Overdue Check-Up (Poppy Playtime)

(Chapter 1) Part 3: It's Alive?!

Nearic slides to a stop next to Dan, who is holding the cannons up as he glares at his little brother, "Don't. Do. That. Again."

Nearic swallows nervously, "Okay."

Dan scoffs and walks off, "The conveyor belts are too smooth to walk up, and they aren't powered at the moment, so I'm going to turn them on, just sit there and wait for me to do this."

After he turns the corner, Nearic releases the breath he was holding, "Will do!"

Dan then looks back from the corner, "And keep your mouth shut!"

The young man nods as he purses his lips together, "I probably shouldn't have done that."

It wasn't long before Dan had finished the circuit and brought power to the conveyor belts, pushing them along it as they waited for where it would take them. A few times a red light and alarm would sound before pieces of toy parts would fall onto the conveyor belt, which startled Dan a few times, which also got a laugh out of Nearic.

Eventually though, they got out and landed in a capsule, however, said capsule was completely broken which allowed them to hop out. The room they entered this time had no rubble or boxes, but it did have a lot of toy parts, there three capsules that held toy parts, only one of them was broken. Then there were three different machines that were modeled and painted to look like cartoon monsters, all of them connected by conveyor belts and a console from the center of the room that seemed to be the control module. To the right of them were stairs that lead to catwalks above everything in the room, there was also a large door just a little further into the room from the stairs, but it seemed to be locked by some sort of toy scanner.

Dan says, "Whoa, this is cool."

Nearic nods, "Uh huh."

Nearic walks forwards towards the center console, and upon getting closer, can read the screen on it 'Needs Power,' he looks around for something for Dan to power up, then sees a power pole on the catwalks, "Dan, these machines don't have any power, and we need it to get further into the factory, there seems to be a power puzzle on the catwalks, think you can solve it?"

Dan smirks, "Do birds fly?" then walks off.

With nothing to do, Nearic decides to investigate the Toy Scanner, maybe see what they're looking for, but before he can really check, Dan calls out, "There's a TV here, there may be a VHS tape nearby!"

Looking up to reply, he sees a spot of pink above the door, so he asks, "Is the VHS player pink?"

Dan replies, "Yeah, why?"

Nearic takes a few steps back as he points, "Because I just found it over there, it's too high for me to grab, but you may be able to get it with the GrabPack!"

Dan walked up further ahead and onto the catwalk to investigate, he quickly found the tape and snagged it, "Want to watch it before we do anything else?"

Nearic nod, "Sure thing, hold on!" then made his way through the stairs to the TV and VHS player, Dan waiting for Nearic to arrive, since the TV and VHS were at the top of the stairs.

Dan tosses the tape over to Nearic when he arrives as the older brother grabs his phone and says, "Ready when you are."

Nearic stuff a hand into my sweater pocket as he nods, Dan taps his screen and Nearic says, "Alright, this is the fourth tape we've discovered, it was located above a doorway inside what seems to be the toy manufacturing room, let's play it now."

He turns around and puts the tape inside, the TV screen going blue with activity until it cleared up, showing a woman's hand (not severed) with a black background, a male voice asking, "So, Stella, what made you want to work at the Playtime Co. factory?"