Snippet #1880467

Angie gave a short chuckle. At the moment, she didn't want to walk anywhere. "I like the portal idea." She said to Pete with a quick nod. Angie had never actually used a portal gun before... she had never even been in one of the tests she had helped to design. She stared down at the mechanism she'd seen work so many times. It couldn't be that hard... could it?

Angie aimed it at the dirty white surface below her feet, and with a single thought a blue wisp hit the ground, creating an oval shape, about six feet tall, and three feet wide. She stepped off of it, knowing that the moment she shot the second, orange portal, she would be able to fall through the blue opening, and come out of the orange oval. the concept made her head spin. But as she'd been told so many times before, when it came to portal technology, you didn't think about how it worked. You just did it.

A second later she directed the portal gun across the platform, and shot an orange wisp accurately, hitting the ceiling. A wide oval opened itself up. Peering across, through it, she could almost swear she could see herself within it. Angie shivered, and again told herself not to think about how it worked. Portal science had always been something that intrigued her. Just because... she couldn't figure it out. Every law of nature argued against it. And yet...

Angie took a deep breath, and looked down at the blue oval. Now she could see through it, as if she was standing right above the orange portal, looking down at the floor, from the ceiling. Before she could start thinking about it too hard, she jumped into it, and appeared a hundred feet away, falling the eight feet to the ground. With how undernourished she was, that fall would have jarred her, and possibly broken a bone. But luckily the flawlessly designed boots she was wearing took all the impact of the fall, and directed the energy elsewhere.

She heard the platform groan under her weight, but it seemed to hold steady. She waved Pete over, gesturing for him to follow.

Angie glanced around as she waited for her friend. Looking towards the center of the back wall, a circular door stood. Sparks flew from the jammed exit. Angie watched it curiously as it struggled to open and close, but the mechanism was broken. Through it was a dark passageway. This was the only exit unless the two were willing to cross the lake of neurotoxin.



Meanwhile, in decomposing test chamber, the voices of the test subjects filled the void silence. In the otherwise quite outside the small intact section of the Relaxation Center, a metal railway lead through an old door. Other than the bottomless pit, this appeared to be the only exit.