Board Thread:Fun and games/@comment-29936716-20170615021514/@comment-29936716-20170615024937

Chell wakes in a stasis chamber resembling a motel room, where an artificial voice guides her through a cognitive test before she is put back to sleep. When she awakens again, the Aperture Science complex has become dilapidated and overgrown and appears on the verge of destruction. Wheatley (Stephen Merchant), a personality core, helps her attempt to escape via the test chambers.[24] [25]  In the process, they accidentally reactivate the dormant GLaDOS (Ellen McLain),[2]  who separates Chell from Wheatley and rebuilds the laboratory.[26] [27] Potatoes are a motif of Portal 2. Wheatley attaches GLaDOS's core personality to a potato battery while he takes over the Aperture Science facility.Having done so, GLaDOS subjects Chell to new obstacle courses until Wheatley helps her escape once again. The pair sabotage the turret- and neurotoxin-manufacturing plants before confronting GLaDOS and performing a "core transfer" which replaces GLaDOS with Wheatley as the laboratory's controlling intelligence. He is quickly corrupted by his newfound power and becomes malevolent, and attaches GLaDOS's personality core to a potato battery. GLaDOS tells Chell that Wheatley was intentionally designed as an "intelligence dampening sphere" producing illogical thoughts, created to hamper her own personality.[28]  Denying this and infuriated by the accusation, Wheatley drops Chell and GLaDOS through an elevator shaft into the laboratories' abandoned lowest level. Thereafter Chell ascends through the laboratories in order of construction (the decor slowly changing from 1950s styles to one similar to that seen early in the game), periodically hearing audio recordings of Aperture Science's founder, Cave Johnson (J. K. Simmons).[29]  Through the recordings it becomes apparent that over the decades Aperture begins to lose money and prestige, and Johnson is poisoned by moon dust used in the manufacture of portal-conductive surfaces.[30]  One of his last requests was for his assistant Caroline (McLain) to become a test subject for a mind-to-computer transfer experiment, which ultimately created GLaDOS. Chell retrieves GLaDOS, and the two form a reluctant partnership to stop Wheatley before his mistakes destroy the laboratories. During their search, GLaDOS is troubled by the identification of herself as Caroline.[30]

Chell and GLaDOS return to the modern chambers and face Wheatley, who is driven by GLaDOS's software to test them[31]  against a series of traps, which Chell escapes.[32]  In their final confrontation, Chell attaches three corrupted personality cores (Nolan North)[33]  to Wheatley, allowing a second core transfer to restore GLaDOS to control. However, Wheatley blows up the button needed to activate the transfer. With the facility exploding around them due to the impending meltdown of its reactor core, the roof collapses revealing the night sky, whereupon Chell places a portal on the moon overhead. The vacuum of space pulls her and Wheatley through the other portal still inside the chamber,[34]  and GLaDOS reasserts her control. GLaDOS retrieves Chell, who falls unconscious, and Wheatley is left in space with a corrupt personality core orbiting him.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tpwhky_35-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;">[35]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">When Chell awakens, GLaDOS claims to have learned "valuable lessons" about humanity from the remnants of Caroline, then deletes Caroline's personality files and reverts to her usual attitude.Deciding that Chell is not worth the trouble of trying to kill, GLaDOS releases her. Chell then traverses the building in an elevator, serenaded by the laboratories' robotic sentinels in a song titled "Cara Mia Addio".On the surface, she enters a wheat field from a corrugated metal shed, with the charred and battered Weighted Companion Cube, supposedly incinerated during the events of Portal, thrown after her.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In a post-credits scene, Wheatley floats helplessly through space with the corrupt personality core and regrets betraying Chell.