For the HORDE

by Faithless wanderer

The war was fought and won by humanity, or so the story was told, but i choose to see another story be written, lets cross the lines and see the story unfold . For once lets see this through the eyes OF THE HORDE!

1. Chapter 1

Hey guys what is up, yup this is yet again another of my stories, and this one is going to be very fun for me to write

As you'll clearly see some characters will appear OC and that's because you usually just kill them in the games without ever knowing their motivations and beliefs

so i get free reign as a writer to gift them with the traits that i will imbue into their stories

Lolz i can't wait for my first flame anyway

This is going to be a long one

Because for once i have actually planned out a plot before i started writing and boy did that make me want to break my hands in frustration

Honestly i didn't start this stories plot until i was halfway finished writing the plot to the sequel because when i was writing that one

This story was just the prologue but i kept going and going and going

And well now i'm in too deep to just call this the prologue so I'm going to have to finish this one before i can even start the one i was writing to begin with

So of course now I'm adding yet another mad tale to the list of my creations

And…..you know what that's too much from me already just read it and enjoy

Ps. I do not own anything relating to the gears of war franchise aside from some games and some kickass comic books but those are personal copies of course lolz

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Inner Hollow

Queen Myrrah sat upon her throne, resting after her council meeting and dealing with the foolishness and arrogance of her former Uzil

She had been aware of the losing battle against the lambent but she did not question her Uzil Sraak

No, instead she chose to see if he could be salvaged and allowed him to continue to see if he would confess the truth of the war to her and prove more loyal than arrogant

He had failed, No instead Myrrah witnessed a cunning display from the Vold Raam and his compatriots Skorge and Karn

She had honestly been impressed by their cunning and misdirections they employed to bring the matter of the war to her attention

They even insured that members of the council would side with their argument

Uzil Skaar tried to silence them but Myrah had finally had enough of his schemes to silence those who would warn her about his incompetence

Myrah sentenced Skaar to be demoted down to Vold and ordered him to lead the defence against the lambent scourge

She was well aware of his plans to assassinate Raam during their initial invasion of the surface world

Honestly myrah had been pleasantly surprised to know that Skaar was even smart enough to consider an assassination

She had begun to see him as nothing more than an overgrown drone

But this assassination was something she could not allow to take place

Raam had earned himself the opportunity to prove capable for the benefit of the horde

So Queen Myrrah was preparing to speak with the now Vold Skaar to convince him to not attack Raam for the good of the horde

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(Skaar)

I marched across the halls heading to do as my queen commanded

I looked out at the royal guards that i once commanded and snarled at any who dared looked at me

Finally i reached my queens royal hall

As per previous instruction given to all called upon to speak to the queen i waited as 'Gore' the Royal Gate Lord moved from his post blocking the door

He was an Elite Mauler but more than that he was hand picked by the queen for his ...aberrations

Where most of the larger locusts such as the boomers and maulers tended to be somewhat dim this one wasn't

He didn't talk much, that much I remembered clearly, from what i had heard he only speaks to Queen Myrrah

Many had made the mistake of assuming his silence meant he was meek and they died horribly from it

His posture was always slouched and relaxed but he was fast

He didn't look it but he was a monster when compared to his fellows, after all the largest of the locust were the mothers but Gore was bigger than that

Where most boomer variants started out around 8 ft tall and were usually only a few inches apart between themselves Gore stood in his own realm

The giant stood at a whopping 11 and half ft tall with a massive shield and Halbert combo

He carried an explosive flail that dangled at his waist for when he wanted to use it

And to top it off he had his own specially crafted armor made from the same metals that coat the corpsers to make them bulletproof

Overall Gore was a Goliath tasked with the great honor of guarding the Queen wherever she went

Sraak remembered an incident when the Queen was touring the defensive line against the lambent when a lambent gunker appeared and plowed through the defenses

(Flashback)

Gore charged straight at it plowing through every drone in his way

The Gunker swung its massive blade at him but Gore quickly raised his shield and blocked it and slammed his halbert into the beasts stomach

Imulsion spewed out from the open wound but the Gunker only growled and aimed the Imulsion cannon that its arm had turned into

And tried to blast Gore, but seeing the attack being signaled Gore slammed his shield into the Gunker and pushed it sideway sending the blast at drones and lambent wretches engaged in combat

The blast splattering the unlucky drones and detonating a large pack of lambent wretches

The Gunker copying Gore slammed its weight into his opponent and pushed Gore into a backstep

With the distance made the gunker went for a downward stab with its large blade

But Gore was too experienced to die so easily and instead deflected with his halbert and guided the blade to slam the earth to his side and followed it up by slamming his shield atop the limb fused to the blade

The sound made was a brutal squelch and a loud boom from the detonated limb but Gores armor blocked the majority of the blast leaving him with only minor burns

With the blade gone Gore charged the Gunker again and shield slammed the gunker unto its back and raised his halbert in the air and slammed its massive blade into the gunkers deformed head

The blade sliced deep and cleaved the head in two, a glow immediately began oozing out of the body

Gore released his halbert and dropped low to the ground in a kneeling position as his massive shield expanded up even further

The following blast was almost blinding to Skaar who had watched the entire battle beside Queen Myrrah

He looked to his queen then and saw only a satisfied smirk across her lips

Skaar knew his queen to be a Powerful leader but seeing just how overpowering her hand selected guardian was only cemented his belief in her impeccable decisions

Skaar followed her line of sight as her smirk only grew larger, seeing Gore marching out of the smoke and ash bearing his shield and halbert combo

The massive weapons looked scratched and slightly chipped at some parts but what truly drew his sight was the imposing figure Gore displayed

His battle had lead him into the core of the lambent breach and he had not forgotten to notice

His halbert was swung around in circles like the depictions of the great scythe of humanities reaper

The halbert slammed into wretches, some blown away to detonate far from him others sliced in two with their separate halves detonating apart wherever they landed

Gore alone held the line while the drones regained control of the situation with an incoming brumak claiming superiority of the conflict back in the locusts favor

When the battle was done Gore marched himself back to the Queen

Coming closer and closer and once he stood closer than most locusts ever come to touching her he kneeled and bowed his head

Queen Myrrah exuded power with such a Goliath submitting himself to her after facing one of the lambents most dangerous soldiers

Myrrah raised her right hand and patted Gore atop his helmet and commanded him to rise with honor for he had defended his queen faithfully

Gore rose to his full height stretching himself into strengthening his back to appear at his full might

Myrrah turned and merely continued her journey to her mount to continue her journey

But Gore waited until his Queen was far enough before he bellowed out a massive roar that reverberated across the battlements and was followed by the victorious roars of drones celebrating their victory against the parasites most recent attack

(Flashback end)

Gore snorted snapping me out of my memories, Gire then turned towards the massive doors into the Queen's throne room and raised his massive arm and began banging against the door in a simple coded message to indicate who was here to see her

The Queens voice rang out with a boom

"He May Enter".

Gore responded by pushing the great doors open, once more reminding Me that even though I was big amongst the locusts, opening those doors was simply a feat of strength unto itself

All doors in the Queens inner sanctum were heavily reinforced and made of dense and heavy metals, so to see Gore open the doors alone was menacing

The chamber doors opened welcoming me and beckoning me forward, when my Queen was within my sight I Kneeled and rested my arms on the throne room floor waiting for my Queens command

"Rise"

Finally hearing what i awaited i began to raise myself off the ground and looked at my Queen

The Great Horde Mother, The Light of Serra, Queen Myrrah held many titles and was valued by every locusts above their own lives

"What do you desire my queen"

She looked to me with a neutral face, giving me not way to guess the reason i was called here

"Skaar...I know"

Her words were vague but i knew better than act like i could fool her, Queen Myrrah doesn't tolerate her time being wasted with foolishness

"...and what do you desire"

"Your not going to even attempt to lie to me"

"I wouldn't dare my Queen"

"Ha...you say that but wasn't it just days ago when you were trying so hard to have me ignore what Raam had to say"

I could see she took my words as an insult, the queen hated falsehoods and pleasing words without merit so i dug deep and summoned what i needed

"...I made mistakes my Queen, I grew arrogant and did not wish to accept my failures"

"Well it's good that you've acknowledged that then, so tell me why you planned to killed my newest Uzil"

'I knew it, she knew full well what i had been planning, i made the right choice in speaking the truth'

"Raam is young and ambitious, he doesn't give you the reverence that you deserve"

"And for that you planned to assassinate the leader of my armies, be mindful of your response Skaar your arrogance has led you to almost commit treason"

Damn..how to salvage this situation, quickly Skaar think of something plausible

"...Raam is a capable leader and a decent strategist but I knew that Karn alone would be enough to insure the success of the hordes advance on the surface"

"And how do you come to that conclusion"

Ok you can do this just think back who were the Vold that requested the least

"I know because I challenged all my former Vold in different manners, in Karns case he displayed an extremely advance sense of tactics enough to overcome the parasite with little ammunition and no reinforcements"

Hopefully that'll be enough to please her

"So am i to believe that the conditions under which you kept the blights defending the hollows from the parasite was a...test"

"Yes my queen, the horde does not possess the manufacturing power necessary to support an endless conflict with the parasite, so i desired to find those among the hordes defenders who had potential"

"Let's say i believe you for a second Skaar, let's assume that you endangered myself and all that i charged you with defending for the sake of your trials, how does that justify your decision to assassinate my Uzil and weaken my forces at such a critical time in the hordes campaign against humanity"

Shit…..

"Your silence is very telling Skaar, you tried very hard to convince of your falsehoods and platitudes but it's time we drop the charade, you planned to kill Raam out of spite and as revenge for the loss of prestige you suffered for YOUR MISTAKES"

"My Queen….I…"

"Say no more Skaar, Now hear me and i want you to really hear me, you will leave Raam be and You will lead the ear against the parasite and when Raan is finished if you've done well enough you will lead the newly acquired resources and use them to end the parasite...AM I CLEAR"

"Yes my queen"

"Good now you're dismissed Skaar, I expect great things from you"

"As you command"

I turned to leave knowing that delaying would attract Gores rage

I knew that i needed to prepare all the blights that would stay here to fight the parasite if i wanted any chance of being an Uzil once more

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(Skorge)

Inhale

Exhale

Inhale

Exhale

Inhale

Exhale

Inhale

Exhale

I take long and profound breaths seeking wisdom

I meditate seeking the guidance of the great wyrms

Clickclickclickclickclickclicklcicklcickclickclicklcicklcickclcikcliclickclick

My eyes snap open and attempt to adjust to the sight before me

A sea of blood, fading away

Fires burning

Earth quaking

War raging

War raging

Earth shaking

Fires burning

A sea of blood fading away

My eyes burst open and i cough out the liquid in my throat

I awaken in my meditation chamber within the sacred temple

'A vision'

'how long has it been since the last'

'I must be vigilant'

"Skorge...hey Skorge"

In a daze i turned to the sound if the voice, my vision was still glazed from the fog in my lungs

"...karn"

"Yes you twit, now get your ass moving were leaving already"

"...attack….which attack again"

"The invasion on the surface you fool, Raam is almost finished preparing Volds and their blights for the attack"

Almost like a switch being flipped the fog in my eyes slams into me with a burst of colors

"..AAAAHHHHH yes i remember now we're going to SmaSH Hahahahaha"

"Skorge for the last time don't yell so much, your 'mist' makes you extremely irritating"

"CoMe NoW KARn Buddy Friend, I do this For Our future"

"Bah you rely on your fumes for futures to come, ill keep my mind clean, Raam made me Zamil, i will not fail the horde"

"HaHaHahaAgagaggg cahg"

My laughter slipped into a coughing fit, with every cough a force slams into my chest and drives the fog from my eyes

With my sight clear i begin to make out the image of Karn in front of me

He stares at me with concern, my friend

Raam is amused by my Mist indussed antics but Karn prefers me sober

I do make the oddest of friends

"You okay Skorge"

"Yes...i just needed to clear my body of the fumes"

"What drove you to inhale the poison"

"The fumes feed my sight-

"oh yes your 'sight' well tell me did you see something worth the fire in your veins"

-the sight shows me things but never clearly it is up to me to find out the rest"

"Ah so nothing of use i see"

I didn't bother to respond Karns doubts about the sight had always been clear, and his loathing for the fumes was well known

Every drone under his command were always warned that death awaited all those who dared to think they could indulge under his supervision

(Flash back)

Skorge stood beside Karn watching the battle lines as the drones held the line against the incoming lambent

There was a wall of snipers to their side up on the cliffside taking shots at any drudge that appeared on the battlefield

As they gazed at the battle skorge witnessed the efficiency of the sniper support

But Karn saw something else

The battle raged on and while the casualties were within acceptable standards for skorge karn looked furious

Karn began to march off immediately

Skorge was tempted to stay behind and simply relax in the post battle celebration but something guided him behind karn

When skorge arrived he found 2 drones trained for sniper support screaming on the ground both with their legs blown off

And Karn was seen strangling a 3rd with his own intestines

The other drones were too scared to approach seeing shibboleth lurking nearby

Skorge approached seeking to discover what drove Karn to such madness

Finally when the drone stopped trying to struggle and fell still did karn loosen his grip

The body fell still on the floor only for karn to kick the body over the cliff face

Skorge dismissed the drones with a firm command

The drones quickly left not wishing to be the next one

Skorge gazed at them until they left snapping his sight to karn when he heard a weapon snap twice behind him

The two drones on the floor were now dead as well

"The hell is the matter with you Karn, those men were loyal and trained"

"They were addicts and a threat"

"What the hell are you talking about"

"In the battle their aim tipped and turned further and further from the enemy towards the lines of my men"

"What, why the hell would they do that"

"They were turning"

"Lambent! How the hell, Explain"

"I've seen it Skorge, i've seen my men betray me, the stupid who indulge in the fumes"

"The fumes...karn the fumes are sacred they grant us sight"

"The fumes are the offspring of the parasite, know this when they consume you I can only hope to be the one who puts you to rest my friend"

Skorge was left silent to hear that Karn believed so strongly to hear him say he would put him down if he ever slipped into lambency

Skorge should have been angry but he wasn't he understood that Karn wasn't judging him, Karn was stating that he would free Skorge from the parasite if the time ever came

Karn walked away back to the base preparing for the next assault

Skorge was left there standing on the cliff staring down at the flowing river of Emulsion and the fumes that oozed slowly from the parasite

(Flashback end)

Skorge tried to honor Karns beliefs and avoided using the mists around Karn not wanting to have his friend look at him while he still suffered from the poisons madness

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(Raam)

I raised the screaming woman , my hand alone more than enough to raise her flailing body in the air

And in an instant my right arm swings forth and impales her on my blade

She had killed a dozen of my original blight

She was one of the few who did not despair and flee she hid amongst the shadows and slayed my men in their rest

By the time i was after her she had already disappeared again

But now i plucked her from the darkness and taught her why i was the Uzil of the Horde

"Uzil the city has fallen, and the seeders have begun drowning the sky in darkness"

"Hehehe humanities weakness was their downfall"

I had observed humanity for many years, they were selfish and wretched, they betrayed and killed one another even as the locusts rose from the earth and began to attack them they fled abandoning each other to die and trampling one another

"What about the captives"

"The young ones were captured as commanded by the Queen"

I had known humanity to be a wretched species but the feeling that the word was inadequate seeped into me as I watched the humans abandon their young in the chaos

I knew my people and the locusts would have faced any danger to insure that the young survived

The next generation must always survive for the horde to exists, the sacrifice made by the previous generation to pay for a future for the next generation defined the locusts creed

'I die today for my children's tomorrow'

None of the locust knew who their biological parents were, as part of their oath to the horde all were your brothers and so all the children were your family

For many locusts that's all they carried in their hearts when they marched into suicidal battles with the parasite, believing that with their sacrifice the horde would have another tomorrow

'but that's not enough for me, i fight to give our sons all the tomorrows to come to let the young be bathed in the light of the suns and stars'

"Raggghhh"

I snapped out of my thoughts when i heard that roar, some idiot must have thought it wise to bring a mother into the battlefield

"Raggghhh"

I run past the bodies of the dead humans and as i go i shout out orders to the drones to continue the sweep of the city

I run into an alleyway and see her

"RWahhh"

I didn't know who the idiot was that brought a mother into the battlefield but if he wasn't dead yet he soon would be

She heard me before i saw her, all the warning i had was the fist flying right at me

I drop my weight and slide under her fist sliding my arm behind her and grabbing onto the chain dangling from her throat

I stand and yank on the chains as strongly as i can turning her away from the direction i came in

My only hope was to lead her away from the soldiers and instead towards the parts of the city we had already swept clean

Above all else i don't want to kill her, Raam had fought for years to protect the mothers and the young from the lambent he wasn't about to stain his hands with her blood when he was fighting to give them a future

She lunged towards me attempting to grab a hold of me by feeling the pull on the chains but i jump back just out of her reach

I had spent years avoiding exploding wretches while fighting them with a blade, i had just enough experience acting at the last second to have a chance of succeeding

"Whoa"

She surprised me throwing out a kick instead of trying to lunge at me

Her leg slammed into me but i saved myself by jumping at the last second and stepping on her launched leg

Letting the force of her kick carry me gave me some space but slamming into a store front wasnt part of the plan

Crash

"Raghhh"

I see her charging at me, so i wait till the last moment to leap away letting her slam past me in through the store front and through the back of the store into the next building

Whoosh-Splash

"grrr..mm"

Hearing a strange noise i follow through the holes she left in the wall only to find the mother standing in the middle of what looked like a small lake of water

It looked artificial to me, it was spread across a large space and was only a 7 maybe 8 feet deep

I looked at the mother only to see her calmer than i had ever seen a mother before, she just stood there in the water moving her arms slowly making splashes and crooning

I was so bewildered i almost forgot she had just tried to kill me a few moments ago

'Hmm i wonder if this will be useful in the future'

I decide to leave her there since she appeared content to me, i find the nearest outpost and order a few drones here to guard her until i could plan how to return her to the hollow

'what a day, a victory for the horde, the first of many, and i saw a mother at peace, what an eventful day'

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(Queen Myrrah)

"My queen...the battles have commenced"

I looked down at him, my throne placed so high that even giants gazed above to me

The voice strong and stern yet smooth when heard to my ear

Gore, my most loyal.

'How large you've grown my child'

I saw all of the horde as my children

They began as a lost people

Fearful of the darkness that drowns the light of day

Lost without a voice to guide them

They called out to their mother

Only to be met by silence

But I did not deny them

I cared for them and raised them

With my guiding hand they raised themselves from the filth that Man had condemned them to wallow in

The men who poked and prodded at them i ordered brought low

Their bodies fell apart under the force of the young

What little could be salvaged was taken as i led them into the little light that could be found within that abysmal crevice, that archway into the only world my children would ever know

Or so i had though

My children grew and faced many dangers from the terrors that filled the deep chasms of the earth

But Serra was a world that embraced those that loved her

The children grew smart and wise taming beasts and caring for those that offered them sustenance

In time I grew with them, from their mother i grew to become their queen

They could not envision a world without me to lead them and i was not yet ready to leave my children to stand alone

I had seen the war that my own kind had faced

The fields of death, waters once blue now red with blood

Humanity would had lost its way as families killed one another not for difference of beliefs or to survive but instead a war for luxury began

They cared little for all those that died in their wars

I taught my children to love one another, they were misguided and did not understand in the beginning but in time they did

When the cancer spread and rotted the hearts of my young who wished to see more than the rest

They returned from their travels of the tunnels afar

But when they returned they glowed with a fire in their blood

My children ones returned with tales of sights and treasures of lands yet unknown

But now they returned in silence, no smiles nor kind tidings

They advanced to me

My elder children stood in their path but i urged them to stand aside

I wished to see them welcome

Then so suddenly a blow struck my face

My sight blurred and jarred

I could hear a great struggle take place

Then blasts so strong that they shook me to my very bones

A sudden splash spread when my eyes saw what was there grief took hold of me

My older children who once stood to block these aberrations were gone all that remained of them was blood and gore

All but one

A boy so young was there

His father had brought him here to meet me his grandmother as i was called by the very young

"..g..o..r."

His father had yet to gift him his name

"Gore my child, what you see here is the gore of war"

He turned to me

His eyes told me what his face masked

He was breaking

I reached out to him and clutched him to my chest

I held him through his grief, i dared not cry with him

If a single tear broke through me i would fall apart

The first of my children had just died for me

The first of their kind to follow me

They who advised the rest to believe in me

To believe in the promises i made them

Of a life outside a cage

A life without Mankind there to break them apart

My eyes drank in the sight of their mangled remains

I endured the pain i felt, they died for me, they believed in me

So i would not break, i would be strong and lead

In my focused state i witnessed something new

I saw something i would have easily missed if i wasn't engraving the sight into my very being

Slivers of putrid yellow glow seeped from the wounds of my children

Pooling and grouping

But never growing round

I watched it slowly stretch away

Away from me to in the direction of the glow i warned my children not to touch

There i saw the first glimpse of the terror that would haunt my children

But i was their mother

I would lead them from the terror of the night until they basked in the light of day

"Good... it is time for Man to end, they had their time to bask beneath the glow of day and all they did was spoil the earth and kill and rot"

"Whatever you desire we will give to you…"

Then almost in a whisper

"grandmother"

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Faithless here, so what did you think

Is it worth developing or should i just go back to my other stories

Be sure to comment and message me if you want to become involved in my madness

Because my stories are only delayed by my craziness

Anyhoos toottles my friends

I'm going to go take a nap now

And oh yeah i'm going to try to update another of my stories real soon so look forward to that wont you friends