A Most Sinister SCIENCE [Closed]

[imperious_lex]

The downside of gathering long term supplies for the crew, was that Lex did have to make sure they were all brought on board and stowed away properly. It cut into his vacation time, but it was a small price to pay to get some business done, and make a few connections that he'll be able to call on later. Besides, with 99% of the crew off the ship, for once, it allowed him freedom to do a few things, like have a word with a certain AI that wasn't Stacy.

Sitting at one of the terminals in Neuropathy, Lex navigated his way through part of the AI multiplex, until he came across the one he wanted to speak to.

"Hello, GLaDOS. I need to have a word with you."

Comments

[craaazyisland]

You are a mistake.

Steve freezes and feels his blood run cold-- all a manner of speaking, of course, since it's still alight, but now he can feel every heartbeat throb through him.

Stacy let your pod come out of contagion containment. You are a mistake.

He's dizzy. His eyes are burning and despite his best efforts, tears start to roll down his face. His fingers tighten around the burnt ruins of the shirt around his wound and his whole body shivers. Why would they let an infected, worthless teenager out of the pods anyway? Why would they bother picking him up in the first place?

There's no way that's true. It can't be true.

I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna be fine. It isn't true. You know it's not true!

Specimen.

He steps forward on shaky legs, but he forgets to look where he's going and he grazes the edge of the wrong tile. All of a sudden his body seizes and he screams in pain as thousands of volts rocket through him.

Steve lands on his back, feet away, and it feels like there's static blasting in his head. His whole body is trembling and he finds he can't breathe.

He screams, and his voice warps into a bizarre, inhuman sound.

[cityship]

GLaDOS lets the chamber do its thing for a minute, monitoring Steve's readouts almost casually.

||Get u-p|| she orders. ||The test is not over.||

||Unless you wa-ant to fail.||