An Elite captain rushed into his general's building of operation and fell to a knee and lowered his head. The air crackling and bubbling as the tear that poured the demon hordes of hell remained active. The air was near toxic and at best nauseating with the smell of brimstone and decaying flesh and the undeniable smell of metallic blood being a constant assault on one's senses. Ironically the only members of the covenant force that did not have any issue with the air was in fact the grunts as they mostly breathed a different form of gas than the rest. The Elite captain's shield – to this degree – were active as he remained kneeling on the now stone like floor; in fact, the entire building was altered into a hellish form. Flesh like stone creeped and overtook the material that the building was originally comprised of with fissures of pulsing energy running like veins against this hellish landscape. The Elite captain had seen similar stone appearing and overtaking other structures near the portal to hell – sometimes just making twisted pillars of the material – but it was more prominent here than anywhere else. The Covenant were ordered by their general to bring all corpses near to the portal where they watched in horror as the bodies were infected by the hell energy, where as they would rise again possessed and shambling. Some of the material began to creep over the Elite's hand and he pulled it away and gulped.

"Sir. The Spartans and The DoomSlayer are coming. They are only two kilometers out at the greatest. Shall we send out the hordes to meet them?" The Captain asked. The General emerged out from the shadows and the captain could not recognize him. Blinking his eyes again and again at the figure.

The flaps that were once the generals mouth had all been sealed with a hellish metal like growth. Horns made of similar growth came out of the side of the generals head and pointed forward. Plate like growths game off right arm and over his hand over the handle of his plasma sword with his other arm being taken over partially as able to hold things normally. More growths came out from all over his body to form a sort of plate armor over his torso and legs comprised of what was once his Elite armor and these hellish metal growths. Spike emerging out of the armor just as well. The General had also growth two more feet in height, putting him over 10 feet tall. The General looked down at the elite as he quivered.

"I do not need you to send such a message." A voice came from nearly all around, a true source none existent. "If I want it. They will go with a mere thought. You are so primitive that you need to send out orders in such a way… here we thought that your weapons and armor proved you were more advanced than such."

"W-what has happened to you?"

"The deal that you struck." The being said looking over his right hand and having the plasma blade coming out and a blood red before looking over his left. "Are you unsatisfied?" The elite captain jumped back away from the figure and turned on his own.

"The deal was that our forces would combine to destroy the humans!" The Elite yelled. A rumble came from around the elite's head. Laughter.

"Is this not but the purist form of combination?" The figure replied. The Elite swung his plasma sword at the figure and caught the blade in his left hand against the growths in its palm. "Primitive as you may be your kind still knows the value of blades, at least to a degree."

Holding onto the blade the being yanked the plasma sword out of the elite's hand, tossing it to the side, and grabbing the elite by the throat. The Figure easily lifted the elite and slammed the elite head first into the wall just with enough force not to kill the elite.

"Deals, promises, compromises? No wonder you have lost to mortal men. A dozen times over you could have defeated humanity. But no. You failed. Not because of these mock mimics of the DoomSlayer you called Spartans, but because you let them." The Figure slammed him again into the wall, bending the steel. "You wipe out a planet of them but then you claim a singular one of them is the end of you? Pathetic. When your drive was to kill, to wipe out, to destroy, this is when you were strong. How could you have forgotten such values?"

The Figure thrusted his plasma blade into the elite's chest and dropped the corpse to the floor before walking out to be met by two barons of hell and two possessed hunters. With nothing but a hand gesture the four of them went out towards where the Spartans and DoomSlayer were coming from. The figure walked forward a bit before turning back and watching as a possessed, shambling, elite came out from the building. The possessed elite nodded and followed the rest of the forces with the figure walking behind a good majority of the force. He was Hell incarnate, and he was ready to rip the DoomSlayer apart.

Blue team arrived at slightly sloping section of the cannon that was for the slowest of them 15 minutes away from the portal. Demons and possessed covenant came at them in groups of thirty at the most but against four Spartans and the DoomSlayer they never stood a chance. Linda looked down the scope of her rifle at a group of covenant structures and watched as hellish stone overtook them slowly. Off to the side she heard as another demon got its head ripped off by the DoomSlayer while Master Chief continued to shoot down possessed with a pulse rifle. Fredrick and Kelly took up her flanks so she could scout out ahead without any issue.

"You know what this is V.E.G.A?" She asked. The A.I. jumped into her helmet to see what she was talking about.

"Oh. That's an effect that happens when a large amount of Argent energy is exposed. The energy begins to solidifies and transforms the landscape into a hellish one. It only happened close to the portal on mars. But here it looks as if the covenant has actually been using their entire ability to rip it open." Vega answered.

"How fest spreading is it?"

"It has a square inverse connection by all likelihood. Larger the portal, faster the growth. When this planet is over taken over argent energy will seep through the void of space into the rest of the solar system, so forth and so on till the galaxy is taken over. After that even the rate of growth would take the fastest pace would take a well over four hundred thousand years."

"Well then. Let's head down this path," Linda said while marking different paths on her way point map before rumbling came from the very air around them.

"Kill them." A voice called out around them. A blast from a wraith was launched at them from overhead. The eyes of Blue team locked onto the threat and took action that second, dashing out of the way.

The team was thrown in each direction with a combination of the five of them dodging out of the way and the explosion. The DoomSlayer's head pivoted and looked directly down the slope and found the Incarnate standing at the base with a single finger pointed at their position as a horde of demons rushed towards the team. Imps rushed down from the side of the cannon as the leaped against the stone and throwing balls of Argent energy at the group. Possessed covenant fumbled forward while firing what weapons that had been infused with their bodies at the team. Barons and knights ran together at the five of them while Mancubi launched projectile from the opposite side of the canyon at the group. While returning fire Blue team moved out of the path of different attacks from the demon horde, strafing as they fired what little ammo they had left, with one of them remaining still. The DoomSlayer.

Master Chief looked at him as he remained still out of the corner of his eye and watched as a sort of purple light began to overtake the DoomSlayer's body. The DoomSlayer rolled his shoulders and pulled out his assault rifle. He rolled his neck and ran forward directly towards the Incarnate.

"Move on DoomSlayer." Master Chief called out.

"No."

The Incarnate lifted up his left hand and the rock of the canyon floor began to split between the Blue team and The DoomSlayer before stalagmite like rocks erupted out of the fissure to create a twenty-foot wall between them. The DoomSlayer looked at the wall of the corner of his eye for a moment before aiming at a revenant in the air and ripping it apart with a riddle of bullets while running forward while the purple glow continued to emanate from his body. He ran forward and spun his body while stepping forward and back fisted off the head of a possessed grunt. A knight charged at him from the side and launched two rockets into its head and torso before jumping over it as it exploded. When he landed he let loose thirty more shots into twenty possessed, imps, and razors. He let his rifle fall into his warp pack as a baron charged at him while a possessed hunter came from the side. While Sliding he pulled out his Gausses cannon and blew a hole out from the chest of the Baron and coming out the other side of its legs. The hunter leaped over the corpse of the Baron and the DoomSlayer dropped a hologram of himself and dashed off to the side while charging another shot; as the hunter attacked the hologram he destroyed its back with a blast so powerful it cut the hunter in half.

He pulled out his double barrel and took down an Imp as it leapt through the air while jumping out of the way of a rocket from a revenant. With his jets he double jumped at the revenant and blew its head off and switched to his plasma rifle as the summoner that brought forth the imp warped away. He ran at it while mowing down another razor before stunning the summoner. With a sweep of the legs and a punch the DoomSlayer crushed the demon's skull into the stone floor. A pinky charged at him and he jumped over it while blasting away at its back before throwing a grenade at a group of possessed jackals and imps; both died within seconds of each other. Landing he was slammed into by a Baron of hell and thrown back twenty feet.

Feet scrapping against the stone he remained crouched as a Mancubus took aim at him from the side and a Hell Knight came from the other. As he got to his feet he pulled out his double barrel shotgun and blasted the Hell Knight that hell to its knees. The DoomSlayer ran at it and jumped at it – feet first – his legs going passed the demon's head as he hooked its head with an arm. Bone and brain matter became paste as they were driven into the stone. The Baron of hell came at him once more and the DoomSlayer pulled out his chainsaw and cut off a leg before decapitating the demon. The DoomSlayer sprinted at the Mancubus with the chainsaw and powered through the blast it hit him with. Dragging the ripping teeth of the chainsaw across the stomach of the Mancubus blood, and a strange blue energy, covered the DoomSlayer. The DoomSlayer stood up and pulled out his pump action shotgun.

"…" Master Chief remained silent as he saw the last three kills by the DoomSlayer for himself. "I'm not going to fight that."