Author's Note: Right. This takes place after Portal 2, and just after those lovable Co-Op bots managed to find the Human Vault. I hope this is an OK fanfic! Remember, criticism is good! Note: This mostly runs on complete plot-filling, with DNA being the filling. Science would be butchered if I tried to explain the entire concept, but the portal gun is illogical too. Kinda. If I see a portal gun in real life, I'll let you know. Please, critique if I haven't got the characters down. This is my first fanfiction, and I wanna make sure it's good.
Fun fact: FanFiction was invented by Sherlock Holmes fans.
Two million humans. GLaDOS was so excited.
Two million humans. She couldn't believe her luck. She could get two test subjects out of two million monsters! It was simply perfect. Atlas and P-Body had done well.
Two million humans. Each were scanned, and sent off to their own individual room and put in stasis. This should have been impossible. GLaDOS was so lucky! It was unbelievable.
"Maybe you should release them?"
Caroline's voice brought her down. It seemed every fifteen seconds after deletion Caroline popped up again. Caroline was even appearing on the screens occasionally. GLaDOS would just be watching P-Body and Atlas move their way through testing when a middle aged woman suddenly pops out of nowhere, then disappears. Like a ghost. Ah, well. As a certain Mr. Rattmann said, you can always ignore your conscience, and Caroline was no more then a conscience. Odd how such an unscientific idea has science in it. Very strange.
GLaDOS thought of the possibilities for testing with these subjects. Such as...No, she had done that one. OK, maybe th... No, that was also done.
GLaDOS realized how limited her options were. Anything she had thought of was already tried with the duo. She could introduce new things, yes, but how far could that go? It was a terrifying thought that the only thing she had had run out of options.
GLaDOS had to try out something new. Something interesting. She sighed and skipped through her favorite Sci-Fi novels. Loath as she had to admit it, she did like certain novels. Particularly ones involving murderous AIs. Those were very fun. But, still. She needed an idea. GLaDOS stopped at a certain page of a certain book. It was a pulp novel, one that she didn't really like much. But this had an interesting idea. In it, the amazingly shallow protagonist (All the protagonists, in her mind, were all shallow. The murderous AIs, however, were interesting.) finds out about an stupidly evil mad scientist who wants to change what it means to be human. The equally shallow mad scientist kidnaps some people, then changes their DNA so that the humans became superhuman, with powers such as telepathy, impossible strength and the ability to travel through time.
The science was dreadful, but it worked in concept. She had two million humans to work with, the mistakes could be gotten rid of. GLaDOS's mind buzzed with images of DNA strands spiraling, with nano-bots making small alterations to the formula, slowly but surely changing the person itself, changing the entire structure.
This was perfect. She could reuse the tests perfectly. Why use a portal gun when you can make things levitate? Why dodge those turrets when you can just talk to them and convince them you are friendly?
GLaDOS would have smiled if she had a mouth. This was going to work perfectly.