Here it is, chapter one of Portal 3: Saving Aperture! Isn't it exciting?...Maybe not, depends on how much you really liked the story I suppose. Anyways, sorry it's so short, I guess my chapters just have a tendency to be so, depending on how much time I have to write, what I need to cover in a chapter, etc. Anyways, please enjoy!~


"What's going on mommy?" Caroline asked, watching her mom run around her room stuffing things into a over-the-shoulder bag.

"I have to save a old friend of mine," Chell replied as she stuffed some food in. "And you're coming too, you should be getting things together. But remember, only pack stuff you're willing to carry."

As Caroline excitedly ran off to get her own stuff together. Chell found herself opening the secret part of closet no one else knew about. Inside it hung her washed jumpsuit and on a shelf sat her polished portal gun. She took a deep breath and closed the door behind her as she pulled on the white underclothes and the jumpsuit, slowly zipping it up as she examined herself in the mirror. She saw she'd lost weight since her escape, since she went weeks without eating, searching for civilization.

"I need to take this in some..." She noted, removing it. She delicately took the portal gun off the shelf and put her hand in it, and watched as it came to life once again. She smiled, looking at the blue glow from the other side of the gun in the mirror. She took her hand out and it faded back off. She sat both neatly down and picked up her long-fall boots, and pulled them on. They fit just like they'd used to, she hadn't grown any, just lost weight. walked around in them for a few seconds, then took them off and carried all three items to her room. She pulled out the sewing machine and adjusted her jumpsuit.

"What's that mommy?" Caroline asked fro the doorway, her black and white backpack with her name stitched on in white thread on her back.

"This is something mommy's friend gave to her," She said holding it up. "There." Caroline looked at the portal gun on the bed.

"Mommy, is that a gun?"

"Well, kind of. It shoots holes, but not...bullet holes." She said, reciting Wheatley. "It's called a portal gun. It makes portals. On certain surfaces you can shoot towards one area, shoot towards another, walk in one of the portals, and come out the other. Get it?" Caroline nodded, and Chell smiled.

The next morning the two were dressed and ready to go when the van pulled into their driveway. The two jumped in the back seat, and the van was off. Two hours later, about 7:30am, they arrived at Aperture Science Laboratories. They headed inside, and Chell had to fight off her fear. She took Caroline's hand as they entered the building. As they all started looking around, Chell counted to three, as she told Caroline she would last night. Then the two burst into a run, and Chell's hand slammed against the elevator button, and the doors opened. She pulled Caroline inside with her, and the elevator doors shut before anyone could stop them.

"Ha!" Chell said, high-fiving Caroline.

"Welcome to Aperture Sci- Chell?" The voice in the elevator stopped.

"GLaDOS!" Chell said, feeling along the walls, wondering where the camera was. "GLaDOS we have a problem-"

"Who did you bring into my facility!?" GLaDOS demanded, and Caroline hugged her mom's side.

"It's not my fault, hear me out GLaDOS!" Chell said. "After I left here I was finally found, I was brought to civilization, they took me in, helped me heal and get on my feet, taught me how to speak, and then I started going to a therapist about what happened. They made me talk about what happened here, and now they're here to shut you down! But I'm here to help you!"

"And just how can I believe you?"

"Why else would I come back here?"

"Who's in the elevator with you?"

"This is my daughter, Caroline." Chell said, as she looked down and ran her fingers through her daughters hair. "We're here to save you GLaDOS."

The doors opened, and Chell froze for a second. She saw the room she'd only seen three times before, the first time to 'kill' GLaDOS, the second time to exchange GLaDOS for Wheatley, and the third time to defeat Wheatley and to leave Aperture for what she thought to be forever. GLaDOS' room. She took Caroline's hand as the two walked out, and looked up at GLaDOS, who was watching them.

"Is that...GLaDOS?" Caroline whispered.

"Yes." Chell replied quietly.

"Wooow!" Caroline replied in a whisper, astonished.

"Chell, just how am I supposed to believe that your purpose of coming back is to save me? You could very well be coming back to help them shut me down."

"Why would I come back to help if they could just shut you down themselves?"

"Well, they don't know their way around Aperture, you do."

"Valid point. But why would I care if you were here anyways? I wasn't coming back."

"Why would you care if I wasn't here?"

"Well, you're the only connection to who my real parents are, and you're all I remember from my life before you let me go, I don't remember anything before that."

"And what makes you think I'll ever tell you who they were? They're dead anyways." GLaDOS said nonchalantly. "If that's your only reason than you best leave, because I refuse to be shut down."

"That's not my only reason!" Chell said, dodging the robotic arms coming up from the floor. "I don't want you shut down! You were human too! You don't deserve to die!" The robotic arms froze for a second.

"I'm not human now. I'm much more intelligent and a lot less needy. I don't deserve to be put on the same level as humans."

"Plus you're a huge advancement in scientific history, aren't you? Do you want all the work Cave Johnson and the other scientists put their entire lives into to be flushed away down the drain? Or do you want to save yourself and all the information, at least for the good of science?"

"For the good of science? I suppose I wouldn't want that to happen."

"Right!"

"And you're not going to leave me alone until I let you help me, are you?"

"Not a chance." Chell said grinning.

GLaDOS sighed, admitting somewhat defeat. "Fine then. You two can stay to help me. But do not touch anything!"