A New Fan fiction: Salvation's only a magazine away
By: AnonymousAuthor213
Chapter 1: Revisiting Bad Memories and Making New Ones
Private Sean Calso of the 435 infantry division was fast asleep; he had always fallen asleep while traveling. Since he was a little kid, the hum and monotonous purr of the engine, the smooth gliding way the vehicle chased the strips on the highway had always made him fall into a gentle oblivion. His father always drove, mother in the side passenger and him curled up in his back seat. He still slept while traveling, even though the good days had passed. When his parents died in the E day invasion, they left their son with nothing, nothing but a pile of rubble and an antique gold necklace. The one found on his mother when they dug the bodies up. With nothing left he joined the Coalition of Gears. To fight and defend the last remnants of humanity and civilization left on the earth.
Sean stirred as they hit a bump. He was in a boarding car on a train. Yet again, memorized by the smooth ride to the city. The boarding car was packed with men of his division, yet that didn't stop him from nodding off. Sean stirred once again as they hit another bump, then was abruptly awaken by a series of bumps and being knocked around by he rest of his squad mates. Then as Sean was trying to awaken to his senses, he was thrown into the floor by the train screeching to a dramatic halt.
He was roughly stood up and was able to croak out a "Whass goin onn?"
"I don't know, bud, whatever it is, I don't think its going to be very pretty." Replied the COG who helped him stand, he was Sean's old childhood friend named Craig.
The car was dark, and Sean noticed the scared looks on some of the COG's faces, others gripped their lancers or shotguns nervously. There was shouting outside, then a rush of blinding light, as the car door was thrown open, the light made his face contort and his iris's ached. People rushed out of the car, there was more shouting and people pushed and shoved their ways out.
Once on the ground, Sean had noticed that it had rained. The ground was slippery and his heavy Government Issue boots sank into the muddy sections. There was rain collected on the leaves of the trees and the sweet smell of ozone lingered in the air. He only had a small amount of time to notice his surroundings before he was gripped on the arm by Craig.
"Sean, look at this, what the heck happened?!"
What Sean hadn't noticed was the crowd of people in front of the Train. As Sean got closer, he realized what they were looking at. It was a hole. This wasn't just a regular emergence hole, this was 50 feet across, and went down into an infinite black abyss.
The Major, who was in the front of the crowd, looked down the immense tunnel. Kicked a rock inside it, watched go down and turned to address the crowd.
"Well boy's suit up, it looks like we have a hell of a day ahead of us!"