                    BEYOND DOOM : The Apocalypse
Chaingun shells ricochet all around you as your armor shreds to pieces...
The horrendous face of the Spider Mastermind grins at you as you try to dodge
his merciless attack...Suddenly a bullet wacks you right in the face...
You jump out of your bed all sweaty and in fear searching for your combat 
shotgun and you finally realize that it was all just a very bad dream.  "Six 
years has gone by since I last saved earth" you mumble to yourself, "and I still 
have the same nightmare over and over..." You put on your clothes and grab 
your Marine: Special Infestation Unit pager off the cabinet - good thing this
hasn't gone off lately.. In the past few years, you have been on a team that 
has been helping flush out any stragglers that were left behind after you
destroyed the fearless Mastermind, and also flushing out other major 
infestations.  You get ready to leave the house when suddenly your pager 
begins to beep.  You pull it out of your pocket and look to see the code for 
minimal danger (at least for a marine like you).  You get your combat uniform 
on, grab your shotgun and your combat mask and head out the door as quickly 
as possible towards your outpost:  Outpost 21.  When you reach the outpost,  
you are taken into a car where the head of operations is.  The car pulls out, 
and the head begins to explain what is going on.  "Six months ago, a new void 
was found in a high weapons manufacturing facility.  There had been some major
breakthroughs, but unfortunately whatever came from the void took them and 
left without a trace.  Today we are sending three x-marines on death row that 
have volunteered for a full pardon to go through the void and find out
whats happening.  What you are here for is for protection just in case 
something goes wrong and something we don't want comes through..." he trails 
off.  "After all, you are the best."  "This is minimal!!" you scream. "Why
yes, nothing has come out since the weapon theft, and we are not really 
expecting anything, otherwise they would have arrived by now."  The car pulls 
up to the site which is located on the side of a mountain.  The weapons 
manufacturing facility has long since been destroyed, and a new laboratory 
has been built in the area.  You enter the laboratory and to your surprise...
it's your long lost infestation partner!!  He had been put in jail for murder,
except, as pretty much everyone knew, he was framed.  "So they let you out I
see?" you say.  " Actually, they let me out when I return".  What? is he 
crazy!!  "You're not going in there!!!"  "Yes I am, just calm down.  It's the
only way I can avoid the death sentence and prove that I had nothing to do 
with the marine killings."  "I'm going then also" you reply.  Suddenly the 
head of operations jumps in "no you're not, you're assigned to watch our 
backs."  "Fine" you mumble..."but if anything strange happens, I'm going in." 
2 hours later, the three convicts make the jump.  You stick around and the 
marines return after about an hour.  Then you decide it's time for a bathroom 
break.  You take you're shotgun with you and head off towards the bathroom.
You relieve yourself, and suddenly the alarms begin to scream and you hear
people yelling "infestation, infestation!!!"  You hear the guard doors close, 
and run out into the main lab.  Two of the x-convicts lay on the ground... 
one is dead, and the other is barely alive.  "Where is my friend!" you yell.
The marine mumbles under his breath "they took him..." and dies.  You see all 
of the scientists dead under the desk along with the head of operations.. "so 
much for duck and cover" you mumble...  Then you realize that there are no 
bodies of any monsters... no evidence of an attack... you then hear a 
familiar growl... you look around the corner to see what it was.  "Aren't 
you supposed to be pink!!!" you yell as you shoot him with your shotgun. 
Another monster comes from the void, and you begin to shoot him also... 
How could have one of these killed all of those people!! there were 2 marines
guarding them, and the scientists were bound to have pistols of some type!
You pound another shell into one of the things and it disintegrates 
in mid air.. ...it's eyes flare to life in one final impulse and the carcass 
fades away... that's how you realize... you take the other one out soon after...
You look deep into the portal and see the other side, and then blackness after 
that and wonder what lies ahead...  you must rescue your friend, and this will 
probably save humanity again anyways... So why not you think as you jump 
through the portal into uncharted territory... you will find your DOOM in the 
BEYOND and save humanity one more time...