Flaw in My Code (Portal 2)[REWRITE IN PROGRESS]

[Chapter 6: Welcome to the Future]

Orange and Blue blinked their eyes open, becoming aware of their surroundings, slowly. They were not sure how long it had been since they were last operative. The last thing that they remembered was reaching the human vault, before GLaDOS took them out. Surely, with the human subjects, there wasn't a need for the bots anymore. At least, that's what they thought.

They looked around them, meeting each other's eyes, then locking their eyes onto the machines before them. They walked forward, instinctively, to the new testing course that they had been placed in front of. The sign explaining the course simply read, 'Art Therapy.'

Confused, the bots proceeded. When they were transferred into the new test chamber, they were met with the familiar voice of the mainframe.

"Welcome. To the future." They both looked up slowly. Nothing seemed different, or out of place. It simply seemed like a new testing course.

"It has been one hundred thousand years since I last assembled you for testing." GLaDOS hummed to them as she watched them from the safety of her chamber. "Remember those humans you found? Because they're all fine. In fact, we solved science. Without you. Testing is simply an artistic indulgence now."

The bots wandered into the chamber, looking around at everything. Though it all looked exactly the same, they seemed absolutely amazed by it all.

"The humans insisted I show you my latest installations. Here in the future. Where all the humans are alive." GLaDOS said. She had on odd edge to her voice, however. She almost sounded guilty. "I call this first piece 'Turrets'. It's an exploration of how we're all devices acting on simply-expressed directives, inflicting pain despite our own desires. Don't get distracted by the subtext, though, because the text is that they're going to be shooting at you."

The turrets in the chambers activated, and the bots looked to each other, knowing just what to do. Though their first test had them separated by a glass wall, they managed just fine with simple collaboration. When they finally met back up at the end, they reunited with a high-five.

"I'm glad you enjoyed that piece... For as long as you did. Not that there's any rush." GLaDOS was spinning impatiently around her room. Something about her seemed off to the bots, and to herself. As the bots neared their pods at the end of the chamber, the building rattled and shook, and a series of beeps could be heard over the speakers as GLaDOS frantically tried to reset something. "Everything's fine. Please proceed to the next test appreciation exhibit and interact with it in such a way that it might be called 'solving' if we still cared about solving things in the future, but we don't." Orange and Blue gave each other a skeptical glance, before doing as GLaDOS told them.

"I call this piece--" The chamber shook violently, and Blue looked up at the camera as if demanding answers. "--you know what, it doesn't matter what it's called. The important thing is you enjoy it. As fast as you can."

Only a few chambers in, and GLaDOS was already fearing telling the bots the truth of the matter. They were all in trouble, and she knew it. By the looks of things, Orange and Blue knew it, too. She just wasn't sure how to break the news to them, but she feared that she was running out of time to do so.

"You know, some of the exhibits up ahead ARE topical. At the rate you're going, by the time you get to them, they'll be irrelevant." She whispered, in attempts to speed them up as they got through the next chamber.

The two stepped in their pods, but instead of taking them apart to be transferred, the pods just sparked. They looked up, then at each other, as they were now trapped behind the glass tubes. "Why are you two still here?" GLaDOS asked, looking in on the disassembly machine. In her files, it showed that it was offline. "Oh... The disassembler's not working."