Shade looked up at the large door that was Chell's memories. "I don't need her memories that she knows, I want to learn about our life first." Shade said as he pulled the coding of the door and opened the file. Shade threw memory files everywhere as he searched for the lost memories. After nearly four cyber hours, he caught a brief mention of his name and took that file door. Shade looked around at the old test chamber that must have been his and Chell's room. All testing elements had been removed and replaced with toys and such. Two kids, both four, were siting together and playing. "That must be me and Chell." Shade said as he got closer to hear. "Chell, should we ask mom if we can try out those cool wings we saw earlier?" Kile asked. "Sure, I hope mom lets us, or maybe dad, if we see him, will." Michelle said before the two got up and walked off, Shade following. "Hey mom?" Michelle said before stopping suddenly. "What is it Chell?" Kile asked. "Mom and Mr. Johnson are fighting." Michelle said as Shade rounded the corner to see what was happening. "I don't want this Cave." Caroline 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. "This is the same memory but from Chell's point of view" Shade said. "Michelle, Kile, I'm so sorry that you had to hear that." Caroline said as she ran over to her children. Shade suddenly felt fearful, scared, sad, and hatred all at once. "This is taping into my own lost memories." Shade said.
Caroline hugged Michelle and Kile as Cave came over. "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. "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. Kile looked like he was actually smiling at that comment. "I really don't like you Cave, I just want you to know that." Kile said darkly. "You little brat." Cave said, matching Kile's tone. "You hurt my twin and I'll be the one enacting revenge, with neurotoxin, that sounds fun. I hope you remember that I'm not a sweet, innocent little girl." Michelle said. "Well I can't argue with that." Shade said with a shrug as he stepped through a flashback door.
Shade was back in his and Chell's room. Military androids were all around it, with Michelle and Kile fighting them. "Mom's going to get mad at us when she hears that we did this." Kile said playfully as he drove an energy sword through one of the androids. "Kile, Michelle, what are you two doing?" Caroline asked from her place next to a door. "Sorry mom, we wanted to play some games, but we didn't like any of the games we found." Kile said. "I'm not mad about the androids, we need to loose a few anyway, I'm mad that you didn't tell me that you were taking the energy swords to do it." Caroline said. "We couldn't find you, and Mr. Johnson hates us." Michelle said. "I really wish I could say he doesn't, but I'm sure that he does. How about I let you two stay the night at your dad's quarters, maybe he can help you in drawing a mural or something." Caroline said. Shade, even with his cybernetic mind, couldn't calculate the speed at which Michelle and Kile dashed to their closet and came back with backpacks of cloths and other stuff. "Can we go now?" Michelle and Kile asked in unison. "Sure thing." Caroline said as she lead the twins out, Shade following.
A few cyber hours later, Shade had followed the twins to what he assumed was Doug's quarters. "Wow." Shade said when he saw all the paintings that Doug had drawn to keep his mind at ease. "Dad!" Michelle and Kile yelled as they ran into the house and hugged Doug, who was sitting in a chair, looking a little insane. "Out of pills again?" Caroline asked with a giggle. "Yes and the voices are starting to get on my nerves, though thanks for bring the little ones here to see me again, what was your reasoning?" Doug asked. "I caught them playing with Military Androids and energy swords." Caroline said. "And as always, you brought them here because of the energy swords." Doug said before happily hugging Kile and Michelle. A tear escaped Shade's eye as his memories of Doug resurfaced. "I should go." Shade said as he left to the code, copying the memory files of both Chell and him in the process. Shade finely snapped his eyes open as he left the computer mainframe. "I'm glad you're done, I found the de-aging device, though I'm sure you want to first talk to GLaDOS about what you found, and brief me on it." Kate said from where she had sat down at some unknown time. "Oh I have a lot to explain." Shade said.
A/N: Hope you enjoy. for clarification, Kile is Shade, and Michelle is Chell. I chose to use those names to help my readers keep confusion out of the way for a time.