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

Chapter 5] Part 17: Lilly's Domain Ep. 2

After putting the toy down onto one of the seats, Nearic spots a door open as Lilly speaks, "Oh baby!" she cheers as she steps back into the room, stopping a few feet in as her eyes stay locked onto Baby Long Legs, "So glad you could join us for tea."

Then she starts approaching the record player, "And I'm so sorry for your loss," Nearic sweatdrops as he looks away, staying quiet, "Now," she starts cranking the player, "who are we still missing?"

Nearic watches as she leaves the room again, the strange and slightly unnerving music playing once more, "The better question is where are they?"

Nearic hums before walking back upstairs into the hallway and looks around a little more, eventually finding an attic door above him, "If I were to hide a toy in your house, I'd pick the attic too."

He fires a hand to the handle and pulls it open, revealing a magnet wall to stick to, so he slaps a hand to it and pulls himself up. Hopping off the wall, he spots a small audio tape in a cardboard box. He tilts his head and picks it up. Without much thought, he gives it to Glowby and keeps looking around.

"Miss Graaaaaaaacie," a familiar voice calls out, making Nearic glance down at Glowby.

Banging in the distance is heard before yet another familiar voice shouts, "OPENTHE DOOR!" Nearic gulped at hearing Uncle Kicks, and Aunty Hopscotch, 'WE WON'T HURT YOU!"

Then Ms. Gracie speaks, "...all of them, I think. I don't know how many. They took apart Robertson. They literally took him apart, Todd."

"Just sit..." a crackling voice is heard, probably speaking over a radio, "security forces will get you," the static increases for a moment before he's heard cursing, "...mass casualties in the Game Station."

After finding nothing useful, he hops out of the attic and continues his search as the tape keeps playing, "Don't tell me to sit, Todd," Ms. Gracie hisses, "These little monsters are trying to kick down my door."

Nearic walks down the hallway and towards the main room as another female voice calls out, "...Open the door, Miss Gracie. We just want to play."

"Yeah!" Hoppy agrees loudly, "the friends are all here! Let's spread the joy all over that room."

"You hear them?" Miss Gracie whispers, scared.

"Come be the joy the world needs," Kickin growls.

Nearic enters the living room as more radio static in the audio is heard, before Todd speaks again, "... another breach on four... forty meters... closing."

"Todd!?" Ms. Gracie asked apprehensively.

"... They're in the damn room," he said over the radio, "How are there so many of them!?"

The radio makes more static before going quiet, "Todd?" Ms. Gracie calls, but gets no response, "Todd!" heavy breathing from the woman is heard as she waits for a response, only for the sound of a door breaking down to make her scream, "Get back. Get. Back!" she pleads.

Nearic walks down the steps and starts looking around for anywhere else to explore, "Baba, I was just..." loud hissing from the approaching toys makes her pause, "trying to make you all happy," she cries, "I wasn't... please..."

The toys growl and hiss louder as Nearic opens a door below the stairs, "DON'T HURT ME!" Ms. Gracie begs.

Nearic walks down the hall as, presumably, Baba Chops speaks, "We're not going to hurt you Miss Gracie, we have something very special planned for you."

Ms. Gracie screams as Baba Laughs, her scream fading as she's supposedly dragged away. The other toys growl, hiss, and chirp as they do so happily. Nearic takes a deep breath as he takes the tape away, storing it in his pack. The teen rubs at his face in exhaustion, the tape clearly disturbing him.