"Just in case you don't come back, I'm sorry." Dusk said. Diana smiled back, scared.
"Are you ready?" The Author asked.
"No." Diana shook her head. "Are you sure this is a good idea?"
The Author shushed her and put his hooves on her temples. Diana's eyes rolled over white, and she fell back onto the bed.
"Now, all we can do is wait," The Author said. He groaned. "Is this how things normally are for ponies? Watching powerless?" the Author asked. "It's... pretty boring." He turned to the others in the room. "That's a new feeling for me, boredom."
"So... that's it? We just have to wait for one of them to win?" Lyra and Dusk said in unison.
"Yep," The Author said. "So, you guy and gal wanna play cards?"
"Aaaaaand smokey darkness again," Diana said, unhappily.
"Well," A familiar voice said. "Let's state the steaks: we will fight to the death, the winner gains full control of this body. And the loser gets assimilated into the other." Suddenly, Echo's voice changed to become a male's... and British... and slightly robotic. "Also, that timer says this whole place goes critical, in 14 minutes. That's the itinerary, also I've taken the liberty of watching the tapes of you killing her, and I'm not gonna make the same mistakes. 4 part plan is this: 1, no portal surfaces. 2 start the neurotoxin immediatly. 3, bombproof shields, for me, wich leads directly onto part 4, bombs, for throwing at you!"
The ground beneath me began to rise up through a metal tunnel.
"Wow... it says a lot about a person when their mind takes the form of a boss fight from a video game, (that I watch way to many lets plays of)." I laughed. "This would be awesome if I had the portal gun to go- OW!" something hit me in the head and landed in my hands. It was, "A PORTAL GUN?!?" I exclaimed. The portal gun was white, with a cone shape around a handle/dual triggers. This connected to a glass tube with a blue light shining through it. The end was a flattened sphere with a claw on it. "Ooooh yeah! I'm a portal pro!" Then, I heard a familiar voice, PotatOS, (or GLaDOS in a potato battery). "You find a way to stun him, I'll send you a core, then you attach it to him. We do it enough times, he'll become corrupt enough for another core transfer. Look, we're enemies, but we're enemies with a common interest, revenge. You like revenge, right? Everybody likes revenge, well let's go get some!" The rising platform finally reached the top of the tunnel. I was in a large circular room with a platform on one side, and pipes will goo in them. In the center of the room was a giant robotic AI, Wheatly, from portal 2.
But, there was something strange about the eye, it was gold and purple, not blue (like it was supposed to be).
"What? Why am i this... robot thing?"
"What was that?" Diana asked.
"I said," Echo replied, "That I'll play along with this... 'Portal' thing."
"Thank you," I replied. "Because I know how to beat you." I grinned. This was gonna be fun.
I heard the bomb launcher on Wheat- I mean, EchOS, activate. I had beaten this boss before. I turned on a dime and raced toward the pipe from a wall to the ground, containing "conversion gel," a goo that makes "un-portable" surface "portable," in layman's terms, stuff the portal gun can't shoot changes to stuff it can. That idiot was gonna give me my weapon back! I raced to the pipe and slid behind it. A bomb hit the pipe, shattering it. The white goo covered every surface it could find.
"WHAT?!? N- no NO! ARGGGGHHH!!!" EchOS cried out. "That sounded real! Oh no, you made the room white! Whatever shall I do?" EchOS said sarcastically.
"Shoot more bombs at me?" I asked equally sarcastic.
"Good idea!" EchOS replied, charging up the bomb launcher. I smiled. This was too easy! I fired a portal on the wall opposite me (above the catwalk), and the opposite portal beneath me. I fell through the portal and landed on the aforementioned catwalk. "Wait, WHAT THE-" The bombs shot through my portal, and hit EchOS, stunning her. If I was correct, PotatOS was going to send the corrupted core on the other side of the catwalk. So that's where I went.
Meanwhile, in the waking world...
"What's... portal?" Dusk asked. Lyra turned to the Author. He shrugged.
"I'm not sure, but I think... it's some sort of game. Diana said she was a pro at it... I think... so that's a good sign." Dusk added.
(five minutes later...)
"Go press it, GO PRESS THE BUTTON!" PotatOS shouted.
"I'm not pressing it." I replied. PotatOS and EchOS Blinked at me... "I know there are bombs at the button."
"Whaaaaat? There isn't a bomb!" EchOS said.
"You're right, there isn't a bomb, there are bombs, plural." I said to her. "BUT, I know nothing is going to happen until I get in there (that, and I'll survive the bombs)." I muttered. I started walking across the room to "the button," firing a portal beneath EchOS, and behind the bars that led to "the button." I turned around and walked to the portal beneath EchOS. "Geronimo." I jumped through the portal and braced myself for the explosion.