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"A grenade. Gee, thanks."

The demon opened its mouth to roar, but I took that moment to shove my grenade in its mouth.

"Hit the deck!"

I heard what I could only imagine as being a demonic gagging and then something metallic bouncing on the ground.

"Crap."

"I got it!" Sergeant Kelly yelled as he raised the now-operational rocket launcher in the air.

"BOOOM!"

The explosion blew Kelly backwards. The rocket launcher flew out of his hands and sailed into the lava.

"God damn it!"

He threw Xavious another grenade and picked one up for himself. "Shoot the 'nade as soon as it reaches him!"
Kelly tossed the grenade and Xavious unholstered his AM67.

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I fired a round, I missed and hit the hell knight. I slowed down and took my time to aim the next shot, it connected and the grenade detonated.

The hell knight fell back, its face and part of its upper body shredded to, well, hell.

"Good work, take some more of the grenades. There's plenty." Checking his guns, Kelly walked through the doorway.

They were beginning their decent into Hell.

The room beyond the doorway looked like a small chapel, a chapel with candles and pentagrams instead of chairs. A secondary door could be seen at the opposite end and numerous ammo crates and medpacks were piled in a nearby corner. Kelly used a medkit and started inspecting the crates. Xavious walked in and reloaded his AM67. "Something isn't right here..."

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I looked at the front of the chapel. There was a pool of blood and guts on the ground, and it looked like it was fresh. I stepped closer to investigate, and a I did so a mutilated, half naked man fell down, his legs were tied to a rope, leaving his head about level with mine. With a pained gasp he uttered "Trap..."

"Kelly! Behind you!" Maggots and imps spewed forth from the pentagrams. As I was busy taking shots at the hell spawn something clawed at my armour from behind. I turned around to find the human sacrifice turned into a zombie, helplessly hanging there trying to tear me to bits, but still having the pained, horror-struck expression on its face left from its former state of conscience.

I put the damned soul out of its misery with my handgun. I then took out my chain and started to tear through the ranks of demons, until the main attraction arrived, three large, pink demons with mechanical legs.

The pink demons plowed through their kin, with two of them heading straight for me and the other one was nearly on Kelly already. In protest a few of the imps turned their attention to the things that trampled them. They hurled fire ball after fire ball at them. One of the bio-mechanical demons broke away from Kelly and started going for the imps and maggots.

The two demons knocked me down and started chewing and scratching at me. I punched one away from me and got to my feet. With a crunch I grabbed my chainsaw and started hacking into one. My chainsaw sputtered to a stop and I saw gasoline covering my hand. "Damn it! This thing wasn't made for heavy armour!" I put my chainsaw back and took my chain back out.

Kelly looked over his shoulder, two bio-mechanical demons were attempting to maul Xavious. Xavious was holding one off with his chain, he had lodged it in the creature's forehead, but the other one was getting some good hits in.

Grabbing one of the A-14 assault rifles from the chest, Kelly opened fire. Oil and blood spurted from the beast as it turned around and headed towards Kelly. It leaped on Kelly just as his clip ran out. He gave it a good bash in the face with the butt of his rifle, but it did no good. The sound of claws on steel could be heard as the demon attempted to tear open Kelly's UAC Marine armor.

Kelly attempted to kick the beast off his chest, but only managed to bruise his foot on its metal posterior. Picking up his shotgun, Kelly hit the beast again before firing a slug into its face at close range. That did the trick.

Flying through the air, the strange creature began to burn away. Sergeant Kelly looked down at his chest, his armor was ruined.

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I tore the chain out of the beast's face and punched it with my fists. The thing recoiled away under the blows, my strength renewed after seeing Kelly kill the other one.

The creature backed away, then reared its ugly faced in anger and charged towards me. I held my ground and waited for the right moment.

I swung my chain as I stepped to the side. I grabbed the end of the chain as it swung around the demon's neck and pulled tight. The beast tried to stop itself, but its momentum just wouldn't let it.

I felt the chain nearly rip my arms out of their sockets as I heard the sickening crunch of its neck snapping.

I looked to where the last bio-mechanical demon was. The imps and maggots were mostly gone and the demon was badly wounded.

"Your PDA have any explanation to what these are?" I kicked at the rapidly burning demon I killed.

We finished off the last of them and looked through the UAC chests. Among the weapons I found a crate full of digging equipment, undoubtedly from a doomed archaeological exhibition. Past the brushes and picks I found what I was looking for: a portable air compressor and a pneumatic hammer.

"What in the world do you expect to do with those?"

"Mining armour; it has a built in air compressor for things like this," I lifted the air hammer to show Kelly, "but unfortunately the compressor is long since dead. Hopefully I can adapt this to work for my armour."

"Heh. Chainsaw, jackhammer and chain. Take a shotgun or an assault rifle, we might need something with range."

Kelly took some armor plating out of the chests. The plates were a shade of green. While green armor wasn't as strong as the yellow suit that Kelly had on, it would have to do.

After replacing his armor, Kelly grabbed some extra clips and walked to the end of the chapel.

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I grab some extra shells for my M763 and pick up an assault rifle.

I take a look at my armour; it has some large dents and scratches, but it seems to be holding up pretty well. In any case, I strap some extra plates to my shoulders and shoulder pads.

Sergeant Kelly placed a grenade at the foot of the second door. No need to go through the same deal as with the first one.

"Boom!"

The explosion blew a small chunk out of the door just big enough for the two to crawl through. They did so without much effort. The coast seemed clear. The next room looked slightly like a well being excavated. There was a large hole in the center with a lifting system descending down. Mining gear lined the rock walls and a generator and light system hung from the ceiling.

The lift seemed operational, Kelly stepped onto it and tapped the touch screen. A creaking could be heard as the device groaned to life. "Going down."

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The lift shifted slightly under my weight. Looking down, I sighed, "This is going to be fun," the bottom was shrouded with shadow, nothing could be seen but darkness. I watched as the walls started fading away into the darkness too.

As we tood in silence, I heard something over the grinding and squeaking of the decrepit lift, I heard an eerie cackling that turned quickly into a howling scream.

Behind me I could see 2 distant glows that were rapidly becoming less distant. "Uh, Sarge-"

"Already on it." He opened fire on one of them with his assault rifle.

Sarge's PDA flashed the word "Lost Soul" as he shot down the first of the flaming, body-less heads.

It crashed to the wall as it burned up. Kelly aimed for the second one as it came level with the lift.
Letting out a howling scream, the disfigured creature attacked the lift's control console. Sparks erupted as it ripped wires from the couplings.

Kelly opened fire and terminated the demon.

The lift let out a loud groan and stopped. Sparks flew down from above and sputtering noises could be heard from the overhead generator.


Chapter 2: Terminal Damage


OOC: I'll let you set up the scene for chapter two. You haven't had a turn describing the environment.

Cool.
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We stood in silence for a moment, trying to figure out what to do next. I thought about jumping down the rest of the way, but that was about a 30 foot drop and the last thing anyone wanted was to be stranded in hell with a broken leg.

I started to pull at the cables, trying to figure out if I can lower the lift manually. I pull at a cable but it didn't budge. I gave a stronger tug and it suddenly started moving freely, but it was out of my control. The lift started accelerating though I tried my best to slow it down some what, "Brace for impact!"

The lift crashed into the ground. I was thrown away from it, but considering my armour was designed to withstand cave-ins, I was relatively unharmed. Kelly, on the other hand, I had no idea.

I took a quick look around to get an idea where we were. Mining and excavating equipment were scattered around the room and there was a string of electric lights lining the only way out of here, a rocky tunnel that was decorated with skulls and profane statues of elder beings, roughly chiseled out of some sort of marble-like stone.

After the quick look of the area I turned my attention to where Kelly was.

Do you mid if i Join?

Find a convincing spot to come from and is fine by me. I'd recommend being a survivor of the archaeological expedition.

Make sure Kelly is good with it too.
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K.

During The cap'n and sarges expedition, they found a survivor, Storm X.

"Hey, you ok?" the sarge said, "i'm fine" I said, "but the rest of my men is dead"

"What happened?" Xavious asked.

"well we was digging an anicent artifact that can give life to people for every 5 demons they kill with it. it was the Soul cube, we almost got it out, but before we can have a good look at it, some Cherubs, came flying at us, My men died, but I survived just using my Revolver and some TNT we have stored in the caverns. I need your guys help, if the demons take the soul cube, who knows what could happen. What do you say?"

Little side note: I'm gonna repost this for you later, after we find out Sarge's condition. But for now, we'll leave it as is.
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OoC: I'm fine with it, though by this point the scientists haven't found the soul cube yet. Xav and Kelly are in Hell to bring back the very first of the specimens.


Sergeant Kelly woke up to the sound of rocks falling. Through his blurry vision, Kelly saw a glimpse of light past the twisted metal and fallen debris. There was a ringing in his ears and a sharp pain in his left arm.

His cracked visor showed lifesigns at -2%. His armor was completely compromised.

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I dug through the wreckage frantically. I could see blood pooling up and one of Kelly's legs jutting out of the wreckage at an impossible angle. I cleared the debris and carefully lifted him out of the wreckage. He was dead, or at least very near death.

I tore through the equipment strewn across the site. I found a medkit and immediately administered it to Kelly. Nothing happened. I looked desperately for something, anything. Maybe I can find some adrenaline to jump start him. I tore through the equipment. I found a large crate, it had soem writing on it. I opened it up hoping that something could be of use.

"Damn it Kelly! Don't you dare die on me! You dragged me into this mess, you aren't going to abandon me now!"

I dug through the packaging and found a large grey orb. I tried to push it aside but it didn't move. Instead, a ghostly face surfaced and looked at me, screaming a silent agony. It then started moving to where Kelly lay.

"Damn it! Not now!"

I swung my chain at it, but my chain passed through it. I ran towards it and tried to tackle it, but i simply phased through. The ghostly orb loomed over Kelly.
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Um, are there Mega Spheres in Doom 3?

If not, there is now!

"ARRAGAGHH!" Kelly yelled as the sphere merged with him.

He watched in amazement as his visor fused together and the readouts raised 100%. He felt power surging through his veins. Kelly ripped a metal beam out of his arm and watched as the skin healed around it.

"Holy shit. I guess I owe you one."

Cracking his leg into position, he hefted himself up and walked to the crates. He felt completely rejuvenated. Whatever Xavious had given him, it had worked insanely well. Kelly inspected the crates. "Hmm... These are the older models. They contain supplies from long before the universal nanotech upgrade." Kelly keyed open the box with his PDA, which was thankfully still working, and looked inside. A large black medical kit sat surrounded by stim packs.

"Here, you use the medkit, I'm going to stim up."


OoC: Berserker anyone?

This just keeps getting better and better!

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I opened up the box and found only one needle. For the first time in this hell I finally realized my entire body hurt like hell.

I removed a section of armour from my arm, jabbed the large hypodermic needle into my arm, pushed the plunger in and replaced my armour.

The serum burned as it coursed its way through my veins. All other pain was gone, only that maddening burn in my blood could be felt. My muscles tensed up, my fists clenched involuntarily.

I felt stronger than I ever have in my life. I also had the sudden urge to destroy something with this awakened strength. I turned my rage to one of the Eldritch statues guarding the entryway and smashed it to pieces. "Let's go!"

Sergeant Kelly injected himself with the small stim packs. While they didn't do much in an intense fire fight, they did give the user a helpful boost when he or she needed it.


Sergeant Kelly heard something in the distance. It sounded a bit like howling...

Demons!

Kelly stepped back as one of the biomechanical demons leapt out of the tunnel. 4 Imps reared their ugly heads as they joined the lumbering monstrosity.

OoC: Wait, Storm X. You're still alive in the normal BW Story. This thread is going to rejoin the standard one later. Are you sure you want to make 2 characters?

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I charged into the fray, tearing into the demons with my fists. I began by beating the bio-mechanical demon to a bloody pulp. As I turned to the imps a fire ball hit me in the face.

I staggered back and shook it off. Those imps were going to pay dearly for my eye brows.

I plowed through the four imps, knocking one into the a wall and sending another one off balance. I grabbed the staggering imp by the shoulders and threw him behind me. The thing must've slid on its face for a good couple of yards.

I then grabbed two imps by the skulls and slammed them together, their blood and brains splattered my face. Felt good on the burn.

I picked the other imp up by the neck and started squeezing. I felt pops and snaps as the imp clawed weakly at me. It started coughing up blood. I threw it down and crushed its skull under my boot.

Kelly came up behind me after he finished off the last one.

We stared in awe at the opening to the tunnel. A massive cathedral stood before us. We could see on the walls men, half eaten, left for the demons to feast on. The stained glass windows depicted scenes of hell on Earth, of men cowering to the demons.

I looked up. To my surprise there was a sky, but there were no clouds, no blue skies. Swarms of tortured souls replaced the clouds, and the sky was blood red. We started searching the perimeter for anything that might be a bit of help before we check out the cathedral.

Near the tunnel we came from there was a small cave with human footprints leading into it. We decided to check that out first.

The sarge checked his weapons before entering the tunnel. A tech fault would be rather unwanted here.

"Shotgun, Check. Machinegun, Check. Grenades... Check." Kelly reholstered the machinegun, put the grenades in his belt, and put fresh shells into his shotgun. He had around 20 left.

Checking to see if the coast was clear, Kelly placed a small laser tripmine at the mouth of the tunnel. "A little insurance policy." he told Xavious as he armed the device. "Anything that crosses this beam will turn to a nice shade of red."

Xavious put a grenade below the mine for good measure, and the two walked on.

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We walked cautiously down the cave. Scraps of UAC equipment and packaging lined the way.

We found the entrance to a small room in the cave. We stopped. Something was on the other side. Kelly motioned me to go first.

I looked around the corner and a round of shots impacted near me. I turned to Kelly, "Sounds like he's got an assault rifle. Should we see if there's a chance its a survivor?"
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This would be a great chance for Storm X to join in. I'll post for him if he isn't able to get to this soon.

I can still read this, but can't post because i'm in school right now.

Ok. Want us to wait up for you to post then after you're back home or whatnot?

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Sure. i won't get home till 3:30 or later.

Ok. Assuming you live in a similar time zone to me, that doesn't sound too bad.

Mind if I play too?

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Emerging from the ruble of a collapsed side tunnel they had over looked, Dark Watcher stands before Xavious and Kelly in full biohazard body armor, the light from his night vision enhanced eyes barley shining through the ash that covers his armor.

A through the gas mask comes the hoarse greeting from years long past.

“Good hunting down hereâ€Â