Equestrians

Twilight frowned “Do you know where Sunset is now?”

Discord nodded “She is on a planet, far from Mars where this all started. The humans recovered and headed out into space looking for new worlds to conquer. One world on their radar from before the demon crisis was colonised in the year 2362 in the 24th century. Sunset arrived at the planet a century later and became a consultant on their military operations, with special interest in a super soldier project they were developing.”

Fluttershy smiled “Well let’s continue watching and figure out how they got there?”
Discord smiled back as he started the projection.

Sunset

Sunset and the Slayer made their way through tearing demons apart on the way while finding doors that were barred including one with a yellow keycard required to open. They then pried open a door followed by slaughtering the demons within. Sunset crossed her arm “These demons are boring, let’s just go down that elevator.”

As they called the elevator, Slayer turned to Sunset “When do you plan on heading to your homeworld?”

Sunset shrugged “When I’m ready and even then I doubt I’d be staying long. I would have a gate on my ship to get me back to where I was after dealing with a serious threat to my homeworld but I doubt I could stay in a place so peaceful for long before losing it.”

After they went down the elevator, they found a yellow keycard for one of the locked doors. They then punched the door open in front of them, slaying the demons behind it. Sunset groaned “This better not be a fetch quest again, I’m going to start breaking doors soon if this becomes a theme.”

Slayer frowned “I thought you were over that during training.”

Sunset chuckled “They couldn’t train away my hatred for unnecessary nonsense.” The Slayer shook his head as they continued on, heading up an elevator. They arrived at the top, ripping the demons in the area apart with ease before climbing into a room using the corpse of a guy in the room to activate the satellite alignment.

Slayer turned to Sunset “You don’t care much about humans do you?”

Sunset shrugged “Most of them other than you seem pretty stupid, doesn’t mean I’ll let demons kill them or anything but they are dumb. Seriously super dumb.”

Slayer grimaced “Not all of them are, it’s a matter of who’s in charge making dumb decisions and those underneath them pay the price for their incompetence and/or arrogance.”

As the information was coming through, it was blocked. Dr Samuel Hayden’s voice echoed through the machine “I’m blocking your access to the facility scanner. Come to the Vega terminal and I’ll give you what you need.”

Sunset growled “I’m going to kill him!’

Slayer nodded “I agree, this guy is getting on my nerves.” They headed back inside, the demons looked at them in terror as they screamed and ran away. Sunset roared chasing them down like a wild animal as she gave chase, splattering the walls with their insides. The Slayer was running at full pelt just to keep up with Sunset who was leaping from demon to demon.

After they make their way into a computer room, Samuel Hayden speaks through the computer as a cell of Argent Energy rises from the ground “It’s a gift. Take it. It will give you strength, help you on your journey - if you can withstand the power surge.”

Sunset shrugged “You can take it, that cell is more compatible with you then twitch me. Besides I want to find where this energy comes from and take the true source.” Slayer nodded crushing the cell and absorbing it’s power.

Samuel Hayden looked mildly surprised “That is pure Argent Energy you have taken into your system. It seems to agree with you. Hmm. I will unlock the remaining Argent cells within the facility for you. Vega, give them what they want.”

Vega's voice filled the room “61,337 UAC (United Aerospace Corporation) Members deceased, 81% of the facility is on lockdown, demonic presence through the Mars installation is critical. According to the records, Dr Hayden, the invasion originated in the Lazarus facility. It seems a hellwave was activated transforming 64% of all UAC employees into the creatures you see roaming through the facility. The rest were killed by the demons released from their holding cells by Olivia Pierce.”

Sunset frowned “That explains why only weak demons have been appearing along possessed humans. That woman was the one we saw in a few projections.” Slayer nodded.

Samuel Hayden nodded “It seems you figured that out. I apologise for the action of her and her subordinates, I’m afraid you will have to deal with her in the future. You may not agree with our research … but know this - We exploited Hell and it’s resources because it was in the best interests of mankind to do so. What you see in this facility is the cost of progress. But none of that matters now.”

Sunset growled “Do you release they can probably detect this and could strike here at any moment with far more demons that are also far stronger then what you’ve seen here!”

Vega provided an update “There is an emergency in the Foundry, the regulators have been destroyed and the core temperatures are now destabilizing.”

Samuel Hayden looked at the two of them “They’ve overrun the adjacent facility. If the venting turbines aren’t re-engaged. None of us will survive the meltdown.”

Sunset and Salyer left the room, Sunset chuckled “We will, your tough as nails and my insides burn at the temperature of several supernovae going off at once at a bare minimum.”
The two exit the room only for the Slayer to pause for a moment, he shook his head “Just Vega telling me something. Ignore it.”

Samuel Hayden then communicated over comms “The facility will not allow you access to the turbine room unless the demonic threat level is brought down inside the foundry. Our security systems cannot be overridden.” Sunset and Slayer fist bumped, the demons shook in fear as the two emerged. The braver demons stood their ground for a nanosecond before being bulldozed as the cowardly ones were hunted and put down like the maggots they were.

They stumbled on a projection during their onslaught of some guy getting murdered by a Hell Knight. Sunset blinked “How did they capture one of those? Those guys tear through normal men like butter.” Slayer frowned, this was suspicious. They then used a guy’s arm to stop a gas leak before continuing the demonic slaughter.

They ripped another yellow keycard off a corpse as they stared at the door for a blue keycard. Sunset grumbled as she turned around the Slayer following. She punched a Hell Knight into a bloody splatter as the surrounding demon shrieked for a moment before their lives were extinguished by the Slayer.

Slayer followed Sunset as she drove her warpath through demons, another Hell Knight splatter was on one of the walls.The Slayer found a plasma rifle as he continued to follow his annoyed friend. After Sunset’s destruction of another Hell Knight, Slayer picked up a blue keycard “We can continue on now, that was scary even for me. You usually complain or enjoy a fight.”

Sunset runned the back of her head “I’m sorry, I hate meaningless time wasting.” Saluyyer nodded as the two continued on.

Equestrians

Luna growled “I hate backtracking too. My sister trapped me in a maze when I was six as a practical joke! It took me five hours to get out of it”

Twilight gasped “That’s awful! How could the princess do that!”

Fluttershy raised an eyebrow “What did you do to deserve that?’

Luna rubbed the back of her head “I set her mane on fire and replaced all the water in the room with liquid explosives.”

Discord chuckled “You are more chaotic than you let on.” He then frowned, “Let’s continue.”

Sunset

Sunset raised an eyebrow “Why do all the keycard people have coloured vests on?”

Slayer shrugged “Probably to make sure all personnel knew who had what keycard.” They then destroy some more demons before having reduced the demonic presence to “minimum safe levels.” They then arrived at the turbine and activated the cooling which caused swarms of demons to appear and be promptly slaughtered.

Samuel Hayden then relayed to them “A Primary control room has been activated somewhere nearby… It could be Olivia.”

Sunset clenched her fists “Well let’s find her!”

The two charged onward finding a room, they activated the button to see Olivia Pierce in front of them. She spoke a code into the computer “Authorization Olivia Pierce Alpha four, zero, two.” Sunset frowned as she started doing weird things on the computer.

Samuel Hayden told them “She is trying to tear a hole between their world and ours.” By the time he had finished speaking she had already succeeded.

Sunset growled “Idiot, that information was due earlier!”

Oliva Pierce gazed at Sunset and Slayer “You could not have saved them anyway.”

Sunset sighed “Well we better get there.” She then smirked “I want to see this completely blow up in her face.” Slayer shook his head as the two left the room to head for the tower.

Samuel Hayden then spoke up once more “The system won’t allow anyone but Olivia to override it now. We have to shut down the Argent Tower manually from the surface.” The two shrugged as they headed out, it was their plan anyway. Samuel Hayden informed them “Oliva is using the tower to drill a doorway into their world. You can prevent her from opening the gate by disabling the tower's induction filters.” They headed on their way to slay more demons and find the tower, the Slayer picking up a rocket launcher on his way forward.

Sunset and Slayer found their way to one of the devices. Samuel Hayden contacted them again “We are only temporarily disabling the tower; you need to remove each lens individually. Carefully release the hinges…” Sunset smirked at Slayer who nodded slamming his foot down breaking the device entirely. Samuel Hayden continued “Destroying the production of Argent Energy isn’t necessary.”

Sunset chuckled as she absorbed some of the energy being released. They then cleared out more demons before finding another device. Samuel Hayden protested “You must stop, the Hell energy is unusable without the filters.”

Sunset chuckled “Good, means less chance of demons destroying Earth again.” Slayer nodded as he slammed down on the device breaking it. Sunset absorbing some of the leaking energy

Samuel Hayden protested once more “What you are destroying is more valuable than you can possibly imagine, it is a perfect and unlimited energy resource.”

Sunset growled “Well that so-called perfect resource comes with demons, tons of demons! You see what a few demons can do, what about all of Hell!” Sunset and Slayer then hunt down more demons. They then break a third device, Sunset absorbing more of the leaking energy.

After travelling through the facility slaying demons along the way, Samuel Hayden contacted them once more “We spent decades perfecting the science, selling it to humanity. We balanced their Hell energy with our science making it safe and usable. We solved an energy crisis the world had no answer for. It works, you cannot do this.”

Sunset growled “What’s to prevent them from getting into the mind of someone else and doing this again! It's not worth the risk! What good an extra century of energy if you get destroyed in the course of a few months.”

Samuel Hayden responded “You can protect us. You are strong.”

Sunset scowled “We can’t be everywhere, imagine 90% of the world being destroyed every couple of years.” After the comm became silent, Sunset and the Slayer continued on.

They finally found the last device, Samuel Hayden’s somewhat resigned voice emerged over the comms “If stopping our energy production is what you want then you need only to destroy the last filter and Argent Energy will no longer exist in this solar system… We will be at square one.”

Samuel Hayden sighed “You made your decision.” They then receive word from Vega that Oliva got an accumulator from the bottom of the tower to open a rift that way. Sunset and Slayer make way for the tower. They slaughtered demons to collect a special pair of Delta V jump boots for Slayer to help him navigate the surroundings.

They then continued on, the Slayer used his jump boots while Sunset used her wings to fly over small gaps. Slayer raised an eyebrow “Why don’t you use those wings more often?”

Sunset frowned “I’m a sloppy flyer, I need proper practice time so I just use them to fly over small gaps.” Slayer nodded as they continued on.

They slaughtered their way to the base of the tower only to see Olvia Pierce, Samuel Hayden explained “That’s an Argent Accumulator she’s carrying. She’ll try to use it to open a portal manually into Hell.” They head into there with Slayer picking up a super shotgun to add to his weapons. After making their way through slaying demons, they find themselves in a reactor room with a giant red beam in the centre.

Hordes of demons spewed out, Sunset smirked as they saw them and shuddered for a second. Sunset and the Slayer went on rampage. Sunset absorbed their energy as she did so. They climbed higher repeating the process. Sunset and the Slayer headed into a side room to continue the ascent, slaying all the demons as they did so.

Once they reached high enough they heard Olivia’s Pierce’s voice “You cannot stop me from claiming what I am owed - what I was promised.”

Sunset shrugged “If we don’t kill her they will.”

Sunset and Slayer headed up to the top of the tower, they forced open the door as they heard Oliva Pierce scream “This is not the end! It’s only the beginning.” She then fell into the Argent Tower’s energy opening a portal.

Sunset turned to the Slayer “Let’s kill all these demons.” The Slayer gave her a thumbs up. As they were fighting the portal erupted and Sunset and Slayer found themselves in what assumed was Hell. The duo shrugged before heading forward killing demons in droves, collecting both yellow and blue skulls to continue forward.

Sunset shrugged as they cleared out more demons “I’m hoping for something bigger.” It was along after they stumbled on some Barons of Hell, Sunset goes “I’ve missed you guys. I was wondering where you guys went.” Sunset and Slayer then slaughtered them, Sunset frowned “Weaker than I remember. That Argent Energy I absorbed really did make me too strong.”

Sunset and Slayer continued forward entering an area that was filled with demonic energy as demons poured in only to be slain. Sunset and the Slayer found their way to the portal that Samuel Hayden has used to get back from Hell.

Equestrians

Discord clicked his fingers “I think that this would be enough for today. I suggest you get some rest for tomorrow.”

Fluttershy smiled, “See you tomorrow.”

Twilight yawned “Today was a long day. I’ll see you in the morning.”

Luna groaned “I have to do dreamwalking, I might not wake up until late.” They headed to their rooms for the night.

Author's Note

This was a bit of a longer chapter, I might make these chapters longer.