Chapter 14
Fan-Made Portal Replica
Marine entered a large room, where, to the left, he saw a full-sized replica of the portal he had seen in the horror movie he watched before. It looked exactly like the original portal, down to the tiniest detail. Even the way the bright orange light danced like a candle-lit flame in the center of the portal was spot on. Greatly impressed, he commented on the obvious fact that someone had created a replica of the portal.
He looked up to see Malcolm Buttrugger standing at a control console. The old man let out a goofy laugh as he shouted, "I have opened the portal to the demon world!"
Marine stared up in awe. "The demon world? No way! Just like in the movie!"
Malcolm nodded. "Yes, just like in the movie. I'm a huge fan. I've always wanted to tr—"
He was cut off by someone stumbling into the room through the portal. It was a man wearing a hazmat suit.
"Wait, what?" Malcolm said, rubbing his bald head.
The man was accompanied by a larger creature. It was twice as big as any human, both in height and build. The monster looked like it could toss a tank a couple of miles away. It made a strange vocal sound as it approached the man that had arrived before it.
Malcolm started to freak out. "No, there's demons coming out! What?! But it's a fake portal! It's just a lighting effect! What?! How is that happening?"
The demon grabbed the man before he had a chance to run away. It continued to vocalize before throwing him against a wall. It glared at Marine and slowly started to approach him as a second demon entered the room through the portal.
"No, there's more coming?!" Buttrugger calmed himself down a bit before speaking to Marine, who was in serious danger. "Okay, you may have to kill them—"
Then the demons were dead.
"Oh," Malcolm said, surprised at the sudden death of the demons. "Wow. They're dead already." He shrugged. "Okay." His hand slowly moved down towards the control panel. "Well, I guess I'll just… send you to Hell!" He let out a maniacal laugh as he pulled a switch.
The light from the portal grew brighter and the dimensional doorway to Hell seemed to pull Marine towards it. He grabbed onto the nearby railing to avoid being sucked into the portal. But his grip was unfortunately not strong enough to resist the powerful force. He flew into the portal and found himself inside what appeared to be the Food Simulator video game he had played previously.
He closed his eyes in disgust. "Okay, no! I am done going through esophaguses, er, esophagi. I don't know. Whatever."