Now for Chapter 5! I don't know why, but this one for some reason was a little difficult to do. Hope you fans find some enjoyment out of it though :P and I also I forget to mention that I do not own the story of the game or the ideas that the companies had when doing all this. So this also applies to the other chapter to where I forgot to say that, so make sure you remember that!

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F.E.A.R.

FIRST ENCOUNTER ASSAULT RECON

INTERVAL 03 - ESCALATION

BAD WATER

The "Point Man"

I made my way through a locker room and opened a door nearby to a large area of pipes. There was barely enough light coming into this place, so it was a little hard to see, but not enough to need the flashlight. I looked around to see a walkway underneath where I was, and a ladder just several feet from me I could take to get down there. Just as I got on the silver ladder, the little girl stood right there in front of me.

She was just staring at me and laughed before she disappeared into black dust in the air. I almost literally fell off the ladder at that sight. No one would really guess how hard it was for me to put the effort into trying to go down a simple little ladder after seeing something like that. Working up the nerve, I finally was able to climb down to the bottom at the metal walkway. When I turned around, Paxton Fettel was walking towards me. My heart had practically stopped. I opened fire at him only for him to disappear into the air. His voice rang in my head.

"He deserved to die. They all deserved to die."

It was the same thing he said to me after we discovered that Charles Habegger back at that abandoned building. I wasn't sure if these were mere hallucinations or if I'm losing my mind. But no matter what happens, as this team's point man, I will see this mission through to the end. I'll put a bullet through that fucker's head even if it kills me.

I continued on through the metal walkway into a small control room. I entered the hallway nearby and followed it to another room with a giant electric generator to the side of the wall, silver pipes going up into the ceiling. There was a small portable radio on a table nearby with a news broadcast going on. It was a male reporter speaking.

"A devastating explosion in the harbor this evening may not have been an accident. KZZA News has learned that evidence of a fierce gun battle has been found by police investigators. Several bodies were recovered from the scene with bullet and shrapnel wounds. So far, no one is commenting on what exactly what happened here or why."

From the sound of things, the situation is still being suppressed. Although it would be kinda difficult to say that a thousand military clone soldiers have attacked a Sewage Treatment Plant for reasons that even we still are not sure about. It was almost scary to think that the problem has escalated to this point to when this was supposed to be a simple apprehension. I needed to finish this mission before anyone else got hurt or killed.

I exited the room and went through a yellow walkway to the other side of this warehouse. The windows were stained with dirt, several of them even broken and beat-up. Turning to the right, there was a hallway in front of me with a set of stairs leading up. I took the stairs up first to investigate and followed it to another metal walkway. I followed the path around and saw that little girl in a small room ahead of me. She dissipated into black dust before I entered the small office. I entered the closet of this small room that she was standing in front of. There was a puddle of blood on the floor, with some of it dripping down from the vents on the ceiling.

I wasn't sure what would get to me first. Every single time I were to fight a Replica, or how much of the color red I keep seeing today. There was a phone on the wall with a voicemail left over. I pressed play on it with the machine saying "You have one new message. First message from:" she stopped with another voice saying "Iain Hives." He had a deep voice, probably in his mid 30's.

"Hi, Bill, it's Iain Hives. Just got your email. I wish I could give you some more background on this, but it's strictly need to know. Hell, I don't even know what all this is for. For now, just focus on the specific contaminants in the task summary. Maybe I can fill you in a little more once I've completed the survey."

"End of messages" the phone said. I wonder who this Hives guy was. Other people who left voicemails didn't have their names announced, so this Hives guy must be very important here. I'll probably figure that out later. Right now, I need to get back downstairs. After getting back to the bottom, I followed the hallway ahead to where it got a little darker on the other side. There were several blue pipes going down this hallway, eventually leading me to a large generator room, with several of them lined up on the other side from where I was.

That was when I saw someone walk past one of the generators and disappearing. This guy looked similar to that Mr. Moody I saw earlier. Or was this another trick playing through my head? Despite what could or could not happen, the fact of the matter was that I had to go that direction anyway.

There was only a small passage for the sewage water to flow through beneath me, so I followed an entryway I found to my right. Went up some small steps and walked around until I reached the generators. Moving slowly with my SMG ready, I continued forward pass the generators, noticing some dry blood on the floor. I saw that person again walk across from the generator ahead of me to some small steps around the corner. I followed him only to see he was gone. A voice rang into my head.

"There's something in the water."

Ok, I really am losing it. Ignoring what I just heard, I went down the steps and entered this long hallway. Even with the lights on the floor, this place was somehow still dark. Going on ahead, there seemed to be a draft going on, for the lights started moving flailing around. But there are no windows nearby, and even if there were, it couldn't have been that windy to reach here. My breathing getting rough, I moved on to a blue door at the far end. It shut right in front of me. The lights broke one at a time. Not sure if I would regret turning around, I looked back to see that little girl on the other side of the hallway. There was only one light working where she was. My sight was consumed in light.

I was in another thin hallway. A river of blood was floating above my head, with some dripping down the walls. Footsteps of a child covered in red led towards a room on the far side. Voices in the room ahead of me consisted of either "Breath!" or "Make her push!" with a baby screaming. There was fire on the other side of the window of this door. There was nowhere else to go. But instead of fear that I should've been feeling, my body was more controlled by curiosity. I had to see what was on the other side of the flames. As soon as I had reached other there, a figure came up towards it. The door was then shattered like pieces of glass.

Turning around, I saw another... thing... float towards me. It had the torso of a person, its legs nowhere to be seen and skin pale as a corpse. But what really terrified me about this thing was its face. It had no mouth, no nose, no ears. Only two bright yellow orbs that represented eyes. It was coming towards me with arms stretching out for me. I pulled out my weapon and shot at it with only a couple of bullets before it went away in blue smoke. The little girl was walking on the ceiling of blood, walking towards me. She laughed that childish laugh as though she fought some amusement out of this before she vanished. I went back the way I came to the other door and all went to black.

Now I was back in the hallway that I had walked through earlier, with the door opening in front of me. Looking back behind me, I saw nothing that like I did before. Just what the fuck is happening to me? The room ahead was a garbage room, with containers of garbage in the middle of this place. I only went ahead a few feet when I heard the sound of a door slam behind me. I looked back and saw that it was indeed the same door I used to get here. I really have no idea what to say about this. I turned around and saw another door up ahead. I tried to open it, only to see through its window that was barricaded by some barrels. There was a shadow of a person on the other side.

Thankfully, there was a vent to my left I could probably use to get in there. I kicked the vent holder off, crouched down, and entered the ventilations. It was only a short trip, for I exited out through another vent holder and jumped down into the room. A flash of a person's face went through my eyes. It looked like that Mr. Moody I saw in that vision with Fettel, only with parts of his face chewed off. Could he be dead? I looked around and saw some steps that led up to the lone light source working. Fettel was walking up to what appeared to be Moody.

"Where is she?" Fettel said.

He then disappeared as well. I went up the steps and cautiously walked up to the person on the chair, whose head was lowered down. He tilted his head up all the back slowly looking up at the ceiling. This was the same guy, that Mr. Moody. His voice was very quiet, obviously from the intense pain of being chewed apart. He whispered quietly to me.

"Alma…"

He brought his hand to reach out for me. I rushed to his side to see if there was anything I could do. Looking at the wounds he had, it didn't look like he was going to make it. Even if Jin was here to help, it would probably not do any good either. This guy didn't deserve a death like this. Moody still tried to reach out to me, only for him to say something quietly.

"If Fettel finds her…" His arm fell to the side. Before he died, he muttered one word.

"Origin…"

Goddammit, why was everyone around me dying? Betters spoke to me over the comlink. "What the hell is he talking about? Who's Alma and what's Origin?" I was at a loss for words over what to say about this. The deeper we got in this mess, the more questionable and out of control this operation started to become. Betters decided to change the subject, most likely cause he didn't want to ponder for too long about what Moody said.

"All right, buddy, get moving. Fettel's gotta be close"

He then signed off the channel. Easier said than done, Betters. The light next to me broke, with Replicas nearby yelling "Hit the lights!". All of the lights in this building turned on, and I heard heavy footsteps approaching my position. Getting ready, I got out my SMG and aimed down the metal walkway on the second floor above me to the right. There was about five of them that showed up, with about three of them opening fire at me. I took cover behind a thick wooden crate next to the locked door to the left. Leaning out, I returned fire at the troops with my unfortunate luck of getting three out of the five of them.

They took cover next to the wall where they were at and waited for me to reload before they tried to shoot me down. Taking cover again, I was getting sick of this. Kicking in my heightened reflexes, I went back out and shot down the troops as they tried to follow my movements. Then, the door to my left busted open with an explosion with two more Replicas with shotguns looking for me. It was literally at the last second that I killed them with my weapon as they were about to gun me down.

These bastards were becoming more strategic. I wonder how many more of them are up ahead. With my SMG out of ammo, I tossed it to the side and brought out the HV Penetrator I took from the Heavy Armor from earlier. Time to see how well this will do against them. This weapon had a small display on it, saying "25/25", probably on how much ammo was in this and how much it could carry. Convenient. With caution, I went through the destroyed door where the Replicas came from and followed it down a hallway around the corner, with a dead maintenance worker on the ground at the end. Another Replica was just about to turn around the corner when I shot him with the Penetrator.

The nails literally took the Replica straight to the wall ahead, pinning him against the wall with where I shot him on his chest and arm. I was really glad that this didn't happen to me earlier. I followed path from where he came from and found myself in another small room with cabinets. The door to the right led to a bigger hall, where about three more Replicas where, waiting for me. Two were on the floor across the windows in this room with another on a small balcony on the second floor. They opened fire at me just as they noticed me, with luckily my sorry ass taking cover by the wall. Remembering that I still had one grenade left, I grabbed it from my belt and tossed it back towards the squad ahead.

And bing-bang-boom, the explosion went off and I heard the death cries of about two of the soldiers. I went back out and fired another nail from the weapon to the dazed soldier, killing him. Looking back on the display, it said 19/25, which meant I still had enough for about probably 5-7 Replicas to finish. Then after that, I'll have to take one of their rifles when I'm done with this. I went out to the hall and saw that three more Replicas where entering the room with a stairwell on the other side. One of them threw a grenade as the other two took cover up the stairs by the rails. Not wanting to let them surprise if I took cover, I ran as fast as I could to where they were. The grenade flew past my head to where I was and went off behind me. The squad looked over only to see me running and firing at them. I got all three of the bastards with about 10 nails as they lined up on the wall.

Taking one of their rifles and some ammo, I put the Penetrator back to my side tied up and had the G2A2 drawn out. Even though it didn't have much ammo, besides the pistol, it was a good spare weapon to have. I made my way up through the stairs and went pass a couple of rooms when I ended up in another large room, with about six generators centered here. One of the Replicas from the other side said "Search everywhere!" with him opening the door with about two more troops. The two behind him looked different from the others I faced to this point. They had the same uniform set up as the others, only they were in all black instead of the camouflage pattern. And their helmets were all black, with red visors covering their face. Their weapons were still the same as before, so it is not as though they could be a higher rank. But one of them did have an HV Penetrator as their prime weapon, so I think I could swipe that weapon from him after he is dealt with.

Aiming with my rifle, I shot all of them down as they were heading down some steps from where they came from. The poor bastards didn't even see me coming. Running up to their dead bodies, I pilfered a couple grenades and ammo for the Penetrator and tucked them away for later use. I went into the room they came out from, with a hallway leading around a corner and another room up ahead. It only led to the balcony that one of the Replicas was at, so it was a dead end. Going down the small hallway, I ended up at the metal walkway that overlooked Moody's corpse. Two Replicas entered from the door ahead of me to the left and opened fire at me. I ran forward taking cover next to the wall where around the corner they were at.

Since these guys mean business, I'll have to take them out quickly. With my reflexes, I turned around to the hall they were at and killed them with my rifle before they could fire back at me. Two more came out from the room ahead, this time carrying those combat shotguns. Before they could get close enough, running like a cat out of hell, I went up to them and blasted them with my rifle at their chest and heads. Their dead bodies fell to the ground, my body shaking from the combat high. I relaxed for several seconds before my nerves were settled and my mind calm.

I really hope there aren't that many left to face, because I really need a break. Moving ahead, I entered the hallway through the door the soldiers came from and followed it around to a dead end, with a door above me but out of reach. Thankfully though, there were a set of pipes on the wall that led to somewhere, with just enough room for me to crouch through. I followed the pipes with them leading me to a small room with a metal walkway over some water that led to another area. I dropped down and readied myself for anything that might come my way...

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