Falling through a door, into a mess of shattered panels is NOT something anyone should ever try.

Ever.

Unfortunately for Wheatley, GLaDOS had turned off the Aperture Science Cellular Regeneration and Nutritional Supplement Administration Vents once he escaped, which meant that all of the bloody cuts on his arm didn't go away in a couple of seconds. In fact, they didn't go away at all.

Which caused him to scream.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-Then a thought struck him.

He had voluntarily screamed.

Hhhhhhh h h heh heh heh…

Momentarily ignoring the pain, his screams devolved into nervous laughter.

"Heh heh heh he heh…"

Then he suddenly became so tired and lethargic he fell asleep.

He dreamt he was on his management rail, zooming across a wide-open field.

Then he crossed over a lake and marveled over its simplistic beauty, wondering why the Scientists never made any lakes in The Facility. And why a man was following him in the wat-

Then he screamed.

Wheatley shot up as if the most pointy and serrated knife made out of skeletons and dried bone marrow ever made had just stabbed him.

Then he noticed there were a bunch of hard-ish red things attached to his skin all over his arms.

Then he noticed he was still screaming.

So he stopped.

Then he looked around to try to figure out where he was. This was not very hard, however, as there were a few signs hanging on a wall a few feet away from him.

The signs read 'Aperture Science Stabilized Quantum Rift Distortion Fusion Reactor With Nuclear Buffers Control and Maintenance Center.' And 'WARNING All personnel must wear an Aperture Science Mark IV Chemical/Radiation/Solar Bombardment/Cosmic Ray/Lunar Sediment/Full Vacuum Personal Commercial Grade Self Powered Protection Unit in Orange before crossing THIS line' And '↑Control Center up ahead, please do not cross line unless you are an Aperture Science Reactor Core Maintenance Associate. ↑'

He didn't know what any of the signs were actually trying to tell him, but he guessed it had something to do with the big yellow line in front of him.

So he got up, and crossed the line.

"Warning, an Aperture Science Reactor Core Maintenance Associate has crossed the Aperture Science Reactor Core Maintenance Border Distinguished line without wearing an Aperture Science Mark IV Chemical/Radiation/Solar Bombardment/Cosmic Ray/Lunar Sediment/Full Vacuum Personal Commercial Grade Self Powered Protection Unit in Orange. The Aperture Science Reactor Core Maintenance Associate in question will now be put into an Aperture Science Mark IV Chemical/Radiation/Solar Bombardment/Cosmic Ray/Lunar Sediment/Full Vacuum Personal Commercial Grade Self Powered Protection Unit in Orange. Aperture Science is sorry for any inconvenience or delay this protocol may cause. Please be patient."

To Wheatley's horror, four arms descended from the ceiling carrying an orange suit, then two of them grabbed him and started fitting the suit around him.

And so he screamed.

The arms were largely unaffected by this sudden change in ambient noise volume, but didn't do anything more than hesitate for a moment. After all, they had orders to follow.

It only took about five minutes to put Wheatley into the suit, at which point he stopped screaming and started walking again.

There was no point in staying still, after all.

After a while, he came across the Aperture Science Reactor Maintenance and Control Center, which over looked the giant reactor. Which will now be described:

The giant Reactor Chamber was painted silver. Why? No one knows. There were four protrusions sticking out from the wall forming an X with a yellow box on the end of each one, in the middle of the X there was what appeared to be a black dot. In reality, this black dot was a rip in the fabric of reality that energy is being sucked out of and stored into Nuclear Buffers that supply the energy to everywhere in the facility.

In other words, it sucks power out of the very fabric of reality.

This reactor would not have been creatable if not for the 'Quantum Tunnel Incident', where some moron left an ancient Aperture Science Ad-Hoc Man Sized Quantum Tunneling Device running for a few months.

The resulting explosion created an unstable quantum rift. The problem was not stabilizing it. The problem was trying to figure out how to get rid of it. But some genius suggested they just build a reactor around it and BAM! A few months later Aperture Science never had to pay electricity bills again.