Chapter 1: Old Aperture has other plans
"Oh hi." Chell automatically frown at the sound of GLaDOS voice. "Say, you're good at murder? Could you-ow, murder this bird for me?" Chell stood from behind the glass compartment, having some type of satisfaction of watching GLaDOS get pecked by a brid. Though part of her found it sad, GLaDOS looked so vulnerable but she wanted no part of this. She did want to be deceived by a machine again, especially not by GLaDOS.
She turned her body and headed towards the open door. "No wait!" Chell came to a complete halt, was that desperation in her voice? Never had she ever heard GLaDOS have plead in her tone. "Just kill it and we can call things even between us." She added.
'Fine,' Chell inhaled deeply before walking toward the nest, having no intentions of actually killing the bird. She instead scared it off, "Oh, thanks." Chell could hear the relief from her voice, followed by a brief rumble emitted from the upper parts of Aperture.
"Do you hear that? That idiot has no idea what he's doing up there. I can't move. And unless you're planning to saw your own head off and wedge it into my old body, you're going to need me to replace him. We're at an impasse. So what do you say? You carry me up to him and put me back into my body, and I stop us from blowing up and let you go." Chell raised a brow, suspicion still formed in her gut. "No tricks. This potato only generates 1.1 volts of electricity. I literally do not have the energy to lie to you." GLaDOS said, trying to conceive the test subject.
Chell rolled her eyes and didn't want to hear anymore rambling from GLaDOS. 'To hell with it,' She thought to herself as she used the portal gun to pick up GLaDOS (Well, she stabbed her with it). 'I hope you're right about Wheatley or we're both screwed.'
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As Chell flew through the air, gracefully landing onto an intact compartment. She could see the manual button to open the hatch that lead straight out of the old Aperture. "Wait! I've got an idea!" GLaDOS exclaimed, this certainly caught Chell's attention as she stopped her hand from reaching over and pressing the button. "That poster! Go look at for second, would you?" Chell did exactly that.
"Paradoxes." The former supercomputer simply said.
'Paradoxes?' Chell scrunched her nose in confusion.
"No A.I. can resist thinking about them. I know how we can beat him." GLaDOS said with a more hopeful tone.
The test subject then pressed the red button and to her delight the giant hatch from above slowly but surely began to open. As soon as she spotted the lift descending down and made it's stop on the platform, she leaped down and made her way onto the lift. They began to be lifted upwards and finally out of the old Aperture. One step closer into possibly retaking Aperture and her freedom will be guaranteed...hopefully.
"If you can get me in front of him, I'll fry every circuit in that little idiot's-" GLaDOS stopped in mid-sentence as the lift suddenly just stopped.
"Hey? What's going on?" GLaDOS asked confused, as Chell was just as confused as her, looking up to see the reason for the sudden delay.
Red lights began to flash as the giant hatch slowly began to make its way closer and closer to them. It was closing and they were in the middle of it and to make matters worse, the lift shook with uneasiness; threatening them that it fall back down to the ground.
"Oh! You gotta be freakin' kidding me!" GLaDOS noticed the cables losing its grip on the ceiling until it snapped from it's place. Thanks to Chell's quick reflexes she jumped out of lift and landed on the ground. She took a couple of steps back just before the lift came crashing down right before their eyes.
The woman looked up once more and the hatched had tightly sealed itself against the ceiling. 'Damn it! What the hell do we do now?' She wondered as she looked at GLaDOS for any possible answers.
"Well we are doomed. That was the only way that was close enough to bring us the Enrichment Center." GLaDOS said with dread in her voice. "Oh my precious facility. I would have never thought in a millions years it was going to be destroyed by an incompetent moron. Woe is me!"
Chell shook her head in disbelief, this couldn't be the only way. There has to be another way, she didn't want to die in the depths of Aperture. No. She refuse to believe it. The woman shot a portal into the compartment she had just left before and to the nearest white wall. She quickly went towards the open portal and notice a bird perched on the red button with chunks of wire in it's beak.
"That evil thing! It is to blame for our inevitable demise!" GLaDOS yelled which spooked it and it flew away with the pieces of wires in it's mouth. "Come back here you coward!"
The test subject came up the control panel to assess the damage. The bird had managed to mess with one of the loose panels and pulled out some wires. It probably mistaken it as materials for nesting. "You should have killed it! This would never had happen if you killed the damn thing!" The former supercomputer said with frustration and Chell shot her an annoyed glare.
'Damn it!' Chell mentally cursed at herself as she set the portal gun down and tried to fix the torn wires but she ended up shocking herself a couples of time. Though she had no idea what the hell she was doing, she stopped once the pain of electric volts coursing through her body became unbearable.
She ran her fingers through her dark brown locks and leaned against the wall, sliding down until she hit the floor. Her heart pounded heavily against her chest and for the first time, she was scared to the point where tears began to uncontrollably roll down her cheeks. She didn't care whether GLaDOS was watching her or not, nor did she care if she was view as weak in front of the former supercomputer. It was all too much to comprehend the fact the she may die in Aperture. 'Am I really going to die in this miserable place?' It was simply too hard for Chell to believe.
GLaDOS watched the human as strange emotions began to surface. She wasn't sure if she was mad at the fact that Chell seemed to have given up so easily(which was out of her character). Or if she was mad that, that moron made her most greatest test subject succumb to her weakness and she herself had barely scratched the surface on that.
"How dare he. How dare he!" GLaDOS said as rage filled her voice. "The only one who is allowed to break you is me! I will not stay here and die knowing that he mentally defeated you. No. That is only exclusive for me only!"
Chell shot another glare at GLaDOS, her cheeks still wet from the tears. She bit down her lips to preventing herself to let out her rage and sorrow to be heard.
"I can't believe I'm doing this but If I'm not wrong. Which I never am. There should be a manual override that will shut down the entire facility. It should prevent it from exploding us into oblivion-." Chell interrupted her as she grabbed the portal gun and hugged it. "Ah! Cease that right now. Don't you dare try to rub your fat wet cheeks on me-" It was too late. Chell nuzzled the potato.
"Okay, okay! You can admire me later in a less disgusting manner. But for now, let's put an end to the imbecile party." She said as Chell nodded in agreement, wiping the tears from her face and sniffling a bit.
A/N: This formed into an idea that came out of no where and I couldn't help myself. I just had to. Not sure whether I should make it T or M. Eh, I'll leave it at T for now. I might change it to M rated later on though. I don't know.