Yeah, I know it seems like Metroid Prime or something, but it won't be
completely identical.
Home Free
I walked along with the guard along the hallway. I was very depressed over losing my suit. Without that I would have died a long time ago. It was like a part of me almost and that part of me was gone now, destroyed with the monster that stole it.
"What's wrong sport?" the guard asked me. Most of these guys seem to treat me like a kid.
"I'm just depressed over losing my Hazard Suit." I told him.
"We'll find you another one up ahead. Believer these scientist guys up ahead have packed away tons of shit down there. We'll find something." He assured me.
"I hope so."
We only seemed to encounter these "Houndeye" creatures that used shockwaves to attack us. Luckily Barney was able to dispatch of them with little injury.
"Not only do I miss it. I miss having a gun. I can't do anything like this." I moped.
"Just a little further. Oh great!" he said.
Before us was a large door. Only it was completely mangled and smashed so it was impossible to open. Strange claw marks were present on it as well as a blue residue left on the door.
"What the hell did this?" he asked me.
"Be damned if I know. Is this the way in?" I asked.
"It would have been the fastest way in, now we have to take the back way." He said to me sounding kinda like the back way wasn't pleasant, then again anywhere in Black Mesa wasn't pleasant.
"Where does the back way go?"
"It loops through some of the old rail tunnels. Then we gotta head through some old piping and we'll be inside." He told me. This was sounding familiar like when I was with Collette in that pipe.
Well we climbed down a few service ladders and eventually made it to the old rail system but it was deserted practically. Up ahead were multiple dead marines and a few dead slaves. Someone had been through here.
"Damn, that Freeman guy sure knows how to raise hell." Barney said to himself.
"Who is this Freeman guy anyway?"
"I heard he was the guy that was at ground zero. He was testing the experiment today and then this all happened. One of my buddies was saying he was heading to the Lambda Complex to help fix this mess."
"I have to find a way to the Lambda Complex. My boss, as you may call it, is there."
"Who's that?"
"Gina Cross. I'm her intern." I told him.
"That sure sucks."
Eventually he found the piping he mentioned and we climbed inside. This time the smell was terrible and I missed my suits helmet now more than ever.
Once through that disgusting sludge we were in this pumping station.
"Almost there. I gotta enter my code." He said punching in some numbers on this small keypad attached to a guard station. Then the wall began to open behind him.
We both went inside and soon guns were held up to us. As soon as they were raised they fell.
"Oh it's just you! I thought the military was here." Another security guard said.
"Got any stuff for my friend here." He asked everyone. They were more than happy to point me to the storage area.
One of the scientists directed me to this armor vest and mask. It belonged to a marine but they took it off his body and fixed it. I was against wearing such a thing.
"Why? You need protection especially if you're going to the Lambda Complex. This is better than going naked and you may be able to get the drop on soldier if you're disguised as one."
Reluctantly I took the vest and slipped it over my head and it fit rather well on me. Then the scientist and I tied the gas mask on my head and a Heads Up Display appeared like on the Hazard Suit's. It felt kinda weird wearing this gear. I hated the military and now I'm dressed like one of these guys.
With the PCV came weapons. The scientist let me take a pistol, a shotgun, an Mp5, and even a new weapon they developed. These small bottles with this bubbling liquid that looked like water. On the top of the bottle was this strange cap. If I turned it hard enough another liquid would be introduced to the other liquid and the reaction would cause a large explosion. However the bottles shatter easily so they would explode on contact or after 3 seconds if not impacting something.
"They should come in handy. We named them Blast Caps for obvious reasons. Hopefully you have luck up there. Quickly follow me and I'll lead to the surface access tunnel." He said showing me to the tunnel.
"I warn you! No one that went down this tunnel came back. However according to the map of the area there should be a large disused elevator at the end of the tunnel that should take you right to the surface. Good luck!" he said to me.
I don't know why but I shook his hand just then. It was my way of wishing him luck too. Everyone needed it.
I began my hike down this tunnel. It was very large and dark. However I was instructed how to use the PCV's nightvision goggles before leaving. It didn't help too much but it was an improvement.
Soon I came to a large collection of the big aliens with the hornet launchers and I tossed a Blast Cap at them. Most of them exploded with it and the rest died at the power of my Mp5. I encountered some other creatures. These scientist but their bodies were all deformed with a mouth in their stomach and a headcrab attached to them. It was terrible but I soon downed these new guys with some shotgun shells.
Then I found the elevator and it was up. Somebody must have taken it up but whom? I heard a large amount of aliens start coming from behind. I couldn't fight back all of these on my own.
Then the elevator moved down and about five grunts were firing off at them. I almost fired at them myself but then I remembered they must have thought I was an actual grunt myself. I joined them and soon the aliens were all dead on the floor.
"I was hoping to find a grunt down here! You find anything down here?" a black one with a headband said to me.
It was weird. I was used to these guys shooting at me and staring down the barrels of their guns, and now they spoke to me as one of their own.
"No sir!" I replied back.
"Dammit! I was hoping to waste one of those guards or at least Freeman. He's a sly little bastard!" a soldier with a cigarette said in a raspy voice.
"Squad quiet down! I got word over the radio! We have found a small group consisting of three scientists and a rouge security guard. They are in the old teleportation labs below. I suggest we go rescue them." The guy in the black beret said laughing at the word rescue.
I followed them up on the lift and we were soon in the train yard I left Rosenberg in, only the car I left him in was moved to the opposite end. The dead marines I killed were still there as well as some new ones.
"I heard that security guard came through here, and that bastard in the blue Hazard Suit too. He wasted some of my buddies." The guy said looking over to one of the dead bodies.
I felt kinda sorry I had killed those guys from before. I had never actually looked at it from the military's side of things. We then went through the area I ran to when the helicopter attacked.
We arrived at this broken wall with an elevator waiting for us. We all piled inside and went down a long way from the sound of it.
Soon we heard a man's voice call out to someone. It was Rosenberg's, no mistaking that man's voice.
"Good luck Mr. Calhoun! I'll see you on the other side!" and then we heard this great sound. We were near that room but the door was locked down tight.
"Hutchins! Torch this door down!" the commander ordered the guy smoking.
"Who needs a lock smith? He he" he said lighting his blowtorch with his cigarette and slowly torching through the door with it. We waited and eventually we heard the sound of something opening up, like a vacuum of some kind. Then we burst through the door.
"Open fire!" and then everyone began shooting at the security guard above. I didn't however; I just stood there and let him pass by. He glanced at me and looked oddly at me wondering why I wasn't firing at him. Then he ran into a portal and as he did it went insane shooting green beams everywhere and soon another portal formed nearby the other one.
I took my chances and ran head on right into this new portal.
"Grunt! Get back here!" I heard the commander yell to me. I ignored him and leapt through.
It was an odd sensation I felt then. My vision was blurry and then I was outside near this SUV and a fence with a scientist breaking down the gate.
"Oh no a soldier came through after Calhoun!" I heard Rosenberg yell.
"No. Rosenberg it's me Grey!" I shouted to him. My vision was still kinda green from before.
He went up and looked me in the eyes and was assured it was me.
"Oh thank god you managed to make it. Calhoun came through a moment ago and then he...oh no, it's happening to you too! Your body is caught in a resonance displacement and...."
I vanished again. I was practically at the exit of this god forsaken place and then I ended up somewhere...around the Lambda Complex. Well at least I ended up where I originally intended.
Soon more grunts came over to me and they wanted me to help kill this woman in a Hazard Suit nearby an entrance.
I followed and saw Gina killing a few grunts and then taking cover from us.
Then we all waited and I volunteered to go flush her out. What they didn't see was me activate a Blast Cap and set it near them. I ran towards Gina and began to remove the gas mask on my PCV.
"Sir, you hear something?"
"What the hell?" Before they knew what the strange bottle was it exploded in a shower of blood, guts, and PCV pieces.
Gina aimed at me and even shot me in the chest with a shotgun with the double blast feature. It hurt but my charged PCV absorbed some of the damage I took.
"Gray is that you!?" she said amazed.
"Yes, thank god I found you!" I cried to her. Tears were actually forming in my eyes. After all the hardship and pain I finally found her. She was starting to cry herself and then she hugged me.
I hugged her back and at that moment the whole Black Mesa incident didn't exist to me. It wasn't like I was in love with Dr. Cross it was just I was so relieved that she herself made it here alive and that she knew I was alive and well myself.
"Hurry! We must get inside the Lambda Complex before more grunts come." She yelled signaling me to follow her into the large bunker. I put my mask on and followed her inside.
More scientists were inside with weapons pointing right at me.
"Dr. Cross behind you!" one yelled aiming a rifle at me.
"Hold your fire! This is a friend. He's just dressed as a grunt. Look at the rest of him. Unlike grunts I wore a black t-shirt and greenish jeans under the PCV instead of the white and black and green. Plus I didn't have the big sixty pound backpack.
"Oh thank god! We were afraid we'd been found out."
"Gray welcome to the Lambda Complex. I'm so glad you made it here alive. When I heard another Hazard Suit made it here with me I thought it was you but it was only my colleague Collette Green. You should meet her."
Collette walked over to us holding a rocket launcher. Damn, I missed out on some big guns after losing her.
"Gray? How'd you survive?" she said shocked.
They were all interested in how I made it here alive.
I told them after falling from the large pipe leaving behind Collette and Hadley, who didn't make it, that I made my way underground to this plasma creature and it stole my suit right off my body after I killed it. Then some other science personnel gave me a PCV they found and some weapons. Then I followed a military squad to this old lab where this guard teleported away with Dr. Rosenberg. But my body was in this resonance displacement and then I ended up near here.
It was certainly more horrific than what I had described it as. But we had other problems to deal with.
"Let me explain our situation. A few hours ago Gordon Freeman had launched our satellite into space and with it we can carry out our plans to fix this disaster. However the military is still persistent to stop it. The fools! They recalibrated our alignment equipment in a bordering complex and we need it properly calibrated in order to set up an uplink. With it we can send Mr. Freeman to the alien world in hopes of stopping all this." One of the scientists told me.
"I'll help any way I can." I told him.
"I thought you just wanted to leave Gray?" Gina asked.
"Well ever since we parted and I've been alone made me realize that everyone here is suffering and dying every second here. I'm sick of all this pain and suffering and if Gordon Freeman can put a stop this nonsense then I'll gladly do anything in my power to help him achieve that goal!" I protested. I had actually meant that. I was surer of this than any other choice I had to make.
"However we have lost contact with Mr. Freeman's Hazard Suit a few minutes ago. But he is very close to the Lambda Complex and I'm certain he'll improve his speed to get here tenfold." A different scientist told me.
"Collette and I were going to head down to the satellite controls and fix everything you can come along if you want to." Gina told me. I was ready to go once I had used the HEV charger in the corner of the room to fully charge my PCV. It was no Hazard Suit but it would keep my ass alive for this.
The three of us took an old train to the control complex. However we felt something strange going through the tunnel. This was far from over for me.
Home Free
I walked along with the guard along the hallway. I was very depressed over losing my suit. Without that I would have died a long time ago. It was like a part of me almost and that part of me was gone now, destroyed with the monster that stole it.
"What's wrong sport?" the guard asked me. Most of these guys seem to treat me like a kid.
"I'm just depressed over losing my Hazard Suit." I told him.
"We'll find you another one up ahead. Believer these scientist guys up ahead have packed away tons of shit down there. We'll find something." He assured me.
"I hope so."
We only seemed to encounter these "Houndeye" creatures that used shockwaves to attack us. Luckily Barney was able to dispatch of them with little injury.
"Not only do I miss it. I miss having a gun. I can't do anything like this." I moped.
"Just a little further. Oh great!" he said.
Before us was a large door. Only it was completely mangled and smashed so it was impossible to open. Strange claw marks were present on it as well as a blue residue left on the door.
"What the hell did this?" he asked me.
"Be damned if I know. Is this the way in?" I asked.
"It would have been the fastest way in, now we have to take the back way." He said to me sounding kinda like the back way wasn't pleasant, then again anywhere in Black Mesa wasn't pleasant.
"Where does the back way go?"
"It loops through some of the old rail tunnels. Then we gotta head through some old piping and we'll be inside." He told me. This was sounding familiar like when I was with Collette in that pipe.
Well we climbed down a few service ladders and eventually made it to the old rail system but it was deserted practically. Up ahead were multiple dead marines and a few dead slaves. Someone had been through here.
"Damn, that Freeman guy sure knows how to raise hell." Barney said to himself.
"Who is this Freeman guy anyway?"
"I heard he was the guy that was at ground zero. He was testing the experiment today and then this all happened. One of my buddies was saying he was heading to the Lambda Complex to help fix this mess."
"I have to find a way to the Lambda Complex. My boss, as you may call it, is there."
"Who's that?"
"Gina Cross. I'm her intern." I told him.
"That sure sucks."
Eventually he found the piping he mentioned and we climbed inside. This time the smell was terrible and I missed my suits helmet now more than ever.
Once through that disgusting sludge we were in this pumping station.
"Almost there. I gotta enter my code." He said punching in some numbers on this small keypad attached to a guard station. Then the wall began to open behind him.
We both went inside and soon guns were held up to us. As soon as they were raised they fell.
"Oh it's just you! I thought the military was here." Another security guard said.
"Got any stuff for my friend here." He asked everyone. They were more than happy to point me to the storage area.
One of the scientists directed me to this armor vest and mask. It belonged to a marine but they took it off his body and fixed it. I was against wearing such a thing.
"Why? You need protection especially if you're going to the Lambda Complex. This is better than going naked and you may be able to get the drop on soldier if you're disguised as one."
Reluctantly I took the vest and slipped it over my head and it fit rather well on me. Then the scientist and I tied the gas mask on my head and a Heads Up Display appeared like on the Hazard Suit's. It felt kinda weird wearing this gear. I hated the military and now I'm dressed like one of these guys.
With the PCV came weapons. The scientist let me take a pistol, a shotgun, an Mp5, and even a new weapon they developed. These small bottles with this bubbling liquid that looked like water. On the top of the bottle was this strange cap. If I turned it hard enough another liquid would be introduced to the other liquid and the reaction would cause a large explosion. However the bottles shatter easily so they would explode on contact or after 3 seconds if not impacting something.
"They should come in handy. We named them Blast Caps for obvious reasons. Hopefully you have luck up there. Quickly follow me and I'll lead to the surface access tunnel." He said showing me to the tunnel.
"I warn you! No one that went down this tunnel came back. However according to the map of the area there should be a large disused elevator at the end of the tunnel that should take you right to the surface. Good luck!" he said to me.
I don't know why but I shook his hand just then. It was my way of wishing him luck too. Everyone needed it.
I began my hike down this tunnel. It was very large and dark. However I was instructed how to use the PCV's nightvision goggles before leaving. It didn't help too much but it was an improvement.
Soon I came to a large collection of the big aliens with the hornet launchers and I tossed a Blast Cap at them. Most of them exploded with it and the rest died at the power of my Mp5. I encountered some other creatures. These scientist but their bodies were all deformed with a mouth in their stomach and a headcrab attached to them. It was terrible but I soon downed these new guys with some shotgun shells.
Then I found the elevator and it was up. Somebody must have taken it up but whom? I heard a large amount of aliens start coming from behind. I couldn't fight back all of these on my own.
Then the elevator moved down and about five grunts were firing off at them. I almost fired at them myself but then I remembered they must have thought I was an actual grunt myself. I joined them and soon the aliens were all dead on the floor.
"I was hoping to find a grunt down here! You find anything down here?" a black one with a headband said to me.
It was weird. I was used to these guys shooting at me and staring down the barrels of their guns, and now they spoke to me as one of their own.
"No sir!" I replied back.
"Dammit! I was hoping to waste one of those guards or at least Freeman. He's a sly little bastard!" a soldier with a cigarette said in a raspy voice.
"Squad quiet down! I got word over the radio! We have found a small group consisting of three scientists and a rouge security guard. They are in the old teleportation labs below. I suggest we go rescue them." The guy in the black beret said laughing at the word rescue.
I followed them up on the lift and we were soon in the train yard I left Rosenberg in, only the car I left him in was moved to the opposite end. The dead marines I killed were still there as well as some new ones.
"I heard that security guard came through here, and that bastard in the blue Hazard Suit too. He wasted some of my buddies." The guy said looking over to one of the dead bodies.
I felt kinda sorry I had killed those guys from before. I had never actually looked at it from the military's side of things. We then went through the area I ran to when the helicopter attacked.
We arrived at this broken wall with an elevator waiting for us. We all piled inside and went down a long way from the sound of it.
Soon we heard a man's voice call out to someone. It was Rosenberg's, no mistaking that man's voice.
"Good luck Mr. Calhoun! I'll see you on the other side!" and then we heard this great sound. We were near that room but the door was locked down tight.
"Hutchins! Torch this door down!" the commander ordered the guy smoking.
"Who needs a lock smith? He he" he said lighting his blowtorch with his cigarette and slowly torching through the door with it. We waited and eventually we heard the sound of something opening up, like a vacuum of some kind. Then we burst through the door.
"Open fire!" and then everyone began shooting at the security guard above. I didn't however; I just stood there and let him pass by. He glanced at me and looked oddly at me wondering why I wasn't firing at him. Then he ran into a portal and as he did it went insane shooting green beams everywhere and soon another portal formed nearby the other one.
I took my chances and ran head on right into this new portal.
"Grunt! Get back here!" I heard the commander yell to me. I ignored him and leapt through.
It was an odd sensation I felt then. My vision was blurry and then I was outside near this SUV and a fence with a scientist breaking down the gate.
"Oh no a soldier came through after Calhoun!" I heard Rosenberg yell.
"No. Rosenberg it's me Grey!" I shouted to him. My vision was still kinda green from before.
He went up and looked me in the eyes and was assured it was me.
"Oh thank god you managed to make it. Calhoun came through a moment ago and then he...oh no, it's happening to you too! Your body is caught in a resonance displacement and...."
I vanished again. I was practically at the exit of this god forsaken place and then I ended up somewhere...around the Lambda Complex. Well at least I ended up where I originally intended.
Soon more grunts came over to me and they wanted me to help kill this woman in a Hazard Suit nearby an entrance.
I followed and saw Gina killing a few grunts and then taking cover from us.
Then we all waited and I volunteered to go flush her out. What they didn't see was me activate a Blast Cap and set it near them. I ran towards Gina and began to remove the gas mask on my PCV.
"Sir, you hear something?"
"What the hell?" Before they knew what the strange bottle was it exploded in a shower of blood, guts, and PCV pieces.
Gina aimed at me and even shot me in the chest with a shotgun with the double blast feature. It hurt but my charged PCV absorbed some of the damage I took.
"Gray is that you!?" she said amazed.
"Yes, thank god I found you!" I cried to her. Tears were actually forming in my eyes. After all the hardship and pain I finally found her. She was starting to cry herself and then she hugged me.
I hugged her back and at that moment the whole Black Mesa incident didn't exist to me. It wasn't like I was in love with Dr. Cross it was just I was so relieved that she herself made it here alive and that she knew I was alive and well myself.
"Hurry! We must get inside the Lambda Complex before more grunts come." She yelled signaling me to follow her into the large bunker. I put my mask on and followed her inside.
More scientists were inside with weapons pointing right at me.
"Dr. Cross behind you!" one yelled aiming a rifle at me.
"Hold your fire! This is a friend. He's just dressed as a grunt. Look at the rest of him. Unlike grunts I wore a black t-shirt and greenish jeans under the PCV instead of the white and black and green. Plus I didn't have the big sixty pound backpack.
"Oh thank god! We were afraid we'd been found out."
"Gray welcome to the Lambda Complex. I'm so glad you made it here alive. When I heard another Hazard Suit made it here with me I thought it was you but it was only my colleague Collette Green. You should meet her."
Collette walked over to us holding a rocket launcher. Damn, I missed out on some big guns after losing her.
"Gray? How'd you survive?" she said shocked.
They were all interested in how I made it here alive.
I told them after falling from the large pipe leaving behind Collette and Hadley, who didn't make it, that I made my way underground to this plasma creature and it stole my suit right off my body after I killed it. Then some other science personnel gave me a PCV they found and some weapons. Then I followed a military squad to this old lab where this guard teleported away with Dr. Rosenberg. But my body was in this resonance displacement and then I ended up near here.
It was certainly more horrific than what I had described it as. But we had other problems to deal with.
"Let me explain our situation. A few hours ago Gordon Freeman had launched our satellite into space and with it we can carry out our plans to fix this disaster. However the military is still persistent to stop it. The fools! They recalibrated our alignment equipment in a bordering complex and we need it properly calibrated in order to set up an uplink. With it we can send Mr. Freeman to the alien world in hopes of stopping all this." One of the scientists told me.
"I'll help any way I can." I told him.
"I thought you just wanted to leave Gray?" Gina asked.
"Well ever since we parted and I've been alone made me realize that everyone here is suffering and dying every second here. I'm sick of all this pain and suffering and if Gordon Freeman can put a stop this nonsense then I'll gladly do anything in my power to help him achieve that goal!" I protested. I had actually meant that. I was surer of this than any other choice I had to make.
"However we have lost contact with Mr. Freeman's Hazard Suit a few minutes ago. But he is very close to the Lambda Complex and I'm certain he'll improve his speed to get here tenfold." A different scientist told me.
"Collette and I were going to head down to the satellite controls and fix everything you can come along if you want to." Gina told me. I was ready to go once I had used the HEV charger in the corner of the room to fully charge my PCV. It was no Hazard Suit but it would keep my ass alive for this.
The three of us took an old train to the control complex. However we felt something strange going through the tunnel. This was far from over for me.