Portal
Metal Feathers and Steel Hearts ~ Chapter 1
A sudden electric shock ran through my body for a moment, I tried to open my eyes but my left eye wouldn't open normally, I looked through my left eye and a red screen came up it read 'System Start Up 100% complete' then the red screen faded down into a very clear image of the room I was in, I looked around and saw that I was on a bed, then a voice caused me to jump
"Warning, Incoming Unidentified Flying Object Approaching Facility" A robotic voice bellowed and alarm bells rang out, I panicked and jump up out of bed, I felt my left leg and right arm feel heavy, I looked down at my leg and saw white and black metal with a light on it attached to my leg, my bird leg, I jumped out of shock, then looked at my right arm, it was a dark brown and luminous blue wing, with a metal casing attached to the bone of the wing I-I'm a bird? H-How? I turned around looking at my body, I had long tail plumage, it was dark brown and was mixed with several luminous blue feathers, I hobbled off of my bed, it was a strange feeling when my knees were bending backwards
"Palawan Peacock-Pheasant Project, Test Subject; Suzume, Complete" The voice bellowed again "Project: Suzume, Active" Wait! My name's Suzie! D-Does he mean... me? So I'm a- what was it? A Palawan Pea... Peacock-Pheasant? "Unidentified Flying Object Altitude Decreasing: 50%, 40%, 30%... Estimated Impact Location: AI Transfer Facility" I looked up at the ceiling, there was a sign 'AI Transfer Facility' Oh No! That's- "Impact in Three... Two..." I looked around quickly then dived under my bed, putting my wings over my head "One..."
A loud crash shook the room, I dug my talons into the ground, I shut my eye tight, and my left eye went black, I felt a little electric charge in my back, pieces of the bed broke but I was unharmed, I reopened my eyes and sat up, I hesitated then walked out from the shelter of my bed, I looked around and small pieces of wood were on fire What actually crashed?... Oh what if it's an alien? I bent my legs, then jumped onto the bed, opening my wings for a few moments, I felt a collar around my neck, and a piece of metal attached to my face from my neck to my left eye, I looked on the floor infront of the bed, I saw a metal, partly damaged ball on the floor, I jumped off of the bed and looked at the ball, I paused, then moved closer to it, suddenly a shutter like eye blinked open, and the ball spoke
"I... Am not dead! Phew really thought I was a goner there, for a moment" I stared at the ball in confusion, tilting my head to one side, he rolled over a bit, using his handles "Now... how do I get out of here?" He rolled and his eye met with my face "Oh, Hello!"
"Um... Hi?" I heard an electrical type of voice come out of my mouth, I jumped slightly at the my voice "A-And who are you? And where am I?"
"Um actually, I was goin' to ask you that" he looked around using his eye, then looked back at me "Well, I'm Wheatley, and you are?"
"Oh, I'm Suzie, but I think someone's calling me Suzume" I opened my left wing to indicate the ceiling
"Oh, ok, so you're a Peacock? No Pheasant?" He looked all around me
"Pheasant? N-No! I'm a human!"
"Ha, a human? But you don't look like a... Oh yeah I see now" he just caught a glimpse of the sign on the ceiling "Well, good news is that I know roughly what's happened to you, you've been transferred from a uh human, to a half robotic, Palawan Peacock, nope correction, Palawan Peacock Pheasant core" I leaped backwards out of shock
"W-What?" I shouted Core?
"Yeah, a pretty, oddly shaped core, to be honest, but I remember some old plans for this, putting a uh, human into an animal, such as yourself, right now..." he babble on
"And what are all these things on my body?" I turned around, opening my wings, and trying to open my tail feathers
"Hmmm, yeah well, You have a power generator crystal on your back, another thing, that was old but quite useful, you have a collar attached to the crystal power, and a vision enhancer, Oh! You have a Portal Gun! Great! Now you don't have to find one!" He looked down at my left foot
"A Portal what?"
"Well, it makes holes, not holes like bullet holes or something, but it's a portal, um it's hard to explain, but the quick version, you use your, right talon for blue portal, and left for orange, when you use them you can walk through one portal and come out the other side" Wow...
"It does all that?" I lifted my left leg and shook it W-Wait a minute! What am I doing here? And I need to get home! "Hold on, Wheatley?" Yeah Wheatley... "Where am I? And how long have I been here for?"
"Ah, Ok well plug me into that wall over there and I'll read your details" he indicated to a plug in the wall
"Uh, with what? I have wings, that's it"
"Well, um yeah, err, try flying, just a little, not much, but grab my handle at the same time, and yeah just aim me at the plug" he suggested
"Um... Ok?" I jumped onto Wheatley's top handle, and then opened my wings, my wings were much stronger due to the metal casing So I'll just flap my wings like I would my arms right? I flapped my wings frantically, I lifted ever so slightly
"Ah there you go!" Wheatley called, I lifted more and more into the air, I then swung my legs back and forth "Ok Ok, just a little to the left" I twisted slightly then threw Wheatley into the air "Agh!" He turned in the air, but with luck, he landed in the plug socket, and plugged himself in "Well done! Now, let's see, Aperture Science Laboratory, Suzie... Suzie... Oh wait maybe Suzume... Ah there we go, Suzume, Test Subject for Personality Transfer, age 19, well that was two years ago so I guess you're 21 now"
"Two Years?" I shouted "Who for goodness sake did this to me?"
"Well, I uh, was in space for about uh, three years so it must have been her" Space? AI Transfer, 'Her'? What the hell is going on here?
"Space?"
"Oh yeah, just a thing that happened a few years ago, I was in charge of this place for a... short period, and I got shot into space by another Portal gun user, I fell into orbit of Earth and crash landed in here, so yeah you're up to speed, dunno where Space, Rick or Fact went but, oh well" he nodded
"Well can you get me out of here?" I asked then hesitated "No, even better, get me back into my body?"
"Well, ok I'll try, I need to just look for it, Suzume's body... Suzume's body..." Suddenly alarm bells went off "Agh! What did I do?"
"Oh, it's you again, what do you want, moron?" an eerie voice echoed throughout the room
"I, Am Not, A MORON!" Wheatley shouted back
"No, not naturally, you was designed to be like this, and I guess that you fell straight back down to earth didn't you?" the voice was female
"Ok Ok, I know that crashing back into aperture wasn't the smartest idea, but I am not a moron!"
"How about I put you in the potato this time? And then put you in a bird's nest?"
"No, no no no no no I'm fine thank you!" he called back, he then whispered to me "Quick get me out of here!"
"Oh no, you're not going anywhere" and electric shock pulsed through Wheatley
"GaaAAAAH!" he shrieked with pain Quick! I leaped at the plug socket, one of my wires inserted itself into the plug next to Wheatley, the electricity pulsed through, from Wheatley to my Crystal Power Generator, it didn't hurt at all, in fact the electricity felt natural, I yanked the cable back using my talon and landed on the floor, Wheatley was sucked into the wall, then re-emerged on the ceiling, attached to a rail "Ah, that's so much better thank you"
"Oh, who's this? Another test subject? Well, we'd better get to testing" I got to me feet, then suddenly the floor was retracting backwards
"Wheatley!" I shouted as I fell down the tunnel
"D-Don't worry! Just test! I'll come and find you!" he called after me Oh thank goodness! "If, you know, you're not, dead"
"What?"