(and then I didn't post forever... sorry about the delay, stuff's been kind of crazy here. However it looks like we're done with everything and I'm good to get this thread moving for real)<br/><br/>Hortence made it to the portal, a large shimmering ring of light, changing in between a red and orange hue. It was elevated about 1.5 meters in the air, above a round mechanical platform which measured a little under 2 meters in diameter. Hortence kneeled down to take off the outer panels of the machine, if she could shut it off they'd be golden.<br/>She heard the new girl yelling... that woman had come out of the portal too... She looked like she was on our side but this could be one of those seductive demons from legends. Regardless, what she was saying was insane! create another portal to fuze out this one!? that's insane!<br/>Hortence began work on getting to the gyrocore of the machine, she feared that there might be some magic hoodoo making it work, but it thankfully didn't seem to be the case. She found what she was looking for, the Gyrocore which ran the machine. She just had to dissable it to stop it from keeping the portal open! small problem though... it wasn't on, the entire machine appeared to be completly shut off in fact. It was the cause of the portal, no doubt about it, but it looked like it might not keep it open at all, instead it's only purpose was to kickstart the rift into existence and then just chill...<br/><br/>"well fuck me..." Hortence looked over the machines inner workings, getting lost in it's intriquite workings "DON'T MIND IF I DO!" a deep perverted voice came from behind her, a humansized piglike creature, almost as fat as it was tall had snuck up behind her. It grapped out after her with it's huge meaty hand but Hortence managed use the machine to flip over the hand of the slow moving creature. The beast grunted frustrated. Hortence sized up her new enemy, though she kind of wished she hadn't, the incredibly foul looking creature had large hunks of rotting flesh hidden in it's fat folds, rashes, clumps of filth, blisters and mosslike protrusions all over it's skin. To top it off the demon was nude and quite... eager... Hortence almost threw up a little in her mouth as she looked over the creature, she was glad the mask filtered out the smell of the creature because she was sure it smelled as bad as it looked...<br/><br/>The creature charged towards her with a gleefully  evil expression. Hortence took aim and fired a well aimed shot where the demon probably wanted it the least, it whined out in pitifull pain and toppled over "pathetic... this is why we wear armor... creep" the demon opened it's maw, presumably to shout some profanities at her, but as it did it had a small clip of grenade fired deep into it's belly. The demon had an incredibly dumb expression before it's insides blew it's stomach open. It started melting into the Aether as demons did when sustaining fatal injury. Soon dissolving into nothingness.<br/><br/>Hortence took a deep breath, getting back to the matter at hand "right... so opening a new portal to overload this one, right! brilliant..." she looked over the machine once more, this time fixing to turn it on and activate a new portal next to the existing one. The gyrocore was pretty shot, it was clearly meant to be a one time use, so she had to find a new powersource. Thankfully she had half a dusin of those active on her suit, a bit of a waste but it wasn't excactly the time to lament it.<br/><br/>She choose to shut down her protective vest, it was pretty fried from the earlier attack by the demon and it probably wouldn't stop a lot more anyway. Removing the vest send a shot of intense pain rushing through her "right... got burned pretty bleedin' badly.." she let out a grunt of pain as she got the vest off, her left side had some visibly seared flesh, but that would have to wait. She found the Ticker in the vest, removing it with a swift motion, "this better fuckin' work..." she swapped the Ticker with the Gyrocore, swapped a few gears around in the machine and closed it.<br/><br/>The machine started humming, the shaking and then a light appeared from it, sparks and electricity started running across it's flat surface and soon a portal started forming next to the already existing one. It swirved though, the two portals energies mixed and the new portal couldn't form properly as it was drained into the existing one. The smaller portal was sucked into the existing one after a few seconds, and then the existing portal seemed to implode on itself, dissapearing in a shimmer of light.<br/><br/>The demons surrounding the area seemed to all pause, like they had been punched in the stomach. The demons who were large but weak started dematerialising into the Aether almost immediatly, they simply couldn't keep their shape. Most of the rest would follow suit pretty quickly, but there were some demons here who were either small enough, or strong enough to keep on this plane for some time, enough time to kill everyone in revenge if they slipped up...<br/><br/>Hortence was in bad shape, the wave from the portal had knocked her back against a wall. Without protection to her torso she didn't have the protection to withstand such a blow, she struggled to get up but she felt the world around her darken, she slumped back down, out cold.