"I don't believe you Alicia, they're only little girls!" a test subject, Kevin, yelled. This had been going on for nearly two hours and Shade was beginning to get extremely mad. "You've lived in Aperture for four years and you still think that some things are impossible!" Alicia yelled. "It's not like they've made vampires or something, Aperture is powerful, but they certainly can't change someone's age, much less their gender!" Kevin yelled, GLaDOS intervened at that. "Actually Aperture was working on a vampire type virus a while back." GLaDOS said. "Shut up little girl!" Kevin yelled, that snapped Shade. "So you don't believe her eh, well how about now." Shade said darkly as her disk split into four large wings-like segments, a visor went up over her head, wires spread out and latched themselves to all electronics, and Shade took flight. "Do you believe her now?" Shade asked in a voice that sounded purely demonic. "What the-" Kevin began, but was cut short when Chell pulled out a portalgun that had a design of black and red on it. "I was never a fan of orange or blue." Chell said, even as a child she still was able to match Shades tone exactly. "Oh I have to get in on this." GLaDOS said as she pulled out and Aperture brand semi-automating SMG. "Hey don't forget about me." Kate said as she pulled out an energy sword, Shade looked at her with confusion. "What? I swiped it from the weapon stash before I met you." Kate said. Everyone looked at Kaylyn, aka Curiosity. "Sorry, Lucy doesn't allow kids to play with weapons and I'm considered a kid." Kaylyn said. "Woah there, now just take it easy." Kevin said fearfully. "You believe me now?" Alicia asked with a dark smile. "Yes-yes I do, now please call them off." Kevin said. "Sorry, I just babysit them, they make their own choices." Alicia said.
Kevin looked over to the four armed children. "Please, I'm sorry I didn't believe her, just don't hurt me." Kevin said fearfully. Suddenly Shade, GLaDOS, Chell, and Kate burst out laughing and put away their weapons, or in Shade's case, returned her disk to normal. "What?" Kevin asked. "They may be GLaDOS, Shade, Chell, and Kate, but they are still children. We figured that whoever we talked to wouldn't believe us so we had to set up this to ensure they would." Alicia said as she giggled. "Yea, I wouldn't harm Alicia's friends or a GLaDOS worshiper." Shade said with a childish smile. "Hey, we've all told you that we DO NOT worship GLaDOS, we see her as an adopted mother!" Kevin yelled. "Hey, I have sensitive ears so would you please quiet down." GLaDOS said before yawning. "Looks like you're a little tired Gladdy." Alicia said mockingly. "I am not." GLaDOS said before yawning again. "I beg to differ, how about all of you sleep." Alicia said. "Fine, but only this time." GLaDOS said. "It'll be a lot more times than just this time, you're a child now, as am I, we tire easily." Shade said as he laid down. "Good-night you five little cuties." Alicia said warmly as Chell, Shade, GLaDOS, Kate, and Kaylyn fell asleep.
Shade awoke with a strange feeling in her system. Shade gave herself a self-diagnostic and found the problem, someone was in her system. She closed her eyes and activated an anti-hacking program she used often. GLaDOS suddenly jolted up. "Ow!" GLaDOS yelled. "Shouldn't hack into my systems then." Shade said with a dark smile. "Well forgive me if I barely know how to act like a child." GLaDOS said angrily. "If you wanted information on that, then you should have just asked, I would have given it to you without question." Shade said. "No you wont." GLaDOS said angrily. "Well now I wont, so why are you wanting to act like a ch-" GLaDOS cut Shade off by placing her hand over her mouth. "Shh, I don't want others to hear." GLaDOS said, removing her hand. "Okay, so why?" Shade asked. GLaDOS sighed. "When I was about thirty, before becoming GLaDOS, I participated in an experiment on memory wiping, you can guess what that ended up being used for. Anyway, the experiment worked, but they hadn't backed up my memories of the time and I had forgotten ALL of my childhood, Now I'm left to wonder what being a child was all about. I thought I wouldn't get a chance to reclaim some of that childhood innocence, as they say, but now I have that chance and I'm lost on how I should act." GLaDOS said. "Wow, and yet I use to think of you as a mere killer, you're life has been rough, or rather, what you remember of it. Though you said Doug had stolen your heart at a young age, how did you remember that if the experiment had already happened?" Shade asked as she subconsciously began twirling one of her pigtails around her fingers.
"I meant that I was a preteen when he did, though from what you told me, he had done so a lot earlier." GLaDOS said. Is she crying? Shade asked herself as she noticed a glitter of a tear on GLaDOS' face. without thinking, Shade stood up and walked over to GLaDOS, siting down next to her. Shade had always felt pity for GLaDOS, but he had no idea that she had lost what should have been the best memories of her life, and it stung her heart. I'll kill Cave Johnson when I see him again. Shade thought before giving GLaDOS a sudden hug. "What was that for?" GLaDOS asked after Shade stopped hugging her. "Your first taste of childhood, I can't get those memories back for you, but I can give you new childhood memories." Shade said. "Thanks Shade." GLaDOS said. "Shouldn't you change that to fit your gender a little better?" GLaDOS asked. "What, my name, no not at all, Shade is not a name that really relates to a single gender." Shade said. "Oh." GLaDOS said as she laid down, Shade laid down next to her. "You should go back to where you were." GLaDOS said. "I'm fine here, children don't usually mind sleeping next to other children, their minds don't think the same way a teenager or adult's does, so it doesn't bother them." Shade said. "Oh." GLaDOS said as she closed her eyes and slowly fell back asleep.
A/N: Okay first off, this is mostly a filler as I have been extremely distracted with other things and have had some bad writer's block as of late. Second of all, and this is to all the GLaDOS fans that read this and then want to comment on how that isn't GLaDOS, This is MY story and so I can have her act how I want, now don't get me wrong, GLaDOS is my favorite character of all time, but too many people hold to the original design and very few exploit the information that none know to make her a little more unique, so I decided to show a completly different side of her and still hold mostly to what's cannon.