[7th Portal] Cara Mia Addio Encore

[jumpsuited_rat]

Action - 850 Goldberg

[Chell opens the door to find 3 packages of varying sizes, one small and rather flat, one medium-large one, and one quite large one of a suspicious size.

She opens the small one first to find her clothes from Aperture. She doesn't plan on wearing them again, but they could come in handy later, you never know. The next one contains her portal gun. She hasn't seen many places that portals could be placed on, but if there were any, it'd be very useful.

Finally, Chell turns to the last one. It's about as tall as a turret, so that's what's got her worried. It's a bit wider, though, so she's not sure what to make of that. She circles the box, knocking on it to see if she can get any information that way.

She assumes that if it was a turret, the gun portion would be facing towards the door, so she tips the box over so that if there was a turret inside, it'd now be facing the ground instead.

Chell pries the box open and discovers that not only is it a turret, but it's the oversized turret that she had seen a few times. It had never attacked her or anyone else that she saw, it just somehow used the elevator and oversaw some of the other turrets when they were making music.

It's an odd choice of something to be returned to her, so she shrugs, just leaves it where it is, and goes back inside the house.

She sets her clothes on the Companion Cube, and when she turns around, the turret is standing in front of her. Chell dives beside the couch and peers around at the turret. The turret doesn't make any movements, it doesn't even have a red laser sight for targeting, it just stands there, staring blankly.

Chell waves her hand at the turret, and it still doesn't move. She shrugs to herself and stands up, walking past it and over to the curtains. She turns her back to the turret and pulls off a long strip of cloth and goes to work using it as a strap for the portal gun. She doesn't want to leave it in the house alone with Cliff and carrying it with her hands would get old, so this was a nice compromise.

When she turns around to head for the door, once more the turret stands staring at her. Chell frowns at it and decides that if anyone would know what's going on, it'd be GLaDOS.

She leaves the house and heads down the street.]

Action - Around Town - The streets on the way to 1450 Mitchell Road

[If you're walking down the street or peeking out a window, you may see Chell being followed by a large turret. You never see the turret move, however, if you take your eyes off of it for even a second, it'll suddenly be further down the street and closer to Chell.]

Action - 1450 Mitchell Road

[Chell finally arrives at GLaDOS' house and starts banging on the door, she's got a frustrated expression on her face as she does so.

The turret is waiting quietly behind her and may not be seen at first glance.]

Comments

[party_hard]

We should really do this again sometime!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods with a smile. She then picks up her notebook and pen and writes down, "Yes. It was fun."]

[party_hard]

Yeah! And who knows, maybe Carl will want to do it sometime, too!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell eyes the turret, if it didn't sing with their nonsense, likely it wouldn't ever sing at all. But, Pinkie was right, you never could tell if it would decide to sing along.]

[party_hard]

Maybe he's just shy!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell shrugged with a small nod, that was a possibility. The only time she had heard the turret sing was with a large crowd of other turrets and she was the only non-turret that heard it.]

[party_hard]

Cheer up, I'm sure living with it won't be as bad as you think it will be!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods more enthusiastically, it weirds Cliff out, so it's already served some use to her.

However, with it around, she'll have to resort to writing instead of speech to communicate with everyone in town.]

[party_hard]

Don't worry, I'm sure everything with Carl will be just fine!

And can't you send him home anyway if he gets to be too much of a bother?

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods again and writes down on the paper, "Not much left at home though. Might could trade it for a cube."

She had all her possessions here, she guessed that's why she ended up with the odd turret, there was nothing else left to give her.]

[party_hard]

Maybe you could trade it for CANDY!

Then Carl would be happy because he'd be home, and you'd be happy because you wouldn't be followed around anymore, and then you'd have candy!

[All homes have candy, right?]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell blinks and after a moment she manages to write down, "I thought you could only trade for things you owned?"

There wasn't any candy in Aperture as far as she knew, but even if there was, it was probably ancient or filled with poison. Or both.

And there certainly wasn't any cake to be found, either.]

[party_hard]

[Wait, but that means...]

YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY CANDY BACK HOME?!

[The horror, the horror...]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods and quickly writes down for Pinkie, "I never saw any candy in the lab. Wouldn't have trusted it even if I did."]

[party_hard]

Come back upstairs! Come back upstairs!

[Pinkie is running for those stairs now.]

I'll get you some candy myself! Having no candy back home is just sad!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Before Chell can protest, Pinkie's already bolted off and she's not paying attention, anyways. She stands up and follows Pinkie at a much slower pace.]

[party_hard]

[Once Chell emerges from the basement, Pinkie's waiting with a bowl of random sweets. It looks to be large enough that Gummy's actually chilling in the middle of it all, with only his head visible. Where and how she obtained it is anyone's guess, but this is Pinkie Pie. If Pinkie Pie wants candy badly enough, she's going to get it.]

Here! You can have all of this candy!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell doesn't really want or need all that candy, but she's pretty sure Pinkie won't leave her alone until she takes it.

However, there's a guest in the bowl. Chell's going to point at Gummy.

If she didn't know Pinkie, she'd remove the gator herself, but she wasn't sure how Pinkie would react to that.]

[party_hard]

[Pinkie giggles when she sees the gator.]

Gummy, you're so silly! Go on, get out of there!

[Without blinking, Gummy dives out of the bowl and lands on Pinkie's back. It soon becomes obvious that Gummy is chewing a piece of gum out of the bowl, despite not having any teeth. Pinkie doesn't seem to notice...or if she does, she doesn't care.]

There! Now it's Gummy-free!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Once the gator has left the bowl, Chell takes the candy from Pinkie.

She eyes Gummy, she'll have to check the candy for gator slobber later.

Maybe she can find some people to give the candy to, she doesn't want to eat that much of it.]

[party_hard]

There! Now you've got yummy candy without having to give Carl away!

[...Pinkie, no, this is not how the bright side works.]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell just nods in return. Candy had no bearing on her decision of whether or not to get rid of the turret. If the turret was annoying, then she would eliminate it from her life, simple as that.

Still, it was a kind gesture on Pinkie's part, not many people had given her stuff freely like this.]

[party_hard]

Who knows, maybe even Carl would like candy! Even if he's a turret-robot-thing!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell shrugs, puts the candy down, and writes to Pinkie, "I don't know if turrets eat anything."

The only opening they had was when they popped the guns out. Putting candy in there would probably mess with their internal technology. Besides, she hadn't seen them on this turret anyways.]

[party_hard]

You're just fuuuuuulllll of surprises, aren't you, Carl?

Don't worry, Chell, even if you eat all of the candy yourself and then it turns out the turret will eat some, I have PLENTY more where that came from!