HALF-LIFE VR AI 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!

Not Again. (Chapter Six.)

Gordon drove into a water way, that was filled with toxic water, so he made sure he was driving at a suitable speed so no one got fling into it. He drove down from a ledge into clean water and drove up to the red barn. Barney notices how quiet Tommy was being. As Gordon gets out of the airboat to search the barn, Barney felt the need to ask. "Tommy, Are You Okay?" Tommy looks up at Barney. "Yeah, I'm Fine Mr. Calhoun." Barney raises his eyebrows and purses his lips. "Okay, Tom. If You Say So." He says as he looks away from him. Gunshots could be heard from inside the barn, assumingly they came from Gordon's gun. Tommy looks down at his hands, and thinks about the person he saw when Gordon was opening the gate earlier. They looked like the person that covered Bubby's mouth when the science team was first walking through City 17, but he was only going off their face, since they appeared to be wearing different clothes, and had a new bright blue coloured streak in their hair. He didn't know what to think of it, he kept thinking about their eyes. Their eyes were a striking red, and they had odd pupils that took the shape of a plus. Tommy thought their eyes looked pretty cool. He'd never seen anyone before with eyes like theirs. In fact, Tommy was pretty sure he'd never anyone before that had such a unique eye colour, besides himself of course, as his eyes were yellow. His dad would tell him that his eyes were like if someone put gold into his face, and his eyes were always something he would get his praise from, but they were also the main thing that made him a target to be picked on. People would call him alien or tell him he had jaundice in his eyes for having such an abnormal eye colour. Some people thought jaundice was disease, so they thought he was diseased, and he thought they were right. Later on, when he was in high school, the bullying continued but, he also found out that jaundice was usually a sign of a health problem. When he tried to use that as a comeback, it didn't really work out for him, as people switched to calling him a nerd or something worse instead.

Tommy felt excited that there was someone he could possibly relate to. Tommy kept thinking about the person, their eyes, their hair, their face. Thinking about them made him feel some kind of way... Excited! Yeah, that's what he was feeling! He smiles to himself, as he thinks about the random stranger that he saw. Gordon walk out of the barn and back into the air boat, Gordon turned his head to look at Tommy. "For Someone Who Was Screaming Twenty Minutes Ago, You Seem To Be Doing Okay Now. How Are You Feeling Tommy?" Gordon asks his younger friend. Tommy looks over in Gordon's direction. "Oh! I Feel Good! I Saw Someone With Cool Eyes!" Tommy says, with a big smile. Gordon raises his eyebrow in confusion at the answer he received, but shrugged it off as Tommy said he was feeling good. "Oh, Before I Do Anything, Did You Two See That Helicopter Fly Past?" Gordon queires. "I Did, But Tommy Was Kind Of In His Own Little World For A Bit There." Barney tells Gordon. "Did You Notice It, Tommy?" "Sorry, Mr. Feetman. I Didn't, I Was Thinking To Myself." "Alright, We Better Get A Move On Before It Sees Us." Gordon starts up the air boat, and begins driving past old, unused fishing docks, before using a perfectly placed slanted one to get over a fence. They break through a wrong way fence and stop when Gordon notices a citizen up on top of the bridge. "Hey Down There! Supplies!" The citizen says before dropping a box above them. "Look Out Below!" The citizen then proceeds to run away, possibly because he didn't want to get caught by any metro cops in the area.

"Hey, Thanks Man!" Gordon yells to them before stepping out of the air boat, into the shallow water, and grabbing the box. He breaks it open, and inside was ammo. He goes back to the boat and hands the ammo to Tommy, since he and Barney already had enough ammo for their guns. Gordon then drives into a pool of water. He looks to Barney. "Uh, Okay, So What Do I Do Here?" Barney gets out of the boat, along with Gordon, while Tommy stays in the vehicle. "Okay, Gordon. You See That Blue Floaty Thing There?" Barney asks, motioning towards the blue barrel under the water. "You Mean The Barrel?" "Yeah, Whatever It Is. There's Two In The Pipe Up There. If You Could, Knock Them Down Here." Barney says as he begins swimming around in the water. Gordon sighs and swims onto the land, and walks towards the entry on the pipe. When he gets inside, he turns on the flashlight and walks through until he arrived at the other open end. He saw the barrels Barney  was talking about and kicks them into the water, before jumping back into it to help Barney put the barrels into the cage under the water. After Gordon and Barney sorted with the barrels, they swam to the surface of the water and get onto the air boat it. Gordon looks over at Tommy, checking to see what he was doing before driving the air boat out of the pool of water, and positioning  it to be in line with ramp. Barney gets himself comfortable in the air boat as Gordon speeds it up the ramp and over the wall, into toxic water, splashing a lot around. Tommy covers his head but luckily none of the toxic water lands in the boat. Gordon shouts something in excitement as he keeps speeding with the boat. The three notice the drop ship fly above them, which is when Gordon lets a "Oh Shit-" escape his lips. "Prepare Everybody, Shit Is About To Get Real." Barney tells them. Gordon keeps going and runs over two metro cops that a drop ship just set out, killing them in the process. "Now That's Gotta Hurt." Gordon whispers to himself.