DOOM: HELL MAGIC

Vinyl Scratch and Octavia were both glad that the walls of the room they were soundproof. It gave them a break from the loud screaming and growling they had heard over the last couple of hours. They both knew that demons could tear things apart at lightning speed, but the facility they were in was quite large. Many ponies and a few humans had been slaughtered quite fast within the first few minutes.

Octavia shut her eyes and tried to block those thoughts out. She looked over at Vinyl and envied her just a little. She still had her shades on, and they were clean for the moment, but Octavia remembered that blood had covered them at one point. Although, there was still blood on her shirt and in her mane. The DJ was sitting in a corner and she wasn't looking forward to getting up for more than one reason. Octavia sat down next to her. "It's going to be fine." she said, trying to comfort her. Judging by the look she gave, Vinyl was not convinced.

Her belief was given more reason when something large left a dent on the wall. Octavia saw that it was the same wall that the door was on. She would have cursed a blue streak, but fear had left her mouth silent. The monster outside hit the wall harder, and caused the dent to become more severe. A third hit almost made it give way. Octavia could feel a fearful cry coming up her throat. It almost escaped, but then they felt heavy footfalls thudding away from them. The door opened, and Octavia almost screamed in terror, but Vinyl quickly placed a hand over her mouth. The marine who had saved them stood in the doorway and was waving them out. The ponies could hear the monster far away. It sounded like he was munching on something. The wet crunching sounds made their skins crawl, but the marine pulled Vinyl by the hand, who pulled Octavia and made sure to keep her quiet.

They went up three levels and found more corpses. Most of them were missing at least one limb, but several of them had their chests ripped open and their internal organs were no longer internal. The marine actually looked up and saw bodies, organs, and limbs hanging from the ceiling, all dripping blood. Octavia shut her eyes and almost puked. Vinyl led her into a nearby room with the marine following close behind. No sooner had he shut the door did Octavia puke into a trash can. Vinyl did the same, and the marine went back outside to keep watch.

Octavia crawled to the other side of the room on her stomach and didn't try to stand up. "Remind me to never visit a place that experiments with summoning demons ever again." she said. Vinyl nodded. "Do you think you could just cast a sleeping smell on me and wake me up when this is all over?" she asked, trying to lighten the mood even a little. Vinyl smirked. Right when she was about to say something, the marine walked back in. He nodded to them, indicating it was clear. "Oh, please tell me we don't have to go through that." Octavia pointed in the direction of hallway filled with corpses.

The marine walked up to them and showed them something that was written on his PDA: sorry, yes. "I hope you don't mind if I try to avoid looking at or smelling anything. It's all so rancid and horrifying." said Octavia. The marine nodded. This was the first time in their lives that they had been exposed to something like this, and they were not prepared for it in the slightest. He knew that they would probably want to block it out as much as possible.

Octavia nodded in defeat. "Okay, do you think we could just wait here for a moment?" she asked. The marine walked over to the walls, and started feeling around on them. Vinyl just stared at him as if he was doing something weird, but Octavia knew what he was doing. "You're looking for a secret, aren't you?" she asked. The marine nodded and kept at it, going from one side to the other until he found what he was looking for. The wall that Octavia and Vinyl had been next to opened up.

A dark corridor stood in front of them. Neither of the ponies could see what was inside, but the marine fished a small flashlight out of one of the compartments on his armor and attached it to his shotgun. He aimed into the hallway and saw only a couple of corpses. Both of them had been decapitated. Octavia gagged as if she was going to hurl again.