The End of Yardale Part I

Their Return

With Leslie being knocked out, Pip being too traumatized to form a sentence, and Mole seeming to be delusional, no one really knew what their next steps should be. Many things were going on at once and nobody knew what to focus on. 

Ultimately, everyone decided to work in groups again. Dogpoo, Rebecca, and Brimmy focused on Leslie while Damien and Gary supported Pip and Estella and Mark questioned Mole. 

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Leslie lied flat on a table while Dogpoo, Rebecca, and Brimmy stood around her. Brimmy gathered some tools, and they began to figure out how to fix the robot in front of them. 

After a while of working and not accomplishing anything, Brimmy sighed in a bit of frustration. "It would be nice if we had some kind of instructions guiding us through this. I have no clue what I'm doing." 

"Yeah, I don't either." Dogpoo agreed. "She's not built like any other kind of robot I've seen." 

Just then, an idea popped into Rebecca's head. "Didn't Gregory find some sort of file on Leslie in his father's office? That could help." 

Thinking for a moment, Dogpoo nodded. "That could be really useful, actually." 

Rebecca then walked off to find the file. Once she got a hold of it, she brought it back to Dogpoo and Brimmy and opened it. 

"This is a large file." Brimmy mentioned. "I wonder why they were keeping all of this." 

Dogpoo shrugged. He quickly began skimming through the papers in the file and stopped when he found one that could be useful. He took it out and held it up for the other two to see. The paper had information on how Leslie was built and how she would be controlled. 

After reading the paper closely, the three got to work. They managed to reverse the controls on Leslie and finally get her on their side. 

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"Pip. What did they do to you?" 

Damien sighed after receiving no response. He had tried many times to get Pip to reply to him, but every attempt failed. He felt horrible; he hadn't been able to save Pip soon enough, and now he was traumatized. 

"Maybe we should try something else." Gary suggested. "This just seems to be stressing him out more."  

Damien thought for a moment, then came up with an idea. He quickly made a portal back to his home, made a cup of tea as fast as he could, and went back to Pip and Gary. He then carefully handed Pip the cup of tea and sat back down. 

"Now can you tell us what happened?" Damien asked impatiently. Pip seemed to be slightly calmed after he took a small sip of the tea, but still did not reply. 

Gary sighed. "Damien, we shouldn't keep on pressing him with questions." 

"Why not?" asked Damien. "We have to know these things." 

"Please, just- let me try talking to him." Gary suggested. Damien huffed and reluctantly sat back, allowing Gary to talk to Pip. Gary then continued, "Pip, you're safe now. They can't hurt you here, and we won't let them kidnap you again." 

Pip looked towards Gary and mumbled, "Promise?"

Gary nodded. "Promise. You don't have to tell us anything if it reminds you too much of what you went through, but any information could really help us understand what you're going through."  

After a moment of silence, Pip began, "Sarah is still alive. She- she hurt me." 

"Your sister?" Damien questioned. "I'm gonna kill that fucker, I swear-"

"Damien, please." Gary sighed. "We know you two weren't close, Pip, but why was she there hurting you?" 

"She works for them." Pip mumbled. "They wanted to make me seem insane so they could frame me, so they- had her hurt me." 

Gary shook his head. "I'm sorry they put you through that, Pip. You're really strong for not letting them get to you. We're glad that you're- somewhat okay." 

"I missed you." Damien then said. 

Pip then looked towards Damien. "I missed you too." he whispered.  

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"Gregory was there. He's alive." Mole stated. 

Mark rolled his eyes. "You're going insane. He's not alive. We all literally watched him die." 

"But I saw him!" exclaimed Mole. "He looked at me as we were escaping the headquarters. He was there." 

Estella sighed, not knowing what side she was on. She wanted to believe that Gregory was alive, but she also wanted to be honest with herself and not build up false hope. "Mole, how certain are you of what you saw?" 

"I'm completely certain." Mole said. 

"He's seeing things." Mark scoffed. "Notice how the only one who supposedly saw Gregory was his dumb boyfriend who's on drugs and doesn't seem to have gotten any sleep recently."

"Mole, we know that Gregory's death was a tragic thing and that it would be nice if he was back- but you have to understand our viewpoints here. Him being alive sounds absolutely insane." Estella said. 

"Plus, if he were alive and he saw you, wouldn't he have followed us here?" questioned Mark.  

Mole was deep in thought. He wanted to believe that Gregory was truly there, but he had to agree that it didn't make much sense. Mole also had lost lots of sleep and done lots of drugs since Gregory's death, so hallucinations were a more realistic thing than Gregory being alive. At first, he was completely sure that what he saw was real, but now he wasn't so sure.  He could still hope, though.