Timothy Long - The Apocalypse and Satan's Glory Hole

War looks it over and frowns. “I hope you aren’t serious, er, your Lord Jesus Worshipfulness.”

“Just try it. Me!” Jesus looks exasperated.

War holds it aloft and whistles so loud the sound echoes off the valley walls. A horse gallops out of some damn plane of existence. It shoots out, lands on its feet, and runs around in a circle. War sheathes his tiny wooden sword and jumps on the back of the monster horse. The animal screams at the sky, hooves slashing the air like razor blades as it rears back. War stands up in the saddle and waves his sword around in circles as he gallops in Satan’s direction.

“Man, he is motivated! Is he going to take on Satan himself?”

“Me, I hope not. He is going to call up an army.”

“This is War we’re talking about. He doesn’t exactly use his head most of the time.”

But War may be thinking for a change, because he runs the horse at full speed into the press of demons, waving his stick. He strikes around him, and where he flails, the demonic creatures fall. Several cracks open in the crust of the desert opens on the outskirts of the army of red. All around War, creatures rise out of the sand.

They shamble from the ground like a desiccated army of stick figures. They rise by the tens, then by the hundreds. The call is answered from the other end of the valley as well, as a whole regiment of the Army moves in en force. They roll in in tanks, Humvees, transports and on foot. A pair of helicopters sweeps over the ground and takes up station at the outskirts of the war machine.

War himself flashes up the length of the chasm and then back down the other side. Where he passes, the dead claw free of the earth in their multitudes. They are in all states and manners of dress. Some wear nothing while others are dressed in suits and carry bazookas.

“I was supposed to come back and call them back to Heaven. There they are,” Jesus observes, settling in on a nice comfortable rock.

“What happened?” Death asks out of curiosity.

“I lost interest. The devil played me once again. He tempted me with booze and gambling, and I missed the Apocalypse.” He squints in the direction of War, who is rallying his troops. “Sorry about that, man.”

“So this whole thing has been Satan’s doing then?”

“Yep. Asshole.”

Death lowers his scythe and cuts down a column of demons and zombies alike. They fall to pieces and splatter the sand with ooze and body parts. Some of the demons have burning blood; it sputters and smokes as it melts the sand into glass.

“So what now?”

“We wait, and we hope one of those nukes doesn’t hit us.” Jesus says and tosses back a swig of vodka. He leans a little too far back and nearly falls off his rock.

“Ooof!” Jesus chokes on the last swallow, then breaks into laughter.

Another flash of light, this time far to the northwest, brightens the already sunny sky.

Leon stares up at the composite glory hole demon and the equally massive Satan as they do some kind of clumsy primal dance around each other. Their massive shadows roll over the armies of demons and undead crawling from the craters left by Satan’s hasty exit.

“Devil dick hefty hooker, Bud,” Leon says.

Bud frowns at Leon and asks, “Why didn’t you hack that mother fucker in his face?”

He doesn’t give Leon, whose jaw drops and eyebrows curl at the question, time to answer. He lowers his gun and pulls the trigger, spraying the rising zombies and demons with hot death.

The legions of Hell are all around Bud and Leon. Leon stares, mouth agape, while Bud fires recklessly into the oncoming masses.

“Why, Leon?” Bud screams as he reloads yet again.

“YOU… COCK BOX… FUCK,” Leon screams in frustration.

Satan embraces the giant box the way a dog would try to fuck a bear. The box recoils slightly, and Satan waddles after it. Humans fall out of his ass as he totters forward.

Leon searches for the words, but they don’t appear in his acid-addled brain. The giant red demon with the three massive swinging cocks is the fucking Devil, and Leon is just a peep show mop up boy. He doesn’t even have his mop bucket. If he ever goes back for it, he’ll kill that shithead Jerome for frying his brain.

“Leon,” Bud screams between quick bursts of automatic rifle fire. “Get your fucking head in the game!”

Leon snaps to and swings his battleaxe at the closest demon. He chases another one a few feet and cleanly cleaves one of its heads from its shoulders. The other head turns as if to complain, so Leon hacks that head off as well. Demon gore splatters his face, and the demon-killing fury he felt when he chopped Father Maniwhore to pieces returns tenfold.

His eyes dilate and he screams, “Fuck rag demon douche gang bang!”

“Thataboy!” Bud cries out. He slams another magazine home and pops off a few more rounds.

A hooded rider on horseback and several zombies in desert camouflage run straight for Leon and his companion. He opens his mouth to ask Leon if he knows the hooded rider behind them. The man under the cowl reaches into the folds of his robe and pulls out a small crossbow.

Bud manages to squeak, “Leon,” as a hypodermic needle flies from the crossbow and sticks into Leon’s back.

The ice cream truck falls toward the giant glory hole box at an alarming rate. A we are gonna smash right the fuck into that thing rate. Chuzz pulls the microphone back and stops the truck a few inches from the top of the dancing abomination. Chuzz peers over the front of the truck and gets a look at Satan with his giant erect cocks. Then his eyes are pulled down to the glory hole box, and he feels very dizzy.

“I am getting out of this piece of shit!” Edwina yells from the back. The door bangs open, and sunlight pours in from the rear.

Phil grins up at Chuzz and shows him the heroin kit he wants so badly. His mouth hangs open, tongue lolling out. His eyes are filled with need.

“Not now, Phil!”

The monkey flips him off, then shits in the corner of the truck.

“Oh real mature.”

“’Ee’s an animal. What do you expect?” Goatboy asks.

“Not that!”

The truck swings around slowly, or maybe it is the box under the truck. Chuzz wants to get away, but the vehicle tilts back and smashes into the top of the enormous glory hole demon with a mighty clang that will surely draw the big demon’s eyes straight to them. Chuzz doesn’t want that thing to get a look at him or his ride. He picks up the microphone and prepares to make a jump for it. He may be at the Apocalypse, but this was not what he had in mind for stopping it.

Before he can hit the button, the girl dives out of the open doors. She lands on top of the giant glory hole, rolls out of an awesome somersault, and comes to her feet. She looks around and then the door slams shut.

“Should we go ’elp ’er?” Goatboy takes a couple of steps toward the door.

“Help her do WHAT? Look at that thing!”

“Those things, you mean. Look at the size of those bangers. Bloody huge! ’Ee’d make a sperm whale scared to bend over.”

“Maybe she has a plan…”

Edwina has no plan. She hits the giant box hard and comes out of her forward roll with guns drawn. The massive red demon looms on one side, and when she peeks over the other, all she sees is all manner of shapes and figures running about in the sand. A crazy guy on a horse is waving a twig around portentously.