"Holy shit, that thing killed Holt!" A botchy-looking man said with a scream before, faster than he could fathom, an Imp pounced into him from across the road, grabbing him by his head and slamming it repeatedly into the ground as blood spattered over the surface.
From each spot behind the Imp that was turning one's brain into mush, fear almost started to cripple the remaining Savior members who were witnessing the demons for the very first time. Some parts of them wanted to retreat as far as they could ever achieve on doing, while some of the rest thought about killing this creature from harming the soldiers next.
The Imp soon halted, grinning like a madman as it turned to face its new victims, rushing toward the next person close by and lunged at them. Before one male Savior knew it, he screamed as the Imp was already on top of him and went like a dog shredding out the innards of a stuffed animal. A male Savior member glared at the Imp before picking up a rock, and as hard as he could, he smashed it across the Imp's skull with it. Just like a stick, it shattered into bits with the Imp's fractured head, falling to the ground lifeless like the fallen corpse beneath.
Fewer Imps whipped around with a death glare in their eyes, in which one of them quickly reared back its left claw, and it pierces through the man's face intently, sending the stabbed corpse falling back a few feet towards the others. The group of Imps quickly charged forwards, not wanting to wait for their other companions or to share any more than they had to. Some even wanted some fresh fuck-meat, with no doubt that the Saviors here had all sorts of females for them. Some of their cocks were already hardening at the thought of making each woman their bitch.
Two of the fallen Savior's buddies were dumb enough to try and fight back, but another Imp blocked an attack from one and slammed a ball of fire into the man's jaw, tearing it through as blood sprayed out. Followed by a front kick to the abdomen, the dead Savior got flown back several feet, winded badly as a lifeless body. The other one tried to blind shot the other Imp, but another one whipped around, placing a spiked-forearm block inside his attacker's arm.
The man lets out a wail of pain, seeing his blood gushing everywhere, much to the Imp's delight from hurting its opponents playfully. While still excited, the Imp then rams its claws right into the male Savior's stomach. The force was enough to split through the man's gory entrails. He doubles over until he fell to the blood-soaked ground, clutching his intestines before his life slowly fades away.
Back where the bushes settled, every other Savior member had spotted several more of that same monster scrambling together to surround them while launching fireballs. The Imps were such a fascinating enigma of biology, living, demonic organisms whose very cells could shape and utilize pure Argent Energy. It became a shame Hayden would have to kill those presented here by using self-defense.
Conveying enough energy to his actuators, Hayden sprung into motion while yielding a few hits, despite having superhuman reflexes and coordination for his massive height. He went to bend over and snatch the tethering device off the ground from where Holt's boot planted his spot.
"What the fuck are those things?!" A ruffled-haired woman yelled as more Imps slowly turned around to face the woman, her fear reflecting in their red eyes.
All of the Imps glared at the Savior soldiers jointly. It was as if the humans nearby were new playthings they could easily rip apart for kicks and giggles, like how a dog can shred through stuffed animal toys. Fewer Savior patrollers wasted no time hurrying out of the way while others backed away from the creatures in fear. With the Saviors distancing themselves away from the Imps, soldiers decided on using their guns for the job.
"Shit, everyone! Start shooting!" A runty-looking Savior yelled at a couple more riflemen.
"These fuckers are making a big fucking mistake attacking us here!" A beefy-type Savior shouted as he starts shooting at the Imps.
Several of Negan's men snapped out of their stupor and opened fire on the demons with their guns and rifles, causing each Imp to scamper all over the area at an excessive pace. The Saviors unload their magazines in a futile attempt to kill the demonic creatures, who are all at this point, skipping a beat. One Imp screeched pitch and flung onto a woman nearby, dragging her across the ground before driving both of them through the side of a truck nearby.
Each woman's scream was even more terrifying after the first dozen Imps surrounded female bandits, tearing their clothes with an effort to capture them all for their sexual conquest. But with another plan in mind, as a couple of demonic portals opened up so suddenly, the demons already began to haul the defenseless ones back to the seedy brothels of Hell.
Some got dragged across the ground with their fingernails peeling up the surface, desperately attempting to cling to safety. Their screams of terror soon became silent after entering through the portals, forever to be broken by Hell's captors.
Another one of those Imps saw a male scout charging after, but the creature just raised an arm to stop him from embedding bullets on its face. Then, it slashed a claw into the man's diaphragm, shredding the air from his lungs, and reaches with a sleeper-hold arm around the neck to squeeze hard. A feeble crack came as the Imp snaps the man's neck, killing him instantly before he dropped.
"Get off of me!" A long-haired woman yelped in fright, thrashing as she could on the Imp's tight grip grasping her hair.
Just as the Imp who was targeting the woman, prepared to advance further, suddenly got grabbed by Hayden. He twists the Imp around to land a solid kick into its face, launching it back a few feet away. Finally, he ended the creature with a dash forward and a robotic fist through the mouth abruptly, chunks of gory flesh spreading across the road. The woman was at a loss for words, whereas the other members began to notice how the cyborg saved one of their own.
Flexing his hand with silence, Hayden activated the Crucible into a large red sword with curved ends. The Imps jolted in surprise at the sight of Samuel handling their weapon that belonged in the Necropolis. Especially a few Savior members stood there astounded by what the android acquired for himself, even after they criticized him for attempting to betray Negan.
"Anyone who does not want to fight, leave, and get yourselves to safety immediately. Head back to warn everyone in the Sanctuary." Hayden sounded as if he were a leader of a rebellion, "Negan is still exhibiting within this part of the forest alongside Dwight and Arat. I am going to find them and protect them at all costs. Those of you who are a soldier, willing enough to stay and fight the monsters back, then you are accompanied by me to help end this Hell invasion once and for all."
While the Imps remained snarling at Hayden for handling their Hell artifact, the remaining Savior members that are alive looked shocked and undetermined. The cyborg was acting so calm and confident. He is willing to put his life at risk to get his point across to those who criticized him earlier. One Imp began to growl before it sprints right at the towering cyborg, greedy to get its sharp claws onto Hayden. Unknown symbols decorated the blade just as the cyborg charged right in and sliced the amateur Imp into halves.
Before any more attacks could get thrown his way, Hayden caught up to the second Imp, ripping its torso from its legs, and launched the now limp body parts at the third Imp. Right after the monster tried to get back to its feet, Hayden was already there, waiting for its demise. The android seized the Imp's head and ripped it off its neck.
More fireballs have gotten heard behind a group of Saviors, so they ran to the side and felt the heat of a large explosion as it torched them all apart from which they had stood only seconds earlier. Guns and rifles crackled with power as various Savior members fired right into two or three Imps, sending them staggering back as bullets embedded through them. The monstrosities of Hell looked at the humans with piercing hisses, but their attention shifted from them to Hayden, who was slicing and dicing each Imp to get the Saviors' trust.
Immediately, Savior members were rushing to their cars and trucks to hurry off, after only several of them had fled to another direction, wanting no part in all of this craziness. Fortunately enough, five or six more Saviors were staying here to commence battling alongside Hayden. Another fireball hit him in the shoulder, and this time, it slightly hindered the proper function of one of his actuators. Before any more could contact, Hayden swiftly crouched with one hand firmly planted against the ground, and then the android surged forward at another Imp.
Impaling its chest with his metallic fingers, Hayden clutched onto the beast's heart before crumpling it in his deadly grip. Before a second passed, Hayden was already moving towards the next Imp. A fastball of hellish fire struck his leg and forcibly jerked it off mid-step, causing him to trip. Hayden contrived to regain his momentum by moving into a roll, but extended movement along a single axis caused him to undergo another hit. Imps demonstrated themselves to become more irritating and critical than Hayden ever thought they were.
Two or three Savior members took cover by the cars and trucks while discharging their firearms. Another male Savior, looking like a nervous wreck, scrambled away through the forest to escape from the nasty horde. Then suddenly, a tentacle came from within a fleshy, toothy hole in the ground. It stood covered in teeth, with the tip housing a giant claw. It impaled the unlucky man before dragging him back into the dark depths of the hole.
"Eat lead, you fuckers!" A male Savior roared in rage before he took off after an Imp, firing his assault rifle as he tried to hit one demon to the next.
One of the Imps soon approached the male Savior, who responds by punching it away from him.
"Tony! Get up, man!" The man yelled aloud.
He then shook one of his fallen buddies but wasn't answering, as if they had gotten wasted by the impish demons of Hell. More Imps drew close before the man started punching and kicking the creatures to get away from him. Soon, another Imp pounced on him as the rest began to swarm him.
"Get off me! Get off me-EUGH! NO! NOOO! AUUUUGGGHHHH...!"
The man and his crazed shouts shortly turned into wails of agony, until it ceased a few moments after by the sound of ripped flesh and bones.
A female Savior grabbed a machete as she began to chop off the jaws and heads of the Imps. But one sneaky demon was already biting her leg. She shifted as she began focusing on that one. The woman was having extreme difficulty trying to kill the Imps. Another one soon grabbed her left arm as she soon turned to deal with the threat. But then, she was becoming overwhelmed. Another Imp grabbed her by the head and proceeded to spin her head around until the neck snapped.
"AHHHHHH-URK!"
Her scream cuts off as she couldn't move anymore, tumbling down to the ground. More Imps came to join by tearing out some of the dead woman's entrails. Then, another Imp had torn out her left arm, beating the remains of the woman like a club. As before, the demons proceeded to snap the necks of Saviors, crushing the skulls of their heads, dragging women across the road, throwing bodies against the trees until they break, and in general removing every single threat to their survival within their midst.
One soldier, pinned to the tree by one of the tentacles below the ground, reached for a knife.
As if they could recognize one of their own in trouble, the other Imps, one by one, broke off their attacks and snaked toward the man with the harmful object. The man was trying desperately to stab through the ambient threat that was attacking him when he suddenly realized that three additional Imps were now surrounding him, their eyes glowing like a nightmare that never ends.
Those eyes were the last things he saw as the demons dove in to rip him apart.
"Watch your back, guys, they're gaining on us!"
"RUN! RUN!"
"Shut up, you idiots!"
Somewhere on the other side of the forest, seven or ten Savior members yelled out from excitement and fear as they weaved in between the trees to dodge the fireballs being fired at them, trying to get the demonic creatures over to a point where they could run them all down with their guns. One Imp fired an orange fireball that shot up a wall of flame in front of the Savior members, forcing them to turn and deviate from their path.
"We're TRAPPED!" A female Savior exclaimed.
A Savior's eyes opened in horror at the sight of a new monster ambushing them on the other side. It was a grotesquely bloated humanoid with flamethrowers instead of forearms, going by the name of Mancubus. There was a foul odor that characterizes its presence, a stench that can be devastating if inhaled quickly.
"Wh-... What is that thing?!" One member stuttered in fear.
"HURRY, KILL IT!" Another member shouted rushingly.
While slowly moving towards the fearful gun-wielding Saviors, they aimed and began to open fire upon the Mancubus insanely before one man realized that their bullets didn't budge the behemoth. Before anyone had become fully aware of what was happening, an enormous gust of fire blasted all of them. The hellish flames reached the left side of their bodies, going from each face to the end of each torso.
"GGGAAGAGGGHHHHHHH!"
Every one of them staggered back to wail a piercing scream, as the pain was unlike anything he'd ever experienced. It burned so badly they were sure their whole bodies lit on fire. It was so intense that they couldn't bring themselves to get up. Before any of them knew it, the world turned into a blur, and all they saw was darkness.
It is plain to see that this was not Hayden's first fight against demons. The cyborg had held his own against a much more powerful specimen when he was retrieving hellish artifacts. Though, now seeing them on a different Earth, hurling projectiles of fire without regard for the woodland infrastructure around them and humans made Hayden understand the Slayer's dedication a bit flexible. He was right in the end, and everyone all had to die if humanity was too prosperously unchallenged. None of that was going to happen this time, not on his watch.
Most of the Saviors that survived saw it all over; dead bodies, the foul smell of rotten corpses in the air, speedy devils, the screams of people getting eaten or beaten to death by the undead, or those things Hayden has mentioned. A couple of dead women here and there were in rather undignified positions, with their legs widely spread and hiked high, as the semen was overflowing from each of their spread front bottoms.
They all heard their crew members unleashing the blood-shrieking screams, making everything scary all over from head to toe, and they didn't like it at all. A group of five Imps came rushing towards them. One of the male Savior members became alarmed and gripped a blood-dripping machete, shouting angrily to the demons as he slashed them. There, Hayden saw another gathering of Imps coming toward them, and he began charging with the Crucible slicing through several more.
"Let us hurry. There is nothing but death if you all stay here." Hayden calmly informed, motioning with an arm out toward the forest's trail. "Quickly now."
"Fuck, everyone, we have to get out of here now." A short-haired man told three of the other remaining crew members.
"We can't go with that thing, Leo! We can't take risks like this, not even with that robot!" A defiant frizzy-haired brunette glared.
The shaggy-haired man with a short beard next to the bitter woman exclaimed, "Zia, didn't you see those monsters killing everyone?! Hell, they tore Brooklyn apart! And you saw those things killed Corey, Huck!"
The swarthy woman with the braided hairstyle, Huck, approved, "Nelson is right; we have to get the fuck outta-!"
"AAAAUUUGUuHH!"
At that moment, a male scream had become heard.
"What the-?!" Leo blurted out before Hayden steps ahead of him.
"Everyone, follow me," Hayden ordered before he begins scoping the forest around.
Hayden detected an Argent signature of another Imp hiding inside the forest and stormed through its shrubs to reach the demonic creature. Hayden had four other remaining Saviors hesitantly following him throughout the wilderness. Immediately after spotting Hayden, the Imp moved into a combat stance, facing the cyborg on bent legs, with its right one put forward, and an almost-dead male Savior dangling in front of him as a form of a meat shield.
The demon was just about to reach him until Hayden overhand-tossed the Crucible's blade, going directly into the eyes of the last Imp's face. Blood gushed out from the wound. Watching the Imp fall limp along with the dying male Savior, Hayden calmly walked over and pulled the Crucible sword from the demon corpse's head.
The android's head scrolled down towards the man whose eyes go wide with shock, immediately coughing until blood erupted from his mouth. The man couldn't move for when he attempted to do so, which causes his torn limbs to scream in angry protest, that there was no hope for him to survive.
"G-Get away..." The man coughed violently, "...get away from me!"
Just as the four Savior members caught up to Hayden, Nelson immediately recognized the man, "Holy shit, Argus! God, your fucked man."
Leo's eyes widened in horror, "Jesus!"
Zia looked just as shocked as the others, but was cynical, "Oh, my god..."
"Do not speak too much further, sir," said Hayden, who knelt to examine Argus' wounds that looked terminal.
The man coughed out some blood and stuttered out, "P-Please..."
Hayden then sighed, "Argus, your wounds have made you fatally unable to nourish yourself at this point. I will end your life as painlessly as I can, but I've never killed anyway before."
Argus stared at the cyborg for a moment, knowing it was the end for him either way and nodded weakly. Everybody else stared in shock at what Hayden has stated, silencing them as they dropped their heads in defeat over the loss of Nelson's friend. Though, Zia couldn't help but glare at Hayden. With a single nod back to Argus, Hayden readied the Crucible while the male Savior laid back and closed his eyes before it all went black for him. Hayden looked on with no other word. There was no time to grieve just as the android begins guiding the Savior members through a clear trail, continuing his search for Negan.
Taking a look around, Samuel Hayden sighed to himself. The group was currently marching their way through the right side of the dense, quiet forest. Hayden moved abruptly through the area, not admiring the peaceful scenery around him. Or much of anything, for that matter.
"Fuck, it was a massacre back there. Poor Argus." Leo whispered, trembling at the thought.
"No kidding, well, lucky points for us," Zia said in a scornful tone.
Huck glared at Zia, "Argus was our friend too, Zia."
"Look, guys, there was no getting to him." Zia crossed her arms, "We almost lost our lives back to whatever those monsters were back there! Besides, you guys were always worrying about your own damn lives, right? And now, here we are, walking all over the place because of that robot there!"
"Zia, it was our call as a group to follow him. And he saved us, too!" Leo argued, looking stern.
"Not even my call, Leo." Zia turned her head with a raised eyebrow, "I'm telling you all, that robot with that sword or whatever, is going to...!"
"Guys, just shut up, will you!?" Nelson exclaimed out of anger before saddening with a sigh, "I don't want to think about it anymore."
Hayden's thoughts lodged upon killing Argus in the most brutal yet merciful way he could apprehend. As much as he wanted to save the poor man more efficiently, the demons here had got to him first, and therefore, things had to become done the worse way possible. It was understandable that humans with demonic injuries could be fatal at best, and it was also inadequate that this dimension would have any possible medical remedies for the worse part. But at least the male Savior finally had peace.
Huck placed a hand on his shoulder, "Nelson, I'm sorry about Argus. He was a great guy to all of us."
With each mechanical leg trudging with a hum, Hayden practically stops behind a nearby tree to scan around and beyond the forest area. "Everyone stick close. I'm only inspecting the area if there are any other Saviors besides you four," stated Hayden.
There was no sign of any other Savior member across each tree, or Negan, at least. Overall, it was empty, save for a patch of trees that are enduring throughout the constant warfare that Hell might ravage on Earth. The ground was mostly dirt, but plant life had already begun to grow in this forest.
Hayden should have known that the Saviors got themselves lured into a trap by the demons of Hell. It's also heavily implied that Negan didn't trust his words at all, figuring to believe this "new threat" as a lead to misconception.
Hayden didn't cause Negan to question his self-worth. Negan was in the wrong, simply because of how he went about it. Even still, Hayden said his opinion could further impress or aggravate somebody as prideful as Negan. He did something that no other Savior would do to a man like Negan.
Hayden made Negan hesitant as not only a leader but as a human being himself, especially if inaction could turn out to be a conversation as well. When Hayden magnified his optic camera, he could see a desolated area far ahead to the east. It appeared abandoned, but war-torn didn't seem to become the right phrase to describe it at this point.
It positively looked like a hellish ruin. The group slowly left their hiding spot and walked towards the area of early conflict. Hayden could have dashed his way there, but he opted to walk so he and the group could look over to inspect if any Saviors are around.
"And why should we listen to you?" Zia crossed her arms with a huff, "Just so you know, you haven't even told us anything about those things back at the road, or where you even got that scary-looking sword of yours?"
Presently, Hayden's cloaked appearance showed cuts and scorching marks on his metallic covering from what looked like it would belong to hellish fires. The android stays silent, gripping the Crucible as his organic mind droned about his early encounter with Hell's monstrosities, especially the first human he has killed.
"Hey, uh," Leo approaches Hayden, "I might have to agree with Zia's point about that, too. Where exactly did you come from, doc?"
Huck chimed in, "Yeah, we don't know who you are or what you did, but we had this sneaky feeling that you were hiding something bigger than you'd like to admit."
Hayden became silent at first while examining the area around, but instead speaks, "From what I should say to you all now, I'll have you know that I don't belong in this dimension of yours. And please, do not try to attempt smacking my tethering device again this time. Because along with the Crucible here, it is another one of my closely-guarded assets."
A long, awkward silence took over the group until Zia fixed the cyborg with her most baffling glare, "Wait, you can't be serious."
"Very," Hayden said before turning away from them, leaving the four remaining Saviors to themselves. "From where I've come from, I am a former Chairman of the Union Aerospace Corporation, as well as Project Director of the Argent Facility on Mars. Far within a future time of my world, we lived in an era when humanity has begun to span the cosmos. Society had created and progressed in various civilizations throughout Earth's history. Planets within the solar system parts of celestial bodies have developed through frequent terraforming, and have spread our influence throughout its gravitational bound system."
Silence filled the group's vicinity as drops of sweat fell from each hairline. The group stayed following behind Hayden, trembling their entire body with bewilderment to the extent that it made each member dizzy. With what had become said now, as Hayden got watched curiously by them, the Savior members were far from thinking that the cyborg was joking around. Every man and woman appeared to have lost their will to protest in this confused state. They seemed to have a quizzical look in their eyes, unable to think of anything by their lack of understanding.
"M-Mars?!" Nelson was the first to exclaim quietly, his eyes widened with nothing but pure shock.
"No way..." Huck gasped, her eyes grew with feelings of amazement and confusion.
Whirling, Hayden looked over to see Nelson, alongside everyone else staring at him over a minute, their thoughts grinding to a complete standstill, then watched Hayden nod as his short answer. "Yes, that is correct."
"That is... impossible. Isn't it?" Zia shook her head at Hayden, seeing as he turns away calmly.
"For your world, yes," Hayden continues, "Spreading humanity throughout the expanse of space had naturally brought about a transition in human history. With terraforming technology becoming more advanced, the range of human activities has expanded to the entire solar system."
"What happened?" Leo cautiously asked, keeping an eye on the cyborg that was currently guiding the group.
"Beforehand, we formed amongst a project to terraform Mars and its two moons, Demios and Phobos, into a living habitat for humankind. After conducting inter-dimensional experimentation with help from the military, our success leads to the creation of the Union Aerospace Corporation, which manages the excavation of Mars. It wasn't long before the next situation backfired-" Hayden stayed on topic.
Suddenly, the cyborg stopped in mid-sentence, and he turned his head as he began to scan around for some reason, causing Leo and the others to blink with confusion about what Hayden was doing.
"Are you alright?" Huck asked.
"We might just be pushing our luck too soon about finding other Savior members," Hayden answered, gesturing with the Crucible, "Stay close, everyone."
Huck likewise rose an eyebrow as she and the group kept their guard up to listen for whatever happened. More focused on his search for Negan's safety, the android made his way slowly to his destination despite showing boredom and unveiled contempt. When the group had arrived around the area where Group B and C would remain located, they were nothing but mutilated carcasses.
The Savior group was now in shock at the destruction that occurred in this part of the forest. No longer were the trees arching that exposed to Earth survivors and Savior crew members alike present. They lay in rubble and war-torn trees.
"Holy shit...!" Nelson's jaw almost dropped at the horrible sight.
"Man...this is terrible," Leo muttered to himself.
Going into the trail of chaos with just their bare essentials, pistols, rifles, and whatever knives they could practically carry, each Savior patroller marched on alongside Hayden. The entire wilderness revealed burning grounds and smoking corpses. Various trees razed to the ground, where sap is oozing from stumps like blood. And there was blood on the grass along the bushes spreading around the area.
It felt like each Savior member were nearly defenseless. So many had died in the first wave of demons. Some ran, but most died, those unfortunate souls, the ones who stayed and hid in the forest for their survival. Hell's mass seemed to have already begun.
"What do we do then?" asked Nelson, who looked around the area along with Zia.
"We'll probably just have to find Negan before we get attacked by any more of those...uh, what did you call them doc?" Leo asked, gazing up at Hayden, who looked back with a simple answer.
"Demons of Hell."
Nelson leaned forward, just as much in shock as the others as he stared at Hayden unblinking. "Hell...is real...?" he asked in a muttered tone, not wanting to believe it.
Zia narrowed her glaring eyes right over to Hayden, "So what, that you're saying that we'd gotten attacked by demons? Let me guess, Satan himself has started a full-fledged riot too? That's just bullshit."
"Zia, he's serious." Leo glared back at the woman before looking at Nelson and Huck, "Guys, come on, tell her what you saw out there, dammit. Those things started shooting out fire from their hands and tore through nearly all of us into mush if we hadn't gotten away."
"And you think going with the robot over there was our best chance at getting away from those things?!" Zia argued back at Leo, crossing her arms sternly. "Goddamn it, Leo, you can't let that robot go and control us for whatever fucking purpose it's got!"
Hayden ignores Zia's accusations of him, investigating closely around the area, "Everyone, we still have yet to look for Negan until we retreat to the Sanctuary."
Huck gave Zia a baleful expression, "Nobody is doing ANYTHING wrong, Zia. Besides, Hayden here saved our lives."
"Shut up, Huck! And YOU," Zia turns to Hayden, "Shut the fuck up. Those monsters will find us and will get us here if we're in the open, and none of us will fucking matter to the robot. Right now, we're about to become nothing but live bait if we stick around with this asshole! Unworldly or not, I'm not going to let you get us all killed from your bullshit!"
Hayden began to shake his head unnerved, but he kept most of his confidence with him. "It doesn't seem like Negan, or Dwight and Arat have stepped foot around here. Thankfully, I should be able to search for their heat signatures before anything else happens..."
Zia could do nothing but growl at the cyborg, clenching her gun as she aimed towards him, "I'm speaking with you, asshole! You're going to give me that stupid-looking sword, and you're going away for a very long time."
"Dammit, Zia!" Leo frowned, attempting to reason with her while she returned a stare, "Don't you see that you're only shouting out in the open? So you have an excuse to bitch about our deaths later on after? We are not going to die! Now, get a FUCKING grip-!"
*GROWL*
At that sudden noise, the group almost grew in panic as their eyes examined the area around him. A dozen demonic creatures called Hell-Razers came out that somewhat resemble Imps in many aspects, but stood formidably armed with an energized beam that replaced their right arms.
As the rest of the Savior members pulled out their firearms, Zia scoffed with an angry smirk, "Told you so."
The android had very much research about these satanic bestiaries in the UAC report files, with their best known efficacious beams of unrefined Hell energy. Hayden did not answer or so much as move, remaining calm in front of the demonic creatures before he drew his Crucible sword to begin the battle. The Hell-Razers snarled with a sneer at the assemblage, but as the wicked posse stepped further towards them all, they started to detect outcries from afar. The commotion of wood crashing and opponents screaming filled the forest.
*WHAM*
"RGH! COME ON, YOU UGLY FUCK!"
It had only been a few minutes since the fight started. With Negan loudly cursing as he swung Lucille across the Prowler's face again, the demon had begun to fight back against Negan, to which the Savior leader is currently avoiding any attacks. The Prowler only straddled back an inch with no real damage; a few marks or contuses, much like Negan did himself.
Negan wiped the red splatter off his bottom lip, swaying side to side, "A dick-chomper like you isn't going too far without my permission, and I'll make sure you have a lot of blood in your gourd." he said, grinning right at the Prowler that snarled back ghoulishly.
Dwight couldn't distinguish what was happening as the imposing nightmare of what Hayden had told him is fighting their leader. Gently lifting herself off the ground, Arat didn't know what to think anymore because she knows there is no escape from this. Her eyes barely moved as she witnessed this demonic beast for the very first time, just as Dwight and Negan do too. The fight rages on for a minute or two as the Prowler charges at Negan once more.
*BANG-BANG*
Gunshots went off right after Arat had her weapon raised, and the Prowler felt the bullets embedded within its rough skin. Shrugging each shot as if it was useless, the demon glared at Arat, whose mouth was agape as it took a step forward.
*HISS*
The Prowler hissed lowly, in which Dwight's eyes snapped over to it and shouted, "Stay back!"
Another step.
It was getting close just as Dwight aimed at the monster now. The gun clicked in the blonde's hand as he pulled the trigger. Before the surprise could even register, the Prowler pounced towards Dwight and struck him in the torso, sending him flying back outside. Arat attempted to shoot the demon once more, but the Prowler was quick enough to try and swipe her across the living room.
Suddenly, Negan lunged forward at the Prowler, missed, and then hurriedly lifted Lucille to block the incoming strike. "You are one tough motherfucker!" Negan gritted his teeth before his lips curled into a smirk, "But you have forgotten who you're fucking with right here and now!"
He then moved inward and kicked the monster in the knee, before swinging the barbed-wire bat upward to smack his opponent in the head. The Prowler staggered back, before raising its claws to block the Savior leader's overhead strike, and then moved inward to batter him in the chest with clawed fists. The demon then knocked Negan to the ground before stomping down into the ground, but he rolled out of the way just in time.
Negan went over to help Arat up, "Get up, dammit, and find where that fucker hit Dwight's ass around at!"
Without any second thought, Arat charged forward and dodged the Prowler's big swing.
"Fucking A!" Negan cursed audibly, as Lucille clashed against the demon's claws up and pushed the way down.
The Prowler tried to swipe at Negan until his response was a swift kick to the demon's crotch. The Prowler screeched in pain just as the Savior leader went for the kill, and while the demon dodged the first attack, it got bashed in the head, which causes the creature to fall to the ground.
Meanwhile, Dwight was currently laid on the ground coughing in agony while Arat came up and grabbed a hold of him. "Dwight, get the fuck up, and let's get Negan!" Arat shouted.
Dwight looked at her, "That's.. not it... Arat."
Arat glared at him, "What are you whining about?! We need to...!"
"We can't kill it, Arat! Neither can Negan or our guns will!" Dwight continued to look at her, his coughing now gone though he was still feeling the pain.
Arat wasn't going to believe that though. What woman would while in an angry state? That was when Dwight saw the dark-skinned female look at him with hurt and angry eyes. Dwight shouldn't be surprised at her sudden pack of emotions. Now, he wondered what exactly it would take to break through her tough exterior and see what was lying underneath the sharp scowls and controlled attitude of Arat.
It was fear.
She just continued to glare at him, "Then what are we supposed to do then?!"
Dwight looked at her, still holding onto his chest in pain, "I don't know, but we need to find Hayden fast before some other shit happens to us here."
Back in the house, Negan stepped back before noticing a few scratches on his barbed wire bat, glaring back at the demon in pure anger.
"That is a big no-no! You have fucking ruined Lucille's luscious curves, and now you made her look like she's a scarred old bag, you son of a bitch. How am I supposed to look at her and them sexy barbed tips after what you just did?" Negan said harshly, letting a grin cross his face at this moment.
As Negan knew that the Prowler would get up quickly, he grabbed a broken piece of two-by-four lumber and hurled it towards the downed monster...
"You are going to regret doing that to Lucille. Oh, fuck yeah. I got some more real wood for ya'-!"
...but it grabbed Negan by the hand and flipped him over to impact against the wall.
"SHIT! You honestly don't fucking give up on biting my ass now, huh?!" Negan said scornfully until his face dropped once he notices the demon.
The Prowler got up and tried to kill Negan with its claws again, but he used the lumber to collide with each clawed hand. The two struggled back and forth, except the monster was stronger and tossed Negan across the living room.
Negan grunted, turning to see the Prowler roaring with fury as it recklessly charges at him with full force.
But the Savior leader was prepared for this as he grabbed Lucille on the ground.
Negan smacked the Prowler's head with the tip of his barbed-wire bat, and then parried claw slashes from the demon. It continuously swipes its large claws at Negan, who immediately took the chance to sprint aside, cautiously using his other hand against the wall to push back and tried hitting the Prowler's legs.
The Prowler quickly jumped away from Negan before releasing a barrage of fireballs from its clawed paws. Negan immediately ducked, avoiding the first one, but was met with the second one streaming towards his face. He barrel-rolled to where the defective-looking stairs remained, instincts saving him yet again. Between running up the stairs in fear, Negan made his way up the hallway. But a bright light flashed where the Prowler teleported and was in front of Negan.
"You have got to be fucking kidding me right now!" he shouted, searching for any signs of trying to destroy the Prowler.
Instantaneously, Negan pulled out his pistol to fire upon the Prowler while it lunged after him, whereas Negan zipped into another room before slamming the door shut behind him. He found that he was breathing hard, panting, even. Negan could tell that the attacks were coming too fast. He almost had no chance to stand back up and fight. He was trapped.
Just then, Negan's ears began to listen to the sound and feel the intense heat from the Prowler as it growled. The Savior leader jumps out of the way until suddenly, a fireball shot through the door and nicked Negan's right ear. He could smell his singed hair while a hand flew to the side of his face to inspect the damage. With his focus broken, Negan almost didn't see the flaming orb flying behind him.
A mere inch from contact, Negan dropped to the ground to let the fireball pass over him, bursting through half of the room's wall outside. Negan thrusts Lucille forward like a sword and struck the Prowler in its tracks. He dragged himself back up to swing at the Prowler. The force wasn't powerful enough, just as the Prowler starts rushing towards Negan before he barrel-rolled to the right, letting the demon fall through the open wall that revealed outside.
Negan got back up to his feet with a feeling of exhaustion as he pondered, "Goddamn that fucking rusted-fucker and all of this fucking bullshit coming together. Whatever he knew and said to Dwight on the way here, Hayden better tells everything or so help me I'll..."
Negan's gaze drifted for a moment, focusing on something else which made his eyes narrow. Around the area, the Prowler was nowhere to be seen, creating such tension in his heart.
Negan swallowed, his eyes went all over the scenery before him, "Fuck, where are they?"
Carefully and quickly, Negan knelt to the edge of the almost collapsing room to try and climb himself down to the ground. After hitting the grassy dirt beneath his boots, he had his pistol up and aiming everywhere that he could trudge through carelessly. Just before he could turn around, his eyes spotted Dwight and Arat searching around outside the house for him.
"What the fuck are you two fucking around for?!" Negan glared at Dwight and Arat, panting hard.
"Negan, you're alive," Dwight said in a hushed voice, his eyes widened. "How did you-?"
"Shut up, Dwight," Negan hissed, pointing the barbed-wire bat at the scarred man's nose. "Help me find wherever that thing is hiding, and let's go kill it."
"W-Wait, what!?" Dwight stuttered shortly.
"Sir, we can't fight that thing!" Arat choked out, her tongue felt too large in her mouth, as she took a few steps forward and halted, strangling her words. "You can't! That monster or whatever could be anywhere right now. We need to make a break for it before it kills us all!"
"Shut up! Yes, we can!" Negan replied harshly, pointing Lucille over to Arat. "Just give me some fucking hands on my shoulders here, why doncha!? We can't risk calling in for more patrollers or any other bullshit excuse you two dipshits can gather."
Without looking away, Dwight knew that they were all in some deep trouble unless Hayden arrives here or not. Right now, he and Arat felt their throats close up to avoid conflict after they witnessed Negan fighting a demon.
"Negan, we have to get out of here while we still can! We just need to find Hayden and we might just live!" Dwight yelled, grabbing him by the collar of his shirt.
"Oh, so you're saying that you trust Dr. Killjoy over my ass, do you?!" Negan said, his voice turning into a low growl before pushing Dwight away from his hold on him.
"I never said that," Dwight said, eyeing his attention onto Negan and Arat. "Hayden might as well be fighting these things right now. It'll give us the advantage to get the fuck out of dodge from these freaks we're dealing with right now."
Snorting out derision, Negan paused to think of a witty retort, "I'm not leading the fucking ugly shit back to our base, and the doc is fine where he fucking is right now! Get your guns out and start finding a weak spot on this fucker! We can finish it off until- Guaghk!"
Leaping high at an immense velocity, the Prowler lunged itself towards Negan, kicking him right into Arat as they collapsed onto the grass. Seeing both Negan and Arat groaning in pain, Dwight brought his gun up and started shooting at the demonic beast, taking note that the Prowler grabbed him. With all of its strength, the monster threw Dwight through the house's wall. Dwight hit the wooden surface with a sickening crash as his body slid to the ground.
The Prowler stood tall as it growled with annoyance yet amusement, watching Dwight writhe in pain. As the Prowler leisurely walked towards its fallen opponents, with opened clawed hands again, it looked down through the glowing imprints of its retinal blood vessels at the fireballs growing within each palm. Before the Prowler was ready to incinerate both Negan and Arat, it soon got embedded with several bullets that damaged the demonic creature.
"SHOOT IT DOWN!" A male voice called out.
Close by, Leo and the surviving Savior group had launched their attack upon the Prowler, growling in pain, and hopped backward from more bullets. Dwight grunted a bit out of shock from a few Saviors that still survived. Though, he couldn't help regarding that Hayden was absent, soon making Dwight leave the rubble and join the group.
"What happened with Hayden?" Dwight asked Leo, who looked back at him.
Leo began to explain, "Holt got blown up by one of those demon things until more just started popping out and killing everyone back on the road. Hayden got us out of there before we could've gotten killed. We heard a scream coming from here. Hayden gave us a chance to go find where you guys were."
"Oh, fuck..." Dwight spoke quietly, shaking his head.
After a few seconds, the Prowler stood back, beginning to roar out in the open. Stretching out from a few bushes and shrubs were more of those demons. More Prowlers and Harvesters began to reveal themselves out of their hiding spots.
"Jesus, there's more of them!" Nelson blurted out.
"We've got to get the hell out of here!" Zia exclaimed as she held her handgun, threateningly aiming it towards the Harvesters.
"They're still coming!" Huck shouted while holding her revolver at another one of those demons.
The Harvesters were blueish-red-skinned demons with a large yellow rune in the center of their chests. With their skulls similarly shaped like the Hell-Knights, they also included an open yellow eye and two long orange horns. Protruding out alongside the Harvesters were Hell-Soldier types called Blasters, each carrying a cannon on one arm that can fire charged shots.
Before the group could observe further, up above in midair, was a brown floating sphere called a Pain Elemental. It had one big red eye and two horns, a large mouth with razor-sharp teeth, and two hands with claws.
"What the fuck...?!" Dwight uttered after getting up, staring across the field upon each demonic creature.
The Blasters growled ghoulishly while each of their bright red eyes fixed over to see Negan and Arat getting back up. Now, they walk forward with disgusting smiles plastered on their faces. Negan looks ahead with no emotion but is very confused by each monster's advance.
"Oh, Jesus fucking Christ..." Negan stuttered out, perplexed.
Arat looked at each Prowler and Harvester seeping out with wicked inquisitiveness, where some of the Blasters had hands reaching towards their zippers with perverted smiles on their faces as they pointed their armed weapons at them. Especially the women that are present as their new plaything. While the Blasters dispersed vulgar snarls unanimously, they remained in a high-spirited mania for a while. A noisy excitement filtered out from each monster where some of them already had flushed faces.
"All of this can't be happening..." Arat said in a lost breath unheard by anyone. "...it just can't-!"
Tediously massive footsteps were making their way to where everyone is right now. A destructive roar suddenly sounded out of nowhere, just as the Savior members soon laid their eyes upon something so unreal. Revealing itself out of the forest, stood a powerful, high-ranking behemoth straight from the depths of Hell. Muscularly upper-bodied with a reddish-pink complexion and large cloven feet, it also possessed two black outward curving horns positioned near the forehead.
*GROWL*
Negan's thoughts died on the spot when he saw the demonic monster that marched in front of the group. His eyes did regard both of its hands radiating green, but what gained his attention was the green glowing orbs the beast possessed. The area shook under each Savior member while they stared dumbfounded as the behemoth halted; its cloven feet dug against the soil. Their flight or fight response got effectively shut down, and all they could do was quietly stare as the Baron of Hell towered over them in all its hulking, intimidating glory.
Arat's eyes flicker up and over at the Baron, terrified, "What...the...?!"
Before any of them could say anything, it let loose another roar and charged at the Saviors. Several of them ran as fast as their legs could carry them. While racing across the forest's open space, Negan tripped and fell. Looking behind him, he could see the demonic behemoth drawing closer to ravage him into waste. Arat turned her head back to see Negan sprawled on the grass, where loyalty caused her to halt in a complete stop. As for Dwight, his eyes looked back to see the dark-skinned woman going back for Negan.
The blonde's face contorted to anger and confusion by this point, unsure whether or not he should leave them to get destroyed by these demons. While Arat was busy grabbing Negan by the arm and picking him off the ground, the Savior leader had dropped his barbed wire bat in the process.
"LUCILLE!" Negan shouted out of fright and anger, pushing Arat away just as he went to grab his weapon of choice.
And before he knew it, something epic happened.
The Baron of Hell performed a massive leap that would slowly come to the two Saviors overhead, ready to crush their bodies like bloodied meat. Right until Negan and Arat saw their demise coming to them, a cloaked figure sped towards the Baron, delivering a devastating kick to the behemoth's stomach.
The Baron was sent right into the trees at an explosive impact, shocking the Blasters and other demonic monsters. Negan stared at what he saw. Even Arat had no idea what had happened just now, but Dwight could only look on with some relief that he was here finally. The cloaked figure was none other than Samuel Hayden, wielding the Crucible that was a long dagger-like sword.
"Get yourselves to safer grounds. I'll stall them while you escape. I apologize for not coming so soon, Negan, but now this gets even worse as it is now," Hayden said, marching onward until his legs began moving into a high-speed piston-like action towards the other monsters. "It's time that you monstrosities return to your world of damnation!"
"Your people killing my people?" said Natania, scowling.
Both Natania and Cyndie remained still, constrained in their exact spots, while Tara had her pistol directed upon the two women. It was obvious that Natania would still be concerned for the other female survivors in the Oceanside community.
Tara thought that she would get a chance to try and reason with Natania, but no one believed the negotiations could go well. Tara also knew that she was supposed to believe in Rick now, but still, there must be a possibility for people to cooperate instead of skulking. Except when will that happen now or then?
"The bombs were outside the walls," Tara informed, pointing her gun at each of them. "You could've stopped this."
Natania and Cyndie glanced at each other, crestfallen.
"Look, I hope everyone is okay, I do..." Tara said, motioning the two women to come forth.
"They better be," Cyndie uttered, not leaving her sight on Tara.
"Now, stand up, it's time to move..."
*KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK*
Just after Tara made her way over to the two women, sudden loud knocks were coming from the door like it seemed frantic but very terrified.
"GRANDMA, ARE YOU IN THERE?! It's me, Rachel!"
"LET US IN!"
"PLEASE! THEY MIGHT BE FOLLOWING US!"
"THERE'S BIG MONSTERS OUT HERE! THEY'LL EAT US!"
In slight confusion, Tara left her gaze upon Natania and Cyndie during this full-throated abruption, which quickly gives the two women their opportunity to do so. Natania did her best to get up as swiftly as she could, causing Tara to notice.
"This stops right now," Natania spoke, inhaling sharply because of her legs.
"Whoa, stop, stop!" Tara warned, feeling cornered as the elderly woman stepped forward. "Back up. Back up!"
Speedily, Cyndie ran across the room on her side, making Tara's eyes widen at this course of action.
"Cyndie, stop-!"
Natania hastened to Tara and tackled the ponytail girl, pushing her down amazingly for an aged woman. A moment of silence went by as Cyndie came back with a pistol in hand, pointing towards Tara.
Tara assumed there could be a casualty, maybe even herself for breaking her promise to Cyndie.
Or perhaps Natania refused to join her group in his war against the Saviors.
Chills started to run down her hands, but despite that, Tara handed over her gun just as Natania snatches it away.
"It's empty," Tara said, leveling up with her elbows.
"What?" Natania asked, mildly confused.
"It's unloaded," Tara replied again, seeing Cyndie's baffled expression. "We didn't come here to hurt anybody."
"Cyndie, give it here," Natania asked, gazing back at the wavy-haired girl's puzzled look with a frustrated scowl. "Now...and let Rachel in with the girls."
Once Cyndie reluctantly passes the pistol over to her grandma, Natania gives Tara's gun to Cyndie just before she walks over to open the door...
...receiving desperate hugs from the three sobbing girls.
"Cyndie! Grandma! You're still alive!" Rachel choked out as she comes in, eyes widened and trembling.
Natania kept her pistol aiming at Tara, scowling, "Did anyone find you?"
"Please, Natania, just talk to Rick-!"
"Shut up." Natania persisted to keep Tara's mouth shut, glaring. "Now, Rachel, what has happened to you-"
"Grandma, something came out of the woods and it attacked me! I wasn't bitten, I swear. It was a monster, and-and then there were more of them!" Rachel stuttered in her words, which Cyndie did her best to soothe calmly.
"Rachel, deep breaths!" Cyndie advised, looking somewhat confused, "What are you talking about? I don't get why you're like this? If it was just those rotters, then you should've-"
"THEY WEREN'T THOSE ROTTERS, CYNDIE! THEY JUST CAME OUT OF NOWHERE, AND THEY LOOKED DIFFERENT!" Rachel yelled loudly, with her eyes watery.
"Rachel..." Cyndie mumbled a bit, looking spooked out by her sudden behavior.
"It's the truth, and some big scary man found us and saved Rachel from getting eaten by the monsters!" The third girl chimed in.
Tara blinked for a moment, "A man?"
"The dude punched one of those freaks, and it just blew up! Then, it pulled out this freaking huge gun and started shooting them! We had to run away and tell everyone about this!" Rachel finished.
While Natania and Cyndie looked back at Rachel with both dumbfounded expressions, unsure whether or not they should believe in her word, Tara eventually spoke up, "You mean big guy found you four and saved you? Why was he even there-?"
*BANG-BANG*
The women and young girls began to listen to different noises coming from around and about, and then Tara soon gets up to her feet while the three children looked out the window.
*BOOM*
Cyndie didn't know what to expect from this as she looked at the door, then back at Tara, and asked, "What was that sound? What are your people trying to do, Tara?"
*PEW-PEW-PEW*
Tara looked at Cyndie, "I-I don't know, but maybe-"
*CRASH*
A tremendously loud impact came from outside upfront the cabin home, causing the three girls to gasp in horror as to what they just witnessed. Cyndie came over to bring the young children away from the window, only to see something else that began to contort her confusion into fright.
"What is it, Cyndie?" Natania asked, keeping Tara in check with a pistol aimed at her.
"I...Wha...hu...?!" Cyndie's words began to crackle, followed by nothing but a frozen expression.
Outside was a corpse...
"It was him..." Rachel muttered almost quietly.
...and not just any corpse...
"...he's going to kill all of them."
...but a demonic Imp corpse.
Raining hot lead fired upon each demon stupid enough to attack the Slayer, eliminating the Imps and Possessed Soldiers. A Pinky that charged was able to overcome the storm of shots thanks to its natural armor. When the Pinky was almost charging through, the Slayer leaped over it, activating his thrust boots to make sure he cleared away, before switching to his rocket launcher. Not before long, a few thin, slim-built demons appeared in quick lightning speed, thanks to their two large, fleshy wing-like appendages hanging off each back.
The Slayer pointed his rocket launcher at one of the Summoners that was still wavering nearby, only for it to teleport several yards to the left side. Quickly enough, the Slayer tracked the energy and aimed again so that by the time he hit the ground, the Slayer finally locked onto those smug jackasses. He discharged three rockets that all hit home, causing the Summoner to stagger for a moment.
Switching to the gauss cannon while the Slayer looked down the sight, he charged the Precision Bolt to its maximum rate before hitting the demon in the head, tearing off the rest of its shoulders along with it before it exploded. It even took a nearby Imp down with it.
*SNARL*
The Pinky from before stormed at the Slayer once again until he rolled sideways to avoid the attack. The Slayer switched out for the super shotgun, turning to meet the Pinky's backside. Promptly discharging with both barrels, it eventually took the demon down while the Slayer started reloading. The Slayer drove himself into a running start and shoots everywhere like crazy, taking out only a couple of Imps and Possessed Soldiers nearby. For a short while, the Slayer narrowed his eyes and peered around the woods.
Two Hell-Knights swiftly jumped in midair just as they attempted to smash through where the Slayer was when he got close enough. Backing away and shooting the first Hell-Knight with the super shotgun, the Slayer slammed his right fist into the second one's stomach, followed by a spinning kick to its face, sending the brute back a few feet. The first one quickly recovered as it pushed from its feet and tried to strike the Slayer with a swinging hook, causing him to evade a few reckless swings from this slow dumbass.
The Slayer lunged at the Hell-Knight and grabbed hold of the fucker's head to begin prying its jaws open, but it claws at his head and chest for the Slayer to let go. The Hell-Knight rams into the Slayer and knocks him against a tree far back.
He saw the warrior beast race across the ground and wind its flamelike fist in an attempt to take the Slayer down, but he pushed himself into a barrel roll out of the way from the piercing demon. With the tree that stood behind before broken apart, a sharp-looking branch was at the Slayer's side after he pulled out and aimed his heavy assault rifle to exchange a barrage of bullets onto the Hell-Knight.
The Slayer knew that the second one had to be getting up by now, just as he acted quickly by striking the Hell-Knight sideways with the broken branch and stabbed through its skull finally. Believing the Slayer had forced himself onto the defensive, he twirled around to block a vicious punch from the other Hell-Knight.
The Hell-Knight leaped into the air with both fists raised above the head in the effort to overthrow the Slayer but barely missed as he made a hard turn to the right, putting some distance between himself and his opponent. The Slayer pulled out the chaingun and used the time to fire at maximum speed while surrounding the rushing Hell-Knight with trails of flesh and blood everywhere. The Hell-Knight groaned in pain as it stumbled to its feet, holding itself together in agony until the Slayer made his way over to punch it in the head three times, then snapping its neck.
Suddenly, rapid bursts of yellow and green plasma bolts came from about as the Slayer dodges them. Then the Slayer skips across a clear space to aim his super shotgun nearby to try and close the distance between whoever was shooting at him. Around the same time, the Slayer finally saw parts of a demonic brain on large mechanized legs in a narrow body structure. It was a spider-like cyborg monster, similar in appearance to Oliva Pierce's Spider Mastermind. But smaller, and its turret became transferred from its underbelly to the back of its body. There are also numerous launch ports on both sides of its brain, from where it can discharge grenades.
That was an Arachnotron.
VEGA: {The Arachnotron certainly should have a weak point from the turret where it can become destroyed. You'll be able to disable its long-range attacks through extra damage in its abilities.}
The synthetic-looking monster blasted out three more plasma bolts, and they were coming right at the Slayer. He zoomed to the left as the Arachnotron's projectiles hit his original spot, each exploding in dirted smoke, Though more kept coming towards where the Slayer ran. Switching out for the combat shotgun, the Slayer began firing a sticky bomb or two at the Arachnotron, which got struck by each of their explosive acts. The Arachnotron screeched before charging so that it headbutts the Slayer through one of the trees. He quickly summoned the rocket launcher and rushed around the spider-like demon with blistering speed, shooting a couple of projectiles as blood gushed and fleshy parts had gotten torn off.
Timing his movements just right, the Slayer quickly zoomed onward to bypass through a few exploding grenades from the Arachnotron past him. The Slayer took advantage of his opening and jumped on top of the Arachnotron to tear off its turret, silencing the spider-like monster's horrified cries when he plunged its key weapon through the middle brain section. Pulling and thrusting over and over again, the Arachnotron was instantly dead.
As two other Revenants screeched at me with projectiles launching in midair, the Slayer took a sprint forward with his right leg, springing off from the dead Arachnotron, and used his thrust boots to get closer enough to blast away the monsters with the rocket launcher. The Slayer soon impacts the ground and prepares himself but almost got hit by a massive round of shots fired by three Possessed Soldiers. The Slayer grunted in his response for VEGA to activate one of the Power-Ups, having him acknowledge on the HUD.
VEGA: {Activating Power-Up: HASTE MODE.}
At an instant, like some flick of a switch, a surge of energy coursed through the Slayer's veins where his eyes suddenly shot open, glowing yellow.
The Slayer knew this wasn't going to be a short event, but he's going to draw this out for as long as he can, for everyone else's safety in Oceanside. The Slayer swept his hands back, slapping the combat shotgun against his back and feeling the familiar momentary sense of nothingness to his hands as the gun vanished, only to be replaced by the weight of his heavy assault rifle.
The spot where the Slayer stood caused him to dash to the side before zooming across the field to fire his heavy assault rifle and broke down two of them. The last Possessed Soldier tried to rush at the Slayer, but he blocked a fist coming at him until the Slayer caught on and spun the hellish attacker through a tree.
With a hand curling into a fist, the Slayer threw multiple punches in his attacker's face with the same hand repeatedly and then skipped to swing a boot that took its ass to the ground. The Slayer dodged one of its arm-cannons until he twisted the demon's arm completely, bending down next to blast its head into brain mush. Soon, one of the Revenants was sneaking up behind the Slayer.
He spun around and unleashed another round of HAR bullets through the skeletal monster, spewing blood in the forest wherever it sees fit. Punching the Revenant until its head explodes, the Slayer then kicked it away to search for the other Revenant that tried to destroy him. The Slayer steered the super shotgun, checking for any more demons on sight. A blast of rockets from a Revenant came from behind the Slayer, which he barely managed to dodge, only to get hit by an Imp's fireball through a few trees.
*HISS*
With a loud hiss, the Imp darted with enough speed and charged at the Slayer, baring its razor-sharp teeth as it prepared to tear out his throat. When the Slayer's meaty fist collided with its face, it yelped in surprise and tumbled onto its back. The Slayer shook his hand and grunted, popping his knuckles each time. The Imp writhing around on the ground had gotten back up, but the Slayer aimed a vicious kick at the demon's head. That sent the Imp rolling away and destroyed the weak bastard.
*KA-BOOM*
Fewer of the demons with their attention caught onto the third explosion, making the Slayer curse Rick's plan for using the dynamites to scare the Oceanside community to the center. VEGA was correct. It was accurate enough that they were trying to get themselves killed.
Several different monsters began to rush their way over to where the noises were, but only a few remained where the Slayer was at plainly to finish him off. The Slayer saw the Revenant from before clutched to the roof of a nearby cabin home, deciding to teach it a lesson.
Speedily, the Slayer shifted to the plasma rifle and turned to the first Revenant, managing to land a decent hit with the Stun Bomb. As it hung in the air, shaking, the Slayer switched out for the super shotgun again. He fired two rounds at another Imp, managing to land one and reloads. Next, the Slayer raced over to the cabin home while only several monsters chased after him in a desire to destroy the Doom Slayer.
*KA-BOOM*
With the third explosion, a large group of women and children kept running for their lives, seeking a secure place to escape from the intruders in their home.
Suddenly, Tobin led a group out of the woods, which contained himself, Francine, and Scott, to enclose the women and children trying to retreat near that location.
"Everybody down!" Francine ordered, keeping her rifle directed at the Oceanside survivors.
"Put your hands on your heads," Tobin added, holding his weapon with a stern look.
"Everybody stays calm," Scott said, subduing each of the women and children from doing anything reckless.
Carl, Gabriel, and Enid appeared out of the woods then, as well, followed seconds later by Daryl's group, which was escorting Kathy and Beatrice from the arsenal.
"We don't want anyone to get hurt," Carl affirmed, directing his rifle upon the detained female survivors. "Stay down and listen to what we say."
"We want this to go as simply and as peacefully as possible." Gabriel soothed with calm words, hoping for Oceanside to not exact violence. "All of you can make it that way."
"Get down over there. Keep quiet," Daryl ordered as he and Jesus escorted both women toward the group of women and children already on their knees on the ground.
Some even had their hands on their heads as if they were hostages in a bank robbery. Well, in a manner of ways, they were. Coming up behind Daryl's group, Rick, Aaron, and Eric walked side by side.
"And then he just up and ran off without writing a paper of words or anything." Aaron continued to explain to Rick about this weird situation.
"We don't know what he is up to or what's going on with him, but do you think Michonne might be able to spot the big guy?" Eric asked, looking at Rick.
Right now, Rick suppressed a low sigh as his stern face looked down for a bit. He wished that there must be an explanation for the Slayer leaving his post. It was sure that Rick didn't want to kill the Slayer, but he became distrusted enough to continue his plan. Daryl knew that the Slayer was dangerous from the very start of arriving in Alexandria, and so did everyone else in that matter.
"I'll deal with him after we find him," Rick spoke calmly yet disappointed, "We're not going to skip this out because of him, and if he doesn't want to be a part of it, then it's already too late for his sake."
Aaron keeps walking while also asking, "What if he lies to you about where he went?"
Rick looked back at Aaron, "He won't lie to me this time, Aaron. Not now or ever. I don't know what it was that caused him to react in such a way, but this time, he's going to explain everything to me, or I will kill him." he said with such finality.
With Aaron and Eric, they both wanted to convince Rick that the Slayer could have some stable performance, but they know that they were afraid of the Slayer just as much as anyone else was in Alexandria.
"Listen, you two head back over and guard the storehouse where the community keeps their guns. If you see the big guy around and spot him doing something he's not supposed to do, then let me know. I will not hesitate if he tries anything else besides the plan right now. Understand?" Rick disclosed, earning two wary nods from Aaron and Eric.
Once the two men left, Rick made his way over to the surrounding group of Oceanside's female members. Some of their eyes deceived themselves as they thought something was hiding in the bushes.
"Now, we made a lot of noise. We wanna wrap this up quickly." The Alexandria leader called out to his group before approaching the Oceanside women and children.
All of this needed to work out, or Rick would not only take Oceanside's guns but also call the wolves on to these people when they were the most defenseless. Carl nearby knew the person his father could become, and right now, he wouldn't resist what he thought was necessary to do. The bandaged teen had every intention to keep this without any collateral damage. Everyone hoped that this wouldn't end as it did with Jadis and her tribe of garbage people.
"You can send people to redirect anything coming this way. Tara told me that your forests are relatively clear, but we won't take any chances. No one needs to get hurt." Rick added, stressing almost every word.
"All of this is just about what you have, what we need." Rick radiated a calm voice as he spoke, causing the women and children to huddle together in a sobbing fright.
They knew Rick meant business just as he was about to say something else until everything began to fall.
*KA-BOOM*
*PEW-PEW-PEW*
*POP-POP*
*CRASH*
A/N: [We got to see how the Slayer is an experienced, willing destroyer of Hell's legions. He does a job that most other survivors would not even consider. For every horde the Slayer clears, communities did not have to risk likely death at the hands of the demons. That way, they get spared from demon raids, something that I will try to feature, and it is the part I enjoy the most. It looks like Hayden's dropped the bomb on this one about where he came from and how it is possible. It will take a while for me to write because, yeah, that one particular moment. In the meantime, read and review! Until next time.]