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Will update more tomorrow if I can, someone work this into a decent looking article please.

Half-life 2: Episode 2.

Chapter 1: To The White Forest -  After a cut scene reviewing the events of Episode 1, you awake as Gordon Freeman, trapped and injured in the train used to escape City 17 as the Citadel exploded. Alex frees you using the Gravity Gun, and you move onto in search of Vortigrants to help you reach Eli Vance. Rounding a corner, it is shown that a giant Portal has been opened after the explosion, and is experiencing a Portal Storm (giant release of energy) that takes out a bridge. After traveling a bit, you reach an abandoned Resistance communications center and access the television to call White Forest, a Resistance Missile base Dr. Kleiner answers, with Eli Vance at his side. They explain that the Combine are attempting to open a new gateway on Earth, and re-establish their hold on humanity. Alex questions that this may be why the Combine were feeding so much data into the core destruction sequence. Kleiner states to Dr Magnusson that this maybe the Combine Portal Code, the code to contact the Combines main base, possibly on their home planet. After signal disconnects, Alyx and Freeman head for White Forest. Along the way, Alyx explains that Dr. Magnusson has a rocket that will launch a satellite into space and tap in to the array at Black Mesa, but was impossible to launch while the Combine were intact. She explains that the satellite will be able to shut down the portal. Shortly after, Alyx heres something creeping about some buildings. While Gordon exits one, he becomes pinned as Alyx is skewered by what appears to be a miniature Strider, a Hunter. As an Antlion, closes in for the kill on Alyx, a Vortigrant comes by and saves Freeman. He explains that Alyx is close to death and that healing her will mean meeting up with more Vortigrants in the mines, to conjure more power. After being separated from the Vortigrant, Gordon encounters the new Acid lion, and its kin larvae, until he gets deep into the tunnels.

Chapter 2: This Vortal Coil - At the bottom he exits, to find two Resistance members, and his Vortigrant ally, holed up in a tunnel intersection. The Vortigrant is stabilizing Alyx, but is still awaiting his friends. The two Resistance members use a monitoring system to detect where and how many Antlions are attacking. They also use two turrets to supplement their lack of fire power. As Gordon arrives, the attacks start light, and get more aggressive, when suddenly the other Vortigrants set off a false alarm. They join to fend off a massive attack in which hundreds of Antlions attack from all angles. After the battle, the Vortigrants aid in stabilizing Alyx, but state they need the Larvae extract to revive her. The original Vortigrant agrees to go with Gordon to get it, while the others stay behind. After battling downward, a Acid Guard smashes part of a wall, revealing that the retrieval's may be more difficult than planned, since killing the beast would spoil the extract. You are then separated to face the Guardian down a series of tunnels, attempting to avoid and not kill him. Once rejoin, the Vortigrant then steals the extract and returns to his kin, beginning the healing process (note: Vortigrant states that if they lose Alyx, they lose all.). The G-Man interrupts, saying he needed the Vortigrants to be busy so he could contact Freeman undisturbed.. He cryptically says "there was a time when they cared for nothing of Ms. Vance." He also talks about how he saved Alyx from the Black Mesa Incident, and he thought nothing of her, but now sees a bigger benefit in her (note: He is sitting in a Black Mesa Executive office?). He goes on by telling Gordon, that he will take something as payment for his survival of the Mesa Incident(note: Apparently knows about the rocket). He states that he can only watch Gordon now, that he has to "abide by certain restrictions.". finishings, he kneels over Alyx's body and tells her to "Relay this to your father, 'Prepare will be unforeseen consequences'". Alyx wakes up shocked and weakened. She goes with Gordon and the Vortigrant up the lift to the surface. (Final Notes: Vortigrants left behind talk about hunting Advisors.