Chapter Summaries

Isaac and his Umbrella coworkers arrived at Raccoon City Spaceport, where he observed its busy terminals, spacecraft, and the UNSC soldiers serving under the UEG. The chapter left Isaac entering the spaceport as daily life under the UEG and UNSC had become routine.

• Isaac's bus entered Raccoon City Spaceport and stopped in Umbrella's private parking area.
• Isaac and his coworkers got off the bus and walked through security into the A-terminal lobby.
• Isaac observed the crowded terminal, where passengers checked in and traveled through the spaceport.
• Isaac noticed armed UNSC Army soldiers guarding the entrances and recognized the emblem of the military under the UEG.

Isaac Clark and his coworkers boarded a Pioneer II-class Engineering Ship for a trip to Mars. After a delayed departure and a frightening engine startup, the ship completed its jump and entered orbit around Mars, with landing expected in ten minutes.

• Isaac checked in at the Umbrella employee counter, then traveled with his coworkers to the restricted terminal and boarded a transport craft to the Pioneer II-class Engineering Ship.
• Isaac and the other passengers waited in their seats as the ship’s departure was delayed, then endured violent shaking during the main engine’s unstable startup.
• The chief flight attendant reassured the passengers that the engine issue was resolved and announced that departure would soon begin.
• The Pioneer II-class ship left Earth’s spaceport and made its jump, briefly pressing the passengers back into their seats.
• The chief flight attendant announced that the ship had entered orbit around Mars and would reach Ares Spaceport in ten minutes.

Isaac and the other workers arrived safely at Mars City after Pioneer II suffered rare engine trouble, then transferred through Ares Starport. Leon S. Kennedy and Sherry Birkin also arrived, with Leon tasked with showing Sherry the colony and keeping watch over it.

• Pioneer II descended through Mars’s atmosphere, and Isaac watched Mars City’s domed districts come into view.
• After a twenty-minute wait, Isaac and the other Cabin 3 passengers transferred to a shuttle and entered Ares Starport.
• As the workers headed to baggage claim, they joked about anomalies and speculated that the blond pair traveling with them were intelligence agents.
• Leon S. Kennedy told Sherry Birkin he would show her Mars City, Phobos, and Deimos, and warned her to stay alert while the colony served as a construction base.

Leon escorted Sherry to Mars to mentor her before she began work as an intelligence officer. Sherry marveled at the Martian plains and the city beneath the central dome, and Leon began teaching her how to handle an unfamiliar place.

• Leon asked Sherry why she chose intelligence work, and she explained that she wanted to help the company and humanity and had ranked first among her classmates.
• Leon and Sherry rode a maglev train from Ares Spaceport, where Sherry was astonished by the Martian plains between the domes.
• Leon and Sherry arrived at the central dome, and Sherry was amazed by its modern city and greenery.
• Leon encouraged Sherry to explore her surroundings and said her first lesson was learning how to hail a taxi.

Leon and Sherry traveled by taxi to the Natalie Hotel in Mars City's District 13, where Leon used casual conversation to gather local intelligence. He advised Sherry on her next steps as an intelligence officer and planned their visits to Phobos and Deimos.

• Leon and Sherry took a taxi instead of company transportation, and Leon posed as a traveler seeking to settle on Mars.
• Leon chatted with the driver to learn about Mars City's districts, local conditions, and the Natalie Hotel.
• The driver took them to District 13, where Leon and Sherry booked two single rooms at the Natalie Hotel.
• After unpacking, Sherry praised Leon for gathering information and finding a potential informant during the taxi ride.
• Leon told Sherry to rest, then submit a transportation request the next day so he could introduce her to the people stationed on Phobos before taking her to Deimos.

Leon showed Sherry the Krieg orbital base and explained how its emotionless soldiers supported intelligence officers confronting anomalies. As they approached Deimos, communications broke into sobbing, cries for help, and gunfire, and Leon realized his vacation was over.

• Leon brought Sherry to Krieg and explained that intelligence officers needed to know which local MTFs could respond to anomalies.
• Leon showed Sherry the Krieg soldiers, a mass-produced task force designed to resist anomalies affecting emotions and thoughts.
• Leon and Sherry flew from Krieg toward the fortified port of Deimos.
• The pilot failed to reach Deimos control and heard garbled sobbing, cries for help, and gunfire over the communications channel.
• Leon listened to the transmission, looked toward Deimos, and said his vacation was ending early.

Leon and Sherry joined UNSC forces defending Deimos after its fortress fell and its personnel transformed into demons. A mysterious wave destroyed many of the creatures, then Primarch Magnus announced that support had arrived and would rescue the survivors.

• Leon ordered the Fisher Gull II gunner to clear the tunnel, and the cannon wiped out the first wave of creatures threatening the hangar.
• Leon and Sherry armed themselves, met Lieutenant Hicks Dawn, and learned the fortress had fallen in only ten minutes.
• A fresh wave of fast, muscular demons attacked the tunnel, and Leon recognized them as humans transformed by the same anomaly he had encountered in Ojai Town six years earlier.
• A faint wave passed through the defenders and demons, causing half the demons to burst apart while leaving Leon and the others unharmed.
• Magnus, Primarch of Thutmose and son of Sui Bian, announced that he had arrived with support, and the demons roared while trembling in fear.

UNSC elites and Sherry held the hangar defense until a Thunderhawk brought Astartes of the Thutmose Legion, led by Magnus, to Deimos. The Astartes wiped out the demons and advanced into the station to continue the purge, while Leon and Sherry watched them go.

• The Lieutenant urged the UNSC elites to use their ammunition freely, and they intensified their fire against the demons.
• A Thunderhawk landed in the hangar and deployed Astartes in Mjolnir III armor.
• The Astartes advanced to the tunnel entrance and destroyed the demons with a single volley of bolter fire.
• The Astartes pressed deeper into Deimos to continue the purge, and the chapter identified them as members of Magnus's Thutmose Legion.
• Sherry praised the Astartes' quiet efficiency, while Leon holstered his gun and remained unfazed by the reinforcements.

Magnus arrived at Deimos with the Thutmose Legion and used his Psionic Power to destroy the demons attacking the survivors and restore communications. He asked the Marine lieutenant colonel to send troops into the interior to bring the survivors to the dock while his Astartes swept the area.

• Magnus led two Thunderhawk Transports from Mars to Deimos after sensing the demons and the communications blackout.
• Magnus raised a Psionic shield at the dock, then used his power to make the demons explode and restore communications.
• The Marines recognized the Astartes as Umbrella allies and Magnus introduced himself as a Primarch.
• Magnus told the lieutenant colonel that his men would sweep for enemies and asked him to send Marines to escort survivors back to the dock.

UNSC Marines rescued survivors hiding in a Deimos warehouse while Magnus remained at the docks and sent the Thutmose Legion’s Champion to investigate the densest demon activity. The Champion reached the secondary port and fought through the demons with his psionic lightning, Wristblade, and Shoulder Cannon.

• A squad of UNSC Marines found survivors in a warehouse and escorted them toward the docks.
• Magnus stayed at the docks to protect the command post and sent the Thutmose Legion’s Champion to investigate the demons’ concentration.
• The Champion ran toward Deimos’s secondary port as armed demons swarmed into the passage.
• The Champion withstood their gunfire with his energy shield and attacked with his Shoulder Cannon and psionic lightning.
• The Champion closed in and killed the demons with his Wristblade, lightning, and Shoulder Cannon.

A sergeant fought through demons on Deimos and found a blood-red gate leading to the Hell Dimension. Back at Luna Base, Sui Bian named the anomaly the “Gate of Hell” and ordered the Grey Knights’ recruit selection suspended while it was investigated.

• The sergeant crushed the last demon in the corridor and reached a ruined port, where he found a 66-meter gate opening onto a barren plain beneath a blood-red sky.
• White Queen traced the anomaly’s central container to ore carried by UEG Engineering Ship 014 and reported that Agents Kennedy and Birkin were questioning the ship’s surviving crew on Deimos.
• Sui Bian identified the gate as a connection to the Hell Dimension and named the anomaly “Gate of Hell.”
• Sui Bian ordered White Queen to send the information to the Plague Doctor for analysis and told Red Queen to suspend Artemis and Rebecca’s selection of new Grey Knight recruits.

Sui Bian learned that the Hell Dimension had planted a mysterious object in an asteroid, while Umbrella and the UNSC coordinated their response to the Deimos crisis. He ordered preparations to expand the Grey Knights and sent the Plague Doctor and Krauser to prepare for an undisclosed mission.

• White Queen reported that Engineering Ship 014 had excavated a rectangular object from a zinc-rich asteroid after its communications failed, and Sui Bian concluded that Hell had been scheming against their universe.
• Red Queen reported that Destroyer and the Hammer Down Task Force had arrived at Deimos to cleanse the moon, while Russ and the Space Wolves helped Magnus contain the demonic threat.
• Sui Bian met Lion, Roger, Artemis, and Rebecca at Luna Base, rejected Roger's suggestion to gather all the Legions for war, and ordered preparations to expand the Grey Knights after the Deimos incident.
• Sui Bian told White Queen to have the Plague Doctor prepare to leave Earth and to notify Krauser to select a group of D-Class Personnel.

The Plague Doctor left Rockfort Island with D-Class Personnel and Tyrants to assist Umbrella’s investigation on Deimos. After arriving and seeing the Gate of Hell, the frightened D-Class Personnel were told by a Primarch that their mission was to investigate the desert and that cooperation would earn them a reward.

• The Plague Doctor packed equipment from his unit and agreed to travel to Deimos with experimental subjects, while Jack Krauser arranged their departure.
• An Engineering Ship carried the Plague Doctor, D-Class Personnel, and Tyrants from Rockfort Island to Deimos, where Umbrella personnel gathered more than ten thousand survivors and prepared to alter their memories.
• The Plague Doctor and the D-Class Personnel saw Mars and space from Deimos’s dock, and the frightened prisoners were forced onward by guards and the Pursuer.
• The group passed Krieg troops on the way to the secondary port, and the Plague Doctor reflected that Krieg had souls unlike the Living Dead.
• A D-Class person panicked at the sight of the Gate of Hell and tried to flee, but a Primarch stopped him and announced their mission to investigate the desert.

Russ and Magnus sent D-Class Personnel through the Gate of Hell to establish communications in the Hell Dimension, while the Plague Doctor used them to test a new vaccine. The D-Class group reached the barren wasteland and began setting up the station as Hell's whispers pressed against their minds.

• Russ pushed a hysterical D-Class man aside, breaking his leg, and the Plague Doctor treated him.
• Magnus and Russ ordered their followers to prepare the D-Class Personnel, who received Red Serum injections and protective gear.
• A Pursuer and six Tyrants escorted more than a hundred D-Class Personnel through the Gate of Hell.
• Magnus warned Russ that the gate might close and trap his army, and Russ accepted the warning.
• The Plague Doctor told Magnus that the injection was an experimental vaccine intended to prevent patients from losing their minds.
• In Hell, the D-Class Personnel ignored the whispers and began setting up a wired communications station near the gate.

D-13367 led the D-Class Personnel from the Gate of Hell through a Stone Forest toward a mountain, where they observed Hell’s creatures and were ordered to gather more information. At the mountain’s base, they discovered a vast demon army and a human warrior fighting it alone.

• D-13367 led the D-Class Personnel toward the Stone Forest while the Pursuer and six Tyrants guarded them.
• The group entered the forest, where moving stone trees and strange Hell creatures revealed that many creatures were heading toward the mountain and devouring one another to grow stronger.
• A Minotaur Demon crushed a three-headed hound with its Bone Hammer and herded the other creatures toward the mountain.
• Umbrella’s mission instructions changed to demand that the D-Class Personnel approach the mountain, and the Tyrants protected them from threats as they continued.
• At the mountain’s base, the D-Class Personnel saw a palace, a vast demon army, and enormous Titans.
• The D-Class Personnel spotted a human in tattered armor fighting and slaughtering demons alone with a metal spear.

D-1999, a missing D-Class father, fought through the demons at the Gate of Hell and survived being crushed by a giant demon. As Artemis learned his identity aboard the Gryphon, Sui Bian received a 48-hour mission to destroy the Monolith in Asmodeus Palace.

• D-1999 charged into the demons, killing them with his Umbrella weapons as he fought toward his spear.
• Two giant demons trampled their own kind and crushed D-1999 beneath one of their feet, but he emerged from the crater after toppling one of them.
• Artemis watched D-1999's fight, and Red Queen identified him as a missing first-wave Death-Seeker Protocol D-Class Personnel.
• Artemis admired D-1999 as a human father who could rival or surpass most gods.
• The system gave Sui Bian a 48-hour mission to destroy the Monolith in Asmodeus Palace, and he asked whether D-1999 counted as personnel under his command.

Sui Bian learned that D-1999 had been transformed by Hell and ordered Umbrella forces to support him while preparing to destroy the Monolith and close the Gate of Hell. The Pursuer reached D-1999 with information about his family, but D-1999 remained wary.

• The system confirmed that D-1999's rage and years of fighting in Hell had adapted his body to Hell's survival-of-the-fittest rules.
• Sui Bian ordered the White Queen and Red Queen to prepare weapons and a Plasma Bomb, evacuate the D-Class Personnel, and send the Pursuer and Tyrants to assist D-1999.
• Sui Bian realized that D-1999 was the DOOM Slayer and hoped he would decide for himself whether to empty Hell.
• The D-Class Personnel abandoned their equipment and fled toward the Gate of Hell as the Pursuer and six Tyrants charged through the demons toward D-1999.
• The Pursuer set down an equipment case and told the vigilant D-1999 that it contained records about his family.

After learning that his wife and daughters had survived and built lives with Umbrella’s help, D-1999 rejected the chance to return to Realspace and chose to destroy the Monolith to protect his family from Hell. He and the Pursuer’s six Tyrants reached the palace hall, where the demon Asmodeus attacked them.

• D-1999 opened the equipment case and found a tablet showing photographs and records about his wife and daughters.
• He learned that Umbrella had supported his family after he was presumed dead and read about his daughters’ lives and grandchildren.
• The tablet revealed that a nearby Gate of Hell could return him to Realspace and that destroying the palace Monolith would close the Gate.
• D-1999 chose to remain in Hell and ran toward the palace to destroy the Monolith, while the Pursuer and six Tyrants followed.
• D-1999 and the Tyrants reached the hall and faced Asmodeus, who declared himself one of Hell’s seventy-two gods and attacked them with bone scythes.

D-1999 destroyed the Monolith and closed the Gate of Hell, then set out to hunt Hell’s gods with Umbrella’s bio-weapons and newly delivered supplies. Back aboard the Gryphon, Sui Bian ordered the company to manage the aftermath and monitor the returning personnel, then asked the White Queen to play D-1999’s family files.

• D-1999 killed Asmodeus, destroyed the Monolith, and decided to kill all seventy-two gods of Hell.
• D-1999 gathered equipment from the Stone Forest and followed the Pursuer to the closed Gate, where Umbrella’s Tyrants and supply containers awaited him.
• D-1999 opened the containers and found firearms, ammunition, personal equipment, and a Plasma Bomb.
• Sui Bian received 2,000 points and ordered the Red Queen to update records and screen surviving UNSC personnel on Deimos for recruits.
• Sui Bian ordered the White Queen to help contain the Gate’s impact and have the Plague Doctor assess the vaccine’s risks.
• Artemis reflected on D-1999’s choice to stay in Hell, and Sui Bian asked the White Queen to play D-1999’s family files.

Los Angeles’s transition to modern technology and improved public safety was interrupted by a major highway pileup. Emergency responders and hospital staff rescued and operated on the most seriously injured passengers, and the doctors discussed the outcome afterward.

• Police officers and firefighters arrived at the Highway 105 pileup and began directing traffic and rescuing trapped passengers.
• Los Angeles General Hospital’s emergency medical craft arrived and took the most seriously injured patients aboard for treatment.
• Doctors performed emergency operations on three unconscious patients inside the craft.
• After the operations, a young doctor asked Ziegler whether he thought God had watched over them.