Hey guys! This story is, just like the other one, a story that i came up with to amuse myself when I had gotten bored. It is a little on the strange side, but I'm pretty sure that it's original. o3o. I honestly don't know how long this is going to be, but I'll see as I go on. Oh yeah, and Cover Art! I've gotten much better at drawing in paint tool SAI, and this is just temporary. I'm still actualy working on it, but I think It looks pretty good so far! :D
So yeah. If you like Minecraft FanFiction, you should check out my other Book, The Crafting Chronicles: New Beginnings. I'm planning to make it into a full length book, so I could really appreciate your support. Anyway...
Enjoy the first Chapter!
Chapter 1: WAT?
"Aurora, get off the game! It's 12:00 already! Seriously!" I sighed and shut down my computer. I had been playing the original portal, and was really enjoying getting back to it. I hadn't played it in like a year, and I was breezing through the chambers like there was no tomorrow. Of course I had to get off just when I finished test chamber 16. I was looking forward to seeing my old buddy, The Companion Cube. Oh well, I guess I'll do that some other time.
I slipped into my portal jammies, complete with a companion cube t-shirt. My long silver hair kept getting in my eyes after I took it out of a ponytail, so I just decided to keep it like that till morning. I climbed into bed and closed my eyes. I was a lot more tired than I thought I was, because I fell right asleep.
I woke up (to my surprise) sitting upright in what seemed to be a tube, rather than my comfy warm bed. I shook myself awake and looked around. Upwards, the vent seemed to continue for some ways, while underneath me there seemed to be a hatch that opened. I could see that the tube was sticking out from the ceiling, giving me a tiny view of my surroundings. I seemed to be in a somewhat small room that had a black screen on the wall and pretty much nothing else. I could hear something bouncing against a wall in the background. I went to remove my ponytail, when realized that my appearance had completely changed.
Examining myself, I was wearing a grey dress with what sort of looked like armored plates stitched into the tough fabric. In the center of the dress was a large metal circle with a pink heart embedded into it. I had Grey metal boots on, that connected to a pair of stockings made of the same material as the dress. On them were more metal plates, with tiny metal circles that had more hearts embedded into them. My hair is what shocked me the most. It had become a vibrant pink. I wore some kind of headband with; you guessed it. Another heart in the front. On the top of my head was some kind of metal headwear that I couldn't seem to remove.
What had happened to me? More importantly, where was I!? It was then that I noticed the Aperture Laboratories logo etched into the corner of my dress. No way. I was not inside Portal. There was just no way. This ain't a FanFiction story here, this is my life! Freaking out, I started banging on the sides of the glass tube. Although I mostly knew this wouldn't get me anywhere, I was pretty much at the brink of panicking. Well… not really the brink, I was pretty much there. After my efforts proved fruitless, I just sat down and curled up into a ball. I might have cried a bit, I'm not really sure. Hours passed, with nothing that interesting happening. I slowly regained my sanity as time went along. Eventually I just fell asleep due to stress.
Upon waking, I heard an elevator arriving from down the hallway. A young woman, about my age, walked down the hallway slowly. She was wearing an orange jumpsuit, and had her semi-short black hair tied up in a ponytail. She wore some kind of device on her legs, which I guessed were the advanced knee replacements. In her hands was what I was almost sure was a portal gun. This had to be Chell. I doubt that any other test subject would survive past a few chambers. She looked up at the vent, and a robotic voice started to speak. "The Vital Apparatus Vent will deliver a Weighted Companion Cube in Three. Two. One." I guessed that the thing I was in was the vent, but I wasn't a Companion Cube! Then I pieced it together. The hearts all over my outfit, and the fact that I was in here must mean that I was here in place of the Companion Cube. This still made no sense whatsoever, but at least I was figuring some things out. The hatches opened beneath me and I started to fall to the ground, only to be caught by Chell and her portal gun. I didn't know that the portal gun could hold a person up, but there never were any people to try it on in the game. She set me free from the gun's gravitational field and stared at me with a confused look on her face. The mechanical voice that I now assumed was GlaDoS spoke up again. "The Weighted Companion Cube will accompany you through the test Chamber. Please take care of it." I looked at her and introduced myself.
"Hello, my name is Aurora. Look, I'm just as confused as you are about this. I know that I'm not a companion cube, and that I look like one anyway. I'm; to my knowledge, a human just like you. I'm… not from around here. Not from this universe to be exact. Your name is Chell, right?" She pointed at her throat and made an x-sign with her hands, indicating that she couldn't speak. "Yes, I know that you're a mute." She was surprised by this. "I know a lot about this place, because where I come from, this world is a video game. One that I've beaten quite a few times to be exact." This really boggled her mind; to the point that she was rubbing her head. "Now, I can lead you through these test chambers safely, due to the fact that I've done this many times before." She nodded, and we went to go complete the chamber.
The first thing that I realized was that I was going to need to act as if I were the cube to get past many of these obstacles. The first one was a real pain, due to the fact that I had to get on my hands and knees to let Chell up the ledges. She then lifted me up to the ledge with the portal gun. After doing this a second time, we went to go down the next hallway. What stopped us was the high energy pellet that flew directly past our faces, and almost hit us. I was stumped on how we were going to get passed this test without a cube. "How are we supposed to do this? It's impossible…" Suddenly, she lifted me up (against my will) and went to walk down the hall using me as a shield. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING ARE YOU CRAZY" I couldn't move, as the gravitational field of the gun locked me in place and wouldn't allow me to move. I could see the high energy pellet coming closer and closer… I closed my eyes for what I assumed would be my demise. Bang! I opened my eyes to see that the pellet had simply deflected off my chest. Well that was a relief. "Good thinking… But could ya ask me next time!?" She smiled innocently and continued on. GlaDoS piped in again.
"The symptoms most commonly produced by enrichment center testing are superstition, perceiving inanimate objects as alive, and hallucinations. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak." Orly GlaDoS? I speak more than you do. Asshole. Chell looked at me with a nervous stare, most likely because of what she had just said. I smiled kindly.
"Don't worry, I don't even have a knife. GlaDoS is just trying to scare you. She still thinks I'm a cube, so what does she know?" I could see the uneasiness fade from her expression. She nodded, and used me as a shield again to block another pellet. It sort of felt weird being used like an object, but it was necessary. We came up to a large room next, where I directed Chell where to shoot portals to send the pellet into the catcher. As it went in, the first of three platforms rose up. We then jumped down and walked over to the next section of the test. Chell lifted me on top of a platform with the gun, and I waited there while she went and stepped on the second button to open the door. This let the first pellet we had encountered through to the catcher. GlaDoS said something about in the event of the Cube speaking, to disregard its advice. I was mostly ignoring her at this point. We went to the final room, and I deflected the pellet with my body into the catcher. Finally finished, we walked back to the main room and jumped across the platforms. I stood on the button, and GlaDoS started to speak.
"You did it! The Weighted Companion Cube certainly brought you good luck. However, it cannot accompany you for the rest of the test and, unfortunately must be euthanized." Chell's eyes widened, as well as mine. I forgot about this part of the test. I don't want to die in a fire! And the doors wouldn't open unless I was incinerated in the machine. And I could see that Chell didn't want to do it either. She must enjoy having some kind of human interaction. But… what was there to do? It's not like there's a button to just drop another companion cube; a non-human one at that. We sat there for what seemed like forever, trying to figure a way for me to escape this alive. GLaDoS kept saying things, trying to get her to do it.
I looked at Chell and said, "I started thinking… if I have to die so that you can continue on, then that is what must be done…" I could see the sadness in her eyes, and she shook her head. Even though she denied it, she also knew that this was the only way. "Look, I don't want to die either, but if you don't do this, then we'll both just sit here until we do anyway. We should just get it over with. It's worse to prolong this." I could see her eyes watering. She hadn't even known me that long, and she already cared this much? She really was a good person. Honestly, I'm not sure why I'm willing to do this, but there is no possible way that I think I could survive. If Chell had a chance to survive though, I want to help her do it. She hugged me, as a goodbye.
I went and stood on the big button to let Chell into the other room I then went and stood on top of the incinerator doors. I could see her looking at me through the glass, getting ready to push the button. She was on the verge of crying. She held her hand over the button that would end my life. I, for the second time in one day, prepared for my own death. I closed my eyes, and heard the doors open beneath me.
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