Wheatley was alone, and freaking out. After all, everything was moving around him, and he could have sworn that the room he was in was moving. Like something was going deeply wrong. The lights were flickering, and all Wheatley could do was close his eye, turn off the cameras, and hope that whatever was happening wouldn't be the end of him.
And then he heard a noise, sounding very high pitched, as if a turret, and a much lower voice that he knew far too well.
I was so confused. A minute ago, the Goddess was demanding that I show her the future, and now this little robotic personality sphere was coming from the ground, held in a glass box, and being glared at by the Goddess.
Soon, she spoke. "What. Are. You. Doing. Here."
Her voice was a bitter cold, as that little Metal Sphere shook and murmured something. He was deeply damaged, physically almost in pieces. Little blue eye just trembling at the sight of the Goddess. But his little voice still rang clear.
"Well, to be honest, I don't really know. One minute, I'm just floating around in space, and then this giant spaceship thingy picked me up, and I got put in this machine thingy by these people with weird masks, and now I ended up here! I don't know!"
"Slow down, moron."
"I am not a moron! Come on! I thought we'd moved past all that!"
"Fine. Slow down idiot."
"Really?"
"Yes. Now work with me. What 'spaceship thingy' and what 'machine thingy'. And describe the people with the 'weird masks'." "I don't know how better to say it, GLaDOS!" "I..." The Goddess was stopped by the overhead lights starting to flicker a little bit, and seemed to pause, thinking for a moment before getting back on track. "Oh. You mean the Combine, don't you."
"The who?"
"You must have figured out by now that the world outside of my facility is ruled by an alien race, right?" "Yeah, but those... things... they're this 'Combine'?" And then I interrupted their arguing. "Goddess, please... tell me what's happening!"
The Goddess started talking to herself, almost nervously. That eye of hers glancing back and forth between monitors, the little Metal Sphere seemingly called 'idiot', and me. "Well, they aren't honoring the contract. It wasn't even very complex. I give them some technology, they stay out of my way. But they couldn't even do that."
"And now, I'm going to have to talk to them."
The Metal Sphere's eye was very small, almost a little pinpoint. The Goddess was just staring, thinking, and giving us time for it to sink in. And then I whispered, nervous. "So you're just going to talk to the Combine thingies?" "I need to fix this before they try anything else. If they can teleport Wheatley," Clarifying to me, "He's the little idiot," Then speaking back to the Sphere apparently known as 'Wheatley', "Well then who says that they cant teleport in weapons. Possibly even soldiers."
But that's when the lights went out.
Follow my voice... The test is about to commence...
I don't want this! I never wanted this to happen! Please... just LET ME GO!
Somethings wrong-
What's- Happening now?
Please no! Don't do this to me! I cant... I cant do this!
She's going rogue! cut it off! Turn it off! NOW!
The Goddess's eye widened, a light in the darkness, as she started to murmur to herself...
As if she'd thought back to something.
"Please... they cant... not again..."
"Goddess? Are you alright?"
She seemed to catch up to herself, her eye narrowing irritably. As if she didn't even realize that she was talking a moment ago. "I'm... I'm fine. Let me just..." She sighed, with frustration. "Let's get the lights on, right? And... pretend that didn't happen."
The Metal Sphere interjected, "What was that? You just started freaking out just there!"
The Goddess coldly interrupted. "Forget it."
But that's when I felt that horribly familiar feeling.
The feeling that something's gone all wrong. That something else is in my body.
That I'm going to say things that don't make any sense.
And my vision left me, as I spoke, not truly aware of anything I was saying, apart from the fact that my speech could change everything.