As you might know from reading my authors note in The Brightest Stars, I've been having difficulty writing… Which is part of the reason I wrote this. I want to try and ease my way back into writing. I've missed it. So you're part… please tell me if this style is good? Should I change it… Should I seek out other influences? Please enjoy… (And as you can tell, because it's on FANFICTION, I don't own Portal 1 or 2.)

Pre-Testing: CAKE

~My mother never let me have cake. For my birthday we had apple pie, For other occasions cookies brownies or ice cream. All the candy in the world but never cake. The reason why was always.

~"Cake is terrible for you. You mine as well be a potato."

~I didn't understand, but it's the only thing she ever really asked me to do…except…Well, we'll get to that in a bit.

~My mother was incredibly quiet, as before she found my father she was a mute. She was never demanding. I never saw any pictures of her earlier then her wedding photos, and no cake on that occasion either.

~At 18 I left home to travel, though my mother was reluctant to let me go but did at the promise I would never go to the canyon that used to be the state of Nevada. Little did she know that her reluctance to let me go would only take me straight there.

~I glanced at the rocky surface in front of me and at the light pink sky of coming dusk. I should probably go back to the house I was staying at, but I wanted to scale one more wall. With trained hands I attached my bright orange climb rope to a tree. Usually I would use a climbing hitch specifically made for this purpose, but this was only going to be a quick climb. I dropped carefully down the side of the canyon. As I went along I admired the layers of earth, and realized it was almost as if I was traveling back in time. Each layer was formed carefully over time and I was dropping down past each one.

~If I could make it to the first ledge I would be happy. Not many people made it that far. Almost nobody made it to the second ledge and the third… well that was a different story. Aperture canyon is said to be haunted by the ghost of a mad scientist, and if you stepped foot on the third platform you were taken to his lab.

~While swimming through the voids of imagination, my hand slipped. Luckily my rope caught me and I dangled just past the first ledge. Quite suddenly I heard a cracking sound, as if someone was crunching a twig underneath their foot. It came to me that I tied myself to a tree and that sound was not a good thing. While I felt myself slowing descending, I clawed desperately at the ledge, but the smooth weathered rock held no handholds for my fingers. A deafening crack echoed though Aperture Canyon and I flew downwards. Luckily, along the way, I cracked my noggin on an overhang. I wouldn't be awake for my splatter on the canyon floor.

Testing: LUCKY HUMAN

~Hazy, Milky light filtered into my eyes as I slowly sat up. How did I manage that fall? Everything about me ached, especially my head, and I couldn't get a hold of my surroundings. It looked like I was in a hotel room… but how? I slowly stood up, with help from sturdy Mr. Coffee table, and swayed my way to the door. When I moved, I felt the room rock, but I passed it off as my fall disagreeing with my internal organs. I groped for the door but when I grasped the handle I received a small shock.

~"PLEASE STAY INSIDE THE HOLDING ROOM. AN ASSISSTANT WILL BE AROUND TO HELP YOU." A cold automatic voice sounded.

~I had a sinking feeling no one was coming to help me. From the hole I made in the roof, I could see nothing except rocky cliff walls and almost planned looking fog. I sat on the bed to "wait" for the assistant. As I plopped myself down I heard a crunch. As crunches never really mean anything good, I got up. Titling sensation getting steadily worse, I pulled back the covers on the bed. As if still asleep a human skeleton hid underneath. I steeped back and the room joined me. This was no medical condition. I ran to the restroom and ripped the shower curtain off the shower. Using that I pulled the door open just in time to see a rock pillar whiz by me. Another square looking room narrowly missed the side of the room. I was luckily avoiding all the obstacles until the room crashed right into a rock pillar. The impact flung me into the closet near the back of the room. I crawled my way out and back up to the door. Outside I saw the destination, a broken down wall much bigger then the small room I was in. It looks like we were meant to crash, but the wall had given in to the pressure and collapsed. Various human bones and construction debris littered the surrounding rocky cliffs. Buildings assaulted the sides of the hotel room, making the whole place shake and slowly break apart. In fact as I made that deduction the closet that I just climbed from flew off. As soon as I was sure I could make it, I jumped for the big door.

~I rolled when I hit the ground and shards of glass fell, acting the part of shimmering deadly confetti, as if to announce the arrival of the room I was just in. It crumpled and fell just short of the giant door. I looked around and saw I was in a room mostly made of metal. I saw an open glass hatch that seemed to be intact and the only way out. The ground was in shambled. That might be due to the fact that the hotel rooms keep flying towards it on what looks like a man made track.

~This was crazy. Who would make something like this? The first thing that came to mind was so crazy that at first I entirely pushed it away… but there was no other explanation.

~"The Ghost of Aperture Canyon," I whispered and a chill ran through my body.

~I pushed the silly yet frightening thought aside. With much effort I pulled the glass hatch open and dropped inside. The new room was like nothing I've ever seen before. A strange device that somewhat resembled a cryogenic sleeping chamber stood open as if someone had just gotten out of it. A toilet sat unused in the corner and an old radio fuzzed ontop. A thing that could only be described as…a…a glowing blue hole in the wall hung, starring me straight in the eye.

~"Hello. You lucky human, you! I'm GLaDOS… Let's begin testing."