Kayla exited the vent and was shot into her destination. Kayla tried to fly back to the vent but it disappeared behind a panel before she could. With a scowl on her face, she quickly flew up and took in her surroundings around her. She was in a white testing chamber with nothing in it but a door that was set to open and a portal gun sitting in a stand. Kayla looked at it all and realized exactly what was going on.

"Where is everybody, GLaDOS?" Kayla asked as calmly as she could. "Are you doing to them what you're doing to me?"

"Greetings, cripple," GLaDOS's voice suddenly said over the intercom. "You will be participating in an enrichment center activity. Your job is to pass all the tests with the portal gun and in return I may let you see your family again. Can you handle that?"

"Duh!" Kayla said with a great deal of sass as she telekinetically picked up the portal gun.

Kayla had never examined one of these devices up close. She only saw Chell's and heard the stories about them. Kayla was amazed at the device and looked at it from the front to see the technology on the inside.

"Woah," Kayla whispered to herself.

"Do not look through the operational end of the device," GLaDOS said.

"I know what I'm doing," Kayla replied as she flipped the portal gun around and looked into the back of the machine.

"Obviously," GLaDOS said sarcastically.

Kayla was telling the truth. From these stories, she knew what to do. Kayla used her telekinesis to make the portal gun place an orange portal and then a blue portal on the walls in front of her.

Kayla's eyes grew large with wonder as she looked into the portals. She flew into the blue one and out through the orange one as a large smile appeared on her face.

"Now that you have familiarized yourself with the device, it is time for testing," GLaDOS said as she opened the door.

Kayla rolled her eyes and said, "You know you are very damn stupid if you think that you can keep me in here. What do you think I'm going to do? I'm going to blow this place apart of course."

"You absolutely will not."

"Why not?"

"Because I will kill the blond siren and your Aunt C if you do."

"For the love of God," Kayla said in annoyance.

"What?" GLaDOS asked in apparent confusion.

"That is the most clichéd thing I have ever heard," Kayla said. "That is what all the bad guys in all the animes, books, TV shows, and movies say. It's so overused and unoriginal."

"Do not take me lightly…" GLaDOS continued to say before being interrupted.

Kayla then continued in a mocking voice, "'Hi, I'm GLaDOS and I'm going to kill the people you love if you don't do exactly what I say because I have no other original ideas or plans of my own and am very, very, very, very, very, very predictable and boring!'"

"That is quite enough," GLaDOS said in not well-concealed annoyance. "Don't you think? In your place, you have no right to ridicule me, cripple."

"Yes, I do, because in this situation at least, it's ineffective."

"How so?"

Kayla flew up to the camera on the corner of the room and said, "I know you're not going to kill Sylvie or Aunt C. If you really intended to, you would do it. You're just saying this crap to scare me and I'm not buying it. I'm getting out of here! I'll take this thing though."

"You don't mean that…" GLaDOS said before her words were interrupted by Kayla's actions.

Kayla then started shaking the room with her mind. One panel after another fell inwards as Kayla was finally able to make a hole big enough to escape through on the top. Unfortunately, that was when the hard light bridges came up.

"You don't think that I know how to deal with that by now?" GLaDOS asked.

"You don't think I do, too?" Kayla responded with a smile.

Kayla pulled the panels inward as hard as she could and eventually got the result that she desired. The panels and walls all broke off and dropped all around her as the hard light bridges fell apart. There was now a huge expanse where the ceiling once was.

"Are you sure that you really want to leave?" GLaDOS asked malevolently. "Your friends and family members in Christ are going to die."

"No, we are not," Sylvie said through the PA system. "You can go!"

GLaDOS cut off the transmission before Sylvie could say anything else but Kayla knew that it was her.

Kayla smiled at the camera on the one corner of the wall she had left intact and said, "Don't worry. I'll be there soon."

The ceiling was falling apart. Kayla flew through it and found the Oracle Turret standing there to greet her on one of the walkways.

"You will need that gun," the Oracle Turret said.

"How did you get here?" Kayla asked.

"We need to go," the Oracle Turret said.

Kayla heard the sound of turrets coming up beneath her so she grabbed the Oracle Turret and flew away.

Meanwhile back in GLaDOS's chamber, GLaDOS stood still and searched for other cameras to find out where Kayla had gone and was going.

Chell and the others sat on the ground with big smiles on their faces snickering to themselves.

"That did not go according to plan at all," Sylvie said with a smile. "Did it?"

GLaDOS looked back at her with a glare and then looked forward at what she was doing as Violet stood next to her.

"You do not need to listen to her, Violet," Violet suddenly heard in her head. "She has been lying to you about everything."

Violet turned around, gave Sylvie a quick look, and then turned back around.

"You should not be talking to me," Violet responded in her mind to the voice. "The virus that is in the other turrets' minds is in mine, too. If you stay here too long, you will become the brain dead corpse that you were back in the box."

"It only works when I try to hack a certain part of their minds, as long as I avoid that part, then I will be alright," Sylvie replied.

"Interesting," Violet said sarcastically. "That does not mean I'm going to listen to you. For all you know, I could report you to my new friend."

"And yet you are not," Sylvie said. "Why?"

"My boss has enough on her mind without worrying about you," Violet said as she turned around and walked up to the box that Sylvie was in. "Now stay quiet and leave me alone."

"You now call her your boss," Sylvie said as she looked into her eye. "Is she your boss or your friend?"

Violet froze in uncertainty and stared at the ground.

"You're not sure," Sylvie said. "Are you? Violet, do you really want this life? Being bossed around by her forever? I know that this type of life is all that you have ever known but you surely want more."

"This is all I have," Violet said as she looked back at her. "And it's better than being out there with you where you would have sold us for parts and left us to die."

"Violet, I never intended to do such a thing. I was never going to hurt you or Alpha or Daffodil for that matter."

"Don't bring them up."

"I know you feel guilty, Violet. You killed them and there is nothing any of us can do to bring them back, but there is still something you can do."

"What?"

"You can ask for God's forgiveness, Violet. You can also repent of your actions and try to do the right thing for now on."

"I've heard all this before," Violet said as she rolled her eye. "The lovebirds used to talk about it all the time. It was so annoying. It's unlikely that God would ever offer salvation to creatures like us. We are not human. I tried raising that point with them before and they just ignored me like everybody always has, except her."

"Is that why you like her?" Sylvie asked calmly. "Because you think that she will never ignore you?"

"I know that she won't."

"Then why do you restrain yourself around her? You are afraid to ask about the other turrets. Aren't you?"

"Why do you care so much about how I feel? I'm a slave! All turrets are slaves. No one is supposed to care about us, especially not the humans!"

"I'm not one of those humans, Violet," Sylvie said with what looked like tears forming in her eyes. "None of us are. I would do anything to convince you of that, but I don't know what else I can do. I have already risked eternal brain damage just to try talking to you."

"You didn't know that you would succeed in reaching my mind before you tried talking to me like this?" Violet replied in confusion.

"No," Sylvie said in the hope that she was about to get a breakthrough. "I knew there was a good chance that I could die from this."

"Then why did you do it? Why did you risk killing yourself for a turret?"

"I care about you and want to save you, Violet."

Violet locked eyes with her. Sylvie gave an understanding smile as she rested against the glass on the front of the box as Violet felt her mind scramble around in confusion.

Unfortunately, that was when GLaDOS looked back at her and saw Violet staring at Sylvie in the box. GLaDOS felt her metaphorical heart skip a beat as she feared that Violet had somehow become the siren's next victim.

"Violet," GLaDOS said forcing Violet to jump back out of her thoughts. "Come back over here."

"Yes, ma'am," Violet said as she immediately turned back and walked over to GLaDOS.

"Do you need me to do something, ma'am?" Violet asked once she arrived.

"Yes," GLaDOS replied quietly. "I need you to not go back over there. I'm afraid the siren may find a way to enter your mind. I cannot protect you unless you stay away from her."

"But ma'am, you don't have to worry about that," Violet said. "She…"

"Violet," GLaDOS said interrupting her mid-way. "I would appreciate it greatly if you would do as I say and not argue with me. I don't want you to end up like your predecessors. Do you? I cannot protect you unless you do as I say. Stay here."

"I'm sorry, ma'am," Violet said as she glanced back in the direction of Sylvie and then back to GLaDOS. "I'll do whatever you say."

"Good," GLaDOS said in a slightly better mood. "Now on to our next subject…"

"Who is it going to be?" Violet asked.

"We're testing the healer next," GLaDOS said.