A/N: Eyy, Chapter 2. Due to the way I update these things, there'lll be longer times in between chapters until I finish my other stories, so yeah. Not that anyone cares, just a psa.

I woke to a knock on my door. At first, I didn't get up, but when I rolled over to see the clock read 10:25, I realized that it was probably important. I climbed out of bed and hastily put on the Aperture Science test subject jumpsuit, the only clothing I had other than a nightgown left for me.

I opened the door to see a few boxes on my doorstep. Hm, I don't remember ordering anything, but I took the boxes in to my living room and opened them to see cans of food and a packing list. The majority of thing were pretty standard, but the thing that caught my eye was at the very bottom, written on in pen. Chocolate Cake Mix. I began pulling out cans and bags, hastily searching for the fabled box. Finally, after disassembling almost all the crates, I victoriously pulled out a box of Aperture Brand Chocolate Cake Mix.

I turned over the little box to read the instructions, and I saw words neatly written in sharpie: Not a lie! Very funny. I sat the cake mix on my counter and began putting the various items in cabinets and the small refrigerator I had.

After everything was in its rightful place (I guess) I took a box of corn flakes and made breakfast. Come to think of it, the fact I was hungry was a good sign, it meant that all of the Aperture brand "Subject Enhancing" injections had long worn off, and my first meal after an indefinite fast was…

Corn flakes.

Way to go, Chell.

I finished the bowl with a sense of irony and went to wash it out, but was interrupted by another ring on the doorbell. I moaned to myself and put the dish down before opening the door to see Sakura's smiling face as well as a man whom I didn't know.

He was, at a glance, sort of similar in features to me, but of course, a man. He had short black hair, grey-brown eyes, and appeared about my age, maybe a year off at most.

"Hey there, already up I see! We need you down in the bays for some preliminary testing, can you come with us?" Sakura rather bluntly asked. I shrugged and nodded, closing the door behind me. "By the way, that's Mal, the Unit A0 pilot, so you two are gonna need to get along." Sakura added as we descended to the giant robot tanks. Fair enough, I guess.

Opposing Sakura's comment, the rest of the walk was doused in uncomfortable silence, and we arrived in an empty holding tank a few minutes later. Well, empty save for two white pill-like things suspended halfway in the red-orange water. Sakura showed me to the changing room, where I found a folded… thing.

It was some sort of clothing, and I was obviously supposed to put it on, as there was nothing but a mirror and the bench it sat on. If Aperture had taught me anything, it was how to solve problems in tiny rooms.

I took off the jumpsuit and noticed juts how pale I was. When was the last time I'd seen the sun? Well, in space I could see the sun behind me, but I don't think that counts, so then… after I killed GLaDOS in the first run? I obviously didn't actually get out of this place when I sent Wheatley to space, so then, give or take 10,000,000 days? It was certainly showing.

I figured my way through the new jumpsuit, and got my feet in the proper place, hands in the proper place, and zipped it up, but it was awful baggy. Surely it wasn't supposed to be like this, right? I began looking for something, anything to see if there was some sort of problem, and found that the boxy bracelets had a switch that tightened the suit to a more suitable form. I observed myself in the mirror, and to be honest, I didn't look too bad in this thing. Most of the skin-tight parts were stark white, per Aperture's fondness, but on the back was a black plate with the white Aperture logo printed on it, as well as various plates across my chest and legs being black. The final piece was an odd little headband with two little nubs on it that were hardly distinguishable from my jet-black hair.

I left the changing room to see Mal just emerging himself, sporting a similar suit to mine, albeit with more black and a slightly bigger plate on the back. Sakura then led me to a catwalk that had been extended to go across to the giant pills, and noticed the fronts had been lifted off to reveal long seats similar to the one I saw Mal in whilst he was fighting the Angel. I could see that from his emerged a green glow and from my own a blue glow. Oh no.

I climbed into the pill to come face to face with none other than Wheatley the Moron himself. And, in tradition, he began the unwanted conversation with a bang.

"Is… is that you? Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I honestly never meant any of it, I swear, it was the bloody body that made me go all nuts, but, hey, now I can make amends, we can be friends again, just like old times, right?" he babbled out faster than I thought anyone ever could. "Anyway, do you have any idea exactly what's going on here, because they kinda just grabbed me out of space and jammed me in here and it's bloody rude." He complained. At least nothing's changed.

"Same thing happened to me, besides the grabbing out of space part." I answered the core, more to see how he'd react to my voice than to actually give an answer.

"Oh my god, you CAN talk! So there was no brain damage! Bloody brilliant!" he exclaimed as the top of the pill closed. "That wasn't me." He blurted out as I looked back at him.

"Initializing Plug Flooding" GLaDOS's voice broadcast into my pill. No, no, nononono, why didn't I know this was a trap? The pill began filling with the red-orange liquid, covering my feet, then hips, then chest, arms, shoulders, neck, I took a breath in and tried to hold as long as I could as Wheatley began to freak out for his own safety. If I wasn't being drowned at the moment, I would definitely explain that having a dead human near a core does not damage the core at all. Finally, when I could hold my breath no longer, I accepted my fate and took a long breath out, then breathed in the water.

But, it didn't feel like water, it felt like air. I breathed in and out as if nothing was wrong. Wheatley stopped freaking out on seeing that the water was doing nothing to him and that I wasn't dead. I looked over on a display to see Mal holding in laughter at me. Well excuse me if I thought I was being drowned. Around me, the liquid and walls slowly shifted into a view of the outside room. I looked around me, and it felt like it was just my long metal seat floating in the room, although I knew I was encased in the pill.

"Synchronization Rates holding steady." GLaDOS commented as I sat, unsure if there was something I was supposed to be doing. Suddenly, the room shook and alarms began to sound. Almost instantly, a voice patch appeared on the dashboard.

"Pilot, do you feel nauseous at all?" a scientist asked. No. "Do you have any physical pain?" nope. "Any light-headedness?" Nah. "Any reason why you would be unable to pilot an Evangelion?" I guess not. "Then prepare for launch." He finished before terminating the patch. Wait, right now? Why now? I have no idea how to pilot one of these Evan-whatevers! My pill lurched forward and a second patch came through, this time, Sakura, who tried to reassure me.

"Look, we were going to launch Mal, but She insisted we send you into the field. Don't worry, I'll be here to help you. For now, just know that right joystick is for handling weapons, left is for evasive maneuvers, right pedal is running, left is to jump, lean to accelerate or decelerate, use your hands for punching and other empty-handed actions. Make sense?" she quickly instructed. I nodded, I guess that's simple enough. My pod stopped moving for a second, before twisting and lurching again then stopping. The outside feet changed again, and I could see a giant draining pool of the Red-orange liquid.

"Evangelion Unit Test-Type A1 Activation Successful, releasing primary, secondary, and tertiary restraints." GLaDOS announced, and I began to see the walls moving to reveal the arms and giant shoulder pylons of the robot. Then, the entire room began moving backwards. No, I was moving, or rather, the robot was being lifted backwards.

"Final Launch Preparations Ready, Launching Evangelion Unit Test-Type A1 in five… four… three… two… one…" GLaDOS's voice droned before another sickening lurch shook my body and I could see lights whizzing by me.

"Don't worry, you're gonna do great, Mal and I are rooting for you!" Sakura assured me as I reached ground level.

"This is bloody madness! Why does She expect us to just do whatever she wants because she says so?!" Wheatley complained.

"Because this is a grander picture. GLaDOS would have us outright killed if there wasn't some reason she absolutely needed us. Don't you get it? There is something larger than us, than anything at play right now, now quit complaining!" I told the core, before grabbing the controls and shakily walking out into the sunlit city.

"Well what else do you expect me to bloody do? I've just got to sit here between your bloody human legs and try and figure what all this crap means!" the core half-yelled, and I instantly became incredibly self-conscious of there the core was inserted, which was on the very end of the dashboard, directly between my legs.

"Get it together you two, the Fourth Angel's ETA is in less than a minute!" Sakura scolded, and true to her word, a giant black monster smashed down across the city less than thirty seconds later…

A/N: Well, now you can kinda see the story taking shape, and I have nothing to say, so until next time, I've been Pix, thanks for reading!