Alyx is also shown having a heated argument with Dr. Later, she gives Gordon the Gravity Gun and demonstrates its use. When Gordon finally arrives in Black Mesa East, he is welcomed by Alyx and her father. However, the two unintentionally part ways after Kleiner's teleportation device malfunctions, forcing Gordon to continue through City 17 on his own. After Gordon puts on his HEV suit, they enter the teleport room to be teleported to Eli Vance's lab in Black Mesa East.īarney and Kleiner discuss a "certain incident involving a cat." Subsequently, she escorts Gordon to Kleiner's Lab, there they meet up with Barney and Kleiner. Alyx rushes in the room and takes down the CPs by herself (although this is not explicitly shown on-screen).
Her first appearance is in the first chapter of the game, Point Insertion, in a scene where Gordon has been intercepted by Civil Protection units while he is still an unarmed civilian, due to a miscount detection. It's currently unkown how this event may have changed the established timeline of Half-Life 2.Īlyx meets Gordon for the first time after defending him from Combine.Īlyx is one of the most important characters in Half-Life 2, as she helps Gordon Freeman more frequently and directly than most other characters. She is working with this at the time of Half-Life 2.ĥ years before the events of Half-Life 2, Alyx was "hired" by the G-Man and placed in stasis. By the age of 24, she was assisting Kleiner and Barney Calhoun in helping citizens escape the city to Black Mesa East through the old Canals, as well as helping Kleiner, her father and Judith Mossman establish a teleport connection between Black Mesa East and Kleiner's Lab. At the age of 19, she performed reconnaissance missions, and was friends with Russell and Olga. Although the initial model was a mere meter high, Alyx added new parts to Dog over time, making him a towering 2.5 meters high at the time of Half-Life 2.Īs Alyx reached adulthood, she began working with the Resistance, as one of the core members of the City 17 branch. During Alyx's childhood, Eli used scrap metal to create Dog, a sentient robot designed to protect her, making him physically powerful, intelligent and with an in-built sixth sense so that he could always know Alyx's whereabouts. During this time, Alyx was also on good terms with Isaac Kleiner, referring to him as "Uncle Kleiner" in an affectionate portrait she once offered him. Alyx was apparently too young to remember this (she does not recognize the G-Man when meeting him as an adult), and although Eli witnessed it, he never shared the story with her.Īlyx was raised by Eli in the world controlled by the Combine, likely at Black Mesa East much of the time. During the course of the incident, the G-Man was instrumental in rescuing Alyx, despite the objections of unnamed naysayers. When the Black Mesa Incident occurred, Eli managed to escape along with Alyx and a family picture, while Azian was killed in the incident. As a young child, Alyx lived in the dormitories within the confines of the Black Mesa Research Facility along with her father Eli and her mother Azian, while Eli was working at the Sector C Test Labs.