DOOM II

by WinterS794

One-and-a-half years after the events of DOOM (2016), the Doom Slayer has finally found a way to escape the clutches of Hell, and hopefully a way to reclaim his sword, the Crucible. DOOM II strives to maintain the fast pace of the Doom franchise, and boasts twenty chapters of intense action, new guns, new demons, and a new story. *DOOM II contains intense violence, blood, and gore

4. Chapter II - The Seventh Circle

The Seventh Circle of Hell is reserved for the some of the worst souls. Souls that, in life, harmed others through physical violence and other means. In the Seventh Circle, they were subjected to perpetual torment by being eternally trapped in a lake of boiling blood and fire. It was also home to the Uncreation of many different forms of demons. I'd rip and tear my way through if it meant returning to Mars.

As I descended the long, spiral ramp leading to the lake of boiling blood, several Imps appeared in front of me. With them was a ten-foot-tall, floating, sand-colored demon with long, lanky fingers. It turned to the Imps and slaughtered them all with bright red Hell energy coming from its fingertips. It turned back to me, glowing a bright shade of crimson as it slowly absorbed the Imps' powers.

It launched a massive shock of Hell energy from its fingertips. The large bolt of Hell lightning struck me directly and overloaded my suit. The Feeder floated over and picked me up by the throat. It screeched in my face as it prepared to kill me. My suit recovered from the overload just in time for me to be able to snap the Feeder's neck.

I fell to the ground as the Feeder did, but I was the only one to get back up. I continued down the spiral ramp and reached my goal soon enough. The blood lake of the Seventh Circle contained a concentrated amount of Hell energy; enough to get me back to Mars. In the Lazarus Labs, I had seen that the scientists channeled Hell energy through a Summoner to open a portal. Maybe I could do the same.

Finding a Summoner wasn't too difficult. As soon as I aggravated some of the tortured souls in the blood lake, one appeared to investigate. I broke its arms and legs and strapped it to a nearby rock wall. The hard part was finding another Feeder to use to channel the energy with. Luckily, I managed.

I continued to annoy the tortured souls and the Summoner's pained wails helped my cause. A troupe of Imps and a Feeder came to see what was going on. I killed the Imps before the Feeder had time to react. I then leveraged the Feeder into zapping the Summoner with its lightning. A few seconds of sustained voltage to the Summoner was enough to tear open a portal just my size.

I knew that the portal would close soon after the energy flow was cut off, so I made a run for it. As the Feeder recovered from my brutish manhandling, I made a running leap into the portal. I was lucky enough to escape with myself intact. I had finally returned to Mars. Hayden would get what's coming to him soon enough.