A little girl was hiding behind a pillar, she knew that she would have to stay a few feet away since Sade would sense her otherwise. "Now what should I do?" Shade asked himself. The little girl giggled a bit to reveal herself. "Follow her mission, I think." the little girl said as she stepped out. she had black hair, silver eyes, was wearing a dress with the Aperture logo on it, and had the yellow alliance mark on her wrist. "Who are you, and what are you doing in this part of Aperture?" Shade asked. "I'm Kate, and I'm here because I followed you and that girl here." Kate said. "You seem familiar, yet I've never met you." Shade said. "Everyone seems to think I'm familiar." Kate said. "Because you look like a younger version of a legendary test subject." Shade said, the alliance mark made him doubt that this girl was really Chell in disguise. "Who?" Kate asked. "A girl by the name of Chell." Shade said. "Oh Chell, I know her, she's my big sister." Kate said. "Chell never mentioned a sister." Shade said. "Nobody ever mentioned me, they mostly said that I was an accident, but Chell always loved me and was always there to help me if I was hurt." Kate said. "So why is it that you are still so young?" Shade asked. "Before GLaDOS started hurting people, Chell put me in one of those stasis chambers to keep me safe, when I woke and learned about what really happened to GLaDOS, I was sad for her and so I joined her group." Kate said, pointing at the logo on her wrist.
"So you were there when Chell de-aged herself to participate in BYDTWD." Shade said. "Yea, she did it to me too so that we could play around and fool some scientists, it was fun, but I don't remember where it is. I was twelve when she did it, but we were both quite skilled in acting so nobody could tell. Chell put me in stasis about four hours before GLaDOS attacked." Kate said. "That's half an hour before I met her, I'll tell you this though, had she not gotten Doug to explain, I would never have realized her real age." Shade said. "Like I said, we're both great at acting, and can be silent when we need to be." Kate said. "That explains why she never spoke until she got out of the facility, I over head her say that it took longer than she thought." Shade said. "Chell has always been the silent type, unlike me, I must have had a full conversation with GLaDOS before joining her." Kate said. "Well I'm not surprised, GLaDOS is a bit talkative." Shade said. "I was wondering though, what did Chell say to you to get you to help her the way I've heard you did?" Kate asked. "She explained why she de-aged herself, had me explain that I killed hundreds of scientists for revenge, had me explain that Caroline was dragged into the operation room and completely forced to become GLaDOS, and how Caroline was the revenge type. She put all this together and basically predicted GLaDOS' revenge." Shade said. Kate giggled a bit at that before turning to walk away. "I may not remember where the de-aging device is, but I do know where some of the old archives about Caroline are." Kate said. "Then lead the way." Shade said.
Kate lead Shade through a virtually endless maze of hidden areas before stopping at a large computer screen. "I can't get into the system, but I did see some scientists uploading a file named Caroline's personal information to it." Kate said. "I'll take care of getting in." Shade said as he placed his hand on the computer and began his hacking. Like last time, code exploded around him, but this time there was also a ring of fire. "Another firewall." Shade said before moving code into the form of a large axe. "Let's see how strong this one is." Shade said as he swung the axe and it hit the wall, sending a shock-wave and a crack along it. Shade spun around and kicked the wall hard, destroying it. Shade dashed through the area for a while before realizing something. "I can't display it on screen, but I can find it in the code." Shade said, his voice echoing since he had spoken to were Kate could hear. "Okay, do it then." Kate said, her voice echoing as well. Shade stopped as he came to a door in the coding. Caroline's Personal Information. was written on the door. "Found you." Shade said as he opened the door and stepped through, instantly falling into nothingness.
Shade looked around when he landed, he was at what looked like a school. Children where running around freely in the playground that Shade had landed in. "I'm in her memories, that explains what they meant by personal information." Shade said as he spotted a little girl, that looked a lot like Kate, playing with a man who seemed to only be half in the world. "Caroline and Doug." Shade said after recognizing them from a picture he had found in an old den of Doug and Caroline sitting together and hugging a bit. Shade got close enough to hear what the two were talking about. "Doug are you alright, are they hurting you?" Caroline asked. "Who, the voices. only when I'm sad." Doug said. Caroline hugged him. "When I grow up I'm going to find a cure for you other than those pills." Caroline said sadly. "She did say that she always wanted to help people, but why didn't she ever talk about her and Doug being friends?" Shade asked himself. Caroline and Doug suddenly cheered up before jumping down and running off to play. Shade spotted another door in the world, that clearly wasn't from the memories and went through.
This time Shade was at a house, Caroline, Doug, and a young Cave were all sitting around on the floor. "They're all still children, they must have all been friends." Shade said, he was recording all of this in his memories to show GLaDOS. "Cave, why do you seem to hate me?" Doug asked. "You know why Rattman." Cave said angrily. "Cave, he doesn't know, please tell him for me, I hate seeing Doug like this." Caroline said. "You know, so you tell him." Cave said, that seemed to snap Caroline. "I don't know either Cave Johnson, if you want to hurt my BEST friend, then get out!" Caroline yelled before dropping to the ground and putting a protective arm around Doug. "Fine, I'll tell him. It's because he's a devil child, you've seen how he acts at times, all of this is just an act to get to you and kill you." Cave said. "I can't help that I hear voices, it doesn't mean that I'm a devil child." Doug said. Caroline spoke before Cave could come up with a reply. "I should drown you in neurotoxin for that comment, you're just lucky that I don't have any right now." Caroline said hatefully before punching Cave hard in the arm and giggling. "What?" Shade asked in confusion. "Why do we like to act like we despise each other sometime?" Doug asked with a bright smile. "It's a game remember. Who ever can come up with the best statement to silence the others wins, and I just won, bet you didn't expect that from a girl." Caroline said playfully. "You're different from any other girl I know." Cave said with a smile. Shade left through another door.
Shade landed in a room that looked like an Aperture office from the time when he was only a child. "I don't want this Cave." Caroline, now about twenty, said. "I don't care that you don't want it, we have to get rid of them." Cave said. "You just don't like that they aren't your children. That's no reason to wipe their memories and give them away." Caroline said angrily. Shade looked around and suddenly noticed two little kids, both around four, peaking in. Shade ran over to the children immediately. "These must be Caroline's children." Shade said before gasping at who the two were. The girl looked like Kate only a few years younger, Chell, and the boy looked about the same, except hair length and clothing. "He looks familiar." Shade said as he heard a faint cry and turned. "Michelle, Kile, I'm so sorry that you had to hear that." Caroline said as she ran over to the two children. "Michelle, that's what Chell is short for. Kile, that's my real name." Shade said before looking over to Caroline.
She was hugging Michelle and Kile tightly as Cave fazed through Shade. "Why do you whine over such useless beings!" Cave yelled. "All those times that you pretended to hate him, they weren't the pretend part, they were real. You hate him because he stole my heart at a young age." Caroline said hatefully. Shade knew that tone, it was the same tone GLaDOS had when preparing revenge, The same tone he had when he was getting his revenge, the same tone in Chell's voice as she had been dragged back into the facility after her first escape, it was a tone of pure hatred. "Don't you dare use that tone with me, I'm your boss!" Cave yelled. "You never chose me because I worked hard, you chose me because you wanted me, you only let Doug come into this facility because you wanted me happy, now you only want every tie I had with Doug to vanish. Let me tell you this Cave Johnson, I will not forget this day. There will be a day when everything you had gets destroyed, and I intend to be the one to do it, every scientist, every device, and every chamber will become either non-existent or a death trap." Caroline said, and Shade flinched at her tone, it was the tone he had heard over the intercoms as GLaDOS attacked and harmed her facility. Cave was pale as a ghost now. Shade jumped through another door.
This time Shade knew what time he was in and what day. When Shade landed he saw Caroline being dragged through the facility, but now something was different. Shade remembered thinking that Caroline was unhappy about being forced to become GLaDOS, now he could see the look on her face clearly, Caroline was happy. "Finely I'll have my revenge cave Johnson, I haven't forgotten yet and I never will. Doug will be safe, Michelle will be with him, and Kile is immune to neurotoxin, but the other scientists aren't. Goodbye you miserable excuse for a human being, I made a promise and now I'm keeping it." Caroline's voice echoed through the room. "That's what she was thinking when she was being taken, all this happened because of Cave, but what about that Kate girl." Shade said, he didn't have to wait long for an answer. "My only regret is never being able to see little Katelyn, but she is safe, I'm positive of that." Caroline's voice echoed again. "So Kate really is my little sister, now I see the resemblance between her and Doug." Shade said before a door formed beside him. "A flashback." Shade said as he entered the door. The room he came into was a child's bedroom, with a turret posted at the far end. "She was a bit protective." Shade said as a door behind him opened and Shade spun. Caroline walked in, heading for the bed that, Shade saw, had Michelle and Kile in it. "Wake up you two." Caroline said before foot-steps could be heard and she hid. Cave walked in with an evil smile. "Now that Caroline is asleep, I'll just do this now." Cave said. Shade knew what came after that, this was when his and Chell's memories must have been wiped. "He must have removed our memories at this time, which means that we would be placed in false families thus being separated, Caroline must have had Kate four years after this and given her to Doug to give to Chell's false family for safety.
"Shade are you all right in there?" Kate asked, her voice echoing to prove that she was still with Shade's body. "I need answers, I will come out when I'm finished, just go and find the de-aging device." Shade said, his voice also echoing. "What are you going to do?" Kate asked. "I'm about to perform the world's ultimate hack, I have memories that were removed that I want back, I want to learn more about Cave, Chell, you, Doug, and Caroline, so I'm going to hack into all those memories, we all have our memories backed up in the mainframe, so that wont be a problem, just find the de-aging device and return, I'll explain later." Shade said. "O-okay." Kate said before likely running off. Shade jumped through another flashback door after that.
A/N: Be honest, how many thought that Kate was actually Chell? Well this was a longer chapter. There may be a few more of these long chapters to come, so we'll have to see.