Gears of War Role Play

A shrill wind whistled through the cracks of the mostly dilapidated building, as Jacob watched the horizon. It was sunrise, and still no sign of the locust, but he knew that the second he let his guard down it could spell out the end for him. The red-orange sun slowly started to rise in the sky to reveal a now gray field. Emergence holes layed spread out across the field like a battle field. No locust had ever come out, they were just making sure that they had a quick way up, when they did decide to. Any attempts to seal them had taken the lives of many soldiers.Rubbing his eyes, he pressed the comm on his ear. "This is Lieutenant Book. No notable movement detected. Post eight, out." He stretched and looked at the other members of his squad.

devin stepped over a sleeping squadmate, approaching jacob quietly. "allright buddy, you need to get some rest, it's my turn anyway." he crouched down next to jacob with a small candy bar in his hand. he had his helmet off and was chewing delightedly on the rare find. their squad had come upon a hole crateful when they had decided to use this building. he sat down in the camper stool set in front of the window, putting his hands over the mounted sniper rifle. "how long has it been since they stopped comin' up?"

Jacob thumped back against the wall and scratched his head. "Two, maybe three days now. None of them ever fire a shot, and they never seem to do anything but look around." He thought that they might be relaying their position back to the other locust, but quickly shook the thought off. "No way in hell they are that smart.."

Myers' eyes shot open as the sun rose. He seemed to do that every night, worried the Locust were coming. He had his revolver in hand as always, keeping the safety on due to his twitchy nature. He saw Forrester talking with the Lieutenant. It gave him some bit of comfort knowing he had them watching out for him. Myers got to his feet, bending down only to pick up his Lancer. He slowly made his way over to the two, stumbling a bit as he went. He would've saluted his superior officer but it seemed anymore that people had thrown the rule book right out the window. He didn't say anything, instead just stood and listened in on the current conversation.

Jacob looked over as Myers approuched himself and Forrester. His eyes slowly started to close and he leaned back against the stone wall. It had been a few days since he had slept, and it would be bad if he was caught while exhausted. His eyes darted open as he heard a deafening roar filled the air. By the time his eyes were open, the locust were already firing into the building from all sides. Watching in horror, he attempted to rise but couldn't seem too. He tried to fire at the locust but was only able to watch on in horror as the rest of his squad was brutally killed off as they fought off the locust. Just as Forrester and Myers dropped to the ground, he attempted to move, but a long jagged blade came from the wall he was leaning against and straight through him. Jacob jerked forwards breathing heavily to see that everyone was just fine, and that his mind was messing with him. "This is... hell."

"dude, you allright?" devin was standing next to him, his hand on his shoulder.

"It's that same dream I keep having. The dream feels just like being in those tunnels all those years back.. we lost a lot of good men." Jacob cocked his Longshot and laid it next to him. "It's going to be a long fours days til the next shift gets here."

something caught devins eye and he put his eye back to the scope. "wait a minute, we've got movement, a scout, running across the field." he slowly turned the rifle to follow the locust's path. it stopped at a brick walkl seperating a small park from the battlefield. in the park was a cog camp containing lots of weapons and soldiers. the locust pressed something on its belt than hugged against the wall. "c'mon, jhon doe, whatchga doin this time?" suddenly, a squad of locust warriors clambered out of an emergence hole. then another, then another. soon all of the holes were pouring out locust. eventually 200 locust stood deathly quit on one side of the wall while a bomb technician placed a charge on the brick. "$#!+, they're gonna raid the camp!" the rifle made a loud bang sound as the bomb tech went down, his head exploding in a shower of gore. the other locust looked on in shock, confused at what had happened.

Klutch sitting in a broken down building waiting to see what the orders were. He heard the other soldiers talking about somthing. He just stood alone watching the sky. He looked at his Torque Bow and took a deep breath * i remember the guy who died with this. He was missing his chest armor. In fact he barley had a chest left. Like he was torn to pieces. Probably from those damn kyrle* He walked over to Jacob. " Lieutenant Jacob. Whats the plan for today ?" He said standing at attention.

Jacob motioned for Klutch to look at the field, as he unclipped a grenade from his belt. Spinning it as fast as he could he stepped to the back of the building and ran forward as fast as he could. With all of his might, he flung the grenade towards the locust, landing just in the outer edge of them. Chunks were sent flying from some of the locust and some were just flung to the ground. It was just enough to alert of few at the camp.

Klutch smiled " o my favorite !" He got behind a wall and tuned around and aimed for a little while. With his torque bow set he shot it hit a locust in the leg blowing its leg off killing it. " guess its just one of those days !" He reved up his torque bow for another shot.

the sniper rifle banged off a few more shots. locust began to run back to their emergence holes. grenades and artillery went flying over the wall, detonating in the battlefield. eventually the locust were gone, retreating back down their holes. "hoo-hah!"

Jacob jumped onto the ledge of a hole in the wall, and started shouting. "That's right! Run away, like always the Cogs whoop your asses again! You can't handle this! Whoever's with me, gimme a Hoorah!" In his most pumped moment, he fired his lancer into the air irrationally.

Myers sat with his back still against the wall. The sudden excitement had made his twitch go a bit haywire. But he slowly got control of himself, or as much as was possible for him. He stood up giving a weak "Hoorah..." Myers peered down where the still fresh emergence hole was and began to wonder.
"O-Odd..." He said with a twitch. "...Why would the locust retreat? We should all be dead, all of us." Myers tapped his head with his revolver for a second and then looked back at Book. "They're not gonna s-stay down there...We need to move."

Jacob stepped down and looked at Myers. "Wish it was that easy, but we can't move from here unless we get word from Command, or that camp down there is overrun. " Reloading his Lancer, he looked out over the field and then in the spur of the moment leapt over the wall with his weapon raised. He crept silently through the tall grass for a moment. "The locust never just retreat... Found ya!" He opened fire on a locust that was crouched down in the grass, and revcieved fire from two other in the distance.

the sniper rifle swiveled, searching for them. an attached computer changed the scope from normal to thermal vision to aid in this. devin spotted jacob, then a faint signature symbolising the two locust. "hey jacob, need a little help?" the rifle slammed off another two shots and downed the remaining locust. "allright, area clear. jacob, see if you can't sprint to the wall and retrtieve that explosive charge. i'll cover you."

Jacob prepared himself for the long run, and taking in a deep breath, sprinted forward as fast as he could. He lept of over an open emergence hole, releasing a primed grenade from his grip. Still sprinting, he made his way to the wall and jerked the explosive charge off the wall, and turned around.

=A Locust came out from hidding appearing just as Jacob turned around. However before anyone could react the Locusts side just exploded and it fell to the ground in gorey bits. Freeman slowly walked up reloading his Gnasher Shotgun and looked up at the fellow C.O.G. Freeman eyed the Lieutenant insignia on his gear before speaking.=

...I always like them better in peices... I would bother to salute you Lieutenant and tell you where the heck I just came from but wouldnt you rather we run back to your hole so we dont get religious?.... Hole-y Sir.

=Freeman didnt even crack a smile. He just turned and ran to where Jacobs team was.=

"Don't salute. Plenty of Locust would love to kill an officer. Get over here and hunker down." Jacob raised his weapon and scanned the area.

((what are the little ones that attack you up close called? i forgots.))