Candy Burn awoke slowly, as she often did in the morning. But this wasn't the morning. Candy Burn opened her eyes to see a white tiled floor. She started rising, and noticed that she was in a gigantic room with strange looking pieces of tech. There was a glass panel with a cube and a button on the other side of it.

I wonder what that does? Candy Burn wondered as she searched the room for an exit. Finally, she found one. The only problem was that it was on the other side of a giant cavern. There was an odd looking blue square. She wandered over to it and touched it lightly. Her finger bounced off of it.

That'll help, but how am I going to get over there? Candy Burn wondered. She started looking around the room again, and looked at the cube and button. I could try something with that. She started building up the arm of her mech, and was able to just barley grab onto the cube. She was able to toss it slightly, and it managed to land on the cube. She heard something begin her power up, and she looked behind her, retracting the candy corn arm, and stared at the now glowing blue cylindrical thing behind her. She remade the mech arm and passed it through the thing. Nothing bad happened, but it did seem like her arm wanted to go upwards.

This thing might be like an anti-gravity thing, or at least makes something float. Should I get into it?Candy Burn took a few moments to decide, and finally jumped into it. She was right. It did make her float. All the way to the ceiling. She grinned for a few seconds before she realized something.

How am I going to get down? she thought with alarm. Wait, the mech suit. That'll protect me if I get out of this thing. As the mech started building itself around her, she heard a crash, one of the panels on the side of the wall opened up, and then something came hurtling out of it. It landed right at the bottom of the blue thing, and started floating up to Candy Burn. She grabbed it, and started examining it. It looked like a gun, but it was white and black, with glowing blue lights coming from a hole in the back and in the front hole.

Is this what I think it is? Candy Burn thought. She aimed it above her head and pulled one of the triggers. A blue circle opened above her. She aimed it towards the floor and pulled the other trigger. As an orange circle appeared, several things happened. Candy Burn saw the blue cylinder appear where the orange circle was, and Candy Burn started floating again. She realized that the two circles were connected.

"They're portals," Candy Burn muttered in awe. She looked across the cavern and shot the orange portal near the door. It didn't appear.

It must only be able to appear on the white tiles, Candy Burn thought. She looked across the cavern and saw a white tile. A single white tile. She shot the orange portal there and the cylinder appeared, but Candy Burn got out of the cylinder before she could go through it. She deactivated her mech suit.

That's not quite going to get me there, she thought. Wait, is that a button? She stared at a button kind of close to the glass wall. How did I miss that? She pressed it and another hole in the wall appeared. As soon as it did, it started spraying an orange gel out of it. It was able to reach the edge to the cavern and continued to coat the floor in front of the hole for a few seconds before stopping. Candy Burn stared at a now orange path and realized that it was some kind of help. Hesitantly, she stepped on it. Nothing happened until she started moving on it. She started moving faster.

It's a speeding gel, Candy Burn thought with a grin. Which must mean that the blue gel is a bouncing gel. That's how I'll get over to the exit! Candy Burn backed up so her back was on the wall and started running across the path, and when her feet hit the blue gel, she was flung across the cavern and entered the cylinder. Fortunately, it was in a good position, and she was able to drop down onto a steel platform that lead to the exit. She hesitantly started walking forward and the door opened automatically. There was an elevator shaft, and a screen that covered the entire back wall.

Well, looks like you finally solved the test, someone suddenly said. Whoever it was sounded robotic.

"Who are you?" Candy Burn asked.

I am the Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System, or GLaDOS, the voice said. I've been observing you and the others ever science you appeared in the testing chambers.

"Others?" Candy Burn asked. "What others?"

You'll meet them soon, GLaDOS said. But until then, you need to test. Especially with that mech suit of yours. That is very interesting. Candy Burn sighed.

"Ok, but why didn't you start talking when I was in the chamber?" she asked.

I wanted to see how well a test subject could do when given no instructions, but given the resources to make it to the exit, GLaDOS said. You passed. Now, take the elevator, and by the end of your testing, you can have cake! Candy Burn smiled as she saw the elevator appear in the tube and entered it. Maybe this was going to be pretty cool.

Author's Note

Well, this was fast. I just released the last chapter yesterday. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter!