Watching Over The DoomSlayer (Doom x Overwatch)

Ch 1 - Who are you??

I had barely even killed the spider mastermind when I felt the tug of the tethers. In the next moment I'm floating in front of Hayden, unable to move.

"You've won, it's over. You stopped the invasion and closed the portal. But it's come at a price: Argent, VEGA, this entire operation. You see, I've watched you work, come to understand your motivation. You think the only way is to kill them all. Leave nothing behind, and you may be right. But we can't just shut it all down. Without Argent Energy it will be worse. I don't expect you to agree."

After a short speach he pauses and extends his hand towards me. I watch as the crucible flies into his grasp.

"But with this we can continue our work. I am not the villain in this story. I do what I do because there is no choice." Out of the crucible came a blade made from argent energy, littered with demonic runes.

"Re-routing tether coordinates... Complete." The mechanical voice of the UAC facility said.

'Oh hell no!'

"Our time is up. I can't kill you, but I won't have you standing in our way. Until we see each other again." He said as he turned his back to me and began to walk away.

I felt the tethers' tug once more, but this time I pulled against it, with all the strength I had left in me. He had gotten so many innocents killed, and he was just going to continue like it meant nothing. All for 'the betterment of mankind', how can he be so blind as to not see what he is doing?! I felt primal rage take over my mind as my vision turned tinted red. A feral growl escaped my throat as I pulled harder against the tethers. Haydens head jerked back and I finally managed to get an arm free.

"But... How.. This shouldn't be possible. The tethers anchor you in space itself! How can you possibly break through that?! You! I won't let you do this! My research must go on!!" He began to shout at me, he hastily walked closer, holding the crucible high and ready to slash at me as soon as he got in range.

As he swung the energy-blade at me, I simply cought it with my free hand. I gripped it tighter and stared into Hayden's visor.

The power surged through me, not unlike when I absorbed the argent energy cells, although at a much greater scale and a lot more aggressively. Instead of slowly pouring into me, giving me time to absorb it. This time it was forcing it's way through me, in a way I had never felt before. And I have been absorbing argent energy for millennia.

He pushed harder, the blade moving closer to my chest. I used all the strength I could, but I had to simultaneously fight against the tethers. The blades tip finally reached my torso, it melted through my armour, although it did slow it down quite a bit. When the blade reached me I could feel my flesh vapourize and my ribs slice apart like butter.

But I also felt something else, the previously agressive argent energy multiplied exponentially, both in volume, speed and ferociousness. The pain was like nothing I had ever felt before, it was so bad it wouldn't even let me pass out. A unholy sound came out of my throat as I roared in pain. The raw power extracted directly from the Wraiths was tearing through my body, constantly changing as it went. Colapsing in on itself only to explode outwards with even greater force.

I got my other arm free and grabbed the crucible by the handle. I managed to slowly pull it out of me and stop the rampaging argent energy from building up further. With my other hand I pushed Hayden down to his knees and bent down to stare deep into his visor. I pushed the blade through his chest, slowly but steadily, I felt no resistance when his body disintegrated around the blade.

I let go of him and watched his body fall to the ground. I felt something change in the tethers, it still pulled just as hard. But it felt almost like it pulled with me instead of against me, and in the next moment everything went black.