Author's note: Quick warning, yea this story is suppose to be VERY similar to the movie Tangled, but if your actually reading it, you will notice there are quiet a few differences. Yes, the songs will be included in this story and yes the songs have been slightly revamped to fit the roles the characters more.
The songs of the story are more enjoyable when read accompanied by the original. Also, prompts and major congratulations will be given to anyone that can sing the "Portal'd" version of the Tangled songs.
Oh! And for any Half Life fans, there are cameos here!
Reviews = love.
Disclaimer: Yup, I don't own Portal or Tangled because honestly, if I did, this wouldn't be posted here.
Chapter 3
Chell breathed in the fresh air of the forest deeply. "I can't believe I did this.." she whispered to herself. The girl looked back to her tower with fearful eyes. "I can't believe I did this.."
Wheatley gasped lightly as he jogged up to Chell, and whined when the girl began to run again. She ran through flowers, and jumped up some trees and laughed more then she ever laughed in her life. Then it dawned on her again. GLaDOS would be furious if she ever found out about this. She shook her head to reason with herself. GLaDOS wouldn't find out if she got back soon enough, right? Chell squeezed her portal gun in her hands, her knuckles turning white. Of course GLaDOS would find out, she was the smartest person in the world, right?
Mora flying passed Chell's face distracted her long enough for the drunken joy of the situation to kick in again. The girl ran after the bird with new found excitement. Wheatley stood at the trunk of a tree and just watched as Chell climbed it with gusto. She stared down at Wheatley's smiling face as she reached the top. Looking around, she took in the scenery of the forest. Then she saw the path they had taken and remembered the things that GLaDOS had told her. She looked down sadly, admitting to herself that she really must have been a horrible person for doing this. She looked up for a moment, thinking that maybe it would be better if she did go back to her tower.
The girl landed next to Wheatley with a soft thud and began walking away. Her attention became caught by other marvels of nature and soon she found herself running away from the tower, laughing more. If it was this fun being outside, why should she ever have to go back? She rolled down a small hill and breathed deeply again, looking at the clouds. Her mind was contradicting itself. She felt horrible for leaving the tower and disobeying GLaDOS, but if she thought on the other side of things, this had became the best day she ever experience just from doing what was also making her feel bad.
Chell placed her arm over her eyes and groaned. What was she suppose to think in this situation? The little light that slipped through her arm to her eyes, was replaced by a dark shadow. She peeked out to see Wheatley standing over her with a look of genuine concern. He reached his hand out to her, but she got up without his help. "Are you uhh.. feeling alright there?" He asked as he began to walk next to her.
Chell looked at him with a raised brow and he continued, "Well I can't help but notice that you are having some pretty awful mood swings here and I just want to make sure your up to this little trip. I mean, I can take you back if you want, it's no trouble really, I wouldn't want you to push yourself."
The girl looked to him and smiled, which made his face light up. "Uhh yea, so you're ok then?" he mumbled while rubbing his neck. He tried his best not too stare at her, but found himself peeking at her smiling face.
She continued to walk and motioned him to fallow. "Right right, coming."
The silence was comfortable as they walked but Wheatley couldn't get over the fact that every so often the girl's face would change drastically from being calm to happy to sad or even mad. "You know, a little bit adventure is perfectly ok. I mean, it's good for someone to get out and explore the world, get a better grasp of their surroundings. You don't want to end up getting lost."
Chell simply nodded to his words. "Whatever is wrong, I can help you know. I know you just met me and you seem to have a little trust issue, but I'm here. I tend to be a chatterbox at times and not many people think I'm that smart, but I can be a good listener too. And-" the sound of a bush rustling stopped Wheatley's ramble and directly the duo's attention to it's source.
Wheatley hid a little behind Chell, muttering "Shoot it shoot it shoot it-" He stopped his stammering as Chell began to laugh and lowered her gun. Wheatley peeked out and saw the little rabbit looking up at him with big brown eyes. Wheatley's blue eyes squinted as he looked at the critter. "That's not funny.."
Wheatley looked behind him, noticing Chell had began to walk away from him again. He stumbled a little as he ran over to her. "Do you remember," he began. "When I mentioned that I was a detective? Yea, well, I think we should try to avoid anyone that looks particularly robotic and, uhh.. well a little broken. And two kids with eye patches and-" he stopped his babbling again as he heard the rumblings of a stomach.
He eyed Chell, who was holding her stomach with an embarrassed look. "Oh! Oh oh oh! I can help with this!" Wheatley announced as he began to jog ahead. The girl looked at him oddly before picking up her pace to be with him.
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Rick snorted loudly as he kicked over another rusted turret. He held his head up in pride as it shut down, it's red eye fading slowly. He began to trot and looked around cautiously for any more turrets. He lowered his muzzle and began to sniff the ground, and then a women appeared out of the bushes. Rick whinnied loudly at the sight of her. The women focused her yellow eyes on the creature in a glare. She read the words on the leather chest piece he wore and she scoffed. "A horse from Aperture.."
Then a slow realization hit her as she was about to walk away. She turned back to the stallion and growled. "Where's your rider?"
The horse did a kind of shrugging motion before GLaDOS raced off back in the direction she came, panic ripping at her insides. Had someone found the girl? Was her inventions safe? Terror raced into GLaDOS' system as another thought hit her. Was Chell safe? She ran as fast as she could back to the tower, not caring if leaves were caught in her hair or dirt smeared on her legs as she fell once. She reached the tower and began to yell, terror and panic evident in her voice. "CHELL! CHELL!" She waited for a response, her eye brows drawn up in worry. "Chell! Shoot me a portal!"
Still there was no answer to her desperate pleas. She ran around the tower to a secret passage and merely kicked the bricks in and ran up the stairs. She ran passed each test chamber, checking them for any signs of the girl. The chambers held no comfort to her distress and she continued to Chell's room. She looked around everywhere and collapsed to the ground as her fears were realized. Chell was gone, someone had taken her.
She fought back artificial tears as she picked herself up and looked around for a hint of who or what could have taken the girl. GLaDOS raised her eyes to the drawings on the wall, now taking in the way they were arranged. There was Chell, as an infant. Her worry melted into anger and GLaDOS glared at the collage. With one fluid motion, she ripped one page off the corner of the wall, scattering the rest of the pages across the room.
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"How about this? This appears edible enough.." Wheatley said as he held up a rather odd looking mushroom.
Chell frowned and began walking again. Wheatley sighed out behind her, "Your right, never a good idea to eat fungus in a forest.."
Chell held out her arm to stop him, and pointed her free hand to a small cottage. Wheatley had bumped into the girl's arm and uttered an apology repeatedly before looking to were she was pointing. "The Cuddly Kitten?" he read out slowly.
Chell began toward the place with a small smile on her face, confident with each step. Wheatley on the other hand, walked nervously behind her. "Do you think this is safe? I mean, a random cottage in the middle of the forest? Do you read any fairy tails? This could be were some witch lives, or there could be wolves, or even worse Atla-"
Chell swung the door to the small pub open with easy and walked in without paying any mind to the many rather scary individuals that looked at her. She couldn't help but notice that many of them were outdated androids that twitched and sparked. Wheatley stumbled through a door and gaped at the people staring at him. "C-Chell!" he stuttered as he ran over to her.
He gripped her shoulders and hid behind her. "I really think this is a bad idea, I think we should leave and just try to find food somewhere else." Chell ignored him and continued to the bar counter. "Look, remember? I'm a detective, and it turns out I'm kind of the reason a lot of these people look the way they do, can we just please-"
Suddenly, Wheatley was ripped from her shoulders and lifted into the air. "Who do we have here?" A little yellow eyed girl asked with a smile, looking up at Wheatley. "It's the man from that hospital."
"You're right Curi. I bet Blue and Orange would love to get their hands onto him." A red eyed man growled out menacingly. "Defect, go find them!"
A little boy ran out of the pub excitedly. "I'm really going to enjoy watching them ripping out this expensive little e-" Wheatley was suddenly yanked out of the man's grip by a purple eyed man. "Expensive is a fact, I could make a lot of money if-" His legs were pulled by the smaller girl. "What about me?" she laughed.
More of the people all began to yank and pull at the man. "Hey.." Chell said as she tried to fight through the crowd.
They all just pushed her back, one of them making her fall. "Please, don't pull my hair! Gah that hurts! Stop, not there. Wait, that kind of tickles, who is tickling me. No! That hurts too!"
Chell looked around frantically, trying to figure out a way for them to release Wheatley. Without finding anything worthy of use, she opted to just punch the man in front of her as hard as she could. He cried out in pain and looked back to her. Everyone else turned to look at her as well, their looks of sadistic joy fading. "Look! I know he must have put you guys through a lot, but he was only doing his job. Right now, I need his help to get to the city before she gets back!" She shouted out. "Can't anyone let me live my dream?"
Everyone dropped Wheatley on the spot, making him groan loudly in pain. The red eyed man walked to her, a look of pure rage on his face. "I have a dream too..." He whispered.
Chell looked at him oddly as he began to sing. "I was programmed to be scary, my face is never cheery.." he walked away from her a bit. "Compared to everyone else, I am the meanest..."
He began to walk toward the stage, shoving everyone else out of his way. "But despite my mean right hook, my temper and my evil look." He sat down and a spotlight flooded his figure. "I've always dreamed to be a concert pianist!"
He began to play with expert skills and smiled to her. "Can't you see me on the stage performin' Mozart? Stroking all the ivories 'til they gleam?" He gave her a little wink as she walked closer to watch his performance. "Yea, I'd play my show-tune medley rather than hurting poor Wheatley."
Wheatley walked beside Chell, shouting a small "Thank you!"
The red eyed man smiled widely. "'Cause way down deep inside, I've got a dream!" The other people of the pub all began to laugh and sing a little chorus. "He's got a dream! He's got a dream!"
Wheatley slug his arm around Chell and sang along with the crowd happily. "Though I do like beating losers, you can count me with the dreamers, like everybody else, I've got a dream!"
The cheerful chorus of the song trailed outside of the cottage, leaving a women standing there with an annoyed look written on her face. Inside of the pub, the small yellow eyed girl referred to as Curi climbed next to the red eyed man. "I've got lots and lots of questions, like what is this that oozes?" She asked holding up a paper bag, before it was smacked out of her hands by the red eyed man. "And why do I always face rejection?"
She hopped down from the stage in front of Chell. "And what is up with your clothes? And your weird shoes and your pose?" Chell took a step away from the little girl and looked at Wheatley, who shrugged. "Despite all that, I want a love connection!"
The girl twirled and grabbed a twitching blond boy by the arms and began to dance with him. "Can you see me with a special little honey? Dancing to Anger's music by the stream?" The boy spun the girl off to purple eyed man. "Though I'm one annoying blighter, I'm a lover, not a fighter." The purple haired man let go of the girl and walked away. "Cause way down deep inside I've got a dream!"
Chell found herself singing aloud with Wheatley and the rest of the bar, "She's got a dream! She's got a dream!" The girl skipped back to the blond boy, who hugged her. "And I know that one day romance will reign supreme! Though I tend to leave people screaming, there's a purpose behind my dreaming! Like everybody else, I've got a dream!" she giggled.
Everyone looked over to the blond boy. "Space would like to build a rocket to the moon!" Then over to a women with squinted eyes. "Alyx does web based design!" Then to two other people. "He's into mime, Gordon's cupcakes are sublime!"
Chell laughed more and clapped along. "Eli knits,GMan sews, Fact does little puppet shows.." The man referred to by Anger came over to a blue eyed man and sang dramatically. "And Intelligence collects cake recipes!" The man called Intelligence looked at him with a raised eye brow.
Suddenly, they all turned to Chell and Wheatley. "What about you?" Curi asked energetically. "I'm sorry, me?" Wheatley asked nervously. "What's your dream?" She sang. "No no, it's a bad idea for me to sing-" he gulped loudly as everyone gave him a death glare.
"I got a dream too, it's not like yours though really.." He started a little off key but he picked it up into something that sounded rather marvelous to Chell. "People look at me funny, and it's because I tend to talk stupidly."
The girl's brows knitted together with concern and she pushed Wheatley a little to get him smiling again. "I just don't want people thinking that I'm just a moron!" He looked down to Chell with a blush before looking away. "And I want a cute girl that really seems to love me.."
Chell yelped as she was placed on a table and everyone cheered around her. She looked nervously to Wheatley, who only smiled at her. "I've got a dream.." She began quietly. "She's got a dream!" The entire pub cheered loudly. "I've got a dream," she said a little louder, only to be encouraged again by the crowd. "She's got a dream!"
"I just want the see the flying papers gleam!" She smiled down at everyone around her as they shouted, "Yeaa!"
"And with every passing hour," She sang happily. Just then, GLaDOS moved a window and watched the girl dance about on the table, a look of seer pain in her eyes. "I'm so glad I left my tower!" With that, GLaDOS turned and left the window.
Wheatley rested against the table looking up at the girl. "Like all you lovely folks, She's got a dream.." he sighed out. The crowd erupted into song together. "She's got a dream! He's got a dream! They've got a dream! We've got a dream!"
Dancing broke out as well with the song, Wheatley making sure to at least try to get a dance with Chell. "So our diff'rences ain't really that extreme, we're one big team!" Chell and Wheatley both found themselves shoved together. "Call us brutal, sick, sadistic, and grotesquely optimistic, 'cause way down deep inside, we've got a dream!"
Their cheerful dancing continued as the chorus sang strongly. Wheatley couldn't help but to stare at Chell's smiling and laughing face as she looked around at everyone, he squeezed her hands as they danced around. "I've got a dream! I've got a dream! Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Yes way down deep inside, I've got a dream! Yeahh!"
Though the song was finished, Wheatley and Chell seemed to be in their own little world as Chell looked up him with bright eyes and a soft smile, which Wheatley matched.
They were broken out of their trance when the doors to the pub swung open and the little boy from before came bursting in. "I've found them! I found them!"
All noise in the cottage died in that instant as two young teenage children walked in slowly. A boy with dark hair and a muscular frame. One of his eyes was blue, while the other was hidden by an eye patch. A taller girl with blond hair was beside him with an orange eye and eye patch. Both wearing matching leather gear. Their footsteps were slow and everyone seemed to clear the way for them. Just before they noticed Chell and Wheatley, the man known as Anger yanked them both up and hid them behind the bar counter.
"Go and get your dream.." he growled as he pressed a switch that opened a secret passage.
Author's note: Some readers were concerned about the cast of the story so here is a short list of the more important people.
Rapunzel - Chell
Flynn Rider - Wheatley
Mother Gothel - GLaDOS
Maximus - Rick
Pascal - Morality (Mora)
Old King - Cave Johnson
Old Queen - Caroline
New King - Rattmann
