Chapter 3: Back to the Streets
BOOM!! A grenade explodes over Marcus's head. Dom snipes the drone that threw the grenade with the Longshot sniper rifle. Brains, blood and gore spray over Marcus's head as the drone head explodes from the impact of the bullet. Marcus leaps over the low concrete wall and out into the decrepit streets of Jacinto. As he hits the ground, he rolls and brings his Boomshot to bear. Sighting down the scope, Marcus finds a sniper with his sights on Dom and pulls the trigger. Two seconds later the section of the roof where the sniper had previously stood exploded outwards, collapsing the roof of the four storie building, crushing every locust soldier inside. "HELL YEAH!!" Dom shouted as he jumped from the second storey window of the building to Marcus's left. "What now?" Marcus said.
Just then Cole Train burst through a wall fifty yards ahead of where Marcus and Dom were standing. "What the hell?" Marcus yelled. "I thought he was dead!?" Dom said. Cole stood and dusted his shoulders. Then he turned to face Marcus and yelled "Hey wat's happening baby!?". Just as he finished speaking, a bezerker burst through the wall Cole had come through, making it ten feet larger in diameter. It rippled its muscles and flexed its sand brown armored plates, growling menacingly as it closed on its prey. Grinning sadistically at Cole as it picked him up and threw him with one flick of its wrist, crushing him into the ground and making a crater in the ground. It raised its mammoth-like foot and was about to crush Cole to a pulp when Dom fired his Longshot at the bezerker's deformed, armor plated head. The bullet collided with the Bezerker's forehead, crumpled and fell to the ground.
The bezerker changed its focus from the knocked out Cole, and looked at Marcus and Dom. It screamed savagely and charged straight towards them, plowing through everything in its path, including wounded locust, crushing everything. Marcus and Dom rolled in opposite directions to avoid the charging monster but it grabbed their feet and brought them crashing to the ground. Leaving Dom on the cracked asphalt road and picked up Marcus's eyes level with its own. What Marcus saw froze the blood in his veins. The eyes weren't blind. Bezerkers were blind. Marcus remembered the Lancer strapped to his back and pulled it off. He brought the chainsaw up to the bezerker's abdomen and revved. The blades bounced off of its skin at first but then cut in. the bezerker shrieked in pain and dropped him. Marcus scrambled to his feet and saw its stomach begin to ooze blood. This made him stop as well. Bezerkers weren't supposed to be hurt by normal weapons and yet he had cut it with his. The bezerker saw Marcus standing and got up to charge its prey once more, a deep, burning hatetred in its eyes.
It screamed a bloodcurdling shriek and charged. Marcus jumped out of the way as it rushed past, landing next to Dom. He turned and looked at his partner. Dom was knocked out but breathing. His pulse was weak and fading. He took the med kit from Dom's hip and gave Dom a shot of adrenaline and turned back to the bezerker. What he found was the bezerker looking back at him. It almost seemed to be studying him. He slowly reached for his Boomshot and found the handle. "Die you SON OF A BITCH!!" Cole yelled as he rushed the bezerker with his flamethrower. He fired a steady stream at the bezerker but it didn't do anything. The bezerker walked straight through the fire and punched Cole. He flew twenty feet back and landed. He didn't get back up.
Marcus let out a fierce battlecry and charged the bezerker with his Boomshot. He rammed the butt of his rifle into the bezerker's side and the force of the blow turned it around. He shoved the barrel of his weapon in the hole he made with his lancer and said "GO TO HELL YOU DAMN LOCUST!!". He pulled the trigger and the bezerker exploded outwards, spraying dark red blood and dirt brown guts in all directions. He put away his weapon and ran over to Dom. When he was up they helped Cole. When the three were standing Marcus said "Good to see you Cole. Where's Baird?". "They took him." Cole said, shaking his head. He pointed to the building he had been thrown out of. "In there." Marcus turned to face them and said "Move out."