[A/N]
Relatively, it's been a while since I've posted another chapter. That's why the chapter below, is an extra long one!
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Destination?
The query took her by surprise. Where did she want to go? After a few nanoseconds of thinking, she decided to go visit some friends.
"Atlas and P-body's."
The beam activated. She hadn't been there for a while, she might as well check up on them, now. They lived in the same 'apartment'. The two had done so much together already, they just couldn't be separated.
The girl remembered when they'd first gotten their proper android bodies. It was fun to see them just staring at each other, not knowing what to do next. They still tested every now and again. They would be put in their original, expendable forms.
Atlas, or Blue, as GLaDOS preferred to call him, seemed to prefer P-body's old body.
Their first attempt at speech was funny, too. They talked like toddlers, for a while. But, their ability to learn quickly proved useful, as they picked up regular speech surprisingly quickly.
Despite that, they still sometimes chirped to each other, when they were angry, or just wanted to say something privately. GLaDOS would often be on the other side of the room, laughing. She was the only other one to understand them, after all.
"Hello?"
She quickly snapped out of her dreamy state, and refocused. She was at their front door now, with Blue standing in the doorframe.
"Hi, can I come in?"
Blue stepped back, allowing her to get in.
Soon after, she found herself on the couch, with Orange and Blue around her. They liked to just talk together, even when they didn't have anything in particular to talk about.
The only difference compared to Wheatley here, was that she actually got to talk back.
They just had conversations about what happened last week, Orange occasionally chirping to Blue. Their sense of humor was… original, and was actually really funny, once you came to appreciate it.
They had developed a slightly dark sense of humor, after being stuck with GLaDOS for god-knows how long.
They still liked to cook, especially Orange, and thus, every time she visited, they always somehow managed to put a loaf of bread on the table. She had baked a cake with them, once. Ended up being quite a disaster, but they intended to try again someday.
When they finished talking, and the loaf of bread, Chell left, and was once again faced with the question; where to go next? She decided to get to the Central AI Chamber, in the hopes that she could go testing.
It was weird how testing suddenly became fun, after the recent changes. Chell, along with some other testing fanatics kind of revolted against the testing principles. After having a few coffees, discussing all kinds of things for at least two hours, she and GLaDOS came up with a solution that would work for both parties.
GLaDOS changed the turret templates, so that they came equipped with paintballs instead of bullets. This eventually lead to paintball battles, with people grabbing turrets with their portal guns, and using them to shoot.
Honestly; portal paintball was the most fun thing she ever did, and many people agreed.
She now found herself in front of the airlock door, on the west side of the chamber, which suddenly opened. The girl looked into the chamber, and saw GLaDOS, in her chassis, looking at her.
"What is it?"
"I'd like to test."
"Sure. Just don't turn it into a paintball fight again."
"No, I'll be testing on my own, this time."
"The same goes for the cameras. They're not well-equipped against paint."
"I'll try not to splatter paint all over them."
"Good."
The airlock door behind her opened back up.
"This will transport you to the test chamber. You'll get a Portal Device when you're there."
"Alright."
With that, the former test subject- well, test subject, now, stepped into the beam, and got carried away, into the test chamber.
The designs of the test chambers had changed, too. Instead of the usual elevator taking you wherever, there was one excursion funnel, infused with oxygen, just like the transport beams. GLaDOS would change their polarity depending on where you wanted to go.
The transport funnel carried her into the vertical one, causing her to flow upwards into the test chamber. The monitors around her now showed an animation about the Matter Manipulator Device, which made her chuckle.
The girl walked up the stairs, and out the circular door.
"Well, let's see what this next test is. Oh, advanced areal faith plates. In low gravity." Suddenly, the test subject began floating, slightly. "Good luck."
As any other person, she tried jumping upward, only to realize that she did, come back down again, just slower. Well, she did say low gravity, after all.
She grabbed the portal gun off its pedestal, and stepped on the faith plate in front of her. Apparently, it wasn't calibrated to low gravity, as the girl smashed straight into the ceiling when she did.
She'd tried to catch herself with her hands, and ended up pointing the portal gun straight up at the ceiling. What happened next, she couldn't quite describe.
She felt her portal device burst open, revealing a dark, black orb. She'd seen space, which was, in Wheatley's words, the definition of dark, but this was different. It's like there was no light at all.
In that split second that she saw it, she remembered something. Back before, in her human era, she saw a portal device being assembled. She remembered the big devices compacting a black hole, and cramming it into something the size of a ping-pong ball.
And then it exploded. She knew everything there is to know about the portal gun, so she should've seen it coming. Whenever one breaks, it automatically neutralizes the black hole, in order to prevent further damage.
She was blasted across the room, creating cracks in the bright white panels behind her. Broken bits and pieces of the portal gun she'd held in her hand not a second ago, all floating across the room.
/Shutdown_Imminent/
And the world around her went black.