Yay! Another chappie! I just bought something new today (Queen's a Night at the Opera's 30th anniversary album). Yeah, sorry but I just had fun listening to the music (mostly Bohemian Rhapsody). Anyway, here's next chappie!

Chapter 3: Hallucination

F.E.A.R Point Man walked with caution with his Shotgun ready. He approached a door and was about to put his hand on the door knob. But before it was even two inches away, he heard some whispering sounds. He turned around quickly to find out the room was still empty.

This had to be a trap… especially by Alma.

He turned back to the door and opened it, but this time he was ready in case he might see Alma again. But she wasn't there, or nothing was there so far. The room remained empty. Not necessarily with corpses. All there were was corpses. There were skeletons, employees of the office building, and even some Delta Squad bodies. One of them had a Penetrator the Point Man could pick up, but just as he was about to pick it up, everything suddenly flashed white…

What the…? Is this another hallucination?

This time the room was totally covered in blood. The floor, the walls, but not the ceiling. He couldn't even see the bodies, as they were totally covered in blood. Even the Delta Squad's helmets had nothing but blood on it.

I know you're here… I know you're here… A very familiar voice spoke behind him. He turned back only to see Alma behind him. He was in shock but began opening fire anyway on her. But she just took the shots, and they were utterly useless. She teleported and quickly reappeared close to him and knocked the shotgun out of his hands. F.E.A.R Point Man backed away to the wall, but Alma just kept approaching.

"I won't kill… for now." Alma said to the F.E.A.R Point Man.

Some of the fear of Alma was still inside the Point Man but traces of them still remained from his eyes. He was breathing hard and braced himself, or at least trying to get a grip.

Alma picked up a body of a Delta Squad member by the neck and then turned her face to the Point Man.

"And why do you help these weak fools…" Alma asked the Point Man as she crushed the Delta Squad member's neck like an empty pop can, and added, "You should've helped your brother… your brother Fettel…", as she came closer to the Point Man, who was still cornered by the wall.

F.E.A.R Point Man wasn't answering, and Alma was getting a little impatient about him. Maybe Fettel never tested her patience, or just the grudge she had on her first son.

"I want an answer…"

F.E.A.R Point Man spoke up to Alma for the first time.

"It's… not… right…"

"Not right, as you say… how is it wrong… don't you remember what they did to you…?" Alma questioned as she looked a little frustrated, but F.E.A.R Point Man couldn't see due to her face being covered from her hair.

What she was saying was right, in some ways. He was deemed a failure, and put her into comma. And even killed her after Origin project became a failure… to his opinion. Alma was sealed away for that long, and she has suffered enough.

But then again, people weren't perfect.

"But Dr. Wade… still freed you… Isn't that enough already to thank?" F.E.A.R Point Man questioned as that reminded of his witness of Harlan Wade's death.

"No… You never understand… But I wanted ATC… every single one of them, all dead… for wronging me. And that includes your team… of losers who think they can defeat your brother's army." Alma answered as she stomped on a skeleton's bone, which shattered into million bits.

"No, because you're just mentally challenged, that's all." F.E.A.R Point Man suddenly wished he didn't say that. But Alma did nothing.

"Am I…? We'll see about that… me or those fools who wronged me. They'll show no mercy… and remember, I'll spare you. I'll be a nice little girl and let you live… for three days. When that's over, I'll kill you and every one of those that wronged me." Alma warned.

Kill me…? Is she insane? F.E.A.R Point Man thought with a question deep inside his mind. He was her son… how can a mother kill her own son, and her first one? And why not the second one?

Alma disappeared and F.E.A.R Point Man came back to reality.

Three days… before that, I have to get this code… F.E.A.R Point brought out the computer ATC Chip he had on his hand.

Noobies never know things like this. Only the ATC employees do.

F.E.A.R Point Man then thought there was a TV hanging on the corner of the ceiling.

"This just in, The ATC facility has currently been attacked by some unknown soldiers, being armed. Not even the security of this facility could stop them from getting there. But the survivors managed to get a helicopter and escaped."

So THIS is the reason why they didn't use it in the ATC facility. The Replicas planned an attack on them.

Point Man then came back to the Delta Squad member's body and picked up the Penetrator and dropped his Assault Rifle. The Penetrator was a third fully loaded, and needed to be reloaded. He did so and got out of the door.

When he got out, three light armored Replicas entered as well.

These mustn't be the ones with those attacking ATC.

They spotted him and F.E.A.R Point Man quickly brought out his Slow Mo, and quickly shot the Penetrator on one of the head of the Replicas. It ripped the head and pushed it onto the wall nearby. But the other two managed to get some shots on the Point Man. He shot one of them with the Penetrator but not on the head as he accidentally missed thanks to the shots they were giving.

He immediately deactivated the Slow Mo and brought out his Shotgun, and shot the badly injured one. The last one surviving continued opening fire as he sidestepped. But he wasn't quick enough to dodge F.E.A.R Point Man's roundhouse kick that he did as he got close. The kick hit him on the head and knocked him sideways. He was dead… or not.

The Replica was only playing dead, and F.E.A.R Point Man noticed that when his arm moved a little bit. But Point Man even knew he wasn't dead. A roundhouse kick wouldn't necessarily kill him, so he quickly brought out his Remote bomb and quietly stuck the bomb on his back. The Replica didn't realize that and crawled slowly. F.E.A.R Point Man pretended he didn't notice. The Replica slowly reached the others. He weakly told them that the Point Man was here. But F.E.A.R Point Man quickly pushed the detonator, killing all the Replicas there. However, little did he notice there was a heavy armor as well on the corner around them. He rushed up to the Point Man as he tossed a mime on the ground.

This is a present for ya.

The Heavy Armor stepped on the bomb and took a major damage, though he was still able to walk. He then got out a Remote Bomb and a Mime at the same time, and blew both of them up. He quickly had the chance to bring his Penetrator and try it on him. It took a lot of shots, but as soon as he fired one more, he was dead.

I don't have much to do here. Better leave before more comes.

He quickly clicked the elevator back to the first floor, but the elevator stopped during there. There wasn't anything, but silent foot steps. F.E.A.R Point Man quickly pushed the close button, but didn't hold. When the elevator almost closed, it opened again. F.E.A.R Point Man got a little irritated and this time HELD the button. The door really did close. He turned around and the lights flickered on and off repeatedly. One of the flashes he saw Alma on her eight year old form. But when the light flickered off and back on, she wasn't there.

F.E.A.R Point Man continued his way back at the top and saw only Douglas Holiday was there, while all the Delta Squad members were nothing but corpses. He went outside to Holiday, but when he got close, the door automatically closed.

What the fuck? Oh so she IS there.

He turned back around, expecting Alma, but instead were five evil Spirits she summoned.

Crap.

He got out his Dual pistols and activated Slow Mo. The Evil Spirits moved in extreme speed, but the Slow Mo made things a little easier. He quickly shot two of them with his Pistols but the third one got close to him. He almost touched him, but Point Man had the chance to quickly shoot and kill him. Two only remained, but the Slow Mo was running out fast. F.E.A.R Point Man brought out sweat and looked at the fast moving spirits. When his Slow Mo finished recharging, one of them slashed the Point Man on the left arm, making him drop one of the pistols. He used the other pistol to shoot him. The last one homed in fast on the Point Man, but F.E.A.R Point Man was close to getting hit and shot out one last pistol round and killed him.

The door opened again, and F.E.A.R Point Man reached Holiday.

"What happened to the rest of the squad?" F.E.A.R Point Man questioned as he grasped his arm in pain, which was still bleeding.

"I have the slightest clue."

Maybe it was those Evil Spirits that were there. I guess Alma isn't the only one making this mess. And ATC is being ambushed, and this was only a distraction.

"Your girlfriend will help you out. Come on."

F.E.A.R Point Man got a little agitated yet his face turned a little red.

To be continued…

The ending of the chapter? Romantic? Humorous? Hehe. Yeah. But every story has to have at least some humor and romance. But I'll only put them very rarely in this story. And besides that, please R&R!