CHAPTER 2
Raiados's mouth went sandpaper dry all of a sudden, and she found herself taking a tentative step back from the enormous [and admittedly intimidating] construct. Her heart was beating a mile a minute now, and she struggled to swallow and keep from bolting on the spot."I-I-I'm Ra-raia-d-dos. Are y-you maybe GL-GLaDOS?"
"Raiados. What a strange name for a child." GLaDOS mused. "Well, yes, I am GLaDOS. Nice to meet you, Raiados. Now get out." Raiados didn't seem to hear a word she said, all traces of nervousness gone, now replaced by ecstatic happiness that she really got here.
"You- You're really here! Just like Mom said you were!" she laughed out loud. "I'm really meeting you!" GLaDOS was growing more irritated by the second. "Did you not hear me? I said-" She stopped abruptly midway through her sentence.
"Wait. Your mother told you I was here? That means…" Suddenly exactly what Raiados said had clicked in GLaDOS's head. "Only one person knows about this place… And that's…"
"My mom!" said Raiados proudly. "By any chance, is her name-" "Chell? Yep!" Raiados finished GLaDOS's sentence for her, grinning. GLaDOS narrowed her eye.
"Oh, really? I don't believe you. Chell would not have just let her daughter run off to here. She trusts me about as far as a turret can walk, and not one of those poor cube-turrets that the moron made." She noted dryly.
"Then ask me anything that only Chell's kid would know! I'll prove it to you!" Raiados declared. "Fine. How did Chell get out? First and second times."
"First by blowing… you… up…" she said wincing, "Sorry about that, by the way-and second because you let her go."
"Hmm. Who took over the-"
"Wheatley." Raiados said instantly. "He was a moron. He couldn't even keep the facility from exploding in a mass nuclear reactor core meltdown! Really, it isn't that hard!" she complained. GLaDOS was a bit confused at the moment, mainly because after that little comment, Raiados had proceeded to explain, in full detail, exactly how to prevent a mass nuclear reactor core meltdown.
"Strange that a ten-year-old girl would know exactly how to deal with a nuclear reactor… But that's beside the point. Now, why don't you solve this test for me?" Raiados took a step away from the test chamber that had seemingly spawned out of nowhere.
"Mom told me not to… but… you won't keep me here?" she asked suspiciously.
"No, I won't. Just solve it, and we'll stop."
"Okay!" said Raiados happily. She bolted into the chamber, portal gun in hand.
Quite literally 3 minutes later, the young girl came running out to a very surprised looking GLaDOS.
A/N: Well? How'd you like this chapter? I'll be updating my stories a LOT, so be on the lookout! Also, to answer a question from Chloe Kompton: Raiados is pronounced rye-a-dos. In the next chapter you'll see why she's named this.
