A/N:Yeah,yeah should work on Dolls, don't own portal, YES! WE GET IT!
99999 [CORRUPTED] Later…
As the elevator came to a stop, Chell was glad to finally see the white walls of modern Aperture.
"Finally!" Glados cheered, "Now, all we have to do is-What?" Chell tapped the potato's gold optic, then put her finger to her mouth.
'I think I hear something.' Her ears, fine-tuned by testing, had picked up a soft sound coming from the speakers, and as she focused, she could hear…crying? Indeed, Wheatley was the one behind the soft crying. 'But why would he be crying?' she wondered.
"He's crying?" the potato wondered, echoing her thoughts. "Never mind, go solve one of the test chambers, when he notices, I'll hit him with a paradox." Oh, yeah, they had to get Glados back in charge, or else the facility would explode. As if to prove the point, the Announcer's voice came on.
"Warning: Nuclear Core Overheating. Nuclear Melt-down imminent." Yes, they had to get Glados back in charge-Fast.
She headed towards the nearest test chamber. It was a beginner test, wait-
'That is a Test?' There was a room with a button on it, and not a cube button either. Just a simple button and a door.
"That is a Test?' Glados questioned, echoing what Chell had thought moments earlier. "Even the simplest animal could solve that!" Chell sighed, pressed the button, and ran through the open door, but as soon as she stepped in the doorway, Wheatley's quiet whimpering turned into a loud wail that seemed to last forever. Slowly, his wail turned into loud, wracking sobs, louder than the quiet whimpering he had been doing earlier.
"KkbBzzt-" Chell jumped as Glados shorted out. She stared, looking between the ceiling and the potato, and stepped into the elevator.
'What the hell was that about?'
As the elevator rose, Glados woke up. "-Turn on- Oh." It looked like she had been muttering under her breath before she shorted out. Chell shot her a questioning look. "N-nothing, it's nothing." She said shakily, "Continue test- Wait, no, bad idea, find another way to get his attentkshzzt" She shorted out again, but this time, Chell could sort of see why.
'She would short out after telling me not to test, wouldn't she.' But she was still confused. Why did Glados sound so… terrified?
She stepped into the room. It wasn't a test chamber, just a blank room with a monitor and an elevator, with the rest of the room covered in portal surfaces. 'Glados said I shouldn't test, but how else should I- Got it!' She put two fingers to her mouth and whistled. FWEEEE! That got Wheatley's attention. The speakers crackled, and the noise changed from sobs to a slightly glitchy voice.
"H-hello? M-miss l-lady? I-is that you? H-here, I-I'll turn the monitor on…" The screen flickered on and Chell gasped.
The android's wild dirty-blond hair had become tangled and matted, and his normally bright cyan blue eyes had become a dull blue-grey. He was crying, and it had left tear-tracks on his face; His shoulders were shaking badly. 'What the hell happened to you, Wheatley?'
"-tion, Wow, you look like hell." Glados said softly, optic widening. "Please dontkshht-" she started to say as she shorted out for the third time since they got up from Lower Aperture.
"I-I can put her b-back, if you l-like." Wheatley told her. "J-just step into th-that elevator." Chell was wary, she remembered when Wheatley said he would free her, and she ended up in a smashed lift in lower aperture, but she took a second look at Wheatley; trembling, crying, broken, Wheatley; and stepped into the elevator.
"M-miss l-lady?" Wheatley asked as Chell stepped out of the elevator, twisting in the mess of wires surrounding him. "I'm r-really sorry f-for getting m-mad at y-you. You r-really did d-do all th-the work." At this he burst into tears. "I-I'm sorry! I'm s-sorry! I-I-I-" he wailed.
'Hush, Wheatley, don't cry. Don't cry.' Chell patted him on the back through the wires that encompassed him. 'Here.' She handed him the potato.
"Huh? O-oh yeah, r-right." Wheatley mumbled as he took the potato, and set to the task of transferring Glados back into her android body. _
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