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// Degreelessness 
// Story: Doom: Hell in Equestria 
// by The card holder 
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"What are we gonna do? Nopony could survive something like that!"

"We'll have to get the Elements ourselves. And face... whatever it is that did this to him."

"Are you crazy?! If he couldn't handle it, what chance do we have?!"

"We will have to at least try. I will not allow these beasts to take over our land."

"So, what's the plan, do we just- Hey, he's moving!"

Grimm did not like taking rockets to the face. To be fair, most living things don't. Regardless, he was just thankful that the blast swung the doors shut again, preventing another rocket from hitting him.

As he got up, the ponies watched in total awe. His armor was quite damaged now, but the only injuries showing on him were a few odd bruises. His visor was cracked slightly, but it was easy to ignore. "I'm not dead yet."

Twilight was at a loss for words. "But that... and you... explosion..." While she strained to find an explanation for what just happened, Grimm got in position near the door. Soon, he had a plan formulated for taking out this behemoth.

"Rainbow, got a question for you."

"Huh?"

"How well can you out-fly missiles?"

"What?! What do you want me to do?"

"You'll be a distraction for that thing, while I try to take it down myself. I already took one rocket to the face, I don't need another."

"I don't know..."

"You wanted to fight these things, right?" 

"Yeah, but-"

"Well, this is probably the closest thing you could get to that."

"I... I'll help too."

Everyone, even Discord, was shocked by Fluttershy's words. "I mean no offense, Fluttershy," Rarity started, "but you aren't near as fast a flyer as Rainbow Dash."

"I know, but I can't stand to have those things hurting innocent ponies and animals. I want to help end this as soon as possible." Her determination suddenly gave way to her usual self. "I- If that's alright..."

Grimm shrugged. "I won't stop you if you want to help." He got ready to open the door again. "Now, when I open the door, you both go in there and start flying around. Keep moving, don't let it get a good shot at you, and stay away from the walls. Okay?"

"Yes sir!"

"Umm.... okay..."

"Alright..." Grimm tightened his grip on both the door handle and his plasma rifle, while the others looked on worriedly. "Let's do this." He swung the door open, once again greeted by the ugly visage of one of his more hated foes.

The Cyberdemon.

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy began flying around the room, drawing the beast's fire. Fluttershy was indeed slower than her cyan friend, but she was still fast enough to dodge the creature's rockets. This didn't stop her from nearly hyperventilating, though. 

Meanwhile, on the ground, Grimm was circling the large demon while pouring plasma rounds into it, taking care not to hit either of the pegasi. However, he soon ran out of ammo, forcing him to simply avoid the rockets. While running, he noticed an alcove with more plasma cells inside. Ducking in, he planned on reloading his plasma rifle, but he stopped what he was doing when he saw what else was in there.

'Oh, yes...' It was the device that Hell had come to fear; the same one that killed their toughest warriors.

The BFG 9000.

Picking it up, he was almost reduced to joyful tears. He contained himself and found a figurehead switch on the wall. Pressing it, it made a deep, echoing click, followed by a nearby section of wall lowering. As its contents cast a green glow on Grimm, he smiled sadistically.

'Oh, this is just too perfect...'



Fluttershy and Rainbow had been dodging rockets for a few minutes now. Rainbow had seen Grimm head into the hidden room, but she stayed focused on flying. Fluttershy, meanwhile, was completely filled with mortal terror. It took all of her willpower, and then some, to not simply fly back to the rest of her friends. 

"C'mon, you big jerk! You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!" Rainbow, meanwhile, was being her usual self. "Those fancy rockets ain't so hot when they don't hit nothing, are they?"

Almost as an answer, a rocket hit the wall just behind her. A piece of rubble flew out and hit her on the back, sending her to the ground in front of the door. The others pulled her to safety quickly, finding that one of her wings was broken.  

Fluttershy witnessed this, and it did nothing to calm her frayed nerves. Regardless, she kept flying, hoping that Grimm would finish up whatever it was he was doing. 

Suddenly, a rocket hit the wall right behind her, also knocking her to the ground. However, now the Cyberdemon was between her and the other ponies. Twilight, Rarity, and the princesses tried as hard as they could to use their magic to help the fallen pegasus, but whatever magic prevention the demons had was still in place. They all watched in horror as the behemoth stomped over to Fluttershy and raised its mechanical hoof, prepared to bring it down on the helpless mare.

Out of nowhere, Grimm sprinted up to Fluttershy and shoved her towards the door, where the ponies brought her to safety. In under a second, the demon's hoof came down right on top of the marine, sending his helmet clattering over to the ponies, the visor now shattered. None of them could believe it; this man, who had helped so much in taking back the castle, was just stepped on. He may have survived a rocket to the chest, but none of them thought he could've survived this. 

The giant demon turned to the cowering ponies, menacingly walking forward, each step echoing loudly in the expansive throne room. Even while filled with fear, Twilight noticed that, once again, Discord was nowhere to be found. 

While they were preparing for the inevitable, Luna spied a look behind the demon. Amazingly, she saw Grimm getting up yet again. She saw his eyes, and they were glowing an unnatural yellow. His face not changing, he took out his rocket launcher and started jogging towards the Cyberdemon. Instead of firing at the demon, however, he aimed it at the ground and fired, propelling himself high into the air with seemingly no damage done to himself. This got the attention of all the other ponies, whose jaws dropped. 

Faster than their eyes could follow, Grimm put away the launcher and took out a massive weapon, one that both Twilight and Celestia recognized. Holding it with one hand, he used the other to grab one of the demon's horns, swinging around so that they were face to face. The gun began to emit a noise, sounding like something charging up. Over that noise, they could hear Grimm say just one thing:

"Miss me?"

Immediately after speaking, he shoved the gun into its eye and lets loose with a huge flash of green. The ponies all looked away, only hearing the sound of pained roaring, an explosion, and electronic humming. When they looked again, the Cyberdemon is no more, a pair of blood-covered stumps in its place. Standing between them was an equally blood-soaked Grimm.  Turning around, his glowing eyes were noticed by all of them.

"Woah! Your eyes are all glowy!" Pinkie Pie was the first to speak. 

"Yeah, that'll happen. It should stop soon."

At the sound of clapping, everyone looked up to see Discord sitting in a floating theater chair, a bag of popcorn in his lap. "I knew I was right to bet on you! Oh, if only I could use you for some of my plans..."

Celestia shot a glare at the draconequus, but the others seemed to pay the comment no mind. 

"Anyway," Grimm said, his eyes now returning to normal, "you wanted those Elements? Let's go get them."