you find a broken down combine Elite, it's body rotten with one arm missing, his body covered in graffiti, his helmet dented, and the stitches covering one of his missing eyes was removed, his "eye" on his helmet that was implanted as a cybernetic, a single red circle, is smashed, you take the combine home and hope to repair it, you've heard myths of these, but it's been a decade since anyone saw a combine