Chapter 10

You hear chitter down the hall behind you. Atlas and P-Body are coming, so there's no time to contemplate.

You put down Wheatley to portal down the hallway by the door and portal the wall next to you as you pick him up, walk through it and out the door before GLaDOS had a chance to lock it.

You look around frantically on the catwalk and spot another catwalk down below.

Without hesitation, you jumped down.

All the while, Wheatley said, "Whoo, you had me going there, partner!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for not giving me up!

I really-greatly appreciate it. I do.

Woah-hey now, don't you want to prep yourself before jump―AAHHH!"

You landed with a huge thud as the metal structure clanged loudly and reverberated from the impact.

You ran down the catwalk into the next building, checking for cameras.

There were none thankfully.

As you walked down the hallway, you noticed something dark coming from behind the false door that was sliding down at the end of the hallway.

"Uh-oh," said Wheatley when he rolled over to see in front of you.

"That's a mashy-spike plate!"

Sure enough, spikes were facing your direction.

Again, you put down Wheatley and portal down the hallway just before it completely comes down and you portal near you and pick him back up and waited.

The plate zoomed down the hallway and you made through before it had the chance to crush you.

You walked past where the spiked panel was and into a squeeze space behind the walls, where Wheatley couldn't fit.

You put him down as he says, "Hey, don't leave me here! If-if you're looking for a way out though, it's fine.

Just find a portal surface and return to me, please."

You nod before turning right and walk along the narrow path and there was a small crack in the wall to the left.

You see a portal surface on the wall near a catwalk and placed an orange portal there.

You went back to where Wheatley was and place a blue portal near you.

Just then, a grinding sound was heard as the spiked panel down the hall was retreating back.

You picked Wheatley up and dashed through the portal before getting squished.

Looking around, you walk down the catwalk.

"Listen, if we get out of here, I would like to find that Lady again and tell her I'm sorry for what I done. Really I am. I do appreciate your help mate.

You in way remind me a lot about her: quiet, good with the portal gun. That's it."

You wander around for what felt like hours trying to find a way to the surface, Wheatley talking your ear off the whole time, and evading traps, through you're just sure no more than an hour has actually passed.

You eventually stop in an office to eat your snack as you put Wheatley and the portal gun down.

There was a faint rumbling but was too hungry to pay any mind to it.

"What are you―oh. Right, you humans need to eat for energy.

Inefficient, that. All I need is to recharge on a port and I'm good to go.

Humans on the other hand have to take in things and expel them later. Pretty horrid, actually."

You just glare at him as you finish your snack.

"Oh, sorry. I didn't mean it like-like that.

It-it is true you know though."

You got up with the portal gun and picked Wheatley back up before heading out of a different door.

Once you did, there was an odd door at the end of the catwalk.

Once you walked up to it, you realized it was painted on.

You tapped on the 'door' and the carboard wall it was on fell down into the depths below.

Uh-oh, you thought.

"It's a trap!" cried Wheatley but you were too late.

You were grabbed by a mechanical claw, nearly dropping Wheatley and the portal gun.

"AHH! SHE'S FOUND US! OH, WE'RE DEAD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD…!"

You were raised higher and higher to the point you had to look up to see where you are going.

Oh my gosh, you thought dreadfully.

All this running around, and you ended up resting underneath her flipping chamber.

Obviously, the room you're being hauled up to is large and circular with a tube system coming through it. As you neared her chamber, you shushed Wheatley before you think she could hear him.

"Oh! That's the closest I've heard to you speaking! Oh, please say something!" he said in what may be his attempt at whispering, and it was horrible.

You glared hard at him and he finally shuts up again.

"Sorry," he mumbled.

You mentally face-palmed.

Once you were in her chamber, she slowly turned around to you face you both.

"Well, well. Look at what I have here.

I finally caught the two loose rats that were scuttering around in my facility.

All I needed was a little bait. Ha ha."

"How did you managed to find us?" demanded Wheatley once the floor panel closed and the claw dropped you both.

GLaDOS leaned a bit closer in your direction and stated, "Apparently trying to use deadly traps are ineffective against pests with the power of intra-dimensional gateways.

If that went over your cheese-riddled head, I was talking about the portal gun.

So I used a live trap: you squatted in the 'office' space you deemed safe while I moved you closer to me very carefully.

If I raised the alarm, you would've tried to escape again."

You put Wheatley down and raised the portal gun while staring intensely at her.

"Oh. No. You have the portal gun, what ever shall I do," she stated in flat sarcasm.

"Look around, vermin. There are no portal surfaces.

What would you do, throw the gun at my Core?

Because that's mean, and willful destruction of property.

And by property, I meant my Core, because I own it."

She shifted back to her original position.

"That's enough banter, now it's time to die."

Stand your ground on page 18.