My first Portal story. Disclamer: Portal and all related charcters belongs to Valve...cause if i owned it, EVERYONE would get cake!...well...at least me and the cores..

If GLaDOS could feel any form of glee...now would be the time. They had found it, her little testing bots had found the Human Vault. A strange sensation of euphoria swept through the AIs circuits. "Today," she thought, "Is a glorious day for science."

She had been planning for this day for a long time, her chassis shivered with the anticipation of all the new test subjects...all the new , her little androids Orange and Blue were obsolete...or where they?

All of these humans were in stasis, naked,and most likely delusional. And someone was needed to wake them up. Since she had so many new tests to run, Orange and Blue were the perfect applicants to fulfill this vital occupation.

"Orange, Blue, please come to the Central Core Chamber for new assignments," GLaDOS said in her distorted female computer generated voice.

With in a few moments of her request, Atlas and P-Body were standing before her, saluting her like she was an old army general.

"Amazing, you made it here in record time," as their mistress said this, the 2 robots hi-fived each other and started jumping around with delight. It was a thrill and a rare occasion when GLaDOS would compliment them BOTH, with out any snark comment.

Disgusted with their showing of human emotion, the AIs yellow optical dimmed a bit and she shook her massive faceplate in disappointment.

"However," she said in her deep monotone. The 2 bots stopped their jubilee immediately, for they had learned when ever their mistresses voice got deeper, she was disappointed in them, and that meant getting disassembled for a while. The Al continued, "When I said record time, i meant to slowest time every recorded."

P-Boby, gave a high-pitched moan, and Atlas growled in his deep bass. Their optics stared at the floor in shame.

"You should be disappointed, a human could do better. But, this isn't time to discuss your abominable display. I have a new job for you."

The robots looked up at her with with questioning hesitation.

"As you know, we have new test subjects to take care of, and its going to be your job to prepare them for testing."

For once in there artificial lives, P-Body and Atlas didn't know how to react. But, deciding this was GOOD news, they returned to there happy dancing, uttering squeaks and beeps of pure joy.

"That's it!" GLaDOS shriked at the robots. Her chassis was shaking with anger. "You want to be all human? Well fine...that's what you get..." The robots were quaking in fear, holding each other for dear life. GLaDOS then blinked her yellow optic, causing the bots to explode into pieces.

"They wanted to humans so bad...I'll give them the next best thing." the AI thought. Her testing robots...would be the perfect...test subjects. Her optical seemed to glow a bit brighter and her her face plate seemed to move in way that looked like she was smirking.

The AI was finally ready for what would be Aperture's greatest achievement, the scientists were working on this for years, as her archives showed, and they finally made it fully operational just before she was put in control...well before she killed all of them that is.
This was greater then the proportion, conversion, repulsion gel put together...maybe even better the the handheld portal device...

Orange and Blue didn't look around the Human Vault thoroughly, well not before she disassembled them to bring them back into the main testing chambers. But in the back of the vault...were one of Aperture's greatest kept secrets...one she didn't even know about.

Humanoid Artificial Intelligences. HAI's as the scientists called them. They were bodies that were designed to look like a perfect human, but under the pseudo skin, were the technological wiring that might have even surpassed her engineering.

Each HAI was designed for a specific core. Her four personality cores, a few corrupted cores, even that little moron the Intelligence Dampening Sphere had one. But to her surprise, there was even one built for her. "Or maybe they were just trying to make me like Caroline."

Caroline...the human she was based off of...she couldn't be deleted...it was impossible, so GLaDOS did the better option, and put all of Caroline's data into the opera turret.

So now...the Al had a new chassis. Better not waste it. She might as well bring back the moron, just to see him test. I think...two core transfers are in order.

Looking around at all the empty shells, she couldn't believe it. "There's science to do..." GLaDOS said to herself. Quickly beginning to reassemble P-Body and Atlas, she made sure they were in a core transfer chamber.

While some might be sceptical of how one robot could do all this. Well, when you're a titan of an AI, in control of an entire testing facility, this is the equivalent of blinking an eye for GLaDOS.

"At least I don't have to promise them "cake"..."

ITS BEEN LIKE MONTHS!...I'm SO SO SO SORRY for the unintentional hiatus! Life kinda got in the way…friends family…and the high school musical, The Wiz! Any who I apologize alos for NOT answering reviews. I promise I'll get better at that…AND IM BACK! I think my X-Mas story will be put on hold and SEVERAL chapters of "Pieces of Me" are on the way! I hoped you enjoyed my first Portal story as well! Thank you for your patience!

PS: I'll leave a little blurb about what's going on in life after each chapter…ya don't have to read it…but in case you were wondering! LOVE YOU ALL AND PLEASE REVIEW! Each reviewer gets a Portal Gun!

~WTL