Freeman's Odyssey
Chapter: 32
Babylon-Half-life
Sheridan, Garibaldi, Delenn, Lyta and Marcus Cole follow Gordon Freeman into the portal that he created and they all simply vanished moments later.
City 33; formally known as Vancouver Canada
10 miles from White Forest base
A portal had just opened upon the cracked highway, stepping out of the portal is Gordon, Sheridan, Garibaldi, Delenn, Lyta and Marcus Cole. All of them except for Gordon felt like they have stepped into a whole new world and what they saw along with feeling this is defiantly real and not fake at all. It looked like a city but it looked like a city that has been in a war zone, building looked ruined and crumbled, the air had a foul odor of death and it is sunny out despite it looking like hell had come here.
Bodies were littered all around many of them are not human and these transhumans in which Gordon went on to explain these people were humans until the Combine turned them into Overwatch the elite of the Combine forces that were on Earth. He motioned for them to keep on moving as Delenn noticed a children's play ground in a park but there are no children around, Sheridan noticed this as well.
"You won't find any children at all," said Gordon "After the 7th hour war, the Combine gathered the world's children and slaughtered them all….." he pointed to a bone pile "You'll see bone piles like that."
Sheridan growled in anger, Delenn had a look of sadness, Lyta felt the same way and Garibaldi looked shocked at this. Slaughtering children is the lowest form of scum there is. Even Marcus was angry as well as he clenches his fist. All of them did not like this one bit.
"Are there still children even now," asked Garibaldi
"No," said Gordon "The few that survived became adults, human kind was prevented in having children by way of the Suppression towers" he went on to explain even further about it.
"Damn," said Sheridan
"Bloody hell," said Marcus
"Come on let's keep moving," said Gordon "The city maybe abandoned, but there are still dangers here, were ten miles from white forest as I would like to meet some people."
A horrid noise is coming from the background as Gordon knows this noise all to well, but the others don't know what it is as Sheridan, Garibaldi are holding their PPG's, Lyta is on the defensive, Marcus and Delenn wield their fighting pikes as Sheridan is surprised to see her having one as she is a member of the religious caste. Gordon readies his military shot gun and out of the shadows came head crab zombies.
"Why do I feel like I am in a monster movie," said Marcus
"Take action people," said Sheridan "I don't know you have a fighting pike Delenn."
"I am capable of many things John." smiled Delenn "I just don't often show them."
"She means she is way too bad ass to show it," said Gordon.
The head crab zombies started to advance as all of them went on to attack, Sheridan and Garibaldi's PPG's are barely working on these zombies. Gordon uses his shot gun to blast them away. Marcus and Delenn worked perfect to subdue these zombies, but wasn't easy as they are tough to bring down. One lunged at Delenn knocking her down a bit and ripped her clothes a bit, and then she used Minbari martial arts to kill the creature.
Marcus has the same problem as well as these things keep on coming, Gordon ups the anti a bit and uses his weapons replication system and brought forth a high powered flame thrower. He used it to fire bomb away the zombies who are burning to their deaths. They noticed how good Gordon really is at what he does and Lyta tried to scan their minds but found it too complex to understand but she used her new found abilities to destroy the zombie's minds. The battle is over, but it was a complete mess all around them and it wasn't easy, Gordon knows this all too well, while the others have experienced this for the first time. They rested for a moment.
"Come on," said Gordon "Let's go before something else shows up."
They are walking for a bit as wordlessly in their own thoughts in which this city in which Gordon calls city 33 or once known as Vancouver in Canada is abandoned. It has become an eerie but dead silence, for they had passed by the middle of the city in which they see what Gordon called a Suppression Tower that is damaged and inactive, he explained that Humanity is no longer able to have kids due to a decade of exposure to the field.
Suddenly the ground shook behind them as they started to look at what is coming; they can hear a loud growl in the background. Something crashes from out of one of the building and lands not to far away; Gordon recognized it as it is a large creature with 6 eyes as it is an Antlion King. The others decided to run as they haven't seen something that big before. Gordon uses the replication system to bring forth a special weapon.
He attaches the device to his Gravity gun, the Antlion King came charging and Gordon fired as the object sailed right into the mouth of the creature, then it exploded into pieces sending guts and slime all over the place, along with the people he brought as well. They look battle ready, but some bad smell.
"Not the most wise approach I would do," said Delenn
Rather messy but got the job done," said Marcus.
"I need a shower," said Lyta
"Ditto," said Sheridan
"Damn, I smell worse than a lurker down below." said Garibaldi
More noises are heard as a pack of ant lions are coming, then suddenly a large metal object comes out of no where and slams upon the pack of ant lions. Gordon recognized him as D0g and then a couple of air craft came as well in which these were once combine air craft and these craft landed nearby.
"D0g," said the machine "Smash puny bugs…..Freeman see you, are good."
"Gordon," said a female voice as he recognized her as Alyx Vance along with dozens of men
"Hello Alyx," said Gordon "Seems you been busy,"
"D0g like pretty lady," said the machine to Delenn.
"Why thank you….uh D0g," said Delenn
"Yeah I know," said Alyx "Let me guess they didn't believe you….well come with us to white forest,"
Gordon nodded as the others wondered about this but didn't bother to ask at first in which they all boarded the air crafts and once that was done the air crafts take off for White forest base.
White Forest Base
After the aircraft had landed at the base and the others from the other dimension, Gordon gave them introductions and so the people at white base provided them with answers as Lyta scanned their minds to determine they are telling the truth. She telepathically showed them the images to Sheridan and the others. Now they fully believe Gordon and their trust of him as grown.
"I hope this wasn't a problem" said Alyx
"No problem at all and don't worry," said Sheridan "This will be the greatest story ever told, not everybody will believe us at first. Lyta here will provide with those answers."
"It's cool," said Alyx
"Truly remarkable," said Kliner "So you used some sort of device to change yourself into human or half human."
"Correct Mr. Kliner" said Delenn "A time of change was coming, I did not know what I was."
"A lot of people thought she was a butterfly," said Garibaldi "At first."
"Seriously you do look like Bruce Willis," said Alyx "A favorite movie star of mine when I was younger."
"Sorry Alyx," said Gordon "He still doesn't know who that is,"
"Can we go back now, Gordon" said Marcus "I really smell here."
"So how long I have been gone, Kliner" said Gordon
"Oh by my calculations only about five days," said Kliner "We have been listening to your logs and very impressive."
"Ok, well," said Gordon "Let's go."
Gordon Freeman used his portal device coordinates back to Sheridan's universe at the right point in time and the portal opened as all of them stepped inside, then disappearing afterwards.
Captain Sheridan's office
The portal opened as all of them stepped into Sheridan's office, Susan, Kosh, and Lenner noticed their allies look messy and smelly in which Sheridan explained and asked how long they had been gone. Susan told them they had been gone for five minutes and suggested a bath in which Sheridan agreed.
Lyta shared her knowledge with the others and Kosh as well who is utterly shocked at this despite no one can see his facial expressions under his suit. Then the meeting adjourned for the time being and Gordon went to take a shower as well. This left Sheridan and the others something to remember for a long time.
Chapter: 33
Gordon Freeman vs. The Nightwatch