Sorry for not posting in so long! I forgot about the story :(
I apologize for any spelling errors. My computer doesn't have spellcheck.
At this point, Gordon has mysteriously gotten to an elevator leading straight to the office complex. Well, at least it's one level closer to the surface, he thought. Suddenly, Gordon saw some more headcrabs. He was about to shoot them, when a live wire fired off a bolt of electricity and blew it to bits. The second one, seeing Freeman, leaped with all its might. It almost got to Gordon's head, but instead of a row of teeth, it was a splash of green blood that got in his hair. The final headcrab followed suit.
Gordon was about to kill himself with the wire, when he saw a grate a few metres away. Using his immense grasp of theoretical physics, he judged that he might die if he went for the grate. He went for the grate and, surprisingly, did not die! His foot, however, was very sore when it scraped on the rusty grate. The HEV patched him right up, so at least he didn't get tetanus. Gordon slapped himself as he remembered: Rust cuts do not cause tetanus! It is the bacteria!
Soon he got to another grate. He smashed it open and walked through just in time to see a barnacle smash open the ceiling and eat a scientist. Charming, Gordon thought as the scientist in the corner babbled about predicting everything that happened. He opened a door in the corner that said HIGH VOLTAGE. He flipped the main power switch and came back to the hallway. The wire was no longer spewing random bolts of electricity.
Gordon went forward past a wooden section of wall. A zombie was breaking through, so Freeman hurried along past some crates and a headcrab to a supply room. A guard was going to to let him in, but a zombie was about to kill him! Gordon shot the zombie, killing it with two well placed rounds, and the guard let him in. As soon as Gordon walked into the room, he noticed something. The guard had a shotgun! Gordon ripped it from his hands, took all the supplies and ran out of the room and killed the zombie that had just broken through a wall.
He came to a room with water knee-deep. The broken lightbulb's wire was electrifying the water. Gordon thought that was ridiculous and that whoever built this universe should get a job. A headcrab jumped, bounced off a light switch and drowned, turning off the lights and ridiculously powering off the water. Finally, a stroke of luck! Gordon thought.
The next room showed a security turret that quickly shot up a scientist and killed a troop of eight headcrabs. Gordon did some sandworming to just underneath the ledge the turret was on, and found the switch, powering it off. He went to the room that had previously been infested with headcrabs, and found some stairs. At the top he found a security guard. Gordon signed, "Come on, let's go!" before the guard had time to respond.
In the next room, several alien creatures with shock collars on their necks, probably slaves, decided to kill him. Gordon rushed behind it as the guard shot it up, going on a shotgun rampage. A slave teleported right behind Gordon's new friend and killed him with a burst of electricity. Gordon had fun scratching it do death with its own hands.
Gordon exited the offices and ran up some stairs. He didn't have fun being shot at by a turret and having headcrabs jumping at him from every direction, but he survived. He found a meat locker and went in. He found and killed several headcrabs and bullsquids, then activating a ceiling transport that uselessly went back and forth. He climbed through a grate, up a ladder and finally onto the transport. A grate on the other side led him to a room packed with barnacles.
Freeman quickly killed them with ease and went through a new duct to a hallway. A scientist jumped out of a window with a zombie following close behind, forgot to look forward and fell down an elevator shaft. Crappy way to go, Freeman thought. At least the zombie died too. Gordon climbed through a series of ladders to the top of an elevator. He dropped in and pressed the "surface" button. The elevator started moving, but not in the direction Freeman wanted and certainly not at the right speed. Gordon Freeman plummeted several levels to his death, remembering the scientists who met the same fate as he.
