Get Over Aperture
Ch. 17 Saved
Chell's POV
Grr... someone freaking let me out of here!
Hah... never mind. No one's going to hear me if I just secretly say things in my mind.
Okay, I'm going to try screaming.
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WHY CAN'T I AT LEAST MAKE A SOUND?
I assumed that the reason why I didn't talk before was because I was scared a little but right now, I'm tied up in an empty room with only one door and it won't open. Why can't I talk NOW?
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Okay. This silence is creeping me out.
*SHOO*
WHAT WAS THAT?
I turned to the door. It was open.
YES!
I looked at who opened the door. It was a silver-haired lady in a gray dress. Who was that? Caroline? No. Caroline has brown hair.
But this person's hair looked so natural even though it was a weird hair colour.
Wheatley's here too.
"Chell, meet human GLaDOS." he said as he untied my ropes.
I stared at him, then at her.
G-GLaDOS? Really?
"Hey, Chell, you should thank her. Even though she was the one that trapped you in this room, she still led us to you to help you." I heard Miku say. I saw that she had an AHPD with her.
"Hmph. She can't thank me."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Ren said. He has one too. What the heck? Why do all of them have ASHPDs?
"She's mute."
"N-no, GLaDOS! She can talk!" Wheatley assured her.
No.
I am NOT going to say anything or even a sound in front of her. Not even a single squeak.
Wheatley came over to me. "Come on, Chell. Say something. Please?" I stared at him and tilted my head, pretending to not understand him.
His eyes widened. He looked at his feet. "Okay..." I sort of felt sorry for him.
"Chell, why won't you say anything?" Jake asked me. I looked away.
Then, there was a large earthquake.
GLaDOS gasped. "W-we're underground! We have to get out! If we don't we could be buried alive!"
"EVERYONE RUN!" Stefani screamed.
"W-WHICH WAY?" Wheatley screamed back.
"FOLLOW ME!" We all followed GLaDOS
We went through a lot of hallways, running, tripping, hopping...
GLaDOS even lost both of her shoes on the way.
We passed by a hallway with a Companion Cube.
I stopped and stared at it.
"Chell, what are you doing?" Miku screamed.
I dove for it and started running.
"What do you need THAT for?" Ren shouted while running beside me.
"Hmph." I heard GLaDOS.
We saw an elevator.
"WAIT! I saw in the malls that in case of an emergency, we have to use stairs!" Stefani said.
"THERE ARE NO STAIRS!" GLaDOS screamed at her.
We ran inside and she closed the door and we started going up. There were bumps on the way but we were still safe. We even heard some elevator music.
When we got out, we were in a shed.
We were all silent for a while.
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"Wait! I just thought of something." Wheatley broke the silence. He turned to face GLaDOS.
"How are we supposed to turn back into robots?"
"Don't you want to stay as humans?" Miku asked.
"NO." GLaDOS replied quickly.
"Well, what she means is, we COULD stay human, but there are still some things we need to do as robots." Wheatley said.
"Like...?" Jake asked.
They stared at us.
...awkward silence...
Then, Wheatley said, "I just have this feeling we'll be needing that machine again..."
"They created a small, abandoned building somewhere close in case something like this happens. I was told there would be everything we needed there for building machines, reconstructing the place, etc." GLaDOS said.
"Should we go, then?" Wheatley asked.
"Wait!" We all looked at Miku. "You can come to our place for some rest first."
"And snacks!" Jake said.
"What kind of snacks?" Wheatley asked, smiling. It will be his first time eating human food. It will be his first time to eat at all!
"Hm... let's see..." Jake started thinking.
I still wasn't ready to let GLaDOS hear my voice.
I got a stick and drew on the ground. Wheatley looked at what it was. He smiled.
"GLaDOS, Chell says there will be cake." GLaDOS came over to look at my drawing of a cake on the ground. Her eyes widened.
She knew it wasn't just some random cake.
It was HER cake. She started to turn red. She looked away and tried to act strong as usual.
"Fine. But only for a few minutes."