Sweetie belle was frustrated, and twilight was not helping.
"Well it's simple. Imagine your target location, then pour magic into your designated location. It's simple!" Twilight tried explaining but it wasn't helping
"Ugh, I just can't do it!" Exclaimed sweetie belle as she was fed up and exhausted from it all. "Every time I try, my magic just fizzles out!"
"Fizzles out? That's never happened before?" Questioned twilight as I'm all her time researching magic, this problem never happened.
"Ugh, it's useless, I'm just gonna be a magicless blank flank for the rest of my life!" Exclaimed sweetie belle as it was hopeless in her eyes.
"Hey, why don't you try again? Maybe it's just a mental lock?" Suggested twilight as this was the only explanation.
Sweetie belle decided to try one last time, the worst that could happen was another fizzle, right?
Gordon was late again, he tried not to be but his roommate just had to hide the keys again. Luckily they where in the same place as last time so he got out of his apartment with only a small delay. But of course the tram was late again.
"Hey Gordon, late again I see." Said one of his coworkers
"Well it's not my fault my roommate is an ass." Replied gordan as he didn't want some small talk right now, he was still a bit salty for when he stole his coffee.
As if a gift from the gods the tram arrived then and there, and he was the only one on! It was like a dream, no nosey coworkers, or awkward silence. Just himself and the scenery.
So when he got on, he took the backseat to enjoy the daily life in black mesa. Scientists were bickering on what theories were correct or chanting at a new worm species. He was just glad he was a technician with an important role than one of those crazy people. At least Eli and kliener weren't like them. Eli is more level headed and organize the chaos. But Kliener is more of a wild card, he is level headed like Eli, but he has a strange fascination on a weird theory about interdimensional travel.
But in the middle of his thought process, he saw a part of the containment ereas was flooded with radioactive goop.
"Well that can't be good, for me or anyone." Stated Gordon as this was some of the worst workplace accidents he could think of. Then he thought to who could be responsible, until. "Ok who put Jimmy in control of the crane, thus just has his name written all over it."
As he made that comment, he was already getting further along the tram when he emerged into the sun surprising him. "God dammit, why does that always suprise me? Why does it always take me outside?"
Gordon always hated this part, he hated the sun with a passion, it always made his night vision useless and flashbangs him. But thankfully he was entering back inside the facility.
"Oh Thant God it's over. And thank God the rides also almost over." Said Gordon, as even though he liked lonely tram rides he still needed to get to work.
The tram entered on last convoluted airlock system before the tram finally got to its destination. All he had to do was wait for Brad to open the door, the only thing he knew from Brad is that he likes hight. I mean who else would take the job of opening the tram over the endless abyss with a clear view of it if they didn't like hights? Brad tried to make small talk but gordon hadn't had his coffee yet so he was still grumpy.
When gordon finally got out, and into the security check, he relaxed as John came up and opened, that was until.
"Aw man, you cut of the ponytail, you are a sellout." That comment ticked gordon off. Not only did his roommate hid the keys, but he cut of his ponytail.
In a panic, gordan reached behind his head, only to feel nothing.
"NOOOOOoooo!" Gordon let out a scream as his worst fears came to light. Thankfully it would grow back, but who would cut another man's hair.
As the doors opened gordon tiredly got to the desk, hopefully his files would be there so he could get a head start on some work.
"Hey Gordon, I assume your looking for your files. Unfortunately we had a system crash and it's still rebooting"
Gordon only let out a tired sigh as it was going to be on of those days.
The first place he went was the break room as thats where he kept his coffee away from his roommate. However when he entered he saw his roommate there, drinking his coffee.
"WHY ARE YOU HERE!" Yelled gordon as his patience was stretching thin.
"Oh hey gordon, fancy seeing you here." Said Jeremy with a cheeky grin.
Before gordon could do anything tho, a gaurd came in requesting gordon to get in his suit and help with experiment.
Gordon let out a defeated sigh as he went into the locker room. The locker room was a simple room with bathroom stalls added as employees where complaining about there being no bathrooms.
"Hey, could someone give he some toilet paper here! There seems to be none here." Said someone gordon didn't know but helped anyways because he knew what it was like to have no toilet paper when you needed some, 'freaking Jeremy'.
Once that was done he went to the opposite side were the suits where being kept. These suits where the newest hazmat suits this year. It blocked 99% of all radiation and gave morphine to the person to keep them awake, gordon thought it was breaking some kind of law but he didn't care he just did his job.
Once he put the suit on, he headed for the door to leave, before face-palming. He forgot his power cell in his locker. Turning around he walked to his locker and opened in to grab his power cell. But as he looked back up, he saw his recently divorced wife with his child. He sighed for the hundredth time the day as he closed the locker and left the room.
Leaving the room he headed for the experiment room as he passes by scientists who talked in increasingly agitated tones about science jargon. Thankfully he passed by some gaurd who let him into the elevator. This place was restricted to guards and authorized scientists only. So it was quieter here. He passed by some lazers and scientists as he reached a balcony erea and an elevator to go down.
"Finally I can talk to my friends and just be me. Alright just push the button an wow-" gordon was disoriented by the unexpected sideways movement. "OK, completely forgot about that. Thankfully I only have to go through this once today."
As he made that comment, he found Eli and kliener chilling but as he approached, a computer just exploded.
"Ok I'm no scientist but that shouldn't have happened, right?" Asked gordon
"Oh, uh, hey gordon, we where waiting do you. And that shouldn't have happened, but higher-ups wanted better results with this sample, as it is more purer than any other xen crystal we've ever gathered. But the collider was never built to handle 100% let alone 110%." Answered Eli.
"Yes, which is why we need to do thus fast, come with me gordon." Said kliener as he walked to the door.
Gordon followed as he new kliener usually had good plans, except the turkey annihilator. That was just weird. Gordon was interrupted from his thoughts as they entered the observatory. He did not question why Jimmy was here, he radiated bad luck like a nuclear reactor radiates radiation.
Kliener made one last remark as he opened the door for gordon. Gordon thanked kliener as he walked to the chamber. Where he met dumb and dumber. They always bickering, he wondered how they even got here in the first place. But it didn't matter as he walked into the test chamber.
Author's Note
Hey everyone, so this is my second story, and if you've played black mesa you will see some changes. So I'm playing gordon as a coffee addiction loner who's only friends are Eli and kliener. Also sorry for the cliffhanger ;)
Author's Note
So the comedy would come fro 3 sources.
1. Freeman questioning every illogical thing.
2. Sweetie belles dark humor.
3. The other npc's and world around them.
Unforseen consequences
The test chamber had a giant machine in the middle with a control area. Gordon knew this place very well, as it was his job to put crystals in the thing. He honestly didn't understand why they do this, but his job wasn't to question why they did stuff. Fortunately despite the differences in the power aloud to the reactor normally, the process of preparing it still remained true. I pressed the button and got to the place where the cart would get loaded.
The instant the cart came up I knew it was different instead if the dull color and the small size, thus was massive and bright. But no fear as I pushed the cart onto the reactor, I trusted the scientists knew what they where doing.
They infact had no idea what they where doing. As some as I pushed the cart into place, it exploded in green light. That was bad, then it exploded the scientists into goop. That was double not good. i knew then that I was good as dead as one of the beams struck me, I was thrown to the floor and passed out.
Sweetie belle lit her horn once again, even knowing it probably wouldn't do anything, it would make twilight happy.
Sweetie belle felt the now familiar fizzle, however, when Sweetie tried making a remark the magic exploded in intensity, it was like a tap was off anx than a sudden ocean overtook her. She was gone before either of them could realize what was happening.
Gordon freeman was jerked awake by pain. Oh man did it hurt! He was surprised he wasn't dead in a puddle of nothing but blood but he was glad to be alive.
He was snapped out of his confusion as he felt an animal on his chest, so curious, he looked down... at two eyes the color of lime green.
"AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" They both screamed in unison.
"Ok, let me get this straight." Said Gordon as his mind was still realing from the information dump this small pony gave him. "You are an alien from a magical world with two goddesses that control the sun and moon, and you have no idea what a car is."
"Yep! But, what is a car?" Questioned sweetie belle. "It sounds like cart but without the t."
"OK, imagine a cart, remove the pony, then add machines to it to make it move." Explains Gordon, in the middle of the ruined test chamber.
An explosion of something happened, causing them both to jump. "Ok, I think it'll be a good idea to leave this area and get somewhere safer." Said Gordon as he picks up sweetie belle.
The two of them ran out as the test chamber exploded behind them.
"Well that just happened." Gordon said as he wasn't used to explosions and unicorns 'he still could not believe it!' But they needed to leave, so gordon picked sweetie belle up and told her to hang on.
Gordon walked through the ruined hall leading to the observation room, he just hoped Eli and kliener were ok, because Eli still owes him money! '5 bucks to be exact!' Gordon was knocked out of thought when he came across the broken door leading into the observation room as there was a survivor! Maybe he could ask what went wrong- and he's dead. "Great, just fucking great!" Gordon growled under his breath.
"What does 'fucking' mean?' Sweetie belle asked innocently, not noticing the scientists death.
"Non of your business." Said Gordon as he didn't want to tell her about swear words. "You say it when your angry."
"Cool, thanks" sweetie belle said as she now knew a new word!
It wasn't long until Gordon reached Eli and kliener as after whatever happened in the test chamber was no longer there problem, as they were smoking, because who was going to stop them? They haven't smoked in years.
"Hey Eli, hey kliener, smoking some of those premium sticks?" Gordon asked as he wanted to strike up a conversation.
"Bro, I see a unicorn. This edible-smoke ain't shit." Eli answered as kliener was in his own universe right now.
"Cool, I'm escorting a civilian out of this place, you might wanna leave soon." Said Gordon as he didn't want them dying any time soon.
"Dude, I see aliens, they have, like arms sticking out there chest and 5 red eyes, here take a smoke." Eli said giving the air a smoke.
Gordon left soon after as he knew they where gonna be like that for a while.
Gordon knew the lazers was a bad idea, but did anyone listen to the technician? No, they did not. So he cursed under his breath while trying to duck under all of the lazers while sweetie belle just walked underneath the lazers. 'Perks of being small' he quessed as sweetie asked a question.
"Hey Gordon, who where those two ponies back there, and why were they so unresponsive?" Sweetie belle asked.
"Well, it's people, and they are my two best friends, and they haven't had a good smoke in years so they took there chance and took a blunt." Gordon said. "And before you ask what a smoke is, it's like a kind of relief but gives you health problems, but I think those two are the exception, as despite how many they smoke they never get any problems. Don't ask me how I don't know."
As Gordon finished explaining, they reached passed the lazer section and was waiting for the elevator.
As it turns out, the elevators in black mesa are made out of something else as surprisingly it survived without damage. So they where able to get to the lobby without impairment, until freaking zombies where introduced. They where everywhere, thankfully a gaurd survived and managed to clear the path before tripping on his shoes and dying to the floor.
"I'm sure he's fine." Gordon said as despite his words, he knew he was dead, he was just comforting the filly as he walked down to the break room as he wanted to see his roommate die, as he left sweetie belle to gaurd the area with the dead gaurds gun as he was confident she wasn't going to experience any encounters as he knew the gaurd killed all of the threats. probably.
Sweetie belle just looked at the gun, before trying to figure out how it killed all of those zombies. (She reads a lot of grim dark and horror movies and is desensitized to death and blood).
Freeman was not having a good time, he expected his roommate to be dead on the ground, not one of those zombie fucks!
So gordon ran back to where sweetie belle was. Only to discover a pile of corpses, and a little filly on top with a big smile. "Oh you have to be fucking with me." Gordon groaned under his breath so sweetie couldn't hear. How did a little filly in a world that seemed so innocent kill this many zombies. "Ok, how did you kill this many zombies if your world is so peaceful? Only a psychopath could enjoy this hellhole." Gordon asked.
"Well just because it is peaceful, doesn't mean there isn't no, mentaly unhealthy ponies, psychopaths are still a thing in my universe, though spread very thinly, I didn't even know I was one until I watched that man blow up in front of me." Answered sweetie belle. "Though I didn't get my cutie mark in killing zombies so I'll try again later." Sweetie belle said with a smile.
"That's just plain creepy, glad your on my side." Said Gordon as having a gun welding psychopath in an alien invasion/zombie apocalypse on your side is a pretty good way to live, or die a painful death.
It took some walking but they reached the tram station. Gordon knew there was an escape zone at the next stop. Unfortunately when they got there the tram was missing and Brad was hanging on for dear life until his grip slid and he fell.
"Oh, that sucks, and he was so fearless of heights." Said Gordon, wincing.
Meanwhile sweetie belle was laughing at what Gordon said as she thought it was dark irony, and she had a very dark sense of humor.
Not knowing where to go, Gordon looked around until he found an open vent, that lead into the computer room.
However the computer room was on fire, so gordon and sweetie belle where very careful not to cavh on fire, and they where successful. So they managed to get to the only door out of the computer room they could find, and it was through this door. However the door was being jamed by a crowbar.
"Who would put a crowbar into a door?" Gordon asked as it made no sense, regardless However, Gordon did grab the crowbar as it would be an effective weapon.
An explosion ripped a hole to the next elevator as a zombie tried to attack them, which proved useless as Gordon caved its whole body into mush with a single swing. (He worked out a lot).
With the 'threat' neutralized, Gordon and sweetie left for the elevator. The elevator was hanging below the normal floor level, but gordon payed it no head as he jumped into the elevator, with sweetie not to far behind.
Unfortunately, as the weight of both freeman and sweetie, the elevator snapped and started to fall.
