History Fanfic / GogglesAndTheTears

* AggressiveNegotiations: Goggles and his teammates all draw their weapons on Comstock to break the argument between him and Elizabeth, and interrogate him for answers. [[spoiler: Then Archangel!SHODAN interrupts, embracing Comstock while telling him all his visions were false, then [[NeckSnap snapping his neck]] and [[SymbolicBaptism dunking his head into the baptism dish]].]]

* [[spoiler: TheAlibi: While the ''Von Braun'' returns to Earth, Goggles asks Marie Delacroix to not mention this time travel story to his superiors, and instead say that nothing happened after he beat the original version of SHODAN.]]
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: SHODAN's citywide takeover of Columbia almost immediately results in her android minions destroying and restructuring its buildings to fit her needs, and either killing or enslaving its population, most of whom bow to her for forgiveness. ]]

** Booker ends up in [[spoiler: a future version of Comstock's church, which abruptly links to cyberspace where a full-on cyborg factory is located, including a cyborg Elizabeth that almost kills Booker out of rage by exposing him to every alternate version of his body.]]
** Goggles is sent to [[spoiler: A decaying version of the ''Von Braun'' with its engines crippled and the entire crew dead.]]
** Gordon and Alyx are [[spoiler: sent to an alternate Citadel where SHODAN controls the Combine in the place of Dr. Breen.]]
** Mjolnir 54 is teleported [[spoiler: back to the ''Marathon'', except with the ship in hard vacuum and all 3 AIs, plus the Pfhor, dominated by SHODAN.]]

* [[FiveManBand Six-Man Band]]: The refugees, consisting of four men and two women.
** TheLeader: Goggles, being the first to experience it all, with tactical experience in both the UNN Marines and Navy and supercharged cybernetic enhancements.
** TheLancer: Gordon, an egotistical DeadpanSnarker armed with enough media experience and physics knowledge to plan around the largest of threats.
** TheBigGuy: Booker, the burliest of the group who will do anything to keep Elizabeth safe.
** TheSmartGuy: Elizabeth, with enough research from Booker's collection of audio logs to help.
** TheChick: Alyx Vance, having helped Gordon maintain his sanity since Black Mesa in the past 20 years, and always good with a sniper rifle.
** TheSixthRanger: Mjolnir 54, being quiet and aloof from the others, but packing some of the toughest weapons.

* SuddenlySpeaking: In their respective games, neither Goggles, Gordon, nor Mjiolnir 54 ever talk, but here they all do. Justified with Gordon, being based on Ross Scott's caricature in ''Machinima/FreemansMind''; Subverted with Durandal who normally communicates through text, but uses speakers in a text-to-speech-like voice due to not using terminals in most of the story.

** Gordon Freeman lists too many references to keep track of, being based on Ross Scott's caricature from his ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' series.

* NiceHat: Goggles wears a UNN military beret for most of the story, but prior to the climax, he swaps it for a blue beanie often seen in fanart.

* PlugAndPlayTechnology: Durandal equips his minion with a flash drive to carry him on, and this drive, despite being 600 years newer than the Von Braun's, inexplicably can work with its computers with no trouble whatsoever.

A MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, tying together ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' alongside ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', and ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''.

It starts as ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' ends, where the main characters survive the aftermath of The Many, but because of SHODAN's tampering with the ''Von Braun's'' FTL drive, Tears are opening across time and space, some of them linking back to the ''Von Braun'', and because of a strange implant someone found, a copy of SHODAN gets loose. But, some of those Tears bring Mjolnir 54, Gordon Freeman, Alyx Vance, Booker [=DeWitt=] and Elizabeth all together to help stop this AI once and for all.

** Gordon comes to appreciate Goggles for not being as tactically incompetent as the HECU troops or the Combine soldiers, going so far as eventually comparing him to [[StarWars Han Solo]], in terms of being a good leader.

* LaserBlade: The Laser Rapier. Here, it's much more deadly than its [[{{Nerf}} nerfed]] version in ''System Shock 2''.

* MouthStitchedShut: [[spoiler: The Combine cyborg version of Elizabeth, combined with ElectronicEyes and her legs replaced with [[SpiderLimbs long, spidery metal legs]]. Bonus points that Gordon was just comparing the differences between SHODAN and [[VideoGames/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream AM]].]]

** The [[spoiler: Sea of Doors]] has a whole barrage of Shout-Outs stitched together from different time periods and locations meant to reinforce [[spoiler: Elizabeth's "constants and variables" theory]], including an appearance from [[Film/TheRing Samara Morgan]], a peek at the [[VideoGame/{{Myst}} Stoneship Age]], and the voices of [[VideoGame/PortalTwo Wheatley]], [[VideoGame/{{Bioshock}} Andrew Ryan]], and [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 Dr. Breen]] all forming one conversation in sequence.

* RealityEnsues: The other characters are quick to notice that attaching to Sky-Lines '''HURTS'''.

* SuddenlyVoiced: In their respective games, neither Goggles, Gordon, nor Mjiolnir 54 ever talk, but here they all do. Justified with Gordon, being based on Ross Scott's caricature in ''Machinima/FreemansMind''; Subverted with Durandal who normally communicates through text, but uses speakers in a text-to-speech-like voice due to not using terminals in most of the story.

** Gordon Freeman lists too many references to keep track of, being based on Ross Scott's caricature from his ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' series.

* SuddenlyVoiced: In their respective games, neither Goggles, Gordon, nor Mjiolnir 54 ever talk, but here they all do. Justified with Gordon, being based on Ross Scott's caricature in ''WebVideo/FreemansMind''; Subverted with Durandal who normally communicates through text, but uses speakers in a text-to-speech-like voice due to not using terminals in most of the story.

A MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, tying together ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' alongside ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', ''HalfLife 2'', and ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''.

A MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, tying together ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' alongside ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', ''Half-Life 2'', and ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''.

A MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, tying together ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' alongside ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', ''HalfLife 2'', and ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''.

A MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, tying together ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' alongside ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', ''HalfLife2'', and ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''.