It was a nice quiet day in Ponyville. Normally this would be a good thing, however Ponyville had not had any major accidents befall it or evil creatures attack it for nearly a month now. This was far too long to be normal, and while everypony tried to enjoy themselves they all knew in the back of their minds that somehow, somewhere, something was going to go wrong.

They had no idea just how right they were.

The first sign was a bright blue light appearing in the middle of town. It sparked as though it were made up of electricity before it flashed white, blinding everypony who wasn’t quick enough to shield their eyes. After the flash died down, a figure was now in its place. It looked similar to a minotaur, and was about as tall as one, too. However, it’s legs were clearly arranged differently, and it possessed neither a horns nor tail. It was covered in a dark green and bulky armor that completely covered every inch of its body, leavy only gaps made of some black material to allow mobility. It’s face was obscured by a helmet that, despite having a wide open hole in the front large enough to see most of its face, obscured it with a tinted glass. If one looked close, they might see a pair of vicious, piercing eyes.

Though they didn’t know it yet, this the was being that would be forever known throughout Equestrian history by many names: “The Destroyer”, “The Beast”, “The Bloodmaker,” and many others. The most well-known name, however, would be spoken in either reverence by those that idolized him or terror by those that feared him.

“The Doom Slayer.”

The Doom Slayer instinctively levelled his weapon at a nearby pony, a weapon they had never seen before, but halted. The Doom Slayer may have been a vicious killer, but he was not a fool. He quickly noticed the strange shape of the creature in front of him, with its innocent eyes filled with curiosity and fear, not to mention its harmless and cutesy appearance. He concluded that this being was neither a demon, nor a threat, and lowered his weapon to take in his surroundings. The Doom Slayer squinted at what he saw, the bright and girly colors a far cry from the industrial greys, flashing yellows, and demonic reds he was used to.

Then suddenly he was assaulted by something. Something very loud, very fast, and very… pink.

“OHMYGOSHHINICETOMEETYOUNEWPONYMYNAMEISPINKIEPIEWELCOMETOPONYVILLEIT’SSONICETOHAVEYOUHERELET’SGETYOUSOMETHINGTOEATSOICANHAVESOMETIMETOGETYOUR”WELCOMETOPONYVILLE”PARTYREADYFOLLOWME!”

The Doom Slayer was pulled by a force even more powerful than the Tether that sent him here. It only lasted for a moment, and he found himself inside some kind of bakery.

“Ok Doomy, you go ahead and grab whatever you want, I’ll get the party streamers ready!” the strange pink equine said before zooming out the door faster than a Summoner’s teleport. The Doom Slayer blinked for a few moments before turning to face the counter, seeing several displays of rather delectable looking sweets. The Doom Slayer’s mouth watered, he couldn’t remember the last time he ate something that actually looked tasty.

“U-Um…”

He looked up and saw two more of the pony creatures, one male, yellow with orange hair, the other female, blue with pink hair. Both of them looked terrified, ready to bolt at the first sign of trouble, and yet forced themselves to smile.

“C-C-Can we get you anything?” the female asked.

The Doom Slayer thought for a moment, then turned to look at the glass container in front of him. He raised his fist and smashed it through the glass. The two store owners bolted out through the back, not seeing the Doom Slayer remove his helmet.

Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Spike, and Starlight galloped towards Sugarcube Corner, having heard something from the Cakes about a “monster” smashing their store up.

“What do you think it is, Twi? Some kinda monster from the Everfree?” Applejack asked.

“Another ancient evil like Tirek?” Spike suggested.

“I don’t know. The Cakes didn’t exactly give a good description,” Twilight replied, her expression clearly worried.

“Oh don’t worry, Twilight! Doomy’s a good guy!” Pinkie insisted.

It was a testament to how used to this they all were that none of them even flinched at Pinkie suddenly appearing, bouncing along next to them.

“‘Doomy’?” Starlight asked.

“Sure! Come and see!” Pinkie said before zipping ahead of them. When they arrived at Sugarcube Corner they all froze. “Here he is!” Pinkie introduced.

Unlike Pinkie, the rest could all feel the danger that radiated off the being, an energy that felt more violent and evil than anything they had ever encountered before. It would not be inaccurate to say they felt like they were staring Death in the face.

Rainbow Dash, her boisterous nature taking over, flew up right in front of “Doomy’s” face. “Let’s go, tough guy! You wanna piece of me!? I’ll buck your head clean off!” she shouted, her hooves raised and throwing out quick punches meant to intimidate him. “C’mon, whaddya got!? You ain’t nothin’! You ain’t-!”

Rainbow was cut off by Doomy quickly reaching his hand out and clamping it around her neck. The pegasus struggled to breathe as she tried to pull herself away, ineffectively hitting his arm to try and make him let go.

“Doomy! No! Bad!” Pinkie said as if she was scolding a dog.

“You let her go or Ah swear Ah’ll-!” Applejack began, only to be cut off by a scream of terror.

Everypony turned to look at the direction of the scream, Doomy dropping Dash to the floor and peeking around them. The sight horrified the ponies as they saw flashes of blood red energy give way to monsters the like they’d never seen.

Thin and lanky creatures of white and red hovered in the air, turning their their eyeless faces adorned with crowns of flesh sent waves of bright red energy towards ponies and objects, slicing and burning anypony that wasn’t quick enough to get away. Others summoned creatures to aid in the carnage.

Some of them were creatures with dark beige like bodies, glowing eyes, and sharp teeth and claws. They leaped and climbed like monkeys and hurled fireballs at whatever caught their attention. Others were a fused mess of flesh and metal, their bodies looking like burn victims that had parts of their bodies replaced with armor. Their right hands fused with weapons and they fired bursts of red orbs of energy at whatever they saw fit.

The flashes of evil energy also gave way to more monsters, including skeletal creatures flying by some kind of fiery propulsion machinery on their backs and firing rockets from cannons mounted on their shoulders. There were also muscular looking creatures without eyes, smashing their fists into whatever or whomever they came across, sometimes releasing evil explosive energy from their fists. Finally were the hulking beasts with pink skin, glowing eyes of hate, covered in bone-like armor and possessing stumpy arms and legs, clawed hands, and massive teeth, charging at anything it they could find.

“How… horrible,” Rarity gasped.

Nearby came a sound like a mix between a scream and a whimper. They all turned to see one of the fireball hurling monsters hunched over a familiar pegasus mare.

“Fluttershy!” Twilight screamed as the creature raised its claw, ready to gut the terrified pegasus. The alicorn was about to fire a spell when a barrage of blue energy bursts streamed over her from behind, burning the creature and pushing it back a bit. Before she could fully process what was happening Doomy sprinted past her and her friends, making it over to the monster in seconds, before grabbing it by the collarbone. He then punched the monster in the face so hard it’s head exploded with gore before letting go and booting it to the ground, strange blue and green energy leaking off of it and being absorbed into Doomy’s body.

Suddenly, everything stopped. All the creatures turned to face Doomy, their bodies freezing even in the middle of attacking somepony. Doomy slowly turned to face the horde, not making a single sound.

Twilight couldn’t believe what she was seeing, how one brutal action had seemed to caused time to stop. The ponies who were being attacked used this opportunity to free themselves from the monsters’ grasps and run, and yet still none of them moved, their attention focused solely on the armored being. Then Twilight felt it, a feeling radiating from Doomy. A feeling she’d felt before, but never this intense.

Pure. Unbridled. Hatred.

Her gaze turned to the many monsters and she noticed something even more unbelievable, that each and every one of them was subtly shaking. Though she couldn’t tell by looking at their horrid faces, she knew the truth.

Every single one of them was terrified of him.

Doomy’s weapon disappeared and was replaced with a much larger one, possessing several barrels arranged in a circle. That was apparently the cue for every single one of the monsters to either attack or move to a better position. The several barrels quickly split into three separate circles before they started spinning and began spew hot lead at a rate she couldn’t even imagine.

As the hail of heated metal tore through many of the monsters, Twilight grabbed Fluttershy in a levitation spell before dragging her into Sugarcube Corner, where everypony else ducked into as well. She and Starlight then barricaded the store with the most powerful wards they could before gazing upon the slaughter outside.

The Doom Slayer rained hot lead upon the demons foolish enough to charge him, eliminating the Imps and Possessed Soldiers within seconds. The Pinkie Demon that charged as able to weather the storm thanks to its natural armor. When it was almost on top of him he leaped over it, activating his thrust boots to make sure he cleared it, before switching to his rocket launcher. He aimed it at one of the Summoners that was still hovering nearby, only for it to teleport several yards to the left. He tracked the energy and aimed again so that by the time he hit the ground he was locked on. He quickly fired three rockets that all hit home, causing it to stagger for a moment. He switched to the Gauss Cannon and looked down the sight, charging the Precision Bolt to max and hitting the demon in the head, tearing off the rest of its shoulders along with it before it exploded and took a nearby Imp down with it.

The Pinkie Demon from before charged him again and he rolled to the side to avoid it, switching out for his Super Shotgun, and turning to face the demon’s backside before quickly unloading with both barrels, taking the demon down and then reloading. A blast of rockets from a Revenant came from behind him, which he barely managed to dodge, only to be struck in the head by an Imp’s fireball. He saw the offending creature clutched to the chimney of a nearby home and decided it needed to be taught a lesson. He switched out for his Plasma Rifle and turned to the Revenant, managing to land a clean hit with the Stun Bomb. As it hung in the air, convulsing, he switched out for his Super Shotty again and fired two bursts at the Imp, managing to land one, and reloading before dashing towards the house and leaping upwards. He grabbed the edge of the roof, pulled himself up, and finished it off with two more shotgun blasts, turning it into a red smear on the roof. Not one to waste an opportunity, he leapt at the still stunned Revenant, grabbing it with both hands and then positioning it so both of his feet landed on its torso, then grabbing both shoulder cannons and smashing them together, crushing its head and releasing more health and armor.

Five more Possessed Soldiers shot bursts of plasm at him while three more Pinkie Demons charged. He pulled out his Plasma Rifle again and fired another Stun Bomb, managing to stun the two who were grouped closer together, while jumping over the third. While still in mid-air he hurled a frag grenade at the group of Possessed Soldiers, the blast taking out two of them and damaging the other three, which he quickly picked off with shots of plasma, before lunging at the two still stunned Pinkie Demons. He jumped at the first, kicking its head on the way down, before grabbing its upper and lower jaw and ripping its face in half, then quickly grabbed the tooth of the other one, tearing it out, and then slicing its throat, both kills dropping more health and ammo. The other Pinkie Demon charged again from behind, so the Doom Slayer pulled out his chainsaw and cut the monster’s head off, causing it to drop more ammo which his suit quickly recovered.

A Hell Knight jumped at him from behind, its fists coated in energy. The Doom Slayer jumped backwards, avoiding the blast and pulling out his Heavy Assault Rifle, pelting the demon with Micro Missiles as he fell back to the ground. Within a few seconds it had been blasted to pieces. Three more Hell Knights came at him from behind, but he ignored them and jumped onto another roof, meeting two more Imps, the first his meleed in the head, causing it to stagger, which he then grabbed from behind, twisted its neck, and ripped its bottom jaw off, gaining more health and armor. The second he took out with some concentrated rifle fire to its face, turning it to wet mush. From up on high he saw his target, the other Summoner, which he aimed his Gauss Cannon at, dodging a blast of hell energy as he charged up the Precision Bolt before managing to score a headshot. The creature was barely alive and staggered, so he charged before using his thrust boots to make the distance. A charged shot from a Possessed Soldier struck him in the side as he travelled through the air. Gritting his teeth through the pain, he grabbed the Summoner and then landed on its chest before stomping its head into oblivion, releasing armor and health to recover from his very recent wound.

Pissed at Soldier that hit him, he pulled out his Plasma Rifle and fired another Stun Bomb, managing to stun four of the five remaining soldiers, before quickly taking the last one down with some well placed plasma fire. The first he swept the leg out from under before slamming his fist into its head, sending blood and gore everywhere. The next he grabbed the leg, causing the soldier to fall on its back, before breaking the limb at the knee and then slamming its foot into its face hard enough to crush the skull. The third he kicked the knee, breaking it, before punching its head clean off. The final soldier was given two bone crunching punches to the face. All four released health and armor.

The last two Imps jumped at him from a rooftop, which he quickly took out with his Super Shotty, scoring headshots with both blasts before reloading. Two Hell Knights charged and he switched to his Combat Shotgun, the Charged Burst quickly readying before he fired, landing all three shots on one of them. He readied the Charged Burst again as it jumped at him, the Power Shot upgrade now activated, before unleashing three more shells powerful enough to turn the demon into bloody gibs. The second swung at him, which he ducked under, then turned for another attack only to be met with the Gauss Cannon levelled at his head, which quickly took it clean off.

The final Revenant fired another blast of rockets at him from the air, while the final Hell Knight Charged him from behind. Rolled out of the way of the rockets before aiming at the Hell Knight, charging the Precision Bolt and firing, leaving a gaping hole in its torso. He then quickly turned and landed another Precision Bolt on the Revenant, stunning it. As it hung there, vulnerable, he jumped up and grabbed its ankle before slamming it into the ground. He then pulled out his Super Shotgun, stepped on its chest, and then shoved both barrels into its mouth before unloading both barrels.

The thought that entered the Doom Slayer’s mind was quite appropriate.

Suck it.

Twilight’s mouth hung open in shock, which was dangerous as she couldn’t decide whether or not she was about to throw up. She’d never seen anything like it: the power, the viciousness, the brutal efficiency. Even her battle with Tirek couldn’t compare to this.

And yet, her instincts didn’t tell her to run, to hide and hope this killing machine never would never find her. She felt the hate that was there before ebb away, leaving only the subdued dread that she had felt before. This being was dangerous, that she had no doubt about, and yet her instincts were telling her he was dangerous in the same way a beehive might be: don’t mess with it, and it won’t mess with you.

Deciding she needed more information, she opened the door and stepped outside, much to the shock of her friends, and carefully approached the blood-stained being. “Doomy” turned to face her, his face hidden beneath the visor, but made no other movements. Twilight gulped and was about to speak before something caught his attention, the feeling of intense rage and hate radiating from him again. Twilight thought she had made a terrible mistake, until she noticed it wasn’t her she was looking at. She turned around and, much to her horror, a red mist was beginning to form around Canterlot, slowly spreading down Mt. Canter, as bolts of red lightning crackled around it.

She heard a noise from behind her and turned to see “Doomy” had opened his weapon and inserted two more pieces of ammunition into it. He then switched it out for the one that he pumped after every shot, taking off a small part of it before exchanging it with another that went under the barrel. He pumped it again, getting that same intimidating noise as before, before sprinting towards Canterlot, not even paying her any mind.

Twilight just stared at the figure as he continued to race off into the distance, barely noticing that her friends had joined her and were also staring wide-eyed at the horror that seemed to descend upon Canterlot.

“Spike,” she finally managed to say. “I need you to take a letter.”

Twilight was afraid for Celestia, for Luna, for her parents, and for her friends. She was worried and wondered if they were even alive right now. One thing she didn’t wonder about however, was what was going to happen when “Doomy” made it Canterlot. There wasn’t even the slightest doubt in her mind.

If those monsters were there like she thought, he was going to kill every last one.

Author's Note

I know I promised to finish "Friendship is Awesome" before I did this, but after doing the research it was just really in the mood to do this. As someone who does not own, nor has had an opportunity to play this game, my main concern is making the fights feel like they do in the game, and I hope they do. I've even made sure to think of what three runes are equipped for each battle, which in this case were Seek and Destroy, Armored Offensive, and Rich Get Richer. I also really hope you guys feel that the songs I chose also go well with the mood and what's happening.

And speaking of songs, I'll be posting links to the references for chapter title here in the author's notes. Starting with:

I hope you guys like and look forwards to the next one.