Scattered Memories
A Gears of War story
Chapter 1
Sounds of crashing waves and birds was all she could hear. The feeling of sand in her hands as she stretched. Nothing could be more relaxing, she thought as she stood up and looked around herself. All she could see for miles was ocean and clear blue skies.
"Beautiful..." she muttered to herself. A smile spread across her face. She brushed back her dark brown hair that fell over her shoulders and down her back and stretched again. Her feet started to carry her down the beach she was on, the sand warming her feet as she walked.
But the further down the beach she walked, she started to hear what sounded like shouting.
"What?"
She looked around herself trying to find where the shouting was coming from. As she looked, a sudden explosion with no apparent location went off. Gunshots followed, and she began to run becoming more scared as the gunshots and explosions continued. Her vision suddenly began to cloud over the more she ran, and then she became aware of talking around her. That was she tripped up on a rock in the sand, fell face first and blacked out.
The next thing she knew, she was lying face up on a hard floor, gunshots explosions and shouting going on around her.
"Delta, this is Alpha where the hell are you guys?!"
After she heard this, two different voices which sounded like they were on a radio spoke.
"Baird! Oh shit man, where you been?"
Another voice spoke calmly.
"Delta squad is in the house of sovereigns, over."
This time, the sarcastic voice that replied sounded annoyed.
"Well that's just great, we're pinned down by troikas on your rooftop and Taylor is out cold, over."
"Damn, what happened to her?"
'They must be talking about me,' she thought.
"Roof caved in where we are, she got hit on her head shoving me out of the way."
A sigh from the other end of the radio.
"Shit Baird, you should be protecting her."
The rest of the conversation she didn't hear, as she chose to try and move. As she tried to get up, a pounding headache hit her that hard she puked where she lay.
"Ugh..."
The chatter on the radio stopped and she felt someone kneel down beside her.
"Taylor? You alright?"
She opened her eyes slowly. Her vision was still blurry from the headache but she managed to make out blonde hair and blue eyes. The face in front of her seemed familiar from what she could see, but she couldn't quite place where she knew him from.
"Uh... Who are you?"
"Shit. You're joking right? Well this is just fantastic."
She looked down at herself to see she was in the same armor as he was. It was made of a heavy metal, and she found next to her what looked like a sniper rifle.
"Wait. Who am I? Where am I? Who are you guys? And why the hell have I got a sniper rifle next to me?"
Baird sighed and looked at her.
"All I can tell you at the moment is your name, it's Selene Taylor. The rest will have to wait until the bullets stop flying."
He held out a gloved hand to her.
"Can you walk?"
The others watched as she took his hand. As soon as he had helped Selene up, she immediately lost her balance and fell against him. Her head was pounding as she tried to stand up.
"Damn I'm sorry," Selene said while steadying herself. Baird who still had hold of her shook his head.
"Forget about it and start walking. The Raven is on it's way so we need to be out there and ready to go."
She nodded in response to him, and got her legs moving while he held an arm around her shoulder to stop her from falling. While they were moving, Selene felt something heavy on her chest and looked down to see what it was. She saw what looked like a clock gear on a chain around her neck, a name engraved into it.
"Selene Taylor," she said softly as she read it. "COG Gear."
'That must be me," she thought. 'That sounds right. But if I got hit on my head and lost my memories, it must have been one hell of a lump of rock. And who are these people?'
As Selene looked around and asked herself that question inside her mind, she knew whether she liked it or not, her memories could take months or years even to come back.
