Half-Life Integral
Black Dawn
The train the three of us rode was moving faster than the regular transit system trains did. I wanted to get this over with so we could return to a normal life. However the train suddenly started to move a lot slower.
"Gina what's happening? Why are you slowing down?" Collette asked while she was doing something to my PCV.
"It's not me. Something must be drawing power from the tracks." Gina informed her colleague.
"Warning! Power failure detected on Track Levels A, B, D, and F!" The announcement voice said.
"All done Gray!" Collette said stepping away from me.
"What were you doing anyway?" I asked. I had to speak louder to them because the gas mask I wore muffled my voice slightly.
"I installed a communication device into your vest and helmet. It's tuned to our frequency so the three of us will be in contact with one another." She told me as the train car stopped completely overlooking a ruined warehouse of boxes and overturned crates. In the center of the area was a train similar to this one with a series of dead bodies lying by it. Poor bastards.
"I guess the military must be behind this." Collette suggested as a large explosion was heard around and suddenly the train began to dart forward faster than before. I was flung off of it and into the area below. Once again I was separated from Gina and Collette.
This area seemed deserted from the looks of things. Then I heard something behind me. I turned and nothing was there. Then I found myself face down on the ground with a pistol aimed at the back of my head.
I thought I was going to die right there, but who would do this? The military thought I was on their side and a security guard...crap it must have been a security guard. The person soon wrapped my arm around my back putting me in great pain. However while they did it I felt something else brush against me.
"A woman!?" I shouted as whoever it was turned me over to face her. It was a woman alright. She wore this black skin tight uniform with a series of equipment on it and some guns with her and a pair of infared goggles on her forehead. He eyes were the only visible part of her body.
Why was she dressed differently than grunts? And when were women used for this kind of stuff?
"Who are you?" I asked her. She pointed the gun further into my face after asking.
"Aren't we on the same side?" I asked her. She didn't talk at all to me. However I noticed her grip wasn't that strong as I expected so I pushed her off my body and now I had my mp5 aimed at her and my knees on her arms so she couldn't move.
"Who are you?" I asked her again. "Let's just put our guns away for now. It looks like we're both stuck down here and if we want to live through all this we need to put our fighting aside!" I told her slowly getting up.
She put her gun away as I put my mp5 away behind me. "Who are you anyway?" I asked.
"Would you stop asking me that!?" she screamed at me.
"Sorry, I'm just curious." I told her.
"None of your business Corporal Tucker." She spat at me. I looked at the tag on my PCV and it belonged to a man by the name of Corporal Daniel Tucker. I looked at her uniform and it had a similar tag.
"Private First Class, Alice Miller?" I said.
"Who gave you permission to read my uniform tag?" she shouted again. This girl was worse than the military itself.
"I just want to get along with you okay. And I'm not Corporal Tucker." I took off the gas mask and revealed my face to her. "My name is Gray I'm just wearing a PCV."
She seemed reluctant but soon she took the mask off her face and she had short brown hair that flowed slightly but not too much, like it was growing back. She did have a girls face though, no hiding that.
"I hate to ask again but why are you dressed differently than other grunts?" I asked her expecting her to yell at me again.
"I'm part of the Black Ops. I've been assigned to kill everyone here." She told me.
"Man this whole thing is way too confusing. First aliens try to kill me, and then the military tries to kill me, now another military squad is gonna kill us." I moaned to myself.
"By everyone I meant grunts too." She said.
"That's even worse! Who is ordering all of this?"
"I can't tell you that."
"Well it wouldn't make a difference anyway now that I think about it."
"What do you plan to do now Gray?" she asked.
"I need to find the satellite controls to fix the satellite calibration. It was shut down." I told her.
"I know. We did that!" she told me.
"We? There's only one of you here." I told her.
"I was separated from my squad."
"Sorry, I know how it feels." I told her walking over to her.
"Don't bother making me feel better. I was trained to hide emotions."
I got my mask back on and she did the same. Then we felt this large rumble and the lights turned out.
"What the hell?" I shouted.
"Quiet!" she hushed me. I figured out how to operate my nightvision goggles and the area gained this large green tint. I could make out Alice by this crate and she had those goggles of hers on too so I ran over to her.
"My squad must be coming." She said to herself. "They will kill you if they find you."
"They can try." Then I felt the floor shake slightly. "Something here." I said in a whisper.
Looking up I saw this gigantic beast before us. It didn't see us as it was turned in another direction. It was very large and plated with strange arms and this eye in the center of its chest practically.
"Just great." I whispered to myself.
Soon Alice looked up and saw the giant herself. "Where to go?"
"You don't expect to fight that thing I hope." I told her.
We waited for a moment and then a small door was blasted open and these men in black military clothes burst through the room and fired at both the giant and us.
"Hold your fire!" she shouted.
"Alice Miller, we have orders to see you eliminated! Traitor!" One of them said firing his rifle at both of us. I made a run for it and dragged Alice with me firing my mp5 at them.
Most were killed by the gargantuan beast behind us and we ducked into the small door blasted open and were safe for the moment.
"Well that guy is too big to fit in here. Lucky for us." I said switching off my goggles.
"Why did they fire at me?" she said to herself dropping to her knees.
"No time to worry about things now!" I told her attempting to pull her to her feet.
"I see now. It's a fight for survival for me I suppose." She was still speaking with herself.
"Alice! We gotta get out of here! Who knows if more Black Ops will show up?" I shouted.
"Fine! I'll help you out Gray! But you must follow my orders when we move, understood?" she said sounding like a fierce drill instructor.
I felt like yelling at her about this being no time to play "army", but then the bigger picture came to mind. She's a well trained soldier so she must know the best judgment right now. I agreed to her demands.
"What's the first order captain?" I asked her.
"First order is to not call me captain! Follow me!" she said running off with her pistol drawn. It was like a security guards sidearm but with a suppressor on the end of the barrel.
"Can you tell me more about these Black Ops?" I asked her.
"Now that I'm a traitor I don't see the difference it would make if I didn't. Fine. A few hours ago we got word that the grunts, the first wave of troops, were unable to find Gordon Freeman and carry out the mission. We are better trained than the grunts and were brought here with three objectives."
"And what were those objectives?" I asked.
"First, eliminate Gordon Freeman. We have word he is responsible for what happened here. Second, eliminate Adrian Shepard."
"Who's that?"
"He's a grunt like the rest but he's taken out at least a few dozen Black Ops and alien creatures. He's just as hard to kill as Freeman." She told me.
"What's the final objective?"
"Destroy Black Mesa." She said soundly.
"Destroy this whole place?"
"We have a nuclear device being planted as we speak. However we don't plan to blow the base for a few more hours." She told me.
"This is terrible!" I said as we were interrupted by gunfire.
"What the hell?" I said taking cover behind a crate in the corridor. "Why couldn't I hear them over my radio?"
"Black Ops use a remote frequency so only they can hear it." Alice said firing a few shots at them.
I used one of my remaining three Blast Caps and it seemed the room was cleared.
"Those are potent things." She said looking at one.
"I know. Where are we?" I said looking at the walls. "Advanced Weapons Research?"
We entered another room and were met with some resistance by scientists.
"Stay back!" one with glasses said.
"We aren't going to hurt you!" I told him putting my weapons away.
Alice soon did the same. After some explanation we learned what was happening here.
"Those Black Ops have been storming the whole area and leaving nothing. However they don't know what we have here." He said leading me to this room.
"Here we have a very powerful weapon. I trust you should be able to put it to good use." He said revealing this very futuristic looking rifle.
"What the hell is this thing?" I said lifting it and holding it by the handle. It looked like a normal assault rifle almost but with a blue casing and energy cells and batteries attached to its sides. It was quite heavy to hold though.
"This is one of our first experimental weapons. It was the prototype for the Gluon Gun designed by Lambda Sector. However this weapon has one major flaw. It has a fast fire rate and does tremendous damage but if fired for long periods of time it will overheat and explode. The Gluon Gun's backpack unit was designed for cooling the weapon down.
"I'll be careful with it." I said arming it.
"It used batteries like this one." The man held up this small box with circuits on the top end of it. "Each battery holds around a charge of 50 cells."
"Thanks. But you won't have anything to protect you down here though." I told him.
"Not to worry. I plan to activate the auto defense turrets in this area after you leave. They should keep me safe from the Black Ops. You should leave the back way." He said leading Alice and I further into this lab of weapons and equipment.
He pulled this old board out of the way and it led to a dark hallway.
"This was one of the old tunnels boarded up in the construction. You should be able to make your way to the surface of the Lambda Complex from this path."
"Thanks for your help." Alice said thankfully.
"Yeah, good luck to you." I said going first.
We heard somebody talking in the distance.
"That Shepard guy is sure killing us off quickly." Someone said.
"Tell me about it. I heard he's getting close to the 'package' too."
"Well sooner or later he'll be taken care of. Either by us or that Government Man." He said chuckling to himself.
I readied this Pulse Rifle as I called it and aimed and fired at them. It fired these blue rounds of energy right on target and practically evaporated one of them. Alice happened to move behind the other and slit his throat.
"Ouch! This thing gets hotter than I thought." My Heads Up Display told me I used about 23 cells and it was almost burning my hands. Powerful but deadly to me as well.
"We do make a good team, I'll give you that kid." Alice said moving forward.
We kept moving forwards and eventually stopped at this large door. It was broken down and had this blue residue on it.
"What the hell? I've seen this stuff before." I said to her.
Then this blue beam shot out at us but narrowly missed hitting us. It exploded on the wall.
"Shit! Run!" She yelled speeding forward more along the hallway.
I didn't know what attacked us but it had to be an alien. We kept running until we found the elevator the scientist was talking about. Alice however kept running.
"Alice! The elevator's here! Get on!" I told her.
"I'll lead it down this way! It won't hurt you!" she shouted.
"Alice!" the elevator was already moving. "Don't be stupid!"
"Look. I know you're probably helping to fix this mess so go help already! I'm helping my own way! We'll meet up again don't worry!" she said vanishing into the darkness as another blue beam was sent in her direction.
I didn't know if it hit her or not but I had to assume the best. I was out of the tunnel soon and on the surface near the satellite area of the Lambda Complex.
"Alice!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. She was helpful and young too. She barely looked over twenty. "God Damn this all this Hell!" I screamed so loud. I didn't care if Black Ops or anything heard me. Soon I heard gunfire in the distance. Putting the issue on hold I did my best to stand and go to the source.
Black Ops were firing at something. Throwing a Blast Cap in their direction they either exploded into a shower of blood or were wounded. I used my mp5 to finish the rest of them.
I went over and their guns were different from the grunts. They looked like M16's almost. They also had a grenade launcher attached to the underside past the magazine. I picked them up and all the rest of the ammo they had.
"Gray! Thank god!" I heard Gina yell.
"Gina, I'm glad its you. How's it coming with the controls?" I asked getting to the point.
"Collette is handling it. I'm going in to check on her right now." She said running into a bunker as the door closed.
Now I was left here alone...or so I believed.
Next, a far door exploded behind me and when I turned around I couldn't believe what was standing there looking at me.
It was my blue Hazard Suit. It looked much larger and thicker and the hands were claws now.
"What the hell are you?" I shouted to it aiming my rifle.
"You!" It said with malice in its voice.
"What the hell!?"
"I've been looking for you!" It said in a soft voice.
"Aren't you that plasma beast?"
"I still am. I've been looking for you ever since I took on this miserable form! I recall very well you killing my previous form and I latched onto you to try to steal you."
"Steal me? You weren't after the suit?"
"No! My nature is to take over organisms to survive. When you killed my last host I had to find a new one quickly. It was difficult to use you as the new one but if I did not find one soon I would have perished. I had to settle for this suit of yours!"
"So why are you looking for me?"
"I want your body as my new host vessel! The human being is very intriguing to me and I wish to inhabit one!" it said as a blue beam firing from its body right at me. I had little time to avoid it.
"And I'm taking it from you if I have to!"
I ran from it firing the M16 at it. The bullets didn't seem to harm it at all. It must have augmented the Hazard Suits systems when it bonded to it.
I had to stop this thing now! I took my last Blast Cap and tossed it at him. The explosion knocked it backward a little but it didn't even look like he felt it.
"Gina can you hear me?" I said into my mask.
"What's wrong Gray?" she said with concern.
"Something's attacking me! Need help!"
"Be right there! Hold on!"
I looked around and noticed this tank that was parked right next to the bunker Gina went into.
"Gina I have a plan! There's a tank in the yard here. When you get to me go to it and fire when he's in your sights!"
"Got it! Hang on!"
The beams this thing fired were very accurate. Half of it was because it showed no sign that it was about to fire off one.
"Gray I'm in position! What the hell is that?" she said to me.
"My Hazard Suit!" I told her.
I rolled into the line of fire of the tank and the suit had its back to it. I ran up to it and hit it with the stock of the rifle. It then clawed me backwards which hurt tremendously.
"Gina now!" I shouted as the tank fired its main artillery cannon and the massive shell struck the suit head on and the massive explosion sent me flying into the wall.
"Gray! Gray!" I heard her yell.
Soon my body was being shaken.
"Ouch. That son of a bitch hurts like crazy." I said to her as I stood up slowly.
My PCV was totally destroyed and the gas mask was torn up in the front. I removed it as it served no more purpose to carry.
"Look." I said to her.
A large puddle of this blue liquid was on the ground and a portal was over it. And in front was somehow my Hazard Suit.
"Take it Gray." She told me. I walked slowly up to the suit and moved it over to Gina.
"I'll help you in." she said helping me into the suit. I had thought it was still over the control of the plasma creature but this phrase reassured me otherwise.
"Welcome to the HEV Mark 4. Protective Systems. For use in Hazardous Environment Conditions."
"I'm back!" I said to her proud. My old suit was on my body once again. Picking up all my weapons I stored them and the ammo I had as I heard something overhead.
"Air strike!" Gina cried out.
"Where do we hide?" I asked panicked.
"There!" She pointed to the portal.
"We don't know what it'll do!"
"There's no time!" she said running through it.
I followed as I saw planes overhead drop explosives nearby.
Everything went green and then darkness...all darkness.
"iiiiiiii willlll kkkillllll youuuuuu" a strange voice echoed through my head. I couldn't open my eyes to find out just where the hell I had ended up.
Black Dawn
The train the three of us rode was moving faster than the regular transit system trains did. I wanted to get this over with so we could return to a normal life. However the train suddenly started to move a lot slower.
"Gina what's happening? Why are you slowing down?" Collette asked while she was doing something to my PCV.
"It's not me. Something must be drawing power from the tracks." Gina informed her colleague.
"Warning! Power failure detected on Track Levels A, B, D, and F!" The announcement voice said.
"All done Gray!" Collette said stepping away from me.
"What were you doing anyway?" I asked. I had to speak louder to them because the gas mask I wore muffled my voice slightly.
"I installed a communication device into your vest and helmet. It's tuned to our frequency so the three of us will be in contact with one another." She told me as the train car stopped completely overlooking a ruined warehouse of boxes and overturned crates. In the center of the area was a train similar to this one with a series of dead bodies lying by it. Poor bastards.
"I guess the military must be behind this." Collette suggested as a large explosion was heard around and suddenly the train began to dart forward faster than before. I was flung off of it and into the area below. Once again I was separated from Gina and Collette.
This area seemed deserted from the looks of things. Then I heard something behind me. I turned and nothing was there. Then I found myself face down on the ground with a pistol aimed at the back of my head.
I thought I was going to die right there, but who would do this? The military thought I was on their side and a security guard...crap it must have been a security guard. The person soon wrapped my arm around my back putting me in great pain. However while they did it I felt something else brush against me.
"A woman!?" I shouted as whoever it was turned me over to face her. It was a woman alright. She wore this black skin tight uniform with a series of equipment on it and some guns with her and a pair of infared goggles on her forehead. He eyes were the only visible part of her body.
Why was she dressed differently than grunts? And when were women used for this kind of stuff?
"Who are you?" I asked her. She pointed the gun further into my face after asking.
"Aren't we on the same side?" I asked her. She didn't talk at all to me. However I noticed her grip wasn't that strong as I expected so I pushed her off my body and now I had my mp5 aimed at her and my knees on her arms so she couldn't move.
"Who are you?" I asked her again. "Let's just put our guns away for now. It looks like we're both stuck down here and if we want to live through all this we need to put our fighting aside!" I told her slowly getting up.
She put her gun away as I put my mp5 away behind me. "Who are you anyway?" I asked.
"Would you stop asking me that!?" she screamed at me.
"Sorry, I'm just curious." I told her.
"None of your business Corporal Tucker." She spat at me. I looked at the tag on my PCV and it belonged to a man by the name of Corporal Daniel Tucker. I looked at her uniform and it had a similar tag.
"Private First Class, Alice Miller?" I said.
"Who gave you permission to read my uniform tag?" she shouted again. This girl was worse than the military itself.
"I just want to get along with you okay. And I'm not Corporal Tucker." I took off the gas mask and revealed my face to her. "My name is Gray I'm just wearing a PCV."
She seemed reluctant but soon she took the mask off her face and she had short brown hair that flowed slightly but not too much, like it was growing back. She did have a girls face though, no hiding that.
"I hate to ask again but why are you dressed differently than other grunts?" I asked her expecting her to yell at me again.
"I'm part of the Black Ops. I've been assigned to kill everyone here." She told me.
"Man this whole thing is way too confusing. First aliens try to kill me, and then the military tries to kill me, now another military squad is gonna kill us." I moaned to myself.
"By everyone I meant grunts too." She said.
"That's even worse! Who is ordering all of this?"
"I can't tell you that."
"Well it wouldn't make a difference anyway now that I think about it."
"What do you plan to do now Gray?" she asked.
"I need to find the satellite controls to fix the satellite calibration. It was shut down." I told her.
"I know. We did that!" she told me.
"We? There's only one of you here." I told her.
"I was separated from my squad."
"Sorry, I know how it feels." I told her walking over to her.
"Don't bother making me feel better. I was trained to hide emotions."
I got my mask back on and she did the same. Then we felt this large rumble and the lights turned out.
"What the hell?" I shouted.
"Quiet!" she hushed me. I figured out how to operate my nightvision goggles and the area gained this large green tint. I could make out Alice by this crate and she had those goggles of hers on too so I ran over to her.
"My squad must be coming." She said to herself. "They will kill you if they find you."
"They can try." Then I felt the floor shake slightly. "Something here." I said in a whisper.
Looking up I saw this gigantic beast before us. It didn't see us as it was turned in another direction. It was very large and plated with strange arms and this eye in the center of its chest practically.
"Just great." I whispered to myself.
Soon Alice looked up and saw the giant herself. "Where to go?"
"You don't expect to fight that thing I hope." I told her.
We waited for a moment and then a small door was blasted open and these men in black military clothes burst through the room and fired at both the giant and us.
"Hold your fire!" she shouted.
"Alice Miller, we have orders to see you eliminated! Traitor!" One of them said firing his rifle at both of us. I made a run for it and dragged Alice with me firing my mp5 at them.
Most were killed by the gargantuan beast behind us and we ducked into the small door blasted open and were safe for the moment.
"Well that guy is too big to fit in here. Lucky for us." I said switching off my goggles.
"Why did they fire at me?" she said to herself dropping to her knees.
"No time to worry about things now!" I told her attempting to pull her to her feet.
"I see now. It's a fight for survival for me I suppose." She was still speaking with herself.
"Alice! We gotta get out of here! Who knows if more Black Ops will show up?" I shouted.
"Fine! I'll help you out Gray! But you must follow my orders when we move, understood?" she said sounding like a fierce drill instructor.
I felt like yelling at her about this being no time to play "army", but then the bigger picture came to mind. She's a well trained soldier so she must know the best judgment right now. I agreed to her demands.
"What's the first order captain?" I asked her.
"First order is to not call me captain! Follow me!" she said running off with her pistol drawn. It was like a security guards sidearm but with a suppressor on the end of the barrel.
"Can you tell me more about these Black Ops?" I asked her.
"Now that I'm a traitor I don't see the difference it would make if I didn't. Fine. A few hours ago we got word that the grunts, the first wave of troops, were unable to find Gordon Freeman and carry out the mission. We are better trained than the grunts and were brought here with three objectives."
"And what were those objectives?" I asked.
"First, eliminate Gordon Freeman. We have word he is responsible for what happened here. Second, eliminate Adrian Shepard."
"Who's that?"
"He's a grunt like the rest but he's taken out at least a few dozen Black Ops and alien creatures. He's just as hard to kill as Freeman." She told me.
"What's the final objective?"
"Destroy Black Mesa." She said soundly.
"Destroy this whole place?"
"We have a nuclear device being planted as we speak. However we don't plan to blow the base for a few more hours." She told me.
"This is terrible!" I said as we were interrupted by gunfire.
"What the hell?" I said taking cover behind a crate in the corridor. "Why couldn't I hear them over my radio?"
"Black Ops use a remote frequency so only they can hear it." Alice said firing a few shots at them.
I used one of my remaining three Blast Caps and it seemed the room was cleared.
"Those are potent things." She said looking at one.
"I know. Where are we?" I said looking at the walls. "Advanced Weapons Research?"
We entered another room and were met with some resistance by scientists.
"Stay back!" one with glasses said.
"We aren't going to hurt you!" I told him putting my weapons away.
Alice soon did the same. After some explanation we learned what was happening here.
"Those Black Ops have been storming the whole area and leaving nothing. However they don't know what we have here." He said leading me to this room.
"Here we have a very powerful weapon. I trust you should be able to put it to good use." He said revealing this very futuristic looking rifle.
"What the hell is this thing?" I said lifting it and holding it by the handle. It looked like a normal assault rifle almost but with a blue casing and energy cells and batteries attached to its sides. It was quite heavy to hold though.
"This is one of our first experimental weapons. It was the prototype for the Gluon Gun designed by Lambda Sector. However this weapon has one major flaw. It has a fast fire rate and does tremendous damage but if fired for long periods of time it will overheat and explode. The Gluon Gun's backpack unit was designed for cooling the weapon down.
"I'll be careful with it." I said arming it.
"It used batteries like this one." The man held up this small box with circuits on the top end of it. "Each battery holds around a charge of 50 cells."
"Thanks. But you won't have anything to protect you down here though." I told him.
"Not to worry. I plan to activate the auto defense turrets in this area after you leave. They should keep me safe from the Black Ops. You should leave the back way." He said leading Alice and I further into this lab of weapons and equipment.
He pulled this old board out of the way and it led to a dark hallway.
"This was one of the old tunnels boarded up in the construction. You should be able to make your way to the surface of the Lambda Complex from this path."
"Thanks for your help." Alice said thankfully.
"Yeah, good luck to you." I said going first.
We heard somebody talking in the distance.
"That Shepard guy is sure killing us off quickly." Someone said.
"Tell me about it. I heard he's getting close to the 'package' too."
"Well sooner or later he'll be taken care of. Either by us or that Government Man." He said chuckling to himself.
I readied this Pulse Rifle as I called it and aimed and fired at them. It fired these blue rounds of energy right on target and practically evaporated one of them. Alice happened to move behind the other and slit his throat.
"Ouch! This thing gets hotter than I thought." My Heads Up Display told me I used about 23 cells and it was almost burning my hands. Powerful but deadly to me as well.
"We do make a good team, I'll give you that kid." Alice said moving forward.
We kept moving forwards and eventually stopped at this large door. It was broken down and had this blue residue on it.
"What the hell? I've seen this stuff before." I said to her.
Then this blue beam shot out at us but narrowly missed hitting us. It exploded on the wall.
"Shit! Run!" She yelled speeding forward more along the hallway.
I didn't know what attacked us but it had to be an alien. We kept running until we found the elevator the scientist was talking about. Alice however kept running.
"Alice! The elevator's here! Get on!" I told her.
"I'll lead it down this way! It won't hurt you!" she shouted.
"Alice!" the elevator was already moving. "Don't be stupid!"
"Look. I know you're probably helping to fix this mess so go help already! I'm helping my own way! We'll meet up again don't worry!" she said vanishing into the darkness as another blue beam was sent in her direction.
I didn't know if it hit her or not but I had to assume the best. I was out of the tunnel soon and on the surface near the satellite area of the Lambda Complex.
"Alice!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. She was helpful and young too. She barely looked over twenty. "God Damn this all this Hell!" I screamed so loud. I didn't care if Black Ops or anything heard me. Soon I heard gunfire in the distance. Putting the issue on hold I did my best to stand and go to the source.
Black Ops were firing at something. Throwing a Blast Cap in their direction they either exploded into a shower of blood or were wounded. I used my mp5 to finish the rest of them.
I went over and their guns were different from the grunts. They looked like M16's almost. They also had a grenade launcher attached to the underside past the magazine. I picked them up and all the rest of the ammo they had.
"Gray! Thank god!" I heard Gina yell.
"Gina, I'm glad its you. How's it coming with the controls?" I asked getting to the point.
"Collette is handling it. I'm going in to check on her right now." She said running into a bunker as the door closed.
Now I was left here alone...or so I believed.
Next, a far door exploded behind me and when I turned around I couldn't believe what was standing there looking at me.
It was my blue Hazard Suit. It looked much larger and thicker and the hands were claws now.
"What the hell are you?" I shouted to it aiming my rifle.
"You!" It said with malice in its voice.
"What the hell!?"
"I've been looking for you!" It said in a soft voice.
"Aren't you that plasma beast?"
"I still am. I've been looking for you ever since I took on this miserable form! I recall very well you killing my previous form and I latched onto you to try to steal you."
"Steal me? You weren't after the suit?"
"No! My nature is to take over organisms to survive. When you killed my last host I had to find a new one quickly. It was difficult to use you as the new one but if I did not find one soon I would have perished. I had to settle for this suit of yours!"
"So why are you looking for me?"
"I want your body as my new host vessel! The human being is very intriguing to me and I wish to inhabit one!" it said as a blue beam firing from its body right at me. I had little time to avoid it.
"And I'm taking it from you if I have to!"
I ran from it firing the M16 at it. The bullets didn't seem to harm it at all. It must have augmented the Hazard Suits systems when it bonded to it.
I had to stop this thing now! I took my last Blast Cap and tossed it at him. The explosion knocked it backward a little but it didn't even look like he felt it.
"Gina can you hear me?" I said into my mask.
"What's wrong Gray?" she said with concern.
"Something's attacking me! Need help!"
"Be right there! Hold on!"
I looked around and noticed this tank that was parked right next to the bunker Gina went into.
"Gina I have a plan! There's a tank in the yard here. When you get to me go to it and fire when he's in your sights!"
"Got it! Hang on!"
The beams this thing fired were very accurate. Half of it was because it showed no sign that it was about to fire off one.
"Gray I'm in position! What the hell is that?" she said to me.
"My Hazard Suit!" I told her.
I rolled into the line of fire of the tank and the suit had its back to it. I ran up to it and hit it with the stock of the rifle. It then clawed me backwards which hurt tremendously.
"Gina now!" I shouted as the tank fired its main artillery cannon and the massive shell struck the suit head on and the massive explosion sent me flying into the wall.
"Gray! Gray!" I heard her yell.
Soon my body was being shaken.
"Ouch. That son of a bitch hurts like crazy." I said to her as I stood up slowly.
My PCV was totally destroyed and the gas mask was torn up in the front. I removed it as it served no more purpose to carry.
"Look." I said to her.
A large puddle of this blue liquid was on the ground and a portal was over it. And in front was somehow my Hazard Suit.
"Take it Gray." She told me. I walked slowly up to the suit and moved it over to Gina.
"I'll help you in." she said helping me into the suit. I had thought it was still over the control of the plasma creature but this phrase reassured me otherwise.
"Welcome to the HEV Mark 4. Protective Systems. For use in Hazardous Environment Conditions."
"I'm back!" I said to her proud. My old suit was on my body once again. Picking up all my weapons I stored them and the ammo I had as I heard something overhead.
"Air strike!" Gina cried out.
"Where do we hide?" I asked panicked.
"There!" She pointed to the portal.
"We don't know what it'll do!"
"There's no time!" she said running through it.
I followed as I saw planes overhead drop explosives nearby.
Everything went green and then darkness...all darkness.
"iiiiiiii willlll kkkillllll youuuuuu" a strange voice echoed through my head. I couldn't open my eyes to find out just where the hell I had ended up.