Prolog: the moon

Wheatley gets pulled into space by chell's blue portal. "space! H-hold on to me! I can still fix this!" space core bumps into him. "space!" space core yells in excitement. Wheatley slips from chell's grip, and she gets pulled back into the facility, wheatley screaming "grab me grab me grab me!" and he floats off into space.

Years later…

Star blue is looking around for anyone new, and not expecting too much, after all she had been in space for about six years and hasn't found anyone. Suddenly she sees two dots floating around the moon, and she goes closer to the dots, but still in a good range away just in case they aren't friendly. "hello? Who's there?" her buggy voice respecter screeches to life.

"hello? Who's there?" someone asks wheatley from behind. He quickly turns around to face the noise and sees a blue core in the distance a little, with a brown and golden eye. Wheatley starts to calm down from the sudden surprise. Then they talk again, with an irritated but scared tone. "um... can you answer my question please?" her voice is soft, and quiet, almost a whisper.

Wheatley looks away for a second, then looks back, if almost trying to figure out if he should talk to this core. "my names wheatley, that over there is space core." He says with a joyful tone in his voice. Then wheatley twitches, his eye bugging out as this happens, then it goes back to normal. Star blue has floated back a little from the surprising twitch. Her eye only a golden-brown pupil that's shaking.

Wheatley laughs nervously. "sorry mate, didn't mean to scare you." Star blue is quiet for a moment, looking around at everything, then at wheatley damaged eye. "I'm in space! Yaaaaaaaahooooo!" can be heard from space core. Star blue looks over at him, then back at wheatley. "my name is… um… star blue! But you can call me star for short if you want, Nice to meet you wheatley." Wheatley stares at star's eye, I wonder who made her eye. Sure, is nice. Wheatley wonders to himself. God. Sure, does bloody hurt to stare at it with my broken eye though.

"what was your use at aperture anyway star?" he asks still in his spaced-out state. Star is still looking at his eye, with a worried look on her eye. She shakes it and goes towards him. "let me do something before I answer you." She takes his eye out and inspects it. "hmm..." she takes out an eye fixing device and starts fixing the eye.

She is doing this with a tiny robotic arm that came out the side of her. Something that wheatley can't see because star took his eye. "um… mate? Can't see, what are you doing with my eye?" star doesn't say anything, but he can tell something is happening. "spaaaaaaaacccccceeeeeee!" space core yells from somewhere. Great. Wheatley thinks. just great now I'm blind and I don't know what star is doing. Great. Just. Bloody. Wonderful.

He can hear someone saying something but he's not really listening. "wheatley! Hey! I fixed you! Twitch and everything! I didn't even think I could do that! Its been so long since I've fixed someone… hello?" wheatley realized after star put his eye back, he closed it. He opens his eye. "sorry mate didn't mean to ignore you. Wow. Its so clearer now! Thank you so much for fixing me star." Wheatley floats in circles happily giggling.

"I'm guessing you were a mechanic for a little in your robotic life. Now can you answer my question?" star blue nods her eye. She giggles herself, and thinks, this guy is funny! I think I'm going to like talking to him. I'm not alone anymore, I'm so glad. "yes, I was a mechanic, I would fix bots, but then I was moved to teach humans about space. Which is why my name is star blue. It was just blue but then the 'teaching space' thing… so yeah."

Wheatley stares at the golden part of star's eye. It is nice to stare at, He thinks. Like a shiny gold, or a metallic yellow. Without knowing it, he stares at it for too long, making it very noticeable what he's staring at. "-ey wheatley! You okay? I've been calling your name for a little bit now…" wheatley snaps out of 'spacing'-out shaking his eye back and forth, trying to focus back on what was happing now. "sorry about that star, just thinkin'. How did you get in space anyway?" star looks up, thinking about it for the first time in a long time.

"hmm... well… I was telling people about space then, a girl who had an orange jumpsuit and brown or black hair up in a pony tail, found a portal gun and shot a blue portal into space. and I got sucked into space never to be seen again, its been six years. I'm still up here… I wish that girl didn't trap me up here, but I guess it was fate." The first thing wheatley thinks when she says that is her! His eye shrinks, into a white pupil. Star knows her! "I know that girl! She trapped me and space core here! Though I deserve it… after I back stabbed her… I don't really know her name, but! Maybe you can help us… or you could… or… maybe… no…" star tilts herself a little in confusion. No. wheatley thinks, closing his eye in guilt.

She will never want me back, not after I tried everything to kill her, not even after I backstabbed her. She'll never. EVER want me back. Wheatley's voice receptor is making crying noises, I'm so scared. She hates me.

She truly bloody does. She hates me. I'm just the defective, bloody moron. And no one cares about me. I'm just a- Wheatley's thoughts are stopped by someone saying his name and 'hugging' him.

He opens his eye and its star. "don't be sad, we can get to her. You must miss her, right? I bet she misses you too." Wheatley looks away. At earth.

"I do. I really do bloody miss her." He turns back to star. "but what if she hates me? I did some bad things… what if- " star's worried glare locks on him. "sorry, ma- star." Star looks at the earth, wheatley does the same. Its blue and green making wheatley calm down. Star looks at him, her golden-brown eye looking less worried. "we can at least try to get back home."