Jason Mitchell POV:
My name is Jason Mitchell and I want to go back to sleep. A few days ago I was awoken from cryogenic suspension by the Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System, she's an AI who was programmed to oversee the development of Aperture Science's Portal Device, but then she decided to kill all the scientists with a deadly neurotoxin. The surviving scientists began attaching Personality Cores to her in order to slow her down and in order to keep us test subjects safe, they cryogenically froze us and locked us up in a Vault underground. We expected the scientists to wake us back up once they shut her down but then I woke up inside a testing chamber where she told me that after we were frozen, she killed the remaining scientists and sometime later, found us in the vault and has begun testing us.
Quite honestly, I'm in hell right now. I've already had to go through several dozen test chambers and it just doesn't end. Right now I'm in a test chamber where I have to get one of those cube things to the button that opens the exit door; the obstacle is the fact that there are half a dozen turrets between me and the button. And If I'm being honest with myself, I'm tempted to just walk in front of one of those turrets and let it fill me with bullets, it would probably be a much better fate than letting that god damn computer test me for the rest of my life. But I know truthfully that walking in front of a turret would accomplish nothing, there are hundreds of people in this facility also being tested by her, they're being tortured just as much as I am and they need help, and me killing myself won't help them at all, I need to find a way out of this place so I can find a way to help them, but she makes these testing chambers so secure, it could take me years to find a way out. All I can do for now is keep completing the tests whilst looking for a way out. I manage to get past the turrets by opening a portal behind them and knocking them over, that always manages to shut them off. After that I start examining the test chamber, maybe I could find a way out
"What are you doing? The button is right there, what are you waiting for?" She said. This is going to be harder than I thought, I can't do anything suspicious with her watching me, she oversees all test subjects, if I keep trying to find an exit, she'll realise what I'm doing and release deadly neurotoxin into whatever room I'm in and kill me. I'm going to have to play along if I'm going to stay alive, so I put the cube on the button and the door to the elevator opens
"Well done. I don't know why you insist on stalling" She says. Great, she's already starting to catch on, I guess it's not exactly easy to outsmart an AI, I don't know how I'm ever going to get out of here with her watching me, all I can do now is test and plan so I go through the door, get in the elevator and go down. So I need to look at my options here, I'm trapped in an underground facility where a psychotic computer is making me go through obstacle courses which I have to accomplish using a device that makes holes. I can't search for an escape because she's constantly watching me and I can't destroy the security cameras because that will definitely get her attention, what do I do? What can I do?
I guess all I can do is continue testing whilst thinking of a way to escape. The elevator stops on the next floor and I enter the test chamber. Basically, I have to get to the cube that opens the door but I have to get past a pool of acidic water. Thankfully, there's a light bridge which I use to open a portal to direct the light bridge to the cube. I start to walk across the light bridge to the cube when something suddenly happens. The lights go out and the light bridge beneath me turns off, I start to fall down but the acidic water drains away and the floor opens up from underneath me and I end up on one of the metal railings outside the test chambers. The only reason my legs aren't broken is probably because of the braces of my legs.
"What's happening, what did you do?" GLaDOS asks. I'd like to know the same thing. Maybe I should just stay here; she could be pretending to be confused and could have caused this to happen, if I try to escape then I could just be walking into a trap… But I've got to try, after all; why would she be trying to lead me into a trap, what would be the point if I was already testing? And even if this is a trap, it may be the only chance I've got of escaping, so I start to wander through the facility hoping I can find an escape elevator.
GLaDOS POV:
This could ruin everything, I finally had hundreds of test subjects whom I could test for decades but now that this test subject has escaped, he could ruin everything. I need to find a way to either get him back in the test chambers or kill him. If there's anything I've learned from trying to kill Chell is that I can't rely on turrets and neurotoxin to stop a loose test subject, which means there is only one other option.
I'm going to have to send Blue and Orange after him.
TO BE CONTINUED