Overdue Check-Up (Poppy Playtime) [On Hold]

[Chapter 5] Part 12: Separation Ep. 3 [Sweet Street]

Dan crawls ahead through the vent with Dogday and Kissy following behind him. Barely escaping the Prototype, the pipe they took left them in this maze of ventilation, one they couldn't make heads or tails of.

Dan groans in annoyance, "I'm getting really sick and tired of these damn vents."

"How do you think we feel?" Dogday wheezes while Kissy moans in agreement.

"Touché," Dan sighs, "I just... want to find Nearic."

"You and me both Dan," the canine replies, "We just have to keep looking, we'll find them eventually."

They continued to move through the vents when suddenly-

CLANG

BANG

The metal beneath the man suddenly gave way and he fell out, "AH, FUCK!" Thankfully, his GrabPack noticed the fall and activated, the jets hissing to life and slowing his fall.

The human eventually righted himself enough to land on his feet, stumbling for a moment before standing straight, arms outstretched, body shaking, and panting heavily, "That was close..."

"DAN!" said human looks up and sees Dogday looking down at him, "Are you alright?!"

"Yeah!" he shouts back, "Come on down, may as well; we shouldn't split up more than we already have!"

"Fair point, coming down!"

Dan moves aside as he looks around, noticing the terribly obvious fake environment. The trees were made of plastic, as were the berries, fake grass took up the ground the small asphalt path didn't, the lights barely lit up the massive room he stood in, and a large double door painted sky blue with a white flower pattern in the center. Dan jumps at the sound of something hitting the ground behind him, and turning around reveals it was Dogday... falling right onto his face.

"You okay?" he asks casually.

"I didn't vant to phurt muh legsh," he replies, muffled by concrete.

"Well... it looks likes you hurt your face instead... was it worth it?"

"No..." Dogday gets up slowly and shakes his head, "I was trying to safety roll like Nearic and Hoppy do all the time," he rubs his face, "That was terrible idea."

"Clearly," Dan chuckles, "Now move out of the way so Kissy can get down."

The canine does so and the pink colossus lands quite quietly, turning back to them with her constant smile.

"Alright, we're all here," Dan announced before looking around the fake environment, "but where exactly is... here?"

The two toys looked around, Kissy didn't seem to react to anything, other than shake of her head looking away, but Dogday...

"Oh no," he gasped, "Is this... Sweet Street?"

"Sweet Street?" Dan asked incredulously, "The hell kind of name is that?"

"Sweet Street was one of the project name for a 'safe interactive facility' where the workers would monitor the more violent and unstable toys..." he looked down, "like Catnap and Mommy Long Legs."

"Oh..." the man sighed as he looked at down at the path, "Of course it was," he looked up at the canine, "Are any of those toys still here?"

Dogday shakes his head, "I doubt it, we all hate this place, it was the location for one of the workers here. The one who made us forget who we were," he growls, clenching his fists as his smile wavers.

"The Prototype willingly let an employee of Playtime Co. live," he exclaimed in shock, "why?"

"Trust me, he had a much worse idea in mind. One that I wasn't I didn't have to pretend to agree with," he sighed, looking away, "I actually encouraged it."