GLaDOS walked through her ruined facility, slowly getting used to her new humanoid body. A while back, she had gotten bored with just hanging around in a room, so she had made herself robot body- but she made it look like a young human woman with long flowing hair that was part black, part grayish white. Her eyes were yellow and her figure was slim. She was beauty model material; just the way she wanted it.

But, now as she walked through the Aperture Science Laboratories, she didn't feel anywhere near a beauty model. Seeing her precious facility in such a state of despair almost brought her to tears- a feature she had actually included in her human design. Even in all the months since He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named took over, the large building was still in a state of disaster.

To help her out with the re-building efforts, she had turned a majority of her turrets into humans. Male and female, she had just put the machine on random setting the specifications to white hair and red eyes. But even with there help, re-building was coming along very slowly.

Now, standing in a ruined Test Chamber 00 in the Computer Aided Enrichment Center, she gently stroked a damaged self-portal placer on the wall, like it was her child. "Oh, my facility..." she mumbled for the umph- hundredth time. She was about to see if still worked like it had when the Mute Lunatic was going through the center, when a loud, deafening noise sounded from above her. "What?" She looked up, only to see the ceiling.

Moments later, a huge crash that sounded like an explosion shook the center. GLaDOS connected to the center control grid ( her brain was wirelessly connected) and commanded her turrets to to find out what happened. A buzz of "Search mode activated" blasted back to her as hundreds upon thousands of turrets replied. It was almost deafening. But above the noise, one "Target acquired." rose above them all.

GLaDOS immediately silenced all the turrets except for the one that mattered. "Where are you?" GLaDOS demanded.

"Wing R, Chamber 7. But-"

"Good." She cut the connection. Wing R. That's where she was now. She turned around sent a wireless signal to the wall to open up the secret panel that lead to the maintenance areas.

She scurried through quickly, having the entire building layout downloaded into her head, she knew exactly where to go. GLaDOS stopped only once to read a messy piece of graffiti written on the wall.

"The cake is a lie." GLaDOS read aloud. She shrugged it off and snapped her fingers; a recording program started. "Note to self: Clean up graffiti on wall. Maintenance area R-W." She snapped again and hurried down the dust covered hallway.

About 5 minutes later, another wall panel opened and lead her into a destroyed Test Chamber 7. It had been bad before: Overgrown and rotting with age and rust, but now it was unrecognizable. There was a huge crater in the middle of the room with smoke rising up from it. Standing in front of it, looking down was a short white-clad girl with blacked tipped white hair; the turret that GLaDOS was looking for.

She ran over and quickly searched her memory banks; the turret's name was 'Tara'. "So, what crashed from space?" GLaDOS asked slowing to a stop next to Tara.

"I don't think you're going to like it ma'am." She replied nervously, pointing down.

Curious yet hesitant, GLaDOS looked down and stopped breathing for a seconds. She was looking at a severely burnt and damaged, yet unmistakeable Intelligence Dampening Sphere. His blue eye was flickering and faded; he was blinded, but still able to hear.

"No. No no no no" GLaDOS took a step back in panic. "What- how the HELL did HE get here!" She looked at Tara for answers.

She replied, "Well he obviously orbited close enough to the earth-"

"I know how inertia and gravity work!" GLaDOS snapped. "What are the odds- oh never mind!" She pulled her hair then put hands together under her chin.

'Deep breathes... Calm down...' She told herself. Taking a recollecting breath, she looked down at Tara and smiled. "Grab that... THING and throw it in the incinerator for me will you please? And make sure it dies very painfully?"

"Yes ma'am!" Tara saluted and started to climb down the crater.

Taking another breath she turned to leave when suddenly she heard a voice. It wasn't Tara's; it was't anyone's. Only GLaDOS could hear it.

Caroline.

'Come on now,' her former self scolded her, 'That's a bit harsh. C'mon give him second chance.'

Without even realizing what she was doing, she turned around and called out, "Wait! Don't kill him!" She groaned. "Give him a body. Put the machiene on random and give him a body. Just make sure he isn't taller than me."

"Uhg!" She turned back around without waiting for an answer and continued to walk to her chamber.

"I need a margarita." She moaned as she slumped in her center chair.

Alcohol was always the ans