The Slayer had been falling for very long minutes now through a twisted and endless tunnel. All around him, light and darkness mingled, kept twisting and moving in an anarchic and rude manner. Blasts of flame and electricity sometimes manifested, as well as monstrous tentacles rising from the distortion, and trying to grab the Doom Slayer as it fell. In his helmet, Vega's scanners were completely out of order. Suddenly, the tunnel seemed to tear, like paper, letting emanate from its growing fissure of the swarming darkness, which little by little, came to cover the Slayer without his being able to prevent it.

The Slayer was suddenly thrown out of the veil of darkness, and made a dizzying fall of several hundred yards before landing heavily on rocky ground. Once again, his praetor armor absorbed the impact. His shotgun still in hand, the Slayer sat up silently, watching this new environment that had just appeared around him.

The ground he was standing on had a rocky consistency, but was black and sticky like ink. There was no sign of vegetation except a few large dead black trees with hooked branches giving them the appearance of giant gaunt hands. In this huge dark place were also terrifying-looking hills and mountains, like giant sharp teeth. The sky was not to be outdone, a bloody red and red flashes exploding from black clouds.

Vega's voice was not heard, the headset continuing to be messed up by this strange dimension. The Slayer also heard strange sounds echoed in this place. Like the constant crackling of old radio, along with distant, sinister snickers, from Alastor's voice.

_ "Well done, Slayer ..." Alastor's voice echoed all around him. "You played the first part of the final act brilliantly. But now it's time for the second and last part."

The Slayer gave a deep growl of anger, standing ready and preparing his shotgun to fire.

_ "Slayer!" then shouted a familiar feminine voice, which caught the attention of the Slayer who was preparing to shoot, but lowered his gun when he saw who it was.

It was Charlie. Freed from her chains, the young princess ran to the man. Behind her, following her closely, Vaggie, Angel, Cherri, Niffty and Husk, all free and alive as well. However, Lucifer and Lilith were missing.

More than reassured to see the Slayer here and alive, Charlie shed tears and snuggled up against him forcefully.

_ "Thank you ... thank you for coming ..." Charlie moaned in tears. The Slayer said nothing, but in a somewhat reserved but nonetheless sincere gesture, gently patted the princess on the shoulder. Charlie didn't take his silence badly, knowing him.

_ "Yes ... even if you are not really known to be the friend of demons ... thank you for what you do, for us ..." said Vaggie, admitting that the help of the Slayer was indispensable. The Slayer looked at her and gave her a slight nod.

_ "Yeah, thanks dude..." Angel said in turn, coming over to give the Slayer a friendly, hard pat on the shoulder. "I would have offered to reward you in my own way, but you've already made it clear that you weren't interested in my services. So... a brofist, is it okay?"

With that, Angel clenched his fist with a smile. Charlie and Vaggie sighed in annoyance at this, also fearing the Slayer's reaction. Harry looked at Angel's fist in front of him and raised an eyebrow. But to everyone's surprise, the Slayer decided to brofist with Angel, in a rather reserved manner, but did it anyway. Everyone else was surprised. In all of history, Angel was surely the only demon to brofist with the Doom Slayer.

_ "Damn, where are we?" said Cherri, who meanwhile, along with Niffty and Husk, looked around with incomprehension.

_ "Oh dear, this place ... this place is disgusting!" Niffty cried hysterically.

_ "It's Alastor's dimension ... that asshole had already told me about it, but I was too drunk to listen to him until the end ..." Husk said darkly. "This is where he attracted the most powerful demons, then killed them and stole their powers."

A demon capable of creating its own dimension? Alastor's power was decidedly much greater than expected.

The Slayer then walked over to Charlie and Vaggie.

_ "Where are Lucifer and Lilith?" he asked with his dark voice.

_ "I don't know ..." Charlie sighed sadly "... we all woke up here, lost and without our chains. My parents weren't there. We walked straight ahead, until find you here."

Charlie, too worried about her parents, was desperate, and Vaggie hugged her to comfort her a little.

Suddenly, the whole ground was shaken by a violent tremor which made everyone lose their balance. In the sky, the lightning redoubled in intensity and violence. A huge chasm had formed a few meters from the group. From this immense rock crevice emanated great and terrifying red flames.

Then, slowly but surely, a giant shape began to emerge from the rift. The Slayer, Charlie and the rest of the group looked up at this growing monstrous thing, the shadow of which now covered them all.

_ "Oh fuck me ..." Angel gasped, eyes wide.

All recognized the giant creature that had just appeared from the pit of flames. That red and black costume ... those horns ... those red eyes ... that carnivorous smile ...

_ "Alastor!" Charlie gasped in horror.

By its immense powers, the radio demon had increased in size, now measuring almost a hundred meters tall. His eyes were redder than before and pupilless and shone like torches. Her skin had turned completely black. Her smile was even bigger and her teeth had turned shiny yellow. Large horns, like a monstrous stag's antler, had grown on its head, giving him a bestial appearance. All around him, large black, undulating tentacles appeared.

_ "So this is your true form, bastard!" Vaggie growled angrily, protecting Charlie by stepping in front of her. The group then saw two small shapes held by Alastor's black tentacles. Charlie gasped in horror as he recognized them.

_"Mother! Father!" she screamed, wanting to go to their aid, but Vaggie grabbed her by the arm. The King and Queen of the Underworld were unconscious. Alastor roared mightily, unleashing his power around him even more, intensifying a storm. Its tentacles brought Lucifer and Lilith up to his jawbone, and for all to see, he swallowed them whole. Charlie screamed even more, seeing her parents being swallowed by this monster.

_ "So, Slayer ... what are you going to do now?" roared Alastor, whose voice had grown deeper and more distorted, and had tripled in power. "Will you dare to confront me, knowing that the parents of your dear princess are inside of me? Will you take the risk of pulverizing me with them, under the eyes of the one who believes in you?"

Charlie had fallen to her knees, in tears, supported by Vaggie and Angel. The Slayer on his side, stood coldly, his fists clenched and his furious gaze focused on the giant demon. He looked over his shoulder for a moment, seeing the young Hell Princess, who looked up in tears at him. Although he had learned to like Charlie, the Slayer made her understand, by his gaze, that his choice was already made and that he would stick to it, no matter what the consequences were. Shocked, Charlie wasn't surprised though ... she knew it and accepted it ... the Slayer was not the man to put feelings and compassion before his duty ...

_ "Whether she loves me or hates me afterwards, I don't care ... I'm going to rid the universe of your fucking existence!" the Slayer growled under his helmet, reloading his weapons and bracing for this new fight.

_ "Slayer ..." Charlie moaned, but couldn't help but accept this harsh reality. Vaggie, Angel and the others were confused by what was going on.

Alastor, for his part, delighted at the Slayer's response, expressed his treacherous joy with a twisted and powerful laugh.

_"Yes! Yes!" he screamed with morbid joy. "This is what I wanted to hear! The lone warrior, the god of destruction, this is what you are! All that drama and tension! It will be a wonderful last fight! When the storm is over, one of us two will be dead! Come on, Slayer!"

_ "I am not a god ... I am not a man ... I am nightmare to you all!" the Slayer replied very coldly with his dark voice, which made Charlie and the others shudder with fear.

Annoyed by the demon radio's provocations, the Slayer let his rage explode. Having to wait for the BFG to fully reload, he picked up his heavy machine gun. With a heavy step but extremely swiftly, the Slayer started running towards Alastor, while strafing towards him. The detonations echoed from the barrel of the weapon, hitting the immense body of Alastor, who although injured by the projectiles, continued to laugh madly.

Charlie, Vaggie, Angel, Cherri, Husk and Niffty stared, all in amazement, the Slayer causing the flaming blade Charlie had given him to appear on his wrist with her power, speeding up his run more and more, and with supernatural strength, leap fearlessly in the direction of the giant Alastor spreading its tentacles and infernal storm around him, ready to welcome his adversary.

_ "SAVE US, DOOM SLAYER!!" Charlie yelled desperately.

_ "IT'S TIME TO END IT!" roared the Slayer in all his rage as he leaped towards his final enemy.

_ "Oh no ... we have company ..." Cherri said noticing something behind her, and preparing bombs in her hands. The others also looked and then saw a horde of demons, Imps, appearing from the surroundings and rushing towards them like a veritable living tide.