Author's note: Got kind of impatient waiting for the beta reader ;; I fixed the parts I found myself. (Mr. Beta reader, if your reading this, I am terribly sorry that I wasted your time D:)
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.
Reviews = love.
Disclaimer: Yup, I don't own Portal or Tangled because honestly, if I did, this wouldn't be posted here.
Chapter 4
The two children walked through the pub casually. The blond with held the boy's hand, pointing and giggling at things occasionally. The boy was focused on his unspoken mission, dragging the girl along with him to investigate his surroundings. The other people of the pub stayed clear from their path and most held a look of pure terror. The boy let out his frustration in a deep growling noise and glared at Anger. The girl glared as well, though softly and rather disinterested. No one spoke for a long moment before Anger returned the boy's growl. "He's gone, you were too slow Atlas."
Atlas' visible eye twitched and in an instant he flipped the table next to him over. Though fury was spilled into every feature on his face, he looked to his female companion for advice. She shrugged and a devious grin spread out on her face. The anger seemed to fade from the boy's face as his own evil smile crept up. The bar goers began to yell in protest as the two teens began to throw and break anything they could get their hands on. Curi ran over to the girl as she was about to smash the piano, but was shoved back violently into Space. The girl looked to the wide eyed crowd, holding a bar stool above the piano. She lifted her head and glared down on them, "No more lies, where is he?" Her voice was heavily computerized with a shrieking high pitch.
Everyone in the bar looked at each other with concerned faces. Curi looked to Anger, who was clenching the wood of the counter so hard his knuckles turned white. Curi knew how much that piano meant to the man, it was the only thing he ever wanted in his life and the day he got it was the first time he broke his original programming code with his joy. She looked back to the girl, who was steadily raising the bar stool. "P-Body, don't!" Curi shrieked.
P-Body ignored her protests and continued to raise the chair. Curi began to breath heavily, but Anger placed his hand on her shoulder. She looked up to him, and he simply continued to watch as P-Body quickly swung her arm down and smashed his piano. She looked around to the people of the bar, "Next we are going to start smashing people so speak up."
Suddenly the doors to the pub opened and in stepped Rick. "The hell..?" a deeper computerized voice emitted from Atlas as he stared at the horse.
The brown stallion looked around and snorted as he didn't spot his rider anyway. He sniffed around and finally caught something. Walking to the counter, he stopped for a moment looking at Curi. A rather flirtatious whinny left his throat and he winked at her, making Curi back away from him with caution. Atlas and P-Body walked over to the horse as it pressed the switch to the secret passage and walked down it casually.
Atlas looked to P-Body with a big grin and hugged her a little before fallowing the horse. The girl looked to the people of the bar and grinned. "No one fallows."
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Space stepped out of the pub, twitching more than ever. "Space. Dream to go to space. Space. Space Lady went down the sp-space tunnel," he began. "Space. That's my dream. Best at space. Only space. All the time."
GLaDOS stood by him casually, just looking down at him. The boy finally noticed her after muttering some more about space. He looked up at her with wide eyes. "Oh oh oh. This space lady is older than the other space lady. Prettier space lady, all most as pretty as Curi-sp-aaaccee.." he twitched again and a crack in his neck sparked.
GLaDOS growled in frustrated as she leaned down and opened a slot on his forehead. After unhooking a few wires, she began to speak to the boy. "Where does that tunnel led to?"
The boy twitched again before answering.
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Chell and Wheatley walked in silence through the dimly lit tunnel. The girl found it odd that Wheatley now refused to allow her any view of his face. "Thank you, by the way. For helping me out back there. Those folks were pretty serious with hurting me, well most of them at least. I did put them through a lot.. probably deserved anything they wanted to do to me really.."
Chell reached toward him but he just seemed to walk a little faster to avoid her touch. "You see, during one of my cases, some women wanted to know what happened to her kid. He had gotten into trouble with some scientist at the palace labs and... well, he disappeared for a long time..." He sighed heavily. "I found him eventually, was quite a long time after I was hired. And he was mad, absolutely furious. I got one hell of a beating, was pretty livid.."
The girl just watched him as he sulked, not fully understanding why he was telling her this story. "He seems to be doing pretty good now though.. was meaning to apologize to him.. to all of them.. but the singing kind of.. really caught me off there.." He laughed a little nervously. "I did have a whale of a time though, so I guess it's-"
Wheatley and Chell stopped in their tracks as a low growling noise emitted from behind them. Chell glanced behind her, but was pulled forward as Wheatley grabbed her arm and began to run. The girl stumbled as she tried her best to keep up with the taller man. They came out of the tunnel and Wheatley skidded to an uncomfortable halt, falling backwards. He scrambled to his feet and looked back to the entrance of the tunnel as the two teens emerged. Wheatley laughed a little with a nervous smile. "Atlas, and P-body there with you.. uh yup.. so uhh how have you guys been..?"
Then, Rick charged forward and knocked the two children over before staring at Wheatley. Seemingly forgotten the other people, Wheatley scrambled to his feet and ran to the horse. "Rick! Buddy o' pal, I thought I'd ne-"
Rick whinnied in anger and nipped at Wheatley, who in turn yelled and ran from the horse. The two children picked themselves off the ground and both whipped out rather dangerous looking knives. Chell reacted quickly, launching a portal on a nearby ledge and then one under herself. She fell through and was safely on the other side of the gorge. "I've waited a long time for this.." Atlas growled out as he lunged his knife at Wheatley. The man yelled out and tripped while dodging the weapon, falling right through the portal.
Chell caught him before he fell off the ledge entirely and looked around quickly, trying to find where shoot her next portal. Spotting her only option, she shot a portal to the floor of the canyon and fell back into the previous one before running with Wheatley in tow. "It shoots holes! Bigger than bullet holes and you can go through them! That's the coolest little gadget I've ever seen!"
Atlas and P-Body growled out in frustration from where they sat on the cliff looking down at the duo as they ran away. Rick snorted and looked around. Spotting a vine, he grinned and galloped to it and jumped. Catching the vine in his mouth, he swung around until his weight made the vine snap. He landed on an old wooden structure that shifted and began to slid downward. Rick rode the plank of wood like a surf board all the way down. Chell and Wheatley looked back in horror as the wooden structure that Rick had broken came tumbling after them. The girl looked around and lead Wheatley into a small cave just before rocks and heavy wooden planks blocked them in.
"No!" Wheatley cried as he banged his fist against the debris that blocked them into the cave. "No no no!"
Chell looked in awe at the stones before Wheatley. It seemed something on his face gave off a faint blue light. The girl reached forward and touched his tense arm gently. The man turned slowly, eyes clenched tightly closed. Sliding down the stones behind him, he sat on the cold ground and looked up to Chell. With his eyes finally open, the girl took in the new change to the man. Though his left eye seemed perfectly normal, his right eye glowed a warm blue light.
He looked away from her and bit his lip nervously. "This is all my fault," he growled out. "I dragged you into this and now we're trapped.. I'm sorry Chell.."
Chell crouched down and hugged him gently, making a little noise for him to be quiet. Once his defeated babbles stopped, she looked at him with concern. She reached toward his glowing eye, but Wheatley grabbed her hand with a strange amount of power in his left hand. He let go mere moments later upon noticing the distress in Chell's face. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. I-"
"How much of you is like that?"
Her question caught him off guard and he looked away from her again, the gentle light drifting as well. "Well.. my eye is kind of obvious in the dark.." he stated quietly. "There's my arm.." he held it up a little before letting it drop to the dirt. "And my leg.." He trailed off as he stretched the leg in question. "Some other organs have been replaced too.." His voice quivered and he rubbed his arm as if he were cold.
Chell patted his shoulder to tell him that he didn't have to go into details if he felt uncomfortable. He smiled at her, but still didn't bring himself to look at her face. The girl simply looked at the poor man before her, feelings of pity washing over her. With a sigh, she stood up and walked around the small enclosure for any way to escape. She smiled a little when she noticed that the rocks around the far wall seemed to be weaker. Chell crouched down next to the fragile wall and peeked though the tiny cracks, seeing light from the other side. A large grin spread across her face as she stood back up and began to kick the wall. "Wha- what are you doing?" Wheatley gasped as got up and walked over to her.
He placed his hands on her shoulders to get a better view of what she was trying to accomplish. With another kick, more rocks fell away from the wall and more sunlight crept into the cave. "Oh! That's brilliant!" He cheered.
He moved the girl back a bit with a sheepish grin, "Let me do that, so you don't hurt your legs."
Chell looked at him oddly for a moment as he stepped back and breathed deeply. He looked to her with a soft smile before turning back to the wall and kicking it hard. To the girl's amazement, the small wall crumbled away but the newly made hole was still to small to climb through. Wheatley kicked at it a few more times but no more rocks cleared away. He growled a bit in frustration before he was moved back in a similar way that he had done to Chell.
The girl smirked a little at him and pointed to the portal device. He seemed to understand immediately and moved out of her way. She shot a portal on the rocks behind her before looking out of the hole and shooting a portal outside. Wheatley grinned widely at her success and allowed her to pass through the portal first with a goofy bow. They both laughed as they exited the cave and began on their adventure again.
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Atlas and P-Body sat in an old hallowed tree stump. Atlas growled in frustration and kicked a small rock, making it fly up and hitting P-Body in the head. She held the spot where it had hit her. Atlas looked at her with concern as he got up and hugged her. He kissed the injured place tenderly and stroked her blond locks apologetically. P-Body sighed into the embrace and lifted her thin arms to encircle her companion. After a short while, they separated from their embrace. P-Body looked up at Atlas, the glow of his robotic eye becoming more pronounced in the setting sun. "We'll find him, don't worry," she said to comfort him.
Atlas tugged on P-Body's arm to get her into a stand. They interlaced their fingers before they began walking. P-Body sighed lightly, the warm orange light from her eye shifting as she looked around her. A brighter glow caught her attention and she stopped, halting Atlas as well. He looked at her with concern before looking at a bright yellow light in a tree. "It's been a long time.." The figure in the tree breathed out.
Atlas looked at the woman skeptically while P-Body waved energetically. GLaDOS fell from the tree onto her ground below and walked to the teen children. "How have you been?" she smiled deviously, making Atlas flinch.
P-Body hugged the women tightly and smiled up at her. "Where did you go?" the girl asked. "We went to the kingdom like you told us to, but when we got back you were gone! Only that weird girl that keeps singing. We didn't talk to her because we know you didn't want us to but-" Atlas nudged the girl into silence as GLaDOS just stared down at them.
With one fluid motion, GLaDOS tore the eye patches away from the teens and stared at what laid under them. P-Body looked away from the women shyly, both eyes perfectly fine and emitting their soft orange light. Atlas, however, covered the spot with his hand and glared at the woman. She yanked his arm away to reveal a darken hole, her yellow eyes illuminating the empty port and other wires and circuits. "Interesting, so this is what happened when I sent the both of you to retrieve the personality constructs."
P-Body's hand reached over and grabbed Atlas' hand and squeezed. GLaDOS glared down at the behavior. "Still acting like humans I see." She let go of Atlas' arm and dropped the eye patches onto the ground.
Atlas scrambled to the ground for his eye patch and was quick to place it back over his missing eye. He glanced up at P-Body with a sad smile, handing the other to her. She reached out slowly, grabbing it with a hesitant hand as she watched GLaDOS sigh with annoyance. "Due to your new handicap, I'm highly thinking of disposing of you, Blue."
P-Body gasped and threw herself in front of the still crouching Atlas. GLaDOS laughed a cold laugh and then sighed. "But despite that, I will give you both another chance to redeem yourselves." The two robots relaxed only slightly, both listening carefully to GLaDOS' request. "Honestly, this plan with benefit all three of us. You will keep your pathetic 'friend', you will get revenge on that moron, and I.." she stopped her words, unsure how to phrase her next point. She sighed in defeated and admitted the truth to the two robots with disgust. "And I will get my daughter back."
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