||Hello Neighbour: A Better Timeline||

||Chapter 90: They Return||

Nicky slammed the hammer down, hearing that Ding!
"Yes!"
Nicky gave the hammer to Delory,"You know, Nicky? You're a lot stronger than you give yourself credit for: Remind to never piss you off.", Nicky shrugged,"Nah, I think you're definitely stronger.", his prize, a dark blue and light rabbit.
Nicky turned to Delory,"What are you gonna do?", Delory put the hammer down,"Maritza invited me to The. . . Fear Room? Or Haunted House?? You?", Nicky pointed to the Picnic Area,"Hang with Aaron, Lucy and Mya, they have something to show me; You have fun with Maritza.", Delory waved goodbye, walking to meet Maritza as he saw Trinity get on the Swing. . . Ride thing, he couldn't remember what it was actually called.

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Nicky stood behind an elderly man, he wanted to grab something from Gerda's booth before he met up with Aaron and Mya
"Oh, no need to stand behind me young man, I was just having a chat; Sorry to hold you up."
The man turned to him, he was older, beard unshaved, hair slightly a mess, brown suit; Looked tired and had some wounds on his face.
"Are you. . . Okay, you're hurt."
He shook his head,"No, not at all; Old wounds, don't you worry your head and get your treats."
His smile.
Nicky felt uncomfortable about, uneasy or. . . Creeped out by this man, but he smiles potentially and nods, he leaves and nods at Gerda as he does.
. . .
"Friend?"
"You could say. . ."

"Hey, I won a toy rabbit!"
Mya waved her spyglass,"I won a Spyglass!", Mya immediately began to look around far and wide around the Fair Grounds.
"We did it!"
Lucy and Aaron came over, Aaron put a bag down on the Picnic Table.
"Boom!"
"We managed to get Golden Apples!"
Aaron nods,"We immediately darted to look before they got sold out.", Lucy nods,"Sometimes it's better to early, especially when they could sell put so quickly.", Mya jumped on an empty Picnic Table.
She spies. . . Trinity on the swings.
She spies. . . Maritza and Delory going into the Fear Room.
Huh.
Mya frowned, these rides reminded her of her dad's rides, maybe from it was just structure or-
Mya's voice suddenly got stuck, coughing as she turned to Nicky, Aaron and Lucy.
"Norman's tied up at the top of the Ferries Wheel!"
Aaron, Nicky and Lucy turned to her, Aaron rushing to her and taking the spyglass.
. . .
"Oh my God. . ."
He was! And from he could see, something was wrapped around his mouth.
"We gotta get Dad; Mya, stuck with Lucy!"
Aaron handed her a Walkie Talkie and the spyglass,"Radio if you see anything else!", and Nicky followed Aaron, Lucy holding his prize for him as Mya scanned the park for anything else.

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Alexander was tense watching his daughter on the Swings, Luanne was talking to Madison and Mr Peterson took out a book while Diana chatted with Jay.
"Kids are having fun, maybe we should find Molly and have a chat with her, she did have her turtleneck back from the river. . .", that was true.
"Dad! Dad!"
Aaron and Nicky ran to them, looking scared and Mr Peterson, closed his book and turned concerned as did the adults.
"What's the matter?"
"Norman's tied up at the top of the Ferries Wheel!"
Silence, the adults all took a step back and looked up, some using their hand to shield their eyes from the sun, but they could see a figure up there.
"Holy sht-"
"Ike!"
Ike rushed over, tried and had been looking for Norman all day,"Yeah?", "The kids found Norman.", Ike breathed a sigh of relief,"Thank God. . . Where?", to that, he pointed up and Ike went pale again.

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'Out Of Order'
That's what was written.
"Out Of Order my butt! Norman's up there!"
Mr Peterson peered over the tape,"I can't see the keys to the machine, and we don't know who put him up there.", Nicky shuffled in his pocket, holding something out to Ike and Mr Peterson.
"?"
"Lock picks; Maybe you could use them to turn on the ride without the key."
. . .
"Good idea."
Ike took it,"You. . . Know how to do it?", "Yeah, learned a little from Aaron and Nicky.", Ike took it, ducked under the tape and approached the control.

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"You know Luc. . . As I'm looking at the rides, don't they look similar to my Dad's?"
Lucy took a turn looking through the spyglass,"Yeah, they look very similar, only difference I can tell is there colour schemes being different.", Mya then turned to her,"Wait. . . Didn't Maritza and Enzo mention they saw Leslie handing The Mayor a roll of blueprints?", Lucy nods,"They did, and Keith mentioned blueprints were stolen from the Evidence Locker, and the only blueprints that could be in there, are Mr Peterson's after he gave them in the investigation and told them to keep them.", then the dots seemed to connect.

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"Really? They look like your husband's sides??"
Diana nods,"Oh yes, they do; But just in a different colour.", they stood in silence, looking at the rides.
Molly then turned to her,"Wait. . . Your husband? Does he mark his blueprints with anything like his name or??", Diana nods,"Before his break? 'T.Peterson' and still does, and even if he didn't people in the industry are able to recognise styles so even if he had no name on the blueprints, his style would be recognised; It's impressive.", Molly stared at the ride, suddenly she began to have a bad feeling.
"Molly? What's wrong??"
*CRASH*
They jumped!
"I need to find Delory and Leonard!"

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Delory stepped out, Maritza jumped up and down,"That was great! Scare Actors, Props and; The Adrenaline!", Delory rolled his eyes, then looked at the fake bear traps.
Or. . . They looked fake?
"Hey is it me, or. . . Do these look too real?"
Maritza crouched down, looking at them carefully,"Hmm. . . I dunno; Could just be the dark, try put something in it like a prop: Either it's fake or a one of those joke traps, like those cauldrons for Halloween.", Delory picked up a prop, tossed it in and-
CRUNCH
It broke into tiny little pieces!
Maritza jumped far back, to think she was jumping around them.
"What the. . .?"
"Why would someone do this? Real ones?! How did Dad allow this-"
"Uh. . . Delory?. . ."
Maritza suddenly looked scared, fearful. . . Then he felt someone standing behind him, looming over him.
Delory turned around and met the gaze of a Cultist.
"AAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!"

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Miguel and Molly rushed towards their child's screams.
"THEY'RE BACK!! THEY'RE BACK!!"
"DAMN IT, DON'T YOU PEOPLE HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO LIKE SACRIFICE GOATS!?!?"

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"Trinity!"
Trinity groaned, of course the seat she choose was the one that was tampered with.
"I'm fine, I'm okay! The friction didn't hurt much!"
Her tights were torn, she had some cuts on her face from the fall but she tried to smile as her mom examined her.
"It barely hurts, I'm fine!"
"GUYS! CULTISTS!"
Sure enough there were people in robes and white masks.
"Shit. . ."

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Gordon smiled.
"It begins."