A/N: This is me trying to get over my massive writer's block by writing something completely ridiculous to get back into the habit, which means that although I'll be happy if you like this, I won't care if you don't since it's not meant to be good or even make sense.
This is also what happens when the fangirl in me gets out of her cage and sneaks into my fanfiction.
"You really shouldn't try to use the test subjects from that wing. It's too close to the Fourth Wall."
It wasn't like she didn't try to warn GLaDOS.
"Seriously-the Fourth Wall of this fic is barely standing. You never know what could get in through there."
She already had plenty of problems with trying to get rid of the birds and keeping Wheatley from being a menace to himself and everything around him.
"Stop looking at me like I drowned your goldfish! There are plenty of test subjects elsewhere. Right here for example."
But since when did GLaDOS listen to Chell?
…
A teenage girl slowly regained consciousness as glass slid away above her. She slowly sat up in the stasis pod and looked around the relaxation vault curiously. She knew she recognized this place; she knew two versions of it-hundreds, maybe thousands of years apart- like the back of her hand.
Oh. My. Gawd. The fangirl thought with an insane grin spreading across her face. This is Portal!
…
GLaDOS irritably watched the new test subject as she ran in circles around the test chamber, giggling madly. She could solve the test-in fact; she had solved it three times now. She would solve the test, run around while laughing insanely, reset the test, solve the test, and repeat. It was a completely ridiculous waste of time. The more brain-damaged test subjects were easier to deal with than this.
"Look, subject name here," GLaDOS began. The teenage test subject gave a girlish squeal and fell over in an attempt to stop. "You've solved the test. THREE TIMES. Just go to the next chamber." The exit door opened, and the girl skipped through.
GLaDOS had a feeling she wasn't going to get anywhere with this one. At first she was relieved that this one wasn't as brain-damaged as the others in cryogenic storage, but they had been at this for four hours and had only completed three chambers. So, rather than leading to the next test, the elevator took the test subject to an empty room.
"I'll be honest. At this rate, we're not getting anywhere," GLaDOS explained darkly, "To put it simply: Goodbye."
The room began to fill with neurotoxin. The fangirl looked around. Despite how awesome this was, she knew this was a problem.
How am I supposed to get out of this? She vaguely wondered, Oh wait…
"AMAZING AUTHORESS POWERS UNITE!" she yelled, "FOURTH WALL EXPLOSION!"
The Fourth Wall screamed in agony as a wall in the room exploded and the fangirl escaped.
"I should have known…" GLaDOS sighed, not that surprised.
…
"Where did you go…?" Chell muttered as she searched an unused test chamber.
"Chell," GLaDOS called over the intercom.
"What now?" Chell asked exasperatedly, still searching.
"I need you to help round up an insane escaped test subject," the AI answered, annoyed.
"That will have to wait," she replied, pausing in her search, "Something else has escaped, too."
"And what would that be?" GLaDOS asked, getting more agitated by the second.
"Err… The plot bunnies."
"The plot bunnies? How could they possibly escape when aren't even physically in existence?"
Chell shrugged. "How should I know? They're here, they escaped, and they're all over the place, probably due to the authoress's writer's block."
"How many of them are there?" GLaDOS asked irritably after a pause.
"One for each chapter… except there's only one for chapters 16 through 19, and chapters 11, 21, 8 and 9 don't have plot bunnies at all, so there're 19."
GLaDOS metaphorically face palmed. "Can't a bunch of bunnies wait? This test subject, who is apparently a fangirl, is kind of-" there was an explosion in the distance, "-a problem."
"A fangirl?" Chell looked at a camera with a grin, "What did I tell you about that particular wing?"
"How was I to know that I would get a fangirl with authoress powers?" GLaDOS demanded angrily.
"Authoress powers? Oh, man!" Chell was now laughing hysterically.
"What?"
"Only authoress powers can combat authoress powers! All you can do is hope that it doesn't happen anywhere important."
"Are you saying that I'll have to try to convince Xelac to come over here and- Oh wait, never mind. She's here anyway."
…
"What are you doing here?" GLaDOS asked coldly after Xelac and Taliax randomly apparated into her chamber with a big metal cage behind them, a chain leash slung over Xelac's shoulder, and Taliax holding a big butterfly net.
"Isn't it obvious? You've got a fangirl problem," Xelac replied, "And by the looks of things, she needs to be taken out fast before everyone, even you, is glomped to death."
"And you're going to catch her with a leash, a cage, and an oversized butterfly net?" the AI asked exasperatedly.
"It's not just a butterfly net!" Taliax explained, "It's a fangirl net! And a butterfly net!"
"It can also catch mean reviewers," Xelac said warningly. Several reviewers took a few steps back.
"So, off we go!" Taliax said cheerfully, and the two girls skipped out of the room, waving the net around and leaving the cage behind.
…
"AHHH! HELP ME! AHHHH!" Wheatley screamed and struggled as the fangirl pinned him to the ground.
"Aww, calm down Wheatie," she cooed sadistically, stroking his hair.
Wheatley whimpered and kicked a few more times, feeling like he was going to be sick as his strength drained from his limbs.
Chell approached them quietly, hoping the girl would be too preoccupied with her victim to notice her. She raised her trusty crowbar, keeping a close eye on the fangirl's head, and swung. The girl jerked, then slid limply off Wheatley's body. He scrambled up and hid behind Chell in a way that would have made his tormentor squeal with delight if she were conscious.
"C'mon, let's find Xelac," Chell said, pushing the still-whimpering Wheatley away from her.
As they walked quickly away, the fangirl raised one eyelid and watched them go with a maniacal grin tugging at her lips.
…
"Gotcha!" Rick said triumphantly as he pulled a little bunny out from between to parts of machinery in a maintenance room. Bunny 16-19 struggled for a moment before stopping and looking at him with big, round eyes. "Aww, why'd I have to be the one to get this little guy? Bein' the plot bunny for that part where we were kids makes it abnormally cute…" he said as he stroked the bunny's head.
"Hey! HEY! Space bunny! Come back!" Space cried as he tried to chase Bunny 4, who was obviously high on sugar.
Morality wordlessly placed a bunny covered with Brie cheese, Bunny 5, in the cage in the middle of the room that they were using as they rounded the plot bunnies up.
Suddenly they all felt the hairs on the back of their necks stand up, and the bunnies stopped trying to escape, frozen in fear.
"Hello, Rick, Space," the fangirl said calmly as she waltzed into the room, completely ignoring Morality, "and BUNNIES!"
She ran over to Rick and took the tiny bunny from him, cuddling it against her cheek as it squeaked with fear.
"Hey…" Rick began.
"Cool it, tough guy," she said.
"Tough guy? Oooh," he said, feeling an unnatural and unwanted calmness steal over him as he watched the fangirl pet Bunny 16-19.
"Space?" Space squeaked as Morality pulled him out of the room to safety.
…
"I don't get it," Wheatley said fearfully, "She was right here!"
He, Chell, Xelac and Taliax stood around the area where they had left the unconscious fangirl.
"Frankly, I'm not surprised," Xelac stated.
"What do we do now?" Taliax asked.
"What else? We use our amazing authoress powers to track down the fangirl," Xelac replied simply, holding her fist up heroically. Everyone else just stared at her.
"Well?" Chell asked, "You're the authoress, are you going to use your authoress powers or not?"
"Oh, right," Xelac muttered.
…
"You're times up, fan-Ohhh, man, I did NOT want to see that…" Xelac said awkwardly as the group entered the room and the fangirl sprang apart from Rick in surprise.
Rick immediately started wiping his mouth with disgust. "Help me…" he whimpered.
Xelac shook her head, trying in vain to clear it. "Uh, authoress powers…" she muttered, raising the fangirl net.
(10 minutes later)
"Well, that was harder than I thought," Xelac said, calmly examining the fangirl shrieking and struggling in the net and the destruction of the maintenance room. It will take GLaDOS a week to repair that particular reassembly machine. "This isn't just a fangirl… She's become a Mary Sue by the looks of things."
A gasp echoed around the room at the words 'Mary Sue'.
"A Mary Sue? Really?" Wheatley whispered in fear.
"Yeah, that's why her presence had an effect on some of you," Taliax explained, "Some people are immune to it, others not so much."
…
"Was all that really necessary?" GLaDOS asked as the group entered her chamber, dragging the Mary Sue behind them in the net towards the cage, "And can you keep that thing quiet?"
Sighing, Chell once again struck the screaming Mary Sue with her crowbar, but it hardly made a dent in her volume. They shoved her into her cage roughly. Thankfully, she retreated into the cage's corner and was reduced to whimpering.
"A Mary Sue, even a low-leveled one, showing up is not a good sign," Taliax said warningly.
"The scary thing is, I didn't plan for there to be a Mary Sue when I started writing this. It was supposed to be about the plot bunnies, but somehow the fangirl turned into a Mary Sue…" Xelac growled, mostly to herself.
"Hold on, I thought that as authors you have complete control over the story!" Wheatley said.
"Yeah, well, sometimes the story gets away from you and you just write without thinking," Xelac explained.
That One Guy suddenly jumped into the room. "That Mary Sue was created because of the lack of the Fourth Wall in this fanfiction!" he complained as usual.
"Hey, TOG. You're a little late for Fourth Wall breaking, aren't you?" Chell said casually.
TOG twitched. "I was, uh, busy," he replied.
Xelac and Taliax pushed the cage into a portal that lead to the Mary Sue Dungeon.
"Well, that takes care of that. We ought to be going," Xelac said, "See ya!"
And with that the authoresses teleported out. TOG was kicked out of the fic, and everyone got on with their lives once again.
A/N: Yes, that was a sucky ending. But like I said before, this chapter wasn't exactly supposed to be that good.
And no, I didn't actually plan for half of that stuff to happen. I didn't really plan this chapter out anyway, but I had no idea that would happen.
The Mary Sue was a reference to a series of fanfictions that Taliax and I are planning to write. It's going to be a massive crossover over several things at once, kind of like the Anti-Cliché and Mary Sue Elimination Society and the Protectors of the Plot Continuum, but hopefully making more sense. Those things are so big and have so many fandoms involved that it's hard for someone new to understand it. We want to use less fandoms so more people can understand it, and each fanfiction in the series will be placed in the crossover section with the two fandoms that it focuses on the most and have background information on the others to help people understand.
It'll probably involve Kingdom Hearts, Portal, Harry Potter, and Pokémon, and we're not sure about other things. It's going to be about corruption from fanfictions that either break the Fourth Wall too much, have too many plot holes, or are just plain bad affecting good fanfiction and trying to affect the cannon world, and an organization of OC's and characters who try to stop it.
So, hopefully this helped my writer's block, but I'm not sure if it did. I still need to figure out what's going to happen in Aperture Goes Camping Chapter 3 and ASHEaDE Chapter 11.
Also, there is going to be a Halloween related chapter up next, but I'm not sure after that.
