Ello! I'm back! I should be updating this more often. I need to get back into my writing habits, but it's SOOOOOOO easy to get distracted and sidetracked I guess that I'll just have to try harder from now on. I will continue writing this until it seems done, or I run out of ideas. Which is kind of hard to do when writing about something that already exists. I guess I meant motivation. This is kind of short, but I'ma do my best to make these longer from now on.
Hey, what's a Mary-Sue? Cause I have no Idea... o3o
On with the story.
Chapter 2: Unexpected Solution
Of course I come up with an idea as she presses the button. Just great. As the ground gave way beneath my feet, I reacted and grabbed the edge of the incinerator before I could fall in. I pulled myself up quickly, before I was cut in half by the doors. That was way too close for comfort. I looked over to Chell, who still had her eyes closed. It looked like she was crying. I then realized that if I had fallen in, there would have been no way for Chell to get out of the room. It's a good thing I saved myself. I went over to the button and stood on it, notifying Chell that I had in fact, not been burned to a crisp. She smiled almost immediately and came over to embrace me. She would have been devastated, causing the death of another human being.
She let go after about a minute. "Chell, I had an idea. Would you lend me your portal gun for a minute?" She nodded and handed it to me. I wrapped my hands around this magnificent device. It felt so strange to finally hold it for myself. She showed me how to shoot the orange and blue portals. It was pretty simple. I then walked with her into the previous room we had been in, where there was a broken panel. Looking behind it, there were a bunch of broken security cameras. I directed Chell to help me carry them to the incinerator. Once we had carried around five of them to the machine and placed them on top of the doors, I went back and stood on the big button. Chell went into the room and opened the hatches. The cameras went tumbling inside, and GLaDoS spoke up.
"You euthanized your faithful Companion Cube more quickly than any test subject on record. Congratulations." I couldn't even express how happy I was that my asinine plan had worked. Honestly, this was a last ditch effort to save myself. She came out of the room smiling, glad that we had figured out a solution.
"Shall we continue?" She nodded, and we made our way to the elevator. In my own happiness, I completely forgot about the emancipation grid in the doorway. I obliviously walked through it, and was stopped by a painful sensation in my gut. It felt like I had been burned all over my body. I fell to my knees from the sudden pain. I didn't seem to be disintegrating, which is a good sign, but that didn't relieve the burning sensation I was experiencing. Chell, noticing my reaction, helped me up and into the elevator. She looked a little concerned, but I told her that I was fine. Just a little unprepared. I should be able to cope with it from now on. I should have realized that since I was here in place of the cube that I wouldn't pass through completely unharmed. Still, since I was not actually the cube, I wasn't disintegrated. Ugh.
As the elevator moved, I took some time to think. How many chambers are after this? I think that it's only 18 and 19. After we make it through those, we'll have to escape the way you do in the game. This should be challenging, considering there are two people and only one portal gun. Oh well, we'll make it work somehow. It was kind of awkward being around Chell, obviously because she couldn't speak. We just stood there in silence. Before we kill GLaDOS, I should try to make her fix Chell's voice. With the amount of advanced technology Aperture has come up with, there should be some way to fix her voice. Whatever. I'll just take things as they come. The elevator doors opened up, and we walked out. On the wall was another panel that said Chamber 18, with a bunch of little pictures below showing ways to die in the test. Lovely. GLaDOS decided to speak up. "The experiment is nearing its conclusion. The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that you will be baked, and then there will be cake." Chell thought nothing of this, not knowing what GLaDOS's true intentions were yet. She will know what to do when the time comes, because she's Chell, right? If not, I can just help her out anyway. She led the way, shooting portals to progress. I would then follow her through them.
After getting up all the platforms, we came to the gigantic room that sort of tests all the things that you've learned thought the story. I waited and watched as Chell dispatched the turrets and powered the platform with the energy pellet. It was quite awesome to see her complete the chambers from a third person point of view. She was very efficient and perfect in completing each task. Her movements weren't limited here like in the game, so it makes sense. As the platform activated, I played my part by activating the panel from here so that she wouldn't have to go across herself to press the other button. She flew out of the well placed portal, grabbed the cube, and made her way back over to me. I pressed the button to let her back into the previous area, and we continued on.
The next room was one that I had problems with when playing. It was where you had to retain your speed through each portal to be able to reach the next platform. Only one person could do this at a time, so Chell got up to the top, set down a portal, and I made my way though. One painful emancipation grid later, and we were through the chamber. I didn't catch what GLaDOS said through my pain, but I think it had to do with electricity. It doesn't really matter much. I'm glad that the Companion Cube chamber was late in the lineup, because I wouldn't have wanted to go through 15 other chambers just to get to this point.
Thinking about the future, what was I going to do once we killed GLaDOS? How was I going to get back home? Maybe after I "Complete" the game, I will be sent home by whatever mysterious force sent me here in the first place. Home sounded quite nice about now. Well, I've still got to get to that point, so I shouldn't rush myself. As we stepped into the last test chamber, I prepared myself.
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