Disclaimer: You see I'm not stealing FEAR which belongs to Monolith Productions and WB Games. I'm just "borrowing" it.
Author's Note: Well three reviews mean that Part 2 gets posted today. I want to thank you all for reviewing and I did fix up some of my mistakes on the last part. To be honest, I suck at spelling and grammar and Word doesn't always pick up everything. One thing I want to mention is that some people are interested on how Harlan has now been revived. It will be mentioned in this chapter about a project, Armacham has about reviving people from the dead. Also concerning Morales and Stokes being able to "see" Alma, I honestly think is debatable topic. For this story, people can sense Alma's presence but they can't see Alma unless she want them to see her. And for everyone except Becket, that means its bye bye for them. Also I've decided not to put Pointman and Paxton Fettal into the story for two reasons. One I think it would be too much to handle, and you will see less of AlmaxBecket. The other is that I can't find a real logical way to introduce these characters as Paxton is probably still a ghost and hasn't taken over Foxtrot 813's body yet and FEAR isn't in the position to loan anyone right now. Although I would have liked to do that, I think it would be too much for me to handle. The last thing is do not expect Interval 3 to be out for a while for a few reasons. One it is right now has four parts to it so it will take me a while to write. Another is that I have other stories to focus on as I have neglected them long enough. Lastly, my life is hectic and I can barely sit down to type for a good three hours without getting sidetracked or interrupted. So check my profile to see the progress I've made so far, and I hope to have it out by Mid-February. That doesn't mean that you can stop reviewing because that only is going to make the next update much longer. Reviews do encourage me to continue writing this story. So please review and enjoy the ending to Interval 2.
Characters (Human): Sergeant Michael Becket, Lieutenant Keira Stokes, Sergeant Manuel Morales, ?, ?, ?
Characters (Ghost): Alma Wade, ?, ?, ?
Characters (Clone): Harlan Wade
Interval 02: Recovery
Part 2: Seductress of Torture
When Top woke up, he had no idea where he was. All he could see was that he was in a dark dungeon with no idea where he was. Trying to move, he failed as he noticed that he was bounded to the wall with a thick rope that covered his hands and he was also dangling in midair. Turning to his left and right he noticed that there were to other people with him and they were none other than Fox and Keegan.
"Fox, Keegan, is that you," Top asked his two teammates.
"Yes it's me," Fox replied, "Hey where are we."
"We are in Alma's fucked up world," Keegan said, "In other words we are all dead."
"So this is what it to be dead," Top comments.
"No this is what it feels like to be absorbed," Keegan corrected, "We are all dead but we have been absorbed by Alma."
"I can't even remember anything," Fox responded.
"That's because we have all fallen under control of Alma," Top says, "All I know is that the damn bitch killed me with a giant black tentacle."
"Same here."
"Becket killed me."
"Are you telling me that Becket killed you?" Top yelled.
"Alma took over my mind and put me in her world. While in her world she was slowly and painfully killing me as I my flesh was slowly beginning to fall off. I was so mad and jealous of Becket since Alma didn't kill him that she used that to twist my mind. She forced me to attack Becket. In the end, the pain from the way Alma was killing me was too much to handle and I begged Becket to kill me, which he thankfully granted."
"That crazy son of bitch," Fox muttered.
"I hope you're talking about me," a female voice came from the room causing everyone to loose color in their face. The female entered the small light that was in the dark room to reveal none other than Alma in her adult form, lustrous curves and all.
"Why are you doing this," Top asked, "What did we ever do to you!"
"Nothing personal but you had strong psychic signatures," Alma replied, "I killed you all to absorb your psychic signature and become more powerful, except for Fox though because I only killed him because I thought he was my father."
"You killed me because you thought I was your father!" Fox yelled, "You took me away from my wife and my SEVEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER because you thought I was your FUCKING FATHER!"
Alma simply laughed before she slammed Fox back into a wall as hard as she could; causing him to let out a scream of pain.
"Why didn't you absorb Becket," Keegan replied, "He has the strongest psychic signature out of all of us. So why didn't you absorb him when you had the chance."
"I didn't have the chance to," Alma quickly replied, "He was stronger than I thought making it impossible for me to absorb him."
"That's bullshit, you had many chances where you could have absorbed him," Keegan yelled at her, "I saw what you did to him back in the Telesthetic Amplifier, while Becket and I were fighting. You could have absorbed him then, but noooo. You had to FUCKING RAPE HIM!"
Alma snapped as she used slammed Keegan in the wall before sending him upwards and smashing his head against the ceiling, causing Keegan to cry out in pain.
"Let me remind all of you that in my world, I can amplify your pain to make it ten times more painful than it normally would."
"Keegan, Fox stand down now," Top commanded.
"Top you can't possible…"
"I said stand down Sergeant Keegan! You are only making it worse for yourself by antagonizing her," Tops ordered. Turning to Alma he said, "Now I know you didn't come here just to be yelled at by us so what do you possible want from us."
"I want you to tell me everything you know about Sergeant Michael Becket."
Becket woke up and instinctively began to check out his new surroundings. He immediately noticed that he was now in a hospital bed, and quickly concluded that he was in a hospital. Suddenly all the memories of the mission last night and Alma surged back into his mind.
"Hey Becket, thank god your alive, you had us worried there for a second."
Becket tensed as he turned to find who the owner of the voice was, still too tired to decipher who it was. When he saw that the voice belonged to Morales, his body began to relax.
"Shut it Manny," Becket replied, "Where is Stokes, is she all right?"
"The bullet missed all her vital organs so she's alive and resting. When both of you feel up to it, we need to report to HQ and tell them what happened."
Becket started to get up and when Morales noticed it he quickly put his hand on Becket and said, "You have been out for over a day. You need to take it easy."
Becket looked at Morales which caused him to say, "Don't give me that look Becket, I know you well enough that you are going to work yourself till you drop."
"I do not…"
"Becket, I'm surprised you don't have a bed in the training room back at the base."
"Well when you dream of Alma, you tend not to sleep very well."
Morales stopped when he heard what Becket said. "Wait one minute; are you telling me that little girl wearing the red dress is Alma."
"Yes that was her when she was about eight years old before her father locked her in the Vault," Becket responded before something clicked in his mind, "Wait one minute. How do you know what Alma looks like? You and Stokes can't see her."
"Well Stokes told me about what you told her about that dream. And also one of the doctors that were in the operating room with you said that he saw a girl around sixteen, wearing a red dress."
"I have only seen Alma as a child and an adult. I haven't seen her as a teenager."
"But is there any chance that the teenager could be Alma?"
"Take me to the operating room."
"What are you crazy! The nurses and Stokes will kill me if I let you out of the room."
"Dammit Manny, Snake Fist said I was a beacon for Alma. If this girl truly is Alma, she will come."
"And then what. You are going to let her absorb you."
Becket remained silent causing Morales to look at Becket with curiosity before saying, "What did Alma do to you in the Telesthetic Amplifier."
"I don't want to talk about it."
Five minutes later, after an argument and a few questions to a nurse, Becket and Morales arrived at the operating room where Becket was examined in.
"Alright Manny, just wait outside this door. If I'm not out in five minutes, knock on this door three times before you barge in here."
"Alright Becket, it's your funeral," Morales said, "And just for the record if Stokes find out about this, this goes on your head."
Becket sighed before opening the door and entering the operating room. Closing the door behind him, he noticed that the operating room was much like the one at Fairport, except that it was more sanitary and it didn't have a dead soldier on the table.
"Alright Alma, I'm here is that what you want," Becket said into the opened room, "Haven't you done enough to me already. What more can you possible want from me."
The lights in the operating room shut off causing Becket to laugh. "Wow Alma that is some real scary shit. I didn't know there was a textbook on scaring people."
"Who said anything about trying to scare you," Alma whispered in Becket's ear.
Becket jerked his head around to see that nothing was there. He could tell that the voice belonged to Alma but something wasn't right about that voice. It sounded younger than the voice he heard when she was an adult.
"Is this what you did to Redd before you strapped him to an operating table and sliced him open."
"I didn't kill your friend. I just let Armacham do that to him."
"How can you live with yourself, Alma? How can you live with all that blood on your hands?"
"I have our baby growing inside me."
Becket stopped cold when he heard that. He was hoping that Alma being pregnant was just some fucked up nightmare but he was wrong. Turning around to where the voice was coming from, he turned and saw a young girl of no more than sixteen staring at him with her exotic golden eyes and tight red dress.
But something was different about Alma that he couldn't explain. Her raven hair that was once wild and looked like it hadn't been brushed for years, was now tamed and looked perfectly brushed. Her pale lips that were once cracked now were perfectly healthy and were now a shade of cherry red. Her pale skin was no longer pale but was now perfectly tanned and had a unique glow to it.
But in a flash, Alma's appearance changed. Her boy becomes like a skeleton, her raven hair becomes erratic and wild, her lips pale and cracked, her skin is as pale as a ghost, and her dress and skin was stained in blood.
Becket tries to back away from Alma but she grabs both of her hands and places them in her own hands forcing him to stay in front of her. Alma's skin was rough to the touch, unlike when they were in the Amplifier. Alma's eyes were red piercing eyes that could pierce his very soul.
Alma let out a soft giggle almost like a young girl who had just received a compliment from a boy she had a crush on. In another flash, her appearance changed again. Her cold red eyes now a divine gold; Her rough skin now soft as clouds; Her erratic hair now tamed and flowing; Her pale cracked lips now a succulent cherry red; Her pale skin now an alluring tanned; Her blood stained body now giving off a clean, lustrous shine.
"This is for you and only you Michael," Alma said to him, "No one but you and our unborn baby will ever see me like this."
Alma was about to kiss Becket, when the door knocked three times and Morales' voice said, "Alright Becket, Your five minutes are up."
Alma quickly turned back into her haggish form and let out a loud hissing sound that hurt Becket's ears. Black tentacles were beginning to form and the fresh memories of what she used them for still were fresh in Becket's mind.
Becket needed to distract her attention long enough so that she didn't liquefy Morales. Hoping that he wouldn't get liquefied herself, Becket tackled Alma to the ground.
Alma turned her attention to Becket and attacked Becket sending him slamming into the wall. Her tentacles withered away as she began to walk towards the falling Becket.
After five minutes was up, Morales knocked on the door three times before saying, "Alright Becket, Your five minutes are up."
Just as he was about to open the door, a female voice said, "Manny what are you doing here."
Morales turned around to see Stokes was standing in front of him, in her Dark Signal uniform.
"Stokes, hi…," Morales quickly stated, at a loss of what he should say, "Shouldn't you be recovering."
"This isn't 2010, Manny. The medical equipment at this hospital is advance enough to ensure a speedy recovery. So what are you doing here?
"Uh you know, just standing in front of this door."
"Why," Stokes asked putting her hands on her hips.
"Well uh… What are you doing here?"
"Trying to find you," Stokes replied before a loud thud could be heard from the operating room, "Ok what the fuck is going on?"
"How should I know, I'm not in the room."
"Stop being a smartass Manny and tell me what is going on in there."
"Uhm… Did you hear that Becket's up?" Morales quickly said without fully thinking it through. Morales internally cursed the fact that he cannot lie and the fact of saying things before thinking it though.
"Really now, so is he getting a lot of rest?"
"Well he is certainly not in this room confronting Alma."
Just if fate wasn't being cruel enough for him, Becket had to pick now to walk out of the room and said, "Well Manny that teenager is defiantly Alm…," Becket began before seeing Stokes, "Oh shit! Hi Stokes, lovely day we are having."
If looks could kill, Stokes glare could kill both of them right now as Stokes growled, "my room… NOW!"
"Manny what the hell were thinking, allowing Becket to go into that operating room," Stokes yelled at Morales once Becket, Stokes, and Morales entered Stokes's room.
"But…"
"I don't want to hear any excuses, Manny," Stokes retorted. Turning to Becket, she said, "Becket, what was going through your mind when you decided to go in the operating room where THE DOCTOR REPORTED SIGHTINGS OF ALMA!"
"Stokes…"
"I don't want to hear it, Becket. You are supposed to be resting in your bed instead of going anywhere near Alma."
"Aren't you supposed to be resting to? Why were you trying to find me?"
"First of all, I got cleared to be allowed to walk unlike YOU!" Stokes replied before glaring at Becket, "Second of all, I gave command and update on the situation and wanted both of you to be present for the briefing."
"Which you are now here for," the voice from the TV stated.
Both Becket and Morales jumped at hearing the voice of their commanding officer and both turned to the TV to face the guy. The TV was completely dark, because Command liked to keep its identity secretive to prevent any traitors to locate him.
"Lieutenant Stokes, Sergeant Becket, Sergeant Morales," Command began, "Normally I would be reprimanding you for killing the person you were supposed to capture, but giving the unique circumstances, I won't be. By complete sheer of stupid luck, Dark Signal actually completed the mission."
"How did we complete the mission," Morales asked, "We killed Aristide."
"The only reason we wanted Aristide was because we have reason to suspect that Armacham has been experimenting on kids, which you all know is illegal. The information that Lieutenant Stokes gave to me, courtesy of Dr. Halford, gives us enough evidence to produce a search warrant and investigate Armacham. The only downside to this is that since Fairport was Armacham's main base of operation, and it's now a smoldering pile of ash, most of the Intel is just speculation."
"So what do you want Dark Signal to do," Stokes asked.
"I want your team to capture and obtain the thing you call Alma."
"ARE YOU CRAZY!" Morales yelled, "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTAIN ALMA!"
"That's enough Sergeant Morales. I'm very aware of the situation with Alma but we have no choice. The data Halford gave us is useless since he is dead. No one is going to testify for us against Armacham. ATC was one step ahead of us and the best the data can give us is a search warrant. Since the explosion, Armacham is covering their asses and have been getting rid of all evidence that would accuse them of anything illegal. Alma is the only lead we've got and if half the things that Halford said are true, than Alma can give us enough information to destroy Armacham for good."
"Now since over half of your team is KIA, I'm putting Lieutenant Stokes in charge of Dark Signal."
"Thank you sir," Stokes replied to Command's promotion."
"I'm also putting three new soldiers on the team as well, to replace your dead teammates: Private Jack Wilcox, Corporal Ashley Darlan, and Sergeant First Class Kevin Allen. Private Wilcox maybe just fresh out of basic but he is an expert in hand to hand combat. Corporal Darlan is an expert medic having served a tour in North Korea. Sergeant Allan will be acting as the point man for your team and has a unique set of skills that will prove vital in capturing Alma."
"Sir," Stokes began, "I would like to put in a request."
"It's a free country Lieutenant so speak up."
"I would like for Sergeant Becket to sit out for this mission."
"Are you kidding me," Morales complained.
"State the reason for this motion Lieutenant."
"The doctors hear have yet cleared Sergeant Becket to active duty, like they have done for me. Also sending Sergeant Becket back into Alma's clutches is pointless considering the fact that Alma seems to be attracted to Becket. Becket is lucky that Alma hasn't killed him yet."
"Although I admire your resolve in protecting your team Lieutenant, I'm denying the motion. Becket is a person of interest in this case as he maybe the only one to have establish contact with Alma. We need him to convince Alma to help us and because of that Becket will not be serving active duty on this mission."
"What do you mean by that," Becket asked.
"It means Sergeant Becket, for this mission, you will be considered a civilian. Once you arrive to your destination, you will stay in the APC with Sergeant Morales and Corporal Darlan. She will make sure that you are clear for active duty. Once the rest of the team establishes contact with Alma, you will be escorted there to convince Alma to help us.
"Sir, how can Alma help us if she's dead," Stokes argued.
"In one of Snake Fist's reports, Harlan mentions Armacham's project of transferring a spirit signature into a cloned body. We are going to transfer Alma into a clone body and essentially bring her back from the dead. Once she has helped us get rid of Armacham, she will be executed. The last thing I need is a psychopathic killer who can kill anyone with her mind alive."
The TV turned off, ending the conversation and leaving three confused shoulders staring at a blank TV.
"Manny, escort Becket to his bed and stay there. Do not allow him to leave the room unless instructed by either me or his doctor." Stokes said.
Becket felt like if he was slapped in the face. Command had just basically stripped him of his title and made him practically a person in custody. As Manny escorted him back to his hospital room, the threat Alma made to him still rang clear in his head.
One Hour Ago
Becket grunted in pain as his back collided with the wall. Alma now in her haggish form began to stalk towards him while screaming, "ARE YOU TRYING TO HURT OUR BABY!"
"No, I'm trying to protect my friend from being killed."
Alma glared at him, the red glint in her eyes chilling him to his bones. Using her psychic powers she levitated him in the air while keeping him slammed into the wall so that he couldn't move and was completely in her mission.
"Now listen honey," Alma snarled, "I can kill who ever I damn well please, especially if they threaten our baby. So let me make myself clear. If you do anything to harm our baby, I will not hesitate in obliterating you from the face of the earth so that there will be NOTHING for anyone to bury."
And with that, Alma disappeared, leaving Becket alone in the cold and dark operating room.
"Dr. Wade it's so good to see you," a member of the ATC board said.
"What is the status of Project Terminator?" Harlan demanded, ignoring the soldiers comment completely.
"Sir, Project Terminator is a success."
"Well just don't stand there, bring it in."
Just as Harlan gave the order, a tall creature entered the room. It stood seven feet tall, wearing nothing but black clothing. It was completely bald, had grey skin, and had two piercing red eyes.
"Dr. Wade this is Hunter Prototype. Hunter is ten times faster and stronger than the average human, can track anything once it gets its scent, and is capable of killing its victims in less than three seconds."
"Good, now Hunter, I have a very important task for you. Now is all the evidence is cleared up."
"All the evidence is gone except for Project Tyrant."
"Excellent, now all we need to do is destroy the evidence from Project Tyrant. Once the evidence from Project Tyrant is gone, any chance of the government exposing our operations will be gone." Turning to Hunter, Harlan said, "Hunter, your first task is to kill Sergeant Michael Becket."
That is it for Interval 2. I have now introduced four OCs and brought back three guys from the dead. Since this is FEAR, anything can really happen so why not have the three dead Dark Signal members that were absorbed by Alma as ghosts in Alma's world. (Redd is debatable, but in the state he was in when he died, even if Alma did kill him, which is also debatable, he wasn't "absorbed"). Sadly Alma's world is not as fun as Elmo's World. Based on Keegan being sent to Alma's world, it is possible for Fox and Top to be there as well. Now the ending of this Interval might be confusing as now it is revealed that Becket might have tangled roots to Armacham. Since no ones past is explained in detail, I decided to make a past for Becket in this story and further explain why he can see Alma before anyone else who was experimented on. Now I know some of these things are confusing but that was how I set it up. You have to read on just and the confusing things in this story will be revealed.
Now since I'm not updating in about one and a half months (Ideal estimation to next update) and I left you with a cliffhanger (Fuck you Cliffhangers), It would be mean for me to not give you a small overview of how I planned Interval 3. The newly reformed Dark Signal heads to a secret Armacham base to find Alma where Snake Fist somehow manages to give Stokes vital information. Becket struggles to come to terms with Alma and whether to choose her or the mission. Alma sets her plan in to motion to force Becket to stay with her and their baby forever. The Huter Prototype begins his search for Becket and three ghosts escape to help Becket.
