"I haven't seen her, got any ideas?" Avery asked.

"No, now what do we do? Chell's gone, without so much as a note!" Wheatley replied.

"Don't be like that, we'll find her."

"How?"

"Not sure. I just know she's left- at least,- something."

Avery started exploring the small bakery, scouring every nook and cranny until she picked up a note left on Chell's bed.

"Dear Wheatley,

I'm going back. She will continue to find subjects, and that would put too many in danger. I can't let her torture others, like she did to me. I'm shutting her down, once and for all. Don't come back to help, I'll do this myself. You and the girl will be safe, and that's all that matters. Please, I want you to be safe.

Chell"

Avery put her had to her mouth.

"Oh God, she went back. She went back to-"

"Avery?" Wheatley asked.

Avery dropped the note, jumping back slightly, and locked her fear-filled bronze eyes on Wheatley's questioning blue eyes. She pointed to the note.

"She went back to Aperture. We have to go help her get out of there! She could die!"

"What? How could she even go ba- Nevermind, let's go."

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As they began to walk back to Aperture, Avery noticed a small, abandoned garage. Interested, she wandered inside. The garage was filled with rusted mechanical parts, old wires, and other odds and ends Avery couldn't identify. She started picking up objects left and right, until she almost fell over from the weight of the materials. She spread the items out on a small workbench she found. Quickly, almost as if she didn't even look at the materials, she assembled them into two makeshift pairs of long fall boots. Avery took off her well-worn sneakers, and put on the boots.

"What are you doing?" Wheatley asked.

Avery laughed, "What I do best!" she handed Wheatley a pair. "Put these on, okay?" She continued to work on something else.

"Alright! But, where did you learn to work like this?"

"I used to work down in manufacturing, before The Incident."

"Bring Your Daughter To Work Day?"

"Yep. Studied the bots as they worked, taught me plenty of little tricks. I even learned how to make cores from the bots!"

Avery put on a pair of goggles made of leather, metal, and glass. She smiled as she discovered they fit perfectly. She continued working, finally finishing her projects. The last thing she'd made was an extendible rod, with an electric end, that could be turned on and off.

"That's for what, exactly?" Wheatley watched as the electric sparks danced on the tip of her rod.

"Going to override GLaDOS' mainframe, she has to be off for the process, this is to get her off. I'm going to finally remove that virus from her!"

With her somewhat Steampunk items, Avery and Wheatley continued to walk towards Aperture.