Chapter One

Deep underground within the Facility, nanobots, panels, personality cores, and repair bots raced around trying to get the facility back in shape. Back on the surface however, the place where Fluttershy had been had now been replaced by a humongous building (still self- building though). A near bye Ursa Minor had wandered to far from it's den and saw the contraption. It thought of it as another pony building and a good place to get any easy meal. It was wrong however. As it attacked the facility walls a loud voice could be heard. "WARNING! Unknown hostile entity detected. Engaging security protocols!" Turrets and rocket turrets popped up on top of the roof and soon the Ursa minor was covered in bullet and rocket wounds before it ran away. Back underground in the central AI chamber, GLaDos had re-awakened. "Uhhhh... well now...98% of all systems and processers are back online. I've been better though." "ooowwww..."muttered a british accented voice a couple yard away as a core's eyes reopened. "Man! that was some serious napping we did there!" "Oh shut up you moron!"

"Wait wha... AAHHHH! Its you! please don't hurt me I'm sorry! I'm sorry for everthing I've ever done!" screamed the blue personality core. "You idiot. Why do you insist on doing that everytime you see me? Its was fun seeing you in terror at first but now its just plain anoying." She complained. "huh? oh yeah..." Wheatley replied. "I keep forgetting you brought me back and forgave me." "Don't mention it idiot. I also installed 300 firewalls on all systems designed specificly to block you out and personaly changed your programing so that all bad decicions you make won't end up a catastrophe. The scientist just had to design you so perfectly that I can't stop you from being a moron. but atleast I could minimize it." "Oh yeah... theres that to." "say um, how long have we been in sleep mode?" He asked. GLaDos turned to look at him witch seriously freaked him out. He just had to be the first core to awaken and deal with her. "well idiot. since your too stupid to check your internal clocks. Its about 5,638 years." "Fortunately I've modified my black box installment to record everything that has happened since and all human activities. Now if you were to kindly to go not disturb me I'm going to read up on the reports." "I can't believe I'm trusting you with this but go wake up the other cores."

Wheatly was more that happy to leave the chamber as he attached himself to the nearest management rail and rode of to the AI storage center. She always kept him in the Central AI chamber so she could keep an eye on him making sure he didn't do anything stupid to mess up the . But hey. atleast it was better that hanging out in space stuck with the Space core. Even Wheatley could get annoyed sometimes.

The room was dark and full of lifeless cores when he entered. Hmm. where were the light switches again? "Yah know what? screw this I'll just make 'em get up." "HEY YOU BLOKES! ITS TIME TO GET UP! THE FACILITY'S BACK UP AND RUNNING SO COME ON! GET UP!" he practicaly screamed through the radio transmission. the lights in the room flashed on and multiple cores opened their eyes. management rail hangers came and picked up almost all of them exept for a couple cores still waking up. "Eh? were back in buisness already? sweet! time to start exploring and adventuring again!" exclaimed Rick the adventure core. "Grrrrrr...RaAAaaargH!" growed the red-eyed anger core as it attached to the management rail and sped somewhere followed by the Adventure Core. "Hi space buddy... gotta get back to space. so much space in space! SPAAAaaaaAAaaAAcCeee!" screamed the space core as he also railed of somewhere. "oooh! I wonder whats new" "Fact! BLack Mesa is full of neuro-lacking neanderthals who caused the end of earth!" and other quotes were heard as the remaining cores left to either manage the facility or go about their buisness. The only core left with Inteligence Dampening Sphere was the morality core. "Hello Wheatley. How have you been?" the purple eyed sphere asked. "Um, quite fine actualy. back from space, forgiven, modified, and reawakened. so um.. yeah I'm good!" "What do you think happened to the humans?"she asked"do you think they have survived? after all it has been over 5,000 years since the start of the Resonance Cascade Event. I hope so." "Well I have no idea but the lady in charge is checking up on it right now. She'll know."

The Morality core sped of to the Central A.I. command Center. She was one of the few cores that actualy held sincere concern for the human race, their creators. Wheatley had a shakey compassion for humans. 'mostly because he just doesnt understand what compassion really is.' she thought to herself. As she reached the chamber, GLaDos was talking to the two testing bots Atlas and P-body. "Look you two. I assure you the surface is safe now. no more Xen aliens are present so it should be safe to explore now." A series of beeps, clickings, and whirs where heard as a response where only the employees and A.I.s of Aperture could understand. "Look...I already put all of Aperture Science's latest self defense mechanisms so you'll be safe. So I swear that If you don't stop being scardy cats I will personaly throw you into the incinerator." with that finishing sentence, a panel shoved the two bots into the elevator which beeped and sped upward with both Blue and Orange looking quite nervous.

GLaDos then turned to the Morality Core. "Oh I see the little idiot did his job correctly for once." "GLaDos?" the core asked."What has become of the humans?" "Well now," GLaDos replied,"since you ARE one of the few trust-worthy cores I guess I can tell you." "As for the first important event, Black Mesa has fortunately collapsed completeley." If the A.I.s had mouths, they certainley would've been smiling at the time. "As for your precious human race, they have been removed from the planet." Morale was mortified."You mean they died!?" she screamed. GLaDos simply chuckled at this." Who said anything about dying? I just said removed from THIS planet."

A long while later back on the surface...

Atlas and P-body where wondering through the Everfree Forest until their linked computer brains beeped. 'Warning! Aperture Scout turret has been located but has not self-destruced after mission! Retrieve to avoid potential disasters!" Blue and Orange turned towards each other, gave the thumbs up, and started off to the turret's location.

To Be Continued...

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