I'm back! Had a week half-term holiday so I haven't been in school which is where I'm writing this so sorry about that but hey HALLOWEEN. Is over… ah well I'm actually going to write some action this time and please bear in mind I've not played gears 3 in a while and I don't have easy access to the game currently so dialogue, events and such will be different. Sorry but I'm not quite dedicated enough to learn the entirety of the game off by heart via wikis being as I can't play properly.
Anyway! Hope you like it.
After a few more fights and the Queen making an entrance Delta finally split up to go about getting to Anvil Gate in different ways. I'm going with Marcus, Dom, Baird and Cole to grab a "gas barge" as they so politely called them. There's an official name but correcting them on a word that's only in the locust tongue might be hard to explain. Must say I'm slightly amazed that Baird actually knew to grab the box that contains the data for Anvil Gate. Well technically the nearest locust camp…... Not relevant.
We make our way across the Deadlands following the barge and after about a half hour of walking Marcus catches sight of the new tunnels. I shift imperceptivity worried about the outcome of Delta going through the tunnels. In the last two trips underground they killed dozens of my people and then got hold of plans that allowed them to kill thousands more and destroy the entirety of my home. Okay, not worried extremely tense and ready to shoot the fuckers. And breathe… I may be ordered to kill these guys but doing it out in the open when they're all older, stronger and outnumber me 4 to 1 it'd just be plain suicide. I might kill one, two if I pull a trick shot and I need all, including those who took the other path, dead.
Dom manages to snipe the runners who sprinted for the bugles. However, we finally get spotted and caught going for the front gate. Shots ring out followed by the ground rumbling. 3 young corpsers all make an appearance but are quickly dispatched. I turn and find a gun in my face. Ducking, I tackle the drone sending us both to the ground. Grabbing my own gun (which I had holstered mere moments before) I aim and fire straight between his eyes. My throat swells with regret. So far I had managed to avoid dealing a death blow directly to my kin so this was really my first kill. I feel sick. Killing another of your kind is treason beneath the planet's surface. I walk away ignoring Delta's pitying looks.
Pity. I don't want a human's pity. It takes a lot of self-control to stop myself from going berserk.
We enter the tunnels properly, Marcus and Dom lifting doors with ease and letting them fall, trapping us within the structure. Baird looks annoyed and he complains. Constantly.
"I mean, come on couldn't we have gone above the locusts' new house? Rather than crawling through tunnels again. We flooded the locusts' old one before it's not like we can do it ag- "
"Just shut up! You moaning like a child is only going to increase your chances of being shot. Mostly by me!" I growl it out, cutting him off. Nexus was not just an "old house" it was home.
I hear him mutter "jeez" beneath his breath while Cole just chuckles. Only Marcus notices the tension in my voice but any he may find on my face is hidden as more of my kin appear to protect what I should be helping to protect.
We get herded into a room with a ladder. I gulp, realising what's down there but the others just groan as if they're BORED and go down. I follow. After much hesitation. Corpsers don't really like me at the best of times. Going into a mother's nest is going to put me on every corpsers wanted list in existence.
If I've been taken off since I accidentally stumbled into one as a child and broke one of the baby's legs when I thought, it was going to eat me.
I sigh, relieved, when I realise they haven't hatched yet. We might be able to just get out without- Ah crap.
Baird makes another comment before they start killing the hatchlings. I shrink into the background. How can they just kill them? They've just entered the world.
More and more fall to Delta's bullets and the screeching finally awakens the mother beast. Unarmoured young enter the battle along with their massive rampaging mother. I dodge with a wince as a sharp leg stabs out of the ground. The mother sees and charges towards me, making me fall with the ground's vibrations and leaving me on the ground in front of her child. I close my eyes and pull the trigger, ignoring the screams of the mother indicating at least one of her eyes had been blinded. The young one screams as he dies. I scramble to my feet turning away from my crime before I open my eyes. This is so wrong. I look to Delta. They've knocked two eyes out apparently and as I watch Cole removes a 3rd. Dom throws me a worried glance but other than that I'm just another component of the battle to them.
It takes a lot to lower my gun that time.
We finally board the gas barge. I feel numb with anger, the amount of my own people I've had to kill almost throws me into a blood-rage. Berserkers live in blood-rages, constantly looking to murder and maim anything. That's how pissed I am. The others notice and leave me be, letting me remain on the barge when we pick up an old ally of Delta – Dizzy. Stupid name.
"Who's the little darlin' over there?" His voice grates on my nerves and I ignore him.
Baird answers. "Reckons her name is Sera, I ain't sure but silence is bliss in her case. She hates us you see." Cole looks at him with an eyebrow raised and then looks at my slumped form, sulking in the background.
Baird P.O.V
Cole looks at 'Sera'. I do too. Being honest she is pretty but she is one hell of a bitch. The few times she has spoken it's been an angry retort. And I've had enough.
"What's your problem?" She looks up angrily shocked at being talked to.
"What's yours?" I bite back the annoyed the groan.
"The fact we pick up your little arse, after almost dying ourselves might I add! to be followed by some little bitch who has told us nothing about who she is, where's she from or even a last fucking name! How's that for a problem?" By this point she's stood up and we're face-to-face glaring in a way that even Marcus would cringe under. "So little lady, what's. Your. Problem?"
"MY problem is that I'm having to follow people who murder creatures who've just hatched. What kind of heartless bastards do that? I don't have a last name, I don't know where I'm originally from and I am me!" Suddenly there's pistol in my face and as I look at her face its twisted with anger.
Shit.
Marcus' hands suddenly snap out; One forces her arm up and the second grabs the gun tearing it from her grasp and throwing it overboard. She tries to elbow his face but he dodges grabbing her arm and forcing it behind her back. Slowly Marcus manages to force her to the floor and uses some bandages, curtesy of Dizzy, to bind her hands. Sera continues to struggle before realising and then she just looks… defeated. I resist the temptation to, literally, kick her while she's down. It wouldn't do to kick a lady.
Its Cole who breaks the silence. "What... the fuck was that?" She just sits there, her eyes closed. Eventually she replies "I just don't get what's going on anymore." Its sharp and again leaves more questions than answers. A common occurrence around this kid that's starting to really piss me off.
"Well what was going on before?" Dom manages to gently answer before I get in. Damn.
"Not this. You guys were the evil ones and I keep seeing stuff that is kind of evil but then you act like a family and that… doesn't add up." Her brow furrows. "The people who raised me… they said the war was your fault, without you guys the locust would never have attacked." With a look we all confirm with the other she's telling a well thought-out truth that hid something without actually lying to us.
"We didn't even know the locust existed before E-Day. We may have done bad things to try and end the war but why would we start a war against a much larger species who were much more battle-ready and battle-thirsty than us. The pendulum wars hadn't been over all that long, we as a species hadn't really recovered from that. We lost so much… I don't know who told you that but we did not start this war." Dom leaves her to her thoughts.
Sera P.O.V
I'm shaking. No no no no no no no! This isn't right. I'm vaguely aware of the others leaving me to my thoughts but- ARGH. IU resist yelling out loud. They can't be right, BUT IT MAKES SENSE. Why would they start and obviously hopeless war? And we tried to sink their cities so why wouldn't they retaliate similarly. They gave us their last home in an attempt to survive. I try to punch the ground and then remember my bindings. That was stupid. I didn't have a gun now and being trusted to weild one again would take time I don't have… But then again do I really want to kill these people? They made sense. But why would Myrrah lie?
I almost think I've gone insane when her voice rings out through the air.
I don't register her words just her face. Her cold eyes.
My eyes ask the question Are they telling the truth? Her face gives nothing but that's all I need.
Why didn't you tell me? Tears prick my eyes as I let my face echo my thoughts.
It's me or them. She lied and she knew it. Now she asks me to choose. I never mattered to her. With an empty feeling I shake my head as I hide it between my knees.
She used me.
I was her stupid little pet human.
And it took almost betraying my entire kind to realise this.
Fire encompasses the barge and we go down. I find it hard to care. We hit the ground with a crash that somewhat resembles an earthquake.
My eyes are already closed when I hit the ground.
That went further than expected but I'm happy with it. Reviews are always loved! Next chapter will be out as soon as I can but I am doing A-Levels which is basically a harder version of college so don't be too expectant on it being too soon. Sorry but can't be helped.
So what'd you think? Sera's entire world has just been turned upside down, how do you think she's going to react once the shock wears off. Should she tell Delta the truth? Feel free to suggest anything! I'll try and include any suggestions I can if I can.