The Combine Hive

[abraxu]

-=[ Chater I - escaping the chrysalis ]=-

..... the air smelled stale like a room that was opened after being closed fore more than a few years

he felt disoriented as there was no way to feel around he was not sure what was up or down he couldn't remember the events that just passed after the blue suit made his exit out of the "door"

it always made him feel a bit sick to his stomach when he thought how "he" arrived the slurred speech and the way he would seem to inhale reminded him of a diver that came from the deep and now was adapting to pure air. How long had it been this time all his hevsuit indicators indicated a save enviroment

Save.... yes for now.He was tired of fighting an not knowing what the hell was/is/had been going on

but he couldn't shake the feeling of danger around him
maybe this is just a dream he thought

then a flashing light filled the space he suddenly was bathing a in bright light like looking up in a thousand stobes
after a few moment the hevsuit reacted and vision returned to his eyes also some noise slightly audible sounds of muffled gunfight and the solemn thuds of a thumper like the one he encounterd along the coast or maybe a strider

seemed like a voice called his name or was it just his mind playing tricks with him ..... again.

footsteps echoed around him but these were different lighter somehow and smaller he looked around him still dazed by the bright lights and could almost see who or what stood before him

stareing down at something that reminded him vaguely of a child was a entity slightly out of focus

then a sound but not a real sound like he was used to this sounded nothing like the amplified audio receptors of the suit

No, it was cleaner again those sounds like a telephone conversation that is bleeding in to yours it startled his

....
It was in his head !!

-- finally we can reach you -- ...... -- the chrysalis was not hard to find but we just couldn't get inside --

his eyes got very heavy and he was trying to say something

-- yes we know yo have many questions ..... but they will have to wait .... till we reach a safer location ---

-- can you move -- the voice or rather the voices asked
he tried yes he was mobile again the freeze was gone

the being who "spoke" to him turned him around and led him to a opening that was in the floor if this place had one
the light emenatong from the circular spot was strange it seemed white but occasionally it turned slightly greenish and then yellow en then blue like it was somehow filtered

he was led thru the portal but not with force it was gentle maybe to gentle he thought

......

This story is situated some time after the g-man left and i wrote it some of the text a few years ago been trying this stuff with the new insight i got after playing the game in it's current state rewritting it now for a few days also some drawings i have some ideads for several mods but anyway thought it might be something some of you could appriciate
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[abraxu]

-=[ CHapeter 2 - where have the children gone ]=-

Suddenly it struck him since black mesa he had only once see a childs body exept for that dead one in under that bed in Ravenholms clinic just befoer he met father Gregori

where were the children ? Control of the human mind and emotions is the very foundation of the combine control of the human race.Control a persons mind and you control them. Had they taken the children ? .....

No time to think there were more urgent things to take care of
this fragile little person was still leading him finaly he could look back and what he saw....

made him chill to the bone the light wat was surrounding him was coming from a hovering sort of plateau maybe 30 or 40 mtrs from where he was standing looking up it looked like a giant steel cable that was unwinding in the middle a bright blue light going straight from the middle there were transparent tubes yellowish and greenish coming out of some holes in the surface around the "cable" out of the ground or surface where he and his small guide were now standing on

what is this place? On the spot where he was standing it seemed that small blue electic currents where running al over the place to his location right to his feet ... but not to the small figure's feet they weren't even touching the ground and she (he was convinced that it was a she) the greater part of her was still slightly out of focus but he could clearly see it's face the places where the eyes would be where jus blank and no ears !!

-- hurry, please hurry the will find us if we don't go now-- the voice said -- we can't linger on here much longer --
the blue pulses where becoming more intense and while he didn't notice it at once his suit power was dropping first slowly but now faster and faster

the guide was right they couldn't stay here for long he started to sprint and noticed something els the were on a sort of endless expanded field in every direction for as far as he could see there were those floatings plateaus

the ran to a something that looked like trench he hadn't noticed them before but the devided the plain in somthing that essembled a giant jigsaw puzzle up ahead he could see another plateau and what was on top of it, he zoomed in with his suitscope and his herat froze

there on the top were 4 figures which from this distantance looked like giant maggots with masks he had seen this before not this place but ... wait ... he remebered they loeked identical to thge one he saw in breen citadel chanber just before breen made his escape to the portal pod

there the were grotesk slowly swaying in that eerie greenish light
what are those he thought. Why had dr Kleiner made his damn suitscope have a more magnifying settings

he could see some sort of cables or wires going into the sky or cieling he wasn't sure what were the doing are those the real combine ?

no time ... got run his suit started to beep "warning seek medical attention" -- here quickly we are almost there --