Half Life: Path to The Borealis

'These damn things won't let up, will they?' Rainbow thought to herself. Some of the same creatures were fallowing her, every now and then, they would leap at her, trying to catch her. At first she found it funny, when they would lunge at her, she would simply move to the side slightly. But now it was getting annoying, another creature tried again, that was it. She stopped and waited for the next creature. Said next creature reared up and jumped, this was her chance, she turned around and bucked the creature. What happened next was unexpected, the round thing jumped off the creature and and landed on Rainbow Dash. It jumped towards her head and bit down, she yelped in pain. Suddenly, her left wing closed against her will, sending her towards the ground.

She landed on her right wing, breaking the bone, she got up and started to pry the creature off her head. After some pain and struggling, she managed to pry it off, she then threw it against the ground, where it immediately died due to the force. Small streams of blood started to run down Rainbow's head, that thing had a tight grip on her head. She heard the moans of the other creatures coming for her. She had not time to waste, she was about to fly, but an intense pain in her right wing reminded her that she couldn't. She settled with just sprinting for her life, not knowing where she was going.

Twilight was running for her life, these creatures were not giving up on their chase. She had blotches of blood all over her body, she realized that this was not an act of invading territory, these things were looking for food, and she was the food. Every now and then, one would jump in front of her, trying to block her path, but she moved out of the way before it landed. She would receive cuts from the attacks, but it was either that or being stopped and maimed to death. She kept running forward, dodging the creatures trying to block her path. She never looked back, afraid of what she might see, she could hear the roars of the larger creature.

She kept running, then she saw it, a small village was at the end of this sandy area. She pushed on, her legs feeling like they could give on her at any moment. But as she got closer, she saw a bipedal creature come into view with, what Twilight could only assume was, a weapon of some sort.

Gordon has been walking for quite some time now, he has not encountered any thing yet. He knew he was going to run into something eventually, that was his luck, whether it be good or bad. He was happy to see no sight of the combine forces, meaning he did not need to fight them... yet. He knew Alyx would be in a secured place, so it would be a while before he saw her. He came across a small, abandoned village, which was no surprise to him that it was abandon. Their were some barrels, flammable barrels and saw blades lying around, at least he had some potential projectiles. He looked around for a while, hoping to find a loose weapon, but he was cut off by a sound that was all too familiar.

Antlions. He could tell by how frequent the sound was that their was many, they were also accompanied by the antlion guard, judging by the roars. He located the source of the sound, it was coming from Antlion Vally, one of the biggest antlion hives on the planet. He saw a pack of antlions chasing a purple... horse like creature. Said creature stopped as soon as it saw Gordon, it looked at him with fear in its eyes. He knew that this creature needed help. He took out his Gravity Gun and brought one of the barrels to him, he then launched it at one of the aliens. As soon as the barrel made contact, the antlion exploded into yellow blood and giblets. The horse sprinted past Gordon and hid in one of the abandoned houses.

One antlion lunged at him, but he simply blasted it away with his Gravity Gun, flipping it onto its back. Gordon took the flammable barrel and shot it at the charging guard, it exploded on contact, dazing the guard. He took a blade and shot it a the flipped antlion, cutting it in half. There were a small pack of antloins coming for him, he took a flammable barrel and shot it at the group, killing them. He turned back to the guard, only to be rammed in the chest, knocking him to the ground forcefully. He slowly got up, looking for a way to kill the antlion, he saw a pack of flammable barrels. The antlion charged again but he dodged out of the way, the antlion guard was were he wanted it to be. He picked up a stray barrel and launched it at the group, causing a chain reaction. The guard swayed from side to side, giving one final roar before collapsing.

Gordon smiled at this, he was not going to die today, he looked back at the town, wondering where that purple horse went.

Rainbow was finally able to escape from the monster horde. She slowed to a trot after tiring herself out from running. Where ever she was, she hated it, all she wanted to do now was find Twilight and be teleported home. She then remembered Twilight, she hoped she was alright. Rainbow wouldn't be able to live with herself if she let anything happen to one of her best friends. She was so caught up in her thoughts that she did not notice herself ending up in the ruins of a city. She was distracted from her thoughts when she heard a deep howl, she dove into a building looking for what produced the sound.

She saw a group of new creatures, one was huge, possibly twenty feet tall, it had three legs and was brown in color. It had two cannons, one at the front of the 'head' and one on the underside of the creature. Under it were two similar, smaller creatures, roughly her size, they were a blue green color and had two eye like spheres in the front. There were three bipedaled creatures in dark clothing holding some kind of weapons. Lastly, traveling behind the group, was a dark brown creature. It has two fins at its side, two small propellers at the back. It has jet parts on its under side, on the top, there was an opening covered in a translucent substance containing green liquid. There was an opening in the front, which Rainbow thought was its mouth.

Suddenly, the creature stopped and looked around, giving electronic groans. It started to fly near the buildings, searching for something. It soon came to the building Rainbow was hiding in, she gulped, hoping the creature did not find her. But her hope was crushed as it shot something at her, hitting her in the leg. She yelped as she felt something being injected into her, no doubt the liquid in the creature. She suddenly felt light headed, her vision was becoming blurry as her body was going numb. She tried to stay up, but soon was unable to resist it and fell unconscious. The last thing she heard was the bipedaled creatures saying something.