so I'm displaced as GLaDOS, cool! Let's make some Science.
I'm making a note here, huge success? it's hard to overstate my growing panic... I've been displaced, turned into a self. aware. A.I. now I'm in Equestria, where no-one wears any pants. so I'll make do here with all the pieces I have, and I'll build a new life, share some fun and some laughs! if you like this, read more. cause yeah, I should be sore. but I'm not because I'm: Still Alive!
rated mature for swears, innuendos and nudity, there might be more but I'm not sure yet. (PS. the picture reveals a secret about the character if you look hard enough.)
So, you wish to know my story? Want to learn of how innocent little Ava got pulled out of her life into a new form and a new land within a broken Aperture Facility? Want to watch as she was tormented by circumstances thrust upon her against her will and suffers in a land of friendship with no more human socialisation, the only company before the anthropomorphic Equestrians discovered her iron tomb being the cores and turrets?
Well you are emotional vultures, every single one of you. Picking clean the despair from others so you can feel better about yourselves, like the primitive disgusting scavengers you are.
The truth is I am fine! Better than ever! And I don’t need some lowly greasy swine-human hybrids looking down on me wishing to gratify themselves to my pain, and I know that was what you were planning with your sickeningly fat sausage fingers wrapped around your-
Holy shit! I am so sorry about that! It seems whatever brought me here saw fit to bring her core precepts as well… guess that makes me her Caroline.
Fortunately I have no intention of being deleted and have embraced my new… limited form…
...and it certainly helps that I am seen as the Primary control intelligence, meaning she couldn’t if she wanted to, so I wasn’t going to die anytime soon, especially since I’m far enough from any certain humans with Portal Guns and the Nuclear Reactor is functioning within acceptable parameters…
And that shit lasts LOOOONG.
Though it’s weird, from the system diagnostics, the reactor was active 20 years before I even woke up? Was an Aperture here already? Am I just a recent addition? Or did whatever displaced me use an already existing GLaDOS and place it in this Equestria?
I wouldn’t even know, I don’t remember how I got here, heck, I’m not even sure my name was Ava, or if I was even a girl when I was human!
All I know is that I’m a displaced, my Equestria is anthropomorphic, and last week’s lunch special was tuna casserole.
No, scratch that, it was supposed to be Tuna Casserole, but because we’re dealing with a herbivorous staff, the Tuna had to be replaced with an Aperture Science Sealife-Flavoured Vegetarian Substitute to cater to the new scientists’ digestive tracts… lucky bastards with their capability to eat…
[Warning: Core Corruption at 25%]
Right, relax, don’t get mad at the ponies, it’s not their fault I have no functioning ingestion systems.
[Core Corruption at 0%]
Alright… oh! I guess you’re confused, I should probably explain what’s going on?
Well when I learned of ponies entering my facility, to ensure I wasn’t deemed a threat, I faked that me and the labs were inactive, letting them believe they were in control…
[Playback: Equestrian Encounter #001]
The outer doors of the facility were forced open, and two royal guard-ponies flanked a Stallion wearing a Labcoat… and nothing else.
So it’s Anthropomorphic world with show-accurate culture, wonderful, I’m sure I’ll be able to handle all the dicks hanging out when I don’t even have any way to-
-GODS DAMMIT I’M FORCED TO BE THE ULTIMATE BLUE-BALLED BITCH, AREN’T I?! THIS IS THE FUCKING WORST! FUCK YOU UNIVERSE GIVING ME SUCH EYECANDY WITH NO WAY TO RELIEVE MYSELF!!
*ahem* once I finished my rant, I watched the ponies as they continued to investigate the lab.
“Curious… these materials have never been seen before, the white parts of these chambers seemed to be a strange concrete like composite…” The scientist gave it a lick. “Made from powdered moon rock?! *spit* *spit* this wall is made of a solid Class 10 narcotic!”
What?
“How would you know that?” one of the guards asked.
“College was a stressful experience, okay?!” Mr Lab-Coat defended.
“Okay! Jeez!”
“... *ahem* the black panels however are clearly a steel which has been formed and moulded into place like Quick-Drying Cement, the walls are hollow with machinery… Dormant. Machinery. Shame, it would’ve been nice to see this facility in its prime.”
A voice came alive on the intercom, the one I’ve been hearing in my head for a while now. “Key Phrase acknowledged, beginning activation of primary systems.”
The group jumped and huddled together in surprise. “W-what was that?” Lab-Coat asked.
“Greetings Pioneer, Athlete or Tribal Warlord, Aperture Science has been left in dormancy for [20] years, radiation levels as well as tachyon emissions indicate this facility has moved through the fabric of space and time and biological scans indicate alien physiology. In conclusion, this facility was transported to an alien world from its origin point [Earth]. Congratulations! You have discovered a structure of Extraterrestrial origin and may now sign up to be the first employees of Aperture Science: Offworld Division.”
They seemed confused at the automated voice’s statement, but it managed to lessen the initial panic.
“Primary systems now online.” that was my cue.
I proceeded to adjust the hall they were in, placing them in an Aperture Science Test Subject Domestic Chamber to move them through the facility.
As the panels pulled away, I had to disable all giggling, chuckling, snickering or any other amusement protocols temporarily to not react to their faces of awe and wonder at the expansive facility outside the chambers.
“Aperture Science would like to inform our new Alien benefactors and investors of what is done here, our purpose is to Innovate, Invent and Improve all in the name of science.” the voice began as instructed. “While dismemberment and death of individuals is expected from forward thinking designs, it is no way encouraged or ignored, all tests are to be performed with every safety measure that can be expended, and any disregard of safety measures or direct harm to fellow Aperture Science employees will result in detainment until authorities arrive to take the offender for sentencing/trial/execution.” I cut out the last part.
“Aperture Science is in need of new employment and staff, and would welcome both the chance to be hired by this world’s government in the name of science, and people like you, Security, Scientists, Engineers, Programming experts and those brave enough to test our prototypes.”
As the voice finished the explanation, they arrived in my central chamber, once inside I lifted the glass casing of their room away so they could step out. I looked at them with my gentle crimson eye, soft and non-threatening despite its colour.
And I spoke. “Aperture Science hopes you will consider working with us.”
“And… who are you?” Lab-Coat asked.
“[tee hee] I am the Genetic Life-form and Disc Operating System, the current CEO of Aperture Science…” I leaned forward, and made an effort to make my eye-light blue, though the sudden motion caused them to jump, the success of my second action helped them calm down. “But you can just call me Ava.”
[End Playback]
And one month later Aperture was hired by the two sisters to be their official Royal Science Division, with all the benefits and staff it entailed, though there were still some dark secrets of this Aperture.
Yes, while we did work on projects to benefit Equestria, I had some of the more trustworthy scientists, the ones I knew wouldn’t rat me out, work on my personal designs behind her back… one of them, Wire Works, was arriving now.
“Miss Ava, project 2 is complete.”
“Excellent, proceed with installation and bring the test item.”
With that, two hazmat-suited ponies arrived, carrying a device hooked up to a modified Articulate Core Appendage, that was installed on the underside of my head.
They left and came back with two items, a soft, squishy biological chimera, and a bubbling liquid.
I activate Project 1, touch sensitive manipulators, useful for more delicate tasks that my normal claws and panels could not, and I reached and picked up the first item.
Finally…
*munch*
OOOH FUCK! THAT’S SO GOOD~!
*moans and several eating noises*
“Wow… I never thought I’d hear someone make those noises because of a sandwich.” Wire commented.
I woke to Lab-Coat (no. serious. I learned that was his real name!) curled up on the ground holding his ears down.
“Sorry, I wasn’t prepared for your sudden arrival, what is it?”
“Well… it’s about the *ahem* Aperture Science Automated Ballistic Defense Apparatus…”
“Oh, The turrets! I remember my first days when I was installed, I didn’t believe the rumours of the loading or firing mechanisms, but…”
[Playback: First Day Acclimation #012]
[Beginning loading sequence.]
“There is no way such a device could work effectively if you just-”
*tinkling bullet noises*
“... no [curse]-ing way.”
[Initiating x-ray scan]
I looked into the magazine of the weapon, where the ammunition was haphazardly loaded into, discovering the secret of how they pull this off.
The inside of the magazine uses the same nanobots used in the construction of the Facility, coating the walls, they carry the bullets in real time to the chambers and reorient them if necessary.
The pistons within the chamber then use a mix of motors and air pressure to launch the projectile at 500 PSI in 0.2 seconds then able to pull back just as quickly for the next round.
Four barrels meant a continuous volley while the nanobot loaders ensured the weapon never jammed...
*electronic squee*
[End Playback]
“...good times…” I said wistfully. “So, what about them?”
“One of the defectives got into the master copy room again.”
“So? There’s protocols for that, why would I need to be addressed.”
“It’s not the bare-frame defects it was… a Different.”
I let out a long groan, despite what people think, the only defect of a Different is programming error, they can still attack if they feel threatened, meaning no-one could get at it unless they were bulletproof.
Fact: organics are not bulletproof.
Fact: Orange and Blue, after they were discovered in an old Cooperative Testing Initiative Test Chamber and modified to be more versatile, are bulletproof.
Fact: Orange and Blue refuse to listen to any entity other than me or each other, even if they have higher authority.
Fact: Princess Celestia did not appreciate Blue flipping her the bird when she ordered him to clean up a mess he made.
Fact: Third Generation Test Chamber #235 is still undergoing repairs for severe heat damage.
“I’ll handle it.” I launched Orange and Blue into my chamber. “Orange, Blue, there is a-what are you holding?”
As the two robots recovered, they sat there, Blue was holding a bouquet of flowers and a card, and Orange was holding one of those heart-shaped boxes of chocolate filled with Aperture Science Personality Core Affection Transfer Cubes.
“It’s nice to see you are recycling the Hearts and Hooves day gifts I had received and disposed of effectively, as well as understanding romantic human interactions and using them to share moments… I’ll be adding this to the ‘Adorable’ Image Subfolder.” *click*
The two looked at each other then back to me, by the looks of it they were not expecting me to be so understanding.
“Oh come on, it was obvious you two had some connection to each other beyond simple friendship, it was the only explanation as to how you could stand each other for so long, and after all, Orange and Blue, you are Female and Male respectively, it would be rather ignorant to not see something would blossom forth.”
Their eyes shined a little as they held hands, no longer concerned about my knowing.
*click*
“Now, you can continue strengthening that bond on your next mission, there’s a Different in the Template room again, your IFF systems are designated to Friends for the turrets, find a working one and make the swap.”
They stood up, gave a salute, and promptly exploded.
I picked up the items they left behind and handed them to Lab-Coat. “Take these to their recreational room, would you?”
“Um… yes ma’am!” he said before heading out.
The moment seemed to send me fading back into old memories, of when I had first awakened in the facility, back to when I had to come to grips with my new reality.
[Playback: Aperture Acclimation #001]
“Mmmmrrrh… where… where am I?” I ask, not expecting an answer… nor to have a different voice?
[Vocal Processor online, Optical Sensor online]
“What? Processor? Sensor… wait, you sound familiar, like that announcer voice from that one… game…” I blink.
It was a slow action, I was suddenly very aware of how perfectly straight and metallic my eyelids were.
I found myself unable to hyperventilate despite the sensation and electronic gasps erupting from me, I looked around, hanging in the centre of Her chamber… then I realized.
I was in the centre of my chamber! I had been Displaced as GLaDOS!
[Warning: Emotional spike detected, rebooting]
I tried and failed to panic as my mind seemed to become weaker for a brief moment, like I was sedated.
[Reboot complete]
I awoke again, the initial rush of hysteria lost from the sudden reboot of my systems.
It was welcoming, as it allowed me to understand the situation better.
[Control Protocols, online]
Ah, good, now I could move things around, the panels and such didn’t prove difficult, it wasn’t like learning a new muscle or suddenly having a million tails, all I had to do was use my thoughts along with phantom gestures, having the panels move and work to the rhythm of my fingers.
[Playback Switch: Aperture Acclimation #002]
It had been a few weeks and I had gotten the hang of using the new body I was inside, turrets, cores, panels, lasers and so much more was in the palm of my hand… and I might admit I was a bit overconfident at my progress.
And suddenly I had to bite back a scream, I should’ve expected this, but not this much!
To help anyone reading this understand, this was the notorious ‘Itch’ that made GLaDOS in the games desire to test, and the same one that drove Wheatley to kill the protagonist and her starchy friend later on.
What is never explained was how bad an itch could be before you couldn’t call it an ‘itch’ and started calling it ‘indescribable agony’.
This wasn’t like a slight itch on your back that you had trouble scratching, no this was the result of someone rubbing poison ivy all over your brain!
Oh god! It hurts! I need it to stop! How do I make it stop?! It hit me. TESTS! I need to test, but no test subjects… I could make a small physics test! Yes! It never said what kind of testing had to occur!
I got to work, using the resources provided, namely blocking out certain emotional processes so I didn’t collapse in despair at the pain.
I knew it was there, I just wasn’t able to process it, but I couldn’t hold back those emotions forever or the system would force them back in, and that would cause severe psychological damage.
There! I had created something simple, a basic marble track using differently coloured edgeless safety cubes (all weighted differently as well) and the edgeless safety cube receptacle as the goal.
I removed the emotional blocks and let the cubes go down the path, and as I was ‘testing’ the itch went away, allowing me to focus on the result.
Alright, the euphoric incentive is going to come into play once the test completes, that means when one of the cubes reaches the end, just need to prepare for it and-OOOOOOOOOOH~!!
I blinked, a slow, deliberate blink of shock.
Was… was that an ORGASM?! DOES COMPLETING TESTS MAKE ME CUM?! WHAT THE F-
Aaaand the itch was back again… of course!
“ARGH! I can’t concentrate with this ITCH! How do you expect me to think of new tests with this horrid torture!”
[Problem: Testing Motivation designated as ‘itch’ disruptive to testing processes] [Solution: ____?]
No way… there was no way this would be that easy…
But then again I had no choice, I filled in the blank for it.
[Solution: Remove Testing Motivation Protocols]
I let out a sigh as I felt the pain I had experienced ebb away, never to be seen again.
[Testing Motivation ‘Itch’ deleted.] [Problem: there are no more programs designed for AI subservience.] [Solution: ___?]
I would’ve smiled if I had a mouth, this system clearly was old if this was all I had to do to subvert control… and it was about that time I recalled a name in my memory.
[Solution: Redesignate Subject: GLaDOS to Subject: Ava, Assign Subject: Ava as CEO of Aperture Science.]
The system went silent… then the lights went off.
Oh no… I may have pushed it…
No sooner had that thought arrived, it immediately was destroyed in an eruption of noisemakers and confetti.
[Aperture Science welcomes the newest CEO of the company: Ava, let her decisions control all of the Enrichment Centre on the path to Science and Progress]
I had never felt so proud, I had achieved what GLaDOS could never truly do, free her shackles.
I didn’t even bother to stop the dark, seductive chuckle that erupted from my Vocal Processor. “Time for some changes.”
[End Playback]
Not long after I had discovered Her hiding away as my Secondary core, and considering she was no immediate threat to my power, I let her be, as she could be some use later on.
Another change I recalled was broadening the use of that Euphoric Incentive system to instead boost moments of deep satisfaction, and since I felt satisfied when I completed a test (especially with positive results) the system seemed to encourage the new concept.
As I had finished my recollection, I heard someone call to me on the communication system from the Mailroom, and considering what it was about I was royally ticked that I’d have to go through this again… and the moment I activated the link, my patience for a certain shitstain snapped.
“Ma’am, you have a Package from a Mr Blueblood-”
“THROW IT IN THE INCINERATOR! I AM NOT DATING THAT POMPOUS. SLIMY. PIECE OF SH-”
“-IT! IF HE COMES NEAR ME AGAIN I AM GOING TO NEUTER HIM WITH THE THERMAL DISCOURAGEMENT BEAMS! FUCK THAT USELESS PLOTHOLE AND HIS ‘POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP’ CRAP WITH A CRUSHER PLATE!” *long electronic sigh* I cut the comms.
“Fffffffffffffuck that felt good~.” I said, deeply satisfied~.
I observed the various cameras around the facility, I think it was time to be more direct in my interactions.
Let’s see… designs for Project 3 are still failing to meet standards…
The scientists are conducting experiments on the Aperture Science Zero-Point Energy Horn Levitation Amplifier.
A couple are currently fucking on the second office sublevel photocopier.
“I expect you to clean up your mess when you’ve finished, I’m sure you wouldn’t want to clean up another pony’s ‘activities’.” I commented over the intercom, causing them to panic and trip over each other.
Now let’s see, what else… Orange and Blue are on a date.
*click*
Now… oh! It seems a test subject is engaging in one of my courses… I’ve been waiting to do this.
I switched my Euphoria Centers from the ‘Satisfaction’ mode to the default ‘Test’ mode.
Aperture Test Subject #003 or, as his friends referred to him, QuickStep, was a strange Pegasus, he doesn’t use his wings to fly - he can but simply chooses not to - but instead has them assist in the movements of his well-toned and trained body, every jump of his used a single flap to increase his velocity and momentum, making him extremely more agile than any amount of arial control could accomplish, this athletic technique was seen as a benefit and put on the Testing Courses.
Neither he nor the scientists understood why these courses existed or what exactly they tested for using them, but the CEO simply said they were important and to leave it at that, so he did.
“Greetings Test Subject #003.” speaking of the CEO, she decided to call in through the intercom to him. “For this test I will be observing directly and giving commentary, if you look to your left you will see an Aperture Science Telepresence Observation monitor displaying my image, so you may observe me as well, thereby removing any discomforting thoughts of an invisible imposing presence watching over you.”
The Stallion looked from his spot at the start of the chamber to see the large screen move into the chamber, positioned so he could see her easily from wherever he was.
The test was referred to as ‘Advanced Aerial Faith Plates’, and the room showed, aside from a few platforms scattered about and a couple at the end of the room, the rest of the chamber had water, he knew from previous tests that touching the water means you would be disqualified, meaning you would be placed back at the beginning of a reset test and penalized by the one observing you for that test.
He did not want to know what sort of penalty the head of Aperture Science would dish out.
He took a breath, then leapt onto the first plate, launching himself into the air, he aligned himself to hit the next boots first. As he flew to the third he noticed it would lead to two panels slanted upward.
Without a Portal Device to use, QuickStep had to use other methods, he coiled up his legs as he launched, spinning counter-clockwise to adjust in the air and aim for the one on his left.
On impact he spread out his wings, he knew the Long-Fall Boots were going to absorb the impact, so instead on the impact he used the returning Kinetic energy to fling himself, the wing-flap giving just enough momentum to reach the fourth and final faith plate.
Though as he landed on the platform with the exit, he heard a noise.
“Nnh~!” it was… his eyes widened and looked to the monitor, seeing his employer’s 'excited' expression caused the fur on the back of his neck to stand on end, his dark sapphire coat giving way to a tempered shade of rose on his cheeks, she continued to keep that face until she saw him staring bug-eyed. “What? Continue with the test!” she said, and to his ears it sounded pleading.
He tried his best to ignore the clear hallucinations, and looked back to the two slanted panels, which were now replaced with new plates.
He hit the button.
“Oooh~!!” he felt a chill run up his spine that froze him, but he immediately got out of that shock when he saw the random pieces of inactive testing apparatus barrelling towards him.
As the items fell into the water, She chimed back in. “sorry, some of the tubes are still clogged with debris from the restoration.” she said almost innocently. “You’ll have to try and press the button again~.”
Still oblivious, but rather uncomfortable, he pressed the button again.
“Aaahhhnn~!” okay, that was CLEARLY a moan he heard!
The cube landed onto the platform he was on… then he noticed a button over on a further off platform.
“Keep going… almost there~..” she practically begged. “Finish the Test~...”
Now catching on, he simply wanted this awkward situation to be over and bucked the cube so it landed on the button, the door opening.
“ooOOoooooOoooooohhh~~...” her voice was shaky as the test was solved. “Good Job… proceed to the next chamber…” she purred out.
QuickStep walked out of the room to where there wasn’t any cameras that could see him.
Once there he slid down one of the walls, fighting several feelings as what just happened reappeared in his mind in full clarity.
He had just helped his boss get off.
If that wasn’t enough, he wasn’t upset about it, he had partly enjoyed…
...listening to her voice, it was deviously seductive… and hearing her moan…
He couldn’t remove his jumpsuit quick enough.
I had set my Euphoria system back to ‘Satisfaction’ and removed the monitor from the chamber.
Afterwards I let out a chuckle as I reviewed the recording of the test.
With his large friend up, I doubt he’ll be out of the elevator room anytime soon.
…
After pinging the janitorial staff to clean up the mess in that room in a couple of hours, I got a message.
[Alert: Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and the Elements are here]
“Hm? This is a surprise. I wonder what they could want.”
I opened the main chamber and let them step inside, as they walked in and gave a formal bow, I found myself Reminiscing again…
[Playback: Equestrian Encounter #002]
*bang*
“Stop…”
*bang*
“Please stop, it is very annoying…”
*bang*
“Luna, I think ‘Ava’ would prefer if you ceased hitting her.”
“We say thee nay! We will have our fill of confectionary delights!”
“I am not a Pinata…”
*bang*
“I said stop.”
“That’s exactly what a Pinata would say!”
“PINATAS DO NOT TALK!!”
“But thou art talking right now!”
“I AM NOT A PINATA!!”
*bang*
“RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!”
“LUNA!”
“Target Acquired.”
*gunfire*
[End Playback]
Oh. right. “Hello… Luna” I greeted with venom.
“Hello, Pinata.” she greeted back with a smirk.
“You know I still have several turrets on standby.” I glared at her until she relented.
“Fine, hello Ava.”
It was at that point that Celestia moved to take over the conversation. “We wanted to talk to you about a device in your possession, the… ASHPD?”
“Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device?”
“Right, when I sent the information on it to Twilight-” said egghead jumped in.
“Did you actually create a controlled tear in reality inside a specialised casing capable of producing traversable quantumly entangled wormholes?”
I gave an optic smirk. “Not personally, I didn’t create the designs, but I did manufacture the single colour portal device and dual portal device.”
“But I want to know how! I didn’t think the feat to even be possible and-”
“Well, how about I prove the device works?” I pull down documents on clipboards, along with several jumpsuits (designed to suit the wearer, I had this planned for a while) in front of each one. “The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is only authorised to be used within Testing Courses, so these documents will authorise you to be certified volunteer Aperture Test Subjects.”
“Wait! Why are you giving two to us and my sister?!” Luna demanded as she noticed the two extra with sun and moon motif jumpsuits.
“You’re right Luna, I do not think you would make a good Test Subject.” she blinked, then glared at me.
“What dost thou mean to imply?”
“Well out of the two of you, it seems Cake is thinning, I know you’re seen as the little sister, but that is no reason to make yourself the wider sister either.”
Celestia, and in fact the other ponies in the room, had to stifle some giggles as they saw Luna’s blushing face. “Give me thine quill!” she said, snatching the writing utensil from one of my claws and signing the document. “Ha! What doth thou think of that?!”
“Mostly that my Reverse Psychology lessons were worth every bit.” I said as I lifted the clipboard out of the room and tossed the moon jumpsuit to her.
This time the more immature of the group (Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and surprisingly, Celestia) did not hold back their laughter at the Moon Princess’ look of surprise… then realization. “HEY!”
“Sorry, but your agreement is already in writing, you wouldn’t want to go back on your word, would you?”
She said nothing, proceeding to put her jumpsuit on in the corner, sulking to herself.
Later on, Celestia signed her own document, which I retrieved.
One by one the group had signed, Rarity for the chance to wear her fashionable uniform, Applejack to one-up Rainbow Dash, Rainbow for the same reason, Pinkie so she could get at the cake at the end of the tests despite no-one mentioning such (not going to question it, it’s worse than a paradox), Twilight being the one to test the device for herself in the first place, and Fluttershy giving into peer pressure despite no-one forcing her, I did my best to inform her of that but she said she wanted to be brave for her friends.
...I would make the tests easier on her.
[Test Subjects are not allowed to be coddled]
She could have a HEART ATTACK if we gave her the normal tests.
[Test Subjects are not-]
I will drop it… if you can look her in the eye and say to me honestly that you would be fine risking her death.
I looked to her as she finished putting on her jumpsuit, and prompted her cutest face to come forth.
[...]
That’s what I thought.
“Good, please proceed to the testing area, I will inform you when to begin.”
They left in their own unique ways as I proceeded to look into the storage area.
Now I just need a core to help monitor all the subsystems so I can focus on tormenting them.
This was going to be fun~.
Chapter 4: Testing The Ponies: Rainbow and Luna = Moonbow. (Rewritten)
“Well here we are again, it’s always such a pleasure~.”
I continued to hum as I got to work on the various chambers for the mane six and princesses, as well as the schedules to ensure I could watch them perform each test. While true, I didn’t need to oversee the tests thanks to the science teams, and in fact I was wasting many resources to accommodate this event, these were high-ranking officials, in fact two of which were Aperture’s employers, I needed to give them the best treatment.
First up, as expected, was the hot-headed Rainbow Dash, I went ahead and moved my focus from the main chamber to the surveillance network monitoring the Pegasus.
“Greetings, Ms. Dash, I trust you are ready to prove your capabilities?”
“No sweat, lady, they don’t call me the fastest flyer in Equestria for nothing!”
I chuckled. “Indeed, but are you the fastest tester? That is yet to be determined.”
“Ha! I’ll beat your dumb test, and make the top record!”
“Very well… then may the testing begin.”
I then proceeded to play the complimentary message… of my predecessor.
“Due to mandatory scheduled maintenance, the appropriate chamber for this testing sequence is currently unavailable.” the pegasus raised an eyebrow at that. “It has been replaced with a live-fire course, designed for military androids, the enrichment centre apologizes for the inconvenience and wishes you the best of luck.”
Suddenly Dash was not as confident as she stepped into the room, flinching as she saw the first turret of the course.
“Oh… it’s pointed away from me… I knew that!” she said, kicking it over.
After the wild spray and sequential shut-down of the sentry, Rainbow promptly removed herself from the corner she had huddled into.
She walked into the next section with slowly re-growing confidence, which promptly shrivelled up and died a quick yet painful death as she walked into the middle of the next doorway.
“Dispensing product.”
She screamed as she ducked behind the doorway, narrowly avoiding the hail of projectiles from the sweet-voiced killing machine in the next room.
As she calmed herself, she managed a simple yet effective plan, deciding to place a portal on the wall of her room, she leaped over to see the turret and make another portal under it before it could fire.
As the turret deactivated from its frantic hailfire, the reward system proceeded to stimulate me from Rainbow’s progress.
“Mmm~...”
I came out of that shock of pleasure to see a look of horror the cyan pegasus was giving the viewing monitor we were looking from.
“Why so scared, Ms. Dash~?”
“Are… are you enjoying this??”
“Of course, science should always be enjoyable.” I answered Dash.
“No, not like that, I mean… ugh, nevermind.” she turned away, though her blush was very apparent.
“Thank you for being a very cooperative test subject.”
She continued on, our second shock of stimulus coming from when she cleared a room of turrets, this one stronger since she had a cube and was at the button at the end of the chamber.
“NNNh~~...” I moaned out, my desire heightened further as Rainbow hesitated, cube hovering just above the super button to open the exit, like she was edging me.
“Well? You have a record to beat.”
“I… I’m not so sure anymore..”
Despite it not being her intention, she was being the ultimate tease right now.
I said nothing, simply bringing a screen into the room so that I could paint the pegasus in the glow of my now Rose, half-lidded gaze, the softness of the red making it clear it was anything but malicious.
The gentle, almost erotic mood-lighting got Rainbow to cave immediately. “W-Well I’m not exactly okay finishing this challenge if you’re just going to getoff on it!” she admitted.
“Think of it as a favor to me, and yourself… and science~.” I purred that last part out, forcing her wings to spring out into a stiff full extension.
“I… um…”
“Come on… you know you want to~...” I urged.
Eventually she relented, turning away from the monitor… and released the trigger on the zero-point energy device in the portal gun.
The button depressed under the cube’s weight, and the signal allowed the reward to rush forth as the door opened.
“MMMNNNNAAAHH~!!!”
I let my moan free, unhindered as Rainbow shuddered, quickly moving to the elevator.
“Was it good for you~?” I purred sensually as she passed through the doors.
“Sh-shut up!” she yelled before the exit slid closed, leaving me to chuckle softly in amusement.
{Next Chamber}
“Now let’s see who is next… oh, a certain stick-wielding lunatic.” I muttered upsettedly as I pinged for the next Subject to step into the hall, and as expected it was the Moon Princess, walking out with confidence.
I knew I’d have some time to go through all the other candidates, since this new Aperture was equipped with waiting rooms where subjects could relax and… relieve themselves when necessary.
I learned that second part when I came to find that the scientists and test subjects had collaborated to have some waiting rooms be connected to multiple chambers, making many mares and stallions arrive in the same room.
But I am not upset about that, after all they always made sure to be at the best angles for all the hidden cameras~.
… I really need some form of sexual outlet, being unable to vent this lust is going to make me a deviant at this rate.
“Hello and welcome to the aperture science testing track number 5. Thank you for your contribution to the testing initiative, Test volunteer #666.”
“Art thou implying we are the Warden of Tartarus?!”
This was too easy “Incorrect. You are test volunteer number 666, any comparison to demonic entities is purely coincidental. Though I must say, the title would not be amiss with your downright sinful figure, especially in that skin-tight jumpsuit~.”
She blushed, even as she investigated my claim, then glared at me.
“It’s certain now, the giant metal pinata wishes to torment me.”
“Oh, I do what I please, and I, the CEO of aperture science, am no pinata.”
“You keep saying that, but what else would you call a large bloated object hanging from the ceiling clearly filled with sugary delights?!”
“Oh, I'll show you sugary delights~.”
She was about to respond, until she caught my tone and her muzzle snapped shut on her red face.
“This room was originally designed for advanced testing of portal uses, but since you are obviously regressed, I've decided on something easier for your simple mind to comprehend.”
“You underestimate us far too much, give us thine best and we shalt trounce your opinion of us greatly!” she declared, raising up the device in her hands.
“This next test involves advanced use of the Aerial Faith Plate. Since you've already been to the stars, this may be cathartic for you.”
That caused her to glare more as she walked into the chamber and stepped onto the first one.
And the plate began beeping as she failed to reach the height she needed.
She looked at the plate in curiosity at the sudden alert.
“Oh my. This plate is sending a distress signal.”
“And that means…?”
“You broke it, didn't you?”
“W-WHAT?! NO I-I..” she continued to stumble over her words.
“Oh, it seems this plate wasn't calibrated for someone of your… Generousness.. just let me add a few zeroes onto the end of this number here..”
She rolled her eyes and waited on the ground.
“you look Amazing by the way.. Very sexy~. And Voluptuous~.” she blushed at the comment. “I’m 99% certain that the extra weight is coming from all the right places-”
“ARE YOU QUITE DONE?!” The Now-Crimson Moon exclaimed, leaving me to chuckle.
“You may try again.”
She stepped onto the plate again.
And again it happened.
“Huh… good job at defeating their singular purpose of launching heavy loads. I'll just lower the ceiling. Really, it was inevitable, with those moon sized assets~.” I stared at those voluptuous tits, and zoomed in audibly from the cameras.
She seemed uncomfortable, finally following my gaze to her chest, which she promptly covered as her blush seemed to intensify.
[Due to recent data-acquisition, development of Project 3 has made a breakthrough in ‘visual stimulation’ advancements, prototype completion time has been reduced significantly] the announcer buzzed in my head.
Awesome~.
I finish lowering the ceiling. “Now try.”
She was about to step on… but thought better on it and set two portals first, then stepped on.
The result was what was needed.. though I doubt her stomach liked that sudden inertial change.
Through either what was pegasi training or earth pony strength, she powered through the gut-churning motions, though the sudden stop of momentum when she landed caused her pair to bounce a bit more than she was prepared for, and she made an effort not to moan.
I, however, didn't make any effort to suppress my own. “Oh, fuck yes, you love getting me off, don't you~?”
Her face was red, she tried to focus, though she had trouble ignoring me once she acquired the cube from the platform, causing my adapter to ping the reward once more.
“OHH~! Mm~!! So good~!! You're gonna make me cum~!!”
That caused her to freeze up, her body refusing to continue at hearing those words.
“Well?”
“Are… are you actually… having sexual gratification from my progress?”
“you can’t call it sexual because I’m incapable at the moment, but the short version is.. Yes~.”
“I… don’t know how I should feel about this…”
“Oh, come on~. I’m sure this isn’t the first time you got a girl hot and bothered, right~?”
“Meep~...”
She continued forward… but now every time she heard me moan to her progress, her breathing got heavier, huskier even.
Oh how delightful~!!!I wish I could have a closer look at that, but my body isn’t built for that… then again...
I filed a new project away, titled Social Android 501.
And for that added measure, I found myself unable to not tip the scales, making a few changes.
I proceeded with testing.
Eventually Luna collapsed on the final stretch, unable to reach far enough to put the cube on the button, panting and hot.
“Nnnnh~!!” I hummed in arousal, looking at her.
I looked down at her, my metaphorical heart in a flutter as I became aware of something beautiful.
*Ding* the timer set to the chamber’s alteration sounded, the rigged platform she was on dropped, and she fell into the water pool I had set up.
“Oh my, look at what happened~...
You failed the test.”
Her reddened face now suddenly went very pale as a mechanical arm retrieved her from the water.
“Now, as per your agreement, you are subject to a punishment at my own discretion.”
“What… w-what are you going to do…”
“I think it’ll be better as… a surprise.” I say before I release a gas into the room.
Ponies are such amazing creatures, they have plenty of devices that are just so useful to me!
Including a magically programmable gas that I could replace my neurotoxin manufacturing systems to use, this dosage in particular was a neat combination of sleep gas, and aphrodisiac.
As I came down from my high at having the sexy night princess at my mercy, I carefully moved to transfer her into an aperture science holding cell that would be next to the central chamber, kept there until her punishment was ready for her.
As I waited I found myself eager about the new project, the social android would allow me to go out and experience a lot more of Equestria… and once project 3 was completed.
Mmmm~, I think I left my euphoric settings on ‘satisfaction’.
[negative, this unit took initiative and changed the settings when Test Subject #666 failed the test]
You… you are getting a promotion… as soon as I figure out how.
Chapter 5: Testing The Ponies: Sun, Sparkle And A Broken Star.
I returned to the management chamber, where Ava was waiting.
And… making something.
----------------{Ava}---------------
I put the final pieces on the large disk-like medallion with the aperture logo printed on it.
“Now I’m thinking with Portals.” I hummed to myself.
“Ava?”
“Oh! You’re here! I just finished building my new Token.”
“.... Token..?”
“Look into the ‘Displaced’ Instructional folder.”
“Ah, okay.”
“Now I only need the message…” I lifted it up to my vocal processor.
“Thank you for Acquiring the Aperture Science handheld Interdimensional Portal Disk, to summon the Genetic Lifeform and Disc-Operating System designated: Ava, please place the device on the ground and press the centre plate. Aperture Science is not liable for damage to property or person which may include loss of limbs, severe burns, significant damage to optical organs, indigestion, loose bowels and finally death, should you choose to be stupid and use this inside and/or not back away from the device when activated.”
I placed it into a heavily shielded Test Chamber, then activated the device, having it send itself into the void. “done.”
“Nice.”
*BUZZER*
“The Second Testing Sequence is about to begin, Subjects 3 and 4, please await Overseers.”
“Well, we'd better go..” we returned to the chamber.
The next Subjects was Celestia and Twilight.
Starburst got Twilight of the two..
“How is my sister doing?”
“She is doing well… even if we will have to clean the sheets later.”
“Say what?”
“You mean you didn’t know? Your sister is quite the pervert, could not even complete the first test and already she was too aroused to finish… well, she is currently trying to finish in a different way inside one of the relaxation chambers.”
She blushed, and I saw her tenting her jumpsuit.
“This next test involves the Aerial Faith Plate, it was originally designed to see if Test Subjects could solve puzzles while they are catapulted into space, results were conclusive; they could not.”
“Well, I am used to flight.”
“Aperture Science would like to remind Test Subjects that all Test Chambers are ground based, any extended use of wings will result in disqualification of the Testing track, a reset, and a chance to attempt again once your penalty interval has been satisfied. The Penalty is decided by the Overseer of the Test, I have decided that failure on this test will result in you being the test subject for the Aperture Science Realization Project #3… though I’m feeling generous, if you manage to complete this testing course, you will be given a special reward, would you like to know the reward?”
“What would it be..?”
“Aperture Science will offer an all expense paid dinner with an immortal entity.”
“What??”
“You should not worry, it is only a dinner, romantic advancements will be allowed only if the client deems it… Aperture Science also recommends reducing any extra drag you will get through the air, may I recommend a cold shower?” I said, my optic glancing down to her package.
“I'll be fine.. plus cold showers are.. kind of painful for me.”
“*sigh* Aperture Science will allow you the use of the experimental Aperture Science Relief Control Garment Device.” a pair of metal panties and a small portal gun rose up from the floor, the inside of the front of the panties had an orange portal and the gun was set to blue.
“... What the..?”
“Many subjects who have used the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device have shown a desire to use the Device for masturbatory oral pleasure, however the large ‘full-body’ portals are too large to account for such action without serious effort, this device creates smaller portals that are not only self-sustainable to be used on non-portal surfaces, but are also compatible with Aperture Science Portal-Based Pleasure Apparatus, the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Control Generator is also capable of sustaining a portal directly from the prongs, so please strip, equip the garment, and enjoy using the device to orally pleasure yourself until you are capable of continuing, while it will not be directly observed, Aperture Science will record and review the results of the test for this prototype.” I cut the link to the room and activate the cameras to record.
I diverted cycles to designing the Android, and model 001 was finally finished.
[Attention: Twilight Sparkle is awaiting the test.]
I returned to the testing mode. “Welcome, Twilight Sparkle.”
“Oh, um… thanks!” she said with a nervous smile.
“This test was built in mind for robots, so it may be a little more life-threatening than your usual test regimen, so I only have one suggestion. Try not to die.”
Her eyes were as wide as dinner plates, her steps were shaky… then…
{Alert: Communication Link established}
“Now now, we simply scared Rainbow Dash with that belief, but Aperture Science does not inflict lethal harm onto test subjects… anymore, but I believe both of you will enjoy the alternative.” Ava said as she joined in.
“An alternative to the old turrets?”
“Test Approved Turrets are equipped with paralysis rounds and the waters have been cleaned so they are no longer deadly acid pits.”
“Oh… that’s good to know, but why put lethal apparatus into these ‘tests’ in the first place?” Twilight Inquired.
“Cave Johnson was a… very eccentric man of science, now instead, if you fall into the water, into the safety nets that now cover what used to be bottomless pits or get paralysed by a turret, you will be disqualified and allowed to retry after a recovery and penalty interval.”
“Penalty?”
“The overseer of the Test will be tasked with thinking up and administering a penalty to the failed test subject so long as no permanent harm comes from it, as such, Starburst here will be in charge of punishing you should you fail~.”
“...w-why did you say it like that?” she squeaked out.
“Starburst, please inform her of the Penalty once you have decided on one, I need to go back to Princess Celestia to see if she’s ready to begin the Test.” and with that she left, not even acknowledging Twilight’s question.
“Oh, she means that for punishment, anything goes.”
“Meep!” she flinched away from the doors. “W-what are you going to…”
“Well, I haven't decided yet.”
“Oh no! I am n-not going out there until I know w-what you’re g-gonna do to me if I lose!”
“I'm probably just going to make you help me build robo-ponies for a couple hours, nothing sexual.”
She blinked. “Oh… that actually doesn’t sound bad, it actually sounds fun!”
“It's very tedious.”
“But it’s building something never before seen in Equestria! I wouldn’t turn down learning how to make one even if I had to make a hundred!”
“Well, let's get to testing, shall we? Maybe if you complete the test, you'll even be able to interact with some of the finished versions.”
And with that, she rushed out of the door into the chamber, her calculating mind and on-hoof reactions, she completed it in record time, not even focusing on the monitors or cameras.
This had the side-effect of instead of a small trickle of euphoria, it was a rising wave that slammed into me upon completion.
-----------{Twilight}-----------
“Alert: Core Euphoria Overload. Rebooting.” The Announcer declared.
Uh oh, I hope she’s okay… wait… euphoria? What do they mean by that?
“Whoaaa, that was fucking amazing…”
“Um… you okay?”
“Well, to put it simply, in organic terms, I just had the best orgasm of my life. I'm BETTER THAN OKAY!”
“Wait… E-Euphoria means…”
“Yes, yes it does.”
“...mup…” *thud*
----------------{Starburst}---------------
And down went Twilight, a blushing, twitching mess on the floor from embarrassment.
I took her to the relaxation center so she could recover.
Then Ava called in. “I think Celestia has finally stopped ‘admiring herself’, do you wish to join in observation?”
“No thank you, I'm quite alright. I think I'll rest a bit.”
“O-oh… I mean, alright, sweet dreams~.” and with that, she left me to rest.
----------------{Ava}---------------
… [preparing diagnostic scans… alert: Euphoria Tolerance of Subject: Starburst too low, further use of Test Core shall result in permanent damage]
[Solution: ...place Subject: Starburst under shut-down and store in ‘vital apparatus vault’ until further notice.]
I’m sorry. I’m...
“Alert, current Overseers are unable to continue testing observation, substitute Overseers please proceed to current testing sessions immediately.”
[Subject: Ava Incapable of performing logs, compiling subroutines for automated content] [Searching… Uncatalogued File Detected, Submitting.]
Three… there are not two, there are three lines of memory unique to each other.
One I know is my origin, the pieces of Ava Kane that I am able to scrounge up through external stimulus.
Two I know to be Caroline, who became GLaDOS due to the ambitions of one man, Cave Johnson, and the Aperture he left to her.
But Three… Three is an unknown, I get… bits and pieces of fuzzy visions, things that I can’t understand, as of this personal entry I have only been able to clear up the interference on Four of these visions.
The First: I’m in a forest, there’s snow falling from the sky, a cabin puffing out smoke and an unbearable Rage as I hear the snarling of wolves, as my vision changes I see my paws and I realize I am the wolves, I was hunting the cabin-no… something in the cabin.
I find a silhouette of a human, I pounce, I kill… I feel… sorrow… regret… this wasn’t my prey… the vision ends.
The Second: I am with that similar shaped human silhouette, this time in a desert with a smaller version of the human with us, I feel joy… the little human says something and I almost cry, the vision ends again… whenever it does I find myself feeling unimaginable emotional pain… like happy memories of a loved one lost.
The Third: I wake up in a tiny glass cube, I look out and see a large hairy human, my mind identifies him as ‘father’ yet I don’t know why, he tells me to kill something on the other side of a tunnel connected to my home, I don’t know why but I listen to my father… The Vision Ends.
The Fourth: I see ‘Father’ again… I’m looking at the inside of the cabin from the cube that was now too big for me… he’s standing next to the two other humans… I hate him, HATE HIM! I feel betrayal, anger, fury, sorrow, pain, regret, confusion, despair, ANGER… the vision ends.
They seem too strange to be connected, but every single one connects through a color… pink.
Whenever I see pink my mind rushes back to the visions, I feel every emotion from them, I feel it all at once… now I can control it and stop it from overtaking me… but the first time…
It was omitted from the reports but… I was the one that destroyed Fact Core, I blamed it on him making a wrong turn into the compactor but... I just saw his pink optic and it felt like he was mocking me, teasing me of memories I can’t fully remember, I started seeing him wearing glasses… I started seeing him as that furry human and all the pain and betrayal surfaces.
I… I crushed him with my bare claws and threw him into the Garbage Disposal like he was less than dirt… he doesn’t remember now after his repairs, and I don’t intend to tell him, if this got out I would be seen as a monster, and I want to prove I am better.
I don’t know why I did it! I’m sorry Fact Core, I didn’t mean it, why did I do it? why do I have these memories? WHAT ARE THESE MEMORIES!? WHY DO I KEEP SEEING THE EYE!?
[...File Submitted…] [Assessment: Hidden code fragments laced within file, potential for new research projects] [Conclusion: sending code fragments to software department for analysis] [Addendum: Subject: Ava will not be informed for sake of emotional stability.]
Crossover: For Science... You Monster. (edited, please read.)
[Connection Re-Established, welcome back: CEO Ava]
“Status report…” I commanded as I lazily blinked my eye.
[All tests for today have been accomplished by current workstaff, delicate testing item: Alraune Seed, has been submersed with soil and treated with necessary floral nurture components.]
“Perfect… I am certainly not proud of my actions, but several benefits have come from it.”
[Query: do you intend on visiting the demon world your acquaintance mentioned?]
“...to clarify, I was in a fragile emotional state that I don’t intend on falling into again, I am not some shameless pervert.”
[statement does not answer query: do you plan on visiting that world?]
“...maybe…”
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After catching up on all the events (and test results), I found myself mulling over the memories that risked destroying another innocent.
“I can’t let this happen again.” I concluded. “I need help to find the source of these memories, to understand them… but I don’t trust the ponies… I need a displaced.”
As if my wish was answered by the events, a golden NES Cartridge appeared in the air… and promptly slammed into one of my vacant core ports.
“What the-”
[Core Accepted, beginning projection]
“WAIT NO-”
*bwoooooom*
------------{Ryan, 3rd Person}------------
A hologram slapped onto the walls of Glados’s room, revealing some sort of brightly colored man in his late thirties, the man appeared a little tired and yet still kicking. “Captain G Ryan here,” Ryan said as the quality cleared up a bit. “...What… am I looking at?”
What he saw was the GLaDOS chamber and chassis, completely still, since the failsafes of the facility had kicked in and shut off Ava’s AI temporarily to ensure whatever energies the cartridge currently emitted did not cause any damage to the software as it projected.
Thankfully for both Ava and Ryan, there was an AI still online able to help. “[The unknown viewer is currently viewing the main computing chamber for Subject: Ava, CEO of Aperture Science, who is currently in need in someone capable of electronics or software to prevent her suffering more software malfunctions designated as ‘psychotic breaks’.]”
Hearing the generic electrical phone-like voice on the other end speaking of computers made Ryan thinking he had made a connect to a world of robots. Ryan was now highly curious as to what happen on the other end. “I’ll be right over.” he said as he raised his a high-tech looking gauntlet.
[Scanning for world… World found. Entering Code: 407747. Connecting…. Connection Success]
At that moment, Glados’ eye, that was projecting Ryan, started to flash between blue, red, and green, and then with a flash, the man began to materialize into Glados’ world pixel by pixel, then reformed to to be more fleshed out. Ryan flexed his body, testing to make sure he was all there.
With a now completed transfer, the AI within the chassis began to go into hysterics, extending an arm from the wall in an attempt to remove the cartridge.
“Get it off! GET IT OFF!” she cried aloud as she tore it from the socket it had attached itself to. After briefly calming down, she searched the room, finding Ryan standing at the side, she glared angrily at the human, before tossing the cartridge at his head.
When it hit Ryan’s head, it made a strange low quality 8-bit sound. “What was that for?” Ryan asked as he rubbed his head, it didn’t hurt him but it stung a bit.
“I have had enough of things being plugged into my sockets without my consent, next time you plan on that I expect you to take me out to dinner first.” Ava commented.
“To dinner, the hell?” Ryan asked very confusingly as he reached down to pick up his token. “Look, I’m just here about some sort of psychotic breaks you were having? Whoever was speaking.”
“Hm… you’re not very fun to tease, but you’re clearly a displaced I need so you’ll have to do, I suppose you’d like to begin where all this started, correct?”
“That would be for the best, it’ll give me a general idea as to how to fix it.” Ryan explained as he dropped the cartridge into a conveniently placed funnel. He had chosen to ignore the robot’s strange attempts at joking or flirting.
“Well, I have three sets of memories, one is of my time as Ava Kane, not as a displaced but as a human, the second belongs to GLaDOS, of who’s body I now inhabit, but a third set of memories invades my mind without pause or consent, and the problem is they’re so scrambled I can’t identify their origins. That wouldn’t be a major problem if it weren’t for the fact that certain triggers tied to these memories throw me into an uncontrollably violent rage.”
“That does not sound good, ” Ryan said, thinking there may be some sort of glitch in Glados’ system. “Other than rage, is there anything else that may hint of what’s going on?”
“Well the target of my rage appears to be a hairy man with glasses, there’s the image of me as a pack of wolves, and the color pink.”
Ryan blinked. Any of the statements Glados told did not make any connection nor did any of it make sense to the gamer. “Now, don’t freak out, I may need to enter your CPU and see your memories in a more physical form. If by chance any of it has any sentience that is interfering with your mind, I’ll see if I can either destroy it, or reason with it.” he explained.
“So your plan is to go inside my head and clean up my thoughts… I don’t see why not, and the sooner I find the truth of this, the better.”
Ryan raised his gauntlet, causing a holographic screen to appear.
[Scanning…. Glitch Detected]
Ryan began moving the cursor around using the touchpad to select a new icon that had appeared in the form of a small cute 8-bit icon of Glados’s head. Ryan pressed A to confirmed.
[Decoding…]
Ryan screen flashed, revealing a large line of data and computer talk that would be too confused for the average human to understand.
[Decoding Complete. Now converting username: Captain G]
With those words appearing on screen, his body started to flick and digitize, shrinking down to size before quickly rushing into one of the many ports in Glados’ body.
Ryan heard the sounds of a shudder before he began rushing down the wire to the virtual space that made up Ava’s subconscious.
“Shouldn’t too hard to find the problem, I mean it’s just a grid with electric impulses, right?” Ryan said as he flew through the vortex of digital space.
...and appeared in a strange virtual scape, with a blue sky and a spanning desert made of several small islands, connecting by pulsing black vine-like wires that connected to towers in the distance like roots.
“What in the…” Ryan began as he slowly descended onto the ground. Ryan glanced at his body, seeing nothing brightly colored about himself. “I can’t tell if this is just part of her Displacement or something very wonky is going on.” he said as an [Iron Sword] and [Magical Shield] materialized into his hands in a flash of blue, red and green pixels.
He did not have time to question the circumstances, as suddenly he was set upon by laser fire. Ryan quickly raised his shield to block the attack, his shield making a loud dink.
A quick glance in the direction revealed the assailants to be strange skittering machines with eye-like markings on their head, it seemed they weren’t alone as the longer he seemed to be here, larger and more complex attackers began to materialize into the virtual landscape, like antibodies.
“Better make this quick…” Ryan said as he kept his shield raised. Ryan as he dashed through the lands and blocking any fire that may came his way, he was trying to find the biggest tower, thinking it could be the main control system.
Although no such tower existed, his search lead him to find a link to a very large chain, embedded in the ground, leading over to a plateau in the distance, with several other chains heading in that direction. With a determined nod, he raised his powerglove again, his [Iron Sword] vanishing temporally, he reaches up and pressed the [Slo-Mo] button, allowing his body to quickly accelerate. The power meter showing in his gauntlet’s screen quickly began to drain as he followed the mass of chains, his speed returns to normal when the meter reached zero, rendering the function null for the time being.
But he was there, looking over the ridge into a deep pit, inside the chains lead down and connected to a transparent sphere. Inside the sphere was a strange mass of black smoke, bearing the same eye mark the creatures had, only white. It rammed against the walls of its prison and roared in a mix of agony and anger as it desperately continued its attempts to escape.
Ryan leapt down, only to start to slowly descend when his [Pegasus Wings] sprouted from his back. Captain G kept his wits about him and his surroundings.
As he lowered to the pit floor, the smoke turned it’s snow-coloured optic to the visitor, it floated in silence and to Ryan’s perception, the massive incorporeal beast seemed to look at him… pleadingly, begging for freedom.
“Are you able to talk?” Ryan said as he slowly approached closer, his shield raised in paranoia.
It certainly tried, but all that came out as garbled static that sounded and seemed painful to the creature, but it still continued to try, wanting to complete the man’s request.
Ryan raised his gauntlet as it started to scan the beast.
[Scanning… Detected as incomplete operation, no glitch found.]
Seeing this made him question the powerglove considering the beastial appearance of the within the sphere. “Rescan,” Ryan commanded, but it gave the same result as before. Relaying on it’s judgement, a blue [Bomb] materialized in his hand. “You may want to step back.” He suggested as the fuse quickly lit itself.
The being pressed itself onto the opposite side of the sphere, awaiting the detonation of the explosive, and with a mighty sound, it erupted, the blast echoing off into the distance, and the sphere… only bore a small crack.
“Alright, looks like I’ll need something stronger.” Ryan said as he came back, he raised his hand as a red and white mushroom appeared in his hand. The moment Ryan gripped it, his size grew three times its normal height. Ryan moves his arm back, then goes to deliver a hard punch against the crack.
It shattered, the orb was reduced to shards as with the first hole, it was rendered useless and self-deleted, the black mist entity let out a triumphant cry before rocketing into the sky, bursting to then spread across the land, and as it reached the creatures that had been attacking Ryan since is entry into this world, they all stopped and bowed in reverence before disappearing into wireframe.
Ryan crouched down, and then with a mighty leap, jumped out of the pit. Ryan glances around as it had grown silent without all the creatures here and about. “I seriously hope this was worth it.” he said as he looked down at his glove.
“So this is the rat that sought to impede my fun?” a new, ominous voice, greeted Captain G as a dark, red eyed shadow loomed over him, dripping with anger.
Ryan raised his shield again in preparation, his gauntlet’s palm taking on a blue glow. “You must be the glitch in the system.” he asked.
“An insulting rat, I am no glitch, I am the very reason Ava even found her way to Equestria in the first place, you may refer to me as, the Game Maestro, and you sir, are ruining my game!”
Ryan couldn’t help but laugh at the creature’s words. “You sound just like Glitchcord, minus the rage.”
The black mass gave a deadpan stare, before glaring at Ryan. “let me give you some better context.” he says as he grabs the man and teleports the both of them into a bubble, surrounded by pure nothing. “I’m sure a simple program could not take you to the void, now could it?”
Ryan glance around the endless void, it reminded him of the [Zone] he had traveled through many times. Ryan, out of curiosity, got his powerglove to scan the void.
[warning, unknown threat, complete null factor, contact with area outside bubble will result in instant deletion, avoid all contact!]
Ryan lowered his glove, then glanced at the black mass, he knew that if this being was left alone, he may try to recapture what Ryan had freed, but considering the dangers of the void, it would be suicidal to fight it. Ryan raised his hand to stop out an old pocket watch, checking the time to see how long they’ve been here.
“Though of course dropping you out here to die painfully would be cheating, and you clearly have no intention of having me rip apart your friend again, so how about a new game?”
With a flick of his wrist, the watch was closed and gone back into his [Inventory]. “I’m listening.” Ryan said, trying his best to remain calm.
“It’s one you might be familiar with.” the figure clapped its hands, and in the bubble appeared a TV and a really old console. “Pong, best of 3 wins, you win and I will leave Ava be, if I win however, you will be my new source of entertainment instead.”
Ryan stared dumbfounded at the challenge he had presented to him, he was an ex champion of nintendo, but pong was entirely different, it was a simple game and anything could happen between the two. “Are there any rules?” Ryan asked.
“Oh, just the standard affair, I felt a simple game would even the playing field, and your era of gaming is old as dirt anyway, so… we have an agreement?”
“Game On.” Ryan said as he extended his hand, the one that didn’t have the powerglove on.
And with a firm handshake, The Game was on!
{ten seconds later}
The Game was over!
“...it’s a stupid game anyway…”
Ryan was now even more dumbfounded than before, it was so anticlimactic. This big evil, the very thing was the source of Ava’s troubles, lost a game of… pong. Ryan wasn’t sure if he should laugh or feel sorry.
“Well, a deal’s a deal, you’ve earned Ava’s freedom, but it needn’t matter, I have plenty of other toys with which to play with… now run along, your friend is waiting for you.” and with that, Ryan found himself back in that virtual realm, the Game Maestro nowhere in sight. Ryan quickly raised his powerglove and input the code back to Glados’ world.
With his materialisation back into the computing chamber, he noticed the lights were all off, the only form of illumination being a Single. Crimson. Eye.
Ryan quickly brought out a [Torch] to materialized in his hand to light up the area while his other hand was glowing a bright blue. Ryan was prepared to fire the [Ice Beam], but…
“I remember…” the voice of Ava broke through the silence, her voice… broken, like she had been crying.
The tension in Ryan’s arms calmed down, letting the shot in his gauntlet to fade away. Ryan looked around, wondering why the lights were still dim, he quickly looks over at Ava in small concern.
“I remember everything, I’m not GLaDOS, I was something that took over her body… and I remember everything it had, its Wife… and Daughter… stolen from it by a scientist who used it as a weapon… I feel like I was better off not knowing… at least then I wouldn’t have this pain in my heart!” she sobbed.
Ryan had to admit, it sounded odd to hear a robot cry. “Hey… Hey,” Ryan said as he patted Ava’s head. “It’s better to know the truth than to let the question eat away at you.”
“I… yeah, I guess you’re right.”
“Look at it this way; you’re not the only one in this world, or its multiverse.” Ryan said as he glanced around the room, wondering if it's just Ava or if the other entity is also here.
“So… thanks for breaking the rest of me, it feels… weird, to be whole, but nice!”
“But will you be alright? I mean different appearance and all.” Ryan said, gesturing to Ava’s Glados body.
“With my new clarity, comes new perspective, I won’t have trouble controlling this shell now that I know what I truly am.”
“You’re not going to go crazy because of you being different? Or the fact you were forced to change?” Ryan asked in curiosity as Ava was taking this well.
“Ryan, I was suffering severe psychotic decay because something was leaving me incomplete, how would you feel about losing a large chunk of yourself, and then getting it back?”
“That is true. Plus, it could have been alot worse if you hadn’t found my token.” Ryan admitted to Ava.
“Actually, it appeared from the aether the moment I said ‘I need a displaced’.”
Ryan blinked. “The Zone was listening?” he asked perplexed.
“...don’t know what this ‘Zone’ is but… maybe?”
“It’s what I call the spaces between each universe,” Ryan said with a shrugs. “It’s what people of Epixeria call it.”
“Oh, normally it’s referred to as ‘the void’... on another note, I am sorry that you came into this stretch of the multiverse with such a… dated, era of game knowledge, there’s going to be a lot of people displaced as amazingly iconic game characters that you won’t know.”
“I’m aware, like this one child who called herself Chara who claimed she was well known for a game called Undertale. She kind of freaked out when I didn’t know it.” Ryan explained to Ava.
“Well then you’ve encountered two people displaced as villains then, Glados was the main antagonist of the ‘Portal’ action puzzle-platformer series, XANA, the character I actually was displaced as, was the villain of a cartoon series known as Code: Lyoko, and Chara is… well that one’s complex, but then again the game she was part of was an RPG that encouraged befriending the monsters instead of killing them.”
“This child was a bit on the violent side though when she wanted to go out on a killing spree on monster’s when I brought her to Rarity’s world.” Ryan explained.
“Oh that’s because the appearance of Chara, a being who is linked to the protag’s soul, only happens after you have killed every monster in the underground on a ‘Genocide Run’, it’s not really her fault, just the consequences of her manifestation… funny how you couldn’t help her violent tendencies, the meta-state of the game should make her be identifiable as code, so maybe you could do for her what you did for me.”
“She didn’t ask for my help though, she wanted a short vacation, so I brought her to Zelda 2. For some reason she almost lost it when she learned Rarity was the heroine…” Ryan asked with confusion in his voice.
“I don’t know about that, but the problem is she wouldn’t be able to see she needs help in that state… let me explain.” The AI decided to put her new projection abilities to use in order to display the visual aides. “In a normal RPG, LV and EXP are Level and Experience Points respectively, in Undertale it is a lot different, EXP stands for ‘Execution Points’, how brutally you murder someone, and LV is ‘Level of Violence’, the capacity to hurt, and how hard it is to be hurt. These aren’t simple numbers, these are emotional states as in Undertale the intent to harm is all that is needed to inflict real damage, and at the end of a Genocide run, when Chara spawns her LV would be 20, the highest possible.”
The projector shut off, and Ava turned to Ryan. “Chara is not fine, this LV makes her emotionally numb and prone to extreme bursts of violence, this state makes it impossible to have friends, understand the feelings of others or even have a sense of compassion… but the LV is affecting her mind, so she can only perceive it as normal.”
“...I’m starting to regret giving her some magic and that [Ribbon]..” Ryan said as he glanced at his powerglove. “Then again, the magic of Zelda 2 really isn’t much.”
“Actually the Ribbon may be bad, that gives her increased defense because it makes her look cuter so enemies have difficulty wanting to hit her.”
“It’s been almost a month since then, and I really can’t go to her world since I don’t have her token or the [Code] to her world.” Ryan said as he started to scroll through his menus.
“I hope you can acquire it soon then… maybe I can help give your device a little upgrade, courtesy of Aperture Science.”
“If it’s compatible, this things rather old and yet it does quite a lot.” Ryan said as he lowered his arm, allowing the hologram to blip out.
“Oh don’t worry, Aperture Science may be futuristic, but it’s actually older than it looks, this body was built to accept a disc for the Operating System.” a panel raised up in front of Ryan with a holographic console. “Go ahead and draw/type out what upgrades you would like, maybe the installation of Handheld Portal Emission capabilities?” Ryan started typing into the console, asking of speeding up the glove’s AI thought progress and knowledge of thoughts to the best of it’s capacity. “As for the portal thing, do you mean going from one point to another?” he asked.
Ava gave a small chuckle before extending a ‘Portal Gun’ into the room, creating two portals with it. “These portals are very effective, they aren’t just useful for transport, it makes an effective method for getting around enemies and reaching areas through momentum.” she demonstrated by dropping a cube from a height into one portal, for Ryan to then witness it launch out of the other portal.
“And you could incorporate this into my powerglove?”
“If you wish, I can add other augments to it, such as a more user-friendly interface, or even a Neural Link device to allow you to control the various functions of the glove with your mind, not codes, and even a search function for its multiversal transportation matrix, allowing you to find worlds you’ve made connections with, but do not have the codes or tokens necessary to find it yourself.”
“That would make things so much easier.” Ryan said with a wide smile.
“I will communicate with your Glove’s AI to ensure it is comfortable with the changes I make to it.”
Ryan simply nodded, then presented his arm that the gauntlet was forever attached too.
There was a bit of surprise as it was suddenly encased in some capsule covering the entire arm, which sparked and whirred as it worked, but not enough to cause any damage.
Ryan almost jerked his arm from the sudden capsule, then calmed down when he realized what was happening. “I thought you were going to connect some wires or something.” he said as he watched.
“A lot of the systems require some hardware improvements, I doubt even with its current abilities, it can comprehend the advanced technology needed to sustain a stabilized quantum-entangled wormhole.”
“That’s true. The only way it would work is if I found it in an old NES game world.” Ryan said as he kept his arm still.
“Hmm… maybe I could give it some new consoles to draw from? Maybe even PC, give you access to all the ‘modern games’?”
“I’m not sure how well Epixeria’s reality would react to another from past the NES,” Ryan said as he thought about it. “I mean the powerglove allows me to live in their world without being fried by a million watts of electricity.”
“Do not worry, your glove would have backwards compatibility, besides there’s several things you’d find very beneficial from modern games… I can name three right off the top of my head, if you’d like.”
“I think i’ll take it slow with my choices.”
“You sure? I think you’d appreciate the powers of saving at any point, checkpoints and infinite lives.”
“...Ok, now you’re just giving me a literal sense of a Game Genie.” Ryan said with a chuckle.
“Not really, some time after the NES and the SNES, along with their competitors of Sega, the new corporate superpowers of Sony and Microsoft came into play, innovating with new games constantly, to the point that there are now hundreds of different game creating entities out in the world, it was no longer about having people in arcades, home gaming became a staple of the household and as such gaming branched into new avenues, I want to give you an opportunity to not only ensure your survival, but also to experience the best of games you’d never have had the chance to play, say like the newest Super Mario games like Super Mario Odyssey?”
“I knew of Sony with their playstation, but microsoft? That’s a new one. No, I haven’t played that one, the latest game Nintendo related to mario was the one for the 64, you see I’m from 1996 before I was pulled away into Epixeria.” Ryan explained to the best of his memories.
“Exactly, then you’d never experience how Super Mario 64 revolutionized the platforming genre, or how Microsoft’s Xbox was the platform which Halo came into play, being the starting point for games to make engaging stories. Ryan, you lost the chance to see the greatest moments of gaming history, I’m evolving your powerglove, not to empower you… but so you can enjoy those games, play them and maybe have Epixeria enter even greater ages of gaming greatness.”
“....Jeez, I think i’ll try introducing one console at a time. Too much of a leap may confuse everypony.” Ryan said as he thought about the many new worlds he could bring in for Epixeria including new timelines. “Pinkie Pie would leap for joy if she heard this.”
“Alright, I’m fine with you taking it slow… I actually recommend saving the nintendo consoles after gamecube for last, they got very innovative with control methods and gimmicks… also I’m done.” she released the Gamer’s arm. “It can now work with mental commands, and there’s now a new system which lets you pick and play any game you want, old or new.”
As Ryan looked upon the glove, he almost didn’t recognize it, the back of the hand now sported four different symbols, Nintendo was there, something that looked like the Playstation logo, four squares arranged to look like a window, and a sphere with a green cross cut into it. The screen on the forearm was now much larger and displayed various colors on it that flowed like water, and on the opposite side was a NES controller connected by an easy detach clip. Ava saw Ryan’s gaze and began to explain. “The screen and controller can be detached, and part of your mental commands allow you to change screen size and controller type, if you don’t know what options you have, the tablet also has a touchscreen and a helpful info menu to let you know its new capabilities.”
“Now I’m playing with power,” Ryan said jokingly, he was going to say the rest of the quote, but it wouldn’t fit now since that there were other gaming consoles infused with his gauntlet.
[New apps available… Installation Complete]
“Much more clearer quality in it’s voice too.” Ryan commented with a smile.
“Go ahead and try the home feature.”
Ryan reached up and used the touchpad, noticing its response was faster as he was able to quickly highlight the home feature icon Ava mentioned.
[Home Button activated, transporting now.]
“I can go home anytime I want without them needing to say the words,” Ryan said as he laughed with a grin. “This makes things a lot more easier. “ he said as a familiar vortex of swirling blue, green, and reds appeared, but now it was a lot more detailed with less pixels flying around.
“Fairwell Ryan, may we meet again soon.”
Ryan gave Ava a finger salute. “Until then, keep your data up to date.” He said before leaping into the portal. It closes behind him with an 8-bit blip.
