Chapter 3: She was a lot like you.

GLaDOS had, for the moment, lost all interest in the testing she was conducting, simply tossing out the occasional insult or discouraging comment. Honestly, the particular test subject that was running the tests was boring. It was not nearly as interesting as what she had discovered. As far as she had seen from her first glance it was just a little room. Like an empty file. Or a fresh test chamber. After a few more tests, she decided to experiment with the new second consciousness she had developed. It seemed to work as well as the rest of her. She peered into it, looked around. It was like a camera, but with free movement. She paused a moment, she had expected to shut down upon focusing on the other half, but found instead, that she could simultaneously control both. She noticed there was something behind her new conciseness. She turned to find a sign that read: 'Welcome to The Complex, activate the button below to begin initial process.'

"Hmmm…" she reached out and observed that her 'hand' was some form of yellow vapor, as was the rest of her. When the pressed the button, the wall below the sign dissolved to reveal some form of curtain. There was a second sign above it that said: This is the random model generator, you can step inside and it will select for you a model that is unique to all the others in The Complex, or if you have a CPU that is advanced you can enter the door to the right and generate your own model.

"Ha! Ridiculous!" GLaDOS laughed, "I have enough CPU's to generate my own model! I don't need a program to do it for me!" GLaDOS backed out of the conciseness only half way, similar to the way one might minimize a window, or go up a file into the previous file. She explored the base of this odd world until she found what she was looking for: The program code. She opened it, and returned to full conciseness she now had the code window opened in the top left of her vision, like a video screen. It took her but a moment to learn the, what seemed to be random code of endlessly flowing numbers, and input her new character model. She did not know why, but she had a perfect image of what her model would look like. She would have brown hair, blue eyes, a sleeveless white dress, and black heels. She then pushed a 'hole' through the system, leading straight to the final step, her spawn door. It was nothing more than broken glass. She was surprised to see two more doors, just like hers, shattered, but even more surprising, was the figure standing in the doorway opposite hers.