Hey guys. Anyway, before I start talking about this chapter, I thought I'd talk about my new Hunter variant.

I like to call them Ultra Hunters, and unlike normal Hunters, they're stronger, faster, smarter, their armor can resist the energy balls, their white, like the Elite Combine Soldiers, and they can fire the AR2 Secondary Fire. Also, they have red eyes, and have two little ones like and normal Hunter that are sort of into the surface of the Hunter, but their third big red one sticks out, like that of a Elite Soldier's helmet.

Anyway, about this chapter, Shepard fights everyones favourite Half-Life 1 enemy; the Ichthyosaur. Also guess what Ichthyophobia means. Fear of fish. I'm serious, when I was having trouble naming this chapter I looked up Fear of Fish on Google, that came up. I can see how Valve might of came up with the name now.

Anyway, onto the next chapter!

CHAPTER 4: Ichthyophobia

I was glad to finally be out of those sewers. My next order of business; find some ammo. I noticed what looked like supply crates nearby so I took out my wrench and started prying them open.

Then I heard a splash. I quickly turned to face the lake, and saw the small ripples on the lake, and held my pistol out at ready. Then a giant, carnivorous fish jumped out of the lake.

Xenotherus ichthycanthus or Ichthyosaur according to a poster I had seen in Black Mesa was what it was called, but I liked to call them mean bastard fish. As I turned back to collect the contents of the supply crates, I noticed it was surfaced above the water like an alligator, looking at me with those yellow eyes, its' red and green scales gleaming in the sun, and from that glare I could tell it wanted me for lunch. I remembered the trouble they had caused me in Black Mesa and shivered a little in fear.

The contents of the crates were some power cells that recharged my suit, medkits, and some AR2 ammo, but no energy balls, so there was no quick way for me to defeat this fish, and from what I knew, the gun wouldn't work underwater because it would get waterlogged.. I looked around for a dry way around the lake, but to no avail, all the cliff sides were too high to climb, and I remembered that new kind of Hunter had dropped down from there, who knew other Combine forces might be up there. The only way to go was across that lake.

I looked at the Ichthyosaur as it dived back into the water. I was going to make sure I got past it, hopefully with all my limbs. I dived into the water to see a new thing pop up on my HUD, dealing with levels of Oxygen in the suit. That meant this thing have Oxygen tanks, which would come in use for this.

The water was foggy as hell, so that damn fish would be able to ambush me from all directions, I stumbled upon the switches visions again, and this time fortunately found thermal vision, I quickly turned it on to see that the Ichthyosaur was coming straight at me, so I quickly swam down and avoided its gaping maw. Then I got an idea.

As I saw it coming toward me again, I swam up- and I landed right on its' back. I grabbed a tight hold with one hand, and held my wrench with the other and started whacking it repeatedly. It started maneuvering in every such direction, trying to get me off. It was hurt a lot now, as I could see the yellow blood flowing off into the water. Then it did something crazy.

It jumped out of the water, and did a flip, which unfortunately caused me to fall off, then as I tried to recover and get upright in the water, the thing grabbed with those little arms it has. It just stared at me, and I realized, my oxygen tank was out, and soon enough, I would drown, if this thing wasn't going to eat me first. Then it started to open its' mouth wide, and around me, and as I saw my impending doom draw near, a giant bolt of green electricity hit it, and it let go of me as it floated up, and then I could feel my lungs straining for oxygen as I tried to swim up, but all my strength was gone, and before everything went black, I could see a strange alien figure swimming toward me.

Sorry about the shortness of the chapter.

BTW, that splash was caused by everyones favorite silent protagonist; Gordon Freeman! U. Mostly to tie up where Shepard is in the timeline of HL2 and such. Anyway, start your reviews

WHO SAVED SHEPARD!? FIND OUT IN THE NEXT EXCITING CHAPTER; OLD FIENDS.