The Third Legend

by Shade The Aperture Dragon

First there was Doug. Then there was Chell. Now a new legend joins the group of Aperture's legendary test subjects. Shade, the shadow in the darkness. The only difference between Shade and the other legends, he is there to save GLaDOS. four years after Chell left, test subjects have returned. Can Shade save GLaDOS and reveal the truth of Caroline's two children and their father

11. The Sadistic Core, Wheatley

Shade, Kate, and Chell all got to ride in a space craft after GLaDOS sent them to retrieve Wheatley and, after a long talk with Shade, Space core. "Nice day to be in outer space." Shade said, he had on a spacesuit that the ASCPA had put on him, while Kate and Chell were in regular spacesuits provided by GLaDOS. "This coming from someone that has, in the past, felt that it was a great day for a supercomputer AI to kill everyone in the facility." Chell said in mock anger, Shade and GLaDOS had managed to return her lost memories and she had found that she was the same way. "It was. The day GLaDOS took over was also the anniversary of my revenge, and later the anniversary of you defeating her." Shade said before spotting Wheatley and Space core out the window. "Well you're the master of insanity in this family, you go get them." Kate said. "You're just as insane, you just don't know it." Shade said as he went over to the airlock and then to space.

"Hi." Space core said as Shade approached. "You're that bloody machine." Wheatley said. "For the record, I'm only half machine, and I'm here to bring both of you back." Shade said. "Back to Earth? Please take me." Space core said. "I am, I figured that your programming would realize that exploring all of space was impossible and then make you fear it to get you to return." Shade said. "What?" Wheatley asked. "Shut up moron." Shade said, he then forced Wheatley into sleep mode before he could respond. "Let's go home." Space core said excitedly. "We will." Shade said as he took Space core and Wheatley back to the space craft. "How did it go, Space give you any trouble?" Chell asked as Shade returned with the two cores. "Not at all, he actually wants to return to Earth." Shade said. "Well he can now, also, when we return I would like to test out those cyber wings we never got to test." Chell said. "You and Kate can, I have wings, or rather I have wings if I want them." Shade said as he sat down. Kate turned on an intercom. "GLaDOS, open the landing bay, we're on our way back." Kate said. "Got it." GLaDOS said.

A few hours later, Shade, Kate, GLaDOS, and Chell were waiting for Wheatley to wake up in his human body, currently it was an adult body. "W-what happened?" Wheatley asked as he finely woke up. "Welcome back to Aperture Science." GLaDOS said evilly. "Great, I'm back in this place with you and all of them." Wheatley said, his British accent fading into a sadistic American accent. "I figured you had a few secrets." Shade said, it was a lie, he was actually shocked. "I have a lot more than that." Wheatley said as he thrust his hand twords GLaDOS and she was sent flying into a wall. "Bastard." Chell said. "You really think I didn't have a reason to help you escape, I wanted this place. I hacked into my voice synthesizer and made myself sound British to fake being the intelligence dampening core so that GLaDOS wouldn't know the truth. I've plotted everything out. This room is filled with nanobot under my control, I made sure that GLaDOS would put me in this body and that she would put herself in a human body. Now that I'm back, there's just a few things I need to take care of before I kill everyone here and then go on to the world." Wheatley said. "If you're not the intelligence dampening core then what core are you?" Shade asked as GLaDOS got back up, only to be lifted in the air by the nanobots. "I'm the Sadistic core, I was built by one of the madder scientists here to act as the perfect enemy for GLaDOS, and now I'll be happy to ensure that I have what I want." Wheatley said before letting GLaDOS drop. "What exactly do you want?" Shade asked. "One, I want to do to GLaDOS what she intended to do to me and turn her into a little five-year old girl to weaken her and destroy her confidence. Two I want to turn you and Kate there into the same little girls from your little trip to the VR room. Third I wish to do the same to Chell, all for the same reasons. And Finely I will bring together all the anti-GLaDOS test subjects to take over first this facility and then the world." Wheatley said. "First off, I assume you bugged GLaDOS' memories. Second off, it wont be that easy to do everything you want to, you'll meet heavy resistance as well as have to do all this while watching out for my triplet brother, Shadow, as he is basically a walking virus, you'll have to live in fear of when he will come because he will be willing to destroy the world to keep everything the same as it was." Shade said.

"I'll take that warning with care. Guards, send these four to the de-aging device and set the main gender as female, age five." Wheatley said as several android guards appeared and started making the group follow them. Shade got closer to GLaDOS and placed his hand on her shoulder, giving a silent command to be quiet. In seconds, Shade had dispatched of the memory bug. "We can speak now." Shade said. "Why did you lie back there?" Chell asked. "Because, while Wheatley isn't a moron, he isn't bright either, I was there for a few seconds while they built the sadistic core, Wheatley changed his optic color to keep hidden, but I know that he has one fear, and that's viruses." Shade said. "Clever." Kate said, then smiled. "Looks like we'll all be sisters and the same age." Kate added. "Only until we defeat Wheatley, after that I might be able to hack the de-aging device and reverse this particular session, but I wont be able to reverse the session from you and Chell, the one you two did on BYDTWD. Ironically, in a few days it'll be the next BYDTWD, maybe I'll just reverse GLaDOS' session and then do ours after that day." Shade said. "As crazy as ever." Chell said. "Yep, and I'll only get crazier." Shade said as they got to the de-aging device.

A/N: Well that is certainly the last thing most people would expect from Wheatley. (I DON'T WANT TO SEE ANY REVIEWS TALKING ABOUT THE REVIEWER DISAGREEING WITH MY FORM OF WHEATLEY). All honesty, I just wanting a bit of an extra plot twist with Shade, Chell, Kate, and GLaDOS. I still have a bit of writers block so I wont be surprised if this chapter wasn't that good. (The other cores will also be showing up, but that's all I'll say on that.) (see if you can spot this, slightly altered, quote that Wheatley said in here, though it was said by GLaDOS in the game, just a bit different from this chapters form of it.