Graffiti of Aperture Science Sentry Turrets from Portal can be found in the trainyard.He sends Alyx to disable the Vault while Gary reminds her to follow the “Northern Star” and escorts Eli back to safety. Eli explains that he and Russell discovered images of a building containing what appears to be a Combine superweapon, contained in a massive ship called “The Vault” floating above the Quarantine Zone. Inside she finds her father, who she nearly loses when he falls into a pit, only to be rescued by Gary, who had followed Alyx. She then uses a nearby switch to stop the train by leading it to a dead-end, derailing it. After fighting off some Combine soldiers she arrives at the junction where she can intercept her father's train, but discovers the controls are broken. He also informs her that the Combine have many of his kin trapped and that she needs to rescue them and that she will need to follow “the Northern Star.”Īlyx continues through the Quarantine Zone, where she acquires a flashlight and fights off various headcrabs hiding in the dark tunnels. Along the way she encounters a brain-damaged Vortigaunt named Gary, who cryptically warns her that her father is fated to die and that she will not be able to prevent it on her own. The train is stopped just outside the Zone due to the Combine shutting down the area, forcing Alyx to make her way on foot and fight through the various forms of Xen wildlife that have overtaken the buildings. However in this case, the train comes at the end of the chapter, leading Alyx to the location she will explore for the rest of the story.

Like Half-Life and Half-Life 2, the first chapter of Half-Life: Alyx includes a train ride.This chapter shares the same name as Chapter 9a from Half-Life 2.Alyx then boards a hacked train that will take her through the zombie-infested Quarantine Zone. He gifts her with special gloves that will allow her to pick up objects from afar, dubbed “the Russells”, as well as a pistol. Russell manages to rescue Alyx by destroying the transport taking her to be interrogated and they meet up at his lab where he reveals Eli will most likely be taken on a train to Nova Prospekt and that she will need to intercept the train by going through the Quarantine Zone. Alyx is subsequently captured while trying to rendezvous with her father, who is also captured by the Combine. While checking in with fellow Resistance member Olga, Civil Protection suddenly goes on alert. Just as the call finishes, Russell and Eli discover something. She reports normal CP activity but adds that she noticed the Combine moving supplies into the Quarantine Zone for unknown reasons. She receives a call from her father Eli and his mechanic friend Russell as they attempt to steal a Combine reactor. Five years before the destruction of the Citadel and Eli Vance's death, a young Alyx Vance performs reconnaissance on the continued construction of the Citadel in City 17.

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