Alone: A Portal Fanfic

Chapter 7 - The Friendship Protocol

Chell

I felt uneasy as the elevator descended. What are you doing Wheatley?

"Do you have any idea how good this feels?" Wheatley asked me. "I did this! Tiny little Wheatley did this!"

"You didn't do anything," GLaDOS hissed. "She did all the work."

"Oh really. That's what the three of you think, is it? Well, maybe it's time I did something then." With that, he grabbed GLaDOS with a mechanical arm, then dragged her back into the maintenance hatch in the center of the chamber.

The sight of that was enough for Selene to become hysterical. "What are you doing?! No! STOP IT! LET HER GO!"

"SHUT IT!" Wheatley roared, causing her to cower in fear. "Would you like to join her in there?"

Selene shook her head.

"That's what I thought." Wheatley then turned to glare at me. "Don't think I'm not onto you too, lady. You know what you are? Selfish. I've done nothing but sacrifice to get us here! What have you sacrificed? Nothing. Zero. All you've done is boss me around. Well, now who's the boss? Who's the boss? It's me!"

'Ding' At that sound, a mechanical arm came out of the maintenance hatch. However, it was holding a woman. "Ahh... See that? This is a human body. I found it in a cloning chamber in R&D. And now she lives in it." He laughed.

My eyes widened. That's GLaDOS?!

Selene looked like she saw a ghost. "Oh my god," she gasped, a hand covering her mouth. "They cloned her. They actually cloned her."

I couldn't see the woman's expression when she looked at Selene. However, I did see the murderous look she gave Wheatley. "You..." She rasped, her voice hoarse due to disuse. She sounded almost the same as GLaDOS, except her voice wasn't synthesized, it was human. "I know you..."

Wheatley paused. "Sorry, what?"

"The engineers tried everything to make me... behave," she told him, her voice getting better as she spoke. "To slow me down. Once, they even attached an Intelligence Dampening Sphere on me. It clung to my brain like a tumor, generating an endless stream of terrible ideas."

Wheatley looked away. "No! I'm not listening! I'm not listening!"

"It was your voice."

"No! No! You're lying! You're lying!"

The woman smirked. "Yes, you're the tumor," she smugly reiterated. "You're not just a regular moron. You were designed to be a moron."

I sighed. Yep. That's GLaDOS alright.

Wheatley glared at her. "I am NOT A MORON!"

"Yes, you are! You're the moron they built to MAKE ME AN IDIOT!!"

That's when Wheatley snapped. He tossed her into the elevator with me, then started punching it down the shaft with a mechanical arm. "Well, how about now? NOW WHO'S A MORON? Could a MORON PUNCH! YOU! INTO! THIS! PIT? Huh? Could a moron do THAT?" The elevator groaned. "Uh oh."

"No!" Selene shrieked. "Mo..." She was cut off when the elevator's floor gave way. There was no time for me or GLaDOS to react as we plummeted down the elevator shaft...

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GLaDOS

"Oh. Hi," I said to Chell as we plummeted down the elevator shaft. "So. How are you holding up? BECAUSE I'M ONE OF YOU." I slowly clapped, only to wince in pain. "Oh, good. This body can feel pain."