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 ;)