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Chapter One: The Courtesy Call


Music for this Segment: The Courtesy Call


"G-Good morning and welcome back to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. You have been in suspension for 9999999..." The computerized Announcer spoke before sputtering out, waking the slumbering test subject who was out cold on his bed. The test subject let out a long yawn, then scratched the top of his head, disturbing the messy red fur that was there. "What...what's going on...? Where am I?" He said, looking around the decrepit, neglected state of what was once a comfortable hotel style room. The room itself contained a small refrigerator with a small microwave atop it; a closet that was devoid of any clothing whatsoever; two beds, one of which looked unoccupied except for a small lump under the covers; and a small television which had an evacuation message flashing on it.

"What the hell is going on?" The subject muttered to himself, rising out of bed as fast as his groggy body would allow. "In accordance with Federal Regulation, all test subjects are required to complete revitalization exercises before participating in an emergency evacuation." Trying to get a handle on his situation, the test candidate obediently followed the easy instructions to look at the ceiling, then the floor, and finally at a picture of a wheat farm on a wall. Before he got a chance to really think about the art, or the classical music that was playing over the speaker, there was loud and frantic banging on the door to the room. "Hello? Anybody in there? Can you answer the door please?"

The test subject was startled by the sudden, and very British voice at the door, cautiously walking over to answer it. "No no it's okay, take your time. It's not like this place is about to bloody expl-AH!!" The test subject thoroughly shocked the speaker, who turned out to be a large metal robotic sphere, about the size of a basketball, with a single blue eye, attached to a guidance rail. "Ah...ah, um...y-you look great. Not totally terrifying at all." The sphere said, looking over the test subject. He was a fox who had scarlet red fur, which was in a complete mess from just waking up. The only parts of his fur that wasn't red was the black 'mask' on his face, and the rings on his tail, both of which resembled a raccoon's. The foxcoon was wearing silver, metallic boots and a bright orange jumpsuit, which had a small name label sewed onto it. "Alright...'Ka-wai-i', we're about to undergo a small relocation so just--" "All reactor core safeguards are now non-functional. Please prepare for emergency evacuation." The Announcer spoke, alarming both the foxcoon and his robotic companion. "W-what?! Hey metal ball, what's happening here?!" Kawaii panicked, while the robot moved along his guide rail to a port in the ceiling. "Stay calm! 'Prepare' - that's all they're saying. 'Prepare'. It's all fine. And the name’s Wheatley by the way, not ‘metal ball’. Um...I'm gonna get us out of here, but you might want to hang on to something, and alert the other guy too. Just a suggestion. Words of advice." He said, before disappearing into a ceiling hatch.

"Other guy? What other guy??" Kawaii thought, his eyes fruitlessly scouring the room for anyone else. After a few moments of searching, the foxcoon sighed and gave up, as the room began to shake violently, as if an intense earthquake struck. "W-w-what's g-going on?!! W-Wheatley?!" Kawaii shouted, as he held the empty closet frame tightly to avoid being thrown across the room. The shaking gradually grew less intense, until a particularly powerful tremor occurred, which destroyed the far wall of the room, revealing it to not be an earthquake, but instead suspended and actually being moved through the giant facility. As the room turned, many items and debris began to shift and fall out the gaping hole, down into the dull blue abyss below. "Oh my God..." He gasped in a mix of shock and awe while watching his own bed fall out the hole, and the other one sliding toward it with a small striped tail visible over the sheets. "Oh my God!!!" The foxcoon shouted, quickly but carefully lunging out to grab the person's tail. He made sure to use the claws on his other paw to anchor him to the closet frame, to brace himself for the force of grabbing the other fur. Once he grabbed the tail, he held tight to the closet, anticipating the heavy weight that never came. Instead, the bed fell out of the hole, and instead of a grown fur, a small feline child slid off of the bed from under the covers, his face a mix of agony and exhaustion. "A...a kid?!" The foxcoon gasped as he pulled the boy away from the edge, still shocked for the second time in minutes. "What the hell's this kid doing here?!?"

Immediately, the feline sat up and clawed at Kawaii's paw, forcing him to release his grasp on the child. "Don't grab my tail!!! It hurts!!!" He roared as best he could, though it came out a bit juvenile and underdeveloped. The foxcoon got a good look at the 'rawring' feline, and saw that he was actually a tiger who couldn't have been older than 6. The child, like himself, was wearing silver, mechanical boots and a jumpsuit, except his was light blue in color, and also had a name tag on it. "Hey Axel, that's not very nice to do to someone who just saved your life!" Kawaii said, angrily looking the tiger in the face from being scratched. "Squeezing someone's tail is hardly saving their life, you big jerk!" Axel replied with a growl. "Maybe not, but keeping your furry butt from falling into that abyss is!!" The foxcoon replied with a growl of his own, one much lower in pitch and more menacing than the tiger's, and pointed to the gaping hole in the room.

Axel turned his attention to the hole, then scoffed loudly. "You big liar! That's just a big wall!" A confused Kawaii also turned to look at the gaping hole, and instead of seeing the dark abyss, there indeed was a massive concrete wall outside of the room. Before he could even question it however, Wheatley descended from his hatch in the ceiling, his large blue eye curiously looking at the two furs. "Oh, look at that. You found 'em! And he's just a bloody child! Hello there little furry, I'm Wheatley." He said in a very friendly tone, quite unfitting of the tense atmosphere of the room, earning him a small wave from the tiger. "Wheatley, what the heck is going on? Why is the room shaking? Why is there a wall out there?! Why am I here?! And why on earth is there a child here too?!?” Kawaii asked, being confused, irritated and slightly terrified. “All your questions will be answered in time, I promise. Firstly, um, the two of you just woke up, and most test subjects do experience some cognitive deterioration after a few months in suspension. Now you've been under for... quite a lot longer, and it's not out of the question that you might have a very minor case of serious brain damage. But don't be alarmed, alright? Although, if you do feel alarm, try to hold onto that feeling because that is the proper reaction to being told you have brain damage. But as for that wall, I’m going to have to attempt a manual override on that wall, so we can get the portal gun that’s past it. So again, you might wish to grab onto something sturdy. I’m not telling you too, just another suggestion.”

Wheatley disappeared once again into his ceiling hatch, leaving both furs to glare and growl at each other. “Meanie.” “Brat.” The two boys anger from earlier returned in an instant with the exchange of those two words, but dissipated just as quickly when the room shifted suddenly in reverse, roughly throwing the two backwards against the door. “What the heck...?!” Kawaii mumbled, rubbing his sore head. “Um...what does ‘manual override’ mean exactly?” An upside down Axel asked, looking at the suddenly distant wall outside the gaping hole. “...oh no...no, no, no...he can’t possibly be that stupid. He just can’t.” The foxcoon mumbled, as the room suddenly shifted forward, rapidly approaching the concrete wall. “Apparently he is that stupid!!” the foxcoon shouted, burying his claws into the floor and securely wrapping his tail around the young tiger, just before the room collided with the concrete wall. The force of the impact sent the remaining items in the room flying out, while also severely damaging both the room and the wall. The frightened feline let out a scream of terror, while even the older foxcoon was frightened, as despite his claws, the impact sent them forward quite a bit.

“Alright, I’m gonna give it one more try!! Now remember, you’re looking for guns that make holes! Not bullet holes, but--well you’ll figure it out!! Do hold on this time though!” Wheatley announced to the terror-stricken furs, as he backed the room up once more, and rammed it full speed into the concrete wall, smashing a giant hole in the wall, while reducing the room to barely more than a heap of twisted metal and debris. The force of the crash destroyed the remaining foundation of the room, collapsing the floor beneath the two boys and dropping them down into a small glass chamber that contained a cryogenic pod and an old, corroded toilet. Falling from several hundred feet above, the foxcoon was only able to land on his feet without injury due to the robotic boots that he was wearing. “T-that idiot!! You can’t 'override' a damn wall!” He said, dusting himself off and placing his young companion on the ground. “Are you ok, kid?”

Instead of a response of fright or terror, the tiger threw his paws into the air, and let out a cheer. “That was so awesome!! I mean, the whole smashing thing and the fall...so cool!!” Axel exclaimed, jumping around from foot to foot. Kawaii facepawed, then pushed the hyper feline toward the ancient, decrepit toilet. “Yeah yeah. Just hurry and use the toilet before you wet your pants from excitement.” The tiger blushed a bit from the remark, then walked to the toilet while the foxcoon walked around the corner to let the tiger do his business. The first thing Kawaii noticed was a large black screen, which lit up as he approached, showing a large ‘01’ with a few grayed out icons below. “What’s that?” Axel asked, joining the hybrid after a minute. “I don’t know...but I think the answer’s in there.” The foxcoon replied, pointing to a circular, rusted metal door. The two boys exchanged worried glances, then walked up to the door, which opened automatically, walked into the room.



Music for this Segment: Technical Difficulties


As the two boys entered the room, the door immediately shut behind them, cutting off any chance to escape. Inside the room, all of the walls, ceiling and floor were composed of white tiles, which was covered with dirt and other residue from obvious neglect. On each side of the room was a sealed glass chamber; in the one on the left, there was a large metal cube; in the one on the right, a large circular button was installed in the floor. In front of each glass chamber was a pedestal with a small red button on it. Directly in front of the boys was another door, and next to it was a larger white panel with an opaque orange oval swirling on it.

“What kind of place is this?” Kawaii thought aloud, looking around at the suspicious room, while Axel, on the other paw, wasted no time in rushing up to one of the pedestals and pressing the red button. Immediately after the button was pressed, an opaque blue oval formed on one of the panels inside the glass chamber with the cube, then both ovals opened up, leaving holes on the panels with blue and orange outlines, respectively. Before the tiger could go inspect the suspicious ovals, he was grabbed by the back of his shirt collar, and securely held in place. “Are you crazy?! Do you have any idea what you’re doing?!!” Kawaii shouted in a mix of anger and worry. “Calm down! All it did was open a hole over there!” Axel replied, pointing to the panel with the orange outlined hole. “It could have done anything!! Hell, it could’ve been some deadly trap that would’ve killed us both!! Can you think before you just do stuff?!” the foxcoon scolded, making the tiger’s ears droop and his tail lower, and he looked down to the ground. “...sorry.” Axel replied, begrudgingly.

Kawaii let out a sigh and let the tiger go, walking over to the panel and stepping through the orange oval panel, coming out the blue oval panel inside the glass chamber. “This...this isn’t possible. These ovals, they’re...they’re like some kind of--” “--portal!” Axel finished the foxcoon’s sentence, poking his head through the orange portal to look through for himself. Getting over the shock, Kawaii picked up the only thing that was in the chamber; the large, rusty metal cube, and brought it back through the blue portal into the main room. “What are you gonna do with that thing?” The tiger asked, taking his head head out of the portal and walking over to the foxcoon. “Well, think about it. If you pressed this button to make the blue portal appear in here, then if I press the button over there, that’s where it should appear.” The hybrid walked over to the pedestal across from him and pressed the button, and just as he predicted, the blue portal closed up and disappeared from the other glass chamber, and reappeared inside the new one. “I knew it!” An excited Axel shouted, while Kawaii rolled his eyes and picked up the cube. “You so did not.” he replied, walking through the portals and setting the cube down on the giant button on the floor. The cube pushed the button into the floor and caused it to glow bright red. Immediately after, the sound of scraping metal was heard, causing the startled tiger to jump backwards as the circular door in front of him creaked loudly as it opened, revealing an exit from the room. “H-hey, there’s a way out!” Axel exclaimed, as Kawaii walked back through the portal. “I guess activating that giant button opened the door...c’mon let’s get out of here.” Kawaii knelt down to give the tiger a high-five, then the two boys walked out through the door, passing through a small grid of incandescent blue light and into a small circular room that was covered with darkened, inactive computer screens, and had a large tube in the center with an open elevator in it. The two boys exchanged anxious glances once again, before boarding the elevator, which closed automatically and descended further into the facility.


After a few minutes the elevator stopped, opening up to a large, dilapidated hallway which was covered in dirt, wild growing plants and debris from the broken walls and ceilings. “W-where are we now?” Axel asked, as he got off the elevator and stretched his tiny limbs. “How would I know? I know this place just as well as you do.” Kawaii replied, following the tiger out into the ruinous hallway. “Hey! You made it! That’s great!” The sudden voice surprised both furs, and they looked up to see the metal sphere moving along his guiderail toward them. “Wheatley! How’d you get over here? You weren’t in the test with us.” “No little tiger, personality cores like me can go anywhere we want on these management rails.” Wheatley replied, continuing down his rail with the two following him. At the end of the corridor was a small square room, with a large podium in the center with two empty holsters on it. “Oh...the guns are supposed to be here...um...maybe they’re under the table?” Wheatley thought aloud, making Kawaii roll his eyes and approach the podium with the tiger right behind him. However, before the two could reach it, the floor beneath the room collapsed, dropping the duo several hundred feet downward into a dark, even more dilapidated corridor that had a few inches of stagnant water flooding it. “Eww! It stinks down here! Like a sewer!” Axel whined, covering his nose with his paws. “Hello?! Are you alright down there?! Can you see the portal guns?! Oh, and are you alive? Should’ve asked that first!” Wheatley shouted down into the dark chasm, unable to see either of the boys. “We’re alright! We got smelly water in our fur, but we’re fine other than that!” Kawaii replied, while his tiger companion shook the stagnant water from his clothes and fur. “Alright. I’m gonna go on ahead, so try to find the portal guns while you’re down there! I’ll wait for...for one hour, so try and get out of there, you know, alive!”

Wheatley disappeared above, once again leaving the two disoriented furs to fend for themselves. The two looked around the dimly lit corridor, spotting a light far down the hallway, past some debris and broken robotic panels. “Let’s go over there!” Axel exclaimed, having no difficulty maneuvering through with his tiny size. Kawaii, on the other paw, was forced to squeeze and shove his way through the debris to keep up with the feline. “Stupid broken facility...” the foxcoon mumbled, as he maneuvered his way past the last bit of rubble and into a larger, drier and more open corridor. “Hey, look at what I found!” Axel exclaimed, holding up two white, gauntlet-like devices that had a trigger on one end, and a barrel at the other end with three claw prongs around the barrel. “That must be the portal gun that stupid Wheatley was talking about. But how do they work?” Kawaii replied, taking the device that had two orange stripes going down its back. “Hmm...it kinda looks like a squirt gun!” the tiger replied, securely holding his own device that had two blue stripes on its back. Adopting a soldier’s crouch, Axel aimed the device at one of the nearby white wall panels and pulled the trigger causing the device’s center cylinder to glow blue and fire a small orb of blue energy from the barrel. When the energy collided with the panel, it expanded out into an opaque blue oval on the panel. “Aww it didn’t make a hole like last time...” the tiger said, his ears and tail drooping from disappointment. “No it worked, but you need both colors, remember?” Kawaii replied, petting the feline’s head to cheer him up, then firing his own device onto a platform higher up. His device’s cylinder glowed orange instead of blue as it shot its energy ball, which formed an orange oval on the wall up above, which instantaneously caused both ovals to open up into portals. “See? It only works if both devices are activated.” The foxcoon led the tiger through the blue portal, which allowed them to access the area above, which was a long hallway that had a chamber lock at the end of it. The two walked down the hall, which had various drawings and messages that were scribbled onto its walls. “The cake is a lie? She’s watching? Who is ‘she’? A-and why’s she watching us?” The scared feline asked, clutching his portal gun close to him. “I don’t know...but don’t be scared lil guy.” Kawaii replied, petting the felines head as they entered the chamber lock and the door closed behind them.



Music for this Segment: There She Is


Inside the chamber lock, the two furs were greeted by the large metal sphere, who was delighted to see them again. “Oh, brilliant. You DID find the portal guns! You know what? It just goes to show: people with brain damage are the real heroes in the end aren't they? At the end of the day. Bravo." Wheatley said, making both furs growl at him. “We don’t have brain damage!” the two replied in angry unison. “Sorry. Sorry. Okay, so I have a plan to get out of this place before it bloody explodes, but it requires us to go her chamber. But, uh my rail doesn’t run through there.” Wheatley said, looking over to the rusted end of where the rail used to be. “So then how do we get out of here?” Kawaii asked the panicking robotic sphere. "Okay, listen, let me lay something on you here. It's pretty heavy. They told me NEVER NEVER EVER to disengage myself from my Management Rail. Or I would DIE. But we're out of options here. So... get ready to catch me with your portal guns, alright, on the off chance that I'm not dead the moment I pop off this thing.” Wheatley replied, his fear and nervousness obvious in his voice. “I’ll catch you Wheatley.” Axel replied, holding his gun at the ready. “Alright...on three. One...two...THREE!” Wheatley disengaged himself from the rail, plummeting straight down onto the hard, unforgiving floor below. “Axel, what the hell? You said that you would catch him!” Kawaii scolded the tiger, who was eyeing his portal device closely. “He never said how to catch him with the device.” he replied, shifting his attention to the metal sphere on the ground. “I’m alright...and I am not dead!!” Wheatley exclaimed with joyous laughter. “Alright, now aim your portal gun at me and hold the trigger down to pick me up.” Following his instructions, Axel held the trigger while aiming at Wheatley, causing a small amount of white energy to discharge from the three prongs on the device, which allowed the tiger to levitate the robotic sphere in the air in front of him. “Good job kid. Now lets continue.” Wheatley spoke, and the door at the other end of the chamber lock unlocked and opened itself.

The three entered the colossal chamber, and was not surprised to find it in just as decayed and decrepit as everyplace else in the facility they’d been to. What did surprise them was the massive robot head lying in the center of the chamber, with various giant cables and mechanisms snaking out of the back of it and into the ground. “What the heck is that?” Axel gasped, feeling both curious and worried at the same time. “There she is. ‘GLaDOS’, the main AI of the Aperture Laboratories facility. What a nasty piece of work she was. Like a proper maniac. But you know who ended up doing her in? You’ll never believe it: two bloody test subjects! I couldn’t believe it either! But those two escaped, then there was a long period of nothing, and then we showed up. There, now you’re all caught up.” Wheatley explained, not noticing the two were paying him virtually no attention. “So why are we in here, exactly?” Kawaii interrupted, eager to leave the creepy, ominous room. “If you plug me into that receptacle over there, I can call an elevator that can take us to the surface.” Wheatley looked over to a large white circle on the ground, which opened up into an interface that had a circular plug built into it. Axel cautiously walked over to the receptacle and placed the spherical robot into it, causing a series of digital beeps to sound off. “Okay...now all I have to do is restore power to this chamber and call down the elevator.” Wheatley said optimistically.

After another series of beeps, a few lights flickered on in the chamber, along with the sound of various mechanical devices whirring and activating. “Power-up sequence initiated.” The Announcer spoke, as the light for the ‘eye’ on the giant robot head flickered a bright yellow. “W-Wheatley? What’s going on?” Axel asked frightfully, backing away from the main AI as it began to power back up. “It’s coming online! What are you doing?!” Kawaii shouted at the sphere, while he knelt down to give the frightened feline a consoling hug. "Okay don't panic! All right? Stop panicking! I can still stop this. Ahh. Oh there's a password. It's fine. I'll just hack it. Not a problem... umm...A...A...A...A...A... Umm... A. No that didn’t work! Okay. A... A... A... A... A... C!” Wheatley desperately but futilely tried to hack into the system to cancel what he’d started, but it was far too late, as the main AI had fully powered itself back on, and stared down to the three who were no larger to it than mice were to an adult. “Oh...look who we have here.” GLaDOS spoke in a feminine voice that was both smooth, yet menacing. Axel and Kawaii looked up at the giant robot, both of them far too terrified to do anything. “Its been a long time. How’ve you been? Because I’ve been real busy being dead. Since your parents murdered me!” Immediately following her sentence, three metal claws descended from the ceiling, ripping Axel and Kawaii apart, and tearing Wheatley from his receptacle. “Your parents did what?!!” he shouted, as the claw holding him bore down, crushing his metal frame and causing him to shut off. “T-they killed you cause you were evil!! That’s what mommy and daddy told me!!” Axel screamed, desperately trying to free himself from the claw. “A-Axel!! Your parents killed her?! And you didn’t say anything?!!” Kawaii shouted at the tiger, who looked back at him with lowered ears. “Well, yeah, but--” “Enough!” GLaDOS interrupted, using her claws to carry the two high into the air, above a large service vent. “We’ve all said and done things that you’re going to regret, but let’s get past that, for science. You monsters.” She said, opening up the vent and dropping the two down it, into the unknown below.

Chapter Two: The Cold Boot


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