Ok, this one is finally uploaded. Sorry it took a while, just had some stuff going on here (procrastination, stuff like that). Here things start to become interesting with Armacham, but whattttt? O_O Well thats for you, the reader, to find out isn't it? Oh yeah, I do not own the FEAR series or claim ownership to the company's work that indeed makes it. Because if I did, then that would be sweeettt

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F.E.A.R.

FIRST ENCOUNTER ASSAULT RECON

INTERVAL 05 - EXTRACTION

BLINDSIDE

The "Point Man"

From where I ended up, I was just a few feet away from a red door. After opening it, I was now in a small room that would lead me outside. Looking out of the filthy windows inside, I saw there were 4 Replicas shooting at something into the air. That was when I saw a helicopter coming from the west flying on over to the east. It was definitely the Black Hawk that Delta and Bishop were gonna use to get out of here. I guess it also helped when Holiday reported "I've got a visual on the chopper." over the radio. The soldiers up ahead were saying to each other "Regroup!" and "Yes, sir!" as they tried desperately to shoot it down. Since they were distracted, I could get a clean shot of them from here.

Opening the door leading to the roof, I waited to get closer before I opened fire at the unsuspecting troops. After killing them, I headed to the right some more until I saw another soldier with a shotgun. Just as he fired a shell at where I was, I quickly took cover next to a electric generator. From his footsteps it seemed like he was rushing to my position. I went around the machine to attack him from his left side, to where he was most vulnerable. When he saw me, it was too late for him as I gunned him down. Another Replica came out from behind another machine next to his fallen comrade. Easily, I opened fire at him, easily ending his life as well.

I had begun to notice that some of these Replicas were wearing different uniforms. Some of them had more black on their vests as well as red visors covering their faces. I guess they were bringing out the more advanced soldiers in their army to try and stop us. Anyway, I was continuing my way through the roof by passing through some more ventilation and generators scattered about. From where I could see, there was another door several feet away that I could use to get back inside. However, the door opened quickly as a Replica told his squad "The target is on the roof." Four of them came out, two with a SMG, another with a shotgun, and the last carrying an ASP rifle.

They didn't see me yet, so I took cover and waited for them to come near my way. Just as they did, I snuck around the edge of where I was hiding so they still couldn't see me. After they passed by, I had put aside my rifle and snuck up to the one carrying the ASP and broke his neck. Next, I snuck behind the guy with the shotgun and broke his neck as well. The two in front guessed that something was wrong and turned around to see me next to their dead teammates. Before they could bring their weapons up, I quickly brought up my pistol - which I probably haven't used in hours, now that I think about it - and opened fire to the two of them, ending their lives.

Needing another weapon would probably be something best to take. So I grabbed the ASP on the ground and holstered it to the side and replaced my assault rifle with the SMG as well. Going inside, I was now near some more machines scattered around. Two more Replicas were coming from the direction I was going when they spotted me. Before they could open fire at me, I ran on over to the right to where there was another pathway I could take. Running away from them, I noticed that there was another couple of grenades lying on the table I could use. Okay, now I know they are just leaving shit behind and not realizing it.

Grabbing them, I then left one behind to where I took it, knowing that the Replicas were still chasing me. And sure enough, they showed up with two others following them as they tried to corner me. They realized too late that the round object near their feet was a grenade when it went off. Blood and limbs flew everywhere, pretty much leaving nothing in their wake. Continuing on, I made my way around some more electronics and equipment to when I reached another desk next to a railing. On the desk was a handheld radio with a newscast going on.

"We have an update on the situation at Armacham headquarters. A company spokesperson has confirmed that many employees were still at work when the situation first erupted. No word yet on the welfare of those inside." Maybe it was for the best that no one saw what exactly happened inside, would be my response to that.

"Since it was founded in 1964, Armacham Technology Corporation has become a leading aerospace/defense contractor, with revenues approaching 8 billion dollars and almost 60,000 employees worldwide. The company specializes in satellite technologies, ground-based communications, and advanced weapon systems."

The news went on break as their "catchy" theme tune was playing. Getting back to meet up with Holiday and the others, I went over the railing and found myself in front of a closed elevator. The sound of a chopper was heard nearby, which meant that must be our ride out of here. Maybe they came up from this elevator I was standing next to. There was another ASP rifle lying next to it, which I took its ammo and kept on going.

Going around the next corner, I finally reached the exit to the roof. The helicopter was several feet from my position, and I saw Holiday trying to lift Bishop onto it. Suddenly, they were getting shot at from the left side that the Black Hawk was facing. Bishop was hit on the back with a couple bullets as Holiday tried to get inside the helicopter. He yelled out "We're taking fire! Get us the hell out of here!" with the Hawk now leaving the LZ, for it was taking too much gunfire to stay on the ground. I was now stuck on the roof with more Replicas while my backup was flying away. Betters got on the radio to ask what happened over the situation.

"What's happening?"

"Bishop's down! Repeat, Bishop's down!" Holiday told us. Great, after all that work and we still failed to keep him safe. Motherfucker...

"That was ATC security!" Holiday shouted. Wait, what?

Looking back down to the ground after the Black Hawk left, I saw that there wasn't any Replicas to be seen. Instead, it just about two regular security guards for Armacham. They had on small caps, black sunglasses over their eyes, wearing black pants and a white shirt covered in black body armor. Some of them were of Caucasian and dark skin tones.

"Are you sure!" Betters asked Holiday in disbelief.

"Oh yeah, I'm sure." Holiday said with an angry tone.

"Friendly fire?" Betters speculated.

"Didn't feel very friendly to me. I think they were deliberately targeting Bishop." Wait a minute, so that means they were trying to kill their own employees?

"What the fuck is ATC doing!" Betters yelled out, which I was thinking about as well.

"Guess they didn't trust him to keep his mouth shut about something." Holiday told him.

"God, I hope you're wrong... I'll look into it." Betters said quietly.

Goddammit, so not only was an army of clone soldiers attacking this place, but now I gotta deal with their own security squad? Fucking bullshit, that's what is happening here. Taking cover next to the wall by the door, I brought out the ASP and used its scope to look further ahead. The two ATC guards that were firing at Delta were standing next to a flight of steps that down to the lower section of the roof. They didn't know I was here yet. Taking my chances, I opened fire with 3-round bursts at both of the guards. If they are out to kill us, then I'm sure as hell not gonna hesitate on sparing them. After killing them, I went outside and took cover by the wall next to look further out from the roof.

There wasn't any more of them on the lower part of this roof, but there was a small interior in the center I could enter. Problem was, there was two other guards on the roof of that building that were scouting ahead for any other soldiers like me running about. That and they must've seen their teammates die from such a distance would leave them worried. Looking through the scope of my ASP, I could see that they too had the same weapon I was currently using. If I went out now, they would tear me to pieces.

To fight fire with fire, I aimed carefully down my sights to where the both of them were exposed. Quickly, I opened fire at the one on the left who was closest to taking cover. 3 rounds to the head was all it took to get the job done. The one next to him on the right yelled "Sniper!" until I eventually killed him too. There were two more coming out from the middle part of the roof shooting near my position. From this distance, it would be a waste to use the rest of the bullets I had left of the ASP. Bringing out my pistol, I activated my reflexes and went out of cover. Keeping a strong grip to my gun, I aimed carefully to the two guards that were firing at me. They were so shocked on how fast I was moving that they were caught off guard, leaving me an opportunity to show them both in the head.

Seeing that the coast was clear, I went over the railing down to the lower section of this roof. Before I reached the metal steps that led back inside, there were was another set of ATC security coming out from the right up ahead. Unlike the Replicas, who were more careful and had better strategies, these guys were more reckless and less trained to fight. Fortunately for me, they were easier to take down compared to the clone soldiers. From here, all it took was a few more headshots for them to go down easily. Leaving them behind, I went inside and stopped when I heard some chatter ahead. Looking around the corner, I saw some more ATC guards coming down some stairs as they were talking to each other.

"Bishop has been neutralized."

"Good work. Farley's men are still looking for the Wade girl, so see if you can locate Iain Hives."

"Will do." They finished.

So Bishop isn't the only one that Armacham wants. They also want that Hives person I heard about on the phone earlier and Harlan Wade's daughter. All of this reeks of conspiracy, no matter how you look at it. And I knew from facing these guys outside that they won't reveal what their motives well. Whoever the asshole is for paying these guys to do all of this dirty work is gonna get what they deserve soon enough. But right now, I have to focus on figuring out how to avoid more of their reinforcements.

There was two of them still coming down the steps slowly, with another two standing around next to some machinery underneath them. Really wishing I still had more grenades, I had to make due with what I had. Grabbing my SMG, I opened fire at the guard who was closest to the top of the stairs. After killing him, his body was falling down which tripped the other guy who was still coming down. Since he was distracted, I focused on the other troops who just now saw me. Before they could fire at me, I quickly took care of them with just a few chest and neck shots. Then finally, the last one who was trying to recover from the fall was dealt with as I shot him straight through the head. Good thing these guys aren't as heavily armored as the Replicas.

Grabbing some more magazines of the SMG from the guards, I went up the stairs which led me to the top of this place. I was standing next to the dead soldiers that I sniped earlier. After grabbing their ASP ammo as well, I went around the roof of this place some more till I reached another ledge. From here, there was a door all the way across next to a wall that I can enter back inside. Problem was, it just opened with 3 more of ATC's people scouting the place. They were all following each other in a single file when they were getting out, so I could probably shot them all down consecutively. Pulling out the rifle, I aimed down and shot down all the guards with no problems.

After reloading, I climbed over the ledge and made it to the door that the security came from. Going inside, I made my way around some more electrical boxes on the walls until I reached a small desk next to a wall. Over the railing next to me was a very big drop over something below. On the other side of the drop was another room that I could take to get around. There was a long vent I could jump on top of to reach over to that spot. It was then that I was ambushed by two guards as they were firing at me from the other side.

Taking cover, I noticed that there was another electrical box behind both of them. Bringing out my pistol, I fired one shot at the box causing it to explode. The guards never even saw it coming, as they were fried in an instant. Carefully, I climbed over the railing above the vent and cautiously dropped down on top of it. No problems from the impact. But just as I was walking along it, the entire unit disconnected itself as the whole thing gave away. I was now falling for quite a while down. Last thing I heard was Betters calling out to me.

"Shit! Your signal's breaking up!"

And for a moment, I thought that I was gonna be dead at any second. But instead of hitting some kind of floor with hard cement, I landed in some kind of water. Not even holding my breath, I struggled to swim further up until I got my head above the surface of the water. Looking around, I was in some kind of maintenance for this building. There were several pipes everywhere, some larger than others. Climbing up a ladder that led to some steps, I was completely wet and... kind of smelled. At least I wasn't dead.

Some parts of the ventilation was in the water from where I fell, which I'm glad didn't hit me on the head. Up ahead was a hallway I could go towards and find a way out of here. With communications down, I don't know how far up I would have to go to get back in contact with HQ. Anyway, I went down the hallway with some kind of pipes connected to the wall alongside me. I could feel some kind of heat coming off from them. When I reached the end, I saw a fenced door with a padlock on it. That was when I also saw that little girl on the other side.

She laughed with that childish tone before she disappeared. It took me a while to regain my composure after seeing that. What does she want with me? What is it that about me that still keeps me alive from her compared to those who got in her way? Getting back to what I have to do, I shot the padlock off the door. And son of a bitch, I realized my mistake. Fire was coming out from the pipe next to a generator nearby. And without a second to do anything about it, an explosion went off next to me as I was flown back for quite a distance. I landed right back into that same filthy water I just got out of not even a minute ago. Well, better than being burned alive by getting completely wet.

Climbing back out of the water - again - I saw that the explosion down the hall was covered in flames which prevented me to escape from there. Cursing myself for making such an amateurish decision, I looked around to see if there was another way out of here. The lights in this place were barely working, which made it hard to see. Turning on my flashlight on my vest, I saw that a metal balcony was partially blown up by the explosion I caused. It was lowered enough to the point to where I could climb onto it and see where it leads.

Going around the walkway, I was walking around some more when something to the right startled me. It wasn't a person or another explosion, but just the cover of a fan opening up. This place was making me too tense right now. Moving on, I reached another generator room with some of the power barely working. This place was now starting to rock a bit from the blast earlier. I doubt it would destroy the entire complex, but it would probably be a problem if I stayed here for too long. There really wasn't any doors or exits I could use in this place to get out. But there was a small hole in the wall where the pipes lead that I could crawl into. The hot steam coming off from the pipes almost made it unbearable to make it through.

After getting out the crawlspace, I reached another metal walkway. At the far end was a ladder I could use to climb upwards. Just as I was walking along on it, some big tubes or something fell down from above and destroyed the middle section of this thing. I must be in Hell right now, for all this terrible shit going on is making it difficult for me to stay calm. From here, there wasn't anywhere else I could go. It was from looking down this walkway I say another crawlspace underneath me I could enter. After doing so, I quickly reached another pipe room with a small ladder leading up. Climbing it, I saw nothing but empty boxes and trash scattered around this place with some parts of this room broken down.

Continuing on ahead, I reach an intersection. To the right was a room that I couldn't enter, due to a yellow pipe in front of the entrance spewing out flames. To the left I reached to where the ladder I saw earlier from the other side. Problem was, it too had another flammable pipe sticking out with fire pointed towards the ladder. Figures. Looking around some more, I saw another crawlspace just like the last one underneath this walkway. Climbing down, I crawled through the dark tunnel until I saw a room up ahead. Turning off my flashlight, I went over to the other end of this sound of something breaking caught my attention, to when I saw a skeleton drop down in the middle of the room. I heard the sound of quick footsteps up above me. Could those invisible things be here too?

After getting inside this room, I saw a red valve connected to the yellow pipes I saw just a moment ago. Maybe if I turn it, I can shut off the gasoline going on inside them and stop the fire. After I started turning it to the left, sure enough, the flames died down next to me. That was when I realized I was in that room I noticed earlier in that intersection. Exiting out of here, I reached the ladder again with this time no more fire blocking my way. When I reached the top, time slowed down for me. Jankowski was looking at me as he turned around the corner. He was staring at me with those empty holes where his eyes used to be. As I tried to reach out to him, he disappeared again, leaving me with a cryptic sentence.

"They left her in darkness. They left her to die."

What did he mean by that? Could he be talking about that little girl I keep seeing? I wasn't sure what to make of what he said to me. And who was it that could've done it to her? It was too hard for me to try to understand what he meant, for all that was on my mind was seeing "Jankowski" all bloody and pale. Then I guess it must be true. He was dead. Either it was Fettel or that girl, however it happened, Spencer Jankowski was dead. And at this point, we may never know how it happened. It was scary to think... that in his last moments he was probably by himself, confused and frightened... I had to stop thinking like this.

My focus was brought to the shaking of this part of the building. If I don't get out of here soon, this whole level might come down on me. Going down the hallway next to me, I reached a wide open storage facility. On these tall cabinets were multiple boxes of supplies and forklifts to help carry them. There was a silver fence a few feet away that looked like another section of this room, only the door for it was blocked off with some stuff on both sides. Next to me was where it looked like an elevator would come down. Unfortunately, the power was off which meant I would have to find a way to turn it on down here. Going down the ramp to the right, I turned around another corner to find myself in another part of this small facility.

To the right of me was another walkway above a sewage system. On one end of the this duct system was a metal fence halfway closed I could get under. The problem was there were a couple of boxes that blocking the underside of it that I may be unable to lift or push out of the way. Behind me, though, was another red valve by the wall. Seeing what it would do, I turned it to the right to see that it raised the amount of sewer water in the drainage. The boxes were floating up to the surface, making it available to swim under. Dreading the thought of going back in that filthy water, I worked up the nerve to hold my breath and got into the disgusting filth. After making it through the drainage a bit, I found a spot for me to come up for dry land.

I was now on the other of that fence I was at earlier. There was a power generator on the wall next to the fence. Pushing the lever up, emergency power was brought back to this place. I could tell because the switch for the elevator turned from a red to a blue color on its monitor, suggesting I can now use it. There was a ladder next to me I could climb up onto that hopefully would lead me back the way I came without going back into that sewage water. Climbing up, I went around the metal walkway up here until I reached back to where I turned the valve for the water. There was a destroyed balcony below me that I couldn't have used to come this way anyway.

Jumping down, I was now heading back to where the elevator would be coming down. Thank God, I can get out of here. Of course, easier said than done. And the reason I say that is because the elevator came down to this floor with 2 Replica soldiers and a Heavy Armor. Dammit... Well, I guess in order to get out of here I would have to kill them, for they were in the way from me to get over there. Just how on earth did they know I would be down here?

Putting aside my wonders for later, I pulled out my ASP and fired several rounds at the Replicas exiting the cargo elevator. The bullets made a nice, clean impact to the soldiers as they were quickly taken care of. Now onto their metal brute. With not ammo left over with this gun, I fired the remaining rounds I had of this rifle into the Heavy Armor. It only seemed to cause it minimal damage, for the bullets didn't quite make the impact. Tossing the ASP aside, I brought out my SMG and fired as many rounds to it as I could before it returned fire with its Penetrator weapon. It was slowly going around some of the cargo up ahead as it tried to take cover. Figuring if I could use the Replicas weapons against it for some extra damage, I quickly but cautiously ran up to where the dead soldiers were.

The Heavy was probably thinking that I was still over there. For the time that I reached on over to where it was, it was still looking over to where I last making my stand. The 2 Replicas I killed only had a SMG and G2A2 rifle available. It wasn't much to work with, except one of them had a proximity mine available on him. This will definitely help. I grabbed it and threw it on over behind the Heavy Armor. As it heard the sound of something drop, it turned around to see the round device at its feet. But it was too late for him, for the mine went off encasing the monster in a huge explosion. It wasn't dead yet, but it was definitely getting there. Grabbing the spare G2A2 on the ground, I opened fire at the beast with as much bullets in it until it eventually died. Giving out that death cry like all the others, I left it alone when I salvaged some more ammunition from the other Replica.

Seeing as how things have settled down, I went inside the cargo elevator and pressed the "Up" button. The gates closed as the machine started to ascend up...

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