The de-aging device looked like a large test tube with a strange liquid in it. "Aperture Science suspension gel, it was removed from testing because it proved to be too deadly." Shade said. "You know your Aperture history." GLaDOS said. "I would hack into the data base and read through it when I didn't have anything else to do." Shade said as Wheatley came on the intercom. "Shut up!" Wheatley yelled. "If you want me to be quiet then kill me, Wheatley." Shade said in a tone that could match GLaDOS' tone when she was angered. "I am not Wheatley, and I will do just that." the Sadistic Core said. "Not so fast moron, I have an emergency self destruct system. In the event that my heart stops from a forced kill such as a shot to the head, every techno-organic cell in my body will explode with the equivalent of one tactical missile per cell." Shade said. "I don't believe you." Sadistic core said. "It's true, check the system data banks, everything you find about it will confirm what I just said." Shade said. "Then I'll just put you into an eternal sleep." Sadistic core said. "That wont work either, I have a very deadly computer virus that will enter your system if you attempt to hack me, you would be dead before you drew my blood." Shade said. "Fine, you win this round Shade." Sadistic core said.
"That was a rather good lie." Chell said. "I wasn't lying about the self destruct, I set it up a year ago, I think." Shade said. The android guards suddenly threw the four into the suspension gel as the sadistic core walked out, in a black and red cloak. "Let's see how this goes for you four. Guards set the age to five years and the gender to female." Sadistic core said. Great, I get to become a little girl again, thanks a lot for giving him that idea mom. Shade thought before passing out.
Shade and the others woke up in a room that closely resembled that of a little girl's. "Ow, I forgot how painful that process is when you wake up." a little girl that was siting next to Shade said. "I would say." Shade said in a little girl's voice before seeing that he looked almost exactly like he did when he was in the VR, just with his normal eye color and hair color. "Great, I was annoyed with being a teenager, but this is just ridiculous." another girl, likely GLaDOS, said. "Okay, who's who?" the last girl asked. "I'm Shade." Shade said. "obviously I'm Kate." the first girl to speak said. "GLaDOS." the girl that had been assumed to be GLaDOS said. "That just leaves me, Chell" Chell, the girl that asked who everyone was, said. "At least we wont have to go through that again for a while." Shade said as he, now a she, checked her back in the mirror and smiled. "He couldn't remove the disk, it's a part of me." Shade said as another little girl ran in. "Who are you four, hey don't I know you, what's that on your back?" the girl asked. "Curiosity?" Shade asked. "Yeah?" the girl, Curiosity, asked. "Well this is a surprise, are the other cores in human bodies too?" GLaDOS asked. "Hey you're GLaDOS right, I missed you, but no I don't think they are. I just woke up a few minutes ago." Curiosity said before giving GLaDOS a big hug. GLaDOS was shocked. "What's wrong, did I hurt you?" Curiosity asked. "No, it's just... I... never thought that any of you would like me since I sacrificed you for myself." GLaDOS said sadly, then looked shocked. "Did I just say that?" GLaDOS asked. "Yes, and I think I know why." Chell said. "Why?" GLaDOS asked "I've never thought something like that before." "It's because, when I looked into what the scientists were doing, I found that they had put an emotion suppressor into your mind to make it easy for them to manipulate you. When we were de-aged, the suppressor was as well and the sudden changes that occurred in it caused it to be destroyed, so now you're feeling emotions like a human would." Chell said. "Wow, and I thought Shade was the only human still alive with a lot of knowledge about technology." Kate said. "I'm not, you know this too, somehow it is all in our blood." Shade said.
"So what happened to you Curiosity?" GLaDOS asked a few hours later, they had all decided to stay in the room for a while. "When I was laying on a piece of broken metal, an android, calling herself the integration core, found me and put me into this body, she said that a little girl fit my personality the best." Curiosity said. "I thought she died." GLaDOS said. "You've changed a lot since the last time I saw you, I remember that you use to look around frantically and ask endless questions." Chell said. "Yea, but Integration, she asked me to call her Lucy, changed my programming to were I'm just really energetic and a bit curious, so that I could fit into the human world." Curiosity said. "How come?" Shade asked. "First I want to know what happened to you four." Curiosity said. "Sadistic core happened, he change us into five year old little girls to lower our willpower, I admit he's being a bit successful." Shade said as she checked her portal gear, which she had put on earlier through her usual process of activating it through her techno-organic blood. "Oh." Curiosity said. "So what was Lucy's reasoning ?" Kate asked. "Oh, right, sorry I still get distracted easily. To quote her she said 'The human race has died on the outside, I wish to bring it back by utilizing the cores that exist in Aperture' She was real sweet about saying it, too." Curiosity said. "Sounds like she has a rather large goal, maybe that's why there were so many human bodies in that chamber." Shade said. "It's possible." Curiosity said. "We should get going, we'll need to gather all of GLaDOS' followers, find this Lucy, and help her with her goal, so that her group and our group can band together to take out Sadistic core. So shall we go Curiosity?" Shade said. "Please call me by the human name that Lucy gave me." Curiosity said. "Okay, what is your human name then?" Kate asked. "Kaylyn." Curiosity, Kaylyn, said. "Then let's go, Kaylyn." GLaDOS, Shade, Chell, and Kate said in unison.
A/N: I hope you like it.