What Even Is This?

Do I even need to say it?-Apprehension

So, continuing where I left off last chapter with "Apprehension," I wanted to make this a separate part just so I could stick ALL the screenshots, rather than one followed by typed up dialogue, because... Idk, I just feel like it'll do more justice to the experience? But if you really want to get the full experience, you should play the game yourself, so I don't know why I'm bothering with this.

Oh, right. It's because I really like Black Mesa, and I want to talk about it.

But anyway, getting back to the point.

I left off just after killing the assassins. You have to imagine that Gordon is feeling pretty proud of himself. He just took out three elite black ops assassins sent in to kill him, specifically! He came all this way, faced them, and lived! He's gotta feel pretty good about himself, pretty confident in his abilities...

(As a side note, where the assassin fight takes place, you can see the sky again, I just forgot to take a screenshot of it. It's sunrise, so that means Gordon's been running around for a full 24 hours without rest, now. This isn't particularly important, but I always like trying to keep track of the in-game time, as the whole of Half-Life takes place over two or so days, if I remember correctly.)

And almost immediately after defeating the assassins, he comes across this...

A first aid and HEV charging station. I'm not particularly in need of first aid, thanks to a couple medkits I found, but sure, I could use the extra battery power.

So of course, Freeman, confident and still riding on the euphoria and exhilaration of having defeated the assassins, proceeds directly into the room...

...Only for the lights to be suddenly switched off, and...