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“Good morning. You have been in suspension for nine nine nine nine nine nine..”
Crimson slowly sat up, and looked around.
The room she was in looked destroyed. Everything was dark and depressing.
….Except, last time she was in the room, it looked so much different.
Had something happened while she was asleep…? How long had she been there….??
She stood up on the ground next to the bed she had been sleeping in.
She re-adjusted her ponytail, and sighed.
Alright… She could just… Find a way out of there.
Crimson remembered how she had gotten to the room. So… Finding her way back to the exit couldn’t be THAT hard, right?
...Something told her it wouldn’t be as easy as she hoped.
A loud knock on the door snapped her out of her thoughts, and back into reality.
“Hello? Is anybody in here?? I’m sure I heard something from inside this room…”
Crimson ran over to the door, and opened it in a hurry.
“A… Test subject? But I thought they’d all…..”
Crimson looked up to see a….. Robot.
It was round, had two handles on it, and had a bright rainbow-colored eye.
The voice it had was feminine, high-pitched.
The robot tilted itself to the side. “Why are you looking at me like that? You look like you’ve seen a ghost!” It replied, cheerfully raising its lower shutter.
Crimson shook her head.
Yes, something had CLEARLY happened. But… Was this just an Aperture thing? Or were robots like this normal now??
...She had no idea.
“Um, would you mind if I came in? ‘Cause, since you’re awake, we need to talk. Badly.” The robot asked, motioning towards the room.
Crimson nodded, and backed up.
“Soo, you’re a test subject, huh?” The robot asked, looking at Crimson seemingly… confused.
Crimson nodded, again. “Yes, I am…”
The robot stared at her for a moment. “Oh.. So you CAN talk. ….I, uh… Thought you couldn’t for a moment there.”
It shook itself, as if it was trying to shake its head like a human would. “Well, besides that. What’s your name, miss?”
Crimson smiled a bit, beginning to relax. “I’m Crimson.. What’s your name?”
The robot’s lower shutter raised. “I’m the Creativity Core! But… You can call me Carrie if you want!” It exclaimed. “Nice to meet you, Crimson!”
Crimson nodded. “Nice to meet you too. But, um…. What are you? If you, uh… Don’t mind me asking.”
“Oh, no. It doesn’t bother me!” Carrie replied. “I’m an Aperture Science Personality Core!”
….A what?
Oh well, it probably wasn’t important.
“Well, um… What are you doing here?” Crimson asked, curious as to what the core was doing, talking to her.
“Oh! Well… I was just wandering around here. I mean, it IS safer for me back here, anyways.” Carrie explained.
Safer…??
What had she meant by safer??
“Anyways, you need to get outta here. It may be safe for me back here, but not for you.” The core added.
Crimson looked around, feeling slightly uncomfortable. “How do I get out of here, though…? I’m sure it’s been years since I got here, and I’m not sure if anything is any different..” She asked, running a hand through her hair, a few red strands falling into her face as she did so.
Carrie looked a bit surprised, then shook herself again. “Oh, I’m sorry! I should’ve known you’d ask something like that… But, yeah. Some things have changed.” She said, looking around for a moment.
Crimson nodded. “Oh..” She replied.
“I’ll be just a second, okay?” Carrie asked.
Crimson nodded, watching as Carrie left the room.
The room suddenly shook.
The walls began to fall apart, things fell onto the floor or slid around.
“C-Carrie?! What’s going on??” Crimson asked, running out of the way of some falling debris.
“Nothing much…! We just gotta get YOU to your destination, and it’s kind of a messy procedure..” Carrie replied.
Crimson nodded, running to a corner where nothing was falling onto the floor. “Uh.. Okay?”
Her mind was racing with questions.
Where was she going? What had happened to Aperture while she was asleep, anyways?
“Crimson!! Do you see that just up ahead?”
Crimson jumped, startled by Carrie’s voice, and snapping out of her current thoughts. “AH!! O-Oh, uh…. Yeah.. Why?”
“Well, you’re going to go in there okay?” Carrie asked.
Crimson nodded. “Okay. ….Um… Why is the wall broken?”
Carrie paused. “Oh.. That was just…. Another core. He, um… Well, I’m not exactly sure what happened to him, or what he did, so I can’t really tell you much. I think he was trying to escape with another test subject?” She explained, seeming confused by her own explanation.
“Alright..?” Crimson replied.
The room came to a stop, and Carrie came back in.
“Well… You’ll have to get going now. Um… I should warn you about a few things, though.” She said, sounding slight afraid.
“...Warn me..? About what?” Crimson asked, feeling uneasy by the tone in Carrie’s voice.
“Well, you see… We’re not exactly alone here… There’s, uh… someone watching over the whole facility, mostly the test chambers.. And… She’s not exactly the nicest… But… When you go into the test chamber, She might see you and if She does… you shouldn’t - In ANY circumstance - tell her about me, how you got to the test chamber, or the fact that we’re trying to escape.” Carrie instructed.
Crimson shook her head. “Wait what? Why?”
Something - Especially the worried look Carrie had - told her the answer wouldn’t be very pleasant.
“Well, you see… If you DO.. We could both be in SERIOUS trouble…” Carrie answered, her voice beginning to trail off.
Crimson nodded, slowly. “Oh….”
“Also, if She tries to upset you… Don’t let her. Alright?” Carrie added, quickly.
“Alright..” Crimson replied.
This whole talk…. It made Crimson worried. Worried to the point of feeling as if she was about to be sick.
Carrie’s lower shutter raised. “Well, enough with the pessimism! You get out there, and I’ll meet with you later!”
Crimson gave her a half-hearted smile, and nodded. “Okay… See you later, then.”
Crimson turned, and walked through some plants, and the top of a glass box.
She took a deep breath.
‘What’s the good in being scared now?’ She thought to herself.
Crimson carefully fell through the hole in the top of the glass box, and looked around.
Plants had over-run the room, shattered glass was on the floor, and everything looked as if it hadn’t been touched in years.
There was an orange oval-shaped hole in the wall, and a blue one outside the room, the two showing what was in front of the other.
‘Must be those portal I heard about before….’
She carefully walked through the portal, and stopped halfway through.
She could see herself inside the room, staring at the portal, her light blue eyes wide in shock.
Crimson shook her head, and stepped through the portal.
A lit up sign on the wall read ‘00’, and has several symbols on it.
She turned away, and walked down a hallway, which was overrun with plants like the glass box.
A door opened, revealing another room that looked similar to the hallway, which contained a tube, and a large red button on the floor, with blue dots in front of it, leading to another door, and a security camera, which stared down at the floor.
A gray box with a blue circle around the Aperture Science logo fell out of the tube.
Crimson walked up to it, and picked it up.
She walked over to the button, and carefully set the cube on it.
The dots turned yellow, the door opened, and the room shook.
A soft beep echoed through the room.
“Hello. Who might you be?” A calm, robotic voice asked.
Crimson looked at the security camera, which was now aimed directly at her.
This had to be the person Carrie warned her about.
“....Crimson.” She answered.
“That’s an… Interesting name. Crimson.. How exactly did you get here?”
Crimson froze.
“Uh…”

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