"It began, as always, for the desire for power. The need to conquer, the hunger to consume. Inevantly, this lead to conflict. Humanity fought an endless battle against itself. Until it was forced to unite against a power far greater than it had ever known. But even united they left only destruction in their wake. Despite their best efforts at survival, the humans of Sera continued to march blindly to their imminent doom… unaware that their misguided attempts at retaliation were only leading them ever closer to exinction. They had only crippled us by their weapons of mass destruction. But now the fate of both our worlds… hang by a thread."
The city of Jacinto- humanities last bastion of safety- was in a hostage crisis. The doctors at Jacinto General Hospital were running illegal experiments on their patients (things to gross to say), and now its a fire fight in the streets around the hospital, between the COG soldiers and the mad doctors, nurses, etc. There were fifty civilians being held against their will- they only experimented on civilians so the COG didn't find out (the Gears were busy with the war). The hospitals administrator manged to smuggle enough fire power (lancers, shotguns, and grenades) to wage a small war. It was chaos in the streets, thirteen Gears lay dead and only seven of the armed staff were dead. Then the doc's barricaded themselves in the hospital, but the attack was a distraction so Delta Squad and Bravo Squad (Tai and his men) could sneak in undetected.
Sargent Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago were misinformed on the number of armed med-staff, then Anya spoke on the radio," Delta, I've managed to hack into the hospital security cam's, there are a lot more guards than we thought" "tell me something I don't know" Marcus whispered hopping the guards didn't here him "ok, hostages are in the cafeteria, there are six guards in the room and two outside. Bravo, the administer has barricaded himself in his office, expect heavy resitance- its on the third floor, left hallway." "Thanks Control, Delta out" but it would hard trying to sneak around the hospital without getting caught, unless the staff were distracted. Marcus spotted some fuel tanks and shot at them. The tanks blew up- killing a few guards-'that would get their attention' Fenix thought as he and Dom made their way to the cafeteria.
The two Gears were just outside of the cafe- after silently killing a few more guards- which was guarded by two armed nurses. After taking them out, they went in guns blazing- which was reckless- and took out the guards and rescued the hostages- with no civilian casualties. Bravo Squad managed to capture the head doctors and the administer.
As COG medics were treating the rescued hostages- who were malnourished and sick from the condition they were in- Dom was reuniting with his long missed wife- Maria. Then she saw Sargent Fenix," Marcus…" she said "hey good to see your still alive" Fenix repiled " I have a message for you, from the Locust Queen and your father."
Command was looking over the disc Maria gave to Marcus, to verify its contents. Since the Lighmass Bombing- which destroyed the Nexus, the Locust Stronghold (I know, but it'sstory more interesting) there hasn't been any report of Locust activity. Meanwhile Delta Squad was waiting for their new recruit, then he showed up,"Private Ben Carmine sir, reporting for duty sir!" "welcome to the Gears, Rook. I-" Marcus was interrupted by his ear piece going off" Fenix, this is Command. You and Delta Squad are to report to Jacinto Headquarters at once" "Got it, sir" "Guy's come on" Delta walked over to the nearest Raven, boarded it, and flew toward HQ.
When they got there, the three Gears were escorted by Onyx Guards (special ops/commando Gears) to where Colonial Hoffman and Chairmen Prescott were. The Colonial greeted the Gears,"good job at the hospital, Fenix" "thanks, now why are here instead in the field" "it's best if we show you" they went to the console and played the message Marcus was shocked to see his fathers face- even if it was on a screen- here's what it said "Marcus if you could hear me. I need your help. Sera's dying, the planets infected from the core. It's the Imulusion that's killing it, but I can stop it. Queen Mryah and I have been working on a counter messier to do so. But I need you here to witness it." If what Adam Fenix- Marcus's father- was saying is true, then all life on the planet was in danger.