Wheatley looked over at Fluttershy who was leading him back to her cottage. "Why do you have your house next to the Everfree if you hate it so much?" he asked her.

"I stay here because a lot of animals are around there, and they are sometimes injured, so I heal them." she replied, her voice almost getting lost in the gentle breeze that blew past them.

"Huh, never thought of that. Hey, I know you must be asked this a lot but, if you like healing animals so much why aren't you a vet?" Wheatley asked.

"There are already plenty of vets to take care of pets but nopony wants to take care of the wild animals, so I do it to help the animals nopony else will." she explained.

"Huh. The closest I've ever gotten to tending to animals was when I was assigned to watch over the smelly humans." Wheatley said, then immediately felt as if a pair of eyes was glaring at him.

"What were humans like?" Fluttershy asked.

"Well, that would be more of a Chell answerable question. But I do know that they are great test subjects!" Wheatley replied with a smile. He squinted his eyes to block out the persisting light of the sun as Fluttershy's cottage came into view. "

"Why do you hate this Glados pony?" Fluttershy asked. She could feel Wheatley tense up at the sound of the name. "You don't have to tell me." she said, hiding behind her mane.

"No, I want to tell you. Oh yeah, it is pronounced GLaDOS, not Glados." Wheatley said.

"GLADOS?"

"No, GLaDOS."

"GLaD0S?"

"No, GLaDOS."

"GLaDoS?"

"NO! GLaDOS! G, L, a, D, O and S!" Wheatley yelled while throwing his hooves into the air in frustration.

"So why do you hate GlAdos?"

0=0=0

Twilight looked at Rick who was walking next to her staring blankly ahead. "Are you alright?" she asked.

"No, I am not alright. I was ready for an adventure and I got a action movie. I just found out that the lady I despise is here and ready to ruin my life again! Do you expect me to run amok with sunshine and rainbows coming out of my ass!" Rick yelled without looking back. Twilight winced. "Damn it, there I go. Have I ever told you the story of how we all became corrupt cores? Save Wheatley of course." Twilight shook her head. "Well, it started only a few days after I was made, I was based of the most adventurous guy in Aperture at the time, Rick.

"Diagnostics begin: Sight..." a simulated voice said. The Adventure Core opened his eye and looked around. "Check. Voice..."

"Hello, my name is Rick. I am also known as Adventure Core." the Adventure Core said.

"Check. Personality..."

"Do you need any assistance in this test? I can give you clues on how to solve the tests or advice on hard problems." the Adventure Core stated.

"Check. Main diagnostic complete. Adventure Core and or Rick, do you believe yourself fit for work?" the voice asked.

"I deem myself fit for work." the Adventure Core replied.

"Good. Prepare for dispatch into test chamber H-42. Test type: Advanced aerial faith plates and velocity." the voice said, then the Adventure Core was hooked onto a rail and was sent to his first test chamber assignment.

"So you were originally made to be a helpful advice core?" Twilight asked, destroying the flashback Rick had going. He glared at her.

"Yes."

"Oh, sorry, please continue."

"Hello test subject, I am Rick, but I am also known as the Adventure Core. How may I assist you?" the Adventure Core asked to the disgruntled test subject.

"Can you please help me out here? I just don't see how you can put a portal there and there fast enough to stop yourself from dying like a bug on a windshield!" he replied, pointing at the two portal surfaces that were behind a glass wall, where the only way to get at them was to use a faith plate to jump through a hole in the glass.

"You have not noticed the other faith plate?" the Adventure Core asked.

"What other faith plate?" the human said, looking around.

"Right here." the Adventure Core said, pointing a green beam to a faith plate on the other side of the glass. "You cannot die by hitting that portal surface, the only consequence of hitting that is starting again."

"Thank you!" the human replied, then he jumped onto the faith plate. Mid-flight another voice chimed in.

"Well if you insist on it being deadly I am sure we can accommodate that, after all, what is science without death?" GLaDOS said, and the floor around the portal surface the test subject was heading for dropped out revealing a pitfall that could kill a person, even with longfall boots. The human shrieked and tried to place the portals as fast as he could but missed at the last second, resulting in him hitting the white surface and sliding off into the abyss.

"WHOA! Wait! Are you telling me that GLaDOS killed a human right in front of you and you did nothing to stop it?" Twilight asked, once again ruining Rick's flashback.

"Hey! We were programmed to believe she was a god and that everything she did was right and anything that opposed her was wrong!" Rick defended. Twilight sighed in defeat.

"Okay, just continue."

"Well, okay. Just don't interrupt again okay. After that I was sent to many different test chambers, to help out test subjects when they needed it. But this chamber was different...

The Adventure Core looked around for the test subject. He checked the database again, it showed that he was still alive, so where was he? "Hello? Is there anyone there?" he called out.

"Oh yes! Finally!" a voice said off to his left. He looked over and up to where the voice came from to see the test subject dangling from the ceiling.

"Sir, how are you up there?" the Adventure Core asked.

"Just having an adventure, would you like to join me?" he said, a smirk on his face.

"No, even though I am the Adventure Core I have never been on an adventure and I do not want to. If you do not need assistance I will go." the Adventure Core stated.

"Well, I need assistance on my adventure. I thought a brave, adventurous and courageous fellow like you would be just the thing I needed to help me, but it appears not." he replied, faking sadness. The Adventure Core however was experiencing something much different though. The complements had hit home as the person he was based off of had quite the ego.

"Well sir, I do believe I can assist you in that advent-advent-adventuuuureeee." the Adventure Core's eyes went dark for a moment before lighting up again, this time a more brilliant shade of green. "Well hello there my good fellow! I am Rick! Now, I can see that you having a little adventure, I would join you. BUT, I am afraid I will steal all of the adventuring away from you seeing as how good I am at it!"

"Okay, I no longer need assistance, well, if you can't open that door to the outside for me that is. I am sure an adventure fanatic like yourself would love for a rookie adventurer like me to start off with something small like going outside!" the test subject said with a smug smile. The smile widened as the door opened, revealing an elevator. "See ya later sucker!" he yelled, and jumped in, closing the door behind him. He hit the up button but nothing happened. He hit it again and the floor opened up in the bottom of the elevator revealing a long pit with spikes at the bottom. Before he hit them he screamed the most girlish scream he could muster.

"And then I was thrown into9 the room of screaming robots for a month!" Rick finished, making Twilight gain the most *what the hell are you talking about?* face she could. Rick looked at her. "Are you constipated?"

Author's Note

Decided to put each of the core's stories in different chapters. Hope you enjoyed this one.