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Tmack674
11-16-2008, 08:58 PM
We Were One
Written by Tmack674

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Well I dont think anyone expected to see me write anything after my last fanfic, Split by War, which was over 2 years ago. I always thought that once Gears of War 2 came out, that I would write another fan fiction. I just did'nt know what it would be about. Well, since my first fan fiction was a hit, I had the idea to do a continued story of the ever so popular Carmines. Since Ben Carmine had mentioned that there were 4 Carmines, I decided to write about the one unnamed brother, which is probably the middle brother since Ben and Anthony were the youngest, and the oldest is Clay (found out by a letter from Ben in Gears 2). Remember that this is a sequel to my first fan fiction, Split by War (has over 14,000 views), in which Anthony (Was John, but that was before they gave him a first name, now I changed his name for the story to his true name) got split up from delta and ended up giving his life to properly set off the lightmass bomb and help delta escape. If you have not read it, I suggest reading it, the link is below this Info. Reading it will help when characters give reference to my "Anthony" not the headless Anthony. So I hope you like this Fan Fiction. I will update as new chapters are released.

Split by War: http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=564349


Chapter 1
Bad News, Long Walk


"Your brothers dead, David." Carmine looked up at his commanding officer with confusion and disgust. "W...Which one sir?" "Benjamin. He died escaping a locust ambush with delta squad when they were swallowed by a worm. Delta got out but..Ben did'nt make it. Im sorry David." Carmine was devistated. Although the youngest, Benjamin had been his closest brother. They had done everything together when they were teens.

Now that Anthony and Benjamin were dead, it was only him and Clay left, and David did'nt even know where he was or if he was alright. "Well..Thanks for letting me know sir." Sergeant Upton nodded his head. David was distraught, but he knew he was about to recieve an important mission, which would give the COG special data about the locust. Carmine was part of a special forces squad called RAIDER SQUAD, mostly for its daring missions into Locust controlled territory to experiment on behavior, and to gather intelligence to aid the Gears in their fight.

Upton looked as if he had a sense of loneliness in his face. He had been away from home for over ten years. With a pure hatred of locust, Upton was a true Gear, and one of the most decorated and dedicated COG soldiers. RAIDER was getting closer to Jacinto, the last human stronghold. As the squad walked on the steep, desolate highway, they started to talk about their lives before the inevitable Emergence Day.

"Man I'll tell you. If it was'nt for these scaly ass bastards, I could be at home, enjoying a nice beer and watchin thrashball on my couch." Jack said. Carmine was not in the conversation. He just looked at the cracked and battered ground as the others enjoyed reminiscing on the past. Peter Nix had overheard Upton break the news to David. He turned towards him to try and make him feel at least a little better.

Jack panned his head over to the side of Peter's face. "What the hell is wrong with Dave?" Jack whispered. "Leave him alone. One of his brothers just died" Peter quietly responded. Jacinto was about four miles ahead. "Hey...Dave." Carmine turned his head slowly toward Nix. "Im sorry about your brother man." "I know this is war, but it's starting to feel like all of us Carmine's are dying." David said.

"Oh, dont say that, Dave. Anthony heroically gave his life for our race to survive and Ben did what he could." Nix said with confidence. Carmine just turned and looked towards the road. Peter inched over and put his hand on David's shoulder. "Im here for you, man." Carmine nodded and kept walking. He felt like it was taking forever to reach Jacinto.

Since it was on a plateau, there were only three paths to get to it, all of which were long, mountain roadways. "God Damn it!" Jack sighed. "Why could'nt they have given us a Derrik to get up like the rest of the gears?" Upton looked over with an annoyed expression. "Because were Special Forces Jack. We're supposed to stay silent and thats hard with big ****in assault vehicles." Nix chuckled. "Well they could have at least given us a Junker, or maybe even a ****in moped or something." Jack responded.

Carmine could not stop thinking about his brothers. "Where the hell could Clay be?" he thought. "If im lucky, he got the news about Ben and he'll come and try to find me." With Clay being the oldest of the four, he always seemed to be the most responsible and the one to look to when things got tough. David was the middle child with Anthony and Ben being the youngest.

Finally RAIDER SQUAD approached the entrance to the city. Two Gears were leaned back in their chairs at a small guard post by the gate. "Great guards they got here! The last remaining human city and we got two jackasses guarding the ****in gate!" Upton blurted out. The two Gears, both wearing standard issue COG armor noticed that Sergeant Upton had seen them slacking off and had quickly went back to work.

The squad stopped by the gate and looked over to Upton as he stomped over to the guard post. "Is there anyone else guarding this gate?" the sergeant said with anger. The two Gears looked up to him with fright. "N..No sir. Just us. But we have an alarm." Upton gave a small smirk. "Son, by the time you see the locust, you'll be dead. I would get more guards."

Upton had the liberty to open the gate himself. He pressed the switch and walked away from the post. As the squad walked in, Carmine had a keen thought in his mind. Seeing as how there was probably 2/4 of the whole COG army located in Jacinto, Clay might have been somewhere in the area. He looked around at the large towers and soon came to the realization that unless he saw his brother on his way, he cannot just go out of the way and look for him. He was going to be on a mission, and that was the most important thing, to the COG at least.

USRangerJohn
11-16-2008, 09:42 PM
Yay! Tmack is writing again!

Tmack674
11-16-2008, 11:06 PM
yup yup! im glad to be back!

Tmack674
11-19-2008, 08:24 PM
chapter 2 will be out in a few days

LocustTheron05
11-19-2008, 08:39 PM
Can I have a link to Ben's letter?

Tmack674
11-19-2008, 08:53 PM
Can I have a link to Ben's letter?

i dont have it but im pretty sure you can find it on IGN or another game site that helps out with secret content.

ferrugem
11-20-2008, 01:09 AM
Nice story, man.
Im new to the Forums. I read your Split by War FF, then I started to read this and decided to post.
'Effing awesome BTW!!!
Keep it going!

SKORGE
11-20-2008, 01:13 AM
http://gearsofwar.wikia.com/wiki/Benjamin_Carmine


Can I have a link to Ben's letter?
Hope this helps.

Tmack674
11-21-2008, 12:04 AM
Nice story, man.
Im new to the Forums. I read your Split by War FF, then I started to read this and decided to post.
'Effing awesome BTW!!!
Keep it going!

glad you like it.

new update on chapter 2 progress. im very busy this weekend so i cant release it until next week.

ferrugem
11-21-2008, 12:27 AM
Hehe my first time being quoted!
Lol kidding.
All good!We will wait patiently!

USRangerJohn
11-26-2008, 01:05 AM
Bumping, We want more Tmack!

ferrugem
11-26-2008, 02:42 AM
More Tmack! More!

Tmack674
11-26-2008, 06:55 PM
writing the next chapter right now. it will be up tomorrow. :)

TheRealBigBoss
11-26-2008, 11:14 PM
I am so going to read this when I get the chance. Anytime I see a post that's more than four lines I usually run for the hills, but this I just gotta read. And yeah, nice to see Tmack back in action... so to speak. :o

SKORGE
11-26-2008, 11:18 PM
*GASP* TheRealBigBoss is trying to take over evry thread that I have posted on! And this ain't NO QUINNKYDINK!!!!

Im on to you Boss!!!!

Also yeah Bump for more!

TheRealBigBoss
11-26-2008, 11:20 PM
^ Nah, I just post in active threads I guess. :o

SKORGE
11-26-2008, 11:22 PM
^ Nah, I just post in active threads I guess.

HA, that is what I expected!.......you may be a worthy oppenet after ALL!

And I am going to hunt down Tmack and force him to right MORE! MUHAHAAAHAA

Tmack674
11-27-2008, 02:12 PM
HA, that is what I expected!.......you may be a worthy oppenet after ALL!

And I am going to hunt down Tmack and force him to right MORE! MUHAHAAAHAA

force me to "write" more. It will be done tonight and when everyones stomachs are full from all the turkey, they can read it.
Edit: done



Chapter Two
Mission Time



As RAIDER SQUAD casually walked into Chairman Prescott's large office. "Talk about a kings throne!" Jack blurted out loud. Nix bumped him on the shoulder as they reached his desk.

Carmine liked the idea of importance that they were recieving direct orders from Prescott himself, but he felt like there was more to this guy than what came to light. "He's acts like a dictator" Carmine thought. As the rest of the squad stood by the desk, Upton moved up.


"Please, sit down. All of you." Prescott said in a domineering tone. The squad sat down, in what seemed like childrens chairs, compared to a giagantically carved seat that formed the shape of a gear, with Prescott's initials on top.


"I hope your all comfortable. Could I offer you any drinks?" Prescott said. Upton knew to always be a kiss-ass to higher ranked officers, especially to the leader of the entire COG army. "No sir we're fine."


"I'll actually have a diet coke" Jack quietly said. Upton turned around and gave him a look that a mother would do to her kid when they were misbehaving in public. Prescott waved his hand backward at his orderly, who was a very attractive looking female.


She quickly walked out of the room. "Wow shes got to hate her job. Taking orders left and right from this jackass." Carmine thought as he put on a smirk. Luckily the helmet covered his face so no one could see his facial expressions. He always seemed to use that to his advantages.


"So.The mission. This is the big one. As you know, we have sent many gears down below. Some have discovered...traps." Prescott sounded uneasy. "What do you mean by traps sir?" Upton said with confusion. Prescott looked down at his desk and started to fiddle with a picture that laid on top.


He let out a long sigh then started to speak again. "Their capturing humans. Gears, civilians, Anyone. We dont know what for. But it's looking bad." The squad all looked at Prescott with a sudden uneasy feeling.


The orderly came back with Jacks drink and he had'dnt noticed until she put it right in his face. He grabbed it without looking at her. "So we want you to go down there and find out the truth behind the matter and try to get most of them free.


I know you can handle it." Prescott said. Carmine started to get a different feeling about the Chairman at that time. "Well, he may be an asshole but at
least he cares about the people." He thought. "Sergeant Upton, please stay here for a moment. The rest of you can go."


As the squad began to exit Prescott's office, Jack silently grabbed the letter opener on the desk and stuck in his pack. Nix was the only one that noticed. When they opened the door to the outside, Peter slightly shoved Jack. "What the hell was that for?"


Jack was'nt exactly the smartest person, but he was a skilled soldier and helped the squad out a great deal. "A letter opener? What the **** would you need a letter opener for! We're soldiers for christs sake!" Nix screamed out.


Jack just let out a shrug and kept walking. As Upton walked out Carmine looked over. "So where do we need to go to get underground sir?" "Prescott said there would be a derrick carrier left in Anchora to get us down." Upton said. "Anchora? Where the hell is Anchora?" Nix asked.


"It's pretty close to Landown. Thats where the other derricks were so it must've been the only one that did'nt get taken over by the Locust when they seized Landown."


The squad began to move towards the bridge, which was the second of the three entrances into Jacinto. Carmine began to wonder about Clay. He might have been one of the gears that were captured.


Either way, he was going down there, in enemy territory, to help whoever it might be. "We're on a top priority mission and they can't even give us a ****in vehicle to get there? It would probably take maybe half an hour to get there by a raven, and we're stuck walking!" Jack said with anger.


Upton surprisingly seemed calm. "Look guys, let's just get the damn mission done and we will get a raven ride back here. Hell I'll even buy you all a beer
when we get back." "Now that just did'nt seem like him. He never says stuff like that." David thought. "Maybe Prescott had said something else to him when they left the room." Only time would tell.

SKORGE
11-27-2008, 08:57 PM
Yeah ah right = Write.....hehe typo

Anyway keep it up, it's shaping up to become greater then ever!

Charlie1453
11-27-2008, 09:03 PM
Keep it up!

Neothedude
11-27-2008, 10:54 PM
oooooo I wonder what prescott told upton xD
its exciting so far lol I like it

Tmack674
11-27-2008, 11:12 PM
Glad you like it!

Charlie1453
11-28-2008, 03:28 PM
moar!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROAR!

SKORGE
11-28-2008, 04:44 PM
moar!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROAR!

^Agree!!!

MORE!!!!!

Feed ME!!!!

LOL

rebelboy
11-29-2008, 06:19 AM
awsome cant wait for more!!

ReloadedAnger
12-05-2008, 11:41 PM
I love your work man!
I've read Split By War and thought it was great, and I just have a feeling that We Were One is gonna be just as good, too!
Keep it up man!

TheRealBigBoss
12-05-2008, 11:43 PM
Yeah, so far so good. I did lol at the idea of two Gears sitting around at the gates of Jacinto though. :)

Tmack674
12-15-2008, 12:05 AM
the chapter will be done tomorrow :) sorry for the delay but i got a lot to do in my life so ya know...

Neothedude
12-16-2008, 12:22 AM
So umm is it done yet lol
cuz I like this novel so far, and I loved your first novel about John Carmine :D

Tmack674
12-16-2008, 05:07 PM
So umm is it done yet lol
cuz I like this novel so far, and I loved your first novel about John Carmine :D

my computer is having some problems. sorry about that, it keeps freezing on me. it will be up dont worry.

Jay the Arbiter
12-16-2008, 05:10 PM
Keep it up! This is sounding good!

Tmack674
12-17-2008, 07:26 PM
Chapter 3
Trip Through Town


As RAIDER SQUAD marched endlessly through the forgotten wastelands of Sera, Carmine thought about the planet, before any of this had happened. The towns that had'nt been affected by the Pendulum Wars were quiet and pieceful.

Birds sang their beautiful songs and the trees waved their branches slowly in the wind. Carmine would do anything to get Sera to what it used to be. As the images slowly faded from his head, the destroyed beauty started to come pushing through his visor. David let out a long sigh as he looked out into the barren valley.


The wasteland was beautiful on it's own sense. The sense that this valley used to have life and was lush in plant life. Carmine started to believe that
the time before Emergence Day was already getting long forgotten.

Humans were fighting for existence, and before that, for energy. Each human thinks in their own way, but really their all the same. If a human has a chance to gain power, he takes it. If that human gets too much power, he will not stop.

That is how the Pendulum Wars started. Out of human greed. Carmine liked the times when he thought about all of that stuff. He wondered if anyone else thought that way. "O.K. guys, were coming pretty close to an unsunken
city. I dont think the locust sank it because anyone was there." Upton said. Nix looked up ahead and peered through his high tech binoculars.

"Hm...I see it. I hope it's abandoned." The squad ran down the road and ducked into cover when they got much closer to the city. Upton aimed his upgraded Lancer with a sniper scope towards the dense road ahead. "Does'nt look like anyones around. Lets keep moving. Keep your eyes open."


The squad moved silently down toward one of the steel buildings and took cover on the wall. Upton moved toward the edge and peeked out. As he looked back over to his squad, he gave a sharp hand signal for attention.


"Carmine, take point." David swiftly headed to the front as the group started to enter the street. Carmine did'nt like the idea of being in the front of the group when they were walking in enemy territory, but when it came to combat he was a professional, as were the rest of the guys.


As they walked cautiously through the road, looking in all the windows, Carmine noticed a gear in an alley way. He was lying on the ground, dead. This was not an unusual site to see on Sera but this was a city that the COG had not ventured into. They walked over to him to check him out.

"How do you think he got here? The COG dont send patrols out here." Peter said with a confused look as they stared at the misfortuned soldier. Jack inched downward and ripped off his COG tag. It read, Johnathan Bate. "My guess is, he got lost going to Jacinto."

Upton looked at the group with a serious look. "Well I'll tell you one thing, we got a dead gear, so that means locust are around here. Lets get back to walking. As the squad walked out of the long alley, a locust spotter who was patrolling the area shrieked and ran down a large alley down the road.


Carmine quickly saw the locust as it started to flee. "Locust Scout! I'll get him!" David darted after the locust knowing he would only be getting more of them if he was able to reach them. The rest of RAIDER moved swiftly down the road in Carmines traces. David had the locust in his sights. The large, scaly creature did not even have a weapon to defend it's self.


The locust started to get out of breath and hopped down off of a small bridge to get towards the shadows. As it slowed down, Carmine dove off the
destroyed bridge, chainsaw revving and got the locust on the right shoulder and wedged his lancer all the way down the the bottom of the arm.

As the locust was in shock, Carmine kicked it's chest and knocked it to the ground. As Upton and the crew walked to the railing of the bridge, David was raising his foot in the air.

The last thing the locust would see is a Gear all-terrain standard issue, size eleven boot crashing down on his face, and then blackness. Carmine stared at the dead beast as Upton walked over. "Good work David.Now lets just hope the others did'nt hear that."

Carmine did not turn to look at Upton. All he looked at was the creatures eyes. What were the locust? As weird as they look, they are like the humans in just about every way. The squad began to observe it as Carmine walked away. Peter began to wonder what David was thinking about as he started back on the trail.

Tmack674
12-23-2008, 04:51 PM
comments?????

Neothedude
12-24-2008, 01:02 AM
Whooo David Carmine pwned that Locust lol
Keep it up :D

Tmack674
12-26-2008, 01:57 AM
update: not enough people seem to be reading it or commenting, so im going to wait until february to pick it back up because I am very busy this month but I promise it will be back and better than ever in February - Tmack

ChrisX
07-06-2009, 04:18 PM
Aw. :( I enjoyed those chapters. Well, when you start typing chapters again.

Wisdom Thumbs
07-06-2009, 07:20 PM
Yeah TMack! Are you going to pull a Thumbs and make everybody wait? :p

TheRealBigBoss
07-06-2009, 07:31 PM
Yeah TMack! Are you going to pull a Thumbs and make everybody wait? :p

Lol, I think Tmack is long gone Thumbs... :p

Wisdom Thumbs
07-06-2009, 07:52 PM
He still pops by the CZ every now and then. ;)

TheRealBigBoss
07-06-2009, 07:57 PM
He still pops by the CZ every now and then. ;)

Really? I had no idea. :(

SKORGE
07-06-2009, 08:09 PM
Don't pull a Thumbs, trust me! It's hurts everyone in the end. Don't post under the influence.

Wisdom Thumbs
07-06-2009, 08:09 PM
Very rarely, but yes, he does.

It'd be great if he would update this...

EDIT: wtf man... Skorge, you little bastard.


Don't pull a Thumbs, trust me! It's hurts everyone in the end. Don't post under the influence.

Quoted For Truth!