7:54 PM 12/24/00  
                                The Vilecore.
                          A 32 level, DooM II Megawad.
                             Created by Doom_Dude.
        
                           This is the basic storyline.....

The doomed marine walked down the steep, rubble strewn, hillside. His combat boots
crunched the dry earth as he headed towards the dark, smoke he had spotted hours ago, 
amongst the hills of the blasted planet. Unfortunately, it was coming from the place
where his helmet-com reported a gateway site was supposed to be. It was at this 
particular gate that he was hoping to get off this damned planet.... 

For 33 days the doomed space marine had fought the alien "harvester larvae", after
being dropped by the stardestroyer U.A.C. Plutonia. The UAC's new teleporter 
technology that was built after the war in hell, somehow malfunctioned, placing him 
20 miles away from the main LZ. Afterwards he ended up in some sort of alien hive and
barely escaped after desrtoying the alien complex with a plasma nuke. Unfortunately
the nuke was the only one he was issued. Oh.....well, at least it worked to kill about
200 of the harvesters. The only thing was, that the entire planet was crawling with
the invaders from god knows where. 

His ammo was on the extremely low side. He only had a single box of 25 shotgun shells
left. His plasma rifle just ran out of cells, and recharging it was impossible, since
the weapon had taken heavy damage from an alien energy bolt. If he met with a large
group of enemies, before getting off this rock, he'd be dead meat..

Down below he found the remains of a small squad of dead marines. The strange thing was
that they appeared to be wearing the uniforms of the forces sent to battle Hell's minions.
WTF were they doing here in the middle of planet nofuckingwheres!?!!?

One of the marines moved. He groaned in agony as he turned onto his side. The left side
of his helmet was crushed and the doomed space marine could see red flesh and white bone.
He knew by just looking at the man, that he only had minutes to live.

"What happened?", he asked the dieing man..

The man stirred and opened his eyes an stared at him for what seemed ages, then said, "We
fled through the gate after encountering several Archviles".

The doomed space marine kneeled, so he could better hear the mans words.

"We were sent to clean up this complex of hellspawn. In the beginning there was 10 of us but
3 died from a battle with Barons and 2 dissappeared someplace in a castle like complex.. The
final 5 of us tried to get to the Vilecore but we were ambushed."

"What is a Vilecore?", he asked.

The man groaned and held onto his side and said in a pained voice, "There is a complex on this
other world, which is a planet that was once like Earth. It was overtaken by the Hellspawn and 
they plan on starting anouther invasion of Earth from this other world. Anyways", he moaned, 
"a group of Archviles is leading the demon forces in a complex that UAC has termed "The Vilecore"
We were sent in to destroy the Viles but we failed. Just to get to the Vilecore, one must pass 
through numerous complexes and after the Vilecore is anouther mass of sites. Unfortunately we
never even got close to this Vilecore place.."

The marine looked around him. The 3 iron embossed gates stood in a basic triangular config. Two
of them were burnt out, including the one he wanted to use to go back to Earth.....shit!

Next to him the man gurgled something incoherent as dark blood seeped from his twisted lips. 
Suddenly he collapsed and died. The marine swore an oath of vengeance and stood up, checked his 
shotgun and walked towards the shimmering gateway. It's time to go hunting some Viles! Under his 
breath he cursed, "The only good Archvile is a dead Archvile". Then he walked into the swirling 
vortex, on his way to the Vilecore..