See The Stars Again

(Edit: Oh mein gott this got featured?!? Thanks for all the !)

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Word Count: 820

Time Taken: 1 hour

Note: This is a Human! Cores AU.

A human figure gently boosts towards the moon, fire coming out of their hands and feet. They wore a tight fitting suit and helmet. Once they touched down easily on the white surface, the slim figure crouches and begins to shovel some white rock into a bag.

"We only need a few rocks, Azzy." Comes a male voice into the person's ears.

"I can fit more, Mr. Johnson. And-" Azzy was interuppted by a bout of coughing. They waited until it subsided.

"Painkillers, Caroline-" The man says, and a gulp along with a sigh of relief relays over the comlink. "Fine. Get as much as possible, then get back down here." "Yes, sir." Azzy says, quickly filling the bag. They take off after sealing it and tucking it into their belt, blasting off and heading for home.

Azzy lands back in Aperature Labratories and is met with a young brunet man with orange eyes. "Hey- Hey, did you get to see space?!" The hyperactive boy exclaims. The astronaut removes their helmet, revealing long brown hair streaked with blue and white-gold eyes. "You bet!" She says, ruffling the boys head.

As usual, she got the tirade of questions about space, the moon, space, stars, space and what earth looked like.

"Azzy... Will you take me someday?" The boy pleads, looking up at his big sister. She blinks, then smiles widely. "Of course."

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|Almost 50 years later....|

A broken, damaged, and rotting facility can usually not hold life. But tucked away from the acid and falling pillars was a small home-lije place, where a girl lay in her bed. She slowly opened white gold eyes, brown hair tumbling down her shoulders. Another day...

Azzy sighs as she sits up in her makeshift bed, looking around at the once lavish Aperature Labratories. When Cave Johnson died a few decades ago, the place had been abandoned, and so had she.

She groaned when she noticed some birds standing at her makeshift table, getting poo everywhere. "Shoo!" She snapped at them, waving her arms. They cawed loudly and flew away, but not before leaving some... Droppings behind.

That was it. She had to get out of this hellhole.

Since Johnson died, there wasn't any need for an Astronaut Core to go collect moon dust and rocks. She had just stayed here, alone, forgotten....

"I wonder if my brother re me..." She says aloud.

Always begging me to take him to space with me..." She chuckles softly as she re.

She wished she had brought him.

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Packing the very few possessions she had into a bag and her toolbelt, she takes one last look at her half bedroom. Nothing compared to what she used to have.

Azzy engages the rocket boosters installed in her feet and hands, floating up slowly and carefully. There were a lot of beams and broken walls to hit here. Everything was dark and rusty, sone things were falling into the acid, and the paint was chipping and peeling. Nothing like its former glory. It used to be bright, strong, incredible- but now, this dump.

The dump that used to be her home.

And her brother's.

Shaking the thoughts away and making her sway a bit, she continued upwards.

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After what seemed like forever, she heard the sound of machinery. Fans. She excitedly increased the thrusters, getting up to a metal grate. She floated in midair, not bothering to push the brown hair out of her face, and pulled a small device out of her toolbelt-a lazer.

She cut through the grate quickly, then dives out of the way as the circular peice falls down. She hears it clang against pillars and old beams, but doesn't look down. You never look down when you're flying this high.

Azzy goes through the hole carefully so she doesn't hit the sharp sides, then makes a touchdown. She stared around in awe at all the new machinery, with glowing lights and appendages everywhere.

s were held in place by mechanical arms, and everything looked much more advanced than what it was down there. Azzy turns on the boosters again, floating up in complete silence aside from the quiet fizz of her rockets.

Where to go? There were new things that she hasn't seen before- but no signs of life. She flew past some sort of factory. She wandered past what looked like an incineration pit. But the oddest thing was.... Everything was in disrepair.

Yes, it was all new technology she hadn't seen before, but it was covered in moss, dust, and other plants.

Azzy frowned she found a bunch of chambers with dates on them. Were those... Expiration dates? What could be inside-

A loud whirring noise ccme from above her, and she looked up to see one of the giant boxes moving. She heard a voice with a British accent shout, "Not to worry! I think there's a docking bay over here!"

People.

Or, at least, more robots or cyborgs.

Excitement rushing through her, she flies up to the room, right before it crashes into a wall and breaks almost in half, metal and scraps tumbling down...

(Hey guys, Pancake here! Im starting a series, I think, about my OC Azzy. Its going to be during the same events as Portal 2, and be sure to check out Azzy's profile below!)