White Forest Base Hanger Bay
To Gordon, it seemed the world had only started spiraling into darkness. He watched numbly as a sobbing Alyx Vance knelt over the dead body of her father, Eli, who had been killed by a Combine Advisor.
"No... Dad..."
"Don't... leave me..."
His mind tried to process the events that had just transpired in front of him, only minutes ago.
Eli Vance was dead. Eli Vance, former scientist of Black Mesa and a major leader of the Resistance, was dead. Eli Vance, one of his only friends at the Black Mesa Research Facility and a fellow coworker for so many years, was dead. Eli had survived the Portal Storms, the initial Seven-Hours War, and had lived as a member of the Resistance for over twenty years, even with the Combine wanting him dead.
They had achieved it in the end, hadn't they? Eli was dead. The Combine had made sure of that.
No, wait a minute...
Gordon thought back to White Forest, his talk with Eli, and the message that the man with the suit and briefcase had Alyx deliver to Eli.
"Prepare for unforeseen consequences..."
It was him. It had to be him. He must've knew about the talk, about what Gordon and Eli had been planning to do... and with a single stroke, Eli Vance had been silenced.
Dead men tell no tales.
Alyx stopped moving, crouching beside her father's corpse. As if he had pressed an imaginary trigger, the world slowly faded into a monochrome darkness. A figure walked directly into his field of view, idly staring at a indeterminable spot behind Gordon's head.
"Doctor Freeeeeeeman... is it really, that, time...again?"
It was him.
Dressed in the same immaculate navy-blue suit and sporting the same tie as he had worn on that fateful day at Black Mesa, the Business Man grinned. He straitened his tie and, brushing his suit lapels, stared piercingly at Gordon.
"Really, Missster Freeman. Rebelling, against your... employersss, I see. I'm not... all that surprised, considering, your, line of... well, work."
Gordon glared defiantly at the Business Man, suddenly finding that he could not move at all.
Of course. He was trapped.
The bureaucrat smirked at him.
"Well, well, well... we'll see... about that!"
Suddenly, the walls of the hangar, the helicopter, even Alyx and D0g fell away to be replaced by a dark landscape.
The sky seemed to be filled with dark-green clouds, and the seemingly unending landscape was a barren orange wasteland. A single corroded pipe ran along a set of raised train tracks, both going in either direction as far as the eye could see.
Gordon looked back, to find that even the Suited Man was shocked. He was swinging around wildly looking about.
The Man shouted in a loud, panicky voice that reassured Gordon that he himself wasn't the only one scared.
"What is the meaning of this? Who brought us here? Where are we?"
A green portal appeared with a flash of lightning, right where the Business Man was standing. The Man looked down.
"No! You can't just teleport me! Do you even know who I" - The rest of hs words were cut off as he disappeared in a flash of green light.
Gordon was alone, hovering a thousand feet above an alien landscape.
"Hmmm?"
A voice rang out.
Gordon started. It was the voice of the Suited Man!
"Well, well, well. Isn't that odd."
Gordon screamed inside his head.
It's me, you sinister bureaucrat! Get me out of here!
Gordon's vision began to darken slowly. Before he fully lost conciousness, however, he saw what appeared to be the Suited Man. Gordon desperately tried to reach out to him, but was unable to do so before his world went pitch black.
So, that's the first chapter! Tell me what you people think! - Horizon