I guess I should start by saying that I was born and raised in Aperture. I was the best at programming, which most were shocked since I was only four when I first hacked Aperture's firewalls. The scientists had mixed feeling about me as some hated me and others practically bowed to me. I would help the scientists out when I felt I should. I once even got a job as their firewall tester in which I had to try to hack their firewall and they would make improvements, I was fired after a while when it became clear that I was too good of a hacker. Both my parents worked here and I loved the place, I would often beg them to let me try out deadly tests. I never received toys for my birthday, just prototype Aperture equipment. One day I was walking through some of the labs when I noticed something being worked on by a few scientists that hated me. "What are you all building?" I asked. "the Aperture Science Cyber Personal Assistant." one of them said kindly. I should have known it was a trick right then and there, but I had a similar addiction to testing as GLaDOS had when she first got activated a few years after I got the disk. "Can I test it when you're done?" I asked. "Sure thing." another of the scientists said. "We'll call on you when it's finished." the first scientist said.
I waited for almost two days before they came and got me for testing the device they had created. "This may feel weird as it binds to your mind." one of the scientists said as another came in with the Aperture Science weekly news papers. "I'm sorry Kile, but your parents just died in an accident involving a turret." the scientist said, Kile was my real name, I wasn't one to cry so I didn't. "I'll go to the funeral when it occurs." I said as they put the ASCPA on me and I felt it take over my mind. "We have been wanting to do this for a long time. You could say that you're a prototype of the Genetic lifeform and Disk Operating System, the device has complete control over your body, and as a side note, you will be assigned a testing track to test your control over the area." one of the scientists said. "Also we will not be calling you by your name, now you're Shade." a different scientists said. After that I got the testing track, track nine, and started working with it, I wasn't in control at the time though. The tests I built were always deadly and complex, I loved to harm the test subjects, partly because I did before hand and partly because of the disk.
The disk had an unintended side effect though. It ended up fusing my blood with machinery and thus turning me into the first, that I know of, techno-organic. Years passed as I was forced to be the controller of that testing track, though I never aged because of my techno-organic blood. Then one day I spotted a weakness in the disks control programming and used it to gain back control. I wasn't very happy with the scientists that had done it to me of course and so I seeked revenge. I chased down every last scientist that hated me and killed them in painful ways. Some with neurotoxin, some with lasers, some with turrets, and some I threw in Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerators. That was the first Aperture masaquer, and just like the second one, it was done for revenge. After that the scientists feared me, though I was still allowed to talk to the children when I saw them. I even got to see Chell during that time, she was like twenty, the same age as I was, when I met her, though you wouldn't have been able to tell. She had used some experimental Aperture Equipment to de-age herself so that she could participate in Bring Your Daughter To Work Day. Chell was really quite clever, she had lost her parents in a similar way that I had, then got adopted, then lost her adopted parents, yet still managed to put on the best performance of a little girl I had ever seen. Chell had somehow gotten Doug Rattman to pretend to be her father for the event, nobody thought twice about the likely hood of Doug marrying, much less having a child. Of course the second Aperture masaquer occurred that day. Doug and Chell had already filled out a testing application in case something happened, as they both doubted GLaDOS, and were correct, so Doug placed her at the top of the list and asked me to keep an eye on her for the first few years while she was still technically a little girl since there was no reverse for the de-aging process. I was there the first time Chell was ever awakened. She showed that she was a great test solver even when her body was a little girl's body. Somewhere in this facility is the lab where she got the de-aging equipment, and I definitely wish to find it and examine it, though I haven't got the slightest clue as to where it is.
A/N:Interesting, be honest, did anyone expect me to have Chell end up using a de-aging device (which does sound like something Aperture would make) to be able to participate in BYDTWD. So that's how Shade got his current name and the disk. I hope you liked this chapter. The main reason I chose first person was because I wanted something a bit more interesting for my readers and I seem to type somewhat better chapters when I'm typing in first person.