Gordon woke up with a throbbing headache. Head injury detected, administering morphine. Gordon had to smile at the suit. This baby was loaded up with everything from combat protocols to mental assistance. He slowly got up and looked around. Jesus Christ, this place is a mess. Random ceiling debris was scattered all over the floor, and…wait. Gordon thought he might have heard a faint "help" coming from the rubble. "Hello?" Gordon replied, grabbing a crowbar that fell from an observation room. "Help me…please" came the faint reply. Gordon ran to the source of the voice under a pile of former ceiling. Using the crowbar, he pried the rocks away. He almost dropped the crowbar when he saw the source of the voice.

It was a fox.

At least, Gordon assumed it was a fox. It was wearing shoes and gloves, as if it could walk upright. It was an orange color and had two tails. And in its hand was the specimen that started all this.

Gordon took out his first-aid kit from the suit. I hope this thing has the same general anatomy as people. Otherwise, I might accidentally kill the thing. Beside the fact that he was looking at a bright orange fox that can apparently talk, the thing that struck Gordon the most was the fact that it didn't look very old. Oh God, he's just a kid. The fox-thing was bloody all over the place. The thing groaned. It was starting to come to. "Ugh…Where am I?" "Probably one of the most god-forsaken places in the universe right now." "Mister…are you an Overlander?" "No, I'm not an Overlander. At least I don't think I am."

The thing began to get up, but it being so dizzy from blood loss made it sit down. "Thanks mister…" "Freeman. Gordon Freeman. What's your name?" "My name is Miles, but everyone calls me Tails." I can see why. "How did you get here?" asked the scientist. "I don't know I was minding my own business when this green…thing appeared and sucked me and my friends into it. Next thing I know I'm standing in a collapsing room with my friends and Robotnick." "Well lets go see if we can find them and get out of here, shall we?" The two of them exited the chamber through the forced-open blast door. They both walked off into Black Mesa, but Gordon wasn't so confident after passing the body of a dead scientist laying in a pool of his blood.