Chapter 5- More Trouble Ahead

Colonel Jenkens rushed into the Lucifer Complex control room. "Get team five down here now." he ordered.
"Yes sir." said the tech. He turned in his chair and clicked the intercom. "Lucifer Team Three, please report to the portal room. Repeat, Lucifer Team Three, report to the portal room." his voice echoed throughout the base. They waited for a minute and saw the team walk into the portal room.
Jenkens turned and walked down the narrow staircase and opened the door into the portal room. "Grant, your orders are simple. Go through and retrieve teams fourteen and nine. Tell them I want them back here." he said to Major Grant, the commander of team five. "Clear?"
"Yes sir." said Grant confidently.
"Janis, start the sequence." said Jenkens turning around and facing the control room. He walked back up the stairs and entered the control room. The portal stabilized and the tech yelled for them to go. They sprinted up the platform and disappeared into the light. "Max, can you give me a report on how Junes is doing?"
"Yes sir." he got up and brushed past Jenkens and made his way to sick bay.
Jenkens sat in Max's chair and massaged his temples. Those fools at Black Mesa had done something. Jenkens didn't know what, he wasn't cleared to know.
Breen had called him and told him to pull his people out. He closed his eyes and thought about what they could have done. With them, it could literally be anything.
He decided he didn't care as long as he didn't lose any people to their screw up. If anyone died because of them, he would make sure the president would shut them down. He hoped if that happened that Breen and Rosenberg would go to jail, or at least damage their reputations so they would never get a job again.

Adrian, Hanz and team nine, escorted the king and his troops through the city and across the farm. They hid him in the house so Dels wouldn't find them as easily and left them there to return to the city to hunt down Dels and his team.
Everything was going bad. Dels had probably reached and killed the decoy by now and were making their escape from the palace.
Adrian hoped they could complete their mission before they realized that they hadn't actually killed the king, and without losing anymore people. Breckonrige was a good soldier and they didn't even have time to get his tags.
A loud crack interrupted their thoughts and Hanz stumbled back from the force of a bullet hitting his vest. Adrian turned to fire but the SAW locked up and he took a bullet also. He fell back and hit the ground along with Hanz.
He tried to get up but the enemy emerged from his hiding place and slammed his boot onto Adrian's chest.
Hanz recognized him as one of Dels' men.
"Patterson, why are you doing this?" He looked over at Hanz and drew his Desert Eagle.
"Danny, why do you think? The king needed to die to save these people." he said. "He was corrupt, evil."
"Why?"
"You wouldn't understand." he pointed the pistol at Hanz. "If you weren't so foolish, maybe you could understand." His finger found the tripper and a crack filled the air. Patterson lost his balance and stumbled back. A second bullet opened up a hole in his head. Blood and brain matter left the back of it head wide open. Patterson's body thumped to the ground and twitched.
Adrian looked over to see if Hanz was still alive. He looked just as confused about what had just happened. Adrian got up and retrieved the SAW. He looked around and saw who had just saved their lives.
"You need to be more careful." said Kelly Lorenz. Adrian smiled upon seeing that his friend was still alive.
Lorenz's robes were off and his leg wrapped with them. They were stained with blood. The thick black PCV was exposed.
"Lorenz!" said Hanz getting up. "Where's Fine?" Lorenz shook his head.
"He didn't make it. I tried, but he lost too much blood." he said sadly. Hanz lowered his head.
"At least you made it."
"We better go. Dels might find us if we stay here in the open."
"Yeah," said Adrian. "We, better go." He turned at started into the field until he disappeared into the six foot grass. Hanz and Lorenz looked at each other and followed Shephard into the field.
The three walked for a while thinking about the loss of their comrade. Hanz knew Adrian well enough to know that he was pretty broken up over Fine's death. They also knew that Adrian was thankful that Lorenz was still alive. He just didn't show emotion when there was no need, such as now when people were dying left and right. It was just Adrian.
"Adrian, where are you leading us?" asked Hanz, almost afraid to piss him off. Even though he was the commander he didn't want to take the chance that Adrian would abandon them to get revenge on Dels.
"We're going back to the receiver so we can get better equipped." said Adrian. Hanz almost recoiled at the friendliness of his voice. "We're taking the long way around so we don't get shot."
"Good plan." Adrian stopped suddenly causing Lorenz and Hanz to run into him. He knelt down, set the SAW down on the soft ground, and pulled his P90 out of his robes. He leveled it and sat quietly aiming ahead of him. Hanz and Lorenz did the same not knowing what Shephard had seen.
A soft crunching soon reached their ears.
"Stop, or you'll die." said Adrian just loud enough for the person to heard him but not know where it had come from.
Person stopped walking and stood still.
"Shep, don't shoot." Adrian looked at Lorenz who shrugged. He stood up his gun still aimed at the man.
"Grant!" he said immediately lowering his gun and bending down to get the SAW. Hanz stood up followed by Lorenz.
"Thank god. Your still alive." he said.
"Why the hell are you here?" asked Hanz.
"Jenkens told us to come find you. He said he wants you back ASAP. We tried to radio, but I guess it's not working." Lorenz pulled the small plastic device out of his ear and looked at it.
"That's weird, it was working earlier."
"None the less, we need to leave now."
"We haven't completed our mission yet."
"Come on, let's just follow orders." Grant turned and started walking across the field. Hanz watched him go and frowned.
"Guess we better follow orders. I just wish we could have taken Dels out." Adrian followed him and Lorenz followed.
"No sense in crying about what we can't control." said Adrian. They finally emerged from the grass and walked cautiously into the clearing.
Grant had his men make sure the area was clear and they walked across it and into the trees and finally to the receiver.
Hanz bent down and brushed it off. He tapped a couple of small buttons on the receiver. They waited a minute and a small beam of light shot out of it. The portal formed and Hanz motioned for Grant to go through. He and Mack, walked into it. The portal flashed and the receiver hummed and died taking to portal with it.
"What the hell," muttered Hanz. The receiver began to hum again and a blast of light left it throwing Benny, one of Grant's men, Adrian, and Hanz onto the ground.
"Damn." said Hanz getting to his feet. "It must have blown the generator. It'll take them about an hour to replace it."
A bullet tore through the second man Grant and left behind sending him sprawling to the ground. The other soldiers dropped and turned. A soldier sprinted from the tree he was behind and disappeared into the trees.
"We can't stay here." said Lorenz after a moment. He slowly got up keeping his MP5 trained in the direction.
"Goddamn it, he's dead." said Adrian angrily. Adrian got up and walked briskly walked across the small clearing. "I'm going to kill them."
"Shephard, wait." said Lorenz going after him.
"They've killed to many people." Hanz looked at Benny and also got up. Benny watched him and exhaled.
"Why not." he said to himself.

"What!" yelled Colonel Jenkens.
"I think the generator just blew out." said a mechanic over the radio in the control room.
"Get it fixed." said Jenkens, drawing every word out so there would be no mistake. "Fast."
"Yes sir." The radio clicked off.
"Sir, Dr. Breen wants to know if you have all of the teams back, sir. He says his people say things are about to go extremely bad. They are doing all they can to give you more time but they are losing control." said John looking at his screen.
"Tell him to get out. No more of his people need to die today." John looked up at the window.
"Yes sir." he said sadly. "We can't get the generator fixed in time. We are about to lose some good men today. Tell him to also call back when things have settled down so we can go through and collect their bodies."
"Yes sir."
"Did we lose them?" he asked Janis.
"Yes sir. They were caught right in the middle."

Several hours passed as they tried to calm Adrian down. Team nine had returned and saw them chasing Adrian out of the clearing and helped subdue him. They had been following a lead from a civilian, which trued out to be false. Hanz scolded them and now all of them were sitting in the middle of a field with six foot grass.
Hanz gave Adrian a piece of chocolate, which he ate and took a painkiller for his headache.
"So, we're stranded here?" asked Benny.
"Only for an hour." replied Lorenz.
"I don't like it. There is no where for us to go if something goes bad."
"Like what?"
"I don't know, Dels could find us. Grant and Mack were lucky to get through."
"We can sit here and they would have to partially step on us to figure out we're here.
Something moved in the grass to their right and Benny turned and raised his gun.
"What was that?" asked Lorenz. He got up, walked to the spot, and moved the grass with his gun.
Two shots echoed out of reflex as something lunged at him and attached to his face. He dropped the gun and struggled to get it off. Hanz ran to him and tried to help him.
The small animal was tan colored and looked like an oversized rat with teeth. Adrian drew his knife and stabbed it into the creature.
"Hold still damn it." he said. Benny tried to stop moving and Adrian cut the creature off his face. He fell to the ground. Walder hurried to him and checked his pulse.
"He's dead sir." Adrian re-sheathed the knife.
A sphere of yellow light formed in the air just above one of Walder's men. He looked up and a green monster materialized and fell to the ground just in front of him. It caught him by surprise and didn't give him time to react. It stretched it's arms and clamped them together. He flew back from a green lightning bolt and landed dead on the ground about five feet away. The creature turned toward them and extended it's arms again. Adrian and Lorenz opened fire at the same time. The entire upper half of it flew apart in a slimy mess of tan slime.
What the hell was that!" yelled Hanz. More spheres of light started popping up in numerous places and the weird creatures began materializing from them.
"Run!" yelled Adrian. The soldiers took off through the field followed by dozens of bolts of electricity. The last of Walder's men was hit and fell, his vest smoldering and flesh burning.