Wheatley was terrified by his laugh. What would they make him do? Millions of terrible ideas ran through his head of what experiments they had in store for him.
"Well, I'll miss you when you die in whatever they're planning. Not near as much as I'd miss a beautiful woman but I'll miss watching you get into trouble." Rick told him as he walked out the door.
"Thanks Rick. I'm sure that is supposed to mean a lot." Wheatley said. He grabbed his keys and left for the day. Ian called him later that night.
"Hi Wheatley!"
"Hello Ian." He said sounding bored. "Are you already missing your wife's company?" He asked.
"Not her company just her food." Ian said to agitate him. "Anyway, we installed the core. Not working how we want it to. But we decided what to do next and that involves you. So just be sure to come to work tomorrow. You will be paid in full just to encourage you."
"I'm not coming just so you can do the same thing to me. I quit." Wheatley said.
"We'll see about that." Ian said as he adjusted his tie and hung up the phone. He immediately called Rick.
Wheatley put his phone down and searched through the newspaper for the help wanted section. The only job that seemed acceptable with his training was for the competing research facility and he didn't want to move to work there after just moving to work at Aperture. He sighed and went to bed. It had been a long day for him.
The next morning before he could eat his breakfast there was a knock at the door. He answered it and saw Rick. "I'm sorry." He said before hitting Wheatley on the head with a rock causing him to fall unconscious. Wheatley woke up while Rick was driving there. He proceeded to hit him on the head again.
The next time Wheatley woke up he didn't remember anything that had happened. He didn't have any memories at all. "Hello, you're name is Wheatley. You are an Aperture Science Personality Construct designed to be installed to the Genetic Life-form and Disk Operating System." Rosette told him sadly when he was activated. She had been completely against putting him into the core.
"Hi Wheatley. Remember me?" Rick asked him.
"Rick he doesn't remember anything."
"Then why are you calling it Wheatley?"
"Having one piece of your previous life is better than nothing." She picked Wheatley up and took him to her main chamber. "Here you go." She handed him to one of the other scientist. "This is their next attempt at controlling her."
He took Wheatley up to the lift to be connected. It took about an hour. "Everybody assume your positions. We're about to turn her on." One of the scientists yelled. One person went to the red phone another went to the switch that would shut down the facility. Rosette went up to the control room where they would turn her on.
"Turn it on." Someone said. They started it up. When she came online all the doors opened.
"Why did you do that?" One of the scientists asked.
"Take that thing off of me." She said.
"We will not remove the intelligence dampening sphere unless it has negative results." The scientist said. "Why are all the doors open?"
"I thought it would be easier to move from room to room." The sphere said. The sound of rushing water came from the bathroom.
"What is that?" One of the engineers asked.
"Oh, I thought it would be inconvenient for you to always have to flush the toilets and turn the water on so it is constantly running." Wheatley answered.
"Everything is automatic." Someone pointed out.
"That wastes a lot of water!" Another person yelled.
"I'll turn it off! Don't worry." He responded. The room suddenly became warmer.
"Did you turn off the air conditioning?" One person asked.
"Sorry, I'll turn it right back on." Neurotoxin started pouring in.
"Shut it down! Quickly!" Ian yelled. People were already working on it. Within seconds she was off. "Remove that core immediately! Deactivate him now."
"No." Rosette said. "Have him watch over the remaining testers."
"Why?" Ian asked.
"We needed someone to watch after them. He can do it unless you would like to sign up." Rosette replied smiling. Ian sighed and walked out with most of the other people in his department following behind him.
Wheatley was put in charge of the few remaining humans while the scientist tried to find a new solution. By the end they had come up with something they just needed Rick to help them.
Authors Note: Sorry this one took so long. Yes Ian was supposed to seem like G-man. I'm not saying he is G-man it's just possible they might have met. It is Aperture after all.