GLaDOS was spinning around in her chassis with glee. She'd finally finished her new 'body'. Well, not exactly finished, she only had to wait for it to be assembled.

She felt like a small child waiting for a long-promised surprise. For the first time in ages had she felt so excited for anything.

A part of her reminded her that she shouldn't be that excited. It's just a humanoid body, after all. She did, of course, have to keep it a secret.

She glanced at the android being constructed below her. The same arms that had ripped her out of her body, and put her into a potato, were now working in her favour.

Ding.

A little sound notified her that the body was now ready for action. She let one of her maintenance arms descend from the ceiling, and pick up the body by its waist.

She watched as the lifeless android was dragged over to the core transfer receptacle. Like the small arms below her, that receptacle carried nothing but bad memories. About time she did something about that.

Some whirring came from the receptacle as it latched onto the port in the neck of the android. She activated the transference without hesitation, foreseeing the announcers annoyingly cheery voice.

Transference Initiated.

Her whole chassis went limp, her optic faded out. She then realised she never experienced a transfer before. Well, a core transfer, maybe, but she didn't want to think about that.

Unlike the core transfer, though, the transference barely hurt, mainly because her headpiece stayed where it belonged.

Transference Complete.

Small yelps could be heard, similar to the sound of someone getting the air knocked out of them, as the android's optics flashed on. She couldn't hear properly. She felt all her senses recalibrating.

She felt her neck being disconnected from the receptacle, as she vaguely heard the Announcer's muffled voice, and tried to regain her senses. Her eyes didn't focus properly. She felt rotation motors connecting to her underlying software, and twitched a little.

She could move. Once her head cleared, and her senses were recalibrated, she tried to stand up. She stood upright… for about two glorified seconds until she promptly fell flat on her face.

Ow. That hurt. At least she now knew her artificial nervous system was back online. Unfortunately. Even in her main chassis she couldn't turn it off, so she didn't bother trying.

She quickly wrote a gyroscopic stabilization driver, and got up to her feet. Into this body, she'd built small, handy gadgets. Time to take them for a spin! Or, more pleasantly worded, test them.

She started at her feet. She looked down, and activated the first modification. She got startled for the briefest of moments as she was raised up a bit.

Both her feet shifted as they lifted up into something representing heels. She smiled for a bit, before trying to walk.

She was happy she'd written that stabilization driver, as she almost fell flat on her face again. That'd take a bit of practicing, then.

Her feet shifted again as the heels disappeared into the bottom of her feet, and a black strip separated from the rest of her ankle. It shifted downwards until she was on her tip-toes again.

Like the testing pair, she now had long-fall augments. Unlike robots, though, they were retractable. She smiled in satisfaction as they retracted back into her heel again.

Although she should be trying out the rest of her augments, she focused on the reason why she even built the body in the first place; flying.

She turned around to face the receptacle again. For convenience, the plug on it could be pulled out, making it easier to connect larger devices to it.

She pulled the plug up to the back of her neck, felt herself connect to the mainframe again. She quickly set up a chamber with aerial faith plates, as well as some repulsion gel, and called a lift.

Out the corner of her eye, she saw the lift coming up.

She disconnected again with a spark, and ran inside. The glass doors closed, and the lift quickly descended towards her test chamber.

(-)-(-)

After stepping out the lift, she ran up the stairs, and through the door. The door closed behind her with a hiss, and she was now free to do whatever she wanted.

She grabbed a portal gun off its pedestal. It was now that she realised that this was another orange/blue one, which could interfere with the one the test subject had.

She figured that the test subject wouldn't reach it anytime soon, given she didn't have a map of sorts, and proceeded onto the nearest faith plate.

It's time to fly.