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Some major questions you people have been asking in the reviews since ten chapters beforehand, will be answered in the chapters soon to come!
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The pair were in the small, wooden cabin.

"Now where did you find that tape?"

The girl pointed to the hatch in the corner of the floor.

"In there! It is a bit heavy, though."

The android snorted, and practically lifted the hatch out of its hinges like it was made of paper.

"…Okay."

The AI simply dropped down the hole, while the test subject descended by ladder soon after. The android stopped in her tracks upon seeing the bed. Her interface was telling her that the man occupying the bed, was no other than Cave Johnson himself.

"Wha-"

"Yes, I know… That's Cave."

"I knew he was dead, I just didn't expect him down here." The AI responded quickly.

After that, the android approached the old, cracked TV, with the box of tapes under it. She crouched to see the tapes, until finding one that stood out.

She inserted the tape into the big TV, before turning around upon hearing the human speak again.

"Can't you just… scan it, or something?"

"Please. Do you honestly believe I built a VHS reader into this body?" The android said, pointing at her android body.

"I don't know, you have a welder."

When the TV finally turned on, the AI squirmed, covering her audial sensors.

"Turn it off!"

The test subject hastily stepped towards the TV, struggling for a second to find the button, then switched it off with a snap.

"Okay. That's weird."

"What is?"

"That… thing makes a high frequency noise above human hearing. It's extraordinarily annoying."

"I didn't know computers could be annoyed."

"They can also cause symptoms like eye damage when loud enough."

"…No thanks."

"That's what I thought. We'll bring this back to the facility, I'll 'scan' it there."

"You do have one there?"

"What makes you think I don't?"

"Let's just go back."

After their quick trip back to the car, the android tried to start it again. No response.

"What…?"

"What's wrong?"

"The energy input is broken. As well as some other key components. Just look underneath it."

The girl crouched underneath the car, only to find something leaking from the underside of the car.

"It's leaking cooling fluid."

"Ah."

"We'll have to walk."

"You know I can't walk properly yet!"

"I know… I'll have to carry you, again."

"The sooner we get started, the sooner we'll-"

The girl was interrupted by the AI picking her up again, in one smooth movement.

"Let's just go."

And the android ran straight back to Aperture.

Back in the facility, the AI went straight back into her respective chassis.

"Where's the tape?"

"I'm stripping off all the data."

"Alright. Is there anything to eat?"

"Really?"

"You don't know what it feels like to be hungry. If you did, you'd understand."

"Sure."

"Just… is there anything?"

"There's the 'beans', as you like to call them."

"Ugh. I'll go. But there better be bread tomorrow."

"As always." The android said, before closing the gate behind the test subject.

She went on studying the tape. A few seconds later, she found the frame in which the code was clearly visible. She knew Aperture liked to go overkill on loads of things, but she never expected Egyptian characters in a passcode.

After downloading an Egyptian language file, she copied over the code into her terminal.

[AS/Administrator/CentralCore/GLaDOS]: Initiating
[AS/Administrator/CentralCore/GLaDOS]: Please wait…
[AS/Administrator/CentralCore/GLaDOS]: Call Finished (0.e0003 seconds)

In her internal interface, a schematic of her ceiling-mounted body showed up, with one long, highlighted object. In her core.

If GLaDOS could blush in this chassis, she would've resembled a ketchup bottle. All this time, she thought ashamedly, It's been in… ugh.

She researched genetic material before, and had already concluded that… this type of genetic material, should be kept in a warm location. Obviously, Cave wanted it somewhere safe, the safest location in Aperture. That apparently being her very own core, was a bit weird to think about.

[AS/Administrator/CentralCore/GLaDOS]: Initiate extraction? (Y/N);

[AS/Administrator/CentralCore/GLaDOS]: Y

Initiating 'Genetic Material' Extraction.

The announcers annoyingly cheery voice came blaring over the intercom.

That thing never shuts up, the AI thought, Test_Subject#0e01 probably even heard that..

Just like in the core transfer she always feared, the vertical panels lifted up out of the circular patch in the ceiling, and began disassembling her core to a certain extent.

As much as the AI tried to remain completely silent, she couldn't help but let out more than a few yelps. Test_Subject#0e01 must've heard this. Try not to be awkward.

As if on cue, the girl came storming into the Chamber.

"What's happening!"

No answer. The supercomputer was simply too busy with… well, being disassembled.

'Genetic Material' Extraction complete.

The announcer spoke again, and the vertical panels lowered again. GLaDOS' chassis raised a bit, and took a look at whatever's been extracted from her headpiece.

A small, transparent test-tube was fitted in one of the mechanical arms below her.

The AI turned to face the test subject, now almost smiling.

"What just happened."