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Of all the tasks the AI could've come up with, this was the last one she'd expect.

"Wait, what? Eating? What do you mean?"

"Please, one could easily see you understand the concept."

"But why? If you're planning on making me eat repulsion gel, it's not edible. It's already been tried."

"Just head over to the canteen. You'll see."

The girl did as she was told. She carefully peeked into the canteen, making sure it wasn't a trap. Even though the AI seemed trustworthy now, she was still wary now and then.

What actually stood in the canteen, she didn't expect.

On the cheap plastic table, a lumpy loaf of bread rested. On either side, the testing bots.

The Orange one made a welcoming chirping noise. The Blue bot waved enthusiastically at her. She confusedly waved back. She'd seen these in front of the lift, before she was set free.

"Go on. It should be safe to eat."

"Did you make this?", she asked the two bots, surprised. They responded by nodding heavily, and making all kinds of happy noises. They honestly looked like little children showing something they made in school. She smiled.

The test subject looked at the nearest camera. "Why don't you give it a try as well?"

"…Alright. I'll be right there. Also, step away from Orange and Blue."

As soon as she did, the bots promptly exploded. A panel extended out from the floor, and started cleaning up the loose parts.

This shocked the test subject. "What did you do that for?"

"Don't worry. They don't mind. I can reassemble them later."

"Oh. Alright."

The android came running in. As soon as she entered the room, she slowed down, and extended her heels.

"What? How did you do that?"

The android raised her leg. "Retractable heels.", she said whilst sliding the end of her heel back and for into her foot.

"Oh. That's… unusual."

"I don't have to constantly switch footwear that way. How about this?" The android lowered her leg again, and slid out the long-fall braces.

The girl watched as the android lifted up an inch.

"Okay…"

"Enough of that. Let's get this over with."

The pair sat down at the table, and began eating.

"You know, this is not half-bad."

"This is much better than the beans."

"As much as I hate to, I must agree."

"Leave it to the expert."

"Expert in what, exactly?"

"Expert in eating, of cour- Oh, wait."

"You're doing a better job at this that me, you know."

"Shut up and eat your bread."

"I don't have to eat. You should know that by now."

"Then just shut up."

The two didn't speak again until the whole loaf was gone.

"Excuse me for a second." The human stood up, and started walking away.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"The toilet, obviously. Speaking of which, where is it, actually?"

"Down the hall. I think I'll go too then."

The girl put up a confused face. "How do you…?"

"Get rid of it? Easy." She raised her arm. "I find the location of human's excretory systems rather… Inefficient. To fix this, I relocated it."

She pushed into her arm, and a small panel opened. Inside, a small container sat.

"All consumed items are compacted, and make their way into… this." She grabbed the container out. Behind it, a big mess of wires and tubes were revealed. "An incinerator is far too big for this body, so I had to compromise."

"…Alright. Down the hall, you said it was?"

"Yes."

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Once they both left again, they headed back to the Central AI Chamber.

"So, what's next?"

"Remember the files we retrieved?"

"The ones from old Aperture?"

"Yes. In order for me to be able to access them, I'll have to scan them."

"I think that's called 'reading'."

"Scanning."

"What's the difference?"

"You'll see."

Once in the Chamber, GLaDOS proceeded back into her chassis.

As soon as she did, she raised a panel in front of the test subject, and pulled up a camera above it.

"I can see where you going with this. Why did you need me?"

The AI raised one of her maintenance arms out of the floor beneath her.

"These arms simply cannot handle something as thin and fragile as paper. That's where you come in."

"Wait, so I have to flip every single page, on every single one of the hundreds of books we retrieved?"

"What else did you expect?"

"I don't know, use your android body? It's not that hard! You don't get tired like I do."

"Look, it's either this, or test deadly elements. I figured you'd want to do this instead."

"…Okay, I'll take it over cancer-inducing elements, I guess."

The AI let out a menacing chuckle. "Yes… cancer."

"…Yes, I'll happily flip pages all day! Just don't make me test deadly elements, leave it to the bots or something."

"Good. I will."

The next two hours were spent entirely on flipping pages.