Chapter 3: the killed

Joyi wakes up and looks down. Star isn't there. "S-star?" she looks around. She sees star on the floor, rolling towards an elevator. Joyi gets up, picking star up.

She winces, she forgot about her arm. She places star down. "are you okay there?" Joyi looks at her arm. "how am I supposed to pick you up if my arm is bad?" star looks at her. Joyi looks at the floor.

"I'm not leaving you behind." She picks star up, pain shooting though her arm. Despite the pain she walks over to the elevator, going in it. She sits down, placing star in her lap. "you okay?" star asks, worry shooting though her like a bullet. Joyi nods, looking down at her friend.

The elevator doors open, showing them a room with some sort of puzzle she can't complete. After all, her portal gun was destroyed. joyi gets up, holding star in her arms. She looks up, finding a rail, she places star on it. Joyi holds her arm, looking at her arm.

It hurt bad. "are…are you going to be alright there?" joyi nods. They walk forward. Joyi is trying to figure the test out. Star looks around.

There's another elevator. "hey! Over here! There's an elevator here" she says, joyi looks over, going over to the elevator. joyi takes star off the rail, pain flowing though her arm. They go into the elevator. "are you sure your okay…? Human?" joyi looks at star, she nods.

"do you know my name?" star looks at the ground. "no…you never said anything about it." Joyi looks out the elevator. "my name is joyi. J-o-y-i. pronounce the I as a e." star nods. Joyi. I have never heard that name before. I heard that humans have souls…I wonder if her name is based off her soul… star looks at her friend.

"do…you have a soul?" joyi nods, pulling it out. It's a very light yellow. "my soul is the joy soul. I can make people happy, but I don't have to." star stares at joyi soul, her aye glittering with joy. "do…do you think I have a soul?" joyi looks away. "i- no. you're a robot… you would have one if you were human of course but, you're still a robot. A core." Star looks at the floor, her happiness gone.

"oh." She says, her voice cracking with sadness. Joyi looks at star. Don't be like that my little star… "I… when I come back here for you…I could make you human… though I would have to give you a soul… so don't be sad." Star looks up at joyi, not knowing what to say for the first time in a long time. Stars eye glitters again, happiness consuming her. "you would do that for me?" joyi nods, star making a noise of excitement.

"oh, you're so kind! Thank you Joyce!" joyi stares at star for a moment. Did…did she just-

"oh Joyce…we would never leave you. We love you after all." That was her mothers voice. Tears run down joyi's face, she covers her face. The elevator has been at their stop for a little bit now. She feels star nudging her, but she doesn't look at her friend. "were…did you learn my full name? are you my mother?" star looks down.

She didn't know why she said that. It was just a name, so why didn't she say joyi? Why did she say Joyce? "i- I'm sorry joyi! I didn't mean to upset you, i-i- I don't know why I said that I'm so sorry-" joyi takes her hands off her face, she picks up star, looking at her. "what do remember from your first memory? Fire? Yelling?" star didn't understand what she was talking about. She thought about it. She does remember something, smoke filling her lungs, coughing, lying on the floor. Someone was crying, yelling, shouting for her. "MOM!" then nothing. Star looks up at joyi.

"i…think I remember dying from…smoke? Was I in a fire? Someone shouted 'mom' at me…I was loud. I was scared." Joyi looks at star for a moment, then hugs her. "starler…. I knew it was you in there." Starler? I don't remember anything about this human having a- wait a moment. Starler and sunlet had a kid named Joyce. Joyi…joyi's parents died in a fire. Joyi changed her name because her parents died.

I'm joyi's mom? "i…I would like to say I was her but…she's gone joyi…I don't…i lost that part of me years ago. Glados deleted her." joyi stops hugging her. joyi stands up. Holding star was getting harder and harder by the second. She walks out of the elevator, into a large room with plants in it. Glados laid on the floor, dead. "oh. Well um. I guess we can get to the elevator after all, let's go, I know where it is."

They go over to the elevator leading to the surface. Joyi looks down at her friend. "I'm going to miss you joyi. Even though we don't know each other that well, I say you are a good friend. I'm ready, get in the elevator before I start crying." Joyi places star on the rail above her, and she goes into the elevator. star presses the button. The elevator starts going up. Star goes over near the elevator, seeing joyi's face. she starts to sing the song she made for her.

Little star, oh little star, you have gone very far.

Little girl, oh little girl, you have followed along.

The two of you are very good, but one must go, and one must stayyyyy…

Maybe just maybe you'll see the star another dayyyyy…

Another dayyyyyyyy…

You can wait that long right?

Please don't put up a fight

Another dayyyyyyyy…

Please just leave the star behind

I promise that I'll be alright.

Another dayyyyyyyy…

Another lifeeeee…

Another nightttt…

Another fightttt…

I'll be alright. You'll be just fine.

We can do this, even if you don't want to say goodbye.

Another dayyyyyyyyyyyyy…

Another dayyyyy…

Another way?

But not today.

Another…day.

Star sees the elevator gone, and she sobs, but she controls herself and goes back to teaching humans.

They ask were she has been, she doesn't tell them. One kid grabs a portal gun and shoots a blue portal into the wall behind her. star screams. It was terrifying. Getting ripped off your own rail.

She looks around. The portal closes. She trapped. She cries, she is so scared. i don't want to be here. I don't want to die here. She closes her eye. … I hope joyi is okay. I hope she's not dead. I miss her. and with that, she floats for bout six years. It was boring to say the least. She sees too dots floating around the moon somewhere. Someone new.