Yo, guys! Volty here with another chapter of this nonesense! Seriously, thank you for the support here! It's seriously driving to see that people actually want to read this stuff! If only my other stories got this much attention. x3
After this chapter, updates may take a bit longer as I no longer have any premade thoughts of this story, but no worries. It won't be abandoned. I'm also welcoming ideas for this if you guys have any. It certainly would help me brainstorm.
Anywho, boy do I have some reviews to answer.
TheAmazing2711: Yup, when people desire more of a story, I make sure to deliver as soon as I can as I know what it's like to have to wait forever for a good story to update. It sucks.
Missingno50: Wow,seriously...thanks! The idea is weird and that's why I was so hesitant to write it and actually post it, but I'm glad I'm writing it well enough so that it can actually be enjoyed and not seen as just stupid fan-girl material.
As for the water thing, I just included it cause it was something cool to reference. Not many people seem to know about it and I thought it was neat. As for what region this is taking place in...well think of the way I described the Raticate. Does it sound like a normal Raticate?
Finally, yeah I LOVE Portal and Pokemon TONS! I've just recently finished Ultra Sun and I intend on getting Ultra Moon for Christmas and I hold my copy of Portal 2 proudly on my shelf next to my copy of Sonic Unleashed and Spyro Dawn of the Dragon.
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Enjoy the chapter! :3 -Voltaradragoness
"Talking"
Thinking
Disembodied Voices
The sun rose slowly over the seemingly new world the "Dynamic Duo" found themselves in, but that didn't make it any less annoying. If anything it increased the annoying.
Chell's eyes twitched as a small ray of sunlight shone down through a hole in the cave's ceiling and fell right above her left eye. She opened it, keeping the other one closed and narrowed it in a glare. She then covered the eye with her tube-like ear and sat up. She let out a silent yawn as she stretched, the light now directly in her eye. Still better than any sleep I had in that relaxation chamber.
Once she no longer felt as stiff as a sheet of metal, her gaze fell onto the oh-so graceful metallic Skarmory known as Glados as she continued to sleep face-down in the grass with her wings spread. Chell rolled her eyes and laughed to herself again. What I would do for a camera right now. The potato was nothing compared to this.
That thought made her realize something, and her now widened eyes reflected that.
Wait...speaking of that, weren't we right in the middle of stopping Wheatley when...all this happened? Never mind the species crisis,(which I'll leave Glados to figure out) but where are we? How did we get here? And on top of it all...
If Chell had the ability to make a sound, she would have out a screech of fear.
Oh my god! Aperture! Wasn't it about to blow up!? What's gonna happen if it does!?
Now in full on panic mode, she sprang onto her four black paws and rushed over to her fr-enemy. She tried shaking her, but she simply growled, turned over, and covered her head with one wing. Chell bared her teeth in frustration, who now had more canines than before, and slammed a paw down on her forehead. This also didn't work as all it did was make Chell recoil in pain as it rushed up her leg. She shook it and held it gingerly in her mouth.
Metal. Right. Bad idea.
When the agony faded from her nerves, she took her paw out of her mouth and sighed. Her final resort would've been biting her, but obviously that wasn't gonna work now.
Or will it?
She started walking around her slowly, trying to see if there was any part of her that wasn't metal. Maybe a bit of skin or something she could bite down on without breaking her teeth and jaw in the process. With patience, she did find it. On her two legs there were spots where the metal wasn't covering. Smirking slightly, she got down on the ground and prepared to bite down.
You're gonna murder me for this, but again...call it good old fashioned revenge. Not like you don't deserve it.
With a hearty chomp, she felt her teeth sink into flesh and a split second later there was a scream and a kick to the former woman's face. Chell didn't have time to pull away and got shoved a foot away near the edge of the lake. She had to use her new claws to cling to the grass to avoid falling in.
"What the HELL was that for you FREAK!?" Glados raged.
Regaining herself, Chell gave her that blank determined face she always did and pointed to a dirt patch.
She blinked. "I'm sorry, what? Were you afraid I'd kill the poor innocent plants by sleeping too long on it? Newsflash, grass doesn't work that way." She brought her leg up to inspect the damage, there were a few marks, but not deep enough to cause bleeding.
"Oh, on another note..." she got right in her former test subject's face. "Don't EVER do that again."
As she turned, Chell expressed her disbelief and frustration in the only way she could. A hardcore face-palm. It was so loud that it regained her adversary's attention.
"Oh, what now?"
Chell shook her head, signaling she was wrong, and pointed at the dirt again. Before she could respond again, she started drawing in it with her claws.
"What are you-"
Chell's drawing now portrayed a few lines, which she now looked over at with curiosity.
"Are you trying to...draw something? What, do you feel the need to show me your art skills?"
Chell slapped her with her tail for that. "Hey! Quit it!" She was ignored as Chell kept drawing.
Glados continued to watch, wondering just what the deranged former human could be doing, but understanding smacked her in the face like Chell's tail two seconds ago when Chell stopped and had produced an all too familiar logo in the soil.
"The...Aperture logo? What about it?"
Chell started drawing again, this time producing some kind of puffy object. Glados leaned in close to it. "A...cloud? The Aperture Cloud? Do you want to know something from the database? I was only joking before, I don't actually know anything about your parents if that's what you're-"
Chell face-palmed again, and grabbed the bird's neck, shoving her face into the dirt and puffing out her cheeks in frustration. She then pointed at it again for emphasis.
"Mmmmf! Mrrmmmph!"
Chell tapped the dirt once, then twice, then let go.
"Gahhhwah!" she breathed. "I have to breathe now you know!"
Chell didn't acknowledge her, she just kept signalling to the images.
Glados sighed and looked them over again. The Aperture logo...and a cloud. What could this deranged monster of a person be trying to tell...me...with...
Slowly, her thoughts melded away into what she could only describe as a memory flashback of some kind.
Warning: Core Corruption At One Hundred Percent.
"ahhhhEHHHHHH!" Wheatley yelled in discomfort.
Glados as a potato felt herself rise in her management stick into the place known as 'Wheatley's Lair' as the familiar human aquantance known as Chell strode over looking exausted and kind of stressed.
Manual Core Replacement Required.
Glados' yellow optic blinked as a substitute for one's heart skipping a beat.
"Oh, I see." Wheatley bemused, letting out a chuckle at the end, which Chell glared at.
Substitute Core: Are you ready to star-
"Yes! Come on!" She yelled as loud as her 1.1 volt harboring body would allow her, not even allowing the announcer to finish.
Corrupted Core: Are you ready to start?
"What do you think?"
Interpreting vague answer as yes-
"No! No! NONONO! Didn't pick up on my sarcasm!"
Chell was almost tempted to laugh at that, so was Glados.
Stalemate Detected.
A moment passed, then it spoke again.
Fire detected in the stalemate resolution annex. Extinguishing.
Sprinklers in the ceiling go off, putting out the fire and washing away most of the Conversion and Repulsion gel.
"Ah. That just cleans right off, does it? Well, that would've been good to know. A little earlier."
Stalemate Resolution Associate: Please press the Stalemate Resolution Button.
Chell moves toward the button, shoots a blue portal at the ceiling and then quickly starts back to the conversion gel below Wheatley.
"Go press the button! Go press it!"
"Do NOT press that button!"
"We're so close! Go press the button!"
"No! Do not do it! I forbid you to press it!"
"Press it! Press the button!"
"Don't press that button!"
"Press it!"
Chell ran for her life to the white gel, shot out an orange portal and dove into it. She landed and reached for the button, but a painful force blew her backwards away from the device that would've saved her and Glados.
"PART FIVE! BOOBY TRAP THE STALEMATE BUTTON!"
Glados' optic flashed again, brighter this time as Chell's body slammed against the floor. Wheatley was stunned when she was already attempting to pick herself up.
"What, are you still alive? You are joking. You have got to be kidding me. Well, I'm still in control. AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIX THIS PLACE."
Chell picked up her Portal Gun as the ceiling above her shattered and crumbled away, revealing something Chell would never have thought she'd ever see. The moon.
"You have to play bloody cat and mouse, didn't you? While people were trying to work. Yes, well, now we're all going to pay the price. BECAUSE WE'RE ALL GONNA BLOODY DIE!"
Chell's eyes sparkled at seeing something so beautiful, and then a masculine voice reminded her of something.
"Oh, get a load of your precious human moon! Because it cannot help you now!"
Chell knew the opposite was true. She fired, and everything faded to white.
Glados stumbled a bit as she came back to reality. She placed a foot behind her to steady herself. Chell didn't need an explanation, she knew what she had seen.
She waited for her to say something, but was only met with silence. She took a cautious step toward her and waved a paw in front of her face. Hello? You still in there somewhere?
Glados blinked and closed her wide-open beak. "That's...right. The last thing that happened was Wheatley blowing you up and you shot a portal at the moon." She recounted, her tone sullen and lacking emotion. Chell also took notice that she called Wheatley by name instead of Moron or Idiot.
Guess she's pretty shaken up.
She blinked again, this time rapidly and shook her head. "Regardless," she restarted,regaining her normal tone. "I'm sure you're asking in your 'special' way if the facility blew up since we're obviously no longer there."
Chell gave her a bit of a side-eye, but also gave a nod.
"Well..." she let out sigh. "To be honest with you, which is not something I'm used to, I don't know."
Now it was Chell's turn to let her jaw drop.
"Don't gawk at me like that! I've always been attached to the facility celing! Why would I know what would happen if my facility was in self-destruct mode and I suddenly vanished into thin air!?"
Chell regained her mouth and lowered her ears. Good point.
"The best we- Ahem,I can hope for is that my facility is still standing somehow and/or didn't explode."
Chell didn't think someone could sigh internally, until then when she proved herself wrong by doing it herself. Getting back on her paws, she started back towards the cave she slept in, but stopped when she heard what sounded like a twig snapping.
Her ears twitched and she turned towards the noise. Glados had heard it too and did the same. "What was that?" she asked no one in particular.
Someone watching us. That's what. Chell thought, eyes darting everywhere.
Glados glanced at her former test subject and saw how paranoid and...freaked out she appeared to be. She had never seen that kind of emotion on her face as she always seemed to know exactly what to do when a problem smacked her in the face, but here...
It's much less confined and these aren't anything like the tests i'd give her. Sure, they had MANY things that would kill her if she was simply too slow or took a wrong step. She knew how to deal with hazards back at Aperture, but she doesn't know about anything here. Anything could kill her here and she can't simply stop things by knocking them over like she can say, a Turret.
While thinking that, Glados couldn't help but laugh since Chell's fur was frizzing out like a cat's. Her tail was even puffed out. As she did, Chell noticed and sat down quickly on her tail with and expression that said; Yeah, no that's not there.
"Ha! Found you!"
All four eyes struck the voice's owner at once. Wheatley the Magnemite flew into view from the bushes with the girl from before not far behind.
"You're way too fast, ya know that?" she told him, gasping for breath.
He looked at her. "I'm not too fast, I just don't have to rely on legs like you do."
Chell's jaw was now not only open, but it was on the ground. WHEATLEY!?
The girl rolled her eyes at the comment and looked at the two Pokemon before her. They had indeed found the evil Skarmory the Wheatley spoke of, but now she was with another one. And boy was it one she knew about.
It was her favorite Pokemon: Umbreon.
Although it looked slightly different with the multi-colored rings. This actually got her excited, she wondered if this was a new type of Shiny. Chell herself couldn't help but gawk at the girl after she was done doing it to Wheatley, she was the first human she'd ever seen as far as she knew after all. She had about a million questions, with no way to have them answered.
The girl herself resisted the urge to fan-girl and stayed focused on their mission, pulling out a Poke Ball.
Glados instantly spread her wings in defiance and bared her teeth. Chell was startled by the behavior and jumped back.
Glados answered her silent question. "Those things will trap you! Stay back and don't let them touch you!"
Chell raised an eyebrow. Wait, is she trying to protect me or something? Who are you and what have you done with Glados?
"And YOU! You know exactly what's going on, DON'T YOU!?" she yelled at Wheatley.
He laughed. "If you mean, do I know why we're weird looking animals, I don't...BUT I do remember what happened before and boy is it bloody hilarious that it took you this long to remember! And you call me the moron! Yes, I remembered from the start and was happy that you didn't! Gave me a chance to find a way to finally finish you! Plus..."
He turned back to the girl. "That one over there...I believe that's her...accomplice so to speak."
As he said that, Chell regained her dignity and crouched low,baring her teeth. Oh, I see what you're trying to pull.
The girl became saddened. "Are you sure? I mean-"
Wheatley quickly flew at her face, completely disregarding personal space. As per usual. "Of course! I almost stopped HER, but that one was the reason I started to lose!"
Started? You were dead and gone. Both thought in unison.
"If we don't take care of her too, then there's no getting to the murderer over there!"
Chell's ears twitched. What have you told this girl?
The girl stepped back and placed a hand on her head. "Alright..." she said, the fact that she was unsure coating her tone.
"About time!" Wheatley shouted in exasperation. "Now..." he glared at the two females, flashing his blue eye. "Let's tussle!"
The human girl stepped back forward and seemed to attempt to look brave. "Right! Now, Thundershock 'em Wheatley!"
Glados and Wheatley both momentarily stopped their glaring contest to give her a stare.
What did she just say? They both thought.
"What?"
"What is...Thundershock?" The floating magnet asked. "And why did you just tell me to do it?"
She looked confused for a moment, but then remembered that they weren't actually Pokemon. "Oh,right you wouldn't know. Pokemon have moves, that's one you have as you told me you zapped Skarmory when she came at you."
Despite the fact that Chell was still in her battle pose, she was listening intently and feeling utmost confusion. Pokemon? Moves? Skarmory? What? What is this girl spouting?
She shook her head. Whatever. I'll figure it out. Right now I gotta focus on not letting Wheatley kill me. Just like before.
"So basically" she began to finish. "Just do that zapping thing again."
He nodded. "Gotcha luv. Well then..." he rose right above Glados menacingly. "I think it's about time I finally dethrone the queen!"
His body began to spark with yellow energy and Chell's eyes widened in fear. What the!? Oh god, what's he doing!?
Glados only continued her defiant stance and it was now complete with a glare that perfectly emulated the phrase; Go to hell.
Wheatley quickly fired the attack, but Glados dodged. He fired again, but she dodged again. When this repeated for the third time, the girl suddenly shouted something else that shocked the both of them.
"Forget the Skarmory! Attack Umbreon instead!"
Glados' mind froze at that statement for a split second and Wheatley had no clue what she was talking about, but realized she meant attack Chell since that's who she was pointing at.
Chell herself had barely registered the statement when the yellow lightning was unleashed right before her. Time seemed to slow around her as she fought to find a way to save herself, but all she could think about was her Portal device.
What I would give to have that right now...
What happened next stunned everyone. The ring on her forehead suddenly glowed a bright white,blinding everyone but Chell and a blue portal shot out onto the grass below her. She fell back in shock but quickly regained herself and used her quick thinking brain to realize what she had just done.
I just shot... a portal out of my head!? What!?
The lightning was inched from her. Well, no time to think about that. Question is... can I do it again?
She concentrated and thought about shooting an orange portal, and to her shock once again it happened. Without hesitation, she dove into the blue portal and the lightning soared above it,smashing into the cavern with no target to hit.
The light cleared and revealed two things. The two portals which confused the girl and shocked both former robots,and the fact that Chell the Umbreon was now suddenly in front of Glados in her former battle stance. Although, being that she was in front of something, it was more of a protective stance.
Is she...?
Protecting...HER?
Glados folded herself back into a normal standing position and looked at Chell like she was insane. "What are you doing?" She then glanced back at the portals, which no closed on their own. "What DID you do?"
Chell glanced back at her with a blank expression and then turned back to her opponents with an even more hateful glare. Then to top everything off, there was a noise. A noise that at first, no one knew the source, but then beyond all explanation they realized it was coming from the one they thought mute for life. Chell...was growling.
