Destiny

Act 1-chapter 2: Wake Up Call.

Mayu Asana was sitting at her work desk on level three of the facility, in her office and was reviewing some papers from the studies of the other subjects stable…stable…ceased…stable…her thoughts kept moving and calculating, memorizing things as she read them, looking for answers, it was all very tiring.

"Miss Asana, its Damien, may I enter?." Asana looked up from her work and sighed, standing from her desk she made her way over to the door and unlocked it, she had to remember to put a 'busy' sign on her door when she was reviewing things "Thank you." the man said as he walked in, holding some more papers under his arm, he was wearing a standard security uniform, which was a gray jacket with armor plating on the fore arms, chest and shoulders.

Black pants with armor plates on the calf, thighs and several other placer, but it did not restrict movement in the slightest, the man's face was young looking, dark brown hair and blue eyes "more reports Damien?." Asana asked as Damien set the papers on her desk, receiving a apologetic nod she sighed "of course…" she muttered.

"Sorry miss Asana, I know you're very busy and if I could, I would help, but I'm really only good as a delivery boy." Damien replied, a nervous grin on his face and he was sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck "again, really sorry." he stated and walked for the door.

"Wait!." he stopped and turned see Asana with several papers and folders "if you aren't in a rush I would like to drop these off to Malikai, he's in officer room 4 on level 2, if you could that would be helpful." she stated, a small smile on her face, Damien nodded and took the papers hastily.

"At once miss Asana." and he was off with quick steps, not running, but…power walking, when he left Asana let out a small laugh, Damien was always trying to be helpful when he could, he could have been in the frontlines, but it was decided he should be put to security teams in various facilities instead.

With Malikai.

He was lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling, his eyes looked distant Little brother…COG-H division, there has to be something I can remember, anything…hell I'd give a limb to remember what my favorite food is! he sighed as his thought pushed him further into a small depressed state, then in a small beeping from his door panel made him snap his attention to the door "Excuse me, is this Malikai's room?." a voice called, uncertain.

"Hold on, I'm coming." Malikai stood and walked over to the door, pressing a button the door unlocked and opened, revealing Damien, a few papers in hand "Yeah?." he asked calmly, but annoyed at the same time, he was, in his own ways, busy after all.

Damien saluted "Corporal Damien, sir!." he stated seeing the rank medal on the side of the room, Sergeant, a superior "Miss Asana sent me to deliver these to you sir." he held out the papers, glancing at them Malikai could see they were weapon layouts and information, taking them and nodding to Damien who quickly saluted again and walked off down into the halls.

Turning back to his table he set the papers down "Gnasher Shotgun…" he murmured opening the folder and seeing the first weapon, a few pictures of it at various angles "lever actions…compact and supposedly easy to reload quickly…" he began to mumble to himself, flipping a page he instantly felt an attraction to the next weapon, fifty shots, low recoil and… "A chainsaw bayonet?…heh." Malikai found himself liking the idea in the a field of war, someone got too close to him and vroom! Dead and resting in pieces.

"Sergeant, uh…Sergeant sir." Malikai sighed and turned to the door that slid open, Damien standing there, a slightly nervous look on his face "I…kinda left something in the folder, its important…can I have it back?." he asked, trying to not sound as he had just dropped a bomb "please?…" he added.

Malikai turned back to the folder and emptied it onto the table, there he saw a small piece of paper with writing on it, picking it up held it over his shoulder "here." he called calmly, his eyes going over the Lancer data.

"Thank you Sergeant, oh, are you reviewing weapon data?." Damian asked suddenly, seeing the papers and getting a glint entering his ocean blue eyes, Malikai raised a brow and stared in slight surprise, seeing it Damien quickly stood back, his face flushing from embarrassment "Sorry Sergeant, sir, I just enjoy reviewing weapon data, in fact, it's a hobby of mine!…" yelling the last part he quick added "sorry sir, I tend to get excited easy sir…" Malikai would have laughed if he were too stunned by how this kid might trip over his words.

"Damien, was it?." Damien nodded "well, if you like reviewing data, I suppose I could use some help with this particular piece." he held up the lancer pictures "I could use a…refresher course…seeing as I've been out of duty for awhile now." he explained, then after some silence Damien spoke up.

"It would be an honor sir!." he saluted and got a chair for himself "so, what exactly do you wanna know about Lancer Assault Rifle?." he asked picking some other papers up "hmm…holy!" he shouted as if realizing something very important "look here Sergeant, I just noticed this." he pointed to a place on the Lancer schematic that showed the motor for the chainsaw bayonet, some other small pieces.

Malikai raised a brow in question "yeah, so?." he asked, seeing nothing out of place.

Damien went on "This piece is a death trap in disguise! Look at it, one nearby grenade explosion or a rough fall and it falls off, which will either jam the motor for the bayonet OR cause frequent jamming in the Bullet retriever! Oh god how could I not notice this before!? Hold on Sergeant, I'll be right back!" and with that Damien left the room in a sprint, leaving Malikai alone for now.

Staring after him for a few seconds he began chuckling "hehahe…ah, odd kid, very odd…" but good company nonetheless he finished his thoughts and began looking over some more papers "Longshot Rifle…hmm." Malikai began to think of how such a weapon could turn the tide of a fire fight, a good angle, safe distance and steady hand is all that was a needed and the locust would be pinned for awhile trying to find the sniper.

"I'm back sergeant!" Damien rushed in and, to the awe of Malikai, placed a Lancer Assault rifle on a clear space on the table, the barrel peaking over the edge but at no risk of falling off, Damian began to laugh softly "the security officer was a little freaked that I rush into the arms room and took my lancer, I just told him I needed to see something." he explained absently removing a piece above the receiver "this is what I'm talking about." Damien pointed to the piece, and he was right, it looked as if a small fall could dislodge it.

"hmm…you were right, this is a death trap…" Malikai nodded at the piece "What are you gonna do about it?…remove it?." he asked, glancing at Damien and then back to the Lancer, Damien nodded and reached for the piece, carefully pinching it between his mid and index fingers he slowly pulled and bam, with a small snap the piece gave way and he threw it on the floor with a careless shrug.

"future crises averted, now, back to the papers I suppose." Damien placed the Lancer on the floor beside him and grabbed another paper, his eyes began skimming through them, "You know sarge, the Lancer assault rifle it really something, dependable and very accurate to a point, the rounds pack some punch and when you point blank a locust, they're don't even have time to growl." Damien explained, his voice distant.

"At least…that's what my bother, Clay, always told me, he's on the front lines right now, just like my other brothers were…" He mumbled now, then with a sigh he straitened up and began looking through more papers.

Were? Malikai raised a brow "your brothers died?." he almost flinched as he asked the question, especially in such a blunt manner "Sorry, I didn't mean to sounds so…cold." he added quickly, quietly.

Damien waved a hand dismissively "No problem sarge, they died heroes anyways, and they got to fight alongside Marcus Fenix!" he exclaimed proudly, grinning at the sergeant, who was now looking confused "You don't know Marcus Fenix?! The hero of pendulum wars? He was at Aspho Field! Come on, every gear has heard of him." Damian stated, catching the confusion in Malikai's face.

I bet most gears haven't lost their memories and are completely lost in current and past events…Malikai thought, then sighed "Sorry, never heard of the guy, sounds like quite the man though, guess congratulations are in order." Damian grinned "but not from me, I gotta get some sleep" Malikai stood "and you better get back to guard duty." he added, Damien nodded and saluted.

"Sir!" and Damien left.

Malikai sighed and walked over to his bed, sitting down and rubbing his eyes lightly well, that made me tired, may as well get some shut eye and he lied down and closed his eyes, drifting off to sleep.

Meanwhile in the mountains surrounding Jacinto crater, COG Military south HQ.

Chairman Prescott sat in his makeshift office, a computer, desk and other simple items placed around the room, he was sitting in the dark, except for the light provided by his screen as his eyes scrolled through multiple reports and documents Hunter Division, security Above Top Secret, current accessers: Chairman Prescott, Mayu Asana. he frowned slightly, it was this project that would change the war, end it, hopefully for good.

Beep

The chairman jumped slightly and turned his gaze to the door "Who is it?!" he called slightly annoyed, sitting straight, the door slid open and in walked several gears, and Hoffman "Hoffman, James and Jake." Prescott greeted curtly, his hands folded, Hoffman saluted, as did the other two.

"Chairman, Alpha company has taken back Ilima." He stated, his voice calm, but the chairman knew there was bad news "but the losses were…substantial…so if the locust counter attack, they'll be done in quicker then when Jacinto sank." he sighed and added "We need more soldiers on the lines, and damn good ones at that."

The chairman sighed, he had seen this coming, though he hoped it would not be this soon "I understand…but we've had miss Asana's reasurences that the project is moving as fast as it can…any faster and there will be mistakes…" he then sat straight and glared at Hoffman "Mistakes that we cannot afford, I will tell miss Asana we need more results, but I will not demand that she hasten an already fast moving, and important, research project up more." he than lifted some papers and held them for Hoffman to see "these are the latest reports from our scouts, locust are moving on Tollen, seems they don't like it that we have it again." standing and walking to the window he glanced out at mountainous region "Ensure they don't take it back, at all costs." and with that, the discussion ended.

When Hoffman left the office, chairman Prescott continued to stare out the window, his gaze drifting over the mountains, the small camp and the rising sun, with a sigh he turned to the desk again and pulled out a bottle of whiskey, he wasn't stupid enough to get drunk at the moment, just a glass and he set it down, taking out a small glass he poured himself a cup and set it away from sight, drinking it he began to think.

Imcomming call…incoming call…incom-

The chairman answered the call "what is it?." he asked calmly, wondering who it could be this early in the morning, suddenly as soon as the channel opened there was a loud gunshot on the line, followed by more and more "Hello?!" he called, now confused and worried

"Chairman!" a voice called, female, but it was a voice he knew.

Quickly checking the line on his computer, his eyes widened Secretary desk were his troubled thoughts, more gunshots, the chairman had heard enough of the Locust Hammerburst to know one when he hear it, and that was most certainly the sound of one, or multiple "Chairman! Locust have penetrated the building! They're locking the doors! I'm trying to hold them off! Security teams one and two are down! I repeat! Do-" A gunshot "AGH!!! Goddamnit! Agh!"

Vroom vroom! vroooooo

"AGH!!!" The agony filled cry of his secretary filled the channel and he quickly terminated the link, glancing at his computer and entering his security code, soon multiple windows showed various views of the halls and building, he nearly gasped as he saw his secretary in half, from the right shoulder to the left thigh, blood smeared the floor and multiple locust were running down the halls, all leading to his office "shit" they're after me he thought and ran to his door, locking it and then glaring around his office they're not getting me alive he thought darkly.

In the halls of the office building.

Feros, Theron Guard rank locust, ran in the middle of his infiltration group of Locust, there was 5 of them, six if he counted himself, he had been appointed by their holy queen to kill the ground walker leader, their kind as she had put it, and he would carry out this task with efficiency and quietly as he could, they had taken careful measures to keep their gun battles short and quick, leaving two grenadiers to guard the front entrance in case help should come for the humans king.

"Grubs bastards!" he instinctively leaped onto a nearby corner as shot rang out from other end of the hall, a drone to his right taking a stray shot in the shoulder and staggering into cover behind a metal table "Come get some!" the human soldier shouted firing more shots at them, he was trying to keep them pinned down for reinforcements to get there, Feros would not allow it, pointing to a grenadier and growling "Shoot him!" is his hiss of a voice.

The grenadier growled in acknowledgment and waited for the shooting to stop, as soon as it did, he shot from his cover behind a pillar on the other side of the hall and opened fire with his shotgun, the shots hitting the wooden table of the human's cover "Ground walker! Die!!" he roared in his gurgled voice.

Feros saw his chance and pulled out a two barrelled pistol, two magazine under the barrel, taking aim he waited, when the grenadier stopped firing, the human shot upward to fire again, it was then Feros squeezed he trigger of his weapon, five quick shots fired and hit the human in the torso, blood spurting from the wounds as he crumpled over in death wasted ammunition Feros thought as he signalled for them to move again.

As soon as they reached some doubled doors, "Open it!" Feros hissed, raising his torque bow to the ready, the grenadier from before walked over to the door and gave it a solid kick, the door shuddered but remained closed.

The grenadier turned to him "Unmoving" he reported, a tinge of annoyance in his voice, Feros nodded, and the grenadier placed a grenade on the door, this would alert all nearby humans to their presence, but that king needed to die "For the queen!" the grenadier shot the grenade an explosion rang out, the doors lay opened and dented out of shape, Feros nodded and the Grenadier and drone moved up in a pair, side by side they slowly moved to the room.

Stopped briefly to glance around the room, there was tables and other objects inside, no sign of the human though, Feros growled "search!" he hissed angrily, the grenadier and drone ran in and began looking around in the back of the room, Feros followed them in third, the last two followed suit.

In the middle of the room Feros glared around where is the filth? he thought annoyed.

Boom!

Chairman Prescott

He stood sharply, back against the wall, he knew the locust were at his door, hearing them hiss and talk, sweat ran down his forehead, taking small breaths he readied himself, hearing the click of a grenade and then a loud explosion next to him, the doors of his office flew open and nearly slammed into him, luckily they didn't fly off and spoil his cover, hearing rapid foot steps and seeing two shadows run to the back of the room he waited, soon a third walked in and stopped in the middle of the room.

Then, the last two figures, two drones, if he remembered the camera images, as soon as they entered he took in a breath and burst from his cover, his boltok pistol raised in his right arm and aimed for the head of the nearest drone to the door, the other drone beside him completely unaware of the danger that was aimed at him, before the drone could speak a shot rang out, the solid magnum round piercing though the drones helmet and skull, not stopping there it went through and hit the other drone in the head, the bullet penetrating the skull but not making it through.

The two drones fell over with a dull thud, running past the bodies chairman Prescott took off down the hall in a sprint, but not before turning sharply and aiming at the red armoured locust in the middle of his office, firing and narrowly missing the locust he hissed "Shit." and turned to run again, hearing running feet he glanced over his shoulder and saw the grenadier and drone running after him that's right…follow me you disgusting cretins he thought turning the corner, but as he did so, he pulled a frat from his belt and planted it firmly around the corner, out of sight till it was too late.

Running he didn't stop till.

BOOM!!

He felt the need to grin, but instead settled for a victorious smirk, Prescott wasn't always the chairman of the COG, he was gear in his career before, and he still kept his training sharp, for just such an occasion underestimating the enemy is one thing they did…and they paid for it he thought turning another corner, only to be met with a fist to the face, knocking him back and onto the floor he glared and saw the red armoured locust from before, the shine of its torque bow alerted him and he rolled, barely hearing the sound of the bolt hitting and embedding itself into the floor and then loud explosion he stopped his roll and fired.

The shot ripping the knee of the locust apart and causing it to fall to one knee, growling and hissing pain, Prescott quickly fired again and this time it hit its shoulder, the torque bow dropped and it clutched its bleeding left shoulder, left arm useless now, standing Prescott stood and glared "I should finish you for all lives you and your kind have taken…" but then a sadistic smirk played its way onto the chairman's face "but I had you locust liked to torture prisoners…" he trailed coldly.

Feros suddenly felt a bang of fear course through him as the words sank in, then he blacked out as Prescott slammed the handle of the pistol onto his head.

Malikai

He yawned and opened his eyes, immediately closing them again seeing as he forgot to close the lamp light beside his bed, with a groan he checked the time with one eye and sighed, it read 7:21AM, with a small sigh he sat up and swung his legs over the side and stood, stretching he walked over to the bathroom and quickly took a shower, walking out in a pair of fresh clothes he sat down and waited, miss Asana would be around this time to take him for some food, it felt embarrassing to have her guide him, he felt helpless at times.

A knock on the door made him snap his head up "Come in!" he called, the door opened and in walked Mayu Asana, she was wasn't her normal researcher uniform, this was a just a white T-shirt, a small green jacket and a dark blue skirt that reached to her knees "Morning Miss Asana." Malikai greeted calmly with a nod, she smiled and nodded back, then gestured him to follow, which he did.

Walking through the halls and getting greeted along the way the reached the mess hall "find a table, I'll go get some food." she ordered cheerily, he nodded and took a random empty seat, sitting down he waited, his hair still slightly wet, but not enough to bother him, slowly though his thoughts drifted…

He sighed and closed his eyes for a bit "little brother!"

Ilima city…

Top secret mission…

I'm sorry…I forgot…

Valerie!!! Damn it hang on! Val!?…Val…

His eyes shot open and he felt slightly light headed, but more then that he was shocked, those words, they belonged to him, his voice, was he remembering his past? At long last? They were jumbled bits and short words, but it was something, something he had to look into "here you go Malikai." a tray of good looking food was placed down in front of him, and there stood a smiling Asana, she sat down too and slowly began to eat "eat up, then we'll go to firing rang-" she was cut off.

"I remembered something…" he stated bluntly, as first she stared then she gasped slightly "just bits of conversations, jumbled…I don't remember completely…" he smiled, a rarity "Its start I believe…" he commented, she nodded and then smiled, but something felt off about it.

"That's good to know Malikai, I'm sure more will return to you eventually." she stated though that same smile, he felt…as if it was fake, but he didn't comment, instead he finished his food and continued to think on the words he remembered in the hopes of remembering more.

End of chapter 2

There you all go, this took less time then I expected as I had a burst of inspiration (Gears on insane does that!), if you'd be kind enough to review, fav or alert, it would be greatly appreciated, till next chapter, and thank you to the two people who reviewed and gave me some feedback.