#may 18 labs

[asvrai]

Hey, wait! Where's GLaDOS? Is she okay??? -✨

[For the first time since being ousted as the core AI, GLaDOS speaks to you.]

< This is the nightmare scenario. >

[asvrai]

I suppose a competent threat is more dangerous than an incompetent one, but I get the feeling Benrey is a good guy who we should absolutely trust, and there’s nothing suspicious about this! -Sbeve

Uh huh. Yeah.

Right, so, after we properly rest up and make plans, who's going where to do what?

[After a bit of deliberation, the groups are chosen.]

[The cores, Chell, Joshua, and Darnold will stay behind in the labs.]

[Tommy will go find where G-Man left Rattmann, and the two of them will rescue the other survivors from the testing tracks.]

[Dr. Coomer and Gordon will scout out the best route to the incinerator chute and see if portaling up is a possibility.]

[Bubnick and GLaDOS (to her silent disapproval) will shut down turret construction.]

[Bubby and Forzen will attempt to stop neurotoxin production.]

[While the group takes a couple hours to plan, and Bubnick finishes working on the cores' memory banks, you nanobots can take some time to decide who to 'follow' 'first'.]

[asvrai]

well, we have a lot to lose but we already lost a lot, so i dont see why we shouldnt give this a shot!!! whats the idea for helping the timeline, tommy?

-bluescreen

I have absolutely no idea and am making this up as I go!!

[asvrai]

I'm no professional, which i say because I never lie, of course, but, that doesn't seem healthy, Gordon. But at the very least it's gonna stop the bleeding out part! I think. -Sbeve

[Seems like it did more than that!]

[asvrai]

Do you know what the old labs were for? Are we going to get to find any secret historical science projects down here? - 🐟

{So, what, old science stuff?}

[Chell grins and points at a man in a labcoat spattered with blues and oranges, back turned only slightly as he works diligently. Seems he's keeping an eye on Chell.]

{He's an old science stuff!}

[The man turns, holding a hand to his chest in mock horror.]

Old?! Wow. You've wounded me. You've wounded your father, Michelle.

[asvrai]

“I can’t- can’t believe you broke-- that they broke again.”

“How the f*ck was I supposed to know their individuality would make updates so difficult?! And the tech down here is outdated as hell.”

“Guys, can you not argue in my secret lab...?”

“It’s my secret lab first, I’ll argue all I want!”

“At least don’t swear around my daughter.”

[In response, you hear a deluge of swearing. Looks like you’ll be fully back online soon.] 

[Funny, you don’t remember going offline.]

[asvrai]

Dr Bubnick stole Bubby('s brain) from Black Mesa? Excellent science work! Suck it Black Mesa, your security wasn't good enough! - 🐟

Security there is fine, it's just that the firewalls were... on fire.

Please, I could hack into the place even when it wasn't the end of the world.

[It seems there's some... tension there.]

[asvrai]

Bubby!? Coomers Bubby?! I'm so excited to finally meet you!! (Also Dr. Coomer was a little worried about you, so it's good you could come here so he can stop worrying.) Did you have a good test? Did Black Mesa also go to hell? - 🐟

That's me! Black Mesa definitely went to hell.

Bubby died!

[Bubnick walks over from where he had been typing away at a computer.]

Temporarily. I...

Look, we were in the labs already so you guys were going to see all my clone bodies anyway, and Dr. Coomer was all mopey.

Well, technically, he sort of... is. Now at least.

I grabbed a backup of Bubby's brain patterns that Black Mesa had on file since he was an experiment, and just kinda... put it in one of the clones.

From the discontinued project that made me-- us.

...That I may have been continuing in secret on my own down here.

I'm a bad*ss combination of brain reuploading, freak of science, and clone now!