FIGHT LIKE HELL, FIGHT LIKE DOOM MARINES!

Ch.15: Hazardous Distortions. Part 4, Finale.

(Kevin/Doom Marine, working through the tunnels...)

"Well, it's official; this is a total mindfuck." I thought to myself, as I traversed through the tunnel. When I came down here, I actually found Vincent's briefcase, hanging up on the ceiling, however random that may sound or happen, it was just there.

Anyway, I saw the end of the tunnel I was walking through, with smoke rising still from the explosion, that happened earlier. These things were more busy with putting out fires, spreading throughout the this colony. Activating my Invisibility power-up, I quietly slipped through the one tunnel, filled with bug corpses. Glaringly so. But, just to be sure, I planted Kinetic Mines behind me. On the floor, the walls, and the ceiling.

Once I reached a bridge, leading up to a huge double door, I ran up to it and tried to open it. Only to get shocked by it and blown off my boots, falling backwards. "Okay... New plan." I thought groaningly, getting back up. Unfortunately, the electricity wore out my power-up, now I was in plain sight. "Great, now I wished I had the girls with me." I thought ruefully.

Looking around the place for some sort of secret entrance, I compass started lighting up, and I followed it as it intensify when I was getting closer. Off to my left, there was a cave entrance, it was hidden pretty well within the growth. Pushing it out of the way, I made my way through the cave, as it worked its way upwards, somewhat, with some turns in it.

"... GET OVER HERE!!!" Hey, that sounds like Bryan!

Picking up the pace, I found the exit, overlooking the fighting taking place. Apparently, this must be the boss and cause of all this weird shit. I'm surprised they got this wrapped up. Or so I thought. While the boss was being gunned down, the dark crystal within its chest started to act up, and not in a good way. Activating my Invisibility, once it was working again, I jumped down and regrouped behind the lot. Making sure they didn't notice me, while the fabric of reality was being warped and twisted into something else. As soon as it came though, everything became pitch black, until it all flashed white. Our eyes were adjusting themselves, as things started to clear up, and now...

... Now we found ourselves in another dimension, altogether.

(Vincent/Doom Marine...)

"Holy shit..." I muttered, as we all started seeing again. Looking around us, there was one word to describe this whole thing: Necromantic. Well, there's more to it, like the Gothic structures added to this place. Seriously, references to H.P. Lovecraft, especially Dark Souls and Bloodborne. As for the...sky, because we weren't inside any building no more, was coloured purple, with ghost-like forms sailing through it. Giving off that eerily feeling.

Yes, I'm a huge nerd about them. But right now, it isn't the time.

Which begs the question, where the fuck did that thing ran off to? First it teleports us somewhere else, and now it wants us to play the deadly version of Hide and Seek!? Dick move!

"Well, how do we go about this?" Tahilla asked. "Because I don't want to stick around one spot for long."

"Agreed. Let's find that asshole and be done with this." Bryan said, as we moved about this place. There wasn't much happening, although, there were a few puzzles we had to complete before moving onward. Such as; opening doors and gates, which was pretty boring and easy. But, there were a few challenging ones, with a time limit to it. Don't do it in time, you die. Unfortunately, the last one had forced us to split, by via teleportation, and that one really pissed me off.

"Oh, son of a whorish cunt..." I growled in anger, only for that feeling to be replaced with salvation. "Oh hey, the book!" Once I saw it, I ran straight for it. Only, when I was inches away from taking it, something smacks me away from it.

"OW!?!?! What the--!?" I didn't had time to finish that sentence, because I was being thrown around like a fucking rag-doll right now. And fuck me, did this hurt! "OW! OW! OUCH!! WOULD--! ACK--! YOU--! HRNK--! CUT IT--!! AGRH--!! THE F--!! OW--!! FUCK OUT!!!!" Now, I couldn't exactly see what has gotten a hold on me, but I can only guess who though.

Throwing me off into a wall, I shook off the pain and got myself out of there. Looking back at that asshole, it was nothing but pulsing black cloud, with the dark crystal at the centre of it all. Activating my Haste power-up, and whipping out my Chainsaw, I ran straight towards it, trying to hack at it to pieces. Wanting to end this. But, it had another surprise for me, and a shocking one at that.

"Ah~! Now I know where that mark is from..." It spoke up, as it stopped me from destroying it, somehow, and tapped at where the Doom Slayer's mark was at. "Also, do you happen to remember a certain creature he found? Here... Let me show you!" It shouted, as it picked me up and threw me into the same wall again! Just before I got myself down, I saw the thing taking shape, growing in size... No. No way. That can't be right.

"A... Hell Guard?" No, seriously, that's what this thing is shaping out to be!

"My, my... I don't why, but that sounds sssoooo satisfying~! And exactly, what is it?" It asked, sounding deliriously gleeful in this form, as it completed the harden, dark crystallised, transformation. It had every aspect of the form right, down to the smallest detail.

"A Demonic Bio-Mech." I said as I got down from the wall, feeling my powers reaching that new height, as I my blood boiled with hatred. "I don't know how that motherfucker got into the world, but I can guarantee you this..." My voice started to change, as did my everything. As I felt the energy coursing through me, electricity started appearing around my body, even a tornado of lightning surrounded me...

"What? How is this possible!?" I heard it growled, but I didn't bother with explaining anything to that rip-off. "What are you!?"

"I am a Doom Marine, first and foremost." I told him, hearing my voice into an even more demonic tone, just as my form. Feeling my armour becoming one with me, more so than before, as it started to morph into an exo-skeletal like structure. Of course, I felt my mass and muscle compressing and compacting, giving me a more leaner and agile body, perfect for flexibility and dexterity, for when I'm REALLY running. Not to mention, on how taller I'm becoming. Well, a tad bit more, but still taller than before. And my eyes, they were lighting up with a golden-white colour from them.

"However, as by my title I've made and earned, you'll be the first, in a very long time, to understand why I'm known..." Once everything felt complete, the electrified tornado started to die down, revealing the new me. Once it got a look at me, I can feel the fear building up within its soulless hunk of crystals. Forming both the Staff and the Club the Hell Guard are known to use — whether one, or both of them — it got into a defensive stance. Holding my Chainsaw in one, bone-clawed hand, I pulled out my Pistol with my left one, while laughing up a storm, before screeching out the last part. "AS DEATHS RUNNER!!!!!"

Roaring, it came charging up to me, only for me to end up behind him, within a flash, and slashed at his back with my Chainsaw. Leaving a nasty scar running down its back, which bled a black ink substance from it. Growling in pain, it tried to swing its Club at me, only for me to run around it in circle, while firing my Pistol upon the damned thing, which was working a lot like those auto pistols, because of how fast I was pulling the trigger each time.

Using the Staff, it raised its shield, with my rounds bouncing right off of it. Stopping my attack and skidding to a halt in front of it, it started to make it rain with pointy, sharp, dark crystals, and I went back to running again. Dodging and weaving through this much hail, it felt like I was dancing, dancing to the beats of the Inevitable End. Oh... How I have always longed for this to last, for all eternity. For me, when comes to battles, they never last that long, only because of my powers. There were a couple, which I consider was, the most filling and thrilling. Because it really got me moving around and about the fights.

Anyway, enough about diving through the past. The here and now, is what matters most. Turning back to the Dark Hell Guard, its shielding started to waver and fade, weakening with each passing moment, I took this opportunity and smashed my way through it, cutting off his left arm completely.

"ARGH!!! HOLD STILL, DAMN YOU!!!" It growled in anger, not being able to land a single hit on me. With the lost of its left arm, it couldn't use the Staff the same anymore, save for telepathy. Which begs the question, why not use that on me? I mean, sure, you're suppose to have a line-of-sight on your target, but it could have easily used it before this fight, ever, started.

But if I have to guess, I think it just wanted to test this form out on something suitable. Because this is, probably, its first time using something like this. And I'm also guessing that this is using up nearly all of its power to keep the form from breaking down. No wonder why the shielding was starting to fail on it.

Snapping out of my musing, I quickly back-paddled from its Club, swinging mere inches away from my skull-face. I did say exo-skeletal, by the way. Raising my Pistol, I started shooting a lot of hot lead at it, as they started to chip away at its crystallised form, bit by painful bit. Before it could anything, we both heard rumbling and crashing from above, coming straight down to us. I can only guess who might that be. As it came closer and closer, I got out of the way, right before the ceiling collapse on top of that thing.

"WHAT IN THE--!?" It try to say, only to get its other arm ripped off and ruthlessly smashed with it.

"DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE!!!!!" Yelled Bryan, seeing him in his new form, for the first time. Damn, did he look like a total badass! Picking up the useless piece of shit, I stand aside and towards where the book was lying in wait.

"Right there, bro! Some barrier is protecting it!" I told him, as he threw Dark Hell Guard at it, which seem to make the barrier show signs of cracks from that.

Growling ferociously, Bryan walked up to it, picked it up, and repetitively started ramming it against the barrier. "O-PEN-THE-FUCK-UP-BITCH!!!!!!" I was just cackling as I watched on, seeing him doing this kind of thing with anything that pisses him off is always funny. As the Dark Hell Guard started to bleed out more profusely from the abusive savagery of Bryan, the barrier finally broke. Falling into millions of pieces.

Looking back at me, before looking down towards the broken beast, he growled and chucked it at my feet. "FINISH HIM!"

Grinning like the madman I am, I placed my Pistol away and pulled out some of my Kunai, and pinned it to the floor. I had to stomp on them, just so they can dig into the crystal and through it. Once done, I revved up my Chainsaw, and started to cut it in half. Really... Really... Slowly. Travelling from South, all the way up North, a fountain of the Black Blood started spilling and spraying, as I continued on moving up, until I reached the end.

Stepping away from the corpse, it would seem that the Diamond Dog was inside that thing all along. But however the Hell it managed to find a crystal like that, and infused itself with it, is beyond me. But that doesn't matter now, he's dead.

Both I and Bryan were very surprised by hearing the voice from Mortal Kombat. That was just random as fuck! But hey! I'm not complaining, although I'm questioning as to why I got 'Flawless Victory'? Random on as fuck, this is.

Hearing a doorway opening, we got ready to murder whatever walked through it. Only to find that it was... Wait a minute, KEVIN!? How the fucking Hell did he get here with us!? And he found our Night Sentinels!

"Well, I'll be damned. You ballsy son of a bitch..." I spoke up, as they filed on in. Until I remembered where we are, and groaned. "Well, shit. Now we're all fucking stuck here!"

"Not true..." What the Hell!? Before we could do anything, a bright light lid up the entire room. Covering our eyes, we waited for the light to die down, and all I saw was a crystal. I was about to cut this one down, only to get back-handed by Bryan, and get stuck in a fucking wall again!

"OW! BRYAN, WHAT THE FUCK!?" I shouted as I got down, only to fall down to my knees. I ended my power-up and returned back to normal, getting back on my feet.

"DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE DO IT VINCENT! THIS IS THE LAST SHARD OF THE CRYSTAL HEART!" Bryan growled at me, as he, too, ended his one.

As for the crystal, it floated in front of Bryan. "Please, cease this irrational behaviour. Retrieve the book, and we'll get you all home..." Wow. This thing is trying to reason with someone like Bryan? Please, the day he does what you ask of him, is the day I...

"Fine." Die???? OK, what the fuck just happen? I mean, I know I said I knew what happened, but some parts weren't very clear. The rest was.

With a sigh, he walks to retrieve the book I threw away, and came back. Kevin came up to me and gave me the one thing I've been searching for; my briefcase. Taking it and giving my thanks, I hugged at it tightly.

"Say, what happened to you? You seem to have grown." We heard Bryan ask that crystal shard.

"Love never stops... We have been growing stronger, little by little, ever since..." It explained. Or is it they? Since it keeps saying plural words, instead of representing itself as a singular individual.

"Huh... Well, that makes sense. But, we gonna need to come up with a name for you." Bryan stated.

"If that is what you desire of us... Now, gather around..." Doing as told, we circled around it, as we were all enveloped by a light. Once again, we found ourselves back inside the--

"THERE YOU ALL ARE!" Snapping into action, I pulled out my Combat Shotgun, with the Charged Shot mod on, turning around, and aiming down at... The girls.

"... Well, aren't you the disappointment." I snarked off at the Changeling Queen, Chrysalis, where she and the other girls were standing right behind us. Although... "What even happen to you lot? It's almost as if; either a fuckton of birds shit-bombed you, or something big vomit down on you."

And just the mere mention of that, made her snap. "SHUT UP AND HELP US CLEAN THIS OFF!"

"Yeah, I'm picking the first one..." I said, deliberately ignoring her demands.

Gritting her teeth, she glares towards Bryan. "Bryan, help me clean up..." Wait, what the shitfest of a fuckshow?

"No. Fuck off. We're still busy right now." Okay, now there's the Bryan I remember! Good to know it's still him!

"WHAT!? YOU DARE DEFY ME!?" Whoa, is she high or something? I still think Magic Grass, is the equivalent to Weed.

"BITCH I AIN'T DOING FUCK ALL FOR YOU! YOU GOT MAGIC ON YOU LOT, USE THAT!" He snapped back at her, which made her flinch and reminded her on who she's talking up a shitstorm to.

Before anymore argument could be made, something came crashing down through the roof, and landed on the throne. The force from the impact made the seat crumble away, and ended up creating a crater from it. A groan was heard and what crawled out from it was that crazy-ass Draconequus, Discord, although he had a lot of cuts and bruises, a bleeding nose, and whatnot.

Walking up to him, Bryan pulled him out and threw him down in front of us. "What did you do this time?" He asked sarcastically, as if he knew... Actually, yeah, I have to agree with him. Discord would wound up pissing someone powerful than him off.

Grunting, he told us who did the deed. "You can thank that Guardian of yours, when you see her next time."

Bryan, for his part, threw the book to Kevin, came down to the downed Draconequus, placing a boot on his throat, and whips out the BFG-9000...

Oh, shit! And I wasn't the only one either!

"What, did you do, to piss her off?" He growled, as he aimed down at Discord. Who was, at this point, really struggling to get Bryan's boot off his throat.

"S... She just... Came out of nowhere! Found me... Beat me up... And just threw me this way! S-She said something a...about helping out... With a b-bug problem!" He explained, wheezing and choking.

Bryan just snorted at this and got his boot off him. "Then you better get to it. But before that..." He said, as he pointed towards the girls. "Clean them up..."

It took some time, but he pulled it off. With all of today's problems over and done with, we finally got to see what was within that book. Once we read out who this was created by, Twilight gave out a gasp. "Star Swirl the Bearded!? But how is that possible!? All of the things he did are back in Canterlot!"

"You mean Cunterlot?" I snarked off at her. "In all honesty, he sounds like a combination of some people back home."

She glared at me, but I just flipped her off. Sighing, she went on. "This doesn't make sense. How can something like this exist, without anypony, including himself, realising it?"

"Twi, shut up." Bryan told her off. "He wanted this to stay hidden, even from himself. The things within this book contains a lot of stuff, and the one we Doom Marines want to find out is... Here it is!" He said as he went through the pages. Showing us all, he found the the pages containing the Hell Guard this Star Swirl discovered. Found dead within some cave, with demonic hieroglyphics written upon the cave walls. Out of all of them, it carved a bigger one; The Doom Slayer Mark.

"Well, that explains it. After getting as much as he could, he destroyed everything in there, including disintegration of the body completely, and high-tailed out of there. After coming back, he went straight to his Studies and buried the book away. Performing an Amnesia spell on himself, making him forget about it for good." Bryan explained, while pointing out the things the old man left behind, detailing them in here.

"At least we don't have to worry about those fuckers again. It still begs the question; how the Hell did this one Hell Guard get here?" I implied. "They don't exactly leave their post, period. Unless ordered to do so, if given a task. All I see from this one, is writing up its fear and hatred for us five."

"Whatever it was, let's be glad it's no longer an issue. It died before it could do anything sort of damage. You gotta admit though, he sketched all of this, and it real good." Bryan said, as he closed the book, and grabbed the Shard of the Crystal Heart. "Come on, let's head on back. We'll come back here at a later date, right now I want to focus on killing Cocoon and her Hive off. Everything else will have to wait."

I shrugged at this. "If you say so. Dizzy, takes us back to Cunterlot."

"... You're just as worse as Bryan is!" The White Unicorn, Rarity, shouted. I flipped her the bird just as Discord took us back home.

Stretching myself out, I walked over to one of the seats and took a nap. While the others did what they gotta do; like Bryan putting the book within our archives, as Kevin was back on the computer, searching for where our last two brothers were buried, and our two Night Sentinels went to inform Luna and VEGA that we're back. The rest? I don't know, they most likely just left as soon as possible. Hopefully, there won't be anymore interruptions...

"Hello, my Doom Marines. I have something for you..." I spoke too soon. Opening my eyes back up, there she was, our Guardian. Standing there in the middle of the room, with her cloak hiding her true identity from everyone.

Sighing, I got up and walked over to her, same with the other two. "Okay, what's up? I was gonna take a nap before you showed up." I told her, feeling a little agitated.

"Oh, shut up. You've slept for over ten thousand years, besides I need you lot to create your Token." As she explained her reasons for being here, she pulls out this Obsidian stone, with our mark carved into it. "Just place your hands over it, and channel your energies into it, along with your memories of your battles. This way, whoever needs your help will know what you are truly capable of, but I'll be there in case I find that one Displaced to be... Well, I've been sorting out the trafficking of Summoning Tokens out. I know where not to be placing your Tokens in."

"... Alright." I shrugged at this as me and the bros placed our hands over it, channeling some of our powers into it, along with our memories. Once done, we step away from it. "Will that do?"

"Yes, that will do. Thank you, and I'm sorry for this. I know you're all still busy with this war going on, but I'll let you know what will transpire. So, be prepared to meet other Displaced out there, in the multiverse." She said as she looked over our Token. "Usually, most would leave a recorded message in theirs. But since there are five of you in total, I rather you leave a visualised message. This way, you won't have to worry much..."

"We're we suppose to be worried?" Bryan asked her.

"You know how complicating these things are. Anyway, I'll leave you all to your business. Take care." With that said, she vanished into thin air. Shaking my head, I went back to my seat and lied my head back, taking my nap. While we may have left our memories imprinted in that stone, we also left that favourite quote from DOOM on it. Showing the many Demons we had to face, before getting in there and killing them all...

They are Rage. Brutal and without Mercy. But you, you will be worse. Rip and Tear, until it is done.

Author's Notes:

And now, we can finally do some crossovers.

Anyway, this concludes the crazy ride. But, the hunt for the last two Doom Marines continues. The next Doom Marine we'll find is a... Special surprise. Location wise, and no, it's not where Cocoon's Hive is, if that's what you're thinking.

Thanks for reading.