(IN STASIS) Assimilated Consequences: Half Life x Murder Drones

Snipers a good job, mate

Adrian Shephard sits inside the pod. He stares at his feet. He continues staring, unable to figure out a plan. He's been in stasis for so long...so much has changed. Everything around him is completely unrecognizable. He hears shuffling and looks at his hands. He makes fists with his hands clenching as they shake from the amount of force. He looks towards his reflection from a mirror. He watches as his reflection begins to glitch and distort, large claws appearing behind his reflection. He slowly turns away as loud noises sounding like bones cracking emit from the mirror. It doesn't stop until Shephard whips out his pistol firing at the mirror without looking at it, shattering the whole thing. He gets up as J walks in and looks at the shards. "You know how expensive it is to install high quality mirrors in po-" Shepherd gets up walking past her "Shut up, pigtails." J's eyes hollow out in pure anger as Shepherd leaves the pod. He looks over to Tessa studying her sword. He grabs his sniper rifle and climbs on top of the pod and looks into the scope. He sees the corpse spire, far off in the distance, with the pod and the bottom. He watches as the small purple drone steps out of the pod, clearly upset and panicking. Gordon also steps out of the pod, also upset but not as frantic. Uzi turns to Gordon and begins talking to him. Unfortunately the two were way too far away for Shephard to be able to hear what they were talking about. He aims his scope over to Gordon, he watches as Gordon listens to Uzi talking. Shepherd's hand glides over the trigger, making a choice. As he slowly squeezes the trigger he feels something tap his back. He looks behind him to see J's tail immediately lunge a few inches away from his face, Shepherd however isn't startled as he looks towards J who is flying in midair. "Toots, I've seen a lot of crazy shit. If you're trying to frighten me, maybe take a little more creative liability." J smiles angrily trying not to lose her cool "You heard what boss said. The girl would take care of it." Shepherd shook his head. "Toots, From what I've seen and read I don't think a Russian, let alone a Russian with telekinetic abilities, Is the greatest person to rely on." J's eyes twitched "Don't..." Her claw hands are pulled out "...call me that." Shepherd smirks as he stands up. "Fellas, can we not try to tear eachother apart for 10 bloody minutes?" J's anger expression fades and turns to see Tessa, still looking at her sword. She lands and salutes her "Yes, boss." Shepherd grinned "Whatever you say, Ms. Elliot." Shepherd climbs down from the pod. As he does, blood trickles out of his mask and lands in the white snow.