Escape from Black Mesa
Epilogue
"God damn, my shift ends it one minute but it's taking forever" complained Pfc. David McCloskey. The Galaxies had just returned from some place called Black Mesa, it was some babysitting mission or something like that and it had gone wrong. It was too hot for the HECU and the big boys had been called in, they were going to secure a position and detonate a nuclear bomb in the facility and wipe it clean off the face of the earth. That was their solution for everything thought McCloskey.
30 seconds until his shift ended. He reclined in his chair and placed his feet on his desk at the guard post at the North entrance to the Santego Military Base in Arizona. His friend and bunkmate, Adrian Shepard was sent as part of the mission and McCloskey was going to go see him after his shift ended.
10 seconds, McCloskey stood up in his chair and got ready to bolt out the door before a horn sounded and a Humvee pulled up to the gate.
"God dammit!" he yelled and just opened the gate and urged the driver through. The Humvee sped off into the night. His shift was over; he ran out the door and headed for the airport to see Adrian, knocking over his replacement on his way over. If he had bothered to ask for the driver's ID like he was supposed to he would have noticed the two Black Mesa employee badges, one labeled Louis Parker, and the other labeled John Hunt.