A/N: hi everyone. Again a short update, cause i've been having problems with my health. I hope they find out what it is soon, I wouldn't want to be like this forever. Please update to motivate me.. then I'll write more. I'm working on 4 other stories right now, they get way more reviews so... just saying ;)
Penny felt like shit…. And that would be an understatement.
her head hurt like she had just been hit with a crowbar.
Weirdly enough her body felt just fine. Or she couldn't feel it at all.
Everything was dark.
Either she had just gone blind or she needed to open her eyes.
Somehow she found that last one easier said than done.
After a few minutes her eyes finally opened.
Too bright light filtered through and it took her several more seconds to be able to distinguish her surroundings.
She found herself to be in an hygienic, white room. The walls were bare and all warmth seemed to be drained by them.
'Why aren't I cold…' Penny was about to ponder when something moved before her.
It looked like a metal ball with sticks attached to it that moved around like a human being and for a moment Penny though she had lost her mind.
Which wouldn't be too far from the truth.
The thing was now swaying around like a drunk man.
Then it turned to her, with one big blue eye, way too familiar to be comfortable.
And if Penny had a voice, she would scream her absent lungs out.
Instead only a mechanical squeaky noise came out.
The weird thing raised it arms in a humanoid gesture to calm her down. It squeaked right back at her.
'Atlas…' she though. The awkward, half-soothing, half-panicking movements she would recognize anywhere.
Somehow she managed to be able to control her legs, which were just as thin and unstable as her counterpart's.
She shuffled over quiet awkwardly, but at the same time surprised she had learned to control this new body so quickly.
It consisted of a weird, sideways-oval shape that had long, thin metal legs and arms.
Her hand seemed to only be 3 small finger like stubs.
How the hell was this happening. What the hell had happened.
The last things she seemed to remember was heading back to her dorm room, to get ready to undertake their little secret operation.
They had meant to meet up with Chell and Wheatley some hours later, but Penny had no clue how much time had passed already.
Were they still waiting, or maybe they were already on their way to find them, rescue them… whatever it was they needed to be rescued from anyway.
at the moment it just seemed like some weird nightmare about being put inside a robot.
And she hoped she would wake up soon.
Wheatley and Chell had safely made their way through the air duct system. Now she was straightening her skirt, looking quiet flushed as Wheatley turned around to hide his blush.
Why did all of this have to be so embarrassing damn...
"Okay, somehow we made it her without activating any alarm bells.. what now?" He asked . He didn't really care if he sounded skeptical, cause he was.
How in the hell was this ever going to work.
Bu looks of it they were in some underground hospital/science facility (he wasn't sure which one he'd prefer yet) that was straight from Chell's detective novels.
She straightened, casually looking down the hallway. They had come out of the vent somewhere in the middle, so it stretched on very far to the right and left.
She had a sudden flashback to something she read in a puzzle book once .
When you are stuck in a labyrinth, you should just keep going right.
So she nudged Wheatley, who looked like a lost puppy, the way he was staring around, and pointed toward the right way.
Then she abruptly took that path, leaving Wheatley to pace behind her nervously.
This place seemed more and more like something he would see in his nightmares.
The walls, floor and ceiling were all a bright white that stung his eyes. The air smelled of a combination of melted metal and pure oxygen. (He knew, he had once inhaled it during chemical class and fainted)
Now he could even hear faint sounds from the other sides of the walls.
Grinding, the buzzing of computers, and was that a laser?
This was bad idea, bad idea, really really bad idea!
Glados stared at the screen, shocked beyond imagination.
In theory her thesis seemed simple: converting a human mind to a robot, but without changing his or her personality or destroying the body. Imagine the cheer possibilities, it was virtual immortality.
The human mind could only process so much information until it 'crashed'. Computers don't have that problem.
But looking over these test sheets, experiments and technology.
She hadn't though the father would have been crazy enough to actually put it to the test.
And succeed.
She was torn up between feeling happy that she'd been right and her theories were not farfetched after all.
But this also meant her father had used living human beings to discover this. And that could only mean one thing.
The missing students were found. And most of them wouldn't be returning.
If these files were right, the earlier testing had gone wrong. The memories, personality or even intelligent of the person were lost.
Sometimes the whole humanity just wasn't there.
And the bodies weren't all alive and intact either.
It was a faith worse than death, when she thought about it.
What had her father been meaning to do with all this, or rather, what was he going to do very soon.
That's when she opened another file and saw the horrid truth.
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