Half Life: Path to The Borealis

"Still nothing princess?" Rarity asked Princess Celestia. Celestia shook her head sadly.

"I am sorry Rarity, but I can not sense their presence anywhere in Equestria. But do not worry, I will keep trying. But I fear that they may not be in Equestria anymore, maybe not even in the same realm." She said, causing Everypony to become sadder. Pinkie Pie was the most affected of the group, ever since she heard that Rainbow and Twilight had disappeared, she was not herself. Her hair was strait and dull instead of its normal puffy and bright nature, the same could be said for her coat, as it was dull as well. Next was Fluttershy, she had tears in her eyes, it was hard for her to hear the news of her friends disappearance.

Rarity and Applejack were not as badly affected by the news, but they still worried for their friends.

"Well, thanks again princess." Applejack said as they started to leave, Celestia nodded her head. She waited for them to leave so she could try once more. Once they were gone, she activated her magic again, only to be interrupted by a raspy voice.

"Why don't you just stop Celestia? You know they are no longer here, just face the truth." Celestia tried to ignore the voice, but it kept persisting. "I know you can here me, you always try to block me out, but it just doesn't work." Celestia sighed and looked to the voice's source. Time had stopped around her, and standing in front of her was a biped in a suit and holding a suitcase.

"What do you want?" She asked with hate in her voice.

"Celestia, is that anyway to talk to an old... acquaintance?" It asked.

"I'm not here to chat G-man, why are you here?" She asked, growing impatient and more angry by the second.

"Just here to check on this old place, though it has not been long since I did." G-man responded calmly.

"What do you mean 'it has not been long since I did'?"

"Let's just say... I was here with two certain ponies..."

"Two ponies?..." That's when Celestia Realized. "YOU! You sent Twilight and Rainbow away!" She yelled, though the G-man was unfazed, he simply adjusted his tie. "Where did you send them?!"

"Let's just say... to a place they are not prepared."

"Not prepared for what?"

"...For unforeseen consequences." That's when the G-man vanished and time resumed once more. Celestia sighed, she never fully understood the G-man. He was always vague... just like a certain spirit of chaos. Celestia suddenly got an idea, she may not know much about the G-man, but maybe her old fiend does. She got up from her throne and headed to the spirit of chaos' room.

Ever since Fluttershy had reformed him, he has been either living with her or staying at the castle. She opened the door to his room with her magic. She peered inside, but there was no sight of him.

"Discord?" Celestia called out, not in the mood for his games. Suddenly everything went dark for a minute before the lights went back on. There was an assortment of games, bowling, hockey, tennis and many other.

"Why hello Celestia! How is my favorite princess doing? Did you finally decide to loosen up and play a few games?" Discord asked as he appeared next to Celestia. She was about to respond, but found her self standing in front of a bowling ally. "What about some bowling?" He asked while he rolled an eye towards the pins, scoring a strike. Celestia just looked at him with a deadpanned expression.

"No? Okay." He snapped his talons and they were at a ping pong table. "Ping pong?" He asked as he played with a floating paddle.

"Discord, now's not the time for your games." She said, causing Discord to frown. He snapped his paw and all the games were gone in a flash.

"Oh alright you party pooper. Just make it quick, I've got bok choy to fight." He said appearing with boxing gloves on. Celestia looked to her right and saw a bok choy throwing punches into the air, readying up. She sighed.

"Discord, I need you to tell me how much you know about the G-man." As soon as the words left her lips, Discord visibly shuddered. He looked around him, he went to close the window and to close the door. He then put a spell on the room so that no sound escaped.

"You really want to know?" He asked, and Celestia nodded. "Okay then." He snapped his talons and a transparent image of the G-man appeared. "The G-man is a very mysterious creature, he has disguised himself as a human. Though he has powers that can not be recognized. The beings that he uses for his intentions he calls his clients. He currently has two, one named Gordon Freeman that is currently away from his control, and one named Adrian Shepard , though his status is unknown. His previous "Client" is unknown, but it is though that when he found out the G-man's plans, he tried to fight back.

"But his power proved to be to great, he was then turned into a monster named Nihilanth that was to Fight Gordon. This was Gordon's test to see of he was to be G-man's next client. Once he has no current use for his clients, he puts them into stasis, which is what is thought to have happened to Shepherd. It is not known if the G-man works for good, or for evil, all that is know is that he has a plan of some sort. The only creatures that have been able to detain him were aliens known as vortigaunts." He snapped his paw and the image was gone.

"That is all I know about the G-man, why did you need to know?"

"Because he is the one that sent Twilight and Rainbow Dash away." Discords eyes widened at this.

"Then you need to find a way to get them back as soon as possible!"