Wheatley groaned. Systems slowly coming on line one by one, "Auuugh, wha...whu 'appened wher huh?" he thought for a few moments.
GlaDOS back online...Maryx repairs...something about a place called Sanskrit...body...
Body.
His optics came online...Optics? As in plural? He looked down at his hands. Hands! With thumbs! He had depth perception! He grinned -Oh he had a mouth too!- and touched his face. Wait nose, ears, eyes, mouth...wait what was that on his face? Glasses? He took them off and saw everything went blurry. Oh...odd. A robot with glasses. He put them back on "Uh."
"Oh you're up! Fantastic!" someone purred approvingly to his left, he turned his head to see her curled up flicking her tail side to side like a clock pendulum, her shell was pearl white again and her fiber optic hair was neatened again, it looked shorter though, like someone had ripped a chuck out of the waist length pony tail or cut with with a very dull blade. She seemed to be munching on something, what it was he didn't know, but Luxord had told him that Maryx for some reason had a habit of eating generally anything she could fit into her mouth.
He gaped at her, "Whua?"
"Just relax I want to make sure your in top physical condition," Maryx laughed and got up uncurling herself to take his chin into her hand gently to inspect him. Smiling pleasantly, "Optics are functioning correctly." she noted, "I saw you feeling around yourself, servos and digits are functioning correctly as well. How are you feeling? Do you feel light headed? Nauseous?-
he shook his head
-No? Good, good. I'm glad. Can you feel your toes?"
He had toes? He wriggled them in his boots. Oh ! She clothed him too! He wore a plain grey shirt and pants. She probably made them with what limited materials she had to make clothing. He nodded.
"Perfect. I'll ask you to stand later, I want to make sure your motor skills are working in that department, but for now I'm sure you have questions." purring, she sat down again. Tucking her legs underneath her and literally scooting him over with her tail from the railing she had him propped up on.
He smiled hesitantly as he watched her bite down on a scrap of sheet metal and munch on it thoughtfully, instead he laughed "Was uh...was that a play on being feline?" he chuckled nervously when he got a blank look from her, "y'know? Puuurrrrfect? No? Nevermind, so uh, what's with my glasses?"
She tilted her head with a shrug, "I used your old optic to create your new ones, but when I tested them for myself I saw that you're optic lens had an odd shape when I cut it so I had to create those glasses to fix that for now. I'd have used some of the back ups I have in my cloak but they're much too feminine for you. Don't worry if those break I made a few back ups as well, both glasses and optics, I used all of your old lens for that."
"Oh," he looked thoughtful, some of what she said went over his head. But he smiled and nodded like he understood anyway.
"You shut down after I told you about Sanskrit, but I managed to transfer all of your systems and data to the new body successfully. Afterwards I finished up with your optics and hair." she scratched her ear amazingly with her foot, Wheatley held back a smile, his thoughts became distracted by something else.
Hair?
"My...my hair?" he reached up on top of his head and found Maryx's missing fiber optic hair. She'd given it to him. It felt like she'd done it up in a sort of neat mop on top of his head. She smiled at him, "Sorry I don't have a mirror, You look great though,"
"Of course I look good to you silly feline," he laughed, getting use to the sensation of the noise vibrating in his chest. "You built this body."
"Looking at things for real, and then looking at them on a two dimensional plane that is paper, are two very different things. You look much better like this than on paper." she snickered, patting his back with her tail gently.
He looked around feeling his body out while she snacked away on sheet metal crackers. He looked over and saw a pile of scrap metal. It was his old body.
He grimaced a little and picked the pile up.
"I tried to salvage everything I could from it," Maryx saw him looking, "every thing useful anyway, a majority of your joints were made with it.
"Thank you for saving me, by the way." he said, nodding a little feeling a bit sad that he wasn't in his old spherical body, but at least he was more useful now, he could walk and pick things up with his thumbs! "Aaaa um...How did you power me up?" he asked
"I gave you 75% of what I had. After that I used what I had left to get myself a few snacks and then I went into sleep mode. Now I'm eating to build up a little extra. Trust me, it'll be a while before you need to do the same," she smiled and then her expression became serious. "Now it's my turn for questions, we need to make a game plan to get Luxord back. I want you to tell me everything you know about that machine that captured him."
Wheatley shuddered, suddenly feeling very cold. "I guess it's my turn for story time yeah?"
