Great, I answer a door, and my tendency to jinx myself comes back instantly to bite me in the ass.

"Yeah, capturing me hasn't worked out for anything in the past." I pointed out, remembering the time I got an entire mountain dropped on me by the demons to contain me in a sarcophagus, and I still escaped.

If thou will not go with us willingly, we shall have to take thine by force." The Dark-Theme alicorn responded.

"Good luck." I quipped, loading my double-barreled Super Shotgun.

"Now now, we won't have to resort to violence now, will we?"

Before I could respond, I was engulfed in a golden field, from princess sunbutt over there.

*Sigh* "This isn't fun." A bright flash, and we were suddenly in a castle throne room.

Teleportation, What isn't going to happen to me today? I mentally complained.

"To answer thine's question, thou will not be returned to the Elements."

"Mind reading? Damn you, now I can't even ramble on in my head!" I shouted, thoroughly pissed.

"Now, sister. Let's not get it too riled up."

"If you insist, 'Tia."

"Now, explain to us, creature, just what were you doing with the bearers of the Elements of Harmony?"

"Explaining myself, what else?"

"Then where are you from?"

"Hell. I'm surprised you're not just grabbing information from my mind at this point."

"Thou presents a wonderful idea."

"Ah shit." I cursed myself for that, as Luna began searching through my mind for my memories, when she stopped, she looked traumatized.

"Dear sister, this being is nothing more than a hollow death machine."

"If that is the case, guards! Send this thing to the dungeons!"

"Yes, your majesties." I heard, before being dragged away by a different magic field, still immobilizing me, and I was pulled away to the dungeons, and eventually blacked out.

When I awoke, I was sitting in a dark, torch-lit cave, chained to the wall. Looking around, I realized I had been stripped of the Praetor Suit and was now in more casual clothing. I also realized my weapons had been taken, and I was down to just my fists.

It was about now I tugged on my chains, and broke them, alerting the two guards stationed outside. Both were Pegasi, perfect.

Hitting the floor, I landed right next to my old pair of sickles. Grinning maniacally, I charged at the guards, quickly dispatching them, cleanly stabbing the eye of one guard, and using the other sickle to pin the other guard to the wall.

Pulling the first sickle through the first guard's skull, he dropped dead, and I wasted no time using my momentum to slice the other guard's head clean off.

"Ashes to Ashes, Dusk to Dusk." I muttered, pulling the other sickle from the wall.

Continuing out from the dungeons, I saw other convicts staring at me in awe, some begging me to save them. One look, and I could tell some were innocent, misunderstood souls, which I released. But others, filthy criminals and scum, which I quickly dispatched.

Taking the stairs out of the dungeons, I was now in the lower floors of the castle. Sneakily going about my way, I saw many workers, going about their business, as if a rampaging death machine wasn't on the loose.

I continued sneaking about, until I was about to reach the next set of stairs to head up to the next floor. That's when I was spotted.

"Attention all guards in the lower levels! The creature is on the loose, capture it at once!" I heard announced, before heading up.

Upon reaching the next floor, I saw a sign saying Staircase to floor B2. So I must of been on floor B1. I looked over and saw two guards, analyzing an object I was giddy to see.

The Super Shotgun.

"So, what do you think this thing does?" The first guard asked.

"I don't know, but the thing that had it is probably after it." The second responded, as I appeared behind them.

"Indeed I am, now, are you going to hand it over, or am I going to have to take it off of you?" I said, scraping my sickles together. They turned around, and quickly ran off, dropping the weapon.

"Oh, my baby! How I missed you." I reminisced, ready to kick ass.

Charging back onto the first floor, I realized I was now close to the throne room. Avoiding it, I followed maps on the walls to get to the Alien Artifact Examination Center.

The Praetor Suit must be in there, if I can get it, I should be able to access the rest of my weapons. I thought.

I was semi-correct. As when I walked in, I realized that the group of scientists weren't looking at the Praetor Suit, but rather, the Hazardous Environment Suit, which I had obtained in Black Mesa during a Resonance Cascade an old colleague and I accidentally caused.

Not the Praetor Suit, but if I still have the Vega chip... I internally monologued, reaching into my pockets, and pulling out a small computer chip with the letters U.A.C branded on the front.

Running in, I quickly slid, strafed, and flipped over to it, causing chaos wherever I could. Finally reaching the suit and jumping into it, I heard the familiar voice of the H.E.V Mach IV AI as the suit turned on.

"Welcome to the Hazardous Environment, Mach Four protective suit, designed for use in hazardous jobs." Some nice music started up, but instead of that, I insert the Vega chip into the suit's arm, and suddenly, my robotic ally was back in action.

"Ah, Marine, I see you've found yourself in a rather strange situation. Would you like me to enable access to the Global Inventory Menu?"

"Will do." I replied, and reached into my slipspace to pull out the Chaingun.

"Ah, I see. Playing BFG 10K now."

The metal kicked in, and the Chaingun's barrel spun to life, stepping off of the pedestal where the H.E.V suit was, as I grinned like a lunatic and gave out my battlecry.

"RIP AND TEAR!"

Author's Note

Hoo- Our boy's back in action and craving blood! Since I've been playing HL1 recently, I decided to put some references into here. Along with DUSK. Because why not?

I actually scrapped one idea for the Chaingun scene right there at the end. I was originally going to have a scientist attempt to knock out Marine by throwing a crowbar at him and he'd use it to bash everyone's skulls in. But then I changed it.

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