Portal 2 Chapter 1: The Courtesy Call

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Fifty days after she is put in stasis, Chell is awakened by an unidentified announcer. In compliance with "state and federal regulations," Chell is instructed to perform a mandatory physical and mental wellness exercise which is used to teach the player the standard controls. Chell is then instructed to return to bed.

Between 50 and 50,000 years later (the exact time is never made clear), Chell is awakened again. During this second awakening, the announcer glitches saying that they "have been in suspension for..." followed by a glitched message repeating nines. Afterwards, Chell meets Wheatley for the first time. Chell learns that the facility's reserve power has been lost and is instructed to prepare for reactor core meltdown. Wheatley, fearing he will be blamed by "management" for the incident, plans to escape. He smashes the chamber through a wall and tells Chell to look for "a gun that makes holes." The Aperture Science facility is overgrown and badly damaged. During the escape attempt GLaDOS is accidentally reawakened by Wheatley, who is separated from Chell and GLaDOS promptly resumes forcing Chell to complete test chambers.

The test chambers and Central AI chamber are the same from Portal, albeit heavily damaged and decrepit.

This chapter includes: