Get Over Aperture

Ch. 12 Meet the ASHPD

Jake's POV

"How'd you do that?" Miku asked.

"Hey! There's one here too!" Stefani said. I saw in the TV that she found one too at the same place where what I found was in.

I pushed the part of the wall further in to see what was hidden behind it.

A... gun? It's black and white and big and there's something on it... it says Aperture Science.

It looks heavy... oh wait, it's pretty light.

"What IS that?" Stefani asked.

"Hm... wah!" I screamed as I accidentally shot something on the wall. I closed my eyes in surprise... and when I opened them... I saw... a big dark blue circle...?

"What did you do?" Ren freaked out and grabbed it from me. Then, he accidentally shot one too in another part of the wall. The one he shot was light blue. Then, the dark blue one I shot wasn't completely blue anymore.

It showed a hotel room, just like ours. Then, I saw... Ren! Through the blue circle thing. Then, me! What's going on here?

The two big circles were just beside each other.

I went closer. "Hey, what are you doing?" Miku asked, very confused.

I went through the dark blue one and ended up back in the hotel room. When I looked behind me, I was going through the light blue one and the dark blue one that I thought I was going through was only beside me.

I was almost completely through the blue circle but my left foot was still behind and I saw it beside me, part of it still in the dark blue.

"Hm, I see. It's like a... umm... what do you call it?" Miku said.

"A portal?" Ren suggested. "Yeah! Yeah! A portal! That's right!" Miku agreed.

"That's pretty cool." Stefani said, smiling.

She pushed a part of the wall in their room and found one just like ours. She shot one on the floor she was standing on, it was yellow or bright orange. She shot another one that was red on the ceiling just above the bed.

"Waaaaahh!" She fell into the yellow portal and came out of the red one, landing on the bed, laughing.

"That was so cool! I wanna try that!" I said. I really did.

"No, we can't waste anymore time. We have to get out." Miku reminded me.

I sighed. "Okay..." Maybe I was being immature, but you have to admit- that was pretty cool.

There was another one like this in the small hidden part of the wall and Ren used that. Miku used another one too.

So in short, all of us have one each of these Portal Guns.

"Hey, there's a piece of paper in the wall too." Miku said.

"There's one here too." Ren said. "What does it say?" I asked.

The two pieces of paper had the same thing written and Mikuni and Ren read it together:

Dear Chell's friends,

This is the best I could do. I left two ASHPDs (Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device) in the walls of each of your rooms. If you're reading this letter already, I expect that you already found them. I also inserted a tube hidden in the wall beside the locked door. The tubes are too small for you to fit through to get out, but they're big enough for portals to be shot through. At the other side will just be a smooth, clear wall. Shoot a portal there and another one in your room. In case GLaDOS sees that you're awake and have escaped, she might test you. She just loves to test. I can't give out any information about where Chell is hidden because I don't really know where she is. Sorry about that. Anyway, I hope this helps at least a bit. Again, I'm sorry.

Wheatley

PS Think with portals!

I grabbed the paper from Ren. "'Think with portals!'?"

"Well... his handwriting is nice... I guess..." Ren said.

"That's not the point, dude. We can escape now! THAT'S the point!"

"Oh, okay."

"So now, we just need to find the tubes, right?" Stefani said.

"Done!" I heard Miku say, even though she was far from the mic.

I looked at the TV and saw that she already found the tube in the wall. Ren did the same thing.

I looked through the tube and saw a smooth, clear, gray wall. I aimed my ASHPD and shot a dark blue portal on the wall on the other side.

There was already another portal here so Ren and I just went through it.

Ah! Freedom at last. But we're still not completely free. Also, we need to find Chell.

And where was Miku and Stefani's room? I expected it to be just beside ours.

I went back into our room and looked at the TV. Stefani and Miku left already. I tried calling them with my phone that I almost forgot I had.

No signal.

Great. Just great.

So now, Ren and I were stranded in some hallway, not knowing where to go next or what to do next.

"Oh, would you look at that." We heard a voice of something like a girl robot from somewhere above us.

"New test subjects, hm? Well then, let the testing begin."