Chapter 1
As I walked thru my office building I started to realise is was quieter then usual. Everyone sat at their desk's typing, the only sound was the clacking of keyboards. I went and sat in my cubicle. I went to check my email. I had gotten something from an anonymous person. It said, " Meet In Times Square In 5, or be killed" I began to panic, 1. I'd never been in this situation, 2. I was freaking out because I didn't want to get someone killed, and 3. I had to leave work some how. I began to think, I pulled the gun out of my briefcase, and shot off a shot. Everyone went chaotic, I ran for the elevator, I tapped the lobby button. I was in a hurry now, I stuck the gun in my pocket and waited for the elevator to bring me down. As soon as I got to the lobby I burst out the door. I ran for times square. My tie was flapping in the wind as I ran. When I got into Times Square there was nothing. No people, no cars, not a sound. I stood there in awe. I started to hear buzzing, then a helicopter landed in front of me. Two U.S army men grabed me and pulled me in to the helicopter and it took off again. I was scared as these two men started to talk, one of them started talk to me, he yelled, "YOU! IN!" I started to stutter, "W-w-why?"mumbled something and layed back. I didn't know where I was being taken, when the helicopter suddenly came to a stop. We landed, the two men grabbed my arms and dragged me into some place. They dropped me on the floor and I began to look around, I was in some kind of lab, there were millions of men all working on some kind of cell research. I sat up, these men pushed me over and searched me. They took my gun and my wallet. They then walked me into a room, sat me, down, and made me watch some kind of film. It was about the workplace and what they do here. It turns out, they do alien research and I was someone they needed to help research. I had no choice. The men came back in and pushed me into some kind of research room. Once they left I asked the man beside me what I had to do, he said just to wait it out he'll explain later. So I waited, I watched him work with some kind of egg. I began to adapt, after about 6 months I was working with my own egg and it was growing, I was the only researcher who had survived. All though I haden't been told how their deaths happened, little did I know the worst was still to come. About a week later the egg began to hatch I adjusted my glasses, the egg broke open, out came a little fuzzy crab looking creature. I adjusted my glasses again, it was what the guards had talked about, the Headcrab subject. I had seen many, the headcrab jumped around. It took afew more months, but as I played with it, fed it, and kept it nicely, it became to grow around me, it got bigger, and more crab looking, the fuzz went away and became soft shelled. I remember the faiful day the two guards grabbed me and brought me too see the C.E.O of the company I was with now, they never told me a name. He told me I had to go to some place called Black Mesa Research Labs. It was some underground testing facility. I had no choice but to agree, they gave me a new suit, and a briefcase with my gun and I.D. I was to deliver the headcrabs and set them free in Black Mesa. I was also to find a subject that could withstand the attack. I remember stepping into the tram system and hearing thos words, "Good Morning and Welcome To Black Mesa Transit System." I rode the tram and saw a passing bystander on another tram. I squinted his name tag said, "Gordon Freeman".