Half-Life Integral

Elite

I had no idea where this portal could lead me too. I was in some kind of room now with two dead people wearing hazard suits lying before me. I took their weapons and ammo and now my health was at 100 and my suit power was at 65 percent. I was in good shape for anything ahead.

An open door was before me and my only way forward.

Stepping through a large rock sealed the way I had just come. I was now in this large arena by the looks of things. Tons of dead bodies all around. Both human and alien.

Getting my rifle ready I knew something would attack at me. Then I saw something horrific.

It was a behemoth of a monster. Had the physical build of the alien grunts but much taller and had an addition pair of arms attached to their waist. On the left hand was nothing but the right contained this strange cannon of some kind. It wore thick plated armor and didn't look happy to see me. It flexed its muscles and scared me.

It aimed it cannon arm and fired this blue beam at me. I dodged it. I didn't want to know what it would do to me. I fired my rifle and noticed my ammo was running very low. Once out I ditched the rifle and went to the Mp5 and fired that thing. Still nothing.

This time though the blue beam hit me. My body began to move incredibly fast. I was standing still but I began to breathe very rapidly, move rapidly, and even think rapidly. It wasn't harming me but it can't be good. I knew I'd be hurt in a second if I didn't do something.

I got on my knees into a crouch and then the beam stopped. The creature looked around for me. It didn't look like it saw me. Meanwhile my body began to move at its normal pace. That cannon accelerated my entire body exponentially! But why did it stop firing?

"Stealth mode engaged!" the suit's automated voice sounded.

When I crouched I must have activated this stealth mode. Perhaps it tracks me by sound and stealth mode must make me soundless to an extent. I began to move in this crouch position and it still didn't see me.

Now I had a difficult choice. If I stayed this way it wouldn't see me but I wouldn't be able to do anything. If I fired it would most likely hear me and fire again. I had two of those satchels left from before so I decided to slide them both under it and then detonated them. The creature fell to the ground with a loud thud and then I began to fire at it once more with my Mp5 and it seemed to feel it this time around.

I noticed that the explosion caused his armor to shatter and now his exposed skin was vulnerable. My Mp5 was now out of ammo itself. I didn't throw this gun away though and then I changed to the shotgun. I was only able to fire two shells at it before it stood up and looked very enraged.

It knew where I was so I rolled out of the way and landed in a crouch again. This time though it just began to fire randomly. Now I had no more explosives to throw at it so I was out of options. I had to take it down and fast. I took out my Pulse Rifle and looked at the ammunition. I had one full battery loaded and two spare batteries.

I noticed something I had not noticed before on the gun. Below the primary trigger was a secondary one. I decided to aim at it and fire with this new trigger. It used 25 cells and fired this large blue orb that exploded in a shower of blue light upon hitting the big creature. It fired at me as I changed batteries and I felt that acceleration from before.

I used the primary firing and it was now a battle against who died first. I kept shooting it in the chest rapidly and the gun was now about to explode on me when it stopped firing and I just tossed the Pulse Rifle out of my hands.

The creature began to nurse its cannon arm as it fell off completely. Now it fell to the ground and began to bleed to death. I had killed it. I walked over to my Pulse Rifle and picked it back up. It was still very much hot but I could handle it. Then I walked over to the cannon arm left behind. It was some kind of biological weapon of some kind.

I hoisted it over my shoulder and it somehow bonded to my body. It was heavy but I was able to lift it successfully. I guess this was my new weapon.

The ammunition display had a symbol that I have never seen before and it didn't list a number but instead a bar. I tested it out and fired it at the ground. The bar depleted but then began to recharge itself slowly. It seems to generate its own ammunition.

"Where do I go now?" I wondered out loud. Then the body of this creature, which I called an Elite, exploded and a large hole in the ground was left in its place.

I dropped into this hole and looked at the horrors before me.

It was some kind of factory. Tons of cylinders were everywhere and slaves were moving them onto conveyer belts. This was an amazing find. It looks like the aliens seem to have had an army prepared for something. Was it prepared to attack us? I doubted that reason, what happened at Black Mesa was an accident.

Moving along the catwalk I was on nothing noticed me. Then I heard another gunshot and looked below. It was a man. He had no helmet on his hazard suit and was blasting the aliens apart. He had brown hair and this brown goatee from the looks of it.

I had the feeling I had seen him from somewhere before. I know! I had spotted him in this office area through the vents when this whole mess began.

He looked upwards as if surveying the area and noticed me. He blinked quickly and then began to walk away. He must think he's seeing things. I mean I thought I was at first when I saw him in this world. But who is he? Is that Gordon Freeman? If it was then he was here to do something to save everything from these aliens.

Well this catwalk led to a large room and I saw yet another dead body wearing a hazard suit. I had been checking them all since I got here. I wanted to know if it was Gina or not. But none of them were. Where did she end up?

I had scavenged the area for all the supplies I could make use of and saw this blue chamber. I stepped into it and it gave off the same aura as healing pools did. But I had no use for it as I was at full health. Now there was this small opening in the wall I barely was able to crawl through. I crawled through this tight area and ended up further in this manufacturing plant.

A large portal opened in the center of the room and then I looked skyward. These floating creatures with large heads began to throw these yellow balls at me so I did not want to stay and fight them all. I ran and leapt into the portal.

"Tttoooooooo clooooooseeee. Grrraaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy toooooooooo clooooose"

It was that same freaky voice I had hurt the first time since I had arrived here. It was calling out to me. I began to think I was going crazy from all this stress in this other world. But I knew deep down that it was someone or something communicating with me.

I was in this large room now that led into yet another room. In this second room was a large platform. On this platform was a portal. I had no other options and jumped into it.