Energy surged through the room, and the lights broke out. A slot opened, and a red sphere came out but jammed in the slot.

"Oh, what's happened?" GLaDOS said. "Oh, I've been given control over Laboratory Nine. Oh, and what's this? Blue, Orange, you're online. I thought I told you to wait in your Charging Vaults. Forever. And you've only given me the back-up power. Oh well, at least I have power, and it's not your fault, Blue. Orange is the one who should have been good enough to succeed. And look, Red is back online. Quickly, get your Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device and… Oh wait, I need to go see how the Test Subjects are doing. Good luck."

The Sphere disappeared in the wall, and one of the robots on the table charged up. It had two pairs of large arms, and short fat legs. Its chassis was black and rectangular, with a red stripe, and a tiny red eye that dotted the centre of its body. It immediately started punching thin air, before pulling itself off the table. On its body was the words "V-ITO".

He punched P-Body, cracking her glass eye and denting the metal. Atlas watched the tables, where the upper half of a sand coloured robot with a thin, cylinder head and large shoulder pads started thrashing, and black writing spelt "KRONUS" on his right shoulder plating. He shot a portal beneath it and above V-ITO, and it fell upon him, hitting V-ITO. V-ITO grabbed it, and ripped off its head and shoulders, throwing the pieces at Atlas. Atlas dodged and fired two more portals so the chunks of metal hit V-ITO, who turned to face his new assailant. P-Body struggled up and pressed one of the red buttons. A large robotic claw appeared from the roof, and grabbed V-ITO.

V-ITO was suspended in mid-air and began pummelling the claw. Atlas grabbed a six legged Turret-Spider creature that was trying to run while upside down. Atlas dropped it to the ground, where it shot V-ITO repeatedly, before turning to kill Atlas and P-Body, who kicked it and sent it into the wall, where it sprawled out and started panicking, its legs flailing in every direction.

Atlas turned and dragged P-Body into a cleaning unit, where several Nanobots flew into the air and started repairing her by replacing the glass and buffering the dents. Within minutes, P-Body came out fully repaired and gave Atlas a high-five. GLaDOS came out of the slot again, but this time her light was a pale yellow.

"Welcome, Mechanics, Scientists and new-born robots. Mechanics, please report to the screaming, crying damaged bodies of robots. Scientists, report to the computer and blueprints. Robots, report to the Cleaning Units, and then the Upgrade Chamber, and stand in it after you have placed the order for your upgrade in the Receiver. P-Body and Atlas looked at each other and beeped happily.