Overdue Check-Up (Poppy Playtime)

(Chapter 2) Part 2: Things Change

Nearic sighs as he steps forward, looking down into the pitch black hole, "Man, why does this keep happening?"

Nearic looks back to Dan and makes a sheepish smile, "Uh, we don't have any other way forward..."

Dan's right eye twitches as he tenses up, "Why... why are we going down the same hole, a giant hand pulled a living doll through?"

Nearic thinks back to what she was saying before being pulled down, and the way she was looing down the hole, "Because she may have wanted us to?"

The older takes in a breath as he looks around, the other gates all locked closed, the way they came has no further advancement (also blocked off so it's even further limited), and Poppy led them here, where a hole is the only thing they can explore.

He groans, "Welp, let's go get her I suppose."

Nearic smiles as he looks back down the hole, Dan walking up next to him, "Ready?"

Nearic nods, "I live for this."

Dan shakes his head, "Right..."

Nearic starts hopping in place, "Okay, on three; One... Two... THREE!"

Both brothers jump forwards into the hole, Dan holding his breath as to not scream again, and Nearic laughing with glee. However, instead of falling and hitting ground, they immediately fall into a slide and start following it down, getting both boys as Dan yelps at the sudden change in direction. Dan still stays tense as they go down the long slide while Nearic rides it out with glee, eventually some lights begin to seep through, revealing the tunnel they're going down to be blue.

After a second or two of the lights in the slide, they're finally shot out into a new room, Nearic landing on his feet and Dan landing on his butt. The room was almost as large as the room they were in previously, but slightly smaller, colored blocks all stacked in the corners, there were three paths leaving the room, one of which led to a new power room. The doors are open, and a cable from inside leading to a closed gate ahead of them, which apparently leads to the Game Station, then to their right was a slightly open ajar gate, a pool of blood visible on the other side, and the lights flickering from within. Turning around as Dan stood up, Nearic could see 4 other slides for 4 other people, the one they went down was right in the middle of the four other slides and was used by Elliot Ludwig, indicated by the name plate above said slide. The others were meant for Eddie M.N.R, Leith Pierre, Stella Greyber, and one unknown, from left to right in that order.

Nearic then says, "I have a bad feeling that rescuing Poppy isn't going to be as simple as I first thought."

Dan rubs his butt, "Oh yeah, why's that?"

Nearic narrows his eyes, "I don't know. However, we need some power, think you can complete the puzzle in the power room?"

Dan looks to his left, "Sure thing." and walks off to get to work.

Entering the power room, Dan sees the catwalk go in three different directions, one path immediately branches off from the door to the right to a breaker, another goes left then right towards a power input port, a power pole in the middle of the path, then there's the last that goes straight ahead to a power output port, a power pole right in front of it. Seeing it as an easy puzzle, he walks forward and slaps the red hand onto the port, then backs up to move towards the path to his left, but as soon as the cable touches the pole on the path he's still on, a small gate rises up from the ground and cuts the connection, forcing the hand back into the cannon.

Dan narrows his eyes and walks forward to the port, where he saw the gate rise up, that's when he sees the top of the gate in the catwalk. Glancing at the blue pipe that stands in between the two ports, he walks back to connect to it from another angle, only to see another gate in the catwalk in the other path. He looks back to the power pole that he passed on the second path, then down to the gate, he decides to step back and look it all over again.