Hello, and welcome to the Sixth Chapter! I won't waste your time so let's cut to the chase!

Chapter VI
Interrogation

Simon crawled as fast as he could towards the light. Simon didn't care where he ended up he just wanted to get out. He kicked out the grate and rolled out. Simon stood up; three marines turned around and aimed their M16s at Simon, "FREEZE!" Simon puts his hands in the air.

"Drop your weapon!" One marine yells, Simon hesitates. "Drop your damn weapon!" Simon drops the revolver. Then, in the spur of the moment, Simon runs. A shot was fired and Simon felt a sharp pain in his neck. Simon yells, and feels his neck. He pulls the dart from his neck and examines it. Simon looks back at the marine with the crossbow, suddenly the room spins violently and Simon hits the floor and gets into a fetal position everything goes black.

Simon wakes up to see three marines standing in front of him. His vision was still blurred so he couldn't make out their faces. One tries to talk to him but his voice was so muffled he was unable to hear. Then his vision started to clear up a bit and he could hear their voices. "Hey, Wake up! Wake up!" His vision was clearing now. He looks around to see he's in a small room. He looks down to find he's tied to a chair. He tries to move his hands but they're tied behind his back. Simon Looks up, his head feeling as heavy as a ton of bricks. He reads the name tag on one of the marines, Sheapard.

"Good, your awake, who are you?" The marine asks Simon forces the words out.

"Kessler... Simon Kessler" He grunts still groggy from the tranquilizer dart.

"Do you know where Freeman is?" Sheapard asks.

"No... I don't" Sheapard bashes him in the temple with the butt of his gun.

"Where is Freeman?" He yells.

"I Don't-" Before he could finish his sentence he hit him again. Simon starts to bleed.

"Where is he God Damn it!"

"I'm telling you, I don't..." Simon didn't finish his sentence because behind the marine he saw a small cylinder like object fall from the ceiling. It hits the floor and explodes releasing a thick smoke. The two other marines choked on the fumes, but Sheapard quickly puts his mask on. Then from the ceiling and into the cloud of smoke a humanlike figure drops from the ceiling and lands on the balls of its feet. It stands back up and takes two shots with a handgun killing both marines. Suddenly the figure turns towards Sheapard and fires. The bullet hits him in the knee cap; he lets out a roar of pain. The figure looks around and spots Simon. It walks toward Sheapard, who is now on the floor grabbing his knee in agony, and takes his army knife holstered on his side. It walks back toward Simon, who now is also choking, and cuts him free. Simon gets up, but staggers a little bit, and tries to make out the figure in the smoke. He can make out the figure signaling him to follow it, so he does. He first grabs an M16 and some ammo and follows the figure to the end of the room where it opens a door into the clear hallways. Now Simon could definitely make out that the figure was indeed someone in an HEV suit Simon looks for a name tag but apparently there was none so it couldn't have been Freeman. The mysterious person in the HEV suit turns around and looks at him.

"You all right?" Simon was surprised to realize the voice behind the helmet was female.

"Yeah," He coughs, "I guess, but who are you?" Simon inquires.

"Oh! I'm Sorry," She says as she takes off her helmet and shakes her head to straighten out her long brown hair, "The name's Jenna Kerrigan," She says with her British accent. "And judging by your name tag, you must be Simon Kessler?"

"Yeah, are you a scientist?"

"Yes, I came from the train yards." She replied.

"Train Yards?" Simon Inquired.

"Yes why?"

"I need to get there, do you know how?"

"Well I went through the ventilation shaft, that's how I found you. But you don't want to go there now!"

"Why Not?"

"Well last time I saw, there was this gigantic creature stomping around, and one crazy scientist was trying to kill it."

[Freeman!] Simon thought. "Quick you got to get me to the security mainframe! I need to shut off the lock down so we can take a tram topside!"

"Okay, let's go"

"Wait! The lockdown shut the security doors and I don't have the security clearance to open them"

"Well I have a little trick up my sleeve, watch."

They both walk up to one of the security doors. Jenna takes a multi-tool from her side pack and picks at the retinal scanner. The front panel opens to reveal a key pad. She taps in a few numbers on the key pad, the door swishes open.

"It's good to know the security override codes!"

Simon smiled; he was beginning to admire Jenna. They walk through the hallways looking for the door for the security mainframe. Suddenly they hear rattling above their heads. They both aim their weapons ahead of them. The rattling continues to move forward until it stops suddenly. They cautiously lower their weapons. Just as Jenna and Simon were about to turn the safeties on their gun, the crashing of the ceiling ventilation grate falling onto the ground startled them. Again they draw their weapons. They wait for something to happen, their fingers stroking the triggers of their guns. Then finally one meager head crab falls to the ground, no sooner does Jenna aim and fire her handgun, killing it.

"Damn, those head crabs are getting annoying!" Jenna comments.

"Ugh, you should see what they do after they grab your head." Simon replies.

Jenna was just about to say something when that same sound emanates from the ceiling once more. It starts out quiet, but then seems to get louder and more frequent. Then from the same hole in the ceiling drops on crab, then three, then nine, then thousands of crabs crawled out of the hole in the ceiling, clinging on the the walls, floor, and ceiling. All of them charging in a large stampede toward Simon and Jenna.

"Run!" Simon yells as he pushes Jenna out of the way and squeezes the trigger of his M16 blasting some of the crabs away. Each loud gunshot lighting up the hallway. Simon lets out a loud scream as bullets fly, hitting crabs and ricocheting off of steel walls. The crabs continue to pour through the hole. Some now starting to crawl up his leg Jenna grabs Simon and runs down the hall no being chased by thousands of head crabs! The crabs on Simon's pant leg now fall off loosing their grip while he runs. Jenna and Simon run as fast as their legs can carry them, the stampede slowly catching up. Jenna sees an open door coming up on her left, she dives and pulls Simon with her into the room and quickly slams the door. She looks around for something to barricade the door. She finds a book case,

"Help me." She orders Simon as she walks over to the book case; they heave it over to the front of the door. They take some time to catch their breath.

"What the hell was that stunt you pulled off back there? Pushing me out of the way like that?" Shouted Jenna.

"I was... just.... I... well..." Simon stammers.

"What? Trying to impress me Rambo?" She raises an eyebrow and grins.

Simon blushes. Jenna smiles "Well, that's sweet of you. But don't do it again."