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Still Alive
Chapter One: This Was A Triumph
My eyes blinked open, thoughts crashing into my now-awake mind. I sat up, looking around the glass room. The only other things in the room besides the bed I was sitting on were a toilet and a small TV with a mug and clipboard sitting atop it.
I stood up, noticing a radio also lying on the ground. I walked over to it, picking it up and setting it next to the mug. My hands must've been shaking extremely hard, because the mug flew off the TV and shattered on the side of the toilet.
All of a sudden, a voice came from the ceiling. It was a robotic version of Max's voice, the electronics making it slightly unrecognizable as human. "Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer aid and enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant oneSpecimine 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 all enrichment center activities, serious injuries may occur. For your own safety, and the safety of others, please refrain from-"
I jumped as the words got higher, louder, and almost impossible to understand. The glitch ended quickly, the room becoming completely silent.
Then the voice came on again, "The portal will open in three, two, one."
A blue hole appeared on the doorway looking part of the glass wall, an orange one showing up on the other side of the glass next to me. Both were the same size and big enough for me to walk through.
Looking through the blue hole, or portal as Max/GLaDOS said, I saw myself on the inside of the glass room, looking through the blue portal. I looked over to the orange one, seeing myself standing on the other side, through the portal.
I reached out, putting my hand through the blue portal and seeing it come out the orange one. I stood there for a moment before taking a deep breath and walking through the blue portal.
The glass room appeared in front of me, but, this time, I was outside of it. I looked around, finally spotting a door on the other side of the glass room and a way around to it.
I walked through the door, into a room with the same white walls, ceiling and floor that the last room had. In the middle of the floor was a red button large enough for me to sit crisscross atop it and in one corner there was a tube hanging down from the ceiling with a white and grey cube inside it with a small blue swirl on each side.
After a second, the bottom of the tube opened and the cube fell out. I walked over to it, picking it up and feeling its light weight in my hands. I walked back to the button, setting the cube on top of it and watching it press down.
"Excellent," Max/GLaDOS voice came back as a door opened beside the tube, "Please proceed into the chamber lock after completing each test. First, however, notice the incandescent particle field across the exit."
I stared at the clear-blue force-field looking whatever-it-was covering the way out.
"This Aperture Science material emancipation grill will vaporize any unauthorized equipment that passes through it. For instance, the Aperture Science weight and storage cube."
I stuck my hand through it, watching as nothing happened. I also felt nothing, nothing at all. I wasted no time, walking through the 'emancipation grill' and heading into the small, circular, elevator-like room.
A/N: Short chapters mean faster updates... at least, when it comes to me