And I'm back. Sorry for the EXTREMELY LONG DELAY inbetween these chapters, but I have alot of things going on right now in my life. But still, I will never give up on any of my fanfics. I hate it when people do that. It's actually really depressing when it happens. Anyway, enjoy chapter 7!

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Chapter 7: Here We Go Again

I walked down the corridor with Chell trailing behind me. Wheatley kept babbling on about whatever he had on his mind. I've just learned to tune him out unless he's actually saying something of value; and that isn't often. We came up to a catwalk with one of those transport pipes on the side of it. There was a little turret sitting inside of it. It saw us, and started calling out.

"Hello? Hello! Hello!" Wheatley looked annoyed.

"Oh no…" I knew what he would say. I felt bad for the poor thing, because it wouldn't shoot us, even if it had the chance. "Yes, hello! No, we're not stopping!" I continued walking, and to my surprise, it focused its optic directly on me. It squinted.

"You're Different." Holy crap. The turret didn't say that in the game. How did it know that I wasn't from here?! Even if it meant that in a different way, it caught me off guard. Then it said something else. "Like me…" Ok, that's it. I couldn't save it from the tube in the game, but I could now. Real world physics apply here. Which means…

"HEY, HEY, WHOA! WHAT ARE YOU-" I slammed Wheatley into the glass with all of my strength. The pipe shattered, just as I had hoped. "Owwwwww… What was that for?!" I continued ignoring him, and reached into the tube. I grabbed the body of the turret, and hoisted it onto my shoulders. I looked over at Chell. She still looked slightly surprised at what I had done.

"Can you carry him? Because I'm not able to hold both of these guys." She came out of her state of shock, and nodded. I handed the portal gun to her, and I started walking again. The turret looked down at me from its perch.

"Thank you…" I smiled.

"No problem." The robot almost looked happy, although it's nearly impossible to tell. Wheatley finally started speaking again.

"I thought I said that we WEREN'T stopping. Remember when I said that?" I glanced back at him.

"Well I don't really care what you said. So get over it."

"Whatever. I'm not going to argue with you all day. I have something important to say, so listen up. In order to escape, we're going to have to go through HER chamber. And she will probably kill us if, um, she's awake. If you want to just call it quits, we could just sit here. Forever."

"It's fine, she's off." At least until you get your damn hands on the control panel.

"And how do you know this?" I sighed.

"Do you really think that she wouldn't know we're here if she was online? And also, do you think the facility would be all broken down like this if she was on? NO! It would be all neat and tidy, and she'd already have us in test chambers. So stop your damn worrying, and shut up. Please?" I was quite good at making him see reason, because he actually did. I walked down the long hallway, and through the door to GLaDOS' chamber. This room had to be in the worst condition out of all the rooms we'd come across so far. It makes sense, because the main explosion came from here. GLaDOS sat in a wrecked pile of machinery. Wheatley decided it would be a good opportunity to start talking again.

"There she is... What a nasty piece of work she was, honestly. Like a proper maniac. You know who ended up, do you know who ended up taking her down in the end? You're not going to believe this. Supposedly it was only two humans. Mind blowing, really." I laughed to myself.

"Yeah, we know." He looked at me, surprised.

"Wait, how could you know that? I don't understand."

"Because we were the ones who did it." Silence. I wonder what he's thinking right now. About a minute later, he responded.

"BWAHAHAH! That's too much! You're kidding right?" I imagined that he'd be wiping the tears of laughter out of his eyes if he were human.

"No. I'm dead serious." He stopped laughing. He eyed Chell, and she nodded.

"No… No way… You two? Seriously? I mean, I know that you guys have lasted longer than any other test subject has; most usually die on the first few chambers, one way or another. But I'm not sure if I can really believe you on this. You know what? It's not really that important right now. You know what IS important? Escaping. Let's get on with this." Honestly, I didn't really care if he believed me or not, so I continued walking. I came to a large drop. I kept a tight grip on the robot.

"Are you ready?" She heard me (I've decided that it's a she) and responded.

"Go! Jump!" I nodded, and stepped off the ledge, making sure to land on my feet. I hit the ground, and I had managed to not drop the turret. I stepped away from the drop zone, to allow Chell to follow. I heard Wheatley start blubbering about something before Chell just decided to jump.

"AHHHH!" Wheatley screamed the entire way down. Chell landed on her feet, keeping the portal gun in a firm grip. "Still held! Still bein' held. That's a great job. You've applied the grip. We're all fine. That's tremendous." I just sighed and went on my way. We soon came up to the elevator room with all of the switches in it. "This is the main breaker room." I walked in. "Look for a switch that says ESCAPE POD. Alright? Don't touch ANYTHING interested in anything else. Don't TOUCH anything else. Don't even LOOK at anything else, just-well, obviously you've got to look at everything else to find ESCAPE POD, but as soon as you've looked at something and it doesn't say ESCAPE POD, look at something else, look at the next thing. Alright? But don't touch anything else or look at any-"

"SHUT UP." He did. I took a deep breath. "Here, I'm going to plug you in. YOU look for the escape pod switch, so if something goes wrong, it's your fault." I fit him into the panel. He then turned on the lights so that we could see.

"Let there be light. That's, uh... God. I was quoting God." The floor started to turn. "Oh! Look at that. It's turning. Ominous. But probably fine. Long as it doesn't start moving up... Now, escape pod... escape pod..." The floor slowly started to rise. "It's... It's moving up. Okay! No, don't worry! Don't worry! I've got it I've got it I've got it! THIS should slow it down!" The platform started to move up at double the speed. "No. Makes it go faster." We were now back in GLaDOS' chamber. "Uh oh."

An announcer started speaking. "Powerup Sequence Initiated." I sighed for the thousandth time.

"Annnnnnndddd… Shit. Good job." Wheatley started to panic. I was too, but at least I didn't show it. Chell looked a slight bit worried.

""Okay don't panic! Allright? Stop panicking! I can still stop this. Ahh. Oh there's a password. It's fine. I'll just hack it. Not a problem... umm... A...A...A...A...A... Umm... A." A loud buzzer sounded out. Nope… Okay, um…" He continued to try and fail-hack his way in, but it obviously didn't work. I looked up at GLaDOS. She was fully repaired.

"Powerup Complete." GLaDOS focused her optic right on Chell.

"Oh… It's you." She then looked at me. I couldn't tell which one of us she hated more. "And you."

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