Port-Ed Chapter 6
Created by Yoshermon

The eerie quiet of the office was suddenly shattered by a foot breaking through the door.
"Ed, there's a thing called a doorknob, you might wanna use it!!" Eddy remarked as he opened the door with his friend's leg still caught through it, dragging Ed along the ground. Eddy looked around and saw nothing more than a few chairs and a desk in front of a large window. The boys peered out of it and saw a large room below. It was very strange; there was no furniture or walkways and there were various strange objects the boys couldn't recognize. They noticed a strange green entity bouncing noisily between a wall and some strange device, going through a strange field of blue particles.. The boys simply gave a confused look and turned around to explore some more.
"What's this?" Eddy asked, picking up a chunk of wood that Ed broke off from the door. It had a sign saying Test Chamber 15 on it.
"Test Chamber? For what?" Eddy asked Ed, who simply scratched his head in reply. They went out of the door and started exploring again. They engaged in another "portal race" in a long hallway and as they flung themselves down it, Ed suddenly remembered something. Like the last time, he comically stopped in mid-air and grabbed Eddy as well.
"Wait a minute!" Ed said as Eddy grumbled about being stopped. They waited in silence for a second when Ed spoke up again.
"Didn't Double-D's sticky note say something about testing?" Ed asked as reality kicked back in and the boys fell to the ground.
"....Hey, it did, didn't it?" Eddy replied. They noticed a door on their right with a sign saying Test Chamber 17 on it.
"Double-D must be in one of these rooms!"
With that, the boys raced around to find a place where they could see their friend.

"The experiment is nearing its conclusion. The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that you will be baked, and then there will be cake."
Edd, instead of ignoring the strange comment like usual, turned to one of the ever-present security cameras in the test chamber and sneered at it.
Edd was not happy. Not happy about the turrets that tried to be friends with him while shooting Edd with machine guns, not happy about the pits filled with acid Edd had to avoid, and not happy about the death of Edd's Weighted Companion Cube. Edd just wanted to get the testing over with and have a word the person in charge. With that in mind, he shot a portal on the ceiling above the next platform and went through.

"Let's try this one!" Ed shouted. Eddy walked up to the door Ed was pointing at with the sign saying Test Chamber 18.01 on it. They went into the empty office and peered out of the window. They saw a very large room with metal walls and concrete platforms dotted about.
"Geese, who the heck designed this place?" Eddy asked as he looked around. His attention quickly went back to the window when he saw something flash in the corner of his eye. Up on the ceiling near the window (which was high up in the room) was an orange portal. Ed and Eddy jumped back in surprise when something fell out of the portal right in front of them.
"What was that?!?" Eddy asked as they went back up to the window. Down on the platform below they saw Edd, clad in an orange jumpsuit and metal bars going under his heels holding a portal gun of his own.
"Double-D!!" Ed shouted as he pressed his face up to the glass.

Edd paused for a minute when he thought he heard something. He looked around but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Edd shrugged it off and continued to make his way through the chamber.

"Double-D has a portal gun too?" Eddy asked as he watched Edd disappear around the corner.
"Come on, Eddy!" Ed shouted as he grabbed his short friend and fled out of the office. They ran and "portaled" through the hallways of the facility until they came upon a door labeled Test Chamber 10.03. They ran inside to find another large room, stranger then the last. Ed and Eddy looked downwards to see a pit of some discusting brown-colored liquid below. Protruding from the pit were four tall hydrolic arms holding platforms near the middle height of the room. On each platform was a strange, almost egg-shaped thing with three prongs acting as legs to hold them up. Ed and Eddy saw a peice of wall come out from a platform on one side of the room where Edd came out from behind it. The egg things turned toward Edd and, much to Ed and Eddy's horror, the panels on either side of them opened up to reveal machine guns and they all started shooting at the boy.

Edd ran as fast as he could to avoid the bullets mercilessly raining down upon him by the turret "buddies". He ran to a corner just out of their range of rotation and they gave up trying to shoot him. Breathing heavily, Edd let himself drop to the ground for a moment to catch his breath. He noticed an energy ball launcher attached to a platform on a hydraulic arm which rotated 90 degrees every few seconds. Using the ash marks left on the concrete where the balls bounced off as a refrence point, Edd shot portals to direct the balls at each of the turrets. The energy orbs knocked each turret off of its platform and Edd felt a slight sadistic pleasure as they all melted in the pit of acid below. Edd then directed one energy ball towards a catchment in the room which subsequently started up a moving platform. Edd hopped on and the platform took him across the pit to an inlet on the other side of the room. Above the inlet, just out of Edd's reach and covered with metal so he could place a portal there, was a second inlet with a Weighted Storage Cube. Taking a brief look at his surroundings (ignoring the two figures on the other side of the heavily frosted glass) and a second to think, Edd knew what he had to do.

"Wow, Double-D is really good at this!" Ed said as he watched his friend solve the puzzle. Ed and Eddy watched as Edd pushed a button that caused a panel of wall to tilt upward at an angle. Edd then placed an orange portal on it and jumped down to the pit, where he shot and went through a blue portal on a small platform below. Edd flew out of the tilted platform and landed on the inlet containing a metal box. Before the panel went back into the wall, Edd shot a portal next to it and quickly went back behind the panel to the previous room.
"....Wow." Ed said as he and his friend let their jaws drop to the floor, their eyes as big as dinner plates. They just watched their friend, a boy who lost in a wrestling match with a wooden board, take down four armed turrets and jump across a fifty-foot chasm and back without breaking a sweat. After picking their jaws back up and snapping them into place, Ed and Eddy then quickly ran out of the office and to the door labeled Test Chamber 18.02. There they saw Edd put the box on a very large button and portal his way to the door that just opened.
"Geese, for all that complaining about guns and violence Double-D sure is quick with the trigger!" Eddy remarked as he and Ed went out of the room to find another viewpoint.

"Well done. Be advised that the next test requires exposure to uninsulated electrical parts that may be dangerous under certain conditions. For more information, please attend an Enrichment Center electrical safety seminar."
Edd was not surprised at the possiblility of yet another life-threatening danger he'll have to get around in the test. That chamber was somewhat strange; Edd couldn't shake the feeling he was being watched. He knew the security cameras tracked his every move in all the test chambers but that room felt different. Edd certainly hoped this whole thing would all be over soon.