Instead of 100 men vs 1 gorilla...
...What about 100 gorillas vs 1 Doom Guy...?
*⚠️ALSO WARNING! Suicidal thoughts and triggers of suicide. Please be mindful when reading as this is just a fanfic⚠️*
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Minutes before...
Walking through the dark, silent streets, the crimson-eyed hero was heading to a place he liked particularly in the districts of Nagoya. It was a rather pleasant evening as there were no villains in the surrounding area since he was initially stationed here for some time with recovery girl. She was giving a lecture for nurses in training.
He wasn't entirely sure about all the logistics of nursing and being a doctor, but it was essential to learn at least a few techniques as a hero. Which he had done.
It was a hassle getting the needle from under Present Mic's skin, along with his screeches.
Added with Midnight laughing her ass off, it annoyed him to no end.
Now here he was finally having free time for himself as he walked to a small Kitten Café that he loved. It was a perfectly normal eveni—
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!!"
His back was already filled with sweat as he snapped his neck towards the direction of the howl that resounded across his ears. Such a small distance away from him and it knocked him back a few steps...?
He shook his head as he jumped up onto the lampost before speeding across the houses. He was in shock...
Was that vibrations of the scream..?
He only knew one person that could do that and he was back at UA.
He ran as fast as he could through the shadows on top of the houses as he came closer and closer. Just a little below he saw a phasing, ochre outline of a dark, endless portal that vanished before his eyes.
His pupils dilated with his eyes widening as he saw a young girl with a hole through her stomach as he rushed down and crouched next to her. He looked back towards where the portal had vanished and gritted his teeth as the villain got away and killed an innocent person.
KRRK
His gazed snapped back to her body. More specifically her hands which were covered, albeit a little, with what seemed to look like static electrical waves. He placed his index and middle finger on her neck, to the side of her windpipe.
A small beating sensation was felt as he quickly and without wasting anytime, used his bandages to wrap her body up around her stomach, tightly reinforcing it, before picking her up and rushing to Recovery Girl.
He will save her no matter what.
Because that is what a hero does.
MEANWHILE...
BAM
BAM
BAM
"AAAARRGHHHHH!!!" He roared as he landed blow after blow onto the creature's body as his head had already exploded after one punch.
He didn't care if he killed it. He didn't care that it could've been a human being.
This bastard had killed the only person in the world he could call a friend.
(Play 'Guilty Hero' AOT OST by Kohta Yamamoto)
As he laid on top of the creature's body, which had already stopped moving since its head exploded, he felt no sense of enjoyment. He felt no sense peace after gaining the revenge he wanted for Mary.
Why...
WHY?!
Why was the world so cruel to him?! What had he done that made someone out there make his life so miserable?!
"Y-You cruel, manipulative bastard..!?...Was this all part of your plan..?!" he roared to the skies as tears had streamed down for the first time in 3 years since that day.
"IT'S ALL JUST A FUCKING GAME TO YOU ISN'T IT!?" he continued as his eyes closed in deep anger and misery.
"Y-You didn't give me a quirk...my parents forgot about me...my own sister hates me..." he choked slightly as he finally recalled his last moments with Mary.
"A-And the one time...the one time I was finally happy...w-with her..." he looked down quietly as he mentioned the one person who saw past his quirklessness.
"...You TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME?!" he bellowed out as his roars silenced the surroundings around him.
"WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO PLEASE YOU?! I'VE DONE EVERYTHING I COULD TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THIS GOD-FORSAKEN WORLD, AND YOU MAKE IT EVEN WORSE?!" he finished as he looked down to the creature.
"What's the point...what's the point in living like this..." he mumbled as he put his hands through the disemboweled creatures insides and onto the ground.
"I-...I-I want to die...I want to die...." he repeated in his head as he shook.
It had all piled up. Finally, after all these years. It was like fate finally took its course for action.
Since the day he was announced quirkless, up until now, at the age of 15.
He fought back for so long and now what...?
Just quit?
Maybe...
Maybe it is better to give up...
The world didn't need him...
After all...
He was worthless...
He was useless...
He was...quirkless...
...
Just then he heard a clicking sound as he swiftly turned.
...
"...Daisy...?" he muttered as he stared blankly, with an etch of disbelief in his eyes as he got up from the creature's body and sat in front of Daisy.
Slowly, but surely, Daisy softly hopped towards Izuku and before he could register, the little bunny had safely made her way into Izuku's arms as he gently held her in his blooded hands.
She whimpered softly as Izuku listened to her. It was like she was telling him to not give up. To not bow down.
To get back up.
To fight back.
Fight not against just the injustice.
But against even fate itself. Before he could register, it slowly played in his mind...
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"If it's real," she continued, quieter now, "imagine it. Fighting through every screaming horror Hell could throw at you...bashing the heads of all those demons and devils...just to make it to the gates of Heaven. Just to get in."
She turned to him for the first time, her eyes burning like coals in the dark as she grinned.
"I'd do it. If that's what it took—I'd fight them all."
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(Play 'The Warriors' AOT OST by Kohta Yamamoto)
...
He slowly stood up as he gritted his teeth. His breathes started becoming more ragged and more ferocious.
His upper teeth then moved to his bottom lips as he bit harder until the scarlet, hot blood drew. His gentle holding on Daisy completely juxtaposed his raw anger and and fury tapered across his face.
No more...
No more will he be held down by the chains that fate itself had pulled him down with.
He will defy them. He will defy them all. No matter who it is. No matter what it takes. He will not stop.
He will reach the summit.
And this is not about becoming a Hero.
Not even as a Villain.
He will transcend them all. He will become the being that everyone will come to fear.
He was done with the cat and mouse chase.
Not even God itself will stop him. He would even defy and break the limits of humanity to turn against God itself!
Just then the slithering sounds came from all directions and surrounded him. He slowly looked up and around as more of those creatur—
No. Now that he took a good look at them.
They truly were demons. Denizens of Hell.
Was he really in Hell? Well...
It wasn't like it mattered anyway. The landscape around him also confirmed it as he truly took in his surroundings.
It was quite literally, 'Hell'.
The sky—if it could be called that—was an open wound. A swirling cauldron of red ash, scorched black clouds, and lightning made of screaming light. It pulsed like lungs dragging in poisoned breath, dimming and flaring with every minute.
The air was heavy. It clung to the his skin like a rot, thick with the scent of burning flesh, sulfur, and something older, something as though it were grief given form. You didn't breathe in Hell. You choked.
Not like it mattered to him anyway. It was almost...natural to him. Like...Like he belonged to this place.
The heat was burning up in his chest as he looked down slowly to see a dark burning red formation around his chest.
'The mark...' he thought as his free hand moved to slowly caress the symbol on his chest. It had never done this. It had never made such a colour. It just sat there for all these years since he was born and now...
Now it burned...like a hot and ferocious fire as he breathed louder and louder and faster and faster. Taking in his surroundings once again, the denizens of hell...those...imps.
They started moving closer to him and before he knew it one was about to pounce onto him.
He quickly dodged as his cling on Diasy grew tighter. More and more of them started rushing as they all pounced, but Izuku jumped as he landed onto one of them as hard as he could.
SPLAT
The imp was crushed as he ran towards what looked like a cave. The horde was chasing him as he got closer and when he reached...
It was a dead end.
You would think this would be all over for him.
No...no it was not.
He put Daisy down onto a rock softly as he turned to the next imp that rushed screeching towards him.
His boots cracked bone as he launched forward, ducking low under a burst of hellfire. The world lit up in red and orange as flaming orbs screamed past his shoulder and exploded behind him. A second imp leapt from a jagged ledge, claws outstretched—only for Izuku to grab it mid-air by the throat.
CRUNCH
One clench. Throat...
Crushed.
He hurled the corpse into two more charging imps, the impact knocking them into a pool of boiling blood. They didn't rise again.
He looked onwards as more rushed screeching violently but he roared as he also ran towards them and like the instincts of an animal, he grabbed one that was about to reach his throat and with all his strength, he ripped the imp in half as guts and blood flew everywhere. Another came and he punched his hand through into the imps mouth. With whatever he could grasp, he pulled out all the innards of the imp as the demon fell to the ground dead.
Hordes looked like they were coming as he knew they were calling for more of them to finish him off.
All these imps against him?!
HOW DARE THEY THINK THEY CAN GO AGAINST THE ONE THAT TURNED AGAINST GOD?!
They wanted rage...!?
He will give them God's mistake!
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(UNKNOWN AMOUNTS OF TIME LATER)
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He sighed softly as he petted Daisy giving the only sane and normal creature that was with him all the tiny shred of love he had left for the world that broke him.
A few minutes before, the final demon was swiftly ripped apart as he threw it towards the stack of dismembered piles of imps that had 'tried' to kill him. Once he confirmed that no more was coming he slowly walked onto the pile and making his way to the top he finally sat down with his arms perched onto his legs, whilst his feet rested on the faces of two demons.
Daisy, having noticed her finished, also made her way to the top of the demon pile and sat onto his lap.
How long had he fought for? He wasn't entirely sure but judging by the...thousands..? of bodies he sat on.
Coupled with the Daisy who, during his massacre, he glanced towards her and found her sleeping for what seemed like hours on end before waking up again. He also noticed that there were a few bits of greenery deeper into the cave that she munched on and as if she had gotten a boost, she moved away from the greenery and sat on the pile of rocks watching him rip and tear through the hordes.
Daisy had slept a total of 8 times and by what he could remember, bunnies sleep for around 8 and a half hours.
Around 68 hours of sleep. So in 24 hours, that was 8 and a half hours sleep with 15 and half hours of just eating on the greenery and staring at her owner raging in a murder spree.
So 15.5 times by 8 would be around 124 hours of just repeating that. Therefore, 124 hours plus 68 hours sleeping was 192 hours.
8 days...big brain moment.
This was what he could assume anyway.
He had been on his first crusade of murdering and ripping demons apart for 8 days straight. Only then was he finally a little exhausted.
He looked out from the cave as he seeing the blazing, fiery lava pouring from the top of the entrance of the cave.
It was confirmed to him that he was indeed in Hell...
So how can he get out?
Usually Hell takes souls and burns said souls and even punishing them by putting through the eternal fire and punish them for their sins.
Not that Izuku himself has committed any.
...He wasn't really sure but he believed he didn't.
Still though he wasn't sure why he did not go through such 'punishing process'. Maybe due to the portal that he went throug—
'...a portal...'
He got through here via a portal. That fiery outline filled with eternal darkness. If he could find a way to get through that portal then he could get back on Earth.
Those imps could not summon portals otherwise he would've seen it by now. So he has two options. Either, there was someone here in Hell that summoned a portal that allowed the imp to throw a blast to Mary...
Or there was someone on the Earth that could've done it. But that would've been a completely random chance.
So it could only be the first option.
'A demon clearly summoned it there on purpose...' he thought clenching his fist as he shook in hostility even more with a veins protruding out from his neck.
A demon allowed a portal to open and then let the imp throw a blast to kill Mary.
The perpetrator was still alive. Along with that assumption, he had to believe that it wasn't just some ordinary demon.
For now though, he needed a rest.
He slowly got up and jumped down onto the ground as he walked inwards in the cave. The greenery confused him, but he didn't question it as it was Hell. All sorts of things could appear in this place.
...
...For example a shotgun.
'Huh...?' he was a little dumbfounded by this. More specifically, it looked like a combat shotgun that he remembered which was similar to one he saw on the internet a few times, during those American Quirktube videos who in which the said American's showcased different types of weapons including this one.
But, this one looked a little different. This one was much larger and much, much bigger.
He picked up, slowly to see if there were any damages, but it looked completely fine.
What was this doing down here? He gripped it tightly as he loaded in a shotgun shell but there wasn't any in the barrel.
He felt a nudge as he looked down to see Daisy point towards a batch of dark red shotgun shells as he sported a small grin.
"Thanks Daisy..." he muttered as he walked towards the shells. Counting a total of 20, he loaded them in and to his surprise there was an large storage that allowed all of them to fit in.
Now he had to be careful. He only had 20 rounds. So he had to use them carefully.
Imps he can just tear through but what if there were stronger demons?
He would use it on those however if they were also weak after a while, he may not use them and just use his hands and feet.
It did quite the job for the last 8 days straight after all.
As he walked further into the cave he he saw what he confirmed was a little unnerving.
'Someone was here before me...'
All the artificial lights were broken, but the only natural light was through crevices and from outside the cave.
There was a whole room dedicated with screens and maps with points and different locations. Panels lined the walls, blinking red or softly humming. Maps. Coordinates. Grid work rendered in red and grey, pinpointing sections of Hell with labels in a language Izuku couldn't recognize—at least not completely. It looked like English. But he couldn't fully tell since he was Japanese and still had a little trouble with the language as a whole.
It was quite a complex language after all.
Dust had clung to everything like a burial shroud. All the terminals were coated in ash and scorched paper documents laid half-burned in the corners.
All in all, it was entirely broken.
But it still confirmed that someone was here before him and that was unnerving.
Daisy perched up onto one of the desks which had buttons to push everywhere as she laid there watching Izuku and the surroundings. Izuku himself checked through the different screens pressing anything that would turn on, but it was all for nought.
If he could find the person that was here before, maybe he could help him. That would be a long ask since they would've long been dead.
He can't assume everything though after all, 'In an investigation, assumptions kill.'
For now he would stop and take a breather as he slumped down and against the back of the metallic screens. Daisy jumped down from the desks and into his lap as she fell asleep quite quickly whilst he began petting her slowly.
'We'll get through this...and when I find the demon that killed Mary...' he thought as he glanced up with murderous intent.
'He's going to pay.'
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OML. Guyss He's in HELL.
Now there will be a few things which I will do to buff him up. I don't know about the whole schtick with ammo so I'm gunna go with, he kill's a demon and gets ammo like in the doom games.
Also from this point on, when it comes to Argent D'Nur and Mars, I may just put it all together as separate dimensions from Hell. Mars maybe called something else so just bare with me. Because with this Izuku will be stuck in Hell for quite a while.
I will try my best to fit in all the bosses, but I have only played Doom Eternal so please bare with me if I do get some stuff wrong. I'll do my level best to try and stick to lore accuracy. Shout me out if I get things wrong okay 👍
Gimme your thoughts :)