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

(Chapter 5) Part 24: Through Reanimation Ep. 2

The brothers land on the ground of the next room and look around, it was a large open space that had a small room connected to it on the left, and part of the wall ahead on the right had collapsed, making a ramp up to the ceiling above.

"Let's check the other room first," Nearic suggested as he looked around.

"Sounds like a plan," Dan replied.

So they went over and entered the next room, what greeted them was a small lab filled with boxes and lamps, a large mass of Poppy Gel coated the right wall, an island littered with cabinets sat in the middle of the room, and a small trolley at the end of the room had an audio tape.

"Let's check the cabinets," Nearic suggested, "Just let me grab that tape first and I'll help."

Dan nodded and crouched down by the island and started opening the cabinet doors while Nearic crossed the room. The teen grabbed the light blue tape and gave it to Glowby before turning to check the other side of the island.

"Please," a girl's voice begged over the tape, "I don't know what you want. I don't know anything about-" she's interrupted by a zapping sound before screaming in pain.

Nearic pauses for a moment before taking a deep breath, continuing the search, "Twenty three are missing," the Prototype says, "I am told – you possess knowledge... of this."

The toy pants excessively, "I-I don't. I don't!"

"Remember," the Prototype interrupts, "the cost of a – liar is – dire."

Nearic searches a cabinet and finds a small sample of Red Smoke, "Whoa..."

He takes it out as the toy confesses, "After the Hour. J-just after. It was Gentle John... and s-some of the others."

"Let's keep moving," Nearic says, holding up the vial and nodding to the door. Dan nods as the toy in the tape continues.

"They... they were afraid... of you," the brothers re-entered the other room and looked towards the ramp.

The Prototype's stepped closer, evidenced by his cranking and the thud of his steps, before the toy concluded, "They wanted to... to go."

The humans moved forwards and walked up the collapsed rubble as the Prototype spoke again, "Where are they hiding? – Playcare? – Game Station? – The Factory Floor?"

The brothers reached the top and turned to see another hole into another room. They walked over and jumped down, it was a large lab room this time, with several more islands with cabinets, lockers, and a pressure lock closing off a fire patch. A beaker with a liquid inside sat on a small burner stove next to a locker, and two rows of islands filled with cabinets.

"I..." the toy hesitates.

Dan explores the room while Nearic walks over to the Pressure Lock, "I look after you. All of you. You can tell me," the Prototype promises.

Nearic fires the Pressure hand to the button as the toy speaks, "Th-they're gone!" she confesses, "I-I'm... I'm sorry! Th-they went to the outside!"

Nearic's eyes widen as Dan turns around from a desk, a paper in his hands, "Outside?"

"They... left," the toy concludes, clearly scared.

Nearic braces his arm as he releases the hand, watching the gas fill up completely as the Prototype speaks, "Who else knows?"

"It was just rumours, just rumours," she replies.

Nearic flips the lever on the lock when the gas reaches the right level and opens the locker bound to it, "Who – knows? I require – names," it threatens.