HLVRAI except its an AU

What happened to his arm!? (II)

Gordon woke up with Dr. Coomer and Tommy crouched around him. He looked around, seeing that they were in a place full of radioactive green sludge.

"Where am I?" Gordon asked, confused.

"We dragged you, Mr. Freeman," Tommy said.

"What happened?" Gordon said "Where's Benrey?!"

"Gordon, your arm is missing," Dr. Coomer stated. Gordon looked at his hand and felt the rush of pain. His face went numb as he looked at the stub, dripping the red liquid.

"Oh no, how are you going to do your taxes?" Tommy asked, quite concerned. Gordon was in quite dismay of his missing limb.

"Where's Benrey?" Gordon asked, even angrier. "Where's Bubby?"

"I heard them whispering before. Must have figured that they were planning something" Dr. Coomer said.

"If it makes you feel better, Mr. Freeman, I didn't like that hand anyways" Tommy said, trying to comfort the disgruntled and disenfranchised Freeman. Gordon decided to continue on, completely helpless and at the hands of his associates. Gordon felt that Benrey was going to pop up besides him any second and he was going to strangle that fucker to death with his bare hands--or hand. Instead, Gordon got a surprising array of Dr. Coomer clones which Tommy presently killed. They kept whispering strange words at him, claiming that he was the only one with a way out. They sounded desperate and the words that Dr. Coomer felt all the pain the clones did echoed in Gordon's head.

Gordon finally found Bubby who was yelling about how they stuck him back in his tube where he was originally test grown. Gordon preferred to keep him there for betraying them but Dr. Coomer eventually convinced them that what Bubby was saying was true. They let him come along. Eventually, Gordon finally came across Benrey who flashed him with a passport and asked him if he had one. Gordon said no and continued on, the helmet headed annoyance still following him to the cybernetic room. It was replaced by the mixology science room but the guy there was nice enough to give Gordon a new "hand" through drinking the potion mixture. Benrey made a mess of the place, messing with the computer by downloading more RAM and stating that Gordon knew how to suck. This hand was instead a machine gun. As a parting gift, the guy allowed the team to receive sovinvers of their own, earning Bubby "the big one" and Tommy a befitting hat.

The group further travelled to a reservoir stream full of water mixed with light blue gatorade. Benrey tried to kiss Gordon. When Gordon tried to question as to what Benrey was doing Benrey coughed and said "huh, what?" in a monotone voice, allowing some pink orbs from the black mesa sweet voice to incidentally slip out. Tommy pointed out what it meant but before he was able to say anything, Benrey quickly covered Tommy's mouth. Sometimes, Tommy could understand Benrey a little too well. Dr. Coomer and Bubby claimed that Benrey would have to kiss him after the test. Suddenly, the military started attacking them and they basically killed the entire United States military. Benrey tried to get some of Gordon's feet pics using a scanner. Gordon hit Benrey off the side of the cliff but still, Benrey came back. After bypassing an atomic bomb dropping, they decided to take a break and sleep. Gordon still saw the skeleton only visible to him and Benrey it seemed because Benrey moved out of the way to make way for the skeleton.

"Aren't you going to go to sleep?" Gordon asked as Benrey sat over him, staring. "Or are you gonna watch me sleep?"

"Hah" Benrey gawffed "that would be gay"

When the journey resumed, the team of heavily armed scientists came across a man who was presumed to be the last member from the United States military.

"Who are you?" Gordon demanded. The man explained he was the last one from team Nice, an elite military team. Benrey claimed that the man was the only one on the team in the first place. The man from team Nice claimed that he was Benrey's friend but Benrey denied this. After trying to convince them to leave him alone by offering beyblades, the army man finally let some precious intel slip--Benrey knew the way out. Benrey denied this by saying not to listen to him, claiming that the army man didn't know what he was talking about and promptly shot the army man dead.

After entering a room where Tommy's immortal dog, Sunkist, was held captive and finally released the team made it up to a landing and traveled to a room with several portals and teleporters. In pressing a button, the room started to rumble and a large cavity opened in the floor causing the group to fall through into an endless pit. Gordon, quick to thinking and having the ability to do things normal people could not due to his HEV suit, managed to land on a ledge which was from another floor. He stuck his arm out to try to at least catch someone. Gordon had a presumption that everyone would come back okay and unscaved judging how Dr. Coomer and Bubby tended to come back from basically unsurvivable situations. Gordon looked down to see who he had grabbed and lo-and-behold, it was Benrey, the one always closest and clinging to him.

"Oh shit" Benrey said in shock "You saved me"

Gordon said nothing.

"Little bit gay don'tcha think lover boy?"

"You insufferable bitch. I have half the mind to drop you and your worthless ass" Gordon said, slightly losing his grip. He didn't want Benrey here because they literally took his hand. Benrey said nothing and finally Gordon pulled him up.

"You couldn't have not taken so long, bro" Benrey said, rubbing their wrist. Gordon had hoped it would have been someone better and actually responsible like Tommy but you can't choose who you lose. Besides, Benrey knew the way out of the labyrinth and the team would eventually find him so it would be good to get ahead. Gordon just hoped the others were okay relatively. He knew Dr. Coomer said that he could feel the pain of all his past lives. They'll be fine, Gordon reasoned. Besides, it would be faster to continue onwards instead of waiting for them.

"Take me to the exit" Gordon demanded.

"Huh, what?" Benrey asked "I don't know what you're talking about"

Gordon glared at them and got up, heading towards the portals.

"Hey, wait, aren't you gonna wait for them" Benrey asked, peering over the edge of the pit.

"Why would you care?" Gordon said, continuing on. Benrey hesitated for a moment and trailed behind Gordon. Gordon ignored them. Stepping through a portal with green flames surrounding the border, he was suddenly transported to a hellish landscape with large skittering objects concealed by the darkness. He looked down and saw the bodies of Dr. Coomer and Bubby crawling towards him on the ground frantically and inhumanly. No one was besides, not even Benrey, and he was all alone. He would have even liked Benrey's company at this time. Gordon yelled and backed up hyperventilating. He quickly ran and backed out of the portal. Gordon fell back and skittered away from the portal which then faded and vanished. He would have to try the teleporters. Finally, Gordon was teleported to another place with floating islands that seemed to be out of the black mesa facility. Despite this, he sighed in relief seeing a familiar lab-coated scientist seated at the edge of the small floating rock he was on.