Get Over Aperture
Ch. 10 This Again
Chell's POV
I woke up.
"Chell? Are you okay?" Miku's voice? Yes. I must be back home.
I sat up and rubbed my eyes.
Wrong.
Not home. Definitely not home.
I'm in a hotel room with Stefani and Mikuni. Where are Jake and Ren? I hope they're still at home...
I looked around. I went to the door and tried to open it. Locked, of course.
"Hey guys! Look at this!" Stefani! I ran to where I heard her voice.
When I saw her, she was in front of the TV. "What?"
"Look." She said and I saw Jake and Ren in the TV. Jake was unconscious on a chair and Ren just kept looking around, not knowing what to do. They were in another room that also looked like a hotel identical to ours room.
"Hey, look." I saw a microphone on the floor.
"What's that for?" Stefani asked.
I tried blowing on it and I saw Ren in the TV cover his ears. I gasped.
"We can use this to talk to Ren!" I said, covering the mic so Ren won't hear me. Then, I tapped it.
"Ren? Ren, can you hear me?"
He started looking around.
"Hey, try picking up that mic near the TV."
He picked it up. "Chell?"
"Yeah, it's me. Try turning on that TV."
"Oh. Okay... hey, I can see you. Where are you? Where are we?"
"We're still not sure... Wake Jake up."
"Okay... hey, Jake..." he started shaking Jake to wake him up.
We heard a beep. "Uh, hello? Is this thing on?" we all gasped as we heard another voice. It was Wheatley, but no one but me knew that...
"W-who's there?" Miku shouted. I've never heard her sound so scared. She was always so cool and relaxed.
"Hey, Chell..." Wheatley whispered onto the mic, ignoring Miku's question.
"I turned GLaDOS into a human too and I've managed to chloroform her. I still can't believe that worked! Okay, listen. Wake up your little friend there, uh, Jake was it? After that, I'm going to unlock the door, okay?" Then, we heard a beep. Probably the mic signalling that Wheatley turned it off.
I proceeded with the plan. "Okay. Ren, wake up Jake."
"H-he won't wake up!" Ren started to panic. Was something wrong with Jake?
We heard another beep. "Oh, yeah I forgot about that. GLaDOS made Jake drink some sort of medicine so that he wouldn't be so easy to wake up. It's because he saw the turret taking you into the facility. Apparently, he was spying on us. Do you have anything loud there with you?"
We all looked at Miku. Including Ren, who was looking at her using the TV.
"Alright, I'll do it." She said. "But, just to make sure, that guy on the mic is on OUR side, right?"
"Of course I am! Please, you're running out of time."
"Our time is LIMITED?" Stefani shouted.
Mikuni grabbed the mic from me and took in a lot of breath.
"EVERYONE COVER YOUR EARS!" I screamed as I covered my ears and hid behind the bed. And just before she shouted, I heard a beep on the speaker.
"!" Miku screamed on the mic. Even though I covered my ears, they still hurt a bit...
"GAAAAH! Wh-what was that? Oh, God, my ears hurt!" Jake screamed, covering his ears and curling himself into a ball.
"Sorry, Jake." Miku said. Then, I realized Jake was the only one not covering his ears. I grabbed the mic from Mikuni.
"Jake! You okay? Are your ears bleeding?"
"N-no. They're okay."
"Chell, that was mean." Miku told me.
"I was serious when I asked him that. I wasn't insulting you."
"Uh, guys, the door is open now."
Yes. Thank goodness. I was about to celebrate when I heard another sickeningly familiar voice.
"Sorry. That's not happening."