Doomguy Vs The World (IC thread)

[Doomguy]

The Fight Begins. Bring It On.

Given the lax rent-a-cops that I breezed through in the lobby, I wasn't sure what to expect going forward. Killer robots? Ex-marines? Perhaps the energy that grew more powerful the closer I got to mean the portal had more than just on and I was about to find a familiar enemy. The idea of the New York skyline dominated by Lost Souls and Cacodemons tightened a net of rope knots around my chest, and I had to take a deep breath to loosen it. But that dread soon turned to teeth clenched determination. Hell was not about to be let loose again on my watch. Anything in my way would just have to deal with that.
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I wasn't expecting a group of misfits.

A redheaded girl jumped through the elevator door next to mine. I aimed my shotgun away from her as my immediate reaction was that she was a civilian, but that was quickly dismissed as she rammed a massive mechanical scythe into the floor. It wasn't just an attempt to intimidate me, a rifle barrel with the kind of caliber meant to blow holes through people was built into its haft. She looked too young to be a fighter, but something told me she wasn't some greenhorn.

I wanted to respond to her question with some before we were interrupted by "Sans". The only skeletons I knew of were revenants, and they were more inclined to scream "AAAAAAAAAAAA" and fire missiles at you that try to talk. He seemed to be a joker, no threat, but the hesitation in his voice confirmed that there was a portal here. Thanks, dumbass, go get yourself a candy bar. You deserve it.

But that small victory was cut short when an alarm rang off in my helmet and numbers started to spike in my HUD. The energies were spiking, and my greatest fear may have been a reality.

Something was coming through the gate. And the world was replaced with red and klaxons.

"Fuck this" I swore aloud to the only other person there and moved towards one of the locked shutters that poorly kept me from my objective.

"You didn't answer me" The young voice said behind me, and I looked back over my shoulder to Red.

"I'm Doomguy, the biggest, baddest space marine you have ever met, and I'm here to make keep a mistake from repeating"

And then the biggest, perhaps not the baddest, space marine I've ever seen dropped in.

What do they feed these people? was the first thing I thought as Tinman aimed his oversized rifle at my head, his battered armor still thicker than vehicles plates and the slapped together construction still had the impression that it was real power armor. He was like a bigger version of me, if I drank combat stimms every morning and wrapped a tank around myself. Our banter was funny but short lived as I ended it with a shotgun blast across his head, the buck shot ricocheted off the hard helmet with only a few scratch marks to show for it.

"Fuck" Was the only thing I got out before the situation collapsed in on itself.

Lets Rock

Tinman responded in kind as his rifle didn't so much bang as it did exploded bullets at me, .75 caliber rounds wizzed past me into a window nearby and shattered it completely, the sudden wind whipped around small objects and papers into the air. I kept on the move and I pumped another shotgun shell into the chamber and kept one of those massive bullets from burying themselves in my head, which the explosions behind me after said bullets told me there was some kind of, well, explosive. The guy didn't kid around.

There a wonder why Red hadn't done anything yet, but glance over to her showed that she had taken the time to aim rather than chuckle slugs at me. While I ran perpendicular to big 'n' mean, she had me lined up as it was only a last second jump forward did I miss a critical shot to my side, the sniper rifle bullet instead hit my backpack. I was sent in a spin in the air and I barely managed to recover on my boots, but the clitter clatter of bullet shells told me I was leaking ammo. I fired pellets at her this time, but she jumped straight into the air to avoid it. She responded in kind, knocked away by the force of the weapon but thankfully it strayed away and just ruined the floor a little more.

"See you later, losers, I got a business up-" I taunt was interrupted as the wall ahead of me turned to shrapnel, and a guy with a hammer came through the hole he just put in it with another swing wound up. I jumped as he swung down, my middle finger up "Nice miss, mother fuc-" But it was too late to realize that hammer made the hole before and when it crashed to the floor the impact threw me off my feet.

I landed on my back, but rolled up to standing position before new guy could get any more cheap shots. Fairly average looking guy, didn't look like much of a powerhouse, but with a weapon like that you didn't need to be. He tried to break my side with a swipe up from his spot, but I stepped back enough to avoid and pushed him to give myself a little breathing room.

"Are you going to try to talk me out of it too?" I asked as I holstered my shotgun and tried to reach for my chainsaw, only to have that plan snuffed out when I heard Red's gun fire again, and when I looked back I saw her using the weapon to propel herself right at me, scythe ready to bisect me and she screamed the least intimidating battle cry.

"No, I'm just going to kill you" New Guy responded as he threw a fist and glanced me across the shoulder. I felt my bones rattle and I jerked back from the blow. He was damn strong for a string bean. But he overextended himself, and when he got greedy with another hammer swing I hooked my arm around him and switched places with him, Red's attack now aimed at him instead.

The scythe ripped the floor apart as Red tried redirect her blade from the other security officer, who fell back as the teenager nearly sliced him from head to crotch. Red landed from the aborted attack, and I kept to her side so that she spoiled tinman's line of sight. In a quick attack she used the momentum to swing her over complicated weapon in circles around her, surprisingly deft for an unwieldy thing. A few nicks were my reward for being close, but then I pulled out my pistol to level the playing field and she backed off when I fired into the spot she once was.

"Alright, it's been fun Red, but I'm sick of this melee bullshit" I finished the clip at Tinman who had been spending that time trying to get a good shot, and turned back to punchy as he came in for another overhead swing while I was distracted. I grabbed the bottom of his hands, lifted him up, and threw him into the girl "Why don't the two of you go fuck each other?" And while they were tangled up, I dove through the hole Punchy made.

The next room was better. Large, spacious party room. Bar, stairs up to the next level, and plenty of furniture which mean cover. Fuck the small stuff, I pulled the rocket launcher from behind me and sent a package with love into the hole behind me, a BOOM answered back as I ran for the stairs. But Tinman decided to go through the wall on the other side of the door.

"Doors were made for a reason!" I yelled as I launched another rocket, hitting just behind Tinman as he chased me down "Say, who made your armor? Yourself? You look more like an art piece than a soldier!" He growled, with Red and Punchy behind. I put the rocket launcher back and pulled my chaingun ahead, barrels spinning in a hymm that sung the end of all things in my way.

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