Alternative GLaDOS test chamber 7
Chell stood by the lift in the test chamber crying. GLaDOS had just fizzled two Companion Cubes right in front of her. It had been bad enough when she had forced her to incinerate her best friend. Now she was just reinforcing those terrible memories.
She looked up to the cube dispenser and waited for the next to fall so she could torment her again. Her attention shifted to a panel behind her when she heard it move. She saw the blue optic of her new companion. Chell grabbed his handle and cut her hand on the quick moving plate.
"You got me!" He yelled happily. Chell quickly put her finger to her lips, telling him to be quiet.
"What was that? Did you actually say something?" The robotic voice clicked on. Chell dropped him on the hard metal floor with fear. He yelped in pain. She stood casually, shifting the portal gun as though she was bored. "Fine, don't respond. Don't waste energy that you could waste, I mean use, on testing."
Chell placed Wheatley on the lift then picked up the cube and used it to stop the laser. She walked onto it and stood beside him. The lift moved up when she repositioned the portals. He rolled off and she picked him up and took him over to the tilted spot perfect for placing portals. She hid him behind it and brought the cube up with portals. He watched as she jumped off the edge with the cube and came flying out above him.
She placed the cube on the button then went back over to him. Her portal went on the tilted plate beside the one she had just come out of and jumped into the one on the floor with the sphere in her arms. As much as he tried he couldn't keep his scream in and when they safely landed he made a loud noise.
"I know that wasn't you." GLaDOS said. A camera that had appeared broken zoomed in on her. "How did you come back on?" She asked the terrified core. "Well, this time you won't be coming back."
"Nonononononono." He repeated. Chell could feel his form melting. She watched as he began to dissolve into the black dust like the two cubes had earlier. She began crying harder than she had when the cubes had disintegrated while GLaDOS laughed manically at her sadness.
"Now I know how to upset you even more. Walk through that door to continue testing or you will end up like him." She told her. Chell sat on the floor crying as she held the remaining pieces of the core. He was her only way to escape. She had been completely relying on him. "Fine then." The voice came for the final time.
Chell could feel the dissolving as it slowly climbed up her body. She didn't care at that point; she didn't have a chance from the start. GLaDOS wasn't amused since Chell didn't seem to have any feelings either way. She slowed how fast the fizzling was going to watch her pain but her reaction didn't change.
The remainder of her body was left in ashes combined with the ones from the core. GLaDOS destroyed the cube and began taking the chamber apart and building a new one. She swept the dust into one of pits that had scientist bones lining the floor. It was all that was left of a fat orphan, an idiotic core, and a cube that will always be your best friend.