Thank you all for continuing to like this story. To address the issues as brought up by Ferox Pretorius. Who I thank for voicing his concern.
1: Speed; From what I know as what I can look up the fastest Spartan alive is Kelly whose supposed top speed is roughly 38.5 Mph on average. John was able to move nearly 65 Mph for a short burst but tore a tendon because of it. The DoomSlayer in his original games was able to outrun his own rockets. Which put him above 50 Mph. Even in the newest game he still moves over 20 Mph constantly despite moving much slower than he could in previous games. But if you read all the testaments its seems that those games are at least still partially cannon to the series. So I'm keeping his speed to about 45-55 Mph. With the whole thruster thing as they fall through the sky and onto the mountain. Which the fell about 5000 meters and onto a snowy plain. That was with thrusters and falling, and they were allowed to go that fast due to going onto a Snowy plain and their armor. But falling at the same speed straight down onto stone would not be that smart.
2: Strength Wise I keep them about the same level of strength. But the Spartans have never ripped limbs off their opponents, especially not at the same frequency that the DoomSlayer does, so to an observer he is stronger. Also (Slight Spoiler if you don't know the Lore of DoomSlayer. I recommend watching "in the mind of the DoomSlayer" if you want to know what lore I'm going off.) In Doom 2016 the testaments tell of a legendary hell warrior that was meant to challenge the DoomSlayer. The two fought and he killed it as he does. But you see that Demon was no mere hell Knight. Or Baron of hell. No. This Champion demon is that skull you jump through when going through hell. Yeah. He killed that thing. Without a BFG.
3: Also with the whole personality traits of Blue Team. I went off their wiki sums a lot and kind of turn it up to 11. Because… yeah they are all stoic and somber etc. Which would make it… SO boring to write. Because 95% of interactions of blue team would be. "Nod. Roll shoulder. Nod. Shake head. Nod. Hand wave." I kept John like that but otherwise, yeah. Putting a guy that never talks in a room of people that hardly talk would not be that interesting.
Thank you for that. I now have a twitter if you want to shoot me any story requests. Just look for Final SD or something. Anyway Enjoy.
A few grunts hung around the pond that formed from the falling steam from the cliff. The red tint of the area around them also changed the color of the water. From a light green color to an almost black purple color. One grunt continued to poke the water ignoring everything else. A fall rock fell and hit one of the other three grunts in the head and knocked it out. The other two laughed at their fallen friend while the fourth just kept poking the water with a stick. It's needle gun sitting off to the side. Following the rock fell the DoomSlayer who smashed his boots into the back of one of the laughing grunts and breaking most of its bones as he collapsed onto it and into the dirt. The other laughing grunt pointed his plasma pistol at the DoomSlayer and charged it up. The DoomSlayer paused and waited for a second as it became fully charged.
"Die!" The grunt said in the little English it knew. The DoomSlayer pushed its arm downwards with the end of his rifle and had it blow off the head of the knocked out grunt. It paused and looked at the end of its gun. "Oh…"
The DoomSlayer lifted up his rifle with one hand and pulled the trigger and sent a single bullet into its skull. The fourth grunt continued to play with the water. It pulled back its stick and found that it had practically melted. The DoomSlayer walked up behind it, unlatched a tube to its methane tank. The grunt reached back out of panic and the DoomSlayer kicked the Grunt into the water where it sank into the acidic water with a scream as its flesh boiled and popped under the water. Linda landed relatively close by to him and took in the area before looking back at him.
"When did you become subtle?" She asked him over the coms in a low voice.
He looked back at her and shrugged. The rest of blue team landed shortly after and looked around in the red tinted bubble of the area. Fredrick and Kelly took up positions and the DoomSlayer grouped up next to John as they took up position behind some boulders. Linda looked through the scope of her sniper rifle and shared the feed with the rest of the team and marked what looked like several generators that fed into the main building. On top of the structure was a large device that was shooting out a beam that started to fracture the closer it got to the top of the "bubble" of hellish energy they were currently in.
"Vega." John called out. Vega turned back on.
"Those generators are powering the quote on quote drill that you see there." The A.I. answered. "Focusing the energy as to, as you put it, to punch the hole into hell to let the tear fully open."
"So take out those generators and turn off the drill?" Linda question as she took aim.
"Yes. However, a rapid release of energy from the result their destruction would cause a similar result – more grotesque – result."
"Explain." Fredrick asked.
"When it was such a desire back on mars by a women named Olivia Pierce, such a rabid opening caused the cease of life over 99.5 percent of our faculty's employees. With a 64 percent possession and demonic mutation rate. Some dying from the release. Most dying from the possession and or demonic presence." Vega told them. "The Covenant do not desire such a result."
"Cut the supply off then." Fredrick said then looked at John and made a few gestures of his hands that John completely understood.
"DoomSlayer, we are gonna need you to flank." He said turning to find the DoomSlayer still standing there. John blinked a bit and Kelly looked over and raised an eyebrow.
"Thought there would just be a dotted outline of him." She said. The DoomSlayer almost seemed to roll his eyes.
"I need you to take down those towers." Master Chief said pointing to the jackal nests.
The DoomSlayer pulled out his rocket launcher. Master Chief paused for a brief second and decided not to protest. He held up a hand up and Blue tensed up and got ready to go. With a closing fist the five of them attacked. Fredrick ran straight forward and switched to his shotgun as he made a B line for the closest Elite. Linda aimed her sniper rifle and pulled the trigger, the bullet passing over Fredrick's shoulder and missing his head by less than three inches. The bullet slammed into the Elites shields and shattered them. Before the shields on the rest of it fell Fredrick let loose a shotgun blast into the back of its head to explode its skull. A jackal on top one of the buildings aimed its Carbine repeater at Fredrick's head. The scope of the rifle exploded as another sniper round passed through it and into the Jackals skull and out the other end.
John and Kelly used concentrated fire to destroy the shields of an elite and brute. The brute yelled and jumped at the two of them as the Elite fell back. Master Chief didn't bother looking as he continued to rush the elite. Kelly Slide forward as the brute jumped overhead and pulled the trigger to her Battle Rifle three times – once in the head and twice in the chest – the brute hit the ground dead and almost at the exact same time it hit the ground Kelly rose back up to her feet to pull off a headshot on a grunt off to the left as Chief put ten rounds into the chest of the elite before aiming off to the right to cut down a grunt that was out of cover.
The DoomSlayer jumped into the beam in the center of one of the Jackal look out towers and activated his boosts so to be propelled higher than normal. The three jackals looked up at him as he launched down two rockets and turned them into blood stains. He aimed at the next tower about 30 yards away and fired several rockets into the platform to disrupt the two jackals as they aimed their pulse rifles. This caused the platform to explode. He paused for a second to look at his rocket launcher and the platform he was standing on. A Ghost was going to pass his tower as it was being driven by an Elite. He aimed his rocket Launcher and locked 5 different rockets onto it and pulled the trigger as he jumped off the platform.
The rockets caught up to the Ghost and caused it to explode and launching the sheildless elite into firing range of Kelly and Master Chief. Kelly put a single shot into its skull and turned her rifle towards another group of Jackals. Master Chief dodged a swing from a Brute's type-25 grenade launcher. He swung his rifle off to the side of him to kill a grunt that was running from the side, with his rifle being fired with his right hand he reached down and grabbed his magnum and brought it up sharply into the brute's chin and pulled the trigger 3 times and kicked the corpse off the Brute onto the ground before putting the magnum back onto his thigh as he grabbed his rifle with both hands and blew off the hand of a shield jackal as he ran at it. He pushed its shield off to the side and unloaded more of the clip into its chest. An Elite ran at him invisible from the side before it was cut in half by a massive pulse blast.
Master Chief traced the blast and found the DoomSlayer holding his Gauss Cannon for a brief moment before he switched over to his pump action shotgun and charged at another brute. The head of a brute was blown off to the left of the DoomSlayer from Linda's rifle. Linda pulled back the action on her rifle and reloaded and panned back over to Fredrick as he slammed his shotgun into the head of a brute to crush its skull. Before he had time to reload another elite rushed behind him. He switched the positioning of his hands and grabbed the end of the shotgun's barrel and swung it like a baseball bat into the head of the elite. The swing broke its shields but didn't stop the elite from hitting Fredrick to the ground. A sniper shot tore through the elite's skull. Fredrick rolled off the side and pull his rifle off his back and mowed down a standing grunt.
Master Chief dashed behind a metal box and reloaded hi Pistol as Kelly shot at the Jackals on top of the main structure as they shot down at the two Spartans. Just as she went behind the cover Master Chief came out from behind it and zoomed up and pulled the trigger 4 times to take out the three jackals. Off in the distance another tower exploded and Master Chief and Kelly looked over and found the DoomSlayer running back towards them while shooting down any Covenant soldier that got in his vision with his pulse rifle. A grunt threw a sticky grenade at him and while it was in the air another grunt was close by. So he pulled out his pistol, charged it, and blew off the Grunts arm and threw the blown off arm at the sticky grenade that almost followed the same arc it took and blew up with the original thrower as well as the two grunts standing next to him. With another shot from the pistol the armless grunt had its head blown open. An invisible Elite rushed him with an energy sword and the DoomSlayer spun around as he pulled out his chainsaw and cut the elite in half at the waist. Almost directly after this the other Soldiers began to land at the bottom of the cliff and they finished off the remaining Covenant force guarding the position.
"How does he spot them so easily?" Kelly talked to herself as the DoomSlayer nudged the cut in half elite with his foot before shrugging and moving towards the main building. Vega came back on.
"The DoomSlayer's senses are much greater than any sort of detection system. He can spot any cloaked any quite easily. He always has been able to." Vega told her. "One of our original theories are that-."
"Shut up poindexter." One of the sergeants said over the comms. "Let's turn off this laser thing and get the hell out of dodge."
"Very well. I would hurry." Vega said as all the soilders landed. Linda and Fredrick were already inside of the building looking for the cables and switches to turn off the generators. The DoomSlayer also joined them, hoping that he could just tear a cable out of the floor or something.
"Why's that?" One of the other soldiers asked. There was a sound comparable to that of a sewer system being flushed out and thunder mixing all together before there were thousands of popping sounds all around them.
"For it's been cut through enough already on this side. They are coming through." Vega stated.
Behind one of the last soldiers to get down the cliff a small portal like figure appeared behind him and a red claw launched out and tore off his helmet and most of his skull. The nearest soldier turned toward the red figure as it clawed its way out. A red humanoid like creature stood there. It didn't seem to have the majority of organs a mortal creature would have. Like it was comprised of nothing but muscle, bone, and blood. But everything about its posture and its appearance screamed one thing. It was from hell, and it was hungry. Similar tears began to pop up all over the hellish bubble and more and more of these creatures appearing. Along with them, not in nearly the same amount, was a six and a half foot tall figure that looked like the closest thing to a hell soldier. One arm having hellish energy glowing from it and its flesh looking like plated white armor. The first imp that clawed through jumped at the second Soldier and torn into his torso.
"Holy shit…" Kelly whispered.
"All Marines fall back into the complex! Now!" Mater Chief ordered.
The Marines ran as they shot behind them at the demons as the came out of the ether of the world. Ten marines didn't make it as they were blown or torn apart by the demons. As soon as they got into the complex they began to barricade the doors and window of the complex. The demons pounding and cutting into the metal with their claws while also bombarding them with argent energy blasts.
"Vega. Update. Now." Master Chief demanded.
"The Red ones are classified as Imp. The white ones are Razors. Others are coming shortly after." Vega answered.
"Will cutting off the energy stop it?" Master Chief question.
"Your fellow Spartans already have accomplished this." Vega answered. "The open will not get bigger. But it will not close. It can't be closed from our side."
"So we have to fight these guys off before they run out of demons?" Fredrick said running up with Linda.
"I doubt a large amount of their force is behind this opening. On either note hell is a composite realm. Comprised of several different dimensions that it has absorbed. Defeating each and every demon would be quite impossible." Vega answered.
"Alright. Everyone take an opening. Heavy armors in front. Rest is covering fire." Master Chief said while pointing to the Marines. He then gestured to three marines. "DoomSlayer, cover our south flank with three. We play smart we'll make it out of this."
"Wilco." One of the three Marines said as he walked out with other two. Kelly checked her rifle's clip.
"Any words of advice from out Demon expert?" She asked.
"Demons can recover from most damage. Until a large portion of them is blown off, or they remain still for 20 seconds believe them to be-!" Vega started. A grunt and growl came from behind them.
"They are rage, brutal, without mercy. You have to be worse. Rip and Tear… Until it is done." The voice was gravelly, and sharp, and partially muffled. But everyone heard it. It was not a mistake. The radio was on which made the voice echo in the room. He had talked. The blue team looked over and saw him fixing his pulse rifle before going towards the south part of the complex.