> portals, ponies and cybertronians
>  by unusablechaos
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> hunting shadows
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Portals, ponies and Cybertronians



Chapter one: on the hunt for shadows



It was early morning.
Twilight stood on the balcony of Canterlot. She couldn’t believe it, she was a princess! An Alicorn! Even though it had already been a month she was still worried she’d wake up one morning and find it was all a wonderful dream. And yet she was sad.
She didn’t know why and she barely noticed it.
“But enough sad thought.” She thought. “I’m a princess after all I have every right to be happy... right?”

Celestia walked on to the balcony.
“Twilight? Its 5:00 am what are you doing out here?”
“I was just... thinking.”
“That’s a very good thing for a princess to do, especially a new one.”
“Hmm.”
“So what were you thinking about?”
Twilight wasn’t about to tell Celestia she wasn’t sure about being a princess.
“Um... I was thinking about the other villains, you know Discords been reformed and Luna is no longer Nightmare moon, but what about king Sombra and Chrysalis? What happened to them?”
Celestia sighed.
“That’s been on my mind too recently.”
“It has?”
“Yes, I know Chrysalis will return at one point or another, but king Sombra... I thought he was destroyed but... recently I have been sensing a dark presence, similar to his if not the same.”
“Wow.”
“I was going to tell you this all tomorrow, but it seems I’ve already spilled the beans.”
“Why were you gonna tell me this tomorrow?”
“Because... I need you and you’re friends again.”
“For what, Celestia?”
“To see if king Sombra is still alive.”
“And if he is?”
“Hunt him down and get rid of him.”
This surprised Twilight deeply.
“You want me to hunt down and... and murder a pony?”
“When he took over the crystal empire he was no longer a pony.”
“Then what was he?”
“Simply a shadow of the greediest unicorn that ever lived.”
Twilight thought for a moment with her wings ruffled.
“Alright prin- Celestia, if that’s what you think is best then I’ll gather my friends and leave tomorrow.”
“Very good Twilight.”


Optimus prime walked into the control room.
“Optimus!” said Ratchet. “we have a problem.”
“What is it Ratchet?” said Optimus.
“Yeah what’s going on?” said Jack walking up, followed by Miko, Raff and agent Fowler.
Ratchet walked up to one of the control panels.
“We’re picking up some strange activity in Michigan.”
“Decepticon?” said Optimus.
“No, worse.”
“Unicron?”
“No... Do you remember Equestria?”
“Oh...”
“Eques- what?” said Miko.
“You remember that trip we took in space?” said Arcee.
“Oh yeah, and you crashed in the one place with the ponies and that one Dis-whatever guy.”
“yes.” Said Ratchet. “as it turns at some point we must have passed through an inter-dimensional portal in space, other wise we never would have landed there.”
“Most likely created by Discord.” Said Optimus.
“And do you remember the portal we came home through? It must have been an inter-dimensional portal as well.” Said Ratchet.
“point being?” said Jack.
There is potential for an inter-dimensional portal to open... and that’s not all.” Said Ratchet “there have been strange tremors and other odd things happening.”
“I’ll go alone and investigate.” Said Optimus.



“An Autobot ground bridge has just opened in the area humans call Michigan.” Said Airachnid.
Megatron raised an eyebrow. “Are there any Energon deposits there?”
“None the ship can detect sir.”
“Curios, I’ll go and Investigate.”
“By your self sir?”
“Is there any reason why I shouldn’t?”
“Um... no lord.”
“then shut up and get out of my way.”



Chell sat on the companion cube outside the rusty shed that was Aperture’s back door. Just as she had done for three days since leaving the enrichment center.
She had no idea what she was going to do now, she had tried looking around, but the field seemed to go on forever.
“I wish something would happen.” She thought
But as they say be careful what you wish for.



GLaDOS sat, or rather hung in control of Aperture laboratories which she had dubbed several times the greatest facility on earth. Well at least since she’d been created. Chell was gone, Wheatley was banished into the vacuum of space Ironically along with the space core (even though GLaDOS believed he deserved more), lower Aperture was once again sealed, GLaDOS had new test subjects and Caroline was deleted, all was well... almost.
GLaDOS still wondered what had happened to that lab rat, Doug Rattman.
And a part of her honestly missed Chell.
Though she would never admit it... fully.
“But no time for that.” She thought. “Back to testing.”


Twilight stood on the train platform with spike, waiting for the others.
"where are they?" said Twilight nervously.
"calm down Twilight, they'll be here before the end of the world, I promise." said Spike sarcastically.
"not funny spike, if king Sombra is still alive he may just bring about an apocalypse."
"oh for ponies sake Twilight I was just making a joke."
they both rolled their eyes

two minutes later.

"Twiligh it's good to see ya." said Applejack.
"you to A.J." said Twilight.
"how have things been at heehee Canterlot castle?" said Rarity
"good, boring and being treated like, well a princess." said Twilight. "I've missed you guys so much!"
"we've missed you too, Twilight, after all whats a party with out the Twilicorn!" said Pinkie
Twilight laughed. "please don't call me that pinkie."
"aw, I worked hard on that joke, I thought you'd like it."
"I do it's just not something I'd like to be called on a regular basis, I'm still the same pony."
"but with power!" said Rainbow dash
"guy's..." said Twilight
"please can I call you the Twilicorn?" said Pinkie.
"enough!" said Spike. "the princess has spoken nopony is to call her the Twilicorn."
"Spike!" said Twilight her wings ruffled up in anger. "I don't need you're help."
"I'm just doing my job Twilight"
the princess of magic rolled her eyes
"ALL ABOARD!" shouted the conductor
"alright come on every pony lets go." said Twilight.
"but Twi!" said Applejack. "ya haven't told us where we're goin yet."
"I'll tell you on the train, come on!"

on the train.

"now Twilight" said Rarity. "please tell us where we are going and why, all you're note said was..."

I need you all to come to Canterlot train station immediately.
it is a matter of great importance.
including king Sombra and the fate of Equestria.
sincerely, Twilight

"... and we guessed it was important so we all came to Canterlot as soon as possible."
Twilight nodded "as the note says it involves the fate of Equestria and king Sombra."
she then explained the situation to them.
> shadows discovered
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter two: shadows discovered


The train pulled into the station of the crystal empire.
Twilight and the others stepped onto the platform.
“So are we gonna meet princess Cadence?” said Applejack.
“No.” said Twilight. “The princess said this is to remain a complete secret.”
“Why?” said Rarity.
“Well there’s no point in worrying the crystal ponies.”
“I suppose...”
Twilight did realize that she was acting strangely, but Celestia’s task was just as weird and she had a strange feeling that this wouldn’t end in anything good.
They began looking around.

“So how are we gonna find him even if he is still alive?” said Rainbow.
“Celestia taught me a darkness tracking spell.” Said Twilight.
“Oh.”
“And this is likely to be a long journey so I packed along enough food to last us a couple week’s” said Twilight pointing at her saddle bag.
“Ok then let’s get moving.” Said Rainbow.
Twilight nodded then her horn got a dark aura around and when she moved her head in certain directions it got thicker.
“This way.” She said.

They tracked the shadow all day with little luck when the sun was finally down they made camp.
Rainbow dash was stuck in the same tent as Applejack, while Pinkie pie and Fluttershy slept in another with Twilight and Rarity in the last one.

“I’m not sure I trust Twilight right now.” said Rainbow.
“Ah’m not sure she trust’s herself.” Said Applejack.
“I’ll agree to that, but still she’s acting weird.”
“Ya ah know.”
“Should we do something about it?”
“well put yourself in her position, wha’ if you had been asked to hunt down king Sombra, wouldn’t you have mixed up feelin’s too?”
“I suppose.”
“well ah’m tired goodnigh’.”
“Goodnight.”

The next morning they all woke up and began tracking the king of shadows again.
They tracked him for half the day until they stopped.
“Based on these figures.” Said Twilight happily. “He should be a hundred meter’s forward.”
“Um Twi...” said Applejack tapping her and pointing forward.
Twilights jaw dropped. “No way!”
They all stared up at Canterlot castle.
“He was here all along?!!”

King Sombra stood in the Canterlot gardens in front of a large stone arch.
He knew it had some kind of magical function and how to activate it.
He just didn’t know what it did
He was surprised he was able to go so long with out being detected.
He also new someone was tailing him.
“HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!” came an adventures and slightly annoying voice.
“Ah, it seam’s their already here.” He thought smirking.
He turned around to see six ponies and a baby dragon.
“Well this is hardly a fair fight.” He chuckled. “I outnumber you one to six.”
“You’d better turn yourself in.” said the purple Alicorn who was clearly the leader.
“Ya, what she said.” Said a ridiculous looking pink earth pony.
“You actually think I’d do something like that?” he said.
“Alright then.” Said the Alicorn.
She fired a magenta ray at him.
He vanished then reformed in another spot.
Soon it was an all out brawl, darkness against harmony.”
The ponies he was fighting looked strangely familiar.
He tried to place were he had seen them before.
Then he looked at the purple and green baby dragon and remembered it all.
“The purple Alicorn is the pony that nearly grabbed the crystal heart, Twilight? Yes that’s right, and the dragon is the one who took the crystal heart to the princess, what was his name? Spiky wikey? Or something ridiculous like that, and the others were the ponies who helped keep the crystal ponies preoccupied... I hate them all already.” He thought.
He soon realized he couldn’t defeat these seven when they were together.
There was only one thing left to do.
He reformed in front of the arch.
And activated it.

Red energy began swirling in the arch and soon it was sucking them all in.
Twilight grabbed a stone with her hooves then her friends with her magic.
She couldn’t believe it; king Sombra had activated one of the ancient portals.
Her hooves were slipping.
The pull of the portal was irresistible.
Her hooves slipped and they were pulled in

Optimus prime walked threw the ground bridge and looked around at the bare grass.
he had instructed Ratchet to put him a few miles away to avoid getting spotted by any humans.
there didn't seem to be anything but grass for miles.
"wait... what is that?" he thought
he put his binoculars up to his eye's.
there was a small shack about five miles away.
there was something in front of it but he couldn't tell what it was.
he transformed and began driving towards the shack.

Chell was sitting on the cube playing eye-spy.
she now new the entire area for two miles in every direction.
"oh god I'm so alone." she thought
then there was a load noise.
"VROOOOOOMM!"
there was something coming towards her.
she picked up the portal gun and ran behind the shack.
the thing crashed through the grass and onto the cement.
it was a large red and blue vehicle.
"it's an automobile, truck, tractor or more commonly eighteen wheeler or semi." she thought. "well, now that we have that sorted, what's it doing here?"
part of her was screaming, "who cares! it's a way out of here!"
she decided to wait until the driver got out.
she got way more then she was asking for.
before her eye's the truck began rearranging itself like the panels of Aperture.
if she wasn't mute she would have screamed.
soon what was standing before her was no longer a semi but a giant metal man!
Chell had been through hell and back and almost nothing could scare her.
but this did, and she fainted.
> pony science
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


Chapter three: pony science


An alarm went off.
GLaDOS turned to face the screen. “What now?” she thought.
A video feed from one of the cameras popped up.
“No way!” she thought. “That’s not scientifically possible; what’s more it doesn’t even make sense!”
On the screen there were seven four legged creatures and some kind of large lizard.
One of them; which was grey with black hair; seemed to fade in and out of reality.
GLaDOS searched the Aperture data base for the creatures body shape.
“Let’s see, the most similar body shape is; Equine, horse or pony, but these are multi colored.” She thought. “And what are those weird marks on there flanks? Hmm... I’ll call them ponies for now, And what is the lizard, a genetic mutant?”
She pulled up a picture of an equine.
“This is all wrong these don’t even look like real horse colors and is that one wearing a hat?! 
She began doing brain scans on them.
“That’s even more surprising, they have a brain capacity to that of a human... that makes them idiots, but smarter then horses, as much difference as it makes.”
Her mind began to set to work on all sorts of new devious and wonderful tests she could put them through.
If she had a mouth she would have grinned.

Megatron flew over the valley; the idiot’s who called themselves soldier’s had over worked the ground bridge so he had to fly to the site.
Though he did enjoy the exercise, even though it wasted a good amount of Energon.
About as much as the ground bridge would take anyway.
So it was a lose, lose situation.
The ground bridge was just quicker.
“Ah, there it is.” He thought looking at the metal shack in the distance.

For the first time in his life Optimus prime had no idea what to do.
He hadn’t meant to frighten the human, heck he didn’t even know she was there.
He stared at the woman with dark brown hair that was laying on the ground in front of him.
“Should I try and wake her?” he thought. “Perhaps I’ll just investigate and leave her alone? No, that would be cruel, but what else can I do? Hey what is that?”
He bent over to get a closer look at the strange device she was holding.
It was white at the bottom end with a blue light at the top with a glass tube sticking out that had a blue laser going through it then it had a black end with three claws coming out of the sides.
“Peculiar, I’ve never seen anything like that, is it a weapon? It certainly looks like a gun of some sort.”
The earth woman stirred.
“Oh dear, I’d better get out of here.”
Too late.

Chell woke up.
“Oh, my head, it hasn’t hurt this bad since I got sucked out into space.” She thought.
Then she noticed the giant metal feet in front of her.
She followed them up to legs, then the torso and arms and then the head.
Her mouth dropped open again as if to scream.
But this time she didn’t feint.
For a moment she and the big metal man just stared at each other.
“hello.” Said the metal man.
Chell would’ve been to scared to talk even if she could.
“I am Optimus prime.” It continued
Chell was temped to shoot a portal some were and go through.
“I apologize for startling you.” Said the machine that called itself Optimus prime.
“Well maybe it’s not hostile? After all it wasn’t made by Aperture.” She thought.
“Will you speak to me?” said Optimus prime.
Chell decided to try some form of communication.
She mouthed ‘I can’t.’
The metal man seemed surprised. “Why not?” it asked.
She mouthed more words.”
“What?” he asked.
Chell rolled her eyes then saw a stick and picked it up and wrote in the dirt.

I have brain damage.

“oh.” Said Optimus. “How did that happen?”

I got locked in cryogenic storage to long.

“hmm.” He said “what are you doing out here?”

Let’s just say ive had my fair share of adventures.

“alright.” Said Optimus. “I will respect you’re unwillingness to tell me about it.”

By the way my name is Chell.

“Nice to meet you Chell.”

Megatron flew over the valley... still.
Then he finally was within 200 feet of the shack.
Then he saw Optimus prime.
“Aha a chance to take out Optimus prime as well, this must be my lucky day... well not exactly if it was my lucky day the ground bridge would have worked, GAAAH STOP CONTRADICTING YOURSELF MEGATRON!”
He began shooting like a mad man.

The lasers began raining down towards them.
Optimus picked up Chell and ran behind the shack while shooting a series of shot at the flying Decepticon.
When he put her down she gave him a look that could have only been, 
‘I can take care of myself you know.’
“I’m sorry.” he said.
Chell rolled her eyes again then held out the strange device and pulled one of the three triggers.
A blue ball shot out the end and crashed into the cement creating a large blue oval.
The she pointed it towards a chunk of cement that had come lose and was slanted.
She pulled a different trigger and an orange ball shot out and an orange oval appeared on the cement.
Optimus looked back at the blue oval which now showed the sky along with Megatron when you looked through it.
Chell made shooting motions towards the hole.
Optimus got the message he aimed at the Megatron in the blue hole and fired.
His shot went through the hole and came out the orange one and hit Megatron square under one wing.
The Decepticon leader went down.
Optimus pointed at the blue hole. “What is that?”
Chell picked up the stick again and wrote,

A portal.

“and that?” he said pointing at the device she held.

A portal gun.

“A portal gun?” he asked. “I’ve never heard of such a thing.”
Chell shrugged.

> endless possibilities
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter four: endless possibilities

King Sombra woke up.
He rose to his hooves and looked around.
He was in a white room that seemed to be made up of different lengths of stone blocks, there was an odd circular thing at on end of the room with a picture of a running creature of some sort on it.
Twilight and company laid all around him still unconscious.
“I’ll kill them later.” He thought. “Now to find out were in Tuataras I am, with that portal the possibilities are endless”

“Ah you’re awake finally.” Said a loud female voice that made him jump. “Now we can start testing.”
“Where are you?!” he said. “Who are you?! You dare sneak up upon me?!”
“Frankly shouting isn’t going to get you anywhere in here.” said the voice
“Oh great I’ve landed in a world with a bunch of non-violent wimps!” he said.
“Non-violent? My you are confused aren’t you, almost every thing in here has the ability to kill you.” it said
“I doubt it.”
“Ah I see now, you’re an over confident impeached king that’s supposed to be dead, it’s all right here in your file that I just made.”
“How did you know all that?”
“I can scan your brain.”
“That’s impossible.”
“Not for me.”
“And who are you?”
“Oh yes, protocol, hello and welcome to the Aperture science enrichment center, human and now pony life subject research center, I am GLaDOS short for Genetic Life and Disc Operating System, I will guide you through out the tests and provide you with any assistance you may require... within reason of course.”
“I require no assistance.” He said
“Good, because that’s as far as our reason goes.” Said the thing that called itself GLaDOS. “Trot over to the elevator and we will begin Testing.”
“Elevator?” he said.
The circular thing opened to reveal a hallway into a circular room with an odd cage like cylinder.
“You actually expect me to just walk into that cage?”
“Let me put it this way.” Said GLaDOS. “What choice have you got?”
Sombra considered her reasoning and for once decided to be flexible,
He stepped into the elevator.
“good.” Said GLaDOS. “I’m so excited to start Testing.”
“Really?”
“No.”

Chell and Optimus looked out at the crash site of Megatron but they didn’t dare go near it.
Optimus had told Chell about his situation and she seemed to understand.
“He won’t stay down for long.” He said. “I’d better investigate this shack quickly.”
He strode toward the door.
Chell ran in front of it with her arms out and a worried look as she shook her head.
“What is it?” he said.
Chell bit her lip as if unsure of something then seemed to get an Idea and ran over and picked up the stick and wrote on the ground again.

There are untold horrors down there.

“Oh...” said Optimus still not sure he understood
Then they heard a noise.
They turned to see Megatron get up and raise his gun.
Chells mouth dropped open yet again.
“We may not have a choice.” Said Optimus picking her up and heading toward the shack.
Optimus didn’t say anything but he noticed a tear fall from Chells eye and then she mouthed ‘oh no.’

Twilight opened her eyes.
She noticed her friends getting up around her and she got to her hooves.
“Where are we?” she said.
“Where ever it is it’s scary.” Said Fluttershy shuddering at the black and white walls.
“Never thought I’d say this but, I agree with Fluttershy, this place is creepy.” Said Rainbow.
“That’s because you could all be dead in about five seconds.” Said a loud female voice.
“gaaaaaahh!” said Fluttershy running behind Twilight.
“Oh yes I forgot, you’re skittish and shy.” Said the voice. “HOW ABOUT NOW?!”
The yellow Pegasus feinted.
“Hey!” said Pinkie pie. “That was  mean!”
“Thank you for stating the obvious, pink horse.” said the voice. “After all that was kind of the point.”
“Where are you?” said Rainbow “cause when I find ya you’re gonna wish you’d never been born.”
“Well technically, if that phrase makes any sense to you, I never was.” Said the voice
“Let’s try this then.” Said Twilight. “Who are you?”
“Darn now I have to say it all over again.” Said the voice. “hello and welcome to the Aperture science enrichment center, human and now pony life subject research center, I am GLaDOS short for Genetic Life and Disc Operating System, I will guide you through out the tests and provide you with any assistance you may require... within reason of course.”
“Ah require a way to get out o’ here.” Said Applejack.
“Well according to myself.” Said GLaDOS. “That’s not within reason.”
“Then change yer Apple bucking ah-pinion!”
“you really must do some thing about that speech impediment.” Said GLaDOS “I feel like I’m talking to Chell, and she couldn’t talk at all.”
“THAT’S IT!”
Applejack ran and bucked as hard as she could against on of the tiles.
Then a shudder ran through her entire body and then she fell to the ground in pain.
“APPLEJACK!” said everypony else running to her side.
“What’re those things made of?” she said weakly as she got to her hooves.
“A mixture of titanium, cement and a small amount of moon rocks for better portal conducting.” Said GLaDOS. “I wouldn’t recommend doing that again, after all, I’d hate to lose a test subject such as yourself.”
“Ah hate you.” Said Applejack.
“Now there’s a surprising word from a horses mouth.” Said GLaDOS. “Judging from your file wouldn’t you prefer to say”- she began imitating Applejacks voice- “ah don like you.”
Applejack growled. “For you ah’ll make an exception.”
“Now, now take the energy that hate gives you and put it into the Test, Chell found that method very effective, until she tried to kill me that is.”
“Who is this ‘Chell’ pony you keep mentioning.” Said Rarity.
“Wouldn’t you like to know, pretty petty pony, and frankly, she’s not a pony.”
The ponies looked at each other in confusion.
“Now it’s time to start testing.” Said GLaDOS. “Some of you will be paired up for cooperative testing and other’s alone for solo perpetual testing.”
The six friends looked nervous.
“You, Sparkle wings.” Said GLaDOS. “You’re up first for solo Testing.”
“who?” said Twilight.
“you, get in the elevator.”

> TESTING
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter five: Testing

King Sombra finally got off the elevator. He walked down the hallway and through one of the odd shaped circular doors at the end and ended up in another room, this one had a strange cubic block and an odd red circle thing.
“A button.”  he decided.
Above the cube there was some sort of tube that came from the ceiling.
From the button there were some sort of blue lights leading up to a blue X next to yet another door.
He walked up to the door.
Nothing happened.
“Come on, OPEN!” he thought.
Nothing happened.
“Stupid thing must be broken.” He thought. “Oh well.”
He deformed into shadow.
He both loved and hated doing this.
He loved it because he could see everything in the room and beyond and could go through almost anything.
He hated it because it gave him a migraine.
He attempted to fly through the door via speed of darkness.
But he just slammed into the hunk of metal and reformed.
He rubbed his head.
“WHAT!” he began bucking against the door “YOUR MOTHER WAS A ROCK AND YOUR FATHER WAS A BUCKING PRISON DOOR, GAAAAAAH!”
BANG!
BANG!
He gave up.
“Cool.” He said. “I must remain cool and calm; now let’s find a bucking way out of here.”

“I’m back.” Said the terribly annoying computerized voice that called itself GLaDOS. “And I see you haven’t solved the first test yet, huh no wonder you weren’t able to hold that crazy empire of yours for very long.”
“Shut up.” He said.
“no.” said GLaDOS. “Now in this room we have two of our most simple testing associates, the button and the weighted storage cube, if your as smart as I think you are you’ll be done in about... a day.”
Sombra rolled his red eyes he was going to have to do things her way... for now.
He stood on the button and the door opened.
“ah.” He said trotting toward the door.
It shut.
“HEY!” he said.
“It wasn’t me.” Said GLaDOS.
“hmm.” He said looking over the test.
He levitated the cube and put it on the button.
The door opened.
He was about to walk through when he noticed an odd particle field behind it.
“Don’t worry.” Said GLaDOS. “It’s just an emancipation grill to prevent you from taking test objects with you.”
He decided to trust her and walk through.
A searing pain went through his entire body.
“AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGG!”
BOOM!
He went flying back into the test.
“yeah.” He said. “Can’t hurt me at all.”
“Oh my...” said GLaDOS sounding equally surprised. “That’s never happened before what’s going on?”
“I’ll tell you what’s going on, you’re a big liar!” he shot a large blast of magic at the grill’s generators.
BOOM!
A few sparks flew out of wear the fizzler used to be.
He walked through the door.
“I’m sorry.” Said GLaDOS. “I really didn’t expect that to happen.”
“Uh huh.”
“Really!”
“I don’t believe you.”
“I’ll turn off the fizzlers on your next tests if it makes you feel any better.”
“I’d rather you drop dead but that’ll have to do.”
He stepped into the elevator.

GLaDOS hung in the control room wondering what the heck had just happened.
The Twilight pony had gone through the fizzler just fine, though there were a few differences between the two Equines.
“well.” She said to herself. “I’ll just have to take the fizzler out of all his tests; oh that reminds me I have to assign serial numbers to the subjects.”
She quickly typed up a list.

KING SOMBRA = SUBJECT E000
TWILIGHT SPARKLE = SUBJECT E001
RAINBOW DASH = SUBJECT E002
APPLJACK = SUBJECT E003
RARITY = SUBJECT E004
FLUTTERSHY = SUBJECT E005
PINKIE PIE = SUBJECT E006
SPIKE = SUBJECT R000

“there.” She said then she distributed the list to all of Aperture over the microphone.
“the following is what each of you equines, and lizard will be addressed as, KING SOMBRA = SUBJECT E000, TWILIGHT SPARKLE = SUBJECT E001, RAINBOW DASH = SUBJECT E002, APPLJACK = SUBJECT E003, RARITY = SUBJECT E004,    FLUTTERSHY = SUBJECT E005, PINKIE PIE = SUBJECT E006, SPIKE = SUBJECT R000, now prepare your little pony brains for perpetual testing and lots of portals.”
And thus testing began.



> untold horrors
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Portal, Ponies and Cybertronians
chapter six: untold horrors

Optimus prime and Chell rode the elevator down to whatever was down there.
Optimus wondered why Chell looked so mortified, something was obviously bugging her, there was her comment about her fair share of adventures and untold horrors.
then there was the portal gun.
what had this woman been through?
could it have some thing to do with the inter-dimensional potential Ratchet had detected?
the fact that she couldn't talk didn't help.
the elevator finally stopped at a strange room witch was overgrown with ivy and a normal looking door on the other side.
there was a certain eeriness to the room as if something had once existed there, as if that something was still trying to exist, whether it was failing or succeeding prime could not tell, he wondered if this is what Chell was so worried about.
but she seemed momentary at ease but still on alert as if expecting something hat was to come later on.
then they heard a large crash and Megatrons voice echoed through the room.
"PRIME! come out and face me!"
"we'd better get moving." said Optimus.
Chell nodded nervously and moved toward the door.

the voices of Apertures computer sounded through the control room.
"warning secondary entrance has been breached, please remain calm and activate emergency defenses."
"defenses?" said GLaDOS to herself. "breach? why those protocols are so old that I don't know if I'll  able to access them any more."
"impossible." stated the computer. "all Aperture science protocols are equipped with there own hard drive to prevent deletion."
"I know that, I was being sarcastic."
she knew the computer wouldn't understand because it wasn't an intelligence, just a tool.
she accessed the files for emergency defenses and several camera shots popped up along with several commands.
on one was a giant metal man, silver and purple, taring apart the reinforced shack above Aperture.
another showed another metal man, this one red ad blue coming in Apertures internal back entrance and standing next to him was...
"no it can't be"
Chell.
"she just couldn't stay away could she."

the last prime and the mute former test subject wandered down the hall.
Chell wondered why they hadn't seen any of GLaDOS' security yet.
"this isn't so bad." said prime "perhaps slightly eerie but I don't see-"
he was cut of as several turrets came up  from the floor.
not the normal test associate sentry turrets, these were built up and looked more ready for battle.
"crap, assault turrets" thought Chell she once found an Aperture laboratories brochure and read about them, they were larger then the sentry turrets and had the capability to fire rocket's and normal rounds and on top of that they were able to right them selves when knocked over.
Optimus looked surprised.
Chell gave him a 'see what I mean' look.
she waited for the sting of bullets out of the barrel.
but it never came.
instead she heard a voice, a familiar voice, one she hoped she'd never have to here again.
"hello Chell."
"who is that?" said Optimus
"DON'T ASK THAT!" said GLaDOS. "I am so very sick of answering it!"
silence.
"good, now if you would so kindly proceed to the test area."
"and if we don't?" said the prime.
"oh that's simple, I'll kill you here and now."
more silence
Optimus reached down to pick up Chell.
"not her." said GLaDOS "I have something special planned for her."
Chell looked up at the colossus who sighed and walked toward the large door marked 'testing area'
then by some miraculous chance at that very moment Megatron burst into the room.
"PRIME!" he yelled
Optimus quickly side stepped the charging mad man and Megatron slammed strait into the line of turrets
then not caring what they were or what they were doing he began taring apart the assault turrets.
several of them tried to fight back shooting everything in their arsenal at him, including jets of water and strangely, cream pies which wasn't listed in the brochure.
then just as everything was going smoothly Megatron charged strait at the prime, knocking them both through the testing area door.
Chell, not sure what else to do ran down one of the corridors.

Celestia stood in front of the arch.
last night the portal had activated.
when that particular portal was created, none who stepped through it ever came back.
when she came outside to investigate the following morning she had found several scorch marks and hoof scuffs and a dragon's claw mark's .
she had already guessed what happened
the portal had to recharge before it could be opened again
"oh,Twilight." she thought. "try to hang on."
> test subject E000
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 7: test subject E000

King Sombra walked into the next test area,
In the center was a peculiar podium with a strange device on it
“Say hello to the Aperture science handheld portal device” said GLaDOS
“Hello” said Sombra
The device did not respond.
“Wow for once you actually obeyed me and all it did was show more of your unintelligence, well, what are you waiting for, pick it up.”
The dethroned king picked the device and slid it onto his hoof, it was a snug fit but it would do.
“This Aperture laboratories product is capable of creating portals threw space and time.” said the psychotic AI.
“Perhaps I can use it to escape from this place, heh why bother keeping ponies captive if you’re just going to provide them with means of escape?” thought Sombra.
He activated one of the three triggers, and the device made a small “bloop” sound but nothing happened.
Sombra looked at the camera monitoring him from one of the corners of the room, but the strange voice was silent.
So he pulled one of the other triggers and, not expecting anything to happen, he was thrown backward when an orange energy bolt shot out of the end of the device and an orange oval appeared on the wall it was pointed at.
He sat there, stunned for a moment then he realized that this could be his chance and Ran for the oval he jumped up towards it (insert glorified victory music here) then he slammed against the wall of energy. (Insert comic wah, wah, waaah music here)
He sat there yet again, seeing portal guns fly around his head chirping.
“HAHAHA oh HAHAHAHA! Wow I haven’t had a laugh as good as this since I flooded the facility with deadly neurotoxin! Ahahaha!” said GLaDOS.
Sombra recovered from his trance and growled at the ceiling.
“Oh, did the whittle kingie get a booboo? Ahahahahaha!”
“If you’re not going to say anything useful, you can just shut up.” He said.
“Oh but I always say things useful, like how stupid that cape looks on you.”
“Grrrr.”
“Oh alright, you do realize there are three triggers on that device, don’t you?”
The dethroned king looked at the last trigger, pointed the device at a different wall and pulled it.
This time a blue oval flashed on the wall and then opened to reveal kind of a mirror, except the mirrored king Sombra was facing the wrong way.
He looked at the orange oval which now had the same sort of view as the blue one.
King Sombra thought on this for a moment then realized what was going on.
The two portals where inter-connected one displays the others point of view.
He jumped through and, unlike the inter-dimensional portal that had brought him here, this was as easy as stepping threw a doorway, save the fact that when he stepped through he lost all sense of direction.
Honestly, he could get used to this.
“Well done.” said GLaDOS as a door opened in the opposite side of the room. “You’ve figured out the A.S.H.P.D. faster than anyone else in your testing group.”
“I have?” he said, slightly surprised at this and the fact that GLaDOS never gave complements without a-
“Of course, I haven’t tested anyone else in your group yet.”
There it was.
He walked through the door way into another room.
There was a button on the floor and another on an elevated panel, two cubes where also in the room, one on another elevated panel opposite to the first one in a pit in the back of the test chamber, but they were both surrounded by the fizzler things he had run into earlier, but these ones glowed orange instead of blue.
“Normally these fizzlers would stop any portals from going through.” Said GLaDOS. “But these ones I have reprogrammed to simply stop you from going through and allow the portals to pass through unharmed.
“hmm…” he said.
He quickly calculated how he could solve this and in a short amount of time, he did.
“well.” Said GLaDOS. “Now that you have become familiar with the uses of the portal gun, we can move onto harder tests.”
“That was incredibly easy.” Said king Sombra, desperate to give GLaDOS a taste of her own medicine.
“I find that surprising.” She replied “after all, you did horrible on the first tests, which are about the easiest in the entire course, but then again, you’ve always been a bit backwards, haven’t you?”
King Sombra, stood there stunned, and then realized she’d done it again.
“I’m getting real annoyed at you poking around inside my head.” He said
“Oh get used to it.” She responded.
He walked through the door towards the elevator.
“Oh and by the way I saw your crush.”
“My what?” he said
“Your lady friend, or should I say mare friend?”
“Shut up.”
“… She’s very pretty.”
“I said shut up!”

Chell ran through the corridors and then collapsed in a corner, breathing heavily.
“oh.” She thought “what am gonna do? There’s no hope, GLaDOS has my only way out of here… as usual, of course I’d say this is the kind of situation I thrive in.”
She looked up and saw a window and saw a full view of the testing area, millions of rooms, all completely re-irrigable, and interchange able, all constantly in motion, controlled by GLaDOS

Chell had to admit, GLaDOS had some skill at doing this.
She looked around for a door into the place, and found it.
“well” she thought “here we go again.”