Chapter 10

One… Two… Three! Eve leaped down from the ledge and through the other portal high above, the sense of falling from this high up and knowing that she had no way off stopping herself or slowing herself down made her head whirl and her fear spread faster than she was falling.

She aimed it just right, landing in yet another pit, everything else around it had the brown tiles, but at the bottom of the pit she could put a portal. As she fell into the pit, she shot a purple portal right below her, coming out of the blue portal once more and flying through the air with incredible speeds that it also made her head spin with overbearing fear of landing wrong.

There was the platform! She had aimed perfectly for that one too, getting the timing just right so that she landed on it as it moved from side to side. She pushed off with her gravity orb as hard as she could, so that she wouldn't slam into it so hard that she would break from the shock going through her body; or worse: breaking the glass of the platform and falling through it to land in a burning liquid far below.

"WOAH!" Eve waved her arms violently in strange circles, a motion that humans would do in the same situation. She had landed fine on it, but her speeds had pushed her a little too far, now she was on the verge of falling off the other side of the platform and into the huge pit of lava-like substance. She could see some spikes that were protruding from the depths of that part of the floor. She was leaning dangerously close to it, her torso was still somewhat in motion, and it slipped off the platform.

"AAAAHH!" She screamed, frantically spinning around to try and grab onto the platform. She just barely caught herself, but she was still in such a motion that it continued to pull her body down. She felt her arms start to part from her body enough that the pull that kept them together dissipated, and they broke off from her body temporarily.

Denial and dread washed over her as she continued to fall to her doom, her screams turned into vibrant horror that echoed through the dark room as she fell closer and closer to the poisoned spikes.

Although she was facing upwards, she could sense how close she was to the spikes. She closed her eyes and silenced her screaming, making her final wishes that Wall•E would find some way out of the Enrichment Center, and to help the colony and live the rest of his days to the fullest.

She slammed into the ground hard, and was launched hard into the air, aimed toward the place that she had been trying to get to the entire time. She opened her eyes, the smoothness of her trajectory and the lack of shock that went through her body made her wonder. That wasn't a spike of any kind that she had landed on. She tried to look back from where she had landed, but before she could, she came back down and smashed into the dark-colored ground face-first.

She lay there for a moment, regaining her senses as she started to turn upright again. She looked up to see that the cube she had been trying to get to the entire time was only inches from her face. She turned to the edge of the clearing and looked down at the huge pit below, some kind of gray rectangle with a blue light on it started to lower beneath the toxic waters.

"As much as I hate helping out in a test, I had to do that to you. That there was an Aerial Faith Plate, I think that was a nice introduction to the nice instrument, don't you?" Eve made a frustrated grunt as GLaDOS explained her actions over the intercom, "I'm sorry that I had to save your life, I promise I won't do it again. It's just that you are… Well… Valuable to me in a way." A mischievous chuckle arose deep in her voice. "Don't make me do that again." Her voice became strict again and Eve tilted her head.

Valuable? How was Eve valuable to GLaDOS? Was it because she could solve her puzzles usually with lightning speeds? Was it because she was interested in her glitch? Was it because Eve acted in some ways like a human in the ways of being able to emotionally suffer? Questions whirled through Eve's mind, trying to think of how she could be important to GLaDOS. No good answer came to mind.

"Anyway, continue with your testing." GLaDOS finished cheerfully. Eve narrowed an eye and stared down at the Aerial Faith Plate that had disappeared under the floor. She thought for a moment more about how she could be 'valuable' to GLaDOS, then she grabbed the cube with the third trigger of her portal gun arm and waited for the moving platform to come close enough to her that she could get on it correctly and go over to the exit and finish that chamber and be done with the questioning of that room.