeared unrecognizable. One such dimension appeared as though it was from the Middle Ages, with actual dragons flying around. Another world looked like a post-apocalyptic Earth, with a green colored sky, and individuals wearing some type of mechanized armor similar to the Doom Slayer's roamed the area.
"The Tower of Babel." Charlie murmured, as she remembered seeing the building the last time she and the Doom Slayer were in Hell. In fact, it seemed to be the same tower she rescued William from, all that time ago. Now, it appears that the tower was built even higher, and some type of ritual was performed in order for the Argent energy to penetrate the other dimension's portals. "That's what the Khan Maykr meant when she said there was another tower, and helping them claim more dimensions!"
"Then what are we waiting for?" BJ asked, loading his machine pistol. "Let's go kick some angelic ass!"
The Doom Slayer nodded, and the three of them ran towards the tower, shooting down imps and Hell knights that tried to stop them, and kicked down the doors, before ascending up the stairs. On the way up, a mancubus shot flames toward them, but the trio easily dodged by stepping to the side, and BJ shot it repeatedly with his machine pistol, until the puffed out demon lost its footing and fell of the stairs, crashing to the floor below as a red smear.
Charlie, the Doom Slayer, and the Terror Billy kicked open the doors of the tower's highest chamber, revealing the Khan Maykr, her back turned to them, and the root of the Argent beam.
"It is beautiful, isn't it?" the Khan Maykr said, turning towards the three. "Pure, Argent energy. Connecting all dimensions. Soon, all the dimensions of Hell and Heaven will become one."
"At the cost of trillions of lives." BJ ground his teeth in anger, as he pointed his weapon right at the angel.
"Humanity means nothing to me." the Maykr scoffed. "And it appears, without a Crucible blade, you cannot destroy me."
"I disagree." Hayden replied, as the Slayer pulled out his silver Argent Blade, while keeping his other hand wrapped around the shotgun. Charlie smiled, gripping her own shotgun tightly, while BJ didn't move his machine pistol off the angel.
The Khan Maykr's eyes narrowed, and she almost glided towards the trio, extending her light swords, and attacked the Doom Slayer first. The Slayer brought his own blade up, catching the Maykr's weapons, and fired his shotgun right at her chest, causing her to stagger a step back, but only in surprise.
"You think your human made weapons can harm me?" the Maykr laughed. "You may have been blessed by the Seraphim, yes, but a gun made of mortal steel can not hurt me!"
"Willing to give it a shot." BJ shrugged, spraying the Khan Maykr's backside with lead, as Charlie continued shooting at her head. The Maykr made a sound that was almost like groaning in frustration, and kicked the Doom Slayer to the far side of the chamber, then backhanding Charlie to the opposite wall. The angel approached the fallen princess, preparing to stab her with the angelic sword and erase her from existence. With no backup for the moment, BJ continued firing on the angel, who turned towards him.
"William Joseph Blazkowicz. I remember sending you to Hell because of Heaven's overpopulation. I should have just killed you." the Khan Maykr looked down at the tiny human's futile attempts to stop her, before driving her light sword through his stomach. As she leaned close to BJ, she told him: "I do not repeat past mistakes."
"Fuck you." BJ growled, spitting a mouthful of blood right at the angel's face. The Khan Maykr sneered, before throwing BJ off her blade and into a wall, where he collapsed right next to Charlie.
"No!" the princess of Hell screamed, taking off her helmet as she knelt next to the Doom Slayer's dying grandfather. "Stay with us. William needs you."
William, who had watched the Khan Maykr impale his grandfather, suddenly exploded with rage, and began to charge the angel. The Maykr turned around, delivering a powerful slap that sent the Slayer to his knees.
"You will not ruin my plans." the Khan Maykr vowed. "But it shall be easier if you never existed to oppose me at all."
The Khan Maykr extended her wings, and she began to be engulfed in a golden light. The Doom Slayer, seeing this, quickly tackled the Maykr and held onto her torso, and the both of them vanished in the light, to the shock of both Charlie and a dying BJ Blazkowicz.
The Doom Slayer and the Khan Maykr appeared in some type of military base, where they landed right in front of a man in a purple jumpsuit, wearing a yellow helmet with green and white stripes. The Doom Slayer knew him quite well. Despite having a few names, like Billy Blaze, or Commander Keen, he knew him as William J Blazkowicz II, his father.
"What the Hell?" Commander Keen asked, taking out a plasma pistol and aiming it right at the Maykr and Slayer. "Who the Hell are you guys?"
With a chill, William realized exactly what the Khan Maykr's plan was. She wanted to kill his father before he was born, and ensure the forces of Hell and Heaven would achieve victory. He couldn't let that happen.
As the Khan Maykr raised one of her swords, ignoring Keen's plasma bolts, the Doom Slayer jumped up and held onto her shoulder, repeatedly punching her face.
"You are but an insect!" the Khan Maykr shrieked, attempting to stab the Slayer, but he dodged just in time, causing the angel to strike herself. While she was distracted, the Doom Slayer frantically tapped his helmet, trying to have Hayden teleport them anywhere, just as long as it was away from here. Away from Keen.
"Rerouting tether coordinates complete."
A familiar blue flash of light enveloped not just the Doom Slayer, but also the Khan Maykr, and they vanished before Commander Keen's eyes.
It was then at that moment, the Doom Slayer realized he never thought of which location to send them to.
The Doom Marine, as he was nicknamed, was being led out of the UAC facility on Mars by several of the base's security. Though he was decorated in his usual green armor, sans helmet, he had no weapon, and he had somehow lost the Soul Cube after killing the massive Cyberdemon in Hell.
As the marine pondered this, he saw a bright blue flash in front of him, and a soldier wearing similar armor to his, but with a helmet, appeared, clinging onto a giant metal robot of sorts. The soldier repeatedly punched the robot's face, cracking the face plate to reveal it wasn't a robot at all. Instead, it was giant alien, with four yellow eyes, pinkish skin, a large brain, and sharpened teeth. Before the UAC's security could fire a shot, the odd pair vanished in the same blue light, leaving the marine puzzled by what he just witnessed.
John "Reaper" Grimm and his sister Samantha stepped out of the UAC facility, finding themselves in the middle of the Nevada Desert.
"What now?" Samantha asked. "We can't go back to the UAC after what just happened."
"No." Reaper agreed, but before he could add anything, they saw a flash of light ahead of them, and an enormous robot fell onto the sand. A second later, a green armored soldier fell onto the robot, and began pummeling it mercilessly. The robot was about to get up, but the soldier tapped the side of his head, and they both vanished in the same light, leaving the siblings confused.
Flynn "Fly" Taggart looked across Salt Lake City from the Tabernacle building, seeing that the landscape was overgrown with plant life. Sighing in relief of finally being home and defeating the Freds, he turned away from the window, only to find a heavily armored man punching some type of giant alien robot with a yellow orb in its chest. Flynn stumbled back in surprise, alerting the armored man and causing him to pause and look up. This gave the robot enough time to grab him by the throat.
"No more will you be a nuisance!" the robot seethed in a female voice, standing to her full height. The man tapped the side of his helmet, and the two were gone as quickly as they came, vanishing in a pale blue light. Just then, Flynn's best friend, Arlene, approached him.
"What was that?"
Flynn looked at her curiously, before responding.
"Believe me, I wish I knew."
Joan Dark watched helplessly as the gateway to Hell opened up, and she could have sworn she heard the growling of demons on the other side, she tried to wrest herself away from the UAC guards restraining her, but the sedative one of the doctors forcefully injected her with was beginning to take effect quickly. A moment later, an imp came out of the gate, roaring loudly, as he tore through Doctor Kahn's body like he was a water balloon.
Joan gasped loudly, as the guards dropped her out of pure shock, and stared at the imp, who began to stalk towards her. Just then, a flash of blue light blinded them all, and the imp turned around, seeing a massive robot with an alien face clutching a man in green armor by the throat. The imp roared again, but Joan frowned. This roar didn't sound angry, it sounded… scared.
The man in green armor looked at the imp, and pulled out a shotgun, shooting the demon and blowing its head off, before tapping his helmet, and he and the robot vanished in the same blinding light.
Without a moment's hesitation, Joan stumbled to the computer monitors and frantically smashed the controls, shutting down the portals for good. It was only after the gateway was thoroughly sealed, did she slip into unconsciousness, wondering just what that armored soldier was, or who he was.
The Doom Slayer and the Khan Maykr finally teleported back to the Tower of Babel, where the angel threw the Slayer into the far wall, away from Charlie and BJ.
"Enough of this!" the Khan Maykr shouted, taking out her light swords and merging them together. "Your time is at an end!"
The Doom Slayer responded by taking his Argent Blade and gripping it tightly in both hands, before charging the massive angelic being. The Khan Maykr responded by swinging her blade downward, and the Doom Slayer met her with a horizontal slash, causing the blades to lock and sparks to fly. William was the first to break the lock, and slashed upward, but the Khan Maykr extended her wings and flew backwards.
"You cannot hope to destroy me!" the Maykr taunted. "You dare defy me?!"
The Doom Slayer responded by jumping up and catching her metal legs. The Khan Maykr attempted to strike the former marine, but he quickly parried her hits, and climbed up the massive angelic body, until he reached the center of her chest.
"You can't kill me!" the Khan Maykr yelled, stabbing downwards. "You can't!"
The Doom Slayer brought his Argent Blade up and deflected her sword, sending it scattering across the floor of the chamber. With no weapon to attack her foe, the Doom Slayer stabbed the Argent Blade into the yellow core on the Maykr's chest, watching as copious amounts of golden energy gushed out of it and shot up and was absorbed into the sky. The Khan Maykr's wings shuddered, tattered into flickering red energy, and her body fell to the ground, before her golden eyes began to fade from their glow.
"You have destroyed all that I was meant to rule." the Khan Maykr seethed. "All to protect them- mere servants to our beliefs! You broke the holy seal of Urdak! Your transgressions there, and here, will jeopardize all of creation!"
"You did that yourself when you brought the Icon of Sin to life." Samuel Hayden said grimly. "And you allowed Argent D'Nur's demons to invade other dimensions of Heaven." To this, the Khan Maykr laughed.
"And you believe that destroying this tower will make it better?" the Khan Maykr wheezed, taking her final breaths. "If you interrupt the flow of Argent energy, you will make it worse..."
With her last breath, the Khan Maykr drew her mouth back in what appeared to be a smile, as the light finally left her yellow eyes, and her body went cold.
The Doom Slayer quickly scanned the area, searching for anything that could stop the flow of Argent energy throughout the different dimensions, but found nothing.
"William, I don't know how to stop it!" Charlie cried out. "I'm sorry!"
Running out of options, as more and more dimensions were being consumed, the Doom Slayer reached into his quantum pouch and pulled out the fairly large, dark blue missile, which he had dubbed the "Ice Nuke". If anything could stop the flow of Argent energy, the device could.
Wasting no more time, the Doom Slayer chucked the missile into the Argent stream, then quickly pulled out his pistol and shot it once, twice, three times. The nuke exploded, and the crimson hue of Argent energy quickly turned a bright blue mixed with white, as the stream shot upwards, and the portals to other worlds closed. The stream of frozen Argent energy travelled throughout Hell, turning the skies a cold blue, and the landscape began to be caked in ice, and the demons began dying from the extreme cold. Even the Dark Lord, sitting on his throne, with a crown of ebony resting on his head, keeled over, feeling his powers slowly wane from the decrease of the realm's Argent Energy.
Hell, for lack of the imagination, had frozen over.
Not wanting to stay in the icy wasteland any longer, the Doom Slayer quickly ran over to Charlie and BJ, grabbing Charlie by the shoulders as she held onto BJ, and pulled out the ancient book he nabbed from IMP, all those months ago. With a simple muttering of an incantation, a portal opened, and the three of them were taken back to Megiddo.
Charlie, the Doom Slayer, and BJ Blazkowicz appeared in the middle of the Tel, where they were surrounded by their allies. All the demons, and the angels, were falling over and dying, apparently being frozen to death.
"What happened?" Judge Dredd asked, staring down at the three. "All these creeps are falling over."
"Basically, William froze all of Hell." Charlie explained. She looked back at the Doom Slayer, who took off his helmet and looked at his grandfather, gripping his hand tightly.
"William, I know that I didn't get to see you grow up…" BJ coughed up blood. "But I want you to know… I'm proud of you…"
The older Blazkowciz's hand went limp, and his arm sagged to the ground. BJ closed his eyes, and his body was slowly shrouded in a white light, before fading out of existence entirely. William and Charlie bowed their heads, mourning his grandfather, as all their allies knelt on one knee, in respect.
The battle of Megiddo was won. Armageddon was averted… but it came at the price of a legend.
A hero.
The Terror Billy.
