Madness in Playtime Co.

Fly in the web

"Wake up!" The doll's soft voice echoes through Optimus's audio receptors. He slowly opened his optics before started looking around his surrounding. The lights in the room turned back on and the red and blue mech also find that his teammates were surrounding him with a worried expression on ther faces.

"Boss-bot, you okay?" Bumblebee asked his leader worriedly, before the said bot nodded and sat up.

"What was that anyway?"

"I-I don't know for sure, but-" Optimus trailed off a bit before he set his optics on the now empty glass case as it widened in shock and disbelief. "It's gone!"

"What's gone?"

"That doll, it just disappeared!"

The others looked at the glass case in pure shock and disbelief. Moments later, Bumblebee suddenly jumped into Prowl's arms in surprise when he heard something falling from behind him. "This place is haunted, I'm telling you, it's haunted!" He shrieked.

"Oh, ah, sorry! I didn't mean to scare you." Replied a soft girl's voice. The team turned around to find nothing before the voice started talking again. "Come this way."

"Should we follow that?" Trekfire asked, quirking an optical ridge.

"I don't think we can trust that voice, kid. What if it's a trap?" Blackarachnia said matter-of-factly.

"Like we had a choice." Optimus sighed helplessly, unsure of what to do next as he slowly stand up and exited the doll's room followed by the rest of the gang.
They walked pass the hallway where they came from, and once they passed by the dollhouse, Lucy saw another hallway but it's blocked out by stacks of furniture and boxes.

"Dang, we're trapped." Lucy deadpanned.

"Let's head this way." Optimus said as he pointed at a door right to his right and opens it. Once he did, they're all in a brightly lit room. On the left side of the wall, there was a painting of Huggy Wuggy and on the right side there's a painting of a red brontosaurus named Bron.

"Alright, team. Let's try one of these doors." Optimus said, pointing at the two doors on each side of the wall. And both of them marked as stairs. Blackarachnia tried to open the on the left, but soon find out it's locked.

"No use, this one's locked from the inside." Blackarachnia informed.

Lucy tried the second door on the right and start jiggling with the handle, but later find out it's locked too. "Same here." She said.

"That's alright, we'll just have to find another way out. Let's keep moving." Optimus said as he walked through the hallway. The gang passed by some more paintings of Huggy Wuggy and Bron before arriving at a hallway with three separate paths. Lucy first went over to one in the middle and saw a golden plate on the bright red door, with the name 'Elliot Ludwig' is engraved on it.

"This must be the head office. Maybe I can open it." Lucy said to herself before trying to open it, but soon find out it's locked as well. "I spoke too soon." She muttered lowly.

Seeing this, Sari walked over to the older girl and tried to reassure her. "Don't worry, Lulu. We'll think of something." She assured.

"..." Without saying a word, Lucy and Sari head to the hallway on the right followed by the bots. But once they walked through the third hallway, there was an obstacle on the way. A wide gap on the floor, forming a hole. Lucy nearly fall into the hole before she was captured by Blackarachnia.

"Thanks, Nia."

"Anytime, pinkie."

"Oh well, there goes our way out." Bumblebee lamented. "Let's head back." When the others were about to turned around, Optimus suddenly heard the doll's voice echoes through the hallway.

"Keep going."

"A-are you sure?" Optimus asked, looking around as he tried to find the voice's owner.

"Trust me."

Taking a deep vent, Optimus head down the gap, while the others looked at him in worries, before Prowl decided to follow the blue and red mech into the hole. Down there, the two mech worked together in bringing the others across the hole, starting with Sari, Lucy, and then Bumblebee. The Trektwins simply used the GrabPack as they shoot the hands at a nearby pipe and use it to swing across the wide gap. Blackarachnia and Shiro transform in to spider form and crawl across the wall before landing on the other side.

Prowl activated his jet boosters and carry himself and Optimus out of the hole before joining the others as they continue to walk through the hallway. They stepped into another room, where they find the only door was boarded up and a life sized cutout of Huggy Wuggy carrying a GrabPack on the right side of the boarded up door. Not only that, there's also a button on it saying 'press here', so out of pure curiosity Shiro pressed on the button.

At first, the cutout laughed like a creepy clown, causing Blackarachnia to shivered uncomfortably, looking at the cutout with great disturbance. Before the white spider bot continued in pressing the button and find nothing disturbing about it until later.

"Did someone need a hug?"
"Give me a big squeeze ~. I promise I won't bite."
"Come closer, friend."

"Er, Wyla," Blackarachnia spoke, causing the younger femme to look at her. "Let's just leave that thing here."

"You mean CatBee?"

"No, that creepy cutout."

Optimus turned around to find a door barricaded by giant colorful barrels.

"Trek, Tracie, give me a hand on this." He commanded, as the two youngsters nodded in understanding.

"We're on it, Mr. Optimus." Trekfire said as he started moving the barrels out of the way, assisted by Star Tracker, who's using the GrabPack to move the barrels easily. And once they cleared all of the barrels, Optimus wasted no time in opening the door and found himself in a strange looking room. In there, he saw a a few shelves consisting on mostly janitor equipment, boxes, and junk. On the right side of the room, a large pipe surrounded in blood can be seen. But that's not all, he set his optics on a key hanging on the wall. He tried to grab it but he's too big to fit inside the closet. So Lucy volunteer in taking the key for him and head inside the room. Once she grabbed the key, the rosette starts inspecting the said item. It was made entirely out of metal, but unlike most key it has a poppy flower like decoration at the end of the key.

"Lucy, did you get the key?" Optimus asked. Lucy then show him the key within her possession. Soon, they all head back to Elliott Ludwig's office. But along the way, Prowl noticed a Bron the dinosaur toy on the floor and it was coated with dried up blood. It creeps the normally calm ninja bot out, but he quickly shook the uneasy feeling off and follow the others back to the office.

As the team walked back to the office, the doll was observing them from the vents, as she quietly follow them.

Once the team arrived at the office, Lucy used the key to open the door and head inside. But what she found in there wasn't so pretty.