Chapter 1: awakening
Joyi wakes up, stretching. She looks around. Somethings wrong… the room is old and destroyed. There's a hole where there was a wall. She looks down, and she sees something she can land on.
She jumps down, looking back at the room, and its crumbling and bits are falling into the void. She looks around, no other humans, just her. she sighs, moving forward. There's a large drop ahead, and she drops down.
Crunch… she steps on broken glass. She hears a voice. "welcome to the tests, a portal will open in three, two, one." A blue portal opens. Joyi goes though it and ends up on the other side. She goes though a door on the other side, leading her to a big room.
She hears the voice again. "this is a test, complete it to get to the next one. It's a very easy one." A cube drops down at joyi's feet. She picks it up, bringing it over to the button near her, placing down. "good." The voice says, echoing in the emptiness. Joyi goes on to the next room, her foot steps echoing on the black floors.
"this here is a portal gun, but this is not the one we use normally. This one was designed for you and you only. It shoots light and dark pink portals. Have fun." The voice says, the words flickering and glitching out of existence at the last word. she was alone. She goes over, grabbing the portal gun. She looks around, still no one. Ting, ting, ting.
She spins around, looking for what made the noise. Ting, ting, tinggggg…. The noise bounces off the walls, as she finds the source of the noise. A blue sphere with golden handles is knocking on the metal. her eye is brown and gold, and near her eye is blue and covered with golden stars, and there's a faded-out star sticker on her. the robot looks at her.
"um…hello! My name is star blue, but you can call me star. I…I'm helping you get out of here. Here's my plan, get to Glados, shut her down, and find an elevator to the surface. Sound good?" her voice is confident and strong, and slightly high pitched. Joyi stares at her. "yeah… I know what you thinking. 'why should I trust you?' well… you don't have to, but it would be good to. because trust is very good for escaping places. Anyway, lets go." She goes farther down her rail, Joyi following close behind. They reach an elevator, Joyi going inside. "I'll meet you down there okay?" Joyi nods.
The elevator goes down, then stops, and the doors open. Joyi steps out and walks out of the room. She looks around for star. No sight of her. she waits.
Still no one. She decides to go without her. she walks on, her 'boots' calmly clanking on the floor. A door opens, walking though it she sees star.
"oh! Uh hey! How you doing?" Joyi stares. Star looks around uncomfortably. "…I'm just going to guess and say that's a 'yes'." Joyi walks forward, star following behind. After a little of testing and walking, star asks her, "how come you don't speak to me? Do you not trust me at all?" Joyi just stares. Star looks at the floor.
Joyi walks forward. Star says nothing, following behind her. they reach a room with no rail. Star looks at Joyi. "now, I know you don't trust me, but…the only way I can go with you is if you catch me when I go off the rail. Okay?" Joyi stares, then nods.
Star takes a breath. "three…two…one! Catch me!" star falls down, Joyi catching star in her arms. Star looks at her. "thank you for catching me. Let's go." The two walk on, star looking ahead, leading the way, almost. Most of the place is filled with destruction.
Star looks around, trying to see if there is any danger. Joyi keeps walking, her eye looking ahead. "stop!" star yells, her handles going up and down. Joyi stops, looking at star. "there's no more pathway…" she says, Joyi looks down to find out this is true.
Joyi looks around, trying to see if there was any platforms to land on. There was none.
"I…what do we do?" stars voice echoes off the walls, fear flowing from her words. Joyi put her arms around star tighter. "w-what are yoooo- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" star screams, as Joyi jumps off the platform, going on to another below her. Joyi releases her grip, putting a hand on star. "…oh, my goodness…ooookayyy…let's keep going." She says, her eye looking at Joyi.
Joyi continues forward, star moving slightly in her arms. Her eye closes, and she hums something, something that Joyi can't tell what it even is. The song moves in the beat of her footsteps, as stars hums fade away, Joyi realizes star has fallen asleep. Joyi finds a room, sits down and waits for her robotic colleague to wake up.
Star looks at the human, wondering what the humans name even was. Why would I ask her anyway? She doesn't trust me one bit. She doesn't even speak to me. Star looks at the floor. Should I just give up? What if I can't do this? Star looks back at the human, she smiles at star.
Or maybe she does trust me? The human goes closer to her and grabs her off her rail. "w-what are you…doing?" she asks, while being pulled in for a hug. Though it was probably no posable since she was a robot, she still blushed. "why are you hugging me?" the human looks at her, smiles again, and writes something and shows her. "'because your…cute'? w-what? I'm cute?" the human nods, just making star blush more.
"ooohh…your too much…" she says, looking away from the human. It all fades to black, star looks around but there's nothing but some humming. "hello?" she asks to the darkness.
Star wakes up, looking around she sees she's in the arms of the human, and she's humming. Joyi looks down to see that star is awake again. "how…how long was I asleep for?" she asks, though not excepting an answer. Joyi pulls out her watch, letting star look at it. "oh, my stars! It's been hours! Have you been siting here the entre time?" Joyi nods.
"oh…you could have woken me up you know, I don't really need sleep." Joyi shakes her head. Star looks ahead. "let's keep going while you have energy…" star says, while Joyi gets up after almost four hours of siting down. They walk towards the next room, star still in joyi's arms, Joyi humming a song. Her footsteps leading the way back home.