Chapter 13
3 hours later
Marcus fell to his knees, Nova Prospekt they had found Eli in a pod and Gordon and Alex
had called the pod to the teleportation room. But as he searched through the pods for any other people he knew, He found not only Sarah, but her mother and sister but not Davian.
"That traitor sold out the base!" Marcus bellowed punching fist against the combine terminal, breaking apart the entire wiring inside the terminal. His growled and walked out of the small control room, passing the three corpses of Overwatch Prison Guards.
He drew his 74 and smacked a new clip into it as the used one clattered to the ground with a loud thud. He stepped out into the hall scanning the area as the cargo elevator doors retracted upwards and revealed Davian armed to the teeth with Combine Overwatch tech.
Davian clasped a Ar2 in both hands and his body was protected by carapace Civil Protection armor. A small frag grenade was slid onto his belt and a 10mm Glock sat in a leather holster on his waist.
His furnished face was decimated with a new synthetic eye, almost like a new prototype created it read off data scrolls. His hair was shaved and a dirty, bushy beard had grown around his lipless mouth.
He smiled, opening his mouth to show a set of razor sharp teeth. He had a medium sized gadget on his wrist that glowed a bright blue. He was faster but, Marcus was faster. Marcus ducked as Davian let loose a salvo of Ar2 pulse cells into the vicinity of where Marcus was.
Marcus squeezed the trigger a few times blowing chunks of concrete out of the walls. He
Slung his 74 over his shoulder and drew a machete like weapon, found impaled in the corpse of a antlion.
He leapt over a corpse and shoved Davian's Ar2 out of his face as he reached the traitor. A hard punch sent him spiraling backwards. Marcus recovered and lunged forward kicking the Ar2 out of Davian's grip and with his other foot kicking him in the head.
Marcus thrusted the machete forward, catching Davian in the gut as it sliced precisely through the carapace armor. Davain drew his Glock and tried shooting Marcus but fired a round off into the ground as Marcus' hand slapped it downwards.
Marcus was thrown backwards, still on his feet a few feet away from Davian as a new arm sprouted from his lower abdomen and cascaded forward. The new arm slick with blue liquid lead Davian who was grinning forwards toward Marcus who tightly gripped his machete in both hands and stood in a attack position.
"You'll see me again, at least, I hope you see me again. You put up a good fight" Davian
Spat the arm retracting back into his body. "You better run along now Marcus, I've already sent for two entire companies of Overwatch to secure this quarter".
The disgusting smell of burning flesh wafted through the prison's hall, filling Marcus's nostrils with the smell. Davian's wounds were being healed and cauterized and he was talking into the small device on his wrist. The machine chirped and an alarm emergency message came from the old speakers.
"Attention! All Overwatch units in Companies 053, 056, 023 and 137 report to the console room" It was the voice of a Overwatch commander, one who was crushed beneath his own tank back at Lighthouse point.
"Like the Overwatches new resurrection tech? I was lucky enough to be captured and brought back to life" Davian spoke, a large 30 centimeter long and twenty centimeter thick blade slid out from a small hidden blade wrist holder.
Marcus was thrown backwards onto his head, an explosion engulfed Davian and the elevator. A bright blue flash followed and Davian was gone as it dispersed. Instead in his place well over forty Overwatch soldiers stood in straight columns with Mp5's.
Marcus dove into the control room. The Overwatch soldiers unleashed hell in the hallway, ripping it apart. The once blue tile walls were shredded and now replaced with concrete and bare steel paint.
Marcus holstered his weapons and grabbed the console door and slammed it shut, locking it with a loud thud. He was smart to get into the room as a cluster of soldiers drew frag grenades and chucked them towards where Marcus had stood mere minutes ago.
"Marcus? This is Alex, reporting through the computer in the Prison quadrant south of your location" The terminal lit up and Alex's face appeared, the audio not synced to the video. "What is going on over there, Gordon told me he could hear gun fire".
Marcus couldn't respond as a squad of seven Overwatch soldiers in purple armor with light purple under armor and under pads formed up on the door, armed with shotguns.
"Get this door open! Master Davian wants him dead!" The lead soldier said clicking his tongue to signal the rest of the Overwatch to get ready for a firefight. He waved a hand towards them and directed a trio of Ar2 Elites into an alcove in the wall.
The elevator dinged and the 7 soldiers backed up away from the door and elevator. The doors opened and a man dressed in a brown business like suit stepped out onto the prison floor. Two Combine Synth guarded him, walking beside him with their plasma weapons loaded and their metal bodies shimmering in the light.
" , what are you doing here sir?" The lead breach soldier asked raising his hand up to his forehead and giving Earth's Combine Director a sharp salute. The leader removed his helmet with a hiss, revealing what looked like a disfigured human.
The face of the leader was pale, and two black button like implants were planted on his skull. A cybernetic eye sat covering his left eye and his mouth was pierced with four metal vox implants.
The face was imperfect, but such was the way of the Overwatch. His nose was twisted at an odd angle and his eye glowed a deep yellow, unnatural.
"No need for that captain. Who is being detained in this room?" Breen asked adjusting a red tie that lay in between his black undershirt and his brown suit. A white beard covered his chin and black hair, slicked back covered his head.
"The infamous anti-citizen two, Marcus Lincoln" The leader responded, clearing his throat with a grunt. He gasped as Breen snapped his fingers and the two Synth's began chanting. "You summon the Elite Synth?".
Breen ignored the question and instead walked over to the door, pulled out a small key from his suit's inner pocket and unlocked the door. He quickly grabbed a soldier and shoved him into the door, using him as a human shield.
Marcus clenched his 74 and hid in the wardrobe closet. It was dark and the constant ringing from construction work above a level shook the closet. He left the doors open a tad, enough so he could both hear and see what was going on.
"Room clear" The human shield soldier reported, his shotgun searching the room for targets. "Safe to enter Dr.". Breen ushered the breaching squad into the room and then stepped in himself.
"He was in here?" Breen asked urgently, his face pale and his stomach knotting up. If the Combine's overseers found out he had summoned Elite Synth for nothing he would be publicly executed and Earth would be destroyed.
"Stop the summoning!" Breen yelled into the hall, his fist pounding on the open door twice. The two Synth's turned and twisted their wrist to the right, effectively stopping any chance of stopping the ceremony. "What are you doing!".
The breach leader tried to speak but was cut off as he noticed that a small dark speckle hand landed on his implants. He started to spasm, his cybernetic eye shattering into thousands of tiny glass pieces. His brain implants shimmered and then started to move up and down slowly.
His combat armor was split asunder, his body growing immensely. Blood drizzled down his nose and ears, his normal human eye socket was dilated. His head imploded in a shower of blood and bone matter. His arms were torn out of their sockets and off his body.
"What in god's name" Breen yelled running into the hallway, he had almost reached the elevator when it stuttered and fell downward, killing the squad inside.
"Wallace Breen. You are hereby eliminated from a seat of power, unless you accept that you must find this 'Anti-citizen 2" One of the Synth's spat it's plasma gun whirling as heat was expunged from the weapons reactor and core.
"Of course I accept!" Wallace pleaded.
It was only another fifteen minutes until the Combine left and went to search the lower, already destroyed prison levels. Marcus climbed out of the closet and walked over to the dead leader, who lay in a heap of blood and organs. Some kind of Emp wave emitter must've interfered with the cybernetics, turning the soldier into mush. Not what Marcus would call a Emp weapon, most likely it was placed in the chemical weapons.
He knelt down and inspected the soldier, patting a small red receiver that was attached to the two brain implants. He stood up, the implants in his bag now. Marcus grinned and snuck out into the hallway, his eyes being greeted with the stairs leading to where Alex and Gordon had gone to meet Eli.
It took him a few minutes to get down through the passageway and walk into the outpost that was populated with Alex and Gordon. When he stepped inside, both of the hero's spun in old school office chairs to face him. Gordon was cleaning his crowbar with a rag, slick with oil and wet with spit.
"Welcome! How come it took you so long?" This time to the shock of both Alex and Marcus Gordon asked the question. His voice was raspy and it sounded high-pitched compared to what a normal late 20 year olds would sound like.
"You talk?" Marcus inappropriately asked, rubbing his chin with his right hand. The response was a quick but hurtful slap to the face.
"We got to get to the Teleportation room" Alex said, clearly ignoring Gordon speaking.
/Authors Note, This chapter is very short on purpose. It was mainly focused on an introduction to what kinda Combine Tech should've been introduced into the game. In the lore it looks like the Combine can produce almost anything and everything, Human or not. It's also a chapter that shows the development of Davian and Breen. Breen is introduced in this chapter as a nervous, neatly dressed and smart individual. He is also known in the game for giving loud and long speeches about Gordon, but this version of Breen is more of a slave to the Combine than he was portrayed as in the game.