Shade was walking around the main lobby. "Hey Shade." a boy that Shade didn't know said. The first thing Shade noticed was that the boy didn't have the Aperture symbol on his wrist and thus hated GLaDOS. "What do you want?" Shade asked in a malicious tone. "Hey, I was just wanting you to come over to my friends." the boy said. "No." Shade said. without another word Shade walked off. "Who was that?" Alicia asked as Shade approached. "Your enemy." Shade said as he sat down next to Alicia. "Oh." Alicia said, understanding that Shade ment someone against GLaDOS. "So what do you think the likely hood of that guy and his group plotting against GLaDOS is?" Alicia asked jokingly. "High." Shade said. "Okay, break over, everyone back to testing." GLaDOS said over the intercom. "Let's leave." Shade said as he stood and the room cleared, leaving only Alicia and Shade alone. "Actually I need to speak to the two of you for a time." GLaDOS said. "Oh, then we'll head to the central AI chamber." Shade said. "Taken care of." GLaDOS said as a portal opened. Shade and Alicia both stepped through without hesitation. "You wanted us?" Shade asked as he stepped through the portal. "Yes, I have an important job for you two. There's an old vault of humans, in it there are caroline and cave's bodies, I need you two to go through some tests and get there so that I can make sure they're treated properly." GLaDOS said. "Okay." Shade said. "You're not even going to ask of my plans?" GLaDOS asked. "I see no reason to do so, even if this is for revenge or something, I've been there and I understand." Shade said. "Wait what?" Alicia asked. "I'll tell you another time." Shade said as the two started towards the vault after getting directions from GLaDOS.
"Okay, if you wont tell me what you ment a moment ago, then at least tell me why you gave yourself the nickname of the shadow in the darkness." Alicia said as her and Shade walked. "I chose it because a shadow that is in darkness is invisible, and that's what I am when I leave the testing tracks." Shade said. "I get the feeling that there's more to it than that, something related to that disk." Alicia said. "Yes and I'm not staying on this subject any longer." Shade said. "Okay, still I want to know how you got that disk in the first place." Alicia said. Shade rolled his eyes. "It's called the Aperture Science Cyber Personal Assistant, or so they told me." Shade said. "So the ASCPA, okay." Alicia said, realizing that she wouldn't get any more information out of his she walked ahead. "Hey wait up Alicia, I understand that you want to know a bit more about me since we're like brother and sister, but there are some things that I just am not ready to explain." Shade said as he ran to catch up with Alicia. "Why is it that you wont tell me though?" Alicia asked. "Because I'm not sure how you would fel about it." Shade replied. The two stopped at an elevator and stepped in as GLaDOS got on the intercom. "The tests you will have to go through aren't controlled by me, I don't have access to the blueprints, and they're very old, so make sure you don't die in some useless way." GLaDOS said. "We will." Shade said.
The first two tests had been easy, but the third was far from it. The test chamber involved a lot. Cubes, buttons, switches, lasers, turrets, deadly floors, and laser fields. "Wow." Alicia said. "This'll be fun, you agree." Shade said. "Yea." Alicia said before they started on the test. Shade and Alicia worked together, firing portals to pass first the large laser field then some turrets and finely the laser. "That was fun." Shade said with a smile as they walked into the next room and found the vault. "I see that there was no trouble with the tests." GLaDOS said as the two walked up to the camera on the vault. "The third chamber was the most interesting." Alicia said, slightly bowing to the camera. "And they said you didn't worship her." Shade said jokingly. "Well, only a computer can access this vault, so I think was for nothing." GLaDOS said sarcastically. "On it." Shade said as he placed a hand on the vault door and closed his eyes.
Code exploded around him as Shade began his hack. Shade through bits of coding everywhere as he searched for the open procedures, and found them hidden with thousands of other files. Shade made quick work out of the scrambled coding and placed everything in the right order so that he could open the door. Shade snapped his eyes open as he finished his hack and looked towards Alicia. "And that's it." Shade said jokingly as the vault door began opening. "I wish I could do that." Alicia said. "Trust me, with what I had to go through to be able to do that, you wouldn't." Shade said. "I hope I learn more about what you mean." Alicia said, pulling out a notepad and writing something down. "Swiped that from an observation room?" Shade asked. "Yea." Alicia said as they walked into the vault. There were far more than just two stasis pods. "Wow." Shade said as he looked at the long rows. "This place I think was built to house bodies that could be used as bases for androids, see if you can find Caroline and Cave's bodies." GLaDOS said. "Got it." Alicia said as she walked up to the two stasis pods that had flashing lights. "Found them." Shade said. "That was fast, take a break while I look through the rest. When you opened the vault, my control spread to it." GLaDOS said. Shade pulled over two chairs and motioned for Alicia to sit before sitting down himself. "So what now?" Alicia asked. "I tell you how and why I got this disk." Shade said.
A/N: I hope you like this chapter. I have a bit of writers block so I'm not sure when the next chapter will be out. The next chapter will mostly be in first person since it will primarily be Shade recounting how he got the disk.