Hello Hello Hello can you read me now! I am TheCompanionCube. This is my portal fanfic. And your reading the authors note. Hello again faithful readers i am not dead! I promise! I just had a serious case of writers block that will happen often so im sorry. I dont have much time on my hands anymore... I have AP classes and honors classes so im working on stuff for like evar im sowee again. your gonna have to be patient when it comes to my stories im sorry. i keep saying im sorry wow im a weak person never say your sorry. never give up and never surrender as well. anywho DoctorWho here it is chapter 5! im so proud anyway here it is.
COPYWRITE:I do not own portal or any of anything that has to do with it. Even if i wish really hard like the Doctor once did( he got his wish ill never get mine)... i will never be the owner of the company valve who does own portal. lucky mother hovers...
Madeline watched the horrific scene below unfold.
She watched as the wires slithered across the floor like glittering black snakes that spit sparks instead of venom. She watched as these horrid things violently reanimated GLaDOS, then set her up on the platform like she was their most prized possession.
She saw Wheatley scramble to stop what she had started. Watched as the eyes that had been shut since the day nine years ago when they had pulled the plug, opened and looked down on Chell and Wheatley like they were loathsome, and foul, and she could not believe she had to have anything to do with either of them.
Maddie watched now, as the two people she loved more than anything, were yanked into the air by these snakes now being controlled by their viciously evil mistress.
She saw Wheatley trying desperately to wriggle out of the wires but they were slowly twisting, and turning, and weaving about making it impossible to escape. They must have been tightening too, like boa constrictors because there was a sickening crunch of broken ribs, and then she saw Wheatley go limp. She watched him get tossed aside like a sack of rubbish and locked eyes with Chell just before she was dumped.
In those eyes she saw a glimmer of recognition and a flicker of happiness before they grew serious. So serious that they sent her a message they knew only she would understand.
They told her to run. Run and never look back. Forget them and get out.
Just as soon as she had seen them, the eyes were gone. Gone. They had fallen into the incinerator along with their owner.
Madeline stared at the chute a moment trying to comprehend what had just happened. Then, she turned, and she ran. She ran faster than she ever had. Not to escape. Oh no. She wasn't going anywhere.
She was going to save them. She got them in this mess she was going to get them out.
Chell groaned. She had landed at the bottem of the chute on her long fall boots, but that didn't mean the force couldn't have knocked her off her feet.
"Ah your finally awake... I'm surprised your little nap was that short. I'd have thought a person as rude as you would have kept me waiting longer." Chell heard GLaDOS's chilling, but cheery voice radiate from nothing and stood up immediately.
Looking around Chell noticed she was standing on a small platform just above a huge pit of fire. There appeared to be a path across the molten metal sea set before her, at least she guessed it was molten metal, but it was blocked by a tube that was shooting fire balls. Wonderful. Fan-Flipping-Tastic.
"Anyway. Here we are. The Incinerator Room." As GLaDOS spoke Chell noticed a slight change in her tone. She was angry.
"Be careful not to trip over any parts of me that didn't get completely burned when you threw them down here."
The tube Chell had noticed before began to move. It moved slowly upwards and cleared the way for her.
Chell began to move across the path of gaping holes and slow melting scrap metal. As she moved across to the other side she began to think.
GLaDOS was helping her get across? Before she had wanted her to burn in this very room. So why was she helping her. Wait...
It was coming back to her now. The tests five years prior. The confrontation. The explosion...
With a huge leap Chell made the final gap between her and the end of the incinerator room. The place where she had begun her first escape from GLaDOS.
"The portal device should be around here somewhere. Once you find it, we can start testing. Just like old times." Chell moved forward a bit, through the now collapsed back wall, and down the hall a bit. After a minute she came upon a pile of rubble and suddenly she heard GLaDOS speak again.
"Oh there it is." She said. "Hold on." The pile shifted and the top slowly lifted up sliding some rubble back to reveal a portal gun.
"There," GLaDOS began as Chell picked the device up, that was odd she thought, it's a dual device but it's only showing the blue light.
"Good. You have a dual portal... Hmm. It seems that is not a dual portal device... This makes it more difficult." There was a moment of silence then Chell heard a rumbling like something in the facility was being moved. Something very large.
"Alright I'm making you path back towards the first tests in the facility. You know. The ones you barely passed right before you killed me. Anyway, it's only towards them you need only to go through the sewer and get the other device there. It's a simple task. I hope it isn't too difficult for you to complete."
The rumbling stopped and there was a mechanical whir as the wall panels began to shift and open to a makeshift hall.
Chell glared upwards. There was no one on this earth who hated GLaDOS more that her at this point.
"Oh I'm sorry I must have to be clearer. Move. Now. Into the hall that I made just now." GLaDOS said this time she sounded a little ticked.
Chell rolled her eyes and moved along the passage. She navigated through the twisting and turning underbelly of aperture science and found her way to a room filled shin deep with water.
"Ah here it is... Up there on the platform. Go get it." Chell however, had stopped paying much attention to GLaDOS after she had entered the room. She was too busy staring at the walls.
The walls that were covered in graffiti that sent chills down her spine.
"What are you waiting for... Oh those things... Don't worry about those. They look like the workings of a mere child. Nothing pretty to look at. Mindless graffiti." GLaDOS said trying to get Chell to ignore them.
'The work of a child?' Chell thought slowly walking up to one of them. 'If they were made by a child, it had to have been an extremely disturbed one. Look at them... They're way past the border when it comes to the country of creepy.
The drawings were for lack of a better word frightening. She noticed three things about the drawings however. They all depicted a man with an orange circle for a face, and a white coat carrying a companion cube (A/N: Ha That's Me!) or portal gun... GLaDOS was present in almost of them. As well as a girl in an orange jumpsuit... Wait...
Cell now realized with a start the jump suited girl was her. She examined the pictures again, this time more carefully.
One showed a group of scientists attaching wires to GLaDOS. Building her. Some were writing on clipboards, others were merely whispering to one another calmly. One stood out in particular the only one whose face was clear. The petite blond was on her toes and she was attaching a wire to the back of GLaDOS. There was a crudely drawn yellow sun above them all.
The making of GLaDOS.
The next drawing was a little more deranged. It was of those same scientists underneath GLaDOS, only most of them were spewing blood from random places, and GLaDOS was laughing hysterically. At least that's what it looked like. One woman's face was shown her eyes were black circles and her mouth was open in a scream that Chell could almost hear. Another man was on his knees and holding his throught. The man with the coat and companion cube was on his knees holding his head like he was not affected by what was killing those people but just watching in despair.
That was the activation of GLaDOS... She, Maddie, and Wheatley had been present for that. GLaDOS had taken one look at her and Maddie and went crazy. She released a neurotoxin. She and her sister were put in stasis. Much to Wheatley's annoyance. However, they put him in stasis too, just to make him shut up...
Chell shook her head. She was losing focus. She moved to the next drawing.
The man was in this one too holding a portal gun rejoicing at GLaDOS's demised depicted behind him. On top of the pile of earth that was resting on GLaDOS, Chell stood arms wide eyes closed looking like she was basking in her victory.
She remembered that. She had defeated GLaDOS before, but didn't know how she got back into aperture.
She moved on to the next drawing. This one was interesting... It was a depiction of GLaDOS and Chell. The man with the cube was in this one too, but he was just there. Nothing important about him. GLaDOS was handing her a piece of cake. It seemed simple enough until you followed the wires attached to the back of GLaDOS. At first glance it looked normal but upon closer inspection you could see a face. A beautiful, well-drawn, face. It was a woman's face outlined in wires. She appeared to be crying... Chell didn't know what that meant, but the face seemed familiar.
She moved on again to the other side of the room.
The last two drawings on this side were different than the rest. They looked like whomever had drawn them had put lots of time and effort into them... Like he cared about who he was drawing. They were half body length drawings. One was of her Chell, eyes closed and what looked like a white halo about her head.
The other was of Maddie. It was the similar in most was but also very different. She was split down the middle in her picture. One side her eye was closed and she had a halo, same as Chell's.
On the other side, she was not in the jumpsuit but instead she was wearing a lab coat. Her eye was open and staring down at Chell coldly like she was angry. Angry but also Sad? Instead of a halo there was a devil horn and tail on that side.
That disturbed her. Who would think that about Maddie? Who would have that sort of opinion about Maddie? She was so sweet...
"Are you done looking at the art like it's interesting? Or should I send down some chips, actually make that salad, for you to snack on while you watch it pointlessly?" GLaDOS's voice cut into her thought process.
Chell remembered what she should be doing and turned. She headed back around the platform and started up the spiral ramp of junk to the actual platform. On which the orange portal attachment for her portal gun lay waiting.
She grabbed it then jumped over to the opposite ledge where GLaDOS had opened a portal to another room somewhere in aperture.
Chell hesitated and looked back at the walls that were covered in drawings. She knew she was never going back there, but she had a sinking feeling it wouldn't be because of the reason she thought...
She turned forward again, this time contemplating what the actual reason could be.
Hahahahahahahaha yay its done. now on to tackling another case of writers block for chapter 6... didnt think that through damn...anyway im so proud of myself for getting this up here and theres one more thing i need to do before i sign off. Throw in a totally conspicuous and totally huge plug for a friend of mine... CHECK OUT MY FRIEND ON . HER ALIAS IS AwaysAOneWriterGirl SHES TOTALLY WICKED! SHE WRITES ABOUT AWSOME STUFF SO CHECK IT OUT! there that was my plug E. I told you i would so anyway thanks for reading. Now review dont be a Ghost Writer! that movie sucked! dont be a ghost writer! dont do it! dont do it!(yes i know the movie is called ghost rider). Anyway as i was saying... Live long and prosper, The meaning of life is cheese, and Hicka Bicka Boo~ Hoosha~ I'm out Peace!