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You were suddenly in a strange catacomb, with more dirty water lacing the floor.

But you managed to find your way out.

Now you were in another room.

But this one was strangely simple:

It was just a tall, square room, with a bunch of panels that looked like the ones that exposed the turrets you saw...

OH NO.

A earsplitting alarm went off.

Another hiss.

Then, suddenly, the doors were slammed upwards. Eight lasers snapped on.

The extermination had begun.

Bullets flew.

Blood spilled.

You scrambled for cover, and you found a flat wall where you were somewhat shielded from the assault.

You were going to have to disable all of them before you could escape.

You started with one fairly close to you.

Two portals formed.

You hopped through, and with a swift motion, you kicked the turret out of its perch.

As he tumbled to the ground, just a few feet below, you could see that it barely had time to unlock its guns.

The projectiles spewed all over the cube, some of them grazing the other oval things with legs.

That same stupid mantra echoed around you.

"HEY! IT'S ME!"

Now you were going to have to repeat the same thing seven more times.

Lather, rinse, repeat. 

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

The final turret was way up in its own personal tower.

It felt so satisfying to kick it down from its utopia.

You could still hear its cries as it was forced to empty out its ammunition.

Your new task at hand was to fling yourself across the room into a small area.

You couldn't tell what was going to happen after that, but you just wanted to finish your job once and for all.

One portal on the ramp.

Another directly below you.

You jumped.

The wind sped around you as you entered your first portal.

You quickly shot a series of portals, one on the second ramp, which was your exit route.

You went through again.

The experience made you feel like a bird soaring through the air.

But what goes up must come down.

You came down hard.

At least you remembered to land on your feet.

You shot a portal up to a slightly higher locale, where you jumped onto a catwalk.

On this walkway, you could see the pit you just exited.

Glad that's over.

You now faced a door.

You flung it open.

There was a hallway.

You casually walked down it.

You found another door.

You casually opened it.

You could see the lair.

You could see your final showdown.

You could see your death.

You could see a menacing robot.

The choice is yours.


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