I got off the elevator and walked to the test-chamber door, portal gun in hand, and waited for the sign that told me what the test involved lit up. This is test sixteen, I believe. "Due to mandatory maintenance the next test chamber is currently unavailable" said GLaDoS. Oh god… what now? "It has been replaced with a live fire course designed for military androids. The enrichment center apologizes for the inconvenience and wishes you the best of luck." Great, just great… well I'd better go in. after all if I don't try, I definitely won't get any cake. I went in and spotted the first android and I stood there pondering how I was going to deactivate the thing. Maybe if I shoot a portal under it… I looked over at the wall. And put one on the wall… it might not work, but it's worth a shot. I moved quickly shooting a blue portal under the android "red" portal on the wall. The "red" portal wasn't particularly red; in fact it was quite orange. It fell out of the "red" portal and hit the floor. That I expected, I didn't expect that the thing would start randomly shooting everywhere. I jumped back and my blood stained the wall. Not that a few shots mattered anyways… Chell thought as long as I don't die the Atomized Body Repair Androids will heal me. By that point i had gone down the end of the hall, taking down another android and taken a left and shot another portal up on a ledge with a third android. Shooting the other portal onto the wall i quickly jumped through it taking a few more hits that healed quickly. I continued on down the hall where two androids facing each other made it impossible to pass. I pulled two boxes from a space between the wall and… a secret room? I squeezed into the small space facing the piston and I turned around. What I saw made my blood run cold, and my heart started pounding, I found it hard to breathe; the reaction I was having was caused by one thing. A horrifying, scary truth…
The cake is a lie
Scrawled countless times on the walls along with score marks that represented days I knew that this one simple phrase… this simple truth… would be burned in my mind forever.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie…
Could it be the truth? Is GLaDoS lying? What do I do with this knowledge?