Not much happened for the rest of the day. Rick set out to explore the area, or do 'recon' as he put it, or at least try to, since he ended up getting lost. The three teenage girls had to go find him, and he came back with his legs covered with poison ivy.

However, just as the sun was starting to set, and Space was starting to get jumpier by the second, a very unfortunate thing happened.

A white van with Black Mesa's logo on the side drove by, with its windows rolled down and loud techno blasting as the people inside, a couple adults and a group of teens, head-banged. The hair on the back of the necks of every member of the Aperture gang, even Space, who had stopped jittering around, immediately shot up, and even the teenage girls they were forced to share a campsite with seemed uneasy. Luckily, the logo on the side of their van was facing away from the road.

The enemy van passed by without trouble, and a ways down the road it swung into another unit of cabins and disappeared behind the trees as the techno suddenly cut off.

"Was… Was that…?" Wheatley asked nervously.

"I guess so," Chell replied. She had never actually seen Black Mesa's logo, but the look of pure hatred in GLaDOS's eyes when she saw the logo confirmed her suspicions. She never looked at anyone except Chell and Wheatley that way.

"We need to do something about them," she hissed, partly to herself.

"Like what?" Chell asked, a mischievous smile already spreading across her face.

GLaDOS turned to her former test subject. "Aren't you the master of ruining other people's lives?"

Chell thought for a second. "Alright, let's strike a deal. I'll make those Black Mesa guys as miserable as possible to pay you back for last night," she offered.

"You have a deal."

…

As the sun continued to sink lower in the sky, the girls led the group along a trail in the forest to the 'place where they could see space at night', which was a wide open meadow beside a lake. At the shore of the lake was a dock, and a short ways from it was a wooden shack that the girls called the 'Aqua Barn', where canoes and kayaks were kept.

They had started a bonfire close to the shore just before night fell completely, and while almost everyone else was roasting marshmallows, Space and Curiosity skipped hyperactively through the field yelling "SPAAAAAAAACE! YEEEEEHAAAAAW!" and chasing fireflies, which Space called 'Earth stars'.

For a while, most of the group around the fire just chatted idly about your usual topics like narwhals and unicorns and discussing survival tips during a zombie apocalypse.

"So, who wants to help me prank Black Mesa?" Chell asked suddenly, interrupting a debate on whether it would be better to use a shotgun and try to keep a constant supply of ammunition, or to use an axe, which wouldn't have to reload but has a much shorter range. However, once she said that, all chatter stopped and everyone raised their hand.

"WE'LL HELP TOO!" Space called over from where he and Curiosity were laying in the meadow, looking at the sky.

"YEAH!" Curi called, "What're we helping with?"

"In that case, all we need to do now is figure out what prank to pull first," Chell said calmly, "I think we should start out with something classic, then go up from there."

"Saran wrap their toilets," Xelac immediately suggested, "It's classic, simple, fast, and very, very messy!"

"Ha, we did get into a lot of trouble the last time we pulled that one," Chell commented.

"No you didn't!" Wheatley protested angrily, "I was the only one who got in trouble for that!"

"You shouldn't have gotten caught," she said dismissively, "Anyway, we can pull that one really late tonight, when we can be sure that they're all asleep."

…

Well past midnight, a group consisting of Chell, GLaDOS, Wheatley, Intelligence, Xelac and Taliax (yes, the teenage girls involved themselves too, even though they never said exactly why they hated Black Mesa just as much as the Aperture gang did) followed the dirt road to the unit of cabins where their soon-to-be victims slept. They broke off into 3 groups of 2, each group heading to a cabin. One person would place the saran wrap over the toilet while the other kept watch and made sure the ones sleeping in the cabin stayed asleep.

Finally, Xelac and Taliax were pranking the last cabin when Taliax, who was keeping watch, noticed something about one of the girls who they were pranking.

"Neko?" she whispered, staring at another 14-year-old girl.

"What is it?" Xelac whispered, leaving the bathroom.

"Isn't that Neko?" Taliax asked, pointing the girl in question.

"…Traitor!" Xelac hissed.

Together, they covered the girl's mouth and yanked her silently out of the cabin.

"What're you doing?" Chell demanded when she saw them.

Ignoring her, Xelac turned to the victim they had pulled out of the cabin. "Why are you hanging around with Black Mesa, Neko?" she growled.

Neko glared at them fiercely. "I just saw a flier that said 'Free Science Camp!' It was at the same park that you guys were going to, so I signed up for it so I could come annoy you!"

"Oh. Well, that explains why so many of the Black Mesa campers are teens," Taliax said, completely calmed down.

"That's a relief," Xelac said, also calmed down, "I mean, if you were really with BM, we'd have to kill you!"

"Do you guys have an extra bed?" Neko asked, "'Cause these guys are annoying. I don't think I can spend another night with them without ripping someone's head off."

"Wait a second, though," Chell interrupted, walking up to them, "We're trying to seriously prank them. You could help us out by being on the inside."

"Just don't use the bathroom in the morning," Xelac warned playfully.

Neko thought for a moment. "Fine, as long as you tell me how to avoid the pranks."

"Okay," Taliax promised.

"Speaking of which, what did you do to the toilets?" Neko asked.

"Saran wrap," Xelac replied, smiling.

…

"You don't look well," GLaDOS observed. As soon as the group returned from their heist, Chell had gone straight to bed, which was unusual. Normally she'd stay hyper for another hour.

"I just feel a little… off," her roommate replied, turned away from her on the bed. Chell rolled over to face her, an accusing glint in her eyes. "We had a deal, you know."

"Yes, but that was made after I set this up," GLaDOS said calmly.

"Then don't expect much more help from me," Chell rolled back over.

"Oh, come on, this'll only last for one night," GLaDOS teased, "Tell you what-from now on, for the rest of this trip at least, I'll keep my science equipment well away from you. And if you don't help me…"

"Alright, already!" Chell said exasperatedly, sitting up for a second before a wave of nausea forced her back down.

GLaDOS smirked triumphantly. "In that case, good night. For one of us, at least…"

A/N: OH MAH GOD I'M BACK. And that wasn't a grammatically correct sentence; at least I don't think it was… Note that this was written at 2 AM.

So, yeah, I don't know what else to say. I'm kind of torn on what to do for the next chapter of ALaAS; I will include a Halloween special (even though it's a little late for that, Halloween doesn't have to die just because it's almost December), but before I do that I want to get a random non-Fourth Wall breaking chapter out of the way since my only ideas, for Halloween and future chapters, require a ton of Fourth Wall breaking.