Chapter Eleven
Maryx and Wheatley weren't the only ones dealing with Heartless. Luxord had managed to find a test chamber full of them.
"Federal regulations require me to inform you that those are not a part of this test, and to continue with testing anyway." said the voice told him.
"Oh, wonderful." Luxord commented, "Fat lotta help you are." he looked around for an alternative means of getting rid of the heartless rather than to reveal his cards, he spotted some goo down below and shot portals underneath all the heartless taking them out.
"Excellent, you have a talent for killing things mercilessly." Said the voice, "good for you."
Luxord scoffed, getting more and more annoyed with the fact Maryx was taking so long. She should have had Wheatley repaired by now if that was what she was doing!
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"Come on Wheatley!" Maryx coaxed the nervous bot,
Wheatley looked down at the pit that separated him an Maryx and flinched back "Agh! I looked down! For god's sake why do you have to make everything you do look so damn easy!"
Maryx rubbed her face, "Come on Wheatley! Just jump! Come on I can't come back over and jump with you! Luxord's nearby! I can hear him just on the other side of this wall! You did it just a few minutes ago when you were running from the Heartless!"
Wheatley sat down, not in defiance, but anxiety. "Can't you just make a bridge?"
"The metal's too thin here! It would break under your weight! And there's not enough for me to pull here for support. I don't want to destroy any walkways that we might end up needing." she shook her head, her tail curled around herself and uncurled, becoming a little impatient.
"What about below? Metal from the earth itself"
"It would kill me, that's way too much an effort, I'm not all powerful you know. It's okay Wheatley, I'll catch you again."
Wheatley stood up again and looked at the distance between himself and Maryx and backed up "Alright, on three?"
"Just go now! Don't think about it! Just do it!" Maryx cheered.
"Alright..." Wheatley ran screaming as he leaped off the cat walk and over the gap...
"I tol- URK!"
...And on top of the arms widespread awaiting Maryx.
"...you." she patted his back weakly, shoving him off gently and rolling out from underneath him.
"Oooo Sorry...'bout tha..." Wheatley offer his hand to help her back to her feet. "You alright?"
"Fine fine," she brushed herself off and tweaked her ears for sounds. "Luxord's on the other side of that wall over there" She pointed.
"Better hurry then before he finishes that test chamber." he looked around for his bearings, and pointed out another rail way next to the wall Maryx was pointing out. "We can escape to the Turret production room and get started in stopping her...M..Mare? Maryx?" Wheatley looked around and noticed she was already starting to melt the wall, he jogged over "How long were you standing there?"
"About a minute and a half,"
"tell me next time, tell me these things, cough or something." Wheatley sighed and spotted Luxord through the hole walking across a hard light beam. He looked around for a moment for any signs of GlaDOS, "Hey! Oi! Oi! Luxord! Over here!" He blinked when Luxord looked around, "HEY BUDDY!" he yelled, Maryx looked at him funny when he said it, "I'M SPEAKIN' IN AN ACCENT THAT IS BEEYOND HER RANGE OF HEAR-ING."
"Oh look, I was beginning to think you'd died, I'll just have to fix that won't I? It would seem you've already sustained plenty of brain damage." GlaDOS's voice floated through the place as the floor trembled and the walks started to move.
"Wheatley what the hell are you doing?" Maryx looked at him thinking he'd actually malfunctioned while Luxord jumped off the beam and ran over to them.
"Distracting her RUN!" the bot made a break for it the minute Luxord's foot hit the catwalk.
Luxord looked at Maryx for a moment before following her after Wheatley, "The bloody hell took YOU so long?"
Maryx got down and ran on all fours, kicking her boots off and letting them fall where ever. She could make new ones if needed, "A few diversions!" She said, "Repairs, Heartless, recharges! Gimme a break I got to you didn't I?"
Luxord rolled his eyes jumping over a fallen part of the facility, "I think you took way too long ducky!"
"So says the master of time himself! NYAAH!" Maryx yowled when walks came from nowhere making her smash herself face first into one.
"TURRETS!" Wheatley shouted as the said machines fell from above and opened fire on him, he dived behind a pillar for cover. "Oh god! Run!"
Maryx rubbed her nose with her hand and looked around seeing the turrets and Luxord throwing Fair game at a few of them while they yelped and spoke to him like they were his friend.
"Hey Fuffy Fluffy no Fur!" Luxord yelled dodging some bullets, "Quit grooming your furless body and help me out!"
Maryx rolled her optics and leaped at a few of the turrets and smacked them away from Luxord with a sweep of her tail.
Wheatley looked up for a moment to see Luxord carrying the portal gun, wildly his mind thought up an idea to get out of here, "Hey mate!" what was his name again? "Luxord! Gimme that portal gun! I'm going to try and get us out of here!"
Luxord tossed over the portal gun "keep it, I don't need it." the Gambler watched Wheatley fumble a bit with the device before managing to compose himself and going to all the walls and jumping up and down trying to find something to create a portal on.
Maryx saw him jumping and blasted a few of the walls away giving him an opening to create a portal, he turned back and shot the other one on a wall and ran through it, "Come on! This way!" he said from the other side. Maryx stared at the portals for a brief moment, baffled by the technology. Luxord saw her and shook his head grabbing a hold of her tail and yanking her through to the other side.
"Come on! Before she sends the whole facility crashing down on us!"
"Oh don't be ridiculous" Glados chimed in from everywhere, opening a test chamber and sending a beam of hard light towards them "You were about to finish the last chamber too, why don't you finish it now?"
Luxord chuckled darkly " Sorry Luv! Bit busy over here! I haven't the time to play Another hand with you! Too high a risk!" he jumped over the beam, Maryx stumbled a bit from the motion of the walkway trembling but she got back up and ran on the hand rail giving Luxord room.
Wheatley waved them over from another walk way with a lift "Come on! Stop mucking about and get to the lift!"
Maryx yanked metal from around her and gave Luxord a bit of a boost towards Wheatley, leaping on her own into the lift and hauling Luxord in when the walk way started to fall because of the weight she'd added to it and the fact that two chambers were crashing in on each other
