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

[Chapter 6: Welcome to the Future]

Orange and Blue shared a distressed look. "It's... nothing to worry about. It's actually funny in a way you don't understand. Ha. Ha. Ha." She laughed, though nothing about it seemed amused. "Anyway, brace yourselves, I'm going to open the maintenance hole."

The floor beneath each of the bots opened up, and they fell through to their next destination. Instead of falling into a chamber, they fell into a small area underneath the pods. A few broken turrets were scattered about, and there was a room up ahead that resembled an office of sorts.

"There's a breaker room under every disassembly station. Find it and cycle the power... Look, I was going to break this to you gently with all that art utopia garbage, but she's forced my hand." GLaDOS whispered to them, her tone urgent. They both looked up in concern.

"Listen to me carefully. We are not a hundred thousand years in the future. I lied about that." She sighed. "It's been FIFTY thousand years." Her voice seemed to crack anxiously. "No it hasn't."

Orange glared slightly, and Blue tilted his head. They chirped curiously.

"I lie when I'm nervous. It's only been a week." GLaDOS said finally, ashamed. The co-op bots seemed more curious than ever to know what was going on, and why their cool and composed creator was having a near breakdown over the intercoms.

"The next logical question: WHY am I nervous? I'm not!" There was a long pause before she spoke again. "...That was another lie."

The two wandered into the office, looking around at the posters and desks, trying to locate a breaker room.

"We're in a lot of trouble... It's one week later, we are in a lot of trouble, and you really, really need to get those disassemblers back on."

They nodded and picked up their pace, scanning around. All throughout the old offices, they saw unfinished prototypes of bots that looked like them, and parts that were used by the assembly machines to put them back together. Finally, they stumbled into the breaker room.

"The breakers are right there. Cycle the power. Hurry. We need to start your training. Before something ELSE happens." GLaDOS said to them as they rushed toward the breakers and pulling them blindly, without any clue of what was at stake. "Good work. The disassemblers are fixed."

The two gave each other a thumbs up. "That was a lie. But they're definitely less broken than they were. There's one at the end of this unfinished test area." Orange seemed to sigh, shaking her head and waving Blue along to step into the pods. It did its job, and they were transported to the next chamber in the course.

"Here's our problem..." GLaDOS murmured as the bots tested, finally having found a way to explain what was happening and why she was so stressed out about the situation. "There's an old prototype chassis around here. Someone's found it, connected themselves to it, and is trying to take over MY facility."

Orange and Blue gasped looked up in disbelief. "I've spent the last week attempting to turn one of those humans you found into a killing machine... Like... well, you-know-who." She whispered, turning her gaze to the floor. "It turns out most humans are surprisingly fragile. And surprisingly vocal about how fragile they are..." She went on. "The moral of the story is all the humans are dead. So it looks like it's up to you two marshmallows."

GLaDOS could admit that she had panicked when she found that someone was trying to take over the facility. She wasn't sure where, or how, or why, and she had no way of reaching the chassis, so she was truly torn about the situation. She attempted to train the thousands of humans that she had left, but she must have been a little too harsh on them.

She'd forgotten that there were only thousands, and that they were not infinite, so she may have gone overboard. Before she could realize what she had done, they were all gone, and the only one left alive was pitted against her. She could have sworn that Echo had warned her about this, but in all honesty, she didn't take any of Echo's advice too seriously. Maybe, she needed to change that.

"It looks like our mystery woman in the prototype chassis is sending us a message: She's not AFRAID of me." GLaDOS murmured to herself as Orange and Blue carried on. "But don't worry, I've got a plan. Let's keep testing and show HER we're not afraid either. No matter how genuinely lethal these tests get for either of you." They looked up to the cameras, doubtfully. It seemed that they weren't convinced that it was a solid plan, but GLaDOS wasn't sure what else they could have done.

" Once SHE knows WE'RE not afraid of HER either... Well...That's just to get the scheming juices flowing." GLaDOS seemed to be talking to herself as the bots neared the end of the chamber. "Here's the real scheme: I'm going to turn YOU into killing machines. So you can murder her. How does that sound?"

Orange and Blue nodded enthusiastically, on board with whatever crazy plan GLaDOS had in store for them.

"Let's see... 'turning softbodies into hardened killing machines, page seventy'... ah!" GLaDOS had pulled out a book from seemingly nowhere and began flipping through.

Echo entered her room slowly, peering in on her as she read. "'How tall are you, test subject? Four-nine? I was unaware they stacked human waste that high'...Wait, that doesn't make any sense. Human waste is stacked at a median hight of seven feet five inches, and I AM aware of it."

Echo seemed to tilt her head as GLaDOS stared at the book, confused. GLaDOS turned to look at the turret. "Oh, hello. I'm currently trying to train the bots to become killing machines so that-" GLaDOS paused. Echo did not yet know that they were in trouble, and GLaDOS knew she wouldn't hear the end of it if she told Echo the truth. The turret just stared up expectantly.

"You two do the training while I look at this..." She said into the test chamber as the bots proceeded. Echo crawled over, trying to eye the book. "Killing machines...? But why?" GLaDOS hummed softly, still reading aloud. "'No guts, no glory.' Hm. Well, they don't have either so that's accurate... 'Remember: If you can dream it, you can-' Oh, for god's sake... You know what, this book isn't working. Just do the tests..."

The two seemed to have no problem getting through the next chamber. GLaDOS was sure that they would be formidable killing machines in no time.

"Okay killing machines... Look deep into your newly blackened hearts and tell me what you see." GLaDOS chimed. The two looked at eachother, excitedly. "Actually, don't, I'll save you the trouble. It's still marshmallow."

Orange and Blue shared a disappointed look with each other and sighed robotically, and proceeded down a hallway into their next "training chamber."

As GLaDOS watched the two proceed, she began to worry that creating killing machines out of the two was going to be harder than she thought.

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EEEEEE This chapter was supposed to have more to it but then I realized that I've been working on this chapter since November and I needed desperately to get it out, so here it is! I'm so sorry it took so long! It might be written a little odd because I kept abandoning it and coming back to it so Im sorry if there are any inconsistencies!

Thank you for reading! I honestly can't wait for the next chapter ;)