Half Life: Path to The Borealis

Rainbow woke up to the sound of somepony yelling. Her head was hurting, just like when she appeared in this world. She tried to move, but something was restraining her. She slowly opened her eyes, seeing her surroundings. The fist thing she noticed was the grub like creature at the edge of her vision. She turned her head to it and to see it, it seemed to be inspecting a bipedaled creature. The grub creature saw that she was awake and turned its attention to her, Rainbow tried to mask her fear, but she had no idea what this thing was going to do to her. A claw came from behind its back and reached for her chin. It lifted her head up to inspect her, after it was done, it dropped her head and flew off.

Rainbow felt a chill go down her spine, whatever that thing was, it had some kind of energy that she could feel.

"What are you?" Rainbow heard the biped ask, she turned to her. She had a confused look on her face.

"Me? I'm a pony. Names Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Equestria!" She responded with a smile, the biped smiled in return.

"Alyx."

Gordon had checked almost every house in looks for that horse creature. Whatever it was, it was good at hiding, he was starting to come up to the end of the houses. He was starting to wonder if this thing had just run off. As he opened the next door, he found it. There it was, in the corner, tears stained its face. It saw Gordon and tried to look for a way to escape. He slowly approached it, making sure not to scare it off, he could see that it was shaking. He slowly reached out with his hand and started to pet it. He smiled when he saw it start to calm down, this always seemed to work.

Twilight didn't know what this creature was doing, but whatever it was, she felt at ease. This action went on for a couple of seconds longer before the creature stopped. She looked back at it, wondering what to do next.

"Who-what are you?" She asked, it looked like the humans in the other world she went too. But not like the ones she has seen.

Gordon was not surprised that it could talk, he has dealt with enough aliens. He pointed to his throat and shook his head, it took a while for the creature to catch on, but it eventually did.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know your were mute." She, judging by its voice, said. "Well, I'm Twilight Sparkle, a pony, and the new co-princess of Equestria." When she said she was a pony, that surprised him. She was kind of big to be a pony, he would call her a horse if she had not said. Then there was the princess part, that sounded like something a little girl would say, but he decided not to question it. He motioned for her to follow, and she did, he was sure he could trust Twilight, maybe she could even help him rid of the Combine.

Twilight followed the human, unsure of where he was taking her. She was not able to know, since he was mute and could only answer yes or no questions. At least he was friendly, unlike those creatures that were chasing her. She looked back at the human, who had a strait face, she noticed that she was a bit taller than him, since she had to look down a bit. She tried to think of something to ask, something that may be able to help her.

"So... are we going to someplace?" She asked, the human nodded his head. She tried to think of another question. 'This is harder then I thought. Maybe he can show me what that weapon of his is.' "What does that weapon do?" She asked. The human stopped and lifted it up. He pointed it towards a nearby stone and activated to device. The stone slowly rolled towards them, then shot up, flying. Twilight closed her eyes, and put her hoof over her face. When nothing happened, she opened her eyes, and saw that the rock was floating about a hoof (foot) away from the device. The human was looking back at her, he turned back to the rock, pointed his weapon up, and launched the rock into the air.

'Amazing.' Twilight thought. She looked back at the human, who made a motion with his hand, telling her to keep moving. Twilight did so. She thought about her friends back at Equestria, how they must be worried about her. She then remembered Rainbow. 'What if she is here too? What if she's in danger? I need to find her, and try to get us both out of here.' She looked up, and saw another human, but this one was carrying what looked like a suitcase, and had a blue suit. He was on the mountain, looking to nothing specific. He adjusted his tie and walked out of sight.

'Something was weird about that human.' Twilight thought to herself.

Alyx learned that the pony, Rainbow dash, came from another world filled with magic. She learned that she was sent here when her friend Twilight tried to teleport her to a stadium, but was sent here instead. She turned her attention to the combine who were guarding them. It was obvious that they had some sort of plan.

"What do you think they are planning?" She asked Rainbow.

"Don't know." She responded.

"Keep it down!" One combine said, hitting Alyx's capsule.

"You think you're so tough. Just wait till Gordon comes!" Alyx said, the Combine units turned to her, looking at her for awhile, before bursting out into laughter. "What's so funny?"

"We are prepared for Freeman." One said.

"Affirmative. Show them our surprise!" The other said. A large door opened, reviling the 'surprise' for Gordon. Alyx's and Rainbow's jaw dropped.

"Whoa..." Rainbow uttered.