Author's note: Hey guys! I've got the second chapter for "A Portal In Time." up and running right! I hope you enjoy this as much as I did writing it. Enjoy!
Chapter 2: Knock, Knock…
Lena slowly woke up out of her sleep, and realized that the room she was sleeping in was not the same as before. The wallpaper had started peeling, the microwave on the table was black with dirt, and the bed she was sleeping in was now dirty and covered in sweat.
"Good Morning!" The voice said. "You have been in suspension for -99999999- In compliance with state and federal regulations, this courtesy call-"
The voice was then interrupted by another voice coming from behind the door at the other end of the room. "Hello! Is anyone in there? Hello!"
"Yes, Hello!" Lena responded. She wanted to make sure the man behind the door wouldn't abandon her. "Are you… Are you going to open the door? Because I can't seem to open it myself." The voice had a British accent, and whoever was behind the door was jiggling the doorknob in an attempt to get in. Lena remembered the bobby pin she had found in the slip of paper the last time she was awake. She took the pin she had left in her pocket and stuck it in the lock. After some fumbling, the lock clicked and the door slowly opened to reveal not a man, but a ball of metal with one robotic orange eye hanging from a rail.
"WHOA,who- my god you look terri- ,um…good, looking good actually. Like a model."
Lena stood bewildered at the talking ball of gears and steel, not even knowing what it was.
"What?" The sphere questioned "Have you NEVER seen a personality core in your life? I'm pretty sure I encounter the lot of you when I move you around down here."
"No, actually." Said Lena "Um, do you know the way to the exit of this place?"
"Well, that's where were headed off to now, as a matter of fact." The sphere replied "Now, normally, under her rules I'm supposed to bring you straight to the testing chambers. But seeing as that she is not watching us right now, instead of bringing you there, I'm supposed to take you along Doug's "escape" route, per Doug's request."
"Great! Then I can get back to Overwatch and tell them about this place."
"Okay. And we'll also need a portal gun to get us through tricky obstacles."
Tracer did not know what a Portal gun was. She knew that Overwatch did not make any such things, nor did they make talking robot spheres.
"Wait, who's "Doug?"
"Oh, Doug is an old, crazy scientist that lives in the maintenance shafts of the facility. Honestly, I don't see why I should be listening to a stinky human who spends his da-"He stopped to realize he had just offended Lena by calling her a "stinky" human. He couldn't help it, however, as all the other cores called humans that.
"Uh, sorry about that. You can step through now." He slid past the open door to allow Lena to pass. What she saw was several crates among crates stacked onto each other, with names and serial numbers on each of them.
"Welcome to Testing Storage."
End Of Chapter 2