Gordon Freeman Isn't Free Anymore

Gordon Freeman Isn't Free Anymore
It began when I was on my steam account. I didn't know what to play, when I saw my favorite game (that I didn't play a long time ago). My favorite game was Half-Life. If you ask which Half-Life it's my favorite, I will answer with simple words just saying "All of them". Well, when I saw the Half-Life on my account I though "Let's play it, it makes almost a year I don't play it... Maybe they updated it!". I downloaded the game, while it was downloading I was playing Sly Cooper 3 on my PS2. I forgot the game and I wanted to pass now the Sly Cooper game. When I remembered that I had the Half-Life ready to play, it already was 3 A.M.

I decided to play the game since I had a lot of energy so I could be up all night... Until it happened... I clicked on the play button to initiate the Half-Life. But the game crashed, saying the same thing that Windows 8 do when something crash: "HL.exe stopped working". I closed the error window and tried again. This time the game opened. I was happy to play my favorite game again. Until, when I clicked on "New Game" option, selected the difficulty, and saw there wasn't that woman talking while we are on our way to the Sector C test labs. I knew something was wrong, but I only thought "It maybe is a bug. Updates can fix or put bugs, so it maybe is a bug."

When I arrived to Sector C, I just wanted to exit the game... The guard was all covered in blood and without his outfit, and when he was opening the door of the train, he said something and not the usual thing he says that is "Good morning Mr.Freeman, it looks like you ran late.". No he said something like "Please leave this place, it happened the crystal... It is on the real world, in your world! HE will go after you, and try to do the same thing he did to Gordon!". I was like, "Ok... I hope he isn't talking with me... I hope he is talking with my character...". Because if you don't know the people don't call the G-Man for his name, no... They call him always by HE. If you don't know who is G-Man, let's say that he can control the space-time and teleport and do a lot of things with the time and the space. In the final of the Half-Life he captures Gordon Freeman and gives him a contract that he can't refuse, otherwise Gordon dies... When the guard said that to me... I hoped that he wasn't talking with me...

I just quit the game and went to my window, open it, and smoked a cigarette. Thinking of it... When I finished my cigarette I went to the pc again. I opened the game again. But this time Gordon wasn't holding a shotgun on the background image... He... Wasn't there... I ignored it, and clicked on the "New Game" option. I began the game and it seemed to be normal. The woman already spoke what she was to speak, the guard said the words "Good morning Mr.Freeman, it looks like you ran late.". Everything seemed to be normal, until I began the chapter "Anomolous Materials". Nobody was on the labs... I was praying to be some kind of bug... I did what I do when I play the game. Put the HEV Suit on, catch the bateries and go to the Test Lab. When I was on my way, my game crashed one more time...

I opened it again, and loaded the game where I was. When it finished to load, I was on the room with some walls saying "Freedom don't exist" "Gordon why you killed us?" "Freeman isn't free anymore" "HE WILL CATCH YOU". I just wanted to quit the game and throw my PC into the wall. But, I though "Dude, just keep calm and let's see where this is leading...". I opened a door I saw when I turned myself. The room was dark, no lights. Suddenly I heard the HECU (Hazardous Enviroment Combat Unit) soldier screaming "Get him!" and then my character passed out. "Well, I think it is normal... But already? On the begin?" I though to myself. Because on the game when you are on the 50% of the game (I think) the soldiers knock you out and grab all your weapons... But they did other thing...

When Gordon or other character woke up he was arrested with a rope on a chair. There was a NPC with the Gordon model right on the wall, it began to dismember it self. There was blood everwhere, then G-Man appeared and said to me "You only have one last chance. The crystal is around there, you have to find it. Remember you only have one last chance Charles." I screamed (and in my house I had my brother sleeping in is room) "How you know my name?!". It was like he spoked to me, he just said "Remeber, last chance, otherwise... I have to talk to you heart-to-heart." One more time the game crashed, and I was scared as hell.

As other person would do, I started the game again. When I was about to load the game I saw the name of the chapter "Last Chance, Last Breath". I though this could be a new chapter... Because it never existed. When I loaded the save, G-Man appeared and said to me "Open the door, I want to talk with you". In the game I searched for the door, but didn't saw one. "You gotta be kidding me..." though I scared as I never had been. When I looked through the door (in that thing of glass, it is small) I didn't saw anybody. But then I opened the door, and G-Man was there, in flesh. My brother woke up and then G-Man froze the time, and said to me "You know, you did a lot of things wrong. Because of that little 'update', you let occour when you were to busy playing a game, Gordon never could left Black Mesa making the nuclear bomb explode with him. Because of that everything will be bad as your destiny. Find the crystal, it's the only way out.". Then the time returned and he disappeared. I told my brother everything and wanted to show him how my Half-Life was freaked out. But everything was normal, he just said to me "Please dude, go to sleep. You are maybe just tired. You don't have classes tomorrow too, so you go to sleep know and then you can stay up all the night." I agreed with him. I just turned my PC off and went bedroom. When I was about to take off my clothes I saw a breafcase on my bed with the symbol of the Black Mesa. It only could be G-Man's breafcase.

I opened it and it had a note. "Remeber, you have to find the crystal, it is near. Just be with your eyes open. Oh and a little note for you. We will meet again on the future. And it isn't as soon as you think..."