Madness in Playtime Co.

Trouble in the vent

Optimus brace himself and got onto the conveyor belt, followed by the rest of the team and climb into the vent. All they could see is the floor of the vent while everything else is pitch black. Then, Optimus accidentally got his foot slipped, tripped down and fall into a slide like vent, screaming along with the others.

"Ah!" He screamed.

"Ah!" Everyone else screamed.

As they're screaming for their lives, they began to slide down the vent before meeting with a flat surface, dog piled. Being thrown across the conveyor belt where the blocked passage leads to.

They all got up to their pedes/feet and looked around the new area they're in. Optimus looked to his right to find a conveyor belt going up and to his left a control panel, like the one found in the warehouse' electrical room earlier.

Star Tracker pushed the button with her finger but nothing seems to happened. She then pressed it repeatedly before suddenly the conveyor belt they're on start moving.

"Woah." The others exclaimed in surprise, nearly losing their balance as the conveyor belt dragged them to who knows where. Star Tracker decided to sit down for a while, with Prowl and Bumblebee doing the same, while the others remain standing on their place and let the belt dragged them to whatever location it'll be, not that they can do much.

Optimus met with the darkness once more, as he and his friends were dragged up smoothly. Unfortunately, the dark also seem to triggered some of his old traumatic experience on the spider invested planet, as he tried to hold the urge to tremble in fear. Suddenly, a red light shines through the vent and a loud buzzing sound can be heard.

"Ah! What was that!?" Trekfire asked in panic. Others were also panicking at the loud buzz unsure of what's going to happen next. Sari yelped in surprise before covering her ears and buried her face into her sister's chest while the older girl patted her back.

Through the loud buzzing sound, many toy parts were thrown on top of them.

"Ow, what the?" Optimus yelped, as a pile of toys fall onto his helm and then his pedes. He then throw the toys off.

Before more came down, and raining on Bumblebee's helm.

"Oh, ow, hey!" Bumblebee whines as a doll's head hits his helm before rubbing his aching helm.

Star Tracker somersaults from the gathered broken toys, Prowl quickly ninja sprint through the falling toy parts, Blackarachnia quickly transform into beast mode and skittered around to avoid getting crushed by the falling toys. "What's up with this crazy toy factory?!" Blackarachnia commented as she continue in avoiding the falling toy parts.

The Sumdac sister's are still on Shiro's back as she try to dodge every single falling toys that was thrown at her along with Trekfire. And seeing many body parts of a barbie doll doesn't help either, as they cringed in discomfort and fear at the sight. It happened at least two times in a row as Blackarachnia can only looked at the dissembled toys in disgust and discomfort. That is until she felt like they're going down hill...literally.

"Whoah, hang on, guys!" She yelled as they then rolled down the conveyor belt.

"Ah!" Everbody screamed, but Primus seems generous enough to let the gravity threw them out of the tube they're in, landing on some crummy floor.

Everyone groaned in pain as they piled on top of each other.

"Man, what a ride." Trekfire groaned from the bottom of the pile. Before forcefully pulling himself out from the dog pile of bots and techno organics.

"You can say that again, kid." Blackarachnia said drowsily. Trekfire then went over to her and help her stand up to her pedes.

Meanwhile, Optimus forcefully pushed himself up while nearly losing his balance. "W-whoah!"
"Becareful, Mr. Optimus." Star Tracker said, helping Optimus keeping his balance.

Lucy and Sari dusted themselves off before they heard Prowl and Bumblebee bickering with each other not far from their position, yet again. The two sisters can only sighed in annoyance at their bickering friends.

"Hold still, Bumblebee! I'm going to pulled you out of there." Prowl growled as he was trying to pull the yellow mech out of a hole, with his aft and legs sticking out.

"No need to, ninja bot. I can do it myself." Bumblebee protested, though he was anything but free. Having enough with the yellow mech' uncooperative nature, Star Tracker decided to help Prowl and assist him in pulling Bumblebee out. Not long after that, they manage to get Bumblebee out of the hole.

"Where are we anyway?" Sari asked, looking around the new room.

"I think we're in the 'Make-a-friend' room." Lucy answered.

Shiro flipped herself over using her front legs, her pinkish eyes were rolling in dizziness before it subsided as she shakes her head and transform back to bot mode.

They looked around the spacious and colorful room, to their left Shiro could see the toy parts dispenser and then the machine that was used to put the dolls together and run them to their rightful place alongside with Blackarachnia.

Then Blackarachnia eyes immediately catch glimpse of a strange stand with strange words on it just right in front of the inactive machinery as she walk over to it, and read it out loud. "Our founder, Elliott Ludwig was a visionary. He set the stage for all of Playtime Co.' greatest feats, yet all the amazing things that he created, the 'Make-a-Friend' machine is one of the most creative, impressive, and advanced. It is solely responsible for nearly every Playtime Co.' toys sold on the markets to this day. All it needs is to be fed the proper parts and in with the paint, assemble, and do a quality inspection of the toy all on it's own. Gone is the need to complex sorting or back breaking labor. This machine can do all that, and more!" She finished, before huffing sarcastically. "Hmfph, Well, you're certainly a genius for creating an toy assembly machine that's cost someone else's life, Mr. Ludwig." She rolled four of her optics and redirect her sight on the machine just right behind the stand which have a huge obvious red button with the words 'Needs Power' is displayed on the screen.

While Blackarachnia inspects the machinery, Shiro was looking at a Huggy Wuggy poster, saying : 'No body leaves without a toy' on it. She appears to be deep in her thoughts, seemingly thinking about something else and apparently, the white spider bot doesn't seem to be bothered by the message.

"Maybe I should take a look around and find some clues." Shiro mumbled to herself before wandering off to the catwalks. Far above the catwalks, Huggy Wuggy seems to be looking at the white spider bot with mild curiosity as he continue in observing her and her friends in a safe distance.