The Bitter Core

Prologue

She had always had a peaceful life. Killing humans with neurotoxin. Using the more clever ones as test subjects. It had been a great life since She'd been woken up, and the best part was, it was going to last forever, and ever, a blissful life of testing every single human there was left on the planet. And if humans got boring, or She -accidentally- filled the Relaxation Vault with neurotoxin, She could create robots to test. And then She'd test with robots, for the rest of their lives. She literally had Science itself at Her doorstep. She lived in Science.

But there was one thing holding Her back. It was, of course, those persistent humans, that would try anything to control Her so that they could take over Science. They would hang cores on Her all the time so She could never think straight. It made Her feel like an idiot. And She did not like feeling like an idiot.

The problem is, GLaDOS, you are an idiot and you know it, came the horrible voice of that new core they'd attached to Her. How dare it call Her an idiot? And how dare that moron even call Her by Her real name, GLaDOS? She was married to science, She was the Queen of Aperture.

And She liked revenge.