One year later…

Chris walked down the hall way of the new base labeled "BLACK MESA EAST" Chris found right outside the city, with Lucky right next to him. He decided to see what Alyx was doing, so he headed to the scrap yard.

"Alyx?" Chris said walking around the entrance of the scrap yard. Lucky hooted in kind.

He heard Alyx's laughter and he smiled until a box came hurtling towards him over the wall his movements were lightning fast, he activated his blades and shot out of the sides of his arms the blades went from his elbow to his wrist. He cut the crate in half with no difficulty and hit shattered on the ground. The blades shot back into the suit he turned to the door the led to the larger part of the scrap yard and activated his stealth system and faded away, Lucky, in kind, faded into the shadows.

Chris crept up behind Alyx and let out a quiet "Boo!" into her ear and faded into existence.

"AHH!" she shouted. Alyx was still learning Chris's tricks.

DOG came in howling and hooting in anger, he obviously didn't recognize Chris because DOG never saw him with his TRIBAL suit on him plus he made Alyx scream. DOG'S arm slammed into Chris's right side and sent him flying, but as soon as the hand made contact with him his blades had came out and as he was moving he cut dogs arm right off it hit the ground about the same time Chris hit the concrete wall.

"Holy Shit, Chris!" She yelled as DOG was about to finish the job when lucky leaped out of the shadows and tackled DOG and pinned him, which was hard for a strider to do.

Chris took off his mask and stared into Alyx's Eyes. "Hey there." Chris said calmly as if nothing had happened.

They had started to become something of a couple Barney and Eli always joked around about them being inseparable and things of the sort the worst though was when they were found sleeping in the same bed, though it was just that they were tired and trusted each other enough to fall asleep in the same bed and obviously nothing extreme had happened, they never heard the end of it.

He pulled her closer and kissed her passionately as DOG whooped apologetically and threw stuff together to make a new arm. Lucky fell asleep in a ball next to them. Two weeks ago Alyx was almost brutalized by an antlion guardian but at the last minute Chris dove in and took the blow. He was a guardian angel. Then as the kiss broke she asked him "How, old are you?" "23" he replied "Wow I was expecting 30!" she blurted out.

He stared at her with his impenetrable grey eyes. She apologized with her hand over her mouth. "no, its fine, I just get so banged up is all really and going through black mesa at six years…" he was interrupted by Alyx "You were at Black Mesa!?!?" Alyx said astonished. "A story for another time." Chris said. "Now where were we?"

Eplanations for everything will be in future chapters (why I decided to cut of dogs arm, what happened through the last year etc.) P.S Chris Jerson= ULTIMATE BADASS