All I could think was what I said, mere moments ago: The titans will never fall to peace.
The Goddess twitched, and cried out again. Her 'little' killing machines had flown up here again, and looked as anxious as a giant scary crow can look.
We all knew that something was deeply wrong.
This couldn't be happening.
It had to be a dream.
Sparks flew from the ceiling, as I was knocked over on my side. The metal ball was rolling around, and absolutely freaking out.
"What's going on!? What in the bloody hells is happening!? Why's she screaming..."
Power was lost, and it was silence. Except for the metal ball's screams and the pounding of the Titans walk, it was pure silence.
Some sparks fell, as soon, Power reactivated, and a reboot code was playing across a screen nearby.
"GLaDOS reactivation commencing."
"GLaDOS main body in extremely poor shape."
"Transfer cannot continue without stalemate associate."
One of the crows seemed to know that, the lead crow with the blue band around his leg. It hopped over to a little button that rose from the ground, and he pecked at it.
"Transfer accepted."
Her shattered body was moved downwards, as full power came back, and her head was rendered invisible from mechanics working on it.
When the mechanics went away, her head was replaced with some random personality core. It was silent, sweet, and it had a brilliant magenta eye.
It certainly wasn't the Goddess.
But in the other corner of the room, something was being assembled.
A tall robot, somewhat humanoid in design, came out of it, and began to walk stutteringly toward myself and the metal ball.
It was a standard looking P-body model construct, but there were a few major differences.
It had a Pale blue Aperture Sciences logo on its lower leg, for one. There were also noticeable changes to its voice box, so it could speak real languages.
It also had a brilliant yellow eye.
It was a new body for the Goddess.
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The earthquake shook everyone in City 84.
The people were concerned, as in this part of Michigan, there weren't many earthquakes, much less huge ones that broke buildings apart.
The Combine had practically vanished, though to where Chell could only guess.
Chell was on edge, and Copper could only suspect that it had to do with the old Aperture legends.
At the meeting, with her little crew, the first question quickly arose.
"Why have the Combine decided that we're not worth keeping an eye on?" Murmured Silver, the youngest of the troupe. "And where have they gone?"
Bronze was very angry. His accent had grown very thick, as it always does. He was the old man, who best remembered what it was like before the Combine really took hold. "I told yinz that they were planning somthin'. I TOLD YINZ. And I told yinz that we needed to go back to the old labs, but You WOULDN't Listn'! I-"
"Shut it." Chell, the flame that melted them all together, was staring off into space.
"Kid, You spent lots' time in that old place, but WE NEEDED-"
"I know."
Silence, from everyone. Chell was never the kind of person who admitted she was wrong. Her voice was a whisper. "We have to go back to that place. We have to find out what the Combine are doing. Even if..." She dropped away, a saddened look on her face.
"Flame, we can do this." Copper said, the most calm left in the group. "We'll figure this out."
Bronze stood up, and smiled, one of his very wide smiles. "LETS DO THIS! Finally!"
The light above flickered, as Silver stood, and jumped excitedly. Her little smile was adorable in the light, as she said a bit too loudly, "I'm in too!"
Chell stood with the rest, and a weak little smile appeared on her face.
"I still don't like this."
"But we're doing it tonight. I'll show you the way."
The Goddess looked almost unrecognizable. Something almost like a thin smile appeared on her not-a-face, as she gently spoke.
"Come on. We're moving."
She picked me up, in her left arm, and grabbed the little metal ball in her right.
And she ran, she ran faster than ANYTHING, I'm sure of it. And even when she tripped over her own spindly limbs, she merely grumbled, and picked us both back up.
But something happened when there were gunshots around the corner.
Her face changed, growing narrow and quiet, barely daring to make a sound, as she peeked at a reflection.
The metal ball could also see it, and he freaked out.
"Ohmygod! That's one of the faceless soldier things that were on the spaceship thingy and I still dont know what's happening! Why are they here?!"
The Goddess actually quietly slammed him into the wall, making his eye spark a tiny bit.
"Shut. Up."
"okokokokokokokok."
The soldier was moving towards us now, and was about to turn the corner, when the Goddess threw myself and the metal ball behind a shelf, and out of sight.
We couldn't see what happened exactly, but the soldier took one look at her, shrugged, and walked by.
She soon picked us up again, and we went back to running. We ran by some poor blue marked pipe, with gunshot holes inside it.
The Goddess stopped, set us both down, and traced her new metal hand around the holes.
"Why would they... oh."
Her eye widened, looking around rapidly.
As if something were watching us.
As if I were just too dumb to know it.