Half Life: Path to The Borealis

Twilight and Gordon reached a sewage pipe in the side of a mountain. Twilight held her hoof against her nose, obviously not liking the stench. Gordon however, was use to it, he had to swim in it once.

"Do we have to go in there?" Twilight asked, Gordon simply nodded, and headed in. Twilight shook her head. 'Well, he seems to know what he is doing.' So, hoof over nose, she headed in. Gordon was leading the way, making sure that Twilight was still behind him. He came across some dead combine units and a dead hunter, plus some zombies that were killed once more. This worried Gordon, the Combine had no problem with zombies, especially when pared up with a hunter. What was down there that could have killed them all? He took a pulse rifle and some ammo for it, he was able to find two combine balls. He put them into the rifle, adding on to the charges.

Gordon looked back at Twilight, who was disgusted by the sight. He motioned for her to follow, which she did. Gordon held his rifle at the ready, waiting to shoot anything that was dead but moved. He soon heard the moan a one nearby, he followed the sound to its source, Twilight close by. He rounded the corner, and saw a burnt body, complete with a burnt headcrab. He was about to bypass it, unit he saw it move. He quickly faced it, but it was no longer moving. Twilight looked back at it to, but met the same thing Gordon did.

"What was it?" She asked, Gordon shot her a deadpanned look. "Right, yes or no questions, sorry." She gave a sheepish smile. They were about to proceed, until the body moved again, when they turned back to it, it didn't stop moving. It kept twitching, slowly getting to its feet. It raised its claws into the air, never seizing its twitching. Gordon started to shoot at it, while Twilight ran and stayed behind him. Gordon unloaded an entire clip into the zombie, but it didn't even seem fazed. Gordon's eyes widened as he shot a pulse ball at it. It hit the zombie directly, but it didn't vaporize. It started to come towards them, Gordon made a motion for Twilight to run, which she happily did. Gordon backed up as fast as he could, firing more rounds into Nightmare, but it was still coming.

It reached him and clawed into his chest. Gordon took out his gravity gun, took a saw blade that was lying on the ground and shot it at Nightmare. It stumbled back, the blade didn't even cut its flesh. That's when Gordon decided to run, it was not like him to run, but this was a situation that he could not win. He turned back to shoot at the Nightmare, unloading another clip, but it would not die. He loaded another clip into his rifle and started to shoot again. He soon reached Twilight, who was at a dead end.

"It's blocked!" She yelled. Gordon turned back to the closing Nightmare, and shot another pulse ball. Twilight could feel the energy of the pulse ball as it hit Nightmare. That's when she got an idea. "Shoot me with that!" Gordon looked at her confused. "Trust me." She said. Gordon hesitated, but then turned and shot her with it. Twilight lowered her head, the pulse ball hit her horn, where a magical blast took place.

Gordon covered his eyes as the blast blinded him. He was fearing the worst, he thought Twilight was vaporized, and Nightmare was still coming. He turned away from the cloud of dust and was about to shoot at nightmare, until a purple bolt shot past him, hitting Nightmare. He turned back, seeing Twilight was perfectly fine, she shot another bolt at Nightmare.

"I've got this." She said as she shot Nightmare again. It stumbled back as it was assaulted by Twilight, it tried to get close, but Twilight continued to attack. She soon stopped to take a breather, and Nightmare took this opportunity to attack. It brought its claws up and was about to bring them down, but Gordon moved in and shot it with a barrel, knocking it back. This gave Twilight the opportunity to finish it, she charged up her horn and shot a powerful blast.

The magic tore through the decaying corpse, shredding Nightmare. The headcrab jumped off and headed towards them, but Gordon simply kicked it away. It died almost immediately, proving that it was next to nothing without a body. Twilight turned back to the blockade of rubble and lit her horn. She grabbed the rubble with her magic and cleared the path. Gordon watched this happen, looked at Twilight, then looked at his gravity gun, wishing it was that powerful.

"There... we go." She said, trying to catch her breath. Gordon nodded and looked back at the rubble, finding that there was a crowbar sticking out. He reached for it and pulled it out, the rocks moved, reveling the face of the previous owner of the crowbar, it was the corpse of a worker. Gordon looked at the corpse one last time then turned to Twilight. He motioned her to follow and headed off.

Twilight followed thinking to herself about what they just faced. She hoped there is nothing else like that monster. She was not paying attention and ran into Gordon hand. She looked at him confused.

"What is it?" She asked. Gordon pointed, and Twilight saw a base of sorts, guarded by bipedal creatures in masks with weapons like Gordon's. They were at a Combine base, Gordon begun to move again, but more slowly, out of the Combines vision. He got up behind them and beat them to death with his crowbar, the alarms sounded as he motioned for Twilight to follow.