"That's-"
"The Borealis. The only prototype of the Aperture Science Long Range Portal Device, on that ship."
"How are we going to get there? I mean, we don't have any digging tools."
"We don't need them." The android responded, pointing at her right arm. Her arm, the girl noted, mostly resembled a blowtorch.
"Ah. Carry on digging, then."
"Actually, why don't you do something?"
"What could I do? You're the one with the blowto- Oh."
The AI twisted off her forearm, and handed it to her with her other arm.
"This button to activate it. Good luck."
And with that, she stepped away, and sat down.
"I think I'm getting close!"
"Tell me when you're through. I'll need my arm back soon."
"You're the one who gave it to me in the first place, and- Oh! I'm through!"
"About time."
The android quickly stood up, and grasped her arm out of the test subject's hand, and screwed it back on, emitting sparks as she did so.
"Thanks."
"What? I know it's a nice arm."
"No, it's just… I was holding your actual arm. That's just… weird."
The android was recalibrating her arm, making funny movements with it as she did so.
"It's a mechanical arm. You destroyed many of them in the past, what's the problem with holding one?"
"It's… yours. Not some random arm in the middle of the facility!"
"I am my facility. Now let's get to that ship.
When they arrived, the human spoke again.
"How are we going to-"
The android jumped straight onto the ship.
"-get onto… it. Okay. How am I going to get up there?"
"I don't know, find your own way."
"Hold on, can't you just… carry me onto it?"
A huff of annoyance escaped the android's vocal systems, before jumping right off the ship again.
"Sure."
Without any further signals, the AI picked her up, and jumped onto the ship, for the second time. However, she didn't take into account that, well, she was a bit front-heavy, now, and fell sideways onto the deck.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"It looks like my legs aren't calibrated to that much weight."
"Just shut up, and get off me!"
The AI turned red for the briefest of moments, and got back on her feet, walking away immediately.
"Wait! Where did you go?"
"In here"
"Where's 'here'?"
"The only door in your general vicinity."
"…Alright."
The girl eventually caught up with the android below deck, who was standing in front of a humongous machine. It looked a lot like a generator. Or a nuclear reactor. Or a washing machine. Well, it was Aperture technology, it could be anything, really.
"This," The AI pointed towards the machine she was currently leaning on. "Is the Aperture Science Long-Range Portal Device."
"It doesn't look like a portal gun."
"Portal device, and this is not a hand-held. Try to keep up."
"Okay, then where's the control panel?"
The android simply reached out behind her, and pulled a plug from the wall.
"Ah. Right."
She plugged herself into it.
"One more thing."
"What?"
"Why do you think we went over to the dock?"
"To… make a point?"
"You're wrong. We went over there so I could save the coordinates."
"Why would you need-"
The machine behind the android suddenly started whirring intensely. The ship seemed to get the impression of being in the middle of a storm, twisting and turning, throwing the girl off-balance.
A few seconds later, the world outside the windows was replaced by a blue light, much like an unopened blue portal. The light then slowly faded into orange, before fading away entirely, and revealing the Old-Aperture dock.
The test subject took a moment to catch her breath.
"Did it… Did we just teleport?"
"Obviously."