Alright, Chapter 6! This is the end of Interval 03 (finally!) and the last chapter the Point Man is spending time at some boring old sewers. What is it with games and sewage? Trying to say something 'bout them? XD Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, "exeunt omnes" is Latin, meaning "All go out." It's like a stage direction used in plays. But you're not here to figure out title meanings, right? haha

Will the main character make it through an army of Replicas and fucked up stuff? I guess you'll find out! Oh yeah, and I do not own Monolith's story. I only write my interpretation of them, nothing more :P

F.E.A.R.

FIRST ENCOUNTER ASSAULT RECON

INTERVAL 03 - ESCALATION

EXEUNT OMNES

The "Point Man"

From where I was, it looked like just another pipe room. This must've been another area that the workers probably go to investigate if there were any problems. Den Mother got a hold of our channel and was talking to Betters.

"Tomcat, this is Den Mother. I know you guys are hurting, but we could really use your help with this Armacham situation." Man, was Fettel's forces really giving Delta Force that much trouble over there?

"I just lost contact with my recon team and the brass wants me to send in more men, which I'm reluctant to do until I know what we're dealing with in there." Den Mother explained.

"My orders are to secure this guy Fettel. Getting rid of him will break his telepathic link to the soldiers. Once they no longer have an objective, they should shut down." Betters told him.

"That sure would be nice." Den Mother replied.

"Tell you what. Can you spare a chopper? We're seeing what looks like a full-scale withdrawal. My gut tells me Fettel's on his way to Armacham, so maybe we can help each other out." Betters said. If that is the case, then that will make things more difficult to track him. On the other hand, at least there we'll have reinforcements to help out.

"Can do." Den Mother told him before they signed off.

To be honest, if I could stop Fettel now then we wouldn't have to worry about fighting the Replicas at all. However, if we really have to go to Armacham Corporation, then I guess we have no choice. Moving through the walkway, I went on ahead to another room with more machines around. There was a ladder that led up that I could use, with some thick pipes leading up as well.

As I made my way up, I saw a Replica through the pipes. He didn't notice me, so thankfully he didn't attack me. I stopped for a moment to spy on him to see what he was doing. He kneeled down and put something on the ground. He went up ahead in the hall and placed another object on the floor. He got back up and walked away down a set of stairs in the room. I continued to climb up and found myself in a another generator room. I went around several more walkways and found myself in the room the soldier was at.

I walked up to where the Replica was and looked down at where he was kneeling down. Right there, I realized my mistake. This wasn't just some flat object. It was a proximity mine! As the sound of it when off, I jumped back as quick as I could before the explosion went off. And thank God it didn't kill me, for the explosion was so dangerous it triggered the next one up ahead. But unfortunately for me, the explosion made the electricity in the hall go crazy. It filled the middle of the room blocking the way.

I would need to find another way around. Luckily though, there was a vent holder on the left side of the room that led to another walkway at the room on the left. The door by the wall was barricaded on the other side, but there was a ladder that led down I could use. Before I went down, Betters spoke to me and Jin over the radio saying: "Shit, I just lost Jankowski's signal."

Jin spoke to him saying "Maybe his gear got damaged."

"Maybe…" he said quietly.

All this time since we've got here, Jankowski was the one I've been worried about the most. We haven't been able to make contact with him over the last hour or so, and I can't tell HQ that I'm seeing visions of him with his eyes plucked out. They'll think I'm gonna crack under the pressure. Jin then told Betters "The fire and rescue guys are here. Once they've got the fire under control, we can check the rubble."

"Let them handle it. I need you on standby to head inside Armacham as soon as the site is secure." Betters told her.

"Roger" Jin finished as the line went off. At least two of us from the F.E.A.R. unit will be at Armacham instead of just myself.

After going down the ladder, I made my way from what it looks like some passageways for the sewage water to travel through. Up ahead was another generator room to the left and right above me. But I couldn't figure out a way up there, so I just moved on through the passage. That was when I saw someone or something just jump off from one of the generators into the water. It disappeared instantly before it reached the water, with quick footsteps going away from where I was standing. It took me a minute to work up the nerve to go ahead, hoping that nothing was gonna just randomly show up.

Making my way through the end of the sewer tunnels, I found myself in what looked like a small sewage pump control room. Before I could look around some more, the sound of a Replica up ahead got my attention. He spoke "Squad, on me. Move out." There was about three of them in another tunnel on the other side of the room. They didn't notice me yet, so I took advantage of this and opened fire at them with my rifle. Two of them were down while the third took cover up ahead. Following him, I took cover by the wall next to me before I peeked out. I could see him crouched down next to some pipes over a small pool of water, but his head was sticking out. Taking out my pistol for a moment, I aimed carefully and shot a bullet through the visor of his helmet, killing him.

From where the dead Replica was, there was a ladder that lead up to another room. Climbing up, I somehow seemed to find my way in the room where the electricity was going off. But fortunately, I was on the other side of the electric currents. I noticed that there was a power conductor on the wall next to me with the lever tilted up. Maybe I could shut off the power to the electricity. Tilting it down, the lights went off for this room, and the electric current died down. There was a small room with some steps where the lightning was covering that now I could enter. After opening the door, I found some more ammo for my handgun and G2A2 rifle on a table. Also, there was another laptop on a table that was on with some documents opened up. I forwarded the info to Betters to see what he could make of all this. "All right, it's uploading." He said as the documents where being transferred.

"Remember that wastewater report I mentioned? There's a little more info here. The contamination seems to originate in the Auburn area. That place is practically deserted nowadays. Probably not a coincidence." Betters told me.

He was right, the Auburn district area of this city has been deserted for quite some time. Mainly because of not enough funds to renovate all the buildings in the area. From what I heard, there was a large amount of problem with money over there because of some corrupt politicians taking money from the people. After a while, the town decided to work on it later and figure out a solution for the place. So far, there hasn't been any effort to fix that area back up. I wonder why the wastewater seems to be coming from a district that nobody should be living in.

Continuing on, I entered a hallway with some locked fence doors to the north and east of me. The one on the right though had a lock I could shoot to break it open. After doing that, I made my way around some pipes until it lead me to a small camera room. Curiously, there was some kind of rifle leaning on a counter. Picking it up, I read the description on the side and it described "BAKSHA ASP Rifle 7.62 mm". I've heard of this before. They're a semi-automatic rifle that fired in 3-shot bursts, but had the scope of a sniper rifle. This might actually become useful, although I'm very limited with weapons to be carrying anymore. Decisions, decisions...

Figuring better safe than sorry, maybe it was better not to question my luck and take the ASP rifle and discard the G2A2. It was kind of light, only carrying about 30 bullets. But the bullets that do make contact with the enemy are sure to kill them quickly. Praising my luck some more, I found a couple of different grenades on a table near the TV monitors. These were M77 Remote bombs, with a detonator switch next to them. Ideal for traps, these are sure to come in handy in the near future. Taking some, I exited out through the previously locked door and found myself back out the hall I was at before. There was another set of stairs that led down I could use. Before I reached the bottom, the sound of Replica activity caught my attention.

"Command, we've lost contact with the search team."

"Copy, I'm sending in reinforcements. You need to hold that position until the evac is complete."

"Understood" the Replicas finished over their radio.

Shit, that's what I need is more of their damn reinforcements. Deciding to take out this placed squad here and now, I went down and opened fire at about four of them through the glass window in the room ahead. Lucky me, I got them all after firing 12 bullets with the ASP, three for each of them. With 18 bullets left, I decided to keep this until I ran out and would have to switch out with one of the Replicas SMG's. Making my way through the room the Replicas where waiting at, I continued on to the end of this part of the warehouse, with a set of double doors that led outside. There was another warehouse to the north of me I could enter through some doors on a metal walkway by taking the stairs. But first, I went downstairs to make sure there weren't any more of these freaks. There weren't any, but there was ammo for the ASP on a bench. I guess I'm not getting rid of this weapon yet.

But before I opened the doors, I noticed about two more of soldiers up ahead, one on ground level and another on the walkway next to the warehouse. Aiming down my sights with the rifle, it made it only too easy to shoot them both down. There weren't any more, so I made it outside and was reaching for the stairs that connected to the walkway. The sound of a military chopper took my interest as I looked up and saw it was definitely not one of ours. It had the logo of the Replica forces and was hovering over the walkway I was walking up to. A couple rappel lines came from the sides of the chopper, with three of the soldiers coming down the lines.

These bastards actually couldn't have picked a better spot to drop down, actually. There was a canister of gasoline near where they just dropped down. Taking the shot, I fired at the container. It blew up into an explosion of flames, engulfing the whole squad. They died within seconds as the chopper flew away into an unknown destination. The double doors blew open as three more Replicas came outside. Their gunfire would've killed me if I hadn't fallen on the stairs on my back behind. It was painful going down, but at least I'm not dead.

Remembering I still had one of those remote bombs, I reached for it and threw it over to where they where as quickly as I could. Pressing the detonator to my side, the bomb went off, killing the Replicas as they died screaming. I really can't wait for this day to be over. Standing up on my own two feet, it took me a few seconds to work through the pain and go back up the stairs. Entering the warehouse, I only made it through a couple halls when I heard another Replica up ahead say "In position."

"Wait for my signal" one of them said.

"I thought I heard something…"

"Quiet down" the other said as silence filled the room up ahead.

It was obvious that they're setting up an ambush up ahead. There was no other way to enter the room however, so I could only really go forward. Entering the room slowly, the place was filled with supplies littered across the floor, large containers in the center, and a yellow walkway that led upstairs to a set of doors. The Replicas came out of cover from a wall and opened fire at me. I hid behind one of the containers until they stopped. Peeking out for a second, my reflexes were heightened to the point of where I could surprise them. There were four up ahead, two of them coming down the walkway trying to get the jump on me. Quickly, I opened fire at them before they could retaliate.

I took cover by the wall next to the walkway, as the remaining Replicas yelled out "Get him!". With my reflexes still on, I slid to the side firing the rest of the rounds of my weapon into their chests, killing them. And to think, this whole day and I only got bullet that grazed my arm much earlier today. For now, I'm just gonna keep it that way. Getting back up, I walked up and around the bodies. As soon as I thought I had time to calm down, the doors just burst open. And son of a bitch, it was another one of those "Heavy Armor" things. With barely any time to distract it, I just tossed one of my spare grenades to the wall next to it, the explosion barely dazing this thing.

Running back down the walkway, I kept my sights on the Heavy Armor as it was regaining its composure. That was when I remembered I still had the Penetrator at my side. Taking it out and putting aside the ASP, I fired the weapon towards the Heavy. Even though the nails pierced its chest, it still took the whole clip to send this thing before it backed up to the wall. And with all those nails in this thing, it still tried to aim at me with its weapon. This guy sure is determined to kill me. I reloaded the Penetrator with the remaining ammo I had left and fired one last nail at its head. It died while still giving out that radio signal as the last one did.

There were two more Replicas hiding out in the hall behind where the Heavy Armor came from. They were both taking cover waiting for the chance to get me. Even after all the soldiers I just killed, plus that big guy too. I would've thought they had some common sense to back away and regroup with more of their forces. That was when I remembered what Betters said about these guys. They do what they're told to do, and will follow them even it is to their deaths. That's how they are programmed. And even if they knew they stood no chance, they would rather die fighting then back away. Talk about loyalty. Running up to them, I finished them off in their surprise with several nails to chest from the Penetrator. I restocked some ammo from the Heavy Armor and tossed the ASP for their SMG's, since I was out of ammo for the rifle anyway.

Moving through some of the hallways, I stopped for a moment when I heard someone over my radio saying "Tomcat, this is Dust Seven. I heard somebody needed a ride. Got an HLZ for me yet?". It sounded like one of the pilots for Delta Squad that Den Mother was sending for me. To be honest, I really couldn't wait to get out of this fucking place.

"I'm showing a decent-sized yard just ahead of my point man's current position. Only problem is there's an enemy gunship sitting there at the moment. I'll keep you advised." Betters told the pilot.

"Roger" the pilot said as the line went off. Moving through the hall down some more stairs, I ended up in another room with some cabinets and paperwork thrown to the ground. There was a door here that led out to another hallway with vending machines tipped over, pop cans and snack bags littered across the floor. I continued on through the hall when I heard the sound of a chopper up ahead, coming from outside. There was a door barricaded at one end of the hall, but I could look through the window outside. There was indeed an enemy chopper on the ground, getting ready for takeoff. I saw Paxton Fettel outside with a group of Replicas, and it looked like he was giving them some new orders before he turned around towards the chopper.

Going on through the remainder of this place, I stopped at a small office with no doors leading out. However, there was a window I could break to get outside. With the noise of the chopper, I could get outside easily without the Replicas noticing. After going throw the destroyed window, I took cover by the building on the side and looked out to see the chopper now leaving. There were about seven Replicas left on the ground, a few of them by some crates and trucks. Once I take them out, the LZ will be clear for my ride out of here.

However, an armored military vehicle entered the area and stopped near the entrance. Two Replicas and another Heavy Armor came out from the back, the driver as well. Great, 10 Replicas and one Heavy Armor to take out before I can leave. And here I was hoping this would be easy. Checking my inventory, all I had was the Penetrator with 14 shots, an SMG with two mags, my AT-14 pistol full, 1 grenade, and 1 more remote grenade. Well, if all this doesn't cut it... I can always hope that the rest of them run away instead.

Three of them were grouped together looking around, another two to the left of them, two more hidden by a crate near the others, while the last two Replicas and Heavy still by the van. Taking out one grenade with my left hand and the SMG with my right, I took a long, deep breath. When I was ready, I threw the grenade over to the group of three Replicas and opened fire at the two to the left. The ones on the left died first, and because the Replicas were so surprised from the gunfire they didn't have time to notice the grenade go off by their feet. In just a few seconds, I took out five Replicas. Off to a good start.

The remaining soldiers were running up to where I was with the Heavy still by the van. Turning on my reflexes, I ran up to the larger crate up ahead firing at the squad. I only got about two of them, as the other half took cover by the trucks. They started shooting at me with some of their bullets, one grazing my left arm. Tolerating the pain for now, I reloaded my weapon and tried to consider my options. Only two Replicas left and the Heavy Armor, which was still by the van. He's probably waiting for me to expose myself again before he could get a good shot at me. It would only take one shot from that Penetrator of his to kill me.

With my last remote bomb, I tossed it over to the last Replicas and pressed it the switch. I watched as body parts flew into the air with blood covering the front of the truck. Now that just takes care of the Heavy. And speaking of that tall freak, he opened fire at me where I was, with only some careful dodging saving my ass. Only one mag and about 14 nails left in the Penetrator, I had to make these count. My reflexes heightened once more, I ran out quickly firing the remainder of my SMG into the thing. He, too, was firing at me, only my speed was keeping me from getting mauled by him.

I'd like to say that all the bullets connected. But while running from this guy, I'd have to say only half of the rounds hit him while the others missed. With only the Penetrator left to even kill this thing, I took cover before I tossed my empty gun away. My weapon ready, I took another deep breath. Running out past the crate my back was, I ran out to the open getting closer to the Heavy, this time making sure everything I fire at this bastard does not miss. Firing every single needle, all of them connected to this thing. He was still standing, but just barely.

What the fuck, man! That should've been enough! I had nothing left to use on him but my handgun. Without hesitation, I brought it out quickly and fired everything I had in that one magazine into that monster's chest. He was bringing up his own weapon, his arm bleeding from the effort, despite all the shots that connected. He was still alive. Where I was he could kill me from this distance, and I was too exhausted to run anymore, my breath almost literally gone.

However, for a split second, I noticed I was standing over a dead Replica, his hand still clutching a G2A2 rifle. Quickly, I jumped down to his body. Grabbed the rifle from his dead hands. And I fired all the bullets in it at the Heavy that were left in the gun. And my God... it finished him off. It gave out that monsterish scream like the others as it died, hitting the ground with a loud thud. I'm definitely going to demand a big paycheck when this is over. Betters then got a hold of me informing me of the chopper.

"Looks like the HLZ is clear."

"Copy, I'm on approach" the pilot told us.

"Keep your eyes open for that Black Hawk." Betters explained.

I looked up to the sky to where the sound of a chopper was coming. It was indeed the same kind of helicopter that brought us here to the harbor earlier today. It was hovering above me getting ready to land. I could restock inside the chopper and get myself some new body armor. The one I had smelled really bad .

"Good. Head to ATC headquarters and find Fettel." Betters said as I was ready to board the helicopter. It was time to head for Armacham Technology Corporation...

"Get to the chopper!" Haha, like I said a million times, reviews would be cool please :)