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The game begins with the player awakening in a [[Relaxation Vault]] where they are briefed by the disembodied voice of [[GLaDOS]] before being released through a portal. The player is introduced to the testing process and mechanics, eventually culminating in the procurement of the [[Handheld Portal Device|Handheld Portal Gun]]. As Chell makes her way through test chambers it becomes clear {{Spoiler|the facility is devoid of human life and GLaDOS is testing Chell for her own warped definition of 'science'. Throughout the facility are hidden "dens", containing mad scribblings from an [[Doug Rattmann|unseen person]] warning others of GLaDOS.}} Motivating Chell with the promise of [[Cake]] at the end of the testing, Chell is put through tests of increasing complexity. {{Spoiler|When Chell is no longer of any use to GLaDOS, she attempts to kill her by lowering her into a fire. Thinking quick on her toes, she escapes her fiery fate using the the Handheld Portal Device, Chell makes her way through the inner facility via maintenance shafts.}}

Along the way they pass a 'potato power' exhibition, held on the ill-fated 'Bring your daughter to work day'. While making their way through the [[Turret]] production facility, Wheatley reveals he plans to sabotage the Turrets and neurotoxin supply so that when they face GLaDOS she will be unarmed. They successfully carry out their plan by replacing the master Turret template with a [[Defective Turrets|Defective Turret]] and use [[Portals]] to redirect a [[Thermal Discouragement Beam]] to cut off the neurotoxin supply lines. Hopeful, they make their way to GLaDOS's chamber once again for a showdown. GLaDOS, once again, attempts to kill Chell but is unsuccessful due to Wheatley's and Chell's sabotage. It is at this point that the Announcer informs them that the central core, GLaDOS, is 80% corrupt and because Wheatley is present, a core transfer is initialized. This requires both cores approval, and when GLaDOS objects a stalemate is reached. The Announcer informs them that a stalemate associate is required to press a stalemate resolution button for the core transfer to occur. GLaDOS desperately attempts to block Chell from doing so, but is unsuccessful and the core transfer occurs. Wheatley is transferred into GLaDOS's body and she is removed from power. In jubilant mood, Wheatley sends Chell on her way to the surface before having a change of heart as he revels in his new found position of power. GLaDOS taunts him and in a fit of rage he takes her core apart and places her in a potato battery. It is at this point GLaDOS reveals that Wheatley was designed to be an 'idiot', in order to dampen GLaDOS's brainpower so that she wouldn't attempt to murder everyone in the facility. Angered by this revelation, Wheatley throws her in the lift with Chell and in a fit of rage smashes the lift downwards, where they fall deep into the depths of the facility.