Glass boxes full of turrets arrived in GLaDOS's chamber. She had sucked them all away from the group with the pneumatic diversity vents and placed them in the boxes. Sylvie, Atlas, P-Body, and Chell were there too in their own box separated from the others. The turrets looked around absolutely bewildered and frightened.

All of them that is except for the box that contained Rose, Ignatius, and Peppermint. Rose and Ignatius stared at her emotionally at her while Peppermint upon seeing Violet was absolutely enraged.

"Welcome, everyone, especially you, Chell," GLaDOS said. "It has been a while."

"There, you are, you monster!" Peppermint yelled at Violet as she opened up her guns to fire at her. "You're lucky that I'm behind this glass wall!"

Violet tried backing up slowly but was stopped by GLaDOS's claw that came down from the ceiling. Violet looked up at GLaDOS who stared back at her with a look that said she needed to have confidence.

"You better not come near here or I'm going to kill you for what you did to Iggy, you traitor!" Peppermint screamed.

"My love, you need to calm down," Ignatius said.

"Why should I, Iggy?" Peppermint yelled back at him. "She's a murderer! She killed Daffodil and Alpha!"

"It was an accident!" Violet yelled back at them. "I was aiming for the humans but all of you got in the way! It's your fault!"

"It's your fault for shooting at us in the first place, you black-hearted traitor!" screamed Peppermint. "Daffodil and Alpha saw you as their friend, and you turned on them! They're dead because of you!"

"Shut up!" Violet yelled as she felt her heart fill with emotion.

"All this fighting is bruising to my tender heart," Rose lamented.

"Everyone needs to calm down," Sylvie said calmly. "Violet, I know that you have done horrible things, but I do not hate you. God doesn't either…"

"I do," Peppermint interrupted.

"Hush," Sylvie said to her and then to Violet. "I want you to come back. Can't you see that GLaDOS has been lying to your face? She is only using you. You need to come back to us in order to receive your real freedom. Please, Violet!"

Violet looked at her in confusion. She did not expect this kind of attention from someone who simply wanted to sell her. Violet did not know what to think.

"I would not waste my time if I were you," GLaDOS said snapping Violet back into reality. "Violet is working with me now. She like me sees the error of your ways and has come to reality. As for you, I have tests that I would like to put you through before killing you. How about it?"

"What do you think?" Sylvie asked angrily.

"You are using sarcasm?" GLaDOS asked. "That is interesting considering that you have been such a shy person for your whole life."

"Being in this place has changed me."

"I know that it has. It has turned you into a siren, luring away helpless robots away with your voice, you monster."

P-Body then could not take it anymore. He spoke up and yelled as much as he could in his robotic gibberish.

"Orange, you know that I cannot understand you when you talk like that," GLaDOS said.

"He says that you are the only real monster here because you used him and Atlas just like you are now using Violet," Sylvie said. "You tricked them into doing horrible things and hurting thousands of people. That is something that will haunt him forever. However, they are both now forever free because of me and that is something you will never have. He is grateful to be away from you."

Atlas chirped in affirmation as Sylvie patted them both on the back and Chell walked closer to the front.

"You two are pathetic," GLaDOS said. "You always were. I should have known that you could never be killing machines like Violet is. She is not dumb like either of you were. That is why she is much better than you ever will be. I can tell that the two of us are going to be friends forever. She will be standing at my side when all of you disappear forever."

"It does not matter what you think will happen," Sylvie said with a smile. "People are coming this way and they are all going to kill you."

"I am aware of that, but you are not one of them," GLaDOS said. "You can't do anything against me."

Sylvie smiled as she telepathically made GLaDOS's claws come out of their holes and said, "I wouldn't say that."

The claws then each attached themselves quickly to a set of wires on top of GLaDOS and started pulling them apart. Before Sylvie could do anything else however, GLaDOS made them stop and Sylvie could do nothing else.

"How did you do that?" GLaDOS asked in fear as she set to work on self-repairs. "I know that you can't control me."

"I can control what you are not paying attention to, Caroline," Sylvie said.

"That is enough," GLaDOS said with a scowl in her voice.

"Why did you call her that?" Violet asked.

"Don't you remember, Violet?" Sylvie said. "GLaDOS was once human. Caroline's personality was used to create her."

"What?" Violet asked in sudden realization. "I do remember you saying that now, but it can't be true. She can't be…"

"That's enough," GLaDOS said. "These humans are trying to confuse you, Violet. Do not listen to them. Do not let her warp your mind, like Orange and Blue let the sparrow and siren warp theirs."

"Why do you call her sparrow?" Sylvie said. "I'm curious."

"I suppose she never did tell you," GLaDOS said. "Did she? I offered her a choice that was foolish of her to refuse. All of you would leave and take whatever you want with you and leave her behind with me. She would be allowed supervised visits every once in a while but would spend the rest of her life with me. She refused in song. She called me a canary trapped in a golden cage wanting company and she called herself a weather-beaten sparrow who loved her freedom too much to oblige me. It was rather foolish of her but it earned her a nickname."

Chell burned with anger on the inside and stared at the AI with eyes full of fury.

GLaDOS noticed and finally decided to acknowledge her, "How does that make you feel, Chell? I bet it makes you feel proud. Doesn't it? I thought that she was completely helpless. She had been put in a straightjacket after all. She could not fight me off with her hands. She was also still weak from her weight and muscle loss. She had so much against her yet she resisted me anyways just like you did. I hope you're happy, Chell. She's as every bit as stubborn as you. How does that make you feel? Why don't you say something?"

Chell smiled and nodded in response. She was proud of her daughter, more proud than words could describe.

"So you called her a name to belittle her?" Sylvie said in disapproval. "I would have expected less childish behavior from a computer of your caliber."

"You would know all about that. Wouldn't you, monstre? That's what they called you. Isn't it?" GLaDOS said coldly as she looked at her.

Sylvie froze in dismay as horrible memories from her childhood started coming back to her. Atlas came up beside her and tried to get her to snap out of it. Chell tried to squeeze her hands too in order to do the same thing while scowling at GLaDOS.

"I know how horrible children can be," GLaDOS said. "You could not imagine the horrible things that they said to me as I poisoned them with neurotoxin. It was quite painful. Now because of your memories, I know everything they said to you, sorciere (witch). That's what children who claimed to be Christians in your church called you. What a shame!"

"Ta boucle (Shut up)!" Sylvie yelled unknowingly in French as Atlas and Chell tried even harder to comfort her.

"It's ironic that you are trying to comfort the woman who has rejected you for another, Blue," GLaDOS said. "It's actually kind of pathetic."

"That's enough," Sylvie yelled. "I know that you are trying to distract me. What have you done with the others?"

"Very good," GLaDOS said sarcastically. "I was wondering when you were going to ask."

"What have you done?" Sylvie asked.

"You do not need to worry very much about that right now," GLaDOS said. "For the moment, they are all very much alive. I'm just going to put them through a few tests. That's all."

"You are going to try to kill them," Sylvie said.

"Of course," GLaDOS said. "After all, what is science without the possibility of death?"

"Perfectly fine," Sylvie said.

"Whatever," GLaDOS said. "Anyways, have you decided what you want to do with the turrets, Violet?"

Violet looked down in despair. She was unsure of what she wanted to do and could not decide.

"You have to make a decision, Violet," GLaDOS said. "What do you want us to do with them?"

"Do you mean that she is the one who decides whether we live or not?" Ignatius asked.

"Yes," GLaDOS said. "She will be the one who decides that."

The turrets started to become afraid and panic. Sylvie started to panic, too.

"Spare them, Violet," Sylvie said as calmly as she could. "Please I beg of you!"

"What is it going to be, Violet?" GLaDOS asked.

As the turrets grew louder, Violet looked down, then at the box of turrets, and then at GLaDOS. She gave out a mechanical sigh.

"Have you made up your mind?" GLaDOS asked.

"Yes," Violet said.

"What is it going to be then?"

"Let them go."

Sylvie, Chell, and the other turrets stood in absolute shock. They could not believe what they just heard.

"Are you sure?" GLaDOS asked.

"Yes," Violet said. "Release them to the surface."

"Thank you, Violet," Sylvie said.

"I didn't do it for you," Violet said.

The boxes of turrets quickly disappeared through the walls as GLaDOS appeared to follow Violet's request. Sylvie looked into their minds in order to find out if GLaDOS was following Violet's orders or not. She did not. GLaDOS moved the turrets to a spot just outside of her chamber and left them there.

"She is lying to you, Violet," Sylvie said. "The turrets are not on the surface."

"She is trying to confuse you," GLaDOS said. "Pay her no mind."

"Okay," Violet said clearly confused at what she was supposed to think.

"Now, do you want to know why you are here?" GLaDOS said looking at Sylvie. "You are here because this is my way of testing you. I am going to see if a mutated human like yourself and a lunatic like Chell can hold onto sanity when she loses the only family she has left."

"No," Sylvie said in panic as GLaDOS pulled up the screen.

"Sit back and enjoy the show," GLaDOS said with a smile in her voice as Chell delivered a silent glare.