Shade and GLaDOS woke up again in the middle of the night. "Hey Shade?" GLaDOS asked as she gently rocked him to get him to wake up. "Yea?" Shade asked. "You're awake, how come?" GLaDOS asked. "My techno organic blood makes sleeping a bit tricky." Shade said. "Same with my cybernetic blood." GLaDOS said. "Mind if I asked why you woke me?" Shade asked. "I know this sounds childish, but I had a bad dream and I wanted someone to talk to." GLaDOS said. "Oh." Shade said as she sat up "Tell me about it." "Well I was in a room, I don't know where it was. There was this boy there, or rather adult, he looked a lot like sadistic core, just with red eyes. He pinned me to the ground and-and he s-started hurting me." GLaDOS said. She's crying again. Shade thought. "I think it was just from your fear that he would do just that. The sadistic core's real eye color was indeed red." Shade said. "That doesn't help Shade." GLaDOS said. "Sorry Gladdy." Shade said as she hugged GLaDOS. "If you ever call me that again, I'll kill you." GLaDOS said with a slight giggle. "Don't say things like that, children don't ever even think about those things." Shade said. "Sorry." GLaDOS said. "It's alright, you just have to learn." Shade said.
The next time they awoke, the others were up as well. "Everybody have a goodnight's sleep?" Alicia asked. "Yea!" everyone except Shade, Kaylyn, and GLaDOS said. "What about you three?" Alicia asked. "We're all at least half machine, sleep doesn't come easily to us." Shade said. "Oh." Alicia said. "All right, if we're going to find this Lucy, then we best head off ASAP." Kevin said. "I didn't think that that term still existed." GLaDOS said angrily. "Gladdy, that's not how a child would react to what was said." Shade whispered. "You're not going to stop calling me that, are you?" GLaDOS asked in a whisper, Shade shook her head. "So, Kaylyn, mind if I ask you as to where we could find Lucy?" Alicia asked. "She hides out in a lot of the old rattman den." Kaylyn said. "Then we'll look through them all to try to find her." Kevin said as he motioned for everyone to follow him. GLaDOS, Shade, and Kaylyn fell behind to talk a bit, per Kaylyn's request. "So, I over heard you two during the night, are you really wanting to learn to be a child again GLaDOS?" Kaylyn asked. "Yea." GLaDOS said. "Please, call her Gladdy." Shade said. "Oh, okay." Kaylyn said.
Lucy was waiting for the anger core to activate in his new body. "Where am I and why do I actually talk?" the anger core asked. Lucy looked at his human body for a moment. He's cute. Lucy thought. "you're in an old rattman den, I've given you a human body and changed your programming a little bit so that you will fit into the human world. You can still be angered, but it's more like ADHD, look it up." Lucy said. Anger core closed his eyes for a moment and quickly, through the internet, learned what ADHD meant. "Why did you do this and who are you?" Anger core asked. "I'm the integration core, I was created by Doug Rattman to bring as many cores as possible to the human world because he saw, after the second time he left the facility, that the human world has been mostly destroyed. Just call me Lucy, and give yourself a human name." Lucy said. "How about... Ferno, I'll say that it's a nickname." Anger core, aka Ferno, said. "That'll sound nice." Lucy said. "Um, are the other three main cores, humans now too?" Ferno asked. "Yes, well one of them is anyway, Curiosity core is a human now, she's a little girl and goes by the name Kaylyn. I've decided to have her walk around the facility until I have all the cores I can, and maybe a few turrets." Lucy said. "Will you get rid of their guns?" Ferno asked. "Maybe I'll just reprogram them to not wish to shoot anything unless provoked by someone trying to harm them." Lucy said. "Lucy, I'm back." a voice said from behinds Lucy, she turned.
It had taken nearly three hours, if GLaDOS and Shade were right in the time, to find Lucy. Shade looked up at Lucy and had trouble connecting her with any kind of machine, just as she did with the human behind Lucy, and Kaylyn, and GLaDOS. "Kaylyn, who are all of these children that you've found and what are their names?" Lucy asked. "First, who's that?" Kaylyn asked as she pointed towards the human behind Lucy. "I'm the former anger core, Ferno." Ferno said. "Okay, well I think these girls should introduce themselves." Kaylyn said. "I'm I'm not a girl!" Kevin yelled, Kaylyn just gave him a childish smile, and GLaDOS took in the little imformation about how some children could be. "I'm Alicia, test subject number four-eight-two and GLaDOS ally." Alicia said. "I'm Kevin, test subject three-eight-six, also GLaDOS ally, though we don't mean any harm." Kevin said.
Lucy had barely heard what the two test subjects had said, her eyes were on the four children, more specifically, the little girl that had on a pink Aperture science dress and had her pigtails held up by small cores that moved from machines in them, one core was Kaylyn, the other was Space core. Why does she look familiar? Lucy asked herself. The girl in an orange Aperture science set of footy pajamas spoke first. "I'm the former murderer, Chell, the Sadistic core has taken over and he de-aged me with a de-aging device to lower my moral. Though, in all honesty, he has only managed to make me hate him more." Chell said. "Chell, as in Chell Rattman?" Lucy asked. "Yea." Chell said. Lucy looked over to the next girl, who was in the same footy pajamas only with it being light-blue. "I'm Kate Rattman, Chell's little sister and the same thing basically happened to me as well." Kate said. Lucy looked to the next little girl, she was wearing similar cloths as the last girl, but her pigtails were held up by pink bows instead of cores. "You wont believe it, but I'm Shade Rattman, Chell's twin brother, like my two sisters, the Sadistic core did this." Shade said, motioning to her self. "And you're the one I've been most curious about." Lucy said as she looked to the last girl. "I'm the former Caroline, GLaDOS. Just call me Gladdy, Shade and Kaylyn do. My story is the same, but the Sadistic core actually HAS lowered my moral greatly." GLaDOS said sadly, Shade came over to her and gave her a hug. "That's sweet of you Shade, exactly what a little girl would likely do for another little girl." Lucy said. "It's easier to accept what has happened for now and worry about it later, then it is to worry about it now and never accept it." Shade said, she had made it sound like she was saying it to Lucy, but GLaDOS knew it was directed at her as advice. "That sounds like a quote from somewhere" Lucy said. "I found it written on a wall in one of my dad's dens." Shade said. "They're called Rattman dens, Doug gave them that name himself, so they aren't his dens, they're the family's dens." Lucy said. "Do I-do I count as family?" GLaDOS asked. "Right, you can't remember a lot of Caroline's life. Yes, you do count as family, you two were married after all." Lucy said. "Really!" GLaDOS said in surprise.
A/N: I hope you enjoy this chapter. This chapter was half-filer and half-story plot. Don't worry, if you're getting bored, the next few chapter should see some action.