Chapter 12

Eve got pounded into the ground again, right at the exit of the chamber. Finally! She carefully got up and looked back at the extremely hard quadruple flip that she had just done. She just hoped she didn't have to do it again.

She sighed and went to the chamber lock, only to pause right before she entered the elevator. She thought she heard something… She went over to one of the giant, curved fluorescent screens and listened. It could be a chamber next to GLaDOS again, it could be another test subject, or it could be Wall•E. The thought of being able to see Wall•E again got her excited.

"That won't do you any good, Probe." Came GLaDOS's voice, Eve growled.

"WALL•E!" She yelled at GLaDOS, hoping she understood what she wanted.

"I find no reason to put you two together. I already have a cooperative testing team, and at least [i]they[/i] can be reassembled." Eve's inner circuits sank and drew cold electricity through her main core. Both the fact that she would not be able to see Wall•E and the fact that GLaDOS had to remind her that if she were to break, she would probably not be rebuilt just cut through her like an electric saw.

"Now then. Continue testing." Eve turned slowly, but didn't move toward the elevator, instead, she smashed herself into the huge screen behind her that showed the assembly of the Aerial Faith Plate; making it shatter. She shrunk down, letting the pieces of it fall on her without any attention drawn too how much it actually hurt her.

She was just now admitting to the reality that she hadn't believed before, and now it was starting to crash down on her. She stared blankly at the floor. She was never going to be able to leave this place… Eve formed her portal gun into her arm again and smothered her fingers over her eyes. She was probably never going to be able to see Wall•E again, his power level was probably getting low and of course GLaDOS would never let him have the chance to get into the sunlight long enough to charge.

If GLaDOS kept pushing Eve to do better problem solving faster, then she was surely going to overheat her main core and probably shut down at the wrong time, and there she would lay until GLaDOS decides to pull her apart and use her pieces for things. Even if she was 'valuable' to GLaDOS in any way, it wouldn't make her any less cruel.

"Wall•E…" Eve whispered, not knowing what had become of him since she last saw him. She whined and moaned, trying to get the attention of GLaDOS, so that she would finally realized how much Wall•E meant to her. Although GLaDOS never said anything.

"Deploying." The word came up beside her and it scared her out of her shell. She jumped, then heard the same voice from the other side, "I see you." She turned just in time to see two white robots with red beams shining on her. She thought they were harmless until bullets cascaded hard against her shell, and she had no other choice but to hide in the safety of the elevator. It immediately closed and started to move out of there.

She had no idea what those things were, but she knew that they were dangerous and should not be messed with. Although she had heard them shooting, if she listened through the walls. She had hoped she would never encounter them, then it dawned on her… What if Wall•E had got caught up in them and…

The elevator stopped and the doors opened, "I know you're going to love this new test. It will teach you a lesson about breaking your original programming…" Eve sighed and took out her portal gun, but as soon as she started to go through the entrance with the Emancipation Grill, it started to make a burning feeling go throughout her body.

"AAAHH!" She yelped and hollered at the pain that pierced her body, she tried to back out of it, but was already somehow coated in the grill from top to bottom, filling in every crease and covering her entire self. She looked down at herself once she was passed it and her eyes widened at how she looked shinier, and light blue streaks dashed across her body at random.

Curious to see why she would need this—Emancipation… Seal? Suit? Coat? For now, she was just going to call it the Grill Coat—she went down the chamber to look at what she had to do. There were four buttons behind glass boxes with a small entrance, the sign that their blue dots led to had the symbol that it was a timed button. So she had to be really fast for this one. She clicked a button to see how long it took to deactivate.

It deactivated too fast, there was no way that she could do it in enough ti—

"EVAH!"

"WALL•E!" She yelled as she turned and saw him racing toward her. This time, there was no glass to keep each other back. They both raced toward each other, arms outstretched.

As they held each other close, there was one thing they couldn't do: keep a hold of each other. The Grill Coat burned into him, and she could tell it was. He had his own Grill Coat as well, and it burned at Eve. The two grills would never let them touch without it sending extremely painful shock waves all the way through their bodies.

It was the only thing that could hurt them more than being apart…