DoomPet

Chapter 58

Bro I don't know why or how this chapter is so long. A demon must have possessed me while I wrote this. Most of the time I'm just hitting 2k or 3k. Enjoy this beefy boi tho. 

The announcer spoke in a calm, smooth voice, her words were being broadcasted both inside and outside the city. Right now it was nothing but filler, merely teasing the event that was about to take place.

Cars putted along slowly in the streets to get a glance, people looked up from their lives and stared at the electronic billboards above them, listening to the broadcast. Elena Richardson stood, staring outside her window at the dusk settling down on the city around her. She sipped on wine while the broadcast played on the TV behind her. Samuel wrapped his arms around her, pressing his faceplate against her head, "Let him deliver us from evil."

She took a long gulp of wine before turning to face Samuel and the broadcast, "Amen to that. I just hope the power holds out for the broadcast." She walked over and lounged on the couch. Lifting up Daisy's children onto her lap, she turned up the volume with a remote. "Does this come with a holomap?" One of them tried nippling her fingers and she smiled down. "Awww you guys are so cute."

"Indeed they are. I do enjoy watching them for her, but I'll never admit it." He sat beside her, tucking his long legs under him and leaning his head towards her. "Also what's a holomap?"

"You've never had a TV with a holomap before?" She turned and tilted her head, baffled. "There's no way you're that old!"

"I never bothered myself with such things." He laughed at how dumb he was before, trying to cut away at his humanity.

Elena leaned her head against him and grinned up at him, her scars pulling her smile in goofy, adorable ways, "I'll show you, don't worry. It's a secondary way to watch stuff, a more immersive experience. Sometimes it's just the same stuff on the TV or sometimes it adds to the show. My favorite crime show has a holomap that makes your whole room into the set of the crime scene so you can look for evidence yourself."

That sounded absolutely amazing, "I want to try that with you." He looked up at the broadcast, "I'm not sure if this will come with one or not."

Sure enough, Elena got it working and it did. It was similar to Vega's "holomap" of the Slayer that showed the area around him as he walked around and fought. It was displayed over the short black coffee table in front of them so they could easily view it. It wasn't the dull basic hologram Vega used, it carefully converted the Slayer's surroundings into the most beautiful and accurate map Samuel had ever seen. Each pixel was like a tiny glimmering star and gave off a faint white glow.

Both of Daisy's squabs watched the holomap like cats, their little yellow eyes darting back and forth.

Elena gushed over the details put into the environmental art of the map around the Slayer, and suddenly the real broadcast began.

"To the citizens of earth, ARC invites you to a special evening program. The holomap suddenly shifted into a 3-D image of the Slayer, shimmering like a firework, and quickly shifted back to the map. In ten minutes, at 6 PM, our beloved DoomSlayer is allowing us to take an in depth look into his work. He will be patrolling the perimeter of the city and slaying any demon he sees with an unholy ferocity and brutality!" The map changed once again, showing the Slayer standing on a pile of demon corpses with his fist in the air.

"Man, they really want you to put on a show." Crüe looked away from the TV and the announcer singing the Slayer's praises outside the closed doors of the airlock, as they got ready inside of the outposts built into the wall. He was shocked at how tall the walls were when he first saw them. They towered as high as some of the shorter skyscrapers in the city, made of concrete and thick metal. Dispersed throughout the wall the occasional turret sat, ready to shoot at any moment.