We all know about Gordon Freeman's absurd luck, but what if it hadn't found him?
Gordon walked into the front office. He was still completely enraged about the time the train had told him. Was he that late again? The security guard babbled about something to do with messages and software failures. Gordon was too angry at himself to hear properly. Just before he walked out, he pressed the alarm.
"What the hell, Gordon," said the security guard, "are you trying to get me into trouble!?"
Yes, Gordon spray-painted on the nearest wall. Gordon stalked off into the halls, ignoring the complaints about the ties. Gordon had to admit that they looked incredibly ridiculous. He bumped into is friend Calhoun.
"Why're you so upset?" said Barney. "Catch me after work, I'll buy you a beer." That got Gordon a bit happier.
Gordon signed his approval. With his spirits raised, Gordon walked into the locker room to take a look at the HEV suit. Gordon was visibly distressed. What the hell was supposed to protect his head? He slipped into it and opened his locker. "Oh, good! A battery!" Gordon thought sarcastically. He charged his HEV and hoped it would make an energy forcefield around his head.
Gordon walked down into the break room. He was reallyhungry. He stole whatever cheap food was in the microwave. Some kind of instant noodle, with a sickly green colour. Who cared anyway? Gordon ate it. He walked over to the airlock, where a guard let him through.
Gordon walked through the left side and took the elevator down. It didn't matter which side he took, but he preferred the left. He walked down another hall, and a couple of scientists activated the retinal scanners. Gordon cursed his decision to not get retinal clearance. He walked down yet another hallway, saw a computer blowing up, and came to the last "security check."
There was something about deviating from standard procedures and a resonance cascade, whatever the hell that was. As they started to activate the retinal scanner, Gordon was full of confidence.
Gordon walked into the test chamber. After waiting for a minute, he was told to climb up a ladder. He expected to manually override the anti-mass spectrometer and type obscure lines of code. Instead, he was told to flip a switch. Gordon, fumed. Once the anti-mass spectrometer was at 105 percent, he had to push the carrier. This made greatuse of his MIT education and Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He saw a green beam as the crystal smashed into the phaser. There were cries of distress from the scientists.
Gordon blacked out, and woke up in a ruined test chamber. Monsters were… appearing. He blacked out again, and woke up in another dimension were some monsters were drinking from a pool. He blacked out again, and a circle of creatures were around him. As they started to chase after him, he woke up. He couldn't remember anything. He was covered in blood, and figured he had severe brain damage. As he died, he cursed the science crew for not making a helmet.
