Half-Life 2: Side Story.
This is a story written by a friend of mine he asked be to post it up for him. Thus meaning it is not my own work.
Chapter 1
At the brink of night the sounds of a train Screeching to a halt echoes through the plains. As three harden rebels crawled silently through the long dry grass towards the Combine train, the could overhear the Combine's radio chatter as the clambered out of the train, "Vector 1, this is HQ we got reports of some rouges out there report any sightings and detain if possible over.", "copy that HQ Vector 1 out."
As the rebels crept closer their goal became, complicated "Looks like we got some soldiers guarding the dam thing." Keith said softly ot the others, Jake turned his head to the right to Keith and smiled "And when has that ever stopped us before huh?", Keith nodded and turned to his left to Mason "you hang Back here and give us cover, we'll sneak up on them and see whether or not we can hitch a ride", Mason gave a simple nod in response. "Alrighty." Kieth said as the walked towards the side of the train. "wait for it wait for it... Now." Keith yelled as he and Jake ran towards the train. Mason opened fire killing a solder in a blast of hot lead as they neared the train car, it was then that the combine realise that there was more than just one rebel out here.
As the soldiers mobilized Keith stepped out from between the train's engine and the first car. As Jake dove for cover beside Jake scrambled to get up off the ground Keith fired at the soldiers as they organized themselves. Every time he killed one another took it's place and returned fire. Mason was now lying in a new spot in the long grass towards the side of the action aiming his pulse rifle a soldier as he began to move forward towards the others , Mason smiled and fired a single shot with godlike precision and snickered "Headshot", Keith quickly stepped back behind the trian car as pulse rifle round shot past narrowly missing his head. The remaining soldiers started moving forwards closing in on the pinned rebels despite Mason's sniping. Keith slammed another magazine into his SMG preparing for the coming troops. The radios suddenly blared "GO,GO,GO!!" and the next car's doors burst open and even more combine troops lept from the train car to eliminate the rouge entities.
"Looks like there's something good on this train huh" , Jake said optimistically to keith as he reloaded his shotgun. "let's just focus on getting on the dam thing." Keith replied as more gunshots ricocheted off the side of the train car. " I have an idea!" Jake said suddenly, then he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a old 'flash bang' grenade. "where the hell did you find that?" Keith exclaimed as he continued to fire upon the approaching combine troops, "tell you later." Jake replied as he pulled the pin on the grenade and tossed it around the corner of the train car. As the grenade landed at the feet of the soldier Jake and keith adverted their eyes from the burst of light and noise, the soldiers were instanly blinded and were stumbing around disoriented as Keith and Jake both stepped out from around the corner of the train car and gunned down the combine mercilessly.
As the last glimmers of sunlight flickered across the horizon Keith stepped into the troops transport car on the train gun raised in anticipation of a survivor to be hinding in amongst the seats and weapon racks against the walls, but the was no one to be seen. Nearby Jake was raiding the combine soldiers body's for ammo and medical supplies.
Mason ran down from his sniping postion waving to the others as he got closer he said to Jake "ha ha! Another successful hijacking." Jake responded with a smile "yeah and I found some supplies, this is turning into our lucky day hey keith." Jake turned to face the open thrian doors expecting to see his friend standing there. But he wasn't "hey keith you there?" jake asked then he saw Keith step up and look at him "yeah I'm here, listen we'd better get on this thing before it starts up again." Jake looked at Mason before the both just on board the train we which sprung to life closeing the doors behind them.
Jake walked towards the local control console at the very end of the trains car at the head of the seat row. "I'll try and hack that thing and see where this train is heading and if there's anything special the combine are hiding. Sitting down near the console he began typing. Mason laided down across several of the seat in the car placed his gun of the ground the shut his eyes "if you two don't mind I'm going to try and get some sleep." Jake gave a nod and muttered "ok."
Keith looking around the train car spotted a overwatch standard issue AR2 pulse rifle mounted in one of the weapon racks and smiled "finally." he walked over put his Smg on the rack and picked up the AR2 and began examining it.
The sun had set and the train was moving as full speed across the horizion of blackness Keith sat down on the opposite to where mason was sleeping and began to feel his mind becoming blurry with fatigue. Placing his gun on the ground he lay down on the seats and slolwy went to sleep dreaming of a time before the 7 hours war.
