Yes, I know, I'm a bad author who forgot to post this weekend...but here it is! Only a day late!
As usual, I own nothing. X3
Enjoy!
Chell looked up at the sky. It was growing dark, something that she was unaccustomed to at Aperture.
Leaning back against the companion cube, she glanced back at the shed, only a few hundred feet behind her. Even after all she had gone through, she was hesitant to actually leave the only life she'd ever known, and had stuck relatively close to the shed while she explored the outside world.
Night was falling, and Chell curled up beside her companion cube, folding her arms across the top of it and laying her head down on her arms.
It wasn't very nice to try and sleep on an empty stomach, but eating the small, flying, creepy looking bugs in the field was worse than being hungry.
With a sigh, she snuggled her face against her arms, pulling her legs in tighter in order to keep off the night chill.
That was another thing she had to get used to.
Aperture had been climate controlled, so she wasn't used to the cold or the heat of outside.
Despite this, it was only so long until sleep claimed her, and Chell drifted off.
She woke a few short hours later, wondering what had disturbed her sleep.
"CHELL!"
The former test subject leaped to her feet instantly, her reflexes still sharp from her last little adventure.
She was unable to identify the person who called her name, despite the odd familiarity of the voice, but she did notice the deformed-looking creature making its way toward her through the wheat.
"Don't just stare, you idiot! Get behind the cube!"
Chell instantly did as she was told, recognizing two things about the voice that she hadn't when she first heard it.
The first was that it sounded fearful and anxious.
The second was that it sounded a whole HELL of a lot like GLaDOS…
Chell didn't have time to dwell on that fact for too long because the creature that she saw had practically reached her.
It was roughly a foot across, light brown in color, with four legs protruding from its body and small fang-tipped tentacles where she supposed its mouth was.
It resembled the small ticks that had tried to latch themselves to her unprotected arms and legs as she walked through the wheat field, and she got the feeling that this significantly larger creature had the same wish.
Before she could react, however, a red laser pin-pointed itself on what she would call – for lack of a better term – the creature's forehead, and the COMPANION CUBE shot off a round of rather turret-esque bullets.
The creature let out a horrible screech, splattering blood across the ground.
Chell watched its twitching body in horror.
"Don't just stand there with your mouth hanging open, you moron! Run! Get back to the elevator!" The voice commanded, "There are more of them on the way, and you have-BRING THE CUBE WITH YOU, YOU IDIOT!"
Chell immediately doubled back for the cube, snatching the weighted block up in her arms as best she could before running toward the faint outline of the shed.
She encountered a few more of the spider-like creatures before she reached the wooden construct, but the companion cube's turret-function took them out before they could harm her. The door of the shed popped open obligingly as she neared it, and Chell wasted no time darting inside.
The door slammed shut immediately and the elevator began to descend.
It was only then that Chell truly realized what she had just done.
She'd returned to Aperture science.
Yay! More dramatic Chapter endings! I wonder what GLaDOS has planned for her~...
Please review, and I'll see you next chapter!
