"Now, the activation switch for secret entrance to Cave's office is around here somewhere…" Lucas was probing around a large metal wall, looking for a key-card slot.

"Are you sure it's on this wall?" Chell asked, leaning against the wall where the card slot was actually located, fully aware of the fact.

"Positive." He replied.

"I bet you ten bucks that I can find it for you."

"Whateve-"

"Found it." Chell interrupted.

"What?! You found it?!"

"Yes, it's on this wall." Chell pointed at the key-card slot.

"Oh, ye-yes it is." Lucas stammered.

Hey swiped the card through the slot, and the wall opened up.

"We're in!" Lucas announced.

Wheatley's management rail couldn't go any further, so Chell had to pick him up with the Portal Gun. They stepped through to a nicely furnished room, with a desk to one side, with a suspiciously modern-looking laptop on it.

"This has Windows 7 on it!" Lucas announced.

"So it does… Why do you think that is?"

"Because, you two, I use it." Said a voice that sounded like a less computerized version of GLaDOS.

Chell and Lucas turned around, and gasped.

"You're…you're Caroline!"

TBC… Nope, just kidding!

"Yes, I am, indeed, Caroline." She confirmed.

"But you're… you're still… It's over five… What are you doing here?!" Lucas was flabbergasted, shocked, and bewildered.

"You're wondering how I'm still alive, right?" She asked, putting her left hand on her hip.

"Yes, we are!" Chell put in before Lucas could speak.

"How are you still alive, Chell?"

"How… how do you know my name?"

"Because I knew your parents before they died."

"What happened to them?" Chell asked.

"They were on their way to visit you, the road was icy, and it was a very dark night. They changed lanes and a truck pulled from a turn into their lane. They swerved to prevent hitting the truck, but the road was so slippery that when they swerved, they lost control and crashed through the bar that was next to the edge of the road, and the car fell. They were in hospital for three days before they died. You were seventeen when that happened."

"Then you know my last name!"

"I do, indeed."

"Could you tell me it?"

"I'm afraid not, Chell. Since that happened, they were ordered to wipe your memory of certain things, including your last name! So your parent's death forwarded the cause of science, as they put it. I didn't want them to but I had no choice in the matter. I am under strict orders not to tell you anything about your past."

"But you're not under their, whoever they are, command anymore, they're long dead!"

"I'm afraid they aren't, Chell. Personality cores cannot die."

"WHAT?! Mere robots are controlling your decisions?!"

"Isn't that what GLaDOS is doing?" A flash of anger seemed to go over Caroline's face when she mentioned GLaDOS.

"I suppose… I noticed that you're not too fond of GLaDOS."

"That was one of your strong points, reading faces. I'm glad they didn't erase that quality of you. And yes, I don't really like GLaDOS. She's just a cheap, aggressive, and dangerous copy of me!"

"That's an interesting way of putting it." Lucas commented.

"Yes it is. I never thought of it that way when I was getting tested."

"Wait! You were tested?!"

"Yeah, I was. That's how I defeated GLaDOS. And here we are today."

"I specially made sure you weren't tested!"

"What?! I was tested so whatever you did didn't work."

"I made sure that when you were next in line those chambers had gotten the green-light for the Portal Device, and you were supposed to have different, previously untested chambers. Let me check the records…" Caroline entered something into her computer, "Oh my goodness!"

"What is it?" Chell asked.

"The records say you're number one on the list! I made it so you were number fourteen-hundred ninety-eight on the list!"

"Then if you made it so I was 1498… then who made me number 1?"

"I don't know, Chell, but I'm sorry they did. Those tests were too dangerous."

"Yes, Lucas told me that many other people, mostly condemned prisoners, died in that fire pit at the end."

"Yes, they were tested before, and that fire pit was exclusively for the prisoners. I didn't like it, but they said, 'they were gonna die anyway!' How heartless is that?!"

"Yes, very heartless. You still didn't explain why you were still alive."

"And my answer is the same: How are you still alive?"

"I was… Put in cryo-sleep!" Chell answered, understanding.

"Yes, so was I and Cave was supposed to go with me. But he died before we could put him in. I miss him so much. He even had a speech prepared for the time when they wake him up." Caroline walked over to a tape recorder and put a tape in it. The message Cave sent was:

"Greetings, men of the future! I'm Cave Johnson. I have been put in cryogenic suspension with my assistant Caroline. Now, if you can cure lunar dust poisoning that would be greatly appreciated. *Cough! Cough!* I am thrilled to be here!"

"That's his speech. Pretty informative isn't it?"

"Yes, very straight to the point."

"Oh, Caroline, we didn't explain why we're here yet. We're here to launch a crippling virus into GLaDOS so we can go in and take care of her without any danger."

"How do you expect to do that?"

"Send an eMail with the virus as an attachment, with Cave Johnson's eMail."

"That's a great idea! Except for one problem."

"What is it?" Chell asked

"Cave doesn't have an eMail address. He would've, but he died before eMail was common knowledge. I have an eMail address. It's not Cave Johnson's but I could sign it with his name, and signature!"

"It will have to do! We can't do anything until GLaDOS is unable to do anything."

"Right, I'll just use a photocopier to scan his signature, save it as a .png, embed the image, and write the eMail. What do you want me to type?"

"GLaDOS, this zip file contains important documents I need you to look through, and then I want you to send them to the lab boys. Cave Johnson. I'll just make the virus."

Lucas spent a little under half-an-hour making the virus, it nearly launched itself, but Lucas made sure that it would target specific things that only GLaDOS would have.

"Alright, it's ready! I'll get it compressed inside the zip file. And attach it to the eMail and, Caroline would you like to do the honors?"

"It would be my pleasure."

"That sounded a little bit… wrong…" Chell remarked.

Caroline chuckled, and clicked the send button on the eMail.

TBC… for real this time!