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[GLaDOS, Peter] He called himself the God of Death.
The portal shivered, shook even harder and then with a strobe of light imploded, vanished; the thread of light that had connected it and Tony's repulsor snapped, and he almost fell, heedlessly staring.
At the point where Duo had disappeared.
No, that was the wrong word. That's what they used for what happened to people, what removed them ( Read more... ) -
[GLaDOS, Peter, Duo] Back in black.
Around the station, people fought for their lives. Shots rang out, punctuated by the occasional fall of a body, accompanied by the distressed moan of a dead body forced back into life and then torn apart by lead. The synthetic chirp of "I dooOOn't haate yoouuu," fading under it. Lasers flared across hallways, grids threatening to cut apart anyone ( Read more... ) -
[GLaDOS, Peter, Duo] We do what we must, because we can.
Aperture Science had a funny way of running their business, but Tony couldn't fault their technology. He'd made a few improvements to the section of the Enrichment Station he'd claimed as his own, wiring up a gesture based interface similar to the one in his workshop back home, and he didn't entirely agree with the decorating, but he wasn't sitting ( Read more... ) -
[Pepper] The Worst Cake.
When he thought about it -- which was, admittedly, not that often, part of the problem, naturally -- he sometimes felt mildly disgruntled that Jarvis never reminded him. He was an AI, surely he could set up a recurring yearly flag, and then harp at Tony about it; he certainly was fine with harping on about every other little thing ( Read more... ) -
[Peter] Days like this.
I'd have this girlfriend who knew my true identity. She'd be a wreck. She'd always be worrying I was going to die, yet so proud of the man I've become. She'd be wildly conflicted, which would only make her more crazy about me...That wasn't working out so well. The wreck part, that was accurate, although actually it didn't seem to apply solely to ( Read more... ) -
[for Pepper] Down to Earth.
It had been a hell of a day. It wasn't exactly over yet, and frankly he'd still be up there if Jarvis hadn't started harping on about the fact that he was running out of residual power and he'd left his arc reactor back with Pepper. Who was probably a little bit... there might be an issue there. Still, he couldn't have come running back immediately ( Read more... ) -
[GLaDOS] Welcome to the jungle.
He was strapped into a suit that usually accelerated the palladium poisoning that was killing him; the only reason it wasn't, this time, was that in the place of the arc reactor he had an unstable cold fusion reactor that was going to overload, causing the reaction to become uncontained and devolve into standard fission ( Read more... ) -
[for Pepper and Peter] Reaching for the stars.
His father, in his video and by extension his notes, had stated his desire for Tony to finish his work, to take the work that had already been done and bring it to another level. He didn't have a problem with this concept; all innovation built on that which already existed. Any scientist not standing on the shoulders of his predecessors was ( Read more... ) -
[for Peter] Rematch.
That his house and, by extension, his workshop no longer looked like venues for an impromptu musical number was a step in the right direction. There hadn't been any right angles, and while it had been marvellous inspiration for thinking about spacetime and the curvature thereof, and ways in which that applied to the pocket universe the island was ( Read more... )