A/N: This was meant to be posted over a week ago, but I spent last weekend out of town and this week has been too busy to get anything fanfiction wise done.

Section 1: The First Night/Day of Camping

Roommate Troubles

GLaDOS and Chell

"Heeeey, GLaDOS,"

"…What is it?"

"You know I'm going to constantly annoy you, right?"

Chell heard an exasperated sigh come from the bed on the other side of the room. The small cabin was almost pitch black since the only source of light was from a small window in the back, which didn't provide much since the only source of light outside was moonlight that was mostly blocked off by the trees.

"Yes, I do," came GLaDOS's irritated reply.

"Then why do I have to room with you?" Chell asked. She heard GLaDOS sit up, which probably meant she was about to go into one of her long and mostly boring explanations.

"First of all, I know that you probably have a lot of pranking in mind for this trip, and Wheatley is the only one whose dumb enough to go along with your plans and then get left behind as the only one caught. Placing you two in different cabins reduces how much time you have to pull him in to one of your little plots," she explained.

"That doesn't exactly answer why I have to room with you, especially since you know I'm going to just annoy you," Chell pressed.

"Weeell," GLaDOS went on, almost cheerfully, "Odds our I'm the one you'd target for most of your pranks. Forcing you to room with me not only reduces what you can do but also gives me easy access for revenge."

There was silence for a moment.

"I see…" Chell commented, sounding almost amused.

"I brought some scientific equipment along," GLaDOS pointed out calmly, "I was planning on using it for a few small experiments on any humans we find out here, but now that I think about it, I'm sure using it on you won't make a difference."

It wasn't like this was the first time Chell had received that threat, it wasn't like GLaDOS hadn't actually gone through with it before. Although each of these 'little experiments' had scarred her for life, she was unfortunately one of those people who can apparently be scarred for life quite a few times without it having an open overall effect.

"So, you'd rather be annoyed to death every night instead of withstanding a few pranks?" Chell asked in a slightly mocking tone.

"Keep this up and I'll inject something unpleasant into you while you sleep," GLaDOS threatened.

"Seriously, you could have just put me with Intell; he seriously creeps me out!"

"SHUT UP OR I WILL STRANGLE YOU WITH A COMPANION CUBE!"

There was a moment of silence.

"You don't have a Companion Cube," Chell retorted. Seconds later a pillow slapped her hard in the face.

Space and Curiosity

"Hey. Hey. HEY. Curi!" Space said, poking Curiosity in the ribs.

"What is it? What do you want, Space? Can't it wait 'till morning? Is it an emergency?" Curiosity asked sleepily.

"I heard that you can see space at night, especially when you're away from any cities or other human places," Space explained excitedly, "But there's so many trees that I can't see it. Do you think sometime we could go somewhere with less trees?"

"Maybe you can ask GLaDOS tomorrow?" Curi suggested, yawning. "What's space like?"

"Oh, oh, oh! It, it's big! Really big! And black! With lots and lots of stars!" Space explained happily, waving his arms, "And there are planets and galaxies and Big Dippers and Little Dippers and…"

And he went on and on and on. AND ON.

Wheatley and Rick

Wheatley lay in bed, wide-awake and staring at the ceiling. And Chell had complained about his snoring! Rick sounded like a bloody freight train was coming through! And not only did he snore, he talked, too.

"Yeah… You little robber guys otta leave that purtty lady alone… Take that… And some uh this…"

Well, at least he now knew where all of Rick's adventure stories came from.

"Rah!" Rick's arm went straight into the air as he seemed to be trying to stand up, but he ended tumbling out of bed and onto the floor, and he continued to snore like nothing happened.

Intelligence and Fact

Intelligence and Fact, unlike most of the others, were both fast asleep.

"One 18.25 ounce packaged chocolate cake mix…"

"Cake mix was originally invented by the Dutch in 1814…"

"One can coconut pecan frosting…"

"Coconuts were discovered when native Hawaiian leader Kaakakona was killed by one falling from a tree…"

"3/4 cub vegetable oil…"

"Fact: Vegetables are a plant's way of telling you that being healthy is not in your best interest."

Meanwhile, at the Facility

"Yup, she's gone! In fact, almost everyone's gone. The only ones left here are me, P-body, Moral, and Anger."

"…"

"Yeah, it might not be as fun without those two, but still. We have the whole facility to ourselves!"

"…"

"Yes, ol' Moral's in charge, but we can handle her."

"…"

"So you'll come over? Alright! PARTY AT APERTURE!"

Back at the Campsite: The Next Day

In the morning, a few members of the gang were woken by the sound of loud laughter coming from outside. Well, technically, everyone was woken by it, but only a few weren't too lazy to drag their butts out of bed to investigate.

They found the occupants of the last two cabins of their unit: Three vaguely familiar 14-year-old girls. They had a fire going in the fire pit and had set up a grate over it that suspended two frying pans, one of which contained bacon and eggs in the other.

"That sounds horrifying!" one of them, a girl with shoulder-length blond hair and blue eyes, commented to another, looking scared even though she was giggling.

"I know! I'm too scared to actually watch that movie!" a girl with black hair and brown eyes replied, laughing.

The third, who had long, dark blond hair and brown eyes was just laughing at whatever funny yet apparently frightening thing the second girl had described.

"What are you talking about? Who are you? What is that? Ooh, it smells good! Can we have some?" Curiosity asked enthusiastically, bouncing on the balls of her feet.

"Um, yeah, you can have some," the first teen answered, not sure how to answer the other three questions.

"Yeah, we conveniently have a lot of extra," the third added casually. Curiosity skipped over and joined the teens around the fire pit.

Space had followed Curi out of the cabin, but was looking around for GLaDOS, still anxious about his quest to see more space at night. However, only Chell had come out of their cabin.

"Hey. Hey. HEY," Space pressed, poking Chell's shoulder.

"What, what, what?" she asked exasperatedly.

"Hey, where's GLaDOS?" he asked.

"In the cabin?" she replied in a 'no duh' sort of voice, "Why do you ask? Usually you're asking where space is."

"I, uh, wanted to know if we could go somewhere with less trees tonight," Space answered awkwardly, "You know, so we can see space."

"Riiiiight," Chell said, more or less joined by everyone else around the fire who had been wondering why Space would want to talk to GLaDOS when normally he would hide behind the nearest person whenever she looked at him.

By this point half the gang; Chell, Wheatley, Curiosity, and Space; had gathered around the pit with everyone else still being lazy and apparently unaware that there was food. I mean, who wouldn't get up for hot bacon and eggs? Anyway, the girls had introduced themselves. If you've read Average Life you already know who they are.

The first one was Taliax, the second was Lexicon, and the third was Xelac. Do you remember now? They suck at babysitting.

"So, what's going on with GLaDOS?" Wheatley asked cautiously, "Usually she's the first one up, and smacking everyone else to get up."

Chell snickered. "It might have something to do with the fact that I kept her up all night…"

Wheatley looked shocked. "Are you sure that was a good idea?" he asked.

"Really?" Chell asked exasperatedly, rolling her eyes, "This from the guy who was specifically designed to come up with bad ideas?"

"Just sayin'…" he muttered, returning to eating his eggs.

At that moment GLaDOS walked out of the cabin, looking oddly pleased with herself, and everyone else went nervously silent.

GLaDOS in a bad mood is a bad sign. GLaDOS in a good mood can be even worse.

"So, how was your night?" Chell asked casually. It was ironic how she was the one who could be the most relaxed around GLaDOS. With both of them as humans, they were evenly matched in terms of destructive power.

GLaDOS grinned slyly. "Much better than you think," she replied, walking over and touching the former test subject lightly on the shoulder, "considering that my revenge will set in soon."

If Chell felt nervous about that, she had a lot of experience with not showing it. There was an awkward silence in the group around the campfire as the rest of the gang finally started to get out of bed and stumble over for food.

"I have an excellent idea!" Xelac said enthusiastically, "Let's change the subject!"

She proceeded to smack Space on the head with a water bottle, reminding him that he had something to ask GLaDOS.

"Uh, uh, hey!" Space called nervously, "Can we, uh, go somewhere that there aren't any trees tonight?"

GLaDOS turned toward him and gave him a questioning look.

"To look at space," he clarified.

"I'm not familiar with this area," she replied, glancing at the thick woodland that surrounded them, "I don't know if there is a place like that anywhere near here."

"We know an open place," Taliax suggested, "We know this park really well."

"Yeah, we've been here for, like, a month," Lexicon retorted.

"A month?" Curi asked, "Aren't humans your age supposed to have adults looking after you? Where are your parents? Is there anyone else with you?"

"Nope," Xelac replied casually, "We were supposed to be with this one guy for supervision, but we ditched him on the way."

"So, so, so!" Space butted in excitedly, "So you can take us somewhere we can see space at night?"

"Sure," Taliax replied.

Space gave GLaDOS a pleading look. She sighed and gave him a brisk nod. He immediately started jumping up and down yelling, " YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!"

"Stop that!" she ordered, and he resorted to jittering quietly on a bench beside Curiosity, who was also jittery.

A/N: So yeah, not much happened other than set the stage for the next chapter, which will also take a very long time to come up.

Also, apparently they are in a national park.