F.E.A.R
Beta Squad
Introduction
F.E.A.R: Beta Squad takes place directly after F.E.A.R 2 ended. As I have understood Extraction Point, Perseus Mandate and F.E.A.R 2 all happen at the same time. Which is where I got this idea from. Pointman, named Jason on my story, has escaped Paxton Fettel and was drawn to the Still Island facility by the Telesthetic Amplifier. Both original F.E.A.R expansion are cannon for this story.
Keira Stokes has survived her shooting but barely. Alma stands over Michael Becket while he is still tied to the machine. A third F.E.A.R team was heading for the facility when they learned the last member of Alpha Squad, Jason, was heading there and they sought to rescue him but met Replica forces outside as they descended on Becket and Stokes who are unknown to Beta Squad. The youngest of Beta Squad, Artanis Drake, prepares to enter the facility
Prologue
The gunfire was incessant, almost as painful to Artanis' ears as the smoke was to his eyes. Bodies were everywhere, bodies of both Replica forces and of Beta Squad. Artanis watched in horror as a missile flew, almost as if in slow motion, at Sergeant Murdoch. The following explosion slammed Artanis into the airlock with such a force that his vision began to blur. He had but one choice now. Enter the facility and stop Alma destroying what was left of the area. With a groan of pain and using the wall for support, Artanis began to stumble inside the facility and towards an uncertain fate.
He heard muffled talking coming from the door up ahead, something that shouldn't have happened. As he neared the heavy metal door, a weight began to pull down on Artanis' shoulders, like gravity itself wanted him to keep away from the room. But no force on Earth was going to stop him reaching his goal, even if he died in the attempt. Less than a meter to go and he found it almost impossible to continue, let alone stand up. The pain he was feeling was like nothing he had ever felt before, so full on and powerful. One last step was all that it would take, then into the unknown. He almost leapt onto the door and, to his surprise, smashed the thing right off it's rusty hinges. The sound was deafening, dust and the like scattered into the air. He quickly raised his pistol, out of pure instinct, and aimed it straight at...a woman.
'What the hell?' she exclaimed loudly. 'Get out of my way before...' she barked before something cut her off mid-sentence. Artanis watched as the world around him took on an orange glow, at the same time turning darkest black. The woman in front of him tensed up, as if someone had grabbed her from behind. And then he heard it, the voice of a vengeful goddess calling the very Apocalypse onto this one woman.
'You have brought naught but pain and death to those around you Genevieve Aristide. Now pay for it all!' The voice both whispered and shouted inside Artanis' mind.
The woman in front of him, Aristide as it was, began to convulse with pain as something crawl beneath her skin. Artanis turned his head away as the lesions began to envelop Aristide's whole body, knowing full well what would happen to her. Moments later he felt a wave of warm liquid wash over his crouching form. Or at least he though he did. He could not, however, see any blood on his tattered F.E.A.R uniform. Not even the blood of Replica soldiers that he had killed outside. Confused, Artanis stood up and began to make his way to the orb-like thing suspended in the middle of the vast chamber. A rickety steel bridge lead to the front of the device where three figures were crouched. One was a brown haired man, and by his uniform was part of the Special Forces team sent to arrest Aristide. Another one laying on the ground and bleeding was a young woman in the same uniform, her sandy hair spilling over her pale face. The third was another woman, completely naked with long raven hair spilling in a tangled mess down her back. And it was she who fixed Artanis with her golden-red eyes...