I obviously don't own Half-Life or anything to do with it. I've followed
most of the story from the game, but changed a lot of things about it. I'm
not sure how closely I'll follow the game yet, if you have any suggestions
or recommendations, please tell me. I need as many reviews as possible.
Thanks,
Showan.
Half-Life
Gordon Freeman rubbed his eyes as the mono-rail door snapped open. "Good morning, sir," the guard gave him a nod and continued, "You're late, sir. Everyone else's waiting."
Gordon Freeman hurried through the heavy air-lock doors and down the corridor of the Black Mesa Underground Research Facility. Being underground still made Gordon edgy, even though he'd worked here for years. Shaking off his claustrophobia, he jogged through another set of doors and into the reception room.
"Freeman, you should have been here half an hour ago!" Jeremy Thune, the chief scientist, scowled at Gordon. "I shouldn't need to tell you the importance of this experiment. Get down to the test chamber and do it quickly. This will go on your record."
Gordon deliberately stepped on his toe as he ran out into another corridor. Painted on the wall were three coloured stripes. Gordon followed the yellow one, marked 'Equipment and Preparation Block' until it split away from the others at the next T-junction. He arrived at his destination, the Protective Equipment Locker, and ran to where the Hazardous Environment Vitalsuits were kept.
The HEVs were the latest creation from Black Mesa's military research. The suits were still in their early stages of design, but they acted as armour as well as scanning the body for wounds. They could also heal, when fuelled with antibiotics from first aid packs. Most scientists and guards used these, but Gordon's position as senior Theoretical Physicist gave him many priveliges and he had been channelling money into HEV research for a while.
Gordon's upgraded suit was capable of enhancing jumping and running ability, it did all the things the previous models did but more effectively, and it also had several pockets and compartments for weapons and ammo. Gordon had told as few people as possible about these; his brother had joined the army and Gordon had wondered about future models being issued to the soldiers.
The suit was bright orange with a light metal breastplate which sprouted cables running all around the body. Gordon pulled himself into it, and clipped shut the steel cuffs on his wrists and legs. Then he turned and charged out, searching for the test chamber. With the HEV on, it was as if a very strong wind was pushing behind him as he ran, and he was there in minutes.
"It's about time, Freeman." The scientist, Kenyon, who opened the door looked greatly relieved. "We thought something had happened. Now we can begin."
Gordon walked into the control and survey room, where three other scientists and a security guard were waiting. One wall of the room was transparent, and past it the test chamber was still being prepared. Gordon bristled with annoyance. Why was everyone getting at him for being late when they hadn't even finished getting ready anyway?
Kenyon was speaking into a recorder in one of the many consoles in the room. "Experiment summary: Applying a high frequency electrical charge to a resonance crystal. Aim: To cause simualtaneous annihilation and create a sustained breach in three dimensional space." Kenyon's voice shook with excitement, and Gordon was suddenly reminded of the situation. He began to shake too.
They had discovered atomic resonance about a year ago, and had been studying it ever since. The strange matter possessed unexplainably weird properties and had puzzled all Black Mesa's most accomplished scientists, until Kenyon Johnson arrived. Kenyon applied the incredible 'multiverse' theory, hitherto dismissed as being crazily far fetched, and found that the resonance was suddenly explained.
This of course meant that other universes may exist, and that the resonance could be used to attract resonance from other universes, effectively pulling two universes together, creating a portal between them. Very few of the scientists believed this, nor did Gordon himself to begin with, but more and more evidence proved Kenyon's theory right, so he was allowed to perform his experiment. The officials had kept it a secret, and many other scientists were strongly opposed to testing the idea, because of the high risk involved. Kenyon had booked the largest, most secure test chamber in case the project blew up.
Kenyon had finished recording the test, and was hopping up and down in tension. The others were nervously tapping their feet or biting their nails. Eventually, the technicians finished the job and filed out. Kenyon wasted no time. "Okay. Gordon, get down into the chamber. Everyone to your respective monitors, Jack, give me full command of the spectrometer and switch on the cameras. Hurry up!"
Trembling, Gordon left the room, practicly fell down several ladders in his haste, and sped through some more passageways before reaching the bomb- proof air-lock doors. Embedded in the wall were two square boxes. One was white with a red cross. A screen on it read: FIRST AID CHARGE: 100%. The other one was orange, with HEV fuel in it. Gordon plugged in to both of them, and clipped on the eye pieces to his suit. In the corner of his eye, little letters appeared: BODY HEALTH: 100% ARMOUR: 100%.
Kenyon's voice erupted from the microphones in the walls, making Gordon jump. "Gordon Freeman, prepare to enter the test chamber." The clunky doors ground open, Gorden stepped into a small chamber, they shut behind him. This was it. He could barely believe it was happening even now.
The doors up ahead opened. Slowly, Gordon edged towards them. hen he got a grip on himself, stopped, and strode confidently forward. The test chamber was massive, it was like entering a cathedral. In the centre were five power generators in a circle. Colossal cylinders of metal hung from the ceiling, all with power cables running to the main one, which was above the generators. A computer screen flickered to life in the far wall, and displayed a diagram of two resonance crystals gravitating towards each other and annihilate. Then it was replaced by a diagram of the universe as a thick blue line, and the theoretical one next to it as a red one. If the experiment worked, they should bend just slightly until the middles touched each other.
"Get ready, Gordon. The crystal is arriving now." A hatchway opened, and a trolley slid out. On it, the resonance crystal sat, like a black rock, nothing special to look at. Gordon wheeled it along, until the crystal sat in the shaft between the generators. "Stand back, Gordon. I'm starting the spetrometer. Operating electricity duct, minimal power."
A thin, crackling beam shot straight down into the resonance crystal. The rock absorbed it quietly, showing no sign of action. "Increasing to level two power." The beam grew thicker and brighter. Gordon screwed up his eyes to look at it. The stone emitted a spattering of sparks, and remained doing so steadily. Gordon glanced at the diagram, but it had not altered.
"Increasing to level three." The beam flashed even brighter. Gordon looked away, dazzled. He heard Jack's voice speak to Kenyon.
"Sir! Look at these readings!"
"Oh my God... Quickly, cancel all power! We've got a resonance cascade! It's reacting too fast... aaah!" Gordon looked back to the crystal. The sparks had consumed it, and were spreading fast. Gordon watched it horror as the electricity cut off, but the sparks did not stop. He took a step back as the shower of light grew brighter...
Then disappeared, leaving a pure black hole in reality.
Gordon's eyes widened, and he caught a glimpse of the computer screen diagram. Red and blue crashed together, creating a random pattern of flickering stripes... Then the universe collapsed on him.
Suddenly he was standing in the middle of a barren rocky mountainside, grey- brown rock littered with spiky purple lichen-like things, then he was on a beach in what looked like Florida. He tried to move, and the world stretched-- and he was in mid-air over an enormous alien landscape. His insides pulled him down, but already the scene had changed. Reality flickered and warped around him, his surroundings flashing from familiar places to the dark, nightmarish alien landscape. He saw deep pools, weird spongy rocks, large mushroom-like things, tiny little glowing stalks... all in the same evil purplish light. This world was inhabited, too, but with nothing even remotely humanoid. They were ghastly, hellish monsters that sent chills down Gordon's spine. Then explosions started, filling Gordon's sight with fire and sound. The changing and roaring grew rapidly faster, until everything was a furious blur of energy...
Then he landed with a painful thud, back in the test chamber. Home. But even as he pulled himself up, he saw that evil planet, as if a slash had been cut out of the room, and that was behind it. Then space seemed to pull itself together, shutting it out, and Gordon was left alone in the chamber.
The machinery was blackened, strewn around the hall in tatters. An enormous bar of steel crashed into the floor, and Gordon looked up to see the heavy metal poles dangling dangerously from the roof on cables that were quickly giving way. The walls were cracked and full of holes, the door was the same. Gordon ran, stumbling on debris that littered the ground, and threw himself toward the door as another steel rod came tumbling down...
Half the door had fallen away, and Gordon could just crawl through. Alarms were screaming as he ran through the air-lock chamber, and he hammered on the outer door controls, but they wouldn't open. He was trapped in until Kenyon gave the order to release him. Refusing to give in, he jogged back into the chamber and found the smallest piece of metal he could. He jogged back, and rammed the stake into the machinery, the box cracked open, and he nervously fiddled with the wires.
The doors groaned open, and he stepped out into the corridor to see the full havoc their experiment had caused.
Thanks,
Showan.
Half-Life
Gordon Freeman rubbed his eyes as the mono-rail door snapped open. "Good morning, sir," the guard gave him a nod and continued, "You're late, sir. Everyone else's waiting."
Gordon Freeman hurried through the heavy air-lock doors and down the corridor of the Black Mesa Underground Research Facility. Being underground still made Gordon edgy, even though he'd worked here for years. Shaking off his claustrophobia, he jogged through another set of doors and into the reception room.
"Freeman, you should have been here half an hour ago!" Jeremy Thune, the chief scientist, scowled at Gordon. "I shouldn't need to tell you the importance of this experiment. Get down to the test chamber and do it quickly. This will go on your record."
Gordon deliberately stepped on his toe as he ran out into another corridor. Painted on the wall were three coloured stripes. Gordon followed the yellow one, marked 'Equipment and Preparation Block' until it split away from the others at the next T-junction. He arrived at his destination, the Protective Equipment Locker, and ran to where the Hazardous Environment Vitalsuits were kept.
The HEVs were the latest creation from Black Mesa's military research. The suits were still in their early stages of design, but they acted as armour as well as scanning the body for wounds. They could also heal, when fuelled with antibiotics from first aid packs. Most scientists and guards used these, but Gordon's position as senior Theoretical Physicist gave him many priveliges and he had been channelling money into HEV research for a while.
Gordon's upgraded suit was capable of enhancing jumping and running ability, it did all the things the previous models did but more effectively, and it also had several pockets and compartments for weapons and ammo. Gordon had told as few people as possible about these; his brother had joined the army and Gordon had wondered about future models being issued to the soldiers.
The suit was bright orange with a light metal breastplate which sprouted cables running all around the body. Gordon pulled himself into it, and clipped shut the steel cuffs on his wrists and legs. Then he turned and charged out, searching for the test chamber. With the HEV on, it was as if a very strong wind was pushing behind him as he ran, and he was there in minutes.
"It's about time, Freeman." The scientist, Kenyon, who opened the door looked greatly relieved. "We thought something had happened. Now we can begin."
Gordon walked into the control and survey room, where three other scientists and a security guard were waiting. One wall of the room was transparent, and past it the test chamber was still being prepared. Gordon bristled with annoyance. Why was everyone getting at him for being late when they hadn't even finished getting ready anyway?
Kenyon was speaking into a recorder in one of the many consoles in the room. "Experiment summary: Applying a high frequency electrical charge to a resonance crystal. Aim: To cause simualtaneous annihilation and create a sustained breach in three dimensional space." Kenyon's voice shook with excitement, and Gordon was suddenly reminded of the situation. He began to shake too.
They had discovered atomic resonance about a year ago, and had been studying it ever since. The strange matter possessed unexplainably weird properties and had puzzled all Black Mesa's most accomplished scientists, until Kenyon Johnson arrived. Kenyon applied the incredible 'multiverse' theory, hitherto dismissed as being crazily far fetched, and found that the resonance was suddenly explained.
This of course meant that other universes may exist, and that the resonance could be used to attract resonance from other universes, effectively pulling two universes together, creating a portal between them. Very few of the scientists believed this, nor did Gordon himself to begin with, but more and more evidence proved Kenyon's theory right, so he was allowed to perform his experiment. The officials had kept it a secret, and many other scientists were strongly opposed to testing the idea, because of the high risk involved. Kenyon had booked the largest, most secure test chamber in case the project blew up.
Kenyon had finished recording the test, and was hopping up and down in tension. The others were nervously tapping their feet or biting their nails. Eventually, the technicians finished the job and filed out. Kenyon wasted no time. "Okay. Gordon, get down into the chamber. Everyone to your respective monitors, Jack, give me full command of the spectrometer and switch on the cameras. Hurry up!"
Trembling, Gordon left the room, practicly fell down several ladders in his haste, and sped through some more passageways before reaching the bomb- proof air-lock doors. Embedded in the wall were two square boxes. One was white with a red cross. A screen on it read: FIRST AID CHARGE: 100%. The other one was orange, with HEV fuel in it. Gordon plugged in to both of them, and clipped on the eye pieces to his suit. In the corner of his eye, little letters appeared: BODY HEALTH: 100% ARMOUR: 100%.
Kenyon's voice erupted from the microphones in the walls, making Gordon jump. "Gordon Freeman, prepare to enter the test chamber." The clunky doors ground open, Gorden stepped into a small chamber, they shut behind him. This was it. He could barely believe it was happening even now.
The doors up ahead opened. Slowly, Gordon edged towards them. hen he got a grip on himself, stopped, and strode confidently forward. The test chamber was massive, it was like entering a cathedral. In the centre were five power generators in a circle. Colossal cylinders of metal hung from the ceiling, all with power cables running to the main one, which was above the generators. A computer screen flickered to life in the far wall, and displayed a diagram of two resonance crystals gravitating towards each other and annihilate. Then it was replaced by a diagram of the universe as a thick blue line, and the theoretical one next to it as a red one. If the experiment worked, they should bend just slightly until the middles touched each other.
"Get ready, Gordon. The crystal is arriving now." A hatchway opened, and a trolley slid out. On it, the resonance crystal sat, like a black rock, nothing special to look at. Gordon wheeled it along, until the crystal sat in the shaft between the generators. "Stand back, Gordon. I'm starting the spetrometer. Operating electricity duct, minimal power."
A thin, crackling beam shot straight down into the resonance crystal. The rock absorbed it quietly, showing no sign of action. "Increasing to level two power." The beam grew thicker and brighter. Gordon screwed up his eyes to look at it. The stone emitted a spattering of sparks, and remained doing so steadily. Gordon glanced at the diagram, but it had not altered.
"Increasing to level three." The beam flashed even brighter. Gordon looked away, dazzled. He heard Jack's voice speak to Kenyon.
"Sir! Look at these readings!"
"Oh my God... Quickly, cancel all power! We've got a resonance cascade! It's reacting too fast... aaah!" Gordon looked back to the crystal. The sparks had consumed it, and were spreading fast. Gordon watched it horror as the electricity cut off, but the sparks did not stop. He took a step back as the shower of light grew brighter...
Then disappeared, leaving a pure black hole in reality.
Gordon's eyes widened, and he caught a glimpse of the computer screen diagram. Red and blue crashed together, creating a random pattern of flickering stripes... Then the universe collapsed on him.
Suddenly he was standing in the middle of a barren rocky mountainside, grey- brown rock littered with spiky purple lichen-like things, then he was on a beach in what looked like Florida. He tried to move, and the world stretched-- and he was in mid-air over an enormous alien landscape. His insides pulled him down, but already the scene had changed. Reality flickered and warped around him, his surroundings flashing from familiar places to the dark, nightmarish alien landscape. He saw deep pools, weird spongy rocks, large mushroom-like things, tiny little glowing stalks... all in the same evil purplish light. This world was inhabited, too, but with nothing even remotely humanoid. They were ghastly, hellish monsters that sent chills down Gordon's spine. Then explosions started, filling Gordon's sight with fire and sound. The changing and roaring grew rapidly faster, until everything was a furious blur of energy...
Then he landed with a painful thud, back in the test chamber. Home. But even as he pulled himself up, he saw that evil planet, as if a slash had been cut out of the room, and that was behind it. Then space seemed to pull itself together, shutting it out, and Gordon was left alone in the chamber.
The machinery was blackened, strewn around the hall in tatters. An enormous bar of steel crashed into the floor, and Gordon looked up to see the heavy metal poles dangling dangerously from the roof on cables that were quickly giving way. The walls were cracked and full of holes, the door was the same. Gordon ran, stumbling on debris that littered the ground, and threw himself toward the door as another steel rod came tumbling down...
Half the door had fallen away, and Gordon could just crawl through. Alarms were screaming as he ran through the air-lock chamber, and he hammered on the outer door controls, but they wouldn't open. He was trapped in until Kenyon gave the order to release him. Refusing to give in, he jogged back into the chamber and found the smallest piece of metal he could. He jogged back, and rammed the stake into the machinery, the box cracked open, and he nervously fiddled with the wires.
The doors groaned open, and he stepped out into the corridor to see the full havoc their experiment had caused.