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The falling wasn't what really bothered me. At the moment, all I could feel was the pain in my arm from the turrets bullets. Air whipped around me, pulling my hair out of its messy ponytail to fly around my face. I had one shot at saving us, one chance and I couldn't find anythi-
"Chell!" Wheatley yelled, grabbing onto my hurt hand and yanking me to him. I wanted to scream and flail about from the pain in my hand, but Wheatley held my head close to his chest. After biting so hard into my lip I swear I almost bit it right off, I managed to realize through the pain that we had stopped falling. Wheatley had saved us.
Not Wheatley, but something else. A robotic arm had caught the falling male, and then he had caught me. Where had this saviour come from? I wanted to smile and thank the arm a million times but decided it might be silly.
The "bottomless" pit we had fallen in wasn't really bottomless. However, looking down at the large spikes, I wished it was. The pit was circular with millions of doors and red and yellow stickers plastered all over the place. Cautious, HOLD ON, Careful! They shouted warnings that would have been useful before we had decided to jump to the turret line.
The robotic arm pulled us away from hanging over the deadly bottom, dropping us two on the ground inside a room similar to the control rooms outside GlaDOS's lair. Red buttons flashed, blinking and beckoning my hand to see what each one of them did. Now was not the time though. I could barely feel anything but my hand radiating its pain throughout my entire body. Wheatley noticed the bullets, quickly grabbing my hand to take a look. I pushed him away, scared after the sudden pressure. He apologized quickly and used a gentler approach. "How are we going to patch it up?" he asked, sighing.
"Tear off a bit of my shirt. That should work," I offered, sitting up and pulling at the bottom of the fabric. Wheatley's face went bright red.
"L-let me use mine," he counter-offered, pulling the black Aperture Science tee off and ripping a piece off at the bottom. The male carefully wrapped the fabric around my wound, pulling at it to tighten the knot. "And this should stop the bleeding?" I nodded slowly. I was a bit busy staring at the shirtless male, praying he would put the shirt back on. He didn't. It was pointless now with the big rip in it. Standing up, the two of us looked around the control room, hoping to find something to get us out.
A couple of red buttons blinked and beeped loudly. Wheatley walked over to those ones, reading the little names beneath each. "Evacuate. This one?"
"As good as any," I mumbled, shrugging. Wheatley pressed the button, looking around for any sudden changes. The room started up like an elevator, roaring to life and shaking. It felt like a small earthquake.
"We are so going to die. We're going to die aren't we? We are so fucked," Wheatley rambled. I glared at him to shut up.
The control room jumped to life and slammed upwards, pushing the both of us into the ground with the shock. The room stopped after a couple of seconds, rumbling and creaking to its position to hold itself up. I felt like an astronaut flying that fast.
I wasn't prepared for the room we were taken to.
It was GlaDOS's lair, destroyed and almost useless. The TV's were broken, controls smashed, elevators in midair broken down or shattered and companion cubes were scattered around. GlaDOS herself was nowhere to be found. There were millions of programmed cores around the floor, lights turning off one by one. The red ones were gone first, then the blue, green, yellow and pink. Soon the entire place that was lit up with bright colors was black.
"Well this place is useless," Wheatley snorted. "Some lair this is now. See, if I were still in charge this place would be—"
"Not here," I cut in, smirking over at the human core. He shot a glare at me.
"I wasn't that bad."
"You almost shut down the entire place and tried to kill me countless times."
"I thought that was in the past, Chelley."
"Don't call me that," I said, though a laugh broke through my otherwise stern voice.
"You like it."
"I'd like for you to shut up. Look around for anything useful. Portal gun mostly."
"Gotcha."
The two of us went off in different directions, Wheatley off to the storage area and myself to GlaDOS' control centre. A little almost-burnt-out light swung above my head, giving just enough light that I was able to read some of the instructions and labels. Going down to my knees, I was able to find a power source to boot up the screen and control pad. However, this shut off the light above me. Ignoring this minor setback, I booted up the system and punched in the login information. I had hacked into GlaDOS' system enough to remember the login off by heart.
On the screen, I saw what GlaDOS had previously been working on. It looked like the subjects found in the back of Aperture Science. The human bodies were naked in scanned form, showing up on the screen in edgy 3-D sculptures. I drew my eyes over to the names. Evie Walden, Rachel Ethering, Frank Wall…. It went on and on. There were millions of these test subjects, but one caught my eye specifically. Me.
The 3-D image of me wasn't naked, though. I was wearing the same outfit as now, the same hairstyle, even the wrap around my hand was there. This rose suspicion in my body, screaming at me to run. My breath quickened. Going back, I saw Wheatleys name beside mine. His looked exactly like him, shirtless and handsome. I quickly hit the red 'x' in the top right corner and slammed a hand to my mouth, backing away from the screen. Cameras zoomed in on my face from dark corners in the lair. Boards in the ceiling creaked open.
"WHEATLEY!" I yelled, turning and running towards my companion. He poked his head out from a ballpit of cores, confused by my sudden hysteria. His blue eyes went wide.
"CHELL!" He threw himself out of the ball pit, tripping over a few yellow space cores and slamming into a blue glass pane that flew up from the ground. The glass panes blocked him from leaving the pit. They blocked off the two of us, leaving us to fight our own battles. It had been a while since I had been alone. Wheatley was always beside me in troubling situations. The moment that we met he helped me escape GlaDOS, then when he came back to Aperture and was turned into a human we had been inseparable. The human-robot followed me around like a pet dog and I leaded him through thick and thin. The first time we solved a puzzle together it scared the living shit out of him, but he kept going with me. He'd smile at me when we completed one. Then lately, he got scared more often. It was almost like he was afraid to lose something. Threatening our lives to solve the puzzle GlaDOS put us towards just made him tremble with fear.
I looked at my friend slamming his fists on the glass, hysteria in his eyes and I could almost see a ghost of terror shadowing him.
"Trying to destroy this place again, aren't we, Chell?" a high, robotic voice growled behind me. I was forced to turn around, robotic arms clasping onto my wrists and ankles. There was no way out of this.
I remained silent, meeting my enemy's gaze. I didn't blink, and neither did she. Finally, she exploded. "What in the hell do you think you are doing?! You shithead! Stay away from my facility! I told you millions of times that you were NOTHING to me, NOTHING to Aperture, YET YOU STILL COME BACK EVERY TIME!"
Companion cubes fell from the ceiling behind me, creating another block to Wheatley. I felt panic rise inside my body.
AND THERE YOU GO FOR NOW! Sorry it is so short, but I just haven't been feeling like writing and this was all I had to shoot out for you guys! I hope you like it and DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW & FAVORITE!
