This was it. This was finally it. GLaDOS was going on, and this time, this time it would finally work. And as for Caroline… well, her 'death' wouldn't be in vain.

Henry looked around to make sure everyone was there. It seemed so. He could see Doug standing by the incinerator holding the Morality Sphere. He was shifty-eyed and looked very uncomfortable. That was nothing unusual. All the girls had come in, although he couldn't see…

Where was Chell?

"Henry? Y'all right? We're starting now." said Marc. Henry mentally shook himself and turned back to the machines. The fact that he couldn't see Chell didn't mean that she wasn't in here somewhere. It was nothing to worry about. No, nothing at all.

Marc grabbed the microphone and began to speak.

"Alright everyone! Are you ready for GLaDOS to come alive!?"

The audience screamed in excitement and anticipation. Henry grinned broadly. This truly was it. Oh, and the scientific accomplishment! This would not only make the world a better place, but put him and the other masterminds behind the 'convoluted madness' into recognition.

"Come on everyone, lets have a countdown!" yelled Marc.

"Ten!"

There was nowhere that Henry would rather be.

"Nine!"

Even with Chell, his own daughter.

"Eight!"

Well, perhaps not his real daughter, but her real mother was being activated now.

"Seven!"

So in some ways, Chell would be able to be with her real mother for the first time in years.

"Six!"

But he hadn't programmed GLaDOS with her human memories.

"Five!"

She was simply a mechanical scientist with a human mind, with no memories.

"Four!"

What would that be like, having no thoughts but science?

"Three!"

Surely that would be difficult to bear.

"Two!"

But truly, that was rather how he was. A man of science. And nothing more.

"One!"

With a smile on his face, he pulled down the switch. The yellow light lit up, and the screens around the top of GLaDOS began to flood with images. An ear-splitting cheer echoed through the room, making Henry's eyes light up too, with a smile covering his face. Henry had never felt so alive, so happy. Never had he felt this way. Never.

The screams of the people were so loud; it began to hurt his ears. So loud. And so… panicked. He felt a cold hand clutch his heart as he realised that it was beginning to stop. He tried to take in a breath to tell Doug to ready the morality sphere, but he couldn't breathe. His lungs were filled with neurotoxin. Deadly neurotoxin.

"Poor, pathetic humans." She said.