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[aldhibah]

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Pulling up roots.

[anonymous]

So it's been a few weeks since the moon incident. Atlas and P-Body have run through their course successfully and found the vault, the last bits and pieces of Wheatley's rampage have been cleared away, and GLaDOS has a nigh-endless supply of new test subjects ready for SCIENCE.

Turns out there's been a bit of a problem with the cryostasis, though, and they can't be safely revived very quickly. In fact, it will take somewhere around 99999999*static*

GLaDOS does not have thumbs to twiddle until the stack of monkeys thaws out. She's gotta test NOW, and the 'bots, well-meaning as they are, just aren't cutting it. What she needs is Test Subject #1, good old Chell, brilliant and tenacious and athletic and... long gone.

She'll just have to go and get her back. For science, of course.

tl;dr GLaDOS builds an android body and goes on a road trip with the 'bots retrieve Chell.

Re: Pulling up roots.

[anonymous]

I had no idea where this was going until the tl;dr but now that I get it SOMEONE WRITE THIS PLEASE

Re: Pulling up roots.

[anonymous]

This needs to exist SO HARD.

Re: Pulling up roots.

[anonymous]

Yes! Wanting this badly.

Civilization - 1/?

[nakkistiltz]

(Okay, I had an idea for this and I started writing it down, thinking it would be something short. It turned into a nearly 2000 word-long monster

Re: Civilization - 2/?

[nakkistiltz]

She looks much different than Chell remembered, having last seen her suspended from the ceiling of her chamber, watching impassively with one yellow eye as Chell had ascended in the elevator. Now, she’s almost the complete opposite of what she was there. For one thing, she’s human-shaped; she has long, dainty legs and thin arms with delicate wrists linking them to piano-player hands, which are folded on her lap. Her head sits atop a long, almost graceful neck; the lines of her jaw and cheekbones are sharp and well-defined; her hair looks like plastic and is cropped short and angular. From this angle, Chell can see thick bundles of wires attached to the back of her neck and various points along her spine, which snake away from where she’s seated on a bench back to the flat bed of the truck. She’s still the same colors, though - all white and black, with a faint print of the Aperture Science logo on her thin chest - and her yellow eyes stare with the same intensity as every time before

Re: Civilization - 3/4

[nakkistiltz]

Chell is dumbstruck for a moment, but her intense surprise is intermingled with disbelief and anger. “C- come back. Come back to Aperture? You’re saying that you want me to give up everything I’ve gotten here - “

“Yes - “

“All of the friends, all of the people who care about me - “

“Yes - “

“All of the ‘not living in a facility where robots try to kill you’ - “

"Yes, in fact - “

“And go back with you to that hellhole?”

“Yes, yes, yes, a hundred times yes!” GLaDOS snaps, looking irritable now. “It’s not as if you’re doing anything worthwhile out here!”

“I’m helping to rebuild civilization,” Chell counters coldly.

“You’re wasting your life chopping wood and living off subsistence farming while I do science and make actual advances,” GLaDOS fairly sneers, gesturing towards the town and the slightly smaller group of people - some have become bored with watching the two of them argue and left. “Civilization isn’t going to jump back up within the pitiful 60 years in which you’ll still be alive! It’s going to take engineering and

Re: Civilization - 4/4

[nakkistiltz]

Chell shakes her head, and for a moment GLaDOS is dumbstruck. Then she turns angry, eyes going wide and black as she bends down to hiss, “WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ‘N-“

“I’m not coming back if there isn’t anything in it for me.”

GLaDOS blinks, relaxes, and responds immediately. “…Civilization.”

“What?”

“Civilization. I’ll give you the necessary materials to advance the creation and progress of your dinky little… town, here, if you’ll come back with me. …Temporarily, of course. Regrettably.”

There, Chell takes pause. She glances over at the other end of the town square.

“Think of what you could accomplish in 60 years if you had even one generator,” GLaDOS prompts her, seeing her gaze shift from house to house, person to person. Chell catches sight of David, even, standing off to the side with a few of the other people he and Chell had been working with earlier

Re: Civilization - 4/4

[anonymous]

Wow, good job! You totally nailed GLaDOS' passive aggression.

Re: Civilization - 4/4

[nakkistiltz]

Oh man, thanks! I'm glad that it came across. I feel really insecure writing her 'cos I'm never sure that I'm making her mean enough. ;;

Re: Civilization - 4/4

[anonymous]

Haha, GLaDOS mocking Chell's 'dinky little town' was hilarious! Loved it <3

Re: Civilization - 4/4

[nakkistiltz]

Haha, thank you!

Re: Civilization - 4/4

[anonymous]

And thus, Portal 3!

Haha, I enjoyed this.

Re: Civilization - 4/4

[nakkistiltz]

Yayyyy :D Glad you liked it~

Re: Pulling up roots.

[anonymous]

A friend and I have agreed to write a fill for this, but we haven't written much yet.