I'm not a Monster (A Poppy Playtime Story)

Chapter 13

I do not Own Poppy Playtime!
Tis what you all have finally been waiting for!
As they continued on P found his own flare gun hand which was by a Hoppy Hopscotch cut out. The voice lines were about jumping to the moon, the last one ending with a grim scream from Hoppy. P noticed the way forward was open and clear of most obstacles.
"I came from here. This lead towards the play house.." Lune explained. P nodded quietly as they continued, entering the more cavernous area. Lune stopped P and hopped off his back carefully due to his leg, walked to a tv with it's VHS nearby.

After watching it Lune frowned and looked at P.
"Did you like this Rich, P?" He asked. P froze and looked to the side not sure how to respond. After a few moments he muttered.
"I guess so.." He said quietly, clearly not wanting to say more on the subject. Lune nodded and led the way forward.
They had to use the purple, as Lune promptly nicknamed them, trampoline hands to get through certain places, as well as use the green hand to reactivate some of them but it was easy getting through. At one puzzle that was already solved but not activated, Lune led P to the lift, then used his grab pack to pull the lever to activate the puzzle to make the lift go up.
"You're something else Lune, you solved all of this yourself huh?" P asked. Lune smiled.
"How else could I get through? There's not easy way to get anywhere in this place. C'mon, we're going to need to go through the Playhouse to get back to PlayCare and the others from the looks of it." Lune said. P needed and followed Lune. The walk way got more and more precarious as the continued, both of them having to jump down to different platforms, which clearly agitated Lune's injured leg. However, the small skeleton was too stubborn to let P continue carrying him. As they continued forward, that's when P got to see the Prototype's shrine for himself, as well as Catnap. The duo watched Catnap walk up to it and stand to his full height, holding up his hands in what seemed to be him praying or praising to the shrine. Lune frowned and whispered softly.
"That's his Shrine to the Prototype. C'mon, before he realizes you're here P." He said quietly leading P towards the back door of the Playhouse.
They finally entered the Playhouse, and immediately they heard giggling. P immediately got out the flair gun hand but Lune looked at him and shook his head. Out of a hole in the way came out one of the Small Smiling Critters plush, infact, it was the same Catnap plush that Lune had first fixed up when coming here. It saw Lune, then immediately ran to him and hopped onto him, warbling happily at seeing him again so soon. Lune smiled and nuzzles the little plush as P shook his head and smiled exasperated. The plush then noticed P and hissed at him.
"No it's ok! He's my friend, we just wanna get through as safely as possible ok? He doesn't mean any harm." Lune said softly. The little catnap whined at Lune, as if saying weither that was true or not, the others wouldn't be so easy to convince.
"He doesn't think the others will agree." Nappy confirmed, this time shocking P. Lune frowned.
"I know, but hopefully not all of them will attack us, I want us all to be friends.." He said sadly. The plush blinked at Lune, then scrambled from his grip. Disappearing back into the hole in the wall as if it had a mission now. Lune blinked and hummed before he noticed a TV nearby, it's VHS player the same color as the VHS tape he was given earlier by the little Critters. He frowned and put it in, letting it play for him and P to see.

P stared at the TV in pure disgust and anger, he frowned completely appalled that they treated Catnap like that and the other Smiling Critters most likely. But he immediately was shocked when Lune grabbed the TV itself and smashed, yelling out angrily as he did.
"THOSE JERKS! THOSE HATEFUL, STUPID JERKS!!! THIS IS JUST LIKE HOW THEY TREATED HUGGY! ALL THE OTHERS! CATNAP, NO THEO, DIDN'T DESERVE THIS! NEITHER DID HUGGY, KISSY, BUNZO NONE OF THEM!.." P watched as Lune started crying angry tears, causing the Ex-employee to immediately hug Lune tightly.
"Those stupid scientists, stupid boss people! I hate them! This is all their fault! All Elliot Ludwig's fault! They caused all of this to happen!.." The young skeleton cried as P held him. P frowned deeply and hugged Lune, wanting to just apologize over and over, even though he wasn't a scientist, even though he couldn't have known what was going on here, he still wanted to apologize continuously. Even though most the toys here have done nothing but try to kill him and the others, he knew it wasn't their fault. They didn't want this, they were forced into this. None of what was happening was right.
"We'll make this right, however we can ok? I promise Lune. We'll save as many as possible." P promised, rubbing Lune's back. The small skeleton sniffled and nodded.
"Yea, we will. C'mon we gotta keep going, not all the critters here will be friendly. If you see any with bandages on them, don't worry, they should be nice ok?" Lune said. P smiled and nodded, letting Lune lead. In the room with them was a cutout of Bobby Bear hug. Lune wanted to cry listening to her voice lines, she sounded so sad and alone.
As they continued forward into the Playhouse, the came across another critter. This one wasn't friendly and immediately tried to charge at them, making P shoot off a flair to drive it back. The room was weird as it had a little campsite with a fire pit. It was odd but the Duo put it aside for now and continued on.
However as they kept going they heard more giggles and growls from more and more critters. None of them were friendly as they tried to surround the two. P had to shoot more and more flairs near the critters to make them run away. Lune would've done so too but P told him to let him handle that. However whenever some got too close to Lune, other Critters that Lune befriended stopped them, fighting with each other to keep Lune safe. Lune smiled at his little friends thankfully as he and P had to carefully make their way forward, with P shooting his flairs to keep the aggressive critters back.
Lune and P eventually entered a large maze like play room with tunnels incorporated in it as well, making it a bit more difficult to traverse.
"We gotta get that platform up there to move so we can get to the door that leads our, but it needs two giants buttons to be pressed continuously as the same time to work." He explained.
"You get one and I'll get the other one then!" Lune said heading for the other one despite P's protests. As he ducked and weaved through the tunnels and small labyrinth, the critters he befriended kept him safe from the ones that tried to go after him. Most of those ones went for P since he was the ex-employee. But P could handle himself using his flair gun to scare them away. Both of them got giant blocks to sit on the big buttons, and then met up on the platform that supposed to move around the room in a circular motion.
"Hold on and jump when you see the door Lune." P instructed. Lune nodded as P used his grabpack to push the button to get the platform moving. As it moved, the duo waited until the door the led out of this room appeared and they both jumped off as soon as they saw it. Lune made sure to land on his good leg so his bad leg didn't get hurt anymore then it already was, honestly he was lucky he was able to keep up despite a limp starting to show itself.
As they continued, they entered was a pool room. The pool was empty of water with just a puddle remaining, big ducky boats strewn all over, unusable without any water. The air was chilly with more dead toys hung up and strewn around. Lune frowned as they approached, seeing that were practically piles of these dead toys. He sighed shakily as they entered the next room. Lune then grabbed one of the candles that was on the wall and put in the center of the room, pulling out a bunch of the fake flowers he made, out of his back pack, and setting them by the candle.
"... I'm so sorry.." Lune whispered before getting back up. P watched the entire time with a grim expression before following Lune.
"This doesn't look like the way out bud.." P said softly, noticing that the hallway they were now entering was filled with large cages. To think this was next to the pool area too..
"No.....but...maybe this is where CatNap and the..other Smiling Critters were kept...... horrible.." Lune said his tone completely filled with sorrow for these toys. As they both got to the end, they both heard a voice call out to them.
"You... you're... Poppy's angels...come to save us!"
(I claim full credit for this drawing, I do not own DogDay however just to be clear!)