A violent storm battered a small island, where a squad of soldiers searched for someone hiding inside a bunker. The island was littered with corpses, and even the wildlife was gone—trees stood dry and lifeless, some uprooted, others broken, as if something monstrous had swept through. Still, the soldiers pressed forward.
They reached the entrance of the bunker. Just before opening the door, one of them muttered that he felt watched, but brushed it off. Inside, they carefully examined the place, finding nothing—until something silently touched a soldier's back. When he turned around, he saw a nightmare.
The mission's sergeant was being devoured by a three-meter-tall humanoid creature, its razor-sharp fangs dripping with blood as it crushed the sergeant in its jaws. The soldiers opened fire, but more of those creatures appeared. In desperation, one soldier tossed a teleporter to the man at the rear, ordering him to find the target.
Without wasting a second, the soldier sprinted toward the laboratory, where he locked himself inside. Horrified, he watched his comrades torn apart. But just as he thought he was safe, a scientist aimed a weapon at him. Shock froze him for a moment—until he realized this was the very target they had been sent to capture.
Instinctively, he raised his own weapon, but the scientist dodged with surprising agility and drew an atomic firearm, pointing it directly at him. The soldier begged for mercy, but the scientist fired without hesitation. In an instant, the man's body was reduced to dust, leaving only his legs behind.
Calm again, the scientist prepared to escape using a capsule. Inside it lay a frozen human, and above the chamber a single name was engraved: Nova.
But before he could leave, a gunshot tore into his arm. Writhing in pain, he collapsed to the ground—and when he looked up, he was stunned. The sergeant was still alive, staggering toward him despite a gaping hole in his stomach, his body fueled only by sheer adrenaline.
Slowly, the sergeant raised his weapon, ready to finish him.
—"It's time you paid for your crimes, Mat2."
—"Heh, fine," the scientist sneered. "But before that… what if we invite the judge, huh?"
The scientist pulled out a control device, releasing a demon that rushed toward them. Horrified, the sergeant demanded to know how he had such a creature. The scientist gave no answer—only a chilling warning: if he died, everyone else would too.
The demon wasted no time. It devoured the sergeant's soul, leaving his body an empty husk.
With a twisted grin, the scientist told the demon that he would complete the plan. But the creature turned on him instead, and began to devour him alive, ending Mat2 once and for all.