This chapter is fairly straightforward. A lot of time is taken up in scripted sequences so the actual combat time is fairly brief. Follow Alyx through the building to get to Dr. Kleiner's Lab. Once there, feel free to mess around and have some fun with HL2's advanced physics. Soon you will witness the Lemarr hilarity. Once Barney comes through, he opens up the room where our HEV Suit is kept.

Seasoned players will recognise the original Half-Life HEV-suit music that is played at this point. Kleiner then starts explaining about the changes he has made to the suit, but ends abruptly with the ominous sounds of the Combine somewhere outside.

Dr. Kleiner will direct you to charge your suit at the Charging Station on the wall. These (and the medical equivalent) can be found throughout the game to replenish your health as in the original. Continue into the adjacent roomafter Kleiner has finished with the eye-scanner where Dr. Kleiner gets ready to teleport you and Alyx to Dr. Vance's lab in Black Mesa East well outside the bounds of City-17. Of course, as always, the experiment is being tried for the first time.

Dr. Kleiner starts the experiment and begins making some adjustments. Reconnect the power cable which loosens up during the first try and throw the switch to teleport Alyx. You can see that Alyx got teleported in one piece to Eli's Lab. Now it's your turn to get into the chamber and wait for Kleiner to start the process. As expected, Dr. Kleiner's pet headcrab, Lemarr turns up to spoil the occassion and you get teleported to different locations, including Dr. Breen's office (which in turn puts the Combine on full alert).

You finally end up behind the laboratory. Jump down from the ledge, scram through the tiny aisles and reach the staircase through the metal fence door. Go up the stairs and out through the door on your left. You meet up with Barney, who is on a landing above you. He asks you to continue to Dr. Eli's Lab through the canals. Let's just say the transporter would have been a whole lot easier. He also gives you trusty old crowbar which you apparently left in Black Mesa.

image: http://www.hlfallout.net/image.php?id=31131 caption: Watch out for that train. Cross to the other side before it passes you. Take the next U-Turn.

image: http://www.hlfallout.net/image.php?id=31130 caption: Hack your way through these wooden boxes.

Now that you are armed with old faithful, make your way through the passage and down the stairs, breaking the wooden planks blocking the doorways. Break the wooden crate and destroy any Scanners which may hover by. Jump down into the train yard and be ready to move under fire. Quickly, head left through the red train compartment and exit from the other side. Watch out for the incoming train. Cross the tracks before the train passes you and move ahead.

image: http://www.hlfallout.net/image.php?id=31133 caption: Beyond that fence is the way to the Canals.

image: http://www.hlfallout.net/image.php?id=31132

A Combine soldier will land on the roof of another train and start shooting at you. Go a little ahead and take a U-Turn to enter into the blue train compartment. Climb the ladder and jump to the other side of the fence, using the train inbetween as a stepping stone. Move fast and descend the stairs to get to the Canals. Again, break the wooden planks on the gate to get to the stairs.

In the next chapter, you traverse the vast Canals of City 17 in an attempt to meet up with Eli Vance.