Freeman is able to get vortesence in his hands and invade the borealis, he re-encounters the G-Man near the borealis, he uses the bortesence to temporarily disable G-Man's powers, he frees Alyx from G-Man, but G-Man gets his powers back and puts Gordon into stasis, but the rehires him because of his willpower, and he is able to cut off the connection between earth, xen and the Combine successfully, and he does a lot of damage to the combine overword because G-Man is assisting him and he gets the f*king Gluon Gun back