Gears of War 2
Six months after deploying the Lightmass Bomb, Gears of War 2 begins, and things aren’t looking any better for the COG. Detonating the bomb has vaporized most of the Imulsion, creating a disease known as Rustlung that’s been known as a “horrible way to die.” To make things worse, cities are sinking in their complete entirety, forcing the COG to strike first with a full scale invasion. Marcus and Dom, along with rookie Ben Carmine (brother of Anthony from the first game), are successfully deployed into the Hollow. The three later discover that the Locust, through the help of Skorge, the leader of the Kantus Monks, are sinking cities via a giant Riftworm. Later on, the trio reunites with Baird and Cole, but not before discovering that the Locust are taking prisoners and torturing them. Tai Kaliso, another member of Delta Squad, was captured by Skorge and suffered their torture, the result of which led him to commit suicide.
Delta later winds up inside the Riftworm itself, whose parasitic insides kill Carmine. Fortunately, they kill the Riftworm via very chainsaw-based surgery. Before they can shower and rest on their laurels, Command orders them to head to a facility in the Kadar Mountains that has information on a back entrance to the Hollow. The facility, headed up by a creepy AI, contains mutated creatures of unknown origin that get awakened and force Delta to shoot and saw into chunky pieces. With the information in their possession, Delta heads to the Mountains, at which point Marcus and Dom break off to find Dom’s missing wife, Maria, who he’s been searching for for years. The torture has left her incredibly disfigured and unable to speak, so Dom tearfully euthanizes her.
Marcus and Dom reunite with Baird and Cole, and the four of them manage to reach Myrrah’s chamber. She informs them that the Locust have been fighting against the Lambent, Locust infected by Imulsion. This whole time, they’ve been sinking cities out of desperation, and Myrrah’s next plan is to flood the Hollow in order to wipe them out. Following the death of Skorge, Delta makes it back to Jacinto in the middle of their evacuation with a plan to detonate a bomb to wipe out both types of Locust in one blow. Marcus and Dom use a Brumak to clear a path for the COG to place a bomb in the Hollow, but after the bomb is downed, opt to use the Lambent-infected Brumak instead. The detonation causes the flooding of both Jacinto and the Hollow, with the COG successfully evacuating as many people as they can. In a post-credits moment, a transmission plays out, mournfully asking for help. That transmission is from none other than Adam Fenix.
