Half Life: Path to The Borealis

Gordon was beginning to worry about Alyx, she has not said a word for the entire flight. They have been flying for ten minute now, she would have said something by now. He guessed that she has not fully recovered from her fathers death.  He was about to get her attention, but something had hit the helicopter. Alyx cursed as the plain jerked to the left due to the force. When she steadied the helicopter, she looked out to see what had hit them, she saw a squad of combine, accompanied by a strider.The strider started to shoot at the helicopter with its pulse cannon, the combine did the same, shooting their pulse rifles at the helicopter.

Though the combine units weren't doing much, the strider was causing significant damage to it. Alyx tried to avoid the striders attack, but was unable to do so. Gordon was hanging on to anything he could, trying to keep his balance. After a minute, the strider stopped attacking, Alyx looked to see why it had stopped and saw it was charging up its warp cannon. She tried to turn out of the way, but was unable to fully dodge it. The attack took out the tail of the helicopter, it started to spin down towards the ground. As soon as it hit the ground, Alyx and Gordon blacked out.

"Ugh, my head." Rainbow Dash said as she regained consciousness. She sat up as she rubbed her head, she opened her eyes and immediately noticed something was wrong. she was not in the wonderbolt stadium, in fact, she did not know where she was. She was in some small village, said village seemed to be abandoned, after looking around, she slowly got to her hooves. 'Where am I?' She thought. "Hello?" She called out. The only response she got in return was a moan. She looked around, trying to locate the source of the sound. But as she was doing so, there was a scream as she was tackled to the ground.

"Holy crap!" Rainbow exclaimed. She looked to see who the attacker was. It was a badly decayed biped, the bones were visible and the stomach was open. There was also some strange round object on its head. It started to scratch at her chest with its boney claws. She yelped in pain as she kicked the creature off, it growled as it ran back towards her. She immediately took towards the air and looked down at the creature. "Ha! Bet you can't fly!" She taunted the creature. The creature reared up and jumped towards her. It grabbed on to her legs and began to claw at them. She started to shake it off, it started to loose its grip as it finally fell. There was a sickening crunch as its head hit the ground.

Rainbow slowly flew to the ground, her coat is slightly red with blood from the creatures attacks. She heard the moans of other creature coming for her. 'I need to find Twilight.' She thought as she took for the skies, in search for her friend.

Twilight groaned as she regained consciousness. Her head ached, and she did not know why. She opened her eyes, but quickly closed them due to the sun penetrating her vision. After her eyes adjusted to the sudden light, she opened them again and looked around. She was in some sandy area with patches of grass and a cliff.. She slowly got to her hooves, she stretched out her wings and legs.

"Hello? Rainbow?" She called out, she then heard a rattle like noise from behind her. She instantly froze up, she thought it was a snake, and she was terrified of snakes. She slowly turned around, but then she saw the creature. It almost looked like a giant ant with sharp teeth in the front. "Uh, hello?" She asked, the creature responded by charging towards her. It swung its claw at her and cut her leg. She yelped in pain as she ran back, but the creatures shell opened up as wings spread out and it took flight. It landed right in front of her and bit her leg, she yelped on pain as she turned around and bucked it. The creature landed on its back and struggled to flip back over.

Twilight charged her horn, getting ready to attack the creature, but it flickered as sparks came out. Her horn then powered down, she tried to call on her magic reserves again, but her horn was not responding. She then realized that she had no more magic, the creature flipped back over and charged at Twilight again. She jumped out of the way as it swung, she turned around and bucked it in the head. Yellow blood covered Twilights legs as the creature stumbled back in pain. It quickly recovered and took to the air again. Twilight waited for the perfect moment, she then bucked it in the bottom of its head. It fell over, no longer alive, Twilight just stood there and looked at the corpse. She had just killed a living thing, even if it was attacking her, she has just experienced the feeling of killing something, and she did not like it.

She heard more of these creature, she turned around and saw these creatures coming out of a cave in the cliff. A larger creature came charging out of the cave and rammed into Twilight. She yelled in pain as her wing broke due to the force of the attack. She was sent tumbling, adding to the pain she was experiencing, once she stopped, she slowly got up. She gave one last glance at the hoard and took off running. There was no way she would survive against those things.

Gordon slowly came to, his body ached from the crash, he wanted to know why he was able to survive these catastrophic events. He assumed it was because of his 'mutual friend' saving his life. He looked around the wreckage of the helicopter and spotted his Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator, also known as the Gravity Gun. He reached for it and grabbed it, he then checked it. It looked fine to him, he pointed towards a loose helicopter blade and activated it. The blade zoomed towards Gordon and stopped right in front of the Gravity gun. He then pointed it off into the distance and launched it. It was still working fine. He looked around a little more but could not find Alyx. He assumed that the combine got their hands on her. He looked around to see if he could find any of his other weapons, but there was no such luck. He then proceeded towards the direction that they were headed in the helicopter, hoping to find Alyx.