Mitoboy
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"Well" said Paul "We did it, we made it." Bill was silent, looking at the horizon.
I guess I need to back up a bit. My name is William Smith. I am nothing more than a level C scientist stationed at the Black Mesa Research Facility, New Mexico, USA. Strange place New Mexico is, multiple bomb testing, secrets weapon projects, and places like the BMRF.
My good friend's, and co-worker, name is Paul Duran. He works as the security guard and operates on the Blue Shift.
Today was the scheduled experiment of this strange object in Anomalous Materials lab. So I was expecting not to get much work done. They always push their machines. They practically put the whole facility into a blackout.
Anyways, the day was normal. I woke up at seven thirty AM to get ready for work. Unfortunately I missed the tram and had to wait for the next one, which comes around 25 minutes later. Paul was waiting for me at the track. His uniform looked like it was put on in a rush, and his hair was messy. "You woke up late?" I said. Paul laughed and said "Yen. I need a new alarm clock. Hey, you still on for poker Saturday, right?" "Like taking candy from a baby." I said in a confident yet uncaring attitude. Paul took the same tram as I so we were always having a laugh at other sectors of the lab. Usually telling how-many-lab-workers-does-it-take-to-replace-a-light-bulb jokes.
When the tram arrived we got on and got going. As with every day Paul climbed onto the seats and disconnected the speakers so we don't have to listen to the recording babble on. "She sounds hot." Paul would say for a laugh.
When we finally got to our respective positions I went to my office. The offices were practically the same at every part of the complex. White walls with checkered tile floor were always the design. When I got to my office with one of my co-workers already typing busily. He took a glance at the door to see who entered then went back to typing. I had to do more work on this teleportation experiment we did a few days back. I didn't really believe in it, warping time and space is not something that you can do. I saw Paul walk down the hall with a donut in his hand. He gave me a face that you would use to say "Ha ha ha! Look what I got!" I proceeded to give him the finger with a grin. Then my co-worker, whose name was Dale Lumberg, said "Have you any idea how much trouble you would get in if one of the administrators was watching?"
I rolled my eyes and leaned back in my chair waiting for the computer to start up. "You think those people at AM will black out the place again?" I asked, trying to start a conversation. "I heard they are going for 105% power. So yeh, I do think something is going to happen. I would hate to be the guy in the barrel today. Wasn't his name Gordon Freeman?" Dale said. It came to my mind that instant that there was a new comer from University of Innsbruck. He was Employee of the Month. Of course every new member of the crew is employee of the month. "Yeh, that's him. Hey, do you have a weird feeling that something terrible is about to happen?" Dale just kept typing away, he responded with his usually "Yehhh, that's greaat."
Paul came into the door and I looked up at him. "Experiment is going to happen in 2 minutes, get ready." Paul quickly said. I shut down my computer right there. All I was doing was playing Mine Sweeper.
"Shouldn't you save and shut down? You’re gonna lose all that work." I said to Dale. "What work? You think I was working? Ha! I was playing awesome new game made by LEVEr. It is called 'No-Life.' It is a first person shooter with awesome graphics." Dale retorted. "Well, save it, you remember what happened to Max?" "Yes, something about face and computer screen. Oh! You think you little bitches can kill me do ya!" Dale was obviously too engrossed with the game to bother with what was happening around him.
I gave up on the warnings, besides only Max was victim of the computer screen. One time while in an experiment a few years back the computer monitor exploded and shards of it cut him up real bad. He went blind in both eyes. He was lucky to survive. He was playing some game called "Body Shock 2."
The lights flickered as if they were being energy starved. "Turn it off now!" I yelled at Dale. "Shut the fu-" Even before he got through his retort his screen exploded and he went to cries of pain. "My eyes! Ahhh! Oh god!" Dale got up and quickly went out the door and down the hall before I could even get up out of my seat. Next was something unexpected. A shock wave so powerful I felt it lift me up off my chair and threw me half way across the room. I hit my head hard on Dale's desk and I blacked out. I woke up dazed and barely awake on the floor. I looked out the cracked office windows to see a brown like figure with a green collar run past the windows. I blacked out again.
To Be Continued...
Feel free to add comments or even your own story.
EDIT: Parts lost in spell check added.
I guess I need to back up a bit. My name is William Smith. I am nothing more than a level C scientist stationed at the Black Mesa Research Facility, New Mexico, USA. Strange place New Mexico is, multiple bomb testing, secrets weapon projects, and places like the BMRF.
My good friend's, and co-worker, name is Paul Duran. He works as the security guard and operates on the Blue Shift.
Today was the scheduled experiment of this strange object in Anomalous Materials lab. So I was expecting not to get much work done. They always push their machines. They practically put the whole facility into a blackout.
Anyways, the day was normal. I woke up at seven thirty AM to get ready for work. Unfortunately I missed the tram and had to wait for the next one, which comes around 25 minutes later. Paul was waiting for me at the track. His uniform looked like it was put on in a rush, and his hair was messy. "You woke up late?" I said. Paul laughed and said "Yen. I need a new alarm clock. Hey, you still on for poker Saturday, right?" "Like taking candy from a baby." I said in a confident yet uncaring attitude. Paul took the same tram as I so we were always having a laugh at other sectors of the lab. Usually telling how-many-lab-workers-does-it-take-to-replace-a-light-bulb jokes.
When the tram arrived we got on and got going. As with every day Paul climbed onto the seats and disconnected the speakers so we don't have to listen to the recording babble on. "She sounds hot." Paul would say for a laugh.
When we finally got to our respective positions I went to my office. The offices were practically the same at every part of the complex. White walls with checkered tile floor were always the design. When I got to my office with one of my co-workers already typing busily. He took a glance at the door to see who entered then went back to typing. I had to do more work on this teleportation experiment we did a few days back. I didn't really believe in it, warping time and space is not something that you can do. I saw Paul walk down the hall with a donut in his hand. He gave me a face that you would use to say "Ha ha ha! Look what I got!" I proceeded to give him the finger with a grin. Then my co-worker, whose name was Dale Lumberg, said "Have you any idea how much trouble you would get in if one of the administrators was watching?"
I rolled my eyes and leaned back in my chair waiting for the computer to start up. "You think those people at AM will black out the place again?" I asked, trying to start a conversation. "I heard they are going for 105% power. So yeh, I do think something is going to happen. I would hate to be the guy in the barrel today. Wasn't his name Gordon Freeman?" Dale said. It came to my mind that instant that there was a new comer from University of Innsbruck. He was Employee of the Month. Of course every new member of the crew is employee of the month. "Yeh, that's him. Hey, do you have a weird feeling that something terrible is about to happen?" Dale just kept typing away, he responded with his usually "Yehhh, that's greaat."
Paul came into the door and I looked up at him. "Experiment is going to happen in 2 minutes, get ready." Paul quickly said. I shut down my computer right there. All I was doing was playing Mine Sweeper.
"Shouldn't you save and shut down? You’re gonna lose all that work." I said to Dale. "What work? You think I was working? Ha! I was playing awesome new game made by LEVEr. It is called 'No-Life.' It is a first person shooter with awesome graphics." Dale retorted. "Well, save it, you remember what happened to Max?" "Yes, something about face and computer screen. Oh! You think you little bitches can kill me do ya!" Dale was obviously too engrossed with the game to bother with what was happening around him.
I gave up on the warnings, besides only Max was victim of the computer screen. One time while in an experiment a few years back the computer monitor exploded and shards of it cut him up real bad. He went blind in both eyes. He was lucky to survive. He was playing some game called "Body Shock 2."
The lights flickered as if they were being energy starved. "Turn it off now!" I yelled at Dale. "Shut the fu-" Even before he got through his retort his screen exploded and he went to cries of pain. "My eyes! Ahhh! Oh god!" Dale got up and quickly went out the door and down the hall before I could even get up out of my seat. Next was something unexpected. A shock wave so powerful I felt it lift me up off my chair and threw me half way across the room. I hit my head hard on Dale's desk and I blacked out. I woke up dazed and barely awake on the floor. I looked out the cracked office windows to see a brown like figure with a green collar run past the windows. I blacked out again.
To Be Continued...
Feel free to add comments or even your own story.
EDIT: Parts lost in spell check added.
