Eagle-Nine flies over rough terrain as they go north over rough terrain and through enemy territory. Doom would see just how much damage they have done across this land, seeing that there is no life and environment anywhere, the buildings nearby are devastated in ashes. There is no sign of demons anywhere, probably because there is no point for them to stay in an area that they have already destroyed; they would go somewhere else to continue their hunt for life.

Doom looks out at the view of the place while the Blackhawk flies across the field, since everyone on board were saying nothing to one another the moment they left that facility, Lauren of course had to end the awkward silent. She speaks out to Doom, causing the others near her to turn their heads towards her.

"So Doom. Just what exactly are you going to do around here?" She asks, causing Doom to turn towards her "What makes you think you can help us out in this fight? Your just one man."

"We got contact!" The pilot contacts everyone at the back, looking out at the view of a military structure in the far distance. "Were finally home."

This UAC fortress is one of the few structures still intact by the UAC after they seize control of this whole territory. This fortress held strong walls around the place, strong thick walls that can hold two rows of men. In the sky, the walls form together to show the shape of a pentagon, having the points protected by bunkers and heavy weaponry on the top of the bunkers, the only way through this place is either over the strong thick wall or underneath it. There is only one entrance into this place; it lies at the back of the shape of the pentagon where the Blackhawk approaches. Inside the interior shows a few trenches around the walls and elsewhere in the middle, built in the same stone as the walls so that the marines could go underground to the bunkers or further underground of the base. The interior of the place shows a couple of buildings, there might also be many places underground of the fortress; the trenches could take the person to these underground entrances. The base also has two helipads but there is no sign of any helicopters, only Eagle-Nine is probably the only airborne vehicle they have left.

"Watchtower this is Eagle-Nine. Watchtower can you respond?"

The large tower that stood in the left side, close to the walls had the good view across the whole land, having two men without their helmets would use these advanced binoculars to get a good look at the Blackhawk. One of them would move back inside, talking to the radio operator inside the tower so he could respond to Eagle-Nine.

"Eagle-Nine this is Watchtower; you have a clear for landing."

"Copy that." The pilot looks back to the team "Were going in everyone."

The sergeant turns his head to the pilot "Tell them that we need to speak to the colonel! Tell them what we got."

"Alright." The pilot looks forward and contacts Watchtower again "Watchtower, you better go contact Colonel Logan."

"Roger that."

"What are we going to tell the colonel about him?" One of the marines said to the sergeant

"I'll think of some explanation."

"You sure?" Lauren asks

"I have no idea but we can't just say that he came from Mars." He looks to Doom "I'm sorry but I don't want to tell my superiors that you're a space marine from a distant planet."

"You might have to deal with that for a while." Lauren said

"But they will find out eventually. Welcome to Firebase Bravo." The sergeant said. He turns his head out at the view, seeing they just went past the wall, soon to make land inside the base.

Eagle-Nine slowly lands down on one of the pads, the moment it lands, Rhino Squad comes out of there and two of them grabs a hold of the container of the Argent Core, dragging it out of there before the pilot could power down the Blackhawk. When Doom got off the Blackhawk, he got a look around the place, seeing many UAC marines walking around, some got their looks towards him, strange to see someone wearing different armour and looks the odd one out. He begins moving away from the Blackhawk, soon looking back as the team of Rhino Squad stops what they are doing, seeing the colonel coming out of the trenches approaches them, wearing his formal black clothing and a couple of medals on it.

"Sergeant Travis."

"Colonel Logan. Sir." He salutes to the colonel, getting him to salute back at him

"At ease marine." Logan said then looks down to the container "Is this the Argent Core?"

"Yes sir. We made it in that facility, as you can see…" He turns back to his team then back to Logan "We are what is left of Rhino Squad."

"I see… Well don't worry. With this." He points to the container while looking at Travis "We will get rid of the hell portal."

"Yes sir."

"Now get you and your marine's some rest, you earned it."

"Thank you sir." He salutes once again before turning back to his team to give them the good news

Colonel Logan turns to two cyborg infantry units that came approaching him, seeing they wore a silver colour armour; the armour is similar to the UAC marines but different. Both of their helmets are different from one another, it also shows that they are slightly taller than the marines are and both carry no weapons on them. These two simply salutes to the colonel then stands in front of him, ready for new orders.

"Take this inside the base and give it to the scientists. Tell them they have twelve hours to place this inside his warhead."

"Yes sir." One of them responds. Both will walk past Logan and walks over to the container, both grabbing it on both sides with one hand then starts walking back with it underground of the base.

After they got the good news, Lauren would turn her attention back to Doom while he walks around, getting the attention of many marines who spots him, seeing this is the first time seeing someone new around the base. He looks over to a couple of marines who looks back at him, seeing four of them and this heavy armoured marine. He wore a heavier version of the proper armour, making him the same height as a Hell Knight. He carries a larger and modified version of the M60 machinegun, capable of firing off blue energy rounds and not regular bullets.

"You having fun checking a good look around the base?" Lauren approaches Doom, getting him to look back to her then she looks over to the marines, showing that he is friendly to fellow marines. "Don't worry about them; we have never seen another marine in armour like that. Just how did you get that armour anyway?"

"And just who is this intruder?" Logan calls to the two, getting them to turn towards him as he comes over with a couple of marines staying behind him as a guard. "Marine, explain yourself."

Doom looks to the side when seeing the marines he was looking at before came closer to him, causing him to look back to the colonel as he was about to be surrounded, this became uncomfortable for him so he drew out his double barrel but was stopped by Travis that grabbed his arm from behind. The moment they saw him drawing a weapon, the colonel backs away and causes the marines to take aim, leaving both Travis and Lauren stuck in the middle.

"Not here marine." Travis whispered to him "Don't do this here."

"Who is this man you brought in my base!?" Colonel Logan calls to the two marines "Explain yourself."

"Sir." Sergeant Travis steps in front of Doom "He is a marine who helped us escape; he helped us get out of there…" He looks back to Doom then back to Logan to continue. "He helped us achieve our objective."

"It's true sir." Lauren steps forward "If he wasn't there then we would have sustain more casualties and most certainly a failure on the mission."

"I did not approve this man to be here on this base. This marine could be one of those people from Deimos."

"We… Don't know…" Lauren said "He doesn't talk."

"Doesn't talk?" He laughs a bit "Surely you joke."

Travis looks back to Doom "It would be a good idea if you do talk right now…"

"I don't have time for this." Logan said then turns back "Apprehend the marine."

The marines took aim when moving forward, causing Doom to raise his double barrel at one of them while Lauren steps forward to the colonel "Colonel Logan wait!"

"Stand down marine." Logan turns to the side, looking back to Lauren and Travis "That's an order."

"…"

Travis looks around at the marines while they stand there taking aim. He looks back to Doom as he stood there looking back at him. "I'm sorry marine; you just got to have to surrender right now…"

Lauren notices him closing his hand to form a fist; this got her to step forward and grabbed his arm. "Doom. Please… Don't make things worse, we can still help you but only if you stand down so they could apprehend you."

Doom looks at her for the moment, eventually calming down and ends up dropping his gun on the floor. Both Lauren and Travis steps back away while the marines moves in to cuff him, getting the heavy marine to hold him while one of the marines place this energy cuffs on his wrists in front of him. After they apprehended him, one of the marines check to see if he has anything else, checking his suit. This marine would find something down on his waist, taking out a data chip and examining it for the moment before looking up at Doom.

"What is this?" The marine said when showing the data chip to Doom, seeing he is not getting any answers from him. He places the chip away and turns to the side. "Let's go."

The heavy guard grabs his right arm and made Doom follow the marine out of here with four marines following him from behind. Doom would look back to Travis and Lauren as they stand there, watching him being taken away for interrogations.

"This isn't right." Lauren said

"There's nothing we can do." Travis said "As long as he cools down, we will be alright."

"We have never had hope fighting the demons… If he is the hope then what is wrong with us?" Lauren turns to Travis

"I only saw little on what he did, he still doesn't impress me."

"But he could do more…"

"Or he could do more damage to us than the demons. The only hope we have right now is proof that he is what he says he is, which is going to be the problem here because he can't talk."

Inside the underground complex of the base, Colonel Logan returns back underground to see the scientists working on completing a warhead. Four scientist's stands in the room and two marines who stood at the doorway watching them, seeing them fixing the missile but soon stops when Colonel Logan comes through the door, causing the two marines to salute.

"So how is going?" Logan asks when walking in the room "You have what you want right?"

One of the scientist's walks up to Logan as he stands on the side of the missile, standing next to the container that is still closed shut. "Sir, the warhead still needs some more time in order for this to work."

"There is not enough time, I said you have twelve hours and that is how much time you got left." He looks to the scientist then to the warhead "And this warhead better work in twelve hours."

"Colonel Logan, I assure you…. This missile will work, its destructive power combine with the Argent Core you took from that old facility, this is enough to create a more destructive force to close the hell portal and destroy thousands of demons on the other side."

"Good… Now get it done." He turns back and walks out of the room "Or else you will be left outside of the base." He said that before he left the room.

Colonel Logan makes his way to the communications room that holds up to twenty people operating fifteen computers. They watch over the surrounding areas and contact other UAC facilities out there, gathering some information's from other places so they can be on schedule to know what's going on out there. Some of them watch over the satellites so they could get a look out in some places, seeing that if they do spot a large force out there, they would be the first people to know about it.

"So what do we got here." Logan calls out when entering the room, getting the attention of the lead specialist who was standing by one of the men operating the computer.

The specialist walks up to Logan and gives him a salute before responding "Sir, we have conformation that the hell portal has been increasing their numbers lately, they now doubled than what they had before."

"How many are we talking about?"

"Some say either two to three thousand demons are coming out of the portal, all of them are the elite demon guards."

Colonel Logan was surprised when he mentioned the elite demon guards "The elites? Are you sure about that?"

"Yes sir, we have already checked it twice and it is not a false accusation."

"The elites…?!" He said to the man, having an astonished look when hearing that as he knew what they are "I know them well… They are the main frontline infantry of the demon army. We lost a lot of men when facing them."

"Then that would mean that they are preparing for battle." He turns back and looks towards the large screen that was against the wall, covering the whole wall and showing the whole map of the area "Firebase Bravo is the only base out here that they could target."

While they look towards the map to see some red dots, blue dots and white dots placed across the area. The red dots are their location as there is many red dots in one area; it is unknown on what the blue and white dots are but one of the white dots vanish all the sudden but did not concern them.

Colonel Logan would look back when hearing a marine approaching him, seeing him saluting to him before reporting the situation on the Doom Marine.

"Sir. The marine is now kept under guard by two heavy guards and four marines." The marine would take out the data chip that he took, showing it to Logan "I also took this off the marine."

"It's a data chip." The specialist said when looking at the data chip "Why would a marine take this?"

"We arrested an unidentified marine inside my base." Logan takes the chip off the marine then turns back "He could be a member of Deimos. Could you gather information from this?"

The man takes the chip and examines it before turning back "I can try, not sure what I will find in this." He approaches one of the computers, he sits down and turns it on, seeing it comes up the moment he pressed a button, seeing the screen light up in blue then he goes and places the data chip inside the computer to examine it in the screen.

"Hmmn… Well this is interesting." The man said when started to type on the keyboard, seeing many data appearing so quickly over the screen, he was unable to understand all of it.

"What is it?"

"It isn't data and information that we thought it is…. It's a… It's alive."

"Care to explain about that?"

Suddenly all the computers went out of control when they all suddenly went black on their screens at the same time, this got everyone to back away when seeing their screens are consumed in blue, it also cause the screen that the two were using to revert back to blue and the information on it was removed from the screen. Logan and the others backs away from their computers, all stood up and tried to find a way to refix the system but that would soon change when the main screen at the front would turn black and a face would appear on the screen. This man appeared in this bluish energy, seeing he is not alive but an artificial intelligent.

Just when that man appeared on the screen, Lauren came inside this room and notices the problems here, she too got a look at the big screen, seeing the artificial intelligent. This surprised her, seeing that this is the first time seeing something like this because the only artificial intelligent that the UAC ever had was destroyed on Mars.

"What the hell?"

"It's an artificial intelligent."

"Hello." The man on the screen said politely to them "You have to forgive me for controlling your systems, I do apologise got that. It has been years since I was plugged back into the system and operational."

"Who are you?" Logan steps forward to the screen

"My name is VEGA. I am an artificial intelligent of the UAC, it's a pleasure to meet you, colonel."

"Now that's impossible." Logan said "The real VEGA was destroyed during the Mars incident."

"You are mistaken." VEGA said "I have been un-operational for ten years, despite this; I manage to stay active thanks to the Doom Slayer."

"Doom Slayer…." Lauren mumbled to herself, she began walking closer, stops halfway, and stood behind Logan "Explain to us about the Doom Slayer. Who is he?"

"The Doom Slayer… The Doom Slayer is the bringer of death to the –"

"Lauren what do you think you're doing?" Logan said when looking back at her

"Hey you wanted information on the Doom Slayer, you wanted proof right?"

"I am oblige to answer any question you need." VEGA said "I am not your enemy, my duty is to protect the UAC property and serve Samuel Hayden."

"The chairman of the UAC?" Logan looks back to him

"Correct."

"Then if you're on our side, return the network back to us."

"Certainly." Few seconds later, all the computers returns to their previous state on what they were before VEGA took over them, only the main screen on the wall was the only thing he stayed.

"We have everything operational sir." One of the people said when looking to his screen, seeing everything was back the way they were before. "He did it."

"Good…" Logan looks back to VEGA "Now you have explaining to do, just how that marine did have possession over you anyway?"

"After the Doom Slayer destroyed my system so he could return to Hell, he was so kind is to upload me into the data chip, that way I could stay alive and by his side. Sadly, Samuel Hayden didn't know I was still alive and for that, he sent Doom Slayer in the dark reaches of Hell itself."

"Just who is the Doom Slayer anyway?" Lauren asks "Please answer that question."

"Doom Slayer is the bringer of death to the demons of Hell. He is one of the survivors of the Mars incident, he help contain the threat of the demons, he was awakened and we helped him destroy the demons but with the cost of the entire facility."

"So that man was right after all…" Lauren said to herself "He is the Doom Slayer."

"I have seen him in action, he could single handily defeat hundreds of demons with just one shot. There has been many tablets in Hell that tells the story of the Doom Slayer. I have all the data and codex of the Doom Slayer if you wish of me to upload them to the computers."

"So this man is useful to us." Logan said to himself

Lauren walks up to Logan "Sir, please allow me to retrieve the Doom Slayer, if you simply apologise to him then he would help us defeat the demons."

"Is the Doom Slayer here?" VEGA asks "I would like to thank him for keeping me alive, I could not speak to him in person due to his suit not having the ability to do so. He felt very lonely down there in the pit, shame I could not speak to him; otherwise we both would have gotten to know one another a lot better."

Logan looks back to Lauren "Go to the prison and tell the marines to let him go."

"Thank you sir." She salutes before taking her leave

"You place the Doom Slayer in the brig?" VEGA asks "You should not have done that… If it was up to him, he would surely kill everyone in this base."

"….?!"

Lauren quickly ran towards the prison room where they kept Doom and other prisoners who betrayed the UAC or are against them. Just when she went inside the room, she stops at the door and spots Doom standing there, out of his prison cell. He stands there over the marines, seeing his left hand rubbing his right wrist, seeing that he just took down two heavy guards and four marines who lies there on the floor, still alive but sustain slight injuries.

"What the hell!?" Lauren calls out to him "We had this under control…"