While retreating into the Tomb, the unknown Gear is killed while providing cover fire. Kim is separated from the others and is killed by General RAAM.
After finding three more privates from Alpha, Damon Baird, Gyules, and an unknown Gear, they are ambushed by Locust Forces. Marcus then eliminates the Seeders using the Hammer of Dawn. Marcus, Dom, and Kim are able to meet up with a private from Alpha Squad, Augustus Cole, who says the rest of Alpha are at the Tomb of the Unknowns and that transmissions have been blocked by Seeders. En route to Alpha’s last known location, Carmine is killed by a Locust sniper. They recieve orders to find Alpha Squad and secure possession of the “Resonator”, a device intended to map out the Locust underground tunnel network for the Lightmass Bomb.
Both manage to escape the prison moments before it is destroyed by a Corpser, and then meet up with the other members of Delta Squad, Anthony Carmine and Minh Young Kim. Act 1: Ashes – As the game opens 14 years after Emergence Day, former soldier Marcus Fenix is freed from the Jacinto Maximum Security Prison by his close friend, Dominic Santiago, who needs Fenix’s help in the fight against the Locust.