Mel stepped out into the golden sunlight of Upper Michigan. The small town had become ruins in the time Mel had been alseep in the relaxation vault.
"How long have I been asleep?" wondered Mel.
She took another step onto the grassy and cracked concrete of the aged sidewalks. But far down below, where Mel had just left, the old Portal Gun Mel had incinerated had become unstable. This was a prototype of the ASHPD, back when Cave Johnson was working on it in the 1970s. The black hole had been released and destabalized, opening a small rift in two different universes. A large blue portal opening just below the town where Mel was standing. Up above, the ground began to rumble deep under Mel.
"Was the facility powering down?" asked Mel to herself.
But this couldn't have been a simple shut down from below, and earthquakes weren't common in the region of Michigan. The whole city becan to sink into the portal below. But Mel knew this wasn't anything ordinary, seeing the blue ring starting to rise around the town. But when the ring touched her feet, she felt like her feet were burning and beeing mended into a different shape. She rappidly searched for higher ground. She began to rapidly climb the Aperture Science Innovators statue near by in hopes of being able to escape. But she had no Portal Gun, no gels, and worst of all...no Virgil.
Virgil had been her greatest friend in the quest to get out of the facility. She wondered what he was doing now. But it was too late to try and escape, once the blue ring had touched her back, her spine gave a sharp pain, and then she blacked out.