June 7th, 2010
So...um...it's been...interesting since we last talked. Or since I last talked. To the computer.
First off, we finally managed to complete that tractor beam I was telling you guys about. It took us a lot of tries, though. Who knew scientists could be so demanding? I feel like I've flown more in the past two weeks than I've flown in my entire life. And it wasn't just simple flying either - it was "can you make the storm wider," or "can you make the storm taller," or "could you please try that last one again?" I never fully appreciated how varied hurricanes could be until now.
Anyways, five days ago they finally asked for too much. The storm was so powerful that even I couldn't get it under control. It got seriously out of hoof and destroyed most of the eastern wing of chambers. The noise was deafening...it was tearing panels off from the walls like nobody's business.
Things haven't been so great because of that, actually. A lot of employees here can't work anymore because they were stationed in the eastern wing. As far as I know, they're going back to their families until the situation is resolved. All of the employees that were working in the eastern wing at the time of the storm have been injured, some more seriously than others, although no one...no one has died yet. All of the ponies who have broken a limb or worse are still in medical right now.
They were only able to stop the thing because we called in the emergency squadron of unicorns. They used their magic to get the hurricane under control, but just as they were about to purge it, one of my co-workers ran up with a tractor beam. It wasn't working, of course - it just kind of looked like a metal circle with lights blinking around the edge. I still don't understand how he could have been thinking about something like science at a time like that...But regardless, the squadron managed to shrink the storm and stuff it into the beam. The logical science behind it completely eludes me, but somehow it worked. But if they expect me to make a storm like that every time they want a new beam, they can go screw off. Ponies could have died. Nothing is worth that.
Most of the other projects have been put on hold because of the incident so that everypony can work on repairing the facility. With all of us working together, we should have it fixed in about a week. That sounds really quick, right? Well, one of the projects that are still running is the test chamber production line. They're going to be building panels for us to use for repair. They're cranking out those things as fast as we can put them in, so if all of us work really hard, we should be done soon.
What really gets me is that this whole thing is my fault. I know that the others have tried to comfort me, but I know that they're just being generous. I was already fed up with all of the demands the scientists were putting on me, and I should've been a lot more careful than I was. This is my job now. It shouldn't frustrate me to such an extent so that I cause this sort of catastrophe.
My friends must have caught wind of the whole thing back in Ponyville by now. I can only imagine what they must think of me now that they see how careless I was. Pinkie even stopped sending me letters. She used to send them every day, but two days ago they stopped. I don't blame her. Why would they ever even want to see me again?
Well...aside from that, nothing else has happened. Nothing else could've happened. We've all been working on this hurricane situation so much that there hasn't been any time for us to do anything else. I should just be thankful that-
>CRASH<
MOTHER BUCKER, CAVE, I TOLD YOU THERE WAS A LOCK!!!!
Did you? I don't remember.
Well, I did, you idiot.
HEY! You can't speak that way to your boss! I could still fire you for that whole hurricane shenanigan you pulled!
Argh...I know, I know...
And you would do well to remember it. But I'm not here to lecture you. You've got a visitor. Several visitors.
Several? Who...wait, why?
They told me not to say. You'll find 'em downstairs, hanger thirteen.
Wait, why can't...
Ugh...
I have to go. Some ponies are here for me. Probably one of the injured's family here to sue. I'll see you guys - or talk to a computer screen alone, I guess - in a few weeks, provided I make it out of court okay.
Calling it now, the visitors are the rest of the Mane 6.
2288949You're good. I'll have to be more subtle in my writing in the future.
2288957 I just made a guess, considering how Rainbow was talking about the others and that she hadn't heard anything from them. And then the plural "visitors" strengthened that. Merely an educated guess.
2288972Well, it was still a good one, so good job.Actually, I wanted to say thanks a lot for reading the chapter so promptly. I posted it and heard the new notification sound only a few minutes later. I'm glad!(More Pinkies)
Friends detected
Enter the angry, angry hurricane. (LOL)
Anyways, great chapter. It focused more on the apocalyptic circumstances in Portal than the story or the characters, which is a check marked off on the 'Portal Fanfic Requirements Checklist."
I'll be expecting more from you, Mr. Freeman.
2289166Prepping Harmony Cannon Alpha.
2289367That's a requirement?Huh. Well then.
And I'll do my best to meet your expectations! You're going to love what I have planned! (Also, where are you getting Mr. Freeman from?)
2290839 I dunno. It's just something that the G-man would say, in that creepy tone of his...
And also, I do think it's a requirement because in Portal 2, everything broke, got fixed, tossed you to where there was even more broke, got broke again when you got back up and then got fixed afterwards. It's just not a happy-go-lucky story, but it's a good one, and has a good few background things if you're observant, such as:
Where the potato thing came from, it was a science fair for bring your daughter to work day, and one got f**king HUGE. In fact, that one was Chell's project if you find the image of the board thing.
Most people seem to think that GLaDOS was Chell's mother and Cave might have been the father. This is guessed from the translation to the lyrics of the song that plays in the scene just before the credits.
Another thing about family: They think DOUG RATTMAN was her adoptive father. If you look at the facts, it lines up clearly.
...1: GLaDOS makes frequent dodges at Chell, mostly consisting of the message 'You're fat' and 'Your parents didn't love you and you were adopted.'
...2: The thing that ties it together the most was that when Doug hacked the system after the genocide, he picked Chell to be put at the top.
...3: When he finally escaped earth's cleaner, emptier but still as insane version of Rapture, he went back when he saw that Chell had been dragged back in and saved her life.
(This is all from a Portal comic on a steam made website HERE: CLICK THE TEXT, MAN
As for Old Aperture, the most important conspiracy- and probably only one- is the Borealis' empty dock, which stemmed from the experimental portal tech that most likely teleported it away that was on said boat. It's proven that it was the Borealis by the fact that the dock was definitely large enough to hold it, and also that there was a life-saver on the floor that said 'BOREALIS', undoubtedly meant to have gone on the ship. In Half-Life, or so I've heard, you and a team are attempting to find it before the race from another dimension does- not to mention that it never would have happened for those dumb-ass scienctists who insisted to boost the damn power rate.
That's all the conspiracies in Portal I can remember from the top of my head. I'll be back if more come to mind.
2291149Whoa...that's amazing. I knew about the Caroline and Cave being the parents conspiracy, but I'd never heard of the adoptive Rattman thing before. That's...really awesome, actually.And I have read that amazing comic. It makes complete sense.Although one could argue that he only put her at the top because her test file in the comic said something like "extremely stubborn," or "will stop at nothing, do not test." But your theory makes more sense. And then there's Borealis, but I haven't played Half-Life, although I've heard of it. I love how Valve ties together all of their games like that...
2293541 You can blame the guy who told me about it- I saw it all in a video about Portal conspiracies about six months ago.
2293862I'll check it out on YouTube. Anyways, have a nice day!
Oh My Bucking Celestia! Another update! W000000000000000000000000000000000T!
anywho,i think it might be the mane six? keep up the darn good work there! I LOOOOVE it!
Edit: funny thing, i don't read comments, until after i comment :P
2295354You should prooooobably read the comments first then...:twilight blush:(I think you had too much cider to drink. If not, I'm happy you like the fanfiction so much!)
2293541 I heard you analyzing stuff and I thought I would drop by and post a link to something
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2029013&page=7
Just posting that particular page because of the conversation going on.
There's info in there about Cave was supposed to be uploaded into a cube but they didn't go with that idea, something about not wanting to act like your using Cave's "Dead body" as a way to escape a room or something.
2298716I see...but it's kiiind of confusing me...Ah well. Thanks for reading this chapter!
Oh Cave, you're so so stupid it just hurts! Really, this is like the 74856928645735956595643864590476 time it happens.
Stll awesome chapter!