The Slayer

The Slayer's current armor

## Description

Stanley Blazkowicz (also known as The Slayer, Doom Guy, The Doom Slayer, or Hellwalker) is a former U.S. marine who represents Earth's resistance against the demons of Hell. He has a wide arsenal of weapons and has many connections to various influential organizations around Earth, including the United States Military, Union Aerospace Corporation, Aperture Science, the Armed Response Coalition, and others. He is known to never speak to anyone, and that his motives are always vague. The Order of Wrath considers him as their number one target, as his abilities are incredibly dangerous to their plans. He often works with Ghost, however the majority of the time he operates alone.

## Biography

### Early Life

Stanley Blazkowicz was born in Mesquite, Texas, on December 10, 1993. Not much is known about his early life other than that his family has a history with the United States Military. His grandfather is William Joseph Blazkowicz, who was a special forces operative during World War 2, and his father is William Joseph Blazkowicz II, who is commonly known by his nickname 'Billy Blaze.'

### Joining the Marines

In the year 2020, Stanley joined the United States Space Force, which had been recruiting for a space infantry division for reasons of "planetary defense." While in boot camp, his drill sergeant was Crash.

Two years later, while stationed in Iraq as surplus reinforcements, his lieutenant colonel ordered his platoon to clear out a village that was confirmed by intelligence to have no hostile activity. Stanley was shocked by this order and went into a rage, physically assaulting the officer. This outburst, along with other reports of outrage, caused him to be sentenced to 5 years of hired security duty for the Union Aerospace Corporation on their Mars installations. During the days of the trial processes, he befriended Grayson Ford, a Navy SEAL, who was also being court martialed for hospitalizing his squad mates. After their rulings had them to be sent to different Mars installations, they parted ways.

### The Phobos Incident

Within the first few days of Stanley's duty as a security detail on the Phobos Installation, a malfunction in the portal testing laboratory led to a Lazarus White-Out, opening portals to Hell across the different laboratories that were testing the same technology. These portals, accompanied by Lazarus waves, sent the facilities into disarray and zombified a majority of the personnel. Stanley, not even having earned his beige uniform and being stuck with his green training uniform, was in the hangar complex when the malfunction happened. He took his service pistol and a set of recon armor from the air-traffic control room and started fighting. He escaped the hangar complex and proceeded on the linear footpath to the nuclear plant, stopping a critical meltdown from occurring and vaporizing any survivors on the moon. The next point he had to make his way through was the destroyed toxin refinery, where he used his shotgun and volatile barrels of nuclear waste to kill demons that stood in his way. Underneath the Toxin Refinery, he found a classified passageway to a military armory, which was filled with zombified security marines. Upon leaving the armory, he continued into the command control tower in order to find a way to stop the disaster and return to Earth. The tower itself was destroyed by an explosion, so he had to resort to the server room data bank to find any information. The database told him that an error in the Phobos Lab had led to a portal dissonance in the portal laboratory.

Stanley made his way to the Phobos Lab, resetting the portal equipment in an attempt to close the rift to Hell. The portal in the Phobos Lab was entirely destroyed, meaning that Stanley had to reach the portal laboratory to find any hopes of escaping the facility. Fighting through the central processing complex, Stanley found himself in the computer station. Upon reading information from the computers, Stanley discovered that the Deimos Installation, the sister location to the Phobos Installation, had vanished off the face of the moon shortly after the beginning of the incident. Stanley finally entered the portal laboratory, where the Phobos Anomaly had been created. The laboratory was cut off by a large, star-shaped structure that housed the remains of the portal that malfunctioned. There, Stanley killed the Bruiser Brothers, two Barons of Hell who were high ranking officers in the Army of Wrath, and found his way into the Anomaly. Inside of the Anomaly was the teleporter platform that had malfunctioned and been transformed into a marble pedestal, where the portal to Hell was opened. When he came near the platform, Grayson Ford teleported in from Deimos. Grayson, surprised to see Stanley had survived the incident, exchanged a few words and parted ways once again, where he was later extracted by a disaster response team. Stanley had programmed the teleport to align with the location of the installation on Earth, so when he entered the teleporter and found himself in the Deimos Anomaly, he was worried he might not ever make it home.

Upon arriving in the Deimos Anomaly, he discovered that the installation had been corrupted by Hell, with marble, wood, and flesh architecture replacing parts of the installation. Fighting through new demonic creatures he had not seen on Phobos, Stanley ended up in the Halls of the Damned, where he discovered that the demons had been constructing a massive tower at the far end of the installation. Stanley used his plasma rifle to trigger a chain reaction in the demonic spawning vats in order to destroy them and stop Hell from using the installation as a production facility. When he exited the destroyed spawning vats, he saw that the demons had finished constructing the Tower of Babel. He climbed the winding staircase up several thousand feet until he arrived in the arena on the roof where the Cyberdemon Lord was overseeing the transformation of Deimos. Stanley fought the Cyberdemon Lord and killed him using a rocket launcher, causing the tower to begin its collapse. He fell down with the tower and survived the crash, emerging to find himself on what appeared to be the edge of the world. He looked over the edge and discovered that the Deimos installation had been teleported to Hell itself and was suspended above a rough mountain range. He traveled through crumbling catacombs until he found himself on the surface of Hell.

In Hell, he infiltrated and destroyed a demonic factory south of the Slough of Despair. In this facility, he discovered the BFG-9000, which confused him as it was made out of UAC materials. After struggling to fight through various labyrinths and facilities within Hell, Stanley climbed to the top of Mt. Erebus and saw the city of Dis ahead, knowing that he could find a way to return from there. Upon entering the Gate to Limbo, he was teleported into the Spiderdemon's Arena near the edge of Dis. He fought the Spiderdemon Mastermind there, killing it with his plasma rifle. The arena began collapsing around him as the Spiderdemon Mastermind died in a huge explosion. He was warped into an alternate reality, which looked like Earth.

### The First Demonic Invasion

Upon being warped into an alternate reality, he was tricked by an illusion that his pet rabbit, Daisy, had been killed. He was thrown into a blind rage, destroying all of the demons that had inhabited the alternate reality without questioning the apparent fact that they had reached Earth. As he continued through the area, he did not notice the corrupted appearance of the world, killing another demon that resembled the Spiderdemon Mastermind he had just killed in Dis. After destroying the Spiderdemon, the world around him crumbled and he found himself in a hell-like world full of anomalies known as Baphomet's Eyes. Using his wits to solve puzzles, his strength to kill demons, and his agility to traverse difficult rocky terrain, he made it to the end of this reality, facing off against a Cyberdemon in the Halls of Perdition. He destroyed this Cyberdemon with ease, and learned the truth of where he was. He had completed the Trial of the Sigil and, unknowingly, proved himself worthy to the Dark Lord as an outlet for his power. He was teleported to true Earth, near San Antonio, Texas, and discovered that the demons had actually invaded Earth and had killed Daisy.

He snuck past the demons wandering throughout the area and made his way to the UAC America facility in San Antonio, which he discovered had been overrun by zombified soldiers and imps. The entryway building he had came in from was partially destroyed, so he had to take a service elevator down to the underground tunnels beneath the facility. He navigated through damaged waste tunnels and finally surfaced past the crusher, a giant trash compacting machine. The elevator from the crusher system brought him to a military checkpoint that was overtaken by a group of Mancubi and Arachnotrons, new demons that Stanley had not yet encountered. While he fought, he was being secretly watched by Vice.

A console in the corrupted control center of the base showed that the demons had captured a huge majority of Earth's militaries in various demonic holding facilities in North America. Upon further inspection, a controlling switch was somewhere inside of the UAC facility. The control facility was destroyed by an explosion caused by Vice, dropping Stanley into a drainage control tunnel. He took an elevator out of the tunnel, clearing out the corrupted military facility. He killed another Cyberdemon in the refueling base, uncovering another anomaly like the ones he had found on Phobos and Deimos. This anomaly, however, was much further developed, surrounding a giant hallway ring of stone. The explosion from earlier had damaged the waste control, filling the floor level of the anomaly with radioactive waste. Stanley killed an Archvile in one of the towers of the anomaly, who was in control of the demonic forces in this sector of the country. In the basement of the anomaly, there was a huge demonic computer system that controlled the holding facilities of the area. Stanley, not knowing how to use the alien system, destroyed the computer. This worked, fortunately, and released a major chunk of the United States Army National Guard, which began the retaking of Earth. Stanley, knowing that he had saved humanity, finally broke out of his rage and decided to give up and wait for death, content with his actions. After a few days of resting in the anomaly, he got a message from the armed forces that were retaking America. They had come up against a huge fortification that they did not have the forces to overrun. The fortification was in the city of Mesquite, Stanley's home town, which the demons had set up a massive portal in the center of. The armed forces asked Stanley if he could make his way into the city and disable the portal to allow for the armed forces to crack the fortification.

Stanley found a city bus that had not been destroyed, and drove it from San Antonio to Mesquite, where the portal was. The bus was destroyed by an Arachnotron ambush near a large factory outside the city, so Stanley entered the factory and killed all of the demons inside. He took an underground tunnel and emerged downtown, seeing that the whole city had been corrupted and the demons had dug in with their defenses. He fought through a flooded industrial zone and into the suburbs, where he killed another Archvile commander who tried to ambush him from a destroyed house. From the roof of a tenement building, he saw a massive stone brick castle built in the distance and decided to head there. He cleared out the citadel and found three skull keys hidden within the fortress. He used those keys to unlock the teleporter to the portal, which was in an alternate corrupted reality. In the building there, he was met by the Cyberdemon and Spiderdemon who were in charge of the invasion of North America. He managed to get the spiderdemon to shoot the cyberdemon in the back, which retaliated and killed the Spiderdemon. Stanley used this distraction to open the door deeper into the building. The fight between the two demons caused parts of the building to collapse, destroying the controls to the portal. Stanley figured he had to enter the portal and destroy it from the other side.

After entering the portal, he found himself in Hell again. He fought deeper into Hell, following a path that led him underground through an abandoned mineshaft that had been reinhabited and turned into a spawning zone for the demons. After collapsing the cave behind him, he was trapped deep underground with only one way to go. He found a teleporter deep within that cave that sent him back to Dis, this time underneath the city. The caverns underneath the city had been damaged from the destruction of the Spiderdemon Mastermind's arena, and they had been flooded with blood. He killed the Cyberdemon guarding the entryway into the Icon of Sin's chamber underneath the city. He entered, fighting the Icon of Sin, who had been stuck in place by a stockade in order to repair his injuries that were sustained from the collapse of the Spiderdemon Mastermind's arena. He killed the Icon of Sin by firing rockets into its brain. Its thrashing limbs caused the destruction of the entire city, burying the Icon and forming the area that would later become the Necropolis. The destruction of the Icon of Sin opened a rift that teleported Stanley to an alternate reality of Earth again, however this time he knew what was happening. He killed the Cyberdemon within the Tomb of Malevolence, allowing him safe access back to Earth.

When he returned to Earth, much time had passed since he had killed the Icon of Sin, and Earth's forces had all allied together to form the Armed Response Coalition to finish reconstruction, so he went into retirement.

### The Jupiter Incident

In 2023, a UAC base on one of the moons of Jupiter had been disturbed. The base, which had been abandoned after the UAC was under strict government mandates due to its part in the Hell Invasion. A signal was being sent from the base for a day before deactivating again, which raised alarms. The United States Space Force deployed a space probe to investigate the base, but it was destroyed. The ARC suspected it of being demonic, so they gave Stanley orders to check it out. He arrived on an excursion module to discover the base was fully corrupted by Hell. He fought his way through the base, destroying the corrupted infrastructure and bringing the installation down. He found that the test portal had been reactivated, which is how the demons had staged the invasion. He entered the portal and returned to Hell yet again, fighting his way through mountainous regions and crossing the river Styx before entering a maze that led him to a great rock face where the Demon Spitter was mounted. He killed the Demon Spitter by firing the BFG-9000 into its brain, cutting off an invasion attempt from Hell.

### The Plutonia Experiment

A year later, in 2024, the UAC partnered with Black Mesa to research portal technology to prevent another demonic portal from forming. They built several quantum accelerators in various locations around the world in order to block the creation of interdimensional portals, which had worked for several months, until the accelerator in the jungles of northern Brazil was sabotaged and failed, allowing a Hell gate to form in the compound. The compound was ambushed by large numbers of demons, killing almost all personnel. The ARC was notified of this emergency and, again, ordered Stanley to investigate. Stanley arrived in the base and fought his way through the demons who had taken over. Upon finally retaking the base and securing the portal, he discovered that the demons had been planning on sabotaging the other quantum accelerators and launch another full-scale invasion. The facility was secured and the quantum accelerator was repaired by ARC forces, but Stanley was advised that he would have to go back into Hell in order to cut off the demon invasion at some point. He decided he would go as soon as possible and a portal was created for him, and he entered Hell once again. He fought through a series of fortifications and entrenched positions until he reached the Gateway of Hell, a huge gate that had been constructed to provide an entry point to Earth once the invasion started. The Gateway was being guarded by the Gatekeeper and several Cyberdemons. A brutal fight ensued, but Stanley came out on top after killing the Gatekeeper by firing rockets into its brain. He was extracted from Hell by the ARC later, and returned to his home in Mesquite.

### Operation Doom

Stanley had taken on extreme mental fatigue from fighting demons and traveling to Hell so frequently. He had been suffering from endless nightmares and flashbacks to the horrors he had witnessed. By this time, he had stopped speaking entirely, for his mind had been so deteriorated that speaking was a struggle in itself. In 2025, Stanley had gotten married and had a son.

In 2027, radiation that had been covering the Phobos base was dispersed enough to get readings of the installation and it was revealed that it had been completely corrupted by demonic forces. Stanley was called once again to solve the issue, however he was unable to do it on his own. The 11th Iron Marine Company of the United States Space Force was ordered to assist him in the operation, codenamed Doom. He said goodbye to his family, expecting to return after the mission. The company fought through the base, giving Stanley an edge on reaching the source of the demons, which had been mutated by the Mother Demon, who was creating them. During a fight in the abandoned Military Base, Stanley was teleported to Hell. He fought through Hell yet again, being more drained this time than ever before. He reached deep inside the Unholy Temple, facing off against the Mother Demon. He killed the Mother Demon in her chamber, ending Operation Doom. The death of the Mother Demon's soul was dispersed into the air and absorbed itself into Stanley, completely rejuvenating his energy. He saw no way out of Hell this time, and decided that, in order to stop the demons from making another attempt to invade Earth, he would stay and continue fighting them for as long as he could. During the debrief report back on Earth, Stanley was declared killed in action by the demons.

### Night Sentinels

After an untold amount of time surviving in Hell and fighting demons, Stanley found himself on the doorstep to Taras Nabad, injured and insane. The Priests of Order Deag saw potential in him and set him through a series of trials in the Sentinel arena, which he came out on top of. The Sentinels accepted him into their ranks for the coming war against the demonic armies of Hell. The Night Sentinels had discovered a use for Argent Energy through the Wraiths, who could channel it and turn it into an infinite power source. The Maykrs, who were viewed as gods by the Sentinels, were becoming corrupt. During the demonic war, a civil war erupted within Sentinel society, dividing those who followed the Maykrs and those who believed that the Maykrs were simply using the Sentinels and the Wraiths to harvest Argent Energy, pledging their allegiance to their kings and the Wraiths. The Khan Maykr made an agreement with Vice that allowed her control over Hell's armies, which the loyalist Sentinels were assimilated into. Stanley, now named the Doom Slayer for his numerous victories during the war, fought against the Maykr loyalists until the Deag Priests sided with the Maykrs, severing the chain of command of the Sentinels.

During this time, the Seraphim, who had been overseeing the Night Sentinel war, took the Slayer aside and gave him a series of trials to complete in secret. The Slayer agreed and was sent to an unknown location in Hell filled with future-gothic architecture and appeared to be in outer space. The Slayer proved himself to the Seraphim through these trials, which were more difficult than anything he had faced up to this point. He killed thousands of demons through these trials until he reached the God Machine, the final trial. He faced 1,700 demons at the same and came out on top, earning the Seraphim's approval as he had been the only one to ever complete this task. The Seraphim secretly escorted him to the Divinity Machine, where he gained a fraction of the Dark Lord's power.

During all of this, Valen, compelled by the torment of his son's soul, granted the Order Deag access to the Wraiths. This marked the end of the war, as Argent D'Nur was conquered within the next few hours, and the Slayer was left as the only remaining Night Sentinel. He found himself in Hell yet again, this time with increased strength, speed, resolve, and rage. He swore to destroy the Order Deag for bringing the end of his order. Soon after, he made allies with a powerful demon who had no allegiance to the armies of Wrath and convinced it to create the Praetor Suit, combining parts of Earth technology with Sentinel technology.

After an undetermined amount of time in Hell, the Slayer had killed a Titan.

At one point, Vice and the Order of Wrath set a trap for him by luring him into the Unholy Cathedral, where he had once fought during the Phobos Incident, and destroyed its foundation, causing it to collapse on top of him. From there, they transported the ground beneath the Unholy Cathedral into the sky of a desolate void in Hell, labeling it as the Kadingir Sanctum.

### Rediscovery and the Argent Tower Crisis

Near the beginning of 2035, Samuel Hayden discovered the Slayer's sarcophagus on an expedition into Hell. He ordered the sarcophagus and the Praetor Suit to be secretly transported to the new UAC facility on Mars as a contingency plan in case Olivia Pierce was to defect. As Hayden predicted, Pierce defected to Hell, striking a deal with Vice, in which she would form a satanic cult within the UAC and convert the Argent Tower into a Hell gate in exchange for curing her of a terminal illness and granting her power. Later, she released a Lazarus wave across the facility, zombifying almost all of the personnel. Hayden escaped to his office and remotely opened the Slayer's sarcophagus.

Contacted by Hayden, one of the few survivors of the incident, the Slayer was directed through the base to prevent its complete collapse. With the guidance of Hayden and an AI called VEGA he learned from the diagnostic report that casualties and damages were catastrophic; with the exception of Pierce and Hayden, all staff have either become demons or died horribly. After stabilizing the Foundry before a meltdown occurs, the Slayer learned that Pierce planned to use the UAC's Argent Energy Tower to tear a permanent portal into Hell.

Seeking to deactivate the tower, Hayden instructed the Slayer to carefully dismantle the Argent energy supply cases to protect the unlimited energy sources; despite Hayden's protests, the Slayer shattered all control panels and their lenses, completely destroying the renewable Argent supplies in the solar system. Reaching the tower, Pierce is spotted carrying an Argent Accumulator tube; found at the apex, she activated it before jumping into an Argent stream, tearing open a temporary portal that dragged the Slayer to Hell.

Landing in the Kadingir Sanctum, the Slayer fought through the forces of Hell in order to return to Mars. Following holograms of Hayden's first expedition, during which he recovered the sarcophagus as a failsafe, the Slayer eventually reached a portal back to Mars. Returning to the UAC Argent Facility, now destroyed, he met with Hayden, who applied a tether system to his Praetor Suit in order to pull him back from Hell as needed. Noting that Pierce was working on something with great power, he sent the Slayer to gather information from her office in the Lazarus Labs.

Passing through the Advanced Research Complex, the Slayer learned of a Hell artifact named the Crucible. Requiring another Argent Accumulator to return to Hell, he explored the Lazarus Labs and came across an escaped Balgaar Cyberdemon; rebuilt and revived with Argent energy, he defeated the Cyberdemon and tore the Accumulator from its chest, transporting them both to Hell where he killed it.

Pushing deeper into Hell, the Slayer finally reached the Necropolis, underneath Dis. Defeating the Hell Guard watching over it, the Slayer retrieved The Crucible before Hayden pulled him back to Mars. Arriving at VEGA Central Processing, the AI guided him through the process of sacrificing his control facility, allowing him to use its huge Argent stores in order to propel him back to Hell one last time. Using The Crucible, the Slayer destroyed the energy sources powering portals between Hell and Mars, and traveled to the depths of Argent D'Nur.

Reaching the end, he found only Olivia Pierce, horrified at the realization she was merely a pawn. Struck by a large Argent beam, she transformed into the reincarnation of the Spider Mastermind, eventually dying at the Slayer's hand. Pulled back to Mars, the Slayer finds himself captured by Hayden. Taking The Crucible for his own ends, he insisted that, in spite of everything, research must continue, as humanity needs an answer to its energy needs. Since he couldn't kill the Slayer, but worries of his interference, he has him transported back to Hell, saying they will meet again.

While in Hell, the Slayer met with the demonic artificer who had initially created the Praetor Suit. The artificer modified the suit for him, adding the Doomblade, integrating the UAC's double-jump boots, and adding the framework for a shoulder-mounted grenade launcher. Before the artificer could finish the final upgrade, however, he was assassinated by Anari.

### The Second Demon Invasion

Shortly after the events of the Argent Tower Crisis, Earth has been overrun by demonic forces, wiping out 60% of the planet's population, under the now-occult Union Aerospace Corporation. What remains of humanity has either gone into hiding or have banded together as part of the ARC, a resistance movement reformed to stop the invasion but have gone into hiding after suffering heavy losses. The Slayer, having previously been betrayed and teleported away by Dr. Samuel Hayden, returns with a satellite fortress controlled by the AI VEGA, a sort of castle in near-Earth orbit, to quell the demonic invasion by killing the Hell Priests: Deags Nilox, Ranak, and Grav. The priests serve an angelic being known as the Khan Maykr who seeks to sacrifice mankind. The Slayer teleports to a destroyed city in Texas and kills Deag Nilox, but the Khan Maykr teleports the two remaining priests to unknown locations, forcing the Slayer to continue searching.

After retrieving a celestial locator from the Sentinel realm of Exultia, the Slayer travels to Hell to retrieve a power source from Valen. He warns the Slayer that humanity's time has come before giving him the power source and a special dagger. VEGA directs the Slayer to a citadel in the Arctic where Deag Ranak has taken refuge, and the Slayer kills him after defeating his guardian Doom Hunters.

In response, the Khan Maykr moves Deag Grav to a hidden location and accelerates the invasion of Earth. Forced to change tactics, the Slayer destroys the Super Gore Nest in central Europe, where the invasion began. With no leads on finding the last Hell Priest, VEGA suggests finding Dr. Hayden, who knows the location of Deag Grav. The Slayer makes his way to an ARC compound where he retrieves Hayden's robotic shell, as well as the Crucible before facing a Marauder.

Upon uploading Hayden's mind into the fortress, he reveals Deag Grav is hiding on Sentinel Prime. With the only portal to Sentinel Prime located in the ancient city of Hebeth in Mars' core, to which there is no immediate access. The Slayer then travels to a facility on the remains of Phobos where he uses the BFG 10000 to shoot a hole in Mars, which he uses to reach Hebeth. The Slayer finds Deag Grav in the arena and defeats a massive demon known as the Gladiator. Despite knowing that it is against Sentinel law to murder Deag Grav on sacred ground, the Slayer kills him anyway and returns to the fortress.

Upon his return, the Slayer's fortress is shut down remotely by the Khan Maykr to prevent any further interference in her plans. She reveals her intentions to resurrect the Icon of Sin, the deceased Lord of Wrath, to consume mankind before having the Slayer attacked by demons. Surviving the ambush, the Slayer uses the demonic Crucible's latent Argent energy to reactivate the fortress and travels to Argent D'Nur to retrieve his own Crucible from his time in the Sentinels.

After retrieving the hilt of the Crucible, it is revealed that the Khan Maykr formed an alliance with Hell to refine Argent energy, which requires the mass sacrifice of human souls. In return for providing worlds for Hell to invade, the Maykrs receive a share of the Argent energy produced by Hell which allows their own dimension, Urdak, to survive.

Hayden directs the Slayer through Hell's massive citadel, Nekravol, until he finds a portal leading to the Urdak. He then finds the Khan Maykr and halts the awakening ceremony by using the Betrayer's dagger to destroy the Icon's heart. Free from Maykr control, the Icon of Sin awakens from its dormant state and teleports to Earth. With the dimensional barrier destroyed, the Demons break their pact with the Maykrs and proceed to invade Urdak. The Khan Maykr confronts the Slayer, saying that Urdak must destroy Earth to survive. They battle and the Slayer kills the Khan Maykr before taking a portal back to Earth to confront the Icon of Sin, although VEGA is left behind to ensure the portal stays open. After an intense battle across the cityscape of Greenfield, California, the Slayer kills the Icon of Sin by stabbing it in the head with the Crucible, putting an end to Hell's invasion of Earth again.

### Alliance with Aperture Science

After killing the Icon of Sin again, the Slayer discovered a cultist plot in the suburbs of Greenfield. Unsure of what the plot could mean, he looks for help to find a new AI guide to replace VEGA and a way to enter Hell. He encountered Master Chief, who had been teleported from an alternate timeline in an anomaly, and Veriks, a member of the Armed Response Coalition, who both agreed to help him. Shortly after, the Slayer encountered Mephisto, who had come to assume the position as the Lord of Wrath after the Icon of Sin's second death. Mephisto fought the Slayer before revealed that he was an illusion and that the Slayer has no idea what is really going on in Hell and then vanishing. The Slayer found an abandoned Aperture Science facility far outside Greenfield with the help of Barney Calhoun, a security guard for Black Mesa who was off-duty at the time. Reaching the facility, the Slayer broke in and navigated his way past the automated security systems before finding an extension of the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System (GLaDOS). With the help of Master Chief, he accessed the memory of the computer, which gave them a location for the primary Aperture Science Research complex in a mining quarry just outside of Greenfield.

The Slayer and his associates found their way into the facility through a subterranean tunnel underneath an abandoned warehouse on Epsilon Pier. The facility was in extreme disrepair when it was reached, providing lots of dangers to the team. Veriks had found a power control area near the empty underground drydock and turned it on, reawakening GLaDOS. GLaDOS, whose personality cores were inactive, tried to flood the facility with neurotoxin. Master Chief managed to reactivate the remaining personality cores in order to stabilize GLaDOS' behavior. Once this had been completed, GLaDOS complied with the Slayer's offer to assist him, seeing it as an opportunity to reinstate Aperture Science and continue research. The Slayer had GLaDOS signal uploading into the Praetor Suit, allowing for instant communication.

Aperture was officially reformed with GLaDOS as the CEO and she began working on repairing the facility to carry out science research. While searching for leads on Mephisto's cryptic message, the Slayer encountered Soundwave in the Olympia district of Greenfield, who arrived on Earth to inspect the Argent Energy anomalies. Soundwave offered to join Aperture Science as a communications officer and was quickly accepted for the position.

On another investigation, this time in Westwood, the Slayer uncovered a storage of hell-tech weaponry near Juan's Auto Repair with a note to somebody under the codename 'Chevelle.' Following up on this investigation with Veriks and Master Chief later proved to only lead to dead ends.

While investigating the Chevelle Case, the Slayer encountered possessed cultists in a back alley in Westwood, who he questioned. Receiving no helpful information, the Slayer killed the cultists, who were in the process of a ritual. From the ritual circle, a flesh wizard arose and attacked the Slayer. The Slayer killed the flesh wizard, picking up an automap sphere from its corpse.

The Slayer returned to Aperture with the automap sphere in order to have GLaDOS analyze and decipher it. GLaDOS was completely unfamiliar with demonic inscription and could prove no help. Fortunately, the Seraphim, who had been watching the whole time, appeared within Aperture and offered to translate the automap. Translation of the automap revealed the location of the Icon of Sin's Stronghold, and GLaDOS planned to host an expedition immediately.

A portal was programmed to the stronghold and the Slayer proceeded with the mission alongside Master Chief, Soundwave, and Inosuke Hashibira. After fighting through the gates of the stronghold, the Slayer told the others to continue on while he made sure they did not get cut off from their only escape route. In the fighting he was hit by a rocket from a Cyberdemon and his communications were temporarily disabled. Once they were back online, he was receiving urgent messages that Inosuke was critically injured and that they needed to evacuate. The Slayer covered their exit and they pulled out of the stronghold. The Slayer was informed after the fight that the assailant was Vice, who he did not know existed.

The Slayer returned to Hell shortly after this mission, discovering that Dis had been rebuilt in the years since he had been to the Necropolis. He informed Aperture of this information, and they dispatched Soundwave and Master Chief to his position. The Slayer saw an Archvile escaping the scene and went to chase it while the others secured Brutus' unfinished castle. The Slayer found and killed the Archvile and returned to see the team fleeing from Brutus.

A week later, the Slayer met Samuel Hayden again at Aperture, who asked him to help to regain control of the UAC after he had been presumed dead during the second demonic invasion. Having extreme resentment for Hayden, the Slayer denied his request and left the building. Later that day, the Slayer ran into Grayson Ford, now known only as Ghost, again for the first time in ages. Ghost and the Slayer parted ways shortly after, mutually agreeing to work with each other in the future.

After receiving useful intelligence from the Seraphim, GLaDOS dispatched the Slayer, Soundwave, and Inosuke Hashibira to the Stronghold again to catch Mephisto and kill him. When they discovered that Mephisto was not there, the Dark Lord Davoth revealed himself and attacked the three. They quickly retreated back to Aperture, however Davoth followed them, bringing Vice, the Cardinal, and Brutus with him. A massive fight broke out in GLaDOS' central chambers, resulting in Davoth incapacitating the Slayer after he ran out of ammo and tried to hit Davoth with a chainsaw. Davoth and the other demons covered Vice as he dragged Slayer's body out of the chamber and into a portal back to the stronghold. The Slayer was detained in the holding cell, stripped of his weapons and ammo. While Davoth and Brutus were fighting Inosuke and Master Chief, Vice activated his time sphere rune and killed the Slayer with his axe.

2 months later, in an attempt to revive the Slayer, Inosuke Hashibira activated the Divine Intervenor on his armor suit, as his body had decomposed, which accidentally transformed it into the Maykr Slayer.

### Resurrection

During the summer of 2036, the Slayer's soul was retrieved from the void by Inosuke, who had the help of Doctor Manhattan. Upon his revival, he discovered that the powers he gained from the Divinity Machine had been lost because Davoth had died. After being revived, he went to see Ghost to find a new suit to replace his Praetor armor which he had lost. Ghost lent him one of his old suits, which didn't fit very well and made the Slayer look like a bigger copy of him. Ghost then took the Slayer to S-Mart in Greenfield to find some new weapons, buying him a "boomstick" and a new chainsaw. After being taken shopping for a new suit of armor, the Slayer settled on wearing his old suit that he wore during Operation Doom, which was retrieved by Ghost during one of his times visiting the rebuilt Taras Nabad.

A day later, the Slayer arrived at the Doom Marine base in Greenfield for supplies and a portal. The Colonel had a portal constructed for him that sent him to the Bone Church in Hell, a location that Cyrus Walker had previously fought through. The Slayer entered the Bone Church and killed everything inside with his new arsenal. After killing an Azazel guarding the altar, he took a handful of demonic scriptures from it and slid the altar aside to reveal a secret room beneath. He returned to Aperture Science for the first time after his resurrection to deliver the scriptures. Ghost called him on his comms after he found that Aperture's databases were unable to translate the scrolls, telling him he'd stop by. Ghost arrived at Aperture and suggested that the Slayer bring the scrolls to Sentinel Prime, where the remaining Night Sentinels operated from.

Upon arriving in Sentinel Prime, Ghost and the Slayer met Veriks, who they just found out was inducted into the Night Sentinels. Veriks led them to Burdik, a former Marauder who was purified and converted to serve the spirit of King Novik. Burdik was able to partially translate the scrolls, which vaguely spoke of the Council of Lords. King Novik then told them that the Icon of Sin was one of seven Lords of Hell, which was shocking to the Slayer.

Since the Slayer had nowhere to stay while he was on Earth, Ghost offered to let him stay at his apartment because he was currently on a contract in Japan.

### The Maykr Crisis

A week later, Ghost sent the Slayer's original marine armor that had been worn during the Phobos Incident to get refitted for the Slayer. On a comms call, Ghost told the Slayer about the Father's defeat at the hands of Samur Maykr. The Slayer then decided he needed more weapons and headed for the UAC offices in Greenfield.

After intimidating everyone in the building, the Slayer took a Plasma Rifle off of a guard. He met Akira and Prometheus while in the office, to which he was unimpressed. He then entered the armory and stole a Dark Matter Plasma Rifle, an Autoshotgun, a Gauss Cannon, and an experimental Black Hole Generator. He then traveled through the Doom Marine base and Aperture Science to reach Sentinel Prime, from which he was redirected by Veriks back to Hell in order to take out a Maykr hunting party.

He encountered Guts in Hell, who had been in combat with a group of Maykrs accompanied by demons, which he helped fight. They called for a portal from the Night Sentinels in order to find out a way to get to Urdak. In Urdak, Veriks took him to the secret laboratory where the Father's body was being repaired. The Father spoke to the Slayer, glad that he was no longer dead, and created a portal to Urdak.

The bridge towards the palace of the Maykr God Hand was filled with drones, so the Slayer and Guts fought through them until they entered into the antechamber, where Samur was waiting for them. Samur challenged the two, however he was stopped from attacking by Griffith, who revealed himself as the leader of the God Hand. Guts attacked Griffith, starting a fight. The Slayer used the Black Hole Generator on Griffith, who avoided it, and instead damaged Samur and caused him to flee. During the fight, the Slayer used the Black Hole Generator again, however this time Griffith contained it between its hands, causing a dark matter prolapse, which destroyed much of the temple. Soon, the Slayer ran out of ammo, so Guts shot the supports out of the temple, causing it to collapse on Griffith and provide enough time for them to escape.

A few days later, the Slayer was in Hell searching for more information on the Council of Lords when he encountered Prometheus, who was sent to try and take back the weapons that the Slayer stole. The Slayer denied his request and he returned to Earth.

The Slayer couldn't find a good lead, so he decided to return to Earth to have a look at the package Ghost put together for him. He put on his original marine armor that was refitted and slightly repaired on request of Ghost. Inside of the package were the Slayer's old belongings from his room in the Sentinel space palace he used as a base for a while.

Later, he trespassed on a crime scene that was being investigated by the UAAF Counter Terrorism Unit. Ghost arrived on the scene and left with him, taking him to the Doom Marine base. There, they entered a portal to Hell on a mission to assassinate Vice, who had yet to fight one-on-one against the Slayer.

### The Icon of Sin's Discovery

Arriving in Hell near the Bone Church, Ghost used a cultist token in a demonic sacrifice, summoning a hell gate. A Balgaar Cyberdemon stepped from the gate and attacked Ghost and the Slayer, but was killed by the Slayer using his dark matter plasma rifle. He ripped the Argent accumulator out of its chest, teleporting them to the island next to the Icon of Sin's stronghold. Ghost and the Slayer killed spectre demons and harvested Partial Invisibility spheres from them, using them to stealthily infiltrate the stronghold. While entering the cavern, the Slayer tripped and fell down into the pit, causing a loud noise. Noticing the intruders, the demons guarding the stronghold immediately attacked. The Slayer and Ghost managed to survive for long enough to get against the front gate, which was guarded by a Haedexebus. The Slayer killed the Haedexebus and tried to use its arm cannon to blow a hole in the gate, but it was too damaged to fire. Ghost then used his phase device to pass through the gate and open it from the other side.

The two split up to clear out the forward rooms of the stronghold. Hitting a volatile container of fuel in a storage room, the Slayer was injured and had to stop to recover. Getting back into the fight, he followed Ghost's trail through the Hell Smith's forge and into the sandpit. The Slayer found Nero the Ripper fighting Ghost and joined in shortly before Akamai the Martyr also entered the sandpit and started fighting. The Slayer was injured by Akamai during the fight, leaving Ghost to fight them both on his own until the Cardinal showed up and they decided to flee. Ghost fired a blast from his shoulder-mounted BFG-4000 to cover their escape. They ran past the Annihilator Cyberdemon guarding the main hall and down the stairs into the next set of rooms.

Noticing that the door required a blue skull key, the Slayer stayed back and defended the room while Ghost hunted for the key. Ghost found the key in the Archvile's Den and returned to unlock the door. They entered the molten core room and fought two Hierophants. After killing the Hierophants, they found a room with some powerspheres and took them. When they opened the door that was locked by a yellow skull key, Vice attacked them. The two fought Vice but were forced to flee deeper into the stronghold after the Slayer's armor was irreparably damaged. After navigating through the maze of chains, they entered the Icon of Sin's chambers, discovering that the Icon had been alive and was being rebuilt. They used the gates created by the Icon's Soul Cubes to teleport into a random spot in Hell, calling for an evacuation from the marines.

Returning to Ghost's apartment, they came up with a game plan to notify the major corporations and for the Slayer to get a new set of armor. The Slayer went to Sentinel Prime, who were building new versions of the Praetor Suit based off of the Slayer's, and took some parts of armor and a new Doomblade.

Some time later, he salvaged parts from the Operation Doom armor as well as several different Marine armor components and combined them with the Praetor Suit parts to make the "Final Doom" suit.

### Mission in Vietnam

After interrogating Nero, Ghost told the Slayer that there was a cult in the jungles of Vietnam that dedicated themselves to the Baphomets. The Slayer and Ghost met at the Doom Marine navy base in Greenfield the next day and used a portal to travel to a forward base off the coast of Thailand. There, they boarded a supply helicopter that was on its way to Ho Chi Minh, which was a hot combat zone between UAAF and the Vietnamese military. They jumped from the helicopter into the ocean near a beach in Vietnam and swam to shore. While on the shore, a UAAF officer directed them to a crewed riverboat, Miss Fortune IV, that could take them upstream into the jungle. The riverboat, which was crewed by Sawyer, Binley, and Ollie, took them as far up the river as they could until the river stopped, forcing them to find a way to get the boat to another river. Everybody except for Sawyer dismounted from the Miss Fortune IV and fought against Vietnamese and Soviet forces through the jungle until they reached a contested rally point that was hit by an allied airstrike shortly after.

At the rally point, they met Colonel Hemingway, who was commanding the UAAF forces on the field, and asked him for an airlift to another river. Hemingway agreed on the condition that they assist the UAAF forces on rescuing 4th Company from the jungle. They got on his helicopter and rode into the front lines during an aerial assault on a small coastal village that was holding Soviet forces. After landing, they fought through the village and cleared a path for Hemingway's forces to move through. Being assisted by close air support, the forces secured the surrounding area shortly and located the stranded soldiers. Hemingway ordered a cargo airlift helicopter to transport the Miss Fortune IV to another river.

After sailing upstream a ways, they came across a UAAF checkpoint that signaled the edge of their lines in the region. The UAAF forces blew up the bridge that was blocking the river and let them through. After continuing up the river, the crew was ambushed by Soviets in the brush along the shore, killing Ollie. Once they reached the end of the river, the Slayer and Ghost dismounted from the boat and continued on foot.

Deeper in the jungle, the two were surrounded by the jungle cultists and let themselves get captured in order to bring them closer to their temple. Once near the temple, they broke their binds and attacked the cultists, killing them while starting a fire. They climbed the stairs to the top of the temple, where they killed the cult leader and got teleported back down to the ground, setting off an ambush from Terminator zombies. Struggling to finally kill the Terminator zombies, they walked back up to the temple, where Sabaoth was waiting in stasis. Sabaoth broke out of the stasis tank and attacked the Slayer and Ghost, overpowering them in the fight. After taking out his eye and sending him into rage mode, Sabaoth injured the Slayer and had Ghost trapped before Hemingway arrived with a squadron of helicopters. Hemingway extracted the two from the temple and destroyed it with missiles, critically wounding Sabaoth with it. The Slayer and Ghost were taken back to the staging ground and took a portal back to Greenfield, where they agreed to meet again soon.

### Hunt for Vice

The Slayer took an Automap Sphere from the temple in Vietnam and brought it back to Aperture in order to study it. The analysis led to the abandoned Koningrad, just west of Siberia. Ghost referenced the Slayer to Cyrus, who was living in a cabin in the Catskills. Cyrus met the Slayer at the Doom Marine headquarters and they took a portal to somewhere north of Severny.

From there, they found a small wooden rowboat that they took downstream to Koningrad. Upon entering the city, they were ambushed and surrounded by cultists and Terminators. The two surrendered and gave up their weapons in order to get themselves closer to the cult leader. They were knocked unconscious by the Terminators and awoke in Adrik Sokolov's throne room, where he threatened them and explained that he was the cult leader. The Terminators then dragged them to the jail cells, where they were to be executed by Vice.

Once they were alone, the Slayer broke their chains with his extreme strength, which alerted the Terminator guards. The two fell through a floor and ran through the abandoned building while being pursued by the Terminators until they jumped out of a window to escape. They arrived at a collapsed building and fought a few cultists to take their weapons.

They made their way to the tower at the center of the city and entered through a broken window, fighting a Baron of Hell. They began climbing the side of the tower, fighting cultists and demons on the way up. Near the top, they found a crate with their confiscated weapons and fought through more cultists until they reached the top where Adrik was waiting. He attacked them and quickly knocked them off the tower into the streets of Koningrad with a blast of argent energy. He followed them down and began fighting with them on a rusty bridge. Eventually his argent power was weakened and he attacked them with a pair of sickles. Eventually, Cyrus hit him with an RPG from a launcher he got earlier and sent him into the river, defeating him.

They entered the forest that was depicted in the Automap Sphere and were ambushed by Sabaoth, Abaddon, and the unnamed monster. During the fight, the Slayer killed Abaddon by smashing a spike through his face. The Slayer also killed the unnamed monster and incapacitated Sabaoth with Cyrus' help. Cyrus went to prepare the boat for an escape and the Slayer walked into a clearing in the forest, where Vice came from a Hell gate to face off against him.

The Slayer and Vice engaged in a brutal fight, setting the surrounding forest on fire. The Slayer overheated his Argent shield and Vice began to attack him with liberal use of his Powersphere ability. Struggling to survive in the fight, the Slayer managed to damage Vice enough for him to activate his alternate form. Vice quickly overpowered the Slayer with this form, but Cyrus returned to distract Vice. The Slayer escaped to the rowboat while Vice killed Cyrus.

### The Crucible Quest

The Slayer decided that it would be wise to upgrade his equipment in order to defeat Vice. He first went to Hell, where he was met by Ghost, who gave him a canister of Argent Energy that had been modified. He then ran to an arena where Gemith was amassing an army of Agathodemons. After killing Gemith by using his chainsaw to redirect a lightning attack, the Slayer was faced against the unnamed bruiser demon that had been revived since their encounter in Koningrad. The demon dragged him through a Hell gate back to Greenfield and followed him. The Slayer encountered devil hunter Denji there and used him as a weapon to kill the demon again.

Later, The Slayer took the canister to the UAC, who did not know what to do with it. Instead, they offered him some upgrades and an official membership to the ARC. The Slayer was given a UAC weapon-selection gauntlet and a personal operator branching from the Nexus Program. From the UAC headquarters, he took a portal to Aperture, where he met Ghost and went back to Sentinel Prime.

Upon arriving in Sentinel Prime, he found that it was under attack by Akamai, Nero the Ripper, and Vergil. He reached the chamber before King Novik's throne room and fought Akamai, who was trying to prevent his entry. The Slayer managed to get past Akamai and entered into the throne room, where there was a massive fight going on between Nero, Veriks, Burdik, and several marauders. During the fight, Akamai recovered and entered the fray shortly after Shayis entered from a Sentinel portal. Nero and Akamai, struggling to survive, summoned the Maykr Slayer. The Maykr Slayer distracted the Sentinel combatants long enough for Nero to destroy the ghost of King Novik using a microwave beam.

The Slayer met with Ragnarok, who had arrived to assess the damage at Sentinel Prime, and handed the canister over to him. He attached a device to it and charged the energy inside to allow it to be turned into a weapon. He gave it back to the Slayer and told him to go to the Black Mesa Research Facility to have the hilt of the blade built.

Eventually, Nexus notified the Slayer that his hilt had been finished, so he prepared to leave for Black Mesa. He found that Ghost was unavailable and instead opted for Prometheus to accompany him. He entered into Black Mesa without authorization and stole a prototype Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator and attached it to his equipment launcher. While he was waiting for Dr. Isaac Kleiner to deliver the sword hilt, a rift opened somewhere in the facility, allowing for V1 to enter from another universe. V1 fought the Slayer and Prometheus, who managed to stun him with an EMP and restrain him. The Slayer then brought V1 back to the UAC for analysis.

Having the hilt, the Slayer then set off for the Well, where he could forge the special Argent energy into a blade.

## Skills and abilities

### Strength & Endurance

The Slayer's most recognizable trait is his strength, which allows him to mutilate demons with his hands. He was already very strong while in the military, and fighting against the forces of Hell kept him at his physical peak. During his many campaigns against the demons, he absorbed countless powerspheres, which only added to his strength and stamina. By the time Operation Doom was in its final stages, he had built up a tolerance for pain that allowed him to keep fighting even when badly injured. After killing the Mother Demon and absorbing her energy, his strength was increased even further, allowing him to fight demons for hundreds of years in Hell. During his time in the Night Sentinels, he was unknowingly gifted the powers of Davoth, allowing his strength and resistance to be that of a god's. This, however, was short-lived, as when Davoth was killed he lost the power gained from the Divinity Machine. He still retains the energy of the Mother Demon, which allows him to still outperform any other normal human.

In his current state, the Slayer can survive blows from rockets, gunshots, fireballs, heavy projectiles, bladed weapons, electricity, and Argent Energy attacks. During the raid on the Icon of Sin's Stronghold with Ghost, he was able to run and fight even after being hit with a rocket from a Cyberdemon and impaled by several nails from Vice's arm cannon. While fighting Gemith, he was able to survive and resist several lightning strikes. When he was in Koningrad, he was able to withstand blows from Vice while his Doomsphere was active.

### Speed & Agility

The Slayer is also known for being able to run incredibly fast, which was a trait he gained from the countless soulspheres he absorbed during the Phobos Incident. Another ability that is specific to him is his ability to run at the same speed in any direction, which has allowed him to strafe out of the way of incoming rockets and projectiles. He often uses his raw speed instead of tactical movements in order to evade attacks, although he has been known to perform side-rolls on occasion. He usually pairs his speed with his firepower, being able to shoot semi-accurately while in a full sprint.

In addition to speed, the Slayer also has good coordination with his surroundings in order to traverse difficult terrain. He is known to mantle ledges, swing on horizontal bars, and climb up rough surfaces. During the first demonic invasion of Earth, he used his expert balance while traversing the Chasm, a precarious cavern in Hell that required him to run across thin platforms of rock while in combat with Cacodemons and Lost Souls. The addition of double-jump boots to his armor aided in his agility, allowing him to jump higher and farther and also resist falls from long heights.

### Critical Thinking

Although most of his experience is in regards to fighting, the Slayer also has been able to solve problems in order to progress and survive. Before his entrance into the Night Sentinels, he always worked alone. To do this, he had to be able to plot out a path from where he was to where he needed to be. During the Phobos Incident, he always knew where to go, despite never having been to the installation or even knowing its layout. On countless occasions, he had to use complex arrays of switches and buttons to be able to progress closer towards whatever his final goal was.

## Equipment

### Current Arsenal

The Slayer uses a Union Aerospace weapons index device that stores any registered weapons as data to allow the user to switch between weapons in their digital inventory. After becoming so familiar with UAC tech from fighting demons within their facilities, he eventually figured out how to manually register weapons into the system. He exercises great use of this system, currently storing 14 different firearms in his arsenal.

#### Slot 1

The Slayer's current chainsaw was purchased from S-Mart as a gift from Ghost upon the Slayer's resurrection. He will often swing it out to cut down his enemies if he needs to recover ammunition, an ability he gained while in Hell.

#### Slot 2

In his second weapon slot, the Slayer carries a small M9 pistol as a quick sidearm. Because of its relative weakness compared to the rest of his weaponry, he usually reserves its use for incredibly weak enemies or damaging the environment. He obtained the M9 at the Doom Marine's headquarters in Greenfield, coincidentally being the exact same model of pistol he was issued shortly before the Phobos Incident. Instead of keeping the M9 in his weapon index, the Slayer actually holsters it on whatever suit of armor he is wearing so that in the case of an index crash, which has happened on many occasions, he will at least have a sidearm to continue fighting. He lost his original M9 when the Unholy Cathedral collapsed on him and destroyed his entire arsenal.

Also in his second weapon slot, the Slayer holds two Heckler & Koch MP5 Navy submachine guns, which he dual wields. He makes good use of the two guns while in heavy combat, being able to use his speed to quickly maneuver between enemies while firing in multiple directions. He obtained the MP5s at the Doom Marine headquarters, alongside his M9, M249 SAW, and M202 FLASH.

#### Slot 3

The Slayer's third weapon slot is reserved for shotguns. His first weapon in this slot is the UAAF AS-16 semi-automatic shotgun. He uses this shotgun in crowded situations where there are too many enemies to spend time reloading a super shotgun. He has also used it's unique alternate fire-mode to mutilate lesser demons and injure greater demons. While raiding the Icon of Sin's Stronghold with Ghost, he landed a devastating blast with the flak shot of the weapon on Akamai the Martyr, scarring his face. The Slayer took this weapon from the UAAF's armory.

Although it has yet to be used in combat, the Slayer's has recently acquired a new shotgun in the form of the Double Deuce, a 2-bore double-barreled rifle that the Slayer modified to fire 2-gauge shotgun shells. The Slayer got this weapon through an old connection he had before Operation: DOOM in Ian McCollum. This shotgun shares similar dimensions to the empowered super shotgun he used during the second Hell Invasion.

#### Slot 4

Automatic rifle-caliber weapons are what fills the Slayer's fourth weapon slot. Although he used to use many more weapons in this slot, the Slayer now only has the M249 SAW occupying the space. His M249 is used as a high-powered weapon to slow down heavy demons and carve through swarms of weaker ones. He obtained the M249 from the Doom Marine Headquarters in Greenfield.

#### Slot 5

The Slayer's fifth slot used to be reserved for explosive weapons, however he now places other highly destructive kinetic weapons in this slot as well. His first weapon, which sees a lot of use, is the M202 FLASH he picked up from the Doom Marine Headquarters. This rocket launcher is used intensively by the Slayer for destroying the heaviest of demons in a short time, as its rate of fire is faster than many of the semi-automatic launchers he has used in the past.

The first gun to break the Slayer's organization is the Fat Mac, a massive, impractical hunting rifle that never saw mass production. It fires a single .950 JDJ round before needing to be reloaded, which is strong enough to put a hole straight through a Cyberdemon. He has yet to use this weapon in combat, however. The Fat Mac was also given to him by Ian McCollum, his firearms connection.

#### Slot 6

In the 6th weapon slot, the Slayer holds his automatic energy weapons. The first weapon in this slot is the UAC M4 Plasma Rifle, which was actually a discontinued model by the time he obtained it from the UAAF's armory. Despite this, he still makes good use of the weapon for quickly overheating energy shields projected by carcasses. At some point, the Slayer equipped a stun bomb modification to the rifle, which fulfilled a similar role to his ice bomb that he lost with his Praetor Suit.

While taking weapons from the UAAF's armory, he also took an MX Dark Matter Rifle, a high-powered rifle that atomizes its victims. He heavily relied on this weapon in the fight with Samur Maykr during the Maykr crisis.