Portal: White Lie Test
2: Defiance
"Bastard!"
she screamed.
She raced for her gun, pushing away any
obstacles, it was like treasure to her, she pushed me to the ground
and grabbed her gun.
"I'm not putting up with this, but I do
promise, my name is Lucy, and I will kill you."
She portaled
her way out of the field and back into the centre.
"Are
you okay?" Steve asked me, giving me a hand up.
"Yes,
yes I'm fine, thank you for the rescue...I was thinking maybe we
should stick together in these tests..." I replied back, giving
him a short hug.
"It's forbidden, I shouldn't have even
helped you...didn't you hear the rules? Male and female cannot
converse from the same team, but male to male and female to female
can, you can only talk to the other members and team up with them,
why? I have no idea...im sorry." He gave me a small kiss and
walked off.
"If you see a black and grey portal, you know its
me" he waved to me as he walked off.
"Hmmm, pity,
stupid rules...anyway onto the second test."
I kept walking
down the long corridor, it felt like 4 miles or so, it was a very
long walk, until I came up stop at a door marked "Test Chamber
2."
"I have to use a block to get me past the test?
Sounds simple..."
"Test Subjects, you will now meet
your friend, The Aperature Science Weighted Companion Cube.
We do
advise you to stay close to the cube but not so much, as it can get
emotionally attatched to the test subject, and we suggest you do not
get so attatched to it yourself.
We remind you the cube will never
threaten to stab you, and infact, cannot speak, in any case it does
speak, we suggest you disregard any information it may pass to you
and carry on with instructions." A voice echoed the whole of the
Enrichment Centre.
Mmhmm, so this cube will help me how?
"I
love you...", an unknown voice came out of nowhere.
"What
the hell!? I thought they said you couldn't speak!?" I screamed
with shock, what?!
"I am helpful, I will stab any opponents
you may hate"
I put behind me that it could talk and went
through a series of tests, portaling it to other sides of the room,
knocking out cannons with him, it was really fun.
Why am I
having fun in a place like this? Ive never been more scared than
anything i've experienced in my life.
The cube, it speaks to
me...before I knew it I was strapped up to the wall in a net, someone
set a trap on me!
"Cindy!" the cube shouted to me, it
started floating and headed straight for the onlooker, knocking them
into a pit of acid.
"Help me!! Help!!" the onlooker
just sank and eventually, there wasn't a trace of even a bone.
"Test
Subject 10 has been eliminated, I repeat, Test Subject 10 has been
eliminated."
"Team 1's captain has changed to Test
Subject 9, Trey. Please, carry on"
That voice again...how did
they know who died? Who successes?
What are their motives? Let us
go when we've finished?
Kill us? It's all so fucking
confusing.
"LOOK OUT!!"
An energy ball was
moving at a high speed to me and I just froze, paralyzed.
But I
was suddenly portaled out the way and thankfully, it never got
me.
"You better watch out next time, keep your guard up
girl!"
"Who are you?" I looked up and thought to
myself, can she be trusted or not?
"My name is Olga, I'm Test
Subject 16 and your Cindy I take it? I heard the cube say
it."
"W-wait, your cube can talk? What the hell?!"
she kept going on.
"I was shocked about it too, and yours
cant talk?" I asked, hers was exactly the same as mine, but it
had a teal heart.
"No, its just...there, I've used it to my
advantage so far, maybe we should finish this test"
"Okay,
then lets go!"
We co-operated in doing each task, it took
less time and little effort now we had two cubes and 4
portals.
"Right, just put each cube on top of each other,
and climb up on that ledge!"
We carried on with the courses,
it seems we got to the end of Test 2.
"Well done test
subjects, it seems the majority of you have finished Test 2. If you
want you continue, I'm afraid to have to incinerate your companion
cube."
Everyone was shocked, a sudden shiver went down
everyones spine and I couldn't believe what I heard.
"Cindy,
I'm afraid you have to do it..." Olga said as she dropped her
cube into the incinerator.
"B-but he can talk! You can't kill
something that can t-"
"You wouldn't burn me would you?
I love you" the cube started talking.
I pushed the cube
away, I couldnt get attacthed to it, or it would lead to my death, 2
people have already stayed behind with their cube...what is with the
place?!
"Wait, what're you doing?"
"Carrying you
on, you can't get attached to it" Olga went over to the
incinerator but the cube stabbed her and fell into the pit and was
destroyed.
Olga fell to the ground, the spike had impaled her
heart, she had stopped breathing.
It was like a deadly poisen that
spread fast, like a viper.
"Test Subject 16 has been
eliminated. I repeat, Test Subject 16 has been eliminated."
"Shut
up! You inhumane bastards! Shut up, all of you!"
I crawled
over to Olga and held her in my arms.
"I know I haven't known
you for long, but please, for my sake, carry on and get out of
here"
She gulped and had her last breath
as she died in my arms, I held her tight, but nothing could bring her
back.
"I promise, I will carry on and win this!"
I
crawled out the door and rest against the wall outside the test
chamber while I regained my strength.
I ate some bread, then stood
up, I wasn't stable but I'd be fine, I carried on until I reached a
big door.
"Test Chamber 3..."
Next Chapter: Endurance
