Freeman's Odyssey

Chapter: 107

Part.2 The long road to hell

The One-Free-Man had an interesting conversation with Ulysses as the man seems to be kind of a fanatic that is trying to remember the old ways, and the eye-bot hovered over him as Gordon had found a few upgrades for the eye-bot and he walked pass a merchant who is selling stuff for any traveler who would come out of the tunnel in which the merchant hasn't seen much of anybody as of late except for a few NCR people. A small band of raiders is lying in wait at the ruined area as Gordon kept on walking then they struck by shooting at him with their weapons.

Unknown to them the one free-man's shields held and used a combine blaster to target the raiders one by one, until none were left standing and of course along the way he found several recordings in regarding to Ulysses in how he thinks. He knows how to study people real well and kept on moving along the highway after taking care of these raiders. He spotted several death claws upon the highway as Gordon managed to activate his cloaking system and a combination of ninja skills to avoid them in which the death claws never noticed he was there until he came upon the end of the highway.

Different paths to go, one lead down to a store and the other lead up to somewhere else, he found more recordings of Ulysses and then kept on moving as he found another military door and a button overlooking some sort of area like a missile silo. Gordon didn't want to touch that and checked out the other area as it is a dead end in which raiders took up residence in a ruined warehouse and attacked him. Gordon disposed of them quickly and headed back to the door in which he opened it with his trusty Gravity gun.

Stepping inside he activated the elevator and headed down for a long time until it stopped and let him out, as he came upon another tunnel and Gordon turned on his suits lights as the same creatures he saw were roaming about again, but retreated due to Gordon's light source. He wandered along until he came upon a set of stairs to indicate an apartment and walked all the way up a long way and then came upon the outside at a roof top. Then Ulysses spoke again ranting on about this and that, the divide and everything else.

"You must be a history buff," said Gordon

"A lot of reading one-free-man," said Ulysses "You can learn of the old world America, the land of the free and the home of the brave."

"I know all of that and when we meet I have a story to tell you, about me living in hell," said Gordon

The conversation ended as Ulysses must be intrigued by Gordon's words, he looked up and noticed this place must be a gorge of some sort and looked down in which he climbed down to the ground level. This place looked completely trashed and it seems no one is around, he needed a vantage point and found one. In which he used his military grade binoculars to look, a death claw roaming around several raiders in positions and so he activated his cloaking system and jumped to one place to another.

Using stealth kills to take the raiders by surprise in which they never saw it coming, he walked through what appeared to be a small apartment to the other side and got the drop on three raiders with instant kills. A few other creatures roamed about as Gordon took them down and kept on moving as it is a long walk and followed the trail until finally sees two guards guarding a military grade door. Using a combine sniper rifle he took out the guards and walked to the door, with one swift kick he kicked it down and walked inside.

It wasn't a long walk, but it was huge as numerous of missiles are inside and a single missile is in the end point of this place with an American flag still standing and of course he never met the man, but the appearance of the African American that this is Ulysses. He went on and on, about who should live and who should die. Until Gordon held up a hand of calm indicating he would want to speak now. It seems this man loves to talk a lot.

"Now I have a story to tell you," said Gordon

He started explain about himself as he is or was a native of Seattle, Washington life in which he always had it's ups and downs since he got a job to join Black Mesa research facility, as he told them he was an orphan with no parents in which the only thing that people found on him at when he was found on the door step of an orphanage is his name and nothing more. Gordon explained that he was already regarded as the quiet type and willing to adapt to any situation until he was in his teens as the orphanage at first put money away for him to go to college considering how smart Gordon is who is willing to learn and grow upon in life.

His childhood heroes were Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman because books were his friends in which that is all he had. He told them about an exhibited an early interest in theoretical physics, especially quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. After observing a series of teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck, the transmission of matter became Gordon's obsession.

He told them he had no known dependents. As he explained he graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics. His doctoral thesis on the teleportation of matter through extremely dense elements was titled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array.

He told them he took up residence in Black Mesa however his job in general in regards was nothing more than a joke like manual labor, despite his qualifications. Consisting of little more than pressing a button and pushing a cart as he found that to be a little embarrassing at times, but it paid well and Gordon often wondered if he would be doing this utter nonsense for the rest of his life. At time he spent in Black Mesa he only said a few words and kept his mouth shut most of the time, he considered himself a little anti-social being an orphan and all.

An inter-dimensional rift in space time happened and his world changed forever, as he told them in detail in which he became something he would never thought in becoming. A hero, he never dreamed he was one. In which he explained he survived all the challenges and got the respect of a few people for his acts of bravery. Then he wound up in another dimension called Xen and doing battle against an alien warlord named Nihilanth

He told them to never mind about the name, as he told them he killed the alien warlord and then he was confront by a being he despises the most, the G-man. The people noticed in the room how angry he got with that name. He was given a choice to live or die in a form of a deal. Gordon did not want to do either, then all of sudden the choice was made but not by him. No it was the G-man himself. Gordon explained in detain It wasn't until two decades later he had learned the G-man put him in a place far from time, space, thought and even Earth itself.

The G-man stated the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world it wouldn't be an understatement it is a fact as Gordon found himself in the middle of the occupation by an inter-dimensional alien empire known as the Combine. They in fact conquered the Earth in seven hours thanks in part to a traitor named Dr. Wallace Breen, that name alone made his blood boil.

Then he went to explain uprisings, creatures and other things as well in which began as Gordon helped in many ways often doing battle against combine forces until finally driven out of his dimension. Then finally he explained after the death of a friend of his, his other friends went off to the artic in finding a ship owned by Black Mesa had survived and after discovering technology like the Hazardous Environmental Suit that was on board the Borealis Finally told him he went on several adventures in other dimensions

"I….do not understand all of this," said Ulysses "However these Combine are the destroyers of the old world America and the teller of lies is the catalyst to all you have witnessed. I would be no different than they would be."

"So what is you decision," said Gordon

"I will not be an avatar to genocide," said Ulysses "So I am disabling all of this, thank you for telling me your personal hell. Our dimension is harsh and who knows these Combine may have a hand in destroying the old world."

"Indeed," said Gordon as noises are heard in the background "We have company,"

"Then like an old world saying goes," said Ulysses "Let's rock and roll,"

Gordon and Ulysses turned their attention to the wave after wave of the inhabitants of the divide, they attacked them together as the waves dwindled and dwindled in which it felt like a never ending battle and the body count started to pile up, until the fighting had stopped and ended.

"You fought well," said Ulysses

"So did you," said Gordon "Let's head back."

"Agreed," said Ulysses

Then the long trip began as it wasn't as hard as it once ways until they headed out of the divide and once again they are near Primm in which a camp fire had been set up and Gordon along with Ulysses sat across from each other swapping stories. An old black male came running towards them and it is the owner of the courier express.

"Mr. Freeman I got a message for you," said the man

He nodded and takes it in which Gordon is reading it and the Brotherhood of Steel in Washington DC wants to talk to him about a discovery made, the old man left and Gordon ripped up the message as he didn't need it anymore and Ulysses is wondering what is this about.

"Looks like I am going to Washington DC," said Gordon "Seems he BoS found something that maybe of interest."

"The place of old world America," said Ulysses "The center of power, I shall come with you. How are you going to get there it is far away,"

"I have my ways," said Gordon

Location: Unknown

Several gray aliens stand in a middle of the room in which none of them look to happy about something and look a little scared as well.

"Fool," said the alien "If the masters find out we lost the device they will be furious."

"The masters will never know," said the alien "We will soon pinpoint its location and eradicate anyone who comes in contact with it."

"The humans of this planet are weak," said the alien "They battle amongst themselves after our spy made sure the bomb was dropped first, this dimension is ours according to the masters."

Meanwhile the G-man simply walked by, smiled and adjusted his tie without them even knowing. He found the whole scene completely amusing and then vanished without a trace.

Chapter: 108

Gordon goes East