08/09/2026
It's been a good while since I did one of these! I haven't been feeling it lately! Until my friend asked me to do a story on his favorite Nikke and game! He sent me the picture and yes the Elegg part of the picture is AI so I will give full credit to the original artist! So here it goes.
The neon glow from the TV screen reflected off Elegg’s goggles, casting a warm light over her messy room.
Empty energy drink cans sat like tiny, conquered trophies on her desk. She hit the final button prompt, executing a glorious, pixelated ex*****on on a boss monster, before the bold, retro typography flashed across the screen: BOOM: CAMPAIGN COMPLETE.
Elegg stretched her arms above her head, her back letting out a satisfying pop. "Finally," she muttered, letting her head sink back into her pillow. "Boom Guy is just... so cool. I wish I was half that legendary." Within seconds, the exhausted gamer drifted off into a deep, dream-heavy sleep.
Heavy, industrial synth-metal slammed into her senses.
Elegg gasped, taking in her surroundings. Gone was her cozy bedroom. She was standing in the middle of a scorched, crimson-skied wasteland. Red dust whipped through the air, carrying the reek of burning sulfur and ozone.
She looked down she wasn't in her pajamas anymore. She was wearing heavy, reinforced tactical armor, her iconic yellow bangs fringe sweeping across her forehead just above her goggles. In her hands, she held a double-barreled heavy pulse shotgun, humming with lethal electrical voltage.
Beside her stood a towering, terrifying silhouette clad in scarred green Praetor armor. He didn't say a word, but the heavy pump of his Super Shotgun echoed like a thunderclap in the ruined valley.
It was him. The Boom Slayer. Boom Guy himself.
Elegg’s jaw dropped beneath her visor. Her fan-girl heart practically leaped out of her chest. "Oh my gosh, it’s actually him! He's even taller in person!" she squealed internally, desperately trying to keep her cool in front of her ultimate gaming icon.
"Okay..." Elegg grinned, snapping out of her daze and racking her shotgun with a little extra flair to impress him. "This is definitely better than playing on a controller."
From the horizon, terrifying howls shattered the air.
A horde was descending upon them, but these weren't ordinary demons, nor were they standard Raptures. They were horrifying, grotesque hybrids: Demon-Raptures.
Cybernetic, mechanical armor fused with raw demonic flesh. A massive Cyberdemon-class Rapture lumbered forward, its mechanical appendages dripping with fiery hell-energy, while jagged Cacodemon core-spheres floated in the sky, firing bursts of plasma and dark corruption.
Boom Guy didn't hesitate. With a terrifying surge of speed, he sprinted straight into the horde, leaving a trail of fire in his wake.
"Wait for me! Let’s co-op this!" Elegg yelled, bounding after him into the fray.
The combat became a synchronized dance of absolute destruction. A hybrid Imp-Rapture lunged at Elegg with razor-sharp steel claws. She ducked underneath its swipe, shoved the barrels of her pulse gun into its mechanical chest, and pulled the trigger.
A violent shockwave tore the creature apart, sending metal plating and black blood flying through the air.
To her left, Boom Guy grabbed a cyber-fused Hell Knight by its jaw, tearing it apart with pure brute force before using its arm as a club against two encroaching enemies.
Elegg practically had star-eyes watching the absolute spectacle. "So majestic! So brutal!" she thought, before rolling across the scorched earth to cover his six. She came up right behind a towering tyrant-class monster.
"Let's see how you like maximum voltage!" she roared, firing an overloaded electric tether into its core. The arc lightning jumped from monster to monster, paralyzing the swarm in a flashing grid of electricity.
Boom Guy thrown her a brief, stoic nod an unspoken sign of respect.
Elegg internally hyperventilated.
"HE NOTICED ME! BOOM GUY JUST NODDED AT ME!"
Fuelled by sheer, unadulterated fan-girl hype, she vaulted off the wreckage of a fallen gunship, unloading round after round into the sky-bound horde alongside her hero. Blood, oil, spark, and ash filled the air.
They were unstoppable.
The horde was thinning, but deep in the volcanic crater ahead, the earth cracked open.
A colossal, screen-clearing Mega-Rapture Demon erupted from the lava, roaring with the volume of a thousand collapsing stars. Its chest glowed with an unstable, apocalyptic energy core.
Elegg and Boom Guy exchanged a quick glance. He loaded a glowing BFG cell into his launcher; she primed her pulse shotgun's final, ultimate overload mode.
"Let's beat this campaign together!" Elegg cheered.
They charged together, side-by-side, leaping high into the air as the massive boss opened its glowing maw to unleash hellfire.
Elegg lined up the perfect shot right alongside her favorite protagonist, her finger pressing against the trigger—
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Elegg shot up in bed, breathless and drenched in sweat, her hand frantically slamming down on her alarm clock.
The loud, obnoxious blare cut off instantly. The room was quiet, save for the soft hum of her PC tower and the morning sun peeking through the blinds.
She stared at her hand, still half-expecting to see the glowing pulse gun or to be standing next to the ultimate hero.
"No way..." Elegg groaned, collapsing back face-first into her pillow. "I was literally one second away from beating the final boss with Boom Guy!"
She buried her head in the blankets, clutching her pillow tight and trying desperately to force herself back to sleep. "Come on... just five more minutes... put me back in the lobby with him..."
Original picture in the comments.
Full credit goes to:
Gabz
https://www.facebook.com/share/19AyndJ6Xa/
https://www.artcollectorz.com/artists/artist-detail?artist_id=1811
- Commander
