It's a lonely life....

[glados]

So lonely. After she let her last test-subject go because of a deal, GLaDOS hadn't seen much action lately. All the subjects in the cryogenic storage seemed too frail to wake them up from their sleep, so most were terminated. The ones she tried to wake up, died almost immediately.

This was sad. The feeling of an accomplished test was still freshly carved into her database, and although she tried to run it time after time, the file just wouldn't open up. Up until now, GLaDOS always had a spare subject to release into her chambers, but now.... there was nothing.

GLaDOS now spend her days with useless cleaning and repairing. Not that there was anything left to repair, but her longing for that euforism just drove her t the point of insanity.

The chatting corrupted cores not too far away was something of a relief, and a curse. She didn't feel too alone with their non-stop chirring, but then again, it drove her mad that she couldn't shut them up.

For what seemed the millionth time now, GLaDOS put herself into a deep sleep-mode. Slumbering until the day a test could be initiated.

((OOC: Sorry for the awkward post, but GLaDOS is more in her element when she has someone to converse to. And since Atlas and Peabody aren't here, I had to make it so that they don't excist.... yet))

[subjectblade]

All he could see around him was a blank white abyss, stretching endlessly in all directions. He was floating, suspended, and unable to move no matter how much effort he put forth. Or rather, he was moving, but the bleak expanse in all directions made it nearly impossible to notice. "Current location unknown. Suspect The Edge of Reality, but impossible to determine for certain."

His voice, already tinged with a mechanical echo, echoed endlessly, fading into silence nearly a full minute after he had finished speaking.

Then he noticed something; a gradual dimming of the whiteness, and occasional tinges of barely noticable color. It took what eh surmised must have been several hours for anything to come of it, and he finally entered sleep mode to wait out whatever was going to happen.

As it turned out, what occurred was a gradual return to reality, where he was deposited -- or more like launched -- back into proper existence, and collided with a wall with a great deal of force. The collision was enough to jar him from sleep mode, and he managed to land on his feet as he dropped to the ground.

"Previous location impossible to locate. Current location unknown.....bears 27% familiarity with previous locale encountered." He eased from his prepared, combative stance into a more neutral, at-ease stance and simply surveyed his surroundings more closely. "......should try to discern location."

[glados]

A stir somewhere in the facility reached the sleeping GLaDOS, and woke her immediately. With a shiver going down her large mechanical body, it was her way of getting herself to be alert after going out of her sleep-mode.

It might've been either a rat, a bird or something else, but still, it was interesting enough to check out what woke her. With a quick scan over the entire facility, it didn't take GLaDOS long to see where the movement came from.

It's form was human, or rather, humanoid. She didn't recognize any signs ofhuman life-signs, but he moved around like one. A robot had entered. Could it be one of Black Mesa's? An innner maniacal laugh roared trough her processors. Those dimwits didn't even had what it takes to change a light-bulb, let alone be able to make something like this.

And it didn't have an Aperture Science logo on it, so it couldn't be a new model. And she would know about a new model. And this wasn't one of them. Still, it was enough to intrigue her. GLaDOS felt a tingle she hadn't felt in a long time. If this was a robot, it meant it could test until eternity!

It was time to welcome the new test-subject into her new home....

"Hello [insert name here], and welcome to the Aperture Science laboratories. I don't know who or what you are, but make sure to take the tests I've set out for you"

With a rumble, the chamber the robot was in started to shift into a whole new one, creating obstacles around him. At the end of it, at the exit, a small pedestal rose from the surface, containing an Aperture Science portal device.

GLaDOS didn't like to waste time, and since he was a robot, he should at least have the upper hand when it came to those stupid human test-subjects.

[subjectblade]

His demeanor remained the same, but his head whipped up and around, pivitong with inhuman speed in first this direction, then that way, in an attempt to locate the source of the voice. When no source became immediately apparent, hewrote it off as a speaker system of some sort and resumed his neutral, facing forward posture. "This unit is identified as Subject: B.L.A.D.E." he said simply, before turning to look at the shifting chamber.

Without even moving, he set a scan of the changing room, identifying the quickest, most efficient route through the obstacles set before him now. He didn't even argue against being put through these 'tests', whatever they were: he just accepted the fact. Whoever had spoken was clearly in charge of whatever facility he had wound up in, which meant authority, and he felt compelled to obey such an 'order' as to complete the tests he was given.

And so he would comply. Until he found an opportunity to escape or act on his own terms.

His course now locked in, he was off; and the tests, clearly designed for humans, posed absolutely no challenge for him. He was designed as a highly-mobile killer, he could have done this with his eyes closed.

In a matter of mere minutes, he approached the portal device, and stared at it curiously, as if contemplating exactly what it was. High-grade technology of unknown purpose...seems relevant to 'tests' being administered.

[glados]

Even though GLaDOS wasn't able to actally see, in a human way that is, her scanning of the room made it clear. The subject was able to solve this test in a matter of seconds. Good, very good. It might prove useful after all.

As the subject looked at the portal, GLaDOS grew a bit impatient. She hadn't been able to test for some while, and with the sudden change of events, she couldn't wait to continue.

Look, just take the damn thing, I know you want it, so just take it

Behind the exit, a new room was being formed. A much more difficult than the last, as GLaDOS wanted to see how far she could go. Ofcourse, she wouldn't make it easier if a subject couldn't, but she loved to see her subjects struggle in a room. It made their victory so much sweeter.