Portal: The New Subject
Chapter 1: The Awakening
Hello Everybody! This is my first Fan-Fic, I'm fairly new to Fan , having made an account years ago and never using it. This story is supposed to take place after the events of Portal 2, with that said, Chell has no part in this story aside from some subtle references. Now, without anymore delay, lets start this adventure!
Prologue
Do you ever feel like your life is at a standstill? Well, If you haven't experienced it, let me tell you...its unbearable. You experience the same day over and over and over... In some cases this could be wonderful, replaying the greatest day of your life again and again. In my case, I only see that day...The day my life was ruined...
"Hurry up! We need to get out of here!" Those words echoed from the dark hallway. In another minute two figures approach the spot where my view is always centered.
"Why are we leaving, Roxanna? We've got a really nice life here! Sure we have to preform a few...Dangerous tasks every so often, but we get living arrangements, food, and medical care in return!"
At this point the two made their way around the corner, they were out of my view once again. If I could speak I would have let them know about the terrible mistake they had just made.
"Roxanna! I'm not going to take another step until you tell me whats going on!"
"We can't stop here! She must know we're gone by now!"
"She won't care! She'll understand that my crazy- Whoa! Whats happening?
Here it comes...the worst part of this terrible memory...
The sound of metal breaking, the walls shake.
The metal walkway under one of the figures shatters, the figure falls, endlessly, into the red abyss below him.
"Darrin!" The second figure fell to the ground sobbing.
And that was it. I was dead. Oh, I didn't mention that was me? Well, let me introduce myself.
My name, is Darrin, and that was my last night on earth...or so I thought,
Chapter 1
A bright light was shining directly into my face. I sat up and saw a small glass room with a futuristic looking bed, a toilet and a nice little radio playing a catchy tune.
"Am I seeing a different memory?" As I thought this over, the radio suddenly shut off.
"Hmm? Whats going on?" I got up and walked over to the radio. I picked it up and pushed a few buttons.
The Radio puffed out a few off beat notes then made an extreamly high pitched noise.
"Ahh!" I dropped the radio and it landed on my foot making a very decent sized bruise. I looked myself over, No shoes, and an orange jump suit. Aperture laboratories was printed across the top right corner.
"Hmm... This is one strange memory" I looked back down to my injured foot and for the first time since my death i felt a strange sensation around the bruise. You could almost say...that...it hurts...
" Thats impossible...This..isn't real!"
"It's just another obscure memory from my short life!"
But the next event was all to real, I heard a strange buzzing noise followed by a small sphere entering my "room" if you could even call it that. The strange titanium orb slowly turned toward me revealing a soft light red light emanating from what seemed to be an eye. All of a sudden it shot out a ray of light and moved it from my head to my feet multiple times.
"Uh..excuse me, what are you doing to me?" I asked politely.
It simply kept on scanning me from head to toe. I tried again.
"Hello? Can you speak? What are you doing? Where am I?" Slightly more impatient this time. The little robot looked at me, with an irritated expression.
"I'm just performing your mandatory pre-test condition scan, and it seems like you are good to go Darrin!"
" How do you know my name?"
The orb giggled for a minute then cheerfully replied,, "I know all the test subjects! It's my job to keep all you humans in perfect condition!"
Well at least it could do it's job. I wasn't sick, but I was still dead.
" You arne't dead! If any of her test subjects died she'd have my processor mounted on her chamber wall!"
That was strange...It seemed like it read my thoughts or something...wow...there's no end to what this thing can do...
"Thank you! Are you really impressed with my abilities? Well, I'm impressed about how polite you are! You know, for a human."
"What is that supposed to mean? And you still haven't answered my question! Where am I? What do you mean i'm not dead? I saw my own death over and over again! I need some answers NOW!"
" Sheesh! You don't need to yell! I don't have to take this you know! I could easily leave you here and never come back!" The machine made little whimpering noises.
"Are you...crying?"
"...No! And even if I was it wasn't because of you! I just have something stuck in my eye unit!"
I knew now that this thing obviously had feelings, I shouldn't have snapped at it.
"Calm down...I'm sorry I yelled, i'm just scared and confused...stop crying"
The whimpering stopped and it turned back towards me.
" *Sniff* It's OK Darrin...i'll tell you what you want to know..."
All right! Now we were getting somewhere!
" Now, your first question, you are located in the Aperture Science cryogenic waiting chamber."
" Cryogenics? You mean an artificial sleep? But I was dead! I fell off a metal platform into a bottomless pit! Your telling me I survived that fall?"
"Look, I'm just here to make sure your organs aren't failing, the last time I came to scan you, you were sleeping like a baby in that bed over there."
It motioned to the bed behind me, sure enough, the bed was a cryogenic stasis chamber.
"Now, if you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to call me over, and i'll see what I can do, and by the way, my name is Beryl."
"Well now that you mention it i-."
At that moment as if on cue, Beryl slid along the rail on the wall of my room, and vanished through a panel that opened on the ceiling.
I was alone again, and you don't know how great it was to have a voice talking to you after all those years of being dead, or asleep, i'm still not sure i can belive any of this.
Almost instantly, a few panels on the wall shifted and revealed a TV monitor. The monitor sprung to life and seemed to show another robot, it had a rectangular head and an LED screen which housed a yellow light which must have served as an eye. But this robot wasn't anything like Beryl...It was huge...at least the size of a small house. After examining me for a moment, the machine made a few whirling sounds then began to speak, and its voice, was one I remembered all too well.
End of Chapter 1! I hope this was good enough for my first chapter of my first fan-fic! Please leave feedback, both constructive and destructive comments please! I am new at this and I need to know what i'm doing right and what i;m doing wrong! Thanks in advance!