Help Me
Portal 2 One Shot [headcanon] Request
Khateley
Setting: Chapter 5: The Escape [Android Characters]
"Go press the button!" I urged the lady to do so in the distance. She's so close! We're so close! So close to our freedom!
Beep.
YES! She pressed it! She pressed the bloody button! Haha! In your face maniac!
"Uhh..." I started to wonder as I shook in fear. "What if this hurts? What if this hurts?! Ahh... I didn't think of that..."
"Oh it will," came her cold mocking voice. "Believe me it will."
I froze as an uncertain grin spread on my face, "You're just saying that, aren't you. You're just... you're just that..." She did not reply. "No. You're not." I didn't know it would hurt! Why didn't anyone tell me it would hurt. Ahhh... Nonono. "Exactly how painful are we t-"
"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!"
Electricity flowed from the mainframe and flooded into my circuits, becoming the synthetic pain that made me scream. This is too much! Everything hurts! I felt my systems starting to shut down. I'm going to die...
"No."
Was that... Her?
"Get off of me. No. No! No! Noooooooooooooo!"
I fought the pain. Her screams still echoing through my mind. I'm going to get through with this bloody procedure.
Everything suddenly stopped. I opened my eyes only to see darkness around me.
It was peculiar, the room I'm in. The walls were just glowing ones and zeroes and extended high up above. I really can't make out the ceiling. The walls must be bloody tall... Or I'm just terribly small.
"Hello there." Came a voice from all places. Actually... It's not just one voice. It's a union of hundreds of voices. Probably thousands! And it scared the hell out of me.
"Aaah... H-hullo!" I stuttered. There was no one in the room with me.
"You must be the Intelligence Dampening Sphere."
What?
"I remember you."
"N-no. I'm not the Intelligence whutsit Sphere. I'm Wheatley!"
"Wheatley? Really." There was a beep in the background before the multi-voice spoke, "You are not wanted here."
I was taken aback. Like I know where I was! "I didn't even know how I got here!"
A bright light appeared.
"You have got to be kidding me."
And everything started fading into the bright light.
"I'm not going to even bother to explain how you got here."
I shielded my eyes from the light.
"But you are unwanted here."
The voice faded just as the light did.
I suddenly felt... so good.
"Woah!" I exclaimed! I twirled in mid-air. The panels of Her chamber followed my movement.
"Check me out partner! I'm in control of the whole facility now!"
I felt my control reach everything in the facility! Everything in here is under my control. This is great!
"Whoa-ho-ho! Would you look at this. Not too bad, eh? Giant robot. Massive! It's not just me, right? I'm bloody massive, aren't I?"
The lady looks so tiny. And she was happy for me. For us.
"Oh! Right, the escape lift! I'll call it now."
I can summon the elevator to the surface! Brilliant! We can escape!
"There we go. Lift called."
"Look how small you are down there! I can barely see you! Very tiny..."
"And insignificant!"
Wait... I did not say that!
I told you you are unwanted here.
Go away. We don't want you as well.
"I knew it was gonna be cool being in charge of everything, but... wow, this is cool!"
I twirled again in mid-air with a big grin, different apparatuses flying around as I did so.
"And check this out! I'm a bloody genius now!"
I felt something switch...
"Estás usando este software de traducción de forma incorrecta. Por favor, consulta el manual."
Then it returned back to normal...
"I don't even know what I just said! But I can find out!"
I saw the look of patience running out of the woman. And my grin faltered... The lift!
"Oh! Sorry. The lift. Sorry. I keep forgetting."
"This body is amazing, seriously!"
Leave now.
The voice was back again.
Return The Central Core and leave. Now!
I'm about to leave. Just be-
Darkness once again closed around me.
I was back in the zero-one room, this time, someone was in there.
You. Are. Useless.
That someone turned to face me.
No. You're... Me...
The clone me looked at me in distaste.
You? No. I am the Mainframe. And I have warned you to leave.
I told you, I was about to leave-
NO! You should've left the chassis when I told you to!
The walls glowed red with the Mainframe's anger. He was furious, and that scared me.
Now, it's too late. Far too late.
I didn't understand him? What was too late?
An invisible force pushed me back and another wall appeared in between me and the Mainframe.
I'm in control.
Wheatley viewed everything in the third point of view, trapped in whatever place the Mainframe left him. He saw how the test subject was about to leave without him.
"I can't get over how small you are!" The clone said in glee.
"But I'm huge!"
He saw himself laugh, slowly turning into a menacing, maniacal cackle. He started trailing off. The elevator stopped. The lady looked shocked.
"Actually, why do we have to leave right now?"
No, he thought, NO! Stop! What are you doing?!
"Do you have any idea how good this feels?"
The lady's expression quickly turned from pure shock into an angry, determined expression. The clone descended a little lower to face the lady.
"I did this!" The clone mused, "Tiny little Wheatley did this!"
"You didn't do anything," came Her voice. "She did all the work."
Wheatley agreed, for the first time, with Her and wanted to tell the clone that. It was true he didn't do anything but guide her through the facility. The lady did most of the work.
"Oh really." The clone said, taken aback. "That's what the two of you think, is it?"
He glared daggers at the Core of Her.
"Well, maybe it's time I did something then."
A mechanical arm grabbed Her and pulled her in the aperture right below the clone.
"Don't think I'm not onto you too, lady." The clone suddenly gave the lady a menacing stare. "You know what you are? Selfish."
No. She is Not!
"I've done nothing but sacrifice to get us here! What have you sacrificed? NOTHING. Zero."
Stop it! Wheatley rammed the firewall keeping him locked in fury. You're making everything worse!
"All you've done is BOSS ME AROUND."
Wheatley fell to his knees, synthetic tears running down his metallic cheeks. You're... making everything... bloody... worse.
"Well, NOW who's the boss? Who's the boss? It's me!"
Author's Note
Someone requested a head canonic oneshot. I'm too lazy to probably complete this in a day, so here's the part one. /keeled (probably a two shot at this point.)
I am totally not sure if there are typos and such since I really didn't thoroughly edited it
Edit:
AMG I said this'd be a two shot but it became... a long fic /flails