Alright, really been a long time since I decided to update anything. Been busy getting ready for school that I pretty much forgot my own story :O shocking I know! But anyway here is another short chapter for the fans. Hopefully next ones will be better, who knows right? =P

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F.E.A.R.

FIRST ENCOUNTER ASSAULT RECON

INTERVAL 06 - INTERCEPTION

SAYONARA, SUCKER

The "Point Man"

The elevator was still going up for a minute or so. On the way up, all I could do was think about how this day has been. To think, I woke up this morning just like any other American citizen, go to HQ to handle something that I thought would be a simple 15 minute mission... to now fighting for my life against clone soldiers, security forces, and my imagination. How could all of this happen to someone like me? I didn't do anything to deserve all this. My attention was brought towards Betters contacting me. I guess I was back up to where communications finally worked.

"Son of a bitch, I thought we'd lost you!" He said excitedly. Nope, not this time, buddy.

"While you were out of contact, I got a read on Fettel's transmitter. He's all the way on the other side of the research area from you. You're gonna have to hustle to intercept." After that, he signed off.

To be honest, I was really not looking forward to that part. It had been a while since I was on that objective until we had found Bishop. But if I were to kill Fettel, a lot of the problems we are currently facing would be resolved. And then have to figure out what Armacham's motives are. Guess we just have to handle one problem at a time as they come up.

The elevator finally reached the top of that this could go. The fence doors opened up to reveal I was in some kind of room for storing supplies. Nothing really unusual was here. In a small office in the corner, I saw about 4 Replicas entering this place. Taking cover behind some crates to the left, I waited for them to come out to where I could get a few clean shots. Before I did though, they were all talking to each other about some stuff.

"They lost sight of Norton Mapes in this area. He can't get far with the elevators locked down."

"Understood."

"The commander wants him alive and unharmed. He may know the location of the Vault."

What did they mean about a "vault"? Is there something important inside that Fettel wants? Also, I wondered how that fatty Mapes might be doing. His relevance to their needs sounded a bit fishy. Anyway, three members of the squad were all standing around waiting for further orders, while the last one was still inside the small office. Sneaking up to the one closest to me, I grabbed him by the neck and snapped it. The one in the office noticed for just a second until I shot through the glass and shot him several times.

The other two next to me noticed where I was and opened fire at me. Taking cover, again, by a support pillar was the only way I could avoid the gunfire. Activating my reflexes, I went out to the right where they tried to follow my movement. They weren't fast enough to try and shoot me when I returned fire at both of them. They went down without any trouble. I went through the small office after taking some grenades and magazines to where there was a thick glass door up ahead. It was very wide, and from here I couldn't open it due to security being locked down. Betters got a hold of me over the comlink.

"I've been trying to get through to Genevieve Aristide. She's the president of Armacham. I was able to confirm that she wasn't around when Fettel's men hit the compound, but I can't seem to track her down. Maybe she doesn't want to be found." He explained it all to before signing off.

Genevieve Aristide, huh? Didn't even know that the president of this place was a woman. So if she is not here, then where could she be? And from what Betters said, he couldn't get a hold of her. Could she be responsible for what ATC security is trying to do? Well, guess I'll have to figure that one later. Moving on, the door in front of me I wouldn't be able to use. There was some kind of door to the right of me though that looked like the kind that slide on over automatically when you walk up to them. Going through, I was in some kind of lab area with a bunch of stuff littered around. I guess scientists can be messy, too.

Making my way through the lab, I saw that there was a set of stairs next to me that led up. In front of me was another thick glass door that prevented me from going that way. But I could see from here some kind of monitor into another room that looked important. Maybe if I were to go around, I can figure out how it would help me. When i reached the stairs, I saw an empty bag of "Cheeze Poofs" on the floor. I had a feeling who went this way. As I was going up the steps, I heard a nervous shout of "Hello? Who's there?".

When I reached up to the top, I saw Norton Mapes crouching behind a couch holding a cactus above his head. I really hoped that the cactus would be to throw at someone, instead of just being a silly disguise like how he was doing it. There were some more bags of those cheese snacks on the couch and next to him that were both empty. This guy really should have been more discreet about his... "hiding spot." When he saw me, he tensed up for a second before he recognized me.

"Oh, it's you... Christ, I thought I was a goner." I think yelling "Hello, who's there?" like that wouldn't have been the best option if you're hiding from someone.

"Mr. Mapes, you're still alive." Betters replied with a displeasurable tone.

"No thanks to you guys." He told us. Okay, now I wanted to punch him across the face for that one.

"What are you doing here?" Betters asked him.

"The elevators are offline and those soldiers are everywhere. You've got to find a security office and override the lockdown." Mapes explained. Why does this sound familiar?

"Are you going to stay put this time?" Betters said.

"On my honor." Mapes flatly told him. I knew I wasn't going to like this.

It would be too much trouble to take him now if the soldiers were running around here. He would definitely get in the way, and there wasn't anywhere else to where he could stay put until we found a way to extract him. Leaving him alone - again - I went through another hallway to where I reached some small rooms for the employees to work on. One desk inside had a set of proximity mines I could use for later. Storing those onto my belt to hang on to, I went inside another office to where saw something... strange

There was a vent inside another room up ahead that was open with someone's legs sticking out. It was moving very irregularly. As I got closer to the window to look inside, the person fell down to the floor completely covered in blood from the waist up. He was another one of Armacham's scientists, looking like in his 40's. He had a horrified expression on his face with his eyes and mouth wide open. Poor bastard... Blue electricity went through the small vent that he came from. I'm sure I knew what did this. Going inside, I saw that there was a phone next to the body on a desk. It had a voicemail leftover to which I pressed play on. From the message, it sounded like a woman.

"Jason, it's me! I just saw the news! What's going on! Please call me back and let me know you're okay! I'm really freaking out..."

Shit, it was a bit hard for me to think that this guy here was Jason. And whoever it was that left the message doesn't know what happened. However, it wasn't my place to do anything about. If I encounter those invisible things again, I'll have extra reason to kill them. Getting back out into the hallway, I saw another electronic door that led into another lab. Passing through it, I was now into another large hall to where some thick glass windows showed a room of more laboratory stuff. I heard some Replicas shout "Squad, on me!" to the left to where I was. Moving cautiously over there, I was at another lab workspace just up ahead to where there was 6 Replicas entering the place from the other side. But these ones looked a bit different than the others.

They had on pretty much the same equipment as the ones with the red visor and black vest, only they had some of the military type of camouflage clothing as the first set of Replicas. The biggest difference was that there was a single green light coming off from their helmets in the center. Other than that they looked more armored, they didn't have much of a difference compared to the others I've faced. There were about 3 of them heading on over to where I was, but they hadn't noticed me yet. Carefully placing a mine by the entrance to where they couldn't see it, I waltzed back a bit and waited. And sure enough, the mine went off just as the soldiers noticed it. However, it only got one of them as the other two were still quite a distance away from the blast.

The explosion did alert the other three to what happened, leading them to take positions to try and attack me. Now or never, I rushed in with my reflexes heightened up and opened fire horizontally as I was running on over. But because of their thicker vests, the chest shots I made only managed to kill about two of them, which were the ones closest to me. Looking at the ground, I saw that one of them had a shotgun that I could probably use to make this easier. Since the other three were now taking cover, I ran over to where the shotgun was and picked it up, with my SMG put away to the side.

Getting closer to where they were hiding, I still used my quick reflexes to jump on a desk next to them were I could overlook where they were. They were all shocked to see and tried to kill me right then and there. I kicked the soldier closest to me across the face knocking him back just as I brought the shotgun and fired a few bursts towards the other two. The shells connected to both of them to where they were flown back towards the wall. From here, it looked like they were dead. The one I kicked tried to get back when hit him over the helmet with the butt of the VK-12. I guess the extra blow to the head must've done quite a number on him, for he sure as hell didn't get back up. Two more of them entered the room to the right of me, and were shocked to the carnage of their fallen squad. Pulling out my gun, I quickly fired at both of them before they could even fire a bullet.

Going past them, I entered another lab and passed some halls when I reached another big laboratory. There were two Replicas coming up from a set of stairs to the bottom left of where I was. They hadn't notice me, but they sure noticed the grenade I tossed over to them when I saw them. It went off encasing both of them into the blast, killing them. Going on over there, after grabbing some more ammo and grenades, I went down to where they came from. It was another section of pipes attached to the wall that led me into another large laboratory. There was one of the regular kinds of Replicas waiting all across the other side of here behind a dolly. He yelled out "This way!" and tried to shoot me.

Taking cover, I waited for him to reload his G2A2 rifle. When he had to, I came back out fired my SMG back to where he was crouching at. After killing him, I climbed up the steps in front of me to reach higher into this room. Another Replica was coming out from another door to the left as he just saw me. Firing at him too, his body collapsed to the ground, him screaming in pain as he died. Reaching up towards the door, I saw a black laptop to the right of it on a shelf with some documents on the screen. I went over that and saw that the information was about Armacham. I sent it to Betters with him replying back to me just a few seconds afterwords.

"Here's some more info about Fettel. He was developed as part of a project called 'Origin'. It says the first prototype didn't work out. Fettel was the second and there was never a third. They pulled the plug a few years after he was born." he explained until he got off the channel.

I remember hearing about this "Origin". Bill Moody said that word before he died back at the Treatment Plant. At the time, I wasn't sure what to make of it. But now I have a slight idea of what it is. Origin must have been part of Armacham trying to produce commanders to control clone soldiers. Whatever happened to the first one they tried to use, Fettel made up for later. Good thing that there wasn't a third, either. But I wonder what it was that made them decide to stop the program. Did something terrible happen back then?

Getting back to figuring out how to turn on the elevators, I went past the door to another hall. To the left was another electronic door only it seemed to be jammed for sparks were coming out from it. To the right was a balcony overlooking the lower floor. Nowhere else to go, I hopped on over the ledge and hit the floor with my boots. There was another ledge for the upper level ahead of me, to where two Replicas were standing next to just as they saw me. One yelled out "Fire in the hole!" as he tossed a grenade to my position. Quickly, I ran as far as I could from where it would land to the wall away from where the grenade went off.

The Replicas were a bit surprised that I managed to get away from it, especially as one of them said to the other "He's too fast!". Oh, I'll show them fast. Bringing my SMG out once again, I opened fire to the two soldiers above me. They didn't have the time to take cover for the bullets that hit them were clear through the head. One of them was next to me on the ground here for he came around the corner a few feet to my right. He didn't stand a chance either, for he too was mercilessly gunned down from the barrel of my RPL machine-gun.

Continuing, I had finally reached the control room with that monitor I saw a while ago. When I entered it, I saw a phone built into the wall with a voicemail. I pressed "play" on it for the machine to start. A message was left by Genevieve Aristide, the woman Betters talked about earlier who was the president of Armacham HQ. Maybe whatever she has to say will make some sense here.

"John, it's Genevieve. It seems the Senator's plan failed. His special forces team has been unable to neutralize Fettel. We should assume the worst. Instruct the security force to repel all outsiders. We need time to clean things up."

I was wrong. Now things just got more confusing. Who is this "Senator" she said? Obviously he sounded like an important figure for the events going on. But the reason ATC security is out to silence their employees was to clean up a mess? It really made me wonder what it is that is so bad that Armacham feels to kill their own people so that no one else finds out. Back to the monitor, I saw where I could activate the elevators with a switch that would activate it. After doing so, I saw that the lockdown system was turned off. The lockdown also opened the doors with the thick glass on them.

Speaking of the thick doors, the ones next to me opened as well. I also remembered that these were the same stairs I took to find Mapes. As I exited out of this room, I went back up the stairs to look for Norton. I saw him inside one of the activated elevators as he pressed the button to close the doors. Before they closed all the way, he looked at me with a trickster type of smirk as he shouted out:

"Sayonara, sucker!"

Goddammit, I couldn't believe that even after my suspicions of him running off would happen again that... I let them happen anyway. Betters contacted me saying "At least he's predictable" in a sarcastic manner. Whatever Mapes' motives might be to handling us, that is just something I'll have to punch out of him to get. Not like when I reach him he'll be hard to hit.

There was a door to the side that led into the elevator shaft. The elevator Norton used was already in a floor just above me. There was a ledge behind where the machine goes that led to a yellow ladder I could use to climb up. After doing so, there was another ladder next to me that I could use to climb further upwards. When I reached the top, the only other way out of here was a vent on the other side of this ledge. Carefully going on it, I reached the vent holder and kicked it open with my boot.

Crawling inside, I went through the ventilation systems. Hopefully Mapes didn't get too far...

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