"Would you folks happen to know who's in charge of the facility right now?" Kurt asked the others as they stopped for a rest. "I'm only curious about it. I know it can't be GLaDOS since y'all don't seem to be too concerned with getting caught."

"Doug's in charge now," Wheatley said. "Another friend of Nora."

"Yeah, I remember hearing about him," Kurt said. "But that doesn't make any sense. Can a human be plugged into the mainframe?"

"Apparently," Wheatley said. "That seems like a bit of a design flaw if you ask me. Any of the scientists could have been in danger when GLaDOS was deactivated. And humans are too emotional anyway to run the facility."

"Oh, and you weren't emotional?" Chell pointed out, nudging him lightly.

"I had good reason to be emotional," Wheatley claimed. "Everything was falling apart around me."

They started walking along a catwalk that had many turns like a maze. Chell wouldn't have been surprised if it turned out to be a maze after all.

"Is it weird that I missed this place?" Chell asked more to herself than anyone else.

"Just a bit," Wheatley said. "But I missed it, too."

"Everything here is so cool!" Jon exclaimed. "All of the wires and machines and blinking lights—"

"I see you."

Just as they were approaching a corner, a turret was revealed from beyond the turn. Its laser-sight pointed at them and it began to rapidly fire bullets at them. They all quickly backed up before anyone got hurt.

"Are you still there?" the turret asked.

"Doug, aren't you paying attention?!" Wheatley shouted to the ceiling.

"He's probably just distracted with something," Chell said. "Don't worry, I can handle this."

She crept forward with her portal gun ready. Once she could see the turret, she quickly shot a portal underneath it and another on the wall next to it. The turret fell through and toppled over. It desperately fire bullets out in front of it before retracting its guns.

"Shutting down."

"Whoa! Dude, that was awesome!" Jon exclaimed. "Can I see that thing?"

"I should probably be the one to hold onto it," Chell said sheepishly. "It takes some getting used to."

"And you were panicking," Kurt teased Wheatley.

"I was not panicking!" Wheatley argued. "I was rightfully concerned!"

"Hey, guys!" Jon said, peeking around the corner. "I think we found the rehab center!"

Wheatley hurried over and looked around the corner, as well. Down the catwalk was a door with a blue sign above it. In white letters, it said, "CORRUPT CONSTRUCTS REHABILITATION CENTER." It was actually plainer than Wheatley had been expecting.

"Sweet," Arin said. "We might actually get out of here before nightfall."

"There's still the matter of finding someone to take over for Doug, though," Amelia pointed out.

The others didn't seem to be paying attention as they made their way toward the door. It was a simple door with a handle that you push on to open. Inside was a fairly large room with what looked like giant servers. There were only a handful of cores plugged into these servers.

Just off to the right, they could see a core with a glowing purple light. It was in the shape of a gray gyroscopic sphere with long handles sticking out above and below the optic. Wheatley hurried toward the core, quickly followed by Arin who was curious to study the design of the construct. Everybody else followed, but Wheatley suddenly stopped a few yards away. He bit his lip nervously.

Nora looked up when she noticed the group of people hurrying toward her. Her optic opened wide and her pupil shrank with surprise. She looked at each of the humans, and her gaze stopped at Chell. Her handles moved a bit and her pupil widened as she seemed to be trying to communicate with Chell, but no sound came out.

"Is she okay?" Jon asked.

"She seems to be trying to talk to you," Arin said, turning towards Chell.

"I bet GLaDOS muted any bots that are connected to these servers," Chell said.

Nora stopped moving around and nodded vigorously.

Kurt decided to step out in front of the human's legs to get a better look at his friend. Nora's pupil shrank again when she saw him. Her handles closed around her eye a bit as her bottom optic lid rose happily.

"Hey, there, darlin'," Kurt said, also raising his bottom lid. "It's good to see you again. Don't worry, we're gonna get you outta here safe and sound."

Nora's pupil shuddered as she stared at her friend. She wanted to tell him how overjoyed she was to see that he was safe and in one piece.

"Now, I'm gonna have to plug into the server here…" He walked up to a small plug jack that stuck out a little from below where Nora was held on the wall. His chassis opened a slot just near the bottom and a thin cable plug unfolded out to the plug. He connected himself and explored the security system.

"Alright, this ain't too tough," he said. "I'm just gonna need a couple of minutes to get around the security. Shouldn't be too hard with it being made by Aperture."

"Oh, so suddenly you're a hacking expert," Wheatley grumbled quietly.

Nora heard Wheatley's voice and her gaze shot to him. Her handles and lens widened as she recognized the body. Suddenly, her top handle and bottom lid lowered to express her fury toward him, and she thrashed around angrily. His heart sank at seeing her look at him with such hatred.

"Okay, I found the way to disconnect her, but the system says she's too corrupt right now," Kurt said. "Nora, you gotta calm down."

Nora ignored this. She looked like she was trying to curse at Wheatley, and she was way too focused on this instead of trying to leave the facility.

"Nora, please," Chell said. "We want to help you. I know that you're angry with Wheatley but—"

Nora only seemed to get angrier that Chell was defending him. Mikey stepped forward and knelt down in front of the core. He gently took her in his hands, forcing her to focus on him.

"Nora, listen," he said gently. "We can get you out of here but we need you to calm down. Forget about whatever Wheatley did to make you angry for now."

Nora relaxed a bit, raising her handle but keeping her upper lid lowered slightly.

"Focus on me right now, okay?" Mikey continued, smiling at her. "My name is Mikey. I'm a programmer at an underground compound near Black Mesa. I've been working on building an artificial intelligence like you. He's not quite finished yet but I think you'd like him. He's really friendly and he has a great sense of humor."

"Got it!" Kurt said triumphantly.

Nora popped off of the plug and fell into Mikey's arms. She looked up at him gratefully.

"Thank you, Mikey," she said quietly.

"Okay, let's head back to Doug now," Amelia said, trying not to show her admiration for Mikey.

"Doug?" Nora asked. "He's here? Where is he?"

"It's a little difficult to explain," Chell said, appearing uncomfortable. "We'll just bring you to him."

Nora's pupil shrank. "Is he okay?"

"Yeah, for the most part," Chell said.