This is, sort of, a 'what if' situation. After playing HL2 the idea got stuck in my head that Barney should have been found out. So I wrote this. If enough people like it I'll write a second chapter detailing his escape.
Barney stared blankly ahead as he guarded one of the many energy barriers, not even bothering to raise his stun baton at any citizens who were walking by. To much was on his mind. Black Mesa East had been raided by the Combine. Dr. Vance and Mossman where both captured and Gordon had escaped into Ravenholm. Barney grimaced as he thought about that. It wasn't Nova Prospect, but it still wasn't somewhere anyone wanted to be, except for that crazy priest. What made the situation even worse was that Barney was pretty sure he had been found out, or was at least under more suspicion than usual. He decided it would be best to avoid Kleiner's lab for a few days and catch up a bit on his "beating quota."
Once his shift was over Barney went to the nearest place he could contact Kleiner without being disturbed, a mostly empty building with some disused interrogation rooms. Still, he locked the door once he was in one just to be safe.
"Yes, who is it?" Kleiner snapped as his face appeared on the screen.
"It's me Doc." Barney replied as he set his mask on the console.
"Ah, hello Barney! How are things in Civil Protection right now?"
"Tensions are pretty high right now and I think they've actually got people following me, Doc!" Barney said and glanced over his shoulder. He thought he'd heard someone trying to open the door.
"Ah, I see." Kleiner said and touched a hand to his moth thoughtfully. "Well, I can go for a few days without seeing you. If you can, contact me, or at least someone who can get word to me, in two days. Take care Barney."
"I'll try." Barney muttered as ended the call and wiped all traces of it.. "Okay Barney, back to the slaughterhouse." He sneered as he picked up his helmet. Suddenly the door blew off its hinges. Barney whipped out his pistol and turned to see five Civil Protection Metrocops, two of them holding AR2s. Quickly, he forced himself to relax and holster his weapon. It was a mistake Barney would not forget for a long time. The Metrocops were on him in a flash. He only managed to shoot one of them in the head and another in the stomach before the pistol was painfully twisted from his hand and a vicious uppercut dealt to his chin. As soon as his back hit the console, Barney pushed himself forward and tackled a Metrocop to the ground, and jumped up knocking another senseless with an elbow to the chin. Then he jumped to the door only to have the air knocked out of him by the back of an AR2. When he didn't go down right away the Metrocop slammed him on the back of the head. Coughing and cursing Barney was forced up onto his knees and his hands were locked behind him by the Combine version of handcuffs.
"So what, are you some Anti-Citizens who who managed to knock ou-gah!" Barney winced as a Metrocop grabbed a fist full of his hair and twisted his head towards a corner of the ceiling. All the color drained from Barney's face as he saw what was lurking up in the shadows. An old human security camera blinked its little red light at him.
"Shit..." He whispered before being stood up and taken away.