Chapter 3
Shaking my head, I pushed open the door to reveal a long dark hallway that was barely lit be light bulbs hanging down on a chain at irregular intervals, pipes and tubes running on either side making the place look like some large intestine. The occasional burst of steam erupted from one of the pipes on the ceiling, at the end of the hallway one of the bulb was flickering. Walking through the hallway, I kept seeing things moving in the shadows. I heard the running of tiny feet on the pipes above me, the ground felt cold and sticky, like that of a movie theater. I was thinking about turning around when something DID move in the shadows. It was big and made of metal, with one big glowing purple eye, that much I could make out. What I couldn’t was what it was doing. I stood there wide eyed, heart beating so fast I thought it was going to explode. With a shriek it went running off, its foot steps echoing after it. I didn’t know what or who it was, but I suspected that it would be back.

The grey pony couldn’t move her legs. Because she didn’t have any legs, she couldn’t mover her wings because, they too were gone. But what she could move was the building. From the ceiling to the panels on the floor. This was her new body now. At first she enjoyed it, but now, as time dragged on she would do anything to visit her old friends again. She longed to feel the warmth of the sun. Her eyes, no her eye. Her single eye glowed a soft amber at the thought of the sun. Before she was this. . .thing. . .she was known simply as Derpy Hooves. But all that changed when they stole her mind. No, they brain mapped her. Killed the original, used the copy for the machine. No for her. She was the machine and she vowed to kill the pony who put her through such torment. She was watching, waiting for her chance to crush that little yellow worm. Every time she came so close to killing her she somehow escaped but this time she had a new plan. A better plan, so good in fact she was already setting up the preparations for the victory party. . .

My legs hurt. That was the thought that was going through my mind. I had been navigating these halls for hours. I wandered into countless rooms only to find that they were either observation rooms or work cubicles. Either way I was getting tired of this. Walking down a different hallway, I came across a small side room on the right with no walls, that overlooked a big empty room that held a small cube that stood on stilts. On the other side of the hall way was a door with a key pad on it. I couldn’t think of any number combinations so I turned to the door on the right. There was a small set of stairs, about three or four. And beyond them was a long hallway with glass walls on either side.

Moving down the hallway, I noticed how big the room really was. It was huge! I couldn’t even see the other side, let alone the floor. Still looking at the enormous room, I failed to notice the door opening in front of me. “Hello.” said a robotic female voice. Twisting around I gasped. There was this huge cylindrical room. On the left side was a smaller room with a curved ladder leading up to it. On the right was a row of screens, each displaying a different video feed. And in the center was this giant mass of wires and machinery. It was slightly curved with bits of white metal attached at random increments, as if it were armor plating. At the bottom of the wires was a lone light bobbing up and down slightly, no it wasn’t moving. The machine was! Turning its attention to one of the monitors it studied it for a few moments, then with a slight click all of them shut off.

“U-uh hi?” I asked tentatively. It made no response. Moving closer, I said in a louder voice “E-excuse me, but did you say something?” no response “what am I doing, talking to a computer.” I muttered to my self, then slowly it turned to me, and in a low dull tone it said “Hello, I’m sure you don’t know me, but you will soon.” I just stared “I have a very special job for you Target.” she said dully “Wait how do you know my name?” I asked it. “I know everything about you, but, enough about that. Lets get to more important matters, My name is GLaDOS and I want you to kill some one for me.”

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