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What Even Is This?

ANinnyMouse42
sciencefiction
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Tags, strange news updates, random ideas, serious and crack headcanons, this book has it all! ... In other words, it's my book of random crap.

It's exactly what you think it is! More Black Mesa.-Apprehension

So I actually missed my shot at the titlecard for "Apprehension," but it's basically just this-
The words just comes up when you step onto this fancy tram car. So just imagine some white letters saying "Apprehension" in the middle of the screen, and you're set.
Apprehension
AKA, the chapter in which Freeman gets cocky. He's been running around, beating up baddies, and he's getting pretty comfortable with all these death defying feats. Nothing's stopped him so far, and nothing's going to stop him moving forward. People are starting to get to know him, starting to expect great things of him. He's thwarted everything the military and the aliens have thrown at him. Nothing can stop him now.
Or can it? (Of course it can.)
This is the chapter where the high and mighty hero gets his rear handed to him, where he learns to keep that attitude of his in check, learns that just because he may be the protagonist of this story, he's not still invincible.
But that's a ways in the coming, so we'll get there soon enough.
Which nozzle do you turn to put out a fire, the gas line or the sprinkler line?
This is actually a really mean trap. There's a fire just around the corner, and if you turn the wrong wheel, it'll cause an explosion, collapsing the hallway, making you go a much more difficult way around. You have to put out the fire by turning on the sprinkler system, but unless you're actually looking up, you'll miss the sprinkler line nozzle, and go straight for the gas line- because this game isn't one much for tricks like that usually, so most people don't even look at what it says on the pipeline, and just go and turn on the visible nozzle, the gas line, causing the explosion. I admit this got me the first couple times I played this lol.
But once you get by that, you come to a flooded room, just in time to see