Silent Gulch Chapter 1

Church stood on the top of blue base. He was looking though the sniper rifle like he always was when he wanted to look like he was actually doing something.

"Hey Church, does it seem foggy to you?" Tucker asked. The teal soldier stood at Church's right side, staring out into the canyon.

Church was shaken out of his thoughts by the question. He looked around the canyon and noted the growing fog. "You're right." He frowned. "It's never been foggy here before." Every time something like this happened bad stuff started to happen that made no sense.

"Big deal, man. All this means is the Reds won't be able to find our base. They'll get lost in the fog," Tucker said, lowering his rifle.

"It could also mean they'll use the fog as cover and attack us," Church retorted. With his luck the reds would probably find the base and Caboose would kill him again.

"Oh, please, we couldn't even find our base, how are they going to find it?" the teal-armored soldier joked.

"All I'm saying is we shouldn't let our guard down." Church looked back out into the fog. Something still bugged him about it, but he didn't know what. The red base was no longer visible. In fact, it was hard to even make out the outline of Sheila, who was only a few yards away.

Sister and Caboose came up from inside the base to where Tucker and Church were. "Hey, have you seen this fog?"

"No, we didn't notice the think creepy fog that is slowly surrounding our base," Church replied sarcastically.

"Oh, well there's a creepy fog." The yellow armored soldier said bouncing a bit to an unheard song.

"Thanks for the update." Church turned to look out into the canyon. "I don't know what it is but I have a bad feeling about this. It almost seems like—" Church was cut off by the sound of a woman screaming.

"Who was that?" Tucker asked, turning toward Sister.

"Don't look at me," Sister said. The five soldiers turned as four figures came running through the fog. "Hey, it's the Reds," she added.

"I guess you were right, they are attacking us." Tucker turned to Church. "Now what do we do?"

Church looked out toward the Reds. "They don't really look like they are attacking, unless that's Donut's battle cry." Then Church noticed that the Reds were disappearing into the fog. He was about to mention it to the others when he noticed that he could hardly see Tucker. He reached out to be sure that the soldier was still there but he felt nothing. His hand passed though the space where Tucker once stood.

It was then he noticed that his hand had no armor on it. That was wrong, very wrong. He was a robot, but his hand was flesh. "What the hell?" he said as he looked at his hands. He was in a living body somehow. His armor was completely gone and had been replaced by a worn-out cobalt T-shirt with a faded UNSC logo on the back and a pair of baggy camo pants.

He looked around and noticed that his team was gone. The concrete base under his feet was replaced by a worn-out street. The fog had started to thin a bit and he could see the faint outlines of buildings around him, and an old truck on the left side of the street. He examined the world around him until he noticed a large sign. The words were faded, but he could make out the words a bit. In dingy white letters the sign read, 'Welcome to Silent Hill'.

This time Church was sure he was in over his head. He didn't even know if his team was here as well. He decided to at least look around for someone to help him. He turned and started to walk down the street to find help.