Rainbow Dash POV

“Ugh my head… what happened?” I sat on my flank and rubbed my head. “Oh right… high speed crash with Lightning Dust… I should be dead but it looks like I’m…” my eyes adjusted and I saw imps walking towards me. “Dead… I’m Dead, and I’m in Hell{1}. I think that they think of me as a tasty snack…” the imp closest to me stepped out if the way to let a giant muscly bipedal skeleton figure with a giant… WAIT IS THAT A LASER AXE?!?!?! OH I’M SO DOOMED!!! I closed my eyes and waited for the inevitable… but I opened my eyes after I heard a series of loud bangs. What I saw was easily the scariest and most awesome thing I’ve seen in my life… or is it afterlife now that I’m dead?

Anyways the giant laser axe wielding skeleton was fighting a green metal golem with an array of long ranged weaponry, that was easily tearing apart the imps with it’s bare hands, which is AWESOME!!! Anyways the skeleton brought down the axe and the golem got out of the way… that’s when I noticed that it wasn’t a golem, but a human{2}! I could tell it was a human by the tan skin that was exposed, I met a mythical creature in Hell! If we were anywhere else I would’ve passed it off as a prank, but I was in Hell, so it wasn’t too surprising. The human ripped off the giant skeleton’s head and looked at me. He then marched towards me, forcing me to back up until I was pressed against a wall. After he was over me, he extended a hand towards me, and after accepting the fact he wasn’t going to hurt me, I took it. He pulled me up to my hind legs, and then I got back to standing normally.

“What’s your name?” He said, I replied and he chuckled a bit. “I’m the Doomslayer… and if you want to scare the ever living shit out of the demons down here, you’re going to need to adopt a better name. Sure you can use it for normal occasions but when ripping and tearing, you’ve gotta get a new name.” I took it in and acknowledged it. “Good. Now let’s get you some armor and teach you how to use a gun…”

Doomslayer’s POV

We walked into the stronghold guns at the ready. I held my trusty double barreled shotgun, and she had her trusty ballista ready. Her ballista was connected to her back in between her wing joints. It was high enough above her to be able to shoot normally, but it also allowed her enough mobility to keep up with me. Plus she could be used as a little ballista cart, which is nice. I also gave her augmented strength, speed, perception, yadda yadda yadda. Point is, we were taking back the stronghold and reviving the Night Sentinels.

Her Invictus suit{3}, protected her from a fireball an imp threw, who was quickly snuffed out by me. She sped ahead of me and fired a bolt into a baron of hell, who promptly exploded. I pulled out my updated Chaingun and switched it to Mobile Turret Form (MTF) and wreaked havoc among the demons while she switched to her plasma rifle and dive bombed the demons. The two of us kept going, wiping out demons and fortifying the rooms we cleared. Eventually all of the rooms that didn’t really serve any real purpose but for travel were cleared and fortified, locking demons in rooms and denying the demons on the lowest floor access to the top floor.

We cleared out every room except for the bottom one and I thrashed an old lady, who would then get her vocal cords cut by Dash. The only room left would be the throne room but we decided to clear out the bottom floor. Soon afterwards the prison floor was cleared and all that was left was the throne room. We opened the door and a few Night Sentinels{4} attacked us. Here we resorted to incapacitation, so we knocked out the ones attacking us as Dash stepped up to the throne.

“Why are you here?” A raspy voice said. She opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out of it. I grunted and no sound escaped my lips… the room was getting rid of all sound except for the speaker. A pale blue man then sat on the throne and spoke.

“What you interfere with now is bigger than you can imagine.” Rainbow looked like he wanted to strangle him, but couldn’t. “If you continue, you will bring down the heaven’s WRATH!” Images of equestria on fire flashed through Rainbow’s head and mine. “It is Written.” I saw Rainbow being chopped up and turned into a cupcake by her friend. “It is their time to give penance.” Rainbow was in obvious distress, and that pissed me off, I tried to move but couldn’t, we were stuck. “You are but one man and mare.” She screamed but nothing came out of it, she was screaming in fear and anger. “THEY are no longer your people to save.” With that he disappeared and all sound resumed, alongside our movement.

She rushed at the throne, which was no empty, with a rage filled yell emanating from her throat. She slammed into it as the Night Sentinels awoke. They looked at Rainbow and rushed to her. I was about to kill them when I saw them applying first aid to her wounds. After explaining what happened, they thanked us for clearing the stronghold, not killing them, and expressed their rage at the Heavens setting fire to Rainbow Dash’s home. They swore their allegiance to us and when I asked where the other Night Sentinels were, they said they didn’t know, but would go out to find them. I suggested they get equipped with guns and said me and Rainbow would assist if there were any home defense systems in place for the stronghold.

“Well there sure are mate, but we could use a few more.” This Night Sentinel’s name was Charlie, and he had an Australian accent. He was apparently the medic of the tiny group of the Sentinels that were left, and the one who felt the most rage at the heavens for their heinous crimes. “Just press the console in the room next to this one and that’ll activate the Stone Sentinels{5}.”

I did exactly that and they rumbled to life. I then got healed up thanks to Charlie while Rainbow helped Dimitri, the engineer, make the escape pod able to hold five people and make it space worthy. After that we got in and we were ready to fly. “Let’s do this…”

Author's Note

Despite the rapid progression in this chapter, this story WILL be longer. Anyways Footnotes!

{1}: Tartarus is not the Equestrian Hell, but a complex prison built by Celestia and Luna named after the Greek version of Hell due to the amount of monsters it could hold in its walls. Ponies who have done bad things in life still go to Hell when they die.

{2}: Like how talking Ponies, Unicorns, Pegasi, and Alicorns are mythical in our dimension, Humans are mythical in theirs, hence why the Doomslayer was called a mythical creature.

{3}: The Invictus suit, AKA the Unconquerable suit, allows Rainbow to switch between weapons and it still keeps her agility, by being aero dynamic and having boosters on the wing tips.

{4}: a few Night Sentinels did survive the massacre by hiding out in the throne room, but when the Heavens interfered, they were brainwashed into destroying anyone who enters the throne room. The sentinels consist of Charlie, a Night Sentinel medic with an Australian accent, Dimitri, a Night Sentinel Engineer with a Russian accent, and Peterman, a Night Sentinel scout with a Bostonian accent.

{5}: The Stone Sentinels are statues of the Night Sentinels imbued with Argent Energy. When not active they just act like statues but when activated, they will act like golems and protect the stronghold.