Portal2 1/2

Part Two

Caroline P.O.V

Caroline had been searching for where the personality cores were at, it was no help from GLaDOS to know their locations since she only gave their schedules. So it was like an Easter hunt. Only that an Easter hunt would be more fun than this, since there would be families watching the children reading the clues and finding the baskets at the end.

She felt her imaginary heart drop at the mention of family. Ever since that fateful day when that blasted Cave Johnson decided that it was a good idea to put her brain into the heart of the facility without her consent whatsoever.

If she was being honest, the life of an AI didn't seem all it cracked up to be. It's like a never-ending immortality of living forever until the day the world dies, or the machine is destroyed. But she needed to be on the more positive side, since if she did somehow leave the lab, how on earth was she going to survive out there? Fortunately, she did love science, so being alive to keep on going with science might be of use to her. The possibilities were endless.

"Another dead end again." She said to no one in particular as she went to the lower parts of the lab and was watching the bots work.

It was hard getting others to talk to her, which were mostly turrets that didn't seem to understand what she was trying to do.

Whelp as much as wanted to continue to watch the bots to build up the rest of the lower lab, since it was entertaining at that. She needed to find those other personality cores. The only place left to go was to the location where those testing bots were, figuring the personality cores must be there. Apparently, having all the power to run the facility and control everything can pull out a core's worst traits and leave their consciousness buried. But that information was for another time.

Caroline felt herself traveling up the wires while also feeling the twists and turns. It was not a pleasant feeling, in fact, it felt as if she were on a roller coaster that was going very fast. But it didn't have the same thrill of being on an actual coaster.

Being down in the lower parts of the lab did not give her a clear idea of what GLaDOS was planning to do with it. There were too many rooms of a variety of sciences that it felt like a fool's errand trying to crack an impossible code.

Just because she and GLaDOS shared an AI body didn't mean she had access to everything or that information. Which was why she still had her normal intelligence and not the intelligence of a supercomputer. Maybe it was for the best that she did not have that.

She felt herself reach the upper lab and now was heading toward the testing chamber where those two testing bots were. As she was passing by she could feel some chambers completed not by either of the testing bots but from a human test subject. When she was in full consciousness, GLaDOS informed her that there was a human test subject but was released due to them being too unstable to stay in the lab. Which she thought was true, but decided to play along for her own sanity and sake.

Finally, she reached the testing chamber where the two testing bots were testing with the portal gun and moving weighted cubes. Also, the two personality cores seemed to be there as well, just watching the bots test in the distance. One of them had a green eye that had the pixels showing and seemed to be intrigued by the two bots test. While the other had a purple or pink eye that looked more circular and did not look at all impressed with what it was supposed to be doing.

As the blue testing bot was about to put the weighted cube on the big red button, a big black screen then suddenly showed GLaDOS there. The blue testing bot immediately let go of the cube and turned to face the now-screen GLaDOS, as all the rest of them did.