A/N: "It's been a loooong time... how have you been?" I've been reeeeeeally busy being a college student…
But now with my internship coming up again, I may just have some time to finish this thing.
If you recently went into my account you'll see that I deleted all other stories but this one, because quite honestly, they suck.
Anyway, back to the point. Yes, it's been a long time. Yes, I beat Portal 2. Yes, I'm finally finishing this story.
After all that, please do enjoy this final chapter of Port-Ed, and look forward to the sequel soon.

"This should do it!"

Edd dodged to the side for the umpteenth time, feeling air get pushed toward him as another rocket shot past. It went through a portal on the wall and came out of the floor, where it hit GLaDOS's frame dead on. The final blast from the rocket dislodged the final core, and the Eds watched in awe as it appeared to bounce around the room. It stopped in midair high up above them, held in place by what looked to be a beam emanating from GLaDOS.

"You didn't honestly think that your precious gun was the only apparatus to utilize our patented Aperture Science Gravity Compromiser Beam now, did you?"
"Shut up, will ya?" Eddy spat. "If it's a game of keepaway you want, then darnit, you stupid piece of girly metal, it's a game of keepaway you're gonna-"
"Uh, Eddy," Edd muttered as he jabbed his friend with an elbow, "Ed's already on it."

The large boy had already set up a portal on the floor and the other high up on the wall, facing the core. Ed gleefully jumped through, but as he reached out for the core in the air, he came short and landed back on the floor on his face.

"Oh for the love of god," Eddy exclaimed. "How the heck are we gonna get that?"
"It's quite simple, Eddy," Edd explained. "Ed, when you jump through the blue portal on the floor, place another one below you."
"You got it, Double-D!"

Following his friends advice, Ed jumped into the portal again. Falling short of the core a second time, he quickly shot below him, moving the portal to where he was about to land. He went through, and rocketed out of the wall with more momentum than before. He reached out to catch the core, but it moved out of the way.

"Oh, the ways I could kill you three," GLaDOS mused. "Of course, I'm feeling generous right now, so I'll let the neurotoxin do it. If you weren't so pressed for time right now, and, you know, trying to kill me, I could have much more fun without that Morality Core you destroyed. Nice job with that, by the way."
"Oh for the last time, SHUT UP!" Eddy gracelessly threw his Portal Gun at GLaDOS's body, causing an unexpected "Ow!" from her.
"I think you should know that I hate you three."

Kevin felt his foot sting as he kicked open the next door. He burst into the room, but his excitement quickly died down. The telltale signs of a window taking up a large portion of the back wall accompanied by a few abandoned desks were all it took to make him groan.

"Another observation room. Where are they?" he asked impatiently.
"Chill out, dude," Nazz said, placing a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sure they're around here somewhere."
"Come! Rolf thinks this next door is the one with the Ed-boys, yes, no?"

Rolf stood before the final door of the hallway. Opening it, he and the rest of the kids gasped. Beyond was an iron catwalk, suspended over a pit so deep that darkness enshrouded it before the kids could see the bottom. The room extended above them just as high, to the point where a faint, blue mist enshrouded anything too far away.

"Wowee! Hey guys, Plank bets if you fell to the bottom and looked up, you could see stars in the middle of the day!" Jonny exclaimed.
"N-no way, nuh-uh," Jimmy stammered, backing up a few steps. "I am not going in there!"
"It's okay, Jimmy," Sarah reassured, "I'm scared too, but we gotta keep moving."
"She's right," Kevin said. "Eds or no Eds, there's gotta be something through here."

The catwalk was long, and it shook with each step the kids took. Though the mist that blocked sight from the far edges of the cavernous room, they saw an enormous cylinder emerge. The catwalk led straight to it, where a small, semi-open door waited. Hurrying inside to step off the treacherous walkway, the children recognized it as another observation room. This one as a bit different, however; the window was covered up with what appeared to be a metal casing, and there were several monitors hung up above. Embedded in the desk was a large, red button.

"Ooh, a button, Plank!" Jonny exclaimed. "Can we press it?"
"I dunno," Kevin warned, "it looks kinda suspicious."
"Do you think it could be a trap or something?" Sarah asked.
"I don't think so," Nazz said, edging toward it. "Why would the people here just put giant buttons in their desks? If it was some kind of trap, then someone probably would've set their coffee onto it by accident or something like that. It doesn't even have a glass case to protect it or anything."
"C-can I press it? If it's safe that is?" Jimmy asked, eyeing the button.
"Knock yourself out, Fluffy," Kevin answered.
"Aw, Plank and I had dibs!" Jonny complained. Jimmy shied away from it, but he said, "No, you can press it. But I call the next one!"

Jimmy pressed the button, the metal plating concealing the window rose up. The kids gave a collective gasp as they saw GLaDOS's chamber from high on the wall, and the three Eds below. The room was tinted a faint green as a strange gas flowed out of vents from above.

"It's the dorks!"
"Plank says we gotta get in there! They're in trouble!" Jonny shouted.
"What was your first clue?"
"HIIIIYAA!"

Kevin gave a graceless "GAH!" and dove to the floor just as Nazz gave a flying sidekick to the window. Her foot struck it hard, and the glass shattered as she jumped back from it.

"Sorry dude," she said, helping Kevin up, "but that was the only way we could break the glass."
"A little heads up would be nice ya know."
"I said I was sorry."
"Will you two give it a break?" Sarah asked. "My idiot brother's down there!"
"She's right," Kevin agreed. He took a step forward, but stopped right at the edge of the window. GLaDOS was still talking to the Eds, and didn't seem to notice him.
"Will ya shut up and give us that stupid core already?" Eddy shouted. Kevin took a step back as he saw a hole appear on the wall near him. Ed came rocketing out of it toward a strange, spherical device suspended in midair, but it shifted just before the boy could reach it. It moved closer to the window, and Kevin could almost grab it.
"Quickly, Kevin-boy," Rolf whispered. "While the metal beldam is distracted."

Kevin opened his mouth to protest, but felt Rolf's hand push him forward. Gasping, he flailed his arms around for balance, only for them to grab onto the core as he fell forward.

"What the?"

The tractor beam gave out with Kevin's weight, and he fell down.

"Hold on, Kevin!" Edd shouted. Thinking quickly, he placed a portal on the floor underneath the falling boy and the other one right next to it. Kevin screamed as he fell through it and rocketed back upward before falling back down again.
"Ed, catch!"

Ed obediently ran up and caught the boy as he fell back down.

"Shovel-Chin? What're you doing here?" Eddy asked.
"I should ask you the same thing, dorky."
"Ask sockhead then, he's the one who came here in the first place."
"I'm regretting it already," Edd added. "Quickly, Kevin! Run over to that incinerator with the core!"

Kevin gave a short "huh?" before looking at the thing in his hands. It looked like a robotic, red eye, and it growled and snarled at him. "Freaky," he said, as he kept it at arm's length. Seeing Eddy make his way to the room that opened the incinerator, Kevin ran and tossed the core into the red-hot funnel. GLaDOS shrieked in pain, and the room suddenly shook. The AI began to babble incoherently in a mechanically sped-up voice, and from above wires and cables began to snap.

The room shook again, more violently this time. It forced Sarah and Jonny, who were watching from the edge of the window, to lose their balance and fall. Ed quickly dove forward and caught them, earning a smile from his little sister.

"Come Jimmy and Go-Go-Nazz-girl, it isn't safe here!" Rolf picked up his friends and jumped down from the room, landing hard on the rumbling, concrete floor with hardly a flinch.
"Quick, how do we get out of here?" Sarah asked.
"That's what we've been trying to do for the past few hours!" Edd sputtered. The walls began to buckle, and the web of thick wires and steel supports above them began to crumble. A white, electrical light appeared above them, pulling everything nearby into itself as the room shook itself to pieces.
"What's going on?" Jimmy screamed.
"Plank says this was a bad idea!"
"Hang on everyone!" Edd gripped his portal gun for dear life in one hand and a metal rod protruding from the broken floor in the other as he felt himself begin to rise off the ground. The other kids were pulled up as well, and flailed around for something to grab onto, but eventually everyone succumbed and flew into the light.

Blue. That was the first thing that registered in Edd's head as he groggily opened his eyes. His head lulled around, and he looked at where he was. He was outside-everyone was, lying among the remnants of the room as bits and pieces of what could only be parts of GLaDOS's body rained down around them. They were outside. They were free. Edd let out a voiceless laugh, and basked in the sunlight pouring on his face.

"Thank you for assuming the party escort submission position."

Like a chemical reaction, his joy dissolved into terror as he tried to deny the robotic voice he had just heard. His consciousness waned, as if his fear had sapped whatever strength he had left, and his vision began to go black. The last thing he felt was something tugging at his shirt, and the last thing he saw was his freedom slipping away a few feet at a time as something dragged him and his friends back into the depths of Aperture Science.