Do you know... the Muffin Man? 'Cause I sure do. Not sure what that has to do with F.E.A.R., but at least it's not part of some stupid Resident Evil puzzle. Anyway, I know that I updated this much sooner than expected, but hey, it was already done for a while. Thought I'd get this out of the way. This chapter and all the ones before this I don't own the story, which is all Monolith.

O'Doyle rules! Have fun!

F.E.A.R.

FIRST ENCOUNTER ASSAULT RECON

INTERVAL 07 - REDIRECTION

FLIGHT

The "Point Man"
At the far end of this ventilation was a holder in place. I kicked it down and crawled out into what I was sure to be the other side of that locked red door. I was now on the roof to where the helicopter was supposed to arrive to pick up me and Alice. And speaking of Alice, she was just outside. We could see each other from a stained window in between us. She said to me "There you are! How did we get separated?". I highly doubt that telling her an 8-year old girl who kills people by just looking at them was an acceptable answer. Alice then started to tell me what had happened.

"I remember the power going out in the elevator. Then the next thing I knew I was arriving on the top floor and you were gone." That's it? She didn't see that little girl? Never minding that, I heard Betters talk to us over the comlink.

"You should have a visual on that evac chopper."

Alice turned around to see that one of F.E.A.R.'s Black Hawks was coming towards Armacham. And speaking of getting out of here, I have to get out of this room. The set of double doors nearby that led outside were locked or jammed, for I couldn't get them to open. I looked back out to see the helicopter beginning to descend to the LZ. Soon we were going to leave this place...

Next thing I know, the sound of a rocket was heard. I saw two objects approaching the chopper as I immediately guessed what was going to happen next. The missiles had hit the center and back end of the heli as it exploded into a ball of flame. Who the fuck blasted our Black Hawk! This was some serious bullshit. Alice screamed out "Oh my God!" as she was shocked to see what happened. Betters, too, cursed out "Shit!" as our hopes of getting out of here were completely destroyed. Alice looked back and me and spoke to Betters over the radio.

"This is crazy! I'm not waiting here! My dad's in danger!" Alice shouted.

"Your dad will be fine. You're the one I'm worried about. You just need to calm down." Betters told her.

The sound of another helicopter was approaching the LZ. At first, I was hoping that it was a spare evacuation chopper. Me and Alice looked at it to see it wasn't one of ours... it belonged to the Replica Army. It was hovering over the LZ spot as rappel lines started to come down. Alice began to panic as she said "Sorry!" and went towards the red door next to her. She closed the door right behind her, and my gut told me that she locked it too. Betters tried to call out to her, saying "Ms. Wade!". She didn't respond, with Betters telling me "Damn it! What the hell is she thinking!". Guess I can't really blame her for wanting to get out of this place...

"She's headed for the garage. You've got to cut her off before she gets herself killed." Betters explained to me as Replica soldiers were now coming down from the rappel cables up ahead. Not that I wanted to admit it to Betters, but this job started to really suck right now.

The chopper the Replicas came out was now beginning to leave. Before it did though, one of its rockets was fired from the helicopter. It was heading towards this place! I took cover back inside the vents as an enormous explosion hit the small room. Waiting for the smoke to clear, I saw that the place I was previously at was totaled. The double doors I had trouble opening were now blown open, giving me access to the roof. Lucky me...

I went back out of the ventilation and peeked outside to see about 4 Replicas approaching my position. Maybe they're sent to check if I was dead, or to capture Alice again. I'm not giving these bastards the pleasure of either of that. I stood up from the ground and opened fire at 4 of them with my rifle, now that they were close enough for me to take my anger out on. None of them stood a chance as they screamed in pain to the bullets entering their chests and neck.

Heading outside, I checked to see if Alice indeed locked the door to which my suspicions were right. I was already starting to hate this job more than I thought I would. To find another way out of this place, I walked up ahead slowly through some generators and vents placed on the roof. I cautiously made my way around the roof, hoping that there weren't any Replica reinforcements left behind when they came here. There were some stairs at the far end of this place I went up to find myself in front of the landing pad. I was getting some major deja vu here, for this scenario here looks a lot like how I first came to this place. There were some brown double doors to the left of the LZ that showed some corridors I could enter. There was a machine to the left of it with an automated computer voice saying:

"Welcome to Armacham Technology Corporation. Visitors must be accompanied by authorized Armacham personnel." Fuck you guys.

After I opened the doors, I was walking towards an upper balcony above where some elevators were placed. Speaking of elevators, one of them was coming up to where I was. Down below, the mechanical doors slid open as a unit of two Replicas exited the elevator, with one of them saying "Move! We need that hostage!". Shit, that means they must be looking for Alice. Not on my watch. Before they could spot me, I opened fire at the two of them before they could fight back. They died quickly, but not without myself getting some more attention from another unit up here.

Two more soldiers came out from another corridor up ahead of where I was as they were firing at where I was. I took cover by a wall to the left where I waited for them to stop firing. As soon as they stopped, I was using the good old blind fire trick to shoot them all without exposing myself. From what I could hear, only one of them was hit by some bullets while the other was yelling "Man down!". Looking back out, I saw the other Replica running back to take some cover behind a support pillar. Before he could reach there, I fired the remaining bullets in my gun to his back as he fell down.

I reloaded my G2A2 and walked over to where the two soldiers were. They were definitely dead, so I went down the stairs leading to the lower floor. As soon as I got there, another elevator was coming up to where I was. The doors opened, revealing another squad of Replicas coming out. They saw the carnage of their fallen comrades next to them, as well as me standing over by the other elevator. Using my reflexes, I moved fast enough to shoot both of them down before their gunfire could hit me.

My gut told me that if I were to use these elevators now, they would take me to another section of the building that would be too far from where I could reach the parking garage. There was a dark yellow door across from one of the elevators that I opened to reach what appeared to be a back room of sorts. There was several machinery everywhere, most likely for the power to this place. Maneuvering through the corners and technology, Betters once again tried to get a hold of Alice.

"Ms. Wade, can you hear me?" After a few seconds, Alice responded back with a simple "Yes."

"What do you think you're doing?" Betters asked her.

"I have to know he's okay." Alice said. She's a persistent woman, I'll give her that.

"Look, I'm willing to let you ride along to pick up your father, but you're putting yourself in a lot of danger right now." Betters told her with that commanding type of tone he uses.

"Yeah, well, you said I'd be safe on a helicopter." Great, she's got a sense of humor.

"Those soldiers are looking for you. If they capture you again, they're going to interrogate you. And believe me, their methods are very unpleasant." Betters said to her. When he was saying that last part, I wondered if he meant Fettel as well.

"I'll take my chances." Alice finished as the line went off from us and her.

"Stubborn little bitch, isn't she?" Betters jokingly asked me. Yeah, she can be. Amazing that after everything going on right now, she still insists on going off by herself.

Moving through all these back rooms, I opened a brown door here that led to some stairs going down. After walking down to the lower floor, I found another door I opened to another corridor of the main building. Looking around, there was some small cubicles to the left I followed into another working area for employees. Looking up, I saw Alice on the upper level next to some windows. Just as she saw me, she could tell from my face that I wanted her to stay right there until I caught up to her. That was when both of us heard something from outside.

We looked out the glass windows here to a blue light moving around outside. It almost looked like some kind of search light or something. Whatever was doing it, it frightened Alice enough to run off from where she was. I began to wonder what it was that could be looking for us. Could it be Armacham? I walked through the office spaces carefully and reached another back room with a wider office room. There was an answering machine on the table inside with three new messages left over. As much as I would have to find Alice, it wouldn't hurt to see if any of these are important. Indeed, the first one was from Alice's father, Harlan. It seemed this message was for that Phil Vecchio I heard about earlier in Harlan's office when I found Alice.

"Hey, Phil, it's Harlan. I'm pretty sure Genevieve is considering some pretty drastic measures to cover her bony ass. I'll tell you straight up that I'll be fucked if her or any of her little toadies is going anywhere near the Vault. She already caused enough damage thinking she could just march in there and start over from scratch. If she comes to you for backup, remind her that we locked that place up for a reason."

Harlan sure sounds pissed. Whatever Genevieve and Armacham tried to do down there must be really bad, but not as much as what they've probably done before. The next message was from Genevieve.

"Phil, how are you? It's Genevieve. I haven't seen you at Maurice's lately. We should get together for happy hour once this mess blows over. Speaking of which, I have a favor to ask. I know you and Harlan go back a ways, so I was hoping you could try to reason with him. He refuses to forgive me for sending those poor people into the Vault, as though I'm happy about what happened. I made a mistake... but I don't see why everyone else should have to pay for that. Anything you can say to get him to see reason would be appreciated."

The tone of Aristide's voice made it sound like she acknowledged what happened, but still wants to be all coy about it, as if it's not a big deal. I could tell that she is really doing this to get people to follow her lead instead of anyone else's. The last message was from Genevieve again. She must be really persistent about all this.

"Hi, it's Genevieve. I just wanted to remind you that the Origin facility was a liability long before this situation erupted. I was simply trying to clean up an old mess. I was hoping we could renovate or even repurpose the site, but clearly the risks are unacceptable. I see no alternative but to destroy it completely. If you have a better suggestion, I'd love to hear it. In the meantime, I have a company to save."

I have a feeling that the special facility Harlan is at that Alice said he was in is the same one as that of Origin. And since I sent the information to HQ, our next orders are probably to go there and figure out what happened. A little out of our jurisdiction, but I'm sure they'll find some excuse to go there. And if Harlan is there, then Fettel will soon follow his trail. Whatever happens, our mission to this "Vault" is going to be soon.

Through some of these rooms was some construction going on. It looked like there was going to be another couple offices built for some employees in the near future. I'm pretty sure by the time this whole mess is over, they're gonna be more concerned about cleaning this place instead. In another open lounge area was an upper balcony above with some stairs I could probably find to go up. A small table in the middle here had a black laptop with some document pulled up that seemed important. After sending all of it to HQ, Betters then contacted me.

"I found some more information on Origin. The prototypes were created from a 'genetic reference.' I think that's just a euphemism for somebody's DNA. There's no indication of who the lucky son of a bitch was, but I'm guessing Harlan Wade, since he started the program."

As I was going through the area and reached the stairs, my mind was constantly going back and forth over everything I learned today. Hearing about projects like "Perseus" and places like this "vault" and "Origin". It just seems like with every phone call or document discovered only revealed little pieces of the puzzle, with more questions raised than answers. With what Betters said, I wondered if Fettel really was part of the project that made him, did his genetics come from Wade?

Going through the upper floor, there was a security gate near me that obviously blocked me off from going that way. There was another entrance I could take across from here that I took. I was in some kind of corridor with some Armacham monitors to the left, presenting information about the company's background. To the windows that had a view of outside, I noticed that same blue light that I had seen earlier. And whatever was causing it, it just burst through the windows.

I've never seen anything like it. It wasn't a person, but instead looked fully robotic. It was hovering in the air a few feet from the ground. It had a Y-shaped figure to it, using some types of engines to keep itself afloat on each end of the device. It had 2 red dots on its chest area, and underneath its chest was a blue light scouting the area. It was about as tall as 3 feet, and was coming towards me. I aimed my rifle at it and fired several bullets towards it for I knew this thing was not friendly. As I was firing at it, the blue light came to where I was... and the machine fired multiple pink lasers at me.

I dodged next to a support pillar, as I tried to regain my composure from being blasted by fucking lasers. Just who sent this thing, Armacham! This is some fucked up security systems, if you ask me. Looking back at where the machine was, it was hovering over to where I was standing. I noticed that the bullets that made contact with it caused it to malfunction a little. If I can just get a few more shots in, then it should be destroyed. Activating my reflexes, I snuck up behind the machine before it could get a lock-on to me. Firing some more bullets to its back, the machine then exploded into a cloud of blue as there were no pieces remaining. That takes care of that...

Another window broke to the side as I looked over... to see another one of those machines come inside. Goddammit... From where it was, it was close enough for me to use up all the bullets leftover of my G2A2. The machine didn't even have enough time to defend itself as it too exploded from taking enough shots to the chest. I reloaded my rifle and saw that just like the last one, it didn't leave any parts behind. I'm guessing that if it takes enough damage it causes a small self-destruct system to where nothing is left, so no one can take any parts leftover by its destruction. Pretty fancy stuff for security purposes.

Continuing on through the corridor, I passed a corner to where an HV Penetrator and some ammo for it were lying on a table. A bit convenient, but I sure wasn't going to complain. Picking that up and holstering the G2A2 on my back, I went across the next corner to end up where I was at a balcony above the lower floors I was at. A blue light illuminated one of the windows near the ceiling as one of those machines burst through. Using the HV's superior piercing ammunition, I only had to fire about like 6-8 nails until the machine was taken care of and destroyed. Moving through the balcony, I saw a small room through some thick glass up ahead with another of those flying drones come in through the window inside. It was heading towards the entrance of the room to intercept me, only I countered by shooting through the glass to hit the thing until it blew up.

Entering the next room, there was no other available path I could take to exit this place. Outside of the windows the drone came through was a roof that I could probably take if I can figure out how to get there. Looking out into the night near the edge here, it appeared that if I could walk on the ledge then I can reach on over to the roof. Treading carefully, I went on over to the other side of this ledge. There was a small drop next to some ventilation systems I could jump down to make down to the roof.

After dropping down, the sound of something breaking was heard above me. Two more of those flying machines were hovering above my position, probably looking for me. Not wanting to risk them finding me and blasted me to pieces, I opened fire from below to the underside of each of them at a time. They were both destroyed soon after, with me reloading the Penetrator. Down here was a red door that after opening it, was a yellow ladder I can climb up into the upper room.

Reaching the top, I opened the door here to where I was now in the higher section of the roof. To the left was some destroyed windows that led back inside. Entering back into the building, I was now where Alice was last time I saw her. I wondered how far she might've gotten from here, or if she is okay. Moving around this balcony, I opened some double doors that led into a conference room. Another one of those flying drones came into this place from another window as it spotted me from outside. It tried to hit me with those lasers equipped onto it, so I took cover next to the wide table.

I just needed a distraction long enough for me take this down. With an unusual idea, I grabbed the leg of one of the chairs getting ready for something drastic. After a few seconds, I came up from where I was hiding and tossed the chair over to the hovering device on the other side of the room. It hit the machine as it was slightly disorientated a bit. It left me enough time to fire several nails from the Penetrator to completely destroy this thing. Exiting the conference room, I was now into an open lobby with some stairs that went up to the next floor. Before I took, some glass was broken from the ceiling as a couple rappel cables came down.

There were 4 Replica soldiers coming down as they were beginning to land on the ground. Quickly, I used my reflexes to drop the HV and take out the assault rifle on my back. I fired at all the soldiers coming down before they could get the chance to shoot me as they were coming down. All of the bullets made contact with the soldiers as their dead bodies heavily fell to the ground here. The sound of something breaking caught my attention as I looked over to the left to see two more of those aerial machines entering this place. It looked like they came from one of the bigger glass windows as they were floating around looking for someone. Just what is with these things coming from the windows anyway? Haven't they ever heard of a door?

I pulled up the HV from the ground and fired at both of the machines as they tried to attack me with more of those multiple lasers. Quickly I ran circles around them while dodging their deadly beams. Eventually they were destroyed after I had fired about 8 nails into each of them. I was beginning to run low on ammo for the Penetrator, but I did make for it by taking some magazines for the assault rifle from the dead Replicas on the ground. After doing that, I went up the stairs all around to reach a brown door to the left. Before I opened it, I heard the radio in an office behind me set on the news channel.

"Government officials have confirmed that a U.S. special forces Black Hawk helicopter has been shot down." There was some noise going on in the news as they began to talk about it being a chopper. "The sound you hear in the background is apparently not a U.S. military helicopter, but rather one belonging to the mysterious assailants responsible for the attack on Armacham headquarters earlier in the evening. Only moments ago we saw what appeared to be tracer fire, followed by several loud explosions. Information on casualties has not yet been released."

I wonder if that chopper for the Replicas meant they were dropping off reinforcements here. That's just what I needed, more people to shoot me some more. Exiting this place through the door nearby, I entered a back room of sorts. The door at the other end led me into a stairwell to where it looked like I was on the 8th floor. Alice might've gone this way down to the garage below. As I was beginning to descend the stairwell, a door was slammed open below. There were some footsteps coming up here with a Replica shouting "Check the stairs!".

With these close quarters, it would be difficult to try and start the fight with us going back and forth and not get anywhere. Checking if I had any more explosives, I found I still had one spare grenade left over that I haven't used yet. Looking down, there were 3 Replicas walking up here from what appeared to be the 5th floor. Tossing the grenade down the steps the soldiers were going to, they realized too late that the round object was there as the blast engulfed all of them. That took care of that.

The doors for the 8th, 7th, and 6th floors were all locked, but the 5th floor the soldiers came from was available. With the stairs ending at the 5th level, I went through the door and was now in another corridor next to an office space to the left of it. There was a phone on a table inside the room with 2 messages left over. I pressed play on the answering machine to hear that the first message was from Harlan Wade. The way he was talking made it sound like this office belonged to Genevieve Aristide. That, and he was still pretty pissed.

"Genevieve, Harlan Wade here. I got your message. First off, please don't presume to know my feelings. It's insulting. And don't lecture me about burying the dead like some fuckwit shrink. The bottom line is that we wouldn't be in this situation if you didn't ignore my warnings. And now you want to dig the hole deeper. Sooner or later you're gonna dig right down to Hell."

Hearing all this bickering between Wade and Aristide was beginning to sound ridiculous. They almost began to sound like children arguing over breaking the rules. I really wonder what's down there in that facility that is causing them to antagonize each other. The next message was from that Phil Vecchio fellow I heard about back in Harlan's office.

"I got your message, Genevieve. I think what Harlan is trying to say is that we should be leery of kneejerk impulses. I understand that there are some time pressures to consider, but we really need to be thinking strategically. Reopening the Vault at this point strikes me as a dubious proposition considering all that's happened. It's probable that we'd just be adding fuel to the fire."

As I exited the office, I was thinking of what Phil said. He seemed to be the only person who is trying to be logical here. Although I had to consider that he still wants to cover up what happened after everything is said and done. Moving on, I went around another corner into a red hallway. I stopped when I heard some Replica activity in the next room saying "Squad, stay down." The next hall was very dark, making it hard to see except for the lone light at the far end.

Turning on my flashlight, I walked down the corridor expecting the unexpected. And the unexpected did happen... To the left of the dark corridor, the walls rotated almost like a stack of curtains. Inside there was an entire meeting room where the lights were active and working. Oh yeah, and there was also 6 Replicas scattered around with their weapons pointed towards me.

I ran all the way back to where I came to avoid getting shredded by a hailstorm of bullets. Taking cover by the other corner, I peeked my head to see about 4 of them coming out of the hidden room they came from to try and intercept me. I fired my rifle down the hall and got about two of the soldiers while the other two went back into that meeting room. One of them yelled "Grenade out!" as the explosive device was thrown over to my feet. Taking a huge risk, I quickly grabbed the round grenade and tossed it back over to where they are. The explosion went off as I heard cries of pain in the other area.

Looks like their ambush backfired as the blast took out 3 of the Replicas while the last one was limping out into the hall with a bloody leg. Despite his injuries, it looked like he still wanted to kill me. I went back out and just fired a couple bullets towards his helmet, ending his life. I walked on over to the turnable walls to see that the Replicas sure stacked out inside here. There were 2 grenades and some more ammo for the G2A2. Taking all of that, I exited this place and went around the next corridor by opening some double doors.

It was an open lobby with some elevators disabled on one end. Just as I entered, I heard one of the Replicas in the other room to the left yell "Kill the lights." Sure enough, the power went out into this place for a few seconds. When the emergency power came back into this place, I saw about 6 troopers enter this place from that room on the far left. Some of them were the higher ranked Replicas for they had some of the more advanced gear and body armor.

Looks like this didn't turn out quite what they were expecting, for they were surprised on how quickly the lights came back. Using this to my advantage, I tossed a grenade on over to where the squad was as the explosion engulfed the entire unit. Only two of them survived the blast, but they were in too much pain to stand back up. I finished the rest of them by firing the remaining rounds in my rifle. Now that I think about, just how many have I taken care of since I came to this building? Probably a shitload of them, I bet.

After reloading, I walked over to where the soldiers came from into some offices. To the left of them was a door that led into a supply closet. Along the wall was a power generator with the lever stuck up. Pulling the switch, the rest of the power came back to this place as all the lights were beginning to work. Heading back into the other office, I saw a computer lying on a table with ATC documents pulled up into the screen. I sent all the information to Betters with him telling me what they were about.

"Well, Fettel wasn't made from Harlan Wade's DNA. There's an email from Wade about the 'subject' being in an induced coma. Those ATC security goons killed Bishop because somebody didn't want this getting out. They aren't just worried about some ethically questionable bioengineering experiments. I think they're covering up some pretty nasty shit." Betters signed off as I was left to ponder my thoughts.

A coma, huh? Then that means whoever they got that genetic reference from, it was by force. When this is all over, justice needs to be served to Armacham. Those bastards have to burn for what they've done...

Holding my anger back, I had to figure out where to go. With the power back online, one of the elevators was now available for me to use. I pressed the switch on the control panel by it to bring the machine up to the 5th floor. Inside, I pressed "G4" which I'm sure Alice went to exit this place. As the elevator was soon to approach there, Alice got back on the line to talk to me and Betters.

"I'm sorry for the trouble, but I made it to my car." she explained to us.

"Ms. Wade, if you'll just wait a minute..." Betters tried to say with Alice interrupting him.

"I can't. I have to go." Alice said as the sound of a car turning on was heard.

Betters yelled out "Ms. Wade!" as the doors of the elevator opened. I moved ahead of the machine as I looked to the right through a shutter gate. I saw Alice backing up with her black Porsche and then turning around towards the exit. I was too late to stop her... Betters got a hold of me over the comlink.

"Fuck it. Get to the roof of the parking garage for pickup. You can still get there before her."

Now was the time for me to leave this place. I'm sure not going to miss this place. Exiting this back room out through the opening on the other end, I was now in the more open part of this garage. The far end of the garage was now closed, which I guess Alice was responsible for closing behind her. If I am to meet up with whoever is picking me up, I'm gonna have to run up through each floor of this parking garage.

I went all the way to the other side of this floor to take a ramp up to "G3". Just as I entered this area, gunfire was heard as bullets hit the wall next to me. On the other side of this place were 4 Replica soldiers running up to where I was. This must be their final stand to stop me. Well I'll make sure this is their last fight, with me killing every last one of them.

I returned fire from my assault rifle to the soldiers coming while moving next to some stacked supplies for cover. Two of them were taken care of, while the others crouched down by one of the parked cars. They may think they're safe for now, but they just gave me a reason to vandalize right now. Firing some more rounds back at where the engine was, the car exploded into a ball of flame as the two remaining Replicas were engulfed in flame. As they lay on the ground screaming and dying, I ran past them all the way to the next ramp.

Before I went up to "G2", there was an armored van parked up to the top. Walking up there slowly, I saw that it definitely belonged to the Replica Army, only no one appeared to be inside. Looking over to the left, I saw a squad of 5 Replicas positioned next one of Armacham's patrol cars, talking to each other about some plan. They must not know what happened down here. From here I grabbed one of the two grenades on my belt and threw it as far as I could to the soldiers. As they tried to get away, the blast went off as 3 of the soldiers were killed. The remaining two were able to get away and ran over to where I was, each of them carrying the Vokkler-12 shotguns.

From here I used up the rest of my ammo for the G2A2 onto the 2 Replicas, killing them before they could make a clean shot from their weapons. I pilfered ammo for the rifle from the dead soldiers, as well as taking one of the shotguns with several shells stacked up for later use. I reloaded the current magazine for my rifle and holstered the shotgun to my back. Running past the Armacham vehicle and bodies of their security force, I continued all the way to the ramp on the far end that led up to "G1"

There were two armored vehicles at the top here, with a small squad of Replicas exiting from the back of one of the vans. Shooting some bullets over to the two soldiers, they were taken care of as the rounds went to their limbs and chests. These ones took a lot more bullets to take down compared to the others, most likely to their more advanced armor and uniforms. I heard more three more of them to the left van coming towards my position. Using my last grenade I threw it over to their feet, waiting for it to go off. They tried to retreat next to a support pillar, but the explosion was too close for them to avoid. Limbs and blood were scattered everywhere as my job was done...

Then I heard a monsterish shout come from the other van. A Heavy Armor slowly walked out as he looked over to where I was hiding. I kept on firing the last bits of ammo for my rifle towards the beast as it was returning fire with its Penetrator. One of the nails had grazed my right arm a bit as I tried to take cover by the closest van. The pain was excruciating, but not enough to stop me. The only weapon I had left available to use was the shotgun, and I know that the recoil from each shot will make it difficult for my arm to adjust.

Activating my reflexes, I sprinted around the side of the armored vehicle to the back of the Heavy unit. Before it could attempt at hitting me with its weapon, I blasted it several times from almost every angle with nothing but shotgun fire. Before I emptied the weapon, the Heavy Armor had gotten the chance to elbow me across the face. I dropped to the ground behind me, my shotgun flown out of my hand to the side. My hand was now over my cheek, with thankfully with my face not broken. Getting hit by that thing felt like getting decked across the face by a hammer. This thing is much stronger and faster than it looks...

As it brought its weapon to aim it at my chest, I rolled over to the side to pick up my shotgun. Despite the pain on my arm and face, I won't let this thing be the death of me. Keeping my grip tight onto my weapon, I must've pressed the trigger for this thing like a hundred times. At this distance there was no way this thing could survive any more shots. It was blown back from all the shells and landed on the ground. It tried its best to stand back up and I remembered I still had one option left to take this down.

Bringing out my AT-14 pistol, I fired several bullets to the Heavy Armor's face. Eventually the armored Replica died while screaming with that radio frequency under its breath. I need a break from this shit...

The pain made it difficult for me to walk as I tried to reach the lone door several feet away. Trying my best, I turned the knob to see some stairs that led up. Slowly I dragged my body up step by step until I reached the final door up high. I heard the sound of a helicopter coming from outside, which probably meant my evac team was here. Reaching the top, I opened the door that led outside and saw Jin-Sun Kwon, Douglas Holiday, and a lone operative of Delta Force running up to the door.

Holiday shouted "This way!" as him and his Delta squad approached the door and saw me standing there. Jin was happy to see me alive as she looked at me and said "It's good to see you in one piece." I can't imagine how long its been since I last seen her...

"You guys can make out later. Just get that bird in the air!" Betters shouted over the radio to us. Thanks for ruining the moment, boss.

We were all about to board the helicopter, with our next objective to breach the facility where "Origin" took place. They'll all be there. Harlan, Alice, and Paxton Fettel...

Sufferin' suckatash! What a twist! Reviews would be cool to have btw =O