Okay, here is another chapter for the 6th Interval. This one I decided to do a bit different with how the Point Man handles his next adversaries compared to how I and most people played this chapter in the actual game. I don't own anything that Monolith has created, which is this game series and its plot in case you didn't know :P

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F.E.A.R.

FIRST ENCOUNTER ASSAULT RECON

INTERVAL 06 - INTERCEPTION

UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL

The "Point Man"

As I was making my way through the ventilation, I stopped to see some kind of round cylinder sticking out next to some vents. It had a weird looking design to the side that I wasn't sure what to make of. Anyway, I eventually got out of the vents by climbing down a yellow ladder down into a hallway. Moving around corner after corner, I reached an open area next to a closed shutter gate. There was a security office next to it, with Norton Mapes next to a switch inside. He looked at me with an annoyed expression as he said:

"Oh perfect, you again." He pointed at a button next to the switch for the gates.

"See this button? I wonder what this does..." He pressed it as something came down from the ceiling.

Now I knew what that round cylinder was. It was a container for Armacham's security machine-gun turrets. An alarm went off, and when it came down, it recognized my presence and aimed towards me. Norton gave out a little "Oopsy" as he smiled over the situation. I really couldn't wait to beat the crap out of him later. Taking cover next to the wall out of the turret's line of sight, I saw Norton exit the office as he gave out a "Bye bye now." At the moment, I have to figure out what to do with this machine. I don't know how armored that thing is, but I have to figure out how to get pass it.

Only thing I had that could do the job was the VK-12 shotgun. Pulling it out, I waited for the turret to stop firing at me after several seconds. Looking back out for just a moment, it was just circling to the left looking for any hostiles. It had a blind spot underneath that the gun couldn't reach that I could exploit. Quickly, I ran up under and fired as many shells into as I could when the machine eventually blew up. It must've taken about 6 shells as necessary to destroy that thing, and that was up close too.

Looking around, I really wasn't sure where to go. With the gate closed and the elevator next to me that Mapes used disabled, I had limited options. That was when I remembered the round cylinder for this turret I saw in the vents. With curiosity going through my head, I climbed back up the ladder I just used a while ago and made it back to where I came here.

Indeed, the cylinder for the turret was lowered and showed a path I could use to get out of here. After kicking down the vent holder on the ceiling, I jumped down on the other side of the fenced gate. I entered the room where Mapes was to see if I could do anything to the security, but unfortunately there was nothing I could do about it. Heading back out, I went around the corner to reach a long open hall where only some of the lights were working. An announcement was made over the speakers ceiling with a female voice saying:

"Automatic defense measures are active in this area. Unauthorized personnel will be shot on sight."

Oh, shit... And just after it said that, an alarm went off. One of those defense turrets came down from the ceiling from the other side of this hall. I took cover by a wall to the left before it could see me. If I went down there, that thing would kill me for sure. And I'm sure if there is more around here, I don't enough bullets to destroy them all. I would have to figure out ways around them if I have any chance to escape. Looking towards the middle of the hall, there was a fenced door I could use to sneak past it. The only problem was the padlock on the door. But that one was easily taken care of as just one shot of my handgun was enough for it to come off.

I ran on over there as quickly as possible to avoid getting shot at. There was some kind of lever on the wall onto a generator on the wall next to me. Pushing it down, some power in this place stopped working, except for the occasional lights in the corners of the halls. A yellow flashing light went through the entire area as the Armacham defenses went back up in the ceiling. Guess I found a better way than fighting these things, after all. Entering the room on the other side of where I was, I appeared to be in another lab with a black laptop on a table in the middle. Some of the files seemed important, so I went over there and transferred them all to Betters. He got a hold of me a moment later.

"There's a little more on Origin. The reason they shut it down was a 'synchronicity event.' Doesn't say what it means, but I guess there were a few casualties." He finished as he got offline.

Hmm, so something terrible did happen. We just weren't sure what it is, yet. If I keep my eyes open, I just might soon. Making my way through a couple more labs, I reached another hall past a sliding door. Another turret came down from the ceiling to the right of me. Trying to find a spot to hide so I didn't get killed, there was a lowered section underneath the floor ahead I could use. Rushing over there, I took cover by some pipes to where the machine couldn't see me. A small crawlspace was available for me to go around through the vents as I reached an open area of desks.

Another turret came down as it was looking for me. Taking cover next to a desk and laying face down, I crawled on through to find a way around it. Just who builds these things anyway in working areas, anyway? There was a room up ahead I could enter with an unlocked door, but it was too far for me to try and make it through without getting shot at. Moving along to the left, I'd seen another vent holder off near the corner of the wall. Firing at it with my pistol, enough of the holder came down to where I could go into. When the turret was looking the other direction, I ran over there as quickly as possible inside.

After going through the ventilation, I found another exit to where I knocked off the ventilation lid. I appeared to be in some kind of storage closet. Exiting through the door, I saw that I was just a little bit closer to that door. However, the defense mechanism was still on and guarding the entrance. As it turned to the right, I used all the strength in my legs to take me towards that entrance. And I sure cut it close, too, for that machine was just firing at me as I was making my to this room. Through the window to the next hallway ahead of me, I saw Mapes running off to the left. For a guy with that much weight, he sure can run.

Trying to catch up to him once again, I looked around this place to find another door to the right of here. After getting out, another one came down to the hall on the left. There was a fenced door next to me, but I couldn't open it from this side. Taking cover behind some crates, the machine fired almost a seemingly set of rounds to where it last saw me. Peeking out from the crates, I saw a small open passage in the wall with some pipes that looked like it led somewhere. Waiting for the turret to stop firing and turn the other way, I quickly went around the crates and into the passageway. Going around it, I reached the other side of this fenced gate and saw another generator with a lever on it. I flipped it up, and like before, the turret was deactivated as only some power was working in this area with yellow flashing lights.

After getting out, I head back the way down the hall where the machine was and turned around the next corner. There was a window that I could see into a small lab. And inside was Norton trying to squeeze through an open vent on the wall. With him trapped, it will be easy to sneak up on him. The door to this room was on the left side from where I could see. But as I reached the door, it seemed to have been jammed for it wouldn't open all the way. Looking back inside, I saw that Norton had already gotten away. Just barely missed him...

Not much for me to go to, there was another long open hall with a ramp leading down I went to. At the end was just more supplies and a path available to the left. There was a door that led into another office to the right, but just as I reached there, another turret appeared further down this hall. I'm really getting tired of the same shit. Heading inside, I waited for the turret to stop firing before I could think of a way around it. A phone with a voicemail was lying around on the desk next to me. I pressed "play" on it to hear that the message was from Bill Moody. That was the same guy I saw die at the Plant...

"This is Bill Moody. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but we got a little behind schedule. I'm still out here at the South River Treatment Plant. Anyhow, I've got some preliminary results for you. All the compounds you had me test for are present, although the concentrations are significantly higher than expected. I should have a complete report on your desk Monday morning. Talk to you soon."

Well, he sure sounded more alive back then when he made this call. This was definitely either from yesterday or several hours ago before Fettel and his forces arrived there. Which after I take Mapes into custody - if possible - Fettel is definitely next on my ass-kicking list. There was another vent holder next to one of the desks that I broke down with the butt of my shotgun. Going to the left, I stopped at an intersection to where I could either keep going forward or to the left. Checking the forward path, I stopped at the end to where I couldn't get out due to more boxes piled up. Peeking out, though, I saw a body of a dead scientist on the floor as blue static was nearby. Quick footsteps were heard near where I was in front of me.

For a moment, I stopped and considered something that I regretted that I did. If these things are invisible at almost all times... was it possible that they are seeing every move I make? Could they be behind me almost all the time, spotting me from afar to warn the Replicas. And if so, that meant I'm more vulnerable then I think I am. That they could be right next to me... I had to brush off those kinds of thoughts, for my paranoia would keep on growing if I kept doing that. And if I did, then I would let everything else that's been bugging me today really get on my nerves.

Heading back the way I went, I came back to the intersection and took the other way around. Knocking down the holder with my foot, I looked back out to see I was just behind the turret's line of sight. In front of me was some stairs that led up to where some more supplies are. But the way around the ledge of that stuff was another door I could enter to. Hopefully this one isn't broken down either. Jumping down, I ran as fast as possible to the stairs and up the ledge. And good thing, too, for the machine saw me and tried to hit me with all those bullets it kept firing. Laying low, I crawled through while staying next to the ledge to avoid its gunfire.

Eventually, I made it to the door and thanked God that it was still working as I entered the next room. It was just some small place for maintenance, no different than the others I had seen before. I really hope that I'm not just going around this place in circles. Heading down the stairs here, I saw another place to walk through some more pipes by the wall. There was another intersection I could take here, both paths leading left to right. Taking the right one, I went all around the pipes to the end to where it went around a big one in a corner. Looking at the corner, I saw another body of a scientist lying there in a pool of his own blood. A light blue static of electricity was seen across from the pipes in front of me as footsteps were running away from where I was.

It's official, these things are just fucking stalking me. Raising my shotgun, I went back around down the passage. It's long path filled with only a few yellow lights made it uneasy to walk all the way back. Going the other direction of this intersection down to the other end was the only available path I could take. At the end of it was a ladder to the right of me I could climb up to. After doing so, I reached another small closet room with some machines to the side. Using one of the electronic doors, I exited out to see I was now on the other side of a thick glass door from where that last turret was.

Heading down the hall, I went around another corner to where I ended up in a wide open area with a glass ceiling above me. As I looked up, two Replicas came down from a couple rappel lines as a chopper was heard flying away from my position. At least these guys I knew I could take care of. Before they could come all the way down, I brought out my RP submachine gun and opened fire at both of them. There was no way for them to defend themselves for they were easily disposed of. Hearing the cry of a Replica shouting "It was over there.", I hid behind a support pillar in front of me.

There were two more soldiers coming from another large open hall on the other side of this place. They must have been inspecting to see what happened, for they had their weapons drawn in case of anything. Time to give them a reason to do so. Coming out from where I was hiding, I fired my gun down towards both of them as they were distracted by the corpses of their squad. They, too, were easily taken care of as their bodies dropped to the ground with just a few more rounds. Reloading my SMG, I carefully went down the path they came from to see if there were anymore of them around.

Continuing down the hall, I saw another one to the left I could take. But before I did, I heard two different types of gunfire up ahead. Sneaking up to the corner of another open area, I saw that in the middle was some type of advanced lift. It was very wide and seemed to be used for shipping cargo and similar stuff to the upper floor above me. However, it was offline and didn't seem like it would work from here. As for the gunfire, I saw three Replicas shooting at another defense turret. Surprisingly, the turret was eventually destroyed as the squad was trying to recover from the bullets it fired back at them. For once, I was happy that there was something trying to kill me... trying to kill them.

With them so busy trying to stand up from the struggle they just had, it was easy for me to deliver the coup de' grace as I fired just a few bullets into each and every one of them. It didn't seem like there were anymore of them, so I checked around and salvaged some ammo and grenades from their corpses. Thankfully, these guys have been easy to kill so it was actually kind of a relief. Anyway, I went back down the hall I passed earlier to enter a lab that connected to several rooms. Finding nothing of importance, I went back to the larger room and went around to another open hall.

It eventually took me to another open area with a wide elevator that I could use. Problem was, in order to lower it, I had to find the control booth to bring it here. And sure enough, there was one next to me, only the path to it I had to find. Looking around, I picked up a couple of grenades as I saw a small hallway that I could take that at the end. There were two discoveries at the end of it. One wasn't really so special, for it was just a giant sealed door for security. The other, though, was a freaking rocket launcher. No, seriously, a rocket launcher. Just leaning on the wall next to a mechanical door.

I recognized this kind, too. It was an MOD-3 Multi-Rocket Launcher that could hold 15 missiles. As in "multi", it meant it could fire 3 rockets at once at the press of a button. However, it was too heavy for me to carry around and I couldn't imagine what I would need this for. Shame, too. It would really help. Heading inside the room next to me, I went around to find the control mechanism for the lift. I pressed just one button and it came down in just a matter of seconds. What was on this lift was... something I didn't expect.

It was some kind of silver machine or something, one I had never seen before. It had the humanoid structure of a regular person, only it easily towered over it. Like 9 feet tall or something. Not only did it have strong mechanical legs to help support the weight, it had a couple mounted weapon to where its arm were. It had equipped dual-wielding rocket launchers on its arms. The center of this giant had the initials "REV6" painted over it's "face" which was just a round object. Oh yeah, and speaking of those mounted rocket launchers... it was aiming those right towards me.

Getting the hell out of the way, the sound of multiple missiles breaking through the glass and hitting the wall behind me sure got me jumpy. Just how in the hell am I supposed to take on something like that! It was way too armored for me to destroy with conventional means and there wasn't enough ammo lying around to use. That was when I remembered that rocket launcher. That kind of firepower just might do the trick to take this thing down. Quickly, I headed back towards where it was to find it still on the ground. I lifted the heavy weapon up and tried to get a good grip on it. The armored machine was coming from the end of this hall. Time to fight fire with fire.

Aiming the MOD-3, I waited for the metal beast to come closer until I got a clear shot. And as soon as I did, I pressed the trigger as 3 multiple rockets flew towards my target. Even though it took those 3 rockets head-on, it still kept on going to my position. As it began to fire more rockets, I went back inside to the room to avoid getting killed. Taking the MOD-3, I went all the way around back out to the wide lift. Pretty sure that thing couldn't fit through doors, it came back to where it first showed up in hopes of finding me. As it came back into view, I fired 3 more rockets at it. It seemed to be staggered for a bit as I fired several more at it.

The "REV6" - as its cover said - was trying to shoot at me with its artillery, I ran on over to the right of this place as fast as I could. As it was trying to fire some more at me, I fired my own set of missiles at it. When they connected, I saw that the machine was starting to malfunction. It had electricity and smoke coming out of continuously as it tried to keep its balance. This gave me the perfect chance to fire the remaining ammo in this thing at metal monstrosity. After I fired the last rockets, they made contact to this thing and blew it up into several pieces. As it did, I noticed that this "thing" wasn't really a machine, after all. There was blood and limbs scattered across from where this thing fell apart. So someone was piloting this "REV6" the whole time.

Tossing aside the empty rocket launcher, I went on over to the wide cargo lift in the middle of the room I brought down. Thankfully, there weren't anymore of those armored units when I reached the top. All that was up here was stacks of crates and boxes put onto some cabinets and lying around. There was a hallway I found in the corner I went to where there was a small office space in the middle of it. It, too, had nothing important inside, so I kept on going.

I reached the top for where the other lift goes only to find the way out of here was with a red ladder leading up to a walkway. I climbed up onto the walkway to find a crawlspace I could enter. Entering inside, I reached to what must've been the ceiling of some kind of room, for there were now tiles in front of me instead of gray cement. There was an open spot for me to drop down into which I did right away. I ended up just outside of some kind of chemical laboratory. And the reason I knew that it was one was because of the announcement inside it.

"Warning. Toxic substance detected. Emergency lockdown in effect."

Inside the laboratory I could see a yellow gas like material floating through the air. The door to the room was locked, preventing the material to further leak here. And my gut told me that I have to go that direction anyway. And that a certain fatass must've done this. Looking around this hall, I saw there was another ladder behind a fence that I could climb up. After climbing that, there was another a few feet from me that I climbed up as well that led me to the ventilation systems. The fans to the left of me actually gave off a cool breeze, which is something that was nice to have for once.

Climbing underneath some small pipes in the ceiling here, there was a vent holder above a room. Knocking it down, I jumped inside to reach the control room for the ventilation. Reaching towards the device in the middle here, I activated the fanning system for the chemical lab that was just below where I was. After a few seconds, the yellow gas evaporated away as the announcement said "Emergency cancelled." That took care of that. To the right of me was some steps that led to a desk where there was a phone blinking red. It had two voicemails on it, with the first one announced from Bill Moody.

"Hey, Janice, it's Bill Moody. Iain Hives sent me down to the South River Treatment Plant to do some wastewater analysis. I'm concerned about my findings since that effluent comes from residential areas. It may be originating in Auburn, which might actually explain a lot. I'm gonna send you a copy of my report so that you can make sure the proper people are informed."

Hmm, so that did confirm what Betters was talking about earlier about something being connected with Armacham and the Auburn district. Especially if they had sent their own people to do their own check-up for that mess. But what could have been responsible for people not wanting to live there? Anyway, I paid attention to the next message which was played by that Iain Hives fellow.

"Janice, it's Iain. Wanted to give you a heads up that you might be getting a call from Bill Moody. I think the best course of action would be for you to act like you give a shit about his concerns. I think all he really wants is to believe that someone in authority is taking the ball and running with it. I think I fucked up by blowing him off, so I'm guessing he'll run to you. Anyway, let me know how it works out."

That sure made me curious. So one hand, some people are hired to investigate the disturbance all the way out there. But on the other, their higher ups are a little upset about them even doing their jobs in the first place. Well that doesn't make sense. Maybe it will further down the line, who knows. The door next to the control panel had some stairs that led down to the chemical lab. There was another door in the corner I could use to get out of here. But before I did, there was another laptop on the table here with some information up about "Origin". After sending it to Betters, he got a hold of me of what I found.

"This is interesting. When they pulled the plug on Origin, apparently they just locked the doors and threw away the key. They don't go into a lot of detail, but I guess the place was really dangerous to be in. I wonder if it was some kind of chemical leak or something."

Somehow, I had a feeling that might not have been the case. I don't know, maybe I want to suspect that it's something deeper than we might really know. But to all the trouble Armacham is trying to cover up, it sure sounded a bit silly if was something as simple as a leak. If Fettel was part of this "Origin", then maybe the information we can get off him before we kill him might reveal more on what happened there. As for Mapes, right now he might be too far gone from where I am to apprehend him. Until then, I might as well continue my search for Fettel.

Exiting the lab, I entered a long white hallway which branched off into two directions. The right one was sealed off by security, so only option I had was to take the left one. Going that way, I reached the balcony which was above where those Replicas were rappelling down a while ago. Moving on, I made it to another hall that was blocked off by a security gate. There was a room inside that I could enter though, which of course I did. A desk here was low enough for me to climb over to where that gate blocked the path earlier. But before I would do that, there was some kind of control panel with a monitor next to it.

The monitor appeared to be a screen for one of the turrets I encountered earlier, only I could manually use this one. From the camera inside the machine gun, I could see almost a whole army of Replicas scouting a set of cubicles. This must be just a few rooms ahead of where I was. With a devilish idea in mind, I decided that now is the perfect chance to get back at these motherfuckers. Using the switch and controls of the defense turret, I rained fire at all the Replicas into the room. The bullets easily pierced through their armor as they desperately tried to get away.

More and more of them were still around as they entered the room. They were coming in one by one as they tried to destroy the machine I was using. The defense turret was taking some damage, but I had to use it for as long as I can to thin out their ranks. Eventually, after killing what must have been about 20-25 of those soldiers, the machine started to reach its limit. Good timing, too, for that was when it seemed the coast was clear. I got off the control panel to turn towards the desk. Hopping over, I reached the hall behind the security gate.

Going around the halls, I reached where all those dead Replicas were found lying around. I sure made a mess. Reinforcements seemed to have arrived, for one of them shouted "Team, spread out." My back to the one of the cubicles nearby, I peeked around to see about 6 more of them coming in here. I had thought of going back to use the turret, but that quickly changed when they saw the turret offline and shot it to hell. So much for that...

Taking out my SMG, I aimed carefully at the trio of soldiers standing around. Attacking all 6 of them with gunfire, I only got about two of them when the rest were now hiding into the cubicles. Putting back the RP, I took out the shotgun and readied myself for a fight. Two of them came out trying to shoot me from where I was. I ran on over to the cubicle opposite of while blasting those too with shells. After they were taken down, I crouched down, ready to take on the last two. This time instead of both of them coming out, only one came towards me while the other soldier had already begun to chuck a grenade over to me.

If I had gone back to take cover or go anywhere at all, the other soldier would definitely gun me down from afar for sure. Activating my reflexes, I aimed up to where the grenade was as it was still in the air. Slowly, it was coming towards me as it was just above the other soldiers head. Raising my pistol, I steadily fired a single bullet to where the round explosive was. One shot was all it took, too, since it went off and killed the Replica underneath it. The top half of his body was surely unrecognizable from where I was standing. The other Replica saw the carnage I caused from their plan as he looked up to see what happened. My pistol in hand still, I fired about three or four rounds into both his head and neck, enough to kill him. After putting away both my pistol and shotgun back onto their holsters, I got back on my two feet.

Getting back out into the open, I raised my submachine gun and carefully went through these workplace's. I reached an open door next one of the cubicles that led out into another hall. Before I got too far, gunfire was heard from the room ahead of me. Glass shattered as the body of an ATC guard fell to the ground from above on the upper level. A Replica said calmly "Resume patrol." as him and two others were moving around the balcony overlooking the room. Taking out one of my spare grenades, I tossed it on over to where the patrol was. They tried to get back from where they came until the blast went off. There were definitely no survivors on that one.

A hall that led to some vending machines was to the left of me with some steps that I could take up. After doing so, I was now walking around the balcony of where these soldiers were. Gunfire followed my trail as I saw two more of those soldiers on the other side from here in a dark lounge area. Using my reflexes again, I quickly disposed of them with the remaining rounds of the RP machine gun. After reloading, I went into the lounge area and turned around the next corner up ahead. There were a set of elevators to the left, one of them having massive amounts of blood in front of it. Continuing on there was a lab at the far end of the hall, but there was nothing important inside. Heading back out, the hall to the right of me ended with a security gate in place. To the right of it was a glass railing with a lower floor below it I could hop on over.

I climbed over it and landed into the darker parts of this building. Don't know why, but I was getting a bad feeling from this place...

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