Deep in a secluded area located in the farthest side of an unsuspecting suburban area in Asaka, Saitama, near a nearby forest, was an old abandoned warehouse. Due to the small population around the area, and the relatively quiet society, the warehouse went by throughout the years practically untouched by the nearby populace. Even liminals seemed to avoid the place altogether for some unknown reason.
Which was why it would make the perfect place for some shady practices which the society does not need to know about.
Rumors of a secret demon-worshipping cult existing in the area have circulated for quite some time, however no concrete evidence had been found so far, leading the local police to dismiss it as just a sick joke. That, however, didn't stop the wave of rumors that kept popping up.
The rumors became wilder, when reports of missing persons began popping up in the masses. What was strange about said cases though, was that the victims, were all liminals. Either those separated from their hosts, or ones who recently came in contact with human society without anywhere to stay.
This led the authority to believe said rumors may not be so far-fetched at all. Ever since the introduction of the Cultural Exchange Bill, a percentage of the human society simply could not accept the new reality of their world, and had grown to dislike the non-humans who, in their opinion, did not deserve to live alongside humans.
Perhaps rumors of the existence of the cult had been misinterpreted. Rather than being demon-worshippers, they were those who loathed the liminal species, and their actions have become rather aggresive.
Another report coming from a local about witnessing some suspicious activities near the abandoned warehouse secluded from the rest of the area, caught the police's attention. The string of events that had happened led to the police dispatching a team to the suspected crime scene. Unknown to the officers involved, they have had their fates sealed, completely oblivious to what they were really dealing with.
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The Warehouse
"This is Officer Shirai reporting, it...oh my god...it doesn't look good inside here."
"What do you mean? What does it look like inside there?"
"Uhh...how do I say this...this is messed up. I'm seeing...corpses...dozens of them..all-uh...all of them liminals...found a few Kobolds, and Harpies...Lamias, and a lot more...and they're all hung up...bodies wide open...like you'd see in a slaughterhouse...it's just...*gag*...I'm sorry...I'm sorry...it's really fucked up."
"Corpses? All of them liminals?My god...did you find the suspects?"
"Yeah...we...found a dozen of them...all wearing hooded robes. They were armed, we had to open fire...seven dead, four currently detained, one of them escaped. We're still working on the last one. Those four, they keep sprouting weird religious shit, like "they are coming for our souls" or something, you know..Satan worshippers...hell, they even got a fuckin' pentagram in the middle of the room, looked like it was made with blood...and I'm pretty sure it ain't human blood..."
"Dear god...it's worse than we thought...Officer, are you sure you found all the suspects?"
"Aside from that one guy, yeah, I'm..pretty sure...what the..something weird's going on..the pentagram, it's...woah-holy shi- bzzzzztt"
"bzzt- hello? Officer? What happened? Respond!!"
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Deep within the forest, a green blur sprinted pass multiple trees and wildlife, ignoring everything around, and merely focusing on a single goal.
"2500 metres to destination." The robotic voice of an AI echoed in his helmet. The Doomslayer looked up towards the sky, dark clouds coming together in one spot. A thunderstorm is brewing, and perhaps even more peculiar, flashes of red lightning formed within the storm, a surely unnatural sight, even in a world where monsters exist.
He knew that they were going to come. This world could be rich in Argent Energy, and they want to take advantage of that. Perhaps they thought that this world was safe to invade, considering it was a different version of Earth where the UAC did not exist, with more primitive technology and a more exploitable civilisation. He could assume they would've tried to communicate and corrupt some of the humans in this world, tempting them to do their bidding, and allowing them to gain passage into this world.
Oh, how wrong they are. They didn't know he was here.
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The echoing sounds of gunshots rang throughout the air surrounding the warehouse. The civilians who were nearby the area have either evacuated or called the police, not knowing that such efforts would be futile.
"Ga-aghhk...damn it...why won't you die!?" Officer Shirai fired the last of his available rounds towards the grey behemoth of a creature that spawned from the pentagram, alonside some other "things". He was the only one still alive. His partner along with the others were lying on the ground in a pool of their own blood. The cultists they apprehended earlier were now shouting praises for some reason. Who could've guessed this was their goal?
Clutching his bloodied left arm, the officer tried limping away towards his car, leaving a trail of blood behind. His efforts were futile, as the grey skinned creature roared and stomped on his left leg, crushing its bones and muscles.
The officer tried to scream, but before he could, he felt a large hand gripping his upper jaw, and the upper half of his skull was ripped apart by the creature, blood spatters everywhere. The creature held the bloodied skull of the officer up in the air like a trophy, before throwing into the ground and stomping on it, pieces of skull and brain flying out.
Four bipedal creatures with brown and purple skin went towards the only humans remaining, the four cultists who were still praying in the name of the devil, worshipping the creatures they had brought forth unto this world. Their prayers were answered, with each one of them having their hearts ripped out by the bipedal creatures. They died with a hint of shock in their eyes, as the last thing they saw, was the creatures they worshipped earlier devouring their organs in front of them.
Two large round creatures sporting only one eye and razor sharp teeth, floated out of the warehouse, and made their way to a more populated area. The residents were inside their homes, or going about their daily lives, oblivious to the monstrous abominstions quietly lurking from up above, about to rain destruction on the untouched land.
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To claim that it was a disaster, would be an understatement.
It was a massacre. Toxic bile rained on the neighbouring homes and shops. Fireballs hurling through the air left and right. The locals were in panic, their homes destroyed and people everywhere. A couple of odd-looking skeletal creatures with jetpacks began bombarding every man-made structure they could see with rockets, creating massive chaos and destruction.
Everyone was running, away from the army of abominations following behind them. The local police who happened to be present at the time fought back with whatever firepower they have, but it was obvious they were severely outmatched. The hellish creatures that cmae out of nowhere started killing everything they see, human or liminal.
In just a matter of minutes, screams were heard through the air, fires were spreading, corpses were littering the ground, blood and guts were everywhere. It was Hell on Earth.
Meanwhile, a lone stranger whose identity was covered in a dark robe, showing traces of blood not of his own, stood above a hill far away, gazing at the horrendous visage from afar.
The man smirked. His plan was working. They have arrived.
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"What the fuck ARE THESE THINGS!!?" A policeman fired through his last remaining clip at a brown-purple humanoid creature ravaging the street. The creature was surprisingly fast and nimble, making it very hard to kill. He had already called HQ for backup, and insisted on the military to come in to deal with whatever these things are.
An audible click horrified him, a sign that he was out of ammo. The humanoid creature took the advantage and leapt onto the officer. He could not move, only widening his eyes at seeing his inevitable death.
The sound of plasma whizzed by his head, a blue projectile hitting the creature right in its face, splattering it to pieces and killing the creature.
"Wh-what?" He looked behind him to where the source of the projectile was...and was greeted with the sight of a large being in strange green armor, holding a strange-looking pistol.
The armored being then materialized a shotgun out of nowhere and sprinted by him, ignoring the petrified policeman. The green silhoutte eventually vanished from view.
"...what?" His head was still spinning from trying to comprehend what just happened. Just then, he heard a familiar sound that brought him relief. Sirens, coming from several police cars, as well as an armored truck stopped right in front of him. Multiple armed officers as well as SAT officers exited the cars and rushed towards the location of the warehouse. One of them saw the policeman and asked, "Hey, you alright? Come on, pick up a gun!! We gotta hold these things until more reinforcements can arrive!"
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"Huaaahh...I'm bored..." Zombina yawned while lying on her back inside a large armored vehicle currently heading towards the ground zero, along with the rest of MON squad. They were dispatched by the CESS after numerous amount of emergency calls forced the local police station to send every last one of their officers available.
"Come on, Zombina-chan, I'm sure there's plenty of action for us later." Tionishia voiced out while struggling to sit comfortably inside the vehicle due to her large size.
"I-I'm having a bad feeling about this. Didn't you realize they gave us live ammunition instead of the usual non-lethal ones? What does that mean?" Manako spoke nervously, holding her Intervention M200 rifle close to her side.
"I guess whoever we're dealing with, they mean serious business. I'm guessing it's those pigmen we dealt with earlier, their buddies must be peeved after what happened, and now they wanted revenge." Doppel said nonchalantly.
Deep down, they realized Manako had a point. It was quite unusual for the CESS to give them permission to use live ammunition, which would mean this wouldn't be their average mission. Whoever, or whatever, they were going to deal with, was enough of a threat for the government to allow the use of lethal weaponry to dispose of them. This was not a good sign. Why else would they be given such permission?
"What the...my god, are you girls seeing this?" The driver who was driving their vehicle called out to the MON squad in the back, encouraging them to look out of their seats and towards the driver's windshield. Their eyes widened, jaws almost hitting the floor, gaping at the display of the disaster unfolding in front of them.
"Ho.."
"Ly.."
"Shit." Said Manako, Doppel, and Zombina, not necessarily in that order.
Corpses littered the streets, both human and liminal, houses were burning, and demonic creatures roamed the once beautiful neughbourhood. The sky was covered with dark clouds, with flashes of red lightning illuminating the sky. If one were to picture what Hell would look like, their assumption would be quite close to this.
Manako was completely silenced, covering her eye and struggling to keep her lunch from coming out. Even the usually playful Doppel remained quiet, unsure of what to say. Tio was holding her mouth, and on the verge of tears, looking at all the carnage.
"...so that's why." Zombina broke the silence, not a hint of intended sarcasm in her voice.
A fireball suddenly hit the back of the vehicle, causing the MON squad to stumble a bit from the impact. "Ouch!!! What the hell?" Zombina shouted, now lying on the cold steel floor. "Look at that!!" Tio shouted, pointing towards the back door, which was slowly melting.
"What the hell was that!?" The driver shouted. His question was seemingly answered, in the form of a brown-purple humanoid creature suddenly landing on top of the vehicle's hood, blocking the driver's vision. The creature then attempted to claw at the reinforced glass windshield, slowly forming cracks on it.
"What the fuck!?" The driver shouted while struggling with keeping the vehicle on the road to avoid crashing. The cracks became bigger, until the windshield eventually broke. However, just before the creature could claw at the driver's face, a dozen hot lead bullets traveled to the creature's head, torso and limbs, killing it. The lifeless corpse then stumbled off the vehicle, allowing the driver to see the road once more.
"You're welcome." Zombina said to the driver, while holding a smoking MP5, keeping it pointed ahead. "Keep driving, I'll shoot whatever bastards show up." She said in glee, finally seeing some action.
"What the heck are those things!? They're really fast!!" Doppel shouted, pointing towards more of the same humanoid creatures chasing them from behind with impressive speed. The back door of the vehicle already melted from the fireball earlier, leaving the MON squad vulnerable. One of the creatures tried to fire another fireball, only to receive a high-caliber round to the forehead, stopping it dead in its tracks.
"Leave them to me. Keep driving!!" Manako shouted while aiming her rifle towards another one of the creatures. These things, whatever they are, they could somehow conjure fireballs hot enough to melt steel out of their hands, like magic. Another one of those fireballs could spell their doom. She needed to make sure that didn't happen.
Firing another round, she saw another fireball coming, but this time she failed to stop it.
"Watch out!!!" Tio blocked the incoming projectile with a riot shield and protected Manako. Seeing the shield already melting away, shequickly discarded it. "Don't worry, I still have a spare shield left, just keep firing!" Tio was different from her usual self. Her eyes were filled with rage, intended towards the monsters responsible for this massacre. Manako silently nodded in response to Tio and fired another round towards the creatures.
Emptying the clip into another one of them on the road, Zombina grinned with excitement, and quickly reloaded her MP5. "These things don't seem to give up, do they!?" She shouted while opening fire on another one.
The driver suddenly stepped on the brakes and stopped the vehicle altogether, surprising the MON squad. The screeching sound of the tires brought forth confusion.
"why the heck ARE WE STOPPING!?" Manako nervously cried out, seeing more of them slowly catching up to their position.
Zombina saw what was in front of them and informed her team, "The road is blocked!!! There's SAT trucks and police cars, all of them empty. I think we gotta catch up to the rest, on foot."
The rest of the squad quickly got off the vehicle, arming themselves to prepare for a fight. The driver shouted, while pointing towards a specific direction, "Hey!! Look at that!"
Turning their eyes, the whole squad was wide-eyed at the scene in front of them. Thunderstorms with red lightning circling at one particular spot, above an old abandoned warehouse which could be visibly seen from afar, which was now seemingly crawling with what seemed like a ripoff version of Romero zombies. They also saw silhouttes of what seemed to be the SAT officers fighting for their lives in front of the warehouse.
"You have got to be kidding me..." Zombina voiced out, slightly annoyed at the thought that her kind once more became the bad guys.
A loud gunshot broke the squad out of their stupor, the source of the sound coming from Manako's rifle blasting another one of them down.
"We gotta keep moving!!!" Her words were more than enough to get the squad going. They needed to meet up with the others, their chances of surviving will be better this way.
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After what felt like hours, the squad finally met with the SAT. They nearly didn't survive fending off the demonic monsters. Manako was quite shaken from the experience, Doppel simply kept quiet since there wasn't much she could do in this situation, Tio had scratches on her armor and was now lacking a shield, and Zombina was almost running out of ammo.
"Are you the MON squad!? Thank god you guys are here, we could really use some extra firepower. These bastards...they just show up out of nowhere, kill everything in their sight, humans, liminals, they don't care...we already lost most of our men." The leader of the SAT informed the MON squad of their current situation, which was nowhere near good. None of the squad made any verbal response, simply nodding in response to the officer, traumatized by what they have went through.
"Shit, they're here!!!" The driver, who was with the MON squad the whole time, shouted upon seeing what seemed like a literal walking skeleton with a jetpack on the rooftop of a house, accompanied by more of the brown humanoids they encountered earlier. A couple of floating round one-eyed creatures with razor-sharp teeth and a muscular grey-skinned behemoth along with several brown humanoids also showed up, surrounding the whole squad and what remained of the SAT and the police.
Manako was terrified, barely managing to keep her rifle steady, Tio gritted her teeth, her usual absent-minded attitude now gone, Doppel prepared a fighting stance while struggling to keep her composure, and Zombina readied her MP5s while internally cursed herself for not conserving ammo earlier, since she only had one spare magazine for each gun left. The remaining officers were also shaken, and held grim expressions. They were not going to make it, considering how outmatched they are, and how little firepower they still have. The army was taking too long to show up, and their chances of survival were slim.
The skeletal creature screeched with a hint of superiority towards its next prey in an attempt to strike fear, though its cry was cut short, with a sudden powerful blue projectile blowing up its skull into a million pieces, effectively killing it.
Everyone was speechless at the sudden arrival of a humanoid figure in green futuristic armor, amongst the fire and ruins.
"It...it's him..." The sole remaining policeman silently uttered to himself. The MON squad was jaw-dropped for the third time today, and the SAT stared in shock at the armored stranger.
The reaction from the monsters, however, was what really surprised them.
None of the monsters were now paying attention to them. Instead, all of them were roaring and screeching in visible fury towards the stranger, almost like they knew the being. However, none of the monsters dared take another step, or even throw another fiery projectile, as if they were petrified by the green man's appearance.
This made the squad and the human officers even more bewildered. Just who is this armored man?
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The Doomslayer was furious.
After "cleaning" the rest of the neighbourhood of them, he had opted to return to the source of the invasion, which seemed to be the warehouse. He was surprised when greeted with the sight of a group of humans and the nonhumans that he met before, surrounded by more of them. Just seeing them made his blood boil. He swiftly pulled out a Gauss Cannon and fire a charged shot at a Revenant, attracting the attention of all the demons away from the humans and towards himself.
The demons' expressions were filled with shock and horror, upon realizing that the Scourge of Hell was here, in this dimension, something that should've been impossible. They screeched and howled in fury, though none of them were brave enough to attack the Doomslayer. Their gazes locked with him, no longer paying attention to the confused humans and nonhumans in the middle of all the chaos.
He cracked his knuckles. It seemed he needed to make the first move.
VEGA voiced out through his helmet, "Doomslayer, I still have a collection of old Earth music stored in my database. If you wish, I could play one of the songs for your enjoyment. Shall I play the music?"
The Doomslayer simply grinned.
"Now playing, 'BFG Division' by Mick Gordon."
Pulling out his Combat Shotgun, the Doomslayer fired an explosive round towards one of the Imps, blowing it into bloody pieces. This caused the demons to finally gather the courage to attack.
Dodging a fireball, he fired a round to a nearby Imp, then shoved it to the ground, afterwards stomping on its face turning it into a mushy pile of skull and brain.
Another Imp acted foolishly by going for a melee attack. A bad move, as the Slayer shot another shotgun shell to its chest, before ripping off its arm and destroying its skull with said arm.
He rolled over to dodge a hail of fireballs, and switched to his Heavy Assault Rifle, firing micro missiles to three other Imps, blowing away their limbs.
He avoided projectiles of toxic bile from the Cacodemons, and fired a charged Gauss Cannon shot in Siege mode at one of them right in its eye, effectively blinding it. He immediately fired another shot into its open mouth, causing the demon to explode into pieces of blue gore.
Switching to his Rocket Launcher, he locked on to the remaining Cacodemon, and before it even had the chance to spit another toxic bile, fired three missiles twice in rapid succession, blasting the Cacodemon to kingdom come, with pieces of flesh, organs and blue liquid raining upon the ground.
Swiftly avoiding three fireballs from the injured Imps earlier, he threw a frag grenade blowing up two of them, and jumped to the air and then landed with his right boot square on the last Imp's chest, destroying its internal organs. Pulling out his Shotgun, he fired another shell to its face, ensuring it was dead.
Seeing a Hell Knight from above, he ducked to the side and avoided the powerful shockwave from the demon. He proceeded to fire a locked-on shot with the Launcher stunning the Knight, before running up to it, switching to his Super Shotgun, and firing two shells point-blank in its chest, effectively destroying its ribcage and internals. As a finisher, he grabbed the barely alive Hell Knight in the head, and brought its face to his knee, shattering its skull and leaving pieces of its brain flying out.
A green projectile stunned him momentarily, but he didn't falter. He saw two Barons of Hell emerging from the warehouse, roaring towards him, as if challenging him.
The Doomslayer smirked. He gladly accepted the challenge.
Dodging another green fireball, he pulled out the Plasma Rifle, and fired a stun shot to paralyze one of the Barons, then pulling out the Delta-12 Chaingun, activating the Mobile Turret mode, and raining searing hot tungsten at the Baron. The demon roared in pain having bits of its flesh carved away by the hail of bullets, and attempted to throw another green fireball. Its effort was cut short, when a high velocity projectile coming from the Gauss Cannon blew off its hand. The other Baron charged towards the Slayer, but the barrage of missiles stopped it in its tracks.
In desperation, the injured Baron conjured another fireball in its remaining hand, but a hail of micro missiles rendered its effort pointless. The last thing the Baron ever saw, was the Slayer ripping off its own horn, then ramming it into its vision, and then everything went black.
The now headless Baron dropped to the ground, and the Doomslayer turned around towards the last Baron, only to be met with a powerful claw to the face. He was thrown several feet away and crashed into a wall. The remaining Baron roared with a hint of arrogance at the thought of being able to land a hit at the Doomslayer.
The Baron's excitement was short-lived, however, when a Gauss shot hit it square in the chest, momentarily stunning it.
The Doomslayer walked out of the rubble, switching to his SSG, now with a visible crack on his visor.
If he was furious before, he was vehemently enraged now.
The Baron suddenly felt a wave of regret hitting the back of its mind.
Running past the green projectiles, the Doomslayer closed the distance and fired a couple of blasts at the Baron whilst avoiding its claws, before switching to the Plasma Rifle and firing a hail of plasma burning the Baron's skin, not even giving it a chance to retaliate. Switching next to his Shotgun, he fired two Explosive shots blowing up both of its legs.
Now crawling on its remaining two hands, the Baron looked in horror to see the Slayer walking up towards it, and desperately tried to claw him away, only to have his arm bent to an unnatural angle, courtesy of the Slayer. He proceeded to grab both of its horns, and with his inhuman strength, ripped off both of them and ramming it into both of its eye sockets. The now blinded Baron roared in pain, before being silenced by a shotgun blast straight into its mouth, decapitating the upper half of its skull in the process.
The music in his helmet finally ended.
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Absorbing the Argent Energy from the demons' corpses into his suit, the Doomslayer felt relinquished seeing his visor repairing itself and the ammo counter going up again.
"Your combat rating is superb, Slayer. However, the demonic threat has yet to go away. I detected massive amounts of Argent Energy signatures accumulating from within the warehouse in front of you. It is best to move now." VEGA's voice reminded him of his mission, and he proceeded to walk towards the source. But something made him stop.
He suddenly remembered the humans and nonhumans earlier, and turned around to face them.
The MON squad, as well as the remaining human officers, were completely speechless. Their jaws were practically hitting the floor at this point.
They just witnessed a single man singlehandedly slaughtered a pack of monsters with a sheer amount of brutality one could only ever imagine. It wasn't even a fair battle. What they saw made everything they've been doing feel completely irrelevant.
The Doomslayer said nothing, and after confirming no more demons were around, simply turned around and kept walking towards the warehouse, ignoring the stares coming from behind him.
It was time to destroy the source of all this mess.
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Author's Note
Wooh, damn. So this chapter finally came out, thankfully. I tried my best to make the interaction and characteristics of the MON squad to be as accurate to the original as possible, hope it was decent enough.
Four chapters, and finally some ripping and tearing. Yeah, it probably felt a bit short. I'm still working on improving myself. Hope that was enough violence for you guys. If not, eh, just wait for future chapters.
Anyway, just saw the new story trailer for the upcoming Doom Eternal, and my god, was it glorious. I guess that was what REALLY motivated me to push this new chapter out. The new enemies, locations, and Doomslayer's new look, was gorgeous as hell, I was grinning like a madman throughout the whole video. It's surprising that Doom actually HAVE an actual story this time, though if it means more killing, no one should complain.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter, coz I certainly did while writing it, and hopefully you could expect more Doomslayer action in the upcoming ones.
Rip and tear, until it is done.