A new series called Gears of Survival
Chapter 1 Nightfall

What was becoming of this world Marcus laid in bed thinking to himself alone in a quiet dark room which was the most common place this war-torn Gear could be found…alone, but shouldn't he be out partying and celebrating the end of this wretched war you asked? Potentially but there was too much pain inside him…too much regret, what he'd done and what he should've done during the war will haunt him forever, he should've been there more for Dom he thought to himself his thoughts slowly loomed off towards his father Adam Fenix he immediately regretted now being around his father enough and taking him for granted something he would never do again. His thoughts were interrupted when there was a knock at his door "I'm busy" he yelled but the knocking persisted he finally opened it to find Cole "AYYY BABY YOU GOTS TO GET DOWN HERE MAN WE GOT BACON AND EVERYTHING YOU BETTER HURRY THOUGH CARMINE'S GOING ALL IN HAHA" the large gear shouted with enthusiasm and laughter but that was all cut short when Marcus broke the mood "Listen, Cole, thanks for checking up on me but I'll pass" he said in a gruff annoyed voice "alright suit yo self stay tight baby" Cole said in a much quieter voice this time and left the room as he was closing the door Marcus quickly changed his mind "wait Cole on second thought I'll come" Marcus said in a defeated voice "Good" Cole shouted "Cause some people are getting a little too close to Anya now that you're not there" Cole said.

This got Marcus pissed Anya was his counterpart she had been through just as much as he had and those fucking stranded weren't worthy of her time "Ayy Marcus Baby just don't storm the place take it easy aight" Cole said cautiously, he knew he shouldn't have said but if Marcus saw without any warning he probably would have gone back to his room and came back down with his lancer and started spraying everywhere regardless of how many children were there they headed towards elevator. It was different to be back on land everything felt so peaceful, he looked out a window and saw a Billboard sign that said "Building the New Ephyra you deserve" and all around the building they were in were buildings and skyscrapers being constructed and within weeks there would be an entirely newly renovated city the thought of this was crazy just two weeks after the war and already the population was rising and humanity was starting to flourish again just then as the elevator doors opened standing in the center was Baird himself he looked so different Marcus thought to himself "Never took you as a suit-wearing guy" Marcus remarked Baird then proceeded to make a sarcastic comment then following up with "So you coming or not you're making Anya look bad"

However, Marcus failed to notice what the blonde gear had said as he was too engulfed in staring out the window, "whatcha lookin at baby!?" Cole asked confused "do you to know what black armored vans are doing in the parking lot," Marcus asked in a serious tone "what black vans," Baird asked in an annoyed walking over to Marcus's side "there's got to be what 4 or 5 of em! it's a little hard to tell" Baird said, "you think they want trouble" Cole now asked worryingly
"we better go find out, are you to armed?" Marcus asked "are you kidding me!...it was a ceremony to celebrate the end of the war and you expect me to be armed? Baird asked sarcastically, but Marcus couldn't blame him it made no sense to carry weaponry, what were they afraid the war had been won and supposedly there would be no more bloodshed...at least he hoped, just then a loud boom shook the building "Marcus their entering tons of em man they got like a mini militia" Cole called to him
"come with me" Marcus said as he ran towards his room unlocking the door and making his way to his closet where he opened it up and pulled a lancer of the rack and gave one to Baird and Cole before finally grabbing one for himself "lets hope we're not too late we need to get down there and find out what the hell is going on" and just like that they made a dash for the main lobby hoping to find out what these mystery men wanted "elevator or stairs" Baird asked nearly out of breath from running through the long stretch of hallway "we'll take stairs that's got to be faster" Marcus said they made it to the stairwell and immediately started making their way down taking two to three steps at a time, it was a shame they couldn't stop to admire the beauty of the building Baird thought to himself as he had never taken the stairs before but it was as fancy as the rest of the surrounding area was was".

They finally made it ground floor Cole pushed the shattered dual glass doors open that lead from the stairwell to the lobby and as they opened the door and walked past the glass they quickly scanned the area only to their horror to see bodies everywhere "holy shit!" Baird said in disgust "who would do something like this and why?" he followed up with as he surveyed the area and was taken back by the fact that there were also motionless children on the floor surrounded by puddles of blood "we should stick together, whoever did this clearly had the numbers to pull it off" Marcus said uneasily hoping Anya hadn't suffered the same fate as these innocent civilians, all the blood and bodies everywhere and all he had to do was just replace them in his mind with Anya's body and boom the only thing he had left was gone, Baird saw the fear in Marcus's eye's he felt bad for him but he felt somewhat better-knowing Sam wouldn't have been here, she was most likely still in her apartment across the street wondering what the commotion was about, the group continued making their way from the lobby to the ceremony room but something caught Cole's eye "yo check this out" Baird and Marcus walked over to where Cole was standing only to see the body of a man by the looks of it in his mid 20's dead on the floor, "is he wearing thrashball armor?" Baird asked "looks like it" Marcus replied, "so they have to be stranded then?" Cole added "Yeah seems about right," a familiar voice coming from behind them said, the trio quickly spun around only to see two familiar faces, Bernie and Hoffman standing in front of them, "Glad to see you two are okay," Marcus said "same to you soldier" Hoffman responded, "nice shot by the way you guys picked this guys dome of clean" Marcus said to which Bernie responded confused "we just got here", a concerned look began to grow on her face to which Baird interjected with "Weren't you two supposed to give the opening speech", Hoffman began to laugh "son you ever heard of being fashionably late" but Baird's face still contained the same sarcastic look but soon faded to a more worried one when he noticed Bernie hadn't taken her eye's off him for a good minute till she finally broke the silence with "Baird I'm... I'm sorry", she pulled out something from her back pocket and at first he didn't recognize it but as she handed it him he now realized why she'd been staring at him the whole time, it was Sam's hunter green headband stained with dark red blood, "we found it in the parking lot when we arrived... I'm sorry Baird we rushed in hoping we would find her I'm sorry" Bernie said Baird immediately fell silent Cole patted him on the back saying she was probably okay and all that she's a fighter bullshit but Baird didn't care, and just like that his thought's drifted off where he could only think of the worst that could have happened.