CHAPTER 2

I decided to not make it a crossover on account of most of the Portal stuff ending in this chapter...

And thanks for the reviews! Holy crud, I had about fifty million notifications about this story and Dreams of Absolution! THANKS! :D

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It was after what seemed like forever before the door opened and GLaDOS and Wheatly entered the dark room. The darkness was lifted slightly, so everyone could at least see each other.

"Well, you are all pitiful freaks of nature," GLaDOS said in a bored tone. "None of you possess any real abilities. I should just release a deadly neurotoxin and end your pitiful existences."

"DON'T KILL ME!" Sonic wailed. "I'M SORRY I'M WHINY AND BLUE! IT'S NOT MY FAULT!"'

Mephiles smacked him.

"Shut up!" Shadow roared.

"Wheatly, get the most sensible one. I'll be waiting in the testing room," GLaDOS turned and left, leaving Sonic crying, curled in a corner and sucking his thumb.

"Right away," Wheatly glared at the room's occupants, as though staring into their souls. "You, the one with mascara. Yes, you, pothead. Come on,"

"I find that insulting." Silver whined. "I don't wear mascara and I'm not a pothead!"

"Ok, fine. You, Stripes. This way."

"Do NOT call me 'Stripes'." Shadow growled.

"Fine. All right...you without complete facial features and the demon eyes. Come with m—"

"How about NO." Mephiles roared.

"Me?" Sonic begged. "Take me with you! They're all mean!"

Wheatly rolled his eyes.

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GLaDOS narrowed her robot eye and glared at Wheatly. "I told you to bring only one. Why are they all here?"

"None of them are sensible." Wheatly sighed, casting a glance behind him at the crazy group, who were all ganging up on Sonic and beating the crud out of him.

GLaDOS sighed too; shutting her eye. She was stressed out, even for a robot. "The first one to the Portal Gun is the one we use,"

"Yes, ma'am." Wheatly said, ramming into Silver's back and pushing him towards a pair of doors. The others followed, grumbling things about being hungry and bored.

"Wait for me..." Sonic moaned, his arms bending at odd angles.

Wheatly scooted him into the other room.

"Get up. We didn't hurt you, you drama queen." Shadow growled.

"Faker," Sonic flipped him off.

GLaDOS stared at everyone in turn before saying, "Now, whichever one of you freaks makes it to the Portal Gun first wins. That is all. Wheatly, let's begin the testing,"

"Right away," Wheatly said, he and GLaDOS leaving the room.

"Well, what does a Portal Gun look like?" Silver asked. "Can we at least see a picture?"

The room got dark. "That's a no, then..."

That was about when tens of thousands of tiny lights filled the room, all coating one wall.

"Uh...what are those?" Sonic asked.

"Bugs," Shadow sighed. "Lots and lots of bugs."

"What kind?"

"The kind that probably want to kill us," Shadow growled.

The bugs with the beady, glowing eyes began buzzing angerly, and moving around.

"I don't like bugs," Silver squeaked.

"Not our probablem," Mephiles hissed.

The bugs buzzed some more and then darted at the room's inhabitants.

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GhostKing opened her eyes again to be greeted with more darkness. But this time was different than the others. She could actually think without fading out. And the one thought on her mind was, "Where the bloody heck am I?"

She wiggled around a bit, finding out she was on a soft bed. She wasn't wearing the clothes she remembered wearing, though. This fabric felt a little tight. And jumpsuit-ish.

And it felt orange. GhostKing had no idea how she could feel the colour orange. She just could.

That said and done, she sat up and managed to cast a faint glow around the room with Author Power. It was a tiny space; only the bed and a small bedstand with nothing on it. She got up and headed for the door...

...Only there was no door.

GhostKing frowned. "The heck," she muttered.

She glanced around the room, locating a small vent. It would have to do. She managed to tear it from the wall and climb inside. It was a pretty tight fit, but it was all she had to escape.

"Well, it could be worse..." she muttered.

That was three seconds before the duct decided to drop straight down for a few hundred meters.

"I TAKE IT BACK!" GhostKing screamed. She hit the bottom with a loud and painful BANG, which dented the metal. "Ow..." GhostKing muttered, continuing on despite the fact her left hand was swelling.

The duct broke under her weight, depositing her in a brightly lit room. "AGH! MY ALREADY SWELLING HAND! OOOH, THE PAIN!" GhostKing rolled around, clutching her hand. She backed into a podium or something, sending something kind of heavy crashing down onto her back.

"AAAAGHH!"

She realized that whatever it was that fell on her sort of resembled a gun. She snapped it up, looking at it as though it were a ton of diamond. "My precious..." GhostKing muttered, all pain gone in her hand and back.

She accidentally hit the trigger, sending a ring of orange from the gun, where it hit the wall and made some sort of an opening. GhostKing watched as Silver stumbled from the ring, one trillion itty bitty robot bugs clinging to him and trying to rip his flesh off.

"GET THEM OFF! GET THEM OFF!"

GhostKing shot Silver with the gun. He was suddenly back in the other ring, the bugs still on him. "AAAOOAAA IT BURNZZ!"

There was a high pitched whistle. The tiny bugs all dropped dead.

"Well, that went better than expected," GhostKing grinned as Sonic, Mephiles and Shadow stepped out of the ring thing.

"I hate bugs..." Silver whimpered.

The ceiling opened and two robots entered the room. "Wheatly, what is the human doing here?" asked GLaDOS.

"I don't know." Wheatly said. "But you did say that the one who reaches the Portal Gun first is the one we'll use,"

"Oh, so that's a Portal Gun..." Silver said in awe.

"Wait...use me for what?" GhostKing asked as GLaDOS picked her up by the scruff of her jumpsuit.

"Testing," said robot chirped a bit too enthusiastically.

"WHAT?!"

"Bye, GhostKing! Nice knowing you!" Sonic waved. "If there's anything left of you, we'll bury it!"

Mephiles smacked him.

GhostKing twisted out of the robot's grip, turning and aiming the Portal Gun at her. "Don't make me...uh... Portal you to death!"

"Ahhh! Put that down! You don't know how dangerous that is!" Wheatly ducked down behind GLaDOS.

"You fool! It is not dangerous!" GLaDOS hissed.

"Well, either it is, or it isn't! I'm gonna find out!" GhostKing took aim. As she fired, something hit her arm, throwing off her aim and causing a portal to hit the wall. The thing that hit her arm yelled, "SPAAACE!" and flew through the portal, which lead to a nice green hill.

"There's our exit!" Sonic shoved Shadow, Mephiles and Silver through, dragging GhostKing through with him.

"Stop them!" GLaDOS shouted, but GhostKing had shut the portal behind her.

"Well, that went well," Silver said.

"Where are we?" Shadow asked.

"Green Hill Zone," Sonic said.

"No, for real." GhostKing facepalmed.

"I dunno."

"Well, do we have a plan?" Silver asked.

"We don't even know what planet we're on," Mephiles growled.

"Well, it's obviously not Gallifrey," Silver said. "If that helps at all."

"Whatever. Come on, we'll just have to find the closest civilization or something." GhostKing lead the way. "After that we should visit the Author Council. I bet they're worried about us,"

"Why don't we just go now?" Sonic asked.

"Because that would make the story move too fast. We need to find a civilization first," GhostKing said in a 'duh' voice.

"Right...I will never understand this Author stuff..." Silver sighed.

GhostKing's iPod thingy—that she somehow still had— made a chirping noise. She pulled it out and looked at it. "What was my password again...? Oh yeah..." she unlocked he passcode and looked at something on the screen. "Ha, I got reviews from people. Awesome," she said.

Then her expression changed to slight horror.

"What is it? Did that one Author who flames everyone flame you again?" Shadow asked.

"No...this one's from Sarah." GhostKing said. "And...I don't know what it means."

"What's it say?" Sonic asked.

" 'Ghostking... Are you getting this? I have to encode it. You remember this code, right? I hope so...

He took me.

I can't say who, you have to find out on your own, but he has me hidden. I'm lucky I'm still alive...

I thought he still could be good. I thought that Dad (my TimeLord father) had changed him.

I guess I was wrong.

Ghostking, you have to find me. Soon... I'm running out of time. He only has to knock four times... I can almost hear the drums...

From Sarah.'"

"I want to know how you just spoke in paragraphs." Silver said in awe.

"Wait...she has another dad...?" Mephiles asked.

"Long story. But sort of, yeah," GhostKing said. "If only she left a clue to where she was..."

"Next stop, The Author Council! They always have answers!" Silver cheered.

"Right... I guess that's the only place to go..." GhostKing reluctantly agreed.

Then a small floating orb flew around the group, saying, "I like space,"

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I need people to make a brief entrance in the next chapter. Everyone who was in a previous Time and Space, you will be in it. If you want to be in this briefly, say so in a review and give a basic description of you and/or an OC.

Also, I apologize for any misspellings. I am a horrible speller. I'm so bad Spell-Check has no suggestions and I have to search the word online.

Randomness to be invading the next chapter! It'll involve stuff like Chaos and robots that like space! ...Or maybe that'll be the next chapter...

Oh well.

Hasta la Vista, Readers!

Lordoftheghostking28