Super Marcus

Super Marcus

Chapter 1: Corpser!

The steel and wooden platform that the Locust Corpser was standing on began to collapse. Steel creaked, wood snapped, and cables went slack as the platform shattered and the giant creature standing on it fell into the yellow emulsion liquid flowing beneath it. The creature screamed up at its killer who was busy reloading his Lancer assault rifle.

As the Corpser disappeared into the emulsion, Sgt. Marcus Fenix finished reloading his weapon and turned to leave. Then he heard the splashing of liquid behind him and turned to see the Corpser bearing down on him, now with a series of burns covering its exoskeleton. The massive monster landed with one of its finger-like limbs behind where Marcus was standing, so that when it started to slide back into the emulsion, the finger hit Marcus and started to drag him in with it.

"Ah shit!" Marcus shouted as he tried to free himself from part of the finger that was pinning him to the ground as it dragged him.

Then he fell down into the emulsion along with the dying Corpser.

"Marcus!" Dom yelled as he ran up to the edge of the cliff where Marcus had fallen in.

Dom looked down into the emulsion, hoping to see a glimpse of his friend. Just then, both Cole and Baird walked up behind Dom.

"Hey, what's goin' on, Dom?" Cole asked Dom as he jogged up, adjusting the weight of the resonator on his back.

"Marcus just died," Dom replied with no hint of emotion in his voice.

Cole squinted really hard as he tried to comprehend what Dom had just said. Then after a second, he got it. "Ah, sorry Dom," Cole said and put a hand on Doom's shoulder.

"Man that's a lot of emulsion," Baird muttered.

Dom was about to yell at Baird for being a dick head when Marcus flew up out of the emulsion like the Corpser had and landed behind them.

"Hey, what's happenin' baby!?" Cole exclaimed and went over to hug Marcus.

"Get the fuck back, Cole! I don't want a hug!" Marcus said, his eyes glowing a strange yellow color.

Marcus's armor was scuffed and burnt from his fall into the emulsion, and his gloves were burnt through in certain parts, mainly the fingertips. The skin on his hands, face and neck was glowing from beneath the surface in a faint yellow way. Overall, he looked almost possessed by some weird force.

"Oh, sorry baby," Cole muttered. He looked like he was about to cry because of Marcus rejecting his attempt at hugging him.

"Hey, uh, Marcus? You're looking pretty lambent," Baird pointed out.

"Will y'all quit using big words! You're makin' my head hurt!" Cole said, now almost certainly crying.

"You really are glowing Marcus," Dom said.

"Yeah? Well that's not all I can do!" Marcus said.

Then a bullet bounced off Baird's chest armor, driving him into cover. Everyone ducked down and looked around for where the shot had come from.

"Sniper!" Dom shouted, pointing to a cliff coming out of the side of the cavern, "Over there!"

Marcus looked over to where Dom was pointing and saw that there was in fact a Locust sniper. Marcus stood up and looked really hard at the sniper.

"What the hell's he doin'?" asked Baird to no one in particular.

Suddenly, two Hammer of Dawn beams shot out of Marcus's eyes and destroyed the whole section of the cavern wall that the sniper was standing on. Rock was melted and tossed into the emulsion below while the sniper himself turned into a dark red stain on the rock behind him.

"Oh yeah!" Marcus shouted in orgasmic delight at his new ability to shoot yellow emulsion beams of death out of his eyeballs.

"Holy shit!" Baird shouted.

"Man, you're like a super hero or somethin'!" Cole interjected.

Dom simply remained quiet as he looked from Marcus to the place where the sniper used to be and then back to Marcus before asking, "You're not going to do that to me, are you?"

"Nah," Marcus replied, "We've got work to do. Cole, how's that resonator?"

"It's fine," Cole said.

"Well okay then, let's do it!" Marcus said and started off to the pumping station.

"Sure thing, Super Marcus," Baird said.

Marcus turned to face Baird. "What'd you say?" he growled.

"Uh, sure thing Super Marcus?" Baird answered, hoping Marcus wouldn't melt him into a puddle of smart-ass goo.

Marcus narrowed his eyes for a second before smiling. "I like it. Dom, start calling me that," he decided.

"Sure thing man," Dom replied while Baird was only glad he hadn't shit himself in fright.

Then Cole, Dom, Baird and their leader, Super Marcus, went off to kill the Locust and plant the resonator.