Egotober 2024 Fanfics

Day 1: Puppet

Ego: Poopet (Dawko)

In the Prize Corner of the Pizzeria, the lid of a medium sized gift box lifted up from the inside. It was a light blue box decorated with a red ribbon, and a ghostly white hand crawled out...followed by the sound of a squeaky toy. From inside, a humanoid creature lifted its head to peek out into the pizzeria, a curious look in its eyes.

The Prize Corner was dark and quiet. It was a fairly big room, with a counter and plushies hanging on the back wall behind it. On the walls, small posters of the Toy Animatronics were plastered very neatly, and various arcade machines were dotted around the large room. During the day, the room would be filled with the sounds of children laughing and yelling, footsteps of parents trying to catch up with them and music coming from the machines. But the room was completely silent now, and the all the machines were switched off.

The creature lifted its head up more and looked round, the box lid still on its head like a hat. It blinked then its eyes glanced upwards and smiled. Two thick black strings then lowered from the ceiling above it, with the ends of the strings attaching themselves to the tiny hooks that were embedded into the creature's wrists. Once the ends were clicked into place, the strings lifted it up and halfway out of the box, revealing the creature's black and white striped sleeved jumper...or at least, it looked like a jumper. Because of the creature's plastic-like texture, it was unclear whether the jumper was actually made from cloth or if it was plastic that was part of its overall shape. Three big white buttons ran down the creature's torso and its ghostly white face was decorated with two purple stripes from its eyes and red circles on its cheeks.

The creature looked round, its expression changing from curiosity to confusion: it couldn't hear anyone at all. Leaning forward, it made a bouncing motion, which caused the box it was connected to to move around, so it was facing the prize wall and a medium sized clock that was situated in the middle of the wall: 6:50am. Realization came across its face: the nightguard had finished their shift but, from 6am until 7am, no one was around which gave the creature time to wake up and get things ready for the Pizzeria's opening.

It sank back into the box and quickly reappeared, holding an A4 sized rectangular name label that read 'PRIZE CORNER POOPET!' against a pale purple background. Poopet let out a joyful squeak as it placed the label in front of the box before sinking down, so it was only peeking out of the box, happily waiting for the place to open up.