The Dooming Displacement

The Dooming Displacement

Prologue: Displacement

??? POV

“Alright, your good to go.” The man looking at my pass told me, giving me a smile as he looked at my cosplay. “Nice cosplay by the way, Doom Eternal’s one of my favorite games!” The man told me, giving me a thumbs up.

I looked at him and smiled, not that he could see it, before giving him my own thumbs up and walking into the convention. Right now I was at a gaming convention which by the way was absolutely packed full of people and I was dressed as the shotgun wielding rabbit lover himself, The Doom Slayer! Or more accurately, I was dressed in the Doomguy armor skin for the game. Gotta love the classics. Anyway, I had all the necessary gear for it, the Doomblade gauntlet on my arm, the Equipment Launcher for the Grenades, Ice Bombs and the Flame Belch, and I was dressed in the iconic Doomguy helmet! It was awesome, though it did feel kinda embarrassing to have my abs showing due to the ripped part of the outfit itself. People didn’t seem to mind at all really as some of them actually stopped me and asked to take some pictures with me, to which I told them all yes! People actually liked my cosplay and it felt nice!

Though I was missing some things, most notably were the guns. I was missing an essential part of the Doomguy/Slayer visage! I couldn’t be The Hellwalker himself without his trusty tools, I should at least have the Super Shotgun but no… I didn’t have enough time to get a fake one for the convention and I didn’t want to get arrested for bringing a real shotgun into the convention. So, I now have, I think about… $400 or $500 in my wallet to buy a Doom Eternal weapon to complete my look.

As I was walking around, a few more people stopped me and took pictures with me. I gladly took the pictures with them and went on my merry way but about another hour of searching later I was starting to get a little miffed. Literally every single stall I’d been to at this point had no Doom weapons, none! It was starting to piss me off a bit but then I noticed a shady looking stall which held more than what I was looking for. They had perfect replicas of the Doom Eternal Super Shotgun with the Meathook, the Combat Shotgun with the Sticky Bomb mod, the Heavy Cannon with the Precision Bolt mod, the Chainsaw, the Chaingun with the Mobile Turret mod, the Rocket Launcher with what I assume is the Lock-on Burst mod, and finally the most of all and the one that made me essentially go full Doomguy meme… The Crucible. And I’m not talking about the one that now powers the Castle of Doom, I’m talking about the Icon of Sin killer Crucible!

I essentially teleported over to the booth and picked up the Super Shotgun and started to study it intensely, looking at every angle, every nook and cranny of the OG Doomgun before looking at the underside of it and smiling at the sight of the Meathook. My nerd senses were going haywire as I loved the Super Shotgun and right now I felt like a kid getting the best birthday present ever.

“Ah, Doom Slayer. What a nice surprise.” I heard a man’s voice call out in a robotic fashion.

Looking up I saw a guy who was dressed in a pretty cool looking Samuel Hayden cosplay, I went to talk to him but he then pointed towards a sign that read, ‘Customers Must Stay In Character To Buy’. So, I stayed relatively silent and pointed at the guns and sword that laid in front of me.

"Unf." I grunted audibly.

“Ah, so you’d like to buy your weapons I see.” The guy hummed before looking over them. “I’ll just assume you want both shotguns, both chain weapons, the RPG and the Crucible?” He asked which I gave him a grunt and a nod as a reply. “Alright… that’ll be $300 in all.” He told me.

I had to do a double take as my eyes went wide. These guns looked exactly like their real counterparts, so why only $300?! I wasn’t going to argue though, these were some good looking weapons and I wanted to have them. I fished my wallet out before taking out $300 out of my $500 and handed it to the guy.

“Thank you for the purchase,” The man said as he fished out a pack and placed all the weapons in the bag before handing it to me, to which I gladly took it and held the Super Shotgun in my right hand before fishing the Crucible out and holding it in my currently occupied left hand. “And enjoy your trip, please try to save them.” The man said which confused me but unfortunately I couldn’t talk back.

I felt woozy and I fell backward onto my back but instead of hitting the hard ground, I fell into what seemed to be a bush. I could feel my consciousness leave me as the pack disappeared and I could feel the Crucible leave my hand and lock itself onto my waist before my entire world went black and I fell asleep.