Cueball

I vaguely remember what happened before I woke. I remember going through countless testchambers, I remember developing my cognitive abilities to the extremes, and I remember becoming more intelligent and creative every few 100 testchambers. When I woke up, I found myself in a spherical body with a blinding, white, glowing, optic I saw out of. I was plugged into a sort of railing that I could move along. I saw another ball, an almost identical one to me, except his optic was blue, and not nearly as bright as mine. He said, (with a british accent for some reason) “Hello!”. I asked him, “Who are you?”, “My name is Wheatley, I’m a core for Aperture Science,” he said. “What’s a core?” I asked, “A core is a sentient computational device that helps run this science facility,” he said. “So why am I here?” I asked, “You are a core that has been worked on and developed for, like, I don’t know, uh, well, just a really long time, okay. You have been created to be an unfathomably intelligent and creative core to lead us all,” said Wheatley. “Really,” I asked, thinking that the testchambers must have had something to do with the development, “Yes” Wheatley said. He asked “So, can you give me a name for you, all cores in Aperture must have a name,” “Well,” I said, noticing that I was much whiter and smoother than Wheatley, “My name is Cueball”. “Cueball, huh, good name,” said Wheatley “Come on, I’ll show you around the place,”.