Darkness swept the world, and the Locust horde rose. E-day was fourteen years ago, and the COG still lost ground every day. Delta was on an Island south of Jacinto. There mission was to extract a scientist who had developed a contingency plan incase the locust won the battle. The name of the scientist was Jeremiah Reichstein, a dedicated physicist and mathematician.
Delta was currently consisted of Marcus Fenix, squad leader of Delta squad and Sergeant of the COG military forces. Dom Santiago, a strong fighter and a hard son of a bitch to take down, and finally, Benjamin Carmine, the newest addition to Delta.
The squad had been walking down a set of underground tunnels for an hour and had yet to find the scientist. The tunnels were dilapidated bunker halls, water and rats filled them, dead bodies of locust drones every couple of yards. The squad had checked several labs and were starting to loose their patience, when they came to a closed wooden door.
Carmine thought it was strange, a wooden door inside of a military bunker, but kept his mouth shut. They walked into the room beyond the door and were greeted by a large foyer, books lining the walls, and schematics spread on the tables all over the room. Carmine looked around and noticed that there three halls breaking off from this room. They were gonna have to split up if they wanted to keep searching.
Marcus raised his voice, " Alright, Dom will go down the left hallway. Carmine, you go down the right hall. I'll search the hall in front of us. Alright, lets find this scientist before our chopper decides to leave us behind." With Marcus's charge forward, we split up. I walked down a dimly lit hallway, red ornate wallpaper and wood trimming greeted him. He noticed that the door at the end of the hall was a large, metal door with a key card scanner, luckily though, it was already opened.
Carmine walked through the doorway and was greeted by a large room filled with banks of computers and control boards. Several monitors surrounded an observation window, a large control bank under the window. He crossed the room and peered into the room beyond the window. It was a large circular room with several rings along the outer edge, he noticed a man in the middle of the room. He looked in the room and noticed another metal door led to the circular room. Carmine ran and passed into the next room, he rushed to the downed mans side. He noticed an I.D. tag on the man's jacket, it read Jeremiah Reichstein.
" Hey Doc? Are you ok? Come on Sir, we need to go to the King Rav-agh!" Carmine looked down at his neck, a large syringe was stabbed into him. He watched, stunned, as a clear green liquid was pushed into his neck. He couldn't move, he was frozen in place.
" How do you like my paralyzing serum? I'm truly sorry for this boy, I just needed a live test subject for my final experiment." Reichstein stood onto his feet, he was tall for a scientist, easily six feet tall. He had thick grey hair, and a thin grey beard. His small glasses rested on the end of his nose. He wore a white button-up shirt, black dress pants that had seen better days, and a pair of black house shoes. His eyes were a bright blue, contrasting with the drab clothing.
He walked out of the room and sealed the door behind him, trapping Carmine inside. Carmine could only stare forward at the wall of the room. He couldn't move, anger flooded him, he had been beaten by a scientist! The idea of it made him feel weak.
" You see, I have been working for a long time." Jeremiah's voice came onto the speaker system in the room, the speakers were crackling his voice as he spoke. " I was tasked by the COG ten years ago to develop a contingency plan. A way out of this mess incase we failed to beat the Locust Horde. Are you familiar with mass acceleration boy? Well, my theory was that if I could accelerate someone's atoms enough, I could push them into another dimension, obviously a one way trip."
A loud hum filled the room, the air filling with electricity. Electricity bounced around the room, Carmine in it's center. The rings on the floor started to move, spinning around him. He felt the energy focus on him, gathering slowly.
" You see, I thought that it was impossible, till I discovered a compound. This compound made a person extremely conductive without taking harm. I injected you with that very compound, even now your body is flowing with electricity. Once this experiment is a success, I'll go down in history! Ha-ha-ha ! " The man was crazy! He had to be insane.
The rings were spinning wildly now, Carmine's mind was on fire. His head hurt with a fury, his body burning with pain. The electricity was burning across his skin, leaving vein-like scars on his skin. His body lifted into the air, his vision filled with light, and his body jerked violently. He fell to the ground unconscious.