He was court-martialled and sentences to life in prison. User Info: oArctic. WingZero posted In Gears 1 the game started with Dom getting Marcus out of the prison to fight the Locusts, why was he in prison to begin with? Isn't it stupid how the first game is set 14 years after E-Day not a couple of days or weeks after it?
Was the opening in Gears 3 just a dream? He was in Jail because he abandoned his post to go save his father, and was considered a traitor. They put him in jail for life, and yes, that opening sequence in 3 is a dream..
User Info: TastyBeverage. Opening of Gears 3 was a dream. Marcus was in prison for disobeying orders and trying to save his father rather than fight the battle. User Info: mattdart. Marcus was in prison during the first game due to disobeying orders to abandon his father; this caused the humans to lose a vital battle and had him stripped of rank and sent away for life in prison. This is played out during the dream sequence at the beginning of the 3rd game.
They explain it in the game, he disobeyed orders, and he got put in prison. Because that's how they wanted it? Thanks, I'll re-play through them all then, I thought it was mentioned in the books which I haven't read. Jesus Christ, 4 posters below me, was that really neccessary when it was already answered? The fourth and fifth numbered games presented a significant change for Marcus Fenix as he was no longer the lead protagonist.
And while the rugged Gear never looked young in the first few titles , he was still visibly older in the more recent installments. Gears of War 4 took place 25 years after the events of the original trilogy, which meant Marcus was in his 60s during that time.
It didn't seem to make him any less deadly, though. A bandana, scarred face, and stocky body is the classic Marcus look. Yet, according to the designers of the game , it took some time to decide on those features. The face, in particular, was a struggle as the early versions didn't have enough character. Then an artist named Jay Hawkins came up with a design that had scars, acne, and what would become the signature bandanna. It was a rugged look that fit the character perfectly.
Jay Hawkins came up with the idea of giving Marcus scars, but there's also an in-universe reason for the big one next to his eye. While he was in prison, there was a guard named Campbell who was out to get him. On one occasion, the guard released a couple of attack dogs on Marcus and fellow prisoner, Reeve. Fenix managed to kill the two canines, but received a giant cut beside his right eye in the process.
The resulting scar was visible throughout the games, yet this story of how he got it was only told in Gears of War: The Slab. An often forgotten member of the Fenix family is Marcus's mother, Elain.
She was a biologist who spent significant time researching the Hollow. During her work, she discovered the existence of the Locust horde before anybody else. Unfortunately, she was killed by the creatures before she could make her discovery public. However, she noted down her findings in her journal, which her husband Adam found.
He then began his own research on the species and went on to end both the Lambent and most of the Locust threat. His second shot also missed, taking out an APC that moved to cover the Asp. Marcus was torn up by his failure, and apologized to Helena, who told him it wasn't his fault.
She decided that someone had to work their way across the battlefield and drop grenades onto the Asps, and Marcus and Carlos volunteered to try, but Helena shot them down and told them she would do it herself.
The remaining Gears in the company began regrouping as she made her way towards the Asp, and Marcus and Carlos joined Pvt. Byran Jakovs , Pvt. James Marasin , and Pvt. Steven Hurnan. They wondered what they would do about the second Asp, but watched as Helena reached the first one undetected and opened the hatch, dropping the grenades. However, her webbing got caught on the vehicle, and she was unable to jump clear, and died when the Asp exploded.
Marcus and the others were horrified, but he contacted Bernie to inform her that she was in command now. Marcus was worried about Anya, who was providing mission control over the comm, and wondered how they were going to take out the second Asp so air support could arrive, and how they would take down the Khimeras flying towards Aspho Point. Soon after, the commando team destroyed Aspho Point and began their extraction, but the Petrels still could not reach the backup site to destroy it.
Bernie began making plans for extraction, but Marcus requested permission to try and take out the last Asp, as it was moving into position to attack the extraction zone and provide support to the Khimeras searching for the commandos.
She gave approval, and Marcus organized Carlos, Jakovs, Hurnan, and Marasin alongside the road the Asp was moving along and hit it with five Gut-Punchers.
They succeeded, but someone in the Asp remained alive and it continued to function, heading for the bridge to cross the battlefield. Carlos jumped up with Jakovs and Hurnan to charge the Asp, but all three were hit. Jakovs and Hurnan were killed, but Carlos rolled off the side of the road and into a ditch, and told the others he was fine after Marcus began shouting and asking if he was alright. Marcus then somehow managed to hijack the Asp, and charged into the Indie lines, shooting up all of their vehicles and soldiers.
He took out everything capable of shooting down airborne assets, including a Khimera that was hunting Dom and the other commandos. He asked her if Carlos was back with them yet, but she told him that he was still near the bridge firing on the Indies. Marcus was annoyed with him, thinking that he didn't trust him to take out the Indies by himself, and headed for the bridge. Bernie also began making her way to the bridge, and she asked Carlos if he could make his way back to the rally point.
Carlos responded that he had been hit badly and couldn't move. Marcus was shocked, and demanded to know why he hadn't told anyone or called for a medic or him.
Carlos told him that it was because he knew Marcus would try to rescue him, but he told him that it was useless and that he was already dead. Marcus told him to shut up, and continued to head towards him, moving from cover to cover to avoid Indie fire. Bernie ordered him to go back to the extraction zone, but he refused, and pointed out that she was still heading for Carlos as well.
Carlos told them to stop, and that he had messed up and gotten Jakovs and the others killed, and told Marcus that he needed to take care of Dom.
Carlos was hit again by Indie fire, and began begging Marcus to shoot him to put him out of his misery. Marcus froze, but regained control and told him that he was going to get him out of there. Carlos told him that he wouldn't be able to, and that he had to stop him from getting himself killed.
Carlos then detonated a grenade, killing himself and destroying the bridge that the Indie vehicles would need to cross to get to the extraction point. Marcus bellowed in grief, but took advantage of the explosion to rush to the site and recover what he could of Carlos while Bernie covered him. Marcus and Bernie took Carlos' remains to the extraction zone, and Marcus knelt next to the sack containing the remains as they waited for a Sea Raven to arrive and extract them to the CNV Pomeroy.
Bernie came up to him and told him that she had just spoke to control, and learned that Dom had made it, saving the lives of the rest of his unit in the process. Marcus remarked that Dom was a natural Gear, and Bernie offered to tell him about Carlos, but Marcus told her that it was his job, and that he was an honorary Santiago.
Bernie comforted him, and told him how sorry she was, and Marcus began sobbing and crying silently, and asked her what he was going to do without Carlos, and that he had been like a brother to him. Bernie told him that he needed to be there for Dom, and that the rest of the unit was going to be there for them, and that they were family as well.
Marcus asked her if she would have put Carlos out of his misery if she had gotten the chance, and she told him she would have, but he did it first.
He wondered if there was something he could have done to save him, if he had gone after him instead of taking the Asp, but Bernie told him that he had done the right thing. They then wondered what they were going to tell Dom, as the truth that Carlos had made a mistake and gotten himself and others killed might devastate him. They decided to lie, and say that Carlos and the others had sacrificed their lives to blow up the bridge and stop the Indies. No one in the unit would contradict that, and the radio had been shut off so control had not heard what happened.
The Sea Ravens then arrived, and Marcus made sure that Carlos was the first one on board. Marcus went up to him, and tearfully informed him that Carlos had died. Five weeks later, Marcus had been promoted to Sergeant and was at an awards ceremony at the House of Sovereigns , where he and Dom would be presented with the Embry Star for their actions, and Carlos and Helena would be awarded ones posthumously, with Dom accepting Carlos' and Anya accepting her mother's.
Marcus, Dom, and Anya stayed together before the ceremony, and they worked to protect her from the press who wanted to interview her. After being awarded their medals, Marcus and the others went outside to the graveyard where Carlos was buried, and found Lt. Victor Hoffman there, paying his respects. Marcus didn't say anything, but Dom invited his commanding officer to come with them to dinner that evening with Adam and the Santiago's, but Hoffman turned the offer down, saying he would like to drink with them sometime.
After Hoffman shook their hands, he left, leaving them alone to say goodbye to Carlos. Marcus dug a small hole into the grave, and placed Carlos' Embry Star in there with him, and buried it while crying.
Unknown to him, Hoffman observed the whole thing and seeing Marcus like that made an impression on him. After enduring an extremely awkward dinner with his father, the Santiago's, and Anya, Marcus volunteered to make sure that Anya got home safely after she had a little too much to drink, and they spent the night together.
They encountered a small squad of Indies in the ruined city and engaged them , but became pinned down in a destroyed building. Marcus asked Pad if he could reach a nearby roof and snipe the Indies heavy weapons, and Pad told him he could if Marcus gave him some cover. Marcus told Tai to use their last RPG on the Indies to provide cover, and as Pad used the smoke from the explosion of the rocket hitting the Indies position to run for a building with a roof, Marcus, Dom, and Tai opened fire to cover him even more.
Dom asked Marcus to remind him how much ground they had secured that week, and Marcus said that he was guessing it was zero, again. After Pad sniped the Indie manning the machine gun position, Marcus led the others in a charge against the Indie position with Pad providing sniper cover. Marcus asked Pad how many were left, and he told him that he had taken down three, leaving three more.
Marcus, Dom, and Tai quickly shot two of them, and Marcus then jumped into the Indies building and finished the last one off. He called in to command that Ghato was secured, and that they would meet up with the rest of the unit at Tenla. They began walking out of the city towards the RV point, and Dom said that he had thought the war would end within months after Aspho Point, and he was now starting to think that Carlos had died for nothing.
Marcus told him not to think like that, and that his dad said that the Indie research had saved him years of work on whatever he was doing. Dom asked if Adam was still not discussing it with him, and Marcus told him that top secret meant top secret to Adam. Two weeks later, C Company was driving along a road on a cliffside overlooking a Furlin town, which Dom was relieved to see hadn't been bombed, but Marcus told him not to jinx it.
The convoy stopped, and one of the other Gears called Marcus over to listen to the radio, telling him his father had done it.
Marcus listened with the others as it was announced that Chairman Tomas Dalyell had announced that he was meeting with Premier Yori Deschenko to discuss the term of the UIR's surrender after the deployment of the Hammer of Dawn , which had been created by Adam.
All of the Gears began celebrating, and Tai told him that his father had found his true path. Marcus told him that the war wasn't over yet, and that the peace process could still take days or weeks. He was proven right moments later when Indies began shelling the convoy and the town below. Dom was horrified, saying that it was insane and that somebody needed to tell the Indies that they had surrendered. Marcus told him that they hadn't technically surrendered yet, and took cover with the rest of the unit and began returning fire.
Pad yelled that the Indies had to know the war was over, but Marcus pointed out that if it was them, they would fight to the last as well, and that the Indies likely thought the announcement was COG propaganda. As they returned fire, Lt. Preston told him that the Captain was trying to offer the Indies an informal ceasefire, but Marcus doubted it would work.
Several Gears were then hit by mortar fire, but the Indies then stopped attacking, receiving word that the surrender was for real. Marcus was relieved the Pendulum Wars were at last ending, and hoped that it was the real thing.
Three hours later, Marcus watched through binoculars as the Indies in the mountains began to surrender to the COG, and told Dom that it hadn't all been in vain. The next day, C Company had moved into the city below the cliffs, and Marcus and the others gathered together in silence as it turned noon, at which time the official surrender took effect.
They were charged with destroying a large Seeder. The battle changed hands repeatedly. Awhile later Kilo Squad successfully deployed the Lightmass Missile , destroying the Museum and killing all the Locust in the area, saving Omega-Two in the process. Marcus reported over the radio that Omega-Two was "a little roasted" , but clear. Despite their orders, they took a detour to engage Locust forces at Jannermont , and were involved in a skirmish there.
Marcus would later arrived at checkpoint with Sergeant Mendez trying to keep military traffic open so they can safely evacuate to Ephyra before the Hammer of Dawn was used on the Locust Horde. Prescott ordered that Marcus Fenix was to be recalled to Ephyra on a King Raven but Fenix refused the special treatment and let a civilian with a baby take his seat on the King Raven. Marcus Fenix and his squad would later move to retake Voslov Bridge and allowed thousands of citizens to escape the Hammer attacks.
Nine years after the Hammer of Dawn counterattack, Maria had disappeared and Marcus spent nearly every free moment helping Dom search for her. Jace Stratton. They were assigned to patrol above the Cressy Escarpment on KR Nine-Six near the end of Reap and provide support to a unit of sappers in the area as they tried to block sewer systems leading towards Ephyra.
As they flew over the escarpment, they spotted the city of Estana burning in the distance, after having been attacked by the Locust two days prior. Jace remarked that the Locust would be in Ephyra within a week, but Marcus responded that they had been in this situation nine years before, but were still there now. Jace countered that they could not use the Hammer of Dawn to save them this time since they had nowhere else to run and that they had tried everything they could.
The pilot of the Raven, Lt. Rothesay , told them that the sappers would be able to succeed in blocking the sewers, and several explosions echoed in the distance as the sappers destroyed bridges and blocked roads. Marcus commented that they were cutting it close, as they could see a massive Locust force closing in on the Jacinto Plateau from KR Nine-Six.
Rothesay contacted Red-Three, who informed them that they were still pouring concrete to block a sewer. Marcus remarked that the Locust would reach them before they finished, and Jace added that it would not set in time anyway. The crew chief, Cpl. Charlie Castilla , noted if bedrock did not slow the Locust down, concrete would not either, and Jace repeated his assessment that Ephyra would be attacked within a week.
Marcus cut off the conversation, reminding everyone that they had stopped Locust advances before, and would do so again.
Rothesay contacted Cpt. Shaw , the commander of Red-Three, and asked him to evacuate, but he refused to leave before their job was finished. Rothesay began flying to the work site, and they spotted Brumaks joining the Locust forces. Once they landed, Marcus jumped out of KR Nine-Six with the rest of Bravo and quickly found Shaw working with his five sappers to fill a sewer in with concrete.
Marcus asked him to get on the Raven before it was too late, but Shaw felt he could not leave until he was finished and did not want to abandon their equipment, since they were running low on supplies. Marcus pointed out they were low on Gears too, and Shaw reluctantly ordered his team to get on the Raven.
Marcus helped get them and what equipment they could onto the Raven, but Shaw remained with the cement truck for as long as he could. Castilla then opened fire on a group of Locust nearing the edge of the woods, and Shaw slipped and fell into the rapidly filling hole.
Marcus tried to grab his hand, but he was too far down to reach, and Rothesay called out to them to get back on the Raven so they could use the winch to rescue Shaw. KR Nine-Six hovered in position over the pit, and Marcus lowered the winch down to Shaw as the others fired on the Locust below. Shaw got into the rescue harness and Marcus began bringing him up, but as he was just a few meters away from the Raven, Shaw slipped out of it and fell back into the hole.
Marcus tried to get the harness back down to him, but the cement filled up over Shaw's head, leaving him completely submerged. Marcus prepared to dive in to rescue him, but Dom held him back and Rothesay lifted clear of the area and began flying back to Ephyra. Marcus was furious at them, but Dom pointed out there was nothing they could do without getting more people killed, and Marcus apologized to Shaw's people for his failure.
Rothesay told Marcus he would drop him off at Haldane Hall so he could spend some time with his dad, but Marcus refused to take the leave. Rothesay overrode him and ordered him to have a talk and stiff drink with his father to forget what just happened, and that he was not giving Marcus a choice about it. Marcus reluctantly agreed, and went into the tail section of the Raven and then punched a bulkhead before rejoining the others in the crew bay, blaming himself for not being able to save Shaw and so many others who had died since Emergence Day.
Rothesay dropped Marcus off in the courtyard of Haldane Hall, and when he entered the home Adam came out of the kitchen to greet him. He aplogized for not changing out of his armor, and asked if it was okay if he took a shower before dinner. Adam told him to go ahead, and asked if he wanted a drink standing by afterwards. Marcus muttered that that would be a good idea, and switched to civilian clothes after his shower and joined his dad for dinner.
Adam asked how things were going, and Marcus told him about how he lost Shaw. Adam tried to get him to not blame himself, but Marcus changed the subject and advised Adam to leave Haldane Hall, since the Locust would attack Ephyra any day now. Adam questioned where he would go, and was sure that the COG would hold Ephyra, but Marcus simply said that they would try. Marcus then noticed that Adam had taken down the photo of the deceased Chairman Tomas Dalyell presenting Adam the Octus Medal and asked him why.
Adam told him that it brought back too many memories, and Marcus thought that he was referring to the Hammer of Dawn strikes and told him to stop beating himself up over it. Adam told him it was not that simple, and that there was something he needed to tell him. Marcus suggested they eat first, and as he checked the food, Adam asked Marcus how things were going with Anya.
Marcus commented that it was about the usual, and Adam inquired how the search for Maria was coming and if he thought she was still alive. Marcus told him that Dom believed she was, and that was good enough for him. As Adam put the dinner on the table, Marcus asked what it was he wanted to tell him, and Adam began by saying it was something he had never told anyone. Marcus asked if it was about Elain , and Adam told him that it was, but not entirely. He asked if Marcus thought about her much, but Marcus informed him that he sometimes could not even recall her face.
He then told Adam that if it was about the project he was working on to stop the Locust, Marcus did not need to hear about it since it was classified. Adam paused for a moment, then told him that it was about the project, and that he believed he was close to finding a way to stop the Locust.
Marcus had heard that too many times before to believe it, but told Adam that that was great, but questioned if he should even be telling him that much. Adam was silent again for a few moments, and then told Marcus that he was right, classified meant classified. Several days later, Marcus accompanied Col. Victor Hoffman , Sgt. Drew Rossi , SSgt. Lennard Parry , and Tyran National Utilities manager Slader into a southern outfall sewer in Ephyra to scout around for possible Locust use of the sewers.
When Rossi expressed concerns that the sewer was backing up due to the large amounts of sewage, Marcus reassured him that it was still flowing out. Hoffman asked Marcus if he was okay, having heard what happened at Shenko Falls, and Marcus told him he was fine.
Hoffman remarked that he was due a few more days of leave, and suggested he spend more time with Adam, as he might not have a chance to soon. Marcus responded that Adam was busy, and they rejoined Parry and Slader, who gave Hoffman recommendations on how to defend the sewers.
As they headed back to the ladder that led to Almar Street , they watched as a massive pack of rats fled past them. Marcus noticed one rat stuck in the water, and used his boot to help it get free and rejoin the rest of the pack. He guessed that the Locust were tunneling nearby and had spooked the rats, and Slader agreed, noting that rats were sensitive to vibrations. They climbed the ladder back up to the surface, where, Cpl. Aigle hosed them down with disinfectant. Hoffman ordered Marcus and Rossi to gather their squads and evacuate refugees south of La Croix Boulevard , since he did not want civilians in the way when the Locust attacked the city.
They acknowledged his order and jogged off to gather their men and begin the sweep. Later that day, the Locust began their final push on Ephyra, and Marcus rode in the passenger seat of a Packhorse as Dom drove him, Tai, and Jace back to the command post in Ephyra.
Dom slowed down as they passed a column of smoke coming from a building, but he ducked as he spotted something holding a rifle. After Dom showed the guy a photo of Maria to see if he had seen her, Marcus offered to take the man back with them to the COG controlled center of Ephyra, but he refused, declaring that his situation would not really be any different.
Dom started driving again, and they overheard Anya on the radio giving instructions to King Raven units as Reavers were spotted approaching the city. Marcus reluctantly agreed with him, and they crossed over into Ephyra, where hundreds of vehicles and Gears were streaming into the city to prepare for the attack. They saw more civilians being evacuated and another column of smoke marking where a Reaver or Raven had been shot down, and artillery pieces began firing.
They eventually arrived at the command post at the intersection of Almar and Correll streets, where they found Hoffman and Aigle preparing for the battle. Marcus asked for an update, and Hoffman told him that the main sewer was down the street, and that was where they were expecting the Locust to emerge.
Marcus and the rest of Bravo followed Hoffman down to the trenches, and he was embarrassed as the rest of the Gears began cheer at his arrival. As Marcus and the others waited for the Locust to emerge, Anya reported to them over the radio that the Locust had breached the sewer system, and were less than a kilometer from Correll Square.
As rats began emerging from the manholes, the Gears tensely waited for the Locust to emerge. A Corpser then smashed through the ground, and Marcus joined in with the hundreds of other Gears in opening fire on the creature and Drones that began to emerge. They cut down the first wave of Locust, but the second managed to reach the barricade and the Gears engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Drones. After cutting down a few Locust, Jace pointed out to Marcus and Dom that he smelled gas, and Marcus realized that the Locust had damaged a gas main when they emerged, and they could ignite it to close the emergence hole.
Jace gave Marcus a Bolo Grenade , and as the battle raged around them, Marcus ran towards the hole and tossed the grenade into the hole. It exploded and set off the gas, creating a massive explosion that tore up the street and knocked Marcus backwards as flames gushed upward from the hole.
They rejoined the other Gears in surrounding the few Locust that had escaped, and quickly cut them all down. As they headed back to the command post, they heard artillery in the distance, but were unable to raise anyone on the radio network. They found Hoffman and Aigle listening to a report that Locust were emerging all over the city, using the metro system to quickly move around. Marcus listened intently Anya then came over the radio and reported that the CIC had been cut off and Locust were entering the building, but the radio then went dead.
Aigle reported that all comms had been lost, and Marcus asked for permission to take Bravo to the CIC and rescue any survivors. Hoffman ordered him to wait a moment as a King Raven landed and Lt.
Kevan Mitchell informed them that at least ten thousand Locust had emerged into the city, and that the Ravens were using the Treasury roof as an evac point.
Marcus and the others were joined by JACK , who had been sent to assist them in the search. They killed the Locust that had breached the bank, and Marcus insisted on searching every corner of the building until they found Anya.
They located her near one of the vaults, and he asked if she was okay. She told him that everyone else was dead, and that she had just run and hid, unable to help anyone. Marcus reassured her that she had done all she could and told her to stay close to him as they headed for the RV point on the treasury roof.
Anya asked if they were pulling out of the city, but Marcus told her they were only pulling back, and were not beaten yet. As they moved through the building, Marcus and the others defended Anya when more Locust entered the building.
Once the Locust were dead, Marcus yanked Anya up and began leading her through the halls to the roof access area as the others cut down Locust along the way. She panicked at the sight of a Brumak walking through the streets, and Marcus told her not to look at it or think about the battle. As they made it to the rooftops, Marcus contacted Hoffman and told him they had found Anya, and asked what his position was.
He told Marcus that he had run into trouble and that they should just get to the Ravens without him. Jace then called out that Reavers were incoming, and Marcus jumped on top of Anya to protect her from debris as a King Raven was shot down and part of the fuselage shot over them and became embedded into the wall.
Dom remarked that it had been Daniels Raven, and wondered where the Hammer Team was. Marcus guessed that they were dead, and apologized to Anya for jumping on top of her like that, but that it was better to have a few bruises than get killed by debris. As they moved along the rooftops, Marcus spotted the remains of two members of the Hammer Team on one of the roofs below them, and dropped down to retrieve the targeting laser, along with their COG Tags.
He discovered that the targeting optic had become detached, and put it into one of his pouches to keep for safekeeping before rejoining the others. They arrived on the treasury roof to find a King Raven piloted by Strachan waiting for them, and they spotted Hoffman approaching the building with his right arm badly injured. When Hoffman got up there, Marcus told him they needed to get his wound treated, but Hoffman insisted that they get to the Chancery Bridge in order to give Major Tomas the targeting laser before the Locust overwhelmed his position and took the city.
Hoffman refused, and Marcus began trying to convince him to leave the battle. Their argument was interrupted when Anya told them that Adam had just contacted her, saying he wanted to say goodbye since the Locust were about to assault Haldane Hall, but she then lost the signal.
Marcus quietly declared that he had to rescue him, but Hoffman ordered him to get on the Raven and bring the targeting laser to Chancery, since an entire brigade of Gears was in more trouble than Adam. Marcus got in Hoffman's face and refused to abandon his own father, even when Hoffman threatened to court-martial him. As Marcus stared to walk to the Raven, Hoffman grabbed him and spun him around, telling him that his father was useless and not worth the life of any Gear, especially Marcus'.
Marcus responded by punching him in the face, briefly staring in shock at what he had done before he set the targeting laser on the ground, forgetting that the targeting optic was in his pocket, and began walking back to the Raven. He told Anya to take Hoffman on the other Raven to Chancery, but Anya started ordering him to stop and listen to her, and asked what he thought he was doing. Marcus responded that he was doing his duty, and boarded the Raven, telling the others that they had been assigned to rescue his father.
Hoffman desperately tried to call Marcus back over the radio, but Marcus refused to answer him as the Raven lifted off and flew towards Haldane Hall. When the Raven reached the estate, Marcus and Dom dropped down from the Raven to search the grounds for Adam while the others covered them from the helicopter.
As they began to search the house, Adam appeared carrying a briefcase, and asked what they were doing there and that they were going to get themselves killed. Marcus told Adam to follow him quickly and that he would explain later, but Adam insisted that they get his research from his lab before leaving. They heard explosions outside as the Locust breached the estates walls, and Marcus told his dad that his work did not matter anymore, and to just follow them. Adam did as he was told, but asked for Marcus' sidearm, but Marcus refused to give it to him and reassured him that they would protect him.
Tai contacted them and said the Locust were massing outside the estate but not attacking, and that he and Jace would rope down to join them. Marcus warned him that they would be easy targets for the Locust, so Tai told him that they should distract the Locust then. Marcus and Dom rushed outside and opened fire on the gathered Drones, cutting them down as Tai and Jace hurried to join them.
When the last of the Locust were dead, Marcus called in Strachan to land the Raven and evac them as the others gathered the Locusts weapons.
As the Raven attempted to land, Adam called out that there were Boomers approaching, but the warning came too late and the huge creatures opened fire, shooting down the Raven and sending it crashing into Haldane Hall. Adam was buried under the debris of the building as Marcus desperately tried to reach him. Marcus' actions had caused Hoffman to get delayed in taking the targeting laser to Chancery Bridge, with all but two Gears stationed there dying and the Locust managing to cross over and take the entire East Barricade.
Upon waking up, Marcus was informed of Adam's death, and charged with dereliction of duty. Marcus was court-martialed for cowardice and failure to obey orders, and only narrowly avoided execution due to his two exemplary tours of duty in the Pendulum Wars and secretly Prescott intervening to keep Adam happy. Dominic Santiago testified for him, but to no avail. He was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment in Jacinto Maximum Security Prison.
During his time in the Slab, Marcus gained the respect of both the prisoners and most of the guards, except one named Campbell who hated him as his son was a Gear and was later killed in action. Marcus gained his facial scar when Campbell trapped him and released two guard dogs on him and a prisoner named Reeve. Marcus killed both dogs, but was mauled in the face by one, resulting in his scar. During this time, he refused to let Dom and Anya visit him as he knew it would break their hearts and initially refused anything that would set him free as he felt he needed to pay for his crimes.
He grew depressed and lost a lot of weight and muscle, but a visit from Chairman Prescott convinced him to not give up as Prescott promised that someday he might be released to rejoin the army. Prescott also arranges with the guards to give Marcus as much protection as possible and threatens to conscript them if they hurt him and to let Marcus' comrades know about what they did once they're conscripted.
Marcus also gets a letter from Anya, but doesn't open it for awhile until Reeve convinces him to. The letter contains a picture of Anya watching him and a promise to wait for him.
Eventually he started helping the prisoners dig an escape tunnel as he wanted to escape simply to kill more Locust, but the tunnel flooded and he nearly drowned. With paper given to him by the senior warder Niko, Marcus responds to Anya to not wait for him and move on with his life and is even offered the chance to have coffee and call Anya by Niko.
While Marcus drinks the coffee, he doesn't call as he wants Anya to move on and not be reminded of him. When a Locust take-over of the area resulted in the prisoners basically taking control of the prison, Marcus learned of Dom's plan to break him out and was upset. When the Gears retook the area, Marcus gets Niko to give him his rifle so he could snipe some and Niko realized that if Marcus had wanted, he could've easily overpowered the guards and escaped. This and the fact that Marcus clearly belongs fighting the Locust causes Niko to decide to help Marcus escape if he can.
After the COG is able to reach the prison again, Prescott personally comes to see Marcus and delivers a letter along with the news that Anya is waiting for him and wants him to respond. Marcus is shocked as he only ever received a couple of letters from her and did respond and he asks Niko about it. Niko doesn't know, but investigates, leading Campbell to confess to Marcus that he burned all of the letters as a form of petty revenge on Marcus.
When Campbell calls Anya a bitch, Marcus nearly beats him to death and threatens to actually kill him if he insults Anya again. After a bunch of what the prisoners believe is spiders come up through the toilets, Marcus is called to look at them and quickly grabs a pipe and starts beating them to death. Marcus explains that they are actually baby Corpsers and it means that the Locust are getting in and they need to prepare themselves. During the siege , Marcus, as the only expert on the Locust on hand, takes command of the prisoners and guards to defend themselves as best as possible.
Niko has Campbell give Marcus his rifle and Reeve his pistol as they are the best shots and best at using weapons and thus the best to have them. Marcus also has Niko call into Control to let them know about the Locust attack and Niko informs him that Anya told him to pass along to Marcus that she loves him. Marcus briefly laments the fact that he couldn't return the favor, but Niko informs him that he took the liberty of doing it for him.
Rather than being mad at this, Marcus thanks Niko for his actions. Marcus defends the prison from baby Corpsers and Wretches and ultimately has the prisoners and guards barricade themselves in an abandoned wing where there are manual locks and they will be safe. Marcus and Reeve try to find where the Locust are coming in and locate an old elevator shaft, but are trapped when Locust Drones show up. Marcus urges Reeve to lock himself in a cell while Marcus does the same so they will be relatively safe, but Reeve, not wanting to be locked up again, locks Marcus in and flees through the old elevator shaft.
After receiving word that the Locust had overrun the area, Hoffman and Prescott ordered the prisoners released and conscripted. Thanks to barricading themselves in the old wing, the other prisoners and guards were rescued, but they didn't know Marcus' location and Hoffman reluctantly ordered him left behind as it risked too many lives to try to find him.
Learning of this from Prescott and unable to change Hoffman's mind, Dom took off to rescue Marcus with Hoffman's secret approval, taking along extra armor and an extra weapon on Hoffman's "suggestion" for Marcus and broke into the Slab and was able to free him from his cell before Wretches broke into his ceiling bars with the help of JACK.
Dom gave Marcus a duffle bag with his armor and a Hammerburst and they both headed out of the cells into the main cell blocks. Marcus questioned why Dom was in the prison and how he could get into trouble, but Dom told him that, "things had changed".
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