Half Life: Path to The Borealis

"FREEMAN IS IN THE BASE! REPEAT, FREEMAN IS IN THE BASE!" The speaker said as Gordon and Twilight ran through the base, shooting and blasting any and all combine in sight. Hunters began to come after them, Gordon shot and dodged, while as Twilight was easily able to kill them off, thanks to her regained magic. There was a deep howl, Gordon looked up and saw a strider, and it was charging up its warp cannon. He ran to Twilight and pushed her out of the way as the warp cannon fired, tearing through the ground.

"Thanks." She said as she focused her fire on the strider, dodging its own line of fire. Gordon took out the last of the hunter and turned back to Twilight and the strider, with the strider wining. Twilight looked back at Gordon and saw that he was running under the strider. She did the same as the strider was focusing on him, they were able to get away and stopped to catch their breath. Gordon pushed Twilight into the shadows. "What is-" She tried to ask but Gordon put his hand over her mouth, quieting her. There was the sound of something mechanical passing them.

They waited there a moment longer before proceeding, they came across more combine, quickly killing them off. They were now at the back of the base, in a large room.

"Twilight!" Yelled an unmistakable voice, Twilight looked back and saw Rainbow.

"Rainbow! Thank Celestia you're okay!" There was another creature in the room that looked towards Gordon.

"Gordon!" Alyx yelled.

"So that's your name." Twilight commented. There was a crash from behind them, they turned around seeing a large robot with immense firepower.

"Careful Gordon! That's a Combine Mech!" Alyx said.

"FREEMAN, YOU HAVE FOILED OUR OPERATIONS FOR THE LAST TIME!" The combine in the mech suit said as it pointed a weapon at them. it shot out four grenades. They dodged out of the way as Gordon took one and shot it back at it. There wasn't even a scratch as it readied another weapon, a missile shot out. Twilight acted quickly, grabbing the missile with her magic, barely making it wiz by Gordon's hair. She kept controlling it, making it do a 180 degrees turn, back to the mech. Once it hit, there was slight moment when an over shield appeared.

"It has a shield." Twilight whispered to herself. An energy ball appeared behind the mech, it shot straight up and soon came down above Twilight. She screamed in pain as her ears were filled with a constant shriek. She did not notice that the Combine Mech was readying its turret, it started to unload on her. Luckily it was not very accurate, but Twilight was still hit by some. She screamed at the top of her lungs as the pain was to much, soon passing out.

"Twilight!" Rainbow yelled, trying desperately to escape her prison. She kept rocking back an forward, loosening the screws of the capsule. She soon broke out, rushing to Twilight, luckily the screamer had all ready disappeared. She picked up Twilight and brought her to the edge of the room, she gave a glare to the mech that would make Fluttershy proud.

"You bastard." She whispered, she then dashed to the mech.

"Rainbow, no!" Alyx yelled, but to no use. The Combine Mech launched a gravity field, but missed. Once she was close, the mech tried to crush her, but thanks to her agility, she dodged out of the way. While the mech was unbalanced, she bucked the leg with all her might. The mech toppled over, at the cost of her fracturing her leg. Gordon then moved in, whacking the mech with his crowbar, trying to deactivate the shield. It launched another gravity field, catching Gordon and smashing him against the roof. He launched a pulse ball at the mech, it exploded on impact, deactivating the shields. Gordon fell to the ground as the gravity field deactivated. The mech was now back on its feet as it turned towards Rainbow, who was limping away. It brought it leg up and was about to bring it down on Rainbow, until a missile hit it, again, throwing it off balance. Gordon looked towards the source of the missile and smiled.

"Looks like I got here just in time!" Barney said as he loaded another missile. "Gordon! Think fast!" He said as he tossed the RPG to Gordon with some extra missiles. Gordon picked it up and shot another missile at the mech, taking off the grenade launcher. While Gordon was loading another missile, the Combine Mech stood up and activated its missile storm. fifteen missile shot out into the air, taking a turn and headed for Gordon's location. He quickly dodged out of the way, letting the missiles hit nothing but solid ground. He shot another missile, this time taking out one of the legs. It fell to its side and struggled to get up. Gordon loaded his last missile and fired at the body of the mech.

As soon as it hit, the entire mech shut down and begun to explode, with one final explosion, the mech was no more and now just a giant bonfire.

"Nice work you did there Gordon." Barney said as he started to walk up to him, only then did he notice the newcomer. "Uh, Gordon? I'm not imagining things right?" He said as he pointed to the injured Rainbow Dash. Gordon shook his head, Barney stood there dumfounded.

"Uh, hello?! I'm still here!" Alyx yelled, gaining everyone's attention.

"Oh, hey Alyx, sorry, didn't notice you there." Barney said, causing Alyx to let out a sigh. He then went to help her out. Gordon meanwhile went to check on Rainbow, who was trying to stand, but even that was a major challenge. Rainbow saw him coming and stopped moving, he kneeled down to check her leg. He checked the right, then the left, which caused Rainbow to yelp. He waited for her awhile, made a motion for her to stay as he headed back into the base to look for a health-kit to heal Rainbow's leg.