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After being forced back through the portal, the marine was transported to another world in a demonic dimension. The portal from Deimos opened meters above its surface, the marine fell unsteadily upon leaving the conduit and took a rough landing. Climbing to his feet, he takes in his new environment in shock. He stared out at a barren landscape of floating islands with surfaces like iron-ore, a carved stone archway stood nearby, glowing red jagged cracks crept up from the base, the archway's surface was weathered with age, untouched for thousands of years.
Bands of rippling moving energy streaked across a psychedelic sky, its swirling colours glowed above and in the space between floating islands, a pair of red drifting orbs hovered in the sky, providing some illumination to the world. Lightning strikes against a floating mountain far in the distance, it had layers of descending outcroppings that bristled with demonic activity, bloated floating demons drift around its summit in a large group. Another much smaller island drifting nearby had its surface covered in a demonic growth, both content and tortured human and alien faces protruded from the layer of flesh. He then recognized one of the islands, it was differently shaped and textured from the others. It was Deimos, formerly one of the pair of moons around Mars, its shape and UAC colony structures were easy for him to spot.
The marine scrutinized Demios and the visible structures on its surface for some time, the resemblances were impossible to disregard, he then turns his attention back to the hellish world he was trapped within. The marine considers his chances of escaping this place, hopelessness was raking his thoughts. He then looked up again at Deimos and found a glimmer of hope, he must go back the way he came, he must reach Deimos and take control of the teleporter. There would be the chance that he doesn't have the skill to operate the teleporter, but he was convinced it was the only way to get home. He quickly moved to the edge of the floating island and jumps to another hovering close by. He landed steadily with both boots on the ground. Brightly glowing red and orange swirling portals hung in the air, inches above the ground and freely above the gaping chasm.
The marine was continuing to examine his surroundings when his sight began clouding over. For a brief moment, a vision of demonic torture was seen in his mind, hundreds of mortal faces reaching out to him in desperation. The vivid mental image was unlike anything the marine's mind had conjured before, this place was testing his sanity. The marine was stunned to find a pool of steaming blood-red liquid bubbling up from a crater in the ground, right in front of his feet. He was sure that nothing like this was here when he made his landing. Disbelieving his own sight, he kicks a nearby bone into the fluid, it plopped predictably into the pool, the crimson droplets splashed to the ground and onto his boot. He stepped around the hazard, his senses were reeling in shock.
His mind was spinning, he tried to regain clarity and the world around him began to shift, the floating islands whizzed by while warping in shape, the ground moved frictionlessly beneath his feet as he stood in place. The land masses stretched and merged and formed into another location, hypnotic strands of particles continued to rain into place as the rigid tops of sharp rocks protruding from the ground among a lightly cluttered clearing, a few a blobs of flesh were pulsating within gaping holes in the ground. The environment solidified its shape and several columns of blazing portal energy emerged, blazing through the area, the features of several different demon species gradually took form within the glowing light, the marine reaches for the plasma rifle previously owned by Major Martinez and slams an energy cell magazine into place. The marine grins when he hears the gun's whining confirmation tone and jumps down from his place on a towering rock plateau, a wildly enraged horde of demons were charging toward him, streams of glowing plasma streaked across the rocky landscape, roasting the creatures in its path.