Woohoo! Chapter 2 already! I wanted to get in an update on this one as quickly as possible just to keep readers satiated as to what would be happening next, and the ideas are coming to me pretty easily, since all I'm really doing is retelling what happens in portal with Sora instead of Chell. I don't really know when I'll update next though, I am quite busy. And just so you hardcore Portal fans know, I haven't actually played Portal because I don't own it and I don't know anyone who does, I'm just going through this based on walkthroughs and various other videos on Youtube. So I apologize if some information is inaccurate, but feel free to correct me if that's the case. Some of GLaDOS's dialogue is changed as well, since Sora and the other characters are actually able to talk to her as opposed to Chell never really saying anything. Anyways, hope you guys like it! Let me know what you think! :) Oh, and Happy New Year!

-GFB


Sora slowly regained consciousness and found himself staring up at a ceiling. A quiet machine-like humming filled his ears, and then he heard a beeping noise as a transparent hatch above him slid open. He sat up and rubbed his dry eyes, wondering how long he had been asleep. Once his eyesight had adjusted to the brightness, he propped himself up on his elbows and looked around the room he was in. It was a very small space, surrounded by semi-transparent glass walls. He heard music coming from a miniature radio on a table in the corner, next to a clipboard with a checklist on it. Next to the table was a toilet, and then there was the bed he was sitting in. There were no doors, only a gray panel in the wall that appeared to be a door, but had no means of opening. Then he looked down at himself, and was startled to see that he was no longer in his own clothes and instead was wearing an orange jumpsuit, and he was wearing a pair of long white boots of some sort.

He swung his legs over the edge of the "bed" and carefully stood up. He noticed that the bed he was sleeping in was actually a stasis pod of some sort. He was no stranger to stasis pods; he spent a year in one while he recovered his memories. Standing felt really weird: he couldn't put his heels on the floor because something on the back of his legs was holding him up on the balls of his feet. He looked down and lifted his pant legs, and he discovered that there were curved metal bars that acted like springs on the back of the boots. His head swam…what was all this for? Also…where were Donald and Goofy?

"What the heck is going on?" Sora whispered to himself.

Just then, GLaDOS's voice came on over the speaker system. "Hello, and again, welcome to the Aperture Science Computer Aided Enrichment Center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper. Before we start however, keep in mind that although fun and learning are the primary goals of the Enrichment Center activities, serious injuries may occur. For your own safety, and the safety of others, please refrain from—"

There was some static, a tiny shower of sparks, and the lights dimmed momentarily. GLaDOS's voice became distorted, slowing and then speeding up. Sora couldn't understand what she was saying, not only because of the distortion, but it sounded like she was speaking…Spanish? Then everything returned to normal. "We shall begin the testing shortly. Do you have any questions?"

"Uh gee, yeah…just a few." Sora began sarcastically, but then he said in a very serious tone, "What is going on?! What did you do to me, where are Donald and Goofy, and what's this test you're talking about? We just came here to get some help with fixing you. I don't have time for any of this!"

"We apologize for any inconvenience." GLaDOS replied. "You have been selected to participate in a series of tests involving newly developed Aperture Science technology. We assure you that the test will be brief, and that you may return to your regular activities once finished."

"What about Donald and Goofy? Where are they?" Sora asked.

"We deduced that your anthropomorphic companions were not suitable for the testing conditions. They have been detained in a separate area of the facility, and will be released at the conclusion of the test." GLaDOS answered.

He breathed a sigh of relief. "Well at least they're okay. Now what's with these weird boots? What are they for?"

"The Aperture Science Long Fall Boot is a safety measure to prevent significant injury of the test subject, as well as to aid the test subject in the environment of the Enrichment Center testing area." She explained.

"Oookay then. Still feels kinda weird though. Not to mention a little girly…it's like I'm wearing high heels." Sora grumbled to himself.

"If there are no further questions, are you ready to begin the test?" GLaDOS asked.

"Guess I don't have much of a choice, do I?" Sora replied.

"The portal will open in three…two…one."

An orange portal opened in the "door" panel and Sora stepped through it. It was a rather interesting experience watching himself go through the portal in the cell he had been in as he stepped through to the other side. The portal closed behind him and he examined his new surroundings. He was merely on the outside of the so-called "relaxation vault" now, in a room covered with smooth, gray concrete-like panels on the floor and walls. Beside him on the wall was a large, white backlit sign that read in bold black numbers: "00" with a smaller set of numbers that said "00/19" and some icons beneath the numbers that appeared to be warning signs. There was one that showed a box-shaped object dropping out of a tube, and another that showed a person with a box falling on their head. After he finished examining the sign, he proceeded forward, walking around the vault to a round door that exited into another room. Once in the second room, the door sealed shut behind him with a beeping sound.

In this room, there was a gigantic red button on the floor in front of the door, and a dotted line made up of blue lights in the floor leading from the button to a panel on the wall that had a blue X on it, next to another round door. There was also a large transparent tube coming out of the ceiling in the corner near the door, and it was sealed off with a big cube-like object inside. There was a mechanical hiss as the vent on the tube slid open and the cube dropped to the floor.

Sora was confused as to what exactly it was he was supposed to do. He was expecting to hear GLaDOS give him some instructions, but he heard nothing. Experimentally, he went over to the button and pressed on it with his foot. The lights turned orange, the X on the wall became a check mark, and the round door at the other end of the room opened. But when he took his foot off the button, the door closed and the lights changed back. Then he went over to look at the cube. There was nothing special to it; it was just a plain, gray cube that had a fancy texture, the Aperture Science logo on circles on each of the faces, and some glowing, cyan lines in it. He picked it up and found it to be rather heavy, but light enough that he could carry it with ease. Putting two and two together in his head, he took the cube over to the button and set it down, and the cube weighed the button down and kept the door open.

"Excellent." GLaDOS's voice came through the speakers to praise him. "Please proceed to the chamber-lock after completing each test."

He went through the door into a hallway, where there was a cylindrical chamber at the end. He headed towards it.

"First however, note the incandescent particle field across the exit." GLaDOS said. Sora halted just before he reached the exit and noticed what appeared to be a force-field in front of it, stretching across the hallway. He didn't know if it was dangerous to go through it or not, so he waited for GLaDOS to continue. "This Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grille will vaporize any unauthorized equipment that passes through it. For instance, the Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube. It has been proven entirely safe, however, for test subjects to pass through."

Other than a strange, static-y sensation, Sora didn't feel anything when he passed through the force field and went into the chamber lock. The door sealed shut, and he felt a rumbling as the elevator began moving up to the next level. The door opened and he stepped into the room. Another sign on the wall flickered on and read: "01; 01/19" He deduced now from the numbers that there were 19 testing chambers he had to get through…this would take forever! Leon and the others were counting on him to get back quickly and fix the computer. There's no time to be fooling around with some weird experiment. He had to escape somehow and find Donald and Goofy. But how…?

"Wait, of course! I have the keyblade! It can open any door…maybe it'll work on one of the doors here if I can find one." Sora said to himself. He extended his hand to summon the keyblade…but nothing happened.

"…huh?" He held out his hand again and concentrated harder to materialize the keyblade…but the result was the same. "Okay, this is weird…why won't it come forth?" He thought hard as to why he was unable to summon the keyblade. The only logical conclusion he could come up with is that the properties of this world were different than the others somehow. Perhaps there wasn't enough magic for him to be able to summon the keyblade.

Sora heaved a dejected sigh. "Guess I really don't have a choice." He grumbled. "Leon is not going to be happy about this."

He continued forward and hopped down off of a ledge into the next testing room. He was surrounded by more glass walls, and on the other side of them he could see three different chambers: one contained a button, one a cube, and one was a large chamber with a door, presumably the exit. An orange portal opened in the wall behind him.

"Please place the Weighted Storage Cube on the 1500 megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-colliding Super-button." GLaDOS instructed.

"That's a really complicated name for a giant button." Sora murmured under his breath. He looked into the portal and saw the exit door on the other side, and currently it was closed. But after a few seconds, it changed and he saw the cube on the other side. He stepped through and picked up the cube, but then the portal disappeared and he was stuck inside the chamber. He growled irately to himself, but after a few minutes of waiting the blue portal appeared and he stepped through it, back into the main chamber. He turned and waited for the portal to change again, this time stepping through when the button was on the other side, and set the cube down on the button. He moved back through the portal quickly in order to not end up stuck in the chamber again.

"Perfect." GLaDOS announced. "Please move quickly to the chamber-lock, as the effects of prolonged exposure to the button are not part of this test."

Each one of GLaDOS's odd remarks kept leaving Sora even more puzzled than before, so he decided he'd ignore her unless she had something useful to say. The portal changed to the exit door once more and he stepped through to the open door and went into the chamber-lock, waiting a little restlessly as the elevator took him to the next level. He wished he could just get all this over with soon; it was already becoming rather tedious. Once again the elevator door opened and he was introduced to test chamber 02. There was a glass wall where he could see the area below, and another round door. He was also beginning to notice the security cameras that were in place in all the chambers, watching his every movement, and it made him a little uncomfortable.

"You're doing very well." GLaDOS announced. "Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol, but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grille, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth."

"…Blood? Emancipate…teeth? What?! If that force field—or whatever you call it—is dangerous, you should have told me that the first time! And you told me it was completely safe!" Sora replied agitatedly, but upon further consideration of GLaDOS's statement, he realized that he never noticed any taste of blood when he went through the force field both times, and his teeth were still intact. So maybe she was just trying to throw him off. "Whatever…"

He pressed up against the glass and studied the test area below in order to figure out what his next objective was. There was an orange portal opened on the opposite end of the room on top of another ledge. Below the ledge was an area where some kind of device was rotating on a stand in the center of the room, and each time the device pointed at a wall, there was a high-pitched whirring sound as a pulse of blue light flashed through the air and a blue portal appeared on the wall. The old portal would disappear each time the device rotated and fired again, creating a new portal on another wall. On one of the walls was a small window, and when the device fired at it the blue ball of light would pass through the window and presumably a portal would appear on the other side, but from this angle he couldn't see what was on the other side of the window.

The entrance door opened and he travelled down some steps into the testing area. He discovered that he was in a narrow corridor on the other side of the small window he'd seen through the glass above. He heard the whirr of the device as a blue pulse of light passed through the window and a blue portal appeared in the wall. He passed through the portal and appeared on the ledge opposite where he had first entered the room, above the area where the device was rotating in the center. To his right there was a wall covered in shiny metallic tiles, as well as a door in it that was currently closed. However, he saw no means of opening it with a button or a cube, so he contemplated what came next.

Sora watched the device still rotating on its stand and firing portals into the walls. Out of curiosity, he hopped down off the ledge into the area below where the device was. He made sure to avoid the path of the device when it stopped and fired…he didn't know what that ball of blue light would do to him if it hit him, but the results would probably not be good. He looked back at the ledge, and he found out that on the other side of the wall was the chamber-lock that he needed to get to in order to go on to the next test. But now he needed to get back up to the ledge and open the door somehow. There were no buttons or cubes anywhere that he looked, so there had to be some other kind of mechanism that would open the door. Or perhaps the door wouldn't open at all and he had to find a way around it?

Well, he wasn't getting anywhere by thinking too much about it. He looked back at the portal device in the center of the room. Upon closer inspection, he realized that it was a gun of some sort; there was a mechanism on the rotating stand that was pulling the trigger. Initially he thought that the device was part of the test chamber, but maybe this was what he needed in order to go on. He approached the portal gun and picked it up off of the stand.

"Very good." GLaDOS said. "You are now in possession of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. With it, you can create your own portals. These inter-dimensional gates have proven to be completely safe. The device, however, has not. Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you—"

There was another strange distortion in GLaDOS's voice and some static as the lights dimmed momentarily. She never finished her sentence when things returned to normal.

Sora inspected the piece of equipment in his hands. It was white and curvaceous, the barrel, handle, and various cables running through it were black, and there was a clear tube in the middle that was emitting a blue light. There were also three prongs around the barrel, and the trigger of the gun was more of a trigger-like button. There were also two other buttons on the handle, that presumably did different things. He experimented with the gun momentarily. The trigger button fired a portal, and there was a button on the top of the handle that he pressed with his thumb, and a field of electricity emitted from the prongs. The third button below the trigger however, did nothing.

"Whoa….this is pretty cool!" Sora said to himself, a big smile on his face. Sure, a keyblade and magic was pretty awesome to have…but this thing was really going to change the way he did things from now on. A gun that could make portals? This was going to make traveling between places, and worlds possibly, a whole lot less time consuming!

However, there was still the task at hand, and GLaDOS was still watching him. He looked back up on the ledge, and found that the door in the wall was open. He randomly fired a blue portal into a wall and went through it, appearing back on top the ledge where he needed to be. "Well that was easy." He went through the door and was about to go into the chamber-lock, but cast a sidelong glance at the camera mounted on the wall on the other side of the room. Just to see what would happen, he fired a portal at the camera. The portal opened behind the camera's mount on the wall, which caused the camera to fall to the floor and break.

"At the Enrichment Center we promise never to value your safety above your unique ideas and creativity. However, do not destroy Vital Testing Apparatus." GLaDOS commanded, almost as if she was scolding him.

"Oooooh, you don't like that huh?" Sora said mischievously. "Heh heh…I'll keep that in mind." He felt triumphant now that he not only had a really cool gun, but he found out a way to get rid of all those creepy security cameras watching him and mess with GLaDOS a little. Maybe this test thing wouldn't be so bad after all. He went into the chamber-lock and waited as the elevator took him to the next level.