Authors note: I know this is chapter is very early but I will not be able to update this week. :( I may be able to update Saturday, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Alyx's POV

1200 hours

Alyx was in the "Teleporter Room" standing beside Bella in awe of how small it was. It's red paint was chipping off from frequent use. It was also barely a foot in diameter. She watched in shock as it started to spin, and glowing a light red on the top. As it was spinning faster, she heard the whirring grow higher in pitch. Then suddenly a man appeared with what looked like red sparks at his feet as he stepped off the teleporter.

"Malcolm!" squealed Bella as she ran to him hugging him tightly. Malcolm was tall, handsome, lean, looked 21, with dark hair, green eyes and a duffel bag slung over his shoulder. She watched the couple embrace. They heard the teleporter spin again, this time, a shorter guy that looked 18 with red hair, a face like a rat's, and green eyes. Also, with a duffel slung over his shoulder. He slunk over to Bella, and put his arm around her waist.

"Can I get a piece of this action?" he asked with a smirk of arrogance.

"Nathan! For the last time! Leave Bella alone!" Malcolm roared at him, obviously, in no mood to play.

"Make me!" he responded pulling Bella over to him. She quickly slapped him and struggled to get out of his grip. Nobody noticed another person step off the teleporter. This one was a woman with a long knife strapped on her back holding a sniper rifle.

"Oi, wanker! Get your grubby little hands off the sheila, before I bloody hack them off!" she shouted to Nathan, holding her long knife threateningly. Bella returned to Malcolm's side, smirking. Nathan's face was priceless. He was backing away from Bella stammering:

"I-I-It's not w-what it looks like T-Tonya. W-we were j-just talking." Tonya gave him a terrifying smile.

"Well, if it's nothing why are ya still bloody in here?!"

"I'm going. I'm going! Geeze!" He reaches for Bella's hand.

"Don't touch me/her!" shouted Bella and Malcolm simultaneously. He moves his hand away from her, as Alyx shouts,

"Yeah, leave her alone, pervert!" Nathan then turns and slaps Alyx across the face hard. Although it takes Bella, Malcolm, and Sarah to hold her back, he taunts,

"Don't you eva' cross me again!" (1) As he slaps her again, two people entered the room. One stepped off the teleporter, behind her. This one was a pyro and had on a red full body asbestos suit and black gas mask, carrying a flamethrower with an axe strapped to his back. He just stood in shock at what he saw, and at the other person who entered. Gordon came barrelling into the room just in time to see Nathan slapp Alyx.

"Ooooh. You're gonna get it now, Nathan." laughed Alyx, as all in the room turned toward Gordon, who was storming over towards Nathan.

Gordon's POV

"Finally." Gordon thought as he saw the sign for the "teleporter room". He somehow had got himself lost in the base, and had finally asked for directions. However, at that moment, he felt as if Alyx was for some reason in trouble and could feel hot pain rushing out of her. Gordon, panicking barreled into the room just in time to see a rat-faced boy slapping Alyx in the face.

"Ooooh. You're gonna get it now, Nathan." laughed Alyx, as all in the room turned toward Gordon, who was storming over towards him. Nathan panics and tries to run as Gordon slammed him into the wall.

"Geez, I ain't done nothin' to ya." Nathan said as Gordon ignored and pinned him against the wall.

"Don't you dare hit her again." He spat venomously. "Don't you touch her, speak to her or look at her again. Got it."

"Put me down." Nathan struggled.

"I'm not letting you go until Alyx thinks you got what you deserved." He stole a quick glance at her and she smirked.

"Dere's gonna be trouble if ya don't put me down now, four-eyes." Gordon promptly pulled out a pistol and shot him in the foot.

"Wanna try that again?" growls Gordon, as Nathan screams. "Or do you want the next to be a bit higher?"

"Screw you! Tin-man." Nathan hissed in pain.

Gordon stomped on Nathan's foot, breaking it, and was about to shoot him again, when someone interrupted him.

"Vat is happening here? You! Stop zat. You have broken his entire foot. Don't you see zat you have done enough to him. Ja?" asked a German accented woman, with a white lab coat, grey skirt, blonde hair, blue eyes, a Medi-gun, a bone saw, and a pair of small framed glasses to top it all off, this was the Alpha medic.

"Aye. lad. The lass is right. Isn't it about time ya stopped. He's just a wee laddie, let him go this once." agreed a black, Scottish man with a grenade launcher, a shield and sword, an eyepatch and a bottle of alcohol, or more simply, the Alpha Demoman

"Da, Tiny baby man has learned lesson." grunted a monster of a man behind the two. He was wearing a blue t-shirt, grey pants, and was currently carrying a sandwich in his hand. He was the Alpha Heavy. Apparently they had arrived unnoticed among all the ruckus. Gordon let Nathan go, who immediately scrambled away. Alyx looked at him worried as the final Alpha Team member stepped off the teleporter. She was a short, red headed, Southern woman who was wearing a pair of overalls, red top, a hard hat, a pair of goggles pulled up to her forehead, a single glove over one hand, a wrench in her belt loop, and was holding a rather strange shotgun in her hands.

"Mister, ya best git going real fast-like before ya find out why this is called the, 'Widow-maker'." she threatened to Nathan.

"Ah, screw all of you, try taking me one-on-one then see what happens ya cowards." He challenged.

"Benji, sick 'im!" cried the woman. The Pyro immediately raised up its flamethrower and charged Nathan, spewing white-hot flames. Nathan squealed like a little girl, while racing out the door while the rest of the group laughed especially Bella and Alyx.

"Anyone else I need to set on fire?" Benji asked as he pulled his mask off.

"Nah, we're good, Benji." answers the southern woman, while he, and the final three in the room join the group.

"Well who are these guys? Lets see, we have the orange tin-man, a cp wanna-be and some random chick. Did I get it?" asked Benji. The room erupted in laughter.

"No you didn't." Sarah finally. "The 'cp wanna be' is Barney, the 'random chick' is Alyx Vance, and the 'orange tin-man' is Gordon Freeman." The new arrivals look at Gordon, with expressions of complete shock.

"Bella, tell me she's joking." said Malcolm who was holding her hand.

"Sorry, Malcolm. Zis is Gordon Freeman." said Bella smiling at him.

"Is it true that you destroyed Nova Prospekt?" asked Benji. Gordon nodded,

"Yeah but it wasn't just me. I couldn't have done it without Alyx, and the teleporter malfunction is what destroyed it."

"Oi'd always thought those were just stories." said Tonya in shock. "Well, we're glad to have a bloody legend here to help, mate." The excitement was short lived, however, because of a certain someone who chose that moment to scream over the intercom.

"Look alive, maggots! The Combine are arriving in thirty minutes! To your positions! Do not disappoint me!

Author's note: Sorry this is only two POV's it was an earlier chapter and It just so happens to work better like this, however; this is one of my favorites because there is a crap ton of new characters introduced. Also, I think you see a more overprotective side of Gordon, although it's slightly a bit much. There's also a hint of what he and Alyx can sense about each other. Oh and for those who have trouble with accents for Jessica the "th" is replaced with "v," for Nathan the "th" is replaced with a "d," and for Tonya the "i" is sometimes replaced with "oi."

Reference:

(1) This is one of the Scout's revenge lines.

And again, I'm sorry I won't be able to update most of this week. I may or may not make it up to you guys and, in the future, post two chapters in one day. Anyway, thank you for the 78 total views and two reviews. I really appreciate it. Every little view makes me smile and a review completely makes my day. Thanks a bunch, guys. See you in a week.

-Elizabethia