Prologue
Day X, the day humanity fell, the day a hero was born, the day the fate of humanity was changed forever. That day, was called.
The Black Mesa Incident.
Gordon stepped into the giant test chamber, the orange walls and the rounds shaped form made it rather confusing to stand in. The giant structure in the middle of the room, seemed hollow with a platform in the middle, above it another structure with three giant objects floating next to it, only held up by a thin metal support beam to the main body, small green sparks emit from the middle now and then. A loud voice emit echoing the whole chamber, it came from the loudspeakers.
"Testing, testing… Ahem, everything seems to be in order." Then came another voice.
"All right Gordon, your suit should keep you comfortable through all this, the specimen will be delivered to you in a few moments." A slight pause "If you would be so good as to climb up and start the rotors, we can break the anti-mass effect traumata to 80% and hold it there until the carrier arrives." The voice echoed in the room.
Gordon slowly walked over one of the three elevators and over to the ladder, as he climbed higher he could hear a cracking noise, though he ignored it and continued. When he got on the catwalk he walked all the way over to the panel, he then pulled the cover of the button up, revealing a red light on the top of the panel and a yellow button on the lower part of the panel. He then pressed the yellow button, initializing the 'rotors' that made the three giant floating objects spin around, the green sparks intensified.
The voice spoke again "Very good, we'll take it from here…" another voice spoke "Power to stage one emitters in three, two, one." A loud green beam emit from the upper structure, connecting to the lower structure, the power could be felt in the whole room as it lit up.
"I'm seeing predictable phase arrays" the voice said again, "Stage two emitters activating… Now."
The green electric beam emitted a stronger light, the younger voice spoke "Gordon we cannot predict how long the system can operate in this level, nor how long the reading would take, please work as quickly as you can."
Climbing down the ladder again the older voice spoke "Overhead capacitors to, one-oh-five percent, uuh it's probably not a problem, probably. But I'm showing a small discrepancy in… Ugh, well… no, it's well in executive boundaries, sustaining sequence."
"I just been informed that the, sample is ready Gordon, it should be coming up to you any moment now. Look to the delivery system for your specimen." The younger voice echoed in the room. "Standard insertion for a NON standard specimen, go ahead Gordon lock the carrier into the analysis port." And then all of a sudden a whole other voice said "What is he doing in there?" just as Gordon pushed the cart into the beam.
A loud explosion emit from the cart and the beam, "Gordon! Get away from the-" a voice got cut off by another "Shutting down-", "No!", "-Attempting to shut down!", multiple explosions emitted from the structures, the panel on the walkway exploded, "It's not- Shutting down!" pieces of the roof started breaking off, Gordon could not hear anything besides explosions. A giant green electric beam hit the control room window, it emit a big fireball, and then. Everything was silent.
Creatures from Xen started to teleport into the Black Mesa facility, everywhere in the facility the security guards did their best to keep the staff and themselves safe, with little success. The Hazardous Environment Combat Unit was dispatched along with the US Special Forces to aid the scientists, or it was believed so until they started executing everyone in the facility, yet there was one man that they could not kill. The one man in an orange HEV suit, the one man with the crowbar and the glasses. The one Free Man.
As the car carrying Eli Vance, his young daughter Alyx Vance and a Doctor Isaac Kleiner exited the facility, in the quite opposite end of the facility another car left, but this one with Gordon Freemans best friend, Security Guard Barney Calhoun, Doctor Magnusson and two other scientists. As the only survivors that escaped the incident, Doctor Gordon Freeman is to believed to be dead. But they would one day find out that they were wrong.
Only ten years after the incident, a large portal rift emerged in the sky, an alien force exited it in great numbers, yet this was not the creatures they had encountered before, oh no. This, was the Combine.
The Universal Union they called themselves, the large portal rift in the sky marked the beginning of the Seven Hour War, and the end of humanity's freedom. Taking it in a swift of seven hours, all earths government surrendered under one man, Doctor Wallace Breen, the former administrator of the Black Mesa Research Facility, was now crowned as the Administrator of Earth by the Union. Creating large towers in the biggest cities of earth, they created walls. To hold in its residents, and hold the Xen creatures out.
Now, in the year 2016, humanity lives as the Citizens of the Union, located in different cities only named by numbers. The citizens live, but not alone, they live among the Civil Protection Force, humans, who have volunteered to become the cities of earths protection force, they hold the law at first, and the citizens at last. Caring little for the citizens the issue constant beatings, raids, and they on a general basis murder hundreds in the city, anyone who dares to oppose them are killed, anyone who does not abide by them, are executed. Normal citizens are dragged away, into Nova Prospekt, an ex-prison. Now, under the control of the Union, torturing and inhuman things are done in the facility, taking all the humanity the citizens have left, and making them the feared Overwatch Transhuman Arm, soldiers of the Union. They, have no emotion left, they are mindless creatures. The shell of a human, with the soul of the combine.
And here, our characters story starts. A normal citizen, by the name Sarah Alexandra Glade, with one sole purpose. To stay alive.
Stay Tuned for more folks!