Meanwhile back on the walkways, Jeffrey was flying as quickly as he could to lead the group to where he last saw Chelsea. He flew through focused and determined to rescue his Zelda once again. The others noticed his determination and were impressed by it. Jeffrey was usually a guy who was not emotional about anything, so his focus was something new to them.

They finally reached where the walkway ended and stopped. It was a large expanse with a testing chamber that had a hole in the floor. The hard light bridge from before was gone leaving an open way for them to go. Jeffrey flew into the expanse straight away without stopping.

"Slow down, Jeff!" Kayla yelled from the walkway. "Wait for us! I have to carry everyone to where you are."

"Alright, but hurry," Jeffrey said flying in place in the middle of the expanse.

Kayla quickly lifted everyone over the side of the railing and into the expanse. Atlas started freaking out immediately and grabbing onto P-Body for dear life upon seeing the bottomless pit underneath them while the turrets were overjoyed at their experience.

"Wow," Terry said in amazement. "We really are flying."

"Calm down, you big baby," Kayla said to Atlas. "I didn't drop you before and I'm not going to drop you now."

"Just try to make the ride as smooth as possible for him," Sylvie said. "He's a bit frightened."

"This is amazing," Alpha said doing twirls in the air.

"We don't have time to goof around," Jeffrey said turning around and flying ahead. "Let's keep moving."

Albina who had been silently observing Jeffrey from behind this whole time flew to catch up with him.

She flew next to him on his right side and said, "I have never seen you act this serious about anything before. You must be really broken up about what happened."

"I left her when she was scared," Jeffrey said without looking at her. "I was careless and I have to make up for it."

"You are being too hard on yourself," Albina said. "It's not like you left her on purpose. You did what she asked you to do and it has worked out. We are back together, and we can help now. You need to calm down because you have nothing to make up to anyone."

"I suppose you're right," Jeffrey said finally looking at her. "But we still have to keep going. We have to save Chelsea."

"I agree with that," Albina said with a smile. "I'm proud of you for being so focused on the task at hand. It seems that you are finally becoming a man."

"I am not completely sure by what you mean by that, but I thank you for the compliment nonetheless," Jeffrey said as they flew into the testing chamber.

They flew through the open bottom as Sylvie made the lights turn on and reached the platform where the door was. They all landed and looked at the door as Jeffrey shapeshifted back into a human to look around.

"I've got this," Sylvie said walking to the front of the group.

Sylvie put her hands on the door and telepathically commanded it to open. The doors opened and everyone walked through.

As everyone walked down the stairs to the elevator, Sylvie asked, "Jeffrey, whenever you took the elevator from one testing chamber to the next, did you go up or down?"

"It always went down," Jeffrey said as they reached the bottom.

"We know where to go then," Sylvie said in a determined manner as she moved her hands on the elevator doors and pulled them open telepathically.

Jeffrey jumped into the elevator shaft first shapeshifting back into a bat as he fell. Kayla picked up Sylvie and the robots again, and they went down after Jeffrey. Albina once again flew behind them as they began their descent.

"Kayla, give me a potato," Albina said. "I'm hungry, and I will need my strength for what is ahead."

"Alright," Kayla said. "Anybody else?"

"Give me one, too, please," Sylvie said. "What about you, Jeffrey? Do you want one?"

"I'll be fine," Jeffrey said. "I ate something earlier. Besides, I can't exactly eat a potato in this form."

Kayla used her powers to hand everyone a potato. Terry looked on in amazement as they all began eating.

"What are they doing?" he asked Alpha.

"It's called eating," Alpha said. "Humans have to do it to get energy."

"Wow," Terry replied.

"So, Jeffrey, for the tests is there anything that we have to watch out for?" Kayla asked.

"Of course," Jeffrey said. "There will be lasers, more turrets, probably nothing that Chell hadn't mentioned around the campfire before on Halloween. We just have to keep our eyes open. Since we have Sylvie though, we can through the tests without solving them. Also, at the end of every test, there is an emancipation grid. I'm not sure why the last one wasn't up, but in the future, they will be. You have to watch out for those because they will dissolve the turrets. That's the reason why we couldn't take Terry before."

"Alright," Sylvie said. "I definitely do not want anything bad to happen to these three or any of the other turrets that I must inform you now I will be saving."

"I have no complaints whatsoever as long as they don't slow us down," Jeffrey said.

Just then, they heard a voice behind them.

"Et tu, Brute?" the Oracle Turret said.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Kayla asked.

"Kayla, stop!" Sylvie yelled seeing that they had reached their destination. "We're here."

Sylvie telepathically opened the doors, and all of them flew through. They then landed on the floor and walked into the room. It was really dark.

"Hold on," Sylvie said as she swallowed down the rest of her potato. "I'll turn on the lights and open the door."

Sylvie telepathically commanded the lights to be turned on and opened the door, and everyone started to walk in.

"Hold on a second," Sylvie said as she put her hand on the wall so that she could telepathically see everything in the test chamber. "There is a rocket turret in the ground over there. I just need to turn him off and turn off the dissolve the emancipation grid and done! Let's go!"

Jeffrey, Kayla, and the robots then went on ahead. They rounded the corner leaving Sylvie behind with Albina. Sylvie was looking on the ground in sorrow for a moment and unable to shake it. Albina saw her sorrow and stayed behind to help.

"What is the matter, Sylvie?" Albina asked as she finished eating her potato.

"I just killed the rocket turret," Sylvie said. "I can't keep doing that. I can't keep murdering them."

"It is not murder if you killed in self-defense, Sylvie," Albina said putting her icy hand on Sylvie's right shoulder. "When you need to defend yourself, you do what you need to. It's not a sin."

"It's easier for you," Sylvie said slightly disdainfully. "You don't hear their thoughts as they die. You're also used to killing. You're cold to it!"

"Used to killing?" Albina said calmly as she walked ahead of her and turned around. "I killed the Combines who killed my parents and everyone else on our convoy. I have also killed a good number of robots here for self-defense. I would hardly say that that means I am used to killing. It's not that I'm a cold-hearted killer, Sylvie. It's just that I am willing to do what needs to be done in order to protect myself or save someone else. You will need the same mindset if you plan on fighting aliens."

"What are you guys doing down there?!" Kayla asked.

"We're coming," Sylvie said calmly walking next to Albina and giving her a weary smile showing that she understood. "I was just having a discussion with Albina. I'm ready to go."

"Good," Kayla said as she telekinetically lifted her off the ground and moved her to the ledge in front of the elevator where she and Jeffrey were standing. "It's about time."

Albina flew up behind her, Sylvie telepathically opened the door and turned off the emancipation grid, and the group walked down the stairs. They reached the elevator, Sylvie opened the doors, and they began their descent once again.

"Hey, guys!" Kayla said swallowing the rest of her potato. "What did Oracle mean when he said, 'Et tu, Brute?' What does that even mean?"

"It is a reference to the assassination of Caesar," Albina said. "It is said that when Julius Caesar was killed that his friend Brutus was among the assassins and therefore his last words were, 'And you, Brutus?' or 'Et tu, Brute?' in Latin. I learned about it when I read Shakespeare's play for school. It was in the footnotes."

"Then," Kayla said looking at Oracle. "Do you mean that someone's going to betray us?"

The oracle turret said nothing.

Sylvie sighed and said, "Once again, I'm getting nothing out of his mind. You sure are mysterious, Oracle."

"I'm still getting a grip on the fact that he is apparently psychic," Jeffrey said.

"Whatever the case, we will just have to watch out for traitors," Albina said.

"We're here," Sylvie said stopping the group.

Sylvie telepathically opened the door going to the next level, and they all entered. The group walked up the stairs, Sylvie opened the door, and she touched the wall to get a picture of the test chamber while also turning on the lights. Meanwhile, Kayla and the others looked upon the damage left by Chelsea in absolute amazement.

"Dang!" Kayla cried in amazement. "I have never seen Chelsea do this much damage before. I didn't know that she was capable of it."

"You should have seen her when GLaDOS made her angry earlier," Jeffrey said. "She broke the glass tube of the elevator in half."

"Oh my, God!" Alpha said. "She must be a monster."

"No, she's not!" Terry said in anger. "She's an angel!"

"You misunderstand him, Terry," Albina said walking up behind them. "He did not mean that she was a bad person. He only meant that she's powerful. I must admit it. I am impressed, but I am also worried. She is powerful, but she has no self-control. She can't go around wasting her energy like this. She will use up all her strength and not be able to fight back anymore. I just pray she's strong enough to keep it up until the day is over."

"She might not be able to," Jeffrey said pessimistically. "She was barely keeping up the fight when I left."

"It will be alright, Jeffrey," Albina said walking next to him. "God will protect her and keep her strong until we get there, and if she's weak when we get to her, we will be strong for her. We're her family in Christ after all. We can give her the support that she needs to get through this if she can't fight back anymore."

"She's right," Kayla said flying next to Jeffrey. "Don't worry, Jeffrey. She'll be okay. Besides, Chelsea's tougher than you think. She can put up with me after all and I tried to pull her head off one time."

"Alright," Sylvie said stepping away from the wall. "The exit is on the left, but the turrets that I want to pick up are on the right and I am not leaving without them. We are going to save them. We are going to save as many as we can."

"I hear you, Sylvie," Kayla said flying in front of her face. "But we get to name them!"

"That is fine by me," Sylvie said crossing her arms and walking ahead. "Just let me go first. I have to turn off their murderous instincts and turn on their legs."

"How many are there?" Kayla asked flying behind her.

"There are five and the weird thing is that all but one of them are female," Sylvie said.

"They can be girls?" Kayla asked in disbelief.

"Yes," Sylvie said. "Many of them are. We just hadn't encountered them yet. Anyway, around the corner, there are two turrets, a male and a female. Then further behind the laser gate, there are three female turrets on the platform. Let me deactivate the laser gates and their command to murder and give them the ability to walk, and we will get them."

"Let us get them," Kayla said. "You've named one, and Chelsea has named one, so let us name the rest."

"Fine," Sylvie said as she closed her eyes and accomplished her tasks. "It's all done. You can go."

Kayla flew quickly ahead of the group and yelled, "I call the three girl turrets!"

"I guess that leaves us with the two other turrets," Albina said. "Let's go get them."

"Okay," Jeffrey said emotionlessly as the two of them walked around the corner.

Sylvie sat down and continued to think about what Albina had said. Alpha walked up to her in order to see if something was wrong. Terry and Oracle stood behind him. Atlas and P-Body then sat down on either side of her to help comfort her.

Sylvie sighed, put her right hand on top of Alpha's head, and said, "Albina's right. No matter how badly I might want to, I can't save all of the robots. I will have to kill some of them in self-defense because there will probably be some who I either can't save, like that rocket turret, or who just don't want to listen to me, like the doctor robots."

Atlas beeped in response to what she said. Sylvie listened to him as he talked to her.

Sylvie smiled at him and said, "You have a point. At least, I have saved you guys."

A tear fell down her cheek, and as she wiped it away, she said, "I cannot save all of them, but I can save as many as I can. God will honor my efforts. I can only do my best."

Sylvie gave Atlas a hug and he hugged her back.

Meanwhile in the room with the platform, Kayla flew in and saw the three turrets. The one in the middle had a violet eye, the one to her right had a pink eye, and the one on the left had an orange pupil around the center and a yellow iris surrounding that.

"Who are you?" the violet eyed turret asked very grumpily. "Were you the test subject of an experiment gone wrong?"

"No, I'm Kayla," Kayla said happily in spite of her annoyance. "I'm a mutated human who has been blessed by God with the power of telekinesis, and I'm here to rescue you."

"How delightful!" the rose-eyed turret said. "That God would send such a peculiar angel to save the likes of us! How glorious is this day!"

"Yeah, but first I have to name you and I know just what to name you," Kayla said.

Kayla flew up to the turret with the pink eye and said, "You will be Rose."

She then flew up to the turret with the orange and yellow eye and said, "You can be Daffodil."

Kayla then finally flew up to the turret with the purple eye and said, "And you can be Violet."

"Oh, joy," Violet said sarcastically. "It is the name I always wanted."

"Alright, now, everybody jump off and let's go," Kayla said. "Your legs can move now. If you're scared, I can lower you with telekinesis."

"Hurray!" Rose said as she jumped. "What a glorious bliss is this freedom!"

"Like my mind feels liberated," Daffodil said as she jumped. "I feel so enlightened."

"We're all going to die a horrible, horrible death and it going to be all your fault," Violet said standing in place. "Why couldn't you just leave me alone?"

"What is your problem?" Kayla asked. "We're saving your life! Don't you get that GLaDOS is going to kill you?"

"She does not take kindly to defiance," Violet said. "I am sure that you realize that. We are going to die."

"Not if we kill her first," Kayla said. "We are going to defeat her once and for all."

"So what if you do?" Violet asked pessimistically. "I have no reason to live anymore. Before, all I did was shoot humans. Now that I don't have that objective anymore, I have no purpose or meaning for my life. You might as well kill me right now."

"You can find a new meaning for your life," Kayla said in annoyance picking her up telekinetically. "Stop being so grumpy already! We have to go!"

"This is going to end badly," Violet said.

Closer to where Sylvie was, Albina and Jeffrey were standing with the other two turrets. One of the turrets had a white eye while his companion had a red and white striped eye. The two turrets just looked at them in expectance.

"How about you name the male turret and I'll name the female turret, okay?" Albina said.

"Sure," Jeffrey said.

"Hey, Sylvie?" Albina asked. "Which one is the male?"

"It's the one with the white eye," Sylvie yelled from the other side of the wall.

"Okay," Albina said crouching down next to the one with the red and white striped eye. "I think I'll name you Peppermint then, because of the colors of your eye. We can call you Pepper for short. What will you name yours then, Jeff?"

"How about Ignatius?" Jeffrey said.

"Ignatius?" Albina said incredulously. "Are you serious?"

"What?" Jeffrey said. "It was the name of our church. It is also the name of a saint."

"I think it's cute!" Peppermint said snuggling up very close to Ignatius' side. "Can I call you Iggy?"

"Of course, you can, my love," Ignatius said to Pepper as Sylvie walked around the corner in order to meet the turrets.

"What's up, guys?" Kayla said as she flew into the area where everyone else was with Rose and Daffodil walking in front of her and Violet being dragged behind her. "This is Rose, Daffodil, and Violet."

"And they are Ignatius and Peppermint," Albina said gesturing to each turret.

"Hello, turrets," Sylvie said. "We don't have a lot of time to explain but in short we are super powered humans who are trying to save you and one of our friends who has been captured by GLaDOS. I have the ability to talk to and control machines so that is the reason that you can walk and look at us without killing us now. Today, we are going to save you and all the others and get out of here."

"Praise the living God," Ignatius said. "Pepper and I have wanted this since we were born. Now, we can live together with clean consciences the way God intended. You have given us our freedom."

"Hurray!" Peppermint said quickly and she was energetically running around. "We will live to celebrate Christmas, Iggy! We can go outside and build a snowman and play in the snow and find a Christmas tree and decorate it while watching Christmas movies and singing Christmas carols forever and ever because I LOVE CHRISTMAS!"

"I know you do, Pepper," Ignatius calmly said to her. "But you must remember the true meaning of Christmas. It is about Jesus and the salvation for mankind. For God so loved the world…"

"That he gave his only begotten Son so that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life," Peppermint interrupted him while jumping up and down. "I know, Iggy! I know what I need to love. You've told me, silly! First, I love God, then I love you, but then I love CHRISTMAS! We can have an all-night Mass on Christmas Eve to celebrate that part! We have to stay up anyway to make sure that Krampus doesn't come!"

"That would be wonderful," Ignatius said. "We also have to find Santa Claus. He needs to know that using magic is a sin against God."

The group stared at the two of them, completely dumbfounded.

"Oh, God," Violet said. "It's those two. I was stuck next to them on an assembly line for over two weeks. They are so annoying!"

"I have so many questions," Kayla said.

"Can we ask them while we are going?" Jeffrey asked.

"Sure," Kayla said.

Sylvie turned and started leading the group towards the next elevator shaft.

"What is it with you, two?" Kayla asked. "How do you know about the Bible and Christmas?"

"We don't know," Ignatius said. "It was just in our programming when we were born over two weeks ago."

Atlas and P-Body stopped in their tracks as they suddenly both had a flashback. It was about two weeks ago back when they were still working for GLaDOS. Chelsea was usually being examined and cared for by doctor robots and even though they had picked up some skills by watching them, they were not really allowed to help out with much. On this day, they were exceptionally bored, so they were hanging out near the turret assembly lines and looking at random things on the computer database. From looking in the emails of a former employee, P-Body came across a PDF file containing the entire Bible and started reading it, but he got bored and stopped. He next came across a documentary about the exhaustive history of Christmas in the emails of said employee, called Atlas over and watched it with him. Before they could watch the whole thing however, GLaDOS called.

"Orange, Blue, I am going to be allowing the test subject to wake up, so I need your help with her," GLaDOS said as the two robots scrambled to hide what they were doing. "I do not expect her to be able to do too much since she has been surgically examined for almost four weeks now, but knowing her genetic origins, she will probably try to do something. I need you two to be there to stop her and take care of her needs."

In his rush to hide the folder on the computer, P-Body moved the Bible PDF and the Christmas documentary to a folder on the computer. That folder was the turret programming AI intelligence, the folder that actively represented all the mental information carried in the minds of all the turrets that were being created.

"What are you doing?" GLaDOS said sensing correctly that something was amiss. "Have you been messing around with the computer system again?"

P-Body and Atlas shook their heads to say no, but just then, the computer announced, "New information has successfully been added to turret internal programming."

"What have you done?" GLaDOS said in annoyance looking into the computer system and immediately upon seeing their error removed the unneeded information from the turrets memory file. "There, disaster has been averted. Of course, there will likely be a few turrets quoting the Bible or singing Christmas carols now, but as long as the rest of their programming works correctly, no one will ever know, except me and you. Now, if you please, come help me out before I change my mind and decide to throw you both in the incinerator."

Atlas and P-Body then rushed to where GLaDOS was.

Looking back, they realized that these two had to be the few turrets who were affected by the new information added to their programming. They looked at each other, and they looked at the turrets who were affected by their mistake. Sylvie turned back and read their minds out of curiosity to see what they were doing and smiled as she realized what they had done.

"Come on, you two," Sylvie said. "We have things to do."

The two robots then ran to catch up.

"Okay," Kayla said dumbfounded as Sylvie opened the door leaving the testing chamber. "Why are you two acting like you're in love then? Can you tell me that?"

"Yes," Peppermint said continuing to jump for joy in place. "We're married!"

"What?!" Kayla said. "How is that possible? You don't even know what a boyfriend is!"

"But we all know what marriage is," Alpha said as the group walked down the stairs. "We don't live very long, so when a male and a female turret are attracted to each other, they immediately get married and spend the rest of their short lives together."

"It's true," Peppermint said leaping down the stairs ahead of everybody else and around the elevator until everyone got there. "We met over two weeks ago. We were born right next to each other. I was born and I was in love with Christmas immediately. I turned to my left and tried to talk to the turret next to me on the assembly line about it, but she had no idea what I was talking about and completely ignored me. I was depressed! I thought that no one would understand me ever, but then I heard a turret on my right say that he knew what Christmas was and I rejoiced. He then asked me if I knew what the Bible was and I told him I honestly did. From that moment on, we fell madly in love, sharing our passions together. After an hour of standing next to each other in total bliss, we got married and lived happily ever after!"

"How do turrets get married?" Kayla said flying down the stairs ahead of the group.

"I asked me if she wanted to be one flesh with me and she said yes," Ignatius said as he walked up behind her along with everyone else.

"That is usually not how marriages work with humans," Sylvie said as she mentally forced the elevator shaft doors to open. "You take a while to get to know the person first and then once you decide to get married, you have to prepare an elaborate ceremony where someone with power like a priest or someone with political authority marries you. Otherwise, you're just considered engaged. I would know because I'm going to get married soon. I have a fiancé."

"Oh wonderous bliss!" Rose said. "What a glorious blessing from above is love!"

"That's wonderful," Peppermint quickly said as she walked up to Sylvie. "Are you a virgin?!"

Sylvie and everyone else froze in absolute shock.

"Yes," Sylvie managed to mumble out.

"Are you pregnant with the Messiah?!" Peppermint asked very excitedly.

"No, love," Ignatius said very patiently. "That was only a one time occurrence that only occurred with the intervention of the Holy Spirit. Other virgins can't give birth to Jesus."

"Oh," Peppermint said. "That's right. I remember that now."

"This is going to be a long day," Kayla sighed. "These turrets are crazy, especially you, Pepper. You need to calm down."

"Do not suppress her spirit, man," Daffodil said. "That is so oppressive of you."

"Yeah, Kayla," Albina teased. "Stop oppressing her."

"I was not oppressing anybody," Kayla said defensively. "Anyways, I suppose we should get going."

"I agree," Jeffrey said. "Let's get moving."

Jeffrey shapeshifted into a bat to the amazement of the watching turrets and flew down the shaft ahead of everyone else. Kayla lifted Sylvie and the robots and flew behind him while Albina flew behind everyone else.

"Is it too late to ask you to just kill me?" Violet asked. "I figure that anything you do would be much less painful than what she would come up with."

"No," Kayla said. "Stop asking already!"