DOOM: HELL MAGIC

The marine managed to get them out of there without further incident, but then they found another hallway that was partially destroyed. They saw a corpse rammed through a wall, and most of the lights that was still on were dangling from the ceiling like chandeliers. Only most of them had blood on them. "If I had anything left in my body, I might be sick." said Octavia. The marine switched back to normal vision and saw that Octavia and Vinyl were covered in blood and filth. He had an idea, but he knew it would be violating the horror movie rules. And for them, this whole ordeal might as well have been a living horror movie. He led them past the corpse, up a flight of stairs, and he took the first left he found. He wrenched the door open with his hands and let both ponies hurry inside.

He took one look at them and knew that they would want to get cleaned up. The room they were in had another door that the marine found out had a shower and a bedroom. 'I am not going to break one of the horror movie rules. Not when civilians are around.' the marine thought. He opened the door and gestured that they step inside, but he didn't follow them.

Octavia stood in the doorway. "You'll wait for us, right?" she asked. The marine pointed to a terminal on the other side of the room. "Okay. We'll try and find to get cleaned up and slip into something. I'm glad I didn't wear heels when I came here." she said. Vinyl let a snort. "It's normal for you." Octavia replied. They stepped inside and closed the door.

The marine decided to see if he could find some useful information while he could. He sat down at the terminal and was relieved when he saw that it was still unlocked. He opened the file explorer and looked around the personnel files. He saw a bunch of human scientists, a few marines that were most likely dead by now, one expected guest that didn't show: princess Celestia. He found out that she was supposed to make an appearance for a demonstration, but didn't show when she found out that things had gone to shit. He also found out that a group of ponies had brought him here because they had been told of his skill as a warrior. At least, that was the official reason. The real reason was that the devil decided to shift his attention from earth to Equestria because he thought that it would be an easy conquest. The humans thought that if anyone would be able to stop it, it would be the marine commonly known as Doomguy. 'Not the worst thing I could be doing.' he thought. He was allowed to be summoned, but the process still left him unconscious until only a few minutes before the demons began their invasion. 'If I catch a break after this, it might be too soon.' he thought.

There was still a bit more. He noticed that Celestia would give him a reward of some sort after the ordeal was over. He opened another file and found that the reward was the chance to retire from fighting demons. It said that he would be able to retire anywhere he wanted, with whatever he wanted. 'If that's true, Celestia seems to be quite the kind pony. And Octavia would mention me to her as well.' he thought. Then he found something that made his jaw drop inside his helmet.

It was another file that contained for a 'final solution' of sorts to the demon problem. When the army was defeated, Celestia would be able to cast a spell that would permanently prevent the forces of the human Hell from harming them again. That, and she would assign important ponies to assist the humans in refining their portal technology. The marine thought that the break he was looking for might within grasp after all.

He checked the security systems and noticed the facility had gone into lockdown. That was the normal, but he saw that demons were more or less milling about the place trying to find a way out. The power was also fluctuating. In some places, almost all the lights were out, but others were lit pretty much like normal. Then he viewed the external cameras and saw something that was sure to relieve Octavia and Vinyl: ponies and humans that were waiting for them to come out. Like Vinyl and Octavia, they were fairly humanoid, but they stood out enough on their own, especially with their heads. If the marine hadn't been used to fighting monsters and demons of varying shapes and sizes that continuously tried to kill him, he might have felt a little weird with their eyes being bigger than those of his own species and the variety of colors. 'For a species that calls themselves 'ponies', they don't seem that much like them to me. Seem closer to humans.' the marine thought. They shared hands, feet, fingers and toes, but the marine didn't know how he felt about their wings and horns. Or tails. Or about Equestria, but he hadn't learned much about it, and the terminal didn't have much information about it. 'Shit. Gonna have to find another one.' he thought with a frown.

He didn't recognize any of their faces, but he did see a pony with a white coat, light purple eyes, a multicolored mane and tail that moved like the wind was blowing, and a horn longer than Doomguy thought possible. She was wearing armor that reminded him of plate armor worn by ancient knights, but it was primarily gold and had icons of the sun on the shoulder plates. He saw she had a longsword slung on her shoulder. 'I think I might do better here than I thought.' he thought.

He also saw marines waiting outside. Some of them didn't have sleeves on their armor. 'Probably trying to mimic what I used to do.' he thought. One thing in common with all of them was that they wore helmets. Some of them carried weapons that he didn't recognize. If only I had some of those guns.' he gave a slight smirk.

He started searching for any logs that could help him piece together what led up to the attack. He found one that said something about a "VIP" being delivered to a "Sector three" for awakening. 'Why do I get the feeling that's me?' the marine thought. He clicked on it and found video footage along with a report that contained medical information, all about him.

The first video showed him lying unconscious on a table. Two scientists, one pony, one human, were in the room with him. Both of them were females, and the human looked like she was trying to remove the gauntlet on his left arm. The marine probably would have removed it himself, had he actually been awake. He saw that he wasn't in chains this time, and he heard the human talking about how peaceful Equestria was. The unicorn put on a smile and said that it usually is, but sometimes monsters would come and disturb the peace. 'Feels like the opposite is the story of my life.' the marine thought.

He found a few more files. One of them said that they were trying to work with ponies to try and solve their problem with portals. A group of scientists found out that ponies apparently had that problem worked out thanks to a magic mirror, but humans couldn't quite say the same so far.