Authors Note: This is my first Half Life or Portal Fanfic. I am sorry if my HL1 Info is sketchy but I used a timeline from here .. I took some of my own idea/theories from Portal and Half Life. Certain places may be extended to bring new aspects to it, others may be shortened if I believe it won't progress the story. If I hadn't scarred you off by now please enjoy

Warning: I do not own Half Life or Portal except for the copies I own. It is owned by the Valve Corporation.

Half Life : A Grim Hope

Chapter 1: Escape

A voice boomed over Chell who now found herself in some kind of maintenance room for the turrets there appeared to be one which was almost operational but just didn't seem to fire others lied on the ground as crumpled heaps. The one operation one seemed to just open up as it always did and just said in an innocent voice "there you are" she watched as it desperately tried to find her and she just pushed it over and in just as innocent voice it commented "I don't blame you" She stood over it simply shaking her head in sadness "You're not a good person! You know that, right! Good people don't end up here!" Chell as earlier ignored the voice enjoying the rise of anger in a computer that had tortured her for the last weeks. Ever since she discovered the hideouts she had taken advantage of all of them. Stayed as long as she could; drank the water, ate the beans. Calmly figuring out each of the puzzles. She always attempted to use any one of the many abandoned computers she found but there was never a usable monitor to use them on. All of them just seemed to be some kind of recipe

She began to think back to a week earlier; or at least what felt like a week earlier she had no clue how long the crazy robot had kept her in that bed like contraption. When she looked at herself through the portal she hadn't aged she was still in her early twenties. She was nothing but a part time employee but everyone treated her as one of there own. She even remembered her first day at the enrichment center one year ago…

She was in a room for new people, she was the only one in there but she could tell it was made to hold many other people comfortably. "Welcome to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center" a slim man in a white coat announced walking through a circular door

Chell stood from the orange coach with the ever so familiar Aperture Science logo "Hello, hehe it's funny I thought that with the reputation of this place I figured some kind of computer would give me the tour" she gave a small smile to the man. He had small oval shaped glasses and brown messy hair. He held a clip board with papers on it

"Well normally it would but it's currently going through a slight AI upgrade" He flipped through some of the papers on his clip board "well Ms... Chell Legends it says here you will be our part time mechanic in our… portable turret defense division?" He looked up from his clipboard to see her reaction they were light blue

For a moment she said nothing just looking at him until she realized the now awkward time gap "Umm YES I… will be…" she stated her voice growing smaller over the course of the sentence. She nervously pushed her two index fingers together out of embarrassment.

The scientist looked at her and a small laughed emerged "Its okay were all nervous on our first day" he reassured her putting a hand on her shoulder. This only made her more embarrassed

'Damn it why am I acting like this?' She shrugged off the hand and pushed back her black hair "So are you going to show me around this place?"

"Sure things fallow me" He smiled walking through automated circular door revealing a treadmill that seemed to span the entire hallway with a glass structure doming it all to reveal the wonders beyond it. She looked up seeing that there were boxes with windows which she could only assume were rooms. This was only countered by the tubes seeming to easily deliver any thing to anything else. She looked amaze keeping her gaze toward the ceiling the pure massiveness of the place. There seemed to be a never ending of shining silver railways connecting all the rooms with what could only be described as a 3D railway to get to anywhere faster it was truly a sight to behold. As they reached the end of the hall they walked into a room it was closed with a few guys watching monitors there were three doors one needing some kind of access

"Wow that was… amazing" Chell said incredulously

"Hmm what?" the unnamed scientist queried "Oh no that wasn't the facility that's just some smoke and mirrors for the tourists or investors" he said with a small laugh.

One of the guards decided to take interest "You fell for that?" the guard said laughing at Chell who now realized she embarrassed herself yet again. She looked down and to the left; to on lookers it may look as if she was upset and ready to break down when in actuality…

'Don't assault him. You need this job you need this job you need this job' she repeated to her self as she walked next to the scientist who was now at the locked door. She opened her eyes to see him swap a card through a slot then put his eyes into some kind of box. Some light scanned his eyes then he pulled back and the door opened it revealed a small hallway with what appeared to be an elevator "See ya Grease Monkey". She nearly doubled back to assult him They walked through the door which quickly closing behind them.

"Sorry about that, he gets his kicks by making fun of people" he said walking toward the elevator "Well at least it's good to know it worked on you"

"What's that supposed to mean?" she said insulted staring intently at the scientist

"Well you seem like a smart person and if that simulation could fool you then it will fool any of the idiots who usually walk in here" The elevator opened for them

"Oh… thanks" Chell had a very light blush from the comment before she finally realized something "Wait you never told me your name"

"Oh I apologize it's Rhys Galaway" they walked through the threshold of the elevator as she looked to him with an evil grin

"That's an odd name"

"ya well… CAN YOU HEAR ME?"

The Computers voice brought her back from her daydreams 'Right I can reminisce after I escape from this place' She looked around the room and found a wrench and a clamp 'Damn even if I bring this along those passages would just vaporize it… Unless' she looked at the wrench and awkwardly place it in between her shirt and her skin 'hopefully that ill keep it from vaporizing' she looked around trying to find a way out of the room she was in. the metal bars leading to the next floor were rusted off so she looked to the small out cove she was in and found a portable wall. She shot a orange portal above a cube transportation tube she then shot one below her ending up on top of the tube. From there she could see another portable wall and shot another blue one to then jump into the orange portal. 'Next'.

Alyx Vance, perhaps one of the youngest humans alive, being only a small child when the Resonance Cascade occurred. She was about 23 now and one of the unknown leaders of the resistance. Anyone who ever met her remembered her just as an equal regardless if she was commanding them. Currently she was stationed somewhere between Black Mesa East and City 17. Conducting raiding missions on the small Combine outposts. She would then distribute the supplies to the watch posts even though most go to Black Mesa East. She was the daughter of the famous Eli Vance perhaps the second most legendary man of the resistance; second only to the hero of Black Mesa Gordon Freeman, also known as 'The Last Free Man' by the Vortigaunts knew him as. This annoyed

'My father is the spine of this movement, without him it would all fall apart. Regardless this Freeman somehow has become the hero. He hasn't even been seen since the Black Mesa incident, and that was over 19 years ago, the guy's probably dead.' She sighed carrying a box of supplies as rain poured on her. 'But as long as long as he inspires people he's fine in my book… too bade he's just a myth otherwise he could really jump start this rebellion' She looked to her right to see what could only be described as a ghost building. A resistance ghost story. It was a rotting building but strangely enclosed no blast off walls just the makeup that only time can give. There have been several attempts to get supplies out of the place, no one ever comes back; or that's how the story went 'Still you can never know which are the stories and which are the real horrors' her group continued in their march on the abandoned road. She took one last look at the building 'Aperture Science Enrichment Center I should ask dad about that'

Chell walked to the end of what seemed to be a dead end hall to find another magnetically sealed door, a few pipes and the smell of rotting sewage another mysterious marking on the wall of a bloody arrow pointing to a water drain. 'Whoever was here before me got this far I can get farther' she carefully shot a portal to a wall luckily able to have a portal work on it. She shot one to a wall to the side of her and walked through to find a irrigation system and a 1 inch thick sewage making it difficult to move in she could barley see any of the massive room above her. The only thing she could make out was 4 massive columns and plenty of railways above rusted just like everything else in this building. She placed a portal on a column walking through the portal next to her; the room was like an open cube. There were plenty of turret doors. She looked around and let out a sigh of relief 'Thank god there are no more of those damn cameras she… It probably doesn't even know I'm here' She took a closer look at the place 'Hey I know this place, this is the final test for the military androids' she heard a loud beep from above her and panic set in 'No no no no no no no' simultaneously all 10 of the doors opened to reveal as many turrets searching for a prey 'SHIT' under fire she dashed to her portal back to the drain and shot one as a bullet soared past her face she jumped back to be back in the sewer pit she shot both halves of the portal in front of her to avoid any more fire she decided to rest. Even that monster couldn't reach her here. Sweat dripped from her brow, her breath heavy. 'How did I get here?'

"Where are we going now?" Chell asked seeing the giant 'SECTION C' sign over the massive magnetic door.

"This is the largest part of the building where both of our departments will be so I thought we should get to that first" he slipped a card into a slot to the side of the door. The doors unlock revealing the chaos inside. People running back and forward with broken scraps of metal and papers going around everywhere

"What is this place?" She said to both horror and disbelief

Making a grand gesture Rhys outstretched his arms walking back into the throng of the mess "This is…" he took in a breath for effect "The Enrichment Center's Testing of Military and New Technologies!" he said with a smile "Better known as C-Sec"

Chell gave a small laugh at his goofiness walking into the room the room slowly closing behind her. She walked a few steps before a guy in a rollie chair with a lab coat riddled with oil splotches sped in front of her papers flying from his hands. He had brown hair with blue dyed tips. 3 other burocrats ran after him trying to get the papers back

"This is the bureaucracy part of it so naturally it chaotic I promise it cools down as we go farther in" He said with his arms now coming down feeling more and more foolish. "Fallow me" he said dodging by as many people as possible

She fallowed in suit dodging by people to get into yet another elevator honestly is that the only way they get around. "So where next?" She said sarcastically the tour not being very impressive so far

He looked slyly at her "The testing chamber" he said simply

She just shrugged both waited as the doors quickly slid open revealing a much neater environment nice shining walking platforms with nice clean clear water below them seeming to move around. Most likely powering this section of the building. They walked into a room with a couple of monitors and scientists inputting some sort of data, one of them acknowledged their entrance the other simply kept his eyes on the screen. There were two smaller rooms with mirrors the size of the wall that occupied it. She quickly walked into one of the rooms inside the window was two turrets. They were basically tripods with guns attached. They were structurally weak any one walking by would knock it over by accident. It appeared to be a training course and sure enough a robot… no more of android came crashing through easily decapitating each mounted gun with ease. "This is what I'm gonna be fixin?" She said disappointed

"Well… ya we go through them like crackers so we need people to fix them"

She sighed "I guess it's a part time job for a reason"

"Here I'll show you your room"

Chell looked up at the toxic water which was once pure, and only one question kept coming up 'How long have I been gone?' She then decided to think of a way out of here instead of happier days. 'Ok these still seem to be based on the older models, so they can be pushed over each of the rooms were small but would provide cover to ditch each turret over the side, one by one they will topple and I can move on'She once again shot a portal to through the water drain and quickly if not immediately shot a portal to the first turret she saw just before the bullets flew he was behind the little turret with the portal gun she picked it up and threw it over the side. She saw another turret across the room. She gave a small smile as she shot a portal to her next victim. As she planned they each fell she was nearly shot a couple times, one unfortunately found its mark in her arm. Luckily though it went clear through the muscle making no lasting wound she closed it up with some cloth from her pant leg. She used the ever useful double jump to fly to her destination at the top of the room where there was yet another out cove not occupied by turrets… or so she thought. As if a last line of defense two more turrets dropped down by the metallic claw. Her adrenaline was still pumping hard and she quickly shot a portal under both of them they met in the middle clanged. Shooting wildly any way they were facing. They then settled on the ground said they're child like goodbyes and closed there red eye faded. She fired a portal in the hell of a room she was just in then under each of the turrets to be rid of them. She looked up from a square opening above her none of the ceiling was portable she looked beneath her at the portal then up 'if you go out faster horizontally then it should work the other way right?'

She thought quickly and ran back and jumped out of the out cove and watched as the ground approached her and at the last moment shot a single portal to the ground flinging her with more then enough momentum to land on the floor once above her. She looked to a rail way above. A week ago this would have been a conundrum now it was child's play. Walking confidently she shot a portal to the upper level and one below her appearing on the other side. Then walked through the door finding herself on one of the many catwalks she saw earlier. 'I'm approaching the end… I can feel it' excitement filled her as she approached the door in the out cove at the end of the hall. She looked over the side seeing some of the discarded turrets. She opened the door expecting yet another army. But there wasn't one just a hallway a nice clean hallway. She walked down it adrenaline settling down to a buzz of worry. She found at the end there were two paths one more promising to advance her progress but a window drew her to the other one. She looked inside to find a slideshow. It was a conference room with chairs and a… COMPUTER. Info finally she could find something out. She nearly slammed the Portal Gun into the window but she couldn't risk the gun for this so she looked back to find another rollie chair she gently put the gun down grabbed the chair and slammed it into the window. A small crack was what she got for her effort. She tried again. A ripple appeared along the center. She used all her strength and slammed it one last time. The window shattered to pieces most of it ending up of the other side. 'Time for some answers'

Alyx's group was approaching Black Mesa East the current base for the North American Resistance. All the supplies had made it there. med kits, food, and clean (non mind erasing) water. As soon as everything and everyone was accounted for she headed up to her dads lab.

"Alyx your back, good" Eli limped; his leg had been replaced by a crow bar.

"Dad don't you think we should replace your leg with something a little more advanced then a piece of metal?" Alyx said jokingly

Eli just smiled "Hey if this thing was good enough to get me out Black Mesa then it should be plenty ok to use in a lab"

"Fine whatever" Alyx said with an air of sarcasm "Hey dad what was Aperture Science?" Te question startled Eli and he almost dropped his folder filled with papers

"That dear is a loaded question sweetie" Eli said hoping to have the question dropped "Well what do you know about it?"

"Well I know that they supposedly created the Borealis, but that's just a legend " She said listing things on each of her fingers "They were around the same time as Black Mesa… and that they have some kind of center down the road… That's just about it" she ended her list with a simple shrug

Eli wrote down some info he got off of some portal information "Well your right. They're actually Black Mesa's rival… it was like America and USSR in the space race except we were going for portal technology"

"USSR?… and the continent of America had a race to create more space?" Alyx said trying to understand

"That's right you never learned about them sorry the United States and the country Russia had a race to reach outer space first, it was a competition that spanned several years which ended when the United States landed a man on the moon, but that's all beside the point. We were each trying to create a new way to travel easily since Hubert predicted that the oil would run out eventually. Even though most tried to ignore it many of us banded together and started on a solution. Soon the government wanted to monopolize on this endeavor and created the Black Mesa Facility. Soon enough Aperture Science got wind of it and the competition started. From what we heard before the Resonance Cascade they nearly finished a working portal this pushed us to be… reckless and made us continue with a test that could be disastrous… I don't have to tell you how disastrous it was" He left that hang in the air

"Dad it wasn't your fault" Not quite believing it herself

"No it was all our fault. We were too competitive and ended up harming everyone" he limped to his desk and pulled out a box concealed behind his desk. It had a large red circular mechanism, wires, a chip and a metal bulb. Alyx almost squealed in excitement

"I… Is that… D0G's new…" She said smiling pointing with a shaking finger to the hunk of metal, her eyes shining.

"Yep its D0G's eye, AI, and memory core"

Alyx gave a huge smile and attached herself to Eli wrapping her arms around him. Causing him to almost trip with only one good leg to support him "THANKYOU THANK YOU

"Careful honey I'm not as young or balanced as I used to be" He said smiling, Alyx more focused on making sure he doesn't fall then showing affection pulled back

"Sorry" she heaved the piece of metal from the ground and quickly made her way to where she kept D0G.

There really wasn't much that Alyx got excited about, but D0G was one of them. In fact she was a popular person in the rebellion not to mention being one of the youngest person because of the suppression field. Most people either drank, trained, or remembered the 'good old days' there were few people who she could relate with. The one thing she did love to do was working with machines, and D0G was something that filled her with joy, since a young age she loved her metallic bodyguard. Originally Eli built him to protect her whenever he had to talk with other rebels also as a playmate. It was kind to Alyx and was hostile to everything else. First time he saw this was when a soda fell off a desk bumping on a young Alyx. He assaulted it crushed into bits and through it aside. This was soon corrected with a new AI to only attack things like Head Crabs, Antlions, and Combine. Watching her dad fix up D0G brought Alyx into the wonderful world of mechanics. By age 9 she attempted to attach a pistol onto each of D0Gs shoulders she was stopped by Barney which led her to a new approach. She decided to instead make dog bigger and stronger. He became so big or had too many gears and his AI couldn't handle the excess mechanisms. That time had come so she asked Eli to give him and upgrade. The memory core conveniently enough was to store his memories and use the new AI.

She came to a fork in the road she knew the way but one of them led to a rebel community Ravenholme. A man in a white robe stood at the entrance near some guards. He noticed Alyx and came over to her saying goodbye to the guards "Miss Alyx Vance how are you my child"

"Just fine Father Grigori" She used her knee to quickly prop up the box of metal which seemed to grow heavier as she stood there "-but this box is heavy and I need to get it to dog-"

"Think no more child I will let you get back to your work, as I will get back to mine" He retreated back down heading back to the Rebel village of Ravenholme

Alyx watched the man head back to his town. Soon though she realized how heavy the box she was carrying was and continued to the clearing at Black Mesa East. About two years ago D0G got inconveniently big and so in every base they used they found a place to have D0G rest. They had been at Black Mesa East for a while now and so Aylx had set shop there she even set up a computer out there. She made her way to the scrap yard… well it's the scrap yard now right now there was nothing there but a broken washing machine and a few bolts littering the ground. She made her way to the much larger opening where a over sized dog house stood. Or that's what she was told it was. She really didn't know what a real dog house was like, any dog she had seen were running loose.

"D0G… D0G come out boy" She called out placing the box on the dirt ground. A soft read light shown in the darkness of the dog house, and just as quickly it vanished. "Come on boy you can't move like that let me help" D0G quickly tried to dash away from the area attempting to run up the mountain wall. This did not work. He successfully imbedded his hand into the side of the wall but the other one slammed into his own head making him fall to the ground. A small groan was let out by the robot as it laid on its back. "How about now?" Alyx said sarcastically standing over D0G. Groaning he shook his head up and down for yes. Alyx opened up the head capsule and placed a key in a slot that had writing in black sharpie reading, POWER DOWN in an arching fashion. "I'll see you in a little bit ok" an understanding moan is the response she receives. She twists the key in the slot letting the entire body power down. She placed her hands on D0Gs Processor and memory core now unlocked. Previously protected by 5 in thick cube of metal. She quickly replaced the processor with no problem double checking to make sure each wire was perfectly inserted. 'Ok now for the hard drive' She brought the memory core to her computer and hooked it up using now antique computer from 1998. Regardless of the circumstances some of the scientists have been able to update the computers with combine tec. A screen appeared with 3 options on it.

Windows ME

Mac

Custom: Memory Transfer

She hooked up both the memory cores into the computer, the old one in the blue socket and the new one in the red. She clicked memory transfer. She waited five minutes until finally a one percent appeared she ducked her head into her arms in a annoyed gesture. 'It took 4 minutes the first time I did this' A small screen appeared on the screen with a beep 'Damn it it takes twice as long with anythi-' it was a message box

'Come back to the Lab something is happening at Aperture'

Mind numbed Chell continued to search the database held in the computer projected on the wall. She was looking for something specific and would notice it right away. She found a entire section made for personnel profiles. It was divided into sections, Mechanics, Programming, Testing, Cleaners. She went to programming nearly as soon as she saw the folder. That split it up to computer programming, Mechanics programming, and a few others she didn't bother reading before clicking computer programming to find Rhys's portfolio. A smile comes over her face and a faded red blush to her cheeks. She finnaly got back on task and got to the mechanic's section searching for hers but came across another's Skye Macalister 'Crazy son of a bitch'

*Crink*

"hm" Chell looked back at the turret she was working on to find a plate to start to slide "no…NO!" the thing fell apart breaking down completely. A lone nut rolled across the floor to settle in front of her. "GOD DAMNIT, USLESS PIECIES OF CRAP" She aimed and kicked the nut into the wall. She heard the door open behind her to find Rhys standing there

"need a break?" He said with a slightly worried look on his face

Chell breathed out and breathed in deep, she walked to a desk and grabbed a pencil and a notebook. "Sure lets grab some dinner"

"Its 7 o'clock in the morning"

"Really" She said incredulous and rubbing her eyes

"You should get some sleep Chell"

"If these turrets didn't come in by the shit load I would of" Chell looked at Rhys and realized he had nothing to do with the turrets and just cared about her "Sorry I seriously need some caffeine… or to be knocked out"

It was Chell's 3rd week at the Aperture Science Enrichment Center or ASEC. With only one week left she was looking forward to the 100 grad she was going to receive after next week. Still she had mixed feelings about leaving the place. Sure it was long and hard work, but she got 3 square meals(at least , and a place to sleep. But she was going to miss one thing most of all. She looked back at her companion 'Rhys…' her eyes looking upon him softly

"Chell?" She said repeatedly shaking his hand in front of her "You alright?"

She swiped his hand away both chuckling "Ya come on lets head to the cafeteria" She headed out the door and immediately shielded her eyes she worked in the dark mostly and well the rest of the complex was lit like the surface of the sun. "Crap"

"You need me to guide you?" Rhys said obviously trying to annoy her

"Shud up" She placed her flat hand to her forehead in a salute to keep the bright light out of her face

Before they could make progress to the cafeteria one of the scientist yelled across the hall "Hey there Grease Monkey"

Chell clenched her fist in anger trying her best to not kill the man 'Must… surpress… murderous… rage…' somehow the nickname had spread thoroughly through C-Sec.

Rhys saw this and decided to intercept "Shut up you jackass" He said to the scientist before she attacked the man. Then something happened it was almost unnoticeable maybe even non-existent but there was a smile on Chells face.

"Come on lets head to the cafeteria" They both finally ended up at the cafeteria it was a large room with hundreds of tables all around. It was the food source for everyone at the enrichment center. There were 100 to 200 people there and that was slow for this place. They decided to sit one table away from the window. Chell becoming ever more aware of her own exhaustion laid on the table using one of her arms to prop herself up.

A menu seemed to appear glowing under them showing them options. Rhys easily and quickly tapped to bacon and eggs. Chell on the other hand, squinted her eyes to avoid the bright light of the menu. She went to drinks and tapped drinks then coffee. It came up with 5 different styles and she just picked black. Then it came to 5 different beans and she just picked one not really caring as long as it had caffeine. Both of the screens simply said banked thank you.

This was fallowed by a time of quiet until a sound came from under the table as something started to rise. A circle spiraled open revealing for a second a darkness of the underground. This was soon replaced by half of a rising circle with bacon and eggs. "Where's my coffee" Chell questioned grumpily She lifted her head to look down to see something had broken "damn IT ALL" She rose and started searching the half of a hole in the table venturing for her coffee"

"Chell don't-" Rhys was cut off by something happening near the entrance to the room. A rising screen approached from the door, not one of panic but of excitement as the guy with blue tiped hair came charging through the door

"GET BACK HERE" A security guard announced getting through the door way as well.

Come on it has to be tested; he seemed to have some contraption on his leg he was thin but looked athletic

Chell looked up 'Testing out of testing environment… That causes things to break… WHICH I HAVE TO FIX' Chell giving up on the coffee got in between the man and what seemed to be his destination of the large room encompassing window that spanned the length and width of the wall.

"Get out of the way" Said the man with some sort of accent she frankly didn't care that which it was. "Oh a game of chicken this'll be fun.

Chell found herself pressed against the window only half paying attention. He charged and hit into her breaking the section of glass both of them flying out of the building. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" came the continuous noise from Chell as they plummeted. The man on the other hand was calm and held out his hand grabbing hers slowly pulling her towards him. Eventually holding onto her while she on the other hand was panicking

"I HOPE THIS WORKS. They continued the ground coming ever closer. He bended his legs for impact.

In a moment it was over… they were fine a burst of energy from the fot wear and she was fine Chell was in shock while the man on the other hand was excited "Yes it worked, he looked up to the people now investigating through the broken square of a window. "WERE FINE" He yelled up. Chell looked at the man and scrambled free from his arms getting to her feet " Are you CRAZY you nailed me through a window to test your new" She gestured to his feet "Whatever that is I could have died, WE COULD HAVE DIED"

His face looked guilty but some how happy at the same time until he looked at his palms which were wet and red… Blood red he lifted her hands to her and she stopped and felt her back where blood was seeping freely out… "You son of a…" Her vision blurred and she descended into unconsciousness

"WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID HAHAHAHAHAHAHA" Annoyed Chell rose from her seat she couldn't search though the whole thing she took out a USB she'd found baqck in the computer room and plugged it into the computer she was using. She just dumped the entire C-Sec personnel Files into it. She stuffed it down her shirt like what she did with the wrench. She climbed out of the broken hole of glass for a window and walked down the hall. Each step feeling like a final triumph to defeating her foe She opened the door and looked down to see something dangling from the ceiling lit up by a few balls with a different colors. She walked down the hall the portal gun in her hand and her objective in sight. Before crossing the threshold she stopped and thought. 'The only reason I got this far was the messages left by all the previous… people.'. She looked at her hand and used her thumb nail to dig into her pointer finger until she drew blood. She bent down on her knees and started to sketch the dangling mechanic creature. When she was finished she used what was left of the drying vein of blood to write, 'It's Her. She stood stepping over her drawing to walk into the large room steel door locking behind her. "Well you found me, Congratulations"

Alyx jogged back into the lab going to the monitors that everyone was crowding around "Dad what's going on?"

Almost unwillingly he turned around to address Alyx "Something strange is happening at the near by Aperture Science Enrichment Center"

Alyx leaned in to look at the screen of a picture turning back and forth by 60' degrees showing the front part of the center, the camera appears to be mounted on a fence that surrounded the complex "What…. Why… when did you place this?" She said observing every part of the grey image on the screen.

"We placed this here about 5 years ago, when we moved near city 17 for basic reconnaissance. This was one of the 10 that the combine didn't find" Eli limped his way back to his chair

"Ok but we replaced most of those if they were of any use. And we deactivated the originals 3 years ago why did this one stay on?" she looked down at her father trying to find an answer from him.

"A… man walked out of there 4 years ago, we couldn't set up anything again without the combine stopping us so this alone was kept on."

Alyx nodded that road could be used but there was a constant need to make sure no combine drove by and catch them all. "Wait who walked out… wait… HIM?!?!?" She looked at her father with a little fear in her eyes.

"Yes" he answered simply

She breathed out closing her eyes thinking for a moment then sighed "Ok so why do we need it on still?" she said still gathering info so she could understand. This time Judith Mossman answered trying to get her to stay quiet

"We kept it on so that if anyone like him show up again then we will be able to stop them and maybe, god willing we can get to he or she before the Combine do" Her words made an odd mix of anger and chills run up Alyx's spine.

"Fine so what's happening right now?" she said her tone implying it was her final question.

"Similar readings are appearing like when he escaped that place. Very unnatural" Eli said in a more friendly tone then Doctor Mossman was.

The grey image on the screen seemed to show the window's glow brightly "The hell….?" Alyx said as the screen started to glow brightly to the point that she was squinting

Chell looked up at the countdown clock it was slowly dropping down; it was in the last minute. She only had one more orb to grab but this one she held in mid air.

"Comeon you think you can stop me your not even a full time employee" Chell rolled her eyes 'Your files are over a year old… or a year before I got knocked out' for a moment she held her head. The events before the… whatever was painful to think about unless they came naturally. 'No. Need to focus on that there's' She coughed 'Nerve gas' She quickly looked at the wall then at the ground and tried to guess the trajectory from the wall to the orb. She jumped into the portal in the ground and then made sure she fell into it again propelling her just over the orb. She wouldn't be able to get another shot at this, she pulled back and kicked the hell out of the orb just enough to kick it out of her grasp. She landed easily but collapsed on the kicked leg. She had hurt it apparently, she winced but looked at the time '30 Seconds!' She tried to stand but just fell again. She thought for a moment 'Think with portals'. She aimed the portal device at the wall next to the incinerator and fired, then shooting another under the orb leaving it next to the closed burning pit. She then shot a orange one to the wall near the lever, she quickly fired a blue under her body dropping her near the railing. She stood on her good leg propping herself against the railing firing a blue one at the incinerator. She limped to the lever and pulled with as much strength she could muster. She quickly hopped back into the orange portal tripping out the other side. She looked at the countdown '10… 9…' She couldn't stand again and the incinerator was about to close. She picked up the orb and made a shot. It curved to the right 'Damn it I know I'm bad at basket ball, but when the teach said I couldn't make a shot to save my life…' she watched as it flew hitting the bare corner causing it to drop into the incinerator as the black cover closed just behind it

'Yes…' she breathed out propping herself against the wall hearing the ramblings of GLaDOS speed to a high pitch rate. 'Hehe die bitch…' she smiled weakly closing her eyes. She soon opened them as a bright light appeared above her, tearing at the walls around her. She just sat there until she started to lift off the ground. 'Well… if this is the end… at least I brought her down with me… Sorry Rhys'

Chapter 1 End

AAAAAAAAND its finished YES!!!!! I have been working on this for a few months I can never focus on anything this long. Well I know I have terrible spelling and grammar so for that I'm sorry. But I hope you enjoyed this first chapter please review.

Just a warning I will be slow to update, I'm just terrible at focusing so bare with me through the slow updates.