"Ok, how did you two manage to get through her security with this enormous monster?" Wheatley asked, while Chell was bandaging his leg.
Dog stopped at a safe place. Chell grabbed another piece of cloth to put around Wheatley's leg; also, they needed a snack. Luckily, Combustible Lemons are edible. Alyx was reloading her weapon; Gordon was playing around with Dog.
"Well, it was quite easy. I just needed to hack the security code." Alyx said, proud of her work.
"Let's say that Wheatley is, hmm, not a good hacker." Chell said, laughing. "So, are we finding the boat?"
"Yes. Dog has the coordinates, we're leaving as soon as we're done here." She said, eating another lemon. "These things are very sweet."
"Well, I found that it's a protein that makes it combustible. And also makes it very sweet." Wheatley got up as she finished, walking a bit to see if he still could.
"So… What happened between you and Mr. Gorgeous Scientist there?" Alyx said; after she found Dog, she developed some sort of affection for Chell.
"Well… Just so you know, he's a robot inside a man's body. And he was helping me escape, but because of some things that happened, he got a little evil and almost killed me. More than once. But it's past now."
"Oh, I see… That's why he keeps asking you if you have forgiven him."
"Well, I already have; as soon as I saw him, I did. But he doesn't need to know that." They laughed again.
"Ladies, let's keep moving." Gordon said, coming back with Dog.
Alyx and Chell kept whispering to each other and laughing the whole trip. Gordon felt very uncomfortable with Wheatley filling him with questions. He asked about the outside, who they were, where they came from, who was the strange woman so friendly to Chell, how they met Chell…
On the other hand, GLaDOS was changing all her passwords. How could a human, a merely human, hack her system? She could shut her down, if she kept on doing it.
"I think you should be 'Chell'. Just saying."
"Haha, so funny. Here's a message for you: D-E-L-E-T-E-D. " GLaDOS finished.
"She will find out everything. Even if you're the most massive collection of knowledge, as you're so proud of saying, you don't have a clue how she's still alive or what she will do next."
"The only thing I'm worried now is the fact they broke into my security system and that they shut down my Cheshire Cat Factory. I have only 200 units." GLaDOS was so sad.
The alarm bell rang. Action was detected at the condemned part again. She had installed those after the invasion. She sent a mission to all of her Cheshire Cats: Kill all humans.
"Oh, I feel like Schrödinger now." She said, happily.
ATLAS and P-Body felt so bad for working for that evil psycho. They wanted to get things right. P-Body told ATLAS about the dog they were traveling on, they could send him a sign or something, but without GLaDOS knowing.
Hard, but they could try.
Dog stopped at the Control Room of the 70's. It helped them getting on the platform, even Chell insisting on portaling to there. The power was still on; Chell was the last one to leave there and the first to come back.
"Well, here we go." She said, showing the door behind the closet. Gordon pushed it with the Gravity Gun. The four for them entered the corridor. Wheatley was so scared he held Chell's arm, she didn't fight back.
After passing a few verified doors, they finally came to the dock, where the boat was standing.
"It's… Much bigger than I thought." Alyx said, amazed. The boat was the same as Chell found for the first time; the door was still locked, so the only way through was jumping it.
Gordon gave a quick pulse on the small metal door, forcing it to open. They walked around the boat, looking for a way up. Chell shot portals at every single place she could see, until one of them open. "Yes! Ok, I'll make another and we'll get up there."
Chell placed another portal on the entrance, they entered the boat.
The deck seemed full of boxes, ropes, wires and all those things you can see in a boat. Some boxes were some opened, some closed. Alyx found a box named 'ammo', and grabbed some for her weapon.
"I found some shotguns over here!" Gordon said, throwing one to Alyx and another to Chell. When he threw one to Wheatley, he let it fall down.
"Ok, now I think we should split up." Chell suggested. "The boat is too big for us to look in one group. Wheatley and I will look in the stern; you and Alyx go for the bow. Anything you find, I don't know, scream?"
"I suggest we meet up here again in two hours. This way we can explore as much as we can and may find something." Gordon suggested. They accepted and follow their ways.
Alyx and Gordon went down a few stairs. Above them it was the control room, but what Gordon was really looking for was the power generator. If he could light up the ship, it would be much easier to search for anything.
They ended at a room. The strong smell of fuel showed them they were at the right place. Gordon entered the large room with his flashlight on; Alyx was waiting on the outside. She leaned in the wall, felling a disgusting goo stick to her jacket. She touched it.
"Gordon, turn that thing on quickly! There's some sort of goo here…" He turned the switch on, the whole ship lightened.
Alyx screamed when she saw it. The room was covered with strange blue goo. They could hear some screams nearby, nothing human; it was like a bug or something. Gordon's face paled, Alyx got worried. "Is something wrong?"
"Don't look back." He said, slowly. She turned herself around, there was a huge mantis standing there. She shot it.
It died immediately. It was the size of a man, looked like a man, and a mantis, some sort of Mantis-Man. "Oh my God, what was that?"
"Well, let's say we really, really need those shotguns." Gordon said.
Chell and Wheatley were following some signs. After the light came back on, it was much easier. Chell recognized the drawings as soon as she saw; they were the same she saw all over the facility while testing and escaping. Those were the signs that helped her escape, well; she almost did on the first time.
"Are you sure we must follow these? What if it's a trap?"
"Wheatley, who would try to trap us inside a forsaken ship?" Chell asked. "Seriously, just hold that gun. Be careful to what you aim it."
They followed the signs, until they saw the blue goo. The signs showed a bug, some musical notes and another arrow to follow, but the exact oppose way was where they could see more goo.
"Ok, I think is this way." Chell said. She turned back to Wheatley, holding her portal gun tight to her body. "Hey, before we continue, I just want to tell you that… Well, it's much easier thinking… But I, I do…" He stopped paying attention to her. And enormous Mantis-Man was standing behind her, ready to bite her neck off.
He didn't think twice, he shot it.
"Are you insane? I'm here, forgiving you and you try to kill me!" He was shaking of fear. She looked back; the bug was dead on the floor. "Oh, sorry for yelling at you."
"Well, at least you forgave me. And I saved your life, instead of trying to take it away. Any idea what was that?" He said, in one breath.
"Well, I'd say it's a Mantis-Man." She said, kneeling down to see it better. "Cave mention this at the 50's tests. I didn't think they still existed."
"Well, now we know they do. The arrows tells us to go that way, I think we should obey them…" He said, walking to that direction.
"Wait. It must show us the oppose way of their nest. So, if we exterminate the nursery, we get rid of them!" She concluded.
"Ok, luv, bad idea." Wheatley said, laughing nervously. "We should follow the arrows. Whoever drew them knew exactly what was doing, believe me."
She was stubborn. Too stubborn to listen to him. When he looked back at her, she was following the goo. "And you complain why people try to kill you! You never listen to them!"
"If there's something here that will help us take down the Combine, it can wait." Chell said. Wheatley had no idea what she was talking about, but it was surely important.
The Cheshire Cats were arriving at the Control Room. The door was too small for them to pass, so they started breaking into the rock, trying to break their way through.
Well, hi Õ/
i kind of deleted the last chapter after posting it because i thought something was wrong, turns out, this was the wrong one.
Aparrently, you cannot write in binaries here, so i lost one of GLaDOS/Caroline jokes. Sorry.
Anyway, keep reading, i have no idea how many chapters i'm going to write, but it will be good.
