DOOM - Doom Slayer's Awakening

Ch 8: The Doom Slayer's Revenge

Jeff and Gary watched the ongoing battle, dodging into cover as another enemy Covenant Banshee swooped in from above. High as a kite, Gary lined up his scope, zooming in closer towards the escaping Banshee, and fired. Watching a smoketrail appear as the 14.5x114mm caliber round penetrated through the Banshee's wing and ricocheting off the cliff wall making fly straight into the winter moonlit sky.

"Nice shot, I see him smokin'." Jeff replied then quickly noticed the enemy Banshee turning around. "Uhh... crap he's coming back...Gary!?"

"Chill, it'll be here in a few seconds."

"We'll be gone in a few seconds!" Jeff yelled back, watching the incoming banshee unexpectedly explode in mid-air. As one 14.5x114mm round fell from the night sky, penetrating through the top hull of the bnashee, killing the pilot inside.

"And that's how you do a Tarkin Handshake. Damm, I'm good." Gary calmly said taking another puff from his pipe.

"Tarkin Handshake?" Jeff curiously asked.

"Low on ammo. Use the environment around you to destroy your target." Gary replied before he and Jeff flew away in their Banshees.

After stabbing and slicing the Sangheili Field Marshall in half with his lightsaber. The Doom Slayer proceeded to finish of any remaining Covenant forces in the area with his chaingun. Turning any surviving Grunts and Jackals into a pulping mess of blood and gore over the snowy monolith platform. He calmly walked toward the other side of the monolith to see one Covenant Wraith waiting patiently by the entrance of a nearby cavern he and the Chief travled through before. He took a few steps back and performed a sprinting jump over the monolith's edge, diving down into the canyon below.

Meanwhile... A Sangheili Elite minor is busy playing a arcade game on the Wraith's computer to pass the time. Seconds later, he heard a loud crash from above which alerted him. He paused his game by flipping a switch on the screen to see nothing. "Hmph. Figures." He sighed in annoyance as he returned back to his game of Super Yap-yap. Turning up the volume and pushed a button to turn off the Wraith's engine, ignoring the two ton super soldier who jumped off from on top of the tank. The Doom Slayer walked up toward the cavern entrance, looking down to see a large ongoing battle between the Covenant and the Flood. He changed to his BFG-9000, aiming downrange, charged, and fired. The Covenant, the Flood, and more reinforcements became mesmerized by the bright ball of green energy as it passed over them. Only to become vaporized by its streams of energy before being wiped out by its destructive blast. The Doom Slayer walked dramatically slowly, blowing smoke away from the red-orange hot barrel of his BFG-9000 while a slow moving and blurry green energy blasted out of the cavern behind him.

"Dude... that was badass." Gary said as he, Jeff, Master Chief and Cortana watched the extravigant show from the safety of their Warthog.

"Totally bro. I got it recorded, all I need is to add some rockin Mandalorian death metal and we got a badass music holo." Jeff agreed, playing with the recorded video on his datapad.

"There... I've located the Pillar of Autumn. She's put down twelve-hundred kilometers up spin. Energy readings show her fusion reactors are still powered up. The systems on the Pillar of Autumn have failsafes that I even can't override, without authorization from the Captain. We'll need to find him or his neural implants to start up the fusion core detonation. That tunnel he cleared out leads to the next section of the canyon. The final pulse generator we need to destroy is through there." Cortana explained as the Doom Slayer returned and hopped onto the back of the Warthog.

"Hey? Do you ever get the feeling that we're going backwards?" Jeff asked as they entered the large underground chasm. "Cause it feels like we've been here before." Jeff said again till he was hushed by Gary.