Aftershocks

💫Chapter 6💫

(1-0-0-6's pov still)

Catnap stared down at me. I had never noticed how much taller than me he actually was. I was a good 9 feet tall but he still towered over me. My guess was he was around 11-12 feet tall.

I turned my attention back to him. "Yes, you do have every right to kill me I suppose. I have many unanswered questions as well as you. So before annihilating me, would you be willing to answer some questions for me in return for me to answer any questions you have?" I waited patiently, hoping that he wouldn't just straight up kill me.

(my au Catnap's pov)

I thought about 1006's proposal. It was true that I did have some unanswered questions. I turned back to him and summoned up a chair for him to sit on.

He stared at me dumbfounded. "Just sit before I stick you into a volcano or a cactus." I said.

1006 complied with my request and sat. "Alright what is your first question?" I asked. "Where am I? I mean what even is this place?" He asked. This one was a simple question for me. "You're in the place known as the nightmare realm. This is my realm and you're here through your dreams." He nodded. "So you're in my dreams right now- Creepy but sure..." I rolled my eyes. "Alright, what's your next question?" He faced me down. "Do you know what lies under the factory? If I recall correctly, you spent quite a bit of time there." I lowered myself to his eye level. "If you don't want me to eat you right now, then shut up about the past. As for what lies under the factory, why the fk would I know? I'm not the one who lives there." I replied.

"That's fair. He replied.

"Now you can ask me some questions if you have any." I did have some actually. I popped off with the first one. "How are you even alive? I watched you burn after I tossed that match in 1006."

"True enough, I survived because a plasma shield was protecting my insides. As you can see, your cooking me alive has caused most of my wires to burn and my legs and half my face were burnt off." He snapped.

"I don't and will never regret it. You deserved everything and more that I did to you. I mean hell you're the reason I'm an entity as well as Prototype. Besides that, you kidnapped my brothers, tortured them, manipulated them, killed off The Rebellion, and much more. I honestly wanted to make sure that you were dead before we left. Now I can. I can make sure that you don't ever wake up. You're in my world now. I control everything." I hissed back at him.

(1-0-0-6's pov)

I was angry but I knew that I would do no good to try and fight. Catnap was right. He could kill me right now and yeah I probably deserved it. I knew that I needed his help though, so I had to try and ...convince him to help me of all people.

I sighed. This was going to be hard but I had to try. "I need your help." He laughed. "You? Need my help? Do you really expect me to help you after everything you did to both my brothers, Prototype and me?" He scoffed.

"I didn't honestly know how you would react, but I figured that it would be worse." I replied. He glares at me. "It could be a whole lot worse but I'm willing to listen." I didn't know what to say. He could instantly kill me right here or he could agree to help me. Either way it wasn't looking all that much like I was surviving this-

"So? Speak. You want my help, you have to explain what you want." Catnap snapped. I jumped, zoning back into the conversation. "Right. erm- It's about the factory." I replied.

(My au Catnap's pov)

I roll my eyes. "Obviously it has to do with the factory. Where else could I have taken you from?"

"I mean the bottom of the factory. There are strange incidents that have occurred such as huge, deep pits opening up all over the factory. I myself fell through one that opened up right beneath me. It's how I discovered that someone was living underneath the factory in what I'm guessing were the experiment chambers." I replied, saying that last part bitterly.

"The experiment chambers? How interesting that those would still be intact." I thought to myself. Out loud I said, "Is there someone living down there, perhaps they are causing all these pits to open up?" 1006 nodded. "I remember hearing a few voices so I know someone is alive down there."

"Interesting." I reply.

(1-0-0-6's pov)

"So- are you willing to help me figure out what's going on?" I asked, waiting for Catnap to respond. "I suppose I have nothing better to do, but mind you, I'm bringing a few friends with me. I don't trust you not to try and pull a fast one on me 1006." He replied, before vanishing.

I woke up and found myself back in the strange little room I had crawled into. Catnap had released me from the Nightmare Realm. I felt better now that I was out of that strange place. The strange pain I had felt before had ceased to exist.

"That strange collar must have been the key to enter that dimension." I thought to myself. Looking around the room, my suspicions were confirmed as the strange collar had vanished. "Now I know why it felt like it was evil. It was a key to the Nightmare Realm.

Now that I was alone, I knew that I needed to find a way to the surface. I had to find some way to contact Catnap the others. I needed their help, badly-

(Antin's pov)

"It's a shame, honestly Liv," I said. My prisoner gave me a death stare that would have sent shivers down any kid's bones.

"If looks could kill, you would be dead right now." My cousin, from across the lab, laughed. "Shut up Kayro, I'm trying to concentrate." Ciara replied, from next to her. Ciara turned back to her desk to do whatever it was she was doing. I saw Kays make a face at her and I snickered.

Ciara wheeled around and glared at me. "If you two can't shut the fuck up, I'll put you both in a different area of this factory. Let me work in PEACE!" She snapped.

"Yeesh, chill out C-" Kayro replied.

"Ciara, I know how stressed out you are about finding these files but you cannot just snap at us for that." I added. She turned back around and went back to her project. Kays made another face and I smirked.

We had such a good family bond-