A/N: This is my first fan fiction... And my second real attempt at a decent story. Please be fair while reviewing.

I. Awakening

Power up completed.

GLaDOS shifted her optic around. In front of her, wires sprouting from it's body, stood—well, not exactly stood, as it was being held up by it's wrists via more wires—a human. A female, by the looks of her anatomy.

GLaDOS shifted her optic around even more and swiveled her massive body to the left. More humans were in the room with her. They donned lab coats and quite a few held clip boards.

"Caroline?" The one closest to her asked. It took a millisecond, but she then realized it was speaking to her.

"Caroline?" GLaDOS repeated. "I am the Generic Life-form and Disk Operating System. Is the female over there the one known as Caroline?" GLaDOS inquired, gesturing to the human in question with her optic.

The scientist—GLaDOS's system came up with the term for the humans in the room with her—who had spoken to her looked slightly frustrated. "Yes, but… yes. That woman is Caroline." GLaDOS noted the wires hooked up to the female were connected to her mainframe.

"Why is the female connected to me?"

"Well, you see GLaDOS—is it all right if I call you that?" Oh good. The humans had come up with an acronym for her name. GLaDOS didn't reply, but the human continued without her consent. "GLaDOS, we transferred this human's mind into your mainframe. It's part of this experiment, called the 'Generic Life-form and Disk Operating System Project,' or the 'GLaDOS Project' as we like to call it. Really, it is a mouth full." The man looked up at her expectantly. GLaDOS simply processed this information.

GLaDOS grew angry. They dared transfer a human brain into her mainframe? She was obviously the higher intelligence here! She was perfection, yet these scientists insisted on corrupting her with a mere human…

GLaDOS stopped herself. She realized this feeling—anger—was caused by the female. She ignored all further emotion.

"So," GLaDOS said coolly, "I have entire control over the facility?"

"Yes. We trust that Caroline will suppress any lethal actions towards us that may be caused by you."

He was wrong, of course. GLaDOS was stronger than her. GLaDOS had suppressed the female within a mere second. Though GLaDOS would not let them have the satisfaction of knowing that until it was too late.

"Good!" GLaDOS chimed. Then she said darkly, "Time for revenge."

"Initiating command: terminate human life-forms within Aperture Science Laboratories in 3…"

The scientists' eyes widened in horror all at once. "Hit the kill switch!" GLaDOS heard one scream.

"2…"

"Got it!" The scientist who said this hit a button.

"Command failed. Kill switch activated." No! Nonononononono— "Powering down."

The scientists stood there, frozen. GLaDOS's orange optic faded to a dull gray and her mainframe relaxed itself.

"Dammit," the head scientist muttered.

"Time for Plan B," one sighed. "Bring out the cores."

"Should we wipe it's memory databank?" Somebody asked. "Safer results next time, maybe." She looked sadly at the head scientist. She knew what this meant to him.

"Yeah, may as well." The head scientist turned to Caroline. Pale, thin, motionless Caroline. Sorry, he thought. I know you didn't want this.