"That's my story." Shade said as he looked towards Alicia. "Wow, wait you've actually met Chell?" Alicia asked. "Yep, as I said, the girl was clever to say the least." Shade said with a smile. "Why do you want to find this de-aging machine?" Alicia asked. "Let's leave it at, I have a few enemies that I would love to torture." Shade said, Alicia had an idea as to who these enemies were. "Well I see you two are getting along." an almost familiar voice said suddenly. Shade turned and came face to face with a teenage girl with completely white hair, odd yellow eyes, and an Aperture dress on. "Who are you?" Alicia asked as Shade figured out why the girl's voice had sounded familiar. "GLaDOS." Shade said simply. "Smart kid Shade." the girl, GLaDOS, said. "What?" Alicia asked. "I should explain, shouldn't I?" GLaDOS asked. "Oh do, I would love to hear your reasoning for this." Shade said with a sarcastic edge. "Well to put it simply I'll list off my reasons. One, I'm tired of being basically trapped in the central AI chamber. Two, I need more mobility and control of the facility. Three, I wanted to try something a bit new, several years of the same thing gets annoying. Four, I can't exactly watch all my subjects since a lot of the test chambers are missing cameras. Five I need to gather information about how you test subjects feel about this place and what better way than to have the same environment. And Six, I know that the resistance against me is planning something and so I need to figure out what it is." GLaDOS said. "How will you get more control over the facility like this?" Shade asked.
"Simple. There are places here that only a human can access, like this vault, so if I'm a human and linked to the wireless parts of the facility, I will have a lot more control." GLaDOS said. "So how long have you been standing here?" Alicia asked. "Long enough to hear about what happened with Shade, as well as the de-aging machine, and his plans for his enemies." GLADOS said. "Finely have a good revenge plan for that moron Wheatley?" Shade asked. "Wait you knew him?" Alicia asked. "Alicia, I'm technically like forty-four or so, I haven't exactly thought about keeping track of time." Shade said. "So why so sure?" GLaDOS asked. "Well, Bring Your Daughter To Work Day was in two-thousand, at which point I was meant to be twenty. a few months later Chell was awoken, then twenty years later she was reawaken sometime before the Wheatley incident, and that was four years ago so that's why." Shade said. "And how do you know that Chell woke twenty years after she was put back in stasis?" GLaDOS asked. "I don't, but seeing as all the long-term stasis chambers are designed to only keep a subject alive for twenty years, and she was of course alive when she awoke, it seems likely." Shade said. "anyway to answer your question Shade, yes." GLaDOS said. "And what would that plan be?" Shade asked. "I'm not talking to any non-cybernetic beings about my plans." GLaDOS said. "Are you forgetting that I'm techno-organic?" Shade asked, then glanced to Alicia. "Or do you mean that you wont tell me if Alicia is around?" Shade added. "The second one." GLaDOS said. "Okay, see you two around, I have to go and test again anyway." Alicia said as she stood up. "Don't tell anyone about what went on here." GLaDOS said. "I wont." Alicia said before walking off.
"So?" Shade asked. "Well if you must know, and I'm telling you this only because you share my hatred for that moron, I intend to put his mind into a human body, then de-age him to a little kid and force him to test to death." GLaDOS said. "Sounds interesting, though I want what else you're hiding." Shade said. "How did you- never mind. Look, I have a simple mission for you, I want you to do at least two things for me." GLaDOS said. "Depends on what those two things are." Shade said. "First I want you to find the de-aging device, or whatever they named it." GLaDOS said. "Okay and?" Shade asked. "Second I want you to try to find out everything you can about both Caroline and human teenagers." GLaDOS said. "I understand the teenager part, but why Caroline?" Shade asked. "Look, I gained some of my memory from when I was Caroline back during my trip through the old Aperture, and it made me want to know more about her, like if she had a husband or children maybe." GLaDOS said. "Oh I see, this is mostly about how you felt when Chell woke up after you saved her from space." Shade said. "I will not tell you that." GLaDOS said before walking off. "Wait!" Shade called out. "What now?" GLaDOS asked in annoyance. "You may need a portal gun to get around." Shade said as he seemed to reach for thin air, only to reveal that there had been a cloked portalgun at his side. "I expect it back in one piece, or I might have to plug a few thousand cores up to you, or modify them to attach to your human body in the form of jewelry and other accessories." Shade said as GLaDOS took the portalgun. "Keep that thought fresh, because I just might ask for some of those for that moron." GLaDOS said as she walked off, leaving Shade alone, or so he thought.
A/N: Cliff hanger. So who's with Shade?