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Enjoy Chapter 5!
Chapter 5: Oh boy, Fun
"Good morning. You have been in suspension for -fifty- days. In compliance with state and federal regulations, all testing candidates in the Aperture Science Extended Relaxation Center must be revived periodically for a mandatory physical and mental wellness exercise." I opened my eyes to a small room. Well, this sure ain't home. I sat up in the bed that I don't remember getting into. When I turned to my right, I saw Chell was with me. The Party escort bot that usually drags Chell inside must have grabbed me too. Well this is just great. Chell yawned and got up, seemingly still half asleep. She unzipped the top of her jumpsuit and tied it around her waist. She must have been hot or something. The announcer spoke a second time. "You will hear a buzzer. When you hear the buzzer, look up at the ceiling." A loud buzzer sounded, and she obeyed. I did the same, not having much other choice. The announcer listed off a few more things that we had to do before telling us to get back into the bed. I decided to make my own decision. After going up to the door, I found that it was securely shut tight, with no chance of me getting out. I sighed, and against my better judgment got back into the bed. After lying down for a short while, I slowly drifted to sleep.
"Good morning. You have been in suspension for nine nine nine nine nine..." The announcer continued with his ramblings, while I rubbed my eyes. I felt pretty groggy, despite probably being asleep for a year or two now. Honestly, I don't know how long the gap is between Portal 1 and 2 is, but I'm pretty sure that it is longer than that. The announcer was interrupted by a familiar voice. "Hello? Anyone in there?" It's him. The biggest moron to ever exist. He started knocking on the door, and yelling at us to open the door. "Are you going to open this door? At any…" I cut him off mid-sentence.
"JEESUS, I'M COMING! SHUT UP FOR A MOMENT!" That got him to stop talking, and quick. Chell got up along with me, and went to open the door. She turned the handle, and the door flew open.
"AH! Oh. My. God. You look terribl- ummm... good. Looking good, actually." He slid to the center of the room on his little management rail. He focused his optic on me. "Wait, who are you? There is only supposed to be one person in this room."
"I'm Aurora. The escort bot dragged me here along with Chell." I decided not to tell him about the whole *This World is a video game* thing, because he'd probably blow a fuse trying to think about it. Even Chell had a little trouble understanding what I had told her. "I'm…" It took me a second to force myself to say it. "A companion cube. Sort of." That is basically what I was in this universe. A human companion cube.
"But aren't companion cubes supposed to be… I don't know… Cubes? Oh well, whatever. There are more important things that need to be done right now." A panel opened, and he slid into the little control part of the roof. "Ok, you MIGHT want to hold on to something. Just a word of advice." A large engine started up, and the entire room started to shake. I grabbed onto part of the wall to avoid toppling over. Chell grabbed a lamp that was attached to the wall. The room started to move, and the walls started collapsing, and crumbling. About five seconds later, half of the room had been completely obliterated. The metal framework of the room was the only thing holding together the floor beneath us.
"How you doing down there? You still holding on?" We crashed into another… I don't even know what it is because of how destroyed it was.
"You know, you are an AWFUL driver."
"Yeah, thanks for reminding me of that." He continued babbling on and on about irrelevant things, like the management getting angry at him for the other dead test subjects. The management most likely was killed by GLaDOS a long time ago. It didn't stop him from talking though, and I didn't feel like saying anything back to him. Finally, we reached the wall separating us, and the testing track. "Okay, almost there. On the other side of that wall is one of the old testing tracks. There's a piece of equipment in there we're gonna need to get out of here. I think this is a docking station. Get ready..." Oh shit. I backed up to the back of the room and held onto the door handle. I braced for impact as he rammed right into the wall. "Good news: that is NOT a docking station." I rolled my eyes.
"Thank you captain obvious! I definitely didn't realize that!" He ignored my sarcastic remark, and continued on.
"I'm going to attempt a manual override on this wall. Could get a bit technical! Hold on!" He backed the room up much further, and rammed the wall so hard that I almost flew across the room. I could see Chell holding on for her life. "Almost there! Remember: you're looking for a gun that makes holes. Not bullet holes, but- well, you'll figure it out. Really do hold on this time!" I held on with all my strength, but it wasn't my fault that the doorknob came out. When he hit the wall this time, I went flying through the wall of the room, and into the small glass box from the first game. Well, this is a great start. I hope that my luck doesn't continue like this. Because sometimes, luck can be the difference between life and death.
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