The alarm clock buzzed loudly, and Chell groggily opened her eyes. The sunlight filtered into her room, making her smile. She had been dreaming about Apeture.

Again.

She had these dreams often, but it was always so comforting to see sunlight every time she awoke. Sometimes she had to take a walk to really grasp the fact that she was out of that hellhole. She rolled over in her bed to look at her companion cube, which was sitting on the floor in the corner. She smiled again- the one thing that hadn't betrayed her. Slowly she got out of bed and stretched. Waling down to the kitchen, she sighed in content, it was nice to have a perfectly normal life with a perfectly normal job in a perfectly normal town, after all she'd been through. She grabbed a bowl and a box of cereal, put them on the table, got some milk out of the fridge and poured it in. It was calm times like these she wondered what GLaDOS was up to, with not human test subjects.

GLaDOS had a problem.

Really, three.

First off, she had no human test subjects. Which got incredibly boring. Even if Chell had been mute, she wasn't an AI. Human's showed genuine emotion, AI's emotions and feelings were simulated. ATLAS and P-body were AI's. Humans, in short, were more fun.

Then, of course, there was Caroline. That insufferable woman kept coming back! She would delete her, and sometimes as little as a minute later, there she was again. GLaDOS had learned to block her out, but she was incredibly stubborn.

And of course, her biggest most embaressing problem:

She was turning into a moron.

Okay, not so much turning into a moron as having 'moronic moments'. She didn't see obvious things, She forgot basic things, She would even stumble over words, and She would just overall be a moron, sometimes. She blamed that little ball of idoiocy, as she sometimes called him. After all the time he spent in Her body, it's like the moron just leaked into Her circuits. And now it was leaking into Her.

She wanted to solve her problems, all of them, fast.

But of course, that wasn't going to happen, was it? The moron was in space, Caroline was in her, and Chell was off who-knows-where with her companion cube.

And then GLaDOS got an idea.

She looked through her files and chuckled darkly.

Yes, this would be possible.

And incredibly easy.

"We're in SPAAAAAAAAAACE!"

"Yeah mate, I know, we're both in Space. We have been for three years," Wheatley sighed.

"We're in Space! Wanna see all of space. Gotta go everywhere. Star! Star! Look! Here's another! They're everywhere! STARS IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE!" the space core shouted in glee.

"You know what? I'd probably be excited by one of those stars if I hadn't seen them years ago," Wheatley said. He gazed down at the giant blue ball topped with green and swirling white. Earth seemed beautiful from down here; it was hard to imagine Apeture Science, that hellhole, could be anywhere on it.

Then again, it was also hard to believe he had gone corrupt with power.

"Y-you know what? I should- yeah I should probably- Yes. I am going to find a way back to earth. There has to be a way, it's not like we can actually be stuck up here with no way to get out..." he decided aloud. But even as he spoke, he had doubts. "I just need to say I'm sorry. I don't care what Chell does after. I deserve every bit of it."