So down with the transfer pod I go, and out the doors. Of course, Alpha Labs is almost completely offline, and everything's pitch black. That can be rectified by reactivating the doors and lighting system. My CO is yelling at me over the radio to meet up with Bravo team already. If he'd just given me the clearance, I'd be there by now.

I'm in - manage to sneak up and stealthily take down one of the Marine zombies. At least they don't have eyes in the back of their heads. 

There's some sort of red mist wafting up from the floor plates. I don't know what it is, but it doesn't seem to be toxic. I'd still feel a little safer if it wasn't there.

Oh. It does that. Right. Apparently it's an "Elemental Phase Deconstructor"... it takes matter and rearranges it into other matter. That's the short explanation anyways. Why it's still turned on, that I don't understand.

Some wiring's fallen down the main corridor, which means I'll have to get past this EPD and into the back areas of Alpha Labs. Shouldn't be worse than anything I've done so far. Unless I've spoken too soon.

Now this is odd. Everything's gone red. That means something's coming in... yep, the place is now crawling with Imps again. At least they still go down relatively easy.

Apparently the EPD is still on because they were running tests on it. As I have no way to shut it off, I might as well leave it be. Time to get moving again.

I'm hearing voices. Half the time they say "follow me", half the time "help me." But they're not coming over the radio. In fact, they sound a lot like that mocking laughter from when the scientist tried to send his distress call. It's getting to be pretty freakish.

There are pipes running overhead in this section. For a moment I'm reminded of a movie with dinosaurs, and someone going through an area following pipes. I think they got eaten. The thought's not encouraging.

Now something's making a loud, repetetive banging noise. I don't like those noises much. The last time I heard them, it was when a demon was busting down a door trying to get to me. Shotgun at the ready...

My other option is down the darkened corridor with all the machinery, the perfect place for something to jump out and attack me. Or in the case of these zombies, lurch out and attack me. Backpedaling is of course useless, and there are Imps teleporting in the way I came through.

I'm so glad this batch of zombies didn't have guns. Still no sign at all of Bravo Team. I'm in Alpha Labs already, you'd think that they'd be trying to catch me on the radio chatter or something. 

Apparently the next segment is blocked off, something about a gas leak. I'll have to open it up. I've also got a PDA report stating that machinery was getting possessed. That matches with the reports from the Marines about sentry 'bots going haywire. And if people are getting possessed by demons, I can't imagine why a machine wouldn't be fair game as well. Makes as much sense as anything else I've seen so far.

The shutoff has cut the gas to the flaming corridor, thankfully, and I'm through. Zombies and Imps are using storage rooms as ambush points again. Still no sign of Bravo Team... where the Hell could they be?

Of course, the next room's the definition of ugly. Some poor guy hanging from the rafters disemboweled, his ribs showing. Wait, he's screaming... screaming? Alive?

Ohh shiiiittt... what's got four eyes, two heads, nasty arms, and can climb anywhere it goes? I don't know what I should be calling these things, except maybe for "painful." Whatever they are, they're some breed I haven't seen before.

On the upside, they don't do much damage, nor are they as fast as Imps. They just don't go down as quick. The Shotgun's all but useless, even at point blank range, it just doesn't reload fast enough. Time to backpedal and try out those grenades again.

Of course, if I want to go back, it's a one-way trip; the stairs I used to get up here have fallen in.

Scratch the notion of headshots guaranteeing extra damage when I'm shooting zombies; this guy's still coming with just a neck. How he knows where I am, I can't figure out, but it doesn't matter - he is, and he wants me dead.

Above the ceiling, I've found another survivor. He says the Hydrocon unit's gone unstable and has to be stabilized, or kaboom. Does he know what's going on outside? I can't tell. He's way too calm. Especially for someone with a dead body not 15 feet away.

Did he kill Bernie Lipsitz, or did Bernie get up here? And if so, why's he so calm now, instead of attacking me as well? Doesn't really matter, my immediate worry is whatever's pacing around waiting for me to come back down from the ceiling area.