Dreaming Storms
Chapter 1 Gamma Squad
"All of this is a big load of shit. This world is a piece of shit, and this fucking silverback is a load of SHIT!" Quinn yelled sarcastically as she repeatedly hit her beaten down over used wrench against the knee of the silverback she was recently driving before it broke down on her. Bullets whizzed past her as she tried desperately to ignore them. Sweat beads began to accumulate on her head as she watched the knee joint slowly fall back into place with every hit.
"Maybe if you weren't messing with them earlier then you wouldn't be having this problem!" Her brother Dale yelled over his shoulder as he skillfully defended Quinn from the incoming gunfire.
She flipped him off. Dale rolled his eyes as he continued to fire. She wacked it one last time and the knee joint finally fell back into place. She smiled wickedly to herself. "I'm a genius," She declared.
Her com beeped to life, "Repeatedly hitting the knee joint and somehow fixing it doesn't make you a genius. It makes you lucky!" Her brother began to laugh and she ended up flipping him off again, but with a smile. She became serious again once a nearby tank exploded close enough to where she felt a light shockwave. She almost forgot she had to defend her base from the onslaught of Locusts hordes.
This was their base, their refuge away from the locus. And yet, here they are trying to take over. Quinn, her brother, and other COG soldiers took refuge here two years ago. There were only small scale attacks from scouting Locust, but this – this is an invasion. They wanted this land, but for what? Or maybe, just maybe, they are looking for something.
Quinn quickly jumped into her customized silverback and began to fire back with everything she had. "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, eat my bullets. I know you like it in the ass you little bastards!" She yelled with amusement as she continued to rain bullets on the enemy.
"Don't get to excited Quinn, you're gonna wear yourself out," her brother said over the com, but she could hear the smile in his voice. That's one thing she was always good at, making everyone around her laugh.
They both stood side by side as they defended their home. More and more Locusts crept out of their holes. Quinn took her grenades that she latched to the inside of the silverback and tried her best to throw them into the holes. With the incoming fire it was hard to aim and she only got about half before she ended up running out. But it was no use, more and more Locust holes broke through and Quinn could only watch as the grim situation began to progress uncontrollably.
"No, NO, AHHHHHH," A voice screamed over the com and Quinn flinched from the loud static that came afterwards.
"Roy, are you there?" Quinn yelled into her com knowing instantly who screamed. There was no response. "Ron, answer me now, if you don't I swear I'm goin' to find you and kick your sorry ass!" Quinn threatened but she knew that he wasn't going to answer. "Damn it!" she screamed.
She looked around her small base. She watched as gunfire ceased from the other side of their base and all she could do was watch. She shook her head and looked away. They're not going to survive this one.
This is it.
It was all over.
She remembered the promise she made to her squad. She told them if they stuck with her they wouldn't die. She was a genius after all, not in the comical sense either. She made a promise, and she damn well keep it, no matter what the cost was to her. She was going to keep her squad safe!
"Gamma squad, do you read me?" A ladies voice was heard over Quinn's com.
Quinn fired towards gas tanks she noticed some Locusts stood near. In a couple of shots the gas tanks exploded taking out four Locust. She smiled to herself but soon her confidence ceased when a Locust shot somehow hit the joint in the right knee of the silverback lodging it once more.
"Damn it," she yelled. She couldn't get out of the silverback again. There are four times as more Locust than there was before. She continued to fire as she finally answered the woman who was trying to speak to her. "Yes, this is the Gamma Squad leader Quinn, if you don't mind me askin'," she paused and grunted when Locusts grunts somehow made their way into their little enclosure. She watched as they started to swing their frag grenades, but she soon turned her fire onto them and they fell over making their frag grenades go off on them.
"IF YOU DON'T mind me askin', who the hell is this?" she yelled over the com.
The woman ignored her, "Delta squad is on their way to back you up Gamma Squad."
Quinn's heart leaped with hope after hearing those sweet, sweet words. "Are you serious?" She sounded a little too excited.
"Yes, if you can hold on for another ten minutes."
"No problem lady, we've been holding them off for more than two hours now."
There was more static heard in her com and a male voice began to speak sounding wounded and weak. "Q-Q-Quinn…"
"Roy?" Quinn stopped what she was doing and listened intently to her com.
"What the hell are you doing?" Dale yelled as he tried to cover her ass once again.
"Roy, are you there? Speak to me." There was more static then the line went dead. Quinn opened up the silverback and stepped out of it.
"What are you doing?" Dale yelled. "Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
"Cover me!" Quinn ran like a bat out of hell towards the next cover. There was a grunt that didn't notice her move due to reloading and she quickly swung her legs over the cover and kicked the grunt in the face. She grabbed her shotgun and shot his head making his brain splatter everywhere. "Wicked," she smiled to herself. She loved what she does for a living now, at least, when it's going well for her team.
She finally noticed an opening towards their base and she took it the instant she saw it. She ran low with her lancer at her side. A grunt moved in front of her with his own stolen lancer and began to rev up the chainsaw. Once he lunged for her she countered his attack with her own chainsaw. She pushed with all her might, sparks flying everywhere, but soon her strength began to overwhelm the grunt and he began to grow weaker. She pushed harder and the chainsaw was only inches away from his face. She reached over with her foot and tripped the grunt making him fall back and her chainsaw began to dig into his neck, Locust blood spraying all over her.
She began to run towards the door that leads to the base. She shot down a couple more grunts on her way and once she made it she looked back towards her brother. He was holding his ground with ease. She knew that he was going to make it another ten minutes on his own so she continued on into the base.
Thankfully, there are only a couple of grunts she had to take care of inside. She made her way through taking down every Locust in her path until she made it to the other side of the base. There were Locust everywhere and she was right behind them. They are shooting at a single crate as it began to grow smaller with every gunshot. She could see someone reach their gun out and blindly shoot at the Locust. He was the only one on this side fighting the Locust horde.
"Darius, is that you?" she asked over her com as she ducked behind a crate so the Locusts won't noticed her yet and began to reload her lancer.
"Yes, dear," a smoked damaged lung voice said over the com, he tried to sound sarcastic but failed miserably due to the constant fire of Locust guns.
"How is Roy?"
"Not good he's bleeding really bad…" he cut off as he began to return fire once more. When his fire ceased, he continued, "I don't think he's going to make it but I can't know for sure since I haven't had a damn second to check how serious his injuries are."
Quinn shook her head but said no more. No one in her squad was going to die, not here, not ever. Not while she's in charge.
"Don't do it Quinn," Darius said knowing already what she had planned. "It's not worth your life, I'm old, Roy's old, we've lived our lives." He began to chuckle.
"Shut up jackass, you're not going to die today." Was all Quinn said before she shot out of cover and began to fire at the backs of Locusts. The first ten didn't realize where she was at so she took them down with no problem. But soon they began to turn and fire back towards her.
Darius rolled out of cover when all fire was aimed towards Quinn and not at him anymore. They are making progress and slowly taking Locusts grunts out one by one.
"Yeah!" Quinn yelled as she saw their numbers began to dwindle. "We might win this after all."
Until she heard several Locusts say, "Boom."
"BOOMERS!" Darius yelled as he took cover.
Quinn quickly took cover as well but she didn't have any idea where they are at. At least, until a missile exploded into the side of her cover barely missing her. They are directly to the right of her and aiming their guns towards her once more.
"Shit!" Was all she could say when they fired. Two missiles came towards her and everything seemed to move in slow motion. She noticed in the corner of her eyes Darius slowly standing up and running towards her, ignoring the Locusts that are shooting at him. His eyes fixed onto hers. She blinked and slowly looked back towards the boomers. Their missiles only inches away. She stepped to the side, her body soon following. Her back began to roll as she desperately tried to barrel roll out of the way of the missiles. She could see behind her one explodes only inches away from her making her propel forward and making her barely miss the second missile. Everything was back to normal speed once her head hit the nearby wall.
She shook her head and gritted her teeth together. She heard the boomers say boom again and she knew they are going to fire once more. She quickly got up and took cover behind a large crate.
"Are you okay?" Darius asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I fucking hate boomers."
"You don't have to tell me twice."
Dale decided to join in on the conversation, "What happened?"
"Just a couple of boomers I didn't notice until the last damn minute," Quinn quickly said as she grabbed her shotgun and began to shoot at the boomers. "Where the hell is Delta squad?"
"Here," a gruff voice Quinn didn't recognize said over the com. "Sorry we're late, we were held up at the gate."
"And we are here to kick some Locusts ass, baby!" another more familiar voice said.
"Holy shit, is that the Cole Train?" Quinn asked her voice raising an extra octave.
"…Quinn?" Cole said. "I thought you were dead. How the hell did you get out of…"
Quinn cut him off, "We'll reminisce once we are done drilling out the Locusts. Sound good?"
"You know it baby! Where you at?"
"On the south side, I'm here with Darius. We have three boomers and about fifty grunts holding us down."
The other gruffer voice began to speak again, "Do you know why they are here?"
"I really do not have any idea. Maybe they want to dig another base here, but that is my only guess."
"Have you seen the queen?"
"No."
"Then I doubt that is what they are planning."
Quinn couldn't say anything more. The boomers are moving in and every time she tries to shoot at them a grub would get in her way only wasting her bullets on them. All she had left was a stupid snub pistol.
"Where did my long shot go?" She asked herself as she thought back to when she was working on her silverback and put all of her guns away in the gunnery. She stole the guns she has now from the enemy. She also only has her breast plate gear on. That was the only thing that was near her when they were first attacked, and it's not even a women's breast plate. She shifted nervously in her spot.
The boomer said boom again and Quinn winced when a shot hit the back of her cover and debris sprayed around her making her blind for a couple of seconds.
"WHOOO," Cole yelled as he leaped over a crate and actually charged at one of the boomers.
Once Quinn saw him she shot upright in her spot with a big smile on her face.
"The Cole Train is back in business," she yelled as she watched him take the boomer out with ease. He then used his lancers chainsaw on a grub that tried to sneak up from behind. Once they are both dead he ran quickly to her. Once he was close enough Quinn ran up the rest of the way and jumped up into his arms and gave him a hug of a lifetime.
"I can't believe it's you! How long has it been, ten years?" Quinn said as she squeezed his neck harder.
"Stop fondling each other and get back in the battle field," the same ruff voice said. Quinn looked over and saw a man with a bandanna on ducking behind the barrel Cole leaped over. He must be the leader because he began to bark orders to two other team members. They too ducked behind barrels and began to fire at the Locusts horde.
Cole carried Quinn back to the cover she was originally hiding behind. Cole smiled at her when he sat her down and then he began to speak into his com, "Hey Baird, you have some competition now."
"Oh yeah?" The person she suspected was Baird responded.
"Yeah, she, in my books, is way smarter than you when it comes to machines." Cole gloated about his long lost friend and Quinn couldn't help but smile.
Quinn also couldn't help but see how much older he looks. She could see new scars that riddled his cheeks and forehead and how… tired he looks. But, his personality was still the same and she was thankful for that.
"Sure, I highly doubt that. Women are only good for one thing and that one thing is to make the man a sandwich in the kitchen. The kitchen is where a woman belongs, not playing with machines."
"You shouldn't have said that," Darius chimed in already knowing the storm this Baird guy was brewing.
"I'm just saying it as I know it."
"Do you have any more Lancer ammo?" Quinn asked Cole as she got out her lancer and discarded the empty ammo case.
Cole handed her a couple of ammo cases and she began to reload. She stood up with the gun pressed tight against her right shoulder and she began to shoot with precision at the boomers head. In a matter of seconds, the head exploded and the body fell limp to the ground.
"Yep, you definitely pissed her off." Darius decided over the com.
Quinn shuffled from cover to cover as she made her way to the boomers dead body where she ended up picking up its gun and aimed for the last boomer.
"Boom, boom baby," she smiled and shot the missile at the disgruntled boomer. Body parts went flying everywhere and Quinn had to turn the other way so she wouldn't get blood in her eyes. "Now that's how it's done!" she laughed and began to reload and shoot off more missiles at the Locusts as they scurried around trying to find cover away from her.
"She's crazy, but in the good way," Cole said to one of his squad members.
"She's certainly good, I'll give her that," said the one with a five o'clock shadow and dark brown hair.
"There retreating," Delta squad leader said as he stood up from his cover and walked over to Cole and his other squad member.
Quinn dropped the boomer's weapon but didn't pay any attention to Cole or his squad members. Her hand instinctively went up towards her com and she began to speak to her own squad members. "Dale, Darius, are you two alright?"
"Roger," Dale said. She could hear that he was still in the silverback as he was walking. "The last of them retreated, I would go after them but I, personally, don't feel like it."
"Lazy ass," Quinn said.
"I'm fine, but Roy…" Darius said. Quinn looked over towards him. He was still behind the crate he was originally at when she first found him. But he was crouched over someone who was wounded. She ran over towards them and once she reached them she kneeled next to her squad mate.
He had a gunshot wound on his leg and upper left shoulder, but he was still breathing. She looked up at Darius, his grey hair and eyes shining in the sunlight, and asked, "Is he going to be okay?"
Darius shrugged his shoulders and looked up at her, his wrinkles under his eyes moving as he spoke, "I don't see why not. No major arteries were hit and the bullet in his left shoulder didn't even come close to his heart."
Roy began to cough, "Try being in my position. This fucking hurts." Then he looked up at Quinn and winked. "Maybe if you give me mouth to mouth the pain will go away?"
Quinn laughed, "Getting hurt won't get you into my pants jackass."
Roy smiled but winced after doing so. "It's worth a shot, right?"
Quinn shook her head and stood up with a smile still present on her lips. She turned around to see Delta squad standing not too far away from them. She walked, or rather jogged over to Cole and jumped into his arms once more. Cole wasn't expecting a second hug as he began to stumble backwards when she did so, but still hugged her back all the same.
"Aw, look at the two love birds, isn't that just precious Dom?" Quinn recognized that voice being Baird's. She looked over at him to see the gear with blonde hair joking with the guy that had a five o'clock shadow.
She let go of Cole's neck and casually walked over to the two of them, a smile gracing her lips. "Baird right?" She asked when she was close enough.
"Uh – Yeah?" Her fist made contact with his face and he fell over on his ass as he grabbed his jaw in pain. "What the hell was that for?" he yelled at her as he quickly got up and began to advance on her.
She placed both hands on her hips and said sarcastically, "Think I still belong in the kitchen?"
(yes, I know very fast paced. I usually don't write this fast and my chapters are usually longer. My writing is a little off as well. I can do a whole lot better than this. But, I had to get this chapter off my chest. I've been wanting to write a Baird fanfic since gears of war 2 but never got around to it. The rating WILL change later on if I get far enough into the chapters, if you know what I'm saying ;)
Since I'm new to the whole Gears of War genre I ask of you to please pay attention to detail of gears of war events. I might mix some up here and there, and yes, Gamma Squad was in… I think gears of war two for a split second. I don't know if they died in it or not, but if they didn't then I'll make this the squad that helped Delta squad out a bit.
Also, a thing you need to know about me is that I'm a big pervert. Yepperz, so my character will be a big pervert as well. And she isn't a bitch either. I'm going to make her really funny. She was only acting like this because she was in the heat of the battle.
One more thing, and I usually don't write this much at the end of the chapter but I want to say this now and not have to write it in other chapters. I get motivated to write if I get a lot of feedback. Also, if I get a lot of feedback the better and longer the chapters will be. This chapter is short for me and I usually make my first chapters really short to see if anyone will be interested. I will be making grammar changes later on to this chapter to make the writing quality better if I decide to continue this. Please review!
Still deciding what Quinn is going to look like. Any suggestions?)
